Sept. 17, 2017 | "Rewriting Your Story" | Nancy Grandquist

so I took classical music for 12 years another whip me yes it was good because I was ADHD and could not focus on anything and so she told the ladies that my mother bought a piano she worked she cleaned wealthy people's homes and she bought me a piano and she cleaned people's houses to give me lessons so I thank God because I probably would have been a bank robber or something I I was able to channel my in you know my energy somewhere else besides killing people robbing banks not really I've loved God since I can I can't even remember when I first started I I knew that I was supposed to worship Him and help other people to worship Him and so find a child and ask them what instrument would you like to play and and pay for their lessons get them the instrument help them find a child and give them music encourage them so that when they get older they will stand and bless the Lord on their instruments please give the gift of God music to the children find someone find someone my mother is still paying for people to have lessons my mother is 86 she wanted to be here so much because she thinks that the bishop pet is gorgeous movie star material [Music] she does and she wanted to come so much and of course I have never met pastor Sharla or pastor Nathan I've never met them and I I am so blown away with them and and Bishop this is Anna this is a testament toward your great and powerful leadership and mentoring and yes Jesus Christ but you have you people the bishop and the bishop at they have mentor children that are so powerful in God and they are humble people they're not full of themselves or arrogant or think they're all that a bag of chips or the t-shirt stand they are truly humbled before God and all of their children they're I've just seen him from afar I've never been privileged to be really in their presence but I've always been astonished by their daughter melody I can't pronounce the Italians name she's married to but he looks cool too and let's see there's one other one who is that David he is married to a movie star to this whole family's just movie stars like I don't understand they're beautiful but the cool thing is their God movie stars oh they love God and my mother wanted to come so much but she's had a little bout with melanoma and she is recovering she's gonna be great one day I hope to bring her here I would love you would love mom so she's 86 she's been in the same church for let's see God have mercy I'm a dinosaur so I'm 65 and she brought me to church when I was 1 so she's been in the same church 64 years now here's the thing it hasn't it's not exactly the way that it was in all of her years it's changed some my daughter and her son-in-law has taken it over they were raised in a certain organization very conservative but they have felt like God was leading them and and and trying to reach Sonoma County that they had to do things a little bit different they have not changed salvation message it is powerful it is great they have services just like this on Wednesday nights they have forty people receive the Spirit infilling just on a Wednesday night but my mother is remarkably remarkable because even though things have changed their platform looks a little bit different people look different and it's not how mother was it's not how I was raised but my mother is such a powerful woman of God such a powerful steadfast rock that she is able to say well it's not how we did it but this is a different season this is a different part of life and I trust my pastors they're gonna lead this church in the right direction we're gonna have revival we're gonna save Sonoma County so I love her for that you know sometimes there's people in there like when when I was 10 we're not staying and so mother goes to those people she takes him out to lunch and she says look for 24 all these years we we had 25 and 50 and whatever mostly 25 and she said can you argue with God what what is God doing can you argue with this we have five services we have almost a thousand people in just the last few years so how can we argue with what God is doing and so she she kind of puts the fires out on people that are not sure about it and a little bit you know nervous and she'll say just trust God look at me she said I'm inviting people and let me tell you Easter the the week before Easter mother was at a restaurant with Heidi and there was a big family over it was a kind of a high-end restaurant that's not my mother my mother's potatoes and and cornbread but Heidi wanted to go the really nice place so she was in this high-end place and there was this very beautiful family and so Heidi said I know grandma left and I didn't know where she'd gone pretty soon I looked she was over there with that family and she had the church card invitation for Easter and she was telling him you've just got to try our church it's amazing it is irresistible you will love the promise Center that's named the church so Chadwick my son-in-law pastor of promise Center told me this story and he said Easter Sunday we had five services and he said I looked back and there was this gorgeous B with gorgeous people anyway he said can you believe mom it was the people that your mother invited and he's now there's at least 18 of them they have they have four boys teenagers whatever they are all a part of the promise Center the only reason that I'm telling you this is to say this you are never too old to do something great for God never never never too old so get with it stop saying you're so fortunate blessed to have been in this now here's what I know by these hairy canes that's what Ellery says what about the Hurricanes mama with this with these hurricanes and the earthquakes and war on every on every side Syria and Iraq and Afghanistan and North Korea and terrible things happening in our sister who Britain and all of these things happening do you think that this is just by happenstance oh jesus is coming [Music] so please dust the dust off of your shoes scrape the mole off your seat get up and do something forgot tell your friends tell your neighbors this is an amazing program here this church I have kind of poor thing I've picked his brain Pastor Nathan I picked her brain what do you do what did this but they got it going on folks we week you don't have to be nervous about bringing people let's fill this church up about five times Saturday night service four times on Sunday and then let's sell this and buy an arena and fill that up a couple of times on sunny come on somebody say yeah I believe I'm speaking in a spirit of prophecy here God wants to do that for this congregation he's ready he is willing he is able he is standing at the door sake just ask me I will I will [Music] oh I think I'm out of time got a minute I'm catching a flight in just a couple of hours I'm catching a flight goes to Newark have a layover and then I fly to San Francisco Bay area that's where we live my husband's picking me up around midnight and he said couldn't you have gotten an early flight I said baby it's the East Coast I'm almost in Rome so so here's the thing my message is about rewriting your story and there are people here today in this house that you think it's too late that probably your story's done you've been a grouch pot for all of your life you you have just hmm I I told this Friday night I'm I love to give stuff away and there was a little girl and she wanted a pair of jeans or something the other day a guest store in the outlet and I walked up to the them the mother and I'd seen the mother the she was the mother was making her cry she the daughter was sobbing she's about 14 15 she was real tall girl beautiful and so I felt so bad and and so I went up there in line my husband we had taken my nephews college shopping and my grandson there my brother died and left six children so we try to bless them and take care of those kids and so they had gone to the car and I said baby you have some money and he said why are you always asking me for money I said not a lot not a lot less than a hundred so he gave me 50 and I walked back in the store and I walked up to this girl they were in line by now and I said you know I raised four kids we have four we have three son in laws one daughter in law and we have 12 grandkids two more on the way so I understand about family relationships and I said so I just I just saw the struggle and I just want to help you and just I'd like to help you buy the girl your girl something and she went she looked at me and then she jerked her daughter's shoulders so her face was this like close and she said see what you do the other woman told me that I was a monster mother and I was so shocked and I kind of backed away and the people in the back of her backed away and I said oh man I'm so sorry I don't mean any trouble I just and she said go away now I'm about the nicest person I know I am I am so kind I mean I mess up sometimes and I'll say something negative and I feel so bad because I want to be positive all the time but basically I'm a really great person you better think that about yourself and if you don't you need to change it you need to rewrite your stinking story listen we got a world to win and you are so grumpy and high you can't even you know your wife is dying for you to say maybe I love you yeah your wife is dying to say baby you're so pretty or your husband is dying for you to say baby you up one hot man you are muscle man listen my husband's arms are this big he's my husband's arms are this big if he needs a couch moves he comes and gets me but he is so stinking gorgeous who needs muscles when you're that good-looking so you can you can rewrite your story people you can you can be different you can change it says that we are our minds are make new when he comes in our hearts that our minds are renewed by the Holy Ghost power and I know people have said to me I'm just that way then you need to get over yourself and change it oh I'll probably never come back but I'm just gonna say it my dad was a he was a cussing he wrote the custom word dictionary he was a cussing drinking chasing maniac we were so scared of his temper we would hide under the bed and my mom prayed for him and she would say your dad's going to be free he's going to be free from all of these things that he isn't and and oh my word the years and years and years let's see he was I think she prayed for him 45 years and one night he you start getting dressed in my mother said what what are you doing and he said I'm going to church with you she said whoa she didn't even know okay and he went to church that night and was delivered from his self his temper he had smoked for forty-five no longer than that since he was 9 years old he had smoked and God delivered him from nicotine he had tried everything the patch the whatever the whatever the whatever I don't know he tried it all and nothing worked and the baptism of the Spirit of the Holy Ghost completely delivered him in that altar that night change him we wrote his story his grandkids loved him they talked about they they don't even know how mean he was before they were born it's amazing God can rewrite your story listen I'm just gonna give it a little example as 12:25 we've got dinner being served I'm starving [Music] Rahab in Joshua 2 1 through 11 she was known as the keeper of bad women she ran a brothel a house of ill repute but that's not all she was a Canaanite who was hated by the Israelites plus she was a liar and I'm just briefly go over the story so the two men came knocking Israelite said we need to be hidden because they're gonna come looking and she said listen I've heard all about you guys like like your God dried up the Red Sea all kinds of cool stuff your God does for you and we are so terrified of you talking to your God and making stuff happen that we will do anything just protect us from your God and the Israelites that are gonna come and wipe this city out and I love this because they kept their promise saved her Rahab and Rahab became the great-great-grandmother say that with me great-great-grandmother of King David and was in the lineage of Jesus Christ I don't care who you are what you've done where you're from if you will let God [Music] let him rewrite your story oh my so we went to the Bay Area we had six people to start the church with I didn't want to go I begged my husband not to go to the Bay Area I'm a country girl I don't like cities I want to live in the country I want to raise my kids in the country and he said Oh baby I totally understand we're moving there in three weeks and so we went we started a church right across the creek from Stanford University and it to say it was easy no it wasn't it was it was difficult I had a child my second child her name is Heidi oh the one that's pastoring a thousand people now she was and I knew it I said she's either gonna be President of the United States or she's going to rob banks she was the she oh my she was a terror and for one year she was two years old for one year she had a perfect record she had a whippin every church service it was terrible because there was only six people and I'm up on the organ and and I'm playing away you know I'm leading worship just doing everything I can I'm trying to lead worship Richard is up there trying to he's got a tambourine he can't even keep a beat but he's got a tambourine and and he's singing totally off-key and we got six people and then I've got that Heidi that's two years old and she's got cowboy boots on and a big fluffy dress and she rares up in that Cathedral seat you know the kind of flip back and she rare back and through those boots back and hit a visitor right in the face with her boots I'm telling you it was a difficult moment my husband there was actually of the presence of the Lord and I was playing the organ one night and it was beautiful there was a presence of the Lord we couldn't afford carpet so we had hardwood floors old it was an old Jewish synagogue from 1920 it was worn out there was holes in the roof that rain had come in and we put our buckets in the Sun but it was amazing and and and so he was up there giving altar call and I was like Jesus somebody's gonna find you tonight I'm playing oh it's amazing come to the Lord come to the Lord he's here to heal you and and and the appeal was amazing and true and sincere and awesome and I looked down and Heidi in her pink Martha miniature with the little bell on it was swimming to the altar on her belly it was over ladies and gentlemen he just had everybody stand up and dismiss because it was it was done people were falling out but listen we had amazing things we had a Korean man that had a laundry cleaners dry cleaners in Menlo Park I don't know if you know about Menlo Park but the houses start there at about 4 million for an 800 square foot house and that's where we were we had this Korean man that came one day he brought an envelope he said here for church listen you guys need some Asian people in this church we have an amazing Asian ministry powerful we had a woman come she own splendid foot it's amazing massage place I love it you lay down on this couch thing they put your feet in a bucket I could use it right now and I loved her so much she owned this place and and she was an I love oh my goodness I love her and and so every holiday because they worked 365 days a year they don't take it out and every holiday for Valentine's we bring her a couple of dozen roses and a thing of chocolate candy and on Thanksgiving and Christmas we made her big platters and we brought it to her people and we had her people come to our house for dinner and all kinds of stuff just loving her and one day Michelle came to our church and her and her cousin stood in the front and they Stacy said she doesn't even speak English it's it's Mandarin but Michelle speaks good English and and they were standing weeping crying amazing and and Michelle said what is happening what is happening right now and I said Michelle this is the presence of the Almighty God and he is filling your heart with desire and passion for him and she said oh I want it oh I wanted and she lifted her hands and was filled with the power of the Holy Ghost and my husband baptized her and her cousin and she went right out she went to that beautiful place splendid foot her gorgeous massage place and she went in there and she got the biggest Buddha biggest Buddha that she had you know they give them real good fruit like a couple of times I stole some of that fruit I'm like I'm starving and this Buddha doesn't need it like I do and so I got peaches it was a great like a fruit market right there in the Buddhist thing she got that Buddha she said man hold on just can you go get that basket over there okay got a grocery basket was in front got the basket she took that boo to put it in the basket and then she took a hammer and she smashed that Buddha to pieces and she said from now on Jesus Christ is Lord of this company oh but that's not all because she loved God so much and she wanted to rewrite her story generations of generations of Buddhists and all of her family in China their precious beautiful people I've had her mother come to our house she's this tall she still lives in China communist China she's tiny she's doesn't speak any English but she cries when she sees us because she feels the Living God and and so uh it's amazing so so she is rewritten her story and she not only has now she has two other massage places a spa what is that Michelle well God is just rewriting my story from being a Buddhist to being a blessed powerful apostolic woman of God so the Korean man gave us money and my husband thought it was probably just tens or whatever ended up to be ten thousand dollars in an envelope enough to repair the roof fix the organ and there are so many things I could tell you so many amazing miracles we needed a new church we'd outgrown our facility and we need a new church everything we looked at was 10 million but we had a hundred people then and we could not come up with the money we needed and we started praying and God said just pray so I prayed this thing I prayed this prayer this is the prayer he gave me in the name of Jesus thank you Lord for your every blessing on our church are you recording this because somebody's gonna want this prayer are they recording the name of Jesus thank you Lord for your every blessing on our church every person and on our families we praise you for your saving keeping power we praise you in advance now remember people we had no building and no money we I mean we had a tiny building that we needed a bunch we praise you in advance for what you're about to do because we know you're gonna rewrite this story Lord we pray that you will direct us to the facility you prepared for us you know what we need you know what we desire let it be affordable we need the miraculous in Jesus name Lord that the honors Realtors bank City Planning Commission's officials say yes to our offer Lord if we need to borrow money let it be with the miraculous low-interest we need a cup conditional use permits immediately let us acquire all permits quickly let the city run to us with excitement now that was hilarious and I said God are you sure you want me to write this down he said yes write it down Jesus let us find favor with the City Planning Commission let this astounding miracle come together in great haste so that everyone knows this is God let it be for your glory let our lawyer discounted fees our architect discounted fees significantly please dear Lord give our pastor our leaders wisdom vision strength inspiration endurance to complete this great task please dear god help us to faithfully follow our leaders give us your people the vision desire and loyalty to work and to give as one heart please take every fearful thought every seat of doubt or division from any who are weak make us strong in you let us be unified by your spirit lift us up on your righteous wings of grace and mercy we are petitioning you mighty God our Savior Lord and King for there is no one else for us to look to our eyes are upon you we pray these things in the only name we have ever called upon the only name that we have ever worshiped loved and adore for we know you alone hear our cry in Jesus name [Music] [Applause] in just five weeks of praying this prayer the whole congregation every Sunday we would stand we'd all pray together like a bunch of Catholics we love Catholics I don't know if it's the Catholics pray this prayer no they don't I wrote it someone said that that's what Catholics do we're not praying that prayer and they got up and walked out while we prayed this prayer so you're gone you'll have naysayers always and that's why I put in there please take every fearful thought every seat of doubt or division everyone say now that is not allowed in the Church of God from any who are weeks a week after praying this prayer we bought a warehouse and paid cash for it how did that happen the city wanted to use our parking lot and we said sure they said well how much do you want to rent it for we said nothing you can just use it you can use it anytime you mean every day the week we need it for Wednesday we have occasional whatever but yeah and then my husband said you know you've built that beautiful facility across the street amazing city building for seniors and young people I mean it was I forget 20 million or something beautiful so my husband says look I'll do better than that how would you like to buy our church and the city said we would love that we need a Youth Center yes so they came back next week said we'll give you 3.3 million for that building that was amazing so we bought we bought a warehouse we built a church inside of it listen God wants to rewrite the story of this church he wants to rewrite the story of your life I'm almost done mags come singers come God keeps rewriting the story I wanted to bring in the second Kings for one there was a widow and she said to the Prophet Elisha look my husband served in this house and he died and I have two sons and they're coming to get my two sons to pay the debt and the prophets that go out get your vessels get your jobs get your buckets borrow everything go get as much emptiness as you can because I'm getting ready to rewrite your story I'm getting ready to listen you're thinking oh I gotta have this or I gotta do that but the miracle is in your house it's in the emptiness God is going to bring amazing provision for your life because of your faithfulness and God keeps rewriting the story you know what happened to her her sons were free and my son-in-law I would have never picked him because he was one of the biggest drug dealers in Sonoma County he was he was a sweetest kindest drug dealer you ever met and my daughter met him she was out of church she had she'd strayed for about five years but you know the scripture that says as long as you are mine and you're called by me I'm gonna make everything good something Goods got how does that scripture go to them that are called according to his purpose something Goods gonna happen I believe that scripture and this this sweeps man drug-dealer came to our church one Sunday and he was so touched by the message and he told Mindy my daughter who was out of church I'm gonna go up there to the front I'm want this whatever this is I want it he didn't really know it never been around Church and he went up he came it to the front she said don't do it don't go we're having too much fun don't go and he said I'm going I gotta have this I need peace in my life I need God to rewrite my story I've had generations and generations of the curse of alcohol and drugs and sin and debauchery I've had generations upon our family Native American he's the Pomo tribe and he said I've got to do I gotta have deliverance from these things that have chained our family and have chained me and it came down to the front he's a muscle man he's but oh my word he's got massive like I'm afraid to touch his arms they're huge there's he's huge and he's gorgeous and it comes down to the front and kneels and pretty soon I see his shoulders shaking weeping you know he told me later I was weeping about all the years of all the hurts things that had happened to me he was abused by a guy in the neighborhood horrible same things that happen to him hurts and crushes and never had a dad he said I just wiped it out on the altar I just prayed and I asked God to do something and he said all of a sudden I felt this worm like I thought somebody was pouring hot oils on top of my head and he said it was the most unbeliever dove heroin cocaine crank alcohol all of it in that moment that was 22 years ago he is our assistant pastor he has never looked back God has rewritten his story stand with me stand with me I loved how pastor Nathan ended this message it was so powerful and I want you to come pastor Nathan I want you to just how you did the last service because I feel like in this beautiful congregation there are some people that are ready to have God rewrite your story like when you go out of this church today it's gonna be all new he's gonna do something supernatural and divine in your spirit are you ready I want you to lift your hands as pastor Nathan comes [Music] [Applause] halleluyah halleluyah [Music] yes no yes or yes yes more yes Lord yes let me ask you this question how many of you your life is a testimony there was something that was on your family something that was the way you were raised and by the power of God in your life that curse that was in your family you're a testimony that's done [Music] go ahead raise your hand raise your hand you're a testimony you may have grown up with abuse but your children are in the house of the Lord you may have grown up with alcoholism and your family but you're in the house of the Lord are you testimonies of that this church is filled with testimonies Jimmy Mitchell where are you waving wave your hand at me we're yet right here we walked in the church this morning had told me 97 days cleaned [Music] that is seemingly on this generation and that's the curse of addiction we have more people dying from heroin overdose than any generation in American history you would not believe the families that are in this church do you think everything's okay in their life because well they they're organized people and they don't bring their problems and lay them at your feet like a cat ringing a dead mouse but in their family they have family members they have siblings they have children they have grandchildren that are addicted to drugs you know what we do if we're going to follow Jesus is direction you know what we do to things like that we speak to it speak to the mountain you speak to the mountain there's power in your word what is the mountain in your life what is the mountain in your family what is the mountain that's destroying your grandchildren speak to it every day when you spend time on the Word of God take a moment and speak to the mountain and say I rebuke you and I cast you into the sea I rebuke it I speak against it not by my authority I ain't nobody but by the powerful name of Jesus we shall not be bound we shall be free whatever the mountain is in your life I'm going to start it right now and I want you to take it in every day from this day forward I want you to speak to that mountain in your life [Music] whatever stands between you and God's will for you your family your children your loved ones whatever is a bondage upon the people you love whatever is a curse upon a generation that you are placed in and and once to take up residence and the generation to come by the authority of the name of Jesus I rebuke it I find about the power of God and I say be loosed [Music] I say rise up and walk I say speak to the mouth and if we have faith like the feed of a mustard seed us mustard seed if we have that kind of thing in Jesus name in Jesus name in Jesus name [Music] someone said you know we always have practical people I mean even Jesus had practical people we call of Thomas I'm so thankful for Thomas I'd be a Thomas what do you do when it doesn't happen well I want to give you a quick Bible study you praise the Lord as though it's already happened [Music] you praise the Lord has that already happened and then the next day you speak to the moon [Music] well I'm gonna praise You God cuz it's gonna happen and I'm gonna worship you as those already happened because you're able crazy [Music] if you get a chance to let sister Granquist note the tremendous blessing she has been to us we're definitely going to have you back and get you to bring your mom I got some people in the church so I need to have her talk to for me okay and we love you god bless you if you're new here invite you to my elite special class where all the coolest kids go one o'clock next door well that's two minutes let's say 115 next door and we feed you I answer questions about the church today I'm talking about our hope for you if you were to invest your life in this church what that would look like what our hope for you would be to see you grow it gives us a chance to get to know each other love you all on the Lord those of you remember what I talked about helping with prosper university there's a sign-up sheet out there put your name on it thank you for watching first shirt Charlotte if you're in the Charlotte North Carolina area come join us at 49 29 north Sharon Amity Road at the corner of shamrock Drive Sunday mornings at 9:00 and 11:00 a.m. and Bible study Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. online find us at then First Church CLT comm or like us on Facebook or Twitter we hope to see you soon come worship with us [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 43min 26sec (2606 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 18 2017