Living with Courage | Pastor Ron Eivaz

[Music] [Music] i remember the moment when you saved my soul desperate and broken you made me whole [Music] my soul you've been nothing but good nothing but good to me you've been nothing my kind nothing but kind to me all of my days time after time you've been faithful all my life you've been nothing but good god you are good to me jesus there's nothing that you love can't do you parted the ocean and you brought me through lift it up from the ashes you make all [Music] nothing but good to me you've been nothing but kind nothing but kind to me all of my days [Music] thank you for everything you've done [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] you've been nothing but good nothing but good to me you've been nothing my kind nothing but kind to me and all of my day [Music] you've been faithful you've been nothing but good god you are good to me i wanna say thank you thank you for everything you've done and god i will praise you praise you for all that's yet to come all of my days time after time you've been faithful all my life you've been nothing but good god you are good to me oh you've been nothing but good god you are good to me but uh i want to talk about how do we live with courage because i think the coming days coming years requires the church to have courage like it's never had before this morning i want you to hear this message not just as a nice message but i want to hear it as a prophetic call to god's people that we're going to have to live life with courage in a way that we've never had to live it before you know um kovid the thing with covet i'm not a cova denier covet is real people are sick people are being impacted it's impacted a lot of people it's a very real thing but at the same time the devil took it to see how much he could control the church with it he used it to see if he could shut down churches and sadly many churches went along with it some churches are barely open now if at all but covet is not the worst thing that's going to ever happen to our world covet is actually a dress rehearsal for the devil to see how much he could get away with but it's also a dress rehearsal for the church to know what we need to work on to stand better next time you know when i look at the story of moses and in israel you know he's god raises up moses after the children of israel have been in bondage for 400 years to bring them out of slavery sometimes we read the story of man wasn't this nice god raises up moses and children of israel gets set free at the end happily and they live happily ever after how many took a lot of courage every step of the way to do what god called them to do god might have a promise for you god might have a destination for you but you still need to live your life and courage to reach that destination now the lord spoke to moses saying speak to the children of israel that they turn and camp before pihar i said it good the other service hero roth between migdal and the sea opposite of zephon you shall camp before by the sea for pharaoh will say of the children of israel they are bewildered by the land the wilderness has closed them in then i will harden pharaoh's hearts so that he will pursue them and i will gain honor over pharaoh and over all his army that the egyptians may know that i am the lord and they did so now it was told the king of egypt that the people had fled and the heart of pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people and and they said why have we done this that we have let israel go from serving us so he made ready his chariot and took his people with him also he took 600 choice chariots and all the chariots of egypt with the captains over the over every one of them and the lord hardened the heart of pharaoh king of egypt and he pursued the children of israel and the children of israel went out for with boldness i want you to notice that phrase and they went out with what boldness that'll be important here in a little bit so the egyptians pursued them and all the horses and all the chariots of pharaoh and his horsemen and his army and overtook them camping by this by the sea beside those places and when pharaoh drew near the children of israel lifted their eye and behold the egyptians marched after them so they were very afraid and children of israel cried out to the lord then they said to moses because there were no graves in egypt have you taken us away to die in the wilderness i remember these were the same people who left with boldness it's one thing to leave with boldness is another thing to be bold when they're behind you why have you so dealt with us to bring us out of egypt is this not the word that we told you in egypt in other words we already told you that we weren't going to make it didn't we tell you the last pastor tried this and we got rid of them let us alone that we may serve the egyptians let us alone that we may be for it have been better for us to serve the egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness and moses said to the people do not be afraid stand still and see the salvation of the lord which he will accomplish for you today for the egyptians whom you see today you shall see again no more forever the lord will fight for you and you shall hold your peace come on the lord will fight for you and you shall hold your peace let me say that again the lord will fight for you the lord will fight for you i don't care i don't know what you're going through today the lord will fight for you one of the things i've learned is if i stop trying to fight my own fights let the lord fight for me he fights a lot better the lord will fight for me the lord will fight for you and by the way he don't fight no affair but the lord will fight for you see when we face pressures in life that are bigger than ourselves there's a sense of overwhelming that we don't know what to do see many of us try to control outcomes now i don't know if there's any controlling people here maybe the spouse could look at them and i'll know but uh some of us try to control outcomes in life right like i'm at peace if i could control what happens and by the way i think one of the things the last year and a half taught us is we control a lot less things that we then we think we control there are things that happen in life that we have absolutely no control over we have no control over in that pandemic we have no control over things shutting down we have no control over you know all sorts of things that we figured out this last year we do not have control over what about just forget the pandemic other stuff in life that happens that's bigger than us that you know puts the squeeze on us we absolutely seems like there's nothing we could do about it it's bigger that's we're in over our head what do we do in those moments what do we do in those moments by the way neutrality is never an option when those things happen you can't just say well i'm just going to hold on and go with the flow i don't know if the flow's going down streams and downstream and you just hold on you're going downstream with it much of life is you gotta paddle upstream neutrality is enslavement if we become neutral in life we become enslaved to what culture wants we could become enslaved to what society wants neutrality is never an option see there was there were several things several options here like what were some of the options for moses now moses you know he's obeying god he's done what god's called them to do so the option for moses is will will he be a strong leader and will he obey the voice of the lord in this in spite of the complaining and the and the pressure of the people because moses put everything on the line he let god's people he would stood pharaoh to bring them out of slavery now the pressure that the people are putting on him is to go back into slavery i mean leaders don't give people what they want leaders take people where they need to go let me say that again leaders don't take people where they want leaders taken where they want where they need to go see politicians are the ones that kind of see which way the wind is blown and we kind of do that and then we voted out september 14th and uh i don't know what i'm talking about there anyway but just came out i don't know what that means how many how many believe every they would try to lock down everything right now if there was not a recall coming just a thought but as i stated on social media yesterday now listen i want you to hear this we're not voting party we don't party i'll share with some of our staff this morning i have a few republicans on my list that we're going to get rid of to me i don't care if you are on the side of the donkey or the elephant i'm on the side of the lamb right so i don't care if somebody's a republican a democrat an independent whatever they are we vote for righteousness we're going to turn our nation and our state to pro-life pro-family pro-marriage pro-righteousness we're not shutting down churches and leaving marijuana dispensaries open our strip clubs open [Applause] i'm just telling you the devil overplayed his hand this last year and the church gotta wake up and arise amen all right back to done with the commercials back to our regular programming so moses is moses option is am i going to obey what god said am i going to just give the people what they want i don't know people are fickle you could go from a hero to a zero really quick remember the same people that yelled out about jesus crucify him were the same people a few days before saying hosanna leaders have to hear god and not just the the voice of the crowd now israel had a decision to make would they step out in obedience or would they dwell in the familiarity of bondage they go through the momentary time of risk and maybe discomfort in order to inherit the promised land and be free or they go back to egypt as slaves because that's what they knew that's what they were familiar with and how many of us ever have looked at people maybe even ourselves at times and said listen i'm smarter than that why do i make keep making this stupid decision to keep going back into this mess you know why we do that it's not because we want that you know we want to make that decision it's because we go towards what we are familiar with you look at people who go from one destructive relationship one abusive relationship to another abusive relationship you say well why would they do that it's because they're they're not going to abusive relationships they're going to what they're comfortable with that's what they've known that's what's familiar see many people go into the wrong direction because they go into the direction of familiarity but you know jesus came to break those bondages so we don't have to be familiar with any of those things see i believe we are in a place of decision today not as a as a church not only as harvest but as a church i believe the church of jesus christ we are in a place of decision of how are we going to live the next few years of our lives i i early on the few months into covet i realized we're not going back to what we thought normal was didn't necessarily know what the new normal would be but i knew what we knew as normal was gone how many no that's true and i and i and i told this to our staff i told as many pastors i could i said do not the worst thing you could do is at the end of this try to do church like it you used to do church you can't go back to what normal was because the world has changed you got to change the lord's doing something new i'm not sure what that is but we got to figure it out but we're in a place of decision how are we going to live life are we how are we going to move forward with courage you know the churches that are struggling the most in opening and getting people back are the churches that were seeker friendly or non-charismatic or weren't very bold prior to covet because they hadn't really built a foundation for their people to stand on and and it was it was church that was tailored around trying to blend in with culture i mean at times culture could say oh we like you because you're so cool but then they really hate you if you ever stand up for righteousness so why try to please a culture that hates you anyway but stand up and be bold in righteousness to see people set free and delivered and saved you know come on you know i think back some of you might not believe this but before i came to the lord man i was totally on the other side ideologically in every way you could think of i said i used to go to bible study after i got saved and argued with a bible study teacher as a teenager like what's wrong with abortion what's wrong with gay marriage i don't agree with i don't agree with that i mean i was told i mean would you believe that i was totally on the other side my mindset did not change because i went and read a book by rosh limbaugh i care less about that do you know what changed i learned the bible and my heart changed we don't win culture by trying to give them arguments and be like them we win culture by introducing them jesus who's the lover of their soul who's so wonderful who transcends and listen it's not about politics politics will kill the church we can't get we can't get into that spirit but it's about living boldly to represent who jesus is represent who jesus is so when life puts a squeeze on us we could choose number one to quit right that's an option not which always means going backwards quitting never works because you always come back to the same place that you always were at the beginning or number two we could be in denial which means we get stuck where we are the problem with denial is you always get stuck right where you are if if you're pretending that there's no problem obviously no one's going to be able to solve the problem one of my favorite phrases is reality is my best friend if i know really what's happening then we could deal with it or number three you could endure which means you go all the way through it whatever comes you endure god takes you through life not around it let me say that again god takes you through life not around it so when difficult things happen in life god will take you through it he'll give you listen god's i'll promise you peace but not comfort he's promised you the comfort of the holy spirit well he'll comfort you in the midst of it but you will go through difficult things in life sometimes i think you know for us who believe in and preach in god's blessings and prosperity and goodness that's by some people mistaken to say you'll never have to go through a difficult thing in life that's not what it means you will go through difficult things in life you will suffer persecution you will go through trials and by the way the more you answer the call the more difficult things you will go through in life but god will give you power and strength through it paul paul told second to timothy in second timothy chapter two verse three says you therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of jesus christ no one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier and also if anyone competes in athletics he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules so he says timothy you're going to go through hardships but at the end compete in a way that you're going to win i know we all go through things in life but how do we deal with it we endure because we know that god will turn it around we know that god is with us uh i was telling one of the other services i said there was during covet it was a few months into it and it was right before we were getting ready to open up and we weren't closed that long but we were getting ready to open and um and we were like who knows what the government's doing they keep going back and forth we're just going to open and some other churches around the state were also and of course you know like cha's church and uh so i don't know how this conversation started in our management meeting because i did not start it but somebody i think my wife started it sounds like something she would start uh so the discussion was when they start arresting the pastor for opening the church who's gonna go first and what's the order so guess who they nominated is going to get arrested first i was going to go to jail first who was second i don't remember who was second but somebody else was gonna go second and third and then i'm like wait a minute how did i get oh okay i'm the senior pastor okay i'll go first but then the thought of me i thought wait a minute this is america we're talking about who's going to go to jail for opening church we're ready to do it but we're like this is crazy this is crazy we'll have even more craziness in the absence of a church with courage with believers with lack of courage come on how many are ready to come to a new place of boldness and courage in your life ripping you must be i know because anybody in turlock yeah yeah because listen there's no other option there's either courage or there's enslavement so what does it take to live with courage number one i'm gonna go through this really quick number one you must believe that god has a plan god has a plan god always has a plan how many know god is not up in heaven sitting on the throne ringing in his hand saying oh myself what am i going to do god always has a plan in the midst of some of the craziest time last year when it was like covered then the riots then something else happened and something else i can't remember all the things now there were so many locusts that got released but one thing after another started happening and at first i started kind of getting a little concerned i'm like wait a minute i don't all this stuff's happening i don't know what the lord is saying i'm not sure what's going on then this thought hit me i believe it was from the lord and it was like do you really think god does not have a plan what did god tell you right before all this stuff happened get ready for the fire get ready for the harvest what do you think god's doing right now and then that passage came to my mind god sitting on his throne is laughing he's laughing because he knows what he's going to do he knows while the world is panicking he's setting it up for the greatest harvest of souls we're ever going to see he's setting it up for the greatest revival we're ever going to see god has a plan god has a plan you know exodus 14 2 we read it earlier it says speak to the children of israel and then tell them where to go camp so how do they end up camping in the place where now looks like they're going to be defeated god spoke it god told him to get go there why did god tell him to go there because he wanted him killed no because he had a plan sometimes it seems like you're in a situation that's the worst situation he could be in remember this god has a plan god has a plan for your deliverance god has a plan for your victory in order to go through tough times a tough time victoriously you have to remember that god has a plan not only for your life but the situation that you're in for you to come out of it victoriously jeremiah 29 11 for i know the thoughts that i think towards you says the lord thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you a future and hope god's plan is always good how many know that see we trust god we can trust god in difficult times because romans 8 28 says and and we know that all things say all things all things work together for the good for those who love god and those who are called according to his purpose come on anybody in the room of god anybody online on ripping love god anybody call according to his purpose we are aren't we so that we qualify all things work together for the good for those who love god and call according to his purpose notice it doesn't mean that everything is good it doesn't mean that everything that people do to you is good because it's not it's bad sometimes people do things that are bad they call themselves christians not everything is good but even though it's evil god will turn it around for your good god will turn around for your good i'm telling you you're going to come out of it victorious uh you know sometimes you you know god god you know the devil so overplays his hand and god so turns it around on him that at the end of it when it's all done you're glad you went through that because of what god did through it i'm telling you you know part of that is there's a favor upon your life there's a favor upon your life that causes all things to turn together for the good i got a letter yesterday from pastor dave williams and uh he's he's so cool he still sends letters and he writes so well and he wrote this letter and he named like half of you in the letter and said some things about you that i now i know anyway so uh i'm kidding and he says all these things and he he just so detailed and he says ron you have so much favor on you there's so much favor and god's doing such great things at harvest oh man there's so much favor and you know he's always so encouraging like that and then that couple of some other stuff that was going on it just i started thinking i'm like there is a lot of favor on our lives there is a lot of favor on this house we haven't done anything to deserve the favor there is just a lot of favor on our lives you know when your heart is just to go after god favor comes on you you know what favor does favor causes all things to turn around for your good once you come on say that about yourself say all things turn for my good for my good all right here's here's the second thing you must face your fears you must face your fears if you want god's blessings you have to follow god's plan if you want god's blessing in your family you got to follow god's plan in your family if you want god's blessing on your finances you got to follow his plans in your finances come on how many know his way is always the best way sorry i'm ordering my lunch here real quick not not really all right you know when you're as young as i am if you don't write it down you forget so you got to write it down because your brain's not fully developed yet you're so young all right see moses stood before pharaoh and had the courage to face the one thing that he didn't want to face remember pharaoh was this the most powerful leader of the time in the world but where did he find that kind of courage and where do we get that kind of courage hebrews 11 27 says by faith he forsook egypt not fearing the wrath of the king for he endured as seeing him who is invisible what does that mean where did moses find that kind of courage because he redirected his focus from what pharaoh might do to him to what god will do for him and what god will do with him where did moses find this kind of courage to see life his life changed he directed his focus from the greatness of egypt to the greatness of god see we got to get more impressed with the greatness of god than the greatness of egypt some christians are so much more impressed with uh what the devil's doing than what god is doing and who god is get your eyes off the problem and put them on god john osteen years ago i heard him say joel's that he said stop telling god about your big problem start talking about your problems about your big god every morning you know at the end of my prayer outline which i'm going to be recording here pretty soon but uh you know i end with for yours is the kingdom and the power so when i get to the place of yours is the power i just declare to the lord great is your power god you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power nothing is too difficult for you i just spent a few minutes just talking about how powerful god is not that he doesn't know but i have to remind myself because you know what happens throughout the night throughout the day all of a sudden your problems seem pretty big but when you start telling god how big he is guess what happens your problems go in really small you're like i don't care what the doctor said god is the one who created my body he's the one who breathed into my body i don't care what they said about that situation god is the one how many know there's no impossible situations in life all things are possible all things are possible to him who believes see courage comes from having been with jesus acts 4 13 says now when they saw the boldness of peter and john they perceived that they were uneducated i mean uneducated and untrained men who can't pronounce words they marveled and they realized that they had been with jesus there's a there's something on you doesn't matter who you are you're with your background or there's something on you that sets you apart when you've been with jesus that's called the anointing right is the residue of his presence see prayer here's here's why we pray some people see prayers well i got to do it because jesus said he'll be mad at me if i don't do it you know it's wrong motivation for prayer some people see prayer as is this list of things i've got to ask for if i don't ask it won't happen so i've got to ask because i want these things happen wrong motivation for prayer prayer is simply being with jesus so that he gives you the supply of the holy spirit for you to do life the longer i walk with jesus the longer i'm in ministry the more i realize i'm incompetent without him seriously have you noticed when you pray in the morning your day just goes better is that because the lord rewarded you maybe i believe it's because you carried something by being in his presence the anointing breaks the yoke the supply of the holy spirit i mean imagine if you spend 30 minutes with the god of all faith don't you think you're going to breathe in his faith the god of all wisdom you're going to breathe in his wisdom right so all of a sudden you go through a situation in life and wisdom comes to you how did that happen you were with the god of wisdom that morning when you have faith for a situation either come to you or the god you were the god of all faith that morning it comes to you it's the supply of the holy spirit there's a residue that is on you because you've been with him last point if you're going to walk in courage you must take the next step of faith you must take the next next step effect now i love this this is hilarious we're going to land the plane here exodus 14 11 this is what the people said then they said to moses because there were no graves in egypt you brought us here to die we told you it was better for us to die in the wilderness as slaves that's what the people said all right so in in translation from the hebrew this is really what they said what you all got that that's a direct translation from the hebrew okay so did a lot of study on that so then here's what moses said okay moses said this and moses said to the people do not be afraid stand still see the salvation of the lord which he will accomplish for you today for the egyptians whom you see today you will see again no more forever so he got all excited gave them a great motivational message come on how many like that kind of i could just imagine it's like a jensen franklin style preaching we're gonna do it i just i thought of that because somebody at 7 30 this morning sent me a picture of them and jensen franklin they were at their church this morning and i'm like they said that was still their favorite pastor though he was only number two i just want to hope that in jensen if you're watching all right so uh like invite them to come invite them to come all right so anyway so he gets up there's this great message you'll see them no more the lord will fight for you and then you would expect now god's turn to speak like i could just imagine after that message god's like what moses said now what moses said but here's how god responds verse 13. verse 15. and the lord said to moses why do you cry to me like just hush it tell the children of israel to go forward in other words i already told you guys what to do just do it just do it just do it now there's this language on the planet i don't know if you know about it it's not tongues or the tongue of angels there is this language on the planet called christianese have you heard of it it's called christianese so i'll translate it for you in case some of you don't know how to speak christianity so there's this phrase in christianese when um you know god speaks to somebody and says hey this is what i called you to do i want you to do this and then you ask them hey what's going on with that then they say i'm praying about it okay so in english that means we're praying about it but in christianity it means i'm stalling because i don't want to do it it got quiet all of a sudden what happened it's called christianese or let me give you another example of that like uh hey we would love for you to serve in this area of ministry it could make a difference let me pray about it which means translated into english i don't want to do it but i don't want to tell you that so i'm just going to stall you by saying i'm going to pray about it they got even more quiet pastor alex i don't know why pastor alex told me to say it [Laughter] and pastor elena and rippon told me to say it because she's very pregnant she's feisty so she told me say that anyway so now here's the thing yes we do pray about things did you know a majority of things i instantly know if it's the lord or not because it'll bear witness or it'll be like no that was that pizza that wasn't the lord but then there are other things so i'm like i'm not so sure about that let me pray i usually pray a few days and the lord will give you some sort of direction right but the people who've been praying about something for like months and a year about what god told them to do that's not praying about it that's walking in disobedience which is positioning you for enslavement and mediocrity i just thought i'd be kind of secret friendly today and be nice but come on it's time to be people of courage and just do what god has called us to do and listen i'm not talking to any of you i'm talking to myself when there are times i'm not i want to step out and do what god what i believe god wants me to do really the bottom line is i don't trust god i don't trust god and if i don't trust god it's not a problem with his trustworthiness as a problem with me stepping out so here's the next step that you are to take it's the last step that god has showed you right some people say well god hasn't spoken to me in a long time well what was the last thing he told you to do do what the last thing he told you to do he'll give you the next step yeah but could i see the next 10 steps and then here here's the excuse we use well you know i have the kind of personality where i'm very organized so i need all the details so i need to know exactly the outcome and from a to b to c to d you know that's just how i work well that's not how god works he shows you the next step and as soon as you do the next step god will show you the next step that's why jesus said give us this they are daily bread not weekly bread not monthly bread our daily bread because he knows if we had monthly bread we only he only see us once a month right daily bread no but really have you thought about why he wants us to pray for daily bread because he loves that sense of dependence on him the sense of faith that we just step out and believe but here's the bottom line as the worship team comes we just have to have a yes in our heart before god even says anything there's already a s in our heart jesus if you said it the answer is already yes no matter what the answer is yes how many know he is good beyond comprehension he is loving beyond comprehension anything he calls us to do is for our good it's far good you know um why don't you go ahead and stand a couple weeks ago or so i was when i was with che in pasadena one of the speakers that was at that meeting was um pastor and andrew brunson you all remember him he was imprisoned in turkey for two years you know what his crime was he had lived there for 23 years his crime was preaching the gospel they made it up that he was a spy he was just a missionary for 23 years he gave 23 years of his life to a nation that imprisons him they didn't only imprison him for two years they put him in solitary confinement he was losing his mind he said that first year he totally lost everything he lost his mind he broke down he told the lord that he didn't want to serve him anymore he would walk away from everything if you just see his family again he said he had to break down the first year and then god built him up the second year but that first year in some of his darkest moments his mom comes to visit him in prison and this just rocked me there's a lot of smoke in the air from the fire so if something happens that's what it is she comes to visit him in prison at his one of his darkest moments and he's just telling her about how awful it is and and he just wants to throw on the towel and give it up give it all up and she says andrew throughout history many people have suffered for jesus get online it's your turn get online it's your turn see in america we we talk about the blessings of serving of jesus but there's a suffering that goes with serving jesus also i know it's not an exciting hollering waving the hanky message when you ever say suffering for jesus but but it deals with the heart issues of our life i caught myself quoting that verse i want to know in the power of his resurrection that would stop there and i knew very well what the next part of that verse was and the fellowship of his suffering and being conformed to his likeness if i want the power of his resurrection i will have to go through the fellowship of his suffering being conformed to his likeness you know what i've found about that christian life the glory and the suffering they're always together right you go through great times you go through suffering times but that's the package i am willing to suffer for him come on are you willing to suffer for him if i want to be glorified with him then i'm willing to suffer for him you know the early church they would leave happy and glad when they were beaten for preaching the gospel because they were found worthy to suffer for him so in america we have to preach messages to encourage people to just have courage but come on god is raising up a new breed a new generation a new breed of believers in america now this is this is common in other nations but in america that says we will be bold we will be courageous and we will suffer if we need to suffer if we will be counted worthy to suffer for him so that his power the power is his resurrection will be known upon the earth and upon our nation come on upon california come on it's going to take the church to stand up for god to move in california so god we thank you holy spirit we say yes there's a yes in our heart this morning god there's a yes in our heart this morning come on if you're here this morning and and if you say yes to jesus you've not given your life to jesus you've not surrendered your life to him come on this morning just simply say yes let there be a yes in your heart say oh pastor how do i say yes just say yes say jesus i say yes to you forgive me of my sins i make you the lord of my life you say that's all it takes that's all it takes that's all it takes at the end of the service in the back at the banner says i'll raise my hand there'll be somebody there just go by and just say i i gave my life to jesus this morning we got something we want to give you i want to pray with you those of you watching and ripping right now your campus pastors are coming up they're going to lead you in prayer but come on let this morning be our yes i want to close the service a little bit different this morning let's do it this way i just feel like we got to have a call we got to have a call to a yes we have a call to a yes is there a yes in your heart to say yes to whatever jesus calls you to do is there a yes in your heart to suffer for him is there a yes to answer the call no matter the price is there a yes in your heart come on if there is just as a show of your outward you know saying yes as we worship right now come on we're gonna worship just come on flood these altars come on let's just flood these altars let's just say yes to the lord you're not saying yes to me we're saying yes to the lord [Music] is [Music] [Music] this way [Music] come on we're gonna i'm gonna ask pastor alex to pray i know there's there's enrollments of the places but even if you're standing there and you're meant to come there's just no room just lift your hands if you're saying yes to the lord just lift your hands all across this room come on we call this a prayer dedication we call this a prayer of something i don't know what else we call it just feel that there's a boldness the book of acts talks about how after they were beaten they prayed to god and asked for more boldness even after going through the suffering you would think of all things they would ask god to deliver them from those opportunities for to suffer more but they had such an encouragement in their spirit that they were counted worthy enough to suffer for this jesus they asked god for more boldness to preach more boldness to live more boldness to carry out the mission that god had given them to carry out and this morning as pastor ron preached about living with courage i sense the spirit wanting to fill you with newfound courage a newfound boldness that whether through your family or in your schools or on your job or out in the public in your community there's a newfound sense of urgency that comes over you so that you can live this thing you can live the gospel you can share without fear of any worry of opinion of men you just want to please god so as you've stepped out in faith as you've given god your yes as a statement of that physically outward expressing by coming forward with hands raised you're asking god to fill you and grant you all boldness so you can share about the king of kings and lord of lords so i'm just going to declare some things over you and i believe god is going to give you opportunities this week and in the weeks to come to live for him in a new level that you've never experienced that you would go from a place going from glory to glory so that you can fellowship in his suffering so that you can experience the power of his resurrection father i thank you for your children that have said yes to go to the next level that have said yes to live courageously to live with boldness i ask that you give them opportunities to preach give them opportunities to speak give them opportunities to share give them opportunities to lay hands on the sick and watch them recover give them opportunities even raise the dead give them opportunities to cleanse the lepers give them opportunities to preach the gospel unto the poor give them opportunities to be revival i asked for an increase of boldness that you would strip away all the identity of man strip away all the fear of the opinions of men strip away anything other than just wanting to please you the one true god i ask for the spirit of boldness the spirit of courageous god says have i not commanded you to go fear not fear not for i have commanded you to go i am with you i'm gonna cause all that you put your hands to to bring to success in jesus name if you believe that this morning give god a mighty shout of praise hallelujah [Applause] [Music] you

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Length: 51min 24sec (3084 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 10 2021