Supernatural Lifestyle | Week 4 | 4/5/20

[Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] hey welcome everybody thank you for joining us on Facebook live and on YouTube as we get going this morning just a couple things I want to share how many of you know that gospel is still advancing forcefully the kingdom of God is advancing forcefully so do me a favor and click that share button let's get this good good message out to as many people as possible also those of you that are subscribed to our emails you would have got an email this morning giving you some instruction those of you that don't have that yet you can sign up for that but we will be taking communion at the end so go ahead and get your elements get your bread get your juice and we'll be doing that at the end that's Palm Sunday we've got an amazing service in store for you I just want to encourage everybody as we get ready to worship worship is it's not a spectator sport right we were called to engage with heaven in and worship the king of kings and the Lord of lords so I just want to encourage you first thessalonians 5 16 17 and 18 says rejoice always pray without ceasing and all things give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you and that is those are keys those are keys for each one of us to maintain our emotional health our mental health and our spiritual health so let's rejoice as we worship this morning let's give thanks because he's good in spite of whatever's going on he is good let's worship together today holy spirit I thank you that you are are everywhere you're in every home god you're touching people all around the world all around the seven cities all around the nations you are touching people Holy Spirit has come and invade with your presence as we lift up the name of Jesus as we worship you as we rejoice as we give thanks in all things come and encounter us God we love you we love you you are so good you are so good we celebrate who you are let's worship together in Jesus name [Music] I'm steadfast [Music] [Applause] 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out of my mouth presence of God just fell on me in my dining room where we were just praying and doing this Facebook live and I just I feel like that's a word for us this morning and Palm Sunday and for tonight when we're watching that we're to anticipate his goodness Psalm 91 was a word for us leading into this whole mess but I believe Psalm 68 is a word for us right now for today we're gonna read that in a moment but it's interesting with the days leading up to Jesus crucifixion he says this in John chapter 16 verse 31 jesus asked you finally believe but the time is coming indeed it's here now when you will be scattered each one going his own way leaving me alone people who were the closest to Jesus would be scattered and leave him alone he says this yea I am NOT alone because the father is with me I mean oh that's an amazing promise that Jesus is explaining to his disciples that even if you desert me even if you run in fear the father is with me and I know because so many prayer requests have been coming in just saying there's this loneliness as trying to come into my life and I'm feel lonely but how many know Jesus says that the father is with you that he's actually close he doesn't withdraw himself in difficult seasons he actually leans in because he's that good and Jesus just says is that yet out not alone because the father is with me verse 30 33 I've told you all this so that you may have peace in me our peace is in Jesus and then no one else here on earth you'll have many trials and sorrows but take heart because I have overcome the world some of the the last moments that Jesus was spending with his disciples before he went to the cross and I love this in Psalm 68 and I'm telling you this is a word for today but let the godly rejoice see we turn our sorrows we turn our loneliness into worship amen let the godly rejoice let them be glad in God's presence it's his presence that gives us joy let them be filled with joy first for sing praises to God and to his name sing loud praises I like my music loud I like my worship loud right it's okay cuz this it instructs us to be loud in Scripture Psalm 64 sing praises to God to his name sing loud praises to him who rides the clouds it can also be translated and it's appropriate for us here in the seven cities or rides through the deserts sing praises to God whose name sing loud praises to him who rides through the deserts his name is the Lord rejoice in his presence he's a father to the fatherless defender of the widows this is God whose dwelling is holy and as God places God places the lonely in families he sets the prisoners free and gives them joy but he makes the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land right where you are right now I just would like you two to hold hands with whoever's in the room with you bring them close but we're just gonna make a declaration I want you to make it over your household and over your family and I want to sing this again just for a brief moment I just want you to say out loud just say Jesus we anticipate your goodness we anticipate your goodness god you are riding through the desert you put the lowly in families we anticipate your goodness we we move away from anticipating harm and more bad news on the news we move away from that and we begin to anticipate your goodness cuz your goodness is on its way God your goodness is already on its way we anticipate it when I was training to be a police officer in a different life it feels like I was 20 years old and I was taking a firearms training class and I said if you anticipate the shot right if you anticipate the loud bang you'll never hit the mark it pulls you off target so if you anticipate negative if you anticipate the worst it'll pull you off target but God is saying anticipate my goodness this morning anticipate my goodness this morning it's on the way it's all the ways place the lowly and Families not only have Jesus as your defender you have other brothers and sisters who are a face time away he's placed you and family and I'm spitting so that means I'm preaching so I better stop I'm gonna wrap this up but let's just think this again this is such a powerful declaration for the season we're in right now go ahead Robin and just begin a sing out we anticipate you're good as to if you could please [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] leading up to the cross or the most powerful realities for Jesus was that he wasn't alone the father was with him wherever you are today just invite him he's so close it's as easy as an invitation it's the Holy Spirit we invites you to come come in come closer thank you Father that you don't withdraw in difficult seasons you actually are just waiting for the invitation to come close so we do that this morning Lord we invite you into our homes we invite you into our our daily routines God we make space for you we anticipate your goodness in the season Lord we thank you Father we thank you Father Jesus name Amen amen so good I'm feeling blessed anyways it's so good hey so we're gonna transition here for a moment we wish you were here with us so we could hug you we get shake hands and do all those things that we'll be able to do here shortly but in this moment of the other of the service we let we make space to continue our worship by giving of our tithes and our offerings I got paid on Friday I thank the Lord for that and the first thing that came out of my account was my first fruit was my offering to the Lord my tithe and so 2019 the beginning the year something I've never done before in my entire life God said I want you to give him your firstfruits this entire year and watch what I do and I didn't understand why I just was obedient so I started to give up my first fruits the first thing that came out of my account and literally to this day if I'm about to do something and pay a bill or whatever I stopped myself and I switch over it and I go onto the the app and I give up my first fruit and somewhere I think it was about three or four months after doing this I kind of asked Lord why is this important and he said this he said when you give of your firstfruits you're actually prophesy you're declaring that you trust in my provision it's actually a prophetic act to give of a first fruit because it's a god I'm gonna have enough until I get paid again you're gonna provide and so it's a powerful powerful opportunity to worship and to trust God with our tithe and it's powerful to say the first thing you have top priority from from what you've given us you have top priority the first thing that I give to you god is my first year it's my time and so for all of you who are at home you can access through the website through Life Church 7 com you go on the giving portion there and give to that or if you have the app you can give your push pay it's real simple just click on tithe if you also feel in your heart that you'd like to give to benevolence if you are doing well financially and the Lord is moving on your heart to give click on the benevolent section not as part of your tithe but as an extra gift just give that money we'll make it to families who are in need a hundred percent of that will and so we want to remember those as well and if you're struggling financially the reality is that you've lost your job or you've been laid off just want to pray for you just for a moment and then I'll bless the the tithes and offerings the God just thank you for every person who's tuned in this morning Lord who's joined us on this on this streaming service that we have here lord I just thank you God for every person lord I just pray that this week even today even now God that they would begin to anticipate your goodness and their finances that Lord that you would begin to restore that you bring hope God your financial provision hasn't ended you haven't stopped being good so lord I just pray for every person who is in need supernaturally God we ask that you'd provide for them checks in the mail that don't make sense whatever it is God family members or friends just saying hey the Lord put this on my heart to give this to you or we anticipate your goodness in Supernatural ways so I just pray for those God I also lift up the offering today in the tithe this morning thank you for this opportunity to worship you through our gifts and our giving it is such a privilege to give back to you just a portion of what you've so richly blessed us with God we did the kingdom of God is forcefully advancing it might look a little different for a period of time it has for us but Lord you haven't stopped advancing your kingdom so we thank you for this opportunity we bless you Lord we bless you Jesus we thank you for the sacrifice that you paid for us this Palm Sunday is such a powerful reminder what you did for us we thank you God in Jesus name Amen amen mr. mark one of man head amen amen thank you Pastor Joo we'll need your microphone therefore Pastor Robin thank you so much for joining us Rob an amazing job and worship the whole team you can cheer from from home but man that was so I was good that was powerful and that I just thought it was awesome I mean like you remember when we went on the hike like and reading there was like a whole the pastors all went and we want a hike and we took this picture and we started a band it was what was it called I don't remember middle middle middle middle the middle middles but I feel like you and right just to do that and me and Josh will be your like your your production team your I don't know it was a legit picture though I'll tell you what hey you don't know something's really cool we had people streaming you're watching right now online we had people I don't know if you're gonna get a word of knowledge there's no way you would know this but I check this out we had people watching from Uganda there are people watching right now from Uganda there are people watching right now from Indiana which is a little closer than you got here's why it's so important for you to share this stream right now is what if we just flooded Facebook with the presence and the power of God that's why you click that share button online and who knows where people are gonna watch from they're watching I know my family is watching from California so I love you out in California hey one other thing too and we mentioned it at the beginning is during the sermon today we're gonna be taking communion so this would be a perfect time to go into the kitchen grab some stuff that you could use for communion because we're gonna be taking communion yeah Josh and I use apple juice and animal crackers for our wedding so is that a real it was for real that was a true story true story we use what we could that's prophetic we were married well we hope you're enjoying all of the online platforms that we've been doing for you we miss you so much I just cannot wait to literally hug everyone there's that Chris Farley meme going around that's literally me I cannot wait to see everyone and hug everyone if you're just so excited and wanting to share what's gonna happen for Easter Sunday listen we're gonna have some resurrection church up in our home to Sunday we're gonna have services streaming just like we're doing at 10 o'clock and 7:30 so if you're working or something's going on you can't watch at 10:00 a.m. we're gonna be back at you at 7:30 p.m. so you don't want to miss that that's every Sunday but also don't forget Easter Sunday next Sunday and also if you're feeling disconnected we don't want you to feel that way we're never disconnected in the spirit so watch morning divos 9:30 all of our pastors we're taking a day and we're just giving you the word of our morning DeVos and just tell you what's on our heart and what the Lord is doing so tune in yeah those have been amazing you've been so powerful the other thing that's coming up too on Wednesdays at 1:00 we're gonna be doing Wednesday worship sessions if you want to jump on at one o'clock we're gonna be doing worship that works it was so powerful and so on midweek on Wednesday if you just need just some presents one o'clock we're gonna be doing our worship sessions actually starting this Wednesday a couple of things tonight we have a coming closer class if you haven't jumped in on that yet there's still time I know it's interesting the classes called coming closer and we're supposed to be distancing but how many know you can't distance from the Holy Spirit he's right here he's with you and we want to come closer than ever to the Holy Spirit and so here's what you're gonna do on the app or on the website just click coming closer you can sign up for that I will email you the link for zoom for you able to jump in on that and then also on the website now that we're talking about that we have on the website a way for you to get email updates where we're updating service times and what we're gonna be going on during the week and links and all that so you want to sign up for the email updates that's gonna be awesome so today is Palm Sunday yes and we have pastor Nate coming up here right now to give us an amazing word so in your homes I don't know if you guys can stand up in your homes and just like start clapping from a pastor Nate come on give it up for a pastor Nate amazing you air hugs hugs lots of love thank you so much pastor Josh and Marc love you guys it's good to see everybody welcome to Life Church 7 online it's good to see you I hope you're doing well today man we love you we just want to communicate that so clearly that our church laughter seven we love the seven cities well we love you we're praying for you and we are in this together it's amazing how so many things in life seem to just touch some people but this is one of those things with the coronavirus that is touching everybody in different ways and so we come today with the King of Kings the Lord of lords the Holy Spirit he's with us he's for you and nothing shall be against us we believe that we will come out of this stronger connected better and in fact with the enemy meant for evil God's gonna turn it for good come on somebody in fact I just believe that every obstacle is actually a God opportunity for a miracle a couple things that happened maybe you saw this this morning on Twitter Pastor Mark was telling me that Donald Trump put on his Twitter feed no it wasn't more hate it was actually something really cool he he put on there that we that people should tune in to a church in California called harvest church and watched church online isn't that amazing and we're gonna pray for Pat for dot professor tribe herb Donald Trump here and just from just a moment our president but also one of our network leaders his name's Don Ross he put on Facebook yesterday that he said he heard on Seattle's KOMO 4 News to suggest that people go online today and find a church near them doing online services in a state which is Washington state where 86 out of a hundred people don't go to church it's being advertised on local news go to church you see when times like this happen the enemy is trying to put people in isolation loneliness but actually this is a great opportunity for the kingdom of God to advance never before in history are more churches more people putting the gospel online in various forms and greater measure than today right now as I'm talking to you and so in this pain if we want to say this but if you're hurting we love you and we're praying for you if you're struggling with fear anxiety this is not something we want to joke about at all there's people that are sick there are people that have died there are people that are struggling it's not to make light of that but actually we don't operate out of fear we operate out of faith we don't operate out of a victim mentality we are victorious in Christ Jesus so wherever you're at right now we just want to pray and lift the name of Jesus and declare coronavirus you must bow and Jesus name we are we are not afraid we walk in faith but we also walk in wisdom don't we so would you write where you're at I want to do something if you're at home put your little coffee cup down in your pajamas whatever you're wherever you're at I would love for you to stand with me and extend your hands toward the TV or the computer or your iPhone if it's a droid we forgive you whatever device you're using and we're just gonna extend our hands right now we're gonna pray so Lord Jesus we declare right now that the coronavirus will be stopped in Jesus name on Palm Sunday we just declare a miracle as we go into Holy Week and a Passover and Jesus death and resurrection we thank you Father that you are gonna be doing amazing work right now we pray for a healing we play for freedom Lord and I declare right now that there would be a miracle in such powerful ways Lord Jesus that there would be not just healing physically but spiritually in Jesus name we rebuke the pandemic of fear rebuke the enemy's work to put people away Lord Jesus that people would run from God I pray that there would be an amazing running to you Jesus the nations would come back to you God that households will come back to you that there would be amazing transformations father I thank you for that we plead the blood of Jesus over every household every family and we believe it we declare it in Jesus name would everyone shout Amen with me amen amen come on thank you Jesus Oh God is so good I just believe that and I am anticipating I love that weren't anticipating I'm anticipating that God's gonna do even greater things amen amen this week my wife and I have been talking about I think a lot of you are like this we've been talking about especially if you have kids we have an eight-year-old named Titus on a four-year-old named Tate that we are trying to find creative ways to engage them keep them having fun not fighting and enjoying things so we mile now we're talking my wife had a great idea that we would go and get a betta fish some people say betta better than the person that Petco told me it was betta so I'll go with what she said and we had our masks on and we were looking at all these different fish and I remember going in there looking at it we picked out and I first was like hey let just give me a goldfish and she was like how long do you plan on this fish living and I was like uh and immediately I could see this is like judgmental look like you're not just gonna get a fish and kill it are you and like no no no you know and so I ended up getting a tank rocks a little bush things to keep the water safe I got a heater I feel I mean she just like totally cleaned me out and so we got one betta fish with all these different things and to be honest I was a little worried about this fish because three years ago we had tried this very same thing and the fish died within six hours and so I am I'm afraid that this was gonna happen and so my wife and I brought this fish home we prayed over it weird clearing life over this fish we named him Sonic because he's supposed to be really fast so we prayed over Sonic and so a day in he's alive we're thinking Jesus but I noticed something was wrong Sonic started getting slower and like he actually got to play Murray wasn't moving and so I was kind of wondering what's going on and I I looked and the there was a context like a lot of condensation on the fish tank and so I kind of felt it I was like that's kind of warm and so I did some research and beta needs some warm water but only between 78 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit and so they had given me a little heater for the water well I took a thermometer and check the temperature and it was 92 degrees I was cooking the fish and so I was like No so my wife sent me back out we ran and the lady sold me a 10 watt heater I needed a 5 watt heater because it was a smaller tank thank you Jesus Sonic is still alive right now he's doing good he's moving he's swimming and so we're so thankful but you know it's fun to have like a little bit of distraction like that and these times things to remember but we do want us to it we do want to take this very seriously we do want to remember that people are hurting we love you we are praying for you but we want to embrace what Jesus is doing his the kingdom of God is advancing and is advancing forcefully today is Palm Sunday it's a day of celebration it's amazing Sunday because when Jesus if you read the Gospels Matthew Mark Luke and John in your Bible you see often times up until this point Jesus would do something and he would say things like don't tell anybody don't let it go out don't spread the news yet and he would say this because my time has not yet come and then very pointedly the week of Passover Sunday he comes a town riding on a donkey and what's amazing is it's announcing the king has come my time is now and as I thought about that I was thinking this is the church's time our time is now the body of Christ our time is now to rise up in faith to pray to believe and to declare our king is here so we're gonna read in just a moment out of Matthew chapter 21 you can get your Bibles turn there but I want to remind us that whenever we read scripture especially if you're at the valley point in your life or if you're at a mountaintop experience wherever you may find yourself with the coronavirus struggling or you might be at home experiencing loneliness you might be struggling with fear or anxiety whatever you're at I want to encourage you today that the Bible is more than just words on a page we believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God that the Holy Spirit was over the authors as they wrote this and I want to remind you actually what the Bible says about itself when you read Hebrews 4:12 it says for the word of God is alive and active I want you to turn to your neighbor especially if it's your your your spouse look at them send the word is alive and active you can point at them - it's okay it's alive and active sharper than any double-edged sword it penetrates even dividing soul and spirit joints and marrow it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart I believe when we simply powerfully come to God's Word and we read it the Holy Spirit's working he's making things come alive one of the best things you can do right now is reengage your mind re-engage your spirit because when we read the Holy Spirit we'll make things pop in your mind he'll give you revelation he'll give you understanding he'll bring things alive and so as we read about Jesus coming into Jerusalem I am praying that the Holy Spirit would start connecting dots for you this morning that he will make his word come alive in a powerful way so Matthew chapter 21 verse one through 11 I'm running out of the NIV version and it says this as they approached Jerusalem now who's they this is Jesus and His disciples they came to Bethpage on the Mount of Olives Olives Jesus sent two disciples saying to them go to the village ahead of you and at once you will find a donkey tied there with her Colt buyer untie them and bring them to me don't ask permission just do it if anyone says anything to you say that the Lord needs them and he will send them right away now this is so important connect the dots this took place to fulfill what was spoken through the Prophet say to daughter Zion see your King comes to you gentle and riding on a donkey and a canonical the foal of a donkey so this right here this scripture passage was written 500 years prior by Zechariah and it was to Israel who was struggling you see sometimes the dots don't connect very fast in other words you may have a prophetic word over your life and it may take years for it to come true this is a 500 year old prophecy that's finally coming true and what we have to remember as people of faith you may think God doesn't hear you he doesn't see you never mistake silence for God's in activity never mistake waiting for God's in activity he's working I love that song wavemaker we were saying even when I don't see it he's working and it's gonna bring him glory it's gonna do a miracle and and sharpen our character but you know what it's also gonna do it's gonna point others to Jesus verse 6 says the disciples went and did as Jesus instructed them they brought the donkey and the Colt and placed their cloaks on them for Jesus to sit on a very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road the crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted Hosanna to the son of David blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord hosanna in the highest heaven when Jesus entered Jerusalem the whole city was stirred and asked who is this the crowds answered this is Jesus the Prophet from Nazareth and Galilee we talked about connecting dots how important it is even in this moment this is so important catch this the crowds did not connect the dots what they say he's the Prophet I'm sorry but Jesus is way more than a prophet he's my Savior he's the Messiah he's our soon coming king he is Lord he is king of kings he is master over everything he has the power of life and he is the one that has come for such a time to save these people but not just these people but us today may we never ever not connect the dots of who Jesus really is you see as a communicator one of the hardest things for all of us I as a pastor teacher I've done lots of communicating different rooms one of the hardest things is when you're trying to speak and people aren't understanding what you're saying and I mean we're speaking the same language but we are miles apart we've all had this happen we're saying one thing and they're hearing another and Jesus if you read through especially Matthew 20 chapter 20 all the way to chapter 28 all the way through you see Jesus literally laying out a grid for them to connect dots he's doing miracles he's telling stories he's even saying he's predicting his own death and they don't understand it they're thinking oh maybe this way I don't understand we're waiting for you to just overthrow a Roman for us to win but Jesus is actually saying something completely different and I was thinking about this as people who are following Jesus 2,000 years later so many people still are not connecting the dots of who Jesus is we have the Old Testament we have the New Testament we have the Holy Spirit dwelling in us and yet still we're struggling to connect the dots when I was growing up I spent a lot of time in church I'm a pastor's kids pk's whoa and one of the things my mom did that helped me a ton was she played games with me on the front row and the game was box the Fox and he raise your hand or give me a little comment and Facebook or YouTube if you ever played box the Fox box the Fox is a game where you can put a bunch of little you make a grid of dots and then you take turns drawing a line and once you get a box you get to put your little initial in it and then you get to add more and more boxes until the one who gets the most boxes at the end is the winner so it's telling my family about this illustration or I was gonna preach about it and so Titus got all excited and we played box the Fox and so online you can see a little picture of Titus and I playing as you can see I think I got 12 and he got 26 boxes so he smoked me so pray for me with my confidence but here's the thing the more cannot the more we connect boxes the more we connect lines together the more we connect what scripture saying and the more we apply them to our lives the more revelation the more power the more anointing will experience because it's all available we just can't miss what Jesus is actually trying to say we can't miss it the crowds miss it and why is this so important the same crowd check this out the same crowd who says Hosanna on Sunday will say crucify him on Friday if you don't connect the dots you will live your life not fulfilling what God's called you to do well he's called you to believe because what ends up happening is the enemy will lie to you and you'll start saying things about yourself that aren't true you'll start saying things about your family that aren't true but God is saying connect the dots one of the big dots we have to connect is who you are in Christ if you're a follower of Jesus you're a son you're a daughter you're deeply loved your words have authority your words have power there's life and death in the tongue so many believers never connect that dot they live their lives completely struggling with their identity whenever there's obstacles whenever there struggles people forget God is good gods at work and so what I want to encourage everyone is we're in this series supernatural lifestyle is what the one of the most important dots we all have to connect if you're taking notes the big idea this morning is supernatural lifestyle last night Supernatural lifestyle looks for God in the unexpected coronavirus was unexpected by so many people loneliness being at home all the time right now wondering where your next paycheck is gonna be health thinks all kinds of different things are so unexpected what are you looking for are you looking for God or are you kind of just like I'm calling to people you will find a lot of about you find out a lot about you simply by what you look for in the storms what are you looking for I want to show another one more picture online this is my boy Tate he has binoculars on and he is looking right there this picture oftentimes he will stand on our couch and he'll watch television with binoculars on it's pretty cute and he'll sometimes flip it over backwards so it looks even further away I think he's just having fun looking at it but what I love about tape and with binoculars it's a posture and his posture is he's looking and he's searching for something and I wonder if in the unexpected if the church should rise up even more and say God is here the Holy Spirit is here I expect God to do big things so what I want to encourage you to do that you know what it requires is faith and sometimes faith feels like a leap and leap as a beautiful acronym for my message today so the L today is that the supernet and the supernatural lifestyle we look it looks for the L if you're writing this down not loser but looks looks for God it looks for God in the unexpected wherever you're out we look for God in the in expect and what does look for is the posture searching it's seeking Matthew 7:7 says asking will be given to you seek and you will find knock and the door will be opened to you when jesus told his disciples to go get the donkey to go ahead of them that was a miracle they had no idea what they were going for and do you realize just a few days later Jesus does the same thing again to them before they come in he sends two other disciples and to go prepare a place for Passover they just walk up to a dude didn't say hey you're preparing a feast for us Jesus shows up the next thing you read he's got a table why cuz they're looking for the miracle to take place and you may be here and the question you're in your room you're in your house wherever you're at it could be in your car looking at your phone I've noticed a lot of people do that too they maybe they got to get out by themselves and just peel home for a moment going your car that's a great place one of the things you have to do is ask yourself the most powerful question I believe is when the unexpected comes who do you look for who do you look for I want to encourage you look for God look for God because when you look for God one of the things that's gonna happen he's gonna start speaking to you he's gonna start giving you encouragement he's gonna start doing exactly what it's gonna look a little different than you think it's gonna be a little scary it's actually gonna be faith and so we have to do is number two embrace embrace what God is speaking to you a supernatural lifestyle embraces God in the unexpected think about the disciples they had no idea they were gonna be caught stealing a donkey right they had no idea that Jesus was gonna do all these different things but they went anyways why because as you follow Jesus you can embrace him more and more as he tells you to do things and I want to encourage you if you're here today and God's telling you to share a message with somebody that's alone to call them or text them the Holy Spirit will prompt you I did that this morning the Holy Spirit told me to take somebody and encourage them when did it why because the Holy Spirit's telling me now sometimes it feels a little weird but you know what I found the more I pray God will put people in my mind I reach out to them and this time we need to love people well don't we we need to embrace the mystery of what God is doing when we're trying to connect dots oftentimes that dot we think it should go this fast but sometimes it's really slow and in those mysterious moments where God says speak I'm like I don't know we take that leap of faith and we embrace the mystery of what God's doing the disciples were told going hit a donkey right and then just that few days later as I go and get me a room here's what it here's the account I want to read it to you it's so powerful Matthew 26 17 through 19 on the first day of the festival of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus and asked where do you want us to prepare the Passover meal for you as you go into the city he told them you will see a certain man tell him the teacher says my time has come and I will eat the Passover meal with my disciples at your house so the disciples just did as Jesus told them and prepared the Passover meal there when it was evening Jesus sat down at the table with the twelve we must never forget that miracles often look like simple obedience simple obedience Holy Spirit says this okay Lord I'm gonna say it if we embrace the mystery God will do amazing things in our lives when the unexpected happens we've got to embrace God's Word my brother about a month and a half ago I believe was outside of his house and he was trying to jump from his truck over to his trailer and got his foot caught on the handle of his of the crank on his on his trailer and it flipped him upside down he tried to put his hand up and it popped his shoulder out of socket he landed on his shoulder ended up cracking his shoulder tons of pain had to go in if you know my brother he's a big man and he my dad took him to the hospital and I'm getting these texts I'm trying to call them can't get ahold of them and they finally got Nick into the emergency room took him a long time he's in tons and tons of pain he's sweating he's in so much pain and he goes into the and the room they give him some medication and I finally get a hold of him I'm like Nick what happened he's like her much I think he's like half sedated you know her my shoulder you know and I'm like man are you okay I'm praying for you and I don't know why this is like this is probably really bad form on my part but I'm like Nick is it true like do you have insurance how are you gonna pay for this is a big bill and I'm like are you are you guys gonna be able to pay for this like I'm praying for a miracle and no joke I think half sedated Nick said this the Lord will provide Nathan literally that's what he said the Lord will provide Nathan and then he goes gotta go and he hung up like that was this reply it was one of the funniest moments like what and no joke two people called and gave financial gifts and then Cadillac responded and forgave ten thousand dollars all of their debt is paid come on isn't that amazing no more hospital bill now here's here's what we have to remember embrace the mystery embrace it walk in faith as my brother told me the Lord will provide Nathan the Lord will provide Life Church seven because we have to remember this that this is the next thing a we must start anticipating miracles I love what drew said we don't anticipate what the enemy says we anticipate with what God says greater is He that's in me than he that's in the world I have a king he's not just on the throne he sent the Holy Spirit to dwell in me therefore I'm anticipating Goods gonna happen I love the thought that if it's not good guess who's not done God's not done so I'm anticipating miracles I'm anticipating good things to happen I'm anticipating freedom I'm looking forward to the day where I will get to see every single one of you on church on Sunday and I'm gonna give you extra hugs Corona is gonna be gone and you're gonna get three from me all right so Father Son Holy Spirit I don't know we're gonna get three hugs I just believe all those things why cuz I'm anticipating good and I want to encourage every single person anticipate good in your life the last thing I want to say is that this is the prophetic part of all this and this is the P is that God is preparing he's preparing he prepares God prepares supernatural lifestyle prepares us for what God will do in the unexpected one of the most important thing we have to remember is that Palm Sunday is a dot that had to be connected it's a 500 year old prophecy that reminds us that God is who he said he would be then the next stop we've got to connect is that the Holy Week all that happens Jesus lasts and final words instructions all the things that st. disciples are culminating to Passover on Friday night what is Passover Passover is what happened way back in the Old Testament where the children of Israel where there's this plagues going over Egypt God's trying to free his people and the Death Angel is coming and it's gonna kill everybody and they have this Passover meal wherever they put the blood of the lamb on the doorpost guess what happens the Angel of Death does not go into that room and take the firstborn so it's a way of protection and so Passover celebrates that and so they're taking communion together and I just think it's amazing if you could start connecting more and more dots you see that Jesus is who he says he was and he's fulfilling all these prophecies and that Jesus becomes the Lamb of God he is the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world and that's why we take communion I'm gonna have the worship team come up they're just gonna play in the background in just a moment but I want to remind you that all of Scripture is god-breathed not just some of it all of it if you read Psalms 23 one of my favorite Psalms you will find all of the different things it's beautiful all of the different things that that are available in communion are actually laid out in Psalms 23 and one of the things I want to point out is that verse 5 it says he prepares a table before me in the presence of my enemies I believe that our enemies can look different in different times in our lives right now for most of us I think for all of us coronavirus is a pretty big enemy isn't it I think for some of us it could be financial strain it could be marital strain one of the things we heard from the Sheriff Department is that they have more domestic violence reports right now than than ever it's just skyrocketing people are home I rebuke that in Jesus name I rebuke that I think people I'm believing people are gonna come together amen and so what we have to remember God's not surprised but he's preparing us oftentimes he will speak a prophetic word that won't come true but has to prepare you for who you will become I think of Joseph in the scripture God gave him this dream about who is gonna be second command he was gonna be all like all the his brothers and his parents would bow down to him he made a mistake of telling everybody about it had this dream but then he spends all these years God's shaping him into who he's supposed to become God's preparing him for that same with King David he was anointed as a shepherd and then years later he becomes king God may be speaking to you right now about your future about your destiny and don't get discouraged if it doesn't happen right away if that dot doesn't get connected but God is preparing a table before you and the presence of enemies and the presence of the coronavirus God has a table and there's power there for you you see it says you prepare a table for me in the presence of my enemies you anoint my head with oil my cup overflows in Scripture do you know what oil represents healing it anoints heal it represents healing at the communion table there is healing pastor Bill Johnson and Benny Johnson wrote a book called the power of communion a lot of people read it and when Bill had he had he was in the hospital he was struggling at many people thought he was gonna die he took communion every single day and him and his wife still do this every single day and God healed him through communion and I'm believing check this I'm I'm believing and I'm praying and the pastors and the people of our church we are believing that as we take communion today that some of you actually I believe all of you that believe this you're gonna be healed in Jesus name if you're struggling with fear and anxiety God's gonna free you and Jesus name is gonna give you hope if you're sick right now you're gonna be healed in Jesus name there is power and healing when we approach the table there is something supernatural that happens in communion so much of our faith is all about things that we can't see we can't touch and yet Jesus gave us something to always be able to touch and what is it communion the bread and the juice it represents the power and the healing and that we would never forget what Jesus has done for us and then it says this surely Your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever when you take me I'm believing that this surely his goodness his mercy will follow you all the days of your life you see Jesus said this and Luke 20 to 19 it's not on there but you can write this down later is that Jesus oh this is so powerful that we are to take communion in remembrance of me and remembrance of me now Jenson Franklin said something I thought was so powerful he said the opposite of remember check this out I hope you pay attention the opposite of remember is to dismember what is Korona trying to do to the church right now pull us apart separate us when you remember something you're putting things back together you're putting thoughts back together you're connecting dots you're bringing things but when you're alone one of the things can happen the enemy wants to lie to you and what's he trying to do dismember but you know what it's actually going the opposite more people are watching this service right now than ever before last week Pastor Mark told us we had about 4,000 people watch and engage our services that's more than we've ever had and it's gonna be even more and more the Gospels going more and further and more powerfully why because the church is remembering Jesus Palm Sunday is all about coming back to the Lord's table because in just a few days Passover is coming it's Friday night and Jesus having his last meal with his disciples another thing that's interesting about communion on that day when Jesus is with his disciples the Last Supper is that usually at a meal a traditional Jewish meal there would be a lamb on the table and that would be the meal why because the lamb represents a sacrifice that would wash away the sins but if you read all four accounts you will in Matthew Mark Luke and John you will never find an account of a lamb being on the table you see bread and you see wine you want to know why the lamb wasn't on the table he at the table his name is Jesus he is the ultimate sacrifice that represents death healing resurrection and brand-new life for you today on Friday night the enemy thinks that it's won but everybody I want us to declare right where you're at sunday is coming we'll say it together one two three Sunday's coming there's healing for you there's power so we don't come to Palm Sunday and Passover out of fear and trepidation we come with power we come with anticipation we are looking we're embracing we're anticipating and we are preparing for God to do a miracle come on somebody so here's what I want you to do I want you to take the bread and the Bible says that Jesus broke it and he said give thanks and as you do it I just want you to hold it up right now and I want you to kind of crack it if you can I don't know what your bread looks like you might have some traditional without lease matzah or this cracker like I do whatever you have and I want you to break it and I want you to believe with me that you are healed if you're if you're struggling with something you're healed so father today I pray we thank you for your body that was broken for us we remember we come back together and we believe right now in Jesus name the healing power of Jesus is gonna flow through and your name Amen let's take the bread together when Jesus took the cup and he said this is the cup of the New Covenant this is so powerful now I have grape juice and what we know in Scripture is that Jesus would have been drinking what most likely been wine but it's fruit of the vine and I want us to I want us to just pay attention to something the world will drink wine or alcohol to forget but Jesus offers this so that we would remember we would remember my prayer for you is that you would come back to Jesus if you're here today and you're listening online I am challenging and praying for you in the middle of communion that you can come back to God today if you're far from Jesus you're struggling you don't know who he is or all those different things I want to pray for you right now before we receive this this communion the Bible says that if you believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord that you will be saved so what we've done a live church seven since we can't be with you and come up here and pray there's a text that you can use it's to text for 8 for 8 for 8 3 times 4 8 for 8 for 8 and if you text salvation one of the pastors will talk to you they'll call you this week or if you say prayer you can either text prayer or salvation and we'll pray with you but I am believing that there's gonna be whole household salvations people want to come back to God you can also comment on Facebook or YouTube if you want to say yes to Jesus now is your time so Lord Jesus I pray for anybody who wants to come back to you we repent of our sins we turn around we come back to you Jesus we ask that you'd forgive us of our sins you'd make us brand new thank you that you died and you rose again and I pray right now in Jesus name for every person that's hearing this message that they would come back to you God that they would give their lives to you and we thank you for in Jesus name Amen I just want to give the Lord a shout of praise for all those that came back to you below we thank you Jesus we worship You God [Music] so would you hold up this cup with me this represents the New Covenant in his blood thank you Jesus that we now have access to the Father because of your blood by your stripes we are made whole what do stripes produce blood and we figure that it's your blood that heals us you you have literally become sin for us so that we can be made right for you this grace is all a gift from you we receive it now in Jesus name Amen would you take communion we take the blood with me the juice with me and as my dad comes up he's gonna close I want you to lift your hands right where you're at and I want you to start paying Thank You Jesus what do you think before Jesus I'm thankful for your grace I'm thankful for your love I'm thankful for your healing I'm thankful for your power and your mighty name amen thank you thank you Pastor Nate so good Palm Sunday anticipating all that Jesus has done and is about to do for us if you've accepted Jesus you put your faith in your trust in him alone for salvation today is such a day of celebration such a day of rejoicing please contact us and we want to pray with you and spend some time with you for the rest of life church seven the body of Christ and those that are watching I just want to pray over you today on Palm Sunday and I just want to declare the goodness of God so will you pray with me so father today on this Sunday we just anticipate all that you're going to do today throughout this week your miracle working power in our lives I thank you Lord they you knew all about the coronavirus you knew all about what was going on before the foundations of the world and your word says for we know that all things together that all things work together for those too good for those who love you that are those who are called according to your purpose your word says for we know and Holy Spirit I asks therefore everyone who knows you and loves you there would come renewed confidence this morning that we know you are working on our behalf we know that you are doing exceedingly abundantly above all that we could have ever asked or thought we know that whatever we're going through that you're gonna take us through we know that you are for us you're not against us lord I thank you that we know that all things work together for good to those who love you those who are called according to your purpose may your grace your peace your goodness rest upon every person here who hears this today strengthen each one Holy Spirit come and draw people's attention to the to you Lord Jesus I pray and Lord we give you all praise we give you all glory we give you all honor in Jesus mighty name amen and amen I am so thankful for all that served mark come on and as you could kind of just give some instructions but so thankful for our worship and for all that opened up this morning for our tech team and everybody we are so blessed yeah and it keeps getting better doesn't it those of you on the feed I keep seeing these saying that's getting better hey just want to give you just a more instruction on that texting and the slides gonna be coming up right now on your screen if you said yes to Jesus and you made him your Savior tech salvation 2 for 8 for 8 for 8 so just text the word salvation 1 for eight for eight for eight we're gonna contact you or if you need prayer if you have anything where you need prayer would you just text the word pray that's it just pray to for eight for eight for eight we're gonna contact you we want to pray for you and this is a way to connect what you're watching digitally and making it personal we want to connect with you personally we want to talk to you voice to voice not just you watch them but you engaging in what the Lord is doing hey if today blessed you if you were blessed by the service that I was blessed if you were blessed by the service today here's what I want you would you click that share button because we want to bless some more people we want this to go out all throughout the world that people would be blessed by the the worship of the Lord the presence of the Lord in the Word of God so go ahead and click share on that thanks so much for joining in hey this week there's some things you can still connect with there's DeVos that are gonna be coming up at 9:30 every day tonight we have our coming closer class that you can jump in on as well as you can jump in to our worship on Wednesdays at 1 o'clock so Wednesday worship sessions this Sunday this next one is gonna be amazing it's Easter Sunday and whether you're worshiping at your home or in your car wherever you're at he is so risen he is still alive and we want you to engage this Sunday with our services so we invite you to be a part of that have an amazing day today we look forward to seeing you connecting with us on one of those digital ways and we'll see you soon here Life Church 7 have a great day [Music]

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