Hillsong Church - Getting Unstuck

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victory sing a sound [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] ha [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] because we didn't call this May momentum month for nothing you know what the Lord is here this evening and he intends to meet with you Tyrone he believes I believe he's going to speak to you tonight and cami I don't think you should be apathetic or complacent I think the Lord has a word for you and Peter so Jim I believe the Lord is going to speak tonight and I don't know who you I don't know all of you or your names but I know that God is a personal God I know that he draws near and I believe that as we begin to lift him high in our world and in our lives that he begins to speak to us he reveals his plan and his purpose to us and tonight is not just another Sunday night tonight is a special Sunday and the Lord has come here you know what we've just been singing a song we're going to continue to sing that song but right now we're going to lift up a whole lot of prayer requests because we're a family a lot of you have put in requests and needs people who are suffering from cancer people whose kids are away from the Lord people who need jobs who need healing in their marriages students who need finance for college and you know what all of us can relate to these needs in one way or another and so I'm gonna ask you if you really will lift your hands high in this place and whether you will join your faith with the faith of people who have put prayer requests in and whether you will start to believe God for your own lives and where you need him to move and right now as we all begin to pray together I believe that the Holy Spirit is here and he is getting minister life and change so why don't you begin to pray right across place Lord Jesus we have great faith that you are here tonight that you are moving by your spirit and so God we did ask that these needs would be met in Jesus name Lord where there is healing needed whether it's restoration where there is hope to be restored where there is desperation deputies but as we lift your name up in our lives and in our world that we would see you move on ever hop in Jesus name everybody's dead [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] or what a good night to be in church a I'm Cass Brewster hi Cass I'm one of the pastor's here at Hillsong Church and we find ourselves in church together on Sunday night what a good place to be hey okay so here's the deal where friendly Church we normally put one minute on the clock and we give you a chance to meet people but tonight Pastor Brian's away right I know but you youth you've been getting in trouble for taking so long to get back to your seats so we're going to do a minute mingle but the challenge is for you to see if you can get back to your seats in one minute and if you can we're all gonna cheer as loud as we can so we input a minute on the clock say hi dear neighbor and if they can do it we're cheering [Music] [Applause] [Music] 20 seconds to find your seafood [Music] I can't count it down four three two [Music] [Applause] hey you guys did awesome and when Pastor Brian gets back he's gonna think you're amazing we might practice every Sunday night for a little while hey tuna how many weeks it is to Hillsong conference everybody hold up five fingers five weeks till Hillsong conference who's coming show of hands do you know what we have said this year Hillsong conferences called this Shh like a schoolteacher oh this is for everyone and the truth is if you're missing then everyone isn't there that's the truth Hillsong conference is like no other place I know and it's like the most incredible oasis it is a place for training for leaders but it is a place Bobby said this morning it's a place where we get to open up the doors as a church and extend hospitality the greater church to come and see what God is doing amongst us but we're us and if you're not there then we don't get to show off what a great church we have or how beautiful you are and they don't know the songs and they don't sing like we sing and the truth is God wants to speak and we've said revival is in the air and you wouldn't want to not be where God is doing stuff so can I encourage you tonight whether you're watching on the channel or on the link or you are in the hills campus let's all be Hillsong conference together cuz it is going to be incredible and spectacular and then say there's the 11th of June come on guys all to get 11th of June you need to mark your diary get out your phones and put in on the 11th of June on that night we are all gonna be here for a mega prayer night yeah there aren't many nights where we get to pray as a church but on the 11th of June we are praying and we're gonna believe God for what he wants to do coming up in the life of our church over the heart for the house offering Hillsong conference in the second half of the year and like Andrew Denton said this morning in his spectacular message we've got our pastors backs and we are part of the hope and the answer so we're gonna be here and position ourselves is that cool beautiful I like you front row you're really nice a woman friendly and the very very back row is also as friendlies alright okay but right now you're in for a treat because everybody's favorite pastor Robert Ferguson is going to come and share around our giving put your hands together and kick ass oh look at this enthusiasm you're wonderful people just you can all sit down as you've often heard me say I hope you put the same enthusiasm into your giving as you did to welcome me well we're gonna come around our giving right now and can I just remind you again we've said this many times giving is an act of worship and Laura got up here and said let's let's worship with passion and enthusiasm cows got up and said let's pray with faith wonder if we put the same commitment and faith into this moment of giving maybe you've already given during the week well why don't you take another step of faith tonight lots of different ways to give you can make a decision tonight I'm going to take another step of faith Cass has already referred to it Andrew Denton spoke an amazing message this morning about giving and I highly recommend if you weren't there to get hold of it he said it takes the same amount of faith to give $5,000 as it does to give $1,000,000 just the first 5,000 is tough the first step is always difficult I just am aware that many of you and you to the church new to faith new to tithing new to giving can I just encourage you make a decision I'm going to take the first step I'm going to take a step of faith maybe you're online and you're listening take a step of faith the Bible says Christianity is a pilgrimage Abraham set out in faith Phillips set out in faith we're encouraged to set out in faith and it comes with the promise Psalm 84 says blessed are those whose strength is in you who have set their hearts on pilgrimage they will turn their valley of tears into a place of Springs they will go from strength to strength that's what the life adventure of faith is like can I suggest take a step tonight take a step tonight and give you never know where it may lead you I mean let's take those gifts in our hands and let's pray father God thank you for these wonderful people thank you for this faithful adventure make every one of us take the next step whatever our stage in life we ask it in Jesus name and everybody said oh man god bless you god bless you amazing things coming up let's check out the screens god bless you the big R is not revival the big AHA is a responsibility God has gone to the church tag you're it this is the greatest move of God the local church make sure that the people in relationship with you push you forward come on let's go for God let's give this our best shot we only live once let's make it a breakthrough life [Music] we're all gathered under one name one full under one Shepard and his name is [Music] I'm Joseph Prince I'm excited to once again have the privilege of speaking at Hillsong conference I believe that you'll be inspired and courage and refresh as you have an encounter with Jesus and a deeper revelation of what he has done for you I look forward to seeing you there as we join together one voice to lift up the name of Jesus that's above every other name [Music] [Applause] you will never know the length the depth to press the height of the love of Christ by which we are filled with all the fullness of God amen you got to love a little Joseph Prince who can rap rise a mere hands up all the rappers in the room would be rappers where are the would-be rappers Ethan crouch stand I'm not gonna make it I'm not gonna make it to it we were in New York color New York color and Dawn Sheree got a butt you okay George Street will continue you loved her at Mother's Day correct did she rap here okay she got up and she wrapped a full song in fact two songs and then Brooklyn would got up and did her little session and wrapped her song and then I think Cass got up and tried to rap it was awesome she she'll hate me forever she's talking to Phil Pringle amen are you good did you have a great day if you're new or visiting my name is Bobby and it's so lovely to have you at Hillsong Church tonight and I really believe that you're gonna feel at home and that you're gonna have a great night and when it comes to the Ministry of the word you're gonna sense the presence of God in your life hmmm okay Pastor Brian this weekend since it's love he's actually he was overseas this week at our global board governance things and then he went to Virginia Beach this weekend to be with Stephen and Sharon Kelly again a strategic weekend for them and their church so be praying for them because I don't have you saw the news it was a shooting this again this week and um you know that city will be fragile and vulnerable but let's really believe that God can take a truly hideous situation and turn it around for good amen amen and so on that note I just want to touch you for one second and draw attention to our heart for the house set is coming up so reach down onto the floor and grab this because it's for you you might have already received it but why don't you take another one amen and it's got everything that you need and their to know about this remarkable season that is happening okay everyone look at me not your newspaper amen okay um both Qasim Robert mentioned Andrew Denton's message this morning so if you are not here and there's a lot of folk who won't be wouldn't have been here this morning can we really encourage you to actually go online go to YouTube I think they're gonna put it up you chew there as YouTube Hillsong and have a look at it because Andrew he's an elder in our church he's a businessman he's been with us forever in a day he's a faithful friend and a great man of God he and his wife Susan he shared some of his personal journey the revelation and the beginnings of what has been kingdom builders the army of faithful believers amen and what is leading into our heart for the house which is in two weeks time and shows you know please there's so many things on the landscape of our church always but can I say to you as your friend and pastor this is a this is a strategic season there is something about this offering you know we often talk about bringing all the tithe and the offering into the house of God for the kingdom and the cause of Christ on the earth right well this offering is no small thing this offering rips open the heavens it makes away and it's like you know the promise of malachite is that God will open the windows of heaven well every time we as a church come and bring this offering of hardened devotion something phenomenal happens the heavens open a little wider and who knows that this world needs to the heavens to open a little wider amen so can I just encourage you to to get this into your spirit realize that you're a part of it in Jesus name go online listen to Andrews message yet again amen in a moment Phil printers Pringle is gonna come and bring the Word of God but we'd love you just to look to the screens because they have a beautiful beautiful story that tells something of the power of what happens when we together lean in and create these beautiful facilities that become a safe haven for people in the community so look to the story amen Annalise was born at 33 weeks premature straight from birth we knew something wasn't quite right because she started having seizures straightaway and we were transferred to the ICU at Mercy Hospital within a few months and Elise was actually diagnosed with cerebral palsy which affects her speech and her mobility or ability to walk can you show me the big guy heading to yes we're going to church that's right at my previous church we thought that Annalise would be able to come along and connect in like all of the other kids maybe that meant having a special piece of equipment or being able to have a consistent volunteer to work with Annalise so that she could build a Recor and they could learn to communicate and participate but the reality was that's not what we found but from Melbourne and we found some therapy in Sydney so it would take Annalise up to Sydney and then on the weekends come to Hillsong Church at the hills campus and someone introduced us to treasure chest the church so Narcisse says that we say welcome home to every man woman and child who walks in the door and I think we realized that actually there are some children who need a specialized space in order for them to feel that sense of value placed upon them and so by the generosity of our church that's what we've done here [Music] treasure chest has been running for 13 years it originally just started with a mum who had a son with autism and he just was not creeping in our mainstream kids programs and then one day his mum said if we can get a room we can start a ministry for her son and for others just like by having treasure chest what we found is that families instead of being isolated in our community we were watching the new Melbourne East Campus they launched for Hillsong and I was so excited because I knew that we lived five minutes around the corner and there was a new building with a new space ready for treasure chest it's going to be starting up in a few weeks time and I'm so excited and really can't wait it does just place value upon us as a family and as individuals and we really don't get that a lot so it's really amazing treasure chest has proven to be such a blessing not only to own and rich families but actually in the local community and the thing that is challenging for us as a church is to realize that this kind of ministry really does hinge off of having permanent facilities and it's believed that we can actually see this exemplified across all of our locations around the country because without doubt there are families in our community our nation who desperately need this kind of tender loving care [Music] great story hey great story church madam Eastern to our feet um Phil and Christine Pringle what can I say amazing people amazing friends faithful friends as many of you would know but some may not know we have shared this city within for many decades now and are they passed a phenomenal phenomenal Church on the other side of the city but all around the world c3 we love them we believe in them they are Phil is an incredible Holy Ghost man he loves the Holy Spirit and I really know that he's gonna come and he's gonna bring the Word of God and is gonna speak life and health into our lives I mean so why don't we just put our hands together and welcome mr. Phil Pringle positive Phil Pringle your amazing love you [Music] thank you so much Hillsong wow what a night what a night come on give me a lot of great great clamp offering worship Him God is good right up to the back road Milas is type your hands all you people shout to God with a boys [Applause] of the Holy Spirit Phyllis in Jesus name God is gonna touch you the power of God is gonna touch you something big is gonna happen in your life tonight I've no doubt about it something great something stupendous something you'd be waiting for for a long time God is good he's in this room he's gonna set you free he's gonna heal you from sickness he's gonna take you higher than you've ever been before by the power and the anointing of the Holy Spirit God is a free person I don't know if you realize that God is completely free and he'd like to give you a piece of that freedom so nothing is binding you nothing is holding you back in the month of momentum thank you Jesus for momentum amen so I'm gonna be talking about getting unstuck so that we can go and get ourselves moving such a pleasure to be here thank you musicians worship leaders Laura mother of three congratulations fantastic was that a secret move it wasn't oops never tell me a secret I'm the worst in the world so nice to be here I've been enough Hillsong services this weekend I'd started on Friday night I'm starting to feel kind of Hillsong II you know um I'm checking my blood see if it's still bleed c3 and uh in fact I've heard thee the half of the house offering appeal and a few services I thinking man I need to get involved so we'll send $10,000 of it from our church to yours for the heart for the house offering be part of it and we got a few other churches to look after otherwise it'll be a bit more but you know one or two here and there we still love you guys and you are just doing such a fantastic job around the world honestly it's a privilege it's such an honor genuinely to be here tonight and to celebrate Jesus with you to walk with you in the same city and even though Pastor Brian and pasta ba ba we are good friends it certainly doesn't diminish in any way the huge respect I hold for them as major apostles in today's Christian world they have affected the course of Christian history they have changed the culture taken up so many levels I mean the buildings here just a reflection of the excellence of spirit and mindset that they carry even more than that of a team my lord at the end we have any Church in the world people come to my tears to say I love your team like ember this church as I mean I love your team and every one of them is just a piece of the fruit of your leaders ministry Paul said the URL epistles written in red of all men and the team here you wouldn't need to even meet Brian and Bobbie Houston to understand their excellence of spirit because you can just read it in all of their team the attitude the manners that courtesy their devotion and I congratulate you Hillsong you're a legend in Jesus name God bless you thank you very much for having me here tonight wonderful well touch your neighbor and say I'm really glad I'm sitting next to you such a beautiful evening to be in church middle of winter and I I think the momentum has moved on from May and the June right where we're in June just before I get on the way just to make make sure I don't forget cuz often do forget about these books I started I mean when I started church we we were hopeful that we would have one church we started with 13 people in the dy surf lifesaving Club in 1980 another salah a long time before you were born you think T Rex was roaming the earth in and TVs were black and white it was a real olden days but we started there and I thought if I could have a church of 500 people that'd be like dying and going to heaven I thought what if we could just achieve that and it happened within a couple years I thought oh maybe I'm just gonna die now and but apparently there was a few other ideas and in God's mind about it but I just say that because whatever you can dream God's going to do exceedingly abundantly above whatever you conceive in your mind it's going to be better whatever you think is good now it's getting better whatever you think is a problem now it's going to turn out better than it ever could have if it had never become a problem because God is a redeemer and redeem us make the latter situation better than the former but I started out and I wrote one book called faith and I thought well that'll be my book of life that'll be the book I'll I'll just write well I've ended up writing 20 of the things over the years and still working on a few but I've got four of them here and this this is a really important message for this generation it's called hope and I think it's a lifesaver if people can get hope inside of them and it's part of what prophecy does for people and your gift of prophecy as a life saver people realize that God knows them and God has a plan for them God is not the god of ups I mean you didn't come along your whoops what am I gonna do with this guy never expected that didn't see that one coming no he's got a plan every for every person that's born he when he dreamed of you he smiled and so hope is an important book for people to get ahold of and it's great because finally you can buy hope and freedom is here this is uh a sneaky little book about actually how to get free how to get set free and how to stay free and to recognize the difference between disorders and demons and just understand there is an enemy trying to oppress us and take all of us and we can't get free and some people have been trying to get free one way and it's not really working that maybe is going to help you this is I teach a lot of I do a lot of stuff on leadership this is leadership 101 this is like six basic principles of leadership and I've tried to distill it all down to you know you could become a leader while you drink a cappuccino it's uh it's a quick read and this book in him is a daily devotional Chris and I we never really prayed too much together I mean occasionally when there's a problem we talk a lot together but I got a little convicted a few years ago about we should just in the morning if if we're both home at the same time we should kind of pray and and so I wrote a devotional for us to actually go through a you know 75 weeks with and so that's a devotional and happily our marriage is going well now it's uh you know it's it's 48 years 48 years people yeah 48 48 years thank you Jesus yes Lord anybody else here married for 48 years I just I just like to do this this guy put his hand up you liar yeah you're not even married bless a man with a marriage for 79 years Lord what's your name fabian god bless you it's so good to also be linked up right here with his Bali Hillsong Bali yeah we can hear you that's good yeah all the way from Bali give them a hand people welcome Bali welcome Perth right across the other side of Australia Newcastle City Waterloo Inland Alexandria was so glad to have you with us tonight Southwest Greater Western Sydney the Northern Beaches on our territory in my backyard god bless you so nice too and you know you meet in the building that you we used to meet in exactly the same building exactly the same building we're just moving around the city you know Hillsong following c3 c3 file we're just taking over each other's buildings wouldn't want taken up yeah anyway our like and uh Melbourne City Hina Melbourne Hobart way down there in the cold la deep south god bless you if you all rubbed up down there and we're on the Hillsong Channel and the online campus in Sunday Night Live here we are people give a load another great clap offering would yeah it's so good to be talking all over the country and especially to people who are online you know while I was praying I I got a I got a picture of a woman sitting on a bed like a picture of a young man behind bars and the words six months and I want to let you know whoever that is that it's it's gonna work out just fine everything's okay God has got it under control I see you weeping because you're lonely there's no one else in the house but the Holy Spirit is going to be there present with you and with that boy everything's going to be alright and it is actually I see the words this is the best way forward and you're gonna find that at the end of this trial the sun's gonna shine and even though there was weeping for a night there's joy in the morning in Jesus name Amen some 122 people I want you to come there with me and this is just one little verse out of Psalm 122 these Psalms the psalm of a sense which begin some 120 are the Psalms they sang when they were coming back from Babylon when they were coming back from oppression they'd been locked up in slavery down in Babylon confusion little left their land we hung our harps on the trees by the rivers of Babylon how can we sing the Lord's song in a strange land we wept when we remembered what it was like at church but now I'm in this this backslidden state I'm in this away from God's state I've been carried away and so after 70 years which the Prophet Jeremiah had predicted and they said you'll return they started to return and they wrote some Psalms to sing as they as they returned because they said when the Lord turned again our captivity we were like them the dream and mouths were filled laughter we just couldn't stop laughing and singing and you never want to let the devil steal your song because that's going to keep you moving in the right direction that'll give you momentum correctly never underestimate the power of praise people the devil will try and steal your song but our worship leaders do a great service to us by giving us those hooks in our head you know they go around around you wonder why we sing the same song sometimes there are the cynics will mock us for singing the same songs over and over again but I'd rather have that going around in my head as a member as a memory hook than some of the stuff that's coming out of the radio or some of the stuff that's coming out of Netflix or whatever else I don't want that stuff just going round and round in my head I'd rather have praise the name of Jesus praise the name of Jesus praise the name of Jesus just coming up out of my soul and you'll find that song starts singing themselves on the inside of your soul you're like a walking God temple a walking unit where the cloud of his glory is going to fill you and understand this that praise is a weapon it isn't just about it dispels enemies angels are discouraged if you're not praising God when you praise God they'll pick up their swords they'll go to battle for you and all of us have angels in this atmosphere there are angels when we start to praise God they're exercising incredible power they carry miracles they carry answers to prayer they ascend on jacob's ladder you read in the book of Genesis where where Jacob says how awesome is this place everybody can you say that how awesome is this place can you do it one more time with attitude how awesome is this place I mean this is such an awesome place if I didn't have a church to go to I'd come here I mean I'm talking about me I'm not talking about just anybody so if I lose my job pastor Bobby you know send me a membership form you know it's like I tell you you can't say that about every church there are some places you just say concept but this place is awesome and it's in a place like this that prayers are heard and prayers are answered now I believe that what a what a great way to describe a month a month of momentum but I can tell you this it's not just your momentum that is going to be happening in this season God's momentum is going to accelerate in this season as well there's going to be a lot of answers to prayer that you have been expecting that have come to pass right here in this meeting tonight right here in this place which your faith on fear comes uninvited it'll swamp you you don't have to do anything to get afraid or worried you just get that wash across your emotions your head spins and you're in a panic attack the faith you just switch it on you say tonight I'm gonna stop believing I'm reaching out I'm expecting something and I'm telling you something good is going to happen to you you will connect with the power of God when you switch their faith on so the psalmist says just this one verse I was glad when they said to me let us go to the house of the Lord one of the greatest ways to get momentum in your life is to do it as a group is to do it with other people you know you see those geese all flying in formation and one one is longer than the other one line is longer than the other you know that you know why that is cause it's more geese than that one that's just yeah they they fly in the slipstream of each other and they burn half as much fat because of that and go twice as much as far as they ever would on their own when you do it together and at the back you hear him honking right hóng hóng hóng hóng hóng hóng that's they're encouraging the guy up the front so anytime you want to hog Hong Kong you know it's like but but we're not geese so we do it another way we go yeah you man you're like you're always encouraged and you might think well they don't need encourage of all the people in the world you need to keep encouraging leaders keep encouraging people at the front keep telling them it's it's going well you're doing great it's not a lot of pasta to finish the race most give up after 10-15 years these guys your leaders have been going at it for nearly 40 years right here in the city of Sydney please 40 years that's that's it's like a world record it's amazing I was glad when they said to me always better to move as as a group you'll always achieve a whole lot more you know people dieting you do a lot better when you do it with other people right I don't mean to brag but I completed my 30-day diet in just four hours and 30 minutes amen it's it's like I was glad when they said to me I wonder how many people out there and in the City of Sydney would be glad if just somebody said to them let's go to church and if you little if you think they're not going to be open to that let's go to Hillsong when you reach out beyond your own life you're gonna find that helps your your mental condition part of the reason we got mental illness in the world today is people are so self-absorbed they're not thinking about anybody else now living out of themselves when you start to think about somebody else's problem when you drive them home after church when you take them out for a meal when you help somebody else and you had a sacrifice to your own world you put a line through selfishness and you actually improve your emotional and mental health I go sailing every now and then I was selling a round Europe at a place I was in-between conferences so vote let's uh let's take a little trip so we're out there and I got into some trouble I'm a pretty good sailor but I got into some trouble in luring in a wharf and you know coming up against another boat and there were all these people who could help but they were not helping they were filming they wanted more views on YouTube I'm kind of like what has happened to us when getting more likes is more important than actually reaching out and helping somebody out of their distress rather than recording their distress we're getting a little messed up I think with these devices like maguet likes and and and trying to get our world under control you'd be better if you just forgot about yourself occasionally and said let us go to the house of the Lord I'm gonna take you along to Hillsong I'm gonna take you along to half of the house today I'm gonna take you along let me look after somebody else on their journey I was glad when they said to me let's go everybody said let's go that's momentum baby and the good thing about that is that two-thirds of God's name is go kind of corny I know but it's goddamn it that's true let's go God is go it's very little about God to stand still he is a moving God and I have seen people who once had it lose him I've seen churches that once were rockin and rollin not rockin and rollin anymore whole denominations in church history once what cutting edge what happens when we stop moving when we stop takin steps of faith the only way you keep moving is continuing to take steps and the steps in the Bible are always steps of faith decisions you got to keep making decisions now I'm gonna go I'm gonna give in ha for the house now I'm gonna go and get involved in in in Hillsong I'm gonna put my hand up to be a volunteer and and I'm telling you one of the greatest things that you could ever do is not just sit in meetings but actually help others into the presence into the presence of God and so let's go and the best direction you can take anybody is to the house of the Lord that kept them moving in Psalm 84 it says though we walk through the valley of this where it's raining and it's a disaster a heart is fixed we're gonna get through this valley of disaster we're gonna get through the thing the reason there are bones in the valley of Ezekiel because they stopped walking David said though I walk through the valley I'm gonna keep walking even when I'm in darkness even if your marriage is feeling like it's it's hopeless it's terrible keep walking just keep walking in one Airport that I used to go through quite a lot the you know that walkway that the people stand on I walk on Pacific or just staying there right anywhere I'm walking along it there was a voice of a person a woman this is it keep walking keep walking keep walking trying to get everybody to move and every now and then I hear her voice in my head because I want to stop walking I'm frozen I'm stuck I'm nervous I'm afraid I'm panicking it looks it looks too big the future but hear that voice keep walking keep walking keep walking I'm in a situation where I'm feeling discouraged where I want to give up keep walking keep walking keep walking I'm trying to get that voice in your head to keep walking tonight something you gotta go home and keep walking keep walking keep taking steps and you're gonna find yourself on the other side of that difficulty okay let's jump down to Luke five verse 16 to 26 where there's an example of a group of people when they said to me let us go together to the situation Luke 5:16 now it happened on a certain day as he was teaching that there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by who had come out of every town of Galilee Judea and Jerusalem and the power of the Lord was present to heal them then behold member on a bed a man it was paralyzed whom they sought to bring in labor for him and when they could not find how they might bring him in because of the crowd they went up on the housetop and let him down with his bed through the tiling into the midst before Jesus when he saw their faith he said to the man your sins are forgiven you this is this is an interesting story for me because because it says that the power of God was present to heal em who's them the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who are sitting by that's the context says the power of God was present to heal in some of them had arthritis Solomon had failing eyesight some of them were going deaf they were all the people they were feeling the difficulties of a age number of years ago I went to a place just out of Tyriq or Johns River in New South Wales I'm not sure if anybody's heard of that place but it's not many have because it's nowhere it's it's a bridge with a river under and a hole next to it that's it and there was a revival happening in this guy's church and we were going around various places in the countryside praying for farmers praying for cows there was a cow that died we pray for came back to life and all kinds of crazy things are happening and so we we went to this hall and there's three lightbulbs in the hall a broken windows and dusty seats I said who's gonna come here but strangely about 80 people turned up in Utes with dogs in the back farmers they came in and I'm about to get the preach and the law says there's a guy here with asthma you know you need to pray for him so I did that I said okay who's got asthma this old guy about 93 years old puts his hand up and he comes out like this and I go like Lord he's got a good innings I mean really I mean we pray for something you know I that's just my first thought terrible unknown hardly even a Christian thought but anyway there was I was the preacher like I'm thinking how weird is God I thought it would be like a fifteen-year-old or something but it's this old guy so I pray for him I thought some pretty good about that well the next night his wife is with him and they walk in and she says to me he got healed I felt like she's telling me off or something you know like she's a stoic farm ago he he hasn't done any work on the farm for fifteen years today he built a chicken shack I built a chicken shed so he was obviously a pre powerful old patriarch because he'd rang up all of his kids and he said you're coming tonight so he had two rows 20 people in his family who have filled up two rows of seats every one of them received Jesus Christ that night they are born again sometimes we don't know what's going on and we will not connect with the power of God that's present to heal if we got cynicism and folded arms on the inside we're just looking on gazing trying to try to catch him out that's what they said it all they were there for us to try to catch a word out of his mouth that was wrong these are the kind of people who take offense when none is intended I didn't mean to upset you but oh I know what you meant by that that's that's so nasty and all I said was God bless you but people with wounded souls and wounded spirits it's like a bruise on your when you just give the lightest level of relational pressure yo hi Howie what's it to you don't be so invasive it's my world you know it's like we live in this sensitized society everybody's walking around on eggshells too nervous to rouse the monsters to to to upset anybody and these people were sitting there trying to catch a word out of Jesus mouth they were trying to they were trying to find a fence when numbers was given even when Jesus went to his own a family it says they took offense he didn't give any they do it they just took something and if you want to get this back in life people live with unresolved offenses one of the biggest ways your you're gonna find yourself stuck paralyzed without any momentum at all it's to not forgive people at the end of this miracle Jesus brings forgiveness to the table because he knows that's what sets people free when Chris and I first started out church in Littleton in New Zealand it was called Littleton because there was a little town and uh it was tiny we started with 15 people and after three years that church had exploded to 30 and uh we were just really cutting it I think God didn't let it grow because he wanted to limit the damage and wanted to contain all the mistakes that we were going to make but you're doing that time out we let a little English woman to the Lord her name was prim and I said to prema what's the story with your husband you know let's let's let's go talk to him about coming to church and oh no he wouldn't come to church she said no proper little English accent oh no no no and I said won't give me a shot let me go around just see what I can do well I went around I visited John John was about 67 John had an from cyma emphysema and it was a chain smoker so it's a very wet raw cough that he had when you talk to him you you got the weather not the news and it was I say hey John how you doing miss red face veins look could you use such a mess Jesus splattering good Lord this is gonna take a while having a conversation with him he wouldn't stop smoking he wouldn't stop splattering he wouldn't stop wheezing I said well tell me a story much to my sorrow he started to Amen and but it was a good story was it well I was a terrible story but it was good to know cuz he said okay when I was 65 I wanted to retire so I brought in a manager and I made him a partner but I didn't check his background I found out he was a bankrupt so the creditors swooped in on my retirement fund took it all on my superannuation they took my boat they took my house and they took all the printing machines from my print factory so sadly ever since then I want to kill that man don't tell my wife I have a gun behind the mirror in our bedroom which faces the road if he walks past I will shoot him and he said if you want to pray for me the only prayer I want is that that man walks in front of me while I'm driving my car so I can run him over I love Johnny this isn't good I said up so so any chance we could pray for blankety-blank there was that sort of conversation so I just kept going back kept going back week after week oh there was maybe three months finally I said John cuz sometimes you sit there I wouldn't we wouldn't even ever come so I'll just be there for him and and then I said one day it just felt a little you know more than John why don't we pray just pray a prayer just to any kind of bread let me lead you in a prayer he said oh you're gonna head do what you want to do so I said well can you just just say it with me did God and he did he said we're gonna be a god help me find Jesus you know he's just doing it cuz I said then I said I receive Jesus he prayed the prayer I pray for him put my hands on I went our way next morning I do a bit of follow-up I say hey John how are you and he says you know what I'm not I'm not too bad I said John you're not even waiting it is I know that's kind of a miracle wouldn't you think John that you're yeah you're not wheezing and coughing and it's been amazing but he said that's not the real miracle so what is tell me he said well every night when I go to go to bed I'd lie in my bed I sort of open up where my heart is and I take this cage out and I had that man in the cage and I would take a knife and stab him and then I could put him back in my heart and I go to sleep I felt okay then he said but last night last night what I did I was lying there and I took out the cage and I looked at him and you know what I thought this is a bit silly so I opened the door of the cage and I said to the man I forgive you and I let it go the greatest healing that will take place in anybody's life it's always associated with forgiveness and some of you have had some terrible things happen to you I'm talking to you in the other congregations around the nation as well and even in Bali bad things happen to us in life that were beyond our control but we can respond to it in a way that will actually get us unstuck so that we start moving again and we move away from our past and towards a beautiful future but sometimes it's necessary to say I forgive you even if it's not to their face but just in your heart do you know there's another person sometimes that you need to forgive that is holding you stuck in life and that's you because you somehow think that if you keep roasting yourself it makes God happy you've come out of a religious background that tells you if you feel pain and punishment over the things you've done that somehow in a way atones for your sin but you dishonor the blood of Jesus you dishonor the sacrifice of Christ he has taken all your sin he has forgiven you all your iniquity he has healed all your diseases it is now been upon you to rejoice and it's not being happy and you will find the healing power of God to come into your life simply by saying I forgive myself I'm gonna stop roasting myself for something that God has forgotten we go to God or we say caught oh I'm so sorry if I have another three years ago because is what are you talking about oh you nose was on the twenty-seventh on a Tuesday night who we got no record of it nothing up here we've searched all the records it's it's it's gone I don't know where it is you know some of you think you've got a bad memory but most of you have got a bad forgettery cuz you keep remembering the things you should forget and you forget the things you should remember remember not the former things get unstuck from holding yourself accountable Jesus is forgiving you so if we give yourself but you know sometimes is it even there's an even worse scenario going on in our lives that we don't understand and deep down on the inside were blaming God and I know it's bad theology it's it's it's it's not even great thinking because you can't forgive God but somehow you've got to let it go of blaming him and instead see him as the healer of your history rewrite your story put Jesus in the history put him there healing you bringing you out of the darkness into the light put that in your imagination your imagination is the most creative and powerful muscle in your whole body that is what God uses to speak to you it's where he plants visions and dreams and as you meditate on that you actually give life to a future the devil knows that too so he tries to put images of fear in there you know while I was praying earlier on today I felt that also besides the one thing I did mention that there were business people in this congregation who are really struggling and facing battles and in our locations and watching online I want to pray for you right now because I believe the power of God is present to set you free and it may involve letting go some things that have held on to that business but I would like to think that every one of us can operate as the head and not the tail the Bible says that you were meant to be that you're not meant to get whacked around by clients or by or by financial conditions or by banks or by anything else we are the head and God wants you to enter into a world of blessing that put you in a place of authority in this society if you have a business would you raise your hand right across all of those locations as well just raise your hand I'm going to pray for you right now as we come to a close in the service in the name of Jesus Heavenly Father I pray for power to come to every business persons world those businesses that are struggling that are in difficulty that feel like they're going to go out of business if they don't make that payment in the name of Jesus i prophesy blessing and turn around right now everybody under the sound of my voice you're gonna prosper in the blessing of God you're gonna find yourself blessed with his blessing blessed so that you break through into the realms of God's great honor and blessing on your life you know as Jesus was in that room we haven't even got to them main story but let me quickly tell you what happened four men picked up a paralyzed man they started carrying somebody who was stuck in life somebody couldn't make a decision couldn't take a step they carried him all the way to the house but they couldn't find a way in just because you can't logically see a way forward doesn't mean there's not a way faith will always find a way let me tell you this if you're thinking of doing yourself harm in any way at all there's always a way through there's an answer there's a solution you can get to the other side of whatever you're facing God is with you he's watching he's on your side so these boys with faith they carried their friend up on the roof they managed to clear away the roof a bit and they loaded him before the man Jesus and when Jesus looked at the situation he said because of your guys faith I'm gonna forgive this guy I'm gonna bring healing into his life even a person who doesn't have a lot of faith if they got friends around them that are full of faith they're gonna find themselves getting blessed and that is one of the reasons we should say let us go to the house of the Lord I know you're finding it difficult to make a decision I know you're finding it difficult to come back to Christ but you're here with us tonight and I want to invite you to make a just the most wonderful decision you could ever make if you're watching online wherever you are in in the nation in Perth and Bali in southwest and Greater Western Sydney on the Hillsong Channel if you've never prayed a prayer it says God come into my life then in a couple of moments I'm gonna ask you to raise your hand and I'm gonna lead you in that prayer some of you might have been away from God you haven't read your Bible mat you haven't been praying and been to church kind of feel uncomfortable with all thing and you just found yourself away you don't even quite know how it happened but I want you to come back tonight I want you to come back to Christ a committed life following Jesus and lastly there may be some people here who you go to church but you're not sure if you go into heaven I want you all sitter make sure your gum go into heaven and make that prayer can ask everybody to close your eyes right across this auditorium and in all of those locations and if you tonight I got to pray that prayer if you're gonna come back to Christ or if you're just gonna make sure you're going to heaven right now would you put your hand in the air raise it high for me thank you thank you thank you I see you're in I see you're in right up the back there thank you who else is there raise it high raise it high so I can see it wave it around if I haven't seen it thank you see area Thank You Sierra and thank you I see your hand thank you I see your hand who else is there anybody else should all just raise it high at all our locations just raise it high don't be nervous don't be afraid that's all we're gonna ask you to do we're gonna just pray a prayer together if there's one more hand would you raise it quickly now thank you while your hand is raised could you say these words to God after me and we're all gonna pray this prayer can you say this now dear God in heaven I asked Jesus Christ to come into my life I asked to be born again cleanse me from all sin make me your child help me follow you thank you God for saving me amen amen give the Lord a clap offering thank you Hillsong god bless you Church why don't you put your hands together and thank pastor Phil Pringle for an incredibly empowering wood [Music] you know if you just made a decision to follow the Lord Jesus Christ you made a really great decision we want to put into your hands at the end of the evening a Bible on behalf of Hillsong Church and this will help you to move forward in your walk with Jesus so when you can add into the foyers at the end of the night there will be people holding these up and without any fear or embarrassment why don't you take one take it home and begin to read the story of the Lord Jesus Christ and it will change you and it will mark you and it will help to make sense of everything that you've heard this evening no church I don't think that the Lord has finished yet in a minute we're going to pull back the stage we're going to create altars down the front but you can come and you can actually do some business with God where you can get unstuck but you can actually surrender or you can let go of fear maybe you're one of those business people it's not just for the young people down the front but you can come and you can actually offer your life again you guys are going to sing songs over you like Phil talked about songs that are going to move you forward and so we're going to create space for that but right now I just wonder if you would take a seat just for a moment the Bible says in 1 Timothy 5:17 the people who bring the Word of God are worthy of double honor in our church we like to be a generous Church we love that we would bless people who come and bring the Word of God so we're gonna receive a love offering tonight and you might wonder what this is for its fulfill and for Chris is to honor their faithfulness over the years in being apostles in Australia it's actually your chance to go you know what I can't take you out for coffee but I have received tonight something from your life and it's been deposited in my life and so our hosts are gonna serve you the band is gonna play over you we're just going to receive a giving and I'm gonna ask you to take something in your hand and whether together as Hillsong Church we can bless the Ministry of these people whether we can actually have an opportunity be generous so have you got something I'm gonna actually pray for us I don't know if it's right to pray over a love offering but I think it is so god I thank you for your people who give generously and thank you for pastor Phil and pastor Christian we pray you would bless their ministry God that you would continue to open up the boundaries for them that they would see what you have for them and you continue guide them and Lord bless your people as they're given Jesus name and everybody said amen so while our host service you do two things at once everybody so next week next week at Hillsong Church we're starting winter service times I know it's so exciting that means half an hour earlier you need to be at church so we are starting this service next week not at 6:00 p.m. but at what time at 5:30 p.m. here and 4:30 if you want to go to the epicenter what it means is you get to go home a little bit earlier or have dinner out in the front foyers and tonight there is roast chicken and aioli out at the table so you want to make sure you get out there and also next week pastor Paul Scanlon from England who is a great friend of our church is going to be speaking so you should invite your friends get everybody to the house of God at 5:30 because we're gonna have another incredible momentum Sunday have you finished giving all right why don't you stand to your feet we're gonna pull back the stage if you've got a little 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