The Room Where It Happens (Tim Somers)

0:00:02.120 --> 0:00:03.400 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:06.439 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:08.360 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:11.280 Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:13.240 Hope it gives your perspective to see God is. 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:14.160 Moving in your life. 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:18.840 Enjoy the message. Hey, why don't you look at your 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:22.200 neighbor real quick? Let them know how good they look. 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:25.560 Let them know how good they look. I hope you 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:30.280 pick the right partner right there. Put it in the chat. 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:34.600 How you feeling in the chat? Hey, I want you 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:39.000 to open up your Bibles to Mark chapter five. Everyone 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:45.240 say Mark chapter five, verse twenty one. If you don't 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:47.680 know who I am, my name is sim Summers. I'm 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:52.520 the next gen pastor here at Elevation and today I'm 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:54.320 excited to be able to bring the word as you're 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:57.040 finding Mark five twenty one. 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:59.800 I got an honor our pastor. 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:02.960 I'd love to do. This is arguably one of my 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:06.840 favorite things to do when on this stage, and I 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:10.560 just want to honor specifically this ghost writer series that 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:14.080 seven weeks was absolutely was a beneficial for you. I'm 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:20.480 seeing snaps right now right Hey, just absolute fire preaching 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:23.000 from both of our pastors, and if you missed it, 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:25.000 you need to do everything you gotta do to get 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:29.360 on YouTube and get that entire series. Okay, here's what 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:34.480 I understand about fire. When you reach scripture. The prophet 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:39.840 Moses was called by fire. Elijah called down fire, Elisha 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:45.279 made a fire, Micah prophesied fire. John the Baptist cried 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:48.640 that you'll be baptized by fire. Jesus said, I've come 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:52.120 to send fire on the earth. Right. Fire is something 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:56.160 that God always referenced and used in Scripture. And one 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:58.600 thing I know about my old sinful nature is it 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:01.800 may dodge the water, Baptist, but it will be destroyed 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.760 in the fire Baptism. Come on, somebody, can I get 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:08.040 an amen? So here's what I know. I'm grateful for 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:11.720 a pastor that understands the power of the Holy Ghost 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:18.920 fire that both destroys, purifies, worms, attracts, and empowers Amen. 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:28.040 And what they did, the way they surgically preached that 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:32.800 Holy Ghost series, let me tell you something was absolutely astounding. 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:34.959 So what I want to do just for those seven weeks. 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:36.799 We could go a lot longer, but just for those 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:38.720 seven weeks, can we give it up for our pastors, 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:43.760 Pastor Stephen and hollyfordit we love you. We hope you're 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:47.079 getting rest and refreshment. We think the world of you. 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:50.360 Thank you for preaching the Bible. It means the world 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:52.639 has changed my life, and I know it's changed thousands 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.480 and millions of people across the world. Okay, have you 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:57.960 found Mark five? Okay, well you can find you a 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:00.440 way to you see y'all all excited. I know it's okay, 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:03.120 Mark five. It's a lot of verses, so I wouldn't 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:07.919 want to do that to you, Mark five twenty one. 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:13.239 This is what it says, is that when Jesus had 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.840 again crossed over by the boat to the other side 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:18.399 of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:20.880 he was by the lake. Then one of the synagogue 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:24.480 leaders named Gyrius came, and when he saw Jesus, he 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.560 fell at his feet. Everyone say come, and he pleaded 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:30.280 earnestly with him, My little daughter is dying. Please come 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:32.600 and put your hands on her so that she will 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:36.000 be healed and live. And Jesus went with him. A 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:38.800 large crowd followed and pressed around him, and a woman 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:41.400 was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.000 She had suffered a great deal under the many cares 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.040 of doctors and has spent all she had, Yet instead 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.920 of getting better, she grew worse. And when she heard 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:54.160 about Jesus, she came, everyone say, come behind him in 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:56.440 the crowd, and touched his clothes because she thought, if 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:57.920 I just touched his clothes. 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:01.720 I will be healed. And immediately her bleeding. 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:03.680 Stopped, and she felt in her body that she. 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:05.200 Was freed from her suffering. 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:09.320 And at once Jesus realized that power had gone out 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:12.760 from him. He turned around the court in the crowd 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:15.520 and asked, who touched my clothes? And the disciples are like, 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:16.440 what are you talking about? 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:17.440 Who touched me? 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.320 There's no way we could tell, but Jesus kept looking 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:23.400 around to see who had done it. And then the woman, 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:25.880 knowing what had happened to her, came everyone say come, 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:28.719 and fell at his feet, and, trembling with fear, told 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:32.440 him the whole truth and nothing but the truth. And 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:35.200 he said to her, daughter, your faith has healed you. 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:37.080 Go in peace and be free from your suffering. And 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:40.200 while Jesus was still speaking, some people came, everyone say, 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:43.440 come from the house of Gyros. The synagogue leader, your 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:48.480 daughter is dead, they said, why bother Jesus anymore. Overhearing 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:52.080 what they said, Jesus told him, don't be afraid, just believe. 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:56.200 And he did not let anyone follow him except Peter, 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:59.760 James and John. And when they came, everyone say, come 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:04.680 to the home of the synagogue leader. Jesus sought commotion, 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:07.360 with people crying and wailing loudly. 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:10.080 He went in and said to them, why all this commotion. 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:14.880 The child is not dead but asleep. They laughed at him, 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:17.280 and after he put them all out, he took the 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:19.640 child's father and mother and the disciples who are with him, 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.280 and went in where the child was. He took her 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:24.279 by the hand and said to her to lead the coop, 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:26.760 which means little girl, I say to you, get up, 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:30.520 And immediately the girl stood up and began to walk around. 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:34.920 At this they were completely astonished, and he gave strict 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:40.599 orders not to let anyone know about this, and told 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:46.200 them to give her something to eat. I'm going to 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:49.640 title the conversation that I'm just having with God while 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:55.359 you're in the room the room where it happens. The 0:05:55.480 --> 0:06:01.279 room where it happens. Everyone say, the room, the room 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:10.479 where it happens, who the room where it happens. You know, 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.640 as I get older, I've realized that there are a 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:17.520 lot of important rooms in my life. Oftentimes those rooms 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.080 are not the rooms that I thought would be so important. 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:24.560 Can I get an amen? I've realized I've labeled some 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:27.680 rooms wrongly and would never think that some rooms are 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:32.120 that as important as I never thought hospital room would 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:35.359 be so important to me. Let me put a picture 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:37.919 up real quick of the hospital room. This is when 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:44.279 we had our first girl. And I'll never forget that 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:47.320 hospital room. I'll also never forget that green, crappy chair 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:50.880 that I have to lay in. Come on, Dad's you 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:52.479 know what I'm talking about. Do No matter how small 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:55.440 you are, that thing is not comfortable. That thing is 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:59.320 not comfortable. But the hospital room, man, I'll never forget 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:03.120 about that room. But a hospital room, man, I just 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:06.520 never thought that that would be such an important room 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:09.600 to me. Let me show you another picture. This room 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.160 is special to me. This is the room you're in 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:16.280 it right now, Lake Norman. This is the Lake Norman Auditorium. 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:21.080 This is the room where I came for just twenty 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:24.640 four hours eight years ago for inside elevation In fact, 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.160 if you zoom in real, real close, right on the right, 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:28.840 you can see this little blonde patch of hair. 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:29.800 Yep, that's still me. 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.320 And I'll never forget that room because that was the 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.080 room where I was called and formed and evident that 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.040 I would be formed to this vision and called to 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:42.560 this church and called to our pastors. But I didn't 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:48.920 think that room was going to be that important. Let's 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:51.400 check this other room out. This room, this is an 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:53.920 interesting room. I want to show you the room. This 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:57.360 is the actual room right here, the cafeteria of a 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:02.320 campgrounds in Oklahoma. I know you can't, I say, you 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:03.120 tell that, but that's true. 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:03.720 I'm not lying. 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:07.120 But we actually found it right there, and we were 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:10.320 sitting in chairs like that, And little did I know 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:14.200 that I would be sitting next to the person that 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:16.160 I would eat meals with for the rest of my life. 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:19.760 This is where I met my wife. And let me 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:22.200 tell you something. I didn't think I'll be meeting my 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:28.640 wife in a room like that Oklahoma campground. All right, 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.120 let me show you the other room, this last room 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:34.080 right here, this is the first time that I met 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:36.920 my son, Brodie. He was eight years old. I don't 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.560 know if you can tell first time, but his legs 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:44.320 are already on my legs. He loved me from the beginning. 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:48.000 Oh man, And that is a room, a a living 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:51.600 room and Oklahoma still water, Oklahoma. I never thought that 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:59.280 that living room would be such an important room for me. 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.240 Never did I ever. Maybe you could think about. 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.680 Some rooms right now that have importance to you that 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:08.880 you would have never thought. Oh, never thought this would 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:12.520 be so important. I can't help but to think about 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:17.160 this passage because Peter, James and John have been brought 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:22.000 into a room right. In fact, there were some of 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:25.480 the only ones that got in to the room. And 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.160 here's what I think is interesting. Because Gyrus is in 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:32.240 there right, the mother's in there obviously, the child's in there. Oh, 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.800 we need that. But to bring the three disciples in? 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:38.280 And I always thought, very interesting why them? And I 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.160 began to think about this, just maybe Peter, James and John, 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:47.080 if you don't know, these are the closest disciples to Jesus. Oh, 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:51.240 ain't that interesting? I wonder if that's why they were 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:56.040 invited to the room. Maybe they hadn't been in previous 0:09:56.120 --> 0:10:02.520 rooms with Jesus, so it allowed the opportunity for them 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.319 to get into the room where the miracle would happen. 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.880 Right this is this is This is very interesting to 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:11.920 me because what I know is this is a special 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:16.320 room right here. This is a special room right here. 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:18.760 And if you're online, you're watching, you're in the room, 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:21.520 if you're out of campus, right now, these are special 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:27.200 rooms where God begins to move. This is a room 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:29.160 where a lot of things can begin to happen in 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:31.800 your life. In fact, a couple of weeks ago, pastors said, 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:34.680 don't leave Jesus in this room. That was a word 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:39.640 for somebody you missed three weeks ago. Don't leave Jesus. 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:40.240 In the room. 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:48.760 Why Because Jesus goes wherever faith puts him. Jesus goes 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:57.040 wherever faith puts him. What rooms are you putting Jesus in? 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.400 You think that this room is special and it just 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:06.120 is always like this. Let me tell you something about 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:10.120 this room. There are people praying over this room all week, 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:17.560 all week. Jerry Sumner walking down every aisle. This morning 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:19.920 at seven in the morning, I watched them. There is 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:23.640 again walking praying for you. I don't know why this 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:26.640 room is special because there's a different kind of faith 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:29.280 in the room. There's a different kind of expectation that 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:32.200 was set in the room before you leave and got 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:36.240 in the room. This is something we've got to understand. Like, man, 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.440 every time I get into the elevation doors, that's just 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:44.600 something different. Yeah, it doesn't just happen, right, it doesn't 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:47.480 just happen. And when you show up and you feel 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:51.160 this faith rise, what is that, ma'am? There's people praying 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:54.560 for miracles. There's people that are sitting next to you 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:57.440 that need a miracle in their business and they're saying, 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:00.760 I only got today. There's people next to you this day, 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:02.880 I need a miracle in my marriage. And you know what, 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:05.040 this is the last time I'm going to church. So 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:07.440 this is it. I hope God does something. I hope 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:09.680 he shows up. I hope he begins to move in 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:13.920 this room and they're praying and they're prepping, they're having 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:17.200 these conversations with God. It doesn't just happen. But what 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:20.680 you've got to understand is that whatever room you invite 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.080 Jesus into, miracles can begin to happen. I don't care 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:25.040 if it's this room with that room, the conference room, 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.680 the breakroom, the living room, the waiting room, it don't 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:32.400 matter whatever room. Look at your neighbors, say make room. 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:37.240 But if we aren't careful, we'll never make any more 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:39.520 room than the ninety minutes on a Sunday each week. 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:46.199 If we aren't careful, we'll think, Oh, I'm doing everything 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:51.920 I need to do. God right here, bless me, bless me. 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:57.120 I'm here, I'm waiting. Gyrius didn't even have a room. 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:01.040 He began to make room for Jesus. In this passage, 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:04.160 verse twenty two, it says he came, and when he 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:09.679 saw Jesus, he fell at his feet, and he pleaded. 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:10.240 Earnestly with him. 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.080 Oh, I want to lift up that earnest word real quick, 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:16.000 all right, I want to say earnestly. Well, okay, put 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:20.360 on Hebrews eleven six, real quick, that's yeah. Hebrews eleven six, 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:22.679 it says, And without faith, or want to say, faith, 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:27.720 is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:31.119 him must believe that he exists and that he rewards 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:37.360 those who earnestly seek him, those who diligently seek him, 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:43.520 those who consistently and persistently are praying and having conversations. 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:47.520 We've got those who have that relationships, that intimacy with 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.679 the holy spirits, that closeness that you. 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.080 Can only feel, and you begin to describe it. 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:57.719 They have been with Jesus. What is different about them? 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:01.120 They have been with Jesus. What do you do when 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:06.079 you see Jesus? I've asked this question before in a 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:10.320 sermon in this very room. I think it's vital to 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:16.040 ask again, what do you do when you see Jesus? 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:17.800 Let me ask you something. When's the last time you 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:22.720 fell at his feet? I think it's interesting because it 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:26.000 says he came to Jesus and fell at his tea 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:31.000 seven times. In this twenty one scripture passage seven times, 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.920 it says he came and went. There was a journey, 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.760 he came and went. There was a journey, he came 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:42.200 and went. There was this there was this rhythm almost 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:48.600 coming and going. He came to Jesus and he fell 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.920 at his feet. And I think, I want to I 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:53.600 want to sit on this for a little bit because 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:56.360 I think we can look at this and go, Yeah, 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:58.360 he came, he fell at his feet. But what's interesting 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:01.520 is later with the sick woman, and she comes and 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:06.720 falls at his feet. I thought, okay, so both of 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:10.880 them come and fall at the feet of Jesus. 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:11.880 What are they doing? What are they doing? 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:13.640 What do they do? What do they doing? That they're 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:18.680 they're earnestly seeking after him, they're pleading their begging, right, 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:22.160 Because what you gotta understand about Gyrus is Gyrus has 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:25.880 a history with God. He's a synagogue leader, so he knows, right, 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.760 and he's aware of Jesus, right, and so he knows 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.880 and he understands some of these some of these customs. 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.080 But but, but what we've got to understand is that 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:39.840 Gyros more than likely has some sort of rhythm established. Right, 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:43.520 So when he comes to Jesus, more than likely he 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:49.800 had already been in some private rooms with God. And 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:52.920 he begins to plead with Jesus. And I think it's interesting, 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:57.920 he says, he falls at his feet. So let me 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:05.600 ask you again, how are you coming to Jesus. There 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:11.120 is a humility presented when you fall at the feet 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:18.040 of Jesus. There's a humility that is presented. Well, there's 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:20.320 a humility that's presented when you come to the end 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:24.680 of yourself. There's a humility that's presented when you come 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:30.160 to yourself. Isn't it interesting that what we've done as 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:33.200 as a church, Big c Church. Is we've gone like this, 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:45.360 Hey God, prayer, Lord you deserve Oh Lord, you next Sunday, 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:51.840 Hey Lord, prayer is a Lord? You deserve a Lord. 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:55.800 That's not how Jirous came. 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:59.640 If we're not careful, what we'll see is that every 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:07.719 Sunday pray. It's like, well, that's not my personality. Tim, 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.760 I know what you're about to say, because Gyrus went 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:15.760 like this, Lord, no help me, bless me. I need you. 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:21.600 I'm desperate. My daughter is dying. Okay, okay, And here's 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:22.840 what here's what I know, here's what I know. I 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.680 ask for my personality, Tim, Well, guess what personality goes 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:33.800 out the window when desperation walks through the door. We 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:38.480 gotta be really, really careful. Now we don't sing his 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:47.240 praise and shun his person He said, no, no, no, no, Jesus, 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:52.040 I come to you. I fall at your feet. Don't 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:57.200 get a big head, chumps, I fall at your feet. 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:01.760 There's a there's a humility that is resented from both 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:05.639 of these subjects. I don't want you to miss it 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:10.000 because at the end, when I start talking to you men, 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:19.000 you gotta understand where where are your kids watching you? 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:26.119 Be humble. He's like, I can't do it. It's just 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:27.640 not my thing. It's just not my thing. I want 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:31.040 to see my kids understand that I love the Lord 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:35.840 and I need him more than anything else. There's nothing else. 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:39.679 I don't care how stupid I look. I don't care 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:42.200 how stupid I feel. I'm gonna get up at five 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:44.440 in the morning and I'm gonna pray before you. I'm 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:47.760 gonna fall at your feet. I'm coming to you, Lord God. 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:49.840 I don't know what you have for me this week, 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:53.280 but man, I need you. So you tell me, Lord, 0:18:53.440 --> 0:19:03.800 you know, show me. We gotta come to Jesus. And 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:06.240 I'm just saying, we gotta follow this feet. Okay, maybe 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:12.240 it is to change your posture. Change your posture. Work 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:17.000 at it, change your posture. The lie of the enemy 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:19.680 is that you have to hit rock bottom to become 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:24.560 hungry for the things of God. Do not wait until 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:30.840 a dying child to come to the Lord. Every day, 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:34.520 his mercies are new every morning. That means his grace 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:37.200 is new every morning. His strength is new every morning, 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:41.520 his confidence is new every morning. His direction is new 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:45.119 every morning, his vision is new every morning. This just 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:49.679 cannot be a Sunday faith. What would it look like. 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:54.800 What would this room look like if the rhythm was 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:59.560 established with Jesus, the Father and the Holy Spirit in 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:04.720 private before we got into the public Once I said 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:07.439 this before Sunday church is meant to be a confirmation 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:09.919 and affirmation of what God has already told you throughout 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:13.800 the week. That's it. So some of you are walking 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:15.680 in and I've done this, I've done this. I've walked 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:18.280 in like, oh Lord, please, I hope he worth speaking 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:21.760 a pastor because I really need a word. And he 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:23.480 looked at me and said, I've been trying to speak 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:30.160 to you, and you know how good God is. He'll 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:34.000 still speak through pastor to me, even in the midst 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:37.080 of my arrogance, even in the midst of my ignorance 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:42.199 and ignoring him throughout the week, He's still does it. 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:48.040 That's how good our God is. She got to get 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:49.560 a rhythm. You gotta get a rhythm. You gotta get 0:20:49.560 --> 0:20:52.480 a rhythm, I would say, rhythm. So then it goes 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:54.680 on to say, my little daughter is dying, Please come 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:56.879 and put your hands on her so that she'll be healed. 0:20:57.400 --> 0:20:59.600 And Jesus went with them, and a large crowd followed 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:03.399 and pressed around him. And then a woman who was 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:07.639 there who've been subject to bleeding for twelve years, and 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:10.160 she suffered a great deal under the care of many 0:21:10.160 --> 0:21:12.560 doctors and spend all she had, Yet instead of getting better, 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:17.199 she grew worse. And when she heard about Jesus, she 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:20.200 came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak. 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:24.800 So an interruption comes for Gyrus, but an opportunity comes 0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:30.440 for this woman who an opportunity presents itself. 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:32.359 For this sick woman. 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:34.880 How many of you have kids, didn't want to have kids, 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:37.040 didn't want to have kids? You got kids, be fruitful 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:41.000 and multiply amens. What the Lord said but he didn't 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:43.600 talk to me about was all the interruptions I was 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:50.199 gonna get right. Oh, but how many times when you 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:53.560 just like really take a breath and take a pause, and. 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:58.159 You go, it's probably not that big of an interruption, and. 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:02.760 You start focusing on your son, you start focusing on 0:22:02.800 --> 0:22:06.680 your daughter, and you realize, ooh, I'm glad I didn't 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:11.240 misset opportunity. If your parents you know exactly what I'm 0:22:11.240 --> 0:22:11.879 talking about. 0:22:14.160 --> 0:22:15.320 But there's this opportunity. 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:18.080 She's been sick for twelve years, and she's thinking to herself, 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:19.800 there might be a little room for me. It's just 0:22:19.800 --> 0:22:23.480 a little walk by opportunity in essence, When we would 0:22:23.480 --> 0:22:25.479 look at that, we might say there's no time at 0:22:25.480 --> 0:22:27.280 all for her to get her healing. But God can 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:30.840 do in one minute, well we couldn't do in an 0:22:30.840 --> 0:22:35.840 hour of time. What I really believe is that when 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:38.160 it talks about verse twenty eight says because she thought, 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:40.639 if I just touched his clothes, I'll be healed. Immediately, 0:22:40.640 --> 0:22:42.439 her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body there 0:22:42.520 --> 0:22:45.639 she'd be free from her suffering. And at once Jesus 0:22:45.680 --> 0:22:47.040 realized that power had. 0:22:46.840 --> 0:22:48.040 Gone out from him. 0:22:48.680 --> 0:22:52.080 When you leave a moment of prayer with Jesus, how 0:22:52.119 --> 0:22:56.400 much power have you taken from him? When you leave 0:22:56.440 --> 0:23:00.359 a conversation with Jesus, a moment with Jesus, how much 0:23:01.440 --> 0:23:04.879 have you been filled with this power? Is it enough 0:23:04.960 --> 0:23:10.320 for Jesus to notice? Because it sure was enough for 0:23:10.400 --> 0:23:12.720 him to notice the power had left this body. I'm 0:23:12.720 --> 0:23:14.840 here to tell you be selfish with this power. How 0:23:14.880 --> 0:23:18.879 many selfish people in the room? I got you all 0:23:18.920 --> 0:23:24.200 the single people that the other way, we got to 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:26.200 be selfish with this power. But now here's what I said. 0:23:26.240 --> 0:23:26.960 What do I mean by that? 0:23:27.000 --> 0:23:29.480 Be careful? Be careful because I'm not talking about let's 0:23:29.480 --> 0:23:33.040 be transactional with this power. That's that's that's not what 0:23:33.080 --> 0:23:35.160 I'm here for. That's a slippery slope that we can 0:23:35.160 --> 0:23:37.400 get into. What I mean is that God has all 0:23:37.400 --> 0:23:42.160 that you need. He is all sufficient, and I can't 0:23:42.200 --> 0:23:46.639 operate with this power each in every day. And what 0:23:46.680 --> 0:23:49.280 I want to remind you is that the only power 0:23:49.320 --> 0:23:51.879 that God yields to is that of prayer and faith. 0:23:53.240 --> 0:23:57.200 Think about that the power left because all she. 0:23:57.240 --> 0:23:59.440 Was doing was praying. Maybe this is my moment, Maybe 0:23:59.440 --> 0:24:00.400 this is there was. 0:24:00.359 --> 0:24:03.480 Some faith when you begin to have that conversation with 0:24:03.560 --> 0:24:07.080 God and raise the faith. Ooh, God begins to notice, 0:24:07.119 --> 0:24:09.960 He begins to look back, he begins to wonder and 0:24:10.000 --> 0:24:13.040 go wait, wait, wait, wait, someone's praying, someone's trying to 0:24:13.040 --> 0:24:18.159 get my attention, someone's bothering me. He turned around in 0:24:18.160 --> 0:24:19.880 the crowd and asked, who touched my clothes? You see 0:24:19.880 --> 0:24:22.200 the people cried in against you. Yet you can ask 0:24:22.200 --> 0:24:24.320 who's touching. But Jesus kept looking around to see who 0:24:24.359 --> 0:24:26.960 had done it. And then the woman, knowing what had happened, 0:24:27.000 --> 0:24:28.960 to her, came and fell at his feet, trembling with fear, 0:24:28.960 --> 0:24:31.360 and told him the whole truth. And this is where 0:24:31.359 --> 0:24:33.760 we see it again. She comes to Jesus and she 0:24:33.920 --> 0:24:37.440 falls at his feet. What is different than Gyros because 0:24:37.520 --> 0:24:41.080 Gyros begins to list out the requests and says, can 0:24:41.119 --> 0:24:46.439 you lay your hand on my daughter and heal? But 0:24:47.080 --> 0:24:49.639 this woman, she doesn't do that. She comes to Jesus, 0:24:49.640 --> 0:24:52.639 she falls at his feet because the only prerequisite to 0:24:52.640 --> 0:24:56.520 come me to Jesus is humility. He comes to Jesus, 0:24:56.680 --> 0:24:59.400 falls at his feet, but she doesn't begin to list 0:24:59.400 --> 0:25:03.760 out request. She begins to tremble with fear, a reverence, 0:25:06.200 --> 0:25:10.199 knowing how holy this man is, and she begins to 0:25:10.320 --> 0:25:11.760 open up. 0:25:12.320 --> 0:25:14.920 They want to say, open up. Oh, I want to say, 0:25:14.920 --> 0:25:15.360 open up. 0:25:16.200 --> 0:25:19.639 Woo. All the introverts don't like that. Open up. You 0:25:19.680 --> 0:25:21.720 want me to be honest, You want me to be real, 0:25:21.920 --> 0:25:24.399 You want me to be transparent and wrong who you 0:25:24.440 --> 0:25:27.840 want me to open up? Yeah, to Jesus, please, because 0:25:27.840 --> 0:25:30.159 you're doing it too much to people. But if you 0:25:30.200 --> 0:25:34.840 begin to do it with Jesus, Ooh, what begins to 0:25:34.880 --> 0:25:38.359 happen is you begin to start making some room for 0:25:38.480 --> 0:25:43.520 God to move. He said to her daughter, your faith 0:25:43.560 --> 0:25:45.400 has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from 0:25:45.400 --> 0:25:48.639 your suffering. And while Jesus was still speaking, some people 0:25:48.680 --> 0:25:52.800 came from the house of Jedis your daughter's dead. Why 0:25:52.840 --> 0:25:57.119 bother the teacher anymore? Could you imagine being gyrous in 0:25:57.160 --> 0:26:01.560 this moment a relief. I'm thinking, man, it's about to happen, 0:26:02.119 --> 0:26:05.880 she's about to get healed. We on the way, we gucci, 0:26:06.119 --> 0:26:08.760 I prayed, and I'm feeling really good about it. I'm 0:26:08.800 --> 0:26:11.920 feeling a supernatural amount of peace. Have you ever experienced 0:26:11.960 --> 0:26:14.200 this before? Right, there's like a little breath of hope, 0:26:14.240 --> 0:26:18.239 and then all of a sudden, the interruption, right, and 0:26:18.280 --> 0:26:23.359 then the crew comes around friends and starts telling you, hey, 0:26:23.680 --> 0:26:25.840 starts giving you the news, and it's like, hey, your 0:26:25.840 --> 0:26:33.080 prayers didn't work. Sorry, she's dead. Hey, I know you 0:26:33.119 --> 0:26:35.399 were hoping it was gonna be this way, but guess what. 0:26:36.240 --> 0:26:44.440 Too late, Too bad, it's not gonna work. In fact, 0:26:44.680 --> 0:26:49.320 don't even bother Jesus anymore, That's what they said. 0:26:49.600 --> 0:26:52.560 Yeah, yeah, like, why bother the teacher anymore? 0:26:53.640 --> 0:26:59.320 WHOA, I'm gonna stay here right here, because sometimes we 0:26:59.400 --> 0:27:02.919 go and pray to yuh we feel that peace, we 0:27:03.000 --> 0:27:05.240 feel that hope, and we get around the wrong people 0:27:06.600 --> 0:27:09.240 and they start saying, yeah, I just don't think it's 0:27:09.280 --> 0:27:16.000 gonna work. Why bother? Why bother? Why bother the teacher anymore? 0:27:16.040 --> 0:27:23.080 Why bother? What do you mean? Why bother? That crew 0:27:24.080 --> 0:27:28.680 was not in the room when Gyros came to Jesus 0:27:29.200 --> 0:27:32.480 and fell at his feet. No one was there, not 0:27:32.600 --> 0:27:36.080 that crew. They don't know what's been happening. Gyros has 0:27:36.119 --> 0:27:39.879 something different because he was in a room with Jesus before, 0:27:39.920 --> 0:27:43.840 he's in a room with this crew. Do you see 0:27:43.840 --> 0:27:46.959 the value? That's why he ain't sweating it. I mean, 0:27:47.000 --> 0:27:47.320 I don't know. 0:27:47.359 --> 0:27:49.000 I don't know. Maybe he was sweating it. It's a 0:27:49.000 --> 0:27:49.680 pretty big deal. 0:27:49.960 --> 0:27:52.040 But like, could you imagine, like what do you feel 0:27:52.040 --> 0:27:53.399 like Givers was feeling. Do you feel like he was 0:27:53.440 --> 0:27:55.359 feeling like doubt? Or is there kind of like a 0:27:55.400 --> 0:27:58.440 swagger about of him? You know what I'm saying, like doubt, 0:27:58.520 --> 0:28:02.359 Like oh, oh really she did? That's probably what I 0:28:02.359 --> 0:28:07.800 would feel. I'd be like, oh darn right. But maybe 0:28:07.800 --> 0:28:11.000 he had a swagger. Maybe he had a swagger about him, 0:28:11.080 --> 0:28:14.439 Like yeah, yeah, no, for sure, I get it. But 0:28:14.560 --> 0:28:18.800 Jesus is on the way, and so I'm moving with him. 0:28:19.040 --> 0:28:21.720 I'm going with him. I already pray were good. We 0:28:21.760 --> 0:28:24.560 already had a conversation. He said he was coming my way. 0:28:25.000 --> 0:28:29.200 We're in it. We gotta be real careful. We got 0:28:29.240 --> 0:28:33.040 to stop inviting people into situations where the answer is 0:28:33.080 --> 0:28:34.880 only found in a private room with Jesus. 0:28:36.640 --> 0:28:38.760 I don't know about you, but what I do know 0:28:39.120 --> 0:28:40.400 what I do know what drivers did. 0:28:40.400 --> 0:28:42.040 I don't know if he felled doubt. I'm sure he did. 0:28:42.520 --> 0:28:43.800 I don't know if he had a swagger. But what 0:28:43.840 --> 0:28:45.760 I do know he did. So he kept moving with Jesus. 0:28:46.840 --> 0:28:50.400 He kept moving with Jesus. Everyone say move, Oh, how 0:28:50.400 --> 0:28:52.920 do you make room? Everyone say keep moving? Ooh. 0:28:52.960 --> 0:28:54.560 Pastor says in his book, do the new you. 0:28:54.800 --> 0:29:02.080 I'm not stuck unless I stop, do not keep going. 0:29:02.800 --> 0:29:05.800 Jesus is on the way. Well it don't look like 0:29:06.040 --> 0:29:10.600 it don't matter. We don't look at external sources. We 0:29:10.640 --> 0:29:12.800 look at Jesus. We look at the word of God. 0:29:13.200 --> 0:29:16.479 We've got hope. We understand he's on the way, and 0:29:16.520 --> 0:29:20.640 he can do something absolutely incredible. He can turn it around. 0:29:21.400 --> 0:29:24.400 A miracle is on the way. As long as we 0:29:24.720 --> 0:29:33.320 keep moving, just like Jyrus did, so team put up 0:29:33.360 --> 0:29:39.160 my put up my title real quick, because now it 0:29:39.240 --> 0:29:43.240 says in verse thirty seven, Jesus begins to get. 0:29:43.040 --> 0:29:43.840 The room ready. 0:29:43.920 --> 0:29:46.560 He says this. He did not let anyone follow him 0:29:46.600 --> 0:29:49.200 except Peter, James and John, the brother of James. 0:29:49.200 --> 0:29:53.280 So what is that right that closest there's a rhythm. 0:29:53.880 --> 0:29:55.479 There's a rhythm. I already got a rhythm with these 0:29:55.520 --> 0:29:57.400 three guys. I'm gonna make sure that they're in the room. 0:29:57.600 --> 0:29:59.200 Then verse thirty eight, when they came to the home 0:29:59.240 --> 0:30:01.680 of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw commotion with people crying 0:30:01.720 --> 0:30:03.800 and willing loudly, and he went in and said to them, 0:30:03.800 --> 0:30:06.280 why aren't this commotion and willing? The child's not dead 0:30:06.280 --> 0:30:09.960 but asleep. He saw an opportunity right there, here we go. 0:30:10.200 --> 0:30:13.400 I'm about to make a miracle happen. But they laughed 0:30:13.600 --> 0:30:17.840 at him. After he put them all out right, he 0:30:17.920 --> 0:30:20.800 took the child's father and mother, Oh right, he had 0:30:20.840 --> 0:30:22.600 to get real honest with them. He said, oh, you're 0:30:22.600 --> 0:30:24.560 gonna laugh. Okay, I need you you you you, you 0:30:25.120 --> 0:30:28.080 get out. I need you to get out right there, right, 0:30:28.080 --> 0:30:31.400 So what's Jesus doing. He's opening up right he's being honest, 0:30:31.440 --> 0:30:34.200 he's being real, he's being transparent. Okay, he said, hey, 0:30:34.240 --> 0:30:36.240 you can't be in this room, takes her by the 0:30:36.280 --> 0:30:39.120 hand and says to her to lead the coom, which means, 0:30:39.160 --> 0:30:45.320 little girl, I say to you, get up. Move. Immediately 0:30:45.920 --> 0:30:49.800 the girl stood up and began to move, and at 0:30:49.800 --> 0:30:52.280 this they were completely astonished. 0:30:52.360 --> 0:30:54.440 Let me tell you something. This is the room that 0:30:54.600 --> 0:30:56.080 I want to be in. 0:30:57.440 --> 0:31:04.560 This is the room where it all happens, the room 0:31:04.920 --> 0:31:10.240 where Jesus and I are having a conversation. Some of 0:31:10.280 --> 0:31:14.320 you have a prayer room. Some of you don't have 0:31:14.360 --> 0:31:17.040 a prayer room. Either way, I'm not here to tell. 0:31:16.920 --> 0:31:18.920 You that you got to be like the Shootamite woman 0:31:19.080 --> 0:31:19.720 and you got. 0:31:19.520 --> 0:31:22.840 To build another room. I ain't saying that. What I 0:31:22.880 --> 0:31:25.560 am saying is you need to make room for prayer. 0:31:28.920 --> 0:31:34.600 You need to make room for a relationship with Jesus. 0:31:34.760 --> 0:31:37.320 You need to make room for a relationship with the 0:31:37.360 --> 0:31:40.640 Holy Spirit. You need to make room with a relationship 0:31:41.640 --> 0:31:45.960 with the Father. All three of those relationships are very, 0:31:46.120 --> 0:31:49.240 very important. And here's what you got to understand is 0:31:49.280 --> 0:31:52.200 that is that I believe you got to make room 0:31:52.400 --> 0:31:54.800 so that you can have room to come to Jesus, 0:31:55.800 --> 0:31:58.600 so that you can fall at his feet, so that 0:31:58.680 --> 0:32:01.280 you can humble your so that you can begin to 0:32:01.600 --> 0:32:05.200 request things and ask things of him, so that you 0:32:05.240 --> 0:32:09.160 can begin to be honest with him and open with 0:32:09.320 --> 0:32:12.640 him and transparent with him, so that you can experience 0:32:12.680 --> 0:32:17.440 that moment of what trembling with reverent fear actually feels like. 0:32:20.080 --> 0:32:27.480 All of the spiritual work is done in prayer. That's it, 0:32:29.200 --> 0:32:35.280 that intimacy with the Holy Spirit, that spirit you like, 0:32:35.320 --> 0:32:41.840 I need you, Lord, pray, I want you, Lord Great pray. 0:32:43.000 --> 0:32:45.760 Let him speak to you, let him reveal things to you. 0:32:45.840 --> 0:32:49.160 We gotta start getting in the room with someone who 0:32:49.160 --> 0:32:54.120 can actually do something about my situation. We can't rely 0:32:54.320 --> 0:32:57.920 on all these external sources. We gotta go to the 0:32:57.960 --> 0:33:02.360 one who can make the miracle happened. It's the room 0:33:02.360 --> 0:33:04.840 where Jesus is. And here's the deal. I get the tension. 0:33:05.360 --> 0:33:07.120 I know what the tensions are. I just feel like 0:33:07.160 --> 0:33:15.000 prayers a little too complicated. No, come to them, done, 0:33:16.080 --> 0:33:19.360 come to them, he said, yea yeah, yeah, but like 0:33:19.800 --> 0:33:28.400 but like does it even work? Oh no, pray, No, 0:33:28.520 --> 0:33:33.600 I'm just kidding. I do know, yes it works. It's like, oh, well, 0:33:33.640 --> 0:33:39.240 God's sovereign, Like, oh, God sovereign, He'll take care of it. Yeah, 0:33:39.280 --> 0:33:41.320 But you know what, I want God to do something 0:33:41.320 --> 0:33:43.760 through me. I don't want him to have to go 0:33:43.760 --> 0:33:46.920 to the next person because I didn't listen, because I 0:33:47.000 --> 0:33:49.680 didn't take the moment, because I wasn't humble, because I 0:33:49.760 --> 0:33:51.640 let pride and arrogance get in the way, because I 0:33:51.640 --> 0:33:54.480 didn't want to do this and say, Lord, come tell 0:33:54.480 --> 0:33:56.640 me what you need me to do. It's not about 0:33:56.680 --> 0:34:02.520 my agendey, it's yours. When God gave Pastor the vision 0:34:02.560 --> 0:34:04.440 of this church, see what God can do through you? 0:34:04.520 --> 0:34:11.120 Do you think it was all just about serving? Do 0:34:11.200 --> 0:34:15.080 you think it was all just about joining a group? Hey, 0:34:15.120 --> 0:34:16.879 we want to see what God can do through you. 0:34:17.560 --> 0:34:19.440 Do you think it was all about just giving of 0:34:19.520 --> 0:34:23.520 your first fruits and your tithes? No, that's the surface. 0:34:25.000 --> 0:34:29.440 That's just that's like a minimum. That's just like the beginning. 0:34:30.560 --> 0:34:37.080 That's just like that's like step one. Yay. No, see 0:34:37.120 --> 0:34:38.880 what God can do through you? Man, I want you 0:34:38.920 --> 0:34:42.680 to pray so you can watch healing happen in your family. 0:34:42.760 --> 0:34:45.520 That's what's Seeing what God can do through you really 0:34:45.560 --> 0:34:49.759 means when you walking to a room like this thousands 0:34:49.800 --> 0:34:53.640 of people in an auditorium. When God downloads something in 0:34:53.680 --> 0:34:56.200 your spirit and they highlight someone over therences, I need 0:34:56.200 --> 0:34:59.160 a prophesy to that person right there. That's what God 0:34:59.239 --> 0:35:04.320 can do through you. Oh, that's what I want to experience. 0:35:04.719 --> 0:35:07.720 I'm not limiting God to just serving at the church, 0:35:07.880 --> 0:35:13.759 which I think is amazing, but don't limit it. Whoo. No, man, 0:35:13.840 --> 0:35:18.480 I'm telling you God can begin to move in your 0:35:18.640 --> 0:35:22.520 life and speak to you, and you could go over 0:35:22.600 --> 0:35:24.400 to someone and start praying for them and encourage them 0:35:24.400 --> 0:35:26.120 to lift them up, and then they, you know, two 0:35:26.160 --> 0:35:28.520 weeks later like that's exactly what I. 0:35:28.440 --> 0:35:29.480 Needed in that very moment. 0:35:29.520 --> 0:35:31.440 They don't remember that sermon that day, but they remember 0:35:31.480 --> 0:35:36.560 you coming to them. That's what's Seeing what God can 0:35:36.600 --> 0:35:42.279 do through you means this is huge. God asked me 0:35:42.320 --> 0:35:45.640 a question on March twenty nine, twenty twenty three, Do 0:35:45.719 --> 0:35:49.560 you want more of me? I said yes, He goes, 0:35:49.719 --> 0:35:54.719 then I need more room than she said. I need 0:35:54.760 --> 0:35:57.759 more room because I need you to wake up at 0:35:57.800 --> 0:36:00.000 five in the morning, and you give me the first 0:36:00.000 --> 0:36:02.799 first hour of every day. 0:36:03.440 --> 0:36:05.319 Let me tell you something. I don't wake up at 0:36:05.360 --> 0:36:06.120 five in the morning. 0:36:07.719 --> 0:36:09.520 No, I don't. I don't do it. It's not me. 0:36:10.320 --> 0:36:16.160 It's not my personality. But if you don't listen to God, 0:36:16.160 --> 0:36:20.719 that's stupid. She's as playing as I can get on 0:36:20.800 --> 0:36:22.359 the youth pastor. So she's like, that's what I would 0:36:22.400 --> 0:36:24.120 say to teenager, Like, no, you have to listen to 0:36:24.160 --> 0:36:28.640 God or it isn't going to make sense. He's said, 0:36:28.760 --> 0:36:33.279 wake up at five am. Start praying to me, worshiping me, 0:36:34.239 --> 0:36:38.560 asking me, requesting things of me. And I began to pray, 0:36:38.800 --> 0:36:40.319 and then I realized, Man, I don't need to just 0:36:40.320 --> 0:36:41.759 pray to the Son. I need to pray to the Father. 0:36:42.760 --> 0:36:43.920 And then I said, I don't need to pray to 0:36:43.920 --> 0:36:45.320 the five. I need to pray to the Holy Spirit. 0:36:45.800 --> 0:36:47.800 I began to realize, Oh, I got three relationships I 0:36:47.840 --> 0:36:50.839 got to work with over here, I'm busy at five 0:36:50.880 --> 0:36:53.480 in the morning. Let me tell you something. Yeah. No, 0:36:53.520 --> 0:36:56.400 but I'm not saying that to ooh look at me. 0:36:56.480 --> 0:36:58.240 I'm saying that to go It could be as simple 0:36:58.280 --> 0:37:01.040 as that for you. I'm saying that I had to 0:37:01.080 --> 0:37:04.200 get outside of my personality in my mind, like I no, no, 0:37:04.239 --> 0:37:06.680 I'll see God on the you know, in the other 0:37:06.719 --> 0:37:07.439 half of the moon. 0:37:07.560 --> 0:37:09.879 Right, like, I'll see him at night time. It'll be good. 0:37:09.920 --> 0:37:12.160 It's great. I still got the word in it right. 0:37:12.160 --> 0:37:14.960 But when you read scripture, it talks about how Moses 0:37:15.160 --> 0:37:19.720 gets up before the sun gets up. Jesus got away 0:37:19.760 --> 0:37:22.560 with the Father before the sun came up. David got 0:37:22.560 --> 0:37:27.520 away in the morning early before the sun came up. 0:37:27.520 --> 0:37:29.640 And I see, you know what, I'm done with the excuses, Okay, 0:37:30.040 --> 0:37:33.839 five am. He began to unlock something in my life. 0:37:34.520 --> 0:37:37.239 And what I've just realized that is that I had 0:37:37.239 --> 0:37:41.000 to be completely stripped by the Holy Spirit so that 0:37:41.080 --> 0:37:45.719 at the same time he could completely strengthen me. You know, 0:37:45.800 --> 0:37:50.640 Scripture says that he is our daily bread, but he 0:37:50.719 --> 0:37:57.959 also asks for a daily death. I said, I said 0:37:58.000 --> 0:38:01.200 daily death. So he's gonna feed me, but I also 0:38:01.239 --> 0:38:05.000 got to die to myself. He's going to take care 0:38:05.040 --> 0:38:06.640 of me, but I also got to think. You know what, 0:38:07.000 --> 0:38:09.480 I'm moving the distractions aside. I don't need it anymore. 0:38:12.600 --> 0:38:19.879 I want to end with this. Leonard Ravenhill said this. 0:38:21.160 --> 0:38:28.440 He said, prayer grasps eternity. No man is greater than 0:38:28.520 --> 0:38:32.799 his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is 0:38:32.840 --> 0:38:38.120 playing the people who are not praying are straying. The 0:38:38.160 --> 0:38:41.239 pulpit can be a shop window to display talents, with 0:38:41.360 --> 0:38:46.240 the prayer closet allows no showing off. We have many organizers, 0:38:46.760 --> 0:38:52.239 but few agonizers, many players and payers, but few prayers. 0:38:53.680 --> 0:39:00.520 Many singers, few clingers, lots of pastors, few wrestlers, many fears, tears, 0:39:01.360 --> 0:39:09.440 much fashion, little passion, many interferers, a few intercessors, many writers, 0:39:09.440 --> 0:39:12.840 but few fighters. Failing here we fail everywhere in the 0:39:12.960 --> 0:39:18.160 place of prayer. The two prerequisites to successful Christian living 0:39:19.680 --> 0:39:22.080 our vision and passion, in both of which are born 0:39:22.120 --> 0:39:27.799 in and maintained by prayer. The ministry of prayer is 0:39:27.840 --> 0:39:30.839 the highest ministry of all human offices, and it's open 0:39:30.880 --> 0:39:34.920 to all. God is not prodigal with this power, but 0:39:35.000 --> 0:39:38.319 to be much for God, we must be much with him. 0:39:39.640 --> 0:39:46.040 The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning 0:39:46.080 --> 0:39:49.600 man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning. 0:39:50.920 --> 0:39:53.319 We are beggared and bankrupt, but not broken nor even bent. 0:39:54.080 --> 0:40:00.600 Prayer is profoundly simple and simply profound in the matter 0:40:00.680 --> 0:40:04.080 of the New Testament, spirit inspired Hell's shaking world breaking prayer. 0:40:04.200 --> 0:40:07.040 Never has so much been let by so many to 0:40:07.160 --> 0:40:11.439 so few for this kind of prayer. There is no substitute. 0:40:12.239 --> 0:40:19.560 We do it or we die. Today with everyone in 0:40:19.560 --> 0:40:22.360 the room, in the campuses, I just want you to 0:40:22.400 --> 0:40:28.000 stand up, even online. I want you to stay engaged 0:40:28.960 --> 0:40:30.960 because you're getting a glimpse. 0:40:33.400 --> 0:40:34.320 Into this room. 0:40:35.560 --> 0:40:38.200 I'm going to ask the staff and the leaders, the 0:40:38.239 --> 0:40:41.800 prayer team to come forward and just surround this altar. 0:40:43.440 --> 0:40:44.120 Here's what I know. 0:40:48.239 --> 0:40:51.760 I pray that we never eliminate the groaning at the altar, 0:40:54.920 --> 0:40:59.040 never let us put the power of the Holy Spirit 0:40:59.840 --> 0:41:05.880 and just raising our hand and leave Jesus in this 0:41:06.040 --> 0:41:09.400 room as we live our life for the rest of 0:41:09.440 --> 0:41:17.480 the week. Today's a moment that if you need prayer, 0:41:18.200 --> 0:41:24.600 whatever it may be big, small, children dying, needing healing, 0:41:26.120 --> 0:41:33.959 needing hope. However big, however small, it could be a headache, 0:41:34.719 --> 0:41:39.640 it could be a self esteem issue. What we want 0:41:39.640 --> 0:41:44.160 to do is just open up the altars to pray, 0:41:45.680 --> 0:41:50.000 to believe, to raise the faith, and to raise the 0:41:50.080 --> 0:41:54.960 expectation of who God is and how he sees moment 0:41:55.120 --> 0:41:59.839 like this, this is what it's like to just make 0:42:01.920 --> 0:42:06.360 I saw we're doing starting a rhythm right now, seeing 0:42:06.400 --> 0:42:11.759 an opportunity right now for the next few moments, and 0:42:11.800 --> 0:42:12.319 here's the deal. 0:42:12.360 --> 0:42:13.120 I'm gonna ask you. 0:42:13.120 --> 0:42:18.520 To move because for some of you, that right there 0:42:20.120 --> 0:42:24.120 will kill the pride, that right there. And I keep 0:42:24.160 --> 0:42:27.160 saying it because I had to do it too. I'm 0:42:27.160 --> 0:42:30.440 there with you, and if not, it's gonna be a 0:42:30.480 --> 0:42:35.200 thing I have to do every single day. You know what, 0:42:36.040 --> 0:42:38.640 maybe I do need to get a little uncomfortable, like 0:42:38.719 --> 0:42:42.960 this sick woman pushing through the crowd, just to touch 0:42:43.000 --> 0:42:47.200 his cloak, just to get a prayer, just to. 0:42:47.080 --> 0:42:50.000 Get a moment with Jesus. 0:42:50.040 --> 0:42:51.800 What I know is this the world is not waiting 0:42:51.800 --> 0:42:54.560 for a new definition of the Gospel, but a new 0:42:54.600 --> 0:42:56.319 demonstration of the power. 0:42:57.520 --> 0:43:01.680 Of the Gospel. Thank you for joining us. 0:43:02.000 --> 0:43:04.440 Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 0:43:04.520 --> 0:43:08.000 this ministry. 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