St. Paul Church of Jacksonville Sunday Morning Worship

you know sometimes we complain about our trials our troubles and our situations but you know what in spite of what we go through jesus christ has paid the ultimate price and what he did for us is greater than what we could ever go through lawrence take us in and remind us [Music] and i've been through so many things but it's nothing compared to [Music] [Music] me [Music] [Music] seen some things you would not believe but it's nothing compared to what it took to save me [Music] is [Music] and welcome to another opportunity to give god some praise to give god some glory to bless his holy name because you know he's worthy to be praised he's worthy to be praised we come to give him glory we come to give him honor we come to bless his name but he's worthy he's worthy hallelujah hallelujah this morning we're going to be reading from jeremiah the seventh chapter starting at the fourth verse and we read from the good news version here and it says stop believing those deceitful words we are safe this is the lord's temple this is the lord's temple this is the lord's temple change the way you are living and stop doing the things you are doing be fair in your treatment of one another may god bless his word how many know in this town were there many words out there but we choose to believe the report of the lord because we know in his report we are victorious we know that we win we know that we receive the miracle we know that we receive the liberation so we thank god for his word so father god in the name of jesus we come before you in this place god god as you go out over the airways god to touch your people god touching where they're sitting touching where they're laying touching where they're standing wherever they may be god let your word find them let your worship find them let your presence find them we thank you for your presence in this place god because we know that you're going to do some mighty things today through this service god so bless the worship bless the word let it go forth and accomplish everything that you intend in the name of jesus send your fire pin your fire send your fire send your fire send your anointing and we thank you god let somebody be healed delivered set free liberated saved like never before in this place and we give you the praise we give you the glory it's in jesus name it's in jesus name amen and amen hallelujah [Music] praise the lord everybody praise the lord everybody lord we just came to tell you that we love you god we just came to tell you that we need you we can't make it without you god hallelujah yes lord we love you with all our hearts god for all our mind god hallelujah there's nobody like you nobody nowhere like you jesus yes god [Music] it's a real simple song it says this say lord i love you lord i love you say lord i love you more than anything say lord i love you [Music] [Applause] lord i need you [Applause] lord i need you to say i love you [Applause] [Music] say i love you [Applause] [Music] yes [Music] i lift my hands and raise say your i praise you more than anything more than anything i love you [Applause] [Music] i love you lord oh [Music] i need your lord [Music] more than anything i love you lord yes i do say more than anything you can have reaches a goal you can have [Music] say i [Music] [Music] i love you [Music] i need you say more than anything i need you [Music] i love you i love [Music] i need you more than anything i praise you i praise you i praise you i praise you say more than anything i pray more than anything more than anything else [Music] oh [Music] take it with me [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] accept our worship except [Music] we love you more than anything we love you jesus we love you jesus for everything that you've done we love you jesus for every way that you made we love you jesus for every door you open we love you jesus for when you heal my body i love you jesus for when you provide it for me i love you jesus you lose the shackles and set me free i love you jesus because you keep on doing great things i love you jesus oh because you keep doing great things i love you jesus [Music] [Applause] [Music] my heart i love heart [Music] [Music] [Music] and because we love you we offer a sacrifice of praise we lift your name oh high because we love you we adore you jesus we exalt you jesus nobody like you nowhere [Music] where you all lift your hands they say something sweet to the father never much to know how much you love them how much you need them oh god we can't make it without you we are nothing without you like a ship without a sail tossing to and fro oh we need you jesus we need you jesus every day every hour every day every hour we need your lord um we need you lord yes we do jesus [Music] jesus lord we need you lord [Music] more than anything [Music] god we appreciate the material stuff but we need you more than anything yeah let's have more than anything [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so right before the word comes forth if you could just lift your hands and say lord we need a word from you so god we open up our ears we open up our hearts god and we say speak to us god we come against distractions god we just want to hear your voice speak to us god we need a word hallelujah speak to my heart holy spirit give me the words that will bring new life words on the wings of the morning the dark nights will fade away speak to my heart [Music] speak to my heart holy spirit a message of love to encourage me lifting my heart from despair how you love me and carefully speak to my heart speak to my heart holy spirit message of love to encourage me lifting my heart from despair how you love me and care for me speak to my heart speak to my heart that's what i want you to do speak to my heart can you sing that with me say it speak to my heart [Music] they speak to my heart [Music] [Laughter] [Music] give me your holy word if i can't hear from you then i'll know what to do i won't go alone jesus i never go on [Music] if [Music] [Music] give me a holy word [Music] is i know what to do [Music] [Music] me we're [Applause] [Music] give me your holy word if i can't hear from you [Music] then i know what to do i won't go on i never go on my own just let your spirit guide and let your word abide speak to my heart lord speak to us jesus speak too much jesus all we need is a word all we need is a word for you god speak to me god [Music] as you're watching right now i wanted to just stay there don't don't move yet it was interesting as tim was leading us in this time of worship the thing that i've discovered in this season is how many different voices are affecting what we as believers are believing and i often times use the word believer not just the word christian i oftentimes use the word disciple and not just christian because i believe that in this season you need to believe because there's a lot of reasons to doubt the data the reports the optics the the obvious pain uh as someone who now leads a seminary uh leading an institution that's assigned to uh train and equip and develop voices thinkers the thing i'm discovering every day that i sit in that office then i return to pastor a church is that the awkwardness of this season is we're talking about a god some of us are now skeptical about and so the only way to deal with skepticism cynicism pessimism the only way to deal with toxic theology is we need a word from the lord so can we just sing that one more time and at this time no instruments just the voices of the worshiper and those that are watching right now i want you to experience the voice of god not just through the message but through this moment just just yeah just just just lift your voices one more time [Music] and just release it into the atmosphere [Music] then what [Music] yes [Music] tell the lord speak to you today then i don't know then i know what to do i will i won't go i'll never i'll never [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] speak wherever you are in the world grab this come on speak to speak to my heart sing it like you're telling the world what to do in a tough time we're crying out to you lord speak to us yes last time speak to hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah [Music] it's it's [Applause] you know it's interesting most people will never understand the burden of preaching that's the burden of preaching that before he can speak to you he's got to speak to me and i've got to be confident in what i hear we're in the series now entitled encounters with god and as i started to transition into this series the lord birded me about encounters that were changing not just changing for the individual but influential for the body of christ and for the world and so i want to thank our worship team can we just put in the thread claps and we can celebrate them man what an amazing work that they are doing to keep us centered and grounded in our virtual corporate worship experience grateful to god for them acts chapter 9 father speak to us today acts chapter 9 acts chapter 9 acts chapter 9. um it's very powerful and of course many of us know this as the encounter of saul with jesus christ and i want to talk about today a christ encounter that changed his life and changes ours a christ encounter acts 9 verse 3 assault was coming near to the city of damascus suddenly a light from the sky flashed around him good news translation fell to the ground heard a voice saying to him saul why do you persecute me who are you lord he has i am jesus whom you persecuted the voice said but get up and go into the city where you will be told what you must do i want to talk about a christ encounter i want to talk about a christ encounter that changed lives there are seasons god goes after you and then there are seasons you are compelled to go after god in either case it results from an aggressive god and a vulnerable humanity i need you to grasp that this is what we frame as an encounter now what's an encounter with god wow it's an undeniable put in the thread undeniable experience with god that moves the person beyond themselves into a deeper more intimate relationship with god this is the working definition we've been using throughout this series it's an undeniable experience with god that moves the person beyond themselves into a deeper more intimate relationship with god watch this one of the more memorable encounters within human history is is our text today in acts chapter 8 we are introduced to a fiery passionate jew named saul who who who in one compelling verse is described for us this one verse releases us into a marvelous journey where the book of acts would spend the majority of its time talking about the work of this one man who had this one encounter acts chapter 8 verse 3 says but saul tried to destroy the church going from house to house he dragged out the believers both men and women and threw them into jail this verse speaks of a man who deeply believed in both his religion and his role within that religion he like many of his contemporaries saw those who followed jesus christ as extremely problematic to the sustainability of jewish culture grounded in judaism as they understood it they found anyone who would dare to preach teach and witness for and in the name of jesus christ dangerous and thus expendable saul was a leader in this effort to exterminate to execute to destroy those who were followers of the way so so when we are introduced or re-introduced to him rather in chapter 9 he is continuing his work of persecuting the followers the disciples of jesus christ but then there's a major interruption someone put in the thread major interruption there's a major interruption in his life in the form of a transforming encounter with jesus christ what's really deep about this interruption is that saul is on his way to do what he's been doing but jesus now determines that there must be an encounter that changes his life it encounters so cataclysmic in nature until it not only changed him but the movement that became known as christianity saw who would become paul was and is a vital clog in this movement to bring about the globalization of the christian message and to bring about the salvation of the world he was a man who was engaged in trying to ruin and end it and the lord reverses the path of his life and turns him from being a warrior against it to being a wordsmith for it it's amazing that this one encounter with jesus christ changes not only paul a saul who will become paul but it changes the movement of the christian faith henry now it once wrote i'm beginning now to see how radically of the character of my spiritual journey will change when i no longer think of god as hiding out and making it difficult as possible for me to find him but instead as the one who is looking for me while i'm doing the hiding he writes this in his amazing book the return of the prodigal son and it speaks very boldly to god's activity especially in this text for in our text god is not hiding but through jesus christ god aggressively comes after saul inviting him to his rightful place i came to preach today to somebody who has been hiding out thinking that somehow this call upon your life and somehow the way you've been living is a cover but here's what i discovered when god gets tired of you hiding he will create an encounter that will draw you in to your purpose when god becomes fatigue watching you live beneath who you are god will create an encounter now you can reject it and you can work around it and you can deny it but it does not mean that god is not pursuing you and i came to declare that there's someone listening to me somewhere in maryland somewhere in new york somewhere in africa somewhere god is coming to find you you may be hiding out on the west side the east side or the north side south side of jacksonville but god is still coming to find you because you've been created for his purpose and as much as you don't want to do what he wants you to do here's what i've discovered you'll never be happy you'll never be whole you'll never be prosperous you'll never experience authentic promotion until you say yes to god i'm not talking about the yes where you use your gift to protect you i'm talking about the yes that makes you vulnerable vulnerable to pain vulnerable to suffering but ultimately available to eternal reward for many of us we run jonathan from this encounters because we already think we figured our life out then here comes god through jesus christ and he interrupts it and that's what's happening in this text saul think he already knows gina what he's supposed to do with his life and then here comes the voice of the lord jesus and he disrupts his plans so what then was the outcome of this christ encounter here it is here's the first one you ready this is good stuff saul's encounter was designed to corrupt to correct destructive behavior okay the first purpose of a christ encounter is the correction of destructive behavior wow read verse one in the meantime verse one of chapter nine in the meantime saul kept up his violent threats of murder against the followers of the lord okay let's try it again in the meantime saul kept up his violent threats of murder against the followers of the lord okay let's try it again in the meantime saul kept doing stuff that wasn't good stuff to do verse 2 and ask for letters of introduction to the synagogues in damascus so that if you should find any followers of the way of the lord he would be able to arrest them both men and women and bring them back to jerusalem okay okay let me take you to the next level note saul felt compelled to persecute the church he felt an undeniable sense of call to halt this movement launched by what was still considered to be that of the crucified carpenter the jewish religious leaders disdained jesus of nazareth and equally hated anyone who would preach and believe his message saul was in his own words the chief persecutor of the followers of the way of the lord he took great pride in this and he was greatly celebrated for his destiny deeds now as an aside let me warn you this is important make sure you don't miss this be careful who you allow to celebrate and confirm your life because if you have the wrong people who confirm and celebrate your actions and if your actions and your conduct is not becoming of what god has created you to do then you will ultimately discover that you're being suckered in to illusion that you're okay when really your behavior is contradictory to the standard of god and would ultimately bring you into a place of defeat and ultimate brokenness okay you missed the revelation here it is you better be careful who you take compliments from you better be careful what systems shape your sense of self and confirms you you better be careful who you allow to put their mouth on you making you feel like you're okay because they say you're okay but your behavior is working against the will of god i need you to get this saul was living a life thinking he was doing the right thing because the people he looked up to and the people who shaped him were telling him your actions are appropriate i need you not to miss this revelation some of you are dealing with some people and you're engaged in some systems that are not speaking well of god because they're confirming behavior that you think is appropriate when in actuality that behavior dishonors god and disobeys jesus christ this was the failure of saul failure of saul was not just him killing jews who were christian no failure to saul was that he was approved and applauded by those who did not seek to honor jesus christ and this put him in opposition to the lord yet here's the amazing news y'all ready to shout you can put this in the thread here's the amazing news despite saul who saw was god through jesus still chooses him despite all of this baggage that came with him jesus christ still chose him okay that's what you're supposed to shout you're supposed to put in the thread and he still chose him here's what's amazing notice something with everything that was wrong with saul in terms of his actions he was still the one chosen okay that's when i thought that the people in the building and the people watching we're gonna shout because here's what's deep some of y'all must acknowledge that he told you while you were still doing things that was affirmed by people who were not celebrating the christ in their own actions in conduct okay you missed it some of you need to come to terms with the fact that he chose you wow you were utterly jacked up he told you wow you were still doing stupid stuff he told you while you were living a life and he still chooses you while you struggle with some of the stuff that you know you shouldn't be doing okay if i can't talk to you i'll talk to me i am utterly absolutely amazed that the lord is allowing me to walk in the season i'm walking in while i am an imperfect man i know that some of you act like because people don't see it that is good but here's what i've discovered just because folk don't see it don't mean god don't see it and just because people are celebrating it doesn't mean that god is honored by it and yet despite all of that the lord still chooses saul and he still chooses us i need somebody to put in the thread i'm still chosen this encounter that god has with saul through jesus christ is to remind him that i still choose you and so notice how the lord corrects you while being while you being his choice you ready he softens you he is what's crazy sometimes jay you can be so rigid about what you do till you think that because you ain't died from it yet that is still okay i need everybody watching and everybody listening to get this don't don't equate delay of correction with approval because some of you think that because you ain't got nothing back yet that you've gotten away with it here's what i discovered about the lord if he don't catch you on one side he'll get it on the other so you know what's amazing order for him to be corrected he softens him here's how he softens him it's in the text it's in the text you ready and he as he was coming to damascus to do what he thought that he should do verse four you fell on the ground the lord knocked them down okay okay the lord may not physically knock you down but there's some people listening to me today who can who can declare that i've been through some stuff where the lord has knocked me down he's allowed life to hit me so hard until i find myself feeling like i was knocked on the ground of life and then he does something amazing to soften him even more you ready jonathan he blinds him okay bishop he knocks him down then he blinds him okay which means that not only is he the lowest he's ever been but now he can't even see how to get up okay okay okay y'all ain't got it yet okay okay okay so so watch this in order for you to be corrected from behavior that ain't good for you that the lord wants to expose an encounter he got to soften you by putting you in some positions where you can't fix it you can't reverse it and he's really trying to get you to the next place which is after he softens you he restrains you he restrains him by sending him to a house where he can't come out until he is appropriately mentored and ministered to which means then that he's in a house blind with dirt on him from being knocked down and the only thing that can release him is when he opens himself up to being filled with the holy spirit y'all still ain't got it the lord says i'm not letting you out of this season until you allow me to reconstruct your life so it fits your next season note then the activity of the risen lord wants to do something put this in the thread one word humble him here's what i discovered humility when it is absent will ultimately become the one thing that blocks you from becoming the great you understand then that the lord had to humble him so he could be used for the greater good understand that humility is a prerequisite for the employment in the kingdom no one serves jesus christ without effectively being humble c.s lewis once wrote humility is not thinking less of yourself is thinking of yourself less please get this the encounter means the encounter means nothing if humility doesn't emerge out of you it is the powerful presence of humility that prepares you for what the encounter will produce but what is you but why is humility so important it's important because when god creates you he creates you for purpose but he will not use you effectively if you are not operating in humility verse 15 verse 15 act acts chapter 9 the lord said to him go because i've chosen him to serve me i've chosen him to serve me to make my name known to the gentiles and kings of the people of israel and i myself will show him all that he must suffer for my sake okay that's where you got to get this because if you lack humility you cannot handle verse 16 verse 16 is deep because it means that i'm gonna have to go through some hell to fulfill the purpose of god here's where we hate this thing called humility we hate it because it sometimes makes us look weak and passive in front of people who think they're powerful when they're nothing but a test of whether we have the character to manage to manage humility in a way that conforms us to the image of jesus christ in conditions that sometimes seem awkward to that which we're created to preach generic guns in essence when you lack humility you will reject assignments that you do not have no desire to fulfill when you lack humility you will see them as undoable and as an inconvenience that's what's wrong with this generation we think that this stuff is an inconvenience it's an inconvenience and so now what what we've all done is try to make church convenient but here's what i've discovered we may make church convenient but discipleship is not convenient it is a cost to it and if you gonna ever be everything god wants you to be preached to me lord you're gonna have to manage the inconvenience with dignity and the only way you can do that is you gotta have humility because your as your journey unfolds trust me god is going to ask you to do some stuff you don't want to do he is the great eternal architect and he has perfectly designed your journey and even when it comes with pain and difficulty it is still your journey and even if it comes with sorrow and despair it's still your journey and if you lack humility you will not be faithful while you have to endure trauma trying and attempting conditions but if you've got humility in the end you will be standing because you will not be a prisoner to destructive behavior but you will live out his will first thing he has to do is to correct uh dysfunctional destructive behavior through the encounter second thing it does is clarification i love this put that in the thread of clarification understand understand what it means to be clarified when the lord is clarifying you he's doing two things you ready and i see this with saul first thing is that he clarifies you so you'll have an appropriate understanding of who you are i'm always a tree kagina to watch people who are working around god's hand on them by giving god something easy so they don't have to pay the bigger price i think about my life and when the things created i've come to discover about my journey is that the lord has used encounters to make me clear about why i exist so why does god have you here and what is the cost of your being you that's the first thing appropriate understanding of who you are here's the second thing that comes in encounter y'all ready to shout same thing comes to the counter is the appropriate use of the core traits of your identity i need to say that again the appropriate use of the core traits of your identity y'all ready here it is when the lord jesus christ saved saul he did not wipe him clean of everything it was not a requirement to start from scratch no there were some good things about saul that needed to be salvaged in other words he wasn't all bad he was doing some bad things but he wasn't all bad what made him a great uh uh what made him a great persecutor of the church would would in the near future make him a great promoter and preacher of jesus christ what made him so relentless in executing the duty assigned to his life by the jewish leaders would now make him equally relentless in obeying jesus christ and living out his purpose in the earth let me blow your mind when the lord saves you he don't he don't he don't remove everything there are some good things about you that he wants to keep there's some things that he wants to keep i can remember i can remember when we were moving one time um there was this box outside right there was this box outside right and i ain't been through the box in in a couple of years but there was a box outside right and i was started going through the box and tell and i noticed something there was some stuff in the box t i did not want to throw away now i hadn't looked in the box queries in a long time but there was stuff in the box i didn't want to throw away because it was still good stuff it was okay y'all ain't got that watch this when you get saved god ain't starting over he just making sure that you don't have to okay okay i'll shout here's what's amazing he says you know what there are some things about you i can keep anthony so watch this so watch this you got to be able to discern what you got to keep but watch this but what you got to keep and sanctify okay you can put that word in the thread because when god has encounters he's trying to make you clear he wants you to be clear about who you've been created to be he wants you to be clear as to why you should be motivated he wants you to be clear as to what you should be going after now he wants you to be clear that everything about you works in the favor of god watch this verse 17 and 18 and 19 ananias went in the house where saul was placed his hands on him brother saul the lord has sent me jesus himself who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here he sent me so that you might see again and be filled with the holy spirit and something and once something like fish shells of scales fell off saul's eyes he was able to see again he stood up and was baptized and after he had eaten his strength came back okay y'all missed it his strength came back which means there was a strength that was lost in the encounter but it was not lost it was just put on layaway i need you to get this after you have your encounter some stuff is going to come back stronger than when you had it before he's going to give you a clearer view of who you are and you'll be able to see again and what saul discovered in his clarity was as the unique grace of the holy spirit began to effectuately work out purpose in him he was no longer going to be tripped up in the darkness of uncertainty he was no longer going to be engaged in behavior that was destructive and he was no longer going to be living beneath the purpose of god here's the good news when you experience clarity through your encounter god is going to make sure that you come out of it cleaner stronger wiser and clearer wow diane von verstenberg once wrote i can compare clarity to pruning in the garden if you're not clear nothing is going to happen you have to be clear then you have to be confident about your vision and after that you have to just put a lot of work in well that leads me to my last point and that is that in the encounter he he he engages in correction or bad behavior he clarifies the stuff in your life that's not clear but here's the last thing he commissions you for assignment wow we see the commissioning of assignment verse 20 acts chapter nine he went straight to the synagogue and began to preach that jesus was the son of god all who heard him was amazed and asked isn't he the one oh my oh i need you to tap yourself on the shoulder and tell yourself that your assignment is gonna bring out your haters uh and when i talk about haters nights i'm a folk jealous of you i'm talking about folk who are questioning why it is you okay that's fine cause some of y'all are about to be calling some stuff that ain't gonna make sense to nobody particularly how people have come to know you okay that's fine some people gonna look at you and say ain't no way god is using that person to do that because when i look at them i don't see that in them but here's what i've discovered when god puts his hand on you he don't he don't have a counsel and he doesn't ask for opinions from earth to deal with heavenly issues oh i need somebody to wake up and get this that commission of assignment is really about god saying i have put my hand on you and so the bible says in verse 22 of acts chapter 9 but saul's preaching became even more powerful and his proof that jesus was messiah was so convincing that jews who lived in damascus could not answer him well here it is the man known as the killer of disciples is now the maker of disciples the undeniable indescribable voice of jesus christ on a road leading to damascus has changed his path saul is now preaching okay put that in the thread preaching saul is now preaching he has accepted the commission to serve jesus christ with his whole heart the encounter has transformed his life permanently and with confidence he embraces the call i don't need anybody to miss this here's the great news anthony on my way out of here whenever you say yes to jesus christ he will grace you with confidence confidence as the dictionary defines it it's the feeling or belief that one can be relied on and that something can be firmly trusted well here's what's powerful confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable causes and courses with a sure hope and trust in himself cicero reminds us of the power of confidence and how confidence works in our favor well i'll see you next week but here's the good news when we look at saul we see christ's endowed confidence i understand that saul was a man who now had to face the people who he was working to destroy and declare to them i'm on your team he now had to firmly believe that the people who used to applaud him he now says i don't need your applause confidence just ain't walking around looking swag confidence is an internal to the internal feeling that you are uniquely called by god and that god is going to honor you confidence is when you discover that besides everything i've got to go through i know that god is going to provide and that god is going to take care of me i declare today that there is a confidence that we should all have well we ain't done this in a while but let's do it today let's ride tonto here's the power of this text that we see a man who was confident and one time but now he's got a different kind of confidence he now believes that the god he serves has placed his hand on him and even though he's got to go through pain and even though he's got to go through trials he declares in first corinthians 15 to be steadfast and be unmovable always abounding in the work of the lord the same man that used to kill the christians is now declaring that but my god shall supply all of my needs the same man that used to walk around looking to destroy them now declares that one day the sky will open and he shall descend the same man that wanted to kill them is now giving them life and it's because when the lord places hands on you he'll give you confidence and confidence will make you believe that no matter what it is that i gotta deal with i shall be standing i'll see you all next week but put in the thread i got confidence the kind of confidence we also see in others we see confidence with abraham on the mountain when he said the lord will provide we see confidence in joseph when he declared that you meant it for evil but god made it good save confidence moses at the red sea when he stuck a stick over the water and the waters parted the same confidence we see in joshua when he led god's people into the land of canaan come here esther save confidence when she went to the king and know that i know that god has got me the same confidence that made doppler lead the army and get victory same confidence that made daniel stand when he could have bowed and the hebrew boys refused to comply the same confidence that made isaiah jeremiah and ezekiel stand and confirm jesus is the messiah that is soon to come see y'all next week but the same confidence that had jesus died on the cross and before he died he declared it if finished because he is the greatest one i can stand here with confidence open my mouth and declare [Music] god will take care of me if you're watching today get off your seat get out your bed start shouting because you got confidence say it say yes [Music] [Music] [Music] he wants to give you confidence because the stuff you got to do with your life you can't doubt or you're going to fail or equally important you ain't even going to try [Music] this encounter god had with saul through jesus was to get a man to find his rightful place in the world and so today here it is if you're watching and you never had the first encounter which is confessing jesus is lord right now ask him to forgive you of your sins put in the thread salvation if you need a church home you want to connect to us putting a threat partner if you need prayer because you know god's calling you to something greater but you've been struggling put in a thread prayer because here's what i want you to get you are not going to die until you finish what you're created to let's pray together and i want you to be reminded of one thing god didn't gave up on you you got to give him the best you so he's creating these encounters he's clarifying correcting commissioning moments to bring you in to the right place let's pray father in the glorious name of the lord jesus christ i thank you for those who are watching all over the world today may they not miss this season of opportunity and encounter in jesus name amen listen you're watching us now want to strongly encourage you to go to spmcjacks.org and give one of the joys of the encounter is that the lord will bless you in the month of october i'll be preaching on living a giving victorious life a giving victorious life so i would encourage you to join me as we share the message in october on giving but today go to spmnbcjacks.org askvigmatejacks.org and i want you to give i want you to give right now right now or you can come by the church deacons will be here till 11 and uh and they will receive your gifts i want to encourage you not to be discouraged i want to encourage you not to walk away when god is trying to show you some things about you good or bad except what he's showing you i love you be blessed we'll see you next week don't forget e3 express yourself today e3 tomorrow at six and seven o'clock on thursday recharge check it out let's grow together let's keep moving again spmnpcjacks.org and remember he's encountering you for something greater we pray that god will cover you and all will be well it's interesting i travel around the country people who watch us tell us that this this benediction has just kept people encouraged throughout the pandemic i'm grateful for it and so today we want you to know that we pray that god will cover you and that all will be well pray that god will cover you and all will be well pray that god will cover you and all [Music] will beware pray that god will cover you [Music] and all will be well i praise that [Music] pray that god will keep you [Music] no harm will come your way [Music] pray that god will keep you [Music] no harm will come your way pray that god will keep you no harm will come your way everybody together come on [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] [Music] everybody together i pray [Music] last time together i prayed [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] see you next sunday be encouraged be strengthened and trust the encounters that god is having with you take care

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Published: Sun Sep 19 2021