1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:03,400 Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,800 You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX. 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,480 We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:12,840 cross. Now let's join the service. 5 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:20,600 God is good all the time. Yes, Amen. 6 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:26,040 We praise Him, glorify Him and worship Him for bringing our 7 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:29,400 sister through surgery. And we thank him because we know 8 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:35,400 that she's going to get well and he's going to expedite that and 9 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:37,600 she's going to be back before they're going, oh, we don't know 10 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:41,000 what's going on, but you're healing the fashion we thought. 11 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:45,000 So we know God is able to do that very thing also. 12 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:50,080 He is a God of miracles. He's a God of, of healing. 13 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:54,520 He's a God of deliverance. He's a God of everything, 14 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:57,160 everything. Those songs that were sung, 15 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:00,880 Bless the Lord. He's worthy. 16 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:04,800 He alone is worthy. Worthy worthy is the Lord God 17 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,920 Almighty, which was, which is and is to come. 18 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:11,560 Hallelujah. He's going to be here before we 19 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:15,800 know it, looking and waiting and watching and looking around, 20 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:18,440 waiting on him to be here. Before I get started, I'm going 21 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:20,920 to go to the Lord in prayer. And I know there's probably 22 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:23,120 several prayer requests. People sick. 23 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:26,520 I know Charlie's got the flu, just different ones that are 24 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:28,640 sick. So we need to lift them up in 25 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:35,040 prayer and and know that God is able to heal and deliver and 26 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:37,480 meet whatever needs that are represented here tonight. 27 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:41,160 So let's all just pray. Father God, we come before your 28 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:45,240 throne, Lord, and we just kneel down before you, Father, and we 29 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:49,720 lift our holy hands up to you, Lord, and we thank you for 30 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:52,840 keeping the doctor's hands steady and safe when he was 31 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,120 doing surgery on our sweet sister Candy. 32 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:57,160 Lord. We thank you, Lord, because we 33 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:01,640 know that you're going to heal her and she's going to heal fast 34 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:04,120 and you're going to have your hand in the middle of that, 35 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:07,200 Lord, and it's you're going to stop the pain that she's going 36 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,120 to be going through, Lord. We know there's pain involved, 37 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:14,520 Father, but you are able to stop that pain and we thank you for 38 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:16,520 it, Lord. We lift Charlie up because we 39 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,320 know he's sick. Little Cooper, Father, I pray 40 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:22,240 that you just continue to touch his little body, Father, and 41 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:25,120 heal him. Lord, we ask that you meet every 42 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:29,000 need represented here, whether it's physical need, financial 43 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:33,440 need, whatever spiritual need, Father, that is met tonight. 44 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:38,480 Father, as we open your word and start worshiping you in truth, 45 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:41,680 Lord, we ask that you just touch your hearts. 46 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:46,280 Father, anoint me to speak Your word and let those that hear, 47 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:50,360 let them hear Your word in Jesus name, Amen. 48 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:57,000 God is a God of miracles and that's what I want to talk to 49 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,120 you all a little bit about tonight is miracles. 50 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:04,080 We're going to talk about some miracles now. 51 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,160 You know what constitutes a miracle? 52 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:13,600 According to Google, it says it is an extraordinary supernatural 53 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:17,440 event, sign or wonder that defies natural law and is 54 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:19,960 directly attributed to God's power. 55 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:22,640 Amen. That's a miracle. 56 00:03:22,920 --> 00:03:26,240 And we tend to throw that word around and use that word a lot, 57 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:31,560 especially when we're confronted with bad news, especially when 58 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:35,960 things seem dark and it looks like hopeless situations are 59 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:38,960 happening, whether it's physical, financial, whatever 60 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:43,920 the situation is and it looks bad for us, we want a miracle. 61 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:46,480 I'm believing for a miracle for our son. 62 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:50,640 So he's stage 4 cancer. The end of October they 63 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:54,360 diagnosed him. Healthy guy, always been 64 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:56,360 healthy, the healthiest one of the whole family. 65 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:59,960 And it's in his brain, it's in his lungs, it's in his lymph 66 00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:05,280 nodes and, and in his muscles. But God, God is able and he's 67 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:09,040 had radiation, no side effects. He did have a blood clot, but 68 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:13,800 they got that taken care of and now he started chemo. 69 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:19,000 Chemo, no side effects praise God for that that's the Lord 70 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:22,400 because you know everybody's all nervous about that and and he's 71 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:24,760 still working he's working from home but he's still working and 72 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:29,120 he's believing that God is able God is going to heal him. 73 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,840 He says if he heals me here, I'm here and I'm healed. 74 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:36,200 If he takes me home, I'm healed. And that's his attitude. 75 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:37,760 And praise God for that attitude. 76 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:40,240 Cause about six years ago he didn't have that attitude. 77 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:42,960 It was a whole nother attitude he had. 78 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:46,960 But about four years ago he found the Lord. 79 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:52,320 He's been walking with the Lord ever since and he prays and 80 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:54,240 testifies and all that good stuff. 81 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:57,880 So God's timing is not necessarily our timing. 82 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:01,720 We could have a better time with this Lord, but it is what it is. 83 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:04,600 But God is able. God is able to do a miracle. 84 00:05:04,840 --> 00:05:06,640 And I've said that I throw that word around. 85 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:10,200 I'm believing God for a miracle, you know, and I think we could 86 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:12,960 probably all say we've thrown that word miracle around. 87 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:16,120 We're believing God for miracles, especially when things 88 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:19,720 get bad. Miracles aren't just random 89 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:22,920 happenings or wonders. They're they're intended as a 90 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:27,640 sign to point to God's authority and to his presence. 91 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:32,840 God is presence in the present, in the middle of miracles. 92 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:36,400 And you know, we always declare we need a miracle. 93 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:40,000 Well, sometimes we're going to talk about a couple of guys here 94 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,840 that needed miracles, but they didn't go around saying I'm 95 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:47,520 declaring a miracle. You know, God's Word is full of 96 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:50,520 miraculous events. I mean, from the beginning to 97 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:53,840 the very end, God's Word is full of those events. 98 00:05:54,080 --> 00:06:00,160 And however, the thing with miracles is they always seem to 99 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:03,720 come in a dark time. Have you noticed they're paired 100 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:08,120 up with with a dark day or a terrible event or something? 101 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:12,160 That's not what we want. It appears that miracles and 102 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:14,320 midnight kind of go hand in hand. 103 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:18,760 And in the middle of our darkest hour, in the darkest time, we 104 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:23,720 want a wonder, unexplainable event to happen. 105 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:27,960 And we're looking for that. So exactly how do we get a 106 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:30,200 miracle? Well, glad you asked. 107 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:32,960 I'm going to talk to you about a couple of guys that got some 108 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:36,080 miracles and like I said, it's all through scripture, but I 109 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:39,520 just going to pick out a couple acts 16 and 25. 110 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:40,760 If you want to turn there you can. 111 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:44,080 If you don't, you don't. It's OK because I've got a few 112 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:48,920 more acts versus we're going to. But Acts 16 and 25, it says. 113 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:52,240 But at midnight, Paul and Silas, you're probably all very 114 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:55,600 familiar with this. We're praying and singing hymns 115 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,760 to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. 116 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:02,600 Suddenly there was a great earthquake quake, so that the 117 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:04,840 foundations of the prison were shaken. 118 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:08,360 And immediately all the doors were open and everybody's chains 119 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:12,920 fell off. We're loosed my version on their 120 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:18,240 way to a prayer meeting that morning, Paul and Silas, they 121 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:23,400 probably never expected to wind up in prison, in a stinky 122 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:27,760 prison, chained up. Nonetheless, not only chained up 123 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:30,680 in a stinky, smelly prison, they were beaten. 124 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:35,920 They had been beaten and and it was a bad day and they didn't 125 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:37,640 expect that when they were going to prayer meeting. 126 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:43,120 We might learn something from this, but nevertheless, when the 127 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:49,120 clock struck midnight, they were in chains, battered, bloody, 128 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:53,960 because they had rebuked a woman, a demon out of a woman. 129 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:57,320 That's all they did. Woman was going around, you can 130 00:07:57,320 --> 00:07:59,240 look the story up. Woman was going around saying, 131 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:01,520 oh, these are men of God. And every time they started to 132 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:04,640 speak and preach, this woman would pop up and start 133 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:06,240 hollering, oh, these are men of God. 134 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:09,120 These are men of God interrupting what they were 135 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:12,800 trying to do. So they turned around and 136 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:16,280 rebuked her. The demon had to leave and the 137 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:19,400 guys that were making money off of her demon didn't like it. 138 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:23,000 So they went to the authorities that be and they said do 139 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,120 something with these guys. So they did. 140 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:26,720 They beat him up, threw him in prison. 141 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:30,400 They were probably unable to sleep because of the pain and 142 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:33,080 the awkward position. Can you imagine being chained 143 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:35,679 up, not being able to roll over or anything like that? 144 00:08:36,039 --> 00:08:42,760 But Paul and Silas chose to praise and pray instead of doubt 145 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:46,280 and pout. So that was their thing they 146 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:50,600 chose to do. And as they sang praises from a 147 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:57,480 hopeless situation, from a prison cell, something began to 148 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:02,080 happen in the heavenlies. Now I'm going to give this 149 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:03,800 scripture to you. You don't have to turn here. 150 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:08,960 But in Zephaniah 3 and 17 it says, the Lord your God, in your 151 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:13,840 midst, the mighty One will serve, will save, He will 152 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:18,000 rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with his love, 153 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:22,920 and he will rejoice over you with singing. 154 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:27,920 What? Wait, God sings, Yes, he sings 155 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:31,920 over you. He's he's quieting you with his 156 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:34,520 love to me, that's such a mother I see. 157 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:38,080 He's quieting you. He's rejoicing over you and he's 158 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:41,080 loving on you and he's singing over you. 159 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:46,480 Imagine, if you will, Paul and Silas in prison and they're 160 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:48,840 starting to sing and they're praying and singing and 161 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:53,600 worshiping the Lord and sitting in the throne of heaven while 162 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:56,640 resting his feet on the foot still of the earth. 163 00:09:56,640 --> 00:09:59,480 If you just give me a, let me have some leeway here. 164 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:03,960 God begins tapping his foot to the song they're singing and 165 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:06,720 he's hearing them sing their song. 166 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:10,960 And when God starts singing, things start happening. 167 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:18,280 Earthquakes start happening, Deliverance comes and God's 168 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:21,240 singing over you the whole time while you're worshiping God, 169 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:24,000 he's worshiping too. He's singing over you. 170 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:30,600 So praise releases God's power, and prison doors are no match 171 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:33,120 for Him. I want you to think about this, 172 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:36,280 and I don't want you to imagine and think that I'm just talking 173 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:39,360 about the physical prison. There's a lot of different kinds 174 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:42,480 of prisons that people need to be delivered from. 175 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,360 So there's a lot of things that's happening in your life 176 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,520 that maybe there's needs to be a little deliverance. 177 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:51,920 Maybe I don't know what it is, but there's things. 178 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:56,880 But when we start praising God, God's power is released and 179 00:10:56,880 --> 00:11:00,440 those prison doors of deliverance can and will be 180 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:03,480 open. It seems every time God opens a 181 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:06,680 prison door and acts, it was in the middle of the night. 182 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:11,120 Now another story, and this is I love this story. 183 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:12,760 I wish they'd make a movie of it. 184 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:14,200 They may have, may do, I don't know. 185 00:11:14,560 --> 00:11:18,280 Acts chapter 5 verse start with verse 17. 186 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:22,520 We're going to read it and we're going to go all the way through 187 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:26,640 it. Acts 517, it says. 188 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:30,080 Then the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him, 189 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:35,040 which is the sect of the Sadducees, and they were filled 190 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:39,880 with indignation, laid hands on the apostles, and put them in 191 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:44,000 common prison. But at night an Angel of the 192 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:49,640 Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out and said, Go 193 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:53,760 stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this 194 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:57,120 life. Now the devil thought that he 195 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:00,440 had finished the revival. Thank you, brother. 196 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:04,200 Awesomeness. The devil thought he had quieted 197 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:06,720 down the little revival that was going on 'cause they were 198 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:09,560 preaching. They were in the these guys at 199 00:12:09,560 --> 00:12:11,640 this point. They were standing in the middle 200 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:14,520 of the street preaching. They didn't like it. 201 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:20,560 Sad, you see. Sit, shut them up, lock the 202 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:27,040 preachers, throw away the key, but God owns the key to all your 203 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:31,560 prisons, all your problems. God owns the keys to all of 204 00:12:31,560 --> 00:12:33,880 that. We just sang beautiful songs 205 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:38,120 about how God loves us and how we love him and he never fails 206 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:40,200 us. He's always with us. 207 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:43,600 We sing that, we hear that, but He does that. 208 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:51,280 Verse 21 And when they heard that, they being the same guys 209 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:55,080 that was in the prison, when they heard what the Angel said, 210 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:57,720 this is what this is saying. The Angel told them says go 211 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:00,800 stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this 212 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:04,280 life. And when they heard that what 213 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:07,960 the Angel told them, the same disciples entered the temple 214 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:12,160 early in the morning and taught, but the high priest and those 215 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:15,160 with him came and called the council together with all the 216 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:18,240 elders and children of Israel and sent to the prison to have 217 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:21,840 them brought. So the high priest, he was going 218 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:24,320 to have a trial. He was going to bring them to 219 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:27,080 justice. He was going to shut them down, 220 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:30,040 quiet them up, stop their preaching. 221 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:36,840 It's so funny though. But verse 22, when the officers 222 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:39,440 came and did not find them in prison, they returned and 223 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:43,960 reported saying, indeed, we found the prison shut securely 224 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:46,200 and the guards standing outside before the doors. 225 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:49,080 But when we opened them, we found nobody inside. 226 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:51,360 I love that. That's just hysterical. 227 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:54,400 And now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and 228 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:57,280 the chief priest heard these things, they wondered what the 229 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:01,360 outcome would be. So no one, oh, sorry. 230 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:09,400 So one came and told them saying the men you put in prison are 231 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:13,160 standing in the temple and teaching the people in the hell. 232 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:15,280 I just felt, well, I've got a warped sense of humor, but I 233 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:18,360 think it's funny. I mean, here they are the high 234 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:21,440 priest going to shut them down for for preaching to the people. 235 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:24,720 They throw them in prison and the Angel comes in. 236 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:27,760 Boom, they're out. He even shuts the door and lets 237 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:29,440 it locks it back. It's funny. 238 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:34,160 And then the power that be he says, go get them, break them 239 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:36,480 here, make them stand in front of us. 240 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:41,280 And the guard goes door was locked, but nobody in there. 241 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:46,120 I love it. God has a great sense of humor. 242 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:50,560 Don't you think that God has a here the the big macho soldiers 243 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:54,360 standing outside the prison thumping their chests, rattling 244 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:57,560 their swords and flexing their muscles, probably talking about 245 00:14:57,560 --> 00:15:00,320 what they would do to those apostles and the disciples 246 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:02,920 talking about them. And you know, I mean, I know if 247 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:06,160 y'all watched movies that like that and if they tried any funny 248 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:08,320 business, they were going to do this, that and the other thing 249 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:10,480 to them. And all the while the cell was 250 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:13,920 empty. God is a great God. 251 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:16,720 He is such a wonderful sense of humor. 252 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:20,840 But that was a miracle. That was a miracle. 253 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:25,240 Not necessarily what we consider today as a miracle, but that was 254 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:27,920 a miracle. It reminds me of another story. 255 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:31,480 Remember the story where the women went to the tomb and it 256 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:34,440 was still dark outside and they went to the tomb. 257 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:36,560 The high priest had posted all his guards. 258 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:39,360 All his guard was posted outside the tomb. 259 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:43,240 They sealed the the the stone in front of the tomb. 260 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:46,600 They did all of that stuff. But when she got there, the tomb 261 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:50,120 was empty. God, That's God. 262 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:55,000 There is no spiritual prison cell that can hold you down. 263 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:57,960 That ain't no grave going to hold this body down. 264 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:00,760 Period. You know, we just need to 265 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:04,440 understand that, that no spiritual prison cell can hold 266 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:06,800 you back. I've talked to somebody and they 267 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:09,360 say I feel like I'm a prisoner in my own home. 268 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:13,040 I pace the floors like a wild animal because I'm afraid to get 269 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:16,200 out of the house. That's a prison. 270 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:20,680 But that God, God can deliver them from that. 271 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:25,880 God is able to do that thing. And did they, what did they? 272 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:29,840 I mean, they sang and prayed, huh? 273 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:34,360 That's all they did. They didn't jump through hoops. 274 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:36,720 They didn't run around screaming. 275 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:42,240 They just sang in praise, worship God. 276 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:47,040 They wasn't even threatening to. I'll get you when we get out of 277 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:48,280 here. You know how people do that, you 278 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:50,440 know, and prisoners, you've seen those prison stories. 279 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:53,400 Romans 831 tells us a different story. 280 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:58,000 It says when they, when, What then shall we say to these 281 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,360 things? The stuff that happens to you, 282 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:03,720 it's what he's talking about, the stuff that's happening in 283 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:05,400 your life. What are you going to say to 284 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:07,680 these things? If God is for us, who can be 285 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:09,720 against us? Exactly. 286 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:12,359 These are the things that you need to say when the enemy is 287 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:15,800 trying to keep you caged up, trying to keep you in that habit 288 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:19,760 that you have, trying to keep you caged up from whatever life 289 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:23,800 wants to give you. What if God's for me, who can be 290 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:26,920 against me? He who did not spare his own 291 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:31,120 son, but deliver him up for us all, how shall he not with him 292 00:17:31,120 --> 00:17:35,400 also freely give us all things? He will deliver you. 293 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:39,560 Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? 294 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:42,760 I love that verse. Who's going to bring a charge 295 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:45,440 against God's elect? That always takes me back to 296 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:51,440 Revelation and Tribulation time. We as Christians, and I wasn't 297 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:54,760 going to say this, but I'm saying it as Christians, we kind 298 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:58,800 of get scared when we start talking about tribulation. 299 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:02,080 It's gonna be bad. It's gonna be bad. 300 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:06,760 But God tells us in his Scripture and Revelation that 301 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:10,400 he's got us sealed up. He's got us sealed. 302 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:14,280 And then this Scripture says who shall bring a charge against US, 303 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:19,000 against God's elect And, and Scripture says that his elect, 304 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:21,560 you can't touch him during that time. 305 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:23,160 Look it up. I taught you all on it here a 306 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:26,080 while back. God's elect, he said I got them 307 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:28,800 sealed up and nobody's going to bring a charge against it. 308 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:34,360 It is God who justifies, who is he who condemns It is Christ who 309 00:18:34,360 --> 00:18:38,240 died and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right 310 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:40,920 hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 311 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:45,560 So we've got Jesus praying for us, whom shall separate us from 312 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:48,640 the love of Christ. Shall tribulation, shall 313 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:54,880 distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, sword. 314 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:59,840 So nothing as it is written for your sake. 315 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:02,760 We are killed all day long. We are counted as sheep for the 316 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:05,040 slaughter. Yet in all these things we are 317 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:08,720 more than conquerors through him who loved us. 318 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:12,280 We need to understand that when we're in a situation and it 319 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:17,840 seems horrible, horrible, horrible situation, and you go, 320 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:23,280 go to Romans 31, tell the devil that, tell him that. 321 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:26,600 You know, I want to encourage you tonight. 322 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:30,360 God can take the key to your prison cell and he can send an 323 00:19:30,360 --> 00:19:34,400 Angel right there in the middle of the night to you for 324 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:36,640 deliverance. I don't know who this is for. 325 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:39,000 I had somebody in mind. I always do when I'm doing a 326 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,600 message, I always have somebody in mind and they never show up. 327 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:49,400 That's just how it works. But God has the key to your 328 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:52,400 prison cell, so I know this is for somebody. 329 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:59,520 And if the Angel of the Lord shows up in the middle of your 330 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:02,520 prison cell, let him bring you out. 331 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:06,640 Don't hold on to the doors of that prison. 332 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:09,880 Who would do that? People do it all the time. 333 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:12,200 They're afraid. They don't know how to live 334 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:15,280 without being in that environment, in that prison, 335 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:19,400 whatever that may be for whoever it's let them bring you out. 336 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,760 Don't hold on to the door. Well, I won't out, but I don't 337 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:28,240 want to let go, Bob says. I shouldn't roll my eyes, but I 338 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:32,440 do. Sometimes we get to liking the 339 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,560 prison that we're in. People like, they like the 340 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:39,040 attention. Oh, poor thing. 341 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:42,200 They like the anguish. It makes them feel comfortable 342 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:45,480 because that's all I've known. They don't know any different. 343 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:49,600 They like the they like the whining. 344 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:55,920 They like it. It makes them feel comfortable. 345 00:20:56,120 --> 00:20:58,920 So when the Angel of the Lord comes to deliver you out of this 346 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:03,920 situation, don't go back in it. Don't go back there. 347 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:09,720 That's what God's trying to tell us here in Acts 12, one through 348 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:11,960 616. We're going to read all of that, 349 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:17,640 but it's another account of a miraculous midnight prison 350 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:21,880 breakout. Passover King Herod had just 351 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:26,160 killed James, and he had Peter in jail so he could kill him 352 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:29,160 next. That was the intent of Herod's 353 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:31,440 heart. He was going to kill them both 354 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:33,720 because they were preaching the gospel. 355 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:39,160 Now I'm going to open my Bible because I didn't write it down. 356 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:47,640 I didn't cheat. Take me a minute. 357 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:50,280 Acts 12. That's what I said, right? 358 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:58,000 Keep me on my toes one through 16 since now after that time, 359 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:01,520 Herod the king stretched out his hand to harass some from the 360 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:04,760 church. Any any of that going on today? 361 00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:10,560 Then he killed James the brother of John with the sword, and 362 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:14,000 because he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further 363 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,320 to seize Peter also. Now it was during the Days of 364 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:19,760 Unleavened Bread, Passover is what it was. 365 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:23,680 So when he had arrested them him, he put him in prison and 366 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:27,760 delivered him to the four squads of soldiers to keep him in 367 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:33,280 tending, to bring him before the people after the holiday, Easter 368 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:37,760 time, we call it Passover. Peter was therefore kept in 369 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:42,680 prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the 370 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:45,080 church man. We had a great little prayer 371 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:47,480 meeting Sunday night. Here we was praying for our 372 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:51,000 sisters, more than one. We prayed for candy, we prayed 373 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:55,920 for Miss Linda, we prayed for several other people, constant 374 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:59,920 prayer by the church. And when Herod was about to 375 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:06,080 bring him out that night Peter was sleeping so funny with two 376 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:10,160 chains between two soldiers, and the guards before the door were 377 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,040 keeping the prison. Now behold, an Angel of the Lord 378 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:16,960 stood by him, and a light shone in the prison, and he struck 379 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:20,880 Peter on the side and raised him up, saying, Arise quickly, get 380 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,240 up man. And his chains fell off his 381 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,040 hands. And then he the Angel said to 382 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:29,280 him, get your clothes on, gird yourself and tie on your 383 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:32,040 sandals. So he did and he said to him, 384 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,200 put on your garment and follow me. 385 00:23:34,360 --> 00:23:38,280 So he went out and followed him and did not know that what was 386 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:41,920 done by the Angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision. 387 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:47,560 When they were past the 1st and 2nd guard post, they came to the 388 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:52,720 iron gate that leads to the city which opened for them, went out 389 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:56,160 into the town, and when they went out and went down the 390 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,400 street, and immediately the Angel departed. 391 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:02,840 And when Peter had come to himself, he said, Now I know for 392 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:06,200 certain that the Lord has Cynthia's Angel, and had 393 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,880 delivered me from the hand of the Herod and from the 394 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,000 expectations of the Jewish people. 395 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:15,120 So when he had considered this, he came to the House of Mary, 396 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:18,920 the mother of John, whose surname was Mark, where many 397 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,960 were gathered together praying. And as Peter knocked on the 398 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:28,000 door, knocking on the door of the gate, a girl named Rhoda 399 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,560 came to answer. When she recognized Peter's 400 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:33,760 voice because of her gladness, she did not open the gate, but 401 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:36,160 ran in and announced that Peter stood before the gate. 402 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,640 But they said to her, You're beside yourself, girl. 403 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,160 Yet she kept insisting that it was so. 404 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:48,640 So they said it is his Angel. Now Peter continued knocking, 405 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:51,640 and when they opened the door, they saw him and they were 406 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:56,640 astonished in this crazy. They prayed for Peter's 407 00:24:56,640 --> 00:25:00,200 deliverance, they prayed for healing, they prayed for 408 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:02,520 deliverance. They prayed for lots of 409 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:05,160 different things. And when you get the miracle, 410 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:12,960 the miracle is like, maybe not, maybe not, maybe that wasn't 411 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,800 God. But prayer is the other 412 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:18,160 ingredient. Praise and prayer are the two 413 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:20,560 ingredients that it takes to receive miracles. 414 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:23,640 OK, Faith, prayer and praise. OK. 415 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:26,880 Paul and Silas prayed and saying praises to God. 416 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:31,720 Peter was asleep while somebody else was praying for him. 417 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:36,080 I love that image. You know he was he was chained 418 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:40,120 between two big old guards and two were outside the gate. 419 00:25:41,120 --> 00:25:44,400 Herod wasn't making any taking any chances this time. 420 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:46,440 He's going. I want, I want to make sure he's 421 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,320 there. He's not getting away this time. 422 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:50,920 So he didn't want an Angel to outsmart him. 423 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:54,760 So inside and outside he was had. 424 00:25:55,480 --> 00:26:01,520 Guards everywhere. But soldiers and sails are no 425 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:06,280 match for God. There's nothing too big for our 426 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:10,600 God, period. Here comes the Angel of the Lord 427 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:12,040 again. The Angel turned the light on. 428 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:15,160 It said that light came on and Peter was sleeping so soundly he 429 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:20,000 didn't even move. I love that he was confident in 430 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,840 God. That's what he was. 431 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:25,880 He was confident. The Angel had to nudge Peter to 432 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,040 wake him up. Hurry up, get your clothes on. 433 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,080 Get your shoes on, man. We're going to get out of here. 434 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:36,360 And he's like, OK, OK. Can you imagine being woken up 435 00:26:36,360 --> 00:26:42,440 like that Angel nudging you? He was so calm and had so much 436 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:47,520 confidence in God that he went to sleep snoring away and he 437 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:49,480 walked along following the Angel. 438 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:53,240 He thought the situation was a dream or something. 439 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,240 And all of a sudden he looked up and realized he was at the House 440 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:58,360 of Mary, the mother of John Mark. 441 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:01,480 And he heard the prayer meeting going on. 442 00:27:02,360 --> 00:27:05,200 He heard what was happening in the house and he decided he'd go 443 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:10,880 in and say I'm out. God delivered and they go, I 444 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:12,800 don't know. Is that you? 445 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:17,800 Not really you. So you know the prayer warriors 446 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:22,840 praying and groaning for Peter and when God does this midnight 447 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,200 miracle, they don't even believe it. 448 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:30,400 Sometimes people are like that. We are so quick to believe the 449 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:34,040 negative but we need proof to believe the positive. 450 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,600 I've got a situation. I'll share some dirty laundry 451 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:39,120 with you. I don't know any of y'all's 452 00:27:39,120 --> 00:27:41,840 dirty laundry yet so y'all need to help me out with that. 453 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:48,040 We had a son who had done some bad stuff and was on his way to 454 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:58,360 prison for a while good while and Bob and his ex-wife and 455 00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:03,800 stepfather, Ryan's stepfather, they were going to court. 456 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,440 They were driving their way and they were talking about the 457 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:10,320 situation, how bad it was, how horrible it was. 458 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:16,800 And then the stepfather, he was not when father-in-law, he said, 459 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:21,440 well, unless you know somebody higher up, you know, looks like 460 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:22,760 he's going to come down for a while. 461 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,600 It triggered Bob. You go. 462 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:30,920 I just happen to know. So they went into the they went 463 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:32,720 into the courtroom waiting their turn. 464 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:36,600 They had this woman in there and she was persecuting this poor 465 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:38,600 guy that was there. It was a court appointed 466 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:40,680 attorney. And so they were just, you know, 467 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,560 reaming him in out one side down the other. 468 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:51,200 So then they said it would be at least three to six months first 469 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:55,080 backup, three to six months. He'd be in jail before his his 470 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:56,920 trial. He ever went to court date. 471 00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:02,560 We prayed it was like 2 weeks, just all of a sudden his, his 472 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:04,640 documents fell on top of the judge's desk. 473 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:09,600 God. And so we're Bob's sitting there 474 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:14,280 and he said the his, his ex-wife and and Ryan's stepfather was 475 00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:17,280 sitting on one end of the bench. And Bob said, I'm down here all 476 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:19,600 by myself and he said, I'm praying and he says, God, your 477 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:21,960 word tells me you won't put no more on me than I can bear. 478 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,840 And I don't think I can bear to see my son persecuted like this. 479 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:27,640 I can't see bear to see my son taken to jail and going to 480 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:29,320 prison for like this. I can't bear it. 481 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:37,280 All of a sudden there's a knock on the door and the little court 482 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:42,360 appointed attorney, she said come back at 3:00 and take him 483 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:47,720 home. That's God. 484 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,800 That was a miracle. I had to share that with you 485 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:55,040 because miracles, we always think of healing when we see 486 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:59,840 miracles. God is able to do exceedingly 487 00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:02,240 and abundantly more than we could think of and ask, don't 488 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,560 y'all think any worse about me, about my boy, 'cause it's the 489 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:07,560 same boy that was stage 4 cancer and now he's serving God. 490 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:10,760 So don't y'all dare say anything negative about that, my boy. 491 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:17,760 But Hezekiah was one of those people. 492 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,280 If you look at the I don't, you don't have to turn there, But in 493 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:23,320 the book of Hezekiah, he believed that he was going to 494 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:25,880 die without a miracle, without any sign or anything. 495 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:29,240 He was told you're going to die and then he would say, well, 496 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,480 you're not going to die. And he says, well, I'm not going 497 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:36,760 to believe that until the, the the sundial moves back 10° and 498 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:38,000 then I'll believe that I'll be healed. 499 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,360 So it didn't take anything for him to believe that he was going 500 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,720 to die, but he had to have a miracle to believe he was going 501 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,040 to live. We are just like that. 502 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:49,360 We worry and we walk the floors and we pace the floors and we 503 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:54,240 cry out to God and we forget that we have he is in control. 504 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:59,440 God is in control. You may be in a dark prison cell 505 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:01,760 and think that God has forgotten all about you. 506 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:05,360 In fact, you may be really familiar with that prison cell 507 00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:07,080 because you've been in there a while. 508 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,240 Maybe you've been there a little while and made a little nest 509 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,600 over here and kind of get a little comfortable with it. 510 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:20,080 No, but I have come to tell you that God is going to turn a 511 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:25,400 light on. So wake up, get dressed, put 512 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,640 your shoes on. God is going to deliver you. 513 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:32,760 He's going to get you out of that prison, whatever it may be. 514 00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:36,320 He's going to get you out. God likes to show up when it's 515 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:39,840 in the darkest time. God's not afraid of the dark. 516 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:45,200 He's just not at the stroke of 12 in your life. 517 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:50,520 Remember, remember the words look at your Bible read the word 518 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,880 of God. A a good one to read is is 519 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:56,840 Psalms 1/19/62. I wrote it down here at 520 00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,400 midnight. I will rise and give thanks to 521 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,240 you because you're righteous judgement. 522 00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:07,040 Another one that we can remember and when the enemy comes in and 523 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:10,240 it looks like you're in a dark hole, like you're in a really 524 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:14,320 dark place, is Psalms 139 and seven. 525 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,920 Y'all know this? I'm going to let you think about 526 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,560 it. Sorry. 527 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:33,080 Where can I go from your spirit? Where can I flee from your 528 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,920 presence? We just sing about that. 529 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:39,520 If I sin to heaven, you're there. 530 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:45,440 If I make my bed in hell, behold, you are there, the 531 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,360 psalmist talking to God, you're there. 532 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:51,200 I can't get away from you, God. If I take the wings of the 533 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,400 morning and dwell into the uttermost parts of the sea, even 534 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:58,120 there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold 535 00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:00,920 me. This is God holding you. 536 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,280 This is God, the miracle working God. 537 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:08,240 If I say, surely the darkness shall fall on me, even the night 538 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,400 shall be light to me. I love that part. 539 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,360 Indeed. The darkness shall not hide from 540 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,680 you. But the night shines as day. 541 00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:23,920 The darkness and the light are both alike to you, God, dark 542 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:28,000 doesn't mean anything to God. It's us we think about. 543 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:30,160 Oh, I don't know. I don't know. 544 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:33,840 I don't know what to do. I want to, I don't want to name 545 00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,680 off anything but what the things that people do sometimes and 546 00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:38,240 they're just, I don't know what to do. 547 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:40,360 I don't know what to do. You know, God's just going to 548 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,200 leave me alone. He's just, he's got me in this 549 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:43,560 situation. It looks bad. 550 00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:49,920 It looks bad, brother looks bad. Can't, can't snap my finger. 551 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:59,800 Thank y'all but God. But God steps on the scene, he 552 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:02,760 sends an Angel, he's tapping his foot, you're praising God and 553 00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:04,080 God is up there tapping his foot. 554 00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:06,440 Earthquake is going to come and he's going to break the chains. 555 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:11,080 That's got you bound. I love that picture, that image 556 00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:14,080 that you see when you see read that scripture and God is just 557 00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:17,520 singing over you and he's tapping his foot and you know, 558 00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:19,560 earthquakes happening, chains fall off. 559 00:34:20,639 --> 00:34:24,639 And I let Peter was so confident in God that he was snoring. 560 00:34:25,679 --> 00:34:28,320 Angel had to go. Hey, you, hey, hey, wake up. 561 00:34:29,639 --> 00:34:33,320 I got it's chews on, it's clothes on. 562 00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:36,800 We're out of here. Isn't that a great image? 563 00:34:37,159 --> 00:34:41,639 A miracle nonetheless. When God does a miracle, we need 564 00:34:41,639 --> 00:34:44,639 to understand that it might not look like we think it's going to 565 00:34:44,639 --> 00:34:47,800 look, but it's going to be a miracle nonetheless. 566 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,920 So, you know, in the middle of the night, instead of agonizing 567 00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:55,920 over the problem, we need to remind ourselves that God is in 568 00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:59,120 control. Lift our praises to the Lord, 569 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,840 you know, from the lowest part of whatever prison we have. 570 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:05,960 Kids sick? Lift your praises to God. 571 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,480 Lost your job? Lift your praises to God. 572 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:13,040 Financial problems, Nothing for God. 573 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:17,240 There's nothing too big for my God. 574 00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:22,200 No, no, no, no. I used to work with service, 575 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:25,320 with that every time, everything we'd pray. 576 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:27,920 And do you believe it? Yes. 577 00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:31,040 People healed, people delivered, people saved. 578 00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:35,600 God is going to rejoice with you when he starts singing Lookout. 579 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:41,960 An unexpected supernatural event is going to take place, and it 580 00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:45,320 may have an earthquake involved. Foundations will be shaking. 581 00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,240 Prison doors are going to fly open. 582 00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:49,120 All of these things are going to happen. 583 00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:53,560 Chains loose. If you need a miracle, it might 584 00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:55,720 just happen at midnight. All is lost. 585 00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:59,800 You might be saying tonight, like Psalms 32. 586 00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:04,200 You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from 587 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:07,440 trouble. You shall surround me with the 588 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:11,640 song of deliverance. Selah The. 589 00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:14,440 Word Selah means. Think about it. 590 00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:17,200 That's what he's saying he's saying. 591 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:22,120 Think about that in my words. God, you are my hiding place. 592 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:24,880 God, you preserve me from the trouble. 593 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:28,760 Lord, you surround me with songs of deliverance. 594 00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:32,360 So when we need a miracle, we just praise God. 595 00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:36,120 If you can't think of a song to sing, open up psalms. 596 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:39,960 Sing one of those out. Keep looking because miracles 597 00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:44,880 happen usually around the time it's darkest, usually at the 598 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:48,040 darkest time. I just wanted to encourage 599 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:49,200 y'all. I don't know who's going through 600 00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:50,440 stuff. I know we are. 601 00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:58,440 Everybody is everybody. Stuff happens but God. 602 00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:02,800 But God, God was able to deliver. 603 00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:05,920 He's able to make a way. Whether I'm in chains and 604 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,240 there's a guard on each side of me and there's guards outside 605 00:37:08,240 --> 00:37:11,600 the door and the Angel has to come and wake you up. 606 00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:18,240 And then they go in and. Where's that prisoner I? 607 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:22,760 Hate to tell you but. He's gone. 608 00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:26,000 Can you imagine? Would you like to answer to the 609 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:32,560 Herod about I love God's sense of humor, and He has a sense of 610 00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:36,360 humor when He does miracles. Those were miracles. 611 00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:39,960 I mean, we think of all the miracles when Jesus walked in 612 00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:43,600 and from Galilee and he sends the word and heals the the man's 613 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:45,320 son. He just spoke the word and he 614 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:48,240 says, go on, go home. Your son's, your son's alive. 615 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:54,120 He touches the casket as the funeral possession goes by and 616 00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:57,640 the woman is like, you know, weeping her guts out, sorry, 617 00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:01,120 weeping her guts out. She just lost her baby. 618 00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:03,720 He's in the casket. They're walking to the cemetery 619 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:07,840 and God just walks by and touches and says get up boy, my 620 00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:12,640 version get up and he gets out of the casket. 621 00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:20,520 Miracles happen all the time. We are a miracle. 622 00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:23,160 Your. Salvation. 623 00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:25,560 Is the. Greatest miracle? 624 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:29,720 Of all can take a low down. Sorry, no good. 625 00:38:29,720 --> 00:38:31,960 I'm talking about me. No good person. 626 00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:37,560 Done a lot of stupid. Stuff and God will turn you 627 00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,680 around and next. Thing you know you're preaching. 628 00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:44,040 His word. This is a miracle. 629 00:38:45,240 --> 00:38:47,720 This is a miracle. That's God. 630 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,440 That's a miracle right there. My brother, He's a miracle. 631 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,200 Sorry, he's. A miracle, you're all. 632 00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,760 Miracles. But God, brother, you're a 633 00:38:57,760 --> 00:38:59,440 miracle. You're alive. 634 00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:01,200 You've been shot. How many times? 635 00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:08,400 Three times shot. What's it called? 636 00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:11,720 Ricocheted in his body. Miracles. 637 00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:14,240 We need to. Give God more glory. 638 00:39:14,240 --> 00:39:18,960 For the miracles, that's why we praise him and worship him. 639 00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:24,280 And I'll stop, I'm done. Let's stand and we'll we'll be 640 00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:26,840 dismissed. But think about it. 641 00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:30,680 Prayer and praise is what gives you miracles. 642 00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:34,240 That's what they did. And in the middle of the night, 643 00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:40,800 God shows up and he shows out. That's Godfather. 644 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,240 We thank you for your word. We thank you that you encourage 645 00:39:45,240 --> 00:39:49,160 us through your word that even though it may look dark, Lord, 646 00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:52,560 that you're already going before us, that you can turn the light 647 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:55,720 on in the darkest moment, Lord. And I thank you for that. 648 00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:57,800 Thanks for listening to the Cross. 649 00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:01,440 Power Church Podcast May you know that true hope, peace and 650 00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:03,800 salvation can only be found in Jesus. 651 00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:08,000 If you're near Campbell, TX, we would love for you to join us in 652 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,480 person. You can find service times at 653 00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:12,080 crosspowerchurch.com.