Hey, Mom. Hey, Mom. Hey, Mom.
Hey, Mom. Hey, Mommy. Today is such an honor to
celebrate Mother's Day, especially for you, Mommy. I have been loving you for a lot
of centuries and this is why I made a video just for you. Mom, you crush it. What?
You. You crush it. You crush it. You are so beautiful. You are very beautiful. You are so beautiful and
strong. You are so beautiful and you
are the best. You make me laugh a lot. You make me young. Thanks for making me laugh,
Mom. Mom, you are so silly. We love you so much. I love you Mom. I love you Mommy. Happy Mother's Day. Happy Mother's Day. Happy Mother's Day. Happy Mother's Day. Happy Mother's Day. Do you want to transform your
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more information on these opportunities. [Applause] Happy Mother's Day everyone,
how is everyone doing today? Amen. This is my little sister,
Margaret, she does all the interior design on all campuses
and around the county. And she's the young lady that I
told you that I saved when drowning in the pool and I
yanked her out on top of the water. Can you verify? [Inaudible] I propose that Father's Day you
invite me so I can tell how I saved your life. But I need 15 minutes. How about that, how about that. I don't remember that you
saved me life. When did you save my life? We will talk about that
later. Okay, can we have all the
moms on all campuses stand up. Amen. [Applause] Look at all the moms, come on. Amen. And before they sit down. If y'all can give the moms
around you high-fives as they sit down, give them high-fives. Amen. So my sister wanted to share
something with you. About a gift that you hopefully
got when you came in. Yes. We created this little bookmark
because our mom passed about a year and a half ago and we
wanted to share her heart to you guys. And two of her favorite prayers
that she would recite because there was five of us, make every
effort to make peace in everyone. And take the delight in the Lord
and he will give you the desires of his heart. And we wanted to share our mom
and hope you are blessed and have an awesome Mother's Day. Did you get that ladies? Very good, our mom was a peace
maker and 4'11" and had five kids in six years and our father
was the sixth child. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Happy Mother's Day, happy
Mother's Day. Can y'all say hello to all the
moms up here. Say hello. We will hear from them in a
minute. Get your Bibles out and read
something to you, on the count of three say word. One. Two. Three. Say word. Very good. Second Chronicles and as you
turn there, every since our first year we have been doing
community service and last year we did $4.6 million for the city
of San Diego and saved full-time employees and this weekend
having a Do-Something church and this is our philosophy and
invite for senior pastors to come free and small fee and this
Thursday night is floodgate worship service, we open it up
and we invite you all to come out. We can't mobilize enough people
to go out and help people. And most of the ministries are
led by people that are ministering in a place they used
to be hurting. I want to encourage you out to
come out Thursday night. It's on our website and go on
our website and get information and Do-Something church
conference, amen. Second chronicles in this story
Josiah was king and Judah and Israel were a mess, politically
and economically, God was not blessing them. And one of the priests found the
law of God, the Bible, if you will. And brought it to the king. And the king read it. And he sends a message to Hulda,
prophet and ask what do we do. And what we will read in second
chronicles and these women will give you a word as we continue
our series, when bad things happen, surrender. When bad things happen,
surrender. Look at Second Chronicles
34:37-38... You can spend your whole life
chasing success and money and things, but in the end trust me. The only thing that matters is
when you die, you are at peace. You are not going to take
anything with you. Nobody is going to the grave
with a hearse and u-haul truck, it's not going to happen. Say hello to the ladies up here. How are you doing ladies? Good. Tell us with your name and
one quick thing about your family. I am Stefanie Chisholm and I
have a husband, Tim and three children. My name is Laurie Dotts and I
have a husband and three children and five grandchildren. I am Teresa Holderby and I
have three sons and four granddaughters and married. My name is Tashawni Crosby, I
am a mom of three. Stef, tell us your story,
we're anxious to hear. At six months pregnant my
husband and I I found out that our son had a chromosome
abnormality and carried him full term but he went to be the Lord. Did he pass at born or after
born? Immediately when he was born. Born alive? No, when they took him out. When you told me that story,
I never heard the term incompatible with life. What did you feel when you hear
that term? I was terrified, nothing like
that happened in our life before and I wondered what the future
would be like, if there was a chance for him to make it, I was
hoping. When you walking with God at
the time? I was. I want you to imagine you are
walking with God and doing things that are right and
something in your life that is incompatible with life and
happiness and peace in relationships and you think
that's inconsistent me walking with God. What is the problem. Every one of our lives we will
do this, up and down. That is guaranteed to happen. The question is how you respond
to God's presence in ups and presence in the downs. So your son dies, what happens? Yes, he passed away at 1:11
p.m. and that is significant because God is so good. About a year later we had
another son, Cairo Chisholm and healthy boy and born at 1:11
p.m. Wow. What does Cairo mean? Victorious. And people out there feel
incompatible with life and getting nothing but negativity
but a thing in life that is destroying happiness and peace,
what would you say to them? I would say be encouraged
because you are more than your circumstances and you are
victorious. God is always with you and he's
shown his faithfulness all throughout just from the very
start. And so I just want you guys to
be encouraged and know that he's with you through the battles and
not to give up hope. There are 17 -- go ahead
[Applause] There is a spiritual battle
going on that her son die, how is that good? Her son is in heaven, when you
have a baby and they go to heaven and it's painful and the
story is not over. And you watch a movie and get
mad because the bad guy gets away with stuff. You watch that movie? Sometimes in your life the bad
guy is getting away with stuff, and you get mad at God. You have to wait until the end
of the story. She's telling you that she's
been through this particular valley, I'm sure not the first
and won't be the last. Can you say a prayer for those
down here. They got that news that
something is incompatible with life and tempted to be mad at
God, can you say prayer for them. Heavenly father, I thank you
for your faithfulness. I thank you that you are always
for us and not against us. I pray that any person
struggling being in that valley, Lord God that you lift them up,
carry them and show them that they are more than a conqueror
Lord God, nothing is too little or big for you and I pray that
they receive that in the name of Jesus. And their lives will be forever
changed from this moment on because they know that they have
hope in you and Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen, amen. Thank you. Laurie, tell us your ups and
down story. I have a son, named Michael
who was a heroin addict. He struggled with addiction for
eight years. Went into a Christian men's home
rehab. Got out. Arrested. Five counts of felony, heading
towards a prison term back into rehab. Got saved. Attended impact 195, which is
now Rock School of ministry. Married a beautiful Christian
wife, three beautiful grandchildren. And he serves the Lord in
missions and with all of his heart. [Applause] I met him today. You met him. He was here for a service and
two daughters, they named themselves. They are Madison and cadence
and on Elsa. If you know about frozen
princesses. He introduced them to me no,
it's ANA and Elsa. When that started and got on
drugs and etc., were you a Christian? I was a Christian but I had
walked away from the Lord. I was angry at the Lord. I was in a lot of pain and I had
turned to -- I had a lot of strongholds I had to get rid of
myself. But before I could do that, I
had to let go of my son. For any kind of recovery and for
God to work with him, I had to surrender him. And we had met at the bottom of
a cross, literally a big cross. And I said I can't do this
anymore, Mike. I'm letting you go. There is a cross. I'm laying you at the bottom and
foot of that cross. You can either take the Lord as
your Savior, now it's in your ballpark. And then I prayed to the Lord. Lord, I'm giving him over to ya. And here's a tendency and you
will hear a theme of surrender. Often when things don't go our
way. We blame God. We blame the source, only hope
that we have. And then we run to the very
source of the pain. The devil is author of confusion
and evil in this world and he's the one that introduces all of
this garbage in our life. And yet we end up blaming the
God that says I can get you through it and run to the one
that destroys us, and you get in a deeper hole. And you say that people here now
and mad at God, they didn't want to come today. Last week at the altar a guy
came down and told me I was thinking of never coming to
church ever again and came to the altar. And some of you mad at God and
he didn't do this but God is like, I'm the only one that can
help you. And some people need to go back
to God. They need to say, I need to
surrender. When I want us to do if you can,
lead us in a prayer for those people. And get to surrender more today. To people that need to surrender
to God. Before you do that. Tell me what it was like for you
to go from being angry with God to surrendering? What did you do? What I had to do was as a
gave my son away. I had to really realize that my
children don't belong to me, they're Gods. My husband doesn't belong to me,
he belongs to God. He can work miracles and slay
dragons. I can't do that. I wanted to be in control but I
had to let go of that control and pride and everything in my
and put my trust in him. Good, why don't you pray for
that. Pray for those people. I will do this today a few
times. Some of you like this holding,
you have to let go. Say, God I can't do it. You can't. You are not designed to do it,
you are designed to trust. You are not designed to fix, you
are designed to trust. You have a role in the fixing
but God has to do it. If you are like this -- you are
wearing yourself out. I want you to pray for us. Father God, thank you for
your greatness. Thank you for your magnificence
Lord, that you are so bigger and mightier than any of us Lord. Lord I pray that if anybody in
here, a mother, father, son, daughter, sister, brother who
have a stronghold. A bondage holding them back,
Lord, I ask you that release them from that. That they trust in you and trust
in your ways and love. And they will be able to conquer
that through you, lay at the cross, Lord. At your feet, surrender all of
it. And Lord I thank you, I thank
you for the mighty work you are going to do. The mountains you will move, the
giants you will slay. I pray and thank you in your
precious son's name, amen. Amen, amen. Teresa. Teresa. Yes. Teresa has been here since
before the church started and along with Pastor Karen and in
our women's ministry. Yes, been a blessing. Yes, you are a blessing,
thank you. So tell us your story. My story is our son when 18
we found out that he had a methamphetamine addiction since
14. And through a series of events
and in and out of jail and prison time and out of state for
six years and in different rehabs. And after six years we told him
if you can figure it out, you can come home. And we weren't believers when
this happened but while gone we gave our hearts to the Lord and
when he came back he did the same. And has a family and three
daughters of his own. Congratulations. Thank you. You noticed that he was on
crystal meth. And you found out at 18 and
earlier started. Yes, it was earlier. And then went away for six
years at what age? He was 19 when he left. So he came back 25ish. Yes. And he said, I want to come
home. You imagine your child on drugs
for years and you say if you figure out how to get here. It was a hard thing to do. And the reason you said that
to him? Because he had enabled him
for a long time and knew it was time for him to figure out
things on his own if he was going to do it, he had to be the
one to do it. Very good, before you got
saved how were you dealing with his addiction? Not well, I wanted to hold
him and I thought I could fix him. I thought of every crazy thought
of how I was obsessed to fix him and making me ill to the point
of not eating or sleeping. What happened? When we got saved I told the
Lord he's yours and I surrender him to you and the peace that
came over me was amazing. Let's talk about this, before
you accepted the Lord, you were struggling and couldn't eat. You have stress. Can you describe that real
quick? Yeah, I was losing weight. Craziest thing I stayed up at
night, how the enemy and stay up as late as I could and if I get
a phone call he would be dead. Did that go for years? A couple of years. The devil will have you think
of the worse and nothing come of it. Say amen if you have been
through that. The devil is a liar and
destroyer. And a lot of times we think if
we worry and try real hard, we're doing the right thing. Not saying if you worry you're a
bad person. We all do it. But we think we are
accomplishing something. And when the peace of God comes
on you and God tells you what? To trust him. To fully trust him. I couldn't see it he told me
trust me. What happened in your heart? I had so much peace in my
heart and life and our whole family it was life changing. But his circumstance hadn't
changed yet. Go ahead. Did you feel guilty not
worrying? No, I didn't, I felt such
peace that God had him and he loved him more than I did and he
would work it out. Did it feel bad not worrying? It did feel bad but I didn't
feel bad. I had total freedom. Say amen if you want total
freedom in your life. And the devil you need to worry
and follow him around, and God says, it's not you. I want you to let go. That's with your struggle with
somebody else, that's with your struggle with yourself. That's with the struggle with
your future. Let me have it. The Bible says if you delight
yourself in God and say, Lord you are everything I have. He will give you the desires of
your heart and you will have the peace that surpasses all
understanding Philippians tells us. That means you have a peace and
I don't understand how I am not freaking out. Because you freaking out is not
helping the situation. God wants you to trust him. It's easier said than done but
only way to do it is surrender to God. No technique, I would surrender
to God. And follow God's lead, doesn't
mean you do nothing. But Lord let you drive and
direct me, I won't fix it doing this. I will wear myself out, I will
fix it trusting you. That's the trick.
It's the opposite of the world. You are a citizen of heaven and
not a citizen of here. How do I do it from? I will bring you to perfect
peace. Can you pray for all of these
people that are --- one more time how many would like to stop
doing this and be at peace. Say amen if that's you. All campuses stressing and we
have drama and pray for those people on all campuses. Amen. Lord I just pray right now over
everyone listening that you give them the peace that does pass
all understanding, Lord. Even when things don't make
sense and they don't understand, they come to you with hands wide
open and say I trust you. I pray that you lift those
burdens right now in Jesus' name. Amen.
Amen, amen. [Applause] Tashawni. We say -- I don't want to say
the best for last but this is powerful, go ahead. My name is Tashawni and on
2017 on Father's Day I received a phone call from a friend that
my daughter away at camp told a counselor that my ex-husband
molested her from age 11 to 13. I was the last one to know after
the police department and district attorney, fight him in
court and it caused a lot of anxiety and very heartbreaking. But the Lord uprooted us as a
family and planted us and he has continued to heal us and restore
us. He's not left us and he's really
encouraged us a lot. Helped us a lot. You became a single mom. In one day. How many kids? Three. Your world turned upside
down, were you walking with God? I was but not as much as I
should have, and it would be easier but after I was on my
knees. I can't imagine too things
with that news and what you do single mom and ministering to
your daughter who was scarred, what did God do in your heart? I clung to him and stayed in
worship and prayer, I needed him more than ever. And I had a lot of anxiety and
he literally took hold of that and turned it around and gave me
such strength and encouragement. I had to train my kids the way
to go even more. Because it was just me, and what
I did, my kids did. I worship, they worship. I pray, they pray. What the devil means for evil
God will turn into good. And the devil will punch your
heart and destroy your self-esteem. He has all of these weapons but
God -- everyone say but God. You can describe any situation
and end the sentence with those two words, but God. And I save this last and they
are all stories was victory and tell us your daughter now, come
on now she's 17. She's 17, she's a senior. She's right here. Look at her. So proud of her. She serves and a leader in the
youth group and youth PST, so she's training to disciple and
minister. Come on now.
Come on now. Yeah, she's thriving. Now we have PST, they are
pastoral support team and they pray for people and youth PST,
in high school, God bless you. God bless you.
God bless you. Thank you for your courage and
your mom to tell your story today, amen. [Applause] There are right now, right
now thousands of women and thousands of men, more women
than men have been sexually assaulted in some way. Right now in this room and all
campuses. I want you to say a prayer for
them and they have family; right. I want you to say a prayer of
hope. Because I know the devil's
technique, I have not experienced that and I can't
speak to that specifically but the devil takes your pain and
amplify 1,000. And all of those lives have
children and goes on and on and I want you to declare victory in
the name of the Lord. And that young lady right there,
what you have seen God do in her life, I want you to declare
victory over all of these people. Whatever you have been through. And however the devil is
haunting you, there is victory in Jesus' name. And we will declare there is a
breakthrough in your life right now that God wants to do in your
life. Can you prayer that over
everybody? Lord we come before you
acknowledging your presence and declare protection over people
that are sexually assaulted Lord. I pray that you give them the
courage to rise up and to stand up and let them know it's okay. You have not left them or
forsaken them and even though we can't see you are right there. You are with them Lord, you see
them. I declare breakthrough and favor
over them in the name of Jesus. Amen. Do you have your Do something
prayer? We have been talking about being
a disciple and pray the disciple prayer. We all want to read it together,
so important that we have disciple groups, to be a dGroup
and have people in your life with whom can walk with you
through stuff like this. We are not meant to do it alone
and not meant to fix things and trust God and we have a role in
fixing but God does the fixing. We need people in our life and I
will read it in different form, read in the first person, amen. I will start and end... We have just a short period of
time and quick, tell us one person in your life or group
that has helped you because we all need to have that person in
our life. So for me it's a group of
people and it was my Rock Kids rGroup that I clung to and
helpful to lift me up and continue to encourage me in that
dark valley. Good. For me it was my prayer and
accountability partner, Diane, and she would give me scripture
verses and encouragement through text and always there to lift me
up and know and tell me to trust in the Lord. He has it under his control. For me it was Karen, she was
a God send in my life and amazing time and there to pray
and encourage me and today still walking with me as prayer and
accountability partner. For me it was my dad, always
a phone call away and he prayed over us and I love him and thank
him. Good, good. Okay, I will take advantage of
this nice, shag carpet. So a lot of y'all need a
breakthrough in your life. That there is some -- we come to
church and we kind of have peripheral relationship with
God. In other words we got this big
burden down here that very few people know about and maybe just
deep in your heart and you kind of hide it. And you kind of worship and go
through the motions but this thing down here in a warped way
the devil says that is between me and you and let's not take
about that. And it sits there and you
tolerate it and part of my life and part of my story and never
go away. God says no, no. I want to go into the deep
recesses of your heart, intimacy comes from the word intima, the
inner side of your organs and God wants to go in and clean it
out and replace with the peace that surpasses all
understanding. But have to let it go. And I will pray for a
breakthrough, some of you need to be saved and never given your
life to Christ. And sometimes I talk to people
and meet them and I will ask do you go to church, no, I don't go
to church I'm not like a born-againer. I am a born againer, I am born
to get ya. Some of you think it's freaky. Some of you the devil's got you
chained up. And what I mean by that, you are
saved but you still believe a lot of lies. You still carry a lot of burden
and God wants to break that burden. And you say God I am done, I
want victory and look at what the devil has done but I have
victory in my life. I have walked through the valley
of shadow of death and fear no evil, amen. I want to ask you to bow your
heads and close your eyes, Holy Spirit I pray that you speak to
people and encourage them and now their heart is racing
because they know that victory is coming and at the door of
breakthrough, a release in their life. That they are going to
experience peace that they searched for they can't get in
success, or money or work. They can only get it through a
powerful encounter with the spirit of God. But they have been holding on to
their way. Have been holding to do pain and
identity of being a victim. But they need to embrace being a
victor. A conquerer. A son.
A child, a heir of the throne. So if you are ready to open up
your clenched fist. And release your burden to God. I want you to pray this prayer
with you in the privacy of your heart, pray, dear God, I
surrender. I trust You died and rose from
the dead for me. I trust that You love me. I surrender. I repent. I walk away from doing it my
way. Jesus, fill me with the Holy
Spirit. I surrender my life to You, I
surrender my burden to You. I lay them at the foot of the
cross. Thank you, Jesus. As our eyes are closed and heads
are bowed. In a minute I will ask you to
stand up if you prayed that prayer for whatever reason. On this Mother's Day we want to
give you opportunity. To have a breakthrough in your
life. That you would begin your life
all over again today. And that you walk out of here
leaving those burdens at the foot of the cross. Walking out with a peace that
surpasses all understanding and every campus you walk to the
car, to your apartment, to the bus, with new freedom. New peace. And a million pounds of burden
gone. If you prayed that prayer when I
count to three, I want you to stand. If you brought family or
friends, tap them on the shoulder or knee if you want
them to stand. If you prayed that prayer, yes,
Lord I want You to lead me out of the valley of the shadow of
death. I want You to save my soul. Stand to your feet on the count
of three. One. Two. Three. Stand to your feet.
God bless you. If God spoke to you during that sermon and you feel like you want to ask Christ to be your savior, It's as simple as A-B-C. Admit and accept that you are a sinner. The Bible says all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord, that He died for your sin and rose from the dead. Then confess yourself a sinner and say, "Jesus, please forgive me of my sin." If you would like to ask Jesus Christ to be your savior, just look at me right now and pray this prayer with me in the privacy of your heart knowing that God knows you and loves you very much. Say, "Dear God, I believe that I am a sinner. I know the penalty of my sin is death. I don't want to die and go to hell. I believe that Jesus Christ is Lord, that He died and rose from the dead for my sin. I confess myself a sinner and ask Him to forgive me of my sin. Jesus, please forgive me of my sin. Fill me with the spirit of God. In Jesus name', amen. If you prayed that prayer, if you just asked Christ to be your savior, we want to know. We want to email you some resources. If you just prayed that prayer with me to accept Jesus as your savior, click on the link that just appeared. We want to send you some free resources. God bless you and we will see you in Heaven.
