January 19, 2014 - Carter Conlon - A Return To The Supernatural

second Timothy chapter 3 if you will please second Timothy chapter 3 I want to talk to you about a return to the supernatural it's a little late but technically this is the message the lord's given me further the new year a return to the supernatural 2nd Timothy chapter 3 the father I thank you God with all my heart for your mercy I thank you Jesus for how tender you are with us as your people David the king said God if you took notice of our failings none of us could stand but there's mercy with you that you may be feared thank you Lord God for your mercy thank you Jesus thank you no wonder if there's such a thing as a crown when we get to the throne one day we'll throw it at your feet for we know we have lived and we have stood and we have walked by the mercy of God thank you for your power thank you God Almighty for your willingness to come to us and speak to our hearts give us the ability to hear you today give me the ability to speak this Lord walk the aisles of this church God lift up those that are cows down set free those that are oppressed answer the questions of those that are struggling in their mind Lord let everything become clear we stand against every weapon of darkness in hell that comes against the people of God and Satan we resist you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ we declare this to be holy ground here today not only here but in North Jersey on the campus and the annex and everywhere that people are listening online we take authority and Lord God we want to hear from you we want to grow in grace we want to be able to make a difference in our generation I thank you Lord for time and again touching this frail preacher I thank you God for putting your spirit upon me for giving you me your mind I thank you for the incredible demonstration of grace that you would even consider using me to speak your word today lord I yield my body to you and I ask you God to use me for your glory Lord Jesus that I may simply speak and do this in a way that brings honor to your name help me never to condemn your people and God helped me to speak this word I ask it in Jesus name Amen 2nd Timothy chapter 3 verses 1 to 5 this message is called a return to the supernatural this know also that in the last days perilous times shall come for men shall be lovers of their own selves covetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankful unholy without natural affection that means without family affection trucebreakers false accusers incontinent that means unable to retain anything of value fierce despisers of those that are good traitors heady highminded lovers of pleasure more than lovers of god having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof from such turn away now Paul speaker the last days of this world in this passage of Scripture as we know it but his description of the obvious social moral and religious decay also applies to any society coming to its final stages because of inward decay and it's a sad thing in my heart to have to say that I am witnessing this in this country at this time the things that are spoken about in 2nd Timothy chapter 3 verses 1 to 5 have almost become the normal now in our society proverbs 49 and verse 11 says their inward thought is that their houses shall continue forever the arrogance of man the arrogance of a society that turns itself away from God begins to turn to its own reasoning or lack thereof thinking that all things are going to continue as they have from the beginning but again in Psalm 55 and verse 23 the psalmist says deceitful men shall not live out half of their days when we turn to deception when we turn to evil when we turn away from God when we cover it all up with a bankrupt form of spirituality then the end of things as we've known them is very very near in proverbs 24 21 and 22 God says to Solomon my son fear thou the Lord and the king and meddle not with them that are given to change in other words those who recklessly challenge that which has already been proven and tested they come in and without any fear of retribution or consequence they will trample on history they will trample on what has been clearly proven and established to be the way of God and they'll call it a good thing but God's Word says for those that walk with God fear God and don't meddle with those that are given to change don't become part of it don't let it become that which occupies your thinking for the calamity shall rise suddenly and who knows the ruin of them both that means the previous verses talking about the evil and the wicked in the sight of God who knows the ruin there's a sudden calamity comes to those who recklessly challenge that which God has clearly proven of himself now you and I know that we're called in such days as these to make a difference we are called to make a difference we're not called to hunker down and hold the fort and hope to survive we're not called to preserve ourselves we're called to make a difference in our society and I thank God with all my heart that I've studied this Bible to know long enough to know that in days like this when there seems to be so little hope that righteousness is going to prevail God will always have somebody somewhere he will always raise up a testimony and most often it's the least among us it's that corner of the church or the testimony of God where we least expect God to do anything because we are only looking with our natural eyes if we were to walk through scriptural history we have to ask ourselves the question would we have had the eyes to see Gideon in his backyard sifting weed is a mighty man of God would we have looked upon deborah and barak her general and thought that this was going to be what God was going to use to defeat an overwhelming army that was coming against them all throughout history when things look the worst one more time God takes the weak in the foolish and the nobodies and the nothing's of society and he begins to raise them up and he establishes the testimony to himself that could only so the people stand back and say this could only have been God how else could this have happened these people don't have the natural strength or ability or reasoning power they don't have the strategy that could have made a difference only God could have done this Paul says in Philippians chapter 2 verses 15 and 16 that you might be blameless and harmless the sons of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation among whom you shine as lights in the world holding forth the word of life this is the call of God in my life that's the call of God on your life we live in a crooked and perverse time but you and our called to shine as lights that light is not to be hidden under a bushel according to the Word of God it's to be set on a hill that people can plainly see it and we're to hold forth to this generation something of God's Word in such a way that people look at it and say surely God is alive surely God has a people in the earth Isaiah 59 and 19 says when the enemy shall come in like a flood the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him God will raise up a standard God will raise up an opposing force may I call it that a counter to that which would swallow up society into ungodliness and so you and I see this tremendous power for good giving into the hands of those who truly know and walk with God but yet ordered to know this power we must turn away from all that has settled for imitation over the genuine sea this is the key Paul is describing in second Timothy three a social climate of evil where evil begins to be good and good begins to be evil where society itself begins to despise people who are good that despise people to go to church that despise people to speak the truth because truth has fallen into the streets they despise those who say there is a God and there's a right way to live and there's a wrong way to live according to this God they despise those who are standing and saying you may think that you're going to go in this direction without suffering harm but I'd beg to differ for I have walked with God and I have studied the Word of God and the direction you're heading and is going to bring about a destruction of not only yourselves but those who follow you but Paul says there's in the mixed in the midst of all of this there's a people who have a form of godliness but there's no power in it you see a true relationship with God leads somewhere they're not willing to follow word leads so they're settled for form you settled basically for an invitation we must turn away from all that's an invitation now I want you to hear me on this I'm not just sermonizing I have something from God if you're not going to make a difference in this generation we must turn away from that which imitates God but it's not in reality walking with God it's not finding its life source in God we must turn away from it it's easy to get drawn in by the crowd it's easy to come to a place like this and to begin to sing the songs you are my king you are my god you are my refuge you are the one that I seek you are the one that I love you are the one that I follow you are the one that will teach my hands out of war you are the one and so we came in today and I don't know if you noticed but there were powerful words and the songs that we were singing today and so the question I feel the Holy Spirit would ask of every heart here were these words true were you just imitating worship which is it folks we've got to make a choice now that which is imitation is not going to make it through the coming days those who simply imitate others who are walking with God your your your simply if you come to church just because it makes you feel good it's not good enough folks it won't get you through the coming days it's not good enough to imitate it's not good enough to come in and sing the songs but not really mean it in your heart now stay with me on this because the Lord's not given me this message to condemn anybody here the Lord's given me this message because he loves you because he wants you to understand his power he wants you to walk in something of divine life Paul said examine yourselves whether you be in the faith and prove your own selves we we can't be afraid to have God examine our hearts and say Lord this is what I have genuine I'm not really walking with you have I settled for some kind of a form of religion but there's no power in it what is it that I have what is it that I have embraced now in Matthew chapter 22 there's a parable that it's actually more than a parable because it's it's the history of God coming through his son to Israel first and when Israel rejected him he invited that nation which were his people in the earth to eat a wedding feast with his son but they refused the invitation and then when you get to verse 9 in Matthew chapter 22 after Israel has soundly rejected Christ as a nation he said to his servants go ye therefore into the highways and as many as you shall find bid them to the marriage now that's you and me today that's the highways that's the hedges go into all the world Israel was invited Israel rejected the invitation because of the rejection of Israel the gospel came to the Gentiles of which most of us here today are and God's message to his servants was go now into the highways into all the world preach and teach the gospel to all creation and bid them to the marriage that I've prepared for my son so I thank God for that with all my heart I thank God that I have an invitation to this this banquet feast so those servants went out into all the highways and gathered together as many as they found both bad and good and the wedding was furnished with guests those who went to church and needed the invitation as much as those who didn't go to church and when the king came in to see the guests he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment and he said to him friend how did you come in here not having a wedding garment and he was speechless now it's it's amazing the fact that he was speechless you see if he was an open fraud he would have already developed his conversation and his excuses would already be well developed and he would have had an answer the fact that he was speechless tells me that he was not aware that what he possessed was an invitation it wasn't real he thought he belonged to this family he thought he belonged to this banquet he thought he had a lawful right to be there he thought he was part of the Bride of Christ now call it out only to find out when he came into the presence the true presence of God yeah he had no garment he had a garment of his own making but it was an invitation anything that's an invitation anything that falls short of that garment which God provides through his son will be so blatantly obvious when we get into the presence of God see the question the Lord would ask us today have you seen the depths and the just penalty for your sin have you fully understand what sin is have you understood it have you have you seen Christ on the cross have you understood you seen the ugliness of the cross have you seen that the vileness of it the shame of it have you fully understood that the Son of God endured this for you because of your sin it was not some judicial obligation God loved you the scripture makes that really clear God so loved you that He gave His only begotten Son sent his son who had never done anything wrong allowed him to be beaten and I read it again last night and spit on and buffeted and mocked and slandered and put him on a cross virtually naked on a hill before the whole world seemed have you understood that he did that for you because that was your destiny without God without the mercy of God it was my destiny without the mercy of God have you fully understood the depths of sin Jesus didn't die on the cross to give you a better self-image he didn't die on a cross to get you a promotion on your job he didn't die on a cross to it so you could add his name to your resume to make you a happier person in the world although many of those things may happen that's not why he died he died for you because your sin separated you from God for eternity have you deeply received his offer of forgiveness of you have you fully fully understood that he died in your place and the way to eternal life through God is to bend your knee before him to bend your knee before the one who died for you and say lord I yield my life to you I open my heart to your offer of forgiveness and I receive you as my Lord and Savior and I yield to you the rights of my life I yield to my future I give you my all you bought me O God with the price of your blood I'm not my own I'm bought with the price not only do I receive you as Savior but I receive you as the Lord of my life from this day forward I want to ask you the question is the garment of salvation you have is it an original is it a genuine or is it simply an imitation what reading have you come to Christ for why are you in this house this morning what do you hope to get from God folks I'd tell you I got everything from God that I'll never need on Calvary if I would have died the day after I received him as Savior Lord that would be sufficient for me he owes me nothing he gave me everything on that cross on Calvary's Hill thank God I knew in my heart the day after I opened my heart to him that my salvation was real I knew it because God had put his spirit upon me and in me and the Bible says it when you belong to God there is a cry it doesn't come just because it's good worship in the church it's a cry that's every Monday morning it's there Monday afternoon it's there Tuesday it's there Wednesday it said Thursday it's there when you're on the mountaintop it's there when you're in the valley it's a cry that's as Abba Father Oh God you are my father God you're my father I am your son I am your daughter if that's the case I know I am yours and I know you are mine because you put the witness of your Holy Spirit within me I don't have an invitation my praise of you is not limited to Sunday morning and Tuesday night I can praise you on the subway I can praise you in the job I can praise You God hallelujah I can praise you when my son and daughter are heading up the door to do drugs and do things they shouldn't do because you are a faithful God and I believe that you're going to be faithful to me the so it comes to then after you've come to the cross and fully understood Christ are you willing to let his life within you you see we don't grow in grace by help helping ourselves in by self effort that's not how it's done that's how the whole world does everything no God says you tried to serve me you couldn't you tried to be godly it's impossible and now you've bent your knee at the cross and I've come into your life in the power of the third person of God the Holy Spirit you are now my temple on the earth and I've left you promises precious promises Peter says and by these you become partakers of the divine nature of God in Christ not by human effort but by believing the promises of God my my responsibility is to put my feet one in front of the other in faith and believe God even though it looks like I'm walking into a brick wall even though the certificates if I had any on my wall tell me I'm not capable of doing what God's calling me to do my responsibility is when God opens the door I walked through that door I walked through it in faith I walked through it believing the God what you told me you're going to do in my life you're going to do you're gonna stretch my borders you're gonna expand my mind you're gonna give me a new heart you're gonna flow through my life and God Almighty it's going to be an evidence that there is a God in this universe it's going to be an open declaration that God's son was raised from the dead because I will be raised from the dead by the power of God's Spirit within me the chains of sin will be broken the bondages of Hell will fall there's nothing of this world that can hold me any longer there's no prison door strong enough to keep me behind it there's no wound in the past that can keep dragging my face through the mud there's no live hell that can stop what God has determined to do through my life in yours in those who belong to God there's a willingness within us to let him become our total guide into the future I don't yield just little portions in my life to God here you can have this you can have Monday from 3 to 5 I'll give that to you and I'll give you Thursday a little slot here in my life and the rest of the time I'll leave me alone thank you very much I've got my plans know the true child of God the true son or daughter of God let's the holy spirit become our total guide and can the Holy Spirit lead you out of weakness and in the strength will you let him do it don't try you can't it's not possible but God spirit within you can and will you let him lead you will you let him take you as a child of God and out of fear and into faith and out of the limitations of your natural body and your natural mind into the supernatural that of God which knows no limit I'll tell you this has not always been an easy walk for me but I'll tell you one thing it's been anything but boring through these 36 years I've walked with God now oh my goodness what a journey this has been what a journey I I've said it here before but I often tell pastor trees I fear sometimes like I I came out of the church in rice while I was hit by a truck I've been in a coma for all these years and none of this has really happened which of course makes it really bad news for you that means none of you really exists you're all but the reality is that you do exist and it is a supernatural life and and God is faithful he does take us from as he said image demons and glory to glory in other words from place to place by his power that's through the glory glory means that which is of God which brings his own name to reputation through us it changes us from image to image from from what we used to be to what he want it's just to be and Paul knew this the Apostle Paul said I've not arrived basically at this high calling of God now he says this close to the end of his life but he says I'm pressing on to the high calling of God that he has for my life and I'm leaving behind me that which needs to be left behind taken out of the natural and brought into the supernatural life of God this is the standard which will push back evil and it will given our nation a season for men and women to consider their ways and to turn back to God this is the standard it's not some new super preacher somewhere it's the body of Christ it's the whole church it's those who really know God finally yielding bending the knee receiving their salvation receiving Christ as the Lord and saying Holy Spirit lead me now and let my life be used for a divine purpose on the earth that divine purpose leading to one thought that Jesus Christ is the son of God because nobody else but God could do this died an old hockey coach one time that came to hear me preach this is from years and years ago he was a coach for quite a few years and after he'd heard me preach he met me at the back door and he said if I hadn't have seen it I'd never have believed it but now I've seen it and he said I want you to know that I believe that's an amazing thing there should be such change come into your life remember the scripture says if anyone is in Christ they've become a new creation the old things in them pass away behold all things become new it's not necessarily overnight but as we walk with God the change of the past are broken the roots that held us to the bondage of sin are literally cut away by the blood of Jesus Christ all the tree may still be standing but it's lost its power to draw life and it dies little by little step by step it begins to die and this new life of God is worked within us the willingness to let the Holy Spirit lead us we must come back to the supernatural again we're in a situation in our time where evil thinks it has the upper hand but I beg to differ because God is I beg to differ because Jesus Christ rose from the dead I beg to differ because he triumphed over the power and penalty of sin I beg to differ because God's Word says he takes the weak and the nobodies and the nothing's of this world and he puts his spirit upon us and he establishes a testimony of the reality of who he is I beg to differ because God is willing to do things in US and through us that can't be done by human effort only by the Spirit of God I beg to differ because God is willing to put within us a song that is so deep so profound so powerful the scripture says that men will see it and fear and trust in God the evidence of this being truth will not just show up in this room there was a hundred and twenty in the upper room and they had bent their knee at the cross they all knew they were failures every one of them they all knew they couldn't stand in their own strength they'd all flattened it's as if the church had to have that origin so that men and women would not become pompous and proud in the sight of God everyone in that room had run away and even those who were within proximity were far enough away simply to still procure their own safety as Peter did in the outer court and others did everybody knew they didn't have the strength to walk in this kingdom and there's a hundred and twenty in that upper room and the Holy Spirit came and God began to speak to every heart about what he was willing to do through a surrendered life and every person had a word from the Lord and everyone was given the ability to communicate with people in other parts of the world that was God had promised he was going to do through them and see the evidence of being led of the Spirit the evidence of being used to the Spirit is not just how we worship in this church folks we can all leave this sanctuary today and talk about how great the worship was on Sunday all was awesome you know you ought to have been there no no the evidence it is not just what happens in the upper room it's what happens outside of the upper room there is the evidence is what happens when we get out of this sanctuary what comes out of our mouths what kind of faith has come into our hearts what kind of carrying power of the Holy Spirit is within us oh yes they were unashamed they were outnumbered but unashamed and God used these hundred and twenty to change the whole known world and even bring down the arrogance of the Roman Empire all around it folks we've got to get that in our heart one more time we've got to understand that it's not optional to return to the supernatural we need the power of the Holy Spirit of God we need the victory of the Cross and we need as they had a determination to say Oh God well if I die I die as Esther did when she went into the king they had that same cry in their heart when they came out of the upper room if I die I die but I'm going out honoring God and I'm not going to be quiet in a season where they have their rejoicing over crew I've been crucified my Christ because he's alive I know he's alive he lives inside of me he's changing me from image to image and glory to glory so I'm going out into the marketplace and I'm gonna lift up my hands and I'm gonna open my mouth and I'm going to tell people I'm gonna communicate with people what God has done what God is going to do who God really is I'm gonna tell them and I'm gonna do it without shame and without fear hallelujah glory to God glory to God glory to God we've cowered down long enough now we've covered down long enough long enough we've let immoral people teach our children long enough when people tell us when we can pray when we can't what we can pray what we can't low enough we've cowered down now it's time for the power of God it's time to stand up again those who believe in God let the redeemed of the Lord say so hallelujah to the lamb of God glory glory glory glory we must pray we're going to start to pray Tuesday nights we're going to pray with other believers from other countries we're going to pray with people have never prayed before we're going to go out in the subways we're going to advertise in a thousand subway cars and ask people to join us on Tuesday night to pray who've never been in a prayer meeting we're going to pray but we have to be willing to pray that in this unpopular time towards the gospel of Jesus Christ that God would give you an i greater courage a deeper than ever spiritual authority and the people by the multitudes would be healed by the life of Jesus Christ flowing out through us Peter and John went into the temple to pray they saw a man lame from birth they looked at him and they said to him in the name of Jesus Christ get up and walk that man got up from his his lame position even in proximity to the temple of God and he walked into the house of God leaping and dancing and praising and holding on to Peter and John the authorities heard about it and they called them in and when they could find nothing else because it was threatening to overthrow their tinsel kingdom the one they could find nothing else to do they threaten them with repercussion if you don't stop speaking in the name of Jesus we're going to take away your freedom we're going to cause suffering to come into your life and what did Peter and John do they were left that Paul was threatening and they went to a prayer meeting thank God that's where they went and in that prayer meeting they prayed and they said God you are God you made the earth to heaven the sea and everything there is who by the mouth of your servant David said why do the heathen rage why do the people imagine in vain that they can overthrow you the kings of the earth stood up and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ for of a truth against thy Holy Child Jesus whom you've anointed both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and the people of Israel are gathered together it seems in other words like everybody everywhere is against this testimony and now Lord behold their threatenings and grant to your servants that with all boldness we may speak your word give us war they said of what got us into trouble yesterday give us more they didn't pray for protection they said God stretched forth your hand to heal and let signs and wonders be done by the name of your Holy Child Jesus and when they had prayed the place was shaken where they were assembled together they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and they spoke the Word of God with boldness give us boldness give us faith it doesn't mean arrogance it doesn't mean rebellious it means faith give us faith to stay to those that have no strength get up and walk in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to those that are behind prison doors you can be free in the name of Jesus Christ give us faith is what they were praying about let us speak the Word of God with authority let us not cower back let us not snicker when we're opposed and cower under opposition and when they prayed the place where they were was taken and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and they spoke the Word of God with boldness and so my question today to you and to me is is the place where we are right now does it need to be shaken is your salvation real that's a question you have to be to answer or you'll find yourself speechless at the banquet table of the lamb do you have a real salvation or an invitation do you have a desire to turn from sin salvation when you and I come to the cross we went on the day of Pentecost Peter said they said what must we do to be saved in Peters the first thing out of his mouth is repent and be baptized in other words turn away from wrong and admit you can't change but God will change you that's what baptism is about put away your strength put away your Direction put away your activities and take on the activities of another do you really want to turn from sin we live in the generation where you know our young people especially and old is it well but there's such immorality in this society now that it's it's permeated the Church of Jesus Christ as well and everybody doesn't really want to turn from their sin I often say to the young people in this church we in New York City people don't come here because they want a mortgage of marriage three kids in the garage most young people want a career they want their independence they want to experience the wonders if there is such a thing of New York City and they want to stay single but they don't want to go without sex and so they don't mind slipping once in a while it's like a man who doesn't salt his driveway his walkway and he's always falling down in the walkway and his neighbor comes to with a bag of salt says here can I can I sprinkle this on your walkway the man says no no I enjoy a good slip every once in a while see because I can come back to the house of God and God will forgive me Bodi mmm the Bible warns us you know there's great grace in Christ but if we abuse that grace you can be turned over to a darkened mind a spiritually dark mind that thinks it has a garment for the wedding you see those who really belong to Christ want to turn away from their sin it doesn't mean we don't fail it doesn't mean we don't struggle it doesn't mean we don't fall but it doesn't mean that in our hearts there's a sincerity and God knows it's there God knows that we want to walk in truth we want to turn away and it may take a season for some because old habit patterns in some die hard but there will be a change the Word of God does say old things pass away and all things become new lying tongues can speak truth lustful Minds can have God's purity planted within them there can be freedom in Christ are you wanting to walk with God if you are genuinely a believer in Christ there's an inner desire to walk with God there's an inner desire for the pathway that God has before you it's planted there by God something in the heart starts crying out oh God use my life for your glory I remember when I came to Christ as a young police officer I had no speaking skill I still don't really I remember walking to the beat and I I'd this inner cry Oh God used my life for your glory do something through me and then the cry got bigger and I started praying an impossible prayer O Lord I want to be used of you to win a hundred thousand people to Christ before I die and then my prayer got specific I don't want them to be just people to raise their hands in a meeting somewhere but people who actually walk with you and actually finish the journey and actually live in life that brings honor to you I've never preached a sermon I had no power to speak anywhere but I knew God had sent me free from fear I knew he was a God who could do the impossible and so I began to pray I've lived to see thousands and thousands and thousands come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and I still believe that God will answer my prayer even today the doors that are listening to the sound of my voice in this sanctuary and in other places will not let this be a deficient salvation it will not just be a raised hand in a meeting somewhere so you can get out from under bondage and somehow feel good about your life no it would be a surrendering of your life to Jesus Christ and a willingness to go against the grain and willingness to say God I'm going to stand no matter what anybody else does I'm going to speak and I'm going to testify view you open the door I'll go through it you present the opportunity I will speak I will not cower down for what do the Snickers of this generation really matter in eternity anyway none of them will be there in eternity with me unless I tell them about Jesus Christ Oh God let my life be a demonstration of your power bring me into the supernatural I'll tell you I'll close with this this is a supernatural life it's amazing it is awesome it's an incredible life don't be sold short don't give up what God has for you for the temporary pleasures that are just simply going to pass away soon but walk in the supernatural that's the standard there's no other standard there's no other we've tried everything we've had the political organizations we've had the strategies we've gotten together and giving each other chocolates and roses and none of it works the only thing that ever will work is what already has worked it's been proven it's been tribes been tested it's here Raffaele if you had come please and lead us in worship and I'm throwing my heart and life in with this altar call I'm asking God that the glory of the latter temple that means that the final years of my life would be greater than the former I'm asking him to keep me from the lethargy of heart and the the desire for rest that comes to you when you get older I'm asking him to keep me alive till the last spiritually alive till the last day of my physical life on the earth I have a specific prayer that I pray us that God like the prophet of old may I be reaching out to those coming after and saying smite they are on the ground smite it again smite it again helping people to walk with Christ Lord God help us to you to you and to let you do what you want to do through our lives in this generation help us to say yes to you Lord and to yield to you and to know God you have a sovereign and a supernatural life for each one of us a life uniquely designed for us that will bring glory to your name because nobody else can live would you call us to live we are unique in the earth you have a pathway before our feet and we haven't even seen yet we've not even dreamt of it you have things that you want to do through each of us O God as a demonstration to this generation that there is a God he's a God of incredible mercy and grace and father I thank you Lord for people who can hear this message today as we move into this fasting and prayer time this year Lord it would not be just Church as usual you take us deeper and farther than we've ever gone before ask your lord for the grace to finish the way the church began began in an upper room proceeded into the marketplace and changed the world father give us the grace to finish as the church age the way the church began lord I thank you for this in Jesus name we're gonna stand in a moment if you need to give your life to Jesus Christ you come if you have been afraid to let the Holy Spirit lead you you come if you're enduring opposition and your family your neighborhood your workplace you come pray God give me boldness and stretch out your hands through me and begin to heal people all around me let's stand together if that's you just calm and we'll worship together in the antics you can step between the screens and North Jersey as well praise God Balcon you would either exit just can't please just come before we pray I see a lot of tears here I see a lot of deep conviction of the Holy Spirit you need to know that God passionately loves you you need to know that and he's willing to cover you and he's willing to give you strength and he's willing to change you and it will be all of him all he requires of us is a heart that says God lead me and what you speak to me help me to believe you help me God to go through every door you open before me hallelujah and so one day you and I will appear in heaven and we're not going to be ashamed doesn't mean we didn't make mistakes and doesn't mean we didn't struggle along the way it doesn't mean that God didn't have to pick us up seven times but we made it thank God we did it honestly I want to pray I want to pray not for you today I want to pray for the city you and I will become the instrument of God's blessing to the city and then I want to sing a song I think Raphael knows it I can only imagine what it's going to be like we read today about a guy who got to the banquet and he was speechless we're not going to be speechless I'm a little inhibited because of my Canadian esand whiteness I'm going to be honest about it but I won't be in heaven I'm gonna I'll be able to dance and not much of a dancer but I'll be able to dance there I don't even have one move I don't have that I don't even have a moon praise God the only dancer I ever saw worse than me was pastor days that was very comforting thank God the Bible says it from the throne of God preceded a clear stream of water and to give life everywhere it went everything it touched blossomed oh god oh god oh god I ask you Father in Jesus name that you would make us that clear stream of water to the city Laura that everywhere we go is we go back to our neighborhoods and their homes our businesses Lord whatever it is that we do that we'd be a clearer stream of water and God through us you give drink to people who are thirsty and health to those that are failing and hope to those that are living in darkness o God forgive us for ever taking lightly your love for us Lord your soul of us God give us the grace to open our hearts to you and father I thank you Lord we won't always be perfect we won't always do it right but O God will be sincere and we'll trust you and believe you as much as we know how all Lord I don't want to miss a single soul that you place in front of me for the rest of my days Oh God why don't we come I don't want to become self consumed or dollar bored help me Jesus help me give me alive in the spirit oh god oh god more than ever before more Lord I just don't want to go back just to the passion of my youth I want to go beyond that Lord deeper farther oh God with experience and knowledge Lord oh Jesus let it be let it be God it's the cry of my heart Lord let it be for this church Lord that our songs would be real and they'd be sung all week and Sunday morning would just be an extension of the rest of the week that we'd not come into the house week after week alone but we'd be bringing in that which you've used us to win to you oh god father thank you for this God with all of our heart and one day soon we're gonna be home one day soon you're going to call us home to the banquet table of the Lamb oh god what a day that's going to be what a day Lord we walk with you we were sincere what that's the only prayer we have we did it as best as we knew how we trusted you we believed you we honored you father I thank you God please please I pray for my brothers at this altar especially my brothers but who want to walk with God they want to quit failing and falling all the time they wanted to be real I pray for a supernatural strength of the Holy Spirit to literally touch them from the crown of their head to the soles of their feet my God my God my God raise up men mess up godly men in this generation Lord real men of God real real men of God oh Jesus I thank you for real men who are not afraid father I pray for the ladies of this congregation at this altar especially Lord your word says in Hebrews and women received their dead raised to life again I ask you God for a depth of Christ that they've never known before to see their children come home and live for God to see their prayers answer - no you put power in their hands to give them a testimony in the workplace and in the home and in the marketplace Oh God oh Jesus Jesus son of God shake the place where we are gathered Oh God and fill us with the Holy Ghost and give us boldness Lord and stretch forth your hands and begin to heal the healing go everywhere we travel let healing from despair and depression and captivity and sickness and darkness of God and let healing begin to flow Jesus Christ make this city like like a garden that blossoms Lord take it away from being a desert and let it blossom o God that have been likely to be songs of praise on God that our children be glorifying you in the streets my God my God my God my God we call out to you Lord shake the place where we're gathered shake the place water and fill us with the Holy Spirit give us strength O God give a strength that can only come from the hand of God father I thank you Lord we yield our bodies to this cause we live our lives wheeled up future Lord wield it so that others may know you so that others may dance around your banquet table my god so that others may find you a savior shake us Lord shake us Holy Spirit sink us Almighty God Father we thank you we thank you we thank you in Jesus mighty name hallelujah halleluyah halleluyah halleluyah halleluyah folks listen to me I am not willing to let this generation of young people die I'm taking them with me my god by the strength of God I'm taking it with me and you take him with you we're not gonna let him die Christ is still alive we're gonna bring him home and we're gonna rejoice together around the banquet table of the Lamb let's give God glory in this house

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Length: 51min 15sec (3075 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 26 2014