Join Us For Mesa Church | May 23

[Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] you [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] welcoming you to the beginning of our service uh if you just woke up i encourage you guys to grab some coffee grab breakfast sit down get cozy as we're about to start service soon but you guys are all in for a treat as we get ready for our service we've got a wonderful message from one of our amazing speakers along with some great worship guys i really hope that you guys are ready to really just engage what god's got for you today as we continue into our second week of our insomnia series so last week pastor jordan spoke on insomnia and the whole idea is what keeps you up at night and not just literally keeping up at night but what is on your mind what is uh going through your mind what's what's you know robbing you of your sleep and uh you know just your mental space so we're gonna continue on through that series today in our week uh two so guys we're gonna begin shortly but i hope you guys are ready uh we're going to begin in just a few minutes but grab a coffee grab your kids maybe they're running around maybe they're not even awake yet i've been awake for a couple hours maybe you guys have maybe you have the pleasure being able to sleep and i don't know but i need to go drink some coffee uh get prep for worship but guys we just want to thank you so much for being here we want to thank all of you guys for being a part of mesa church because here we believe that life isn't meant to be done alone so maybe this is one of your first few times tuning in that's awesome say hello in the chat let us know where you're from where you're watching from maybe you're in irvine and maybe you're a bit more local maybe you're in another state right now let us know in the chat let us know where you're from how's your morning going hope it's going well have you had coffee yet i've had like two or three sips i probably need at least 20 to 30 more sips to be to be uh fully awake but i'm getting there you know uh but guys we're excited to hear we're excited that you're a part of mesa church guys uh and you want to make sure that you guys are getting connected we want to make sure that you guys are a part of the church because life has been done alone this last year it's kind of been crazy and maybe a challenge for you guys to be a bit isolated uh so maybe that next step for you is getting connected to saying hey i want to get connected in mesa church i want to know more about what's going on i want to be a part of something right maybe it's getting connected by serving on a dream team helping out getting set up in the morning maybe it's doing comms worship joining the youth team which i'm a part of and i love maybe it's even kids remember that next step is joining a small group getting connected in people uh who encourage you and walk through life with you no matter what's going on whatever your next step is guys please get connected reach out to us because we want to know what's going on in your life and we want to be a part of your your walk with christ because like i said life isn't meant to be done alone we're about to start in just a minute guys so i will encourage you get ready get prepped for worship and we will see you guys after service bye [Music] [Applause] [Music] good morning mesa church whether you are joining us online or here in person or in overflow we invite you to join us would you stand with us in worship this morning lifting one voice together [Music] i saw satan fall like lightning i saw darkness run for cover but the miracle that i just can't get over by name is registered in heaven [Music] i believe in signs and oneness [Music] i have a resurrection power [Music] still the miracle that i just can't get over [Music] this is my testimony from death i'll testify by jesus christ the righteous i'm justified this is my testimony this is my testimony put your hands together with us come together sons and daughters but with blood and washed in water [Music] we see the crazes of the spirit our god will finish [Music] this is [Music] this is my testimony [Music] [Music] yet we believe that sing this out if i'm not dead you're not done greater things are still to come oh i believe if i'm not dead you're not done [Music] greater things are still to come oh [Music] little things this is my testimony from dead to life cause grace rewrote my story i'll by testify christ the righteous i'm justified this is my testimony this is my testimony from there tonight the scripture wrote my story i'll testify by jesus christ the righteous i'm justified this is my testimony this is [Music] oh jesus this morning we're going to raise up his name we're going to sing it out we're going to raise the hallelujah in this place and sing it together hallelujah in the presence of my enemies louder than the unbelief [Music] him comes to fight for me [Music] ashes [Music] [Music] with everything inside of me [Music] hallelujah [Music] i'll raise a hallelujah [Music] in the middle of the storm [Music] is [Music] this morning we're gonna claim his victory let's sing it out sing a little louder sing a little louder sing a little louder [Music] a little louder sing a little louder sing a little louder louder or sing a little louder little louder than the other [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] of my enemies [Music] death is to feel [Music] death is defeated the king is alive it up praise the hallelujah [Music] i'll hallelujah the hallelujah i'll raise a hallelujah jesus we raise it up this morning we bless you lame thank you jesus jesus we glorify you god as we come together this morning and we worship together there is so much on our journey that we can face we have good times where we're on the mountaintop so to speak and we have those difficult times that test our faith times that test our peace cause us to have stress and anxiety this entire pandemic has impacted all of humanity with those very things it's challenged our health it's challenged our jobs it's challenged our relationships our communities you name it it's impacted every single aspect of our lives you know the bible tells us to come to him all who are weary and have heavy burdens and he will give you rest and that's what he'll do for you today and i don't know where you're at on that journey this morning maybe you're walking in with all of that stress and anxiety maybe you're facing circumstances that you don't know how it's going to end up whatever it is that you're walking in with this morning know that you can find rest at the feet of jesus today he is enough for you jesus is our hope he is our peace he's our provision and he is enough for us so as we sing this song let it be an encouragement to you this morning that he has everything that you need today [Music] every day in your hands you were there before time began sovereign would i trust in your play [Music] from the dead to the dawn you are there and your promise is strong i will trust with all that i am just say his name this morning jesus jesus oh how i need you you stay the same you are good in your ways jesus jesus oh how i need you you are enough oh my trust is [Music] but never too far [Music] [Music] jesus [Music] you are good in your ways [Music] all my trust is [Music] everything i need jesus speak this over your circumstance you are powerful god above it all i believe in you i believe in you you do miracles the impossible i believe in you i believe in you you are powerful god [Music] the impossible i believe in come on sing that out this morning and [Music] the impossible [Music] jesus [Music] jesus [Music] all my trust is [Music] being impossible i believe in you i believe in you you are powerful the impossible i believe in you i believe [Music] lord jesus we do believe in you we do believe in you and we're so grateful for the invitation to join you here this morning to be present with that god that we worship today oh how we need you oh how we love you give you praise and glory and honor to your name amen and amen you may have a seat oh it is so good to be here with you today i just want to give you a quick heads up june 20th is father's day just in case you forgot it's father's day aaron if you're watching it's father's day anyway it's father's day i'm very excited about today it's going to be a special day here at mesa church we invite you to come bring your kids dads bring your kids kids bring your dads and let's have a great time together i'm grateful for what pastor has just posted we're going to be having a men's friday first friday lunch it's beginning june 4th 11 30 a.m to 1 p.m over at that uh the square just around the corner from us such an exciting time i'm excited about that i'm trying to talk sal into bringing his 427 cobra down and if you don't feel like talking we can just sit there together and listen um it'll be fun then it'd be fun anyway you know what i'm grateful for i'm grateful for you i am grateful to be a part of a church with such a great generous heart as you you know who else is grateful for that our our dream team people our dream teams for our children our dream teams for our youth our dream teams for missionaries you know over 65 organizations supported by you around the world and local ministries like trellis feed the hungry and love lift you because of your generosity and we are so grateful if you would like to look at the screen right now there's a pictures of how you can give online three different ways you can give online and if you're here today just want you to know in this place there are giving boxes located in the auditorium by both exits and you can drop off your offering there listen we're so grateful to be here so blessed and you are such a wonderful group of people to be with just invite you to watch this quick video here good morning [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] well awesome awesome awesome hey i was just gonna say newport mesa church newport mesa church welcome to mesa church welcome to the table everyone grateful for you um today's a special day i don't know if you knew this i'm gonna talk about this in a second but uh it's a day that we call in the church pentecost sunday it is the church's birthday come on can we give the church a big round of applause we might even be able to sing happy birthday for those of you who are new to christianity new to faith maybe new to jesus today's the day that 120 people were gathered together in prayer motivated by fear but then the holy spirit just filled their hearts with something that was different and faith and they just they literally that was the beginning the moment that changed everything for the for the church they knew jesus had risen from the dead but he had ascended into heaven they were trying to figure out a game plan and when you need a game plan how many of you know it's important to go to god right like that's what you do when you don't know what's going on you go to god and that's what prayer is so they gather together to pray and god has done some pretty credible things in the last two thousand plus years god's spirit working through the church come on can i get an amen i gotta get you guys woken up this morning i already had two glasses of uh hidden house cold brew coffee so if i'm a little energetic it's the holy spirit and hidden house but grateful for you today is the second week in the series insomnia and uh you know really inspired by uh just the the the idea that people's mental health um has really been impacted this last year uh anxiety is on the up depression is on the up a lot of things that have impacted our lives in a negative way and so um i asked a question to our congregation a couple weeks ago what keeps you up at night and the the topics of our series were actually um suggested through the poll that took place so last week we talked about social media go back and listen to that message hopefully you were blessed and hopefully you were challenged with that message today we're going to be talking about physical health the next week we're going to talk about prodigals or child issues the week after work stress a sermon about work stress yeah and then the week after that about the uncertainty of future so all five weeks really really when you get down to it really comes down to trusting the lord and so um and and living in the light turning on the light so that we can get a better night's sleep in the dark and uh and so today we're gonna be talking about physical health and i just gotta start with a confession i was blessed with the genetic cocktail of disease how many of you are with me all right no one okay let me explain what i mean and then you'll understand i i literally have people in my family tree who have died of cancer they've died of heart disease they've died of diabetes they have died of almost everything that you can imagine how many of you are now with me right like that is in your family tree and that's something that you're just aware of like i don't know if it was the country fried chicken and steak and like mashed potatoes and the way they ate or what but i just that's in my family tree and it's something that i think about for different reasons now that i'm a little bit older but something i've always been aware of and especially going into the summer months you know there's going to be a lot of food a lot of festivities i went to a barbecue yesterday and i'm pretty sure the carne asada got the best of me if you know what i'm saying but i want to start off with a public poll just to kind of invite you into the equation and i'm very curious about what that will look like for you on the screen there is a website called vvox.app i want you to go ahead and click that into your web browser i'm going to actually do that with you we did this last week we're going to do it again i'm going to take a live interactive poll go to vvox.app this will be anonymous i will have no idea what you write so go ahead and type in vbox.app i'm going to wait i'm going to try to get as many people as i can do it as possible and before i get to the question i'm going to ask you three things to kind of give you a little bit of a a little bit of an idea of what i'm talking about these are all things that have um that contribute uh to to the question that i'm gonna ask you i i want you to just in your own mind we're not on the website yet so don't put up the the id number yet um on in your own mind just answer the question on a scale of one to ten how well are you able to um carry out everyday activities going up the stairs taking in the groceries moving a chair just simple just everyday things okay broadly speaking on a scale of one to ten in this season of your life you're not judging in your twenties or in your teens this season one to ten next question and then these three questions will then lead to how you answer the fourth which is the is the online poll next question how much pain do you experience on a scale of one to ten ten being the worst one being none right so somewhere on that scale how much pain do you experience and then finally again this is just this is just to prepare you for the fourth question how much fatigue do you experience during the week right so one would be you literally you pop out of bed and you're ready you have so much energy throughout the day right right that would be a one so if you're somewhere in the middle five whatever 10 would be you're tired a little hot okay all right let's go to the screen i want you to type in i want you to go ahead and type in the the um and i'm literally looking at the answers as they come in go ahead and type in the idea number here's the question that we're asking how would i describe my physical health number one best shape of my life come on booyah i'm arnold schwarzenegger nothing could be more true that's you excellent would be the next one very good good would be the middle ground fair poor and the last one is i literally could die at any moment by the way that's true of all of us if we didn't know that we're really going to be honest with ourselves who knows um but best shape of my life excellent very good good fair poor and i could die at any moment best shape of my life all right so a few more minutes i kind of thought there would be a lot of goods there are a lot of goods um a couple of you just a couple said you are literally in the best shape of my life so if that's you you can literally just you don't even have to listen to the rest of the sermon no just kidding there's going to be something in here for you um there's about 2.63 of the people in the room today who are in the best shape of their life that's awesome about 2.63 same number that would rate excellent actually that number just jumped up to five percent very good would be 25 percent good would be 46 so a lot of people would say you are in good you're in good shape physically about 12 13 would rate fair and then about seven eight percent would rate uh would rate poor now here's the good news the good news is i'm not here to make anyone feel guilty um i i honestly i'm praying that today really encourages you and i'm praying also that this message challenges you i'm not sure how many messages in a church setting you've heard about physical health but i'm excited about it because the bible has a lot to say about physical health regardless of how many sermons you've heard about it there's a lot of principles just like social media that impact our physical health so why don't we ask that question where is god in all of this and if tim could jump up here and grab his deal that would be awesome where's god in all of this why does it matter okay why does this matter and especially for those of you who are in the best shape of your life i still want to start with the why because this still applies to you there's basically two motivations that i want to kind of kind of talk about before we actually talk about stewarding our physical bodies and and it's going to be different than maybe you would have expected i really don't care how you feel about your own physical body i don't care because i know that we all have different relationships with our physical body and some of us like our physical body and some of us don't like our physical body and it can lead to pride and it can lead to feelings of you know negativity or whatever but i want to tell you about two audiences that care about your physical body that don't include you the first one is god you may not realize this but god actually cares about your physical body i know that because god created physical matter and no one creates something that they don't care about in fact psalm 139 14 says and this would be one of those powerful verses that if you struggle with your image your self-image this would be one of those good verses to memorize it says this about god he formed you in your inward parts in your in your mother's womb he knitted you together and it says the psalmist says i praise you for i am fearfully and wonderfully made part of the reason we have a struggle with our physical bodies is we don't realize how much god loves our physical bodies he created us he knows us better than we know ourselves he knows all of the the strengths and the weaknesses and god loves us and part of his love for us and our physical bodies it is that jesus literally god in the flesh took a physical body and he died a physical death and not only for our spirit the spiritual part of our life or our souls but for our physical bodies as well look at what isaiah 53 5 says regarding the physical nature of what god has done for us but he was pierced for our rebellion crushed for our sins he was beaten so we could be whole he was whipped so we could be healed part of what jesus died for on the cross was to reverse the curse and the sin uh or the impact that sin has had on our physical bodies so our physical bodies matter to god second our physical bodies matter to the people that love us i was down in brazil while i was in seminary doing ministry there and i remember talking to a woman named doris johnson she was a missionary i had been a missionary in brazil for a long time i had heard stories of doris and her husband bernard bernard was one of those ten evangelists down in brazil very early on in the missionary days and held crusades thousands of people attended thousands of people gave their life to christ thousands of people were baptized in the spirit right they were filled with god and just filled with the power that god can do healings all sorts of things took place bernard johnson they actually used to say that he was the billy graham of brazil bernard johnson just a real famous missionary in the circles that i ran in and i met his widow she said to me one day she looked at me and she said she pulled me close and she said i mean i've never had an older woman be so intent she said jordan make sure you take care of your physical body because bernard died way too young he had had a heart attack i think he was in his early 50s and she said that the next thing that she said to me sort of just struck me she said if he would have taken better care of his body he would have had decades more of fruitful ministry potential but then i just thought about her desire to be with her husband i thought about bernard's grandkids that probably would love to spend thanksgiving and christmas with their papa and friends even if you're not motivated to take care of your physical body or to think that your physical body matters i promise you from a son of a dad who's no longer here that your kids and your grandkids love your physical body they're there are days that i just wish my dad could pull me close physically like physically in a hug in an embrace so if you're not motivated internally for your own motivation just know that god loves your physical body that the people that love you most love your physical body so let's answer the question and we're going to get to to to the heart of this issue and maybe really the heart of why people listed this as a source of insomnia but let's just be honest part of taking care of our physical bodies is on us now here's the reality we live in seasons don't we you you're not who you were as a teenager you're not going to be who you are as a 90 year old all of us have seasons in fact i remember being a single spending like four hours at the gym i would go to the gym in the morning and at night and trust me my motivation was not not at all about god and it was totally motivated about my desire to attract a woman okay i would go to the gym so that i could get buff so that eventually tara would not be able to take her eyes off of me that was that was the hope right okay i'm just being on can we just be honest like come on stop being fake okay so but that was that was the season that i was in i had a dad you know he he heard about my workout routine the other reason why and this is almost sinful but i worked out so much so that i could eat anything i wanted right so probably the worst possible reasons to work out or to try to be healthy but i'm just being honest with you single guy said jordan by the time you have kids you're not going to have time to work out i said bro you have no idea it's a matter of discipline that's what i said to him i stand before you a humbled man i have not worked out for three years it has literally been three years since i've worked out so if you think i'm preaching to you trust me i'm just preaching to myself it's seasons by the way it's not a dad bod it's a father figure i want to encourage you with three really easy applications you've heard this before i want to encourage you part of taking care of our physical bodies is eating right if you want to get super freaked out by something just watch that documentary that came out a few weeks ago last week we talked about the social dilemma as a documentary that you can watch can i open up your eyes we'll just go watch that documentary super size me the guy the guy eats like mcdonald's for 30 days straight and it shows you all of like the things that are happening to his physiological uh body by the way taking care of your physical body doesn't have to be like this individual pursuit and i've discovered in my own life the the best way to do these three things that i'm going to talk about is get a buddy get a coach get a team around you start a small group with a physical health as your focus like don't do it alone that's that's probably the the easiest way to actually see results is to partner with your spouse partner with someone that's close to you trust me it's really hard to eat healthy if your spouse is not on board with you you know what i'm saying so number one eat right number two exercise this is what first corinthians 9 27 says if if you didn't realize like this this is actually in the bible don't you realize that your body is the temple of the holy spirit who lives in you and was given to you by god you do not belong to yourself for god bought you with a high price so you must honor god with your body my goodness god actually wants to take care of our physical bodies and his reason is he lives in us and he wants some good digs you know i i i kind of resonate with that and and so he encourages us to take care of ourselves exercise is actually just a part of the process of taking care of ourselves you certainly don't have to go to the gym for hours every day but some kind of physical thing that can get you using your body is it is a good place to start this is what first timothy 4 8 says about exercise first timothy 4 8 says physical training is good but training for godliness is much better promising benefits in this life and in the life to come so it's eating right it's exercising it's uh a focus on the physical bodies that god has given to us and part of the reason why i use the word steward is st stewarding is something that we do with something with a resource that someone else has given to us and the reality is for the follower of christ and just for all of creation this physical body that we've been given is a body that has been given to us from god first and foremost to live within us but also so that we can accomplish everything that god has called us to accomplish in this physical world just as doris johnson referenced about bernard now the reality is eating right and exercising can be good when we do it in a balanced way we eat to live we don't live to eat it doesn't become an idol in our in our life exercise and eating right can be good but it can also be bad right we can get caught up in the outward appearance we can neglect our spiritual life in fact there are diseases that can actually impact our brain based on an over emphasis diseases like anorexia bulimia body dysmorphia all things that are potential when we put too much of a focus on i want to talk to you about the third thing that most people forget if i just stopped there i'm just giving you good advice it's biblical wisdom it's it's wisdom from scripture your body is god's steward it well so that you can last you know don't you know it's it's the lordship issue first corinthians 6 31. we talked about this last week everything's permissible not everything is beneficial i'm not going to be mastered by anything how do we keep the balance this third one is so critically important because if i stopped at you know eat right work out you're gonna think it's all up to you it's not all up to you the third one that i want to emphasize today in taking care of our physical bodies is called sabbath some of you are very tired because you have been working too much this is what eugene peterson says about sabbath i'm gonna actually have to come down here for actually i'm not this is what eugene peterson says about sabbath sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what god is doing how many of you know all of life is designed designed for you to enter into a relationship with the creator of your physical body in a spiritual relationship for you to learn what trust and faith looks like and sabbath was a gift that god gave from the very beginning to reflect his nature but also to reflect a rhythm that is so critically important it's not all up to you so much of this life so much more than we even realize is up to god and every night when you go to sleep you might think if i just stayed up a couple more hours i could get more done or every saturday saturday is the day of the sabbath if if i was going to be a real legalistic stickler right every saturday i could either keep doing the things to get me ahead or i can rest reflect play pray gain the perspective that god is in control now some of us need to eat better no doubt i'm not trying to make anyone feel guilty i've never met a chicken wing i didn't like okay some of us need to exercise more it's been three years okay now you might be saying yeah but toddlers that's exercise in itself season see what i'm saying seasons like you just figure out where you can do it you do it try to build a garage gym but this third one so many people miss a couple years ago i did a whole series our online hosts if you're watching online are actually going to post a link to that where you can watch three messages that are just on sabbath resting pulling back so that god can do what you need to learn to trust him to do now the reality is laziness and sloth is something that some people struggle with so if you're a lazy person and i'm not accusing anyone of that but if that's you sabbath likely is not something that you struggle with you're already doing it okay but for those of you who have a hard time slowing down because you always want to work and get another client make another sales call stop you are not the savior of the world jesus is so let him be the savior of the world the sustainer of the world he's perfectly capable of doing it without you so i think if we really had a plan and a team around our physical bodies praying for us encouraging us keeping us accountable right in a balanced way eating right exercising and taking a break right sharpening the ax so that we can cut more trees down we would probably see over time better results better results the problem is the problem is it doesn't always work out the way we think it's supposed to work out my dad my dad used to do a thousand that was his that was his workout routine a thousand push-ups he would do 10 sets of 100 push-ups at a time i used to watch my dad do push-ups and there's photos of me and him doing push-ups together you know he had this perfect form this is how i did push-ups you know like as a five-year-old i would i just wanted to be around my dad doing push-ups and at the age of 42 i was diagnosed with a brain tumor with which left me with the question and it's it's the question of physical health and i have a feeling it's probably tied to more of the the admittance that this is something that that keeps us up at night why do we still get sick and die we're coming out of this season of covet 19. we have folks who are in the the last stages of their life we have folks that are sick maybe folks with chronic illness again covet 19 has given us room to pause and to ask before i even talk about this though i need to remind you that christians aren't the only people asking this question sometimes when we think about sickness we just assume that well you know based on the worldview of christianity we're the only ones asking this question can i tell you that atheists have to ask this question why do people die why do people suffer hindus have to ask this question why do people die and why do people suffer and they all have their own answers buddhists right agnostics muslims they all have to answer the same question any worldview that you're going to evaluate what i'm going to talk about still has to ask that simple honest question it and it is a point of apologetics or defense of the faith for a long time you've got characters like job in the bible right you've got people in your life that you know about maybe you are walking through a very difficult time and the reality is even based on our own christian world views that god is sovereign and we don't always know why but i always like to acknowledge some realities on the front end of this question so that some weird theologies don't develop let's just be honest right christians can get sick i had people tell me well it's because of your dad a lack of faith you know christians can get sick haven't you ever read first timothy 5 23 where paul literally says to his protege drink a little wine drink a little wine because your stomach you get sick all the time timothy apparently timothy was like this person that got sick a lot it's not like paul didn't have a ton of success stories praying for people and got healed but for whatever reason he told him to eat some medicine that's a reality that i think that we need to remember another reality is that everyone dies this is a part of the human journey and some of us not i don't think that will be me this is this would this would apply to all the people in jesus's ministry hebrews tells us that it's appointed once for man to die but we'll die twice think about the people that jesus healed that aren't still walking around lazarus everybody that jesus healed miraculously supernaturally led by the spirit the town erupted eventually died they all died they all passed away eventually and even in the life and ministry of jesus these people still passed away so it's something that we need to remember that christians can get sick that everyone dies but we need to balance that with john 14 12-14 this is jesus own words that jesus still heals and expects us to do greater works i tell you the truth anyone who believes in me will do the same works as i have done what's jesus talking about he's talking about raising the dead he's talking about casting out demons and making sure people are free to follow him he's talking about healings he's talking about super natural occurrences signs and wonders you can ask for anything in my name and i'll do it so that the son can bring glory to the father yes ask me for anything in my name and i will do it and i will do it jesus still heals and that's why we have a little corner in the back of our room i want you to just turn right now and see that white box that says need some prayer we always want to be a place where healing is prayed for because healing was a part of the spiritual dna of jesus so as long as we're at church we're going to pray for healing every service we're going to have people praying for sicknesses how many of you just you don't even have to show me a show of hands but there's something that you've been praying for and i'm just going to pause and just take a moment be totally just just say whatever the holy spirit tells me to say in this moment because i already know where we're going with the service we're going to have a moment where people can request prayer for physical healing what is it that you've been praying for a long long time for physically are you trying to have a baby maybe you're trying to have a baby you're not physically with us are you trying to have a baby i love hannah's prayer and i love what god did do you have a heart condition do you have a lung condition do you have high blood pressure you have a problem with your back jesus still heals today so if there's something that you're struggling with today we're especially going to put focus on physical healing why not it's pentecost you know not that we can't do this every single week but if there's something that you're struggling with at the end of the service i'm just inviting you to go towards the back if you're at our 6 a.m prayer meeting i've just i've just literally anointed i've just said you are now a part of the prayer team if there's if there's a lot of people that go back there just get prayed for because jesus still heals you might be asking yourself well how do you know when it's no longer okay to ask right how do i know in this journey of trusting god with my physical body knowing that everyone that jesus healed eventually dies knowing that that's part potentially part of how god could take us home my answer is just it's just this simple you pray until jesus tells you to do anything otherwise and the holy spirit can share with you this is how i'm taking this person home i was in seminary in a class and i used to wear this little snap bracelet to remind me to pray for my dad we prayed for my dad for eight years he miraculously survived uh he the brain tumor would have took him in six months and my dad lived for eight years and par part of that is you know medical intervention part of that i believe is prayer and god used the circumstance to teach us um he preserved my father's life we learn so many things we're still learning so many things it's not ever easy to try to answer that question why does god allow sickness because there's just a million different potential answers but i used to wear this and one day in class i'll never forget i can't remember what was happening but it just snapped and i looked down at the rubber band and the holy spirit spoke to me as clear as day because i was really struggling with seeing my dad and the holy spirit said i'm going to take him and i didn't pray for my dad's physical healing for the next three weeks it literally eight year journey god spoke three weeks later he went to be with the lord three weeks and and and there were seasons where we didn't even know he he could have lasted two three four decades who knows as soon as the lord told me as soon as the lord told me and that's my answer you trust god and you pray for healing you trust god and you pray for healing you trust god and you pray for healing because all of life is designed for us to do that trust god and to pray for healing that's what paul does in second corinthians 12 6-10 let me read this for you because this is one of those verses that people really don't like but it's in the bible we need to think about it in this conversation paul says this to the corinthians in the second book if i wanted to boast i would be no fool in doing so because i would be telling the truth paul struggled with pride a little bit but i won't do it because i don't want anyone to give me credit beyond what they can see in my life or hear in my message even though i have received such wonderful revelations from god so to keep me from becoming proud i was given a thorn in my flesh now he clarifies here a messenger from satan to torment me and keep me from becoming proud some people actually think that this was a demonic influence that that affected paul's site here here's what we know just what we read the reality is god is allowing this to happen and that's going to mess with some of your theology like i i cannot believe that god would allow this to happen we let the word shape our experience okay so that's i'm just reading what the bible says three different times i begged the lord to take it away each time he said my grace is all you need my power works best in weakness so now i'm glad to boast about my weakness so that the power of christ can work through me that's why i take pleasure in my weaknesses and in the insults the hardships the persecutions and troubles that i suffer from christ for when i am weak then i am strong why do people get sick and die well we know ultimately death has been conquered on the cross the resurrection proves it we can place our hope in jesus that just as jesus defeated death we will also defeat it defeat death but death is the final portal for us to do what god's designed all of life for us to learn how to do and that's to trust him you know it would be easy for me to say the principle of why god allows people to get sick would be well god allowed pain in paul's life to relieve paul's pride right he allowed pain to prevent pride i i don't think you can actually do that here i just think pride was the one little whatever that paul struggled with because paul had seen some crazy super natural things but what i do know is that god will use physical impairments to teach us all sorts of things i could never limit it to one thing because there's a million different ways of trusting god and learning to lean on god to depend on god to trust god through those physical impairments for for for god in his sovereignty knows that's exactly what we need that is not a cop-out this is this is essentially saying like if i knew my daughter well enough to know that allowing her to physically do something that would get her in trouble later and for me to stop that from happening that's called good fathering that's called good parenting placing those boundaries around her life doesn't it take a lot of trust or maybe it doesn't take a lot of trust once you've thought about it like this to recognize that god knows us in that same way that it's possible that the physical impairment that we've struggled with is really god putting a boundary over our life so that we don't cross a line that would send us in a bad bad direction the old testament equivalent of this is when god wrestled with jacob and literally touched his hip some people say well that was god preventing him from having more kids but but here's the end result jacob goes from being a heel grabber a deceiver someone who schemed to make things happen in his own strength to someone who literally every day had to walk in a certain way and be reminded that his very existence depended on the god of the universe a lesson he needed to learn right before he reconciled with his brother esau who he had no idea how he was going to be received so i prayed for god to heal my dad until god told me to stop because at the end of the day trusting god with our very lives gives us a different perspective about even death this last week we did a funeral for a woman who died of cobit 19. can i just tell you she did not die from covet 19. this was angel cordero's mom if you want to hear this story she would be blessed to tell it to you as angel got word of her mom's situation she raced north and her sister who was with her mom expected along with everyone else to be taking their mom home and linda who i had the privilege of traveling to israel with and we saw the real jerusalem together or we saw the old jerusalem together someday we'll see the real jerusalem together said this to her as her as her daughter said mom we're so excited to be bringing you home we're cleaning your room we're getting situated aren't you excited to go home and linda said just in a whisper i want to go home and then her sister and then her daughter said we're so glad we're so ready to have you home and then she nodded her head like this and pointed her finger to heaven and her daughter knew this was not the home that she was talking about you see it's so important to be good stewards over physical bodies right it is like there is an earthly ministry that god has given to us our family loves us they want us around for a long time so hey i'm going to eat right i'm going to try to exercise and you know i'm in a sabbath i'm going to do all that i can to really step back and see what god is doing in this earth so that i can be a part of it but at the end of the day it isn't until maybe you've actually lost a loved one who you know is on the other side of eternity for you to be ready for that moment the part that touched my heart the most was knowing that one of linda's children was a stillborn so for the rest of the three daughters to understand and to recognize that their mom wasn't just going to meet jesus she was going to be reunited with her daughter whom she had never met and this is what jesus does when you place your trust in him you don't even have to fear death you can trust him for healing let's pray for healing let's see the kingdom of god flow let's see miracles happen because there will be people who walk in and they leave healed jesus doesn't even need you to say i've placed all of my trust in you i'm going to be a follower of jesus he just heals doesn't he do that with all the the people with the skin disease he heals all 10 lepers you know what he doesn't say now write your name on the dotted line show me that you're going to follow me no no that's just not jesus's way he's just going to blast he's going to heal there's going to be outbreaks of revival there's going to be people that get healed because jesus said that you will do greater works you think raising some from the dead is is a big deal you just wait till the end times come and the revival happens but there will also be people with hearts that are so hard miracles won't even be enough to get them to follow how do i know that will happen because it happened in jesus ministry he's he goes to his hometown people don't believe that's the one time that people aren't healed because of their lack of faith so of course we're going to pray for healing of course we're going to trust god with our physical health but when the time comes to call me home i am not at all ashamed to say this i will be excited because i get to receive the reward that god has prepared for me and when you live with that kind of readiness you can die like linda died and it doesn't have to be something that you're fearful of or worried of or causes you to have a lack of sleep in fact you might just sleep more because you're just not worried linda bowers is a woman of faith a woman who didn't always walk with god perfectly right i heard the story she had this crazy smoking habit then she woke up one morning and said god if you'll help me stop she stopped cold turkey the next day god healed her of that but there's just stuff in all of our life where we haven't taken care of our temple we haven't taken care of our physical body but it's not going to stop jesus from taking us from our deathbed and raising us up to life because that's the last part of salvation your physical body will be physically resurrected and all of the impairments that you've struggled with that you've learned god to trust god in that you've walked through in these hard seasons and whatever it is will be revealed to you and you will be perfect in god's image sin will have no hold on your physical body would you stand with me i want you to turn around joan renee are standing over there in the prayer tent i just want to encourage you what do you have to lose you have is there a physical thing that you need prayed for one of those things that i mentioned what do you have to lose well i you know the thing is it's just one more time that i asked god to pray for me and nothing happened you know there have been so many healing evangelists who have said things like this if i never prayed for someone 100 percent of the time 100 people 100 of people never get healed but if i pray for a hundred different people and one person gets healed guess how grateful that one person is why would you stop why would you stop asking god unless jesus has told you and that's i'm not getting in the way jesus is lord if there's someone that you want to pray for if you need prayer i want you to go back and get prayer today for your physical bodies for someone else's physical bodies jesus let us be a body and it doesn't have to be me praying for people it just can be your body lord there's there's other people praying for people your spirit is in all of us that's pentecost lord can we be a people that reflects you can we reflect john where you say we will do greater works because we know that there will be some that come back and thank you like the one leper who comes back and says thank you lord we're content with ten percent heck we'd be content with one percent jesus we're just going to pray for people for healing this morning and we're just inviting you can you do what only you can do jesus this will be all you all your glory in jesus name we pray amen [Music] you are powerful got above it all i believe in you i believe in you you do miracles the impossible i believe in you i believe in you you are powerful god above it all i believe in you i believe in you you do miracles the impossible i believe in you come on sing it again you are powerful god above i believe in you you do miracles the impossible i believe in you [Music] jesus you are good in your ways [Music] jesus jesus [Music] my trust is above it all i believe in you i believe in you you do miracles the impossible i believe come on sing [Music] miracles [Music] oh jesus we believe in you we believe in the one who called lazarus from the grave we believe in the one who brought healing to the leper we believe in the one who gave sight to the blind oh god we believe we believe you're present here today for you said wherever two or more gathered my name there i am so we welcome your presence we praise you and thank you for who you are amen amen wow if today you know we're a church that believes in next steps if today you have this thing in your heart that's saying you know i need to know the god you've been talking about i need to know the god that pastors mentioned if that's you we have that prayer table back there today we want you to go talk to them just say listen i want to say yes online if you're online and you want to say yes just type yes in there and we'll get you a connection card and you can communicate with us and we will communicate with you we'll make sure that you'll have an opportunity to know this god we're talking about this morning and if you feel new or you are new here we welcome you so grateful that you're here we really encourage you to step outside right out those doors and go to our welcome center where you can be greeted by some people and they give you a great gift saying thank you we just want to know you're here online the same thing there's a connection card we just want to know you're a part of it thank you for being here summer is here small groups are beginning june 6th so go online check it out we've got many many small groups all over the community want you to sign up because we are a church of small groups and it's a place where we connect it's a place where we pray for each other it's a place where we see healing and deliverance and helps and love and understandings join a small group also the 13th of june we're having an all-church picnic news coming up relatively soon and we're excited about that you folks online we just want to say thank you for being here we've got a short video for you hope you enjoy it thank you so much god bless you my dear [Music] for yeah friends for your loved ones and now may the lord bless you and keep you hey thank you guys so much for joining us today online if this message impacted you or encouraged you in any way we would love to hear your story we are all about your stories we're all about uh just where you're at in life and how we can partner with you and walk through life with you so whether that is partnering with you and taking that first step and saying i want to give my life to jesus or maybe it's taking that next step and getting baptized or maybe you've been going through life alone and you realize that you need community you need just people to come alongside you and just help you through whatever is going on we have we have small groups for just every season of life whether that is singlehood relationships married life married with children older children empty nesters we have so many different opportunities for you because we truly believe that life is not meant to be done alone so you can go to mesa.church that's our website url you can go to mesa.church and find all the different opportunities that we have for you you can get connected on one of our dream teams alex and i are on two different dream teams we're on the youth dream team and the communication stream team we personally think those are the best teams a little bit biased um but you know we always have open spots for new volunteers so if you're looking for a way to get connected to find your purpose in church we have so many opportunities for you we want to partner with you um so as you guys know we've been able to open up classrooms for our children's ministries which is so amazing we need more volunteers for that so like we're saying dream team so if you have a passion for helping the next generation they're truly incredible and we would love for you to come with us but we're able to open up these classrooms because of your guys's faithful generosity so if you like to partner with us so that way we can continue to make a difference in the young lives of this church and in the community around us uh your host should 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