THE FUTURE IS IN YOUR HANDS | Pastor Paul Daugherty

[Music] awesome well we are wrapping up our series the anatomy of the believer how many have enjoyed this series the last seven weeks we have talked about mental health we've talked about emotional health we've talked about our eyes our ears we talked about our mouth we talked about our feet but this morning we're gonna close the series out talking about our hands and I want to title this message the future is in your hands the future is in your turn to someone actually say the future is in your hands you know there's a lot of people that think nope all the future is not in my hands the futures in God's hands the future is in you know my boss's hands the future's in somebody else's hands the futures in our presidents hands I want to tell you that your future is truly in your hands that God cannot control your happiness God cannot control your joy God cannot control you making the right decision I'll never forget being in fourth grade my teacher mrs. Borner in her classroom she had a poster board on the wall that says attitude determines altitude and who's in charge of our attitude is it my wife's job is it the church's job how many y'all know I'm in charge of my attitude all right for y'all the rest of you think it's your pastors job to fix your attitude no no my attitude is in my hands my joy is in my hands my future truly is up to the decisions I make will you say we don't Paul I can't I can't really control the few I can't control what the weather does I can't control what my boss does I can't control how my family treats me you're right you can't control what others do to you but you can control how you react to others you can control how you react to the weather how you react and respond to life's circumstances the future is in your hands your best days are in your hands your best days the days you've been dreaming about the desires that are in your heart they are in your hands and the sooner we figure out that that idea right there the better this past weekend my wife was out of town for a few days she went to go preach at a Women's Conference and and I was lest to take care of the three boys for a little bit with the help of mother-in-law and father-in-law but for a little bit mother-in-law and father-in-law went out on their own little date and so there I was taking care of my three boys Mac and Liam and benaiah and they were rowdy and they were Moody and they were screaming and crying and kicking and fighting and I was trying to separate them and I was thinking where did they get this from and then I realized all the seeds I sowed with my parents when I was a little boy I'm getting a harvest back on on the way that I was with my mom and dad and and and during the middle of the night Liam really wanted to sleep with me because he knew you know mommy was out of town for a night and I said Liam listen you're gonna sleep better I'm gonna sleep better if we're in our own bed like you're gonna kick me all night and who knows I might you know fall over and accidentally hit you with my hand so you just sleep in your bed and you know so I stayed in his bed just for a little bit read him some stories tried to get him to go to sleep he kept waking up in the middle of the night trying to sneak in the bed kept trying to get him to go back to his bed finally I was too tired he crawls in my bed 4 a.m. around 5:00 a.m. 5:15 you know he runs in Benes room they come running in the room at 5:30 a.m. I was thinking it's Saturday morning I'm gonna sleep in at least till 7 a.m. but no my kids wanted to control my day that day and you know they came in and they're crying screaming I want eggs you know and so I get up and start making them eggs and and waffles and I had to make a decision that day that I had to make a decision if I was gonna have a good attitude or a bad attitude and I want to tell you today that the future truly is in your hands God cannot dictate how you react to life's circumstances and you might be here today and say man I've been dealt a bad hand pie I grew up in a rough home I've been dealt you know the wrong --jeans I've got generational curses and addictions alcohol is just a it's always gonna be in my family no I'm telling you today the future is in your hands you don't have to be handcuffed to the generational curses of yesterday you don't have to be handcuffed to a bad attitude you don't have to be handcuffed to a pity party to always feeling like life is knocking you down and kick down today you have the key to set your hands-free you have the key to set your hands-free Ephesians 4 verse 28 if you have a Bible you could turn there and you can make some noise come on the golfers get louder than that when Tiger Woods wins I'm wearing my masters jacket today we get excited about the Word of God come on let's cheer for Ephesians 4:28 boomer sooner Paul the Apostle said if you are a thief if you've been using your hands as a klepto if you've been taking what's not yours stop it instead use that that energy that desire to grab stuff and hold stuff use your hands for good use your hands for good let's say that together use your hands for good our hands are often tempted to do things they should not do from the very beginning of time God put Adam and Eve in the garden and said you can take from any tree you want I've given you hands ten fingers two hands 15 joints and these hands are meant to cultivate the garden seeds and and harvest and I want you to name animals I want you to take care of each other use your hands to comfort each other use your hands for good but what did the serpent do he turned their hands to grab what they shouldn't grab and what happened was from that point on the hands started to be used for all kinds of evil it was Cain's hands that killed his own brother it was it was the hands of Joseph's brothers that threw him in the pit it was the hands of David that killed Goliath but it was also the hands of David that committed murder and adultery it was the hands of the Israelites that that held them back from going into the Promised Land they felt handcuffed to the wilderness handcuffed to their past complaining about what they didn't have complaining that they didn't have enough that their hands weren't strong enough to take down the judge it was their hands that were holding them back who or what is controlling your hands I was looking at and scientists said that our hands are probably the most addictive part of our body that our hands love to grab things touch things old things and and there's some sort of addiction that's connected to our hands we always got to be holding our devices in fact the top 10 addictions in the world revolve around our hands gambling is one of the biggest addictions it's the it's the feeling of holding the dice holding the cards holding the lever it's the idea of using your hands to coordinate something with your eyes the alcohol is one of the biggest addictions that grabbing the alcohol holding the jack daniel´s holding the whiskey something about lifting it to your mouth hand to mouth cigarette smoking they say there's something about holding the cigarette though there's something about the drugs in your hand our hands are so addictive they want to do something your hands we're meant to be used and Paul said since your hands love to do stuff use your hands for good don't stop using your hands don't stop using your hands just channel the energy for good it's interesting right now in South Korea the number one addiction is Internet addiction and Denzel Washington recently had said something about it that I thought was so interesting and important that I think the church needs to see it here so I want you to check this out it has to do with what or who is controlling your hands check this out people have to understand are you using your devices your device using you can you put it down can you turn it off if you don't read the newspaper you're uninformed if you do read it you're misinformed that's the great question what is the long-term effect of too much information one of the effects is the need to be first not even to be true anymore so what a responsibility you all have to be to tell the truth not just to be first but to tell the truth we live in a society now it's just first who cares get it out there we don't care who it hurts we don't care who we destroy we don't care if it's true just say it's sellable my biggest concern is is the unfettered access to to social media and cell phones quite frankly because there's a biology to these things that are as addictive as alcohol nicotine and gambling right now a family is out to dinner at a restaurant not enjoying each other's company but each staring into the screen of their choice completely ignoring the family members and this is mom dad and the children all doing the same thing while they continue to eat they did it the entire meal right now an infant is getting their first iPhone and learning to tap and swipe all while drooling on it 92% of two-year-olds play video games because that is what parents are putting in front of their precious children to keep them entertained and quiet this is your life now no natural behavior everybody's wearing clothes they don't want to wear everybody's showing up and doing something they don't want to do and they have no connection to that's the problem with our society and then what's the reward for all this stuff go home get a big TV go home you're gonna get a shiny belt buckle you're gonna get a nice purse you're gonna wear shoes that you couldn't afford last week you're gonna get that dream car and every week we're chasing down this new object and every week we're trying to fill this hole we now know that many of the major social media companies hire individuals called attention engineers who borrow principles from Las Vegas casino gambling among other places to try to make these products as addictive as possible in South Korea Internet addiction is classified along with alcohol cigarettes and gambling as an addiction you know it's about balance it's not that they're inherently bad and it's not that texting or social media is inherently bad but it's when it gets out of balance if somebody carries their phone wherever they go like they physically feel anxiety if they they put it down when they with their friends and have to have it up the entire time looking at the phone while they're with their friends you know when they wake up in the morning and check their phone before they say good morning to the person sleeping next to them these are problems this is out of balance I'm not knocking the phone what I'm saying is we have to understand we have to at least ask ourselves around the world you here in England wherever you are what is it doing us what is it doing to us what or who is controlling our hands and our hands they really do love to have something in them all the time and the Bible doesn't say you know stop using your hands or you can't have certain things that are good it's about balance right that's what they were saying it's about balance and what I want to share with you today is that God has given you hands for good God has given you hands to change your future to change the world God asked Moses in Exodus 4 verse 2 what is in your hand what is that in your hand Moses said it's a stick it's a staff it's not much Moses had been giving excuses to God about why he was the wrong guy to lead the Israelites out of Egypt why his hands were too weak his voice was too weak his life was you know he had been dealt the wrong hand he couldn't do that and God said I'm gonna use what's in your hand the little that's in your hand it's amazing when we bring our natural what's in our hand God turns it into something supernatural when you bring something calm and God says I can use that I can use that stick I can use that that basketball I can use that desire to create I can use you Paul I can use you I can use what's in your hand today I want to talk to you about really surrendering your hands to God allowing God to use your hands for good allowing God to use your hands to change your family and to change the world to change your future what is in your hand my parents went to Sierra Leone in 1999 and when they went it was a civil war time for Sierra Leone the western part of Africa and they took my brother John with him they were gonna be doing Crusades there and so as they're getting up in front of the people they knew they were going in during during a dangerous time in fact a lot of the church said don't go we don't want to lose you Billy Joe we don't want to lose you Sharon this is this is too dangerous you're going at a very dangerous time but they felt a peace in their heart they went anyways and what had happened was there was a movie made around the same time what had happened there is a government leader had been trying to stop the Civil War there was a rebel army called the ru F army that had been going in and killing thousands of people in fact during a span of six years almost 300,000 people in Sierra Leone were killed at the hands of this rebel army and the government leader ran with a slogan he said the future is in your hands in other words he said this slogan was posted all over Sierra Leone go out and vote go out and vote we can change what's happened in our country this President had a plan he had been working with Great Britain they were gonna change what had been going on the war over the diamond mines in Sierra Leone that there was a whole lot of just corruption that was happening and so he put the slogan up the futures in your hands while the rebel army came in and they started chopping people's arms off they said if the future is in your hands we're gonna cut off your future and the enemy army the rebel army came in so when my parents showed up there were hundreds of amputee refugee camps with thousands of amputees they're just crying and they went in and God used the message from this church to come and bring healing and hope that same month that they went in March of 1999 something miraculous happened the Civil War started to stop that same week there was shouting in the streets God showed up in Freetown Sierra Leone stopped the rebel army brought healing there were even arms that were growing back during that week in Sierra Leone the future shifted for the country when Jesus gets involved you might say Paul I can't do it with my hands you're right with our hands we can't change the future but when we linked hands with God's hands nothing is impossible when you reach your hand out to God's hands nothing is impossible you know I want you to think about imagine that you're down in a pit and you're down there and God's reaching his hand all you have to do is reach your hand up and God will pull you out of that addiction he will pull you out of that depression he will pull you out of that hurt he will pull you out of that unforgiveness but you have to reach your hand out and connect with God's hand the future is in your hand the Bible gives us really a few different ways that our hands can bring freedom into our life and I think first off that the first thing that we see in Scripture is that our hands were created to serve your hands were made to serve right here in our church we sent out yesterday two hundred and ten people from our church north south east and west to go and serve our city with a walk it out outreach it was amazing hearing the reports that all over our city people's lives are being impacted people got saved people got healed yesterday we were able to give out diapers we were able to bless a whole lot of you in Mohawk Manor Tulsa Dream Center we were down here 61st in Peoria we were out at the laundromats paying for people's laundry that was your generosity as a church you went out and served our city if you showed up to the outreach would you stand up I want to honor all those who came and gave part of their Saturday morning to be a part of walking out outreach come on amazing amazing amazing all over this place I walked up to one dad yesterday in our church and he had his two little kids seven year old eight year old and he said you know my kids are so used to playing with video games they're always playing games on their phone they're always watching TV and I wanted to get their hands out serving their city serving their neighbors something happens when we shift our hands from me focused entertainment to going out and serving other people my dad was always encouraging John and I my brother and I to go out and serve our neighbors to go and rake their yard and and no strings attached don't ask for money go shovel the snow when it snows once a year in Tulsa Oklahoma come on the blizzards in Tulsa right that the crazy seasons where all the sudden it just snow and ice hits our city and he would say go out and serve and we'd be like are they gonna pay us and he'd be like serving is no strings attached it's amazing when you start serving God starts blessing your life when you open your hands and say I'm not just giving hoping that you're gonna give me something back I'm giving with no strings attached I'm serving this is what God created our hands to do to serve one another Philippians 2 says have the mindset of a servant a servant just like Jesus Christ serve others in need while we were serving at 61st in Peoria police officer stopped us yesterday and he said what church are you guys from we said victory he said I want to say a word to the church does anyone have a phone can you capture I'd like to just say a word to them about how much this means to this neighborhood I want you to see what he had to say check this out Dobson Floyd I'm a community resource officer for the 60 person fiore area one of the most dense areas in the city of Tulsa in this area two out of their four kids live below poverty and so to have someone come in and do something like this for this community it's big time and it's not just about a couple hours what you guys did today briefly was saying make a lifetime statement for these kids and for the adults in this neighborhood so we want to thank you victory which is poured into this community it means a lot I know all this community is asking for is a hand up not a handout it's good but we thank you we just thank you for blessing this community we pray that you guys continue to come back whether it's to your work through your prayers come on in that powerful give a hand up give a hand up pull somebody up then when you serve you change a generation I want to just give a shout out to the ushers the greeters of the children's church servant leaders the nursery the youth so if you serve in this church Tulsa Dream Center would you stand up if you serve anywhere in this church during your week during your month you give of time effort energy you don't get paid to do it you do it because you love God you love people come on cheer on these amazing servant leaders your hands are touching the world it's amazing it's amazing it's amazing when we use our hands to serve if you're too big to serve you're too small to lead some of us in this room well I've graduated serving you know I earned my degree I served when I was a kid I've already done all the sir I've grown I've retired from serving you never retire from serving the kingdom of God you might retire from from work but don't retire from serving God's kingdom God has a plan to use your hands to serve his purpose and you have something in your hands that I don't have you could touch people I can you can impact people I can never impact I'm so thankful for those who serve in our children's church because my kids they're being taught the Word of God they're being loved on they're being discipled and and and I just we could go into every area the Youth and the nursery this generation this this society needs a church that moves outside of its four walls and touches during the week and impacts and serves those people you could literally apply this message tonight tomorrow you could go out help somebody carry groceries out of a grocery store open the door at a gas station I pay for somebody's gas at quick Chur do something with no strings attached serve your neighbor this week and when they say why did you do it say because I love Jesus and Jesus loves you man and I'll tell you this when you serve God starts opening doors for you number two God's given us hands to work hands to work two people said Amen right there work as an Old Testament thing grace baby grace well the same guy that talked about grace talked about work paul said in colossians 3:22 you're not working for a boss you're working for the Lord so don't put in shoddy work he said give it all you got show up on time stay a little late be the most excellent worker wherever you work because you're working for the Lord as if his eyes were watching you we should be known in our city wherever we work they should look at you and go you must go to victory Church because you are an excellent employee you show up you wear what we asked you to wear you do what we that you are an excellent we need to promote you this happens always I get you know emails of people in our church that say you know because you always talk about us making sure that we're responsible for our attitude we're responsible for our peace our joy I've been doing that on the workplace and I got promoted you know a few weeks ago we had Marquis get up in chairs test moaning and he said something that stood out to me he said God has continued to bless me bless me so much in the form of more work I thought that's that's an awesome way to look at it because oftentimes God's blessings are disguised as wor K right the dreams in your heart will not come to pass with good intentions you got to get out work you got to get out and work proverbs 16 27 says idle hands are the devil's playground idle hands are the devil's workshop when you're not doing anything with your hands you start to do stuff you shouldn't do with your hands my parents used to encourage us you know be busy play sports study instrument study in school be in academics keep your hands work and get a job any job is a good job any job is a good job so you know we mow lawns and then I got a job working as a kids council then I got a job as a janitor and who are you for a couple years and they would just encourage us don't sit with idleness in your hands because you start doing things that you shouldn't do idle hands in other words when your hands aren't working they're wired to do something and if they're not working they just start doing things they shouldn't do or they become lazy proverbs 21 verse 25 says despite their desires the lazy hands will come to ruin for their hand refuses to work in other words desire is not enough like the desire for a good marriage is not enough you got to work to have a good marriage the desire to see your dream come to pass to be a millionaire is not enough to just have the desire put it in your journal you got to go work and any job is a good job start working wherever there's a job well they want me to work from 9:00 to 5:00 well they want me working four days a week welcome to the real world listen guys God is pleased when we use our hands to work and cultivate and allow the dreams and he's put in a heart to come to pass to pay off those debts God did not put us on this earth constantly to be the borrower and not the lender God has called you to prosper but it requires you to get to work to do some work our hands were created to do this blessings miracles and opportunities we'll come your way disguise as w o r k3 our hands were made to create our hands were made to create is there any musicians in the house today any songwriters in the house today any inventors today come on where's the inventors of 2018 God has given us creative hands the same creative power from from the creator of the universe was put inside of men and women that listed the chair you're sitting in the lights you see the stage that you see this microphone it was invented it was created by someone who started using their hands instead of to play video games or to scroll through Instagram all their life to start inventing things that no one had seen before Thomas Edison used his hands 10,000 times trying to configure a way to make a light bulb and finally it happened the Wright brothers used their hands to imagine what they could build they didn't just dream about an airplane they started working on the first airplane Henry Ford I could keep going to George Washington Carver he had a peanut what's in your hand God asked Moses it's just a stick what's in your hand George it's just a peanut this is all there is to it God said there's more to the peanut I put creativity inside you imagine what the peanut could do and George started using his hands using his hands to develop all the different ways that now we use the peanut when I was writing songs as a worship leader for our church God started allowing me to have this idea to start creating all kinds of different songs for our church God wants us to operate with creative hands my art teacher in school she used to start a prayer off Miss Judy Macintosh she'd say let's pray oh great artists of the universe I love that the great artists of the universe creator Lord bless my hands with creativity as I get ready to paint or sculpt this or draw this you see God has given each of us creative genius on the inside of us you have creativity I believe that the future Steve Jobs is sitting in this church I believe the future Jeff Bezos Elon Musk Bill Gates is sitting in this church the world is waiting for Christians that would rise up and link their hand with the greatest artist of all and say let's create something that could change our nation and the nations of the earth think about Warby Parker these guys start thinking of ways to sell glasses at a cheaper price and then to give glasses away TOMS shoes thinking of ways to sell cool shoes and give another pair of shoes away in another nation listen God has given you businessman creative inventive ideas that could change and interrupt and disrupt the system of today God's given us hands to create number for God's giving us hands to love and still if I'm almost done are you getting anything out of this church your hands were made for something good your hands were made to love you know it's amazing how our hands literally have their own language I want to just come over here to our amazing sign language team and every service this group rotates to do sign language the language of the hands the language yeah yeah the language of the hands what does love look like you know our hands really do tell a story our hands tell a story to the people around us your body language is speaking I remember my dad used to show up to football games and oftentimes I would not be doing that well out on the football field or my basketball games I struggled in high school but I was good in college intramural sports but he would show up and he would use his hands to communicate his love for me because he was far in the stands and and he couldn't shout loud enough for me had to protect his voice to preach every week and but he would use his hands to communicate encouragement and I would look in the stands and he would always have two thumbs up two thumbs up go ahead lift off your two thumbs Church right here can I tell you you have the power to love people in your life with your hands our hands we're not meant to abuse our family members maybe you grew up in a home where they punched you they slapped you maybe you grew up in a home where hands were used to hurt you but the future is in your hands I can't control the hand that I was dealt I can't control my past but the future is in my hands you can change your future you can break the generational curse of abuse of violence in your home you could start living with two thumbs up for your family members encouraging each other hugging each other and my kids they're all about physical touch it's like their biggest love language they always want to give me a hug a mug which is from Daniel the tiger they want to rub noses come on y'all know Daniel the tiger yeah and we're gonna rub noses kids hugging no another ugga-mugga you know okay all right I'll never forget when wuyuan transferred from South Korea to tost Oklahoma to victor christian school as a sophomore it was in 2001 I was 16 years old he came to our school went through the whole school year didn't really even know we won and I thought he had friends and I guess I just wasn't paying attention he came on our spring break missions trip and I really wanted to room with my best friend's Daniel Daniel and Daniel those were those are three best friends I had but what happened was that the people that were overseeing our missions they they put us in different rooms it kind of made sure not just to put all the best best friends in the same room because I want us to get to know our classmates so I was placed in the room with one and we won and I got to know each other a little bit during that week and the week had gone by just last night of the trip and we were all praying for people at the altar was in Mexico and I saw one out of the corner of my eye and I felt this impression in my heart wasn't the audible voice of God it's just a little whisper in the heart go hug whoo one go hug use your hands go hug whoo wanna yeah you know he's a guy I'm a guy were sixteen years we just don't go and hug dudes you know like and but I heard guys say just stop it go hug him and so I went over there and I put my arm around one he just looked at me and he was like what are you doing and I was like I don't know but I just feel like I'm supposed to come hug you and I was about to move my arm off and he turns and he just bear hugs me and I'm kind of standing there I'm insecure sixteen year old looking to see if the Daniels are watching or anybody not the day we care but you know I'm hugging Wu one right there and it was hot it was probably hundred degrees that day in Mexico and that church were sweating for literally 25 30 minutes he won't let go he's balling my shirt is drenched with tears and he backs up and he says I'm sorry I've really missed my mom and dad and my brother and you're the first American to hug me and I've been living in in America I left my family in South Korea transferred here and I've been so far from home and I haven't had my family members and you're the first American to hug me and then when he said that it hit me I thought oh my goodness we can be so selfish in our society we could be so inundated it's selfie Center just scrolling through our devices waiting for someone else to initiate a friendship waiting for someone else to comment to like our pick what about me me me me my mind my mind God was like see life's not all about you man life's not all about you there's people in your life that are waiting for a hug there's someone in your life that's waiting for two thumbs up there's someone in your life that's just waiting for you to come and put a hand on their shoulder and say you're gonna make it your best days are in front of you son your best days are in front of you honey I'm telling you I love you squeeze someone's hand this week and say God loves you just show up just a little sign our hands have the power to show love let's use them to show love amen all right number five our hands were made to heal jesus said you will the hands on the sick and they will be healed let's do it right now if you're sick right now you had a doctor's report that's negative about your body I want you to raise your head if you could use healing in your body right now just lift your hand up if you need health or healing you need something to change on a doctor's report if you're sitting beside someone with their hand raised would you put your hand on their shoulder or maybe hold their hand and just pray for healing for them right now our hands were made to bring healing into the world Lord I pray right now as believers lay hands on the sick that they shall recover lord I thank you that your word is coming to pass that our hands were made to bring healing to the earth so lord I pray for emotional healing I pray for healing in the brain healing God in their mind I pray for healing and someone's back right now there's power flowing through your hands you don't even realize it when you open your hands up to be used by God God says you will lay hands on the sick and they will recover in Jesus name I pray for peace God that's being released out of someone's hand god I pray in Jesus name for love that's being released this week I pray in Jesus name for healing of cancer in Jesus name every sickness and disease has to bow the name of Jesus Lord I thank you for miracles happening right now even in this service healing hands in Jesus name if you agree with that say amen amen and lastly our hands are created to give our hands are created to give proverbs 11 verse 24 says the world of the giver the world of the generous gets larger and larger your hands were made to give now now this is a this is an exciting part of the service I'm about to share a secret with you that no one else knows outside of this room that didn't come to church this morning or last night how many y'all would like to know a secret this happening a victory not enough people I'll wait till next week God has opened the door for an amazing generous situation that's about to happen through this church and it really dates back a long time ago to tell this point I really have to tell a story because when I was a kid I remember we were renting the mavey Center we didn't have this auditorium you're sitting and this was built in 2007 but for for 20-plus years our church would rent the maybe Center every week it was a mobile Church I mean we were meeting in the mavey Center before that we were meeting in a parking lot we were meeting I mean we were meeting in a tent we were believing God for our own Auditorium and I remember when I was 12 years old my mom and dad dropped me off at youth group I asked him to drop me off far away from my friends because I didn't want them to see my mom's van pulling up and dropping me off in front of the teenagers but I asked my parents that night is it ever a vision in your heart to have have our own like youth building next generation Center a place you know where teenagers could call their own and and something that's really on the same side of the street as the rest of the campus and my parents they said yeah you know what it actually is we've talked about we dreamed about one day having a Youth Center a center for next generation that's really on the same side of the street as the church because parents would always say man I feel like I'm dropping my teen off almost at a separate Church it's like two miles down the road it would be really nice if there if the youth group was happening right here next to the church building and and I didn't know this but my dad had started to make some ideal plans some blueprint plans and during that time his associate pastor pastor Bruce Edwards who's here this morning with us I'm so thankful for Bruce Edwards if you know him you know how much of a key part of this church he's been and he's typically at Saturday night service but I asked him to come this morning as I get ready to share some exciting news with you so time went on nothing happened with with you know building a youth center or youth group place we continue to utilize that building for our school of worship our Victor Bible College are our continual discipleship classes and youth group that happens there every week all kinds of different things I mean it's constantly filled with people people people all of our buildings that we've done as a church is all about people it's never been about a building that's always been about reaching more people and when my father passed away I remember during that time just thinking man I I wonder you know what's gonna happen with some of the vision that was in his heart some of the vision that we even talked about and one day I was sitting in the office with Bruce Edwards and my mom she was serving as the interim pastor I had to become the pastor yet and I said hey what about you know we just built these Victor Bible College dorms it wouldn't it be cool if we had like a place that would hold like the youth group and the victory College and the school of creative arts like the worship school of worshipping and the studio and and and graphics and all that kind of stuff where when we were training up because the next generation needs it I mean right now this is the most susceptible generation to depression to walking away from God walking away from absolute truth right now this generation only 2 out of 10 people that were born after 1997 still believe that God and the church is relevant for their life which means that this is a generation that is desperate for truth desperate for love desperate for hope desperate for realness like real real Church not just fake you know and and so I started you know started up and Bruce in my mom said you know that's that's been a vision like your dad's talked about that there's blueprints laying around here now so we prayed about it talked to the board about it again just you know wasn't the right time until this year and dr. Billy Wilson who's the president of Oral Roberts University reached out to me said hey what victory be interested in potentially selling the building at 81st to Delaware the the building where you have youth group and victory Bible College and and I started to think about all the seeds victory is sewn into oru over the years this ministry has sent more students to oru out of our school out of our Bible College out of our church than any other ministry we know but it's an amazing connection God is connected Victorino are you literally like at the hip we're like together in this but he said do you think you know that building was built by Oral Roberts that was their one of their first buildings over here in south Tulsa they built do you think picture would be interested in Salomon so I started talking to the board I said you know if we were to sell that we could build our own new building on this side of the street we can bring all of those ministries the youth has always wanted to be connected to parents and our youth groups been growing like crazy in the last few months like preparing like meeting to be expanded and grown beyond the room that they've been meeting in and then on top of that our Victor Bible College in order for it to grow like we we have to get it how awesome would it be for college students to wake up from their dorm room and be able to walk to class on the same side of the street these dreams all of a sudden the board started going this is God and the board began to pray on it and oru decided you know let's do an appraisal on let's see what the appraisal comes back at oru has made an offer to buy that building and that land and the board has voted to accept their offer for seven million dollars we are closing on the first week of January and we're going to get ready to build right here on this side of the street a next generation Center for teenagers for college students for kids our best days right front of us Church come on get ready get ready get ready this is so exciting you don't even realize like this is amazing it's a miraculous okay now you might be wondering when are we gonna build it how are we gonna build what's it gonna look like where is it gonna be built it's gonna be built over here over there I'm glad you're asking we're gonna do we're gonna give you more information in the weeks and months ahead we're gonna do a whole vision on this specifically in November after our husk room series in October but guys it's time to go after the next generation like never before it's time to reclaim a generate for the future for the future for your kids your children's children man I just get excited for what God has in store for victory I want to show you a video of what this is gonna look like again this is just a sneak peek there's gonna be more details coming in the weeks ahead but check this video out and then we're going to come to a time here of worship and giving here at the end check this out hey pastor Paul here and I want to let you in on some really really exciting news in fact this news that I'm about to share with you has been a vision that's been stirring in my heart for seven years my dad passed away in 2009 I found some blueprints in his office about the expansion in the future growth of our ministry and the idea of centralizing our campus what would it look like to bring the college here to bring our youth group here to bring our children's church down from the third floor to the first floor with their own space to have room for growth in classes and expansion connected to our worship center God has opened the door for us to be able to sell our land and building victory college to worl Roberts University with the sell of that land and building that allows us to get started on this future vision that gets us on a great path of running towards seeing this new building being built right here the potential to purchase four acres on the back side of our property right by Victory Park and the potential to make renovations in our Victory Christian school building this is such an exciting vision for us because when my parents had the vision to build our worship since they knew someday this pad would be a connection building they even made sure that the wall on the far side of our Worship Center would be a non load-bearing wall we had a vision for growth and expansion even when we were building that building so we're asking for your prayer and your support let's do this together let's grow let's expand let's continue building the kingdom of God for the future and I'm telling you our best days are right in front of us come on Jesus so now you know the secrets out and we do plan on bringing the children's church from the third floor down to the first floor we've had a lot of parents say man be awesome to have kids down here on the first floor you know walking up that three flights of stairs and the L of the one elevator back there would be awesome so this is going to prepare the expansion for children's church youth victory College bringing over the school of worship our school of creative arts preparing for growth for what God has in store at the Enduro there's two things I want you to pass down and everyone please take one even if you don't plan to give there's one card that says for the future and then there's envelopes brand new victory offer and envelopes and I want to encourage you to take one even even if you already gave or you don't plan to give today just to put in your Bible or take home and put it in your car because I believe God is about to unleash and release more in this church and through this church to touch the city to touch our state to touch our nation and the nations of the earth I'm gonna invite pastor Bruce Edwards up here to say a word over our offering and get ready to pray over it yay this is exciting pastor Paul when that's Paul called and we were talking he was sharing the opportunity that he just laid out here with oru wanting to buy our Bible School building and then sharing his heart about reaching this next generation and positioning the church to grow God just begin to stir my heart and excitement began to rise up inside of me and I began to think about times of prayer in conversation with pastor Billy Joe as we were birthing this Worship Center this Lewis campus he drove win one day across the on the other side of Lewis in the parking lot above are you this was just vacant land was a pecan farm God dropped a vision in his heart and he took out a pad of paper and he began to sketch what God was showing him the buildings that were being there would be here and how the out of these buildings we would from 7700 South Lewis reach the nations of the world and in those plans were the things that pastor Paul was just sharing yeah there's a worship center there's a school the Bible School was to be here the youth the children all of the things reaching training up students that we would send out to the name all happening right here from 7700 South Luis that's almost 40 years ago but God's faithful and step-by-step God would just open a door and we'd buy the land we'd build the school building all this time we're using other buildings pastor Paul allude to we were in a tent we were in a car lot we rented thorough building from Tulsa Public Schools TL Osborn gave us his building we had to pay to remodel it where we had the Bible School for a while then the OREA building which is the Bible school building now we've used different buildings for a season and then God would open the door we met in the maybe sinner then build the Worship Center what I'm saying is this what pastor Paul's is part of the original vision this is part of building what God has called us to do and what stirs me is the purpose of it to reach the next generation hear me church this is an hour and time where the church needs to get focused and have an intentional purpose of reaching this next generation this is Z generation 86 plus million who don't know the Lord who a small percentage two out of ten who even begin to lightly believe it's time for us to do our part that's what this is if you want to change a nation if you want to change the world the only way that happens is if we reach the next generation with the gospel of Christ that's what we're prepared to do our part we're not the only ones but we're gonna do it better than we've ever done it before it's always been part of our vision but we're gonna position ourselves to do it better than we've ever done before that building is cell that's a miracle it's a miracle the God in His infinite wisdom positioned everything for this particular moment now here's the deal we need to rise up and do this two things we need to be doing Church you need to one be praying be praying for pastor Paul and pastor Ashley and the team as they continue to put together the overall plan of transitioning from that Bible School building on to this campus a lot of it's already under way and he's sharing part of that is he shared over the next several weeks we'll be sharing more details about it as all of those details become come together we've got to get everybody that's in that building over here on this campus this isn't just something that would be nice to do this is something we have to do and so be praying for God's wisdom and then be praying for what your part is every one of us have a part and there will be a specific time of commitment as pastor Paul shares the vision and begins to stir our faith to begin to stretch our faith in the things that God wants us to do when Nehemiah shared the vision to the people about building the wall the temple had been rebuilt but the walls had not been built 70 years for one reason another didn't get built and then God dropped it in Nehemiah's heart one of God's young generals God uses young men to inspire us he used Joshua and Caleb and Joseph and Nehemiah he used pastor Billy the pastor Billy Joe got that vision in his late 20s and then birthed it in his 30 now here's young pastor Paul in his 30s with the same vision stirring us up preparing the lead us into into this the people of God responded into me oh my and when I'm challenging us and what I'm saying pastor Paul is just like the people in the day of Nehemiah they said let us rise up and build and I'm saying let us rise up and build we can do this with God's help take your offer how to pray over I want to pray over you father thank you Lord for vision thank you for leaders who will inspire and stretch our faith more that we will enlarge our tent of meeting we would Lord lengthen our cords and strengthen our stakes we would have stretch our faith I pray for every person here Lord stir us up I pray where the seed that's being sown today Lord let it be multiplied let it go let it grow in Jesus name speak to us Lord we pray for wisdom pray for pastor Paul and Ashley and the team well this is going to be a the right thing at the right time doing the right thing in Jesus name and everybody said amen and amen but we're gonna worship God as we give and really the last part of this message is that our hands were made to worship our hands were made to worship and so right now as we give to God you could take your time filling out your envelope the usher will be passed by the buckets if you want to text to give and then once the buckets come by let stand or feet let's worship God today for what he has done and what he's doing and what he's about to do you're the neighbor you are in my heart how great we slit our hands this morning hands to worship Jordan we praise you [Music] here's my heart [Music] come on let's worship in this morning if you want to come down to the front with is darker sympathy I don't see how [Music] sokka I want to invite those you that are facing some battles right now those that need a miracle in this room maybe it's in your finances maybe you're believing for debt freedom maybe you're believing for a promotion maybe you're in a season right now where you're releasing and stretching your faith for God to do more in and through your life if that's you I want you to just leave your seat as a step of faith and if you'll come down to this altar today I believe that as we release our praise and our worship God's going before us he's coming behind us he's coming beside us there's something powerful about worship when we lift our hands to God and we worship it worthy are you God in the Old Testament they would always send the worshipers before the fighters it was like worship was paving the way for the break through worship and praise was paving the way for the miracle you're never gonna learn you're never gonna let me down you're never gonna you're never gonna let me down you're never gonna learn you're never gonna let me down I know yeah [Music] you're never gonna let me down you're never gonna let me down through it all every season every high you are good [Music] Oh [Music] me too he's going he's going on you he says I'm making away when there seems to be no way yeah your face [Music] you know something amazing happened in the 9:00 a.m. service we were worshipping just like this towards the end and and when I shared the vision I forgot to say in this service that that even though that sevens coming in are our goal for enable to do this to be able to accomplish it as 11 million and that we have to raise four more million over the next two years to hit that by vision 2020 this is going to be a thing we're going to see come to pass in 2020 well as we were worshiping someone came up and they brought a note they said while we've been worshiping God laid it on the heart of a person in the church - so a hundred thousand dollars this morning towards that four million and again while you start to worship God starts to when we release what's in our hands maybe you're here right now and you're carrying burdens worries stress anxiety just gassed at Honda Lord Lord we worship You God you're never gonna let me down God says yeah yeah just give it all just release it don't hold anything back maybe some of you you feel handcuffed to your past God says the key to set your hands-free is worship there's a key to break free of those handcuffs you've been in to the debt to the fear to the depression to the addiction of the how alcohol the addiction to the nicotine the addiction to the pornography God says I've given you the hand the key to set your hands free and it's in your praise and worship as you start to use your hands for good I'm going to change what the enemy has been trying to use your hands for evil about to break the shackles off your hands [Music] [Music] for them look out of hiding they knew [Music] are you come on were these [Music] you [Music] you are God Oh [Music] through it all for these who were [Music] where is the you are [Music] and Lord I'm a man I'm a man by you Lord I'm amazed by how you love [Music] by third [Music] [Music] says I love you I forgive you I'm working all things together for good you got a bright future [Music] [Music] I just see God reaching his arms out like the father of the prodigal son saying come on home son I got everything you need right here in the house everything you've been searching for he says I'm gonna give you mercy and grace forgiveness I'm gonna lead you beside still waters I'm gonna strengthen you I'm gonna restore your soul for the person that felt like they lost it you felt like you failed God says I'm gonna lift you up out of the pit that you went into I'm gonna pull you out of that discouragement out of that fail you're out of that depression the world is waiting for the greatest comeback story and it's gonna come out of the church God says I've got a comeback story for you what looked like a setback is a setup for a comeback victory God says I'm gonna lead you into a life of victory what the enemy meant for harm I'm gonna turn around for good where the enemy thought he had you cornered I'm about to deliver you for my name's sake God says for the glory of God [Music] yeah the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want he makes me lie down in green pastures [Applause] leaves me beside still waters whoa he restores my soul [Music] he restores my soul [Music] yea though I walk through the valley I will not fear cuz I'm coming outta here yeah he prepares a table before me can the presence of my he's about to shiny with favor [Music] my cousin [Music] [Music] surely is goodness and mercy will follow me all my days surely goodness and mercy [Music] surely goodness and mercy whoa surely goodness and mercy will follow me I'm coming out of the valley coming out of the valley coming out of the shower Oh Tess you are beaten [Music] [Applause] God has the victory whoa I'm coming down come on who's coming out this morning [Music] yes you can be [Music] or yours is the victory and I'll tell in his house Jesus I'll stay in his presence [Music] it's greater than any place his piece in his house [Music] I know we've stayed a little longer today and typically we dismissed by now but I feel like God's doing something in your heart if you have to run out go for it but I feel like right now God's that's touching some people's lives uh-huh I feel like God's saying you're coming out of that Valley you've been walking in you were never it was never a permanent place the shadow of death it was never a permanent it's just a shadow you were never meant to die there your dream was never meant to die God says I've got a plan just like I have a plan for Paul and victory I pull that dream back off the shelf God says I'm gonna bring some dreams to pass you've been sitting on for 20 years God says you've been waiting and get ready victory acceleration this is the year of acceleration you might the world might say man that's happening fast they don't know what you've walked through they don't know how many times you've cried waiting and hoping wondering if God hears you God says I've counted all your tears I've caught all your prayers no prayer goes unnoticed by God God said I have an appointed time for that breakthrough you're coming out of the valley you're coming out of the shadow get ready get ready God says I'm your shepherd I'm gonna lead you I'm gonna guide you and it's not for your glory it's not for your namesake it's for my namesake God says it's for the glory of God so the world will know there's a God who loves them that's greater than any thing they've been taught that's greater than any confusion that they've had from from any person that's tried to distract them from the Word of God the God says I'm gonna take those hands that you feel like are dirty and messed up and unclean and I'm gonna use those hands to touch your city to touch the world to change your family the future is in your hands release whatever it is you've been holding on to the shame the guilt the regret the bitterness the pride the arrogance God says it's not about you it's all about God and God's gonna use you let's pray this together if you're here today with heads bowed and eyes closed if you're not right with God you want to get right with God this is your moment if you say man I need to surrender to Jesus if you if you if you're right now at that point I want you to just lift your hand up maybe you need freedom in your life maybe you've been addicted to something you need freedom right now from that addiction you needed salvation you're saying I need to reach my hand out I need God to pull me out of this pit but I've been in depression yeah let's pray this together say Jesus thank you thank you for rescuing me thank you for saving me thank you for your forgiveness you gave your life for mine so that I could have eternity with you Jesus I surrender to you all I am I repent of sin and I receive your forgiveness God thank you for cleansing me use my life my hands my feet all I am for you in Jesus name Amen and amen I Love You Victor he's gonna be your best week yet look hey I pray that message spoke to you ministered to you like you heard in the message we've casted the vision to the church now we're casting it to you online the future is bright here at victory and we invite you to be a part of it by giving today if you'd like to help us reach the next generation you could do it right there there's a link online to do it maybe God spoke to you today maybe you gave your life to Christ URI committed your life to Christ we want to hear from you there's any way we can pray for you or encourage you in your walk with Jesus we are here for you leave a comment at the bottom of the page again we are so excited for what God is about to do the future is truly in your hands let's use our hands this week to love those that are closest to us let's use our hands to give to serve to help build up God's kingdom to work on the dreams that he's put in our hearts let's continue to use our hands and surrender to God's will for our lives we love you so much it's gonna be your best week yet god bless

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Length: 69min 10sec (4150 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 30 2018