Keith Moore Growing Up Pt 8 Spiritual Youth

well I enjoy doing then would you turn this morning to the book of Ephesians if you didn't bring a Bible with you would you hold up your hand and use one of ours turn to Ephesians well you want a 30 minute message this morning I can do it but y'all left did not did not do it Mike huh few weeks ago I did one yeah yeah Phyllis said jolting it out to 130 last week Wow that makes me look short does it I mean well some things have been going on around here can you sense it there's been some there's there's a stirring and you just have the a sense of urgency and that the time is short and so we we need to be and must be about to father's business and not be distracted by a lot of other things cuz soon and very soon all this stuff that people are spending their life doing it's not going to mean one thing it's all going to be gone and only that which we did for the kingdom of God and helping people and serving God is going to last so let's let's see to it that when we leave this world we have some reward and we have some folk coming with us Ephesians 4 we've been on the subject for some days now some weeks I should say the subject of growing up everybody said growing up and if you haven't been with us then there's quite a few messages that we've already gone through and you can those are available in the word supply and you can download them for free on the internet and there's all kind of things for free there if you care to take advantage of and Ephesians four has been our text so let's read it Ephesians 4 verse seven says to every one of us has given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ wherefore he says when he ascended up on high led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men verse 11 he gave some apostles some prophets some evangelists some pastors and teachers for why did he give them for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man a mature man a complete man fully developed man unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ what will you look like and sound like when you grow up fully the master right that we henceforth be no more children are you supposed to be a spiritual child for 40 years no you're not you're supposed to develop tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the sleight of men and cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive but speaking the truth in love may grow up may grow up somebody say that they grow up into him in all things which is the head even Christ said out loud that we may grow up look at your neighbor tell them grow up grow up grow up then tell them okay okay I'm on it I'm growing up let's pray in a release our faith further before we go into the word how many believe God has something good for you this morning you're not limited to what I know let's believe God together let's get revelation let's get light father we're all here this morning before you our eyes are not on each other but on you we're looking to you give us ears to hear eyes that see heart open and receptive let there come into us a supply of the Spirit revelation and light of the word answers to questions solutions to problems direction for right now we ask for it we agree it together as touching this thing that we ask and we believe for it and we've purpose not to be hearers only but we say in advance what you show us we purpose to do it and to put it into practice and we know if we do we'll be blessed because you're so faithful to watch over your word and perform it in our lives in Jesus name Amen said out loud I'm a doer I'm a doer I'm a doer of the word of God every time I say that now think about that little guy take him up to me and that's ER he had been he been he'd visited the church here and I was speaking in a church where he was and his grandfather said we'll tell brother Keith and so he come on me said I do what god I said huh he said he said I doing work what's he saying he says I'm a doer of the word of God little bitty guy I'm a doer of the word of God I said yes you are is it God's will for us to develop for us to grow up is everybody growing up in the body of Christ is it possible to have been born again and be you know maybe you got born again when you were 12 and now you're 65 years old is it possible to still be a spiritual baby and yet you're in a 65 year old body yeah and that's what's confusing to a lot of people they're looking to somebody that should be mature by reason of time but inside they're not they're immature spiritual development in growth is not automatic by reason and passage of time and we've gone over this we've talked about a number of things about spiritual infancy and we've talked about spiritual childhood for the last two or three Sundays we've talked about putting away childish things and childish ways and I want us to go on to another category today are you ready hmm five people are ready are you think we're ready or yeah okay we talked about being a spiritual infant what the infant's need as newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the word that you may grow by their by but do you know a lot of people that got born again they've been in church for ten years and they still hadn't got fed yet they've heard a lot of sermons but they hadn't got fed he didn't say desire information on politics and social reform and clippings and thoughts and poems from popular literature what the sincere the genuine the real milk of the word of God you babies begin to get that they gonna grow they're going to grow babies need to be cared for they can't do anything for the South babies can't handle much we talked about that but if you begin if they get fed they're gonna grow then as they grow you keep feeding them and let them get some exercise they're continuing to grow in throughout the childhood stage and we've seen that children have childish ways and children don't get privileges that adults do they don't get to do some things they don't get to use some things be involved in some things that adults do and spiritually that is so true there's so many things that God wants to allow us into and and allow us to be a part of but we got to grow up I said we got to grow up there's been some questions that I asked the Lord and he answered me 20 years later I asked him a question 20 years before and 20 years later he begins to talk to me about it answering my question that I asked of course you know if a thousand years is like a day to him how long would that 20 years have been since I asked him not long at all but as he began to minister to me about it I saw why he didn't answer me 20 years before I wouldn't have known what he was talking about did you know that three-year-olds and four-year-olds can ask questions that even though you know the answer to you can't tell them you could tell them but they wouldn't know what you're talking about do you ever have to tell them well you know when you get bigger when you grow up some then you'll understand and sometimes they look at you like why you keep saying that cuz it's true because you you don't relate right now and Spiritualist that way it's why the Lord has not been able to talk to a lot of people about a lot of things because he could tell you and you wouldn't know anymore after you got through telling you than before you got to grow got to grow to where you can understand it now let's go on to another category there is infancy just spiritual is just like natural there's infancy there's childhood and there's also those teenage years right can you hit teenage years so to speak spiritually yeah and a lot of the characteristics are the same and one of the words that you'll find in the in the bible is the word young attached to young man young woman and if you look it up you'll see that's the category of person he's talking about we'd say teenage early teen and teenage - young adult well let's talk about being young spiritually and how to grow up to that point and then beyond that point to spiritual adulthood go to acts the 20th chapter Acts chapter 20 what are some characteristics and indicators that you are a spiritual youth well here's one acts 20 acts 20 and verse 9 since they're set in a window a certain what what are y'all laughing about y'all already read this story head I'm certain what what kind of man now that it says it again that he was a young man any time the Bible emphasizes that and repeats it then there's emphasis not just on that he's male but he that he's what he's young and so hence you know the application of being young spiritually a young man named eutychus being fallen into a deep sleep as Paul was long preaching now it's all left back there well while you laughing you better pay attention to the rest of the story while Paul was long preaching he sucked down with sleep and he fell down from the third loft and was taken up dead but y'all laughing about him being dead Paul went down and fell owning and embracing him said trouble not yourselves for his life is in him when he therefore was come up again and had broken bread and eaten and did what I thought he'd already preached a long time talked along while even to a break of day no we've never had a service like that huh it'd be Scripture wouldn't it wonder how many ins stay awake well now the reason why I ask that is because there are a lot of people that you know they're 5060 years old but when it's nap time by golly it's nap time and when it's bedtime I can't stay up that is not a characteristic of adulthood I know I grew up in a home where my dad worked night shift some of my earliest memories I was I wasn't walking and talking to it I don't think but my dad come in two in the morning and bring home popsicles and we eat popsicles at 2:00 in the morning and that's how I started out and so I'd stay up late and I worked some night shift things you know in my early years and so I would say well you know I'm a night person and still I can stay up late but I said that one too many times and the Lord said to me one day he said what if I want you early in the morning I said well I'd be available yeah he said well then you're not just a night person you're anytime person you got to watch you about setting limits on yourself and you've got to watch about being so rigid in your routine I mean some routines are okay but there are times when you need to stay up and there are times when you need to get up right and you need to have your body under control can you say Amen Eutychus couldn't stay awake characteristic of youth the NIV said the young man was sinking into a deep sleep that the new living says he became very drowsy never been there finally he sank into a deep sleep the English says as Paul kept on talking eutychus got sleepier and sleepier until he finally went sound asleep and fell out of the third storey to the ground and when they picked him up he was dead sail off think about that does the Bible talk about spiritual awakening did how many remember that he said awake wake up thou that sleepest rise from the dead Christ will give you light somebody said wake up say that said a little stronger wake up wake up wake up did did the Lord say that wake up rise up from the dead well rise from the dead well the Lord spoke to my heart years ago he said most of the world is either dead or asleep it's too much spiritually most of the people on the planet are either spiritually dead or they're asleep either way you are not aware of what's going on spiritually not aware of what God is doing in the earth or what he wants done and have you ever noticed somebody that's in a sound sound sleep they can look like a dead person you lay a dead person and you lay them a sound asleep they look to they're moving the same they look the same and there's so there are a lot of people that are saved but they're spiritually asleep you keep telling them difference in their life and a person that's not saved life they're asleep that they're not awake or but there are a few people in the planet they are alive and they are awake oh come on and that they know what's going on glory to God and we're living in the day where a lot is going on you you need to be awake you don't need to miss it said out loud I'm alive and I'm awake spiritually we're talking about glory to God so a characteristic of spiritual youth one of them is not paying attention right and not controlling yourself go to Titus if you would look at this Titus the second chapter so that loud pay attention you snooze that's not a scripture but there's something to it the proverb does talk about sleeping away your hour of opportunity so the principle is there Titus the second chapter verse 6 was it safe Titus 2 6 what does it say young men young ones exhort what to be sober-minded now some one other the King James we don't we don't get all that the RSV says urge them to control themselves the Moffatt says tell the young men to be masters of themselves at all points was eutychus mastering his body that night no he he let the sleep overwhelm him and he yielded to it anyone sound asleep and he missed the message and died and had to be raised up by the grace and mercy of God can you get in trouble by not paying attention hmm by yielding to your flesh should you master your appetites should you master your desires should you control your mind see children and little ones have a short attention span but those who are developing and growing up their attention they can they can sit and they can focus for longer periods of time right and that's one of the things that you know there's a lot of churches you you dare not go in there and speak over 30 minutes they'll pitch a fit right what they have the attention span of a gnat if you're going to develop spiritually you must develop powers of concentration focus have you ever noticed you get down to pray you know you should pray more than two minutes you got to slip them on your heart you know you should pray and you get to pray in and you pray what you know to pray with the understanding and you run out real quick so you go and pray in the Holy Ghost you're praying in tongues and your understanding is unfruitful so while you're praying in the spirit your mind's doing this mm-hmm-hmm-hmm and goes hey hey and if you're dumb you'll go what hey such as such as going on we're not gonna miss that are my programs come in on TV hey hey and if you're easily distracted your prayer times over your body's got a voice he's supposed to be praying and it'll go hey hey hey my knee hurts quit hey I want to lay down I won't go to sleep honest just let me lay down [Applause] [Laughter] oh hey hey I noticed that was some chicken in the frigerator I'm hungry let's go guys think we're prey better if we get some chicken and if you're easily distracted you'll never prey to amount to anything you sit down to read your Bible it'll be the same way there'll be 932 things that can distract you and pull your way and if you're easily distracted you will not grow you will not develop you'll not get what you should get in prayer you won't get what you should get in the word you're antsy you can't sit anywhere for any length of time you got to be moving you got to be doing something you got to go go go characteristic of undeveloped mentiras you've in maturity as you develop though you got peace you can focus in on something and stay there all day long are you with me now you can lay before the Lord for a day and a night or three days can you see a whole lot of people if not grown up I know a years ago I a young man was staying in our house with us and we were endeavoring to help him with some things we took him to church with us and he was sitting with us and the the pastor began to speak and minister the word and he walked over to where we were sitting - not far from us and I mean and and was looking in the direction of us and the young men that was sitting beside me and started on some things that were I mean specific for this young man in his life it was it was not his main topic and message he was on it was another area but it was a word from the Lord at that same time there was some kind of little distraction or emotion behind us and this young man turned around completely in his seat and is looking at it and as the moments were going by I'm thinking this young man's missing this he is not hearing a word and this God is moving particularly for him and I started to reach over and tap him and go you know are you listening to this and then I Lord dealt with me no don't touch him leave him alone just watch this watch and learn and so the pastor went on for I don't know seemed like five minutes and then he turned and walked back to the pulpit and continued with the the message he started with and the commotion stopped and the young men turned back around he did not get one word of it and the Lord spoke to my heart he said this is happening all the time he said I am speaking to people I'm answering their prayers I'm answering their questions but they never know it they never see it they never hear it because they're not paying attention the same thing is true how many times people have had accidents they've had problems and when it happened they said I knew I shouldn't have done that well here's a big question why didn't we pay attention to what we got on the inside and make the adjustment well it's a characteristic of spiritual immaturity and youth as you grow up you begin to pay attention you pay attention to what you get you have powers of focus and when you're in church brother you're in church you are here you ain't thinking about eating our bills our work on Monday this is it and when you're praying you're that way and when you're in the words you're that way and when you're doing what the Lord told you to do you are not easily distracted and deterred you pay attention and no matter how sleepy your body gets or hungry it gets you are the master over your feelings and over your desires and if Paul preaches all night long then you are not going to fall asleep he because you are not just a youth can you see this okay let's go on look in Luke the fifteenth chapter Luke chapter 15 let's look at another characteristic of spiritual youth said out loud stay awake pay attention all right well you don't miss things you got any youth in your house I have there been times that they weren't they didn't pay attention mmm yeah Luke 15 Luke 15 and 12 well verse 11 a certain man had two sons and the what the younger the young one said to his father father give me the portion of goods that falls to me and he divides unto them his living a characteristic of youth is impatience impatience I know we got some youth in here but do you remember being a youth those of you that are little older than that y'all gonna help me with this huh did you experience any impatience when you were 13 hmm fourteen fifty what were you thinking man somebody tell you it's only gonna be two years you'd go what two years oh I can't wait two years only two more years and you can drive oh I've got to ride with Mama another two years impatience with impatience is a big problem impatience reveals lack of faith the Bible said through faith and patience you inherit the promises what about through haste and impatience well you'd miss stuff right impatience is characteristic of the flesh your flesh wants it now right now don't tell me wait now so you're not interested interested so much in sowing and reaping because you just want it right now don't tell me I got a plant and wait for the harvest investments what do you mean we took my 10 year returns twenty year returns then I'll be I'll be 30 years old that's all impatience and see what what goes with that you start yielding to the flesh in impatience it just kept going didn't it he said I want my money now he didn't want to stay there and work with Daddy and tend to the farm and tender the family business and wait to things to work like they were supposed to when he was old enough in the tress no I want my money now give me my money so he did and what did he do time to party right which all my youth right what did he do he went straight and bought that car right and he got those new closed the cool ones hmm and he put the the sound system in his car and everybody could hear him a mile away and he got him a lot of bling right and he went to the hot spots and he found him some new friends youth don't discern who's a friend and who's along for the ride he didn't have any friends did he he thought he did but his money had friends did they're right and when he was I mean he's one paying the bills he's the one rolling the spread and when he is down and got nothing to eat nobody would give him a bite you remember that none of his party buddies would even buy him a happy meal which means he didn't have any friends have you have you seen young people our teenagers leave stable friends that they grew up with but are not wild enough for them and get in with some people that's supposed to be cool and don't have enough sense and discernment to know these people don't care whether you live or die they're just using you but youth don't see it spiritually the same thing is true it's sad to say but in the churches there are users and if you're popular there wouldn't be your body if you're seen they want to be around you they want to be known and want to be associated but if you have some trouble who the Lord's dealt with me to stay away and not get involved in that you don't know who your friends are till it's a tough time till you're not popular till you messed up hmm then you find out and sometimes it's not a nice revelation but it's part of growing up can you save me but we're not shouting too much about this today but it's still true isn't it verse 13 not many days after the what son what kind of son the young one he gathered all together and he took his journey into a far country and there he did what he did what he had a chunk of money he could have started a business with that money he could have sold a bunch of that money into the kingdom right here's a characteristic of youth waste waste don't raise your hand but have you ever wasted anything as you grow up you quit wasting now you don't get stingy but you just don't waste the people around the ministry here they know this I've told different ones I'm at different times you know when it comes to spending money on the kingdom there is no amount that's too much you know and you don't get the cheapest you get the best but I don't mind spending money like water to do the work of God and to get the best but I don't want to waste five dollars it bothers me to waste it well that's somebody's offering right it's not okay to waste any of it he's wasting his time he's wasting his money he's wasting his friendship on people that don't care anything about him he wasted his substance with riotous living you know that the verse that we just read that said young men exhort to be sober-minded if you look up that word it has to do with being sane being sane as opposed to insane and that's a popular word now isn't it that's insane hush your mouth boy talk right if you ever notice the kid what is popular in cool then that's wicked why I say that because somebody who didn't know any better said it a long time back and they said it in such a way and the enemy influenced the people around him said that's cool you ought to say that so there you got people all over the world going that's wicked and people think that's the right way to talk Christians don't need to be talking about wicked hmm no are bad I'm bad but you need to be good wicked means twisted I don't want anything is twisted I don't want to be twisted on be straight right straight sound solids a good word solid that's alright like that solid but think about what you say it don't just say stuff because other people say it that's the characteristic a few fit me they're easily influenced and they want to be like their peers and don't even discern whether all their peers are doing good or not they just want to be like that to be accepted well accept it of who whose standard you know it's real popular to do things with your body it's real popular dressing a certain way but ask yourself the question Who am I trying to be like are they trying to be like Jesus and don't take anybody any man any woman any boy or girl and set them up as your example I want to be just like them no you don't you want to be like Jesus you want to be like the master if there's a person that you respect and think highly of that's great but the reason why is because to some degree they're like him so go ahead and lift jars higher above them and become like the master everyone that is perfect perfected developed mature will be as his master can you say Amen okay one last thing here you got time for another one you're in go to Matthew please Matthew 19 youth don't pay attention not in control of their body and their appetites and their feelings youth are impatient youth can be wild act insane shortsighted blow all their money on nothing think people are their friends and they're not but you don't have to be that way you can be a godly youth right you can be an example of a believer you can be full of the Holy Ghost you can be led by the spirit hmm and while other youth are just young and dumb you can be getting revelation all the time and the Lord deal with youth no don't go with them they just wanted to use you and you just smiled like oh no I'm not gonna go I'm gonna go the house I'm so insane have to stay in the house with mom and you just smile and go I like my mama not be insecure young people let me tell you a secret little folks don't understand do you know one of the biggest things that makes people attractive one of the biggest things that'll make a man or a woman young man or girl attractive confidence confidence people don't respect somebody that's trailing around trailing around behind them trying to imitate them little respect that it's if you know who you are right you don't blink your eyes you don't lower your voice when you say yeah I'm a believer yeah you ought to be too yeah I go with her hit that wild faith Life Church tongue talking bunch and prosperity believin yeah that's me that's us man we have a big time you're to come see he not intimidated to smoke or to drink or to do drugs or to have sex you just put people down go now I'm not that dumb No and not have to explain not feel intimidated well it won't be popular what is popular what are you talking about with a few kids that don't know which end is up for three years then don't see each other again what does it mean but see when your youth you don't know the difference that's one reason why youth should have good parents that if they listen to their parents and youth take advantage of the experience and wisdom in your parents go to them and say hey Dad I got this going on and this guy said this to me and this one you know what do you think dad don't freak out mom don't fall off your chair start screaming did you hear me and know that holier-than-thou like you weren't a teenager and did some insane stuff our almost did right we ought to be we ought to be are young people or to be benefiting from our experience right and our wisdom and there were to be freedom enough for us to communicate and talk and love and faith and grace and mercy and we ought to have answers solid answers not our theory in our opinion and our experience from the word solid answers that's what our whole youth program and department is based upon Phyllis leads them and they have questions young people have questions about life God has answers there in the word and every issue that comes up they take it to the word and then it's settled and that's how you live ball with somebody that done that with me more but we didn't know thank God for what we had but we should be advancing all the time you want to come back next week and get this next one huh you got time hmm no did somebody say no you're already in Matthew 19 aren't you this won't take long we had extra things to do today didn't we I mean we had to speak the blessing over our children man I do not just do that to be doing something I believe the protection of God is on those babies in those kids I believe the favor of God we all stood up we presented the child before the Lord we acknowledged God these are not just rituals something happens and it follows them throughout their life Matthew 19 are you there Matthew 19 and 20 there was a young man you know that came to Jesus what kind of man young man and he said good master what can I do to inherit eternal life you know he asked him about the commandments and verse 20 verse 20 the the what kind of man young young man said to him all these things have I kept from my youth up what lack I yet Jesus said if you'll be what we've learned that word perfect means complete so that nothing is lacking the completion he's a young man but is it God's will from the kamon and develop and mature spiritually and develop if you'll be perfect do what go and sell what you have and give to the poor and you'll have treasure in heaven and come and follow me and when the when the what see didn't you say man he says young man heard that saying he didn't do it he went away sorrowful for he had great possessions oh man I've seen this impatience and wrong priorities he did he did not discern what was in front of him what was available for the master to say go liquidate you stiff he's not asking him to take a vow of poverty he's not telling him he'll never have anything again as long as he lives when you sow like that what's gonna happen later but it was a problem in the young man's life obviously it had too much of a place in his life he was trusting in it he was holding on to it and he needed to break free from it and demonstrate that Jesus was Lord and that God was first and what did the master say do what liquidating in what is he offering him a place is he offering him a place with him in his ministry right now but the young man did not see what he was being offered and thought his little money was too much to give up for that the names of the Apostles are engraved in the foundation of the holy city forever the ruling and the reigning in the kingdom of God all of us have opportunity this young man goes I hola I can't give up my money I mean did not know through lack of discernment lack of maturity and understanding did not discern and see what was in front of him I've seen that we we've had that already here just in the four years that we've been here people that God called to help and do things and something came up and they're no longer here and it's not like they went from here to do some bigger and better things in the kingdom of God if they did I'd just be shouting and happy for him but they went from doing things for the Lord to doing nothing for the Lord that can't be the will of God and it can't be okay but they didn't discern the opportunities you know we've talked about Phyllis and I had the opportunity to serve with brother Hagin and Miss Sarita for a number of years and you know we knew it was a good thing while that was happening but every year since then and since dad has gone home man you see what a privilege it was what an opportunity but when you're young you don't realize how much is going on you don't see the value and the preciousness of your opportunity remember Jesus talked about he said they didn't know the day and hour of their visitation they didn't know the opportunity that was in front of them spiritual children and youth can be that way not discerning well but you can be like the other guys the disciples who did follow they got up they left all and they followed him do you think they've ever regretted it since were you thinking heaven right now you think this is boy we should have held on to my business are you kidding me oh that's so thankful that when they had that opportunity they said yes thank you I will go with you oh can you say Amen [Applause] the Lord told us on growing this church up quickly do you believe it which means we are discerning the preciousness of the things of God and the opportunity of the hours and the association's and the times and when you have an opportunity to serve the Lord and do something in his things and with his people don't let anything keep you from it if it cost you all in the natural you do it I said you do it you do it I know of several people that were this close to retirement with benefits and walked away from it and lost it because God directed him to do something and now they're so blessed they didn't think about that little retirement I've seen people miss God over a house miss God overplay wouldn't leave oh I couldn't leave my house I couldn't leave my people oh I couldn't do that because you know on Tuesdays I always do this and on Thursday mornings I always do this had lady tell me that one time her and her mother came in and one of them was terminal pronounced by the doctors just a matter of days to live they said and they wanted us to pray well in talking with him I saw they're not ready to pray that they're not ready to release any faith for healing they're not thinking right I said well the healing class and school is going to start in just a few hours could you say two hours could you stay they said oh no no we're going shopping this afternoon what could you could you cook could you come to sunset well no no we're going work in a flower bed they just got through telling me they got days to live they don't value the word enough to even give God an hour of their time that is not having any spiritual discernment that's not knowing what is important that speech being spiritually asleep and unaware said out loud not me not me I'm alive and I'm awake and I'm growing up standing on your feet please glory be to God oh let's thank the Lord let's praise Him this blessing lorry to God glory to God Oh bless you Lord bless you Lord thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord Oh bless you Lord bless you Lord bless you Lord glory to God glory to God glory to God let's sing something [Music] Oh again I [Music] how about you close your eyes pray this outloud father God nothing is more important in this life than you than your things show me what's important and what's not important show me what is childish what is immature and what is Mutulu and thank you for helping me to grow up quickly and solidly in Jesus name all just like a dream [Music] everybody's singing again I showed up Oh just like Wow hallelujah would you close your eyes actually what you just be seated again for a moment this won't take long but it's very important be seated and close your eyes for thy prayer this service conclude for any and every person in this place are watching or hearing that has not been born again that does not know you I pray that you would draw them right now by your spirit reveal to them their lost condition help them to see they're not okay and show them what you've already done form that the price has already been paid and if they'll just believe and receive they can be gloriously saved draw them I ask right now I pray also for those that have known you and for whatever reasons they left you we say they back slid and they're not in fellowship with you they're not living right hadn't been living right for some time show them how cold and faraway and out of fellowship they really are and if they're not okay but that you love them still you forgive them you'll cleanse them it can be better than it ever was if they just come back to you but they must come back draw them I pray in Jesus name with eyes closed nobody looking around friend if I'm praying for you in God's dealing with you this morning and you'd say yes brother Keith that's me I've never given my life to the Lord would you raise your hand and let me pray for you this morning they'll not be a better time than right now for you to get this right you're watching my TV or in an Internet raise your hand if you say your brother Keith pray for me I need to give my life to the Lord I pray for me brother Keith I need to come home I need to get back to the Lord either one of these if that you raise your hand oh thank you law yes yes others that should join these if God's dealing with you now don't put it off don't delay if you say yes brother Keith I can't say if I died right now I know I'd go to be with Jesus in heaven if you can't say that you need to raise your hand or if you hadn't been living right and you know you need to get back to the Lord raise your hand don't put it off another moment oh you can have peace this afternoon yes you can know that you know you can be sure this is too serious to play games with hallelujah alright okay here's something else you might say brother Keith I'm a Christian but I've never been filled with the spirit like I hear you all talk about I don't speak with tongues I haven't experienced this power like y'all talk about well it's for you this is available and belongs to every believer every Christian or to be filled with the same spirit you're born again of and speak in tongues and have power to be a witness if you said mother Keith I believe that I want that raise your hand we'll pray for you today real simple if you haven't had this experience your hand ought to be up glory to got yes we'll pray for you God will hear oh thank you lord now listen with eyes closed I'm gonna pray for you but I'm gonna do it this way jesus said if you're ashamed of me and my words I'll be ashamed of you Paul said if we deny him he'll deny us as strong words but he said if you'll confess me before men I'll confess you before the father and his angels so it's not okay to be a closeted Christian you got to be willing to stand up before men and here at home on the job at school and don't care who sees and knows that you're a believer you confess him before men he said I'll confess you before the father so because of that if you lifted your hand or you should have lifted your hand on any invitation I want you to be bold and on the shame then I want you to stand stand upright now please stand if you watching my TV or Internet stand up out of your seat stand up and step toward the screen you're in here and you raised your hand don't don't delay if you raised your hand get up right now please stand up show the devil he's not your boss show the Lord you believe in him to give you heart to the Lord to come back home to the master to come and get filled with the spirit right now right now please stand if you lifted your hand or you should have please stand those of you standing would you open your eyes and look at me I want you to be bolder you know what you'd be on the shame would you find that aisle and come meet me right here face to face let me pray for you personally would you please come as we say come on come right now come to Jesus give your heart to the Lord don't get fair with the spear [Music] Oh halleluja halleluja come come - geez Oh [Music] [Music] doesn't some legend come not ashamed of the Lord I want you to just close your eyes right now forget about everybody and everything except you and the Lord he is here he is real I'm on pray for you and all you need to do is expect him to do what we're going to ask him to do for you expecting to do it and what he's done for millions he will do for you Christians reach your hands out toward these and believe with me father God we pray for these and we pray for all those watching by internet or TV that have reached forward and raised their hand thank you Lord for bringing them today and getting them to this place how you love them you knew they'd come you knew they'd say yes you knew they'd come back our desire your fullness and so you've watched over them and spared their life so many times and got them to this place today thank you thank you thank you well you said those that come to you like this no way would you refuse them or reject them or turn them aside but because they become drawn of your spirit they come believing on you they are accepted in the beloved we act on your instructions right now everybody say this out loud affirm our reaffirm your faith say it watching my TV said out loud father God I believe in you I believe in your son Jesus that he died on the cross he paid the full price for all my sins I believe you've raised him from the dead he's alive right now King of Kings Lord of lords Jesus you are my lord my Savior thank you for saving me hallelujah glory to God glory to God glory to God every sin condemnation and guilt rolled away washed clean by the blood of the Lamb name in the Lamb's Book of Life thanks B under God hallelujah guys that's done would you look at me just a moment this is not all some of you came to be filled with the spirit all of you need to be filled to overflowing full of power just as exciting excited and wide-eyed as the rest of us and you will be I got a place of ministry just a few steps around the corner I'd like for you to go to won't take long people train to touch base with you answer your questions make sure you're satisfied before you get away would you do that turn to your right and follow these these folks the pearsons won't take long would you go with them right now to receive the rest of what you've come for everybody stand up in the crowd if you prayed with us by TV or Internet let us know email us write us call us let us shout with you and get in a good Church and begin to grow up in him like you're supposed to can you say Amen well are you glad you came to church this one good sure beats sleeping in we know we've grown some because we got out of bed we made it here this morning right and we're going to just keep on growing until we are fully mature and becoming like the master wait I want to sing that again as we go or all right let's sing as we go [Music] that's bad [Music] [Music] [Music] if [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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Keywords: Keith, Moore, Growing, Up, Pt, 8, Spiritual, Youth

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Length: 66min 6sec (3966 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 07 2012