The Truth About Pain // Chad Veach

if you have a Bible or cellphone go to Genesis chapter 37 Genesis 37 and and I'm gonna stay in this series I love the series that we're in things that I wish preachers would say things that I wish preachers would say and there is a whole lot of things that I wish preachers would say I'm a pastor's kid just like Judah my wife is a pastor's kid and I've grown up around preachers and preaching my whole life and so I'm gonna talk to you tonight about pain about hurt because I wish more preachers would talk about how painful life can be anybody by show of hands you have ever gone through a painful season in your life let me just see your hand you ever gone through a season I want to talk tonight about some pain and some hardship and you can write down a subtitle because this is actually the real message I'm gonna preach tonight it's called the testing of a dream and I believe that when God gives you a dream he always follows it up with a test and a lot of times the bigger the dream the bigger the test and so I don't know if there's any dreamers in here I don't know if there's any people that have a dream to do something great in life maybe you've got a dream to be an artist's dream to own a business dream to start a family dream to get married who am i preaching to right now I don't know what kind of dream you have but I want to encourage you dreams are from God God is a vision Giver God sometimes will show you a picture he'll download an image to reveal to you the future that he has for you that is not to tease you that is not to mess with your emotions our God is not a God of cruel tricks our God does not mess with your mind he gives you an image in fact the Bible says that in these last days he'll pour out his spirit so that we can prophesy and dream about the future I don't know what your past looks like but I want to tell you your future is even better I don't know what's happened to you maybe you have gone through hell on earth come on clipper fans don't you laugh Laker fans you can't even get a couch like I'm a Laker fan I start like messing with you guys but I don't know what the past looks like but it pales in comparison to the future that God has I want to go to Scripture and I want to look at when when Judah texts me this is what I'm preaching about he said I don't know if you have any thoughts well I said I wish preachers would talk more about hurt cuz I'm 39 and a lot of life has been painful a lot of life has not been what I thought it would be a lot of relationships that I have did not turn out the way that I envisioned there were plans that I had and things that I thought that I would do that I have yet to step into personally and when I think about the idea that life hurts I think about a dreamer named Joseph I don't know if you know anything about the Bible but in the first book of the Bible about in the book of Genesis there's a man named Joseph now Joseph is awesome because Joseph is the eleventh son to a man named Jacob he's eleventh in line he's like the youngest child anybody here today or watching on the app mercy at all you're the oldest in your family put your hand up if you're the oldest in your family look at all these scarred individuals all of these people aren't counseling right now we love you we're praying for you raise your hand if you're the youngest we're the youngest add the youngest so sport they started to yell you hear that there's like the oldest lived their hand like this [Applause] the youngest hates you I'm the oldest okay I'm an experiment Joseph is the youngest he is the loved he is the beloved in fact Joseph's daddy loves him so much he goes out and makes him a coat of many colors it's from Gucci and he's bawling out in his jacket and the Bible says Joseph watch Joseph he has a dream one day put it up on the screens watch what it says about Joseph the dreamer Genesis chapter 37 I'm gonna read from my incredibly anointed iPad follow along on the app or the screen says Joseph had a dream when he told it to his brothers they had him they hated him all the more he said to them listen to this dream I had we were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright while your sheeps gathered around mine and bowed down to it his brother said to him do you intend to reign over us will you actually rule us and they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said then he had another dream and he told to his brothers listen he said I had another dream and this time the Sun and the moon and the Eleven stars were bound down to me and when he told it to his father and his brothers his father rebuked him and said what is this dream you had well your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you and his brothers were jealous of him but his father would kept all the matter in mind I want to preach a message today whether you're on the app or in Seattle here in LA called the testing of a dream and I want to go to Scripture and I want to believe together that even though there is pain through your journey even though there is hurt in our life we don't have to let our hurt control the narrative of our life we need to get free and allow Jesus to get ahold of our pain because he came to heal that brokenness in our life amen to that come on let's just pray over the message today and believe that God will speak to us God we thank you that you are good you are loving you are kind and you're gracious we ask that by the power of your spirit you will help us to see you and help us to hear you we love you more than anything else and we thank you that you are who you say you are and you can do what you've said you would do god blessed church home god bless our pastors Judah and Chelsea god bless everything that you're doing in this community we thank you for all the good things you have in store in Jesus name and we all said together come on let's just clap right now and thank God for how good he is come on we can clap louder and get excited anybody by show him you are good at taking photos you're good at taking pictures let me just see your hand you're good at taking pictures all right good on your camera we're taking pictures you don't talk about you ever be in a group like with a group and you're ready to take your group photo and you you pull out your phone you're the designated phone you know and you look you look for somebody that you can hand this phone off to that's gonna take a good photo you start judging people you know talking about things like know mm-hmm no definitely not you you ever hand your phone to the wrong person like you ever get with the group and you take go to take the photo hey my problem with taking the photo is I make a weird awkward sound the whole time like the people next to me must like he's strange he's really strange because I'm always like to keep this I gotta you ever you ever hand your phone to shaky hands like you get your phone back and all the photos are blurry like my man were you nervous like with all the photos none of them are good or you ever you ever hand your phone to that one person that you're like this for like 10 seconds 15 seconds you get your phone back there's only one photo like really that whole time you took one photo I need options cuz I'm gonna scroll through and I don't care what you look like it only matters what I look like who am i preaching to right now like I will post a photo of you your your eyes are closed your mouths open if I look good it's going up and I'll tag you in it but when I was growing up when I was growing up his kid we went in high school I was I went to high school in the 90s y'all don't know nothing about that and so in the 90s I had a photography class I will go to the class you check out a camera from the school they would give you some film you would go out and shoot your shot you know nature or the hallways or something like that you would come back to the classroom in the classroom they had a darkroom in the darkroom you would carefully remove the film from the camera you would go through and cut up the different photos you would get a water and put it into this little Basin and then you would you would take each photo and put it in there to be developed after it gone through the water you would hang it up on a little wall and let it dry and eventually after gone through the process you would bring it out into daylight want to talk today about the reality of God in your life God is going to show you a photo God is going to show you an image and then he's gonna take you into the darkroom of life and allow you go through the process of development before you walk in your dream it's called the testing of a dream and oftentimes the bigger the dream the greater the test god does not do this to you because he's angry with you God does not test you because he's upset with you God does this because by the time you walk into your dream you need to have the character and the wherewithal to be able to handle the magnitude and the weight and the significance of your dream all want to convince you there's something great on your life God has a plan for you there's something bigger and better and God is gonna use the pain and the hurt that you go through not to set you back but to fuel you forward him into that I'm gonna give you four things four tests that all of us have to pass and they're usually painful and this what I have found in life and it's what we have to go through in order for us to walk in our full potential it's not because God's mad it's just God's getting you ready for what he has for your life here's the first one write down is usually jealousy I don't not to tell you this not everybody likes you in fact you're gonna go through some rejection in your life all of us are gonna be rejected at some point all of us at some point are gonna face whether you face it on the Internet or you face it in real life jesus said they rejected me they're for sure gonna reject you watch what happens here to Joseph and put it up there on the screen it says this it says Joseph went after his brothers and found them near Dothan but they saw him in the distance and before he reached them they plotted to kill him here comes that dreamer they said to each other come now let's kill him and throw him into one of the cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him then we'll see what comes of his dreams look down verse 27 come let's sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him after all he is our brother our own flesh and blood so when the Midianite merchants came by his brothers pulled joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for 20 shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites who took joseph to egypt part of life is facing rejection and i don't know anybody that's like you know what i love i love being rejected it's crazy I've just mastered it yeah like people hate me and they reject me and they don't want me at the party and I get uninvited I love it rejection stings rejection hurts and Joseph comes down to visit his brothers and they say here comes that dreamer by the way side note never share your dreams with the wrong people you share your dreams with the wrong people and that'll get you killed and they say here comes that dreamer who does he think he is remember not everybody likes the favor that's on your life not everybody likes the seat you have at the table not everybody likes the success that you're dealing with not everybody like everybody likes the call that's on your life the dream that's in your heart the favor that's in your world but I'm telling you God is greater and God is bigger and God has a plan even in the midst of rejection so they said you know what we're gonna do we go with we're gonna kill him and then one of them goes no no we don't want that we don't want that blood on our hands and they said let's fake the death so they take the Gucci Gucci Gucci jacket and they put some blood animal on it then some some animal blood on it and they they sell their brother that's an amen from a baby I got four I know what an Amen from a child sounds like and and and so they sell them sell their brother into slavery did you see a merchant comes by and and he's in a pit and the merchant comes by and they lived in the go how much for how much for this guy and they're like what you got and like would you would you do 20 shekels of silver and they're like it for sure so they sell their brother into slavery like that sounds good so then they go back to dad with the Gucci jacket in the oh yeah haters are such fakers aren't they heartbroken your favorite is dad every every oldest can imagine themselves saying this right now wouldn't know heaven this is my five girl with a three year old my three girls got like bumps and bruises on his face Jacobs like weeping he's broken it's like he's fake the young its he's dead it's not dead it's been rejected I wonder if the biggest pain you've dealt with is rejection in some of us the reason why we can't go forward with confidence is because somebody in your world didn't like your dream some boss some ex some friend reject rejection as part of life I have been rejected many times over and what I have learned about it is I can't let rejection control my narrative so here comes Joseph and now he's in Egypt and his brothers are gone his dad thinks he's dead and the Bible says the dreamer Joseph is in Egypt now and and another guy buys him named Potiphar and Potiphar when it gets into Potiphar's house it's amazing what happens because Potiphar sees that this Joseph is special see listen no matter what people do to you they can't take away what's on your life no matter what life serves you if you got something from God on you come on people are gonna recognize there's something about you there's something different in you there's something about the call and the gifting in your life man can't steal what God has instilled and so so Joseph gets elevated in Potiphar's house and now he's the number two in command and in any and he's and he's killing it and so Potiphar Bible says Potiphar his biggest concern everyday is what what am I gonna eat today am I going to chick-fil-a or am I going to in and out know Shake Shack okay what am I gonna do today this is his biggest concern is what again and so Joseph is elevated within his house and Potiphar with Joseph in his house has everything taken care of except for one thing he's got a wife and she's crazy she's crazy like she is the first desperate housewife in the history of the world here's the second test you got a pass right down number two it's the test of temptation the first one is rejection the second one is temptation and watch what happens to Joseph Joseph is in Potiphar's house I'll read these verses with me verse 7 and after a while his master's wife took notice of Joseph and she said come to bear with me Joe but he refused she crazy watch this she crazy but he refused with me in charge he told her my master does not concern himself with anything in the house everything he owns has been entrusted to my care no one is greater in this house than I am my master has withheld nothing from me except for you because you are his wife how then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God I love this about Joseph some of us need to start seeing temptation it's not about this person it is all about God he didn't say how could I do this thing against you and sin against Potiphar how can I do this thing and sin against you he said how can I get busy with a one-night stand and sin against God listen the tests came in the form of seduction but it was a test of faithfulness to his God he said the test might come in one way and I might be tempted to do this thing but I know it is about being faithful to God if you ever want to do something great for God you got to be faithful in small things faithful and little things and faithful in things that don't belong to you he said how could I do this thing and sin against God in other words his perspective was this is not about you or my boss it doesn't even matter that you're married I can't do this thing and sinning God gave me a dream God gave me a call this is a god thing watch what watch what happen two more verses it says one day he went in the house to his do attend to his duties and none of the household servants were inside so she caught him by the cloak and she said Oh Joe come to bear with me Joe but he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house Joseph is saying as he runs buck-naked out the house you can have my jacket but you ain't jacking my dream you can have my coat but you can't have my calling I've got to get away it was the test of temptation it came in seduction but it was a test of faithfulness to his God I'm telling you God has such great things for your life but one of the things that will hurt is when you and I bow down and give into a moment of pleasure and a moment of temptation I'm telling you in my lifetime and in your lifetime the failure that we have participated in it will literally set us back and it will cause us to lose our confidence when we indulge in the passing pleasures of sin maybe somebody else didn't hurt you maybe you hurt yourself you say you know I wish more preachers would say this more often the reason why you are in timeout is because you put yourself in timeout remember like we get people know what I did excuse me people may see you one way but it does not change the way God sees you in God's eyes you are called you are loved he's got a call he's got a future he's got a plan he's got come on somebody thank God today he's got something for your life and so classic crazy people crazy people do crazy things somewhere I sit down like crazy people do crazy things so Joseph's out he's like you crazy he look he gone and so she's in the house she's got his jacket not the Gucci one that was anyways there's another jacket and so she's stand there and she's jacket and she's like oh she's been projecting ah yeah so she's what she does just like anybody all these antennas run into like wait hey crazy what's going on what happened she's like Joe Joe he tried he tried to uh he tried to take advantage of me because potiphar gone in there like Joseph oh my gosh should they get mad and they get upset Potiphar comes back from playing tennis and they're like Potiphar you never go this is in my head right he's a template ed and so I mean he gets back like Potiphar you're never gonna believe it Joseph try to sleep with your wife Potiphar is like are you for Ruth this is crazy so watch Potiphar Potiphar takes Joseph and he throws him in prison this is Joseph Joseph the dreamer he had a dream God's gonna do something great all I face is wrap it and Potiphar's and now I'm in prison being a Christian is awesome serving God is so great he's now in prison here's the third test you got a pass I'm telling you life can be painful write down the third one it is the test of isolation oh this one's so hard it's the test the first one's rejection the second one's temptation and the third one is isolation he's in prison and when he's in prison he makes some prison friends they get they're getting their orange suits orange is the new black they ballin now push-ups sit-ups what they're in prison they doing their thing they're in prison they're they're having a good time they're like y'all I mean innocent like whoa me too how about you he's like I'm innocent too innocent on three one two three you desert like they just like none of us are here cuz we did something wrong so like dang your stories like mine something alright hey let's make a pact let's make a pact if any of us get out if any of us get out of this we're gonna remember each other you don't right we are remember each other on three it's like they're in prison but they're innocent so now they're in prison and the Bible says walking is in print what a life disguise live from pits to Potiphar's to prison cells cellblock 45 he's in prison and watch walk he's here I just threw out 45 I don't know why I just found that in my head and so the these in prison and the Bible says watch what happens to him when he's in prison and his friends happen to do this but when all goes well with you remember me and show me kindness mentioned me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison I was forcibly carried off from the land of the Hebrews and even here I've done nothing to deserve being put in a dungeon verse 23 then the chief cupbearer however did not remember joseph he forgot him life is this way what's like has it not been hard enough being rejected has it not been hard enough being accused of something you were innocent of has it not been hard enough now he's forgotten about I believe one of the greatest things that God will do in your life is that God will give you a season of loneliness to prepare you for the thing that he has for you and a lot of us our biggest struggle is that we hate isolation I wonder if FOMO is delaying your destiny I wonder if you trying to be out and about and everything with everyone is slowing down the great thing that God wants to do in your life you need some isolation for a little bit you need an isolation for a season so God can start to rework and rewire and reshape and renew and revive and restore and bring Redemption to the broken thing in your life a lot of people like me not family I'll try to go to the GQ party yeah one more day we can ball out god is so good god is so good he he takes Joseph and he's in a prison cell and he's forgotten about and he's and he's in isolation one of the things I love about Joseph is his whole journey he never gets he you never see people go sideways you ever see people get so creased in life that it causes them to be bitter and have that cynic edge you ever talk to somebody and you're like whoa who broke up with them and Joseph the whole while is in prison and he stays sweet and he stays kind and he's isolated and he's bringing resolve in his life and I just love this about God a lot of us are so afraid of being alone but I believe that loneliness if you use it right will make you lethal loneliness if you use it for your advantage it could actually make you better than you could ever imagine sois the Bible says in Ecclesiastes 12 verse 1 remember now your Creator in the days of your youth before the difficult days draw near and you find no pleasure in them what's the Bible talking about remember now your Creator serve God now serve in the days of your youth before the difficult days draw near what's he talking about you know like mortgage payments and for kids I bought a minivan last week the typical days are here but I remember a season of isolation of God calling me saying you know what I'm just gonna allow you don't don't see this as rejection and hurt is that it's it's oh I love this I call it separation for preparation God's got to bring you a little separated from everybody else so he can prepare you for the great thing that you're gonna walk in we want the dream to happen tomorrow God says there's got to be a process Joseph's 17 when he sees a vision from God he won't be 30-something until he walks in it you got to go through the bumps and the bruises and the pain of life for you to walk in the thing that ultimately has on you and for you so he's in prison he's in prison he's in he's in prison he's in he's in he's in jail and and one day he's in Farrell's Co he's not in Potiphar's house anymore he's in prison but he's in Pharaoh's Kingdom and and Pharaoh that the ruler of the the whole area has a dream he's got a dream now he's he's a dreamer and so he goes to his guys I said I had a dream last night I cannot interpret and they go oh don't worry about it we got the Sorcerer's and all kinds of people in the area that can come interpret your dream will you you'll be will get them all to come and somebody will interpret and so one by one they try and interpret the dream that King Pharaoh has had and one by one they all fail one by one they cannot interpret what what were pharaoh had and so after they all tried one of the attendants is standing there and he says to the king hey King hey King hey ki I don't know how to say this but um there's a guy we got this dude in in prison right now he's in jail saves yo he's good at this stuff we've seen him do it and so the King Pharaoh was like well none of these jokers could interpret my dream bring Joseph to me so watch this I love this about God in one moment Joseph goes from prison to the palace I want to encourage you God has a fast-forward button and he can use it whenever he wants God can elevate you and promote you and do something what could it cost you five years or ten God can do in the blink of an eye he goes from prison to the prep they're like Joe you don't need a shave he's like alright so he shaves and he comes before a King Pharaoh and he's like Pharaoh tell me your dream and so Pharaoh tells him the dream and he's like oh my goodness God just showed me what the dream was he's like Oh King God just showed me your dream is 14 years split in half seven years of abundance are about to come seven years this thing the land's gonna bear much fruit that God is saying store stock save like crazy because there's going to be seven years of gold while after seven years of abundance there's going to be seven years of famine the ground will produce nothing but if you save well in the seven years you will be able to maintain for the other seven years the Kings like all am G that's exactly what I dreamt so watch this in one moment Joseph goes not just from standing in front of him now he's the number two in command to the whole kingdom just the same position that he had with Potiphar is now the same position he has with Pharaoh I wonder if God is preparing you right now and you feel like you're in a Potiphar's house but God is preparing you for a Pharaoh's Kingdom position come on clap right now and thank our God he's getting you ready for something bigger than you could ever imagine he gets promoted to number two he's number two in the land he's like dang this is like part of herself without the crazy learning ball out so first time in years he say when he say he's run the whole thing for Pharaoh just like he did for Potiphar he's run the whole thing for farrell seven years seven years he saved and saving saving say we worship team you can come join me and so seven years he they're saving they're saving the saving and then watch this and then in about three years into the famine about three years into the famine the Bible says that Jacob his father sends his brothers from their hometown to come visit Joseph they don't know it's Joseph but he sends them to Farrell's Kingdom to get some food the first test that we will face is rejection the second one is temptation the third it is isolation but write down the fourth it is retribution life is this funny way life has this funny way and it is this interesting twist and turn that can happen in life where you think just when you passed a test I'm good God gives you another and I would say that this test in my opinion is the hardest test that I have ever had to face and again things that I wish preachers would say more I wish preachers would talk more about this cuz this hurts because now we're talking about relationships and now we're talking about forgiveness have you ever been betrayed have you ever been abused have you ever been abandoned forgiveness is this thing that I find makes sense in my head but I struggle to compute in my heart forgiveness is this thing that I find I know I should do but I struggled to put together how many nights has Joseph cried himself to sleep how many nights do you think Joseph has been like day 1 of it wonder what dad's doing tonight wonder if he misses me wonder how my brothers are doing in a prison cell thinking about his family and three years in to run in this kingdom this is this is just like God three years in to run in this kingdom all of a sudden here comes his brothers this is the last scriptures will read for today's message watch what it says here in Genesis 42 now Joseph was the governor of the land and the person who sold grained all the people so when Justin Joseph's brother has arrived they bowed down to him with their faces to the ground and as soon as Joseph saw his brothers he recognized them but he pretended to be a stranger and spoke harshly to them where do you come from he asked although Joseph recognized his brothers they did not recognize him then he remembered his drinks about them and he said your spies you have come to see where our land is unprotected I love this about God because just a heads up God is not going to give you a one day warning he's not going to give you a heads up hey brush your teeth floss put your best outfit on tomorrow I'm gonna unleash and unlock your dream no it will be in one moment it will be in the utmost unexpected time of your life then all of a sudden out of nowhere it's like all my gosh this was my dream Joseph's freaking out seventeen he saw it I saw this is exactly what I saw here's why I told you is I saw his brothers are bowed down he doesn't know nothing I'm telling you when God really starts to unfold his plan for your life you won't stand there sophisticated like I knew this was coming you will stand there like [Music] Oh he doesn't know how to handle he's like where are you from their heads are bowed down he's like I knew it I knew I wasn't crazy it's what I encourage somebody you're holding on to something and it's not from you it's from God don't you quit on your dream don't you quit on Nacala God don't you quit on what God put in your heart you might have gone through some hurtful stuff but if he called you to it to believe he can give us the strength him the healing he'll be with us even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death he is with me no matter what I can get rejected I can get tempted I could be alone I can face the hardest situation in my life but I got Jesus so I'm good come on if you believe it you've got some praise if you if you believe that I could go through anything because because God doesn't make me go through stuff and leave me broken Joseph didn't end up here goes thanks a lot I'm a shell of who I should be Darren hates got no venom he's got no angst he's got no animosity he's kind of vengeance he's got no plan to get back he should be so hurt but he doesn't let hurt control the narrative of his life watch what he says it's just this is this is my favorite part this is the last part is the hardest part of life then Joseph couldn't alonger control himself before all of his attendants and he cried out have everyone leave my presence so there was no one with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers and he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him in Pharaoh's household heard about it can Joseph said to his brothers I am Joseph it's my father still living but his brothers were not able to answer him because they were terrified at his presence could you imagine being one of the brothers right now Joseph ask you a question you're like this just froze him thinking this guy's gonna take us out listen to what he says then Joseph said to his brothers come close to me when they had done so he said I am your brother Joseph the one you sold into Egypt and now do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you God sent me here you didn't do this to me you don't have control over my life like that God was in control God did this to me you didn't put me in this prison you didn't put me in this pit you didn't put me in Potiphar's house God is bigger and God is better this is for two years now there's been a famine in the land and for the next five years there will be no ploughing and reaping but God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance I just love this because so many of us we give that person we give that family we give that group so much control you're still walking and hurt because of what someone did five years ago ten years ago Joseph when he encountered them he's like guys I'm God did this you didn't do this and did you hear what he said said my life is attached to something bigger than myself please hear me today if your dream you think that God's dream for your life is winning some prize or doing some big career that is not the ultimate plan God always attaches your dream to help people and serve people and do something bigger for his church and his kingdom and his people somebody say Amen he's a rejection and temptation and isolation and this moment right here has taught me God sent me here I didn't realize the dream was not about getting bowed down to the dream was about me being here for a great deliverance oh the Old Testament is just a foreshadow of the New Testament Joseph is just a type shadow of a greater intruder deliverance that will happen for a man named Jesus Jesus faced rejection he faced temptation he went through isolation and when he was on a cross he said Father forgive them for they know not what they do he had to fulfill the dream that God had for his life for a greater deliverance it was bigger than famine it was for salvation I want to encourage you God is up to something big in your life and it's not about you getting bowed down to has attached to something larger that will help humanity and help serve people and not just better your life but better other people's lives the dream that God has for you it is not a one-stop shop it is to empower and equip and help and lead people that are broken and are in pain so you and your healing can bring people out of their pain come on clap if you agree with it I wish preachers would talk more about pain like pain because Joseph's life was filled with a lot of pain and your life and your journey could be filled with a lot of pain but I wish somebody would have prepared me and told me hey life will have all these bumps and bruises but if you'll stay close to Jesus he'll heal you all the way through it no matter what you face Jesus will come and he'll be a deliverer in your life amen amen let's bow our heads and close our eyes Jesus we thank you today that you fulfilled God's dream and you hung on a cross and died for our sins we are so mindful together that you went through everything that Joseph went through and everything that we're going through all so that we could receive your love your peace your acceptance and your forgiveness God thank you that we can look at Joseph's life but even greater thank you that we can look at your son's life we ask today Lord for those of us that are hurting and those that are in pain though will you heal us will you deliver us from that bondage that bitterness that brokenness we thank you that you are a healing agent and you have a healing ministry and you can touch our pain we thank you for the reality of who you are every head bowed and every eye closed if you're here and you've never said yes to Jesus but today you want to say yes to the cross yes to his love Jesus went through all of these things so he could hang on a cross and die for your sins he took your place face all the shame and the guilt and the condemnation so you would face none of it and all you have to do is believe in him and the Bible says you will be saved you get to experience his love I'm gonna count to three in just a moment if you want to give your life to Jesus fine why you exist on this earth make the best decision you could ever make while you're here on this planet when I count to three lift up your hand and respond and say yep I want to give my life to Jesus tonight for the first time if that's you when I hit 3 lift up your hand 1 2 3 lift it up come on shoot up your hand that's you you want to say yes to Jesus hands going up in Seattle or the app or here in Los Angeles hands are going up right now people are saying yes to the love of Jesus Christ in their life so awesome so powerful so amazing God I thank you for every person that made that decision right now thank you right now God that you're setting them free you're touching their life we declare they're not controlled by the narrative of hurt but Lord right now they're receiving your healing virtue strengthen them even on the inside in their inner person strengthen them touch their life we declare that freedom in Jesus name we thank you for who they are we thank you for their future and their calling in Jesus name we all said together come on let's clap and thank God together amen come on let's stand to our feet let's stand to our feet we're gonna worship Jesus come on let's sing it out whoa buddy you guys 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Keywords: Churchome, Judah, Judah smith, church, message, anxiety, depression, how to, elevation, Steven, Hillsong, oceans, sermon, the city church, church home, Chelsea smith, bobby Houston, td jakes, pastor, pastor preaching, carl lentz, Jesus, conference, guest speaker, sermon jam, worship, Justin Bieber, la Hillsong, Selena, preaching, Judah message, performance

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Length: 45min 21sec (2721 seconds)

Published: Thu May 16 2019