Discover a Life of Overflow | Overflow | 09.12.21

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] hey what's going on thanks for coming and checking out life church 7 we're so excited that you're here with us today if you could take a moment go on our youtube page or facebook and like share subscribe that would help us immensely get the word out about how great jesus is and what he wants to do in your life hey before we get to the service we want to just take a moment and let you see and get to know a few announcements that we have here happening at life church 7. hey everybody it is fall here at life church 7 and we've got some fun announcements for you what is going on here y'all it's small we have some fun things happening at lc7 today after the 11am service we have our welcome to lc7 lunch so if you're new or you've been coming the last year you want to get connected man this is a great way to meet like-minded people who just have a passion for the presence a passion for god and want to grow together as a family in this church so really want to invite you to be a part of that we're going to have lunch it's going to be a great time so come it's an s103 which is in our large auditorium just on the side of that so we'll give you directions on how to get there but we want to invite you today so if you're in the service right now just say hey i'm gonna go to that after you got lunch lunch is on us come to that it'll be great and next event we have is my one of my favorite events of the year it is the trunk or treat and it's going to be so much fun that's happening on october 31st from 4 to 6 p.m and it's not only for our church body but to reach out to the community and so if you want to help be a part and sign up there's many ways that you can do that right now in the booth in the lobby you can go um donate money you can sign up to host a jose yep and then you can also sign up to serve on that day but one thing that would be super helpful is actually if you want to go and donate some money so that we can buy lots of candy and give it away and love our community well you can do that on push pay right now you can do as much money as you want or you can bring a bag of candy in as well but it's going to be an amazing day so fun it's one of our best outreaches one of our biggest outreaches of the year i think we had over a thousand people come last year it was insane it's just amazing and i love it yeah little kids yeah let's get candy let's get it out of the way without going to all the houses it's awesome exactly and we get to bring the community in and spread the gospel and the love of jesus so it's really fun absolutely and finally next week we have missionary dan johnson from spain coming to speak with us he's been friends with pastor west for such a long time and he just brings joy i've been around him and he just brings joy he is a life-giving person we are so excited to host him at our church so you're gonna you're gonna want to come next week to experience life with dan yeah because this is a good experience it's a good one those are our announcements this week thank you mark and claire those are some awesome exciting announcements that are happening here now no further ado let's go ahead and jump in to our service everybody how we doing doing all right i'm going to invite everyone to stand with me something that we do in kids church i kind of do a little gauge on how we're doing so if you're doing great give me a thumbs up maybe not so great or you had a rough weekend that's okay we are here to encounter the lord today who is ready to meet with jesus i'm so glad that he's here and i'm so glad that you are here and honestly i feel like he's doing something special um for this service and for everybody present i've experienced personal freedom this week in caring what people think about me fear of man that kind of thing because really the lord he loves for us to be free did you know that he loves for us to be fully ourselves before him because then we're able to fully connect with him and fully love on him the way that he intended us to do and the bible says it is for freedom that christ has set us free can you say that it is for that christ has set us come on that's so good raise your hand if you want an upgrade and freedom today if you want to be free from stress or depression or fear or whatever it might be just raise your hand i'm going to pray over every single person god we receive your peace we receive your fire and your freedom today we are anticipating to encounter you we are anticipating that you would come meet us today wow [Music] yeah he's just coming to meet you right now jesus we welcome you in this place we welcome you to come meet with us sometimes freedom might look like being the loudest person in the room or it might look like being real quiet before him and he's offering that freedom to you today whatever it looks like for you to encounter him in freedom that's available today amen does that sound like a good plan you guys ready to encounter jesus um yeah before we even get started before we begin singing out to him just begin to open your heart begin to open our hearts look at him look in his face what's he saying to you how is he looking at you does he have that those eyes of adoration for you we love you jesus we welcome your presence today we are excited to meet with you yup just raise your hands begin to sing to him begin to tell him how grateful you are that thankfulness yeah you guys are welcome to come up front in worship you can just find a spot in your heart and in the room to encounter the lord today he is hungry to meet with you yeah i bless you in jesus name let's worship together [Music] [Music] it's all yours sky [Music] come on lift it up with me it's only yours it's only yours [Music] it's all yours it's all yours [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] your goodness never stops your kindness fills my life your love amazes me and i see it because [Music] me [Music] no [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] 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i was over there praying just fixing my eyes on jesus and the lord gave me a vision and he put [Music] those i was on that surface of an aircraft carrier on the flight deck and i had those lights and had the earphones there's like a top gun moment kind of thing and i was i was going like this and i was directing fighter jets to leave the deck of the thing and one after another these fighter jets are taken off into flight and i turned back and i looked this way and there was jesus arming the the planes with missiles and bombs and the lord brought this back to my memory for months this this verse has been on my heart for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal fleshly in nature but they're mighty in god for the tearing down of strongholds and when we partner with the weapons that jesus is placing in our arsenal right and the lord showed me the planes are the intercessors he's arming the intercessors in this season to dismantle the weapons of the enemy and it's so much easier to fight the battle when you have the weapons of jesus as opposed to our carnal fleshly nature that we like to fight with at times we fight from overflow instead of this you know just hanging on and i just i love that that verse in judges chapter seven talks about gideon and he's the lord keeps when dwindling his army down to 300 men and then they go up and all they have they don't have swords they don't have any weapons they've got a horn and they've got the fiery torch in a in a clay jar they smash them right and so 300 of these guys blow the horn and all of a sudden the enemy gets all confused and starts killing each other i'm not talking about people in the new covenant we're talking about the plans of the enemy and the authorities and the principalities and when we fight with the weapons of god's warfare when we fight with the things that jesus is equipping the intercessors and for those who don't know an intercessor is someone who stands in the gap between people and god that's an intercessor so if you ever pray for your country you're for your loved ones you're an intercessor but we have intercessors that are praying and calling on god for our nation how many know that's a good idea right now for us to call on god but we're not going to fight we're not going to fight with fleshly strategies and battles we fight with weapons of our warfare that are not carnal in nature but mighty in god do you hear this mighty and god for the tearing down of strongholds jesus we thank you we thank you you've given us authority and power and we partner our prayers with heaven we partner our strategies with what you father are saying in this season holy spirit we need you for your strategies and we don't fret we don't fear we don't strive we just worship we blow the ram's horn and we worship and we wait on you and you're fighting our battles every day we thank you lord we thank you lord wow [Music] do that again gary let's just sing hallelujah one more time one more time let's just raise our hands let's sing hallelujah just let worship come out of your mouth yeah sing hallelujah we worship you we praise the lord hallelujah [Music] no matter what's going on around us we sing hallelujah we choose to say praise the lord we lift our voices higher than the noise we raise our hands higher than the noise and we praise you we sing hallelujah jesus we praise you amen amen amen we're going to continue our worship with our giving ties and our offerings how many know that's a gift it's a worship it's a moment of worship when we give to the lord and this morning as we're giving i just want to thank you for your faithfulness we have the new roof going on the small auditorium right now yeah it's amazing we've got a whole bunch of ministry that happens in that building we've got the the youth the young adults at times we've got the the children's ministry that happens there a lot of your kids are in there and there is a new roof going in uh this week and so we couldn't have done it without the generosity of you giving and sewing into that so we thank you and that's above and beyond our ties but right now we just take our our ties and our offerings and we believe in giving of our first 10 percent to the lord then he takes that and then he multiplies it in his kingdom right and then he takes our 90 and then he multiplies that amen yeah so lord readers thank you for this opportunity to give such a joy to give into your kingdom we give because we love you and we love what you're doing on this earth your church and your kingdom your kingdom is advancing on this earth and you are building your church and we thank you for that lord pray blessing on this offering in jesus name amen we give the worship team a hand this morning tell them thank you so good so good and as you stay standing everyone stand and give our senior leader pastor wes a big hand as he comes to bring the word today of overflow so good so good thank you worship team oh just stay standing for a second because i want to bless you yeah some of you've got a sit-up opportunity up and down and you're ahead in aerobic activity would you lift your hands with me watching online would you lift your hands with us but at the very beginning we just ask for wisdom from heaven lord would you give us eyes to see what we need to see in this hour holy spirit would you give us ears to hear what you're speaking in this season and lord i pray for each one of us will have hearts to respond to you hearts to respond i thank you lord thank you for the timely word that you've given me for today your word is a lamp unto our feet it's a light unto our path lord just as i've gotten word in the first service that dana leverett was taking the hospital is struggling with breathing father we just lift her up corporately we lift her up to you and we declare healing in her lungs she must return her breathing must return fully back to her in the name of jesus lord we stand with alan we pray over his back this family that's been attacked by the enemy and lord we just take over the levitt family we lift them up to you and we pray the prayer of faith and the prayer of faith will raise the sick and we just agreed in jesus mighty name and everybody said amen thank you you can be seated bless you so this is a second message in a series that the lord has put in my heart when i was taking some time to rest and off the lord spoke to my heart just highlighted the word overflow that in the middle of all that's going on just the holy spirit put this thing in my heart is that i want my people to live from overflow not to live out of fear not to live in fretting of the future but to live in this place ephesians 1 says that we're seated with christ in heavenly places we're seated with him and so i just felt like it's a word that is in season overflow is defined as it's a it's the excess or surplus not able to be accommodated by an available space i believe the gospel positions you to live your life from overflow you're designed to be an overcomer you're designed by christ to walk in new life and new wholeness is so good jesus said to the woman at the well he said anyone who drinks this water will soon be thirsty again but those who drink the water i give you will never be thirsty again it becomes a fresh bubbling spring within them giving them eternal life do you know how many here have received jesus christ as your personal savior [Applause] just like you'd raise both hands i go yeah i'm really saved yeah i'm really safe i really love jesus so here's what i want you to know you have this bubbling of the holy spirit working in you it's literally it starts to create this overflow and tums won't take it away it's the holy spirit of god working in you working in you yeah john 7 37 reads like this jesus said on the last day the climax of the festival jesus stood up and shouted to the crowd anyone who is thirsty may come to me anyone who believes in me may come and drink for the scriptures declare rivers of living water will flow from his heart rivers of living water i just want you to get a picture of that this morning there's a river that's flowing from the heart of god from the throne of god to every believer in this season that will produce in your life a whole sense of overflow we're in a time this is our you were born for this hour we're in the most exciting season of history i and i would never have believed in my lifetime to see the things that we're seeing right now politically around the world the chaos who and to live life from overflow to overcome in revelation jesus said those who overcome will do this because of christ in his spirit living in you you are designed to overcome so my message to this a second in a series that we're doing is and it's really the lord gave me romans 12 for the message today but i want to equip you i want to strengthen you i want to build you up in your most holy faith i want you to walk out of here 15 feet tall just flexing your muscles at the enemy declaring god's goodness in his favor i want you to know who you are in christ no wimps in the kingdom there just isn't the scripture says through god we will do valiantly for it is he who treads down all of our enemies we're not trying to trot down the devil we step back and from victory from the cross from the finished work of christ we see all that he's provided for us and jesus has fought for us he is fighting for us and he is winning our battles jesus is on the throne the devil is defeated and we are more than conquerors in christ jesus you really can't take that just sitting down would you just at least say praise the lord amen thank you lord verse 39 of john 7 says this when he said living water he was speaking of the of the spirit who would give to everyone believing in him but the spirit had not yet been given because jesus had not yet entered into his glory the spirit now has come the day of pentecost was the outpouring of the holy spirit the birth of the church we don't live in the old testament we don't live under the law we don't try to keep the 604 regulations of the old testament the old testament was an amazing covenant god through moses god gave that to moses to give to the people how to live and when they kept the commandments of god they were blessed they were blessed amazingly above any other nation but when they didn't keep the commandments of god jesus the the the scripture says in deuteronomy chapter 31 that curses would come on them sickness and disease they would be overrun but jesus at the cross he took our sickness he took our disease he took our infirmities he took our sin we're no longer living in that kind of a covenant this new covenant with christ because christ has come and he has set us free we are no longer entangled with darkness when we fail we ask jesus to forgive us when we sin we ask jesus to forgive us but the truth is when he rose again when he died on the cross his blood that was spilled he forgave us then he forgives us now and he forgives us for eternity his blood is the most powerful thing in all the universe i can hear you saying amen from the live feed is so good wow we live in challenging times the political climate in our nation and our world in general is more toxic than it's ever been the bible calls these times perilous times so the question for today is this how do we prepare ourselves to live in perilous times how do you prepare yourself it's it would be horrible to not be prepared for the time that we're living in how do you prepare yourself for perilous times i have a message one in a series of messages that i'm equipping you to prepare for you for today and the days to come because you are designed to overcome what secrets do you need to know so that you can flourish in a time when the world is unraveling have you ever had somebody tell a secret to a friend and they tell the friend don't tell anybody and then usually this happens in junior high and then the company says i know a secret you don't know oh tell me tell me tell me no i'm not gonna tell you the secret actually the way to get something spread around very very fast nowadays is say hey listen we need to keep this between us next thing you know it's all over facebook but there are secrets of scripture there's the scripture is filled with secrets that come by the revelation of the holy spirit say well could you i'm going to show you how that works in um all the answers that we ever need are found in scripture but the holy spirit has to give us spiritual eyes to see what god is saying spiritual ears to hear what the holy spirit is speaking last week i spoke from revelation chapter one but in chapter two jesus is addressing the seven churches and after each church has been admonished and encouraged we hear this phrase here's what he says he who has ears let him hear what the spirit is saying my question today do you have ears to hear what the holy spirit is saying right now in 2021 do you have ears and then it would finish off to all seven churches that would be different to him who overcomes he'll receive this and to him who overcomes receive from the river of life and to him who overcomes there's so much reward in hearing and listening and responding to what the holy spirit is is doing in this life in the life to come and i want to res i want to equip you today to be able to hear god's word to be able to respond to god's word and to live powerfully how many are up for living powerfully yeah so good so i have a passage of scripture this morning that i would like to read and um are you up for standing while i read god's word will you stand with me would that be okay if you're new uh you won't have to walk this afternoon just done some exercise for you but i here's what i want and if you're not unable to don't feel any condemnation if you're not able to no problem but here's what i want i want you i'm going to read through this passage of scripture without commenting which is very difficult for me i almost made it in the first service i might reread a passage over and over a little bit just as emphasis but here's what i want you to do i want you to open your heart and your spirit and just let the holy spirit like saturate your heart with this word from romans 12. yeah so just follow i'm reading from the nlt and so what we have in mind i'm i'm wanting to live a life of overflow i'm wanting to have to be able to hear and to see and understand what god is speaking and saying that's the context that i'm reading romans chapter 12 verses 1 through 21 and so dear brothers and sisters i plead with you to give your bodies to god because of all that he has done for you let them be living in holy sacrifice the kind he will find acceptable this is truly the way to worship him don't copy the behavior and customs of this world but let god transform you into a new person by changing the way you think by changing the way you think the record is stuck by changing the way you think then you will learn to know god's will for you which is good and pleasing and perfect because of the privilege and authority god has given me i give each of you this warning don't think of you don't think you are better than you really are be honest in your evaluation of yourself measuring yourself by the faith god has given us just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function so it is with christ's body we are many parts of one body and we all belong to each other we all belong to each other we all belong to each other i want to talk um in his grace god has given us different gifts for doing certain things well so if god has given you the ability to prophesy speak out with as much faith as god has given you if your gift is serving others serve them well if you are a teacher teach well if your gift is to encourage others be encouraging if it is giving give generously if god has given you leadership ability take the responsibility seriously and if you have the a faith a gift for showing kindness to others do it gladly don't pretend to love each other don't just pretend to love others really love them hate what is wrong hold tightly to what is good love each other with genuine affection and take delight in honoring each other never be lazy work hard and serve the lord enthusiastically rejoice in our confident hope be patient in trouble and keep on praying when god's people are in need be ready to help them always be eager to practice hospitality always be eager to always be eager to practice hospitality bless those who persecute you don't curse them pray that god will bless them be happy with those who are happy and weep with those who weep live in harmony with each other don't be too proud to enjoy the company of ordinary people and don't think you know it all i didn't know that came from the bible verse 17 never pay back evil with more evil do do things in such a way that everyone can see you are honorable do all that you can to live in peace with each other dear friends never take revenge leave that to the righteous anger of god for the scripture says i will take revenge i will pay them back says the lord instead if your enemy is if your enemies are hungry feed them if they are thirsty give them something to drink in doing this you will heat burning coals of shame on their head verse 21 don't let evil conquer you life church 7 but conquer evil by doing good so holy spirit we just allow you right now in this moment to let your word saturate our hearts to change our thinking to transform us to renew our mind to right our hearts to the kingdom of heaven we welcome you in jesus mighty name amen you can be seated so my big idea today is discovering the secret to a life of overflow discovering the secret to a life of overflow number one the secret of full surrender verses one and two and so dear brothers and sisters i plead with you to give your bodies to god because of all he's done for you let them be living in holy let it be a living and holy sacrifice the kind he will find acceptable this is truly the way to worship him don't copy the behavior and customs of this world but let god transform you into a new person by changing the way you think then you will learn to know god's will for you which is good and pleasing and perfect so my first thought of the secret that we want to pick off from scripture is full surrender positions you to live from overflow would you say that with me full surrender will position me to live from overflow i have found that full surrender is a process it's an ongoing process but the holy spirit speaks to our hearts and we just continue to fully surrender it positions us for all kinds of blessing the more you surrender to god the more his life and presence flows through you the result you will be transformed into a new person by changing the way you think that's one of the secrets when you surrender to god and you allow the mind of christ to begin to touch your mind it will change the way you think we're living in a time where things are pressing on us and where governmental uh overreach and all kinds of brokenness that is going on right now there the media there is a pressing on our minds of things many things that aren't true at all without trying to get into anything political or or trying to pick a party just an example so i can just be honest and help us in this season just to have the president say six weeks ago that he wasn't going to force vaccinations and mandate them and then six weeks weeks later do that very thing what that what that does is that it creates confusion because we're to honor our leaders we're to pray for those that are in authority and so in a carnal mindset i'll just go off with calling them all kinds of names or in a carnal mindset um i'll arrive at conclusions that i wouldn't have arrived at because i'm offended with a person who seems to be pretty lost i'm offended with their leadership and i leave the kingdom of heaven and i leave the glory in the goodness of god and i leave this place of having my mind renewed by being offended with someone who's trying to get me to do something that i don't want to do or something that i may have would have done but now i'm not going to do it for sure there's something about a carnal mind that makes us want to fight there's something about see we're not paul said to be carnally minded is death but to be spiritually minded is life and joy and peace in the holy ghost so how do you overcome in times when there's conflicting information when when it feels like our real rights are being pressed upon and for sure i believe they are how do we respond that's the issue how do we respond this season because if i respond the wrong way i'm going to look just like the person who is mandating stuff to me that's what happens that's the trick that's going on right now the trick right now is to get you down to one side or the other because the devil doesn't care which side you're on just as long as you're not on the lord's side we're not designed to fight with flesh and blood we're designed that we're seated with christ in heavenly places we're designed to overcome we're designed to bring life and hope to a world that is lost and dying and needs jesus and if you're offended by that and what i'm just sad surrender to jesus and just say lord i can't believe even when pastor's talking i'm getting amped up and i've got to give that to you i've got to give that to you i don't want to live my life offended i don't want to live i don't want to try to live life from the arm of the flesh when there's so much power available in the life of the spirit thank you lord is everybody okay it's just [Applause] knowing god's will for your life his good and pleasing and perfect will comes from being transformed and that's another secret from living from overflow his design for you is good pleasing and perfect number two the secret of god's grace verse three you just follow along because of the privilege and the authority god has given me i give each of you this warning don't think of don't think you are better than you really are be honest in your evaluation of yourselves measure yourselves by the faith god has given us just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function so it is with the body of christ we are many parts of one body and we all belong to each other wow can i encourage us during the season let's pray for each other let's bless each other when we disagree let's just agree to disagree agreeably amen man you're entitled to your opinion and we have all kinds of opinions going on but the truth is we belong to each other jesus bought our bought us with his very own blood we are precious in his grace verse 6 god has given us different gifts for doing different kinds of things well so if god has given you the ability to prophesy speak out with as much faith as god has given you if your gift is serving others serve them well if you are a teacher teach well if your gift is to encourage others be encouraging if it is giving give generously if god has given you the leadership ability take the responsibility seriously and if you have the gift for showing kindness to others do it gladly the secret of god's grace his grace god's grace grace say this with me grace is the empowering presence of god working in you to cause you to become all that god designed you to be his grace is working in you my dentist is in the in the in the uh auditorium with us today and i think monday i think i go in there get my teeth cleaned and whenever he does any work he's like the best pain-free and uh man i just i love going and just hearing his heart and encouraging but he's gifted to be a dentist and you know what i'm only gonna go to somebody who's gifted to do dentistry i'm not going to go to somebody and go like hey man i don't know about you but i'm game this is the first time what kind of drill what drill size do you want see all of us are gifted the liar the enemy please don't ever repeat and say you know i just don't have any gift you know and i've heard people say oh when i was in line you know i guess i got too late to the line because when god handed out all the gifts that's agreeing with the devil that you're of no value each person here has at least one gift some have others but you are graced by god to use your gift and that gift is a blessing to the body of christ it advances the kingdom and most of all it brings overflow when you serve out of your gift there's overflow i was when i was younger i used to take things apart i just was fascinated with my mom and dad had this tape to tape recorder that stuff working i thought i think i can fix it so i took the front of it off and took it apart inside there are pieces all over the house i think i was about ten and uh my dad was so gracious he said well wes it looks like you have the gift to take things apart do you have the gift to put them back together i didn't have the gift for that another time i was in high school my brother will tell the story if he ever speaks in urine and um he had a 64 tempest now people are fixing them up but he had this car and and um i told him i said let me give a tune-up i'm taking auto mechanics at school let me take it in let me give you a tune-up and uh he goes yeah but make sure it's running when it comes back oh yeah bob well i got into school pulled the car in and then the the auto mechanic teacher said well um would it be okay if we took the heads off and i'm gonna show the heads we'll put it back on get all back together so we took the heads off and and then i don't know how to end up but we had pistons out of the block and and we had tie rods laying here and and then the end of school came and we took the car home in parts [Laughter] my brother sold that car in parts never to ask me to use my gift of mechanics on working on any of his cars again he got a better car you got a 73 javelin you know those kinds they had the big humps in them oh yeah god's so good the point is is that each one of us are graced with a gift and we can bless each other don't ever try to be somebody or not yeah you're not graced to do it but you are grace to do god's empowered you to do the things that he's called you to do it's so good sorry bob the secret number three and the final one the secret of loving well don't just pretend to love others really love them i call it pseudo-christianity oh i love you with the love of the lord you dirty rotten person i i don't like you but i love you with the love of the lord pseudo-christianity pseudo-christianity don't just pretend to love others really love them hate what is wrong hold tightly to what is good love each other with genuine affection and take delight in honoring each other what a good word for right now take delight in honoring somebody's wearing a mask take delight in honoring them they don't need an opinion we've got a million of them just take delight in honoring them somebody's not wearing a mask take delight in them honor them for not wearing a mask both ways you get to choose you get to choose but but but no you get to choose but what do we do we honor one another see that's what's happening right now is that there's so much dishonor and there's so much disagreement and so people are becoming so polarized it's the devil's scheme to split the body of christ apart so that we no longer belong to each other that's his scheme i can honor your opinion i don't have to believe it you're free to share it we may not we not me we not may not hold the same but i can love you and i can bless you my wife and i have been married now for 41 years we've at least disagreed once but never during the disagreement did i say or did she say you know what unless you agree with me we're not going to be married anymore i mean a marriage wouldn't work how many over time have changed your mind at least once on different things so we're in a season where we need to step back a little bit and just say i'm going to love you well i'm going to honor you i'm not going to speak ill of you i'm not going to pit this group against you i'm not going to send 57 or 80 more videos to you love well never be lazy wow can i say to all i just need to say this to all believers young and old you're designed to work laying home and eating popcorn and spending a check that's sent into you in the mail is not god's design it isn't it isn't you're designed you're designed to use your gifting you're designed to use your gifting don't ever get sucked into the thing that i don't need to work you know i'm 22 and i feel like i need to retire are you serious but it's part of the lie that's going out right now paul said if you don't work you don't eat like right now in america if you don't work we'll give you more checks he said well i thought we weren't gonna no i'm just telling you the bible says don't be lazy don't be lazy why because you go to bed and you'll sleep at night rather than play video games all night long see god's designed your gifting he has designed you to work don't turn me off watch he's good rejoice in our confident hope be patient in trouble and keep on praying the worship team can come and save me when god's people are in need be ready to help them always be eager to practice hospitality bless those who persecute you don't curse them pray that god will bless them be happy with those who are happy and weep with those who we live in harmony life church 7 with each other don't be too proud to enjoy the company of ordinary people i don't know what paul means by that because we're pretty much all ordinary people it just must be that some must think they're extraordinary and here's the way that you can get rid of that kind of thinking anytime somebody asks you to go out to lunch with them or talk with them or be with them that you just say if my calendar is open i'll go be with you i'm glad to go have lunch with you i'm glad to go have dinner what that does is it releases fellowship and love there's nothing more hurtful than to ask somebody to go out to dinner and they just say you know man my calendar i'm swamped because really you want to go home and watch the seahawks i just want us to see something in this season there's a real onslaught to do isolate the body of christ and keep us from being hospitable with one another the scripture says that we're to ask i just asked the question i know we've been through covenant and i know we've been through a rough season but when is the last time have you gone out to dinner with someone or had somebody over in your home so we don't because we have mass well wear your mask and have people come over get them early halloween it doesn't matter the point is i'm just teasing the the the the point is is that we do need to laugh and we do need to show hospitality and what we can't have is us be become isolated from each other that is what's going on the any enemy picks us off when we're isolated the body of christ remember we belong to each other we're connected together if you have coveted stay home if you're sick you can't go to the party amen i just want to remove excuses well 30 years ago i had the flu and we're going to have to fight for hospitality and we're going to have to ask the holy spirit to help help us to come back together never pay back evil for evil do things in such a way that everyone can see you are honorable do all that you can to live in peace with everyone dear friends never take revenge leave that to the righteous anger of god for the scripture says i will take revenge i will pay them back says the lord instead if your enemies are hungry feed them if they are thirsty give them something to drink in doing this you will heap burning coals of shame on their head don't let evil conquer you life church seven but conquer evil by doing good would you stand with me as i finish this third point the secret to loving well comes from the reservoir of god's love god is love god poured out his love on us his love is in us filling us his love flows in us and through us even when we were dead in our trespasses and said god loved us he sent his one and only son to die for us in this season of upheaval and unrest from overflow we can overcome evil with good with the overflow of god's love and grace we can love those who hate us we can bless those who persecute us we can do good to those who are pers who wound us why because god is at work in us transforming us into his likeness and image because jesus overcame you can overcome the holy spirit is here this morning to fill you to give you overflow and there are so many secrets that god has but there's three and the three this morning that produces over flow in our life the first one is to surrender to the will and the purposes of god would you lift your hands with me all across this building just say lord i surrender to you yeah i surrender to you anything in my mind that's not of you anything that's not of your kingdom lord would you wash my mind free of things that would cause me to agree with things that are not lovely pure enough good report lord would you wash your minds father today would you restore would you release fresh grace fresh empowerment so that we can serve powerfully that we can love each other well that we can honor one another welcome holy spirit come and pour out your grace upon us in this season lord we need you more than ever we say welcome holy spirit we say welcome holy spirit come and do what we cannot do we welcome your presence we welcome your power come and fill us again lord i pray that we be empowered with your love the secret of loving you with all of our heart and loving one another well lord we don't want those to be just words we want that to be word indeed restore our love for each other because love covers a multitude of sin restore our first love lord we welcome you jesus welcome holy spirit i pray for every person today that they would open their hearts up for overflow lord you're the one who comes in and transforms us and today we welcome you to come would you worship with us [Music] [Music] [Music] he shall return in robes the blazing sun shall pierce the night and i will rise among the saints my gaze transfixed on jesus [Music] the blazing sun shall pierce the night and i will rise [Music] transfixed on jesus [Music] his name forever [Music] [Music] foreign we will see your praise [Music] what an amazing word pastor west so good talk about the secret discovering the secrets of a life of overflow a life surrendered secret of god's grace the secret of loving well amazing in colossians chapter one it talks about the secret that god had this plan all along and he kept it a secret up until jesus and the secret is this christ lives in you so it says in colossians christ lives in you but the truth is this christ can't live in you until you fully surrender [Music] so today i want to invite you if you don't know jesus if you've been filled with something other than jesus if you've walked away from jesus and you're returning to jesus today as you surrender christ will fill you as you surrender christ to fill you so if you're here and you need to give your life to jesus if you're online you want to give your life to jesus here's what i want you i just want you to slip your hand and say that's me i need to give my life to jesus i've been filled with the wrong things i've been overflowing with the wrong things i need to give my life to jesus yes i see that hand yeah [Music] anyone else yeah yeah so let's pray this prayer together jesus i give you my life i surrender all full surrender and in exchange would you live in me fill me to overflow i turn from my sin and i turn to you all the days of my life in jesus name amen amen can we celebrate together those who just gave their life to jesus we give you glory jesus we give you honor you're here and you live in us wow there was such a such an anointing when pastors started talking about hospitality did you feel that we started talking about hospitality because it's the very thing that the enemy's been trying to take away the last two years is community and i was just reminded as pastor was talking about i got a picture of jesus in the upper room with the disciples and there was an empty space for me that i'm invited to the table and the hospitality of god that i'm invited to the table of presence and in that place he's feeding me he's filling me you know here's that i think the trick of the enemy's been recently is that we've been sitting at the wrong table vaccinated unvaccinated kovid no kovid democrat republican what unites us as believers is that we're all invited to the table of presence at jesus i'm not going to camp at the wrong table i'm not going to camp at the wrong table i need to be at the table with jesus because he's been the one who's hospitable to me so in this moment would you just just take a moment with jesus and just repent maybe that word just stung to you because you've been at the wrong table would you just as a believer just in this moment just open up your heart and say god i just repent i repent god of of getting at the wrong sitting at the wrong table i repent now lord i want to be transformed by changing the way i think so did you come enter into my mind right now would you give me a fresh baptism of love yeah that's it god wants to give a fresh baptism of love this morning of love because hospitality comes from god's love that's where it comes from so as you open up your hands and just receive i receive a fresh baptism of your love we just declare that right now i receive a fresh baptism of your love oh you're not here to divide you're here to unite and unity commands a blessing so god would you just come and give us a fresh baptism of love to every place every part of our heart i just see you soaking us god in your love just soaking us more lord there's some of you you haven't got enough yet you haven't got enough there's more encounters right now holy spirit we just encounter us with your love we're open vessels to be filled to overflow see god is not just the god of enough he's the god of more than enough and he's gonna pour out his love on you right now the love of the father the love of abba father that runs to you that embraces you so we receive your love abba father this morning thank you god thank you i don't want to i want to invite the prayer partners to come forward if you're a prayer partner at the church would you come forward right now just come to the front and here's what i want to do yeah those are your prayer partners as you come up here yeah if you're just like man i need more i know i'm feeling something and i just need more would you come up and just get prayer get prayer i believe god's healing anxiety this morning if you have anxiety god won't see that i got a word of knowledge that actually kira was talking about that if you have a knee problem somewhere in your knee left knee problems god wants to heal that today so please come forward and receive prayer but before i release you to come forward and receive prayer i just want to bless you so just hold on your hands i want to pray a prayer blessing over you for this week holy spirit this week over your church and over the ones that are watching online would you bless them and keep them lord that this week would be a week of living in overflow living in overflow fully surrendered filled with your grace full of love would you bless your church amen amen amen hey if you are new here right after this service we're doing a welcome to life church 7 lunch right over here where that exit sign is so we want you to come and be welcome to the church and get to know a little bit more about us so lunch is on us we want to see you over there if you want to get prayer would you come forward right now we want to pray with you if not you're dismissed have a wonderful day wow what an amazing service we are so glad that you joined us today and i'm really believing that you were able to encounter the lord today and his love for you if you received jesus today for the first time and you said yes to him you gave him your life we actually want to connect with you we want to hear from you so if you want to shoot an email to connect lifechurch7.com let us know about your experience and your encounter with god we want to connect with you and hear from you well that's all we have for today so we bless you in this week to encounter god like never before daily encounters and we can't wait to connect with you again next sunday see you there [Music] you

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