The Beauty Of Being Stuck | Pastor Robert Madu

come on do you have a Bible with you if you got a Bible would you wave it in the air like I just do care come on lot of Bibles glowing I appreciate you thank you for charging up your Bible today I wanna look at Acts chapter 3 tonight Acts chapter 3 I wanna look at verses 1 through 10 Acts chapter 3 we'll start a first number 1 in will land in verse number 10 while you're looking for it or get ready to look on the screen how many have never heard me preached before can I see your hand if you I never Oh Lord that's about it okay quick disclaimer I am a hollaback preacher I don't think I have to tell you all that here at a live church but you do know over the next six and a half hours that we have tonight if anything I'm saying you feeling go ahead and get verbally involved you could say hey man you can say preach that you could uh you could stand up in the middle one bother me and say that was for me you can also stand a bit of it don't go oh that was for you where you needed that any one of those will work I just be engaged at chapter 3 starting at verse number one and look at what it says it says one day it's already good one day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer and 3:00 in the afternoon now a man who was a lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called beautiful he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts when he saw Peter and John about to enter he asked them for some money and Peter looked straight at him as did John and Peter said look at us so the man gave them his attention expecting to get a little something-something from them Peter said silver gold I do not have first thing Pete says I ain't got it I mean oh that's where most people actually get stuck in life most people get stuck at what they do not have maybe it's just me but have you noticed the enemy is really really good at reminding you what you don't have oh come on y'all gonna leave me out here by myself and I'm the only one that's ever just been scrolling through the gram and you hit the enemy and you're going you ain't got dad you ain't got there you sho ain't got you ain't never gonna have that he loves to tell you what you do not have but thank God for that , Peter did not stop at what he did not have he goes but what I do have in other words Peter says don't get it twisted I got something I got some just help me preach this revival look a look at your neighbor whichever one you like the best and just tell them you know you got something some of y'all didn't even look at your neighbor you know I can see you come on home encourage your neighbor tell him you know you got something yeah stop trippin about what you don't have you got something you just got to give what you have he says what I do have I give you and I'm not giving it in my name in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth walk taking him by the right hand he helped him up and instantly the man's feet and ankles became strong he jumped to his feet and began to walk then he went with them into the temple courts walking and jumping and praising God when all the people saw him walking and praising God Oh they recognized him as the same man who used to sit begging at the temple gate called beautiful they were filled with Wonder and amazement and what had happened to him can you say Amen that's good I don't do drugs I do scriptures [Music] it's good stuff it's good stuff on this third night on this third night I want to preach to you just using this as a title the beauty of being stuck the beauty of being stuck look at your neighbor a promise is the last time just say neighbor all neighbor there is a beauty to being stuck yeah come on let's pray before going to this word gonna be a long prayer but just bear with me would you bow your heads god you are awesome speak to us tonight amen the beauty of being stuck to an airport lately I'll see your hand if you pin to an airport lately quite a few of you if you lift up your hand then you are acutely aware of the fact that what I basically just asked was has anybody been to purgatory lately anybody been to hell and back lately how do you know it is hard and sometimes stressful to travel people after almost 15 years now 15 years of full-time travelling itinerant ministry and encroaching upon some four million miles flown I am fully convinced fully convinced that if you really want to test your faith book you a flight ok book a fly all right if you really feel like you full of the spirit fly spirit and then come holla at your boy it's hard in these happenin streets people the Bible says the Bible says that the fruit of the Spirit the fruit of the Spirit is love joy peace patience kindness goodness gentleness faithfulness don't forget that last one self-control if you are believer then that fruit should be evident in your life however if you're here tonight you're like man Robert I got all that fruit but you've never flown before how do I say this I don't believe you I do not believe you because the airport the airport is designed to suck the fruit of the Spirit out of you yes the whole airport system is orchestrated to make you lose your sanity and your Christianity lost baggage claim desk the lost baggage claim desk is really just a test to see if you won't say words that you're not supposed to say yes yes the reason the person behind the counter is moving at a glacial pace and it's typing one word per minute and seems to be undisturbed and unperturbed by the fact that you paid them a fee to lose your bag it's because that person wants to giggle on the inside when they make you go off in public and speak in a tongue that needs no interpretation come on can we be really home after five people I'm just saying sometimes stressful to travel so as a consequence over the years I've developed pass of care what I call Roberts rules of flying okay and I won't bore you with all of them but I'll give you one one of my rules of flying is I do non-stop flights only okay I'm not about that connection life okay I am a non-stop ninja take me from Dallas to my destination okay that's my rule the problem with their rule is if you're gonna go you will have to stop and make a connection not a preach right here so the challenge for me occurs when my departing flight is late and I gotta connect in another city and when I get in the connecting city I have one point five minutes to get to my connecting game and to add to that I landed a one but my connecting gate is that gate z-99 I've got a one point five minutes to get to gate Zee ah at this point I only got three options okay I can miss the flight angle happen I can call for that cute card to take me there ain't gonna happen I can put my Orangetheory fitness to the test and run like Usain Bolt with everything to make this flight people just happen last week in Chicago I am running with everything just trying to get something in the distance I will see something that will remind me of the goodness and the faithfulness of God I will see something that lets me know my god is still in the miracle-working business I will see something that lets me know that God can do exceedingly abundantly above all you may ask for things I will see hold up I will see one of those movie walkways because I love a movie movie walkway is just like the favor of God on your life because when you saw walking on that movie walkway how many know it will expedite your journey it'll get you there quicker than you could have in your own strength or your own ingenuity the only issue with the movie one boy in frustration with the movie are the people I wanna know why are you stand-in what's your pick no suitcase that should have been checked why are you standing issue in our nation and ain't nobody talking about yes you want my vote in 2020 take care of these people standing on the moon so bad they had to put up a sign for segregation come on you've seen the sign it says stand less walk arrived on the problem is the moving walkway it's only about this big so I wish they will put up a new sign that says walk left stand go home and never fly again in your life you frustrating me standing on the moving walkway I think my real frustration with you people who are in this room tonight frustration with you it's not that you're standing if you were standing anywhere else anywhere else in the airport I would be cool with it I think my frustration just stems from the fact that you have brought stagnation on a mechanism that was created for movement raishin comes from the fact that you have brought stagnation and stuckness on something that was designed to take you faster and to expedite your journey and hear me anytime you have stagnation in a place that was made for movement you always have frustration always people this is traffic come on I don't mind sitting down for an hour looking out a window listening to the radio in my house that's catching a vibe I don't want to do it in my car on the highway that's when I lose my always creates frustration explain to me how I can sit on my couch for hours in the same spot and be cold watching a whole Netflix series but if I sit on the runway at DFW and that plane takes 45 minutes before it gets off the runway I'm about to hijack the plane and fly at myself because if I'm on the runway I want to take off stagnation in a place that was created for movement always creates frustration and I'm wondering tonight if the reason you are secretly straighten with where you are in life is because you have become stagnant when God created you from movement let it be possible could it be possible even plausible tonight that the reason you are secretly annoyed with where you are in life is because you know that you have become stuck still and stationary when you serve a God that created you for movement you do know that God is a God a move man you think we haven't five nights of services cuz we ain't got nothing else to do no it's because God is taking you somewhere he's preparing you for a place he's already prepared you for come on he's taking you from strength to strength he's taking this church from glory to glory to a new level here is a God thank you worship team this is a because God is a God that the steps of the righteous the stagnation the steps of the righteous are ordered by God why are the steps ordered because God is a God of movement you don't believe God is a God of movement you better back that thing up to the book of Genesis the first thing God shows us in Genesis is that he's a God of movement I give you the scripture Genesis chapter 1 chapter 1 in the beginning God created the heavens in the earth and the earth was without form and void and darkness covered the face of the deep and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters the first thing he did was to move God is a God of movement in fact to me Genesis is really just the commencement of a symphony well God the cosmic conductor pulls out his baton and just began this melody of movement because everything he made have you noticed it had to move everything in creation had a caters it had to move everything he made he said let there be life created the Stars put the whole solar system in place and once it was all set he goes oh yeah you can't just stay there [Music] and all of a sudden it just started moving even right now we're still moving you can't feel it but we're moving right now why because God is a God of movement said let there be water water shows up he goes water you cannot be still that's mosquitoes kids to move get to move everything he made had to create an eternal and told the turtle to get to move it the turtle is like God I'm an introvert you know I want to come out of my shell he's like no you still got to move you ain't got to be as fast as a cheetah but you still have to move it here comes the turtle everything reaches down in turn creates man who breathed into him the breath of life all of a sudden man comes alive and guess what your heart started that's why still today when you go for your checkup the doctor puts in his headphones and he's checking for what he's trying to make sure that the same beat that started before the beginning and your church tonight see this is right you've got the best place that I got it don't matter if everything's going good take it God the best prize that somebody's just got some breath in your lungs which I take two inspectors and give God some praise oh yeah I mean I got a good credit score but my heart's still beating in my chest don't got the car but my heart is still beating go so you get that tomorrow he defeats death hell and the grave is about to ascend back to heaven can we get like a commission or something like a great Commission Matthew 28 is all you want a commission wow we need a church in Orlando to keep opening up campuses yeah because the color on this church is bigger than this place it's all around the world he's a God God's got a movement the problem is the tension rather is he's a goddamn movement but yet humanity has this proclivity and this tendency to always get stuck have you noticed this about us we love to get stuck come on I'm not even talking about like saying I'm just talking about the fact that like you sit in the same seat or the same section almost every time I talk about the fact you go to the same four restaurants all the time I talk about the fact you don't even know the coffee shop around the corner from the one you always go to has much better expresso and you'll never know cuz you go to the same coffee shop humanity it is in our DNA to just get stuck that all that is wrong with the world today because humanity got stuck Adam and Eve got stuck they did not keep moving they got stuck at the wrong tree listening to the wrong voice so they made the wrong choice and now we have to reap the ramifications of their decision that occurred when they got stuck and now intrinsically in our DNA is this sickness of stuckness I'm preaching better than y'all are talking it here tonight my text tonight is Acts chapter 3 Aven Eve got stuck in Genesis chapter 3 and I mentioned Genesis chapter 3 because there actually is a synergy between Acts chapter 3 and Genesis chapter 3 because if we look at Acts chapter 3 just at a micro level which we will do all you're gonna see is a man who is lame from birth outside the temple gate called beautiful and one day Peter and John thought of the Holy Spirit take him from being a beggar to a leaper and he enters the place that he could never enter before that's at a micro level but if we really broaden the lens of this text and look at it perhaps from a macro level I'll submit to you that this man is really just a picture of humanity because you understand that spiritually we are all lame this is what sin did you were watch this born lame lame from birds no I'm a good person and stuff no you are lame you are this is what sin did it made us a lame from birth have you noticed nobody had to teach you how to lie nobody taught you how to steal what class did you take on selfishness not 102 years old you already knew not lame born lame this is what sin did and made a spiritually lame we had no access to the presence of God we were stuck outside just like this man so what Peter and John did is really just a picture of what the cross did it picked me up and it gave me access to the throne of grace I could have never got there on my own cuz I was lame but thanks be unto God for his efficacious blood all of a sudden lifts me up I don't have to beg anymore I'm a son of the Most High God have an inheritance I am who God says this is what the cross did it gave us access so there is a synergy between Acts chapter 3 and Genesis chapter 3 but in Genesis chapter 3 when Adam and Eve took it that forbidden fruit in that moment we got stuck in the Bible this is my exegetical imagination but when we got stuck I think God the Father the Son the Holy Spirit called an executive Trinity team meeting three offered one all at the same time and God the Father is their holy spirit cheese and they look down they saw Adam and Eve they're like God the Father was like y'all see what I see they stuck you know they can't get themselves out so one of y'all go had to go down there get about and immediately Jesus looked at the Holy Spirit said well Kenny buddy move like you want you go down there and do some hummus peers like Jesus don't play don't play don't play you know I'm access to tell you Matthew chapter 1 nobody trying to jack up the Bible Jesus don't do that don't do that now you just save here you go down there and get him out Jesus like you right you right on trippin and Jesus gets on the balcony of heaven the balcony of heaven he jumps off the balcony it was a 42 generation job whoo and he lands in the womb of a virgin they marry I'm at Christmas and all of a sudden her fiance Joseph says girl We Need to Talk you've been acting weird lately like I bet you have why you've been so distant lately Joseph puts it on her stomach all of a sudden Joseph goes Wow something just moved she goes yeah that's what he does all of a sudden there is tension and their relationship so she calls her pregnant cousin Elizabeth it says I got a seizure and mary takes an uber to a cousin Elizabeth house and we should get out the uber hold elizabeth waddle up to each other like two penguins in Alaska meeting for the very first time and Elizabeth goes girl you ain't gonna believe this my baby move and weeks but as soon as you got out of that opal kill my baby started kicking and rolling I don't know rust only inside of you but it's making something move to me that's what he does was weird too I like that name that's four thirty years later John the Baptist is baptizing in the Jordan River and please believe that the water is still moving from the same cadence of creation and all of a sudden John almost drowns a dude in the water as he's baptized because he looks in the distance and says hail up hol up behold the lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world this is the run I was telling y'all about baptizing you with water but he is gonna increase Jesus yes I know this dude and what's crazy is the first time we met we were in water now we meet again in water this must be a destiny moment and he baptizes Jesus the heavens opened up Jesus starts moving in the earth defeats death hell and the grave he gets up from the grave a sins back up to heaven and all of a sudden the Executive Trinity team meeting is reassured and the Holy Spirit and God the Father look at Jesus and go man you kill that thing and Jesus goes you know I did the best that I could yeah and they both look at the Holy Spirit say you know what you got a to host yeah I know I know I know and the Holy Spirit gets on the same balcony jumps off all of a sudden a sound as a mighty rushing wind started filling that room at a revival service on night number three all of a sudden the homeless started shaking that place and believers the Holy Spirit the Spirit gave them utterance spoken tongues got power to be witnesses to Jerusalem Judea Samaria and to the ends of the earth in that Upper Room were Peter and John okay that was my Aunt Shirley I'll sit down I'm just talking was Peter and John little of the Holy Spirit and I said well so Peter and John check it but now going to church one day to pray Peter and John together going to church to pray Peter and John together going to church together why does two dudes still hanging out you realize they don't have to kick it anymore right Jesus has already ascended to heaven the only thing that connected them was that Jesus hand-picked them he selected them they do not have to kick it anymore why in the world are Peter and drop going to church together people you understand this is a walking contradiction John one of these things is not like the other let me just talk practically first of all Peter is older John is much younger bring it to a 21st century John is on snapchat Peter's still checking his Facebook he's an introvert he thinks before he speaks he is very pensive he has to himself he is in touch with his family Peter o extrovert how am I gonna say some crazy an outlandish should be like my bad you know I was out a lot put his head on the chest of Jesus you love to cuddle with Jesus when Peter expressed his love for Jesus in a garden one night when stuff got wrong hope I put out a knife a switchblade oh Jesus what are you doing it's like I'm rather die I don't know about these other fools but I am witch and Gandhi are going to church yeah walking contradiction walking contradiction oh maybe that's the point understand this is the first miracle after the birth of the New Testament church this is not an ordinary miracle this is a prototype miracle but which is God is trying to show us the power and the pattern which he moves so no wonder we got a walking contradiction walking up to this lay man you know why because Jesus is trying to tell us where he's always been trying to tell the church that what the culture calls a contradiction the kingdom calls collaboration I will show it help me preach what the culture sees as the greatest place of division and contradiction in the kingdom of God it is actually the greatest place of collaboration you understand this is the power of the church this is the power of this moment tonight that we can come in here with all of our surface contradictions but how many know when we start collaborating when we start agreeing on one thing that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father and that laypeople need to get up that's when miracles will break forth and hear me in this day and age it is a diabolical scheme of the enemy to get us to focus on the contradiction so we won't collaborate well I'm a Republican you black well I'm white well you own I'm young focusing on the contradiction but I'm telling you what the culture calls a contradiction the kingdom calls collaboration some don't like this cuz you just want to hang with people that think like you walk like you talk like you vote like you but our power is not enough similarities our powers and our differences and in spite of the differences if we could collaborate I promise you people better lane will get the strength and is not afraid of a big church we got churches oh he is not afraid of a big church you know what he's afraid of he's afraid of the United Church he's afraid of a church that I actually collaborate in spite of surface and level contradiction I'm preaching good at y'all recording this i'ma watch it later as a blessing me I'll never forget pastor can't I'll never forgive for a proposed to my wife who is super fine there was a pastor at the time before I was about to propose and it's crazy I really looked up to this pastor and I'll never forget it I was at a conference he pulled me to the side of the conference and he said Robert I hear you're about to propose to Taylor I say yes sir he goes you know she why I said yes sir I noticed he said I say I'm gonna keep it real with you said you can marry her if you want he said but this is America he said just know that marrying her is gonna limit your ministry he said no if you want to marry her that that's cool but just know that the scope of your ministry will be limited if you're in an interracial relationship preached on almost every day and I think back to what he called contradiction oh what's the greatest place of collaboration that's not even a shouting part can I show you the shop you missed it we made that myself that right that was a collaboration look at the beauty that came out of a collaboration in spite of a surface level contradiction I wonder how many beautiful things we would see in the world today if people stop focusing on the contradiction and just collaborate you could take it down too much cute let's take it down take it down can I talk to some married people today the enemy has your eyes on the contradiction and that's why you man what's crazy is it's the contradiction that actually attracted you to them in the first place never used to love how I used to talk all the time oh you got a personality he really everybody just knows how to talk and now you're looking at the contradiction because you've been married for a while and ain't just dates a cheesecake factory like oh he won't shut up all the time dear me don't let the enemy divide what God has put together he always wants us to break apart because of the contradiction crazy that the first miracle of the church was a collaboration between one disciple that had a big heart John and another disciple that had a big mouth Peter and perhaps it was John's compassion that noticed the lame man but it tooks Peters courage go April get up ain't nobody gonna feel sorry for you I got a knife in my pocket oh and trance-like Peter loved collaboration collaboration we can't just talk about Peter and John now focusing on the star of the text who's the lame man whenever I preach a message like this I will often do this I'll sit on the floor because I want to feel even if it's just for a moment I'm gonna feel who I'm preaching about just for a moment what did they feel like even in our current context we don't understand what some of our disabled brothers and sisters have to go through can you imagine in biblical antiquity no wheelchairs no hover rounds the epitome of being stopped when somebody dropped you off you better get comfortable you don't be there for a while didn't work for this man where his legs everything else worked mine work ears word hands work probably had good teeth all that was good all if that was fun the only thing that didn't work were his legs and now one thing fected everything else affecting his relations I mean know where you start the only other people you can talk to is stop people you know why cuz a lame recognize lame affecting his relationships it affected his economy he has the bag now it's affecting his pocket psychology by one thing who some of you think you got all these problems no one thing can affect everything else your bad attitude is affecting every area of your life your procrastination is affecting every area of your life because one thing can shut everything down that crazy when you get stuck for a while you just start building systems around your stuckness you know how to get brown do what you have to do you know you have conversations with other stuff people stuck conversation a bro what you're gonna do today man probably lay here for a little bit what you gonna do just stuck conversation anybody know I talked about you ever just has stuck conversations or maybe have you ever been stuck and experienced the power of God raising you up maybe it was a thought maybe also a word maybe it was just something happened all of a sudden you get up and you're not stuck anymore but you develop the lifestyle of being stuck and you had friends who are stuck and what do you do you try don't you to go back and have conversations with those same stuff people and you're like y'all still talking about this you still going to the same club every night y'all still doing this every day and you trying to figure out what in the world that I ever have in common with you look at you seem like you change see my to change oh yeah that's the point I'm trying to change I don't want to be wrong always wrong I want to be everything that God has created [Applause] hallelujah you better believe I'm changing that's the point that's the point yeah I'm changing it's not the same person at 40 that I was at 20 I wasted 20 years of my seem like you change and you acting brand-new see like you stuck up no I'm not stuck up I'm up you stuck that's the problem with the common systems systems of stuckness and the thing that got me to the text and I preached this passage before and I never saw this the thing that drew me to the text was the Bible said every day they dropped this dude off at the revival every day they dropped him off at the church not just on Sunday every day he got dropped off every day I studied every day in the Greek guess what it means per day every day so I got dropped off every day that means there are two people in this text then nobody ever preaches about I've never preached about him everybody talks about Peter and John but if he got dropped every day there are two other people in this text in relationship with this flame and nobody preaches about and they're here tonight it came to the revival I want them to come on stage now come help me real quick because you know I'm already over time just move fast see everybody talks about Peter and John and the lame and the lame man I've never seen a lame man stand in my life Billy and Bob cuz he got dropped every day you know what that means that means Sunday morning they picked him up they dropped him over here and from the church fast come on he held out his cup and begged he holds out his cup and begs they went to work do whatever they have to do came right back about five o'clock picked him right back up dropped him off right here in his house and then went back to their house and did whatever they had to do that's Sunday Monday came right back picked him up dropped him off right here in front of the church he would hold out his cup and beg they would go to work do whatever they had to do come right back bout five o'clock pick him right back up and then drop him off at his house and after they dropped him off the house then they went back to their house people Tuesday morning came right back you know he was working out in church today picked enough dropped him off in front of the church he would hold out his cup and bag they went toward do whatever they had to do came right back bout five o'clock picked him right back up and then dropped him off at his house over here and then do whatever they have to do I'm just trying to show you the laborious nature of everyday we even got to Thursday they're sweating don't get healed yes we don't get there we go keys every day every day so I hope I'm not bringing my own presupposition to this biblical passage maybe Billy and Bob for the first few weeks did it out of the kindness of their heart you know what they go to a live church maybe they did it a month just trying to be like Jesus every day I think one of those days they picked him up they dropped him off in front of the church he held out his cup and beg they went to work they came back hold up he's been here begging all day so we ain't broke you got a little somethin somethin hey y'all uber ain't even free I think one of those days they looked in that Cup hold your cup out come on home to come they looked in their cupboard say hey man let's get good get your cut come on as many times we've been picking you up come on we did it for months for free get your cut not yet not now don't be greedy just get you get to get a little cut now pick them back up and take them home and whoo don't even feel lighter now and then they drop them off and now they whistling back home come back and now we have collaborators to a six system of someone who's done helped me know at this point Billy and Bob don't want him to be healed they don't want him to be home why would they it would affect their pocket and now we have two people who are the beneficiaries of somebody's dysfunction somebody's disability and the reason I brought Billy and Bob to love revival is to tell somebody in here who is stuck there will always be into what God has for you but there will also be Billie's and Bob's we don't want you whole you know won't you restore I want you to stay broken we want you to stay insecure they don't want you to know how valuable you really are because it is a sick codependent relationship and they have become the beneficiaries of your dysfunction and Billy and Bob can be a girl Billy and Bob can be a man Billy and Bob can be a girlfriend or boyfriend and some of you can't say man cuz you sitting next to Billy and Bob that's all right just look straight ahead they won't know but on the third night if somebody's really gonna become who God has called you to be and you're stuck you gotta check your circle and make sure people are benefitting from your dysfunction thank you so much I appreciate you worship team join me [Applause] later in the text please don't miss this we will find out that that six system of being picked up dropped off holding out as cup that went on for 40 years years get picked up hold out my car make a few bucks give them their cut go back home 40 years get picked up hold out my car make a few bucks give them their cut go back go 40 yeah after 40 years you're just a robot just going through the motions you picked up hold out my car you know you're stuck when you stop looking up no hope no expectation going through life but not living in some of you when I'm in ascribing right now is your life you call it your job go to work make a few bucks and give the IRS their cut call back home what God created you know he came that you might have a life and life more abundantly 40 years until one day that's what I love about the text is the one day even after the years of being stuck this man having one day this is why you can't kill yourself this is why you can never give up this is why you can't throw in the towel because even after years of being stuck somebody on a thank God that Rockets moments right moment at the presence of God contain the true [Applause] [Music] like they just going through the motions hold down his cup head down never get better all of a sudden he hears voices full of the Holy Spirit that say lifted us Anna says this man came Peter and John he's attention I bet he did they broke his routine they broke his system of just going through life you understand that's what God is doing with some of you this week he is trying to disrupt your system of being stuck I'm just going through the motion he is trying to get a paid attention everybody else just step over to dude and went right into Church Peter John was the first people after 40 years who said wait a minute full of the Holy Spirit we ain't got a right to get to church for God to do a miracle my God does miracles in the parking lot if any two or three of us agree touching anything in his name is Shelby doesn't quit they just made a picture it just paid attention man game Peter and Johnny's attention that's what God wants you know what God wants your attention because if he can give your attention he can exceed your expectations I almost say that again if he can get her attention he'll exceed your expectation gave him his attention expecting to get something question what do you think he was expecting again a miracle forty years of being stuck please believe he was not lacing up his Nikes you know what he thought he's like oh they see me I'm not to get paid today he was expecting money in that sand this is the danger of being stuck so long hear me when you've been stuck for so long if you're not careful you will downgrade your dream to fit your reality you will downgrade your dream to fit your current circumstance he was willing to settle for money because he didn't think that move it was possible some of you right now have been stuck for so long you are downgrading your dream to fit your reality I guess we'll never have a good marriage we'll just we'll just be roommates no don't downgrade your dream to fit your reality I guess I'll never have the business I'll just work at this job I hate even though God gave me the business idea no don't downgrade your dream to fit your reality what I ain't no good man out here I guess not just be his side-chick no it's fine I know he Barry but you know we see [Music] don't downgrade your dream to fit your reality with God wants to exceed your expectations I love it as Peter and John look at and say hey we ain't got it can you imagine see you shout when you hear a silver and gold I do not have because you know how the story goes but think about that man can you see these like oh they see me somebody finally sees me oh I'm gonna get some good money we ain't got it thought that at Riga that his greatest miracle hear me was on the other side of his greatest disappointment he first had to hear no before he got his miracle I found sometimes God will tell your dream no cuz you got the wrong dream it's too small for what he wants to do in your life but we do have active here in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth in the name of Jesus Christ through simulation cuz you don't know the power that's in their name but I think for Peter man wasn't that a great message by pastor Robert Madhu I really love the story of John Peter and the lame man the fact that we can call upon the name of Jesus to move us out of a difficult circumstances and into our destiny no matter what difficult circumstances a situation that you're facing today I want you to know you can call upon that same Jesus as a matter of fact right now I'm gonna give you an opportunity to pray with me if you want to accept Jesus Christ for the first time or you want to recommit your life so I'm gonna ask that you bow your head and close your eyes and join with me in prayer Lord we love you and praise you ask you into our hearts forgive us of our sins but we know that you sent your son to die on the cross for us that we have life and have it eternally and so lord help us all the days of our lives in Jesus name Amen and if you made that decision we are so proud of you we're going to ask that you go over to our chat text the word save and one of our staff are reaching out to you in addition to that if you were here for the first time thank you so much for being a part of what we're doing you could be anywhere right now and you decided to be here so we're gonna try to connect with you as well you can just actually go into our chat function reach out to one of our moderators and they would love to connect with you finally we have continued to be generous in this time and we want to thank our partners for being generous as well matter of fact if you still want to continue to give to help us be a generous Church you can actually follow the directions on the screen and we will continue to do what we can to be the light in the darkness man thank you guys so much for all that you're doing we love you we appreciate you and we can't wait to see you soon bye bye

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Length: 54min 0sec (3240 seconds)

Published: Mon May 04 2020