The Power of the Promise | Week 3 | 5/3/20

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hey good morning Life Church 7 so good to see you today we're glad that you're watching with us and hopefully you're doing well in your living rooms maybe in your car on your phone wherever you find yourself would you just take a moment and just share the feed go ahead and click that share button also we would love if you would in the chat put where you're watching from I just want to encourage you it's so fun to know where everybody is because we are all together and we love each other and we miss being in the same room but thank the Lord that we're connected online right now so just want to let you just take a moment do that also wherever you are if you could stand with me and take your hands and lift them up we're gonna invite the presence of the Lord into your home right now we're gonna ask God to touch and fill you and I just want to read a quick scripture to you it comes from Psalms 91 that says those who live and the shelter of the most high will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty this I declare about the Lord he alone is my refuge my place of safety he is my god and I trust him and I just want to encourage you today you can trust God he is with you he is for you and we're just gonna believe right now that the presence of God is going to fill your house your heart your life is manifest presence is gonna transform you right now so I want you to lift your hands with me we're gonna welcome and by dispense the Holy Spirit we welcome you we thank you that we can trust you we have confidence in you we will not be shaken we love you we praise you you are lord over everything and I pray right now against all fear all anxiety it's gone and we choose to worship you it's our weapon it's our warfare and we love you we praise you and we thank you for all that you're gonna do today I just bless every person that's watching right now we thank you for it and we love you in Jesus name Amen hey let's worship 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watch a feed and to like be passive and say wow that sounds good but something happens when you participate when you join it when you say I'm not just watching I'm engaged I'm participating so I want you right now it might be awkward I don't care cuz something's gonna happen in your heart when you just begin right now to say God your words would you say it out loud don't say it quietly out I got you're worthy you're worthy physical obedience brings supernatural release God is releasing his presence into your home right now when you declare god you're worthy you're worthy I praise You God I know now my circumstances might be difficult but I praise You God cuz you're gonna bring breakthrough God you're gonna bring victory God you're gonna bring healing God some of your being healed right now in your praise anxieties falling off of you as you praise Him joy is filling you when you've been a you love this morning angry God is releasing joy right now into your heart it's being broken off for you right now you're worthy you're worthy God you're worthy we worship you we praise you so just say that right now god I praise you in the middle of a pandemic god I praise you god I worship you I don't worship you because of what I see I worship you because of who you are I worship you I worship you something you need to stand up right now in your home you need to stand out there something's gonna happen when you stand you need to stand up in your home right now and just say I worship you got you need to stand up in your room right now and say God I worship you I praise you I delight in you I love you I honor you you're so good to me you're so kind you provide for me [Music] crazy crazy I praise you I praise you in the morning appraising the afternoon I praise you in the evening I praise you all the days of my life I praise you got he's releasing his power right now right into your heart right into your home something's happened there's an atmosphere that just shifted in your home right now and that's your new normal you're not gonna partner with that other thing anymore if a new normal right now and is partnering with his praise he's enthroned he's the king of your home he's the king your heart is king your family and it just comes to craze so he just praise you go I could just be here for a while we got a service to continue so we're gonna transition into a time of worshipping through our offering I want to encourage you today to give up your tithes and your offerings to the Lord it's biblical this is something beautiful when we say God everything I have is yours so it's already yours to begin with so I just I delight and giving it back to you I delight in praising if they're giving and the Lord's been providing for our church and they know many stories of people you've been provided for but it's amazing as we've been doing these online services I got a story somebody messaged us from Alaska and he said I feel like I'm in Richland but I'm in Alaska he said I know what you guys mean when you say you love people well because I'm being loved well all the way in Alaska feeling the power in the president there's something powerful happening as we've been doing these online services with worship with everything that people are getting touched all over the world by the presence of God it's amazing we have 12 times the amount of people watching online than we did just two months ago it's amazing what the Lord is doing and I think sometimes we I wish I could turn the camera around and you could just look at the room right now the chairs are out there's cords everywhere there's lights there's cameras that our auditorium has totally been been transformed but at some point we're all gonna come back together and we're praying at some point is soon right but we believe that we don't want to just think about today we want to think about tomorrow and tomorrow it's gonna be together but it's also gonna be online and so we're praying for God to provide the means to be able to do this permanently we're borrowing a lot of stuff I'm just gonna be honestly we're borrowing a ton of stuff and we want to put these things in permantly so we can permanently get this online presence everywhere and so just to be open with you it's gonna cost about one hundred sixty thousand dollars to do that to get all the equipment all the things that we need to do that and so we launched this fun for our online campus and it's on you're giving up I want to encourage you if you have been touched wherever you are if you're in Alaska right now if you're in Florida wherever you are if you're in the Seven Cities right now and you're seeing the impact of an online service I want to encourage you would you sow a seed would you give today to this ministry if it's blessed you if you know it's gonna bless others you're not just giving for today again you're giving for tomorrow for what God's doing tomorrow and so you can go online the giving options are coming up right now on the screen you'll be able to see them you can give online at Life Church 7 com / giving or you can give through the LC 7 app you download that app you can give through that but again I just want to pray over your offering and over your finances the Lord is providing for you so let's pray together Lord Jesus we thank you God for being the provider we thank you God for what you're doing online for the people who are in Alaska who are in Florida who are in the seven cities and around this region who are getting blessed that we're still able to worship you you cannot quarantine the Holy Spirit and so we're able to worship you and gather around you around a screen and somehow your power is being transported right into our hearts digitally and we thank you for that God and so we sow into that God we give to that we say more Lord would you bless and reach more people than we ever thought possible would you bless each one God for the ones right now who need a financial miracle God you are the miracle working God there's always two sides of a miracle the need and then the provision and some people are coming to you right now with the need and I know Lord you're gonna meet them with the provision we're declaring that in Jesus name and so we pray over any person who needs a miracle financer and now we pray God that you would bring favor and provision in your holy name if that's you would you just say right now I receive that I receive that I receive it Lord I believe it Lord and God for every person as they give would you bless them every person as they give Lord as they sacrifice for what you're doing would you bless them more and more and more we agree together if you agree would you just say this with me amen I'm so glad you're part of this if you haven't shared the feed yet you need to share it we're gonna move into a time of announcements and pastor miles gonna be coming up here right now but thank you guys so much for joining us [Music] well good morning everyone live Church seven family thank you worship team and pastor Marcus pastor mark just said our our Life Church 7 family has grown 12 times since this quarantine has happened and so even though it's been difficult to be separate we see that God is doing something really really really unique in this time and so he encouraged you to share it I'm gonna encourage you to share it again just click share and also after you go ahead and share it why don't you put it in the chat where you're from pastor mark mentioned that we have people from Alaska watching it we have people in Honduras watching it we have people all over the United States watching and gathering together with us so would you just put that in the chat where you're from we'd love to just see where you're watching from so we can know where where this feat is going who is being blessed by this because our goal is that on the other side of this that we don't come back the same we come back transformed and better and ready for all of the new things that God has for us amen amen well we have some exciting things happening here at Life Church 7 even though we're in quarantine we have different ways that we want to connect with you and so every week day Monday through Friday you can join us for it you can join us for devotions it's at 9:30 in the morning you can join the pastors 9:30 it lasts 30 to 45 minutes it's just a great time of studying the Word of God together we will pray together you can put in just different prayer requests that you might have just a powerful time of connection and then on Wednesdays at 1 o'clock we have a worship set it's just just an awesome time of just being in the presence of God how many of you you just put it in the chat after you tell us where you're from how many of you been blessed by the worship here at Life Church 7 how many you've just been encouraged by listening to the just the worship set on Wednesdays and on Sunday mornings so go ahead and mark that in your calendar join us even if you're working you can have it on in the background it's such a powerful time if you are interested in being a part of our church's supernatural school of ministry that's right for those of you who have not actually been to our church but you have found us during this quarantine period we have a supernatural school of ministry that has been going on now for two years and so if you're interested in applying to be a part of that school you can do that now and you can do it online at our website it's such an incredible incredible time for you to come and grow and understand your identity in the Lord and all that he has to offer you ladies this Wednesday zowie ladies come on mark your calendar seven pm on Facebook I'm hosting a Kristina Gilbreth who's just an incredible powerhouse woman of God and we're gonna have an honest conversation about finding victory in quarantine about having mental health in quarantine is such an incredible time would you join me for it it's about 45 minutes I promise you be encouraged you're gonna laugh and you will walk away feeling more joy than than you did before you started it and then next Sunday for those of you who have forgotten because I know that in quarantine the days kind of seem to run together next Sunday is Mother's Day so fellas I'm helping you out early go buy her a gift now but next Sunday is Mother's Day and so we just want to encourage you to join us if your if your mom even if you're in quarantine you can't physically be with her encourage her to join us for an incredible Mother's Day service next Sunday and as always if there's anything that we can pray with you about you can text prayer two four eight four eight four eight and we would love to pray with you and now it's my privilege and honor to introduce to you for those of you who don't know who he is but those of you who do he's our lead pastor pastor Wes Lindsey ah Thank You pastor Mayo so good well by faith it's so good to see you this morning and I can tell you this that I deeply miss seen our the body of Christ and so many who attend and giving you a hug it's this certainly has been a time of adjustment and but I just want to thank you for your faithfulness you love for Christ in the church is moving on the church continues to grow God is at work and I this morning just really partnering with our other pastors who have spoken we have an amazing speaking team and I'm so thankful for each one of them pastor drew began our messages as series called the power of the promise and it's from the book of Acts and really laid out the foundation of the early promise and the power that Savannah is available to us then last week Pastor Mark spoke and he really in out of Acts chapter two and three shared such a dynamic powerful truth I would encourage you to go back if you haven't heard those messages go back and listen to them today I'm gonna pick up at Acts chapter four and just really impressed to all of this the look I really had an amazing encounter with a Holy Spirit yesterday it was so cool in my office and I'm gonna talk about that a little bit in here but I just right in your living rooms and wherever you're at today would you just open up your hands and your arms to the Lord and we're just want to welcome the Holy Spirit to come and touch every person so lord I thank you wherever this feat goes throughout the world throughout the seven cities throughout Washington around America different parts of the world and around the world Holy Spirit would you come and would you work in people's hearts would you work in people's lives would you reveal the Word of God and the truth of who Jesus is Lord made today be a day of deliverance made today be a day of healing made today be a day of salvation father I thank you that through God we're gonna do valiantly for the Lord it is you who has tread down all of our enemies so Lord today I just invite your presence and I welcome your Holy Spirit in Jesus name Amen amen what's so good to see CH one and let me just begin my mouth H what message with just my own a little bit of my own experience during this season for the church people who would attend this Life Church 7 know that I love to walk and I do a lot of walking and since covered 19 has started I really haven't stopped walking but now they're covered 19 walks and so kovat 19 has is just really affected I live in West Richland I walk an area of about four and a half miles and I walked down Keene and bombing range and then I go through these Twin Lakes and then I walk up to a park and around and and now when I'm walking I'm aware of people and their challenges when I walk I just have shorts on and shirt on and I'm praying and just that's why I'm going but when people approach me I know that they want distancing I know they don't want to hug and and most of them don't want to talk about it oh my I found that most people are incredibly polite really really kind in walking through this but you can tell there are some people who are just absolutely paranoid and they're filled with fear and they've got all their gear on they've got their masks on there it's hot it's seventy five eighty degrees that are all covered up and on one particular occasion I'm walking down that bombing range and there's an older couple that's walking up to me and so I just want to honor them and I get off the path aways and when they see me they go all the way out of the weeds and they're just I look at him and I just thinking wow they're so far out in the weeds I couldn't hit him with a rock let alone a germ and and so I continued past and and you know it was just really clear that I don't think the walk is helping them I think they're getting more stress by walking and living under the paranoia that they might run into somebody that may be just home on a bicycle or something I don't know but it's it's interesting that these these the deeper roots of things that we deal with are coming out in a season where I believe the Holy Spirit is wanting us to come into a place of freedom and joy and confidence the good news is that this coronavirus will die this pandemic will be gone and God will bring us into a new season that's the good news and everybody here say man amen so in all of those around the world would say a great big a man to that but I'm sure that most of us can relate to the couple getting off of the trail and distance in themselves from everyone else we've all been given a lot of information at one time we were told don't wear a mask unless you're in the hospital and you're doing that and now we're told you know if you go to a Costco you gotta wear masks and so there's a lot of confusing informations there a lot of things to do and what not to do and I just want to honor our president and our governors and I believe our our medicine and our people are scientists I believe everybody's working really hard I believe that they're doing their very best to keep people safe and there's a lot of things they don't know and there's things that we're learning but the cool thing for us who know and love Christ we know the one who knows we know the one who knows and we have an amazing future truth be told is easy to be influenced by fear and things that are unsettling to us when we get information that we thought we knew and now we have to change your mind and we're not sure much of our world has been put on pause and people are looking for answers people are looking for answers the thing today's May 3rd woohoo my brother and I will have birthdays later on this month we're born seven days apart seven days apart some might say your mom struggled seven days what's three years in seven days and every May we have and actually his wife press and just say hi to pris she's born I think on the 24th of May or 25th and so we we celebrate so I'm just looking forward to May coming out of this and moving into a time of celebration and looking forward to all that God has for us and everybody to say man I can hear you from your homes my thought this morning is what do you need from God right now that will sustain you what do you need from God right now that well states the state needs strengthen you and prepare you not only for today but for the future what is it you need from God today and I believe that he has the answers the name of the series is called the power of the promise and in Acts chapter 4 there's a crisis it's not the same kind of crisis that we have today but there's a crisis going on Acts chapter 4 and if you have your Bibles would you just go to Acts chapter 4 and we're gonna be reading today from Acts chapter 4 verses 23 through I think it's 31 and and you can just go ahead and turn there but in Acts chapter 4 there's there's been an amazing miracle and Pastor Mark talked about that last week and there's been this lay man who was laying for forty years at gate beautiful and Peter and John went up to gate beautiful and they said silver and gold I don't have but such as I have I'm gonna give to you in the name of Jesus rise up and walk and it was a leaping miracle he rise it was raised up he was leaping and praising God giving testimony and you would think that to the synagogue and to the priests and all the leaders you would think that revivals here it's amazing but actually we read in Acts chapter 4 that the priests and the Jewish High Council they are angry they're upset they feel threatened and and so there's a serious events that go on and Peter and John response was this they were called into the High Council they were council they were put in prison for a for a day the next day they were called in and the High Council council confronted Peter and John and said to them we we command you we don't give you any other option and they were threatening them don't you ever speak in this name again don't you ever speak in the name of Jesus again and this was the high priest this is the Jewish High Council and here was a response of Peter and John they said do you think God wants us to obey you rather than him we cannot help but we cannot stop telling about everything we have seen and heard and the scripture says then they were threatened and released so what is it all of us I think feel right now in a sense that this virus has threatened us it's threatened our lives and we feel maybe feel threatened when we go out or we feel threatened about our economic income and and what's gonna happen tomorrow it's easy to feel threatened so when you're threatened by someone I've been threatened I grew up in Toppenish so I've been threatened to all those that are in Toppenish Westland Sethe I love you and I outran a lot of the people that were chasing me it's amazing amazing but what do you do when you're threatened you know if you've ever had psychology or sociology and you've taken time there they'll say that every person came contains in them a flight or or fight response when they're threatened a flight or a flight or fight I grew up choosing not to fight I just chose to flight and I saw problems coming I just take offer on it and my brother he chose to fight and I chose to run I became really pretty effective in in in athlete athletics later on people when I moved to the west side of the mountains it was in the spring and they asked me would you run in track and I thought man I've been running a long time I might as well go ahead and run track and I was first without even training they had already the season had already started and they had me run and I was just thinking I just gotta pretend someone's chasing me and the true story eighth grade first place I didn't have all I just ran like something was chasing me and and so many people are faced with you know I am I gonna fight this and you see a lot of stuff that governors and people are facing and the challenge is today and people said you know get a fight for my rights or am I gonna run but the church didn't choose either one of those the early church about 5,000 had been saved now and I want to give to you the response of the church and then talk about how we want to respond the same way today Acts chapter 4 verse 23 says this and as soon as they were freed Peter and John returned to the other believers and told them what the leading priests and elders had said and when they heard the report so you would think when 5,000 people hear this report that their until no longer speak in the name of Jesus that that there's gonna either be a some fighting going on or people are out of the 5,000 people are heading out and kind of running away cuz they didn't want to be caught with them but neither one of those are the responses when they heard the report all the believers lifted up their bars say all the believers all the believers lifted their voices together in prayer to God and here's what they prayed o Sovereign Lord creator of the heaven and the earth the sea and everything in them you spoke long ago by the Holy Spirit through our ancestor David your servant saying why are the nations so angry why do they waste their time and futile plans the kings of the earth prepare for battle the rulers gather together against the Lord and against the Messiah in fact this has happened here this very in this very City here at Antipas anticipates and Pontius Pilate the governor the Gentiles and the people of Israel all united against Jesus your holy servant whom you anointed but everything say but everything but everything they did was determined beforehand according to your will I just want to stop there and just say God knows all about what's going on he's not up in heaven going Korona if I would have only known Corona God is not afraid he's not been taken by surprise he holds the world with his hands it's important for us to remember that but everything they did was determined beforehand according to your will they're praying 5000 people are brainless and now O Lord hear their threats and give us your servants great boldness what an interesting prayer and now O Lord give us your servants great boldness in preaching your word and then they ask God to do this you can read this out loud in your living rooms along with me stretch out your hands with healing power may miraculous signs and wonders be done through the name of your holy servant Jesus and listen to this verse 31 and after this prayer the meeting place shook and they were filled with the Holy Spirit and they preached the Word of God with boldness they neither fought or fled they were filled with the Holy Spirit and the presence of God and they went forth with boldness I would say we need a fresh encounter of the Holy Spirit and the presence of the power of God I think the church across America needs fresh boldness a fresh grace and a fresh anointing of God to pour out his spirit so here's my big idea today how do you respond when you feel threatened all right told you how I growing up already told you I respond when I felt that but how do you respond when you feel threatened when you go to the store as in the home depot one of my favorite shopping places the home depot and for the first time since I've been here I've been here for 14 years for the first time I was in line waiting in to get into Home Depot the first time that happened I thought what in the world those lines are interesting yeah some people are already to buy stuff and other people who are keeping the rules it's like they got a major in tape you know so I'm walking on just but it's not the response that we're to have right now I encourage us do keep the rules do honor the authorities but we're appealing to the highest power of all and his name as Jesus thank you Lord so how do I respond when I feel threatened let's do what the early church did number one pray to God verse 24 and when they heard the report all of the believers lifted their voices together in prayer to God Peter and John were arrested they were threatened by people who had who had religious authority don't ever speak or teach in the name of Jesus again and when they were threatened instead of heading out or running off they went and joined the 5,000 and they said they did the one thing that I believe were to do today they prayed to God they prayed to God they prayed to God they called on the name of Lord the second thing is the second thing is pray to the one who is not threatened have you ever talked to somebody who's more scared than you are well what are we gonna do dad I have no idea what I'm gonna do but that's not what that's not the way it is when you pray to God right pray to the one who is not threatened verse 24 they prayed and listened to their prayer the prayer is interesting o Sovereign Lord creator of the heavens and the earth the Seas and everything in them they prayed to the God of the universe the one who holds the world with his hands the one who spoke the world into being the one who said let there be light and there was light our Heavenly Father is not confused or worried about the Communist Party of China no they tried employ you know what Lissa peel to heaven let's call on the creator of the heavens and the earth God is not threatened by the condition of this world he's not confused or cook or perplexed over-covered 19 it's not it's time to pray say this with me o Sovereign Lord creator of the heaven and the earth the sea and everything in them appealing to heaven Jesus is on the throne the devil is defeated this is no time to feel threatened this is no time to be intimidated Church it is time to rise up to call on the name of the Lord the God of the universe Jesus the same yesterday today and forever verse 28 through 30 of Acts chapter four and just say pray from your heart this is an interesting prayer the 5,000 of them are praying and and it's listening to their prayer they say you spoke long ago Holy Spirit through our ancestor David your servant saying why are the nations angry why do they waste their futile times than their futile plans the kings of the earth prepare for battle their rulers gather together against the Lord and against the Messiah in fact this has happened here this very day for Herod Antipas I don't know why I can't say that word Pontius Pilate the governor the Gentiles and the people of Israel were all united against Jesus your holy servant whom you anointed but everything say with me but everything but everything they did was determined beforehand according to your will I want to just say to all of us today to the body of Christ that God knows all things and I encourage you to leave fear to leave flight to leave striving and fighting and come and faith in confidence come boldly before the throne of grace lift up your hearts to the Lord and let's ask God to stretch out his hands I love this firm number four pray the answer pray the answer the other day I was watching news and I was looking for an answer well you know there's a probability of this I think a possibility of that and you know one group said it'll never they'll never be it'll never be the same the one guy said you'll never be able to shake hands again I just still think you should ever shake hands again and I was listening and you know we're gonna come up with a vaccine and then another person says well they haven't even got a star's vaccine yet and you know you're listening to all this information stuff and honestly a freak shop it leaves you in a place like so am I gonna be cooped up on bombing range in Keene Road for the next five years until they come up with a vaccine am I gonna be repeating the words it'll never be normal again life will never be the same or am I could appeal to heaven the god of the heavens and the earth and saying now a lord hear their threats here this covet nineteen threats hear what the enemy is trying to do a lord and give us your servants great boldness in preaching your word stretch out your hands on Mull mighty God with healing power and miraculous signs and wonders will be done through your name your holy servant Jesus Christ it's time for the body of Christ to rise up and pray boldly in the name of Jesus and ask God to stretch out his hands and heal our land and bring miracles and signs wonders let's agree in Jesus name that this virus must die in Jesus name and those threatened by fear and hopelessness many threatened by depression and anxiety are now freed in Jesus name I just declared that this morning in Jesus name we bring the antivirus the mighty name of Jesus and we declare your kingdom and your purpose is to be done today thank you lord the worship team can come and I wish our congregation was here because you guys would be shouting and going I love what happens preparer number five prepare for presence and power prepare for presence and power and after they prayed the meeting place shook and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit see I'd rather get filled with the Holy Spirit than with fear I'd rather get filled with a Holly spirit than with all kinds of ideas I really get filled with the Holy Spirit than the paranoia of the day so you're gonna get filled with something but when you call on God and you appeal to the creator of the heavens in the earth and you open up your heart the promise of the Father is that he will fill you with the Holy Spirit and you will have power and you'll be a bold and gracious witness so yesterday just to finish my story at the very beginning the message I was preparing this message by myself in my office and as I was writing this out and preparing I read this I said prepare for presence and power and I started writing and after this prayer of the meeting the meeting place shook and they were filled with the Holy Spirit that literally happened to me yesterday at 10 o'clock in the morning as I've just began worshiping and appealing to heaven and praying to God that and asking God for signs and wonders and for miracles for this thing to stop and be halted and for God's name to be glorious the presence and presence of God filled my office man I prayed in my prayer language I think the catholic church across the street could hear me and i was just caught up in God's goodness and God's promise and what was restored to myself personally was boldness afresh boldness and a confidence that he who has begun this good work in us he will complete it notice how Acts chapter 4 closes out verse 32 you just take your Bibles and follow along as this and all the Bibles were united and all the believers were united in heart and mind instead of divided and separated by 6 feet and fill with fear verse 30 says all the believers were united in heart and mind and they felt that what they owned was no longer their own so they shared everything nobody was in LAC the Apostle is the Apostles testified powerfully to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus and God's great blessing rested upon them all there was no needy people among them because those who owned land and houses would sell them and bring the money to the Apostles to give those in need in other words with the outpouring in the presence of God the body of Christ experienced unity and joy and power and presence in God's goodness it's a message for today isn't it it's a message for right now the same Jesus same Jesus that God raised from the dead is here to quicken your mortal body so my question is so is there anything that is causing you to feel threatened today it may be your physical health you may need healing today in your body it may be the the threat to your emotional health your suffering anxiety and heaviness and hopelessness and fear that threat is real but God is bigger than the threat just as the early church cried out to God o Sovereign Lord creator of the heavens new earth this season everything in them we cry out today would you just lift your hands with me and we just say Lord stretch out your hands with healing power may miraculous signs and wonders be done through the name of Jesus your holy servant Jeremiah 33:3 says call on me and I will answer you I will show you great and mighty things which you do not know so ah but we call on you today we asked you to stretch out your hands we ask you to do but only you can do we ask Lord today then those that are feeling anxious and threatened with fear and anxiety threatened by others feeling hopeless Father in Jesus mighty name we just reviewed the work of the Devourer we rebuked the work of covet 19 we reviewed the work of the enemy that has come to rob kill and destroy and father today in Jesus mighty name we declare your kingdom to come your will and your purposes to be done make your kingdom come and invade Earth and bring life and hope in joy in Jesus name Amen my curse meant today is let's partner with God now in in the new season that's coming because we have great days ahead we're gonna sing he reigns above at all I'm gonna worship then pastor josh is gonna come and close out the service god bless you [Music] dark snow then the kingdom [Music] you're the king of mine [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] Jesus [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so good such a good word Pastor Wes that really is the question of the hour isn't it what do you do when you feel threatened that's such a good question and I love how we have an answer pray to the God that created everything he knows all the answers he knows all the answers a couple things we're gonna go after today the first thing we always want to give an opportunity for people to come into the family of God and to come and become a follower of Jesus and so if you're watching wherever you are wherever you're watching the few have not put your faith in Christ now is the time to do that the Bible declares that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved regardless of what's going on in the earth you will be saved amen so if that's you it doesn't matter where you are you don't have to be in a church building you don't have to be in a church building to come to know the Lord so just say this prayer and all of you watching along you can say it with me and just as a family we can just welcome people in but just just pray this prayer see Jesus I welcome you I repent from my old ways and I step into new life I step into your life and all the promises that you have for me right now I make you the Lord of my life and my Savior forever in Jesus name Amen amen it's that easy it is that easy to say yes to Jesus I'll just encourage you if that's you if you're saying yes to Jesus you can text the word salvation in two four eight four eight four eight and someone from the church will be in contact with you and get you started off on the right on the right foot [Music] awesome it's so good so good look forward to hearing from from everyone that did that just as we were in worship and as pastor was preaching that there is such an impartation this morning of faith and boldness as pastor was was preaching that I don't know if you could feel that I'm sure you can back at in your home but there is just an impartation to take authority to take authority in the name of Jesus and so I just want everyone no matter where you're watching we're in the seven cities I'm gonna pray for the seven cities but if you're wherever you are around the world as we're praying just take authority over your city and this whole pandemic and we're just gonna make some declarations the the one line as as pastor Gary first started singing the first song the one true God that phrase the one true God seek ovid nineteen the enemy always wants to make himself bigger than he is and the world will tell you that Kovan nineteen is calling the shots right now and it's just alive Cobin nineteen is not calling the shots right now Ephesians 4:10 says that Jesus has filled the universe with himself he is the creator he is so much bigger than Kovan nineteen he is so much bigger he's so much bigger so let's just make some declarations wherever you are wherever you live you're in the Seven Cities let's just declare this together but over Benton City god I just declare that you are the one true God over Benton City over West Richland god I declare your goodness over West Richland your favor and your blessing over West Richland got over Richland it is a rich bland it is a rich land God you are pouring out your blessing we declare it God you are the creator of the universe you are the one true God got him I just didn't declare over Kennewick got the the power of the blood of Jesus the power of the blood of Jesus over kannaway got over Pasco over pass go God we just take authority over Pasco God I thank you for your blessing and your favor over Pasco got a spirit of awakening sweeping across Pasco got over Finley God pour out on Finley pour out on Finley God you are good declare your goodness over Finley gotten over Burbank god bless Burbank you are a God of blessing you are so good I declare your goodness over Burbank and we just declare it over the over the world you are the one true God you are the one true God Jesus we declare if we declare it in Jesus name in Jesus name and it's just the last thing I want to pray for this morning before we wrap up if you're sick if you need a physical healing we've seen I don't know how many times over these last several weeks of people being healed as we pray and they're at home we're not even laying hands on anybody but healing we send the word and God is faithful to heal so if you need physical healing right now if there's there's people around you if your family's around you go ahead and lay hands on it but we'll just agree together but God I thank you that your healing touch is going out right now all across the world got God we come against any pain any sickness got any physical ailment got even even mental and emotional issues got I declare healing right now in Jesus name we send the word of healing faith in Jesus name we declare this in faith in Jesus name Holy Spirit just come come right now in Jesus name as we're praying if you're feeling the presence of God if you're feeling God's healing touch just put that in the comments we want to hear about it we want to celebrate we want to hear the testimonies of God's goodness amen amen all right as we get wrapped up today just a couple final things we so appreciate you tuning in and watching us we are so thankful that we have this technology where we can get the gospel out we can worship together and we can with the power of the Holy Spirit we can be unified it's the power of the Holy Spirit that brings unity to the church we're so thankful that we have Facebook and YouTube to get this message out so just just share this feed share this feed if you can if it's blessed you go ahead and share this feed but we want to continue this week every every weekday at 9:30 we have DeVos with the pastors and it's amazing go ahead and tune in during the week 9:30 Wednesday at 1 o'clock we have worship we have live worship or you can tune in and just a reminder if you need prayer or if you just gave your heart to Jesus text the word either pray if you need prayer or salvation 2 for 8 for 8 for 8 and we will get in touch with you we love you we're so thankful bless you in Jesus name we'll see you next time [Music] you

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