Wednesday Evening 09/22/21 Midweek Service

me do anybody thankful to be the house of the lord on a wednesday night i'm so thankful to be able to come into god's house and feel his presence i'm so glad just to show up and god's already here you know we don't have to wait for him he's already arrived he's just waiting for us to get here he's waiting for his people to show up he's just he's excited to see who came to his house tonight and so why don't we do this why don't we all just open up in prayer bind together right now in jesus name lord right now we pray god we pray for a very special touch to rest upon this evening service lord we pray that anointing god would rest and settle in this room thank you jesus for having your way lord thank you lord for reaching each of us where we are lord thank you god for speaking to each of us tonight lord i thank you lord for this moment that we have and lord i know that you're going to perform a great work in this place jesus lord you've already lifted the weights you've already lifted the concerns you've already lifted the worries jesus and so right now in this place mighty god we just thank you we give you praise for what you're gonna do tonight we give you glory for what you're gonna do tonight jesus we magnify your holy name thank you lord for having your way in this place in jesus name in jesus name let's worship together tonight in jesus name thank you lord so i worship you i worship you you are here working in this place i worship light in the darkness by god that is who you the are my god that is who you are you are here touching every heart i worship you i worship you you are here healing every heart i is that is that is even when i don't see it you're working even when i don't even when i don't feel like you're hurting you never stop you never stop working you never stop you never stop even when i don't see it you're working even when i don't feel if you're working you never stop you never stop working you never stop you never stop hurting when you make a miracle promise my god that is in the darkness my god that is is who you are that is who you are you're making a way where there is oh we focus our heart and minds on you oh i just feel the lord reaching for someone that doesn't that doesn't feel the presence of god right now the lord is reaching for you right now god we reach for you miracle word my god that is oh hallelujah take the prawn in this place lord you deserve a glory and the honor so god we believe cause yes we can see that wonders are still what you do and bodies are still being and raised are still being slain oh god we believe and yes we can see that wonders are still what you do we are here for you come and do what you do we are here for to set our hearts on you coming what you do we need you lord oh god we believe we can see we for you coming coming through we need to move in this room is is i'm not looking left i'm not looking right i need your presence moving me lord lord i humble myself before you flood and broken lord i won't make it without you lord you're my lord who am i that you're mindful of me who am i that you're mindful of me you wanna meet with me tonight if you wanna meet with me tonight you wanna reach through all my oh the lord is reaching for heart and hearts tonight soften my heart the lord he's walking the eyes searching for hungry hearts stir up hunger tonight lord oh we need you lord we need you lord more and more oh we need you love we need you lord more and more the lord's telling me to dig deep into the spirit we need you more we need you more more oh i'm not satisfied i'm not satisfied oh without more of you lord we need you more oh more and more your presence is my weapon we need you more oh more and more your presence is your presence is oh more and more your presence is my safety we need you more we need you more lord we need you more would i be without him we need you more more and more we need you more more and more oh the lord has been waiting all day to feel this close to us thank you for your closeness lord we're leaning on your shoulders take us closer and closer draw us closer and closer oh just closer draw us closer and closer till my cup is full closer and closer i'm not letting go closer and closer oh the lord just told me to wait a little longer oh just 30 or 60 more seconds some of us are waiting ankle deep oh walk a little further oh walk a little further way steep in his presence you can trust him you can trust him oh you can trust him you can trust him closer and closer i want to be close to you you're closer than a brother i wanna be closer closer closed captioning not available my best friends thank you for your presence oh that's it go ahead why don't you just make that your prayer here tonight jesus i need you more god i want to be closer to you than i've ever been before jesus god i want to remove those things that have separated me from your love god i want to remove those things jesus said i've come between me and you lord and god i want to break the barriers of separation jesus god i want to be in communion with you buddy god i want to be in unison with you mighty god god i want to be in your presence jesus lord i need more of you in my life jesus oh go ahead and say that go ahead make that your prayer god i need you jesus oh he hears you he hears your cry he hears your prayer god i need you jesus lord i need your wisdom i need your guidance i need your direction jesus god i'm unsure of which way to go lord i'm unsure of what to say or what to do lord i need you to speak clearly i need to hear your voice clearly hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you lord for your presence thank you lord for your spirit hallelujah you know jesus is already working on tomorrow's impossibilities jesus is already working on your impossible tomorrow you may be faced with an impossible situation this week but god's already working on that impossible he's already beginning to shape it into possible he's already beginning to make the impossible something that becomes a reality and something that he moves and changes and transforms oh hallelujah jesus hallelujah jesus hallelujah jesus oh thank you lord thank you jesus sunday we prayed for sister liz's sister-in-law because she had gone into labor lost her baby on wednesday then they had induced her in labor on thursday thursday friday saturday sunday she was still in labor unable to give birth to the dead baby in her womb and sunday sister liz came to this family with the impossible situation that her sister could very potentially lose her life in this process this family we bound together we prayed we believed we spoke faith into the atmosphere and within two hours that sister gave birth naturally without surgery she did not lose her life but god stepped in what medicine couldn't do in three days god did in two hours so yes jesus does work the miraculous jesus does work the miraculous amen keep this sister in your prayers it's myra mejia her in your prayers she did lose her baby and we are we are saddened and we're praying that god would strengthen her in this time of loss but we rejoice in the fact that god stepped in when medicine had written her off and said she's going to die we cannot help any further she has to do this or she will pass and god steps in and saves a life god saves a life so keep her in your prayers we're believing that she will find her way into relationship with jesus but god is pulling and tugging at her heart do you believe that that even through this moment in this season god is tugging on her bringing her into relationship with him amen god god works in ways just to get us into relationship he just wants us to be in relationship with him amen amen as you're standing we're going to take an opportunity to step into worship and continue and worship through giving sowing into god's kingdom thank you so much for your faithfulness and giving your faithfulness your commitment sowing into god's kingdom i do believe that the lord is moving with purpose i do believe that god is taking what we sow and i do believe that god is increasing what we sow and we see the fruit we see the harvest we see the bloom the result of what is sown into his kingdom and so thank you so much for your faithfulness and giving i know god's gonna bless you accordingly let's pray in jesus name god we thank you for this opportunity to give we thank you lord for this moment that we have that we can share together in this place and in this space god right now lord i just pray lord that you would take this offering lord multiply it lord anoint it lord for purpose thank you jesus for this opportunity to give and sow into your kingdom and god right now i pray blessings upon every family member god i pray blessings upon everybody in this room lord that you would pour blessings out upon us lord so much they cannot be counted so much mighty god they cannot be numbered and lord we thank you for the blessings jesus but lord i pray god that you would strengthen our faith lord increase our faith jesus uh lord even in this in this season and coming times god lord as darkness rises lord let faith rise in our spirit let faith rise in our mind let faith rise in our hearts thank you jesus for having your way in this family we thank you for this moment lord and we thank you for blessing this offering lord and using it for your purpose we give you praise honor and glory in jesus name and everyone say amen tell somebody you love them as you're seated the ushers will wait upon you i love you so good to see you in the house of the lord on a wednesday night so glad you made it to the house of the lord amen you fought traffic to be here you fought some anger maybe on the freeways to be here but you made it and god's gonna honor that you are here the lord is going to honor your sacrifice for being in the house of the lord on this wednesday night amen for all of our guests and visitors we want to say thank you so much for coming and being with us tonight on a wednesday night here at ipc we love you we're so humbled by you being here and we pray that you feel the love of the lord in this place but also the love of this family and uh we are just so thankful that you're here with us tonight amen amen a couple of things to be reminded of and that is first off everyone say saturday saturday is a very special day because saturday is a seminar put on by beacon ministries which is going to provide this church family with an understanding of how to reach the homosexual or those who are attracted to same-sex and we believe that god is going to bring forth a harvest of all mankind and all peoples amen the harvest is for everybody the harvest is for every ethnicity the harvest is for every creed the harvest is for every nationality the harvest is for every individual in this world because god does not want any to perish but for all to come unto repentance and if we are going to be the ones to help the lord in his harvest we must understand how to reach and labor in his harvest amen amen so that's going to be saturday the 25th at 9 00 am 8 30 you can start showing up breakfast begins at 9 and then the seminar starts at 10 and that's going to be this saturday as well as this saturday night at 7 o'clock for anybody who wants to participate brother isaiah castro's um orchestra will be performing saturday night here in this sanctuary synesthesia symphony did i get that right synesthesia symphonieta i have been practicing uh synesthesia sinfunetta i have been praying synesthesia symphony i've been really working on that so that's gonna be saturday night at seven o'clock and they've been practicing the music sounds amazing and so that's going to be a great time together and then coming up october 2nd is a singles game night and all the information on that is in the church center app so you want to be sure and log on to the church center app if you have not done so you are not active on the church center app please get active on the church center app so you can know everything that we're doing i do want to go ahead and make an announcement that we have changed our christmas banquet just a little bit when we had made our preparations it was without any uh banquet halls being made available to us but we have called and we have got a date and uh the kids will be having their snow festival here their snow day that sunday no we're not going to do that this is the snow day oh that's right that's a different day so the kids are going to be doing their thing the kids will do something okay um but that we are going to have a family snow day though so we are going to have yeah that's right it's going to be on a wednesday night thank you for reminding me sister may yes it's here on my calendar december 22nd is our family snow night so we're going to come as a family and we're going to make snowmen and we're going to play in the snow and have snowball fights and get on sleds and we are going to be renting 10 tons of snow so we're going to have lots of snow and we're going to bring snow to ipc so maybe you've never seen snow before well we will have snow and we're going to have a great time december 22nd but on the 19th we're still having our banquet but it's going to be at the cerritos sheraton at 6 00 p.m and it's going to be 40 per person we're telling you this now so you can start saving and start making payments if you have to but it's going to be delicious full full course buffet salmon fish salmon is a fish fish chicken beef who else what else knows who knows we're going to have lots of good food okay so but you want to make sure mark your calendar and start making those payments if you have to coming up december 19th that'll be here before you know it christmas will be here before you know it oh my goodness i can't believe it we're already stepping into october and it seems like we were just in january how does that happen amen so go ahead and mark your calendars be sure to plug that away so that way you can participate and we're gonna have a great time as family more information to come as we get closer and hopefully i'll have it all together up here a little better next time i announce it but it is forty dollars i can tell you that much okay so you want to start saving for your plates and we're gonna have a great time december 19th amen tonight i'm so excited because um i know that our preacher our speaker tonight is uncomfortable doing this but i've got to tell you that she is my favorite preacher because she's always preaching to me uh so whatever she gives it's always good and it's just been exciting to watch the lord develop and grow and just pour himself into her but we love her so much sister may would you please come tonight amen we love you preach teach sing play the piano cook some good food whatever you want to do amen have your liberty we love you praise the lord everyone can we just worship the lord tonight jesus you're worthy we thank you god for your presence amen hallelujah hallelujah what a great worship thank you sister v i was hoping that you all will be slain in the spirit i don't have to speak but i'm just so grateful for each and every one of you thank you thank you elders brother rowell sister jody brother steve for always praying for me brother nello we have amazing amazing team in this church and i'm just so grateful so privileged and honored to serve this family thank you pastor babe i call him pastor babe he's been asking me to speak for a month now and i'm being an obedient and submitted wife tonight okay a submitted saint but i believe that there's a word for for you tonight hallelujah amen and why don't we all stand for the reading of the word jonah chapter 1 verses 1 to 3. now the word of the lord came to jonah the son of amitai saying go to nineveh that great city and cry out against it for their wickedness has come up before me but jonah arose to flee to tarshish from the presence of the lord he went down to joppa and found a ship going to tarshish so he paid the fare went down into it to go with them to tarshish from the presence of the lord if you can just allow me to just speak what's on my heart god's been dealing with me the past few weeks even this week god's been speaking and this is a simple thought but i truly believe that god wants to remind us to be ready because the harvest is here we're getting ready we're god's preparing us to receive more souls amen hallelujah i have entitled i have entitled this message when god calls when god calls can we just pray right now jesus we thank you for your presence thank you mighty god for your peace it's in this place right now god i pray that you will just have your way tonight lord continue to move into our hearts speak to us god use me jesus help me god strengthen me tonight strengthen each and every one of us here tonight god we love you we need you more more and more god hallelujah in jesus name amen you may be seated when god calls i want to talk about a story that we're all familiar with and this is the story of jonah if you grew up in church if you i'm sure sunday school that's that's one of the lessons that i first learned my first sunday school teacher was my grandma mama lola i remember talking about this a couple of months ago her name is venus do you guys remember that and she has a brother named jupiter and saturn so that's my grandmother who's my first sunday school teacher but we're gonna talk about jonah's calling and his struggles his struggles are the very thing that we struggle with in the daily basis and it's disobedience pride and arrogance amen we're never too mature or too mature christian right we we will always struggle with that those things and those things that i mentioned disobedience pride and arrogance that will hinder what god is doing here amen so i pray that this message can be a encouragement or a direction and clarity for some of you tonight in verse 1 it says that the word of the lord came to jonah jonah was a prophet god called him to be the voice for his people he was chosen jonah heard the lord he heard his voice loud and clear do you remember the first time you ever heard from god i remember the first time god called me i was about maybe seven or eight years old and i was baptized in jesus name and a couple of months later i received the gift of the holy ghost and i would never forget the experience uh because that was a youth night and some of you know the story it's in manila it was raining i received the holy ghost and on our way home there was a storm really bad and the flood was like up to here the waters were so deep and the youth leader helped me he carried me on his shoulders because i was really short well i'm still short it's not like i grew but um these these heels kind of trick some of you sometimes when i don't wear when i don't wear heels and i'm wearing flip-flops they're like sister may what happened but um well yeah so holy ghost i would never forget my my experience when when god called me for the first time and after that moment god keeps calling and calling wanting a deeper relationship wanting wanting something deeper amen revelations 3 verses 20 says behold i stand at the door and knock if anyone hears my voice and opens the door i will come into him and dine with him and he with me god loves to fellowship with you i love that part when he goes i will come into him and dine with him foodie ministry foodie small group god wants to dine with you no what i meant is he wants to fellowship with us he wants to spend time with you it's not enough for us to just hear god's voice on a sunday or a wednesday night amen he wants he wants us to keep calling him every day open up your hearts and receive his word so jonah heard from the lord and he said arise go to nineveh that great city and cry out against it for their wickedness has come up before me so god has given jonah a specific task an assignment he said go right he didn't just say go he was very specific he said nineveh that city every one of us here have a specific assignment that god is asking you to do amen we've got work to do we are all a part of the body of christ in first corinthians 12 verses 5 to 11 it says there are differences of ministries but the same lord and there are diversities of activities but it's the same god who works all in all but the meant that sorry my tagalog accent is coming out because it's wednesday night okay i only have a limit the manifestation here you go of the spirit is given to each one for this the prophet of all for to one is given the word of wisdom through the spirit to another the word of knowledge the same spirit to another faith by the same spirit to another gifts of healings by the same spirit to another the working of miracles to another prophecy deserting of spirits to another different kinds of tongues to another the interpretation of tongues but one and the same spirit works all these things distributing to each one individually as he wills each of us have an individual calling and i'm so grateful that i'm a part of a church that's busy there's always something going on every single day just a couple of weeks ago i attended the small group seminar led by brother jamal sister sharina and a couple of days ago altar workers seminar led by sister debbie bryant and to just edify the body to just so that we're prepared amen these leaders equipping us so that we're prepared to receive souls and i encourage you to be involved there's a lot of things to be involved here in this church and know your place in the kingdom but sometimes we pray for a ministry and we pray god you know i want i want to i want to sing or i want to be a greeter but god is saying no i want you to teach bible study or we want to be a preacher but god is saying you be an usher okay and sometimes we have an idea of what god wants but it's not what god wants it's really what we want amen and so we need to be obedient when god is saying when god is telling you i want you to lead worship but you're out there doing greeting just because that's what you want you're not comfortable up here we need to be obedient in god's voice because we need to find our place in the kingdom amen amen jesus said to jonah arise go to nineveh that great city cried against it for their wickedness has come up before me and guess what we all know jonah didn't want to go there he doesn't want to go to nineveh he ended up going to tarshish okay and if you look in the maps if you have your maps in the bible this is nineveh right this side and this is tarshish completely opposite direction right completely different but god was telling jonah i want you to be my messenger in that city minister to these people i have a word for them and god is calling you to minister at a specific place specific location amen we think okay i want to be a missionary i want to do missions but you don't have to go to africa you don't have to go to the philippines to do missions your job that's your mission field young people your schools that's your mission field parents your mission field is your homes keeping your home in order teaching the word of god to your children praying reading the word of god so your mission field doesn't have to be and then we make excuses well god is calling me to be a missionary but i can't really travel because of covet so i'm going to take a break when no god has placed you specifically where you're at to fulfill your mission amen god wants us to grow how many of you believe that he's the same yesterday today and forever amen but he doesn't want you to stay the same yesterday today forever okay he wants you to grow he doesn't want you to stay the same he wants you to grow and next level in him jonah arose to flee to tarshish from the presence of the lord he ran away from god's calling and how many of us here sometimes feel like running away he went to the opposite direction and you know i think about this because i've had experiences too that i want to run away because um because of fear number one is fear right some of us god's been speaking he's been dealing with us calling you to a specific task but we make excuses right we say things like i don't like people i'm an introvert right that was my biggest excuse because i i thought hey i'm a singer i'm a worship leader i've done my task when i sit there i don't want to talk to nobody but you know what if you truly want to be a follower of christ christ jesus is all about people if you look at his story and he's all about it's all about eating with people breaking bread that's my favorite breaking bread with people okay he's all about healing people he's surrounded by people wherever he went and so if you truly want to be a follower of christ you got to start loving people i'm just saying you got to start loving people don't just come here and perform your task play sing you know do whatever and then leave and not talk to people okay because that's that's what's all it's all about it's all about souls it's all about loving people we want to be true followers of christ amen and sometimes it's out of our comfort zone god i can't do it i appreciate you sister maggie because you spoke at the seminar and then she was like i don't know if i can do this but but she did an amazing job yes another preacher you can schedule her on a wednesday night too but you know stepping out of your comfort zone you know what happens when you step out god multiplies your gifts amen you don't you're not just okay i'm just gonna sing and you limit that's i limited myself and i don't want to do anything else and when god was saying teach bible study do this do that i'm like no way music that's it genre that's creativity arts that's it don't ask me to teach but i find that the lord was with me throughout everything and he's proven that over and over again it's not my ability anyways it's not about me amen and we have to be available available we sing that song right available we sing that all the time but it's not just about availability you have to be flexible okay when covet happened all of a sudden we're losing volunteers they don't want to be involved because they're fearful and they can't be flexible you can't adapt to the situation and we need to adapt we can't just be available and then and then later on covet happens another pandemic happens and we're not able to adapt to the situation and we get stuck and another reason why we run away from god's calling number one is fear and number two is because of hurt some of us here have experienced brokenness deep deep wounds in our lives and we think there's no way there's no way that god can use me i'm so broken how am i gonna how am i gonna minister and i've experienced that and i had an infirmity of unforgiveness and and bitterness for years and god will continue to bless me right but it felt like i was stuck and there's a hindrance and you know whenever we're hurt the first option is to run away right and i had that experience i promise you i remember a season in my life where i'm just i'm gonna run away i'm gonna run away and i told my husband i said i'm going to live in the philippines and i'm going to sell all my bags all my shoes i'll be a missionary i'm going to sell all you know my shoes and stuff good value still good condition so i'm gonna go and be a missionary in the philippines i don't care i'm hurt you know we make stupid decisions when we're hurt right and if it wasn't for my papa guy i call him pop-up brother guy he said don't go anywhere you stay where you're at you're you're here you need to be in bellflower or you won't be effective anywhere else god's still you gonna use you but if you stay here you'll be effective and thank god for him because i was getting ready to leave i was like i'm done i can't do this no more i'm hurt i'm so broken but we want to run away because of hurt sometimes right but your pain your pain god wants to heal your pain he doesn't want you to stay broken he doesn't want you to stay hurt you're called to victory you're victorious amen god wants to make you whole so that you can testify to others and you can heal others he has called you to be a healer amen so back to jonah jonah was out of order out of god's will he didn't want to go to nineveh nineveh okay so what's your nineveh what is it that god is asking you to do and you just don't want to do it you keep running the opposite direction so in jonah chapter 4 verses 2-3 jonah revealed why he didn't want to go to nineveh so this is jonah talking so he prayed to the lord and said lord he says ah lord wasn't it was not this what i said when i was still in my country therefore i fled previously to tarshish for i know that you are a gracious and merciful god slow to anger and abundant in loving kindness one who relents from doing harm therefore now o lord please take my life from me for it's better for me to die than to live a little dramatic very dramatic person right it's better for me to die well because nineveh is their enemy the israel's enemies and they're very wicked people wicked they're wicked and just he he didn't want to save them because he doesn't believe that they deserve it right and how many of you believe that there's some people in your life that don't deserve to for god's mercy and grace because they're horrible people just being real and honest right for jonah to go to nineveh that's a big risk he doesn't want them to be victorious that's their enemy and plus they're very wicked but jonah knew that god would be so gracious and merciful toward the people of nineveh nineveh and he doesn't want that because he doesn't they don't deserve it in his mind so how many of us struggle with that if you have an enemy if you have somebody that's getting on your nerves and you don't believe that they deserve the favor of god or the blessings of god you don't want them to prosper they're not nice they don't deserve god's love luke 6 verses 27 to 28 says but i say to you who here love your enemies that's our favorite verse right love your enemies do good to those who hate you bless those who curse you and pray for those who spitefully use you pray for those you know what my prayer is for my enemies my prayer is lord strangle them with your holy spirit lord give them a nightmare give them a vision that you'll scare them to death no i'm just joking i'm i'm not praying that prayer to anybody here okay i promise so i still pray for my enemies right now in jesus name lord help me i love luke chapter 17 because this is jesus talking to his disciples then he said to the disciples it's impossible that no offenses should come but woe to him through him they do come it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea then that he should offend one of these little ones take heed to yourselves if your brother sins against you rebuke him and if he repents forgive him and if he sins against you seven times in a day and seven times in a day returns to you saying i repent you shall forgive him and the apostle said to the lord increase our faith i love this because i love how if you're brothers and sickens you rip you if he repents forgive him like they're cool they're okay with that but when jesus said seven times in a day and they said increase our faith god i don't know ain't nobody got time for seven times seven increase my faith and that's something that i would actually respond if i was there in person like god okay just increase my faith i need you more than ever i need your holy spirit i need you got to have your way in my heart you know i'm going to be rebuking myself but jesus is saying that offenses will happen there's no way around it even the nicest more paid most patient people like my husband bless his heart he doesn't get offended i feel like he does it and i look at him like you're not offended about what this person is saying are you really really but i do know that he does get offended like if i buy some things and i didn't tell him how much it was and i hide it in the trunk you know and and he finds out but i know he does get offended but very little but offense will happen to everybody everyone there's no way around it that's just how it's gonna be matthew 18 verses 21 to 22 then peter came to him and said lord how often shall my brother sin against me and i shall forgive him okay here's the math up to seven times jesus said i do not say to you up to seven times but up to 70 times seven so now he wants to do math now well god is just saying just forgive okay just forgive forgiveness and here's the thing about forgiveness is we talk about we want to be a light to the people we want to have a revival but then we have unforgiveness in our hearts and do you know that the key to revival really is forgiveness there is a block when you have bitterness and anger in your heart and god can't move freely through you when you have unforgiveness i know that i've been there before i'm not just talking just because i've been there before let's be a church of healers amen get rid of all bitterness get rid of all the anger you know when somebody's bitter they eat they breathe they talk negativity it's everything is negative everything's about i'm not really sure about that you know and it's like you look at them like i don't want to talk to you anymore i'm tired right there's just enough negativity in the world we don't need that conversation here bitterness creates division because you know what happens to when you're negative you post stuff on your social media and you share things you share things not necessarily bad but what it does is it stir some arguments some opinions and you don't want your facebook page to be a page of arguments amen bitterness is an infirmity and we can just give it to god just give it to god ephesians 4 verses 31 to 32 says let all bitterness wrath anger clamor and evil speaking be put away from you and with all malice and be kind be kind be kind to one another tenderhearted forgiving one another even as god in christ forgave you and the thing about forgiveness it's not a one-time thing like if if we were having like an amazing move of god people slain in the spirit in up here and all the elders pray for you and they pour out the anointing oil god i forgive you know and then the next morning the same person does the same thing or you get reminded and it's like i didn't forgive well because it's a daily choice i die daily right apostle paul says it's something that we have to give up on a daily basis and i have to do that too because i find myself like why am i annoyed again why am i but it's like okay god i need to forgive this person help me daily daily unforgiveness is pride and pride is something that the lord hates yeah first corinthians 14 15 verses 31 says i affirm by the boasting in you which i have in christ jesus our lord i die daily so god wants us to reach those people too the crazy ant the boss that's crazy narcissist whoever is in your life that's like getting on your nerves and they hurt you so bad he wants to reach those people too amen it's easy for us to be a witness for those people that's easy to love they're amazing oh i love them oh with great people but the other people it's like no god punish them but god wants to love them too amen he wants to use you to give that godly love first john 2 verses 9 he who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness until now he who loves his brother abides in the light and there is no cause for stumbling in him but he who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness and does not know where he's going because the darkness has blinded his eyes there's something about unforgiveness that pride you just can't see you just can't see it's blocking you can't see where god's taking you you can't hear his voice you don't know the direction that god is taking you because you're just full of bitterness there's just a block and you know what happens to your blessings it's just you see everybody getting blessed but you're so bitter and it's just it's so hard for god to like hear i'm freely blessing you and we don't want to be in that place we want to be in the place of humility and god i humble myself lord help me to be humble i don't want to be full of pride and full of hate and bitterness god resists the proud but gives grace to the humble james 4 verse 6. jesus help us to be humble okay back to jonah the lord sent out a great wind on the sea this is jonah 1 verses 4. the lord sent out a great wind on the sea and there was a mighty tempest on the sea so that the ship was about to be broken up okay the lord sent out the storm this the wind it wasn't the devil because we blame everything to the devil it goes the devil poor devil he always gets blamed it's like he always gets the blame but it's the lord that sent that win the great win so verse 5 jonah was asleep but god sometimes allow crazy storms in our lives number one to strengthen our faith or to wake us up because we're out of order and you know god wants us to be in his will and sometimes god has to shake us up so are we listening to god's voice or do we have to wait until that storm happens and you're all messed up and you're hurting can't we just be obedient in the first place can we just listen to his voice in the first place and so in jonah 1 verses 12 this is a time when those men and the ship uh figured it out that he's he's the culprit so they threw him out of the sea and the thing is when we're disobedient we affect those people around us it's not just us we affect those people around us and we become a burden um and jonah 1 verses 17 this is our favorite part the lord had prepared a great fish to swallow jonah i don't know what kind of fish orca or a whale he would know he's the science guy so if if you have a question about what fish it is my husband would know that he only believes in science so okay now the lord had prepared a great fish to swallow jonah and jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights then jonah prayed to the lord his god from the fish's belly i don't understand why he just prayed inside why can't he pray earlier like why pray when you're like crammed up in there because sometimes we wait until we're like messed up until we called out to god we could have called out his name in the beginning right so god isolated jonah and made sure that he hears his voice and i haven't crazy imagination jonah being inside the belly and god's like testing testing jonah jonah yeah you can you hear me you okay you doing all right okay you're going to nineveh no no more butts you're gonna go okay i'll have the fish vomit you i have to hire this big fish just to get you okay testing okay so i have this imagination i have this crazy imagination that just ca you know god is so funny you know that and he has a way of just turning things around and make it just humorous and i feel like that's what he's doing it to jonah because you know we have this um imagination in the book where he was praying like this in the belly of i don't think that's how big that the belly i feel like he's like i feel like i literally feel like he's laying there like oh sorry i'm spitting on you john sorry in jesus name it's the anointing so let's be spiritual let's be spiritual okay but it doesn't matter what god asks you to do amen be obedient don't wait until you're in the mess and it's like okay i'm to pray now because it's too late romans 5 verses 19 says for as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners so also by one man's obedience many will be made righteous god has called you god has chosen you ephesians 2 verses 10 says for we are his workmanship created in christ jesus for good works which god prepared beforehand that we should walk in them and lastly luke 10 verses 2 to 3 then he said to them the harvest truly is great but the laborers are few therefore pray the lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest go your way behold i send you out as lambs among wolves and you just you just want to be a part of what god is doing amen you don't know what the future holds and while you're here be busy in god's kingdom be obedient in his voice to be honest i really don't know why i'm up here i'm like i cracked myself up because i am not a bible scholar i am not somebody who just knows everything right but you know what god has been compelling me to go deeper and deeper and the only way that i can go deeper with god is if i just go along for the ride and sometimes it's a big struggle it's a struggle because i don't want to look stupid you know and and i'm okay like i said with the arts with the music but if it's something out of my comfort zone i have an issue with that and i just pray that tonight i can encourage some of you to step out step out step out i'm not all about the position i'm not all about that i just want to be used of god if i can just be a part of what god is doing and not miss out when god calls you he's going to equip you he's preparing you for this moment and if you're not sure about what your place is in god's kingdom seek him because he will reveal it to you amen can we all stand right now jesus we thank you musicians can you help me out hallelujah hallelujah jesus we praise you we thank you god for your presence thank you god for choosing us for calling us god oh in the name of jesus i rebuke fear god i rebuke depression jesus hallelujah we praise you right now god oh we trust in you jesus hallelujah hallelujah lord hallelujah i invite you to come up in the front and pray hallelujah jesus i will be what you've called me to be i say yes lord i agree my desire passionately is to be what you've called me to be that's what i'll be with your hands lifted i will be what you call me to be i say yes lord i agree my jesus passionately is to be what you call me to be what i'll do i will be what you call me to my jesus is yes i i agree with all my heart with all yes i say is when i say i is be can we just lift up our hands right now jesus i pray that you will just have your way in my life whatever it is god i'm available whatever it is jesus i'm willing yes to your will i see oh yes jesus he's speaking right now he wants to touch you i be is so

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Published: Thu Sep 23 2021