1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:04,000 Welcome to the First Apostolic Church Podcast. 2 00:00:04,520 --> 00:00:08,000 Our church mission is to love as God loves, showing compassion 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,480 every soul, thus winning those souls and equipping them to be 4 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:13,680 sent out to plant and to harvest. 5 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:17,000 Thank you for joining us today and we hope that you're blessed 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:23,600 by today's podcast. Good. 7 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:25,560 Welcome. This morning he comes and 8 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:27,640 ministers the word of the Lord. Amen. 9 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:30,520 To us today. Can we stand and give God praise 10 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:33,720 Amen and admire his holy name as he comes this morning? 11 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:42,190 Hallelujah, we're so thanked. Amen. 12 00:00:42,190 --> 00:00:47,750 God is so good, Such a great opportunity to be here today. 13 00:00:48,910 --> 00:00:55,950 I I am. I was trying to decide. 14 00:00:58,820 --> 00:01:05,500 Do you say humble or humbled? I didn't want to be humiliated. 15 00:01:06,380 --> 00:01:08,620 That's that's that's just a thing. 16 00:01:08,940 --> 00:01:14,180 And so I just sorry. He told me to be at home. 17 00:01:15,460 --> 00:01:20,540 So I tell the church at home said I have a word from God or 18 00:01:23,140 --> 00:01:25,260 you're just going to be part of my brain. 19 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:27,840 In which case, we're going for a ride. 20 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:33,760 But, but I want to say thank you for the Mcgee's for this 21 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:35,640 opportunity, for this invitation. 22 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:38,160 I take this opportunity to thank him. 23 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:45,000 I am deeply honored and humbled to be here and share the word 24 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:49,600 with you today. I'm praying, even even this 25 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:52,120 morning I was praying. Oh, you have a clock back there. 26 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:53,840 That's fantastic. I didn't say sorry. 27 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:57,560 Squirrel trying to. Trying to focus, trying to 28 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:02,000 focus. But I just was praying for our 29 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:04,320 church this morning. Brother Kirk is preaching this 30 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:06,200 morning. So you know, we got to pray 31 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:13,760 extra hard. But no, God is so good. 32 00:02:14,640 --> 00:02:18,800 Maybe we need to pray again. But thank you for this 33 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,080 opportunity to be here. Thank you, Sister McGee. 34 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:24,240 Thank you, Brother McGee. A great man of God. 35 00:02:25,500 --> 00:02:32,380 Great speaker and we I'm always reminded every time I think of 36 00:02:32,380 --> 00:02:36,540 Brother McGee, I'm reminded of the time we were at camp. 37 00:02:38,020 --> 00:02:43,260 And I think it was the first or second time that he was out for 38 00:02:43,260 --> 00:02:47,780 our camp meeting and we had had about two and a half hour prayer 39 00:02:47,780 --> 00:02:53,250 meeting during song service. So it was just it wasn't after 40 00:02:53,250 --> 00:02:55,010 the preaching. It was before the preaching. 41 00:02:55,610 --> 00:02:59,330 And for the curt comes to me, What should we do? 42 00:02:59,330 --> 00:03:00,690 What should we do? You know, should we not have 43 00:03:00,690 --> 00:03:03,970 preaching? It's like when you have a great 44 00:03:03,970 --> 00:03:06,410 prayer meeting before the preaching. 45 00:03:07,010 --> 00:03:10,970 It means somebody was hard and needed to be tilled up a little 46 00:03:11,010 --> 00:03:14,210 extra. So plant the seed. 47 00:03:15,690 --> 00:03:19,110 Go ahead and plant the. My pastor's idea, that's my 48 00:03:19,110 --> 00:03:20,470 idea. That's plant the seed. 49 00:03:20,710 --> 00:03:23,590 So Brother McGee gets up and says, all right, you asked for 50 00:03:23,590 --> 00:03:29,790 it and he preached and then we had another hour and a half per 51 00:03:29,790 --> 00:03:33,590 meeting. So that was, that's what we 52 00:03:33,590 --> 00:03:38,470 consider to be a great camp. And I'm thankful for this 53 00:03:38,470 --> 00:03:42,150 opportunity to be here, be with Brother McGee, great family. 54 00:03:44,270 --> 00:03:47,740 And yes, we're more than family. When you're with the prison, 55 00:03:47,740 --> 00:03:50,100 family is the brother, as you've learned. 56 00:03:50,100 --> 00:03:53,420 It's a unique family and the group, group of people. 57 00:03:53,420 --> 00:03:55,580 And we don't look like what we've been through. 58 00:03:56,260 --> 00:03:59,380 And we don't look like it because we have an understanding 59 00:03:59,700 --> 00:04:04,220 that when God calls us, when the enemy calls us, He calls us by 60 00:04:04,220 --> 00:04:07,860 our sin, by who we were, by what we were. 61 00:04:08,020 --> 00:04:12,100 But when God calls us, He calls us, as He sees us. 62 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:15,920 And he sees us as blood bought children of the king. 63 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:22,320 So he calls us as different. It's different to have your sins 64 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:25,800 washed away. And we said, OK, I'll stop, but 65 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:29,880 God is so good. God has been so good. 66 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:34,080 His blessings upon us. And I'd like to turn our 67 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:38,440 attention to 1st Kings 20 and 28. 68 00:04:42,620 --> 00:04:46,620 And there came a man of God, and he's spoken to the king of God, 69 00:04:46,780 --> 00:04:52,340 the king of Israel, and said, Thus sayeth the Lord, because 70 00:04:52,340 --> 00:05:01,860 the Syrians have said, the Lord is God of the hills, but he is 71 00:05:01,860 --> 00:05:05,980 not God of the valleys. Therefore I will deliver all 72 00:05:05,980 --> 00:05:11,180 this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know. 73 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:17,680 That I am God. That I am the Lord like to speak 74 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:24,440 for just a few moments here this morning on my God is able, my 75 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:27,800 God is able. Could we lift our hands and just 76 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:31,120 praise him for just for a moment here, Lord Jesus, we thank you. 77 00:05:31,620 --> 00:05:34,540 For your goodness to us, We thank you, Lord Jesus, for your 78 00:05:34,540 --> 00:05:37,420 blessings. Lord Jesus, we pray right now 79 00:05:37,420 --> 00:05:39,980 that you would help us, Lord, open our minds. 80 00:05:39,980 --> 00:05:43,420 Open our hearts to what you have to say to us here today. 81 00:05:43,940 --> 00:05:47,900 Jesus, we need you, Lord. We need you, Lord Jesus, in this 82 00:05:47,900 --> 00:05:50,180 house. Open our minds and our hearts to 83 00:05:50,180 --> 00:05:55,780 you. Lord Jesus, we thank You, Lord, 84 00:05:55,780 --> 00:05:57,460 for all your goodness, Your mercy. 85 00:05:59,030 --> 00:06:03,230 Jesus, pray over this place. Our minds and hearts be open to 86 00:06:03,230 --> 00:06:07,950 you. Jesus help us, Lord Jesus, 87 00:06:08,510 --> 00:06:13,310 anoint my lips, anoint my to see your word to your people. 88 00:06:14,470 --> 00:06:20,550 In Jesus name we pray And everyone said, Amen, Amen. 89 00:06:20,550 --> 00:06:26,710 And you may be seated. You see. 90 00:06:27,970 --> 00:06:32,410 The king had said is God of the mountain. 91 00:06:33,930 --> 00:06:36,930 How often do we put God in a box? 92 00:06:38,170 --> 00:06:42,730 We put parameters on him and we say, well God can do this but he 93 00:06:42,730 --> 00:06:45,690 can't do that. God can do this but he can 94 00:06:45,690 --> 00:06:48,010 deliver. But you know and but then we 95 00:06:48,010 --> 00:06:51,690 say, OK, this this is for brother so and so. 96 00:06:51,810 --> 00:06:55,090 This is for sister so and so this is for this person or that 97 00:06:55,090 --> 00:07:02,630 person. And we put a disclaimer on God, 98 00:07:04,030 --> 00:07:07,550 say God, you can do this, but that's not really for me. 99 00:07:10,390 --> 00:07:14,190 And we put parameters on God. And God is saying here to 100 00:07:14,190 --> 00:07:19,790 Israel, I'm God of the mountain and I'm God of the valley. 101 00:07:20,790 --> 00:07:25,630 God is All in all. God is All in all. 102 00:07:27,700 --> 00:07:32,660 If we'll let him be, You see, God will not cross the line, and 103 00:07:32,660 --> 00:07:36,140 that's called the human will. We're not robots. 104 00:07:36,140 --> 00:07:38,500 We're not. We're not to say, OK, God didn't 105 00:07:38,500 --> 00:07:44,260 say, this is you. You go, we have human will. 106 00:07:44,940 --> 00:07:47,980 God's not going to cross it. We say, well, I want to go out 107 00:07:47,980 --> 00:07:51,420 and do whatever well, and God will let us. 108 00:07:53,830 --> 00:07:57,110 But oh, how sweet it is. I've, I've heard more than once 109 00:07:58,110 --> 00:08:00,910 since I've been here about the prayer meeting Thursday night, 110 00:08:02,630 --> 00:08:06,870 how sweet it is to be in the presence of God, to understand 111 00:08:06,870 --> 00:08:12,830 that God is there with us. We went into the prison and God 112 00:08:12,950 --> 00:08:16,910 was with us. I I, I find it interesting every 113 00:08:16,910 --> 00:08:23,770 time we go in that first day. We're we're kind of looking at 114 00:08:23,770 --> 00:08:27,330 them and they're kind of looking at us trying to figure out, you 115 00:08:27,370 --> 00:08:29,490 know trying to weigh this out trying to figure out what's 116 00:08:29,490 --> 00:08:35,010 going on. But by the last day they're 117 00:08:35,010 --> 00:08:39,049 always fully engaged. God is always on the move. 118 00:08:39,049 --> 00:08:43,450 God is always that you can see, you can physically see the lives 119 00:08:43,450 --> 00:08:48,690 changed, you know and and people come into our church and you can 120 00:08:48,690 --> 00:08:53,860 physically see we we traveled. We traveled to the Philippines 121 00:08:53,860 --> 00:08:58,780 some years ago, and in the Philippines it is. 122 00:09:00,340 --> 00:09:02,140 I would have to say it's probably one of the toughest 123 00:09:02,140 --> 00:09:08,140 places to get the Holy Ghost just because they're praying for 124 00:09:08,140 --> 00:09:12,500 30 minutes and there's like four or five people gathered around 125 00:09:12,500 --> 00:09:16,940 this person praying for them, and everybody has to agree that 126 00:09:17,060 --> 00:09:21,170 that's the Holy Ghost. And then the pastor has to come 127 00:09:21,170 --> 00:09:24,650 over and verify. So this person may be speaking 128 00:09:24,650 --> 00:09:29,810 in tongues, There's pouring down and they're, they may be 129 00:09:29,810 --> 00:09:32,410 speaking in tongues for, like, forever. 130 00:09:35,170 --> 00:09:38,730 It's like I can see them that their their countenance has 131 00:09:38,730 --> 00:09:40,410 changed. They've got the Holy Ghost. 132 00:09:40,610 --> 00:09:44,570 They got the Holy Ghost 35 minutes ago, but they're still 133 00:09:44,570 --> 00:09:47,920 praying for him. Until the pastor verifies, well, 134 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:49,720 there's multiple languages in the Philippines. 135 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:53,240 They don't want people faking it, so that makes sense. 136 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:56,920 But you can see the countenance change. 137 00:09:57,560 --> 00:09:59,440 Why? Because when the presence of God 138 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:02,800 becomes a part of you, your countenance should change. 139 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:05,080 You don't walk the way you used to walk. 140 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:07,560 You don't talk the way you used to talk. 141 00:10:07,970 --> 00:10:10,050 You don't. You're not the person you used 142 00:10:10,050 --> 00:10:11,450 to be. Why? 143 00:10:11,570 --> 00:10:14,490 How is that possible? Because you're leaning on the 144 00:10:14,490 --> 00:10:17,370 presence of God. Because you have found out that 145 00:10:17,370 --> 00:10:21,170 God is God of the valley. God is God of the mountain. 146 00:10:21,370 --> 00:10:27,370 And God is in your life and He's changing you every day, in every 147 00:10:27,370 --> 00:10:29,730 way. He's changing you to be more 148 00:10:29,730 --> 00:10:39,310 like him if you'll let him. If you'll let him, it's your 149 00:10:39,310 --> 00:10:43,670 will. Often times we get into our 150 00:10:43,670 --> 00:10:46,910 stinking thinking. We get into our own brain 151 00:10:46,910 --> 00:10:49,430 saying, well, God. God can change this part of my 152 00:10:49,430 --> 00:10:51,310 life, but he can't change that part. 153 00:10:52,830 --> 00:10:56,990 God can move in this part of my life, but God really not so 154 00:10:56,990 --> 00:10:59,750 sure. This part is a little hard. 155 00:10:59,750 --> 00:11:02,590 This part is a little tough. I'm not so sure. 156 00:11:06,270 --> 00:11:07,950 There used to be a song we used to sing. 157 00:11:08,150 --> 00:11:12,230 Have a little talk with Jesus. Tell them all about our 158 00:11:12,230 --> 00:11:14,590 problems. Tell them all about our 159 00:11:14,590 --> 00:11:19,630 troubles. But you see, you can tell them 160 00:11:19,630 --> 00:11:21,750 about your troubles. You can tell them about your 161 00:11:21,750 --> 00:11:24,150 good times. You can tell them about anything 162 00:11:24,150 --> 00:11:27,270 going on in your life. All you have to do is lean on 163 00:11:27,270 --> 00:11:32,510 him. Time and prayer is so important. 164 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:36,240 Time of prayer, time of communion with God saying, Lord, 165 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:40,760 I just want more of you. I just want more of you. 166 00:11:43,560 --> 00:11:48,240 See, often times we wonder about our future, some things that we 167 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:53,720 believe that are impossible. But if we go beyond what's what 168 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:56,760 we feel that is impossible. That's where miracles happen. 169 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:01,480 God's willing to do the miraculous and He is able. 170 00:12:02,570 --> 00:12:06,290 If we'll let him. Often times we wonder about our 171 00:12:06,290 --> 00:12:09,930 future. We wonder how our how our life 172 00:12:09,930 --> 00:12:14,850 as children, We wonder how our lives will turn out There. 173 00:12:14,850 --> 00:12:19,210 There was a time in my life we were talking about. 174 00:12:20,090 --> 00:12:20,610 I was. I was. 175 00:12:20,970 --> 00:12:23,010 When I was in high school, I was powerlifting. 176 00:12:23,690 --> 00:12:29,730 It's a long time ago I was into powerlifting and my my goal in 177 00:12:29,730 --> 00:12:33,560 life. At that point in my life, I 178 00:12:33,560 --> 00:12:40,040 could pass the PT test to get out of the Marine Corps a junior 179 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:44,280 year in high school when the track coach is mad at you 180 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:47,480 because your body fat, like I said a long time ago, but but 181 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:50,160 your body fat is less than the track coaches. 182 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:55,480 And so yeah, I was ready to go. I was ready to do this. 183 00:12:57,440 --> 00:13:03,440 But then Jesus. It's amazing how when God gets a 184 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:06,400 hold of your life, you say, Lord, I can't do that. 185 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:08,720 I could never do that. I could never be a pastor. 186 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:10,920 Lord, I don't even want to be a pastor. 187 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:16,480 You have to deal with. You have to people, Lord, I 188 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:20,400 don't people. I don't even like public 189 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:25,000 speaking. Lord, I don't like it. 190 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:30,020 I don't want to do it. I don't want to be a preacher. 191 00:13:30,060 --> 00:13:33,100 I don't want to be a pastor. I'll go to the Marine Corps. 192 00:13:33,260 --> 00:13:38,740 I can run around with the guys, God said. 193 00:13:38,740 --> 00:13:42,860 Now you go to Bible school like, Lord, I don't want to go to 194 00:13:42,860 --> 00:13:44,380 Bible school. There's a bunch of Bible 195 00:13:44,380 --> 00:13:48,900 thumpers there. Hello. 196 00:13:51,060 --> 00:13:55,300 What do you think? I don't want to go. 197 00:13:55,300 --> 00:13:58,520 I don't want to do it. I said, but you can do it. 198 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:04,840 And you come to an understanding that no matter what phase of 199 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:09,760 life you're in, no matter what's going on in your life, God is 200 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:12,640 able. God will meet you there. 201 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:16,400 You say, Lord, I don't have the strength for this, He'll meet 202 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:20,840 you there, he said, Lord, I don't think, I don't think I can 203 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:23,520 do this. He says good because if you 204 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:27,300 can't do it. You'll give him the credit. 205 00:14:29,140 --> 00:14:31,540 You'll give him the credit. That Lord has kept me. 206 00:14:32,140 --> 00:14:35,060 The Lord has blessed me. The Lord is with me. 207 00:14:35,620 --> 00:14:38,780 He's God of my mountains. He's God of my valleys. 208 00:14:38,780 --> 00:14:41,220 He's God no matter where I'm at in my life. 209 00:14:41,740 --> 00:14:44,500 He's my God. He's my Lord and my God. 210 00:14:45,180 --> 00:14:50,180 When we turn to Daniel 6 and 19, one of my favorite Bible 211 00:14:50,180 --> 00:14:55,300 stories. He says, And when he came to the 212 00:14:55,300 --> 00:14:58,700 den, he cried with a lamentable voice to Daniel. 213 00:14:59,500 --> 00:15:01,780 And the king spake and said to Daniel. 214 00:15:01,780 --> 00:15:08,900 Daniel, serving the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest 215 00:15:08,900 --> 00:15:13,460 continually able to deliver thee from the lions. 216 00:15:16,740 --> 00:15:19,580 You see, it wasn't the King's God, he said. 217 00:15:19,580 --> 00:15:28,510 Thy God, yours, yours. Then Daniel said, in the King, O 218 00:15:28,510 --> 00:15:34,630 king, live forever. My God has sent his angels and 219 00:15:34,630 --> 00:15:38,630 has shut the lion's mouth, and they have not hurt me for as 220 00:15:38,630 --> 00:15:42,350 much as before him. Innocency was found in me, and 221 00:15:42,350 --> 00:15:45,350 also before the O King, have I done no hurt. 222 00:15:46,310 --> 00:15:53,870 You see, the king said. You're God, Daniel was saying. 223 00:15:53,870 --> 00:15:57,420 My God. When it becomes that personal 224 00:15:57,420 --> 00:16:01,420 relationship, when it becomes that personal relationship, we 225 00:16:01,420 --> 00:16:04,500 come to an understanding. It's my God. 226 00:16:05,260 --> 00:16:08,780 My God can deliver me. My God can go before me. 227 00:16:09,060 --> 00:16:12,300 My God goes behind me. My God goes around me. 228 00:16:12,500 --> 00:16:15,340 My God is with me. No matter what I'm at in life, 229 00:16:15,340 --> 00:16:21,500 no matter what's going on in my life or where I'm at, my God 230 00:16:22,100 --> 00:16:25,430 will deliver me. You see the enemy of our soul. 231 00:16:25,590 --> 00:16:28,510 First, Peter tells us that the enemy of our soul is as a 232 00:16:28,550 --> 00:16:33,510 roaring lion. When you think of a lion, you 233 00:16:33,510 --> 00:16:37,190 hear that roar, and it's supposed to put fear in. 234 00:16:37,190 --> 00:16:42,590 You supposed to put fear. And he's trying to swallow your 235 00:16:42,590 --> 00:16:47,310 testimony, trying to trap and mislead you temp and mislead, 236 00:16:48,790 --> 00:16:52,590 but God always knows, already knows how to shut that lion's 237 00:16:52,590 --> 00:16:55,880 mouth. He's done it before. 238 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:59,920 It's no new thing to him. This is not something when when 239 00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:03,040 the when you go through a temptation, God's not saying, 240 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:06,119 oh, what are we going to do when you go through a trial? 241 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:07,680 God said, oh, what are we going to do? 242 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:10,079 What are we going to do? Well, I'm not sure what to do 243 00:17:10,079 --> 00:17:13,560 about this. Someone told me one time there's 244 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:20,720 no new thing under the sun and that's fact, there's no new 245 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:24,069 thing on the sun. You see, when Jesus went to 246 00:17:24,069 --> 00:17:27,950 Calvary, he took away the sting of death. 247 00:17:28,430 --> 00:17:32,110 He took away the sting of temp, that all those temptations and 248 00:17:32,110 --> 00:17:35,870 all those things that would come our way, that the grip of sin 249 00:17:36,030 --> 00:17:40,110 was broken. At Calvary, we have a hope 250 00:17:40,550 --> 00:17:43,830 beyond this world. We have a hope in this world. 251 00:17:44,030 --> 00:17:47,950 All we have to do and John Ford Ford tells us greater is he that 252 00:17:47,950 --> 00:17:51,640 is in you. Then he that is in the world, 253 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:54,360 all we have to do is reach out to him. 254 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:56,960 All we have to do is reach out to him. 255 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:02,400 Say Lord, just surrender all, just surrender all to him. 256 00:18:03,360 --> 00:18:06,840 You see, our lives are not futile. 257 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:10,840 We have a purpose. Our failures are not final. 258 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:14,360 We've been forgiven. Death is not final. 259 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:19,120 We have eternity. But when we call on Jesus name. 260 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:23,320 We have the victory. There's healing in the name of 261 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:26,320 Jesus. There's salvation in the name of 262 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:29,240 Jesus. There's deliverance in the name 263 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:32,040 of Jesus. All we have to do is reach out 264 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:36,400 to him, reach out to him. No matter what's going on in our 265 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:39,960 lives, no matter what's happening in our lives, say, 266 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:42,280 Lord, I don't understand where I'm at. 267 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:45,440 I don't understand what's going on in my life. 268 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,750 He does. He does. 269 00:18:49,750 --> 00:18:51,190 You just need to reach out to him. 270 00:18:52,270 --> 00:18:54,150 You just need to reach out to him. 271 00:18:54,710 --> 00:18:57,350 Why? Because it tells us the word 272 00:18:57,350 --> 00:19:00,870 tells us that the God is stronghold in the day of 273 00:19:00,870 --> 00:19:05,070 trouble. The things we we don't look for 274 00:19:05,070 --> 00:19:08,590 the good. But God is in control. 275 00:19:08,790 --> 00:19:11,630 Things don't look, Doctor. Good things don't look like 276 00:19:11,750 --> 00:19:13,750 we're going to make it. But he is able. 277 00:19:14,910 --> 00:19:19,090 He is able. In 1979, Hurricane Hurricane 278 00:19:19,090 --> 00:19:23,890 David came to Florida. There was a group of men, 279 00:19:23,970 --> 00:19:27,930 college guys that were living on a houseboat, and they were 280 00:19:27,930 --> 00:19:32,530 living on this houseboat and they went out and they got a 281 00:19:32,530 --> 00:19:35,850 bunch of rope and basically made a spider web. 282 00:19:37,810 --> 00:19:40,770 They tied it to a tree, they tied it to the dock. 283 00:19:40,770 --> 00:19:43,250 They took their boat and tied it all over the place. 284 00:19:44,700 --> 00:19:48,700 An old sailor came by, said no, no gentlemen, you're doing this 285 00:19:48,700 --> 00:19:51,700 wrong. You're doing this wrong. 286 00:19:54,180 --> 00:19:57,900 You have to anchor deep those trees. 287 00:20:00,260 --> 00:20:02,420 There's a possibility those trees won't be there when the 288 00:20:02,420 --> 00:20:06,180 storm is over. There's a possibility this dock 289 00:20:06,180 --> 00:20:08,100 won't be here when the storm is over. 290 00:20:08,980 --> 00:20:12,460 But those rocks down below, they're not going anywhere. 291 00:20:13,670 --> 00:20:17,390 You got to anchor deep. I'm here to tell somebody today 292 00:20:17,390 --> 00:20:19,390 or anything you're going through in life. 293 00:20:20,070 --> 00:20:22,590 Anchor deep. Anchor deep. 294 00:20:22,590 --> 00:20:27,030 So you can say on Christ the solid rock I stand all other 295 00:20:27,030 --> 00:20:30,630 ground is sinking sand. You're going to anchor deep into 296 00:20:30,830 --> 00:20:33,230 Jesus Christ. Say, Lord, I'm going to give it 297 00:20:33,230 --> 00:20:36,540 all to you. No matter what's happening in my 298 00:20:36,540 --> 00:20:39,700 life, no matter what's going on in my world, My world may be 299 00:20:39,700 --> 00:20:46,180 shaking all around me, but my anchor holds and grips the solid 300 00:20:46,180 --> 00:20:49,380 rock. When we put our trust in Jesus, 301 00:20:49,380 --> 00:20:55,100 he will never let us down. We can say my God, my God is 302 00:20:55,100 --> 00:20:58,780 able to deliver me. My God is able to keep me. 303 00:20:59,140 --> 00:21:04,380 My God is there for me when life storms are at their worst. 304 00:21:05,740 --> 00:21:08,500 Don't be surprised if your answer comes walking on the 305 00:21:08,500 --> 00:21:13,340 water because Jesus is there for us. 306 00:21:15,580 --> 00:21:19,580 Oh Jesus. See the problems of temptation 307 00:21:19,580 --> 00:21:23,940 may keep coming your way. We say my God is able. 308 00:21:24,620 --> 00:21:29,460 My God, my hope is built on nothing less than Jesus blood 309 00:21:29,460 --> 00:21:33,240 and his righteousness. I dare not trust the sweetest 310 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:37,800 phrase. But holy lean, holy, leaning not 311 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,440 apart. Not a little bit like not on 312 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:45,600 Sunday when it feels good. Not on not on church services 313 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:49,520 when it feels good. But I'm going to holy and how do 314 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:53,360 you holy lean on Jesus name. How do you do that? 315 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:56,680 You get into the word. You get into the word. 316 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:59,440 You get into prayer life. You have a prayer life of your 317 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:05,330 own. There's a There was a time ago 318 00:22:05,330 --> 00:22:11,730 we went to we went to Deluge. It's a it's a Myrtle Beach. 319 00:22:11,730 --> 00:22:16,930 They had an organization had a getaway for ministers and one of 320 00:22:16,930 --> 00:22:22,770 the first ones, our church sent us, my wife and I, and they said 321 00:22:22,770 --> 00:22:27,690 after that it was mandatory for pastor to go to Deluge. 322 00:22:28,330 --> 00:22:31,930 And to get away. And one of the first ones Doctor 323 00:22:31,930 --> 00:22:35,450 Boss got up and that she made a statement that was life changing 324 00:22:35,450 --> 00:22:38,930 for me. She said that brother John said 325 00:22:39,850 --> 00:22:45,770 I am not the Christ, Pastor, you are not the Christ. 326 00:22:47,810 --> 00:22:50,050 And I got to thinking about that is pondering it. 327 00:22:51,170 --> 00:22:54,010 Can I save someone? No. 328 00:22:56,850 --> 00:23:01,450 Even if I did go to a cross, just be another person dying in 329 00:23:01,450 --> 00:23:09,770 the in the list of people that have died on a cross but Jesus 330 00:23:11,290 --> 00:23:15,730 but Jesus, I want to introduce you today to a man called Jesus. 331 00:23:16,250 --> 00:23:19,050 I want to tell you today about a man called Jesus, because when 332 00:23:19,050 --> 00:23:24,290 you have a personal relationship with him, everything changes. 333 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:28,040 Everything changes. You don't walk the way you used 334 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:29,840 to walk. You don't talk the way you used 335 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:31,760 to talk. You don't go to the places you 336 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:33,280 used to go to. Why? 337 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:37,560 Because they no longer have the appeal that they used to have. 338 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:42,160 Because you're connected to something supernatural. 339 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:44,480 You're connected to something totally different. 340 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:48,440 You're connected to him. And when you are connected to 341 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:52,840 him, everything changes and you can say, my God. 342 00:23:53,830 --> 00:23:57,430 Is able to deliver me. My God is able to keep me. 343 00:23:57,630 --> 00:24:01,590 My God is there for me no matter what I'm going through in life. 344 00:24:04,470 --> 00:24:09,750 The winds will come and the winds will go, but my God is 345 00:24:09,750 --> 00:24:13,470 able. Oh Jesus. 346 00:24:13,510 --> 00:24:17,910 You see, prayer needs to be our first order of things, our first 347 00:24:17,910 --> 00:24:24,370 order of business. See, we, we we go through life 348 00:24:24,370 --> 00:24:30,930 and we we pray and we we talk to God, we talk to Him. 349 00:24:30,930 --> 00:24:34,890 And sometimes we we get on, we get on that. 350 00:24:37,570 --> 00:24:41,250 All right, I'll put it this way. The Christmas Jesus. 351 00:24:42,770 --> 00:24:44,610 I don't mean the baby in the Manger, Jesus. 352 00:24:45,050 --> 00:24:49,290 I mean the Christmas Jesus. Where we come to Jesus with our 353 00:24:49,290 --> 00:24:52,420 Christmas list. And say, Lord, I need this, I 354 00:24:52,420 --> 00:24:55,540 need this, I need this. Lord, I need you to work in my 355 00:24:55,540 --> 00:24:58,300 life this way. I need you to do this way and I 356 00:24:58,300 --> 00:25:01,740 need you to do this and that. And then, oh and God bless this 357 00:25:01,740 --> 00:25:03,980 person and that person and this will see we want to give 358 00:25:03,980 --> 00:25:06,780 presents to other people too. So we said, God bless this 359 00:25:06,780 --> 00:25:10,420 person and that person and this person and that person and oh Oh 360 00:25:10,420 --> 00:25:17,780 yeah, I got to go, bye. But when he becomes my God. 361 00:25:21,740 --> 00:25:26,340 How how close of a friend would you have? 362 00:25:27,900 --> 00:25:30,220 You say I text that person once a year. 363 00:25:30,620 --> 00:25:37,940 We're close friends. I, I, I talked to that person. 364 00:25:38,460 --> 00:25:44,020 Oh we talked about once a week and and and so we're we're we 365 00:25:44,020 --> 00:25:47,220 talk about once a week in passing so we're close friends. 366 00:25:47,470 --> 00:25:52,110 All right, all right. But you're close friends. 367 00:25:53,110 --> 00:25:57,630 You're good friends. You can spend hours. 368 00:25:59,230 --> 00:26:06,110 We were okay. I look, I look for my wife as if 369 00:26:06,110 --> 00:26:08,030 she knows what I'm thinking, and she's going to give me 370 00:26:08,030 --> 00:26:09,590 permission to say what I'm about to say. 371 00:26:13,550 --> 00:26:15,670 We were coming home from a conference. 372 00:26:16,380 --> 00:26:20,780 My wife and I and like Bill McGee, said, driving for us is 373 00:26:20,780 --> 00:26:23,700 not a thing. I drive for work. 374 00:26:23,700 --> 00:26:27,260 I may drive 14 hours in a day and never leave the state. 375 00:26:28,420 --> 00:26:32,140 So that's that's what I do. And so driving for us is not a 376 00:26:32,140 --> 00:26:36,500 thing. And we were down Kentucky. 377 00:26:36,500 --> 00:26:38,740 Thank you. Stacy knows what I'm thinking 378 00:26:38,740 --> 00:26:42,180 already. That's that's not, that's that's 379 00:26:42,180 --> 00:26:44,260 36 years of marriage. That's not God. 380 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:51,120 Telling her things she knows I was, yeah, and we're driving and 381 00:26:51,120 --> 00:26:52,960 it took us three days to get home. 382 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:57,960 It's like, how can it take you 3 days to get home from Kentucky? 383 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:00,120 It's only it's like a 12 hour drive. 384 00:27:00,120 --> 00:27:03,520 It's not that far, comparatively speaking. 385 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:12,160 Well, with our friends we had gone out to, we'd had breakfast 386 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:15,480 together. And we sat and talked and then 387 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,000 we went a couple hours down the road and decided it was time to 388 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:29,520 go get a coffee Starbucks. And we got, we got oh Jesus help 389 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:34,440 us, we we got down the road, we started to stop at Starbucks and 390 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,520 three hours later we got back on the road. 391 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:40,320 And then we decided to stop for supper. 392 00:27:43,650 --> 00:27:45,930 And we got down the road about another hour and stayed at a 393 00:27:45,930 --> 00:27:49,490 hotel. Then we got down the road a 394 00:27:49,490 --> 00:27:53,770 little while longer. We stopped, have lunch together. 395 00:27:54,370 --> 00:28:01,090 3 hours later we got on the road and we went down a little while 396 00:28:01,090 --> 00:28:02,770 longer. And then that night they said 397 00:28:02,770 --> 00:28:04,210 why don't you come stay at our house? 398 00:28:05,930 --> 00:28:08,530 It's like, no, because we want to go home by now. 399 00:28:08,530 --> 00:28:11,480 We want to go home. We've had a great time. 400 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,680 These were our friends. We spent all kinds of time with 401 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:21,320 them. When you go to prayer, how much 402 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:25,840 time do you send sitting there talking and how much time do you 403 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:29,320 sit there listening? See, in our world today there's 404 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:33,320 a very high percentage. I read the percentage yesterday, 405 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,560 so naturally I don't remember it, but. 406 00:28:38,980 --> 00:28:43,180 I read the percentage, but most people, majority of people 407 00:28:43,700 --> 00:28:52,100 listen to a conversation to respond too. 408 00:28:52,100 --> 00:28:59,500 Oftentimes we're spending all of our time responding to God out 409 00:28:59,500 --> 00:29:02,100 of life. And we're talking and we're 410 00:29:02,100 --> 00:29:03,900 talking and we're talking and we're talking. 411 00:29:04,100 --> 00:29:05,860 How much time do we spend listening? 412 00:29:06,270 --> 00:29:08,710 How much time do we spend sitting in His presence? 413 00:29:08,990 --> 00:29:11,430 How much time do we spend saying, Lord, I know you're 414 00:29:11,430 --> 00:29:16,190 able, Lord, so I'm going to stay here and just meditate on your 415 00:29:16,190 --> 00:29:18,350 word. Lord, I'm going to sit here and 416 00:29:18,350 --> 00:29:20,350 just meditate on the things of God. 417 00:29:20,630 --> 00:29:24,390 Lord, I'm going to sit here and just talk to you and we're going 418 00:29:24,390 --> 00:29:27,540 to have a conversation. And Lord, I don't want this 419 00:29:27,540 --> 00:29:31,500 conversation to be 1 sided. But Lord, I want to listen to 420 00:29:31,500 --> 00:29:32,580 you. Why? 421 00:29:32,580 --> 00:29:34,940 Because you are the answer to my life. 422 00:29:35,180 --> 00:29:37,300 You are the answer to my problems. 423 00:29:37,580 --> 00:29:40,060 You are the answer to my situation. 424 00:29:41,100 --> 00:29:43,780 So Lord, today I just need more of you. 425 00:29:44,740 --> 00:29:48,220 I just need need more of you. I need more of you in my life. 426 00:29:48,980 --> 00:29:53,100 Lord Jesus, help us. Help us Lord Jesus to listen to 427 00:29:53,100 --> 00:29:58,660 you. At what point do we start 428 00:29:58,660 --> 00:30:04,340 listening to God in our life? Slow down. 429 00:30:05,580 --> 00:30:08,980 Our world today is so fast-paced. 430 00:30:09,820 --> 00:30:14,300 There's so many things going on, so many things that are 431 00:30:14,300 --> 00:30:16,820 happening, and it's faster, it seems. 432 00:30:16,820 --> 00:30:20,620 Faster and faster. And here we are all the way 433 00:30:20,620 --> 00:30:25,520 through July already. Well, actually we're not through 434 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:29,080 July already, but we're halfway through, over halfway through 435 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:32,880 this year. And So what do we have to do 436 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:34,360 tomorrow? And what do we have to do the 437 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:35,720 next day? And what do we have to do the 438 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,360 next day? And we're busy, and we're going, 439 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,280 and we're going and we're going. We say, Lord, we need to stop. 440 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:49,560 We need to stop and just take some time to have a relationship 441 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:55,070 with you, Lord, to listen. So that we can say when troubles 442 00:30:55,070 --> 00:31:01,070 come our way, We can say my God is able to keep me, my God is 443 00:31:01,070 --> 00:31:06,790 able to deliver me. My God, could we all just stand 444 00:31:06,790 --> 00:31:16,940 to our feet. I'd like to like to do 445 00:31:16,940 --> 00:31:18,740 something. If this is all all right. 446 00:31:20,780 --> 00:31:25,260 I'd like us just if my wife would come the piano. 447 00:31:31,340 --> 00:31:38,820 I'd like to just take a minute and say, Lord, I need more of 448 00:31:38,820 --> 00:31:45,660 you in my day. I need more of you in my day. 449 00:31:46,500 --> 00:31:50,420 Lord, life gets out of hand, life gets crazy. 450 00:31:50,700 --> 00:31:58,620 But I know, I know who is able, Lord, all I have to do is reach 451 00:31:58,620 --> 00:32:02,220 out to you. Yes, Lord, All I need to do is 452 00:32:02,220 --> 00:32:05,860 reach out to you. I need you to guide and direct 453 00:32:05,860 --> 00:32:10,260 me. Lord, you say, Well, I'm not 454 00:32:10,260 --> 00:32:11,820 going through anything right now. 455 00:32:13,180 --> 00:32:17,900 My life is good. Well, maybe we need to spend 456 00:32:17,900 --> 00:32:22,700 some time thanking him. Maybe we need to spend some time 457 00:32:22,700 --> 00:32:25,850 thanking him. When you have friends that do 458 00:32:25,850 --> 00:32:28,650 nice stuff for you, good stuff, you spend some time thanking 459 00:32:28,650 --> 00:32:32,250 them. Say thank you, Thank you Lord. 460 00:32:33,890 --> 00:32:37,850 Thank you, Lord. If you would like to do that 461 00:32:37,850 --> 00:32:43,450 today, I'm gonna open this front area up and we could just spend 462 00:32:43,450 --> 00:32:47,370 some time saying thank you, Lord, for your blessings on me. 463 00:32:47,930 --> 00:32:50,650 Or we can spend some time saying, Lord, I need you. 464 00:32:51,460 --> 00:32:56,180 To lead and guide me, Lord, I need you for more of you in my 465 00:32:56,180 --> 00:33:00,940 life. Is that your prayer today you 466 00:33:00,940 --> 00:33:05,500 can come forward to or just find a place to pray and say, Lord, 467 00:33:05,500 --> 00:33:08,940 we thank you for what you're doing in our lives. 468 00:33:08,940 --> 00:33:10,780 We thank you, Lord, for your blessings. 469 00:33:11,140 --> 00:33:13,620 We thank you, Lord, that you are my God. 470 00:33:15,210 --> 00:33:18,450 No matter what I'm going through, Lord, you are my God to 471 00:33:18,450 --> 00:33:22,530 bless you, to lift you up, to lead you and guide you. 472 00:33:23,770 --> 00:33:27,850 He's here for you. All you have to do is reach out 473 00:33:27,850 --> 00:33:32,490 to him. Just find a place to pray and 474 00:33:32,490 --> 00:33:35,690 even say, I don't have that close of a relationship with 475 00:33:35,690 --> 00:33:37,010 him. I really don't know. 476 00:33:37,210 --> 00:33:41,410 Well, here's an opportunity. Here's an opportunity to say 477 00:33:41,410 --> 00:33:45,660 Lord more of you. I just need more of you in my 478 00:33:45,660 --> 00:33:49,340 life. I don't know where you are in 479 00:33:49,340 --> 00:33:51,380 your life and your walk with God. 480 00:33:54,500 --> 00:33:56,540 Thank you for listening. If you would like more 481 00:33:56,540 --> 00:33:59,700 information about our services and activities, you can find us 482 00:33:59,700 --> 00:34:04,580 on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter with the username FACMC. 483 00:34:04,780 --> 00:34:08,980 Again, that's FACMC. Thank you and have a blessed 484 00:34:08,980 --> 00:34:09,179 day.