Your Hidden Word From God by Carter Conlon

those tonight we're going to have communion after I share a little bit from the Word of God tonight so if you have the time to get some juice and some crackers in your kitchen and bring them to where you are so that you can join us and be part of that be very very much appreciated now I have a word tonight for people that are in impossible places and it's going to be based on the words that pastor Tim Delina spoke on Sunday morning and I thank God with all my heart that I'm getting stirred by pastor Tim's preaching I hope you are too as well it was a phenomenal message on Sunday morning of what do you do when you find yourself in an impossible place and how does God get involved in that now so for tonight I want to just I want to pray and then I want to read some prayer requests that have come in throughout throughout this week and then I have a word specifically for everyone who's in these prayer requests or other people who are in similar situations so father I want to thank you with all of my heart tonight that you are a God who is not only faithful but you surprised us and you do things Lord when we least expect it we don't when we don't feel worthy when we feel like we are unusable unlovely god almighty you come down at the time when we least expected you would and as you spoke to Gideon as you called Moses as you've done throughout history you call us when we feel too old too weak too young and lovely unloved God and you call us to do something that will bring honor and glory to your name and even change history so thank you Lord God that we are in that place again of needing you we're in the place Lord I pray God where we can actually hear you again in the way that we need to your church is so bruised and battered and beat up in so many places God that I believe that we are the candidates for the miraculous now for you to be God and to touch our lives and use our lives in such a way that no one would touch the glory thank you Lord Jesus Christ for just bringing us to a place as a nation an we recognize that without you we have no future without you we have no strength without you Lord God there's nothing a head that would bring glory to your name or release and redemption to people who are crying out for freedom and so god thank you thank you thank you for all that you've done and what you will do and I do pray tonight that as we go to the communion table that we will be reminded of the fact that you are God we'll be reminded of the fact that you do things in ways that we don't understand your ways are not our ways and your thoughts are not our thoughts I'm so thankful for that Lord I am so thankful for who you are and for the way you do things and we give you praise and glory in Jesus name if I were to give this word a title tonight I would call it your hidden word from God your hidden word God's given you a word it's hidden sometimes it's hidden from from the people of God themselves where sometimes somebody has received it and actually hidden it within their heart I want to just read you a few prayer requests before we go to the Word of God from Somerset Texas Sara says pray for my 19 year old daughter she used to love God but now she says she doesn't believe the Bible and she's bisexual I can't bear to see her go to hell well Sara we're gonna believe with you you don't have to see her go there and we do serve a mighty God and I thank God he's able to reach your daughter no matter where she is or what her lifestyle has become it might be beyond your hand to reach her now but it's not beyond the hand of God and we watch what God's about to do for you from the Bronx pray for peace in my home my chest feels heavy and I'm tired of crying I feel so alone from Florida I'm depressed I'm suffering panic attacks and neuropathy also have shoulder and knee pain where I live the cases of kovat are rising please lord help slow down the virus from Spokane Washington Kevin says I'm a quadriplegic looking for housing Kevin God was going to be faithful to you God sees you he knows your need and just let him surprise you watch what he's going to do Yolanda from San Antonio Texas says please pray for my son Glen has been delivered from drug addiction I do pray he finds Jesus he would like to help others from the US please pray we started out for Christ and raised seven children for him but we've lost our way Jesus please help we need miracles on many fronts Michelle from New York says God please mend my broken heart lift this deep depression a sense of hopelessness and loneliness I don't have any more strength and I'm crying out for help from New Zealand my marriage is under attack we need healing and salvation for John he's talking about divorce he's speaking hurtful and damaging words and the children also need us ask God to make a way for us from Amsterdam in the Netherlands Sharon says please will you pray for a financial miracle for me I haven't had an income for seven months now and when I applied for a job I only get rejections Jacqueline from Santa ving the UK my son Chan's as a prisoner of alcoholism he's asked the Lord to help him he said the Lord hasn't heard his born-again prayer he needs a miracle Stephen from Kenilworth New Jersey I'm a Christian that has had heavy depression for the last six-and-a-half years please pray for this lifting I want to give up but I know he is able to heal we know it too Steven and we're standing with you tonight we're believing God with you and for you and lastly Sonja from Queens New York says my daughter 23 year old Celeste texted me saying that she's going to kill herself we don't know where she is I can't reach her please price her father tonight we just reached out for Celeste Lord we don't know where she is either God but you do and Lord as you once came into a room and you met the pastor of this campus church in a hopeless condition we ask you tonight Lord to reach down and touch Celeste where she is open her mind open her heart to the future that you have for her speak to her God give her a word tonight that she would know could only come from heaven deliver her from this demonic assault in her mind that has convinced her that life is not worth living God we asked you to swage the heart of this precious mother whose who's probably not slept for nights knowing this and knowing her daughter's out there thinking of suicide old Jesus oh Jesus it is time for you to act it's time for you to lift your hand of power out of your bosom Oh God and do the work that you said you came to do we implore you Father in Jesus name and for the sake of Jesus God send your Holy Spirit into every one of these situations and set people free and open their prison doors and give them sight to see a way forward and in their poverty have the treasure of Christ open to them Oh Lord Jesus Christ we call out to you tonight unashamedly we need you we need you we need you you yourself said to your own people you shall not see me again till you say blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord so Lord we say to you we bless you we love you we need you we need your ways we need your power we need your glory again we need your healing we need your direction we need your sight we need your freedom we need You Lord Jesus Christ we need you you are welcome here you are welcome o God in each situation and we invite you to do the miraculous tonight and we thank you for it in Jesus name Amen I want to talk to you tonight about your your hidden word from God some 119 verses 10 and 11 here's what the psalmist says with my whole heart I have sought you O let me not wander from your Commandments your word I have hidden in my heart that I might not sin against you this a phenomenal statement from this particular psalmist and I've loved that one verse of scripture for many many years where he says your word I have hidden in my heart that I might not sin against you now our concept of sinning against God is lying and stealing and committing adultery and and those things our sins against God but the connotation here goes a little bit deeper than that when he says that I might not sin against him he's not just talking about a condemnation or uncleanness not talking about just that when you look at the original definition of the word that is used there that I might not say I've hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you it also implies living a life that is off the target that's an incredible thing isn't it in other words it's like an arrow that shot from the hand of God in a sense the arrow decides just to veer to the left Revere to the right and actually misses the target for its life it also speaks of getting lost or coming up short of the goal or a serious breakdown in a personal relationship so that now changes that now expands the meaning of this particular verse of scripture your word I've hidden in my heart that I might not end up off target that I might not get lost that I might not end up short of the goal that you have for my life or that there might not be a serious breakdown in our personal relationship the relationship God that you have with me that you freely gave to me when your son Jesus Christ became Lord and Savior of my life Lord you you have a you have a purpose you see as well as doing something bad it also carries the connotation with it of neglecting to do something good James chapter 4 verse 17 and the New Testament says therefore to him who knows to do good and does not do it to him it is sin so it takes the definition a little bit a little bit it makes it a little bigger than just doing some bad thing that we know is bad how about the concept of knowing what to do and yet not moving towards that where the of God is leaving us now I don't share this to condemn anyone but I want to remind you of something tonight that God considers his promises to you a very serious thing it's not a light thing with God you know the scripture says in the book of Hebrews in chapter 11 and verse 6 let me just read it to you without faith it is impossible to please him now he it's the writer of Hebrews which is God of course we understand that he talks about the world's being framed by the Word of God he talks about Abel offering to God a more excellent sacrifice it talks about Enoch being taken away from this earth without seeing death he's talking about these incredible things that have happened throughout history then interjects between Enoch and then Noah he interjects this one verse and says without faith it is impossible to please him which means that you we can go to church that's a good thing we can read our Bibles that's a great thing we can pray for an hour a day that's a wonderful thing there's so many good things we can do but without faith it is impossible to please him for he who comes to God must believe that he is in other words God exists God is concerned about us God has a divine plan for every life and that he's a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him in other words if you and I have an honest walk with God if if we are in the Word of God and we start to see the promises of God to us if we don't believe them it's very difficult for us to please God that's according to the script what the scripture says I know we're fully received with God through Jesus Christ but I want to live a life that is pleasing to God on this earth I know that you do too as well I'm sure of that but it requires faith because God takes his promises to us as a very serious thing it's not a light thing every life born into the kingdom of God has a hidden promise and purpose every life your life does my life does things that only God knows the the day you open your heart and Jesus Christ came into your life and the Holy Spirit became your comforter and your guide in that day a divine plan was put into motion for your life and it didn't mean that God was gonna take you where you are strong and use your strength for his glory he was most likely gonna take you where you're least qualified and he himself was going to become the source of your strength he was going to do what you and I can't do for ourselves he was going to take us where we could never go he was going to make us into what we could never hope to be and give us what we could never possess he was going to put words in our mouths he was going to give us a new heart the scripture says a new mind and a new spirit it was going to take us from death to life and he was going to raise us up in his power as a living testimony of the reality that he is God that he is willing to save and he does have a divine plan for every life you see so you're not just a happenstance you're not just a victim sitting on the sidelines of some divine game that's going on in the universe you're not just a pylon and somebody else's somebody else's game you have a divine purpose in your life that God gave to you and he begins to whisper that purpose into your heart in the very early days of your salvation he whispers that purpose into your heart and and the problem we face as human beings in our in our humaneness is it because if it's outside of the realm of what we see as possible through our strength or experience or influence or whatever it else we have or don't have we sometimes gravitate or or receive those things from as we think from God that we are capable of doing but we push away those things that we feel we could never accomplish we could never we could never do Jeremiah chapter 32 we heard about it on Sunday morning where the Prophet Jeremiah I was told he was given a word Jeremiah always says the word of the Lord came to me the word of the Lord came to me the word of the Lord came to me and God told him to buy and in an area of a city that was under siege it was about and he already knew that Jeremih already knew he was already prophesied he's already encouraging people to surrender he knew that Babylon was going to conquer the promised land as it was at that time for a season going to take all of the people of God into captivity but in the midst of all of this in the midst of what would look to be a siege and I'm talking to people tonight who are under siege you're right again and I read a lot of your your prayer requests you're being bombarded from every sided it looks hopeless you're your chest is heavy from crying you're you're tired of being depressed you feel like you have a no way forward you you don't know what you're gonna do with life you don't know what's gonna happen your family your marriage is falling apart you're a city that's under siege and it looks like you're going to be destroyed and in the midst of it all the word of the Lord comes to you as the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah and he says I want you I'm going to speak a word to you and I want you to take that word and I want you to put it in an earthen vessel and I want you to bury it for a season for a season that will look dark but the word that I give you will come to pass absolutely amazing we are the earthen vessel now we are the we bear the treasure of this incredible life of Christ in earthen vessels that's what the Apostle Paul says the gut says I'm giving you a word now it may take a season for it to come to pass you understand it doesn't mean because God gives you a word that that he's duty-bound to fulfill it tomorrow it may take a season it may take a few years it may take some experience you may have to go through some of the things that some of the people of God in the history throughout history have had to go through but if you bury that word it means you embrace that word and you Lodge that word in this earthen vessel now you become a fulfillment of the scripture that says your word I have hidden in my heart why that I might not miss the mark as we said earlier that I might not end up getting lost or come up short of the goal that you have from my life or have a serious breakdown in our personal relationship it will come to pass seek him now ask him to speak into your situation open the Word of God and God will speak to you because this word is alive it's not just dead letter in a book this is this has breathed on to these pages by the breath of God and this word lives to every soul every heart every person every generation God said to Jeremiah again verse chapter 32 verse 27 again Jeremiah says of the word of the Lord came to me and God said to him behold I am the Lord the God of all flesh is there anything too hard for me is there anything remember he who comes to God must believe that he is and that he what is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him that means with an honest heart it doesn't mean you're you're a mountain a pillar of faith it just means you have a mustard seed of faith in in the faithfulness of God you care about the honor of his name just like David when he came into the camp of Israel the whole army of Israel couldn't fight this big mouth Goliath at that time and it was just a young shepherd boy that came in and said is there not a cause he was very concerned about the honor of God he's very concerned about the mockery of God and the mockery of God's people and in that seed of faith and trust in God and that word you know you remember in the scriptures as he went down the valley to face that giant God the Spirit of God came on him he began to prophesy not just to Goliath but to the whole Philistine army that they were going to be destroyed that day and there was going to be an incredible rout the Spirit of the Lord came on him because God had planted a word in his heart and he believed it and because he believed it he didn't miss the mark he didn't he didn't come short of what God had for him or for the people of God around him all thank God for that now let me conclude with this thought in John chapter 16 Jesus about the holy spirit in verse 13 says however when he the Spirit of Truth has come you see your your situation will try to tell you that it has the last word but it doesn't have the last word over you there would be all kinds of people in Jeremiah's day saying it's hopeless we're going to be conquered we're going to be assimilated into a foreign culture we're going to lose our heritage we're going to lose our land we're going to lose our purpose in the earth and Jeremiah would be the one to say no I have a word from God the Spirit of Truth has come and he has shown me that we're going to come back here one day in the future and houses and vineyards and cities and are going to be built again there's going to be joy in our streets one more time God you see the Spirit of Truth however when he the Spirit of Truth has come he will guide you into all truth he will guide you he will lead you into that which he has for your life and for your situation he will not speak on his own authority but whatever he hears he will speak and he will tell you things to come he will tell you things to come I remember I was thinking about this as I was preparing to speak here tonight and I've just a flood of memories of the past when I after I came to Christ and and he started speaking to me about things to come now I had the I had the option to reject it I had the option to push it away I remember one time we just come from from dinner at a restaurant and and I was waiting for pastor Teresa and I remember I was looking at the window and I saw an airplane go by and this with it I wasn't thinking anything and the sudden whisper of God came into my heart and he said Carter you're going to travel all over the world and you're going to tell people about Who I am and what I have done for you and what I'm able to do for them and I remember I just took that word and I it wasn't a personal ambition trust me I'd never preached a sermon I didn't really even like being in crowds at that time in my life but I took that word and I put it in my heart and I remember saying I will go God but it would have to be you and if it is you speaking to me I will go and I will do the things that you've asked me to do and I thought of the the seasons were past the trees and I came into early ministry when we would just pray and God would speak a word into our hearts and and as he spoke the word we would believe it and we would move towards move with him towards the fulfillment of it and I can honestly tell you he has never failed me one time never once that's why I know that even going to Plymouth is going to have a profound effect on the future of this country I know it in my heart he's never failed me I remember going into a little town called rice field we were looking for a church building and we were praying because we were being thrown out of every building in town they didn't want to it was very staunchly religious they didn't want a Christian testimony in their midst and I remember there was this abandoned church that had been abandoned for about 30 years and the local children had smashed all the windows out and I remember crawling in the back window of this building and I stood on the platform and the Holy Spirit came on to me and said they're going to come from a hundred mile radius to this church and there won't be room to seat the people and I remember the day when I stood there are farthest away congregant came from a hundred miles every Sunday morning people came from generally at anywhere from 10 to 30 mile radius and I remember having to sit people outside to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ the numbers of people that came to Christ and God also gave me another promise he told me one day I would revisit that church and there would be crowd so thick coming there that they would be outside as far as I could see in the schoolyard through the window that hasn't happened yet but that was another whisper that God put into my heart someday somewhere see I'm under no obligation to make it happen but I am obliged to believe it if God speaking at thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against you that I might not miss the mark of my life that I might might not fall short of how you could glorify yourself through my life thy word I've taken I've hid that in this clay jar and even though for a season it looks like nothing is happening for a season it might look like the enemy is even winning the battle I choose to believe you above all things Oh God when the Spirit of Truth has come he will guide you into all truth he will not speak of his own authority but whatever he hears he will speak and he will tell you things to come so my question tonight is what's God's tell what is God telling you about your future I know what Babylon is trying to tell you I know what if you're fearful family and neighbors are trying to tell you but that's not the question tonight what is God telling you have you even asked him what your future is have you have you dared to believe the whispers of God into your heart because he really is there the Holy Spirit really is alive inside your earthen vessel he really does speak to you and I as the body of Jesus Christ have you even dared to ask and has he told you yet about things to come verse 14 says he will glorify me for he will take of what is mine and declare it to you in other words he will take the victory that I won for you he will take your captivity captive and give giftings unto you and he will declare it to you verse 15 he says all things that the father has are mine therefore I said that he will take of mine and declare it to you now three times Jesus repeats the same thing in three verses he will tell you things to come next verse he will declare it to you next verse he will declare it to you he will declare it to you not might or should or may be just as the Select or the elect will hear the voice of God nowyou he will declare it to you if you are a child of God if the Holy Spirit is in your life God will declare to you things to come you think about the day of Pentecost for example when they come out of the Upper Room the scripture says they were speaking the megaliths of God in the Greek that's what they say what it really means is they were speaking about the antis painted outcome of the inward the new inward life of Christ within them in other words they were talking about things to come they were prophesying they're talking about who God is what God is able to do and what God is going to do the religious crowd took a look at this and they said wow whatever kind of a relationship they have with God all of our pump and our garments and our circumstance and our smoke and our mirrors show in the temple is not giving us this kind of a living relationship with a Living God I say it's time that we take that hidden Word of God and very a deep inside of our hearts that hidden Word of God that whisper that that nobody but you knows it some of the things that God spoke to me as a young Christian were so preposterous I dare not tell anybody about it but I kept it in my heart and I'll tell you God has fulfilled every word of it it's absolutely amazing one one summer for example I I went and I was sitting I have a bench I like to sit on whether I do my Bible reading in the morning and prayer time and it sits right on the edge of the ocean and there's there's a huge huge bay there and I was sitting in my seat and I was just praying in the morning and I looked out in the water the Sun was coming up in the water was calm and it was glistening it was like there's hundreds of thousands of these little glistening zhan the water and the Lord out of nowhere just spoke to me and said you will very shortly be standing before an audience as big as this Bay did you see was only just a short time later I was standing in Jos Nigeria before a crowd of estimated crowd of almost a half of a million people and it looked as big as the Bay I had been looking at that morning see these are the whispers of God we we can either embrace it we can we can plant it in our heart you see tonight there's maybe a whisper to to you Sonia about your daughter Celeste will you let God speak to you about her future will you let God be your God will you take that will you will you put that in an earthen vessel and even though even though for a season it looks dark the promise of God has preeminence over everything that this world could ever throw at you if God says it will happen it will happen and he will speak to you because that's what Jesus said he will do and as I said earlier he takes very seriously his promises to you and to me those are not they're not just little candy things he throws out and we may or may not embrace them you see the whole integrity of his name and his character is tied in with us and our believing him that's the way to please him I simply believe him I don't doubt him I know that his ways are not mine and his thoughts are not mine I know that it his thoughts are higher than mine as high as the heavens are above the earth and I thank God with all my heart o God speak to me that is my prayer now God speak to me guiding me lead me don't let me lean on my own understanding you promised me in the book of Proverbs that if I would acknowledge you that you would direct my paths Lord Jesus Christ let your name be glorified through my life that needs to be the prayer of every one tonight we have a promise that the people who know their God in our day will be strong and do exploits it's not it's not that we will do them God will do them through us yes we're the vessel that he will use but he is the source of our strength and it's based on his word that you and I will become everything that God has destined us to be my prayer today for you is all Lord open the grip the ground of my heart to your promise from my life and let me not consider anything too hard for you father in Jesus name as we come to the communion table tonight I am reminded again that you loved us so much you so wanted a living relationship with your creation you so came to get us and to bring us home that you would suffer an unspeakable beating and rejection and then you would shed your blood to the last drop so that we might become partakers of not just an eternal life with you but an abundant life as you promised here on this side of eternity I ask you Lord Jesus Christ to speak to those who are in physical pain tonight speak to those who are suffering mental anguish speak to those who are biting their nails over a lost loved one speak my God to every husband to every wife who's lost hope for the greatest institution on the earth apart from your church marriage speak to us God about our future tell us about the things that you want to do through each of our lives help us to put the clutter out of our minds so that we can hear your voice and when we do give us the courage as you gave to Jeremiah to invest in your word hallelujah hallelujah to not try to save the little that we have for ourselves but to invest in the future god help us to put our confidence in you help us Lord to put everything we have into that precious promise that you give for each life and to do what we have to do to possess it thank you Lord Jesus that everything you promised is true and I feel sometimes that's the reason you sent me to New York to tell that to your people as simply as I can that you are God and you are faithful and everything you promised if we will listen you will perform it Lord Jesus Christ bring home our children bring home our families restore our homes my god do things Lord that only you can do in this generation and we will give you the glory and the honor in the praise and we will not be silent any longer and we will not cower in the weeds God when you are calling us to step out and be a victorious army in this generation we ask you Lord to do the miraculous again push back the darkness of this present time let your church have to be reckoned with God Almighty let it be said even among your enemies God has come into the camp hallelujah hallelujah we ask you to send a trembling through hell one more time one more time throughout history let the demons tremble my God my God my God my God get a hold of your church get a hold of your people help us lord as Jeremiah did and pull our resources out and invest in your promise hallelujah glory to God glory glory glory to the name of Jesus we praise you and we bless you O God with all of our heart in Jesus name Amen and amen if you could get the bread and the juice that you've gotten from your your kitchen and we're going to come to the Lord's table and partake of it together and let the communion table tonight just be a reminder that this is how much God loves you this is how much God wants to give to you you know that the scripture says Paul the Apostle Rodan said if God didn't withhold his son from you how shall he not with him or through him give you all things in other words Paul's just saying reason it out if he didn't withhold his son why would he withhold from you why would he not give you the victory there was one for you through his love on the cross sometimes we've just got to bring it back to basics keep it real simple and say God loves me God has a plan for me and God won't let my enemies triumph over me as a matter of fact God will use me to triumph over my enemies God will use me to triumphal for other people's enemies God will take me in my weakness and display his strength and in my foolishness and to display his wisdom and then my nothingness he will become everything through my life Oh hallelujah hallelujah I've received to the Lord that which I delivered to you the Lord Jesus on the same night in which he was betrayed took bread when he'd given thanks he said take eat this is my body which is broken for you do this in remembrance of me in the same manner he also took the cup after supper saying this cup is the New Covenant in my blood this do as oft as you drink it in remembrance of me for as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes hmm and he's coming soon thank you Jesus I don't know about you but I bought the deed yeah I bought the deed and it's buried real deep inside of here and nobody can take it away from me I belong to him and he belongs to me I got a mansion just over the hill top as the old-time song used to say love you so much remember the date Tuesday night Tuesday night regular worldwide prayer meeting October the 6th 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. get the word out all of your friends were going to be meeting from Plymouth Massachusetts in the house built in 1790 on the foundation of the very first house in America the address of the house is lot number 1 America it's where the first Thanksgiving was held in the front yard and we're coming back we're coming back to where we started by God's grace it's time to pray see you again pastor Tim be with us on Sunday morning and boy he's preaching up a storm you don't want to miss it I know my heart is being stirred I hope your heart is being stirred as well love you so much

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Published: Sat Jul 18 2020