Pastor Oneka McClellan // Faith For Your Future

hi church how are you are you having a good morning or a good evening are you snuggled in are you watching with your friends are you watching in your neighborhood gathering are you watching in your home gathering wherever you find yourself or you could be on a jog i just want you to know i'm so glad you're at church today because i have a word on my heart and i'm so excited to share it with each and every one of you something that is hilarious between earl and i we both love seeing purpose and potential in people even when they're at their lowest worst point for whatever reason god has given us these love goggles so that no matter what season you find yourself in we see you in your next season and we can see past whatever weight or storm is holding you back and the same thing is true for me when it even comes to homes i love looking at old homes and i love driving around and looking at homes that have character and i love walking into those homes and seeing what could be you know sometimes a house can look really run down and people just drive by it but if you have the right eyes if you have the right vision you can imagine what would that look like with everything painted white what would it look like with a glass clear door what would it look like if i ripped up these linoleum floors and stained the concrete or did hardwood floors what would it look like if i changed out the cabinets and put in fresh new knobs and light fixtures how many people love fixer-uppers say it in the chats how many people love making houses beautiful and taking them from one place to another earl on the other hand he likes brand new new builds no work because he got burned when we were newlyweds we bought this house that had a lot of potential what we thought was a weekend project ended up getting our whole family sick because of the fumes we had to move out of our house we are not fix it people and from that moment on earl has been scarred and so anything that needs tlc he's like bye i don't have time for that but something that all of us have in common in 2020 2020 bless pour it out pour it out for the homies we have all felt like at times where our house has just been demolished when every room needs to be refurbished remodeled stripped renovated some of you have been living your best life in 2020 and you're thinking i don't know what everybody's talking about things have been good for me i've been getting promotions favor doing all the great things and we celebrate that and we're happy for you but that is not my testimony 2020 has been real and for many of us we look at our situation or we look at our houses our proverbial houses and we think god can you possibly work with this god can you possibly see something different than what's staring me right in the face god i need fresh vision god i need fresh insight but i'm tired i'm tired i'm tired of the weight of this world i'm tired of all the negativity i'm tired of the disunity i'm tired of people not coming together i'm just tired and i'm looking at my situation and it feels helpless and hopeless well as i was praying god gave me a word for myself and for all of you and it is faith for your future faith for your future faith for your future and i'm believing that today that my heart is going to be stirred that your heart's going to be stirred and that you're going to have faith as you step into this next season and that you're going to see things like with freshness you're going to see your marriage and say you know what right now my husband is getting on my nerves but god i ask that you give me faith to see past this current situation right now my children are keeping me up all night because they're arguing and they're fighting and they're tired of being on zoom in virtual classrooms and they're just chaotic my house is not peaceful god give me fresh eyes i'm praying that right now if your business and you don't have the sales that you're trusting for that by the time we're done with this message that you're going to be encouraged and inspired to keep crushing it and that you're going to have fresh faith fresh hope for breakthrough for your family for your life for your business for your mind for your health and for your body because guess what not having faith being discouraged filled with doubt and filled with fear it isn't helping us anyways it's not getting us anywhere so we might as well change our posture we might as well have faith for our future say it in the chat faith for my future write it on your mirror faith for my future put it in your phone faith for my future faith for the future however you want a word it whatever will help you remember it but we all need faith for our future here's the deal 2020 is trying to make us lose our faith 2020 trying to rob us trying to just take everything but guess what we're going to stand up we're not going to be bullied by all the stress of this world we're not going to be bullied by this pandemic we're not going to be bullied by who's going to be in office we're going to have faith and put our hope and our trust in jesus christ because on christ's solid rock we stand all other ground is sinking sand here's the deal what's so funny is anytime i get ready for a message i get excited at first because i'm like yes god faith for our future faith for our future my nose is running which is so funny tmi but this building is very cold and earl makes fun of me and everyone's always like why is the building so cold and always wants to wear this big heavy coat anytime he's in the building and his nose runs and now i feel you honey i see you because my nose feels like it's i'm gonna just touch it a little okay i think it's okay faith for my future just keeping it real we're family here yep the building's cold my nose is running but that's okay but like i said as i was preparing and as i was studying when god first gave me the title it dropped in my spirit faith for your future faith for my future i'm like yes let's go 2020 is not getting the best of me i want faith give me the gift of faith stir up the faith on the inside of me and literally as i was texting as i was studying i got a text message because we're planning to gather together as a church church has always been open but we're gathering in a bigger group coming up soon and of course here in dallas the threat level changes or there there's different color codes if you live in dallas and it changed the color changed which means we just have to be extra careful so i thought oh here i am studying about faith how am i going to respond i'm going to think oh we must have missed it maybe we shouldn't get together maybe we maybe this is never gonna change maybe every time we try to open we're gonna have to close and open and close and all of a sudden i felt these thoughts flooding my mind this discouragement and this doubt and i was like ah i'm speaking on faith how am i going to proceed in this moment am i going to trust god that he has this church that he has every single family because at the end of the day we miss being together in the larger setting we love these home gatherings these neighborhood gatherings are incredible but many of you are hurting many of us are hurting because we haven't been able to be together in a larger gathering so we were so we are so excited to come together but of course life happens so we're still coming together we're going to play it safe when we're on mass we're going to do our distancing and all the things and we're going to trust god but at the end of the day even when you make a plan sometimes this life happens and you have to decide how am i going to respond so even as i've been preparing this message my faith has been tested so tested so stretched i mean it's even faith right now that i'm talking with all of y'all literally on the way here i was ready to say earl you got this one i'm throwing you the ball because i'm being tested my faith is being tested and stretched but i'm trusting it even as i'm speaking to you i'm speaking to myself and i'm believing that the spirit of god is gonna rise up on the inside of me and then i'm gonna decrease so that god would increase in that my words would not be the thing that changes your life but that jesus christ would meet you at your home meet you in your car meet you on your job and your faith would be stirred and lifted hebrews now faith is this is what faith is faith shows the reality listen to this hebrews 11 1 faith shows the reality of what we hope for it is the evidence of things we cannot see the evidence of things we cannot see i think about evidence we have a little girl her name is ellen she's five years old and she's a trouble telling the truth she's a christian but she's kind of on her way to being a fully devoted follower of christ she's she's on the journey um we've asked her the other day because her behavior sometimes is con it conflicts us we're wondering is she christian because she's a little gangster but she said she accepted jesus into her heart so we're going with it but sometimes her actions don't line up and so sometimes she doesn't tell the whole truth or the whole story but there's evidence when she's not telling the truth because i can tell when her lips are all red and she said she didn't have a lollipop i see the evidence that she had a lollipop so faith is shows the reality of what we hope for but is the evidence of things we cannot see the evidence of things we cannot see and right now our world is trying to bully us is trying to threaten us it's trying to throw every single distraction in front of us to make us focus on that thing but there's something beyond what's in front of us there's hope there's joy there's love there's peace there's provision but we have to ask god to give us eyes of faith so we can see past what's trying to bully us and what's trying to tear us down faith comprehends this fact listen to this faith comprehenses fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses i'm going to say it again for the people in the back faith comprehends is fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses isn't that good it comprehends its fact what can't be seen so that that's maturity that's emotional intelligence to approach life that way because faith is not fear faith is looking beyond your circumstance it's not being weird sometimes people make faith weird where they think you're just out of the blue not you know not doing the best that you can but just telling yourself you know what a job is coming but you're not looking for a job you're not texting people asking for a job you're not getting on all the things i haven't looked for a job in a minute but i don't know do you still use linkedin do you still use monster i don't know but that's so old right but however you find jobs these days it's one thing to say i have faith that i'm getting a job but i'm not doing anything about it that's not what i'm talking about when i talk about faith i remember was in college i went to a christian school that was it was amazing i met some of my best friends i met earl there so i will never regret that decision i met some of my best friends there but some of the people there would be a little extra extra with faith you know the people that just take it to the you know they just take it to the hilt to the tilt they just take it too far where there's they have the flu and they're like i'm healed but you're like wait you need a care package right now you you need some soup you need some hot tea with some honey and some lemon and i'm going to pray for you but you got the flu so it's okay to acknowledge reality but what faith does is you acknowledge reality but you see past and you welcome the future with hope you welcome the future with joy you don't just stay there does that make sense you with me but faith is awesome and sometimes it gets a bad rap by people who are a little extra extra but here's the deal i love this faith is not fear and faith is approaching a situation you go to the doctors boys going to the doctors changed now you know we all wear our mask it's just different everyone's a little bit more on edge because of all that we're facing but many of us go to the doctor you get a bad report so faith is not faith is not lying about the report that you got faith is saying you know what i see what's on this paper but i also see what's in scripture and i'm going to believe god with every fiber in my being that by his stripes i am healed faith is being told that your child has a learning disability and faith is not ignoring that report that you got from the teacher faith is saying i'll do the hard work i'll do the tutoring i'll surround and equip my child but it's also why your child is sleeping walking past the bedroom and saying father god i thank you that my son or daughter has the mind of christ i think that the best days are ahead i think if there's no limit on my child i thank you that there's no ceiling on my child faith is not watching the bachelor over and over again thinking i'm never going to be married i'm never going to get a rose that's never going to be my testimony faith is still you know no judgment do your bachelor do your thing but don't let that cause you to get into a place where you think that's not gonna i'm never gonna fall in love faith is saying even though i've been single for a minute i'm not gonna let that challenge myself self-worth i'm not going to be plagued with fear that i'll be lonely by myself faith is saying even in my present i'm alone right now but i'm calling down heaven for a fine 6-2 caramel man with biceps who loves jesus who loves the word of god who prays that's what i did for real true story i literally back in the day we used to have this thing at our church called intercessory prayer and that's old school i don't know how many knows about intercessory prayer but intercessory prayers when you pray it's when the saints pray it's when you pray when when it's early it's at a random time six in the morning sometimes you just go and i would go to inner church where i was single i decided you know what i've been dating all these people that just do not have my best interest in mine i'm gonna just this is for somebody right now this is for my single sisters my single brothers right now first of all don't settle god has your very best for you and i'm praying that this is going to stir up your faith to stop settling so i just got to this point i'm not settling anymore i'm surrendering my singleness to jesus i'm going to date jesus i'm going to do this but i'm going to trust god my circumstances say i'm not dating right now but i have faith that god's gonna bring someone into my life so i marched myself up to that church i got down on my knees at intercessory prayer and i started praying for my spouse that i did not even know yet and boom years later i met him but i had to have faith i had to fake that god was going to meet me where i was at and he did so whatever you're facing faith is acknowledging the reality but it's also saying god give me a supernatural lens helped me to see past my situation so many of us are staying in our current situation and we're filled with fear we're filled with depression we're filled with not stepping out of the boat because we're just locked in our current situation but we have to see past what's in front of us but it only happens when we ask god to help us see that it doesn't happen on your own you have to say god help me to approach the situation with faith give me some evidence because right now i don't see any evidence i don't see any clues the bills keep coming i still don't have a job my husband and i still keep arguing i'm still not getting the grades i want in school i still have this addiction god give me some evidence to know that you've got my back but stop being stop being downcast and say god give me some faith give me some hope and he will faith is not waiting to put jesus on the throne of your heart until your desired person becomes president that is not faith that is foolishness god is not moved by who's in office he can move no matter who's in office and even though we're passionate like if so and so gets in office this world is gonna get better they're gonna handle everything or if so and so stays in office everything's gonna be okay here's the deal god is bigger than all of that say all of that somebody need to hear that because we have taken earl's been saying this pretty much during the whole pandemic and it finally clicked that we just need to be reminded so i'm going to echo what he's been saying so beautifully that jesus is bigger than whoever is in office yes we're going to vote yes we're going to be responsible yes we all have our opinions and our differences and that's okay but we cannot lose faith and lose hope if the outcome is not what we hoped it to be do you think that all of a sudden jesus is gone because the person that we wanted to be in the white house is in the white house he is bigger than even that that's just mine you know i've i've gotten discouraged at times this this whole covet season just like you and i've had moments where i've had to remember that god is in charge because sometimes the circumstances that are in front of us seem like they're more in charge than god but god is still on the throne he is still faithful he is still able he's still almighty he is still powerful even when it feels like all hell is breaking loose that was for somebody i don't know who that was for but it was for somebody we've all had situations i know me personally where i've stepped into a situation with faith with boldness and with conviction and i've had other situations where i've shrunk back but i'm deciding right now just like i want you to decide right now no more shrinking back i'm going to step in confidence i'm going to step in boldness and i'm going to trust god that he's going to meet me there my situation may not have changed yet but god give me faith give me hope give me peace give me perseverance your family member might not be responding the way you want them to god help me to see past the situation that seems impossible and give me the faith to keep going i feel like if something clicks in each of us today if something shifts we will have the endurance that we need to continue on this journey because it is we are not guaranteed that boom in an instant life is just going to change and go back to how we know it it could be a minute before life goes back to exactly how we remember it so how are we going to respond are we going to give up are we going to say god enough is enough i need some faith i need you to stir up the gift of faith on the inside of me i want to look at my situation with fresh eyes with fresh lenses my perspective has been off would you renew my mind would you strengthen my heart would you stir my face would you activate it so that i can see with eyes of hope i can step into situations that are weighed down with fear and that faith will rise up on the inside of me and i will pray bold prayers i will read my bible by faith i will show up in connect groups by faith i will go to that neighborhood gathering by faith i will pray for my spouse who is not yet a christian by faith i will walk by my teenager's room who's acting crazy and i'll say god you have my son you have my daughter you have a plan and purpose but for their life by faith i will drive past that house that i'm believing god for one day while i'm in my little one bedroom apartment one bath i know that one day i've been faithful i've been giving i've been serving i've been loving it is not my lot to stay in this one bedroom house one day i know that i'm gonna have a house but until then i'm gonna use this house and have the best connect groups in the future i'm going to have the best neighborhood gatherings i'm going to get everyone that i know that's in my apartment to come to engage in church online to engage in church i'm going to open up my patio i'm going to do whatever it takes to make the best out of this situation but that happens by faith by faith i got three things for you to remember today number one this thing is real this faith that i'm talking about it is real some of you know my story some of you do not know my story but i'll never forget this young girl who i was a young girl working at a clothing store who over and over again would invite me to church and i just want to tell you that it was that invitation to church that changed my life i am completely transformed i'm a different person than i was before i gave my life to christ so i'm here to tell you that this thing is real that jesus is real that he can take your situation he can change it he can transform it he can rearrange it's a miracle that i have a strong marriage it's a miracle neither or myself grew up in a home with a husband and wife and children that did bedtime routines and made s'mores and sang songs and had dress-up nights we didn't see any of that growing up but god is a good god and he is faithful and he is real we've stayed planted in god's house we stayed consistent we stayed persistent and now we have a family that we are so thankful that we have in a marriage that we're so thankful that we have but it is was by faith it was by faith that we've always showed up at church it's by faith that we always gave even we didn't have enough money it was by faith that we adopted two out of our three children it was by faith that our serve team keeps serving even during a pandemic it's by faith that many of you are at a neighborhood gathering it's by faith that the team that's here making this service possible it is by faith this kind of church that we are shoreline city we are by faith church you've been adopted you've been reminded that it is by faith all the things that we see it's by faith none of us just like show up every day singing hymns and psalms and singing a new song to the lord we live a real life just like you live but when you say god i put my trust in you i put my hope in you thank you that i not have the spirit of fear but of power love and a sound mind it is by faith say by faith in the chat say god my future is yours give me faith this thing is real this love that god has for you it is real the transforming power of jesus is real this is real this is not make believe it's real people that show up here every wednesday and pray for you it's real people that when you text 97 000 that pray for you it is real people this thing is real number two it's worth it remember that this thing is real it's worth it and it's not about you this thing is real it's worth it and it's not about you the inconveniences that we've all all had in this season we're gonna look back and go it was worth it it was worth it that we had to be innovative in the way that we do church it was worth it that i'm in those chats right now loving on people it is worth it that i'm setting the table for people to come to my neighborhood gathering i don't even know if they're going to show up but by faith i'm going to set the table but you're going to look back and you're going to get to pray with someone and you're gonna hear a story years from now and you're gonna go you know what i got up a little earlier but it was worth it i came to church to take photos that people were looking at five ten years from now it was worth it i got behind a camera to tell the gospel of jesus christ it was worth it i sang a song on a day that i didn't have the energy it was worth it this thing is real and it is worth it and i've had to remind myself that just like you're reminding yourself this very minute all throughout this season i've had to remind myself that it is worth it because we all have moments when it doesn't feel like the cost is worth it but god reminded me it is worth it the other thing it's not about you it's not about your preferences it's not about my preferences it's not about being convenient it's not about things going our way there's other people on the other side of our faithfulness there's other people on the other side of us not giving up it's not about us it's about the next person on the other side of our obedience it's about the other people that are watching how we respond when the storm hits so i want us to remember that put this in the chat this thing is real it's worth it and it's not about you second corinthians 4 17-18 for our present troubles are small and won't last very long this just shapes all of 2020 and just puts it right into perspective for our present troubles are small and won't last very long yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever so we don't look at the troubles we can see now we don't look at the bills that we can't pay we don't look at the time that we lost our temper we don't look at are we going to go back into shelter in place or is life going to go back to normal let's listen to this so we don't look at the troubles we can see now but rather the whole point of our time together today we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen for the things we see now do we have toilet paper do we don't have toilet paper do i need to wipe down things with anti-back do i not need to wipe down things with anti-back for the things we see now will soon be gone but the things we cannot see will last forever and what's so powerful about that scripture is when paul was writing that i love how he said our present troubles are small here's the deal you need to know a little bit about the author for him to say his present troubles were small he was fighting for his life every single day every single day he was fighting for his life someone was wanting to kill him basically almost every day of his life but he put it in perspective listen to this scripture listen to him talking this is someone talking who is persecuted this is someone talking who risked it all and he said it produces for us a glory that far outweighs them all man fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen so if you're seeing darkness right now god fix my gaze on you if you're seeing sickness right now god fix my gaze on you if you're seeing frustration right now god fix my gaze on you whatever is in front of you that's trying to stand between you and god say move it out of the way and say god i fix my eyes on you it's storming all around me but i'm locked in with you i fix my gaze on you i have peace even though there's a storm even when i should be fearful right now i'm saying that god has not given me a spirit of fear but of power love and a sound mind i think about some of the strong women in our church and when i read this line about our present troubles are small and won't last very long i just sometimes you're going to think about somebody who just has a little more spiritual abs than you do a little more biceps than you do because they've had to do some heavier lifting i think about jennifer mascara she's an amazing mama in this house and i think about how sometimes in this season if we haven't been able to go to the park with elle because it's been closed and at the moment it feels like the end of the world because we wanted to get to go to the park but i think about my friend jennifer mascara who is faithful who is faith-filled who is a woman of peace a woman of strength who just stands with this stature but when she thinks about taking her little girl to the park she has to make sure that it's a place where her daughter can play because her daughter has special needs and so me being frustrated when the park is closed for l that's small compared to what my sister jennifer has to think about she doesn't have as many parks to choose from that i get to choose from and even though my situation in that moment is frustrating sometimes you have to call someone who's been through a little more hell than you've been through to remind you that you're going to be okay sometimes you have to call someone whose marriage made it through an affair to know that your marriage is gonna be okay sometimes you have to call someone who slayed pornography to know that you're gonna get through pornography sometimes you have to call someone who had to go to a clinic for their eating disorder because it was that bad you need to hear their story to be encouraged that you're not going to be throwing up the rest of your life sometimes you got to get with someone who's lived a little more bleep than you have to remind yourself that my god is able that my god is powerful that my situation may look like it's not ever going to change but i'm going to talk to jesus and i'm going to talk to someone who's already fought this and i'm going to get hope i'm going to get faith and i'm going to get encouraged sometimes you need someone to put your situation in perspective this thing is real it's worth it and here's the thing it's not about us it's about him i got a couple more scriptures for you lamentations three lamentations three is a story it's a song it's basically about grief and it comes from the word lament there was a war i'm going to read this to you chapter 3 in lamentations it's a personal lament an expression of the pain that an individual experiences in the context of a national disaster pretty much 2020 i was reading lamentations last night and i was like oh this chapter three just basically sums up 2020. but the amazing thing is it starts off heavy but then you can see that it changes at the end this year has been heavy but we are going to have faith as a community that it is going to change it's going to get better we're going to look past we're going to look for the evidence and we're going to say god i trust you here we go verse 17 peace has been stripped away and i have forgotten what prosperity is verse 18 i cry out my splendor is gone okay i'm going to tell you something a little light before it gets heavy verse 20 right here verse 18 i cry out my splendor is gone 2020 when the new year came i was like this is my year this is my year of self-care and i literally knighted 2020 my year of self-care when i was gonna get everything just right like right right i was gonna get some abs i was gonna get some definition in my calves and my muscles i was just gonna work on my spiritual body and my physical body i was gonna take care of some lung overdue dental work just keeping it real 2020 was about to be mine i was gonna dominate it and when i read lamentations and it said i cry out my splendor is gone y'all it's gone my sparkle is gone had to put some makeup on this to sparkle a little for y'all today cause this author right here just painted it so clearly how many of us feel many of us feel like my splendor is gone just it's gone everything i hope for from the lord is lost verse 20. this is when the song changes a little bit you know when you're listening to a song and it just changes a little bit you think it's going one direction you watch a movie and all of a sudden there's a plot twist i just want you to know that 2020 there's a plot twist there's a plot twist there's a plot twist verse 20 i never forget this awful time as i grieve over my loss and many of us have lost many things during this season many of us verse 21 yet everybody say yet say yet in the chat say yet to yourself yeah i still dare to hope dare to hope i dare you to hope yet i still dare to hope when i remember the faithful love of god never ends his mercies never cease verse 21 yet i still dare to hope when i remember that god is faithful i still dare to hope that he brought me from a single home with a single mom who did her very best i still dare to hope that i know that there will be a day that they'll be shoreline cities all over the world i still dare to hope that this pandemic is not going to hold back the church i still dare to hope that your marriage will be restored the true mind will be renewed sometimes you got to talk to yourself and you got to dare to hope again i dare you to hope again put it in the chats i dare you to hope again so good verse 22 the faithful love of the lord never ends his mercies never cease and when the author there was writing mercies mercy right there actually means a womb like a mother's womb god is carrying you in his womb of love he is surrounding your situation but just like a mother nurtures and carries a baby in her womb that mercy right there he is carrying you in his womb think about the nutrition and the care that a mom gives to a newborn or a baby when she's carrying it that is the same type of love and compassion that god is carrying you through in this season great is his faithfulness verse 23 his mercies are afresh each morning sometimes we got to say god i need a fresh mercy for this day of fresh mercy not old mercy not let's years mercy but i need fresh mercy i say to myself i need you to say it to yourself turn me up in the speaker so i can hear myself i need to say to myself the lord is my hair inheritance therefore i put my hope in him the lord is my inheritance i put my marriage in him the lord is my inheritance i put my mind in him the lord is my inheritance i trust my kids with him i put my hope in god i put my hope in jesus christ as we prepare to end our time together i gotta read just one more scripture hebrews 11 13. they did not this is this old school kind of faith i'm going to end with some of the original gangsters of faith some people didn't have air conditioning some people that didn't have the internet that did not have phones that did not have cards some people that didn't get what was promised some people that still believed god that looked opposition in the face and said if i die i die i'm gonna serve him no matter what we're gonna call on the old school faith the faith of our forefathers the faith of the shoulders that we're standing on today hebrews 11 13. they did not read this is old school everybody say old school faith they did not receive what was promised they didn't get the car they didn't get the spouse they didn't get the breakthrough but they saw it all from a distance and welcomed it when i read that i felt something prophetic come over me and i feel like something prophetic is coming over you right now and as the team continues to play with me i want you to welcome something into your future because many of us are standing on blessings of people that welcomed it i'm preaching this message today from other women who preach when women couldn't even preach i'm preaching this woman to a multicultural diverse church there used to be a day when people would walk the floors and say i see a day when black white hispanic asian would come together and worship the king of kings and the lord of lords but they had to welcome it they had to welcome it when they couldn't see it when it was impossible when they were black only white only signs they had to welcome what we're walking into today they weren't moved by who was in office they were moved by what they couldn't see and they had to welcome it they had to call it in what do you need to welcome for the next generation what do you need to welcome in the future what do you need to welcome in your family what do you need to welcome into your sister's family and your brother's family what do we need to welcome in the united states and around the world we need to welcome peace we need to welcome joy we need to welcome praise we need a welcome revival and even if we don't see it in our lifetime we're calling it in for our children's children because we're standing on the word of god and we're stirring up our faith our hope our trust it's not about us it's not about me it's about the name of jesus about the cross that he was being long about the blood that was shed and we're gonna preach this gospel and we're gonna declare his glory breakthrough miracles victory in jesus name let's give him praise [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] jesus has given me hey jesus [Applause] [Music] everybody [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is how incredibly powerful and life-giving was that message from pastor omika mcclellan wow my heart is incredibly encouraged hey lyndon come over here can i can i talk to london again [Music] for us to be able to have a moment like that for us to hear a message from god's heart to our heart it's imperative that we don't just let it go in one ear and out another i'm going to say something that might seem a little bit aggressive for some of you but jesus teaches this in mark chapter four he says whenever the word is sown whenever the the word of god the truth of god's word is put into your heart and mine the enemy tries to come and steal that seed tries to steal what was just spoken i need you to know do not be surprised that if later today some conversation some tweet something you see on the news tries to steal the seed of faith that was just put on the inside of you you have to protect that you have to protect it so you have to guard what you let into your ears you have to guard what you let out of your mouth because what god just spoke to us today was for this moment and it was for your life and mine you go ahead and read mark chapter four we're believing that a harvest is going to be produced some 30 and some 60 and some 100 fold and we'll be welcoming right now things that we haven't even seen yet maybe right now you're not a follower of jesus if you're honest with yourself right now you'd say man i i kind of believe in god but i've never really taken that step to surrender my life to him i want to give you this moment to surrender your heart and your life to christ whether you're by yourself or you're in a room filled with other people we want to give you a moment to respond and say jesus i don't want to go my own way it's not about me it's about you so i'm going to ask everyone everyone in this room and everyone that's watching right now would you put your hand over your heart right now would you put your hand over your heart and i'm going to lead you in a prayer and it's like you're saying vows to god the cross and the empty grave is him already saying vows to you you're just responding to his grace and surrendering your life to him say after me say dear jesus i ask you to forgive me of all my sins i admit i've made mistakes and today i give you my heart i give you my life give me the power to live for you in jesus name amen and amen hey can we clap our hands with enthusiasm right now we celebrate this moment in your life we celebrate this moment of transformation if you gave your heart to christ for the first time or you just rededicated your life to serving him we'd love to know would you text jesus first to 97 000 takes jesus first to 97 000 and i also want to remind everyone of the wonderful opportunity we have to keep on being generous as a church family let's not stop putting god first whether you give it on the app or you're giving online hey let's get this message all around the entire globe let's see the earth filled with the hope and the life that is found in jesus christ and if you're ready to join shoreline city you're ready to make it your home church we've got growth track you can go on sundays at 11 30 central standard time or wednesdays 8 p.m central standard time we would love for you to be a part of this family

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Length: 42min 15sec (2535 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 18 2020