Dan Mohler @ Griner Mennonite Church - 1 - Friday

thank you buddy well hey good evening they opened the doors and you guys came huh that's awesome hey out there good to see ya there's people in another room somewhere there's no people in another room somewhere is it no pretty much got him right here good he was talking about a fellowship hall somewhere there's a room somewhere else there's no way in that yet though right is there well hey if you're over there where they be see me through that camera light hey okay I just want to make everybody welcome I just think it's awesome you're here I couldn't see everybody it's amazing and young and old alike I looked over in this section and all I saw was young people I got really excited cuz they were singing I'm gonna follow Jesus and you're there too I looked around there was there was some real worshipping going on in these first couple robes and it just blessed my heart just young people I mean when I was their age I wasn't in that position it blesses my heart so stay alive in him and hungry and go after him amen yeah world behind me cross before me it's a good deal so we're gonna have fun I'm gonna preach the gospel hey they let me come they gave me a mic so yeah this is the first time ever grew a beard in my life and yeah ever and I thought I'm coming to like Mennonite Amish country I thought so I thought if it don't work there baby it ain't working are you doing I thought if it don't work there is a good sign to shave when I leave you know what I mean come on man encourage me right come on so I've always had trouble I always thought I look scruffy and I and I would let it go seven days or something I think I'd shave but honestly I don't who's a guy here and you really don't prefer shaving like you don't like shaving I mean that's me my whole life I'm like I wish I didn't shave I wish there would be some faith in my heart to pray that all my cuticles or hair follicles would just stop on my face and I could just be smooth the rest of my life but that's never worked oh ye of little faith and so I thought I like this not shaving thing but I'm not sure I like how it looks but I've never let it fill in this much I'm gonna let it fill in a little more and then I'll make a decision but so if you have any sincere encouragement in your heart cheer me on and like put like that little box he talked about you don't have to put any monies in there just put a little piece of paper with a thumb up or something I'll know what you mean and I'll be like the key thing is my wife said she likes it someone so that's really matter stud knit yeah so enough for that just glad to be here I feel happy in my heart that worship atmosphere was awesome I put my arm around pastor I said it feels good in here dad now like thanks for coming thanks for opening your heart I'm man I preach the gospel I believe I feel like I'm a teacher I feel like the Lord in the last few years has really ramped up a gift to to teach in my life and I'm gonna go for it I've never really acknowledged that publicly but I'm acknowledging that for some reason I feel like a function mostly as a teacher in the last couple years he changed my life if your life's not changed you can't really talk about change you just meet me maybe on this weekend but I live with me so I know me so with a clear conscience I'm going to speak to you and it will all be before the Lord just one day I'll stand before him and our answer for these things and I know my life you're just meeting me but I live with me I woke up with me this morning it was amazing I don't mean that in vanity I just have a clear conscience I don't have regrets I don't live in condemnation I like who I'm becoming I'm I love Jesus in me and I'm gonna let him keep having his way in me he he didn't pay a price just to take me to heaven he paid a price to come live inside of me like he paid a price for heaven to come in to me yeah and put who he is inside of me so who he is can shine through me he said were the lights of the world I know he's the light of the world he said that but he said ye are the lights of the world he said so let your light so shine before man yea man there's a light in every person that believes that comes from Jesus that he wants to shine yea and that's through your attitude through your mercy through your forgiveness through your peacemaking through your kind and gentle nature just through your understanding heart yea through your patience the things we've struggled with apart from him if you're not careful the things you grew up in you just think is the way we are the way you grew up is just the way you think it is that's just the way people are that's where life is where everybody's that way everybody has their moments and all of a sudden you're selling into a language that's not even truth Jesus is truth his life is truth he didn't say sing to me pray to me when you're overwhelmed he said follow me and he said the things I do you do if you believe he said these signs follow the believer if you were the enemy if you were the enemy of God and the kingdom of God what would you attack if you're reading scripture like that you'd attack what men believe you get them to fight over what they believe you get them to separate over what they believe and in the process fail to manifest and make known the person of Jesus in their life you just make people argumentative you just get people to build camps and rivers and streams and divide and talk about their right and their wrong but in that process produce very little life show very little mercy make very little peace man you look at what that thing is producing that you believe in your life you look at what it's producing and you'll see the fingerprints that are behind it if what you're believing isn't producing life if your heart is not singing with joy on the inside I'm not talking about trying to be happy I'm talking about joy unspeakable good tidings of great joy then on my darkest day he didn't lose sight of me and he knew what he created me to be and when I was failing terribly Jesus took my failure upon himself and he died on the cross so I could be forgiven he could put his life and his spirit inside of me and he said boy you're more than what you understand I've known you from the beginning your life's on purpose there's a time to be born and I'm willing to die for you to bring you back to life to me that's good news and that sure beats just theology and doctrine and paying homage to God and going to church and failing to become something in the light of this truth you be very careful you don't let church attendance to take the place of knowing him you'd be very careful you don't let your theology and your doctrine take the place of knowing him your daily devotion can become so religious in such a work that it can take the place of actually viably knowing him and communing with him eternal life is not praying a prayer to go to heaven John 17:3 says eternal life is knowing him you can know all about him scripturally and reveal through your life you don't know him personally by living things that he doesn't live by expressing things he doesn't express Christ in you Christ in me the hope of glory I studied that out the word the word glory there means any made seen any may known revealed attribute of the person of God think about that see you like that I like that you like that see when people like that that means they're gonna yield to these things and these things will become truth in their life and expression in their lives yeah it will but Christ in you is the hope of making God seen and known not just gathering and singing about him waking up on Monday Tuesday Wednesday being in Communion and fellowship with him and letting his attitudes in his heart in his love be the strength and reality of your life yeah come on the goal of our instruction 1st Timothy 1:5 the goal the goal you all know with that the goal the end result the aiming point the target the bull's eye the goal of all our instruction is love he's not talking about being loved he's talking about becoming loved the goal of our instruction is love if we miss becoming loved we've missed the whole point of wife he's gained and we've we've we've done a lot of church without becoming her here's what I know attending a service and go into church which is right because the whole reason for gathering is to stir one another in love and good works you're not coming to qualify you already are so the reason we don't forsake our assembling in and assembling ourselves together so we can stir one another in love and good work so we can keep living this way so we can walk in peace so we can make peace so we can show mercy so we can be kind and show love and so we could even pray for the sick which we'll do in a little it'll be fun Jesus will come and he'll do what he does it'll be fun and I won't be under pressure to produce anything because I can't but I can believe and he can say attaboy and you can believe and he can see yeah all right we'll do that in a little bit right now I want to talk to you just open your heart I want to talk to you don't even get tricked into coming to a service just for what cannot God can do for you don't just come cuz you have needs I understand ders needs but don't let that just drive you don't let need drive you don't just come and gather like this cuz you have a need and you're like God you need to meet this need and I hope you touch me tonight or if you have a guest speaker but I want to get prayer I mean I get that I get that but don't let that be the priority your life always when you gather always when you gather but the highest priority be to hear God and yield the Holy Spirit so that you become more and more like him so that he can have his way in your life how many times have we preached a self-serving gospel a gospel that serves me and doesn't transform me that's why there's attitudes in the body of Christ that's why there's discouraged people to go to church weekly because they're basing their life on how their life is going instead of who he is inside of them and they're missing the why behind him coming and all the sudden they're only as good as it's going instead of as good as he is and they're called yeah so today I'm probably having a pretty good day because my day is not contingent on my circumstances my day is not contingent on you doing me right saying the right thing encouraging me I'm super encouraged like if I wasn't encouraged and needed you'd always encourage me that I'm only going to be as strong as you encouraged me and I'm gonna actually be in deception and idolatry and I'm gonna let what you think decide who I am if I'm not secure in Christ in me and I need you to compliment me or encourage me or say great message brother and then I hmm that gets weird that's why I made it look weird so we don't live that way because we've all lived that way we've all lived to get a kind word we've all lived to get noticed we've all lived for attention we've all lived to be honored we've all lived to feel appreciated we've all lived that way why because we were born into no clue in who we were we were born into Adam we were born lost we were born with no life on the inside of us yeah we had no clue who we were you were trying to find yourself along the way from the time you can remember you needed connectivity you needed stability you need it accepted you needed loved you needed cuddled you needed appreciated we were driven by a loss of identity we had serious identity crisis and a short way into that thing at a very young age life starts teaching you who you are and you start turning out as a product of however you respond to however it's going down that's why so many people talk about their past constantly we don't know what it's been like we don't know what it's like going through you don't know what my families are you know it's like growing up in that home well you don't know and they just keep identifying - yesterday - yesterday and they stay Lot's wife and never become his I'm gonna but thanks [Laughter] seriously I pastored long enough to know that people just get stuck yesterday yesterday yesterday well pastor that's great but you don't know what I've been through yeah but what about what he's been through doesn't that change something isn't there something called conversion transformation watch this new life through Jesus Christ new creation old things passed away all things becoming new put off the old man and his deeds put on the new man who's renewed in knowledge according to the very image of the one who created him maybe those scriptures should matter maybe they're greater than how we feel maybe how we feel is dictated by a lie people say well God gave us some motions not the ones you grew up with he didn't know let me challenge you and make you think a little God God didn't give you the emotions you grew up with Adam gave you those you were born into Adam your emotions flowed out of a self-centered wellspring every man in this room every woman and child has been self-conscious from the time you were born you've needed for yourself you lived for yourself your motive was for yourself and even as you got older you use words and manipulated and had other motives you'd say I love you because you needed whoa let me get real with you some of the friends we've surrounded herself with at a very young age benefitted our life it had nothing to do with I love you it had to do with your good for me that's why people are so broken hurt in relationships because they're needy they don't understand love so they're on thin ice they get their hearts so attached only to get broken because they're in need not in love how do you know that Dan that's presumptious no it isn't it's scriptural love doesn't seek its own and love takes no account of the wrong done to it so why are we so broke up by things because we don't understand love we're driven by need people say well the people closest to you can hurt you the most I thought they're the people you say you love now I'm puzzled because they're the people you say you love and love takes no account of the wrong done to it love doesn't seek its own so why are we so busted up probably because we haven't been formed in laughs here's another good indictment from the Word of God the Bible says to avoid the appearance of evil now I understand avoid the appearance EVOO you want people to stumble and stuff but if it's not evil why should you have to avoid the appearance of it if it's not evil because people will think evil and guess what love does thinks no evil so here's the Lord he has to set up a boundary for us to avoid the appearance of evil because there's people that haven't been perfected in love so they're gonna think evil he's a pretty amazing humble god cuz if he was like a lot of us he'd Sybil tough for them thinking that way they shouldn't be thinking that way but they're gonna miss it then will they need to grow up but hearing is telling people that understand hey would you be sensitive avoid the appearance of evil cuz there's people that aren't perfect in love and they're gonna still think evil so I don't want you to be a stumbling block stay in the law of love that's a pretty cool father come to me pastor why I'm yet a sinner on my darkest day come to me and say I know who you are I know what I created you to be your purpose your potential your destiny and I know what you'll look like if I live inside of you I'm wooing you and drawing you and where sin is abounded grace it's coming greater I love you boy that's what you said to me that's what he said to you it's your place to receive it you can let what other people say matter more you can let something matter more than what matters most yeah but I feel yeah but all that's over preaching yeah but you're just you better be very careful with where you let this thing take you the way that seemeth right to a man that's the trouble it seems right you're frustrated friends you're hurting friends will agree with you but let's get together and weigh how much life were producing how much fruit we're bearing how much love were walking in how encouraged we really are you ever notice hurting people gravitate to hurting people because they understand each other's pain but that doesn't bring healing that's just called sentimental sensitivity empathy not spirit-filled the emotions you grew up with and I grew up with never came from God you didn't have to learn to be angry you didn't have to study for it you didn't have to read a book on insecurities in practice you got angry before you could speak the language they would take the binky from you little copy little sippy cup e come here mommy needs a copy we got to get you a bib or get you bib off a guy get your jacket don't we running late give me your copy [Music] turn colors you were never created to turn where'd that come from don't you tell me God made that man became that when it all became about himself mine what's the first thing little children learn sweetest you I love children you have no idea but you can see they all need born again you blame it on your parenting I blame it on Adam they're gonna need born again let's stop calling it natural and normal because if you call it normal you accept those same attitudes in your life and there'll be no sense to repent you'll just say that's the way we are you know hey well everybody has their moments no that's why you have yours because you believe it in your position for it but if you take the runway away there's no place for the plane to land and if the plane can't land if the plane can't land it'll just keep having to circle and sooner or later to run out of fuel and it'll crash and never fly again yay so that's take away some runway so what do you say what I mean by runway is wrong believing well everybody has someone you're just defending your and justifying you not being like Jesus in your marriage well everybody has their moments well you know how it is when you're together 24/7 I mean you know you just have your stuff what are you trying to accomplish what are you just justifying being less than him where you stand before Jesus on that day and say well you didn't have to live with my spouse wonderful Lord took that attitude towards your life do you ever think about that like if you can't take what you're thinking and believing and put it in the mouth of the Lord and make it fly it's probably not true let me rephrase that it's not true if you can't take your little alibi and slip it into the mouth of Jesus and get him to say it and make it work to where you do all that could be Scripture are you guys okay okay you look okay you seem okay you guys are smiling it's good cuz this isn't hardcore stuff it's convicting it's life-changing cuz I promise you this I've learned this a long time ago and I believe it and I say it with passion and I fight back tears I cry on the inside I just don't you can tell I'm not I'm not trying to pull some emotional card I could cry right now over this we blame a lot of things for the earth and the can it's not politics it's not terrorism it's not racial conflict those things wouldn't even have a life for a voice if this one thing I'm going to say wouldn't be true the problem on the earth the biggest problem on the earth is men living for themselves when they're made for God's image and because we won't deal with that and we won't get convicted by that and we won't humble ourselves to that we maintain our attitudes our rights our opinions our fighting whatever our camps are and just keep beating each other with our beliefs it's the biggest problem on the planet men waking up everyday living for themselves when they're made for God's image you talk about perversion you don't put metal in a microwave read the manufacturer's handbook the microwave was not made for metal you keep putting metal in there you're going to destroy the product you read the manufacturers handbook on human beings from the beginning men weren't made for themselves they were made for His image and for his likeness scriptures like as he is so are we in this world the things I do you'll do if you believe as the father sent me I send you firstborn among many brethren all authority in heaven and earth given unto me now you go in my name you need any more scriptures Wow what's he saying in Matthew 16 If any man come after me let him make sure he prays the prayer confesses his sin and gets his name written in a book called life is that what he says in Matthew 16 it's not what he says at all that's what we say be very careful that you're not preaching a gospel that just serves men without transforming man you're trying to give him heaven without them becoming like heaven you're promising them life after without giving them life now we say if you would to die tonight and don't know where you go and pray this prayer I'm not sure where we get that that's self-preservation that's you just trying to be on the right side of tragedy happens not becoming the right thing in everyday life Jesus didn't say if any man come after me let him pray this prayer that we came up with about 80 years ago called the sinner I'm not against the sinner's prayer it's a great contact point of faith but give people the whole message go ahead and get them water baptized go ahead and hold him under a long time I personally wait 40 seconds after the last bubble you got because it's not just receiving him into your heart it's dying to live and unless a seed dies and falls to the ground it abides alone it's just always about the seed it's always about the seed well me well I well I feel well what about and you live your whole life and at the end of your days you have nothing to show for it but life for yourself empty nothing the gospel is not a survival kit God is not a genie in a bottle or a busboy he's not here to make sure everything works great for you and you always have enough that's what we think Paul said there's times I don't have enough but nothing changes me I know why I'm here I know the race I'm running and I'm fixed look I hope your vats are full in your barns but listen that is not the goal the goal was transformation and becoming like him he said if any man any man I like that because everybody's invited Matthew 16 if any man come after me let him first what's on the list first let him first what why deny yourself first cuz you were never made for you the biggest perversion on the earth has men living for themselves when they're made for His image so the cross is a restoration back to the image of God Colossians 3 teaches it clearly clearly so he became like us and died on a cross he got beat beyond description and became unrecognizable why cuz when sin touched at him in the garden Adam touch sin he didn't look anything like he was created to be he lost his appearance and he was reduced back to a form in a shadow of what he was created to be and in the fullness of times God shot up truth and shot up a root out of dry ground his name is Jesus and He fulfilled what Adam failed he was made like us yet without sin he was our scapegoat he was our suffering Savior he was our lamb slain he was made to be sin so I could be made right in the sight of God all my life I was taught that the Gospels about my sin and my depravity and and just being forgiven and making heaven my whole life and then I got born again at age 33 because I went to church till I was 20 and just gave up that was my fault I'm not blaming men I just didn't get it and I gave up but in age 33 I had an encounter with God at work and I got in that Bible in my bedroom I started realizing the cross isn't just about my sin and depravity and forgiveness in heaven the cross is about my transformation it's about truth overtaking me it's about me becoming a new man the cross he didn't shed his blood just because it was a sinner he had to die because I sinned but he didn't die because I'm a sinner he died because something was lost he came to save that which was lost and he's not talking about a drunk in the back alley he's talking about something Adam forfeited through sin the image and nature of God the life of God inside of us one with God Adam lost it through sinning and losing it lost his identity his graded value and his purpose and we were born into that deficit Romans 5 teaches every man was born into Adam and you must be born again and we turned that into a self beneficial prayer that takes me to heaven when I die it is messed up every man was born into Adam you must be born again man that's where life gets fun that's where you start seeing people different and that first impression that judgment that self-righteous that higher than I think dies in you you know the sudden every mountains down and every valleys up and you see men through mercy through truth through justice through the blood of Jesus and even if they're having a bad day and walking in darkness you know in your heart there's so much more if they never just see and all of a sudden Jesus's words become very familiar forgive them father they know not what they do that sure beats look at them there's such a heathen well I don't know God wouldn't touch them with a ten-foot pole no no you wouldn't he's been wanting to through you for a long time so if any man comes after me what's the first thing you do you deny yourself how's that look what's that that's not some rigid legalistic hole you you know it's it's you being sincere getting alone with God when nobody's looking sitting on the bed at a park bench taking a walk just taking a ride in the boat a bike I don't know just go be with him just say you know what I've been very self-centered I live for me I've let what people said and what people didn't say matter more than what you've said I've let life decide me instead of the giver of it I've only been as good as people have treated me and life has turned out and I've even blamed you for it not going better come on how many Christians you people I don't know where God is I don't know what he's doing I don't know why you ain't changing this I don't know why he's letting us go through this up and one day you realize that that never changes you were a sitting duck and a target God's not letting all that happen your position for through wrong believing and being destroyed for the lack of knowledge so get in get the knowledge and stop destruction and all you're getting you know you're getting proverbs 4 and all you're getting it doesn't say more money more blessing a better job the perfect spouse in all you're getting get understanding would you grew up here in what you don't know won't hurt you the Bible says that's a flat-out lie what you don't know is destroying you well what you see is what you get flat-out lie Bible says don't you ever live by what you see what you see is subject to change what is unseen is eternal well if I were you I wouldn't get my hopes up Bible says faith is the substance of things hoped for but hope is the anchor of your soul passing through the veil into his presence it's not an accident you grew up hearing 180 degrees opposite of what that book says because you were trained by a lie you were homeschooled in the wrong home the wisdom of this age in this world was our tutor and the greatest thing we could do is get born again humble ourself under the mighty hand of God and he who thinks he knows much in this age considered to know nothing so he might know something oh that's all scripture that's Corinthians 1 and it's there I read this book I'm excited now you hear me preaching right so do you think later tomorrow or later tonight I'm gonna be like well I can't believe they did that well I can't believe they said that well that really hurt not today for it it's a morning - right - either look I want you to like me that would be great I didn't come here to antagonize you or not make friends but even if you decide not to like me I'm gonna do amazing I'm gonna have a great day nobody can stop me from being with him and loving people it's this too late it's too late you can't keep me from knowing him you can write whatever you write you can get as mad as you want but it won't keep me from hearing his voice knowing his presence and walking in love so I feel like as free as you can be I feel like I got it made Knights saying that to frustrate you I'm saying that to make you think because I'm not letting you decide my life he already did it and now I have compassion and I care the only reason I'm here preaching is cuz I believe what I'm preaching I'm not drawing my identity from this I'm not preaching so I feel better about myself hoping you like me and then I go into social media to see if anybody said anything nice I don't even own a computer I don't even I don't even have Facebook Twitter and all the stuff I hear everybody talk I don't even in any of that I don't even know what it is I wouldn't know how to find it but there's something I did find it's life in Christ it's a solid identity through him and he's teaching me not to let what people don't see determine what I do see and not let where people aren't decide where I am did you know many people belong in a church and they find their identity through one another get hurt get let down get disappointed talk to two other people that feel the same and now we have division and split and problems and when we do that it's not about who was right or wrong it's that we don't know him like we sing it ain't even about who's right or wrong it's about we don't know him like we sing because of the way you respond isn't the way he would respond and if you don't learn to deny yourself pick up your cross what's that mean brother that means don't let sin against you produce sin in you don't repay evil for evil overcome evil with good don't react don't retaliate tone down a harsh word with a kind word that mercy triumphs over judgment blessed are the peacemakers they're the sons of God not the people confessing sonship the people making peace he said you say you say love your neighbor and hate your enemy but I say love your enemy what's he saying first of all he's saying you ain't saying what I'm saying then that son he took a whole chapter six times you say but I say you say but I say six times you say but I say what's he saying you grew up with a different mentality than I'm bringing you grew up with a language that I didn't teach you and don't let anyone be your teacher you have one teacher he's the Christ and my preaching scripture the last time I was here I quoted every scripture and where it was the verse and this and I felt like I needed to it was the first time I ever remember doing that this time I feel the freedom to just do what I'm doing and it feels right in the house but the last time for some reason I don't know if you remember every scripture I quoted I said right where it was scripture verse gave the address tonight I'm just sharing it I don't know why I think that's actually a good thing that I have that Liberty but it doesn't matter to me if somebody needs who knows God is God humbles himself to consider the earth like like like I went to a church one time and I was getting my clothes out I mean this is me I'm comfy like this and this is me I went to church one time the Lord said no you're not taking those clothes I said really like what clothes am I taking like there's this is my clothes I mean it's funny people say oh I was on YouTube and I was watching this message and then I flipped on another one photo wow I already saw that cuz you got on the same shirt I'm like guys I'm probably got the same shirt on thirty different teachings I'm an old school guy I got like in the winter I'm gonna have four shirts that I like right so I've traveled 45 weekends every week I go to a church I'm not trying to mix it up because they video me you're getting the safe shirts every week wait till the winners over and if they still have their color and they still have life next winner you're getting those shirts like amen I went down to Texas to a pastor way down and he's a buddy of mine and we're sitting on the dock and and he was taking me out to eat and it is way down on Corpus Christi beautiful warm beautiful he's a ditch school and adopters a little restaurant they serve on the dock I'm like gee so I'm suffering for the gospel and and uh no it was so awesome because we walk by a shrimp boat and the pastor friend of mine looked at the man that was shrimping in the fisherman he's drinking a beer and you could tell weather and life has been hard on him and he's just drinking a beer and he's he's got a cooler a beer and I'm not making a strong emphasis there other than later we found out that he admitted that he calls himself alcoholic but pastor looked in the boat and said hey you need to cheer up and see the season you're in there's a family restoration coming to your life and bam bam bam and this grown man loses it so it looks like you know we're living it up we're going to a fine restaurant on the dock but you never turned Jesus off he's with you and he loves people everywhere and he knows everybody so if you get a healthy view of who people are to him you just might hear his voice and get in on the good stuff you're doing good did you see Andrew are you following me so he's he takes the guy back in the look I was so overwhelmed he had to pull him into his little captain quarters where the steering wheel was in the little glass just a little like little glass house on the middle of the boat and they went in there and he is bald and that word was so prevalent here the day or two before his daughter's he hadn't seen for I don't know how many years walked in on the boat tracked him down and he was feeling a lot of things and guilty in regrets and they're grown and but yet his little girls had the desire to come track down daddy and the word was so when he told that story I was like whoa God you are so awesome so we were going on this little restaurant to heaven and that all happened but we're sitting there and he said man here we are again cuz cuz he said about I don't go to places twice it's just that's normally I don't but it's not that I don't about 90% of my yearly schedule is first time visits 10% is rivas it's because I feel like I'm supposed to go back I told him today I said I was waiting for you to ask me because I wanted to come back from the time I left the last time I was here I can't even explain it seriously the time I left I said if he asked me to come back I'm coming right back but he didn't ask me for a couple years and that's all timing and stuff and God doing things and but when I read his email I put it right on my call pile I think I called him pretty much out of the Gator I wouldn't be here in February right so we got on the schedule right away I said brother I knew I was coming back before I left I just needed you to ask but that's how this church was we developed a relationship and I fell in love with this man's heart and I went back the year later and he said man a year ago we sat on this dock and had lunch he said I still have the picture on my phone and he didn't catch it but he showed me the picture and I laughed I was wearing the same as that clothes I didn't say dr. Choi I thought oh same little gray shirt cuz cuz that's I'm so like that way like that's my travel shirt so every church I'd go to that's my shirt I'd wear I just would wear that shirt on Fridays I got that shirt on a year later I still got that shirt on I don't think you should even bother trying to pray for me it's too far gone I know God can do anything but probably it's okay this is funny so if you are watching YouTube and you see me with the same shirt don't think you already heard the message I'm sure you probably didn't I don't know how we got on all that but anyway so here's the deal jesus said this is eternal life that you might know him the only true God and His Son Jesus Christ Jimmy sent what's he terminal life know in him now I'm the quote first John four seven and eight to you not to be mean just to be sober it says beloved let us love one another now think about what love is love isn't selfish love is kind love doesn't think evil love doesn't seek its own and love takes no account or no memory or record of the wrong that was to it that's love beloved let us love one another why because God is love and everyone who loveth is born of God and knows God watch he who loveth not that then though God didn't say you don't see your need for a savior didn't say that you understand you need forgiveness it didn't say you don't pastor lead worship or go on a mission trip now and then it said if you don't love see the Bible makes the barometer your love not your service here's what I've learned knowing him if you don't have intimate relationship with the Lord you'll get reduced to serving him and you'll do things in his name or for him and then you'll question if you're doing enough and live semi condemned and on your own judgement scale and then because you're semi judged you avail yourself and not have any hopes of intimacy anyway cuz you don't see yourself worthy oh I hope you're getting that part yeah say it again if you don't love you don't know him so the measuring stick and barometer of knowing God is not your church attendance it's not your theological degree it's not how many times you read the Bible in a year the evidence of knowing God scripturally is your love I've met people in my life that can quote the word sharp as a whip quote the word way sharper than me and they're mean they're mean they're judgmental they're not happy and they used their knowledge of the word like a club and their knowledge has puffed them up but love edifies ain't that something beloved let us love one of the goal of our instruction is love Dan you gotta get off this love thing absolutely not it's why we were created in the first place watch this God said let us make man in our image and in our own likeness next verse so in the likeness of God he made them right in the image of God both male ladies this is awesome so your first place women isn't serving the man your first place is the image of God yeah man and women are created for the same reason his image that's what makes it awesome when they're together in that place because that's where his image is multiplied be fruitful and you know what we think we think who somebody gonna have to do something and get pregnant and have some kids let us make man in our image doing the likeness of God he made man in the image of God both male and female he said be blessed that and said be fruitful and what's the context of the two verses his image what are they to multiply children or his image his image in the children cuz each seed after its own so Adam sinned got separated from God and instead of being loved he became in need of love perversion 180 degree twist darkness come out of darkness into the he's talking about what we were born into we were born into a lie and Jesus is the truth you were trained by a lie your feelings your emotions you were trained by a lie the only reason you reacted the way you did the only reason you were so afraid the only reason you were so angry the only reason you were so discouraged the only reason you were so frustrated because you were thinking for you not the kingdom so if you start thinking first for the kingdom of God and seek ye first the kingdom you'll take away all those things that we never enjoyed see see we're so used to living that way we've been tricked into thinking that's just the way we always have to be the Bible says to put off those things in to kill him and put him to death to put him off not manage I'm not control them put them off how do I put them off by recognizing they were never me in the first place and grace is greater than what I was trained by I got a new teacher and he's life yeah so don't tell me I have to be at odds with you and frustrated and hurt by you and mad at you and jealous of you it's not true I can wake up every day every day and have my heart so taut and be so trained in this relationship with I have with God I can wake up every day and it just becomes normal to me that nobody owes me a thing so how can I let get let down anymore who's gonna break my heart I'm a married man my wife doesn't owe me a thing I love her oh so powerful that's freedom because if what I'm saying is not true I'm only as good as she's doing me I'm only as good as she's reciprocating and now my love is 50/50 give take I do you you do me marriage a lot of work marriages I love you I lay down my life for you to bring the best out in you all of a sudden I love her like Christ loves his come on how many of you even in this room have really truly been 5050 with the Lord and team that I can give them back and how many of you have ever had a conviction and didn't follow through with it had an assignment and didn't do it how many of you knew to do right and you still did wrong you show me where God changed you show me here where he came with a strong hand and a strong club and a stiff arm and said well you did this man and I tried to help you and you don't even care about me and I'm trying to and I pulled you out and when I needed you you weren't even there for me or not really thing come on if God saw us the world we saw one and there he'd need counsel every day he'd be calling Robert We Need to Talk can you help me hey Robert I just feel like people don't love me I feel like I go out of my way and do things for people and all they want is more and if they don't get more than they questioned my goodness and they wonder why I'm not and I'm feeling a little insecure and a little unloved Robert and I don't know I just keep doing good and doing good but people just don't seem to get it they just don't love me Robert can you please pray for me of my name Robert hopefully let's put it on Jesus whoever read this chapter in your Bible Jesus headin to Golgotha they're beatin him they're spitting on him is it true they're mocking him he deserves none of it he'd never did anything wrong total perfection through his life so if any man deserved this less it was Jesus nobody ever deserved unless but there he was with that stick wood on his back head into the cross heading to this hill I mean to get hang on this cross he's carrying his own cross and he's heading up the hill whoever read this in their Bible or he gets about halfway up and that Barabbas thing is just eaten at him and he just stops he just drops the cross on the ground and he can't hardly see he's beat beyond description he's bloody and Bruce who's his father are you kidding me look what they've done to me look how they've treated me I've been thinking this whole way like I was in this thing up until now but I mean Barabbas are you kidding me father he killed a man I raised the dead he causes conspiracy I'm trying to make peace here and they want to release him and crucify me these people I'm telling you I've done nothing but good I've healed their sick I fed their stomachs I've raised her dead and they treat me this way look father if they didn't change by now they ain't never gonna change I don't know what we're thinking I don't know what we're doing I don't think I even like them and I am NOT dying on that cross that's a rightness and a mentality we grew up with our whole lives that's a that's an everyday talk show be real with me victim villain rightness wrongness so you never read that chapter in your Bible of Jesus saying that because it's not there why isn't it there because he's Jesus because he's loved sometimes we get tricked into just making him a special man in our minds and we fail to see what makes him a special man is he's loved that's what makes God so amazing oh he's got all power but he's not trying to rule the world like some little sinister cartoon character he's got all power he's got all knowledge but he's loved he's given the earth to the children of men and he made us for his image to be one with him to commune with him to bear fruit under his great name and we've turned it into blessings in heaven we've had the ability to go sing to the Lord and still be mad at our boss and unresolved conflicts with our spouse and not even sure right now if we like our child because I sowed into them and they're 17 and they think they know it all in it I think that's something and all of a sudden it's a dead giveaway you're finding yourself through all these things and they're letting you down and you're only as good as it's going but the whole time he's inside of you and he wants you to see and come out into the light where he lives ain't that something I promise you there's nothing I'm preaching you can't live if you wrap faith around it as an individual and together that's one powerful body called the body of Christ oh you can blame it on your spouse you can justify whatever you can say well you don't know what it's like living with my spouse well you don't know the job I have to go to and how that boss treats me every day okay well how about getting your eyes off of that for a second and at least listening to what we said cuz didn't that cover it doesn't it so I guess I have every reason to be okay so that's that's my problem that's why I am the way I am any time you ever see me I'll be like this for years for twenty two years have been like this people that know me that whole time know me for my consistency like this why because truth doesn't change he's no turning or shifting a shadow oh I could change what I believe but I'm not gonna I could let something you say matter more than what he said but I'm not going on I've learned this I know you've learned this as a pastor there's so many people that come to us for counseling and it's usually people issues and unresolved stuff and stuff and they're hurt and they're mad and they're upsetting their quandary and here's what I've learned a lot of people are letting what one person said and one person did dictate who they are and how they're doing and the trouble is that one person's name isn't Jesus then they go to church and sing that he's the Lord but they're letting something else govern in their life see the word Lord means Supreme Being ruling factor governing factor the supreme one so if he's the Lord of our life who he is and who he says we are in him probably should matter more and you talk like this and it's amazing because it's all about getting renewed in your mind and we're real quick rich snap judgment if we're not covered with your brother you I think you're just out of your mind and the truth is I'm probably out of yours that's what happens in other words until the gospel changes the way you think the way you live will stay the same and that best you'll incorporate him into your life in his language without his grace in his apparent change are you with me you be honest with me there is nothing I preach tonight that you're not invited into and that you can't live if you wrap faith around it that if you get a loan and learn what it means to die to yourself and deny yourself and not love your own life unto death and you start asking Holy Spirit to teach you what love looks like how to love your spouse in the midst of weakness how to love your spouse in the midst of stuff how to love people when they don't have a clue you'd be amazed how grace will start coming on your heart in your life how that edge in that tough place will go away oh son you'll find your heart's soft in the presence of the Lord and soft in the presence of man yeah you'll just be looks so excited in who you're growing to be I don't know about you but I remember the days when I lived frustrated opinionated and proud and hypocritical and when I look back on it I can't tell you it was ever fun and I was ever really blessed I remember days where I fought to be right but being right never had a great reward I remember days when I had the ability to come home from work and say to my wife well I sure gave the boss a piece of my mind today okay Wow now the world's changed do you see how self-centered and deceived we get that you actually tell your boss off because you have all this pent up stuff and you let it fly and get it off your chest and now you strutting around like the Barney ban yeah about barnyard bandy rooster you told the boss off you're not supposed to tell the boss off here to give him Jesus so see it's just unless that dies you'll be all alone but if that dies you'll spring up and you'll bear much fruit wouldn't it be amazing instead of being mad at a supervisor for the way he acts to actually have compassion for him and actually do your best unto the Lord and let your life be an example in a conviction to his heart and if he doesn't ever change at least you sewed a vital seed that God can some day water wouldn't that be better than just letting where your boss is and decide where you are anybody ever cut somebody off in their life and you just couldn't handle any more so you just shut him down I know nobody's raising their hands but there'd be about 300 hands raised if I said raise your hands but here's what you don't understand the whole time you're in that process you're letting them decide you every day they're the sculptor in your life every day they're your reason for being that if it wasn't for that you wouldn't be the person you are they're actually dictating your life and you think you're winning because you cut them off and that's something that's why unforgiveness is so wretched it keeps the offense alive that's why the kingdom hinges on forgiveness because it renders the offense as if it never happened ain't that something so I called you into this thing tonight okay I'm probably probably pretty much wrapped up for tonight we got tomorrow morning we got tomorrow night we're gonna do something here we're gonna pray you all get something out of this tonight let me uh yeah you could have just said yeah you didn't have to clap that sincerely that was good that was a good class I actually believe you that's good no I don't think you were trying to make the preacher feel good I already felt good here's what I want to tell you everybody in this room no matter how you've conducted your life up until this night if you're sincere about your life you're sincere about change you have access to him you have the right to go to the Father if a right to get alone with him tonight and don't let anything keep you from his presence if something feels like you keeps you from him and you don't have access to him it's a lie I promise you he opened the door to his presence Jesus made a way for you to go to the Father you say yeah but I know yeah but yeah but yeah but you go be with him tonight you talk to him about some of these things surrender yourself tell him you don't want to live for yourself you don't want these lies to just be prevalent in your life you don't even want them to be little foxes sneaky Fox is stealing fruit you just tell him you don't want to live for yourself and you ask the Lord to begin to teach you what that looks like in everyday living and I mean if you will go seek Him will you find him if you ask will it be given so don't grow weary in well-doing knock through relationship now I'm not trying to get weird with you but it's a known fact that nothing reproduces without two coming together without intimacy there's no reproduction on the earth so how are you going to bear fruit to his name if you're not with him don't get reduced to serving him he said I didn't call you servants I call you friends he said the reason I call you friends as a servant doesn't even know what his masters doing that means we're supposed to know what he's up to we're supposed to understand that he put our life on his son so his life can come in us do you understand Jesus got beat beyond description that that Isaiah says he was marred more than any of the sons of men do you know the Bible says that nazia 52 that means when they were done beating Jesus there's no way you could recognize him he was unrecognizable because the worst thing ever done to a man he was worse than any man at the hands of men did you ever catch that in Isaiah 52 you know how they used to tie people to a wooden stake and pile a bunch of wood at the bottom and light that thing on fire especially if they thought you were into witchcraft or something they just burn you out of stake you burned somebody on a stake and you let that fire Kindle and and burn and then you let it simmer and go out and you tell me if you can tell if they're even a male or female hang in there are you with me watch this marred more than any of the sons of men why do you have to get beat so brutally why couldn't they just give him 39 stripes and pierce him with some stakes in his hands and feet and get it over with why did they beat him mercy Lillis over and over again until you couldn't even tell who he was because when sin got done with Adam in the garden he didn't look anything like he was created to be he lost his appearance and we were born into that lie so Jesus came and took it on himself so we could be born again that's amazing and I don't want to have that conviction and I don't want to leave that conviction with you so life can just be the same and at the same time you can't try hard enough to change but you can believe this gospel is true and you can get alone when nobody's looking and say stuff like this I don't ever want to live for my own you guys married and my precious wife Laura doesn't owe me a thing the best I understand in my heart I want to love her and you teach me to love her like you love your people and I know we'll be doing well and the wife says Amen but here's the truth if the wife's live in that way in doing that who knows that's an amazing union what would it look like if two people came together out of the fullness strength and fulfillment in the life instead of the need the moment well I'm not getting any younger while I can't believe they like me wow you know I've been lonely for a while wow I'm really thinking I want to have some children wow she's really hot wonder if the real reason we came together is out of the fullness and strength of God in their life and that we would complete and didn't have any needs and all of a sudden you were so fulfilled you had something to lay down and give for the highest sake of the other one if that's what covenant is I wonder if that's what Jesus did wonder whoa you see well I ain't doing that if they ain't gonna be loving me back could you put that in Jesus's mouth then it's probably not true huh let's take out the probably if you can't make what you're saying fit in his mouth then it can't be true so you get alone and you talk to the Lord like that when nobody's looking so he's one of two things God's either not real and he needs to get a hobby and use his time better or God Israel and God's gonna meet him in that secret place and he who seeks him in secret God will meet him in that secret place and reward him where openly what's he seeking in the secret place him what's his reward openly him so all the sudden he's being intimate with the Lord and the seed of who God is comes into him through commune and everything he gives birth to looks like its father it's not sexual and weird it's spiritual and powerful yeah so here's how our clothes tonight out it's not with an altar call your hearts your honor it's always before the Lord you live with your own conscience how about doing it justice the higher you see yourself in Jesus without vanity I'm not talking about vanity I'm talking about the clearer you see yourself through Jesus and value your life the more you'll respond to the truth of his word yeah it is true what's the two greatest laws that you can hang all the law of the prophets on love the Lord your God with all your heart your soul and your strength or your mind and love your as yourself wonder if you don't see yourself clear wonder if you don't love yourself wonder if you don't even like yourself wonder if you need people to like you to make you believe you're likable what it's trying to say is the way you see yourself is the way you'll see others if you're judgmental nitpicky condemn fault finding with yourself if you're just nonchalant or whatever that'll roll over into your view you'll see what's wrong with people if your fault finding with yourself as well I'm not the only egg in the basket they got their issues - it's amazing God even puts up with us but if you love your neighbor as yourself and you have a healthy view of yourself you get the best look at them you've ever had and then the day I wake up and don't need you to do something for me to be okay is the day I'm finally free to love you the day I need you I can't love you are you with me that's where hurt and pain comes from you don't have to believe me time will tell I've grown in this to a place where my wife you stretch your mind my wife could never break my heart cuz she's not the one that holds it together she's not the one I'm depending on if my wife lived in a manner where you think my heart should be broke I would break for her for being in that place because she's so much more and something's going wrong and I realize I'm not a man with a problem my wife's in trouble that's a different view than I grew up with friends he makes all things new yeah Vince this good conviction I feel it that's good ooh so I'm gonna close and this is what I'm leaving you with for the third time I'll probably preach a little something else and we'll try it the fourth time and it'll be 9:30 and you'll be like man that guy no I'm kidding well maybe I'm oh I'm not saying it intentionally yeah well we'll see I'm trying to stop the truth is I don't know how to land I've never heard the control tower say bring it in Dan ever 22 years I've never had the Lord say wind it up bring it in I just get to a place where I realize you had enough and I stopped tomorrow will come and I'll jump right back in and but I don't know how to land I'm being honest I mean you could teach me the details of landing and ending a sermon and tying it up and casting the net you but I've never heard the control tower tell me to land that's something from what I understand if you're a pilot if they don't say land you better not you just keep circling you ain't gonna run out of gas not a chance not a chance but you got to be a strong yes in your own heart you're the steward of your own heart you guard your own heart not somebody else's get your eyes off of others get your eyes off even your your marriage for a second cuz if you don't get your eyes off of those things and get a good look at who you are in him and get a good look at him and you you can't see those things rightly you'll see them through feelings you seem to run resolve conflicts you'll see them through need and desire and then you'll be just another left down hurting person with unresolved stuff in your heart but you still go to church and sing when they thing but you're not free and you're not producing fruit your eyes have been blinded you with me very important you go be with him very important you understand he loves you or he to put would never put his son on the cross you say yeah but you'll know the crazy stuff that was going through my mind today well I know you care enough to talk about it and bring it up so it's probably not your heart it's probably just I'd push that aside not go be with him if he came while you were yet a sinner you could probably go to him now that he sent his son like if he came on your worst day you could probably go to him now but be with him nothing compares with your ability to be with him seeing the sick healed is phenomenal getting a word of knowledge that's cool walking down a street and getting an impression for somebody and giving him a word and watch him cry it's hard to describe the fun and all that but nothing compares to being with him that's why you're on the earth to live from being with him so if you're not with him you can never really be sent he ordained them that they might be with him it's mark 3:13 and that he would send them from where from being with him so please be with him tonight even if you're married find a little quiet space get in the bathroom and you fresh up before you go to bed or whatever your spouse trous off to sleep you just lay there be with him talked to him about what you heard tonight and talk to him about convictions and release pains and failed expectations stuff you thought you deserved you know and we Road stop getting bold in your prayers and say I'm going in this direction tonight Lord that when I wake up in the morning nobody owes me I think I'm going after freedom I'm going after living free from myself so I can be free from hoja man yeah would you dare start praying like that and then ask Holy Spirit you say why should I ask Holy Spirit because you have communion and co union with him two places in the New Testament New Testament he's your friend he's not an it a feeling a goose bump or a wind he's the person God the Holy Spirit he's the helper he's another just like Jesus that in his absence does what he would do if he was here it says the spirit the Lord is the spirit because it's the Spirit of the Lord and where the Spirit of the Lord is there's Liberty don't be afraid of the teaching on Holy Spirit he says he's coming he's another he's a helper he's gonna speak to you not of his own authority that means you can hear his voice come on it's not my sermon Jesus said this stuff we should be really okay with that but Jesus said it it's not my sermon you start in John 14 and rolled the whole way to 17 and he talks a lot about my friend you say that's pretty presumptuous no he loves to live inside of me sin evicted him from his home a long time ago so he paid a price to move back in he always wanted to live in me he doesn't want to live in a house made with hands yay so I was prime real estate and didn't even know it I was caught up in what you thought about me didn't even realize that he wanted to live in me I do now so come on that's your life too cuz he died for everybody and the just shall live by so what are you gonna wrap your faith around your feelings someone else's actions or the finished work of Christ what are you gonna wrap your faith around your feelings someone else's actions the present circumstances of life your going to impose on God and think he's slipping and he doesn't take care of you are you gonna wrap your faith around what you're called to and created to be but just live by I'm not saying this to be mean or scary but in the end we're gonna find there's two seas of people people that's understood and saw the gospel and believed it people that didn't that's all there's gonna be you look at the parable of the sheep's and the goats the only difference between the sheep's and the goats they recognized that the Sheep recognized the value of others and the goats dint it didn't say the goats never went to church it didn't say the goats never read their Bible it said they never looked outside themselves and touched the needs of others well when did we see you naked and hungry or thirsty when did we see you in prison when did we see you sick when you failed to do it to the least of these you fail to do it on to me love one another the only difference between the two groups isn't that one went to church in one din one love people and the other one did and the one group he said I knew you and the other group he said I didn't boy that'll bust religion all up on it you know what I mean by religion right just man's attempt to get a hold of God just man's tradition man's ideas just man making himself right alive from hell I'll go pray over you and then we're gonna close and pray for each other okay cuz I'm done I'm not landed I'm done alright can I pray something over you okay what you do with this is before God in your own conscience true and don't listen to this word for your spouse don't be sitting there going I hope they were listening because if you're thinking that that's a sure sign I was really talking to you cuz you're distracted you're still letting your life revolve around another in their name's not Jesus and what you're saying is I'm only gonna be as good as my spouse responds I think you ought to be as good as he is in you and it'll all work out good even if my wife chose not to believe in Jesus even if my wife left her heart slip I still have to answer what am i doing with him so you might not know this because you might not listen to me preach but for eight years my wife did that and I didn't know how to be hurt because I don't wake up for her to love me I wake up to be like him for six years my wife wouldn't even go to church I was like a single married single man in a sense even though I was married in my heart for six years you can't see that when you look at me Kenya you're not supposed to cuz that's not what makes me this way and I had no need to call him and ask for prayer my wife was in the toughest spot of her life believe in the biggest lies of her life and needed Jesus more than ever and he happens to live in me so now is not a time to be a frustrated husband never was it's time to be like him that's why I woke up this morning mercy gave me another day to be like him yay so I guess my spouse doesn't owe me anything but I owe no man anything but to so when my spouse came out of a coma on life support in the hospital who was brain damaged from a violent seizure from a meltdown went in and prayed for her and God woke her up an hour and a half after we prayed she came to her senses and had no residuals of a seizure that's medically not even possible and she had a sound mind and I went into the room and she said hi what happened and when I told her what happened she looked at me and said started to cry and said you held on to me you didn't let me go because she believed she was dead weight in my life and it'd be better if she would die and she kept saying I'll never get it straight I'm awake to your life it'd be better if I was dead and I said honey I'm not believing that at all that sounds strange to talk that way you're either gonna be find yourself guilty of trying to draw some strange attention or be greatly deceived your life has value in him so when she realized I prayed for her to come out of it where it might have been easier to just let her go she realized she was believing a lie and I saw something she wasn't seeing and she said you held on to me I said well yeah you ain't going nowhere I said I love you she cried and she cried and it pulled her out of that lie that was a long time ago it's 2004 my wife is doing so good she she's amazing she's the most sensitive I'm not being biased I know a lot of people she's the most sensitive caring will pray for you and a moment person I know she was so lied to about her value it almost seems now that she sees everyone's value in a super sensitive way it's amazing what was trying to be a deficit to her became a gift it's amazing like you would want her to be pray for you she's that kind of she would not personally lay hands just lay on a couch doesn't even know you she just heard your situation and she cries we just talked about to yesterday I said nothing's wrong with you go ahead and cry go ahead and pray yeah amen okay for the fifth time I'm gonna fry it it's so early it's like quarter after 8:00 we must have started early father I just thank you for tonight I thank you for this House of people I thank you they're your people you know every life and every heart in this room and I'm asking you great and wonderful god precious Holy Spirit even just come right now upon these people in a special wonderful way take the words that are spoken and let them bring life to the understanding life to the heart an expression to everyday living I pray that right now there'd be a grace in this room two separate disappointments and separate people from failed expectations and and just separate people from what it seemed like unresolved conflicts if there's marriages in this room Lord that feel like they've grown apart I prayed it supernaturally you'd take this truth and begin to restore what you see is covenant marriage and lord I pray that that rather than them being at a stalemate or finished they would grow in a love beyond what they ever knew I pray these things over this room and I pray that every family would be blessed by the word of the Lord tonight in a very tangible and expressed way I pray that from young and old alike there would be intimacy in a pursuit of you in a greater fashion than we've ever known I pray for a conviction to come into our hearts Lord God I pray that you begin to stir us and make us hungry for you that Lord God you bring these things to our remembrance all the time and Lord if we begin to conduct our lives in a way that's the same old in a fruitless or a lifeless way I pray that you'd be right there to get our attention and steer us to truth we trust you we trust your grace we're not self-made people you started this thing you authored this thing and you will finish it your love will not fail so we put our eyes on you and we trust in you tonight and I believe you found a room of people that are willing to say yes at large and really allow you to become who you desire to be in and through our lives so change our perspective for your glory and cause our eyes to see through your love like never before and let this community know that you sent your son because of our love in Jesus name Amen amen you good with that okay that's that's that's I'm not a real altar call guy and there's a reason I want to call you to relationship I want to call you to fellowship with God I want to call you to a place of faith that responds to what you heard sometimes we just think it's just laying on her hands and boom and God dropped some in us who knows he can do that but what I've learned as a pastor is a lot of people are missing personal relationship with Jesus intimacy just talking to him and being his friend yeah you know people come up and say pray for me I got his spirit of anger on me the Bible doesn't say to go for prayer for anger it says put off anger you yourselves Colossians 3 you yourselves are to put off these things anger wrath malice you put it off by recognizing I was never created for this this is not who I ever want to be this is not who I'm designed to be god I thank you that who you are is still in my life and I renounce anger and I thank you it's not a part of me I don't need deliverance I don't have bondage I have you and truth it's making me free I put off anger and I put on love and tender mercies and kindness God that's how you live your life amen amen okay when we pray for the sick can we do can we pray for the sick are you guys okay if we do that I I just want to it's not some strong leading of the Lord I'm not being facetious believe me he's not offended with me right now we over spiritualize things sometimes he already told me whatever city I'm in heal the sick there he said as you go preach saying kingdom of God's here and heal the sick we already have a green light don't get mystical there's times God will put somebody on your heart there's times you'll have face so high light in a room but you always have a green light to love somebody and believe for somebody you can pray for the sick the Bible says to says there's any among you sick let them ask for prayer yeah sounds like the green light is on yeah so we're gonna pray for the sick cuz I feel in my heart that we we it would be amazing and you know what I believe I believe he likes that I believe Jesus likes that that we're gonna pray for each other okay so here's what I want to teach you a couple little simple quick things when you pray for the sick in your life I learned this first of all I've learned that the number one reason a lot of people I know there's a lot of beliefs and a lot of friction out there when it comes to healing and that the main reason is because we're discerning truth through our experiences that's just the main reason I'm not meaning to make you mad you pray for somebody and they die and then you gain a belief you don't gain belief through your experiences you gain belief through Jesus through his word you got a look to Jesus's life to find truth not your experiences look we haven't grown we're growing we're still growing and maturing into a lot of things some of us I'm not being sarcastic and saying it's you some of us have a hard time just maintaining a good attitude and we think we're gonna raise the dead and I'm just saying some of this stuff we need to grow up into him and all things keep teaching and training so we're not tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine and thing that's floating around you can't just look and say wow bill lived and Bob died God heal some and doesn't heal law you can't do that you got to look at jesus's life to find truth with me so there's a lot of friction so a lot of people aren't even thinking of praying for the sick just because of general belief systems but the people that actually do believe God's a healer or know somebody that was healed or saw somebody healed or experience somebody healed I've learned that the number one reason we personally don't step out and pray for the sick is cuz deep in our heart were afraid nothing will happen and because we're afraid nothing will happen we don't step out and pray so we have what we're afraid of we got nothing sorry it's not more glamorous than that but that's just straight between the I saying it that's did the armies of God have Goliath defeated if they did just faced him did they have the favor of God on their side it took a little boy named David to come out of the fields to recognize that and they even got indignant towards him the elders in the church don't if you're an elder I wasn't talking to you I meant the people older than him oh not the office of elders yeah I didn't want your elder stoning me brother well they can't they just heard a good message on love you just love me just forgive him he doesn't know what he's doing so here everyday Goliath comes out in torments the armies of Israel and shouts him down every day they don't face him they're losing by default they already had him defeated he had no covenant he wasn't of the Lord and God would have struck him down as soon as they too faced him but for forty days they were tormented by his harassment and in fear never faced him so every day technically they were losing when they already want ain't that son the number one reason I learned we don't pray for the sick in our personal lives is because we're afraid nothing will happen and then we don't pray so we get what we're afraid of so if love never fails we probably shouldn't fail to love if the solar shows the word we probably should start somewhere and deny ourself enough to get in the race get in the game and start releasing some faith in some areas what do you say I wonder if at best some people actually need to see that you care about them that you care less about yourself and recognize their situation no matter how it seems or how it makes you feel and wonder if you have the ability even to look past them when they think you're a little cuckoo for wanting to pray and you just pray anyway I said this today I heard a man of God say that I respect years ago he said I'm convinced if we stop debating over the will of God to heal and fighting over our mixed doctrines and we just start praying for the sick I'm convinced he said the more people we pray for the more things we'll see happen and I went you know what I'm a simple guy that works for me so here's the deal I've seen a ton of people healed in my life but I haven't seen enough not everybody I touched his jumped up whole but man I've seen a lot but not enough are you following me so I've seen way too much to change my mind but I sure haven't arrived but here's what I learned and please hear me right and don't hear me wrong the people that don't believe what I believe don't have that resume because they're not believing for anything they don't step out and they're not believing anything I was just in a setting where I saw God heal so many people he's gonna heal people tonight there's nothing anybody can do to stop it tonight I'm just telling you there's nothing nobody you can ramp up all the unbelief you want right now you're way too late I'm just telling you I'm not being arrogant I know his nature and I won't let what people don't believe change who he is to me mm-hmm it's just good yeah so I'm not being arrogant I'm not popping off I'm just honoring his nature above men's unbelief or lack of understanding but I saw people healed that were sick for 15 21 30 years it wasn't that people didn't pray for him it wasn't that just brought some simple teaching in got out of the way I didn't personally pray for one person I'm not lining you up here tonight I'm no I'm the guest speaker and some of us are trained you got to get to the guest speaker I don't teach that I don't think it's healthy you noticed I'm a people person I came in early and talked to people way before the surface I was just talking and chatting and hanging out but this isn't about everybody coming to me with a need look at all the people here if everybody just lined up and needed me I'm one guy we're probably gonna miss God I'll show you how awesome this works in a minute well actually the Lord of I'm gonna teach you there's two things you'll pray for there's a lot of conditions in sickness you know that but there's two categories that you'll bump into you'll bump into people that wouldn't know if they were healed if they were healed because it's something that comes and goes it's a migraine they don't have it today but boy they sure had it three days ago and they're sure hoping it don't hit in another day or two you see what I'm saying do you ever hear anybody talking like that in a line in a grocery store and just a little breakfast gathering I was just waiting for my bag the gate check thing and we just well we went we went through security actually and then they were going to take because of the flight was when they were gonna actually take our bags from that point so this guy was gathering all these little bottles and things and he had to get double checked and I heard him out I just heard him back out of the corner of my ear if you will I heard him say oh I bet that showed up that probably looked like this and this to you that's my stuff for headaches and then they went okay and I just kind of hung there my conviction is that that can change I'm not gonna walk by I'm not going to not say anything I'm not gonna love myself more I'm not gonna be fear man I'm done with that the worst that can happen is nothing and if I don't pray I got that let me say that again the worst that can happen is nothing and if I don't pray we already got that so he caught on corner I said hey man I couldn't help but to hear you mention headaches what's going on oh he said spine range is terrible I said they know yeah I like liked incapacitate he said oh it's four months and he said it's brutal I said no way I said listen man I don't know what you think or believe about Jesus Christianity I usually don't even come out and say it but I'm just telling you he's my king I love him he's real please let me pray for you don't say no he said sure the worst he could've done was probably say no well I guess the worst you're done is pull out a 9-millimeter and shoot me in the chest and then I'm not gonna die anyway so I guess it's all good cuz I'm a pilgrim I'm a sojourner I'm seeking a homeland I'm just passing through guys I'm not here to survive I'm just passing through I'm gonna leave a mark I'm gonna write a legacy I'm gonna be excited when I stand before him that I ran well I'm not trying to survive I'm just passing through the huh come on I'm not just here to get my Barnes and that spilled I'm a little IRA and my precious little wife and family I'm a little nest all settled I'm here to be like him no matter what the cost I'm just passing through I am NOT here to survive I've already won I can't lose now unless I take my eyes off of the truth yeah I'm not here to make it I already did so he's gonna get an offer for prayer ain't nothing nobody can do about that either probably the worst he can do is say no thank you some people get a little more intense with that but usually no that's all right man and then I'll just push a little just to see what grace I have just a little I'm not there to antagonize a Minotaur bless and I say are you kidding you don't know you're not gonna let me pray like wonder if you never get a headache again well I don't believe in God it's okay I do let me pray you're not getting around me that easy why because I've seen people healed he's not a trial run for me he's not a guinea pig he's the person Jesus shed his blood for and he's horrendously tortured for days a month and I want to see him free cuz I care so if I didn't care I wouldn't care and I just go get on my flight and hope I got my seat and hope my luggage fits and it's good preaching me he said sure I said listen I won't make a scene man thanks for letting me pray have no idea how much this means to me I still want to see you well sir who knows that he's gonna think about that later why is this guy that still doesn't know my name cuz I didn't ask I don't always do that you say we should have been social it was a moment it was a Holy Ghost drive-by it was fun and he's gonna think about it he's gonna think about this guy cared this guy was passionate he was sincere about his faith you see well wonderful said aches come back he still can't deny sincerity and that I care and then I'm living outside myself it could bring a conviction in many ways his life but watch this wonderful said egg doesn't come back if you don't open the door what's ever gonna come through if you don't knock how's it gonna open so we're pray we pray six seven eight seconds best BAM and I said thanks man he's appreciated I walked away I may never see him again in my life but it was right to love him in the kingdom of Gaza for man scatter seed you'd be amazed cuz I live this way how many countless people I've run into way down the road that go hey and then tell me a story that makes me cry that if I'd had never stepped out they wouldn't have the story made way more than I have time to tell so two things you'll pray for people that wouldn't know if they were healed if they were healed just because time would have to tell you'll hear that you'll see that you'll see somebody mentioned diabeetus all know I probably should skip that my blood pressure or my blood sugar will go through the roof I in fact I didn't check it for a while I probably need to check it you see you have to obvious yeah oh man can we just pray BAM except for the sense of something in their heart they can't really know until their body tells them they're not functioning diabetic anymore but you follow me so what I'm saying is both of them are the same as act faith ones not easier than the other and don't look for one over the other because even if they would know if they're healed let me ask you this is healing dictated by the fact that you believe or is it dictated by the fact that something changed when you prayed it's dictated by the fact that you believed and you never change your belief now here's what we do we pray and we look and if it doesn't change we say well I guess nothing happened be honest some of us are hit and miss with faith well let's see if he does if he doesn't faith is not a hit miss win or lose it's not maybe he will maybe he won't faith is a position of your heart to believe what he accomplished so if that man has a herniated disk and I pray for him and I say how do dis feel and check your back Wow now it's still biting man it hurts pretty good really listen are you are you in a rush rush can I just pray one more time and then just check it for me I'm just bear with me just just endure me for a second can I pray one more time yeah man go ahead don't chuckle I'll talk to you go ahead father I just think you pray see you don't like these stories but I'm being honest I've got these stories you say check it now oh no it's still bite man it hurts well listen the reason I stopped to pray for you because I understand what the Bible says and I've been walking in it I've been believing and I've been stopping people in your situation and I'm seeing a lot of good things and I don't know how not to believe anymore here's what the Bible says friend if I lay my hands on the sick they shall recover I am so honored you left me step into your situation and believe with you man you get out of your car today you wake up in the morning you go in the house and go up the steps this evening whatever it might be and you realize something's different something changes you'll know this it's a hand of God on your life and it's his love touching your back I'm just so glad we got to meet man and he'll give you a hug and everything's cool and you leave that's sure beats man I wonder what I'm doing wrong boy I'd sure feel foolish well he didn't get healed 19 never praying for anybody again punch how self-centered back so what happens if he gets out of his car and goes and you're nowhere around your 30 mile down the road on a road trip and he gets out his corn goes why not and all sudden he's encountering the love of God why cuz you sow to seed cuz you might have watered something that was Sun and God brought the increase you say well why didn't he heal them right then to encourage me you're called to be a believer and you should be encouraged cuz you just believed his words true you pray for the sick period believin amen so here's what I want to do real quick real quick if you have a condition in your body please participate please don't not don't let's not come this far and then find some reason to talk yourself out of not participating okay and if you don't participate I'm gonna believe God reveals you to me I'm a very good fisherman you have no idea how good of a fisherman I am because I love people so don't test God just participate it's easier that way if you have a condition in your body tonight or a situation that if you were healed right now in the moment people in the room people out there hey guys I didn't forget you out there you're in on this okay you all listening if you have a condition in your body that if you were healed tonight on the spot there'd be no way to know verify or truly testify physically other than just faith in your heart and believe in your heal but there'd be no way to test your body because it's something that comes and goes or you'd need a test a scope x-ray or two days to know you know what I'm saying you have a condition like that please stand to your feet wherever you are real quick don't take long and don't talk yourself out of standing because I'm telling you what God gives grace to humility and when you stand you're saying you know what I believe this is real believe you're gonna touch me hey the worst that can happen there's nothing and that ain't why I stood up do you think when I say the worst that could happen is nothing is the motive we do it now that's just a way to take the edge off and say hey let's make this simpler than it is because who knows when I stop this guy I'm not believing for nothing but in my heart I know the worst that can happen is nothing and I got that if I don't pray make sense we got everybody you guys responded well I feel that in my heart okay even if you're is there people in another room somewhere is that my people out here that's it right here good you guys responding y'all standing out there if somebody's near you you don't have to get up and move somebody's near your if you're just jammed in there like there's a lot of people in a group just tap each other grab a hand just somebody touch somebody get near somebody don't be invasive be polite tap their shoulder hey can I just put my hand on your shoulder I'm gonna believe with you I want believers getting involved right now real quick you don't have to run all over the place we're gonna pray real simple and real short I'm gonna lead this one okay but here's what I want you to do if you stood up for prayer tonight I want you believe this one thing this is all I want you to do now I don't want you stringing all I'm trying to receive you know you've never prayed in tongues in your try and Shaw so don't do that deep breath relax and I want you to know this one thing tonight if you stood up for prayer and he loves you or he'd had never sent his son you see how simple I am see where I'm trying to believe he loves me but it's just been so hard to endure that circumstances are not a threat to his love his love should be settled through Christ crucified the measuring stick of God loving you as his son crucified not your circumstances not even the condition you stood up for it should never be given the right to challenge his love his loves already settled he already sent his son so how could you ever get rooted and grounded in love and let faith work through love if that wasn't true so tonight I want you to do one thing know in your heart he loves me had never sent his son and he's forgiven me of everything I've ever done and he's the he'll the people that are praying I want you to believe this one simple thing that when you pray God's gonna move and take that situation from them so I want you to just pray sit we didn't even ask him what's wrong with him so pray so I'm simple like this be healed and made whole in Jesus name so when I pray I want you to speak that over them with a heart of faith knowing that he values them or he would have never sent his son for them ready pray that right now be whole and be healed father I thank you every sickness every disease and every condition leave this room and leave the people in the authority of Jesus name father I thank you for holding us all through this room no more sickness no more disease every situation that's right father thank you in a day 2 3 4 I thank you people are going man this is amazing God you changed my body you took it I thank you x-rays tests whatever needs to be reveals that you've moved mightily tonight in a short 10-second prayer in Jesus name thank you amen okay amen now there's now listen yeah that's awesome now this is this to me is fun because this is the second group so what's the second group why don't you guys grab your seats real quick we'll do this so if the first group was you wouldn't know if you were healed what's the second group so you would know so you have a condition I was in a church last week it was the most beautiful thing I watch the grown men cry like men my age cry hard because God changed their bodies on the spot and some of them were hurting for a long time this one guy couldn't move his head I don't know if you remember if someone anywhere you would hear the last time I was here the first night we were here there was a lady back in there she had her hands were something was wrong nerve damage and she couldn't use her hands and they were completely healed on the Friday night the first night I was here like two and a half years ago do you remember that do you remember her hands she because I said how were they before she [Music] yeah Jesus wow that sure beats debating over coffee so I guess I'm no good for the debate anymore leave me out I'm boring anyway I don't even drink coffee so she's my little cheerleader so uh so this guy's hands completely heal this there were so many things I won't even go into it cuz he's gonna do it tonight because He loves us here's what I need you to do and I need you to participate out there in the center to please if you have sickness in your body a condition something degenerated bone-on-bone something tore even a tumors cancerous tumor or something that you can feel that's obvious stuff like that if you were healed you have a condition that if you you might have arthritis all through your joints and it just hurts you to walk it just hurts you to pick up a Bible cuz it just hurts I really need you to stand up tonight any situation that's less than wholeness that if you were healed you would know it cuz your body would tell you I need you to stand to your feet wherever you are please don't make me fish please don't hold out and don't say I'm not standing because the last time I stood nothing happened and I ain't gone to that stop turning faith into a hit-or-miss and that's left faith be our heart come on stand to your feet real quick out in the center any anything in your body that's less than wholeness that if you were healed and it would change you would know it this is there's there's there's four people you you got knee issues and it's almost bone on bone it cracks it pops and it hurts and for some reason you hadn't stood yet was that you okay I need three more is that you thank you can I get just good thank you that's good don't make me go fishing I am good at fish I was smallmouth bass fishin literally on Thursday Wednesday I called over a hundred smallmouth bass so if that translates into the spirit you ain't got a chance I was in a service and and I said somebody ain't standing you need to stand and I just knew it she didn't pray yet now isn't that cool watch if this wasn't real and I wasn't sincere and didn't believe someone's going to happen I just got enough people we could already pray we got enough people but yet I believe it's true and I believe in God cares about everyone and why would the Lord say there's a couple of people with the knees that bother you and hurt it's almost bone-on-bone and it bothers you why would he give me that impression if he wasn't serious in here and gonna do something who why I mean come on because we're not putting on a show we already have enough people to pray for I was in the service and I said you're a lady this week you stood in your kitchen and you tried to open something you've opened four years a jar and you couldn't turn the lid and you got shook up in your emotions and you said something's wrong with me I don't know what but I can't even losing my strength I can't even open this jar and she just started bawling and stood right to her feet I said honey is that exactly what happened I said well you know what you probably already are healed because God didn't want to go without him bam bam bam and she's over here she's like taking water bottles and grabbing things and I think she took her husband honey I'm just kidding I'm kidding I was just making it fun now I know you guys are kind of hanging out but honestly as good as you all are we're gonna do this without any music okay and there's a reason because you don't have their blessing in a Walmart parking lot you don't have the blessing of their voices and their instruments when you're at work and I'm going to keep this so short that I would get them out here for almost nothing because tonight I'm going to give give you guys like 6 seconds to pray I'm gonna time it and stop you you're gonna like me for it I'll make I'll make sense of this do I have everybody's standing that needs to stand everybody's standing thank you thank you come on y'all good we got anybody - everybody's standing okay here's what I need you to do see all the people standing there's a handful I got a lot of people still sitting though now watch I didn't say this maybe you already knew this but if you didn't surprise the people sitting you're my prayer team you don't need training you just need to listen to some teaching and simple extraction who only take ten minutes and you watch and see what God does in this round I don't want people running to me I don't want you praying quick so you can get to me and say you need to pray for me nothing happened when they prayed we're not going that route tonight okay when I pray for the sick I see three things happen one of three things I see people healed instantly sometimes I see them change to where they know it's better significant fifty percent thirty eighty and there's some times I see that things seem to sit there and look right back at me and not change don't you hate that I don't like that one but God's teaching me how about to just get emotional about that and frustrated but to keep believing and keep people encouraged so it's all the same and it's all faith and I'm gonna walk through it tonight but here's what I need you to do if you stood to your feet and you had faith to stand and out in the middle raise your hand just one hand so we can locate you and don't lose you in the crowd now when when somebody claims you and says hey I'm going to stand with you put your hand down so we know we got you covered people sitting I want you to look around now listen if you're nervous about this and you're a little unsure I really want you on my team because you're not self-reliant and you're not gonna be overconfident you're gonna with fear and trembling be going to find somebody and I want you on my roster because you can't heal anybody but he says heal the sick and you can't heal anybody so get up and help me go claim somebody get up if you're sitting go find somebody till we have everybody covered one on one till everybody's covered as soon have fun with it say hey you're mine and I never did this before you know just have fun with it don't pray yet don't anybody pray yet just find a person don't pray we're gonna do it together as a family you guys want to get involved you can get involved are you are you being prayed for good good I just was thinking about you guys I thought man if you need to get involved put your hand down if we got you we got your claim we got you are we missing anybody I think we swept the role back in the doorway I got a gentleman in the doorway somebody claimed him say hey you're mine I'm gonna pray with you you got him I am good everybody covered go like this if somehow we missed you okay nobody pray yet we're gonna do this as a family and here's what the Lord taught me about oh it's been over two years now probably I get a little emotional about this stuff because I've seen so many fun things he showed me how sincere we are and how hard we try sometimes but we get tricked like we try to pray right and hard and powerful and we do I mean I who's ever prayed for the sick and you got more conscious about what you were going to say and how you gonna pray than just your focus on God's willingness to love them and heal them and yeah and we tend to get self-conscious and try hard but that actually points to our sincerity and we really do want God to move right so I got good news for you tonight and this is really encouraging your prayer never has never will heal anybody it's not your prayer it's what you believe about what he accomplished in his love for them that's unstoppable so if we have a revelation be healed in Jesus names probably plenty that's probably plenty on the prayer end isn't it so I'm only going to give you SEC six seconds to pray tonight because I'm a friend you can't get self-conscious in six seconds you can't strive you can't get into works in six seconds oh this is so good so real quick take three seconds ask the person you're standing with why they stood up if it's not too personal give them the three-second version don't give them the lifelong version just tell them what you're believing for tell them the ailment tell them the condition tell them herniated disc I got a tour rotator cuff I got degenerate knees I got arthritis just tell them three seconds okay y'all now everybody now everybody now okay good look here let's do this together so now you know what your pram for now watch in the six second prayer I want it to look something like this let's just say they said man I got arthritis in almost all my joints I feel it all the time arthritis you leave all pain you go completely restored in Jesus name who knows you can be sincere and believe that tonight you can wrap your sincerity around the fact that he sent his son to redeem our lives we can believe that we can actually believe that God values that person and loves them and wants to restore them because he put his son on a cross I don't think that's complicated so let your faith rest in that truth and all you do is speak what what applies to their condition if they said I have a herniated disc or a dislocated something bones you be whole you be mended joint you be restored disc you be healed shoulder you be healed no more pain Jesus name you with me I'm gonna literally look at my watch and give you like six seconds to pray because after that we start getting into works and we in the body that mean well it gets weird okay so we're gonna pray for six seconds trust in God's loves here you watch and see what he does in this room it's going to be fun and then I'm gonna say okay guys wrap it up when I say wrap it up at six seconds I want you to simply acknowledge God's love for them when you close him probably know we do Jesus name and there's a reason because his name and what he accomplished it has power it's amazing but I love acknowledging God's love because faith works or love so though so it's powerful so here's simply like let me just give you a model prayer without you turning you into a robot arthritis you leave all pain you go total mobility restored in Jesus name father I thank you because you love them that's how I love to teach people - father thank you because you love them you know what I learned a lot of people I've never personally just received God's love they've never just woke up in the morning in the bedroom and said father thanks for loving me I know Christians have been Christians for years and never even thought that way let alone spoke that way they wake up and say oh god I hope for grace today it's feeling it's gonna be one of them days we're good at that but what about why you love me well you value you may know you never put your son in the cross so when you're being prayed for guess where I want your focus just believe in God loves you tonight in the midst of whatever you've been challenged with physically fair enough so you didn't forget what you're praying for right I'm gonna give you six seconds at the end of six seconds I'm gonna say wrap it up you close and father loves them you receive God's love before you check your body thank him that he loves you and then then here's what I want you to do all through this place I want you to sincerely without exaggeration sincerely without exact I don't want you to look at the big brown eyes of the young girl that prayed for you and say oh man I got to give her a right answer she's going to be crushed that's called lying I've been around us I know what we tend to do that would be called lying I don't want no Liars I read in Revelations you lie you fry I think I don't want any fryers in here and I'm not talking about another realm of faith or another circle of fryers I don't want any exaggeration I want you to legitimately check your body as soon as you know it's definitely changed and healed I want you to go like this and let us know and I'm probably gonna ask you what it is don't not testify when you're healed because you're afraid to talk or I need you to share because it's going to encourage others now here's what I need you to listen to quickly if you're if you check in your body and your body feels somewhat healed or it feels better but not completely whole tell the person that just prayed for you and say hey I think we got like 50 percent change and say awesome and go ahead and pray right away again six more seconds now I won't be there to watch over your stopwatch but just keep it short in the same prayer don't shift don't get fancy don't try to pull another prayer out of the prayer book same exact watch father I thank you for 50 percent increase god you're a finished work through your son thank you Jesus you're amazing pain you leave Bam Bam Bam and then get him to check it again when I have momentum and I see something changing on the streets nobody's ever not let me pray again if it's changing go ahead and pray again if your body didn't change at all and it seems the same you say don't say that I'm saying it if it if that would happen to you I want you to listen to a couple testimonies and when you hear the testimonies I want you to be thankful don't say what's wrong with me what's blocking my healing why am I not being healed why didn't God heal me don't turn faith into a point in time it's a position of the heart listen to some of the testimonies stay humble and say wow you're a healer and you're doing good things in this room thank you for what you're doing in people's and thank you for what you're doing in me and then check your body again I've been in settings like this where somebody will listen two three four testimonies thank God and keep checking their body and boom it's just changed and it's because he's teaching us how to not let go and not turn faith into a point in time when it's a position of your heart are you with me you're already okay look at him real quick and make them a little uncomfortable and just look at them like they're really special and like Jesus really loves them okay okay you ready six seconds sincere prayer over their situation you ready go right now thanks father thank you okay start to wind that down affirm God's love forum go ahead close that prayer out you've prayed plenty affirm God's love for him and acknowledge he loves you if you're being prayed for go ahead close it up close it up Jesus name now now I need people all over this room to begin to check their bodies sincerely without exaggeration as soon as you know you're healed let me know as soon as you know that thing changed take your time to make sure you know and then go like this when you know you're healed just go like this for sure for sure you know it okay good check check your bodies go like this when you know you're here for sure for sure yeah yeah come on keep checking go about this if you know you're healed I need to see you there's a lot of people okay I saw you guys check your bodies am I missing anybody over here is there anybody that I didn't see it you too ma'am oh that's so good yeah yeah right back here for sure yeah we're right here yeah you too this thing's still happening good you're still checking in yeah yeah okay now look that do me a favor for everybody else's sake too and then we're going to take a couple testimonies at at the same time if your body was completely healed in those first six seconds of prayer and you're completely healed and you know it I need you to do this all at the same time real quick go like this lift them high and wave your hand right now go like that okay good look around guys look around okay put your hands down I can't even tell if there's anybody out there I didn't even it's hard for me to see let me do one more quick question you didn't raise your hand the first time because it's not a hundred percent but it's changed and it's definitely better let me see your hands if you know something happened that first wave your hands look around guys that's amazing that's great okay here's what I want to do just give me like three or four people you know you were healed when we prayed and you were excited and raised your hand and there was a lot of excitement in some people who's going to share what happened who wants to tell me what happened with your body who was healed and it's going to just lift their voice and shout it out yeah what happened back in there though the plaid shirt yep and then we'll go to this lady brave yep now you couldn't lift them you couldn't raise your hand she had to go in disability because she couldn't use her shoulders throw them up for me she hasn't done that for five years and they who prayed for you you the granddaughter Wow fired up mama are you telling me Jesus lives in your granddaughter yeah I'm believing it amen see these testimonies to me a priceless because that's her body it's her story she knows put your hands up again for me she didn't bring them believing she'd be here [Applause] I refused to bring them we came from Lake Orion Michigan she didn't bring none with her she's been taking six a day heavy prescription I would have needed them normally because she's a junk you have no pain Jesus come on see I always wonder this I wonder why we get tricked into building on what didn't happen in our lives instead of make much out of what we see God doing I think that's amazing because then we can keep on growing right who else you know you were healed and you want to share what happened yes ma'am right here in the front severe pain do you know what it was caused from ma'am the hips deterioration degeneration in your hip and back area so it was like sciatic maybe sciatic pain and stuff down your legs okay but it was there huh is it going it's much better okay how much better how much better 75% okay what else is there something else you were going to talk about or is that it that's okay I thought you were pointing up here then okay know who prayed for you okay I want you to pray one more time and then I want you to check your legs and tell me what's going on okay how much do you need to walk just to walk aren't you part to see for her and let her walk and feel her legs yeah go ahead and pray for it who else you want to share testimony you know you were healed when we prayed come on I had about eight or ten of you saying I was healed I was healed shout it out you just yell it out loud man I'll repeat if we can't get a mic to you who what oh right here I have arthritis in my right hand and it's it's almost gone so it's dramatically changed what was it like before they prayed well how would you know it had a problem was it froze was it stiff was it weak yeah but if I if I pull on my fingers like okay it would hurt all the way real sensitive real yeah and that's gone you can't even make out hurt you're pulling and tugging there's no heart no pain good god is awesome hey you give a guy a mic he'll preach who else you want to share something real quick come on these if you didn't receive anything tangibly physically rejoice in their healings and keep checking your bodies and if it changes rather testify and let me know that I fell in the parking lot a couple of Sundays ago and my knee is being painful since then because I had rheumatoid arthritis and my friend prayed and it's good yeah so you know it's good going it's really good pass that mic back to that gentleman back there I'm a head of partial torn meniscus in my knee yeah three years and it hurt like every day and I've been prayed over and it's the pain is gone I completely I can move my knee and bend it and you can't find that bad stuff that pain or nothing it's gone it's gone come on hey guys there's the reason that I'm doing it this way I didn't get involved you can't say well you know there's a gifting on this man dad I'm just getting you guys to pray to teach you I'm getting on a plane I'm leaving I'm gonna live this way nothing nobody can do about it but I'm leaving pastor's here he's plowing ground he's so and I'm here out of the mouths of two or more every words Infernus tabakov I'm here to leave a deposit I want to empower you to say you know what I can start thinking this way I can start living this way I can start by leading this way I'm going after God this way you see what I mean because I'm just telling you I'm not being arrogant I'm gonna leave here and I'm gonna live this way I'm encouraging you to live this way anybody else you want to share a quick testimony of something that happened in healing yeah well I got a bunch of hands popping up now yeah and the pain is totally gone completely gone you can't even make it pop or Nothing King Jesus yeah give it to this lady right here just over a year ago I had just slip in my neck and spinal cord damage and yeah I had significant feeling lost in my hands my feet my legs numbness numbness I also my balance was really off and so we prayed for all of that and I still feel some numbness but the about my balance it is almost a hundred percent to where it was and so you know what you would normally feel like Oh absent you just feel stable compared to like I can like stand on one foot who prayed with you who prayed with you do you still have the numbness did that change it all or is it any better that's all the same but you still feel the numbness can can they pray for you right now can you just all believe that as they pray her feeling comes back right now I mean right now believe it Church just somebody speak that over her no numbness complete healing complete feeling in Jesus name thank you God yeah and father we just believe right now up at the top of her neck there'd never be a problem never be pain she'd never need surgery she wouldn't have to find a comfortable position at nighttime the Lord God she could just lay however she is comfortable that's a big deal right there I guarantee it I see that no this is changing girl ain't nothing nobody can do yeah you're gonna sleep tonight you just stand and receive no don't you fall down on me you just receive that's the presence of the Lord he's fixing your neck I'm telling you he is and you're gonna be able to lay your head sideways you can lay flat on your back if you want you can curl up and you can do whatever is comfortable tonight I'm telling you when you crawl in bed you thank God that he's touched you and changed you and you go ahead and get comfy and sleep in a position you'd have probably avoided before and watch what happens and god I thank you that there's nothing to be concerned about in her back her spine her neck you make all things new yeah sorry just receive now don't you follow me check your hands for me what's going on in your hands talk to me I just be honest okay what would you normally wouldn't feel temperature were they totally numb okay okay touch I need you to check I feel like God's changing things and I want you to give us the right answer I want you to tell us what you're experiencing I just man I usually don't even come back and interfere like that I just because we're all doing good I just man I need to get in on the fun too guys I just I just felt God's compassion for her and I saw that thing about sleeping at night was a real challenge Jesus thank you complete wholeness God thank you just walk with me don't even think about it just walk like you've never had a problem just walk with me thank you God no now be honest what is that bothering you turn around what's that okay but you wouldn't normally even wanted to do this are you when the tried dis whose is that your hubby there no we're right here would she not a normally wanted to do this or what so we won't harass you anymore with all this but you feel like something's changing in your body absolutely okay she's gonna go to sleep tonight and just talk to God about just position and laying okay are you am I gonna see you guys anymore this weekend or did it like are you stun okay cuz I want to I want to see like like do you know anybody here that you're not from okay because I was gonna say if you could like let us know what it's like in the morning I just I have this faith that you're gonna wake up and be weeping in the morning a very precious way so things are happening so your hubby she cuddle her tonight okay and just thank all for what he's doing in your wife and thank him that her sleep and you just thank God he loves you when you wake up you do an inventory of your body and if we see again you make sure you tell us what's going on okay but you know for sure things are shifting and changing you can tell because it's your body I don't want to exaggerate it okay okay okay let me do this real quick and then we'll close out is this stuff fun I mean don't get bored with this this is like people people madam I need to see your hands and be honest if we prayed for you and you've been listening and you've been still checking body don't feel condemned ashamed or what's wrong with me no no no stop don't do that your body hasn't changed it seems the same as the first time we prayed and you just still like nothing changed yet at all I need to see who you are real quick just let me see your hands up put your hands up okay that's a pretty good group of folks that's about the same amount that said they were feeling change so we're about 50/50 on that one keep your hands up is your person still here that prayed for you if the person's still here grab them and put your hand down and begin just just so I know if your person still here if you see your person put your hand down okay yeah I need somebody to stand with that guy in the doorway back there please the worship guy that's the worship guy yeah yeah somebody got you back there good okay here's what I want you to do don't shift your prayer let's just pray six more seconds pray the same way the same heart the same thing you prayed the first time would you and just believe he loves you would you do that right now let's see what happens in this room this would be a good teaching tool okay wind that down in Jesus name cuz he loves them father right because you love him father wind it down that's it just wind it down receive his love good deal check your bodies for me I'm only talking to the group we just prayed for that had nothing change up until now and let me see if something changed in anybody in that group this said yeah for sure the second time atta boy change anything are you saying changed or you just checking your body you it changed the second time is it all the way or somewhat okay first time it was still hurtin second time changed that's awesome sis teaching us guys don't turn faith into a point in time don't pray and say oh well nothing happened and then throw your faith out you see what I'm saying who else you know some change that second time for sure undoubtable I'm excited in the back yeah yeah how'd you hear that yeah that's awesome anybody else you know your body changed that last time that we prayed I just want to see if you're here yeah for sure good oh my goodness that's a lot of hands that's that's like yay here's the deal if you didn't raise your hand yet and you say well nothing seems to happen yet now watch this we're going to end on a really amazing good faith-filled note I'm a real narrow guide you figure that out I just speak narrow stuff watch the Christian has one response ever thank you you love me thank you for what you're doing in my life and I appreciate you that's all you know you go to bed in that you wake up in that you're crawling that and that hip grabs you and oh and you feel it it's not denial to lay there and say you know what father they prayed for me tonight I'm believing your love for me and you're the one that makes things new thank you for changing my hip and changing my body hip you be whole and you fall asleep in that faith that sure beats oh man I was sure hoping tonight be the night I wonder why I never get healed I don't know if I'm ever standing up again Christians have one response Father thank you that you love me and thank you for what you're doing in me amen would you do something with me if you want if you don't you don't have to but would you lift your hands if you want it just assign a yielding surrender you millet II just lift your hands and by doing it just you know we're yielding to you you're awesome King Jesus so father we just lift our hands to You Lord Jesus we acknowledge you and honor you Holy Spirit we welcome you and we thank you for what you're doing in our lives what you're doing in our bodies what you're doing in our hearts we appreciate your word keep teaching us keep growing us keep revealing who you are to us and through us and let this community know father that you sent your son because he lives in us in Jesus name Amen amen you

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Keywords: Dan Mohler, Griner, Mennonite Church, 2018

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Length: 143min 53sec (8633 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 25 2018