Rock Church - When Bad Things Happen - Part 2, Mother's Day

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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 workweek into a life-giving purpose driven adventure. Join Pastor Miles and Denise Jones to learn about God's desire to work through you while you are working. Third through sixth graders can enjoy games, crafts, swimming and a skate park at the at the Rock Kids Summer Camp, learning about Jesus. Register today. Text info to 52525 to receive 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.
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Length: 40min 42sec (2442 seconds)
Published: Mon May 13 2019
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