Derek Carr!!! Thrive Church Lathrop

the name of Jesus right now father ground that as your presence is evident that you are here from I've read that everyone that is seeking you well find you that's what your word says as we promised and I think that there's still more that just don't know brother may be nervous develop their wife or husband might think of the person next to him but their God that they will just come running to you because you're the only one with the answers I'm excited to be here tonight [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] because Jesus in this house to be a quarterback and she's called their car to be a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ [Applause] thank you guys man ladies represent I'm from Fresno so you're like what is he doing in Lathrop the guy I even thought it was lathram so for him I've been like practicing all day later Lathrop so thank you guys so much for letting me come out who was at private church this morning anybody okay blinded me up here so I'm trying you guys heard Maddie Montgomery speech i sat there like listening to him speak at the nine o'clock service and I just sat there with tears of my eyes like wow it could be so much better of a person oh my gosh and so you're like what are you doing on stage just because I got a message to bring to you that is it's so far greater than any touchdown I've ever thrown yes so far greater than any accomplishment trophy championship any of those kind of things I've ever done in my life and that's Jesus [Applause] be real imma be open with you you know I'm gonna tell you some things I used to do some things that still I struggle with like sometimes anyone else in here a little selfish and a little selfish I watch the Patriots win the Superbowl and he'll hit me in my heart there's still fajitas that God is working on in me and I don't want to stand on a stage and pretend I'm perfect because I'm not but I do serve a perfect God we all and if you don't that's okay hopefully by the end of this I'll brainwash you I'm just gonna I'm not here to convince you of anything I'm here to let God Himself touch your heart give you a taste of his presence maybe for the first time that's why I'm here because that's why I got I got one taste one glimpse of his presence changed my life forever I used to be someone smoking weed running around sleeping with whatever doing this drugs partying all of these things and there was a special young lady that God used to change my life was now my wife God used Heather in such a way to change my life so that I could stand on platform some day and tell people about Jesus it's unbelievable that how he used her her obedience her deciding to do one thing and tell me these these kind of words that I didn't want to hear because I don't want to lose her but at the same time I needed them God used her to put his foot down on my throat and say you're screwing your life up you need to stop what you're doing right now because my plan is so far greater than what you're doing it's so far greater I was living a life that I thought was everything I could do whatever I want hang out with whoever I wanted I did anything that I wanted to do everyone liked me I was a high recruited guy at a high school all of these things that mean nothing honestly and he took that selfish ambition and turned it into a heart that as I was sitting there worshiping I watched some of you guys going after God and these tears begin to fill my eyes because I begin to fill God's heart for you and the message that he gave me today to give to you and I just want you to know that you are so loved if you didn't know if that one's ever told you Jesus loves you so much and he is very real I promise you you don't have to take my word for it by hand for this I promise we'll see the evidence of it and so you're like what are you doing here thank you but why stop here in our little city I think this is everybody like right I thank you guys all left your doors unlocked like everyone's gonna be there we'll be fine except the one bad kid down the street or the one neighbor like he'll watch our dog yeah but I want to share something with you like what do you what is he doing here and I'm gonna tell you I was in Michigan with with Maddie Montgomery he is my mentor I'm glad to know that man he's a great man of God everything that you see is exactly who he is all the time I've been able to see him you know behind the scenes all the time you know I've been to his house around his family he's as amazing as he is as presenting again presenting the gospel and doing these things he's just as amazing at being a dad a husband a friend all of the above and it's because of his love for Christ that he is all of those things and so Maddie was like hey I'm doing this conference in Michigan I want you to come with me they want you to be a guest speaker so I said okay no problem so I went and I was at this conference it was a men's conference and sorry ladies we'll get to you a second it was a men's conference and and I went in the first the first service we sat there was like a weekend thing and while I was in Michigan I don't know it was cold and it's not Fresno I actually had to wear like a jacket which I didn't have to do my whole life living in Houston Fresno and Bakersfield not really jacket weather those places but I'm standing there and I'm watching I'm standing in the front kind of part of their church and I'm watching these men on the first day and there there's worship going on right and they're just standing there and some of them are clapping offbeat because they have no rhythm and some of them are reading the words that they would put on the screen of the songs and some of them we're praising God and going after him it was it was cool and I'll say also that we're gonna run with like seven people praising God like that's cool you know and as I said they're just God begin to work up my party so just keep watching watch what I do okay and I said okay that I can I'm good at that I can do that that people watch I don't stock you but I'd like to watch you guys okay I'm the guy that sits in the mall and likes to watch and try and guess what celebrity look like they are and all those things right but I'm standing there and by the second day I'm sitting there like I see all of these men with tears face like 80% of them running down their face more than half of them running to the altar because they know they need to be better husbands they know they need to be better fathers they haven't been quite up to where they felt God was telling me I saw them giving their hearts to God and finally laying their lives in his hands I don't know about you but I am someone that has tried to do some things on my own am I the only one I've tried to fight some my own battles I've tried to do some things and what God has recently been showing me is that this he brought me back to these guys and he said you're fine pedals that I've already won you don't have to fight these anymore I've already won them why don't you just trust me talk about convicted right everything about me and football is you know like I can do this you know I'm gonna Ram my head through a wall for my teammates or in my case trying to flip over them right you know the whole linebacker 240 hitting me it's not good for me so I try and jump over them or run an offense okay yes coach Gruden prefers or the minutes please go to bounce but as I watch these men worship and go after God yeah it dawned on me that it's everything that I've ever believed but I got to watch it is these men finally got to a place of this Christianity that they were living of checking a box going to church I don't cheat on my wife like I I work hard to pay the bills for my kid it's like I'm a Christian I don't drink I don't smoke all of these things right but all of us all of the sudden I felt with him there was something in there that wasn't enough all of a sudden they felt slow maybe there's more than just checking boxes maybe there's more than reading my Bible every morning and just saying okay poof I did it okay maybe there's more than just me praying at night after I did what I shouldn't have done and okay poof I made it to heaven tonight thank the Lord the rapture didn't come I get to go to heaven that was me in college I used to do whatever get home get to my knees and Lord forgive me of my sin sir yes okay I mean it right and that is completely wrong there is so much more of God that cannot wait to share with you today it is going to be awesome and these men got it they didn't care what the man next to them thought didn't care about what anyone around them thought here's the most amazing part right about this thing is that I got to go to the Sunday service it was Friday Saturday thing I got to go to the Sunday service at their church where their wives and their families were with them okay it was awesome it feels like it's easy once you get comfortable with some people to be bold right I think we all can feel that if you if we came together every day eventually there'd be more old people to do things that God is calling you to do you understand that and I want to say this before I go farther if they won't be bold in the church you will never be bold in the workplace or out at the gas station or in the grocery store you won't do it if God is calling you to more he's gonna get another key tonight he sent me to grab that out of you I'm ready it's really good at pointing pinpointing people to me and I have no problem walking down this altar or down this aisle grabbing you and dragging you up here because it's that serious as I watched this bin come to church on Sunday I was very excited and I began and will get more parts of what happened I saw healings take place right in my hands guys bodies being restored been getting to go back to work that Monday and they hadn't they've been on for four months because they were hurt like I've seen these things there's no one that convinced me that God is real I've seen it not only what he's done in other people's like 40 is done in my life in my heart so I began to watch again I told you I'm weird I like to watch right it's fun watching these men and I remember for specifically Manny when he was preaching say this who's going to be first when we go to church on Sunday it's real easy we've gotten comfortable men but who's going to be first to show their family no no this is how we do things out this is how we worship God man it's no more we're just checking a box get in the car and fight on the way home there's no more of that we're gonna live together we're gonna live united in this whole church body you're gonna see something that's different and I begin as soon as the music started the first strum of the guitar the first beat in the drum there was like 40 men who got up and ran to the altar and they just begin to worship where they were at and going after God and you could get this either why it was like who is this guy who is this guy you see all of us got some things they're jacked up by the only one I'm jacked up anybody else - you're liars economic these men got it they said man I've searched everything I've searched every bottle I searched every joint I've searched every girl I searched on the internet I've searched literally everywhere for something to please me and nothing has worked and nothing makes me feel right nothing gives me peace nothing gives me joy like God's presence and they said this is the direction of our family now and so when I saw long story short I said I need to I need to bring this home I need to bring this to Fresno Fresno of all places right so so check this out he's taken a little kid that was born in Fresno California I've grown up people have been stronger than me people have been faster I don't like to say people can throw better because I don't think he blessed me with an arm for it but I've been around these situations I've seen things go the other way for people but for some reason every door got easy for me didn't mean I didn't have to work for it but every door was open for me every opportunity was open for me had nothing to do with my brother had nothing to do with that there were things that he would have no control over all of these things open for me so that I can stand here today and be a little kid from Fresno and bring all of these amazing teachers all of these amazing worship people because of a platform that I have that they would be like yeah we'll come and we're bringing it to Fresno to just worship and honor God the way that he deserves it's gonna be beautiful and I think we have a video that I wanted we're going to share with I'll show you that in a second but I just wanted you to feel the heart for this conference this is why I'm here in the Lathrop California is because I feel God's heart tugging on not only this whole region not only the state Lord knows we need it not only this area but the whole nation the whole world that there's going to be a sound out of Fresno California that will be heard all around the world giving financial gifts from other countries they say yeah we've been praying this is an agreement with what God wants to do we already have people who are signing up from all over the place gonna fly in to little old Fresno to worship God the way intends to be worship understand and so we have a video that I just want to show you just slowly [Music] [Music] and so if at any moment please after I speak there is a table set up right outside these doors to sum up in faith men by tenable and go invite some people belittle evangelist huh go out and saved by faith nomina we want to make sure that that person that's been on my heart is coming to this because I promise you it's gonna be awesome and I don't want you to miss it okay so I want to say first of all thank you for letting me be here I'm not done we're just getting started all right we'll pray real quick Holy Ghost please help me get out of the way so that you may just use me as a vessel father God to let your spirit pour out in this place there God that right now parts are already changing there right now directions of families are already changing they're got the course of families the course of certain lives are already changing but they're God that your spirit drop on them let your presence be felt in this place let it be your words I'm not mine in Jesus name everybody said a man like I told you man I have some stuff that I've dealt with in my life I have been laying on my face before praying my heart out that my grandfather would just be healed of this cancer that is eating his brain away this this man who was the greatest man I've ever known I never I've never seen him angry I've never seen him upset I've never seen him getting on somebody he was a pastor at the same church for over 40 years but it was married to the same woman his whole life before he had the church it was my uncle's Church like that this this man was was such a man of integrity that at his funeral the doors were opened and there was hundreds of people outside that we never even knew his impact was great it was large and so for me as a young boy I said that said I practice you can't take this magnet you can't take this mean he's the best man I've ever known and God took him I don't have the answer for that we've all dealt with hurt we've all dealt with pain out of that same moment my grandfather loved us all so dearly out of that same moment because of certain situations around my grandfather a cousin that no longer lived for the Lord came back to the Lord because and then I had another cousin who was doing drugs and selling drugs Jenna rested at school came back to the Lord I have another cousin who is doing things they should not be doing living a life they should never live tell me trust me come back to the Lord because they saw the seriousness of that moment you see I don't understand why things happen and I don't think it's my job to understand you understand what I'm saying I don't think it's my job to understand why God does certain things I don't know but on the same on the flip I've also seen him heal people right in front of my eyes he's open blind eyes he's touched hearts that were so angry that when I was praying for the person they said they began to weep and cry right in front of me instead I don't know what just happened I felt a wind hit me I've never had this much peace in my life we had just the other day I preached down in Fresno California for a youth rally event for this same conference and at the end of it I got a text message when I got to the hotel room and my my my college teammate who helped me put it on he said they see you'll never if you never believe this man I said well I probably will he said one of the ladies one of the young ladies that came down she was actually a pastor's daughter okay a pastor's daughter she came down weeping at the end of the service crying her eyes out saying I don't know what to do but I need more of Jesus I was gonna kill myself but because of the word of God I know now that I have hope I know now that there is something greater than me I had a teammate that I prayed for he had a knee problem if we prayed right there for him and I said how do you feel he's like man well it feels better and he said I'll say well let me know how it goes man text me when you get to the room so he went to his hotel room and he was trying to hold it back but in text me and he delivered me this long message about how I can't believe that you just prayed for me man it blew my mind he said you understand like my knee actually does feel better but that doesn't even matter to me anymore he said what just happened to my heart changed my life forever that's a guy now tell every time I go to Hades I'm there with him and his heart is just for God's people man as far as just to see people experience what he experienced I was standing in Chipotle one time do y'all have a Chipotle your master class gonna say full if you don't I can't come back but good boy in Manteca okay now standing in Chipotle one time in San Francisco and ask me miles there know why I would ever go to that side of the bed I'm just kidding at sea you guys be this I can't even say anything still don't like you so I'm standing in the Middle East you vote later and this lady comes up to me and she's like oh my gosh can I please take a picture with you I'm from Fresno I was like ah hold me too you know she's like I know and so I was like yeah we can take a picture and all of a sudden I felt just this tug of my heart that this lady needed to know about Jesus you see if - if stay with me for a second if we were born into a sinful world how many of you believe that this word is true okay good so stay with me so weird if we were born into a sinful nature then there shouldn't be any good thought in me and so as a Christian as someone who believes in Christ any good thought has to be from God it has to be and so the Holy Spirit and that moment gave me this feeling that this person needs to know about Jesus it wasn't like I heard an audible voice wasn't like a burning but tell her about Jesus legend like it didn't happen wasn't a message in the clouds it was just in my innards as I like to say okay and my Internet's in here I just knew that this lady needed to know about Jesus imagine the awkwardness of a full Chipotle in San Francisco which they probably don't like me they definitely don't like Jesus okay and I'm standing there and I'm finding it with everything in me to be honest with you I've been in just human I'm like maybe that maybe I'll test my like at home or something and as I'm standing there we take the picture on just that excuse me place I just have to I have to tell you this like it's burning on my heart that you need to know that Jesus loves you so much Wow but even though we're trying to take a picture and all that's fine he brought us somehow in the same place for a reason it's not an accident you need to know that Jesus loves you and you are loved and you are created for so much more than what you think and she begins to tear up and her eyes begin to drip these tears straight down her face in the middle of Chipotle people looking all around they know who I am they're like taking pictures and I'm like wow this is awkward now you know but but it got really real for her and I said do you follow Jesus why do I have never talked to this woman don't know her I didn't have to convince her of this I said do you follow Jesus he said no or she said this I said to you follow Jesus he said not like I should I didn't have to convince her of that she knew inside already she did not follow him the way that she should I said do you want to she said more than anything and she's crying so me and three of my part two of my buddies would put our hands on her we pray that she accepted Christ in the middle Chipotle's the best part about it was she was on a date with some new guys I don't know if they ended up together I'm sin they're taller like you're made for so much more than just settling hopefully the guy didn't hear me but maybe it helped him to but you understand there's a I'm saying all of this because I have prayed for people I have seen nothing happened Hakan is telling me you go tell this person about Jesus in Panda Express I walk up and I say jesus loves you think I said again here okay okay my job was to be obedient that is what obedience looks like I'm not in charge of the outcome I'm not in charge of that so like I'm warming all of us up to tell you I'm gonna present a word to you and I am NOT in charge of your outcome you are you see people want Jesus to just throw you know be someone they can you know if I just rub the Bible this remote trophy will be mine oh I haven't prayed in like a year but if I pray this time he'll answer me God always answers prayer that's what he does maybe the answer you want but he always answers prayer trust me four five years ago I prayed for some of you more than me I'm right there with him but what I do know is I've seen it enough times that he does do things and the move of God and the presence that I have felt in my life in those moments is like nothing else throwing a touchdown and seeing all y'all go crazy is awesome it is not even close to the presence of God even the touchdowns the fame people know me in other countries we know if I go to Mexico get stopped in the airport they're like you sign my Jersey and I'm like they're yours he write the J is silent and I said yes of course I have enough money to go to Target and get what we need right all of these things and I would give all of that away for just another moment in his presence I'm telling you from experience I'm not lying to him I'm just saying this to get you to go buy tickets to my conference I'm telling you straight just man to man and woman I'm telling you straight up there is nothing like it in this whole world just because I've looked I've tried the search ball and there's nothing like it if you guys have your Bibles with you I'm gonna be in Luke 19 there under phones now there's apps for that this is about anybody read this twenty-two of you pastor Laura coming back I'm just kidding I'm gonna be in Luke 19 on the share story about a man who had some problems just like all of us we're all sinners right we're all imperfect everyone has something going on and you can construction whatever you want but I'm here to tell you but the only answer is Jesus this man finally figured it out think about a man in Luke 19 starting at verse 1 I talked about Zacchaeus is that all right some would grab this first one Jesus entered Jericho made his way through the town there's a man there named Zacchaeus he was one of the most influential Jews in the Roman text collecting business and he had become very rich stop right there so there's this man Zacchaeus okay and what we know now is that he's very influential person okay I know a lot of very influential people that don't use their platforms the way that they should I've seen it it's sad because they could reach so many people in so many cities that desperately need God and they just don't use it right and so if it's that kids were to walk in here okay so to speak everyone would know who he is and I'm pretty sure a lot of you wouldn't like him okay I'm gonna tell you why here in just a little while okay verse three he tried to get a look at Jesus but he was too short he it short man problem yeah that go on for him but but he was too short to see over the crowds so he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore fig tree beside the road so he could watch from there stop right there so now we know that not only is a rich man not only is he influential but he's short okay thank you I'm glad the Bible told us that and he had something going on there too okay and so he said kids wanted to see Jesus though you see he was jacked up and what you learn here in a little bit he had stuff that people hid something about him that people maybe pointed out or laughed at he was too short you're not pretty enough you're not good enough you'll never get that job it'll never happen for you that relationship she's way too good for you I got told that a lot with Heather she's very pretty thanks for having me you see all of these things you're not good enough they should trade you okay all of us have to deal with things that people have to say about us they should get rid of you what you see everyone has stuff they have to deal with Zacchaeus is he was too short people really didn't like him his influence person all these things but he knew this he said man if I could just see Jesus that's all I would meet it says any kind of sycamore fig tree that tree wasn't there on accident everywhere you go is on purpose every grocery store your job your school's the bank that you choose to go to the little left that you make when you should have made a right you don't go anywhere on accident it is a land that is a place that has already been cultivated by our Father for a divine purpose for a divine reason and that's exactly why you're there he sees that case this was a fig tree sycamore fig tree and so first-five says that's when Jesus came by he looked up at Zacchaeus and called him by name they didn't communicate before this as soon as that kiss decided not gonna seek Jesus out Jesus calls him by name as soon as you will turn your hearts and finally say Lord I see what you're doing you brought me to this place on purpose you've already been cultivating the work in this guys they make on stage so that he could be prepared to give me a word give me a truth that I've never heard before that kids climbed up there and he said I'm gonna seek him out as soon as he did Jesus calls him by name and says Zacchaeus he's trying to do the same thing in your heart he's trying to do the same thing what you showed up here was a little kid from Fresno ended up being the Raiders quarterback yeah and just to stand on a stage and tell you about Jesus there's no accident why I'm here I'm telling you right now Jesus has already been cultivating he's already been preparing this tree so to speak that you get to stand on he prepared this building for this reason that you would be here on this date to hear this talk about Jesus is no accident and as soon as you will just seek the father and lay everything you have at his feet he will call you by name he knows every hair on the top of your head he knows everything about you he knows what you're doing when no one else does he knows exactly where you've been he knows exactly where your heart is he knows exactly how desperate you need that child of yours to come back home you know so desperately you need to quit that addiction stop typing certain things and on their internet deleting your browser isn't hiding your problem going to the bar or getting that next drink or smoking that next thing is going to have the same problem lose that hire that junk in this wears off ain't nothing gonna fulfill you that this world has to offer there's not one thing I've tried out except drinking I thought that was bad once all the other things I did as I go as long as I don't drink that point that you're hip about hypocrite oh you drink oh they're smoking a weed before but brace God that was weak you see I'm trying to share without trying to be open with you man I am not perfect I'm not by any means but I figured this out man I figured this right here out the thing that that key is finds out so Jesus calls him by name just like he's calling all of you by name I'm not gonna have to convince you he's already pulling on your heart you know you know exactly who I'm talking to he says that kids he said quick come down before I must be a guest in your home today you see as soon as you seek him Jesus wants to enter your home as soon as you seek Him as soon as you will let him man father's you man you husband's as soon will let him into your life it will take over your whole household your decisions that you'd make directly impact your life directly impact your children directly impact everyone who has anything to do with you and it is up to us men to be honest with you to stand up and finally be the men that God is calling us to be we want we want less kids on the streets but our dads did the same thing when they were that age we want less kids doing this and that when we got bottles all across our top of our house we have a locked cabinet that they can't get into they're gonna find us somewhere else we got things on our computer things hidden in our heart that not even your wife knows about women same thing you're not exempt certain way you dress are you go to work for a certain reason you want your daughters to be women of God you stop dressing and talking to listen to things you do you husband's you want your sons to be real men of God you want them to be better husbands you want them to grow up and have a family and all these things we'll stop doing the stuff that you're doing it's gonna be a direct correlation you see I have visions of my dad standing in church this the toughest man I've ever known in my life he's a real OG like some of the stories like he told me when I grew up was like dude you're crazy I see the business the memories I have were him crying tears of joy praying for his boys in the church altar that's what I saw I saw my grandfather stand on a stage every single Sunday telling people that Jesus is the way the truth and the life every time that's what I saw so you have to ask yourself as a dad I got two boys one an oven right now yeah from having three boys and the legacy that I'm gonna leave the legacy that I'm gonna leave is me laying on my face crying my eyes out screaming their name to God a legacy that I plan to leave for them will be them walking by my office wanting to come play but that is laying down praying to God for their safety for their protection praying to God that he would be a better husband to their mother lord I don't know how to do it I'm jacked up but father God you know what she needs so let me do that let me treat her like your daughter because that's who she is you see when we stop being selfish saying no that's my wife no that's God's daughter you better start treatment [Music] for your young ladies that are on your way to datings or maybe hopefully thirty years from them unless you meet one of my sons they'll be all right you make sure that man treats you like the queen that you are you're God's daughter and don't let anybody tell you otherwise don't let the world tell you how you're supposed to look don't let the world tell you expose to sound where you supposed to act like things are supposed to listen to watch portray you be exactly who God created you to be and that it's his daughter he created you he's known you ever since you and your mothers woman and he said I have a plan for that month and it's far greater than some slap treating you like you're not supposed to be treated you hear me and I can say that because I was that slap honestly I was a terrible person good heart nice guy I treated people terribly it's selfish but praise God he broke those jeans off so first executives at kids quickly climbs down and he took Jesus to his house and in a great excitement and joy but the crowds were displeased he has gone to be a guest of a notorious Center you see is that kids was a notorious Center he had great influence he was short he was a sinner this is ecute isn't paying this picture if he were to walk in and out of all the people I was like I'm us I'm his jersey and y'all do everything about him man he's terrible why would you do right that's what's happening people are like why why is this happening why why is he going with him to his house what I've been doing everything so right oh I could get me off a whole nother hour stuff right there man prodigal son read it it's a good one so they were grumbling and first say meanwhile Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord I will give half my wealth to the poor Lord and if I have overcharged people on their taxes I will give them back four times as much you see he had a moment he had a moment where he realized I'm not who I should be he had a moment where he realized mmm this money this this influence Jesus Christ is coming to my house right like all of that how his heart's posture was wasn't gonna do it all he needed to do is take his heart out and put it in Jesus's hands is what he realized to fix all these things see he finally had a moment and here's the best part about it is that sake he is stopped him out the Bible says and it is a promise if you seek Him you will find him so I don't understand why everybody wasn't seeking him like they should when you want him to answer your validation I got stuff going on how many people got stuff going on I can't be the only one that stuff going on and the only answer is bickering back and forth with my wife it's not winning an argument it's not trying to dominate over my kids the answer is laying at Jesus's feet and saying father I don't have the answer I'm jacked up I've screwed up I need you to intercede on my behalf and tell me what to do please Lord tell me what to do why I got to tell me who throw it to thank you I'm not awesome Holy Spirit amen so he said I'll get back four times as much Jesus responded salvation has come to this home today for this man has shown himself to be a son of Abraham and I the son man have come to seek and save those like him who are lost the thing that I love about this ending the thing that I love about this is that the end Jesus says and I the son man have come to seek and save Jesus has already seek you out as well he knows that kiss was gonna be there why because he put that tree there the father already had that tree ready he already has planted these seeds in your life he brought this building he brought some quarterback guy that you may listen to that you may actually want to hear what he has to say at night where one's got to go to work you see he's already been working in your life he's already been stirring some things up life may be at the hardest moment for you for me it's not one of those hardest moments it's tough right now give everything that I have to my job to my family and sometimes it's like man is it not enough but what is so beautiful I heard Maddie say that this one and he said you need to stop asking yourself how good you are and ask yourself how good god is believe in this believe everything that he has to say then I have to believe that he's good enough he tells me to trust him then I better start trusting him I better understand that the best is yet to come the best is yet to come for all of your lives I'm not the only one I know that I'm just trying to be real with you we all got stuff and the only answer is at his feet I saw everything else out if the worship team would please join me up here and be awesome I'm almost done - stay with me [Music] you guys okay if I challenge you yeah you guys challenge me on Twitter all the time forward to him he's not open not just within I'm a challenge now because I already know I don't have to convince you anymore the decisions that you make are gonna impact my life maybe they will I don't know what God's plan is on the road but right now when I leave this place I'm gonna love my wife not gonna run around on my wife I don't do that when I go home I love my kids the way they intend to be loved discipline them when they're wrong son that's not right come on over here do it this way because I love them I'm gonna continue to preach the gospel no matter who tells me to stop no matter who tells me Oh Custis it'll cost that I'm care if it costs everything he is sword [Applause] [Music] salvation cake does accuses home that day because he finally came to a place to seek Jesus and all that stuff that he had he finally said it's not enough if you are one of those people today man I'm going to challenge the heck out of you right now you are right with that get three of you you don't have to leave the same way that you came in you see the altar is a place to leave things and put them in God's hands and you don't have to leave with the same addictions you don't have to leave with the same pain you don't have to leave with the same anger just the other day and trans nas preaching preach a lot I love it just the other day when I was preaching and I get down I prayed with a couple people and I sat down the best part was walking up seeing my hand went to my five-year-old my two-year-old praising God with their hands raised watching my wife pray for people pregnant see that was that was that was awesome but another cool thing happened that says they and this young man by 15 years old comes walking up to me as my wife is praying for a young kid who's bawling his eyes out because he's not gonna hear about this Jesus all the time and every time I do I can't stop crying because it just makes me feel so good it's awesome you said I sat down on this kid comes up he's talking to me I can't hear him I said Nancy if I mean what's up and he's done one thing I just man he's crying his eyes out like weeping I just come like it's okay everybody tell me what's up he said I just want to say thank you I've never heard that before and he said I can't he's gonna make me cry Oh God it's not never heard anything like this he said but I feel so good I can't I just want to say thank you for telling me imagine if I said no I want to do that conference man I want to go preach there Manny said thank you for telling me about Jesus just because I played quarterback he showed up to a place said man I can't wait to hear about this cool half-hour story and I'm told you want [Music] because they're not that cool he said that he weaved in my arms crying on my shoulder saying thank you so much for just telling me about Jesus 15 year old but never met the boy I know he's already moving on your hearts on the challenging now if you have never heard about Jesus let me just tell you real quick this that he was real even people that don't believe in him he was real okay they will tell you he was real he walked this earth lived a perfect life blameless sinless was perfect he took a beating that we deserved he did he loves us that much beat this old man so bad that they say the Bible says can he recognize his face and then he carried a cross up a hill and he died on the cross three days later he rose again and now we serve a god that is alive if you've never heard that or maybe you want you needed to hear it again and you want to rededicate your life or dedicate your life to follow this god that I'm talking about to follow this Jesus sometime I want you just to raise your hand would you raise your hand thank you I see him thank you praise God [Music] [Applause] the Bible also says that if you'll be bald before man about me and then I'll also be bold before my father for you so if you won't be bold in here look it I'm just going to be honest with you Bible says that if you are lukewarm you're on the fence if spits you out of his mouth he will spit you out of his mouth I saw about 30 house hands maybe more if you will not be bold today and you are not ready to really do this don't do it this preacher guy just told me not to walk up there I'm telling you because I love you you when you walk up your man it is a decision that you will be mocked you'll be laughed at you're gonna be ridiculed people what is wrong with you but it's also a decision that will change your life and all of heaven will celebrate you forever so right now I want those of you that raised your hand I want you to come join me right here right now come on I saw your hands praise God [Applause] [Music] I told you at the beginning that you would see the evidence I don't need to convince you I said if you felt it in your heart to come on up here you feel that touch you feel that presence of God in your heart right now god bless you I love you and just know the king of kings and the Lord of lords loves you in this know that you need to rededicate your life or accept Christ for the first time that is awesome you guys are the bold ones and it's hard to do to stand up in the middle of a crowd of Christian people and say I want that that is not easy to do and I want to commend you and bless you guys you guys will pray with me just real quick dear God I pray for all of these represented right here that you would forgive them of their sins make them white as snow that they would know right now that any decision that they've made in their past as soon as they said Jesus be my Lord be my Savior as they're doing that right now Jesus be my Lord be my Savior you made them white as snow and forgot everything they've ever done that you loved them so much that when they were at their worst that you loved them so much that while they were sitting in the middle of their worst sin you died for them because you said that they were worth it so father I pray right now make this prayer in your heart your own forgive them of their sins let them make you the Lord and Savior of their life and let the presence that they feel in their heart never leave them their grumbler but never leave them whenever they come to trials let them run to your feet whenever they have a praise and a blessing let them run straight to your feet whatever nothing is going on let them run to your feet because it is just worth being in your presence the music it's not me it's all about Jesus let me stop real quick just like John the Baptist and say behold the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world is in this place you feel it I feel it and you celebrate him the way he deserves [Music] [Music]

Channel: Mike & Josephine Ratekin

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Length: 53min 34sec (3214 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 06 2019