"Heaven's Echo" - Pastor Raymond Woodward

I know you're standing I'm not trying to keep your standing but would you lift your hands standard receipt it would you just lift your hands and let's ask God to open our hearts and our understanding to his word so excited to be part of his church inaudible put a Valecia son that I will put on here inaudible okay and they are Saba guilty' I worship you Jesus I worship you jesus said that of Allah CSI so that have a hell of a part of that by yes mandala ba da da ba ha I worship you Jesus I worship You Jesus God opened our understanding and our mind open our spiritual eyes to see God open our spiritual ears so we can hear your word we give you all the praise all the glory in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus we've been doing so wonderful tonight you're just awesome but would you turn that prayer into one more worship one more praise and just lift it up to the Lord tonight thank you Jesus thank you Jesus I love you god I love you God amen and you may be seated thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you because that's the first page if we don't get the first page right 13 months ago pastor on a Sunday morning started to preach a message and like this morning just never got anywhere near through and so I just kind of put it away until the Lord quickened it to me again and then about a month ago I was speaking to a group of a wonderful group of home missionaries church planters our wonderful church Parkway Pentecostal church in Madison Mississippi every August they look after the cost to bring about a hundred and five at current count a hundred and five not just church planters but church planters and their families their kids all of that they bring them to Mississippi and they have a wonderful time of training and teaching there and pastor was honored to speak there this summer and God quickened this message and then looking at today God quickened it again to me so it's a it's totally different than what we did thirteen months ago that's for sure but I just really feel to launch back into this and see what the Lord would say to us tonight Psalm chapter 62 and verse 11 God hath spoken once twice have I heard it that power belongeth unto God God spoke at once but I heard it twice God is always looking for ordinary people to play very significant roles in his unfolding story of redemption you see we serve a God who is supremely confident in himself he is free to choose the least among us to accomplish amazing God sized stuff human beings are totally different than God we're always trying to partner with the biggest and the brightest and the most powerful and the most well known but God simply looks for people who are willing to take him at his word that's why in the Old Testament this would be probably five thousand years ago when God wanted to deliver his people from the grip of the most powerful man and the most powerful empire in the ancient world when he wanted somebody to shake his people loose from the grip of Pharaoh he chose a stuttering shepherd with low self-esteem he chose an aging man on the run from all of his past mistakes he chose a man named Moses now it's amazing because Moses he's out in the desert it's a long story but he's out in the desert and he sees a burning bush miraculous appearance of God and God speaks to Moses and it's amazing Exodus chapter 3 verse 7 and the Lord said I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt and I have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters for I know their sorrows and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them out of that land unto a good land and a large under land flowing with milk and honey under the place of the Canaanites in other words I'm gonna displace all these other heathen nations I'm gonna make a place for my people I'm gonna displace the Canaanites the Hittites the amorite s' the perizzites the high bites the Jebusites now therefore behold the cry the children of Israel has come unto me and I have also seen the oppression were with the Egyptians oppress them it's an amazing passage of Scripture because God has a plan God is powerful God can do this God says I've seen I've heard I'm concerned I'm coming down I am gonna do something about it and Moses says good well I'll just go over here and sit down cuz God can do it Moses knows that even Pharaoh and even Egypt can't stop Jehovah if Jehovah decides to do something but then God says in verse 10 come now therefore and I will send you unto Pharaoh that you may bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt and Moses said unto God well wait a minute I just misunderstood something here I thought you had heard and you had seen and you were coming down and you were gonna do something about it and now you want me to go do something about it and Moses said to God Who am I I'm a stuttering Shepherd with low self-esteem I'm an old man and I'm running from all my past mistakes Who am I that I should go unto Pharaoh and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt see God's plan is I'm gonna do it but I need somebody to declare it on the earth what I'm gonna do and then I'll do it his plan is Moses I'll do it but you go I'll do it but you believe I'll do it but you talk now God isn't thinking for one second that Moses is going to do all the delivering he isn't counting on Moses skill or Moses power or Moses personality or Moses intelligence to break Israel's chains of bondage God knows exactly what he's going to do God is going to do all the work 100 percent he's going to break all the chains 100 percent he's going to bring them out all by himself 100 percent he just wants a leader to speak to echo what God is speaking that's all he needs God says I could do it all by myself Moses but I've chosen you an ordinary guy who will just say what I tell him to say Moses you are not the star of your life story your life is just a little tiny piece on one page of my story of redemption you're not the star of the show you serve me Moses I'm the star of the show God doesn't waste any time trying to build up Moses self-esteem he doesn't give Moses a pep talk now Moses you can do this come on Moses he doesn't even do that he doesn't care that Moses has low self-esteem he doesn't care that Moses stutters he can get him Aaron to talk for him he doesn't care that Moses is on the run from all kinds of mistakes and that he's been considered a failure and he considers himself a failure he doesn't care that Moses is aging because God really doesn't need Moses brain or his biceps or his intelligence or his strength or his ingenuity he doesn't need that God just says to Moses I will be with you because Moses God and anybody else is a majority God and anybody else makes an overwhelmingly powerful team so Moses let's get this straight yes I'm going to deliver Israel I'm going to do it but I just need somebody on earth to walk into the palace of Pharaoh and look him eyeball to eyeball and echo what I've spoken to you so all I need you to do is announce to Pharaoh what I'm going to do and so Moses he said God can I see some ID he did he asked God who should I say sent me I need some ID here verse 14 and God said unto Moses I'll give you some ID I am that I am I'm the eternal self-powered all-sufficient never dying everliving God I'm perfect in every way and I'm self-sufficient in every way Moses you think you're self-sufficient but if I cut off your air supply we'll see that you're not self-sufficient one little misfire in your heart that organ that beats in the middle of your chest and you could be gone Moses but I am self-sufficient I don't need anybody or anything so my ID is I am that I am and he said here's what you go say to the children of Israel and then you go say at the Pharaoh I am has sent me to you so what God is really saying to Moses is Moses I am I am the center of everything I am in control I am the solution I am holding it all together I am calling the shots I am the Lord I am the owner of everything I am running everything I am the head of everything I am in charge of everything I am the maker I am the Savior I am all-knowing I am all-powerful Moses I am God I am that I am so in that instance Moses had his answer here's my ID God told him two things God said my name is I am and Moses let me tell you something about you your name is I am NOT because there can only be one I am so Moses when you look at yourself you need to realize I am NOT the center of everything I am not in control I am NOT the solution I am NOT holding it all together I am not calling the shots I am NOT the Lord I am not the owner of anything I am not running anything I am not the head of anything I am NOT in charge of anything I am NOT the maker I am NOT the Savior I am not all-knowing I am not all-powerful and I am most definitely not God if Moses had to realize that before he could walk into Egypt and deliver three million of the Hebrew children we need to realize the same thing in our lives and what we're wanting to do for God God is I all by himself that takes a whole lot of pressure off all the rest of us I don't have to beat any Devils God beat the devil at Calvary 2,000 years ago all God asked me to do is to announce in my little corner of existence what God has already said so I can look at the devil and say devil get out of my way you're already defeated that's not something that comes out of me that's something that comes out of history it comes out of the Bible it comes out of God's plan it comes out of God's Word so when I speak it it's just as powerful as when Jesus did it because Jesus instructed me to be his voice God is more massive than our wildest imagination he is bigger than the biggest words we have to describe him God is constant he blinks and your life time comes and goes to him one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are as one day all of human history could be written on God's little fingernail and still have lots of room left over for more and our God this God the one true God he's doing very well today thank you he has no dilemmas no quandary no counselors no shortages no rivals no fears no cracks and no worries our God this God we were worshiping tonight he is self-existent self-contained self perpetuated self powered and he's self aware in other words he is God and he knows that he's God our God this God that we praise tonight this God that we've prayed to already in this service this God that we sang about tonight he is timeless ageless changeless he is always after an eternity spent being God he still shows no signs of wear and tear our God has known needs his accounts are perpetually in the black he owns the cattle on a Thousand Hills and he owns every Hill that any one of those cows might be standing on God holds the patent on everything and so he does what he wants period his purposes are a sure thing there's no stopping our God there's no containing him there's no refuting him you can't cut him off at the pass you can't short-circuit his agenda God is in control nothing is hidden from him our God wrestles with no mysteries he doesn't need to wait for a polygraph to decipher whether you're telling him the truth our God has never known what it is to have a teacher or a role model or an advisor or a therapist or a loan officer or a doctor our God's rule is unrivaled in history and an eternity he sits on an everlasting throne his kingdom has no end little gods abound by the thousands but he alone made the heavens and the earth he has never feared a power struggle he's not worried about a hostile takeover our God doesn't have to watch his back he has no evil no peer and no competition he is I am that I am there's nobody like this Jesus there's nobody else worth serving there's nobody else worth praising there's nobody else worth making them your idol he's God all by himself and he calls us into his story this isn't our church this is his shirts this isn't our story this is his story we get to do this we don't have to do this we get to do this so if God is I am that means everybody else is I'm not and when you look at humans that's very obvious if you look at any one of us you'd have to say this I am tiny minuscule transient in God's sight I'm microscopic I am a momentary and infant essa mille blip on the timeline of the universe i am just a collection of dust particles held together by the breath of almighty god the sum of my days is like a vapor my accumulated life's efforts are like chaff blown away in the wind you see among humans even the richest of the rich owns nothing compared to god the strongest of the strong among humans can be felled in one faltering heartbeat we are all fleeting mortals frail flesh little specks in the universe say pastor Raymond you're making me feel small no I'm just helping you embrace the reality that you really are small you see I am NOT but the one called I am privileged me to be his child I am NOT but the one called I am has blessed me to be part of his story I am NOT but the one called I am has allowed me to share his gospel with the world I am NOT but I know the one who's called I am that I am I'm not important but I know I am that I am I'm not great or smart I'm not all that but I know I am I know the one who is all that and who is smart and who is power John chapter one this is the record of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him who are you and he confessed and denied not but he confessed watch this I am NOT the Christ and they asked him well what then are you Elias he said no I am NOT I'm not the Messiah and I'm not even a great prophet art thou that property answered no and then they said unto Him o who are you we need to give an answer to them that sent us what are you saying of yourself John and here's what John's answer was I'll tell you what I am I'm not anything big in myself but I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness I don't have to have my own power I know the one who has all power I don't have to have great strength I know the one who has all strength and they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength I am just a voice of one crying in the wilderness my messages make straight the way of the Lord has said the prophet Isaiah and they that were son of the Pharisees they they which were sent were of the Pharisees and they asked him and said well John why are you baptizing then if you're not the Christ nor Elias and you're not a great prophet why are you baptizing that john said he had the answer he said i baptize with water but if God could open your eyes there's one standing among you whom you know not it is he he it is who although he comes after me on the calendar he's preferred before me in heaven I'm not even worthy to get down on my hands and and unloose the latchet of his shoes I am not worthy but he is worthy I am NOT great but he is great I am NOT righteous or holy or good but he is all of that and more and so this is what God calls us people to do God didn't call any of us to do some great task for him that takes all these brains and all these muscles and all this you know we're just heavens echo we declare on earth what God has declared in heaven that's why in Psalm 62 the psalmist caught it he said God spoke once and I heard it twice there's an echo in here and here's the echo power doesn't belong to King David or King Solomon or Moses or Jacob or Abraham or Isaac power belongs to God and so God speaks once in heaven but I hear it twice because God's got some people down here on earth that when God speaks something they echo it when God speaks something they shout it back at the heavens in faith the echo is kind of cool in the Bible Genesis 22 the angel of the Lord called unto him under heaven and said Abraham Abraham Exodus 3 verse 4 the Lord saw that Moses turned aside to see it this is when God called Moses at that burning bush and he said Moses Moses he said have you noticed there's even an echo in the words of Jesus every time Jesus wants to say something that's incredibly powerful and revelatory and full of incredible eternal truth he proceeds those statements by verily verily look at this John 3 verse 5 jesus answered verily verily I say unto thee except a man be born of water and of the spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God anybody here believe in the new birth experience Jesus said verily verily before he introduced that to Nicodemus John 8 verse 58 Jesus looked at a group of Pharisees you got to read John eight sometime and just kind of think about it Jesus has this running discussion with these Pharisees and he just frustrates them in the whole chapter and this is really where it all lets loose jesus said unto them verily verily he's about to say something really important I say unto you before Abraham was I am he's not using bad grammar he's using a name they know exactly what he's saying they take up stones to stone him because they know exactly what he's saying Jesus is saying hey you know your father Abraham the patriarch the founder of the Jewish faith when he was sent in his GPS to go from her the calories of the promised land that he'd never seen guess who gave him the directions that was me I am that I am I was there before father Abraham ever existed they knew exactly what he was saying anybody here believe in the oneness of God Jesus precedes that by this verily verily he's emphasizing eternal truth you know those ones and you love those ones but maybe you haven't thought so strongly about this one John 14 verse 12 verily verily I say unto you he that believeth on me the works that I do shall he do also and greater works than these shall he do because I go to my father that Jesus also says verily verily he said hey pay attention I'm about to reveal eternal truth and here's the eternal truth that people are nervous to believe that when I go back and I send my spirit to my church my church can not only do anything I did but they can do greater works than I did there's no record in all of the Bible where Jesus stands up sixty-five blind people and speaks to them and all their eyes open at once but that happened in an apostolic church service two weekends ago greater works than these shall ye do because I go to my father now we're hesitant that because we're humble people we don't put on airs but see there's a difference between humility and inferiority I'm not saying you should get some big head and think you're all that because you're not and I'm not but there's a difference between being humble and going around all the rest of your life feeling inferior to everybody that walks into your life because you are not inferior you are a child of I am that I am you were a child of the Living God you are Jesus on location in your life that's who you are and so when you walk into a room as far as heaven is concerned Jesus just walked into a room because you're full of his Holy Spirit when you pray it's the same to heaven as if Jesus prayed because you've got his Holy Ghost in side of you when you speak if you keep in tune with God as far as heaven is concerned you're echoing what heaven says that's why the Bible says death and life are in the power of the tongue you can choose to talk like the world or you can choose to echo heaven and it changes everything heaven doesn't care about your qualifications what a joke heaven and God have all the qualifications that you need to do anything and everything God has called you to do you don't need some great Bank of qualifications John the Revelator I was in the spirit on the Lord's Day and I heard behind me a great voice um buddy show voice as of a trumpet see God's always speaking the question isn't whether God speaks the question is are you listening heaven is always looking for an amen heaven is always looking for a confirming echo the prophets in the Old Testament they spoke words they didn't even understand people in their day thought they had lost their mind they were off their rocker but see they weren't talking just on their own authority they were speaking an echo from heaven so it took six hundred years but then Isaiah was proved right long after he died because Isaiah saw Calvary he was wounded for our transgressions he saw that that was all pictured before Isaiah people said to Isaiah you got to be crazy what in the world are you talking about he was wounded and he was bruised in the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with His stripes we are healed Isaiah you're crazy and Isaiah probably just looked back at them and said I don't know what's going on that's what God told me to say but six hundred years later after all those people were dead and in the grave including Isaiah Jesus did hang on a cross he was wounded for our transgressions he every once in a while heaven says something that doesn't make any sense right now where you are every once in a while heaven will speak to you and you're in the middle of one of the darkest valleys of your life and heaven says it's going to be okay and victories coming and you need to talk about victory instead of talking about Valley and people think you're not because it's pretty obvious you're going through a valley and sometimes you make the mistake of thinking yeah I'm crazy but you're not crazy when you're echoing heavens promise and heavens word and heavens commandment and heavens exhortation you're not crazy when you're echoing that you're just ahead of your time that's all this is this is amazing Luke 13 verse 12 and Jesus sees this woman who's all bent over all crippled up bound he called her to him and said unto her woman Thou Art Loosed from thine infirmity now Jesus didn't heal her as much as he loosed her he just made known to that woman what she already possessed even in the Old Testament covenant of Abraham we're not even in the New Testament yet the New Testament is the New Testament in his blood so we think the New Testament starts at Matthew 1 and 1 it doesn't it's the New Testament in his blood the New Testament starts when Jesus dies on the cross he is buried and he rises again that's where the New Testament opens it's the New Testament in his blood that's why people are always saying you know what about the thief on the cross you know Jesus talked to the thief on the cross the thief on the cross lived in the Old Testament he's under the Old Testament covenant has nothing to do with the New Testament new birth plan of salvation church age anything the old the thief on the cross was in the Old Testament and so this woman she's an Old Testament person Jesus is walking around the earth but she's under the Covenant of Abraham Luke 13 verse 16 when they questioned Jesus about it he says ought not this woman being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan has bound for 18 years ought she not to be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day see here's what Jesus was telling them healing and miracles they were included even in the Old Testament covenant when Israel was brought out of Egypt and not a bondage they walked in the wilderness for forty years the Bible says when they came out of Egypt this is three million strong every age there would be people that would be a hundred years old in that tribe of Israel three million strong walking out of Egypt in the middle of the night on the first Passover and the Bible says there was not one feeble person among them see healing and miracles that even happened in the Old Testament they walked for forty years their shoes didn't wear God provided them water to drink God provided them food to eat manna from heaven quail God provided it all for them there were miracles of provision and healing even in the Old Testament so Jesus just said this is dumb this woman's all bent over and bound over she's a daughter of Abraham the Abrahamic covenant it included miracles and healing my goodness Abraham had a miracle son when he was way too old to have a boy miracles were included in the Abrahamic covenant so it's not even so much that jesus healed her he loosed her to understand I'm a daughter of Abraham I don't have to spend the rest of my life bound like this I can stand up and walk straight and be healed now that's just Old Testament we don't live in the Old Testament we live in a greater covenant with a greater Savior with a greater high priest with a greater sacrifice with a greater Tabernacle so if Old Testament had miracles you can be assured that miracles still happen in the New Testament if there were provisions and healings in the Old Testament you can mark it down that that still happens in the New Testament Paul said in Ephesians he said I'm praying for you church at Ephesus I'm praying that the eyes of your understanding would be enlightened you would know what is the hope of the calling his calling and what is the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the Saints you've already got this power and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us word toward us who believe according to the working of his mighty power now watch this verse 20 which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead he set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places far above all principality and power might Dominion and every name that is named not only in this world but also in the world which is to come watch watch and God has put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head over all things to the church which is his body the fullness of him that filleth all you know and we're going to do a skill testing question here okay when you win something in Canada in most provinces it's law that if you're gonna win something you have to answer a skill testing question okay this is a skill testing question okay everybody ready I know we don't normally challenge your intelligence in church and I'm sorry for that okay so would you please look down toward the end of your legs and see if you have feet attached there if you do and you can verify this you have passed the skill testing question now here's the point everything in the world above and the physical world and the world beneath everything has been put under Jesus feet and the church is his body therefore simple skill testing question if you are the body of Jesus Christ and everything every authority every power every demon has been put under his feet where are they in relation to you they're under your feet as well which means you are under no obligation to take any grief from the devil you were under no obligation to let him trample all over your family your heart your brain your mind your memories your marriage your kids you're under no obligation to take that you have a right to stand up and say wait a minute devil you're under my feet I am the church I'm in God's body and I've been promised it's right there in Ephesians devil you're under my feet I don't have to take we get the devil way way way way way way too much credit if it's under Jesus feet and you're his body then it's under your feet so stop letting the devil walk on you now let me kind of come to a close here Ephesians chapter 2 verse 6 and he has raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus that in the ages to come God might show the exceeding riches of His grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus it's amazing in the ages of eternity to come God's gonna address everybody in heaven all the Old Testament prophets all the holy angels and gods gonna look at us his church and he's gonna say look how much I did with so little see you were hoping that God thought you were really something no God knows that we're really nothing and God knows that without him we can do nothing but in the ages to come he's going to show to all the heavenly hosts the exceeding riches of His grace in his kindness toward us God's gonna brag on His grace he's gonna brag on his mercy and he's gonna brag on his church but it's not the kind of bragging you think see when you do brag and you're a human being you're always trying to puff somebody up so you can usually get a favor out of them but your parents and you're telling them how gracious they are and how wonderful they are it's because you've got the other hand in their pocket looking for 20 bucks we know how this works we are smart your parents were smart and and and and here's the thing God doesn't brag like that he's an honest bragger he's going to say to the Angels can you imagine what the Angels thought about in Bethlehem when God said let me tell you what I'm gonna do I'm gonna go robe myself in a body of flesh and I'm gonna be born in a burn and I'm gonna be laid in a trough and scraggly smelly Shepherds are gonna come and worship me and the angels must've said God have you lost your mind you're gonna take the magnificence of eternity you're gonna take and you're gonna put you in a fragile do you realize how fragile those human bodies are God do you remember you created them don't you realize that you know one one little misfire here and they can be gone one bad accident a bad fall off a mountain and they're done humans are frail and feeble and fragile and fickle god are you serious in God said yeah I'm serious I'm gonna take on a human nature that I have never had so I can go down there and redeem them and some day you watch millions of them are gonna be able to take on an eternal nature that they never had and they're gonna join me in heaven for all of eternity and angels they'll be up here with me and in the ages of eternity to come I'm gonna look at you angels and I'm gonna say now look how much I did we're so little yeah they were little and tiny and fragile and frail they were feeble and sometimes they were fickle but I redeemed them I brought them into my church and first it started with just a hundred and twenty but now it's millions and millions angels and look at them all here in heaven worshiping me in the ages to come God's gonna say look what I did look how much I did we're so little it's not about you it's not about me it's not about our strength or skill it's all about Jesus it always was and it always will be come on back music Matthew 18 verily verily I say unto you Jesus said whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven and I say unto you that if two of you will agree on earth as touching anything that they'll ask it shall be done of them for them of my father which is in heaven for where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them and some people do a gross miss interpretation of that scripture a gross injustice to that scripture because they interpret it this way I don't like you I bind you I like you I loose you know I don't want that I bind that no I want that I loose that Cadillac no it's a gross misinterpretation of Scripture because it misses the point that God has spoken once but I heard it twice there's an echo and so when you buying something that's why it says it it's not awkward it's accurate whatever you bind on earth shall be bound has already been bound is agreeing with what has been bound by heaven the reason binding and loosing works for the church and you can bind the devil and you can loose Scott's healing you can bind the evil influence of Hell and you can lose Scott's provision and God's miracles it's not because you've got some magic incantation it's because when you speak it you're echoing what heaven has already decreed and if Jesus already bound the devil I can bind the devil any time I want to anytime I need to cuz it's not me puff it up if pride it's me saying devil Jesus already looked after this now get out my way it's what the Lord's Prayer is all about Jesus said after this manner pray ye our Father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven that's what the Lord's Prayer is it's an echo on earth of the voice that is speaking from heaven because when our echo on earth locks in like our laser beam like a radar onto what is being spoken by heaven we enter into an incredible dimension of power so the message tonight is very simple no matter how long it takes keep speaking God's word over your family over your kids over your health over your mind over your home no matter how hard it gets keep speaking God's word over your health over your home over your kids over your spouse no matter how much opposition hell throws at you keep speaking on earth what God has already spoken in heaven thou shalt be saved and thy house I am the lord which healeth thee it shall come to pass in the last day say of god I will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh no matter how many facts challenge your faith keep speaking on earth what God has already spoken in heaven stand with me everybody Joel chapter 3 verse 10 Joel said Israel Judah Heine I know you're farming people but the enemy's pushing in I know you're scared I know it looks rough and tough I know it looks like you're outnumbered listen to me take your farming implements and start building some weapons beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into Spears it's not time to just tend the crop that you already got it's not time to just manage the farm it's time to go to war and decide enough is enough so beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears and then the punch line and let the weak say I am strong oh you totally missed that let the weak say not I am weak not I hope I'm strong not I wish I could be strong no see this isn't the voice of Earth this is the echo from heaven let the weak say I am strong let the sick say I am healed let the depressed say I have joy let the anxious say I have peace let the weak say I am strong I'm going to keep saying it until I pull heaven down to earth I'm gonna keep saying it until my kingdom comes and thy will is done here in earth as it is in heaven I'm all for being polite I like the way we are in New Brunswick I really do I really do fly a lot in another country that's quite close to this one it's amazing you'll and little Bella bizarre you know the stewardess comes on says we've got some people with some really tight connections and if y'all would remain seated that would let them make their next flight little Bell pull up the gate little bell goes off everybody just jumps up start slugging big cases out of the whatever four people at the back that have tight connections like please let us throw it just ignore them pastor Jack and I were flying and we flew into Toronto from another country that's kind of close to here and the same thing happened it's amazing same thing happened the stewardess comes on ladies and gentlemen there's some people with a really tight connection and they're at the back of the plane if you'd all remain seated when we pull up to the gate they could make their next fight so we pull up the gate little buggers off ding nobody moved the people at the back they just kind of stood up and casually got their luggage out of the bin and walked all the way to the front of the plane unmolested and then endured stood at the door and then they the ground crew opened the door and they walked out and then the stewardess came on and said ding ok everybody and everybody stood up I said pastor Jack so makes now I like that we're polite okay but can I just tell all of you polite Canadian something you don't need to be polite with the devil you don't need to be shy when you're fighting hell for your kids you don't need to take a backseat to any demon or any opposition from hell if you've got somebody you're praying for if you've got something you're praying for it is not a time to be a polite Canadian it's a time to beat your pruning hooks in two Spears it's a time to beat your plowshares into swords it's a time to let the weak say wait a minute devil I'm strong I'm not strong as I feel strong I'm not strong because I say I'm strong I'm strong because God's Word declares that the I am is strong in me say I don't know about this echo thing I think you're stretching a point well no not really acts 2 verse 2 we always read acts 2 verse 4 look at this acts 2 verse 2 and suddenly there came a sound nervous a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and filled all the house where they were sitting you know the rest of the sound is a Greek word it's echoes from which we get the english word echo what happened on the day of pentecost here's what happened on the day of pentecost for the first time in human history earth started speaking what heaven was already saying in the old testament gods up their gods behind the veil and everybody's trying to approach god but for the very first time in human history god's voice started speaking through a hundred and twenty in an upper room see when you pray in the Holy Ghost you're echoing what God has already said you're praying in God's perfect will you may not know what you're saying but when you pray in the spirit you're echoey heaven and there every once in a while in a service in a prayer meeting there comes an echo from heaven and somebody gets some insane faith and says I know the doctor says I'm sick but heaven says I can be healed I know that my son said he's never coming back to God but I have a different opinion because the Bible says thou shalt be saved and thy house I've been saying it for months but I'm gonna say it until it out it's just us as Sunday night if you're visiting with us we are crazy and we're not ashamed of it because we're not just crazy crazy we're crazy about God now there's some people in this room that you've been praying about what - you are big things impossible things tough things defeating things hard things and it's just us is Sunday night and we're gonna close we're not over time I mean we're good tonight I'm gonna ask you to make your way as quickly as you can Church family and anybody else guests friends you're welcome to come with us we're just gonna pray together but I'm asking for some people that you know this is you thank you Esther we're praying with this young lady she's got a very important need with her family we're praying with Allen he's got a very important need his family that's right that's right that's right that's right look at this especially if you're praying for somebody that's not even here they're not even serving God you have a right to fight it's not about you winning an argument with them over doctrine that's not what's going to do it it's about you echoing heaven's promises it's about you echoing heavensward over that situation you say but I did that it didn't work keep doing it keep echoing heavensward until his kingdom comes and his will is done right here on earth as it is in heaven your jobs not to be great your jobs to echo the one who is free your job is not to be powerful your job is to echo the word love the one who is powerful your job is not to have it all together your job is to say I am NOT but I have a child of the I am so devil and hell sickness and pain look out I'm coming for you in the name of Jesus little shits and then about mandala by yeshivah if you're praying over a backslider right now pray that scripture echo the Word of God thou shalt be saved and thy house if you're praying over sickness right now echo the Word of God God said I and the Lord booyah a vendetta

Channel: Capital Community Church

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Keywords: pastor, raymond, woodward, preaching, preach, sermon, ccc, capital, community, church, fredericton, nb, new, brunswick, canada, upc, upci, apostolic, pentecostal, pentecost, heaven, heaven's, echo

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Length: 52min 39sec (3159 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 21 2016