God Is Always Working | Reggie Dabbs

[Music] come on let's give him a shout out praise this place that song had has got me messed up a little bit i love that line where it says it has crowned me with confidence i don't know sometimes i don't have confidence in myself but it's not about that it's about the confidence in him that he crowns us with i want to assure you that no matter what you're going through you can be confident that he is on your side he is there for every battle that you're facing every situation no matter what you're going through you can be confident that god is with you amen come on let's give him a shout of praise one more time wow [Music] god is so good he's so good once you turn around and greet someone before you're seated give them a high five if you're not comfortable do that just smile at them tell them you look so good today we want to welcome you joining us online thank you i know you feel the presence of god right where you are we're honored that you take the time to join us today well i have the privilege today to introduce our guest speaker he's really not a guest speaker he's more like family to us and he's just an amazing friend amazing guy and we he's here because pastor is away this week he's working on a new book that he's writing i cannot wait for you to read this book i think it's going to be a game changer i've had the privilege of reading the first three chapters i believe that he's working on now and i'm telling you it's gonna it's gonna touch people's lives it's gonna meet some needs of some hurting people those that are looking for help and i believe it's gonna be something special for all of us and for the kingdom and he's also celebrating charissa's birthday how many of you know that's a good thing when you celebrate your wife's birthday can i hear you men is that it's always good so but we are so honored to have our guest speaker reggie dabbs with us today greg we love you and uh i'm not going to spend a whole lot of time talking about reggie because you're going to get to see him this wasn't brought up here for me to play it's obviously for him he's a musician he's an author uh just a sought-after out speaker speaks in public schools all around the world and your friend reg you're the real deal and on behalf of pastor welcome to free chapel again can we stand our feet and welcome reggie dabs as he comes to share [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] hey [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] this [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] i'm [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] well somebody look at your neighbor and say all right all right all right somebody look at your other neighbor and say everything's going to be all right if you got a bible turn with me to psalms 23 you all know it but we're just gonna break it down a little bit up in here today i'm going to tell you right now my one brother in this section you keep talking like that we're going black up in here that ain't got nothing to do with race has everything to do i like it when people talk to a brother i'm just saying so while you're turning to psalms 23 let me break it down for you listen very carefully there is one thing we can be sure of god's always working no matter what the crossroads you're at in life when you are forced to face the trials and tribulations of life when you are at the point not knowing what to do or where to turn you can trust in god [Music] every one of us go through valley experiences every one of us are faced with these valleys these are part of the experience of life but every time we go through these valleys we need to know that he's there somebody look at your neighbor say he's there before i even read this i want you to understand something this morning i'm one of those guys i have notes i have it on my ipad and the first service it went a whole different direction and if you were in the first service and you're in this one you're going to get a whole it's the same scripture but you're getting a whole different sermon because you know why people are different now a lot of if you come in here pastor preacher first serve and second service you'll get different things different things because the holy spirit won't say it's fresh it's new every time it can be the same thing but it's going to be new because holy spirit he's speaking to somebody in this room and i'm just going to straight up tell you before i even read the scripture everybody look at me somebody in a valley this morning somebody is pretending they know what to do but you ain't got a clue what you're going to do you don't know where you're gonna go you don't know how this is gonna work out you don't know how you're gonna get through this you can't see your hand in front of your face because inside it's that dark and you came walking up in the free chapel and you're holding this on the inside you're smiling on the outside even though the sun is shining today it's a storm in your life and you may be right here in gainesville you may be in midtown or come as you may be out and praise with him but you've got to understand he knows and he sees you and he's about to walk up in your valley let's go psalms 23 if you with me say yeah uh the lord is my shepherd and i like this version it says i lack nothing i love that if you from the hood you would say i lack nothing that's not that's not racial it's a geographical location from your past everybody who clapping from the hood i like nothing everybody say i lack nothing no no no it's not nothing it's nothing it's nothing it's nothing cause if you got nothing you still got ing but if you got nothing you po with no r that's as black as it gonna get today right there somebody say i lack nothing he makes me to lie down in green pastures he leads me beside quiet waters he refreshes my soul i love that he guides me along the right path for his namesake even though i walk through the darkest valley ooh i will fear no evil for you or with me somebody touch your neighbor and say he with you let's make it out look at your other name and say he got your back because you are with me i will fear no evil your riding staff it comforts me yea though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death i will fear no evil david's great the way he puts this because it ain't good this valley of death sounds like some kind of movie the valley of death but there's a phrase he puts between there it's not the valley of death it's the value of the shadow of death so david literally says it ain't nothing but a shadow oh come on so everything that we're walking through the disappointments the frustrations the discouragement the dilemmas of life that take us down this disastrous path david says it ain't nothing but a shadow so i i had to siri i said hey siri what's the definition of shadow somebody phone gonna do it right now but but i like it it says a dark area or shape produced by a body coming between rays of light and a surface i'll give you again a dark area shape produced by a body coming between rays of light in the surface and then it hit me produced by a body coming between rays of light and the surface that's a shadow so in order for there to be a shadow there's got to be light i know i'm in free chapel now y'all already know where i'm going you know in the book of john jesus said i am the light of the world so it don't matter how dark it gets it don't matter if you can't see tomorrow he's your champion he's your champion no matter how dark that giant it's got to fall it's got to fall i realize that i understand this we can go back in the bible and see it when the egyptians chased the israelites to the red sea there was no way around it but god made a way through it and if he did it for them he'll do it for us if he made a way for them he'll make way for us he didn't love moses more than he loved jensen franklin y'all thought i was going to say me uh-uh jensen the man that's my boy i do whatever that man asked he's my pastor and that's good some of you like well you shouldn't worship a man shut up let's go there moses is at the red sea exodus chapter 14. i'm going to read verse 13 through 16 but before we go there let me set you up right before i read this here's what's happening all right first of all moses goes to pharaoh and he says let my people go and then like if you ever went to sunday school where there's a song pharaoh said no they can't go so god sent nats to fly up his nose i went to that church that's old school y'all i am old school old school oh by the way if you think this sermon's good wait till tonight at five o'clock oh no no no you ain't gonna understand i was on a plane last night i was flying from fort myers to atlanta at 4 00 pm i was supposed to land at like 5 45 p.m i landed like 12 30 this morning y'all had these storms or something so they decided that i need to go to memphis so me and elvis wrote a sermon for all the young people tonight so if you college age and younger you need to get up in the house you know what my title is tonight at five o'clock don't say good night say goodbye i know i love it dude it's gonna be good i wrote that all the way it's gonna be good it's gonna be real good so here's the deal but i don't understand cause some of you some of you are new school parents your new school parents new school parents ain't nothing wrong with that y'all do what you got to do back in the day ain't how i grew up but i wish i grew up now i'll take away your xbox back in the day we went to school with a limp i'm just saying y'all don't y'all understand my mom would look across the dinner table and say i will reach over and slap you so hard your future children are going to yell ouch and one night she did it i had a lady the other day she goes oh i wish my son could have heard you oh i wish my son when she was here i wish you could have just heard the words coming out of your mouth and i'm like i'm so sorry how did he die she went he's at home playing xbox i said lady let me give you some parenting advice here's the deal if you're 14 you ain't grown if you're 16 you ain't grown go ahead get mad teenager get mad and kids if they mad bring them here at five o'clock tonight let them be mad again ain't nothing wrong with that you know what you do if your kid says i ain't doing it slap him upside his nappy head throw him in the car and bring him to church think oh i got mama standing up in here now y'all just saying they need to know it they need to know it because guess what whether you like it or not your kids are going through shadows too and they need to know ain't nothing but a shadow somebody touch your neighbor say ain't number shadow so here it is finally pharaoh all these plagues happen he goes get out get your people and get out so they out they free and do everybody was like we're free we're free and they were like moses moses he's our man if he can't do it nobody can and they're marching they're marching you know we're going to promise them going promising they're marching and then somebody there's always somebody bro it'll grow back there's always somebody in your group there's always somebody don't look at him look straight at red look at the pastor don't don't do it just look straight ahead there's always somebody who's gonna look back always somebody look there's a reason why the rearview mirror is smaller than the front windshield there's always somebody looking back and here somebody looked back and what did they see the entire egyptian army coming after them and the red sea was in front of him and now all of a sudden it's not moses moses he's out man now it's like let's kill moses let's kill moses and you thought cancel culture just started hey let me just help you all out cancel me see if i lose sleep delete me cause i'm telling you got the wrong tattoos i don't see holes where nails went i don't see where the crown of thorn was so that means y'all don't matter i'm preaching for the king today all right you might get along on the right it's all good you don't like me delete me see i'll still go to heaven please like people think their opinion only god matters hello seriously get your thing right with that people catholic who cares verse 13. now look here they come they're coming people like cowboys and moses moses answered moses goes don't be afraid stand your ground and you will see what the lord will do to save you today you will never dude this is word right here he said you will never see these egyptians again now stop he did not just watch a charlton hester movie and know to say that all right he said this and what happened next made people write a movie about him y'all get it he didn't know he had no clue but he wasn't just speaking for him he was speaking with the authority of the champion behind him y'all sing the song this morning he is our champion he says you will never see these egyptians again the lord will fight for you and all you have to do is keep still verse 15 you got to love god so the lord said to moses why are you crying i love that why y'all crying what's wrong it's just an army it's just the entire egyptian i'm about to wipe them they about to go they got to go hey your valley got to go the sorrow that you're facing got to go 16 lift up your walking stick and hold it over to see the waters will divide and the israelites will be able to walk through the sea on dry ground god may not he may not do what you think he may do the total opposite of what you think but he's still going to do something so many times we think god what have you done why have you left me out no man apathy is not in that brother's vocabulary and he ain't never late he made time he is time he's got you and i remember all my i've got to be honest with you i've i've i've never been in a hospital in my life i've never had anything go wrong in my i'm 57. i look good because black don't crack but you got to understand i go i got checkups i do check outs every six months make sure everything's good everything's fine everything's great in december my left knee swole up and it wouldn't go down it wouldn't go down so i go to my doctor he goes dude my friend's here and he's a specialist he does the dolphins there's all these guys let him just take a look at it he's in town so i'll get you in quick so i went to this guy and he's outside he comes and goes hey is it this reggie i said yeah he goes i don't want to see you yet but by looking at your knee on the x-ray you played football he said yeah he goes do you remember the game where a fullback or or a running back or a tight end hit you in the knee and you heard something pop really loud and then like want to do as trainer said we'll give you a shot you'll be fine next series i said yeah you a psychic too cause i don't believe in those i'm a preacher he goes no no no he says your knee is jacked up it's the worst knee i've ever seen he goes it's bone on bone he says i gotta do surgery okay and he walked in shook my hand he said where'd you play i said tennessee he goes i got this i got this i said thank you doctor thank you i said i said do what you got to do let me know what i have to do and i left and going in jesus name he's gonna heal me i'm gonna walk i don't need no doctor i ain't getting cut he didn't heal me so on friday today sunday on friday i had to go because it's may 6th so two weeks before i got to go to the hospital and when i went in the hospital they go we're gonna do some pre-checkup stuff all we're going to do he goes but they've asked more because of your patient history you've never been in the hospital no ma'am sick flu anything no ma'am have you had any covet symptoms i said i've been tested 44 times and my wife said i ain't never passing a test she goes well we got to test you one more i said okay no problem i'm used to it and she goes okay what we're going to do is i'm going to take you to the nurses they're going to get you they're going to do blood work they're going to do an ekg they're going to do a chest x-ray just to make sure you're fine you just got to do a little more so no problem no problem so i go in i walk in the room sit down lady does good stuff why do they put wires on the bottom of your legs i don't want to know all right but and it was there for like what a minute and she goes okay you're good and when she takes down she goes your aura is amazing i said is that my heartbeat she goes no no no you don't understand when you walked in the room you brought something with you i said oh no that's jesus now y'all got no no no wait i'm not that dude i'm usually a little more cool but it was eight o'clock in the morning all right i ain't never been to a hospital they put one of them things on me with my name and everything and i'm like oh snap this is getting real and so i'm like jesus i mean i'm out cause i if it's unknown i'm taking jesus with me anybody so she goes you have no i said no that's jesus lady i said you got to understand he's with you he's got you she goes i don't understand she goes you've never been i'm looking at your chart i said yeah that's okay she goes i got to take blood so she's taking my blood and she messed up and it's like the needle fell out and i'm like excuse me is this supposed to happen there's blood and then i'm thinking these people are going to do surgery on my leg and she's like oh my goodness i'm so sorry that never happened never happened i go no ma'am it's okay if you want something like this to happen to a patient you want it to be me it's okay and she goes oh my goodness how can you be so calm i said jesus i said he loves you i said there's somebody who's already introduced you to him you just haven't listened so today you need to listen so she goes i don't want you to leave i said well i gotta go she goes they want to do his chest set so the guy comes in with chest x-rays so i walk with him i walk in and he goes uh face the machine some of y'all know this stuff i don't have a clue i thought it was gonna hurt didn't hurt and when he gets done he goes thanks pastor reggie i said hold up you know me he goes yeah i watch hillsong all the time he goes that's cool he goes while i did the x-ray i got a text from my friend the nurse and i'm having lunch with her and she goes i'm ready to hear about jesus that guy who just left i need to hear about now wait wait wait i'm doing this on purpose because we're talking about the valley of the the death the hurt the pain the sorrow so here's the deal and you can think what you want but here's what i know when i was 20 years old at the university of tennessee and that full back hit me in the knee and they said we'll give you a shot all god said was it's going to be cool because 20 something years down the road he is going to end up having to have knee replacement surgery and he is going to talk to a nurse and that's just the beginning because wait oh no oh may 6 when i get to the hospital everybody going to know about jesus by the time i'm done [Applause] and i know some of you are like i don't understand i understand so you're saying you think you went through that pain just so that you i said i don't know why i'm going through this all i know is i'm using this for his good because it ain't nothing but a shadow it ain't nothing but a shadow it ain't number i don't know what you're going through this morning but it ain't nothing but a shadow look at your neighbor say ain't nothing but a shadow are y'all with me say man are you ready are you all good i got a couple of more things i got to tell you cause you got to understand something today how real god is he will set you up for his glory because he's our champion and those giants fall because we're willing to pick up a rock our testimony is the rock oh man this is poor early service for early service you gotta understand you gotta are you with me today do you understand what's going on could you imagine what happened when he just moses raised my stood and the song changed again moses moses he's our man if he can't do it nobody can't so why are you listening to those voices don't listen to them focus on jesus i hadn't done schools in about 14 months before coving 1.5 million kids every year public schools face to face around the world then 14 months in a row not one school three weeks ago i got to go to school oh so cool loved it panama city florida superintendent called and said hey i need your help i said word i can help you i said do you need a video because everybody's doing videos he goes no i need you to come to panama city and speak at my school i have 3819 students i got a plan it says i know i can i can't you can't see them all but there is one way to see them all so what do i have to do to see them all said you have to do eight 40-minute programs with three minutes in between and you'll see my whole school i said let's do it he goes are you serious i said why not he goes are you capable of doing that so i'll take a nap when i'm done and i did so we get up it's like 7 30 in the morning we start i didn't get done until 3 45 in the afternoon eight programs back to back to back it was and the first one i'm speaking i tell my story oh if you haven't my mom's a prostitute she slept with a man for 20 bucks to get food for my brother my sisters ended up giving me away saying i was a mistake my foster care parents my foster care dad at 13 slept by my door heard me crying at 3 am and walked in and told me that he loved me and stopped me from taking my own life they took me to church every sunday and now i'm here so that's it that's it all right that's it now in schools i can't say they took me i can't say jesus part but i can't say i'm here because somebody slept and said somebody sit by my door and in every school that day i said do you know what i'm doing don't you get it i'm sitting by your door and whenever i say that in eight programs somebody started crying out loud and that very first one i put the mic down went to the girl hugged her told her you can make it it's gonna be all right she goes you saved my life you saved my life and then i took the mic and i looked up and i said hey don't act like you're going to make fun of somebody because if some of you wasn't so proud you to cry too and some of you wish i'd have hugged you i got three minutes between programs if you want a hug i'll give it to you every session somebody cried that one teacher was in every one said you would think you scripted somebody crying i said but instead our kids are hurting that bad so they just need hope so halfway through i think it's number five or six the coach that helped me get in was in the back with three football players and they were watching the end of it and the football players looked at the coach says you think he's really real he said i know he cool the speech is good and everything and he comes across like he loves anybody and one of the guys football players are well coach we're about to find out look who's in his line to get hugs i didn't even see this girl because i'm hugging kids hugging kids and they're watching me i had this conversation with them yet when it was that kid's turn the kid walked up and i said how you doing what's your name and he said i go by stefan but my name is stephen he says you may not know this but i am a girl i said well yeah adam's apple gives it away some things you can't hide now some of you are already going whoa can you say that are you serious he goes i said i said can i give you a hug he says i can't i googled you why would you hug me i said can i um for just one moment i'ma change your name stefan to dominic he goes who's that i said that's my son so for one moment i want to treat you like your mind which means i don't care what you dress like i love you son and i gave him a hug see there's a difference between compassion and conviction see i got convicted the day i decided to let jesus be lord of my life and then he starts changing me on the inside making me more like him but a lot of times the church thinks the world should have conviction before they even realize that they they don't even know jesus how can they have a conviction on something they don't know now i know some of you are mad but i gotta let you know who's talking to you today because all this stuff like when i got up and talked about valley valley some of you are going through hurt and pain and you saw in my eyes that i really care during praise and worship i put myself in your shoes how could you say you are my champion when all hell is breaking loose in your home how can you even get it and you stayed through that you stayed through the songs now you're sitting mumbling through this sermon but you're waiting for something to happen it's about to happen ain't got nothing to do with the speaker has everything to do with the same god the same god that was with david in his valley is with you listen you can't stay there you know what i love about david he says yay door walk through the valley of the shadow of death that through is so key so many times we get hurt and we stop so many times we get to pain and sorrow and we just pitch a tent and stay there just stay there stay there the doctor who's gonna do surgery on me in two weeks said hey instant relief yesterday i don't feel it i've gotten used to it gotten used to it's been doing this for years and he goes instant relief for you absolutely instant i can't see that but did i stop walking i can't feel the instant relief but did i stop moving some of you can't see the end of the valley it hurts so bad the sorrow is so deep it's so strong but are you gonna stop no you leave the tent you leave to close you leave the fire that you started leave the dinner that you started making cause guess what you ain't eating there tonight tonight you're eating on the other side okay through the valley i love david because david said it perfectly he started out even before he went to the valley and he said the lord is my shepherd if you listen to my sermon today i have yet to tell anybody what to do and you probably will never hear me tell anybody what to do but i will definitely tell you what i did that's what david did he goes the lord is my shepherd he was letting you know who he believed what he believed how he made it and how you could make it i like that about david the lord is my shepherd i shall not want he knew that because if you go back to before he faced the giant he took care of his dad's sheep i don't know if he remembers the story if you go to first samuel you'll read that one day a lion came out of the woods trying to get a sheep and david put himself between those sheep and the lion and he fought the lion and killed it saving the shield next time a bear came out obviously he didn't watch the news and he was going to get a sheep and david did the same thing so for david to say the lord is my shepherd i should not want he knew that the way he stood against that line and that bear that god would stand between anything that came to him because the lord is his shepherd he shall not want i don't know if you got it but let's make it a little more personal i went to south africa and i spoke in schools 14 day tour 10 of those days were in public schools to the number of eight schools a day 86 000 kids saw a simile program on hope and love and then i was tired but then i noticed there was like two and a half days at the end with nothing i said i'm gonna fly home and the guy goes no no we got a surprise for you we're taking you on a safari i said i said who i'm from knoxville tennessee okay we got a zoo we got two monkeys and an elephant who died three years ago he's probably he's in the same spot every time i go elephant don't move and he's like elephant dead all right i'm just saying i'm just saying so i know what a safari was and he goes no it's cool we're going to camp lost me and i know some of y'all love camping camping camping uh-uh no no no you know what roughing it is holiday inn express and the pool's closed there you go he goes then we're gonna get in on these jeeps there's no doors no windows no roof and we're gonna go and see the animals in their natural places i looked at him and said bro you just described sushi and we the fish but i'm gonna be honest y'all it was the coolest thing ever man i saw lions i saw everything i saw elephants giraffes they just roaming zebras it was great then it happened the very last day we're going back going back going back going back to the camp and all of a sudden we come over hill and there's a thousand sheep running across the road now some of you like all that and you're gonna talk about sheep it was the coolest thing ever in the end there was this water on the other side of the road and all the sheep in the afternoon go down and drink and five shepherds bring their sheep there so they came over to the trucks shaking hands and stuff and i'm looking at the sheep and i'm thinking to myself how in the world are these shepherds gonna somebody gonna lose a sheep because it's like kindergarten playground time down in the water sheep were jumping on each other there was a lot of bad it was like it was so loud and i finally i said dude do you lose sheep when you leave here he goes no no no i'll show you give him a couple of minutes to get water but i'll show you so about two minutes later we shook hands and stuff he goes fred you go first and fred went hey and all of a sudden that bat and about a thousand sheep started following fred then another one whistled 2500 sheep started following him i'm like are you kidding me and the driver looked at me and goes the sheep know the shepherd's voice [Applause] out of the noise out of all the other sheep there was a lot of bang going on some people talking to each other once you're going oh my ship is better than yours nah mine's better yeah i'm out you should leave yeah we're going to cancel yeah yeah yeah we're going to move the all-star game just saying seriously grown people dude acting a fool come on it's just a shadow because god's gonna make it happen all the sheep are gone and the driver looked at me he goes you're gonna use that aren't you i said you got that right bro this is way too good how did they know because they spent time with him [Music] you see everybody in this room if you spend any time with jesus you've had mountaintops and valley experiences i wish i could tell you when you get saved you're going to stay on the mountaintop but nah ain't going to happen see the mountaintop is where we go and meet god but the valley is where he comes and saves us [Applause] so i just got to ask you do you know him do you know twice this morning i stood on the front row and that kid started singing you are my champion giants fall hey where y'all at hey come on out can we do that can we do that one can we i know we didn't do it earlier poor people in the early service i like it i like it the only way he could be your champion if you let him do i love jesus that he would die on the cross even though he knew people would say no to him that he would go through all that pain and hurt even though people would turn their back on him [Music] but he would do it even though even though now i did this and i got to tell you i only have one way full on so we're going to talk about valleys and hurt and shadows and god being your shepherd if somehow in this room god is not your shepherd this is your moment this is your chance this is your time no matter what campus you're at all my friends in orange county this is your moment this is your chance this is your time even if you're in midtown this is your moment in cummings hey it was or one o'clock this morning i drove by and saw the free chapel sign jensen frank i love that on the interstate i love that that's beautiful place where son [Music] it's a beautiful place to see a light of hope right but listen to me do you know jesus if not this is a good day it's the best day to give him his shot the bible says taste and see that the lord is real so i'm gonna ask you do me a favor cause i'm gonna do this young people style oh people don't old people like it easy bow your hair close your eyes no one looking around if you need jesus wave at me now we're going old school we're going youthy up in here all right so first of all everyone please stand from the back to the front left to the right no matter what campus you're on and i just start with you are my champion in a second and when they do i'm gonna count from 25 to zero hey look at me if jesus is not your savior if you have sin in your life you literally have 25 seconds to get out of your seat and come here physically you are leaving the valley and giving your life to jesus if you brought friends and you're like i need you i don't care what campus ask your friend do you want to go i'll go with you and if you got a friend about to ask you to come and get saved don't get mad at him you got a real friend that's willing to put it on the line for you a real family member that's willing to put it on the line for you so you got 25 seconds to come to jesus ask your friend ask your family start moving 25 24 [Music] 23 22 [Music] [Music] [Music] 15. oh come on [Music] [Applause] come to jesus [Music] [Applause] i am who you say i am i am who you say i am keep coming come on church we got to give praise no matter what campus you're on salvation is the greatest thing that could ever happen i am who you say i am [Music] who does jesus say you are he says you're forgiven he says you're the king he says you're the queen you're the prince you're the princess he says you're the head not to tell he says all things are possible i'm so proud of you hey you didn't come to a man cause reggie will let you down but jesus never fails we're going to say a prayer romans chapter 10 verse 9 says you declare with your mouth that jesus christ is lord and believe in your heart that god raised him from the dead you will be saved hey what's your name bro talon nice to meet you talent not much courage it took you to walk up here my brother what's good baby what's your name elizabeth nice to meet you elizabeth you know how much courage it took for you to come we got every age you can imagine here we got everything from every walk of life but there's one thing in common we all go through valleys and jesus was in it this morning and we heard him you heard him so we're going to say a prayer say it with me everybody ready everybody say jesus today's my day i come to you and i ask you help me save me forgive me i am who you say i am and you said if i ask i can be saved i'm asking save me jesus you are my champion i don't know why you love me but thank you jesus for saving me today right here right now in jesus name i'm saved i'm saved clap your hands all you people shouting to god with a voice to triumph amen amen amen amen hey something's happening stretch your hands toward them jesus i pray now that you would answer the cry of their heart god i pray right now god that you would be a will within a will i pray that you will give peace in the middle of their darkness god turn on the light right now god for them supernaturally do it in jesus name amen amen come on let's put our hands together rejoice i wish you could see the tears it's so beautiful so beautiful so proud of every one of you that made the decision this is the greatest decision that you've ever made can i get an amen from those that have made that decision come on one more time let's not not ever let this become common so proud of you so proud of the young people that are here how many of you are tired or complaining about what the young people and start celebrating the young people i can't wait to see all of you here tonight if you've got a young student your college age you have to be here tonight we're believing for revival if you're at home and you didn't make it to service or not get to church tonight at 5 00 p.m can we thank reggie dabbs for the incredible message today [Applause] powerful powerful we love reggie's one of my favorites listen they're going to get some information from these down front i want to encourage you to get to next steps it's a opportunity for you to learn more about the church learn more about yourself and the plan that god has for your life and we will introduce you to that and to the team and they'll take care of you for that but how many of you are glad you came to church today [Music] listen i want to celebrate with you please don't leave i want to celebrate something amazing that that god has done on behalf of pastor i want to say thank you you're the most generous church we shared with you about the matching fund of four million dollars that if we raised 4 million we had a donor that said that he would give us 4 million and match every dollar that you've given ever since we started announcing that you've given over 1.9 million dollars 1.9 so that means we've almost raised four million dollars so far it's not for a great church but it's to reach more people with the gospel of jesus christ and everybody should be excited about that thank you for being generous continue to give we got some great things that we're going to announce that we're going to do with those funds a secret is this going to be something powerful for young people i'm telling you we're we're on a mission to reach this generation of young people and i'm excited that you get to be a part of it as well listen don't forget about next sunday pastor will be back preaching and don't forget if how many mothers do we have or if you have a mother that's a that's a trick question everybody has a mother right listen if you're a mother we have a something very special planned for you on march or i'm sorry may the 8th it's the day before mother's day it's a saturday we have a special brunch for you that would love for you to be a part of limited spots available please sign up for that it's going to be a great time and and you'll want to sign up your mom for that okay so listen let me pray over you before we dismiss father i just pray that you bless us father i pray that you put your angels to watch over us that you would that no weapon formed against us would prosper lord and most of all let us not just be hearers of the word but let us be doers let us preach the gospel everywhere we go and share of your love for those in need in jesus name and everybody said amen we love you be blessed see you back here next sunday invite someone to be at church you're amazing thank you god bless you [Music] what a powerful word that was today if you made the choice to be saved first off we want to say congratulations we are so happy and proud of you we want to invite you to text amen to 3131-3131 just so we can get personally connected with you and give you some resources and next steps just on your spiritual journey but we are so so happy and proud of you yes welcome to the family like you said we are so happy um we're celebrating with you we are on with you on this journey really it's a journey and like pastor reggie said um you're gonna be in the valleys but there also is an other side to that valley and that is the mountaintop when you're on the mountaintop that is when you are with jesus but in the valley is when jesus comes to find you and i love how he said that often the church tries to introduce conviction before compassion is ever shown and i don't know but that that really challenged me to just show the world compassion today yeah a great word yeah a word that we can take and apply in our week let's not just apply it today but let's apply it throughout the week it's such a powerful word always a great time hearing from pastor reggie jabs but we also want to just thank you guys for giving giving like pastor tracy was talking about we're having a fund right now that's to raise four million dollars and you guys have been generously giving so much and we just want to say from the bottom of our heart thank you guys we see it we appreciate it and we're very very grateful for y'all and yeah we're so grateful just another reminder as well about the israel trip do not forget to go online rsvp it is december 1st through the 10th of this year yeah so go rsvp so you can go it's going to be amazing it's going to be so special and just one more reminder i know we've said it a couple times but pastor reggie is going to be here at free chapel gainesville tonight for our youth united night so if you've got middle schoolers or high schoolers or maybe if you are a middle school or a high schooler hello come on into the building tonight it's going to be so special before we go i just want to pray for you guys and we'll continue on with our day but lord thank you so much for our online family thank you for how special they are and how they take the time out of their day to just give you their sunday to give you this moment when they could be doing anything else when all these other distractions are pulling them god they choose to tune in and be here with you god so i pray that you would bless every single member of our online family i pray they feel loved and i pray you just show up for them in a crazy way this week pray all this in jesus name amen amen all right guys love you all see you next week [Music] bye

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