I Know God Can, I Know God Will, But I Don’t Know How (Jabin Chavez)

0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:06.200 Hey, this is Stephen Fernick. 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:09.320 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:11.600 Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:19.680 new sermons every week. Hope you're blessed today. 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:24.079 Quickly turning your Bibles while you're standing, We're going to 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:29.160 look at one passage of Scripture, Hebrews chapter eleven. Hebrews 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:32.040 Chapter eleven and verse eight. I bring greetings from Las 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:37.120 Vegas and Nevada. How many come at least once a 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:38.200 year on your mission trip? 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:42.080 Amen? Let me see your Amen. Praise the Lord, Praise God. 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:43.000 Thank you. 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:48.760 So grateful for so many of you that when you 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:51.120 do come, you come into church and you come to 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:52.640 say hi to us sober at city light. 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:53.680 We're so grateful for that. 0:00:56.920 --> 0:00:58.880 While you're turning to Hebrews eleven, I just want to 0:00:58.920 --> 0:00:59.960 honor our pastor. 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:12.560 I just want to say, man. 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.360 I don't have really words. I've been I've been preaching 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:15.039 here every year since twenty nineteen. Besides twenty twenty. There 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:17.400 was a little hiccup that year, but praise the Lord. 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:20.399 But besides that, and every year I try to think 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.760 of something. You know, I'm just mindful of how grateful 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.280 I am for Pastor Receiving and Pastor Hawley, and I 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:33.080 just aren't you grateful for your pastors? Come on, clap 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:36.560 your hands. 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:42.240 The words, the songs, the books. 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:44.720 I just go. 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.480 I'd go back to twenty twenty and I chunks. I 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:54.440 think about the blessing. That song got me through. It 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:58.080 just got me through. And I could and I could 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:00.760 just start naming song after song that just got me through. 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.960 Sermon's that just got me through. You know what I 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:05.600 was maybe so excited about this week. 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:06.360 We were in Miami. 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:11.119 The pastor was preaching there, and the kids were there, 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:20.760 and Graham did a living room in Miami. I'll tell 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:22.840 you what. Let me just let me just talk for 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:26.480 a second. Let me tell you what. I was in 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:29.200 tears the whole time. Abby's leading worship. 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:29.840 What the heck? 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:32.840 I remember when Abby was a year I think I 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:34.720 would have met her at a year or two years old, 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:42.079 now leading worship. Graham's up there preaching, Elijah's doing an 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:46.680 interview and teaching and preaching, and I'm just like, look 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:48.480 at the next generation rising up. 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:50.280 I was so start. 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.880 I see this whole youth section over here on fire 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:58.400 for Come on, clap your hands I just tell you. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:04.400 I wrote Pastor re Seven and Pastor Hawley, and I said, 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:09.519 thanks for being great parents. You inspired me tonight as 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:12.240 they were ministering and I was watching Pastor receiving Holly 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:17.720 just smile and just watch it and again just impacted 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.840 again by their life and by their ministry. I just 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:24.839 want to say, thank God for our pastors, thank God 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:28.240 for this house. And how many know the best is 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:31.079 yet to come. Come on, we're just getting started. Twenty 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:34.560 years in, We're just getting started, and so are you. 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:39.680 Can you say, men, everybody, I'm gonna read a passage 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:46.280 of scripture, Hebrews eleven eight, one little verse, and then 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:49.400 we're going to have church today. Will you help me 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:53.760 preach a little bit? All right, I'm gonna yell. If 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:58.960 you don't yell back, it's going to be awkward. It 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.760 was by faith that Abraham obeyed when God called him 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:06.680 to leave home and go to another land, that God 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.080 would give him as his inheritance. And let me just 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:13.400 stop real quick. These are all faith phrases. It was 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.120 by faith. Abraham obeyed. That's faith when God called him. 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:19.800 Hearing God, that's faith. To leave home, that's faith to 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.040 go to another land. That's faith that God would give, 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:24.080 he receives, and inheritance that's faith. 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:24.680 That's all faith. 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:27.239 But now I'm going to give you my favorite faith 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:29.520 phrase in the Bible. 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:40.000 He went without knowing where he was going, And I 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:42.880 want to preach about that today for a little bit. 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:49.280 I know God can and I know God will, but. 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:51.120 I don't know how. 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.120 I know God can and I know God will, but 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:59.080 I don't know how. And I believe today God's going 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:01.719 to help us walk by fath faith. Father, I thank 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.680 you for the gift of faith that is on this house, 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:08.640 and I thank you today You're going to strengthen our faith. 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:14.800 And our response in advance is yes in Jesus's name. 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:18.559 And everybody said Amen, one more time. Every location, clap 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:24.080 your hands and give God praise. Come on, amen and amen. 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.599 You can be seated. Look at your neighbor and tell 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:28.800 them I don't know how. Just tell them I don't know. 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:35.200 I don't know how. I don't I don't know how. 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:45.159 God invites his children into a life of faith. This 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:50.120 is the possibility of every believer Tewo Corinthians chapter five, 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:54.120 verse seven, that we can walk by faith and not 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:54.719 by sight. 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:56.040 Let me just say this. 0:05:56.200 --> 0:06:00.000 Before you are a Christian, you've never walked by faith. 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:03.160 If you only walk by sight, you only walk by 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:07.240 the five senses. But now that you are a believer, 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:10.880 we have an opportunity to do something that we've never 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:15.359 done before, and that is walk by faith. That we 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.039 don't just live by the five senses. We don't just 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:20.680 live by circumstance. We don't just live by what we 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:24.039 can see. But we now get to live in an 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:27.360 unseen realm called the life of faith. 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:29.080 God is inviting us into this. 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.120 And let me just say this, most Christians will never 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:40.680 truly experience the joy, the adventure, the peace of walking 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:44.520 by faith. But God is inviting us into this walk 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:50.000 see eye. Sight shows me what is. Regret shows me 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:55.279 what could have been, But faith shows me what could be. 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:57.919 And I just want you to know right now we 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:00.719 are living in one of those three areas. Is as 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:04.440 I speak, eyesight, it just it just shows me the obvious. 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:10.040 It takes no faith to see, It takes no faith 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:14.440 to talk about what I'm already experiencing. A lot of 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:16.960 times we just walk by regret. We just live in 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:19.520 what could have been. Oh man, if I would have 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:21.920 if I could have if I should have ben if 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.680 I'd have bought bitcoin when it was ten cents. Come on, somebody, 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:28.800 I should have done this. I should have done that, 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:31.239 I should have whatever it could be. And so many 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:34.400 believers end up living their entire life really not believing. 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:36.680 They just end up in eyesight and they end up 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.120 in regret. But there is a third place that we 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:43.920 can live. It's called faith. It's called the unseen. It 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.400 is called a place of what could be and what 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.560 should be. And I've never been there before, but I 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:53.280 feel like the Holy Spirit is calling me into something 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:57.880 that I've actually never seen before or experienced before. 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:00.080 I have no reference for it. 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.640 See, when you're walking by eyesight, when you're walking by regret, 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:08.560 you can always look back and have a reference point 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:12.280 for what you should expect for tomorrow. So it's been bad, 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:14.520 it's gonna be bad. It is bad, it is gonna 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.880 be bad. You always have a reference point, a worst 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:21.800 case scenario of what has been, that is lying to you, 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:25.680 telling you what could always be. But faith shows me 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:30.240 something and revealed and tells me something that I've never 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:34.839 been in before. The only reference point I have for 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:38.959 tomorrow is Jesus himself, because he is the God who 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:41.240 was and is, but he is to come, and he 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:45.160 is inviting me into something that I've never seen before, 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:49.840 I've never lived in before. But something in my spirit says, 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:53.280 my best days are still in front of me and 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:57.480 God still has a plan for me. Come on, everybody, 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:03.640 say faith. We walk by faith, walk by faith. Oh 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:05.800 it's one thing to talk faith, and it's another thing 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.880 to believe, but it's it's another thing when your faith 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:14.920 gets in your feet. Ooh, that's where that that's where 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.640 the real joy comes. Do me a favor, everybody, just 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:19.160 kind of stomp a little bit. Can I can I 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:22.400 hear your feith? Can I hear your feet? That's when 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.160 you know you're really in faith when it starts getting 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:28.760 in your feet, when your walk starts changing, and when 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:31.200 God starts calling you into a place that you've never 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:36.199 been before. But oh, this can be scary. Faith feels risky. 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:39.480 It's not risky, but it can feel risky. And a 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:41.760 lot of times we end up not taking a step 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:47.240 of faith because we're waiting on clarity. Pastors, just pray 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:49.480 for me. I'm just really in a season right now 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:53.840 where I'm praying for clarity. I think a lot of 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:55.440 us are praying for clarity, and we need to be 0:09:55.440 --> 0:10:01.480 praying for courage, just. 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.880 Really believing for clarity in this next six months. 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:05.640 I would stop praying that and I would just start 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:10.280 doing something that God's calling you to do. There have 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:12.160 been a lot of seasons that I prayed for clarity, 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:13.960 and really what I needed to be praying for was 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:17.559 the courage to obey the thing God's calling me to do. 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:21.360 That is terrifying to my flesh, but my spirit is 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:26.920 saying God is calling me into something. Faith requires movement 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:35.360 before manifestation, confidence in God before clarity, and believing before seeing. 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:38.960 Abraham went. 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:42.600 And I believe that God is calling us into a 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:44.520 life of faith. So here's what I know about faith. 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:48.600 Number one, faith knows. Faith knows. 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:52.160 The Bible said that God called Abraham. 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:57.480 Abraham had a word from God, and all Abraham needed 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:59.719 was a word from God. Friend, all you need is 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:02.000 a word word from God, and it could change your 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.520 entire life. By the way, That's why we should always 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.400 come to church with expectation. That's why we should always 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.640 come to church with a Bible. That's why we should 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:12.520 always come to church leaning in We're not just here 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:14.280 to check a box, but we're here to have an 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:16.920 encounter with God because we know that one word from God, 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:20.880 one little phrase from a song, one little prayer that 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:23.559 someone might pray for you, something might happen in your 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:24.080 life that. 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.920 Changes your entire life. One word from God. 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:30.360 Abraham got a word and it changed his life, and 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:34.640 I believe you can get a word that changes your life. 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.120 There's an old preacher, F. F. Bosworth. 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.320 He's in heaven now, but he said that faith begins 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.120 where the will of God is known. 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:44.920 That once God can. 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.240 Reveal it to me now, faith can begin to be 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:50.080 birthed in my heart. And that's why the word of 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:53.560 God is so important to us. That man shall not 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:57.080 live by bread alone, Jesus said, But every word that 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:59.280 comes from the mouth of God, that means that there 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:03.560 is an an tire way of living that goes beyond 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:07.719 bread alone, goes beyond the natural alone, goes beyond what 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.800 you can see alone. There is a place called faith 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:15.120 that can sustain you and can cause you to go see. 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:17.680 That's what sustained Jesus for forty days. For forty days, 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:22.400 he didn't neet, but he had the word see anytime. 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:26.200 The enemy can keep us ignorant in a place, he 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.199 can keep us bound in that place. But if I 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.040 can get the word on it, I can get. 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:34.240 Freedom in that area. And this is why the word matters. 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:36.320 Can I just talk about this in twenty twenty six? 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:41.280 That's why you ought to read the Bible. Come on, somebody, 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:45.360 That's why whenever you read the Scripture, something supernatural happens 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:48.920 in your life, something begins to change on the inside. Well, 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:50.320 I read the Bible, and I don't feel like I 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.160 understood it. I promise it's working. Well, I read the 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.360 Bible this morning and I don't remember anything I read. 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:58.079 I promise it's work. Just keep showing up to the book, 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:06.120 Just keep eating. Promise it is doing something in your life. 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:09.360 By faith, we understand this is so powerful Hebrews eleven three. 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:13.199 By faith, we understand that the entire universe was formed 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:18.760 at God's command. What's this that what we see did 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:22.160 not come from anything that can be seen. 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:23.840 Let me just say that one more time. 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:28.440 That what we see you see it now, but didn't 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:30.959 It didn't come from the scene you see it now, 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:31.880 But it didn't start there. 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:35.800 It actually started in the invisible Uh. 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:43.080 Oh, you see elevation now, but you didn't see it 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:45.679 when it was a dream in the heart of our pastors. 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:52.080 You see all this, but it didn't start here. It 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:56.360 didn't start in the scene. It started in the unseen. 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:00.680 You see that great marriage now, but it didn't start there. 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.199 It started in the unseen. You see that family serving 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:05.320 the Lord now, but it didn't start there. It started 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.920 in the unseen. You see that person in business now, 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.040 but it didn't start there. It started in the unseen 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:12.400 that you see that person on fire for God now, 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:16.920 but it didn't start there. Everything that God does always 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:22.120 begins in the unseene. It begins by faith, It begins 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:24.800 with a vision, it begins with a picture. And I 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:27.200 just want to declare, God's gonna give you a word. 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:30.320 God's gonna give you a vision. God's gonna give you 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:31.360 a picture that. 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.040 Right now it would make no sense. 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:37.440 But if you don't give up on the word, eventually 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:39.720 you will see. 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:43.040 What you could and see. 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:50.080 Everything we can see began in the unseen. Let me 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.800 go a little bit further here Colossians, chapter one, verse sixteen. 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.960 For by him all things were created. All things were created. 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:58.520 Now he's gonna explain what things are in heaven and 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:05.000 on earth? Watches visible and invisible? What are things? Some 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:10.240 things are visible, some things are invisible, and to God 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:16.960 they're both things. So we only appreciate the things we 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:21.480 can see, but God is more into the things that 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:26.160 cannot be seen, that are going to eventually do something 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:30.760 in our life that eventually we will see if you 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:34.040 can see it today, It began in the unseen. I'm 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:36.920 talking about faith knows. I'm talking about getting a word 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:40.520 from God. I'm talking about I am going after God. 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.600 I am believing for a move of God in my life. 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:45.920 I've gotten a word from God, but I don't see 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:49.840 it yet. That's okay, because that thing that God spoke 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.760 to you that you don't see is as real to 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:57.080 God as the things that you can see. And it 0:15:57.120 --> 0:16:01.240 has to get that real in your spirit before you 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:03.160 ever see it with your eyes. 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:05.479 And we only. 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:08.960 Appreciate what can be seen, but God appreciates the unseen. 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:19.720 In nineteen seventy one, Walt Disney World open in Orlando, Florida, Well, 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:24.880 Walt Disney World open in Orlando, Florida, Lilyan, Disney's best friend, 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.760 leaned over to her, Walt's widow, leaned over and said, 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:29.920 it's such a shame. Won't never got to see this, 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:33.800 And Lilian looked back at her and said, he did 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:34.160 see it. 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:37.560 That's why we're here. 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.080 Wal been dead for five years, but he saw it. 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:49.400 He saw it before we saw it. He dreamed it 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:52.520 before we saw it. He was walking in it before 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:54.880 we were walking in it. And may that be the 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:58.320 testimony of your family, and may that be the testimony 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:02.520 to your children that Mama saw something, that he saw something. 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:06.760 They got something from heaven, and because they saw it, 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:10.840 and because they believed it though it was invisible. Now 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:15.159 we are walking in something that our parents believe for 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:21.040 he did see it. Don't give up on the word 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:23.760 God spoke to you. Don't give up on the dream 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:26.720 God put in your spirit. Don't give up on the 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:31.240 thing that God promised you. Though it is taking longer 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:37.359 than you expected, and it always well, God's doing something 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:41.560 in your life. In One Peter, Chapter one, verse twenty three, 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.040 Peter talks about the scripture and he says this, we've 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:46.960 been born again, not of corruptible seed, but watch this 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:52.040 incorruptible through the word of God, which lives in the bides. 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:56.359 Here's what Peter's saying. He's saying, the word is incorruptible seed. 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:00.520 That means, every time the word goes in, you is 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:04.520 doing something in your life. I don't see it today, 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:08.880 but it's working. I don't feel it today, but it's working. 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:13.159 I haven't seen a breakthrough yet, but it's working. Even 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:16.520 when I can't see it. You're working. And that's so 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:18.880 much easier to sing than to live. Come on, somebody, 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:23.080 even when I don't feel it, you're working. You you 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:26.679 never stop working. You you never man. That is that 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:29.280 is so good to sing on a Sunday morning. It 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:32.120 is so hard to live on a Monday morning. Come on, somebody. 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:36.320 But God's but God's word is working. I want to 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:38.800 show you a place right by where I live in Vegas. 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.720 It's called Death Valley. This is the hottest and the 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.520 lowest point in America, and it's the hottest place in 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:48.399 the world. That's where I live. Y, that's my backyard. Actually, 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:49.959 that's a picture of my backyard. I don't know if 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:51.240 you ever want to see where I live, that's where 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:54.080 I live. And so like right now, it's like a 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:58.800 squillion degrees and I don't know, it's hot and it's brutal. 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:01.960 So that's the death Valley. Every once in a while, 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:03.200 little rain and death Valley. 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:04.360 It's very rare. 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:07.320 But when it does, death Valley turns into this. I 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:08.919 want I want you to see the next picture. That's 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:17.240 death Valley. That's Death Valley, because what you couldn't see 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:19.920 in picture number one is that there was seed in 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:26.600 the ground. I'm about to start preaching. Are you all ready? 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:29.199 Can we can we? I say, y' all ready? Can 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:30.200 we turn up a little bit? 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:35.400 That seed's been working, that incorruptible seed. 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:36.760 Has been working. 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:40.280 I don't see it yet, but when the rain of 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:43.679 the spirit of God touches my life, all of the 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:49.960 setting something begins to work, and I declare, the rain 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:53.240 is falling on your life. I declare, you will see 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:56.600 what you've been praying for. You will see what you've 0:19:56.640 --> 0:20:02.080 been believing. Don't give up yet, God, God is working. 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:04.320 Come on, give God a big shot of praise. 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:07.880 If you believe that the Word works. 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:15.200 I haven't seen it yet, but I'm standing on a word. 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:20.960 My life don't look like right now what God told me, 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:24.960 but I'm standing on a word. God puts something in 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:28.800 my spirit and my circumstances do not agree. But I'm 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:32.399 standing on a word, and my life might look like 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:34.560 death Valley right now, but it's actually not dead. 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:37.520 It's just a dormant But I believe the rain's gonna 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:38.879 fall in my life. 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:42.840 Y'all. 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:48.760 Faith will make you look like a genius eventually, but 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:50.360 at first it makes. 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:51.320 You look like a fool. 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:57.720 You get a word, your believe in God, and nothing agrees, 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:05.200 and then one day you see it, and then we 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:13.359 call those people overnight successes. But we didn't see the 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:16.639 years and the years and the years of believing God. 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:20.119 I've just come today to tell somebody, do not quit yet. 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:23.360 The word is working. 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:26.040 Faith No. 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:29.320 Number two. 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:30.800 Faith doesn't know. 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:37.119 Dang. 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:42.400 I wish that wasn't true, but it's true. Oh, faith knows. 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:43.600 Faith gets a word from God. 0:21:43.680 --> 0:21:43.960 Faith. 0:21:44.640 --> 0:21:47.840 Faith stands on the authority of scripture. Faith does not 0:21:47.960 --> 0:21:54.399 know the details. I know God can and I know 0:21:54.520 --> 0:21:55.640 God will, but I don't. 0:21:56.480 --> 0:22:04.119 I don't know how he went without knowing where he 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:04.800 was going. 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:10.600 Can you imagine that moment Abraham comes into the tent, Hey, baby, 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:15.199 pack up, We on the move. God spoke to me. 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:19.520 Sarah goes, Why that's great? Where are we going a rah. 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:25.920 Is that the same God that told you we're gonna 0:22:25.920 --> 0:22:26.200 have kids? 0:22:26.320 --> 0:22:26.480 Yeah? 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:30.520 Yeah, yeah, yeah him, come on, let's go, come on. 0:22:30.600 --> 0:22:36.920 Somebody felt like a fool, felt like where is God? 0:22:37.160 --> 0:22:41.840 But faith goes without knowing. I don't need to know. 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:46.120 God knows, and anything God is not telling me right now, 0:22:46.200 --> 0:22:48.200 I guess I don't need to know. The Bible said 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:50.760 it like this that the secret things belong to God. 0:22:51.240 --> 0:22:53.919 So anything God is keeping a secret from me is 0:22:54.000 --> 0:23:00.560 obviously to protect me. He went without knowing, and we 0:23:00.680 --> 0:23:04.320 want God to show us everything. I just want to 0:23:04.320 --> 0:23:07.680 submit this to you. If God showed you everything, you. 0:23:07.640 --> 0:23:15.720 Wouldn't do anything because it would freak you the freak out. 0:23:18.520 --> 0:23:22.480 So thy word is a lamb un to my feet. 0:23:24.960 --> 0:23:26.439 This little word lamp right there. 0:23:26.440 --> 0:23:29.040 I don't want to bore you, but it's a little 0:23:29.080 --> 0:23:30.800 hand lamp that they would hold like this, like a 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:34.400 little candle. They say it was like four to six lumens. 0:23:34.880 --> 0:23:37.680 So your iPhone is like one hundred lumens. Two hundred lumens. 0:23:37.720 --> 0:23:42.000 We're talking about step by step, God, show me more. 0:23:42.040 --> 0:23:45.360 You can't handle it. I can't even show you five 0:23:45.400 --> 0:23:47.280 feet in front of you, let alone five years in 0:23:47.280 --> 0:23:49.719 front of you. So I have to just I have 0:23:49.760 --> 0:23:53.879 to give you enough to take a step go left, okay, 0:23:54.119 --> 0:23:57.280 all right, go forward, Okay, take a step back, relax, okay, 0:23:57.600 --> 0:23:58.040 go right. 0:23:58.119 --> 0:23:59.040 Okay. Here we go. 0:24:00.880 --> 0:24:08.000 And it feels slow, but God's actually protecting me. It 0:24:08.040 --> 0:24:11.439 feels longer than I expected, but God is actually covering me. 0:24:12.760 --> 0:24:14.879 The Bible would say it like this in King James, 0:24:14.880 --> 0:24:17.560 so it sounds really pretty though the vision taries. 0:24:19.280 --> 0:24:21.720 Come on King James people. That's just a. 0:24:21.720 --> 0:24:25.080 Really cute, poetic King James way of saying this is 0:24:25.080 --> 0:24:30.320 going to take a while, but I'm going step by step, 0:24:32.040 --> 0:24:37.800 step by The walk of faith is a walk, It's 0:24:37.840 --> 0:24:43.520 just a God just wants a walk. Faith doesn't. No, 0:24:44.280 --> 0:24:47.119 I want God to show me everything. You can't handle it. 0:24:47.240 --> 0:24:51.840 You don't have the faith for that yet. God can't 0:24:51.880 --> 0:24:53.520 show you what life is going to be like in 0:24:53.520 --> 0:24:55.919 ten years. You don't have that faith yet. You have 0:24:55.960 --> 0:25:02.400 today's faith. Jesuaidn'torry about tomorrow. Today's got an fishues. You've 0:25:02.400 --> 0:25:04.720 got enough faith to get through the next twenty four hours, 0:25:04.760 --> 0:25:06.679 and then tomorrow morning you will have the faith for 0:25:06.720 --> 0:25:12.280 those twenty four hours. And you've you've got to settle 0:25:12.320 --> 0:25:13.919 this in your heart. 0:25:14.960 --> 0:25:15.159 You know. 0:25:15.240 --> 0:25:18.360 In twenty eighteen, we planted our church in Las Vegas, 0:25:18.880 --> 0:25:24.720 and I saw God showed me. I saw the building, 0:25:24.840 --> 0:25:28.359 I saw the worshippers coming. I saw the impact we 0:25:28.440 --> 0:25:29.520 had make in the I saw it. 0:25:29.560 --> 0:25:31.280 I saw it. I saw. 0:25:31.400 --> 0:25:34.520 God showed me that. God gave me enough faith to 0:25:34.640 --> 0:25:37.280 believe that God could do something big in Vegas. God 0:25:37.280 --> 0:25:39.160 showed me that in twenty eighteen. You know what, God 0:25:39.160 --> 0:25:41.880 didn't show me in twenty eighteen. God didn't show me COVID. 0:25:49.520 --> 0:25:51.000 God didn't show me that year. 0:25:52.119 --> 0:25:53.919 God. I wasn't ready for that. 0:25:55.720 --> 0:25:58.280 If God in twenty eighteen would have showed me COVID, 0:25:58.359 --> 0:25:59.680 I would have never started our church. 0:26:00.880 --> 0:26:01.720 I'd have been working here. 0:26:01.760 --> 0:26:04.160 I'll tell you right now. Out of college, Song says said, 0:26:04.160 --> 0:26:07.720 you need a janitor? Do you need a facilities director? 0:26:07.760 --> 0:26:08.600 What can I do for you? 0:26:08.920 --> 0:26:12.359 I'm here to serve amen. I'm just a humble servant. 0:26:12.400 --> 0:26:16.399 I wouldn't have done it. So God had to. 0:26:18.640 --> 0:26:23.000 He didn't lie to me, but he had to give 0:26:23.080 --> 0:26:27.200 me just enough of a word to cause me to 0:26:27.320 --> 0:26:32.000 move without showing me too much because it would have 0:26:32.040 --> 0:26:36.360 overwhelmed me. So God, don't lie to us, but God 0:26:36.400 --> 0:26:40.280 don't give us all the details either. Like I love 0:26:40.320 --> 0:26:44.200 the names of God, Jehovah, Jirah, my provider, and I 0:26:44.320 --> 0:26:44.639 love that. 0:26:45.520 --> 0:26:48.479 I love that. I love I love Jehovah Ralfha my healer. 0:26:49.280 --> 0:26:54.520 I love I love these beautiful, these beautiful names of God. 0:26:54.600 --> 0:26:58.239 There's there's another name though, that they need to They 0:26:58.280 --> 0:27:00.080 need to add to that song called the name. 0:27:00.240 --> 0:27:03.720 You know, the Jehovah Nieci fight Joe battles. There's another name. 0:27:03.960 --> 0:27:05.439 You got to be deep in the Hebrew though it's 0:27:05.480 --> 0:27:14.639 only like in Leviticus, is Jehovah sneaky. Y'all ever met 0:27:14.760 --> 0:27:18.360 Jehovah sneaky, Jehovah sneaky be getting you into battles. 0:27:21.040 --> 0:27:27.920 Jehovah sneaky got me in a battle. He didn't lie, 0:27:28.040 --> 0:27:29.240 He just didn't give me all. 0:27:29.119 --> 0:27:31.959 The information, because if he would have given me too 0:27:32.000 --> 0:27:35.680 much infoul, I would have never done anything. God, I 0:27:35.840 --> 0:27:38.639 wasn't expecting this. I know you weren't ready for this. 0:27:39.119 --> 0:27:40.960 But now that you're in it, I'm gonna give you 0:27:41.040 --> 0:27:46.159 the grace and the faith to overcome a battle you 0:27:46.280 --> 0:27:49.879 would have never walked into unless I got you here. 0:27:49.960 --> 0:27:56.359 Come on, somebody say men think about Joseph. Yojoe, you 0:27:56.440 --> 0:28:00.280 want to lead a nation? Yeah, you want Joe hater 0:28:00.480 --> 0:28:03.919 brothers the bout down. Yes, I've been waiting for this moment. 0:28:06.440 --> 0:28:10.320 All right, Cool, let's go, let's go. God just didn't 0:28:10.440 --> 0:28:17.080 tell him about the pit. Just didn't tell him about 0:28:17.080 --> 0:28:20.160 Potiphar's wife. Just didn't tell him about the prison. God 0:28:20.359 --> 0:28:26.760 just left out the next thirteen years of training for 0:28:26.960 --> 0:28:31.840 raining that was gonna get Joseph ready for his place 0:28:32.040 --> 0:28:33.000 and his promise. 0:28:33.680 --> 0:28:36.400 And I just want somebody to know. You're in training right. 0:28:36.359 --> 0:28:39.760 Now, but don't give up. You're in process right now, 0:28:39.840 --> 0:28:42.080 but don't give up. You might be in a pit 0:28:42.240 --> 0:28:45.680 right now, but don't give up. God is working, and 0:28:45.960 --> 0:28:49.800 God knows exactly where you're at. Even when you don't 0:28:49.840 --> 0:29:02.080 know where God is at, he is Jehovah sneaky. Hey, Ezekiel, 0:29:02.160 --> 0:29:06.240 can these bones live? I love what Ezekiel says back again, 0:29:06.440 --> 0:29:13.040 just so so spiritual, Lord, you know, which is Exzekiel's 0:29:13.080 --> 0:29:13.600 way of saying. 0:29:13.720 --> 0:29:19.920 I don't know, and I like living there. I like 0:29:20.000 --> 0:29:21.280 being right there. Lord, you know. 0:29:22.840 --> 0:29:27.640 I don't know, but you know I'm surprised. You're not surprised. 0:29:28.960 --> 0:29:34.040 I didn't expect this, but you're working and you're moving. 0:29:35.160 --> 0:29:44.560 Faith knows, Faith doesn't know. Number Number three, Faith goes, 0:29:46.280 --> 0:29:52.160 Faith goes, Faith goes, Faith moves, And the Bible said 0:29:52.200 --> 0:29:58.040 that Abraham, you went. I just want to ask a 0:29:58.120 --> 0:30:00.280 simple question, and I'd love for you to wrestle with this. 0:30:00.400 --> 0:30:02.400 If you're taking notes today, if you haven't taken one note, 0:30:02.440 --> 0:30:03.240 this would be a good one. 0:30:04.240 --> 0:30:08.480 What is God asking you to do? Do it? 0:30:10.600 --> 0:30:15.200 And stop being scared to obey God. The devil will 0:30:15.320 --> 0:30:21.080 convince you that obedience is a risk, But obedience is 0:30:21.120 --> 0:30:21.720 never a risk. 0:30:22.560 --> 0:30:25.520 It feels like a risk, but it's not a risk. 0:30:27.800 --> 0:30:29.000 What is God asking you to do? 0:30:29.080 --> 0:30:31.280 I love what Mary said to the servants because she 0:30:31.320 --> 0:30:32.080 said about Jesus. 0:30:32.160 --> 0:30:38.360 Whatever he says to you, do it. Whatever is it 0:30:38.480 --> 0:30:39.880 time to start serving in this house? 0:30:39.960 --> 0:30:40.160 Do it? 0:30:42.280 --> 0:30:45.000 Is it time to start giving financially this do it? 0:30:45.880 --> 0:30:50.000 Is it time to forgive that person? Do it? Is 0:30:50.440 --> 0:30:53.160 it time to make it right in that relationship? 0:30:53.240 --> 0:30:53.400 Do it? 0:30:53.520 --> 0:30:54.520 Is it time to make the call? 0:30:54.640 --> 0:30:54.840 Do it? 0:30:55.440 --> 0:30:58.000 Is it time to get married? Do it? Some of 0:30:58.120 --> 0:31:00.280 y'all have been living together for eighteen years. You've been 0:31:00.320 --> 0:31:02.520 praying about getting married. Do it? 0:31:05.920 --> 0:31:08.040 You know, we're just still making sure. Dog, it's been 0:31:08.080 --> 0:31:14.400 a minute. There's a conviction at Valentine right now. 0:31:14.440 --> 0:31:20.240 We need to move on. Is it time to start 0:31:20.280 --> 0:31:20.800 having kids? 0:31:20.840 --> 0:31:21.080 Do it? 0:31:22.240 --> 0:31:23.040 We don't know if we're ready. 0:31:23.080 --> 0:31:23.320 You're not. 0:31:23.560 --> 0:31:26.120 Hah, you're not ready to have children? 0:31:26.320 --> 0:31:26.520 Do it? 0:31:28.160 --> 0:31:29.640 Is it time to get water baptized? 0:31:29.720 --> 0:31:29.920 Do it? 0:31:31.200 --> 0:31:33.280 What is God asking you to do? 0:31:35.760 --> 0:31:43.000 Every act of obedience, it always leads to God's blessing. 0:31:43.920 --> 0:31:47.080 It leads to answers, it leads to wisdom, it leads 0:31:47.200 --> 0:31:51.120 to better. Eventually it leads to better Proverbs four eighteen 0:31:51.200 --> 0:31:53.280 that the path of the righteous is like the daunt watches. 0:31:53.520 --> 0:31:54.960 It's getting brighter and brighter. 0:31:55.160 --> 0:31:57.560 Here's what I've learned that if a walk with God 0:31:58.080 --> 0:32:01.200 of the team cup, if I walk with God, eventually 0:32:02.960 --> 0:32:07.560 it's getting brighter and brighter, not worse and worse, not 0:32:07.680 --> 0:32:12.000 darker and darker, brighter and brighter. But it can feel 0:32:12.120 --> 0:32:17.720 so scary to obey God. What's God asking of you? 0:32:17.840 --> 0:32:23.240 Give it to him. I have a nine year old daughter. 0:32:23.320 --> 0:32:25.320 She's turning ten in a couple of months. 0:32:25.160 --> 0:32:30.320 Goldie, and every once in a while we realize she's 0:32:30.400 --> 0:32:36.960 outgrown her toys. Any parents in the house she starts 0:32:36.960 --> 0:32:41.160 out growing things. So we start packaging these toys and 0:32:41.240 --> 0:32:43.160 we start getting them in bags and boxes because we're 0:32:43.160 --> 0:32:45.960 gonna bless a family with younger children. 0:32:47.120 --> 0:32:47.800 And j J. 0:32:48.400 --> 0:32:50.239 I'll pull a toy out of her closet that has 0:32:50.320 --> 0:32:55.320 not seen the light of day in five years, and 0:32:55.440 --> 0:32:57.640 I'll pull it out because we're gonna give it away. 0:32:57.720 --> 0:33:06.280 And the moment she sees that, she goes, Dad, I've 0:33:06.320 --> 0:33:07.320 been looking for that. 0:33:08.840 --> 0:33:19.080 That's my favorite toy. Homie. You haven't seen that toy. Five. 0:33:19.760 --> 0:33:23.640 I love that toy. I have to keep that toy. 0:33:27.200 --> 0:33:30.320 We'll find clothes and shoes. I love those shoes. They 0:33:30.360 --> 0:33:31.720 are that big. I love those shoes. 0:33:33.720 --> 0:33:40.920 Babe, babe, were you've outgrown that? That fits you in 0:33:41.040 --> 0:33:46.440 a season, But it's time to go. That was good 0:33:46.520 --> 0:33:48.960 for you in one season. Come on, somebody, but it's 0:33:49.040 --> 0:33:53.920 time to go. That served you in one season, but 0:33:54.120 --> 0:33:56.040 it'll hurt you in a new season. 0:33:56.120 --> 0:33:56.960 It's time to go. 0:33:57.680 --> 0:34:01.440 But see, we pray God do a new thing until 0:34:01.480 --> 0:34:06.080 he starts doing a nothing. And they're just like Jesus, 0:34:06.200 --> 0:34:10.000 we got we like the old wine better. She's going 0:34:10.040 --> 0:34:14.319 nobody likes new wine and new wine skin we pray 0:34:14.480 --> 0:34:21.919 for change until God starts changing, because change don't feel 0:34:22.000 --> 0:34:22.480 like change. 0:34:22.719 --> 0:34:23.759 Change feels like pain. 0:34:28.320 --> 0:34:30.239 He said, God, Dad, I just really think I need 0:34:30.280 --> 0:34:32.440 to keep this. I just I just really think I 0:34:32.880 --> 0:34:36.960 just in case. Does anybody have any just in cases 0:34:37.120 --> 0:34:44.520 in your soul? So I'm gonna show you a picture. 0:34:44.520 --> 0:34:46.600 It's so cheesy, but I don't care. I'm forty two 0:34:46.800 --> 0:34:52.160 and I'm embracing that. She's season of my ministry. 0:34:52.320 --> 0:34:55.640 Is that okay? Because I want I want you to 0:34:55.719 --> 0:34:59.839 see this because I've I've been there. Have you ever been? 0:35:00.520 --> 0:35:06.480 I can't look at that picture without crying, but I 0:35:06.600 --> 0:35:06.920 love it. 0:35:07.040 --> 0:35:14.319 God like God's going. But I'm doing a new thing. 0:35:16.760 --> 0:35:19.000 I'm taking you to orland that you don't know see. 0:35:19.040 --> 0:35:24.759 You know your past, you know where you've been, even 0:35:24.800 --> 0:35:30.600 if it's unhealthy, at least it's familiar. And now God's 0:35:30.680 --> 0:35:37.200 taking me into an uncomfortable place. But I have to 0:35:37.320 --> 0:35:43.360 believe that in the exchange there's brighter and brighter. But 0:35:43.440 --> 0:35:47.200 I've never been here before. God, but this is bigger 0:35:47.239 --> 0:35:47.480 than me. 0:35:47.719 --> 0:35:48.640 But I love this. 0:35:51.520 --> 0:36:01.640 But I've outgrown this. And Abraham says, let's go. Never 0:36:01.760 --> 0:36:08.080 been where we're going, but let's go. And if I'm 0:36:08.200 --> 0:36:16.960 willing to go without knowing. That's where the blessing is. 0:36:22.680 --> 0:36:24.759 And maybe you're holding onto something today, going God, I 0:36:24.840 --> 0:36:31.040 love it a comfort zone, a place that maybe it's bitterness, 0:36:31.080 --> 0:36:32.920 maybe it's unforgiveness, maybe. 0:36:34.520 --> 0:36:34.880 I don't know. 0:36:35.800 --> 0:36:38.239 Maybe it's a relationship. Maybe it's a season of your 0:36:38.280 --> 0:36:43.000 life that you just you've you've so identified with it 0:36:43.160 --> 0:36:51.279 that it's become a familiar place. And yet Jesus is saying, 0:36:52.680 --> 0:37:00.680 I'll trade you. You want to have an exchange because 0:37:00.719 --> 0:37:01.400 I promise my. 0:37:01.480 --> 0:37:06.000 Way is better. But I love it God. 0:37:09.400 --> 0:37:11.800 And by the way, whatever act of surrender you have 0:37:11.920 --> 0:37:13.920 to give God today, I promise you it won't be 0:37:14.000 --> 0:37:18.160 your last. So you might as well just get comfortable 0:37:18.200 --> 0:37:19.520 saying yes, because. 0:37:21.680 --> 0:37:27.840 He just keeps pushing me and leading me and guiding 0:37:27.960 --> 0:37:30.600 me without. 0:37:31.400 --> 0:37:31.720 Knowing. 0:37:37.800 --> 0:37:42.160 But that's where the joy is. If you want to 0:37:42.239 --> 0:37:43.440 keep your life, Jesus. 0:37:43.239 --> 0:37:50.080 In you're gonna lose it anyway. But if you lose it, 0:37:51.640 --> 0:37:54.000 in other words, if you'd lived like this, it's all 0:37:54.080 --> 0:38:00.359 yours you actually end up keeping it doesn't mean make sense. 0:38:00.400 --> 0:38:10.920 It's God math because there really isn't control. So the 0:38:11.000 --> 0:38:16.840 moment I yield whatever lie of control I've believed. 0:38:19.200 --> 0:38:19.399 There. 0:38:19.440 --> 0:38:19.680 It is. 0:38:25.480 --> 0:38:33.560 So Lord, today we choose to go without knowing, because 0:38:33.600 --> 0:38:41.239 whatever you're leading us into is better than where we've been. 0:38:44.280 --> 0:38:46.160 If you just need to give something to God, why 0:38:46.200 --> 0:38:49.080 don't you just lift up your hands and give it 0:38:49.120 --> 0:38:49.799 to them right now? 0:38:51.600 --> 0:38:54.719 Don't you just stand and give it to the Lord. 0:38:54.840 --> 0:38:59.880 Come on, Oh, come to the altar. 0:39:02.840 --> 0:39:03.920 Oh, come to. 0:39:05.719 --> 0:39:06.799 The altar. 0:39:08.480 --> 0:39:11.840 The fathers arms are. 0:39:13.960 --> 0:39:15.200 Just reach out to Heaven right now. 0:39:15.320 --> 0:39:23.680 Come on, it was fad with him, the prescious. Oh, 0:39:23.880 --> 0:39:25.879 come to the altars. 0:39:26.360 --> 0:39:34.239 See, let's have an exchange right here. Let's have an 0:39:34.280 --> 0:39:41.560 exchange right here with Heaven. Give him your burdens, give 0:39:41.640 --> 0:39:42.520 him your fearings. 0:39:44.680 --> 0:39:55.239 O'll come out, come, come give him your cares. It 0:39:55.400 --> 0:40:08.160 is at adition. Worry one more time, Oh, charls, go 0:40:08.560 --> 0:40:27.560 to the altar. See the father's a worry. What she's 0:40:27.880 --> 0:40:36.200 all a saya to say? He is any. 0:40:39.320 --> 0:40:45.759 Fulney, he said, hallelujah, I sees it. 0:40:48.400 --> 0:40:50.640 It's a day we beat do before. 0:40:51.840 --> 0:40:52.279 Tell me. 0:40:55.440 --> 0:41:04.239 Dord of all, Lord of him, come on saying come 0:41:06.280 --> 0:41:15.280 ChRI seez if you is very mona. 0:41:17.200 --> 0:41:24.799 Wonderful sing amazing on me. 0:41:28.040 --> 0:41:35.160 Ri steas ware bow. I know how. 0:41:40.080 --> 0:41:48.200 Boys, Sepia. 0:41:49.480 --> 0:42:04.520 Come see, Father's arms are open. 0:42:09.360 --> 0:42:13.320 Fungy spy away. 0:42:21.080 --> 0:42:28.240 So today, Father, whatever we're carrying, whatever semblance of control, 0:42:28.360 --> 0:42:35.440 we're trying to keep whatever, whatever, But God, I love it. 0:42:35.560 --> 0:42:39.960 Whatever that is, we just we just open our hands 0:42:40.040 --> 0:42:47.440 and we want to stay right here, surrendered. I've been 0:42:47.480 --> 0:42:52.439 following Jesus for twenty seven years, but I never want 0:42:52.480 --> 0:42:52.880 to lose. 0:42:54.719 --> 0:42:56.960 I never want to lose this. I just never want 0:42:57.000 --> 0:43:00.440 to lose. God, it's all yours. I ever want to 0:43:00.480 --> 0:43:08.480 lose that. Tell me what to do, Lord, I'll do it. 0:43:12.200 --> 0:43:15.479 Because there's a joy in obedience that I can't find 0:43:15.480 --> 0:43:16.080 anywhere else. 0:43:20.680 --> 0:43:24.840 Just stay with me right here. There's people that today. 0:43:24.880 --> 0:43:29.960 You need to give Jesus your life. You need to 0:43:30.040 --> 0:43:33.959 surrender your life to the Lord. You need to become 0:43:33.960 --> 0:43:36.800 a Christian. Jesus called it being born again, not just 0:43:36.920 --> 0:43:42.760 being a better version of who you are, but having 0:43:42.800 --> 0:43:49.480 a bran new creation. Jam And I don't know if 0:43:49.520 --> 0:43:56.839 I'm ready. You probably aren't. When I was fifteen years old, 0:43:57.000 --> 0:44:00.880 I gave Jesus my yes and my life, and I 0:44:01.080 --> 0:44:04.640 had no idea really what I was saying yes to. 0:44:06.440 --> 0:44:12.640 I just knew who I was saying yes to. I 0:44:12.719 --> 0:44:15.440 do not be a preacher. I didn't know i'd be 0:44:15.520 --> 0:44:17.439 in Vegas. I do not be here today. I didn't 0:44:17.440 --> 0:44:19.960 know any of that. I didn't know the valleys that 0:44:20.000 --> 0:44:23.200 I'd walk through. I didn't know, but I knew who. 0:44:25.000 --> 0:44:27.719 And I've never regretted that. Yes, twenty seven years later, 0:44:29.840 --> 0:44:34.320 did you say yes to Jesus just at every location, 0:44:35.400 --> 0:44:39.120 in a place of prayer, Just bow your head, closed 0:44:39.120 --> 0:44:42.720 your eyes for a moment to our epham, Just settle 0:44:42.760 --> 0:44:44.120 your heart for a moment. If that's you, and you 0:44:44.120 --> 0:44:45.960 would say, I need to give my life to Jesus. 0:44:48.120 --> 0:44:49.440 Jape and pray with me. I want to give my 0:44:49.520 --> 0:44:50.160 life to Christ. 0:44:50.800 --> 0:44:53.600 Or at one time I did, and at one time 0:44:53.680 --> 0:44:56.279 I was walking with God, but I kind of lost 0:44:56.440 --> 0:44:56.960 my way. 0:44:58.800 --> 0:44:59.080 Today. 0:44:59.160 --> 0:45:04.000 Need to come home to pray with me. Say yes 0:45:04.040 --> 0:45:06.120 to Jesus all over this place. We're gonna all pray 0:45:06.200 --> 0:45:11.640 together from your heart. Say this, and God will meet 0:45:11.640 --> 0:45:13.400 you right where you're at. I'm gonna ask everybody at 0:45:13.400 --> 0:45:14.200 every location to. 0:45:14.239 --> 0:45:16.360 Pray with our friends who are saying yes to Jesus. 0:45:16.440 --> 0:45:20.840 Right now. Everyone say Jesus, I believe in you. I 0:45:20.920 --> 0:45:21.840 believe you died for me. 0:45:23.400 --> 0:45:27.080 I believe you rose again, and today I give you 0:45:27.200 --> 0:45:32.239 my life and I receive your life. I give you 0:45:32.400 --> 0:45:40.320 my sin, and I receive your righteousness. Jesus be Lord 0:45:41.640 --> 0:45:46.640 and savior of my life. Now, just please keep your 0:45:46.680 --> 0:45:48.560 eyes closed one more moment. If that was your prayer, 0:45:48.640 --> 0:45:53.400 all over this room and at every room, from the 0:45:53.640 --> 0:45:57.640 pop up that's happening right now, to every location, to 0:45:57.680 --> 0:46:01.080 everyone online to write here in Valentine, if you're saying 0:46:01.160 --> 0:46:03.279 yes to Jesus, I'm gonna count to three. On three, 0:46:03.320 --> 0:46:05.920 I'm gonna ask you to raise your hand. Javed, do 0:46:06.000 --> 0:46:08.080 I have to raise my hand. I think it's important. 0:46:09.160 --> 0:46:12.600 I think it's important to make that public declaration that says, hey, 0:46:12.719 --> 0:46:16.080 that was for me, preacher, I want to become a 0:46:16.160 --> 0:46:17.040 follower of Jesus. 0:46:17.120 --> 0:46:17.839 Today's my day. 0:46:17.920 --> 0:46:22.040 That was my prayer. You stopped the entire service just 0:46:22.360 --> 0:46:24.120 for me. I'm giving my life to Christ for the 0:46:24.400 --> 0:46:28.160 very first time. Or you're coming back, You're coming coming 0:46:28.239 --> 0:46:31.480 back to Jesus. One three, I'm gonna ask you to 0:46:31.560 --> 0:46:35.120 raise your hand, and I believe God's gonna meet you. 0:46:35.239 --> 0:46:38.359 It's gonna feel like a million pounds is lifted off 0:46:38.400 --> 0:46:41.120 your shoulders and you're just gonna know that you know 0:46:41.200 --> 0:46:44.480 that you're a child of God. Say yes to Jesus today. 0:46:45.080 --> 0:46:50.040 You'll never regret it. You may not be ready, but 0:46:50.120 --> 0:46:53.640 if you're willing, God will meet you in this moment. 0:46:54.800 --> 0:46:58.560 Yes to Jesus, coming back to Jesus. Returning to Jesus, 0:46:58.600 --> 0:47:00.879 whoever you are, come on the count of three, one, 0:47:01.200 --> 0:47:01.839 two and three. 0:47:01.960 --> 0:47:04.160 That was my prayer. Lift up your hand. God bless you, 0:47:04.360 --> 0:47:04.880 God bless you. 0:47:06.040 --> 0:47:06.160 Hey. 0:47:06.239 --> 0:47:08.520 I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, 0:47:09.120 --> 0:47:11.680 make sure to share it and subscribe so we can 0:47:11.760 --> 0:47:14.359 get you all of these new messages as soon as 0:47:14.360 --> 0:47:17.080 they're available. 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