Word Impact Gathering

[Music] praise the lord everybody come on worship the lord this evening right where you are bless his name come on and give him praise honor him magnify him exalt him our god is worthy to be praised lift up your voice right where you are clap your hands all you people shout on the god with the voice of triumph it's another wednesday another day that the lord has made come on lift him up right where you are worship him magnify him our god is great and our god is absolutely wonderful we're so glad that you have joined us for another midweek gathering we're so glad that you have uh joined us this evening we asked you to please share this with somebody let them know that we're on this evening and we're trusting and believing that tonight through the worship through the praise through the word of god that your life will be transformed that god will shine his light in your darkness and cause a transformation and a change to happen in your life we're believing god this evening that his goodness will be revealed to us in the land of the living the bible says that jesus went about doing good the goodness of god is the glory of god we're believing god this evening that jesus would do the same thing and go around and doing good revealing his glory in your life the goodness of the lord his goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our life his goodness is always with us and he promised us we will live to see it in the land of the living no matter how hard it is no matter what you see god is still revealing his goodness to you the fact that you're alive is showing you that god is good the fact that you're here is showing you that god is good if you're struggling the fact that you're still surviving and god is helping you he's showing you his goodness we thank god for that come on let's pray father we thank you for being the good father your word lets us know that there is none righteous none good but you and lord we appreciate you for being that good great father for being the one that knows what we have need of before we ask for it for being the one that promised us that if we being evil can give good gifts to our children how much more will our heavenly father give to us we give you praise this evening because if we can take care of ours you surely can take care of us your word says before we ask for it you've already answered that while we're yet speaking you are answering our request and father you are attentive to our prayers even when it seems like you're distant even when it seems like you have forsaken us you have not forsaken us we just give you thanks today because you've been good to us you're being good to us and you will continue to be good and for that we give you thanks we look back over our lives we recognize that we couldn't have made it without goodness and mercy following us the good shepherd preceding us we appreciate you this evening for always being with us in the good times and in the bad times we thank you this evening for your presence we pray that you would teach us tonight open up our hearts and minds shine the light of revelation in our darkness lord we want to see a manifestation of your spirit and your power you do your work and you get the glory show us your glory this evening and father we pray that you remove every veil every hindrance that will block us from seeing your goodness from here on out we trust you we believe you saved somebody tonight we pray that you will connect somebody to this house bring somebody back home in jesus name amen if you believe it worship god right where you are thank god for his goodness thank him for his mercy thank him for his kindness we're believing to see the goodness of the lord in the land of the living come on y'all give us some worship hallelujah for your goodness [Music] for your mercy but most of all simply because of who you are we offer praise to you hallelujah [Music] can hallelujah say hallelujah hallelujah wherever you are watching this lift up a praise hallelujah simply because of who you are and you're worthy we offer praise [Music] thank you lord [Music] oh lord we give you grace [Music] lord we bless your names [Music] thank you [Music] goodness and your mercy is toward us [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh we give you [Music] praise oh lord we bless your names [Music] [Music] and your [Music] and your mercy toward us [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] mercy you are [Applause] glory [Music] oh [Music] and your mercy swore [Music] [Music] support us you will say [Music] [Music] [Applause] smaller [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] one more time we are [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Music] it everybody's hey [Music] [Applause] is [Music] goodness [Music] think about [Music] it for yourself [Music] [Music] oh oh [Applause] [Music] yes sir yes sir yes sir [Music] yes [Music] hallelujah my mama yeah we offer praise good god yes lord spirit and in truth yes sir yes sir my mind yes lord welcome thank you for joining us yeah yeah lord is it in this place yes he is my goodness thank our worship team for doing an incredible job our musicians are playing skillfully yeah wonderful jesus yeah yeah my my worship of y'all man right where you are god almighty praise the lord all right man oh man yeah yeah the presence of god is here yeah right where you are too hallelujah all right all right let's get into this so we get it done [Music] yes sir hallelujah [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] for your goodness hallelujah [Applause] [Music] wow yeah yeah [Applause] [Music] goodness great yes lord yes lord the lord [Laughter] [Music] somebody needs to be saved right now yeah i was thinking the same thing it was right there like the moment opened you don't know yes lord yeah the realness of this moment yeah should not only touch your mind but touch your heart the reality of the lord's presence his spirit yeah that presence that he invites us to abide under at all times what an incredible moment a moment of decision when you can decide right now i've been delaying long enough i've been thinking long enough i've been putting it off long enough i need to give my life to the lord he says come unto me all ye that are heavy laden life can get you down the various demands of life can weigh you down sometimes and you don't feel like you have strength but god has promised us not only will he be a very present help in those challenging times but he will provide strength continually that you might get the victory you might be delivered you might conquer yeah but it can't be done without the lord if you've never given your life to the lord i want to suggest to you that this moment is pregnant with possibility the door to your divine destiny is open the way the truth the life are now set at the table before you he has prepared that table in the presence of all that you're dealing with because he is inviting you come into a relationship with him coming to his house so you've never given your life to the lord you need to come right now you need to write us right there on whatever site you're watching tell us the decision put yes i want to get saved today if you're already saved this moment has reminded you of who you used to be in christ what you used to do in christ i used to live in christ and you're saying you know what i've been delaying long enough i need to come back right now if you're watching us for the very first time perhaps you're watching us for the 50th time and this moment once again has come in such a profound way you can my brother my sister boy or girl give your life to the lord right now come back to the lord right now connect with god's ministry right now don't delay he's been good to you write us on the site tell us yes i'm coming to the lord for the first time i want to receive him yes i'm coming back to the lord it doesn't matter how many times it's happened yes i need to connect with this house i have to hear you saying pastor i found it i've been thirsty i found the place the well of living water where i can drink but i'm so far away join our virtual church called the connections church the only thing you won't have is the ability to get here whenever you want to but you'll be exposed to every other ministry that we have you'll lack nothing you'll make some road trips during the year come to convocation come on special weekends like eastern new year those types of situations come on and be a part of god's work write us on the site let us know one of our ministry workers will respond to you as soon as possible tell you what the next steps are we look forward to joining hands with you and walking as a family into our destiny make the decision i'm so glad you're going to do it amen amen okay felt like he was in service about to open up come on y'all stand up let's roll time to do it it was there man yeah man oh that mercy all right so hopefully we can finish this today yeah i doubt i'll be trying it right i'm trying to get this to the largest ring up here and antoine um i i just do the best we can okay well yeah we can uh so we're really been talking about the presence of god sin you know since july really started it and then kind of working on uh the presence of god how to identify yeah let's go back to exodus 13 verse 21 and 22 okay and it says the lord went up before them by day the pillar of a cloud and led them away by the night and a pillar of fire to give them light yeah to go by day and night he took not away the pill the cloud by day you know the pillar of fire by night from before the people okay so god manifests himself physically to his people mm-hmm um he manifests himself physically to his people okay um in a pillar fire in a cloud fire in the cloud okay all right uh they didn't have a bible at the time right so god gave them a real straight up physical manifestation of his presence something they could measure so they could measure this thing they didn't have a book to go back to and refer so god showed up in this format so his presence is with us yeah and at this time we need revelation to see him which we talked about last week right revelation is the uncovering it's the revealing it's the apocalypse yeah it's god showing us what's always been there already it was hidden but has been revealed so let's go to psalm 119 verse 8 i mean 18 excuse me psalm 119 18 8 eighteen sorry one team okay yeah and we went over this last week but we'll do it for review open thou mine eyes that i may behold the wondrous things out of thy law my mind reveal take the cover off open up my eyes so i can behold the wondrous thing so when i'm reading it yeah i'm not just seeing words on the paper right god's revealing the inventory as you say or the wondrous things that's in the word so i've got to see with my eyes of faith and see past mere words into the spirit of what god said yes so we need revelation we need god to open our eyes this is why important when before you study your bible before you pray before you really read your word you pray and ask the holy spirit to help you open your eyes up so you can see that next verse is pretty significant i am a stranger in the earth hide not that commandments from me so there is a natural realm that if we're not careful what's around us will be will obscure yeah instead of reveal what god is trying to show us so it's imperative that we understand that we we're strangers in the earth but we operate in a spiritual dimension but there must be the revelation yeah or i will merely see what's around me and not what it represents yes yeah yeah because god is constantly showing himself manifesting himself in physical things and the issue is not where is is god here the issue is can we see him because we went over this last week revelation reveals yeah and veils hinder yeah and so many things uh veil bring the monitors down just a hair so many things veil yeah our ability to see yeah doubt yep disappointment yeah unbelief yeah the world is constantly trying to conform us so we won't be able to see god and we need revelation we need god to remove the veil so we can see what's always been there the bible talks about a new testament about missing the day of our visitation which again um brings up the law of recognition being able to recognize or discern or see um it's like uh the law of perception prophet comes in town shooting white woman says i perceive that other holy man yeah she has a revelation her husband doesn't have but it doesn't build her faith until she acts on it yep okay yeah absolutely yeah yeah cause you see it you got it yeah you gotta act it builds faith yeah yeah so so so revelation unveiling is a battle watch the shaw of light and darkness absolutely it's a battle of light in darkness satan wants us to remain in the dark god wants us in the light satan wants to keep us veiled keep the veil over our eyes christ comes to take development off so we can see okay so let's go to genesis chapter one and uh let's lay a little foundation genesis one verse one in the beginning god created the heaven and the earth and the earth was without form and void darkness was upon the face of the deep it was everywhere and the spirit of god began to move upon the face of the waters and god said let there be light and there was light so god is the revealer he's the one that turns the lights on right now notice the movement the spirit moves first then god brings light yep because there is no revelation without a move of the spirit so mary couldn't conceive jesus until the spirit came on her absolutely light could not have been conceived inside of absolutely so we notice in the beginning this light comes from god the sun isn't made until the fourth day that's right so the physical manifestation of light was created on the fourth day so the only way the only only way we can summarize this is that this light came directly from god and then later on he put a physical representation for us to look at to see the light because i believe it's in the book of john jesus is identified as that light oh we're going there okay we're going there okay you're good you're good okay so so the light starts with god yep and then on the fourth day he creates the sun and puts a physical thing in the universe for us to see where light is coming from and the reason god can call jesus the express image of his person because god is light yes sir yes sir and in him there's no darkness yeah at all yeah so so god only we can say that shines what's in him onto a dark world so imagine imagine that god being light it is it is it is diffused it is it is everywhere yeah so he has to bring the light to a point and that point is jesus yes so he reveals the light that lights the light of man this is going to be beautiful it's going to be nice so so let's keep keep that in you keep that in your head that the light comes from god then he puts a physical manifestation in the earth to reveal the light to us a light that watch this we can see and still survive absolutely because no man has seen god pure light and lived let's go to john chapter 1 verse 1. so in that context he's sharing if you will part of his shekinah because we can stand the presence of shekinah yes okay we can't stand the pure yeah yeah so he the manifestation of his glory is shekinah and that is light yes okay all right let's go to john chapter one let's look at verse one okay in the beginning was the word and the word was with god and the word was god the same was in the beginning with god so the word jesus was with god he is god from the very beginning three all things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made in him who the word was life wow in that life was what the light of men and the light shineth in darkness and darkness comprehended it not so yeah the word is the light that shines in darkness he's it's a lamp into my feet light into my path turns on the light in my head in my head yeah yeah like the old cartoons when the light bulb hits yep turns on the light and watch this when the light shines the bible says that the darkness just like in genesis it didn't completely go away because light and dark dwelt together the darkness comprehended it not that word darkness means to overcome or to take hold of yeah so when the light shines darkness has to try to overtake it absolutely but it can his light pierces through the darkness no matter how hard darkness fights the light so whenever you get revelation expect warfare when light shines absolutely i don't think well actually i confirm this jesus confirms this in the parable of the sower okay we think when we get a word we dance we shout in church we're happy we leave and don't expect the warfare to come because darkness has to try to diffuse the birds are going to come the birds are going to come yeah they're going to come and jesus says that when the seed is sown for stony ground that when the you're tested by the same word you received with joy absolutely people give up so there's spiritual warfare in revelation so what you've just explained is the offense that comes after a revelation is received and that is to distract you or even distort your understanding because darkness does not want to go away darkness is being forced away yes and it's got to resist and fight back and the bible has has told us in the new testament that to some people darkness is light it's the thing they're attracted to yep yep that's true so because yeah it's in john i remember we read it before yeah they like that they like the darkness they don't want the light exposed so resistance when revelation comes keep this in your memory because we're going to go somewhere with this resistance piece okay let's look let's even look at joseph god gives him two dreams of him reigning he's above his brothers his parents with the stars and with the sheaves after god shows him a picture of elevation after that his father sends him to see his brothers and the first thing they do is throw him down yep he got a dream of going up but then he went down to a pen that's pretty offensive went down to egypt yeah everything in the bible was there for a reason went down to the pit down to egypt down to prison yes sir he had a dream of going up but his life went down we think god must not have spoken to us because the opposite seems to happen but it was god actually progressing joseph by taking him down but watch what happens pastor nick even though he's down he's evidently still holding on to the revelation else how could he possibly say to the other prisoners why are you saying he said yep in every situation he maintained his attitude based upon his faith and the promise god had given so he did not lose the dream and the attitude that accompanied the dream based on the situation he was in yup so when darkness tries to fight it you gotta hold on to that revelation yeah you got to hold on to the revelation yeah all right so his light pierces the darkness so darkness is going to try to stop the light but that's its job so isn't that what what i'm you know the bible doesn't say does this but it does say in job's context that the lord was with him the lord was with him the lord was with him so that makes me f understand that joseph kept repeating his dream he did not lose his dream and every time he did that god responded gave him joy gave him peace because the dream showed him fulfilled and what's amazing about that the bible says his dad observed it absolutely saying yeah yeah yeah yeah his dad like his this sounds like it could work yep but it was out of order because he was the baby he was a baby so his brothers rejected it yeah resistance to the revelation yep his father observed yes sir so were you're in chestnut checkers they had access to light but they rejected it they rejected the last sir it wasn't until they needed the light but all of a sudden it became convenient yeah yeah yeah so revelation opens the door for warfare so when you receive a word you say expect the birds experience some trials because why god this the word god gives you is the word he tests you with and the enemy has to respond when you have accepted something by faith to try to get you to stop believing what was said because he has no authority to stop you but he does try to persuade you to stop yourself yep okay let's go to verse 14. okay a wonderful verse so we know the word as life and light and verse 14 and the word was made flesh and dwelt among us yeah and we beheld we saw his glory we saw the light yeah the glory is the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth so god like the physical sun in the sky wraps his light in the physical form that man can see and still live my mind so remember the bible's full of patterns that's right genesis 1 the light comes directly from god fourth day creates a sun for us to see the word is spirit in john chapter one there you go the word becomes flesh in verse 14 in a way that mankind can see that's right now let's go to john chapter nine so the word and the light become corporeal yes yes sir [Applause] john chapter nine okay we're telling y'all this for a reason so just stay with us john chapter nine verse number one and jesus passed by and saw a man which was blind in the dark from his birth yep so from his birth he was always in the dark and never seen and his disciples asked him saying master who did sin this man or his parents that he was born blind jesus answered neither hath this man sin nor his parents but that the works of god should be made manifest in him i must work the works of him that sent me while this day the night cometh when no man can work as long as i am in the world i am the light of the world there you go so light sees somebody locked in darkness yes sir and when he had thus spoken he spat in the ground and made clay of the spittle anointed the man's eye eyes of the blind man with the clay said go watch the full silence by interpretation sent he went his way there washed and came seeing so jesus is the light yeah and he does a disgusting miracle besides the time when he spit in somebody's mouth yeah he spits on the ground showing that he's the god of creation and y'all y'all know this already spit contains dna all the information so when jesus spit into the ground he spit light into the the information of the father went into the crowd you don't need to hear me dna carries your father's information so he takes the light and smears it on the man because if he is the light then light's in the dna and he puts his light on the man and the man goes through this process and and comes back seeing because jesus was willing to put him on the man there's some deliverance for somebody watching us on this a lot of people feel today that whatever they're going through that's negative is a response to something one of their forefathers has done and even though jesus says it's very plainly you're not suffering based upon what your parents have done yeah but the old testament says that god no longer does that whole group responsibility thing the the children's teeth will not be set on edge because the fathers have eaten sour grapes so there's this there's on the cross jesus broke that flow yeah so he's coming now saying you all understand since i have a finished work since i've been slain before the world began his parents sin has nothing to do with his present condition man we needed god we need to know this sir yes sir a generational curse only works if you believe oh yeah if you hold on to it it's going to work in your life it'll influence you it's influenced yes sir but he said this is for the glory of god which means the man was on the schedule which means you're watching us now y'all on the schedule tonight that's right to have some light shine in your darkness that's right that yolk's gonna be destroyed yes sir so he obeys the instructions simple instruction you've done this before go watch but this time i'm to be creative put some clay on your eyes and some spit and cause you to see all right and the warfare starts after the light comes on absolutely because the people won't accept his miracle and sometimes when god moves in your life expect people to try to get you to go back to the old you look at the accusation wait a minute is is this the guy that sat and begged how could this happen to this one because perhaps they had become more comfortable with him his neighbors had become comfortable with him in the position that he was in so now it makes me wonder uh what kind of industriousness he came from that he ended up in with an illness that did not allow him a defect that did not allow him to carry on the legacy of his mom and dad you know so the people his neighbors did his mama and them do something yeah you know it's almost like that joby accusation would you do wrong you must do something wrong yeah you know but here we see him not only restored with his eyes but i believe he's restored to the continuity of success of his family that he he's he's now no longer the outcast who begs but they immediately try to take him back to his pre-miracle days yep yeah why do you think we do that i think in in this system they got more out of the people being broken than successful okay because they tolerated all these issues while they were in the house of god okay and they never really challenged most of this stuff you're stepping up to something i'm just saying there's a lot of a lot of a lot of conditions are never challenged in many churches today yep because some people can build a cottage injured industry off of broken people well it happens yeah i mean we have we have preachers who have preached and almost celebrated wounds but have not taught towards deliverance yeah so we better not know okay let's go to mark chapter 10. we gonna get [Laughter] if you're gonna cut a person if you're gonna identify what's wrong with them yeah then you ought to have a word to preach that deliverance absolutely not just their tear breakthrough yes yes because i don't think crying is necessarily the signal of a breakthrough no okay crying's not always delivered sometimes you just cry yeah mark chapter 10 verse 46. okay now we noticed this miracle's a little different because the man in john 9 was born blind but a mass wasn't born blind he became blind through circumstance or some situation and i think that the people need to know that that born blind when you research it he was born with no eyes which is why the clay was necessary yeah not clay's not necessary for this one yep because he had eyes but something yes malfunction yeah yeah so the great position yeah yeah so and because blind bartimaeus uh they some people take the historical look that majority of the men in the city were blind because in jericho they had these wind storms where the rocks would hit the males in their eyes and over time the constant hits will cause him to go blind absolutely and sometimes our issues don't come from one big punch it's not cumulative it accumulates over time then all of a sudden you have this issue because you've been taking small hits for the past couple years so it says and he came came the jericho they said uh went out with jericho with disciples and a great number of people and blind bartender man of tim is sat by the highway side begging now it implies that when jesus came in to jericho yeah bartimaeus was there absolutely because that word sat is a constant participle which means he lived there right he missed jesus coming in that was his spot that was his spot so jesus comes in but he was in the dark and could not see him that's right the light passed by but he couldn't see right here 47 when he heard that was jesus of nazareth he began to cry so let's pause right here real quick hearing creates a picture yes and i think we forget if faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of god the word of god is supposed to create a picture where you may not see it with your physical eyes but god paints the picture in our mind so we can see what he said so we can live based off what he said because hearing creates a picture yeah it's true because in first kings 19 jezebel sends a message to to elijah yeah and the bible says when elijah heard the message that she was going to kill him the scripture says when he heard it he saw it yeah and he fleed and ran away not because she sent people to kill him but the message created a picture in his mind of him dying because words create pictures when whenever jesus operates as a physician it causes me to take a look at how we are formed in the womb it has always amazed me that with say a dog or sheep when they're born they're born with their nostrils open their eyes shut and their hearing develops last okay but when human beings are in the womb it is proven they can hear and then they see and then they spill okay so he he is he is all in the human development of this man yeah and he is ready to be born or ready to be delivered because he might not be able to see what he can hear that was nice oh my god deliverance always comes with hearing okay some form of hearing yes sir because faith comes by hearing so not just anything the word of god god almighty so so so we heard yeah and the picture came yeah and he began to cry out saying jesus thou son of david have mercy on me now when you look up this word cry it means to shriek like a raven that's right a raven is an unclean bird which means that he began to cry out he cries out for mercy because he's not afraid to tell jesus that he's unclean he's dirty and in need of his mercy yes sir i think our prayers of deliverance usually aren't that vulnerable where we don't cry out to jesus in our mess and ask for mercy well i i think you're right i think we um how's that that illustration we used before when when the man was with us in his ass to stretch out his hand normally we probably would stretch a good hand and keep the one that needs deliverance hidden i think that's human nature absolutely i love how jesus just overcomes all this stuff absolutely yeah yeah so so he cries out some day of mercy many charged him that he should hold his peace but he cried the more great deal that son of david have mercy on me if he was in church they run around on this oh yeah man because the reality is is that he gets the revelation that jesus is in town his response is to start to cry out and remember revelation produces an attack from darkness so when he's trying to get delivered the people try to tell him to shut up yes sir but under the adversity and the spiritual warfare his praise intensifies yes sir some of us get too quiet when warfare intensifies yes sir but bartimaeus had enough sense to keep on crying now keep on shouting because he didn't want the darkness to overcome the light the the adversaries um agenda in a situation because we're made in the image and likeness of god is to quiet us yes because our authority not in our hands it's in our mouths life and death is in the power of the tongue so and and even though the bible says your tongue can start a fire yeah there are destructive fires they are containing viruses and and there's the fire that does its thing but doesn't consume what you think it's going to consume so we we're looking at the lord jesus who amazingly again is is walking not just the blind man but the spectators who were more comfortable with him sitting by the road and now they're having to witness his deliverance and i can it the the the people telling him to shut up reminds me of the disciples in the boat probably saying to themselves he's going to drown out there it's not going to work but here comes jesus again just love how you i know he walks you through and walks your spectators through at the same time absolutely demonstrates the whole thing yeah man so the light is coming by a man in the dark in verse 49 jesus stood still and commanded him to be called and they clawed they called the blind man saying unto him give good comfort rise he calleth thee fifty and he casting away his garment rosen came to jesus a great act of faith because this is not just him wearing just regular coat it's everything this garment was his everything everything it was his beggar's garment it was the sign that he was blind and a beggar he didn't even get his sight yet and threw that old lifestyle off the whole thing everything that gave him security his revenue base everything he threw it all away because if you want to be delivered you got to make this sacrifice against faith yes sir a lot of us were to carry the garment to jesus just in case it didn't work out but bartimaeus threw that bad boy off to enter into a new life and it's a picture of an individual going from faith to faith is his faith is growing he hears it he cries out um they they encourage him you know the disciples are kind of bragging a little bit he's getting ready to do something so you be a good chair yeah and then he says another dimension of faith yeah it's almost like he's the fisherman throwing the nets away yes yeah didn't receive yet but i want to give this i'm throwing i'm throwing them down i trust you enough to give this up i got to follow you 51 and jesus answered said unto him what what thou should i do unto thee i love how jesus asks questions he asks the obvious questions yeah to get that the the right question right answer that he needs the man said unto him lord that i might receive that will receive means to recover my sight yes sir i want to see again yeah let the light shine on me and jesus unto him go thy way thy faith hath made thee whole and immediately he received this site and here it is y'all and follow jesus in the way he didn't get delivered and move away from jesus that's closer he got delivered and moved closer because revelation is supposed to bring you closer yes to god yes sir and a manifested promise designed to create intimacy with the lord and how many times have we missed it what i find amazing here is that jesus would not have asked him the question if the man did not have the right answer there had to be more ministry here but he was ready for the question yes sir now wouldn't that based on everything that you have now that you've thrown everything away yeah what do you want me to do for you yeah he didn't say give me a new coat yep anything in the job no no he didn't say can i i can't think you can give me a better corner none of that man he just says i want him sight back i i want something i lost yes that was vital to my life and i realized when i lost it it changed my whole life yeah because if he gets a sight he can get a job yeah all that stuff can go along with it and go back man so what are we trying to show you god wants to shine his light on our darkness let's go to isaiah 60. he might go from begging on the corner to open up a business on the corner because the corners no he's known by it yeah isaiah who isaiah 60 okay verse one and two he says arise shine for the light is come and the glory of the lord is risen upon you yes sir you the light is shining on you yeah for behold the darkness shall cover the earth and gross darkness the people but in the darkness yeah the lord shall arise upon thee in his glory shall be seen upon thee so a dark season is an invitation to see the light of god and he's talking about a personal manifestation to an individual man yeah he says the glory is going to come on you he's going to shine his lights yes sir on you so god shines his light in darkness as we've been showing you from the blind man to genesis to um psalms let's go to second corinthians four verse one through six second corinthians four verse one through six and he says therefore seeing we have this ministry as we have received mercy we faint not yeah but i've renounced the hidden things of dishonesty not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of god deceitfully but manifest but the by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of god but if our gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost right in whom the god of this world have blinded the minds of them which believe not watch the wording here y'all he does not blind them first and then they don't believe he blinds those who don't believe unbelief is an invitation to avail yeah that's why when we get caught up in unbelief doubt it gives the enemy permission to put more veils on us the reason why lest the light of the glorious gospel of christ who is the image of god should shine unto them which is why when you're witnessing you cannot think of it as minute rice yeah you know there are layers of unbelief layers of doubt that have to be pierced which is why god's word is better than our words yes yep which is why them reading scripture that's designed to produce faith and pierce veils you know it's light to darkness yeah yeah because satan wants to keep us in the dark yeah man and paul just says what he says verse five for we preach not ourselves and he talks about blinded minds not blinded eyes because some yeah because some of us our minds are darkened hey look oh we're gonna go there in a minute the lights go on and off in your mind yeah that's where the light's supposed to be yep since for we preach not ourselves but jesus christ the lord and ourselves your servants of jesus for jesus said for god who commandeth the light to shine out of darkness has shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of god in the face of jesus christ so when the word is being preached as we're doing now the light supposed to be piercing your darkness yes sir the devil wants to keep you blind but god wants to command the light to shine in your dark yes sir so you can see jesus in your circumstance let's go to ephesians 5. we're gonna make it through the day phrase it looks like ephesians 5. let's look at verse number 14. he says wherefore he saith awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead and christ shall give you light see then that you walk circumspectly not as fools but wise why now that the lights are on walk circumspectly change how you live now that you see better not as fools but his wives redeeming the time because why the days are evil wherefore be not unwise but understanding what the will of the lord is god wants to give us revelations so we know what the will of the lord is sure so it can change how we live you got anything or rico no man go ahead because i'm looking at this acts chapter let's go to acts nine we're done on this acts chapter nine let's look at verse one acts chapter nine let's look at verse number one and we'll be finished with this acts nine verse one okay it says in saul yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the lord went unto the high priest and desired of him letters to damascus to the synagogues that if he found any of this way whether he be men or women he might bring them bound unto jerusalem why am i so amazed every time i read anything about paul his transformation is absolutely mind-boggling he was a bad guy he out there killing christians oh man wholesale putting them in jail intimidating intimidating them yeah and the crazy thing is watch this y'all paul based off his knowledge of scripture because he was a pharisee of the pharisees thought he was doing god's will by killing these people and putting him in jail because he was deceived he was deceived he had the letter of the law in mystical period paul was walking in the darkness he is the quintessential example of a person who believes in god but is just radically deceived and then i think god does this absolutely crazy thing uses him but he's so bad he's the likely candidate for the ministry yeah yeah because when he gets transformed oh they they god send somebody to him he's like i ain't going to see him no because he's killing people why are you sending me to go see him he did not want to go no so watch this y'all verse three and as he journeyed he came near to damascus and suddenly there's shine round about him a light from heaven yeah and the light was so strong that he fell off his horse to the earth he got knocked down he got the light knocked him down so when he's writing in second corinthians 4 about the god of this world blinding eyes he's writing about his own experience how he was in the dark and the light just boom hit him and knocked him off yeah his horse and he fell to the earth and heard a voice saying saul saul why persecutest thou me just as an aside saul was messing with the disciples of the lord and jesus takes it personal and says you're messing with me yeah man so you better be careful who you mess with because god takes it personally he's tut they were he was touching the anointed he was touching the anointing he was doing so and he said who out art thou lord and the lord said i am jesus whom you persecuted is it hard for thee to kick against the pricks and he trembling astonished and said lord what will thou have me to do here's the cry and the lord sends him arise and go into the city and shall be told thee what thou must do and watch the show on the men which journey with him stood speechless hearing a voice but seeing no man in my mind this light affected saul and nobody else they heard the voice they heard a voice they heard something but they didn't know what was going on and then all of a sudden after this experience and saul arose from the earth and when his eyes were opened he saw no man but they led him by hand and brought him to damascus this man was he could see with his eyes in the beginning but his mind was dark jesus opens his mind brings light to his mind and then makes him blind in his eyes for a season yeah he couldn't see physically but he can see in his mind until the time when the bible says the scales came off his eyes and he could see physically again yeah but god had to take him out of the darkness and bring him into the marvelous life he had to lose the sight of his experience to gain the vision of his future so at that moment everything he's had seen in the past instead of it increasing in value diminished that's why he says i forget all those things behind me yep i'm pressing towards the mother i got a new goal i got a new goal and what and this whole situation changes his whole entire life when the light shines let's go to verse 17 real quick let's see something verse 17 and ananias went his way now ananias again was like lord i ain't going because yeah he's killing people and why are you gonna say i'm not going over there with that guy right right he's like no i don't blame him either but he went his way yeah entered into the house and putting his hands on him and said brother saul the lord even jesus that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest has sent me that i just received thy sight and be filled with the holy ghost and immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales and he received sight for with and arose and was baptized from that moment on this is supposed to lead to altercall but we did already so but yeah we can work it out from that moment on when the light shined his life changed and i think all of us if we're real here have a soul experience even after we get saved absolutely where god constantly shines light on us to redirect us we can go through something and bitterness gets the best of us and he shines a light to redirect us away from somewhere that we're going yeah because revelation real revelation changes the person that sees what's been hidden the whole entire time yeah i think um it was moses talking to god and burning bush and the bible very subtle phrase he says he turned to see this great sight that was a pivotal moment yeah for moses because his entire life changed the day he turned to sin yeah so so you know god jesus had to give him a sight back but what he did he overcame ananias fear because why would he be now paul's reputation had to be really tough because now he's blind and ananias is still afraid but then he goes to him and and the miracle i believe is the sealer of saul's faith that miracle lifted his faith to another place yeah because and it now all the study he had done made sense it all came together everything locked him yep yep so we went through all this on revelation that whenever we get into the word of god we pray psalm 119 and verse 18 and we ask god even during the course of the day to make us aware of his presence because the next few weeks we're going to talk about how the pillar in the cloud led the people but we can't be led unless we have an awareness of god sure a revelation of his movement and his person we don't have a physical pill or a flyer a fire in a cloud but we have this yeah and we need the holy spirit to understand this book this name the tv guide or jet magazine where you just kind of read through it we need the help of the lord to understand this book yes legit so but god wants to shine his light and whenever you're being taught and preached the word of god the light is shining on you making you aware of new realities new things so you can see jesus christ for yourself now just in case those of you who did not uh weren't jumping the opportunity the first time when we first began to give the lord your life uh or rededicate your life or connect to this church it is a great opportunity for you to do so this evening the light has been shined as we've been teaching with just from saul he was on his way to do something and god interrupted his plans and brought him into belief in faith in jesus christ he was trying to fight it but one day jesus said hold up you can't fight this no more knocks him off his source and change his life some of you are experiencing that right now your life has been turned upside down maybe from the pandemic or some other things it's what we call stress conversions where sometimes god will let life bring you to him if you know you need to be saved you need to give the lord your life it's a great night to do so come on make that connection put your name in the comment section someone from our team will connect with you and you can give the lord your life this evening just like saul who became paul your life can be radically turned around and changed if you need to rededicate your life you know you got saved at one point in time and again you missed the earlier call come on and rededicate your life now maybe you let some veils cover your eyes and you start seeing things differently and it can happen so easily you get hurt you get disappointed uh you make a mistake failure and all those things start to dominate your thought process and now it's hard to see god hard to hear him hard to read your bible hard to pray because we're so consumed by these veils god is shining his light past all of that so you can see him you can come unto the knowledge of jesus christ come on and recommit your life to the lord this evening follow the light home follow at home the prodigal new the way back you know the way back come on and rededicate your life put your name in the comments section someone from our team will connect with you if you eat a church home you want to connect to this house we would love for you to come on and be a part of this family salvation is a call to a community y'all it's a call to a community of believers a community of god and we have to be attached to this community a community if you want to commit to this church connect with us put your name in the comments section whether you're distant or you're local if you're local we still aren't open yet but we have driving service on saturdays at 11 30. uh you can join us in person on saturdays and watch us online and when we open come on into the building if you're distant we have a virtual connections church actual connection not just watch us on sundays and wednesdays but we have new members class we have lifestyle ministries we have some people volunteering with some virtual things yeah an actual connection get the call pastor you know all that good stuff like that a real connection come on and connect to this church uh if you're about distant warrior close by come on and connect it matters where you go to church here you can be taught and fed the word of god you can grow be fed uh and connect if you fit in those three categories come on jump on in the flow and watch god begin to move in your life of course we always always give during this time the bartimaeus story just amazes me we'll go back to that again yeah when he threw his coat off he was actually sewing to see because he was like i'm giving this thing up yeah so i can enter into a new existence a new dimension a new way of being and before he received he threw it off that's what giving is like before i ever receive it i throw it off tonight is a great night to sow that seed jesus is calling sure it's a sacrifice whether it's 25 50 100 200 make sure to sacrifice something you feel when you give something you rather keep for yourself yeah throw that thing off because god has asked you a question tonight what do you want me to do and as you're sowing that seed out of worship out of love out of appreciation tell the lord this is what i need from you and you notice barter mass didn't make it trivial like we said he didn't say you know let me get a wife or a job or he said give me my sight because if i can get my sight all this other stuff can come together absolutely come on put your request and make your request known to god as you're sowing this seed this evening the information is on the screen uh you can text to give gimplify our website you can mail it in but a time of giving is actually a time of revelation too yes it is it's god shining that light and watch this the veil of how much we have or how much we don't have starts talking the veil yeah of i don't want to give that because that's too much starts talking the veil of all these things of fear and unbelief and doubt start getting in the way but what god asks us to give it's him shining light on us because he has more light to give don't let the darkness win right now sow that sea don't let the darkness overcome the revelation of this word so that see this evening watch god begin to move in your life real quick before we pray as you're giving some announcements uh please don't forget we have our back to school drive this saturday there's still time for you to purchase a backpack bring it here to the church or you can go to our website you can give there make sure you click on catch the fire uh we're a little short on backpacks so if you can be supportive we're giving away on saturday please help us out if you can with that we're going to be in three locations outside of course how many do we need we're looking for about a thousand okay um i think a lot of people gave online we got we're almost about 200 now okay um we need a hundred more bags yeah more yeah yeah so we are we are asking you to to give specifically one you know once you've given your offering we want you to give specifically for the bags how much are the bags cost if they go to five and below they're just five dollars all right so if you're gonna give rather than go shopping you need to think in terms of how many bags you want to give it five dollars a piece uh so if you give a hundred dollars we've got 20 bags there we need to get to a thousand bags so the children from all three school areas districts will have what they need supplies and all so if you'll help us we really appreciate it some of you are going to do something tremendous at this moment thousand dollars so we can get all the bags that we need but we need you to move with strength right now give your offering and then go to this segment on the site talk about the back catch the fire and do what we need to do get along with us a group of you are going to do 100 some of you are going to do five some of you are going to do a thousand let's get it done we don't want these children going back without the equipment that they need yeah yeah yeah thank you okay so if you want to volunteer yeah call the church extension 113 again we're going to be outside in the park a lot in every location wearing our mask i don't care what nobody says we're wearing our masks out there to be safe we're still having driving service on saturday it's just we're doing both at the same time like we normally do each site opens up at nine we'll give them a run until we're done usually then the wall goes pretty quick so i suggest you get there quick if you're in this area yeah woodrow wilson goes pretty quick too we're starting at nine o'clock right now yup now listen y'all you cannot stay in bed until 10 o'clock get to the school at 11 and say where's the bags they're going to be gone all right so nine o'clock is when we start and people that understand how this thing works they get there at nine o'clock so they can get the bags and get on back home on or get on with your day but don't come at 11 12 o'clock talk about where's the bags there won't be any in any location so we need you to get get hooking get get on it nine o'clock saturday morning boom ready to go yeah yep uh we'll be at woodrow wilson thomas dudley thomas dudley elementary school in camden so two locations of camden okay woodrow wilson thomas dudley and then the new wall high school right down the street okay okay okay uh tomorrow night we have a business panel uh bishop and i will be on with the crew okay talking about some stuff uh i just remembered thank god so yeah we have it i didn't know right it's a continuation of what we were talking about the past couple months uh next next wednesday excited outdoor bible study yeah driving bible study next uh wednesday now we're going to we're going to start a little later than usual okay yeah unless you want to start well i don't know if we get 7 30 give people time to uh drive in okay some people might have to go home and then you go come back yeah and then get and then get cars and come so um i think if we start at 7 30 i'll give people more time it sounds good get it going yeah we'll be under the lights anyway so yeah yeah be cool so 7 30 next wednesday time change 7 30 next wednesday we'll post it on all of our sites let everybody know drive on up come on out um it's gonna be pretty cool yeah man had praise and worship like normal yeah have our bible study and uh chef said you can uh he'll be taking orders because it's late with their schedule they're asking for pre-orders only okay so you have to order up until about i think he said 6 15 i believe okay so pre-orders only um you can pick up the food before service starts okay um that's it so anything you want to share well just we got prayer [Music] if you were not able to send your request in we are we'll include you of course in this prayer there's a array of prayer needs tonight they cover a gamut from emotions to legal things to family things to spiritual concerns so those major categories probably envelop most of the people watching us um let's pray god i thank you right now for being everything you said that you would be to us we give your name praise honor and glory because you are so consistent and so kind that your mercy is limitless your grace is limitless your love for us is limitless so i thank you right now for what you're about to do for those of us that are touching and agreeing in prayer when we touch and agree god we're agreeing on the outcome we're agreeing with your promise we're ringing with your covenant the words that you spoke concerning the outcomes of the different situations in our lives so i thank you right now as we pray for seth and for those that emotional and spiritual healing and renewal that he needs pray right now that healing would be deep and it would last forever help him to remember god that we are not bound by time because you finished your work at calvary that the healing has already been performed now all we have to do is acquire it access it by faith praying right now for sister marvella and praying that you give her courage and faith god that you work out every legal issue according to your will uh favor on the process i ask lord that you pray for perfect and you pray lord that um she blessed she's blessed with those things she needs from you give her the faith to position herself in righteousness and obedience that your provision would become hers praying lord that you would please bless those who want to have their minds and their bodies healed to pray for those who are backslidden praying that you would just bring them back to you lord and bring them back whole and healthy and happy yeah praying lord that you deliver your people from any satanic bondages that they might be involved in loose them from the embrace of the wicked one and his plans for their lives praying for shakira now we need to do something mighty god yeah complete healing yeah from a stroke lord we need to pray that the father john wimbledon get his mobility and rebuke dimensional and alzheimer's god show the doctors what to do if that's your course but heal god in jesus name yeah [Music] we ask the lord that all the physical healing that is needed that you would do it for them their homes needed god their jobs needed their businesses that need to be revived their family situations that need to be healed and i thank you right now that you're going to move on them by your spirit total healing for brother glenn and his friend howard we pray for healing from past childhood trauma pray that they will be strengthened in their inner man that we bind any hallucinations any wild imaginations we ask you lord to give wisdom allow her to touch and agree with us in prayer now lord we blanket every need tonight with your grace and your mercy and your peace we ask you to send favor salvation is needed saved save them if coming back to the lord is needed bring them back lord but most of all from the top of their heads to the soul of their feet in every situation that they find themselves release your power and we thank you because we agree it's already done yeah in jesus name amen amen see you next time [Music] you

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