Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign.
[00:00:07] Speaker B: Can we stand for a moment?
Let's just close our eyes.
You can put out your hands. Turn our attention to heaven. Lord, we thank you for this time that we have together. Holy Spirit, we acknowledge that we are not alone this afternoon, but that you are with us, that heaven is present in the room, that we come first and foremost for you to meet with you today. Lord, Holy Spirit, would you reveal Jesus to us and teach us the scriptures that we can comprehend them this afternoon in Jesus name, Amen.
Amen. We're going to jump into the scriptures here this afternoon. If you have your Bibles with me. We're going to be reading out of Acts chapter 16. So if you want to turn there, Acts chapter 16.
We're also going to have it on the screen if you don't have a Bible with you. I also feel specifically for the service that the Lord wants to bring us as a community into greater levels of signs, wonders and miracles and that he's leading us there. I felt it in prayer last week that he wants to move in power in our services in a greater measure than he has before. So at the end of the service we're going to given opportunity to receive prayer.
And I believe people are going to be healed, set free and that lives are going to be transformed this afternoon.
That being said, I'm not going to preach on healing. I'm going to preach on Jesus. When you preach Jesus, you see healing. Can I get an amen?
So I want us to pick up here in Acts chapter 16, verse 16.
And it says this now it happened as we went to pray. It's talking about Paul and Silas.
A certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us who brought her masters much profit by fortune telling.
This girl followed Paul and us and cried out saying these men are the servants of the most high God who proclaim to us the way of salvation.
And this she did for many days.
And Paul greatly annoyed. Firstly, I love this because this, this woman who's clearly possessed by a demon and bringing her people a lot of money by telling people's future to them is walking around with Paul and Silas screaming that these people are being used by God.
And it's amazing to me that it takes Paul a few days to tell her to keep quiet. Me probably a few hours. And I would have been trying to rebuke the demon out of this lady.
[00:02:34] Speaker A: But Paul and Silas a few days.
[00:02:35] Speaker B: And he turns and it shows his humanity in some ways. He goes, but Paul, greatly annoyed, make me feel better, turned and said to the Spirit, I command you in the name of Jesus to come out of her.
And he came out of her that very hour and she set free. And because of this, the people that were using this woman to tell people's futures gets upset. And Paul and Silas get put into a jail. And here in verse 23, we're going to pick up again. And when they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison and commanded the jailer to keep them securely. When it says through many stripes in verse 22, it speaks about how they were beaten with rods.
[00:03:17] Speaker A: So Paul and Silas at this point are bloody, scarred up, beaten with rods.
[00:03:21] Speaker B: For preaching the Gospel.
This wasn't the outcome of their disobedience.
[00:03:25] Speaker A: But the outcome of them obeying what.
[00:03:27] Speaker B: God had told them to do led them to being beaten with rods and then thrown into prison.
[00:03:33] Speaker A: So they have this blood dripping down.
[00:03:35] Speaker B: They're thrown into prison and put in the basement in the inner chambers of the prison. So it would have been cold, it would have been wet and they locked up and bleeding in this moment, verse 25.
[00:03:48] Speaker A: But at midnight, Paul and Silas were.
[00:03:50] Speaker B: Praying and singing hymns to God and the prisoners were listening to them.
[00:04:00] Speaker A: I read this verse and I have to wonder their view of Christianity to in arguably one of their most moments, their backs or their face are scarred and bleeding and they're in chains. Yet there's no questioning of the goodness of God.
They aren't turning their back on God. They aren't asking God, why are you here? There's no questioning, there's no pity party. There's no God, why are you doing this to me? I was doing your will. In fact, they just choose to worship God.
That's kind of mind boggling to me because I feel like many of us, including myself, would be like God, if you set me free, I'll worship you.
Like if you do something for me now, I'll worship you. But there was no sign of that. Even in their worst moment, they worshiping God. And the reason why I think this is important to us because I worry for the church at large, because I feel like the church at large. We often one bad day away from.
[00:04:55] Speaker B: Shipwrecking our faith.
[00:04:59] Speaker A: One bad moment, one unanswered prayer, seemingly unanswered, one circumstance. It doesn't line up with my understanding or the expectation I had.
And if you don't meet my expectations, I'm going to shipwreck my faith and turn my back on you.
[00:05:15] Speaker B: Because you didn't do A, B and C yet.
[00:05:19] Speaker A: Paul and Silas Are literally bleeding in chains. And there's no, if you set me free, I'll worship you. It's like, I'm still going to worship you. Was God still good when Paul and Silas were in chains?
Or they have to be set free.
[00:05:35] Speaker B: For him to prove his goodness?
[00:05:39] Speaker A: What does it look like to believe God is good?
Because he certainly is good. But then he defines what good is.
He defines what good is. So you see, Paul and Silas are in this moment of hardship, yet they aren't shipwrecking their faith. And I'm passionate about this because I want a church and a people that walked this out for a long time, including myself. I see too many people fall away and go because God didn't.
[00:06:06] Speaker B: I'm out.
If you have your Bibles, I want to read First Timothy, Chapter 1, Verse 18.
We will also put this on the screen.
This is Paul writing to Timothy, encouraging him.
[00:06:23] Speaker A: He says, this charge, I commit to.
[00:06:24] Speaker B: You, son Timothy, according to the prophecies.
[00:06:27] Speaker A: Previously made concerning you, that by them.
[00:06:30] Speaker B: You may wage the good warfare.
[00:06:33] Speaker A: Can I ask you this afternoon, are.
[00:06:35] Speaker B: You waging warfare with the prophecy spoken over you?
[00:06:40] Speaker A: This is an easy question because it's either yes or no.
There's no in between. There's no objectivity. It's like, yes or no. It's like you are either waging warfare. And you know if you are because you're holding on to God's words.
God gives you words for you to wage warfare in what he's calling you to. It's a gift from God to hold you in the hardest times of your Life.
I remember 10 years ago, I was on vacation in a small town in South Africa and a guy knocked on the door and started giving us prophetic words.
[00:07:11] Speaker B: That doesn't happen to me. I don't know. Like it was God.
[00:07:14] Speaker A: He showed up and he prophesied a verse over me. Can I tell you still to this day, that was 10 years ago, every time I preach, I read the verse.
[00:07:20] Speaker B: He prophesied over me.
[00:07:24] Speaker A: Because that's what waging this warfare looks like.
What words have God spoken over you? Are you using them to wage warfare? We, just, like God, will do it because Paul says here, use the word to wage warfare.
There's a tool that we have that we very rarely use, and it's waging.
[00:07:41] Speaker B: Warfare with prophetic words that God has given us.
[00:07:44] Speaker A: Then he goes on in verse 19, having faith and a good conscience which.
[00:07:50] Speaker B: Some have rejected concerning the faith which suffered shipwreck.
[00:07:56] Speaker A: So he goes on to say, hey, wage warfare with the words I've given.
[00:07:59] Speaker B: You, stand firm in faith and have a good conscience.
Stand firm in faith and have a good conscience.
[00:08:11] Speaker A: And I want to talk a little bit about this piece of having a good conscience before God. What does it look like? Because this is important to us. Because in daily life, as we go through hard hardships and there's opportunities to shipwreck our faith, we have to be really watchful over our internal world.
We have to know that you and I process pain and hardship differently to.
[00:08:30] Speaker B: How the world teaches us to.
[00:08:32] Speaker A: Our journey is very different. You see, if we talk about humility for a second, I think one of the things that sets apart the Christian faith as a whole, if there was one virtue that sets us apart, it's.
[00:08:44] Speaker B: Humility.
[00:08:46] Speaker A: That God would become a man.
[00:08:49] Speaker B: And die for us.
[00:08:49] Speaker A: Many gods proclaim to be loved, but no proclaim to take on humanity and.
[00:08:53] Speaker B: Empty themselves to come.
[00:08:56] Speaker A: It's the thing that sets us apart from every other religion.
And what does this look like for you and I to walk this out in humility? Because I believe humility is the key for us to walk this out and.
[00:09:13] Speaker B: Not be shipwrecked in our faith.
[00:09:16] Speaker A: See, humility is obtained through being watchful of your inner attention.
What do I mean by that? It's the idea of watching over my attention towards heaven. Anything that gets in the way, anything that comes up, whether it's offense or bitterness or hurt, I'm watchful over my attention towards heaven.
And it's paired with a watchfulness that's paired with something like the Jesus prayer, which the Christians before us have prayed for thousands of years, which is Jesus.
[00:09:41] Speaker B: Christ, have mercy on me.
[00:09:43] Speaker A: Meaning that I'm aware of my internal wrestle. I'm aware of what's coming up. And when something comes up, I take it to him and go, God, help.
[00:09:50] Speaker B: Me, help me, I need help.
[00:09:55] Speaker A: It's a watchfulness of an awareness of our need for God, paired with the need being an invitation into dependency on him.
This is humility, being aware of our need for God and knowing that he.
[00:10:09] Speaker B: Will give us the grace to walk it out.
[00:10:15] Speaker A: One of my biggest worries for the church is the entitlement that we sometimes possess.
But when you behold Jesus and what he did, that entitlement begins to crumble.
When you behold that God would empty himself and become a man.
The humility of Jesus to be born in poverty, in a manger, no space in the house, no space in the inn, but in a manger with animals.
When you look at the humility of Jesus that he chooses to submit to his parents, which he made.
He learns and sits in a temple with leaders that exist in him.
Can I tell you Jesus sat and learned under imperfect leaders.
[00:11:08] Speaker B: Okay, we aren't ready for that.
[00:11:10] Speaker A: You think all the people in the temple were perfect?
The humility of Jesus didn't go. Teach me about me.
Yet we have nothing to learn.
The humility of Jesus to be baptized by John.
But we don't need people.
He eats with outcasts, sinners.
Perfect. One eating with sinners, yet that's below us.
Chooses disciples everyone else would overlook.
Washes his feet. Washes the disciples feet. Augustine said the head washed the feet.
[00:11:55] Speaker B: Of his own body.
[00:12:00] Speaker A: Silent before his accusers.
Silent. Can I tell you it's okay to.
[00:12:06] Speaker B: Not have an opinion?
What's your opinion on this? I don't know.
[00:12:13] Speaker A: What's your view about this guy? I don't know that guy.
You know that we're going to be.
[00:12:19] Speaker B: Held accountable for our words before God one day.
[00:12:23] Speaker A: I hear people make the most bizarre.
[00:12:24] Speaker B: Accusations about people they don't even know.
Before God one day.
[00:12:30] Speaker A: Every one of those words I'll be.
[00:12:31] Speaker B: Held accountable for.
[00:12:34] Speaker A: The crucifixion, the humility of Jesus to go. I don't really want to do this. Well, I do for the joy, but this is really hard.
I'm gonna go and pray.
I'm gonna go and pray that God would help me. What does that say when we don't.
[00:12:49] Speaker B: Have a prayer life?
[00:12:55] Speaker A: And then of course, death by a cross. The most humiliating death you could do. Most humiliating death you could receive. And he's not doing it against his will. He's willingly going there.
See, this is humility that Jesus first modeled for each one of us. Beaten by his own creation. Beaten by the people he's dying for.
Augustine was asked. St. Augustine was asked what is the most important virtue of the Christian religion? And he said, I will give you three. The first virtue of the most important is humility.
And second is humility.
[00:13:29] Speaker B: And thirdly is humility.
[00:13:34] Speaker A: Why? Because they didn't see humility as weakness.
Humility was the truth of oneself before God. Strengths and weaknesses.
The truth of oneself before God's strengths and weaknesses. Because the words that Paul spoke rang true in their mind that said, in my weakness he is strong.
[00:13:57] Speaker B: Standing before God, not ashamed of my weakness and not proud of my strength. Because they are all an invitation.
Knowing that every weakness is an invitation into two strength.
[00:14:11] Speaker A: Can I tell you?
[00:14:11] Speaker B: Humility is the antidote to pride.
And pride is the root of all sin.
I wonder if we are so bound by sin in the Church at large because we don't have a revelation of humility.
Too proud to confess our sin, Too proud to ask for prayer.
Humility is the antidote to pride.
Humility is the soil which love, obedience and holiness grow.
Humility is the soil which love, obedience and holiness grow. Why does holiness grow in humility?
[00:14:56] Speaker A: It's like Andrew Murray said, the holiest among us will always be the humblest.
If you want to get behind somebody's holiness and see if they're putting on a show, if it's real, it will always be marked by humility because pride will always lead to sin.
The soil for holiness is humility.
It's humble to receive the cross and consider your works. Filthy rags.
It's humble to receive the cross because it says, I cannot do it.
And my works pale in comparison to his glory.
I used to be much more impressed by my works. And you start beholding the cross and.
[00:15:42] Speaker B: Then you're just thankful to be in the room.
[00:15:45] Speaker A: Anyone else?
[00:15:51] Speaker B: It's humble to receive the cross.
[00:15:53] Speaker A: It's humble to believe you are who.
[00:15:55] Speaker B: Jesus says you are.
[00:15:58] Speaker A: If Jesus says I'm righteous, who am.
[00:16:00] Speaker B: I to tell him he's wrong?
If Jesus says my past is washed away, who am I to tell him he's wrong?
It's humble to receive what he did for us on the cross.
[00:16:12] Speaker A: It's humble to pray.
Our prayerlessness shows that we aren't living independence.
Jesus, in his greatest moment of need, goes to pray. I don't know how we do this life without prayerlessness. I know we can't do it without prayerlessness.
And I know that strong. But Jesus is like, hey, pray so you don't enter into temptation.
And then we confuse. Are we bound by sin?
I know this is strong, but I'm inviting us into. There has to be, like, a real, tangible walk with God. Looks like having a prayer life.
I'm before God. Strengths and weaknesses.
[00:16:52] Speaker B: Lord, have mercy on me.
[00:16:55] Speaker A: God, help me. I need you. God, this temptation is rising in me. I'm not going to go back to sin.
We have to remember, the Bible says, like, hey, you haven't even resisted yet. To bloodshed.
To bloodshed.
[00:17:09] Speaker B: We're like, oh, I had a sleepless night, bro.
[00:17:11] Speaker A: To bloodshed.
It's humble to pray, to go before God and say, God, I need you.
[00:17:25] Speaker B: I'm dependent on you. Jesus modeled this to us.
[00:17:30] Speaker A: Can we live the life we call.
[00:17:32] Speaker B: To live without prayer?
[00:17:37] Speaker A: It's humble to obey and put to.
[00:17:39] Speaker B: Death the flesh, the Outcome of humility is always obedience.
Jesus humbled himself and became obedient. Philippians 2 says, Sometimes we try to cast things out that we need to put to death.
[00:17:56] Speaker A: Can I tell you? You want to put to death the flesh?
[00:17:57] Speaker B: The Holy Spirit is great at putting to death the flesh.
[00:18:00] Speaker A: Obey him.
[00:18:00] Speaker B: He will crucify the flesh.
It's what he does. Galatians says it, obey and it will crucify the flesh.
[00:18:11] Speaker A: It's humble to eat and drink the.
[00:18:13] Speaker B: Body and the blood.
[00:18:15] Speaker A: It's humble to take communion. Paul says, as often as you take this, you proclaim the Lord's death till he comes.
Can I ask us, do we need to proclaim his death once a month?
I don't know about you. I need it more than that.
You can take it as often as you like.
And it proclaims his death in our life. It proclaims resurrection power in our life. How could we not utilize it if he's given us it freely?
It's humble to take communion, to realize our need for God.
It's humble to do life in community.
Who will baptize you?
Who will marry you?
[00:19:06] Speaker B: We are designed to do life in community.
[00:19:09] Speaker A: It's humble to submit to leadership.
[00:19:14] Speaker B: That one's always quiet.
[00:19:18] Speaker A: It's humble to confess your sins to one another.
You want healing?
[00:19:26] Speaker B: Confess your sin.
[00:19:27] Speaker A: We're so proud.
[00:19:28] Speaker B: Proud. Sometimes no one can know.
[00:19:31] Speaker A: I can't tell anyone.
[00:19:32] Speaker B: What do they think about me?
It's pride that holds us back.
[00:19:37] Speaker A: It's the root of all sin. Fall in love with confession.
If you want to walk this out for a long time, fall in love with confession.
You will feel God's grace and the promise of His Word where it says, his grace will rest on the humble.
So often we praying for breakthrough and God just waiting for us to confess and humble ourselves.
[00:20:07] Speaker B: I'm sorry, this mic's annoying me.
It's humble to repent from dead works.
If Jesus paid for me to be free, I don't want to live in it.
[00:20:20] Speaker A: It's humble to have one boast, as Paul said.
[00:20:22] Speaker B: I boast in Jesus Christ and Him crucified, by whom the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.
Andrew Murray said this.
The keys can come up. Andrew Murray said this.
[00:20:37] Speaker A: Humble yourself every day and descend into.
[00:20:41] Speaker B: Perfect, helpless dependency on God.
That's a good word.
[00:20:48] Speaker A: Descend every day into perfect, helpless dependency on God.
You've heard me say it over and over again. The person in the room I'm the most worried about is the one that is Unaware of their need for God.
That's who I'm worried about.
[00:21:10] Speaker B: Humble yourself every day and descend into perfect and helpless dependency on God.
Turn with me to Second Corinthians or we'll put it up on the screen. Second Corinthians, chapter 11.
This passage is actually right before where Paul says to the church of Corinth that in my weakness he is strong.
I want us to look at what Paul goes through here. Starting in verse 23 at the end, he says, in stripes above measure, meaning being whipped above measure in prisons, more frequently in deaths, often from the Jews. Five times I received 40 stripes minus.
[00:22:14] Speaker A: One, which means just from the Jews alone.
[00:22:16] Speaker B: He has 195 scars on his back.
Three times I was beaten with a rod. One of those times was the one we read about in Acts chapter 16.
Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked.
[00:22:30] Speaker A: A night and a day I was lost at the sea.
So he's shipwrecked. He's literally lost at sea for a day and a night.
He's beaten. Think about Paul. He's literally got scars all over his back from being beaten by rods and being whipped. Yet he's the same one that says, I've learned to be content no matter.
[00:22:49] Speaker B: What I'm going through.
[00:22:54] Speaker A: Does Paul still believe God is good? Can God still be good and this all be happening to him?
Does the verse that comes later where God responds, my grace is sufficient for you. Does that fit into your theology where God can say, my grace is sufficient for you?
Can God respond that to you in hardship?
[00:23:16] Speaker B: Hey, there's grace for you.
[00:23:20] Speaker A: Is he allowed to say that to us?
Because he certainly said it to Paul.
Shipwrecked. Yet his faith stands strong.
So how is it that I'm. One bad day or one unanswered prayer, Think about the entitlement of that. Like God, if you do this, then you'll be good.
See, anytime our prayer list is longer than what we thankful for. We're in a dangerous place.
Has he not done enough?
Like, I got to wake up this morning and God be in my room. Is that not enough?
Is him dying on the cross for me not enough? Because somehow we think if you do this, then maybe it will be sufficient.
Are you saying that's greater than what he already did?
Like, is God in your room?
His presence in this room right now, is that not enough for us?
Or does he still have to prove his goodness to us?
We're like, I want to be like Jesus. I'm like, are you sure look at the life that he walked. The cross is not just something we sing about, it's something we are conformed to.
I used to pray the prayer all the time, and I still do. Ten years ago, when I first started burning for the Lord. Lord manifest through me more today than you did yesterday.
That's still my prayer. But back then it was power, healings, deliverances.
[00:24:49] Speaker B: And now it's gentleness, kindness, long suffering, learning to tame my tongue.
[00:24:57] Speaker A: We want to be like him, but we don't want to go through hardships. How is that possible?
I want to be like Jesus. Okay, he carried a cross.
He is our Savior, but he's also our patent son, meaning our example of the Christian faith.
You see, in Philippians 3:10, he says this that I may know him, Jesus and the power of his resurrection and.
[00:25:27] Speaker B: The fellowship of his suffering.
[00:25:29] Speaker A: Can you separate the two?
Sometimes these messages like, wow, that's so intense. I don't know. This is the roadmap to freedom, The fellowship of his sufferings, that in your hardship you are married to Christ.
See, so often I hear people that.
[00:25:58] Speaker B: Will be like, how?
Like, think about Paul, for instance.
[00:26:01] Speaker A: Do you think Paul is asking, if God is good, why does he allow suffering?
I don't think he is because he.
[00:26:09] Speaker B: Met the man with holes in his hands.
[00:26:14] Speaker A: See, a generation that never truly met him asks that question.
How can you meet the man with.
[00:26:20] Speaker B: Holes in his hands and say, if.
[00:26:21] Speaker A: You'Re good, you won't allow suffering?
You think Paul still thought God was.
[00:26:32] Speaker B: Good as his back is scarred from being whipped?
I think Paul was free.
[00:26:39] Speaker A: I think Paul was lost at sea for a day and a night, not questioning the goodness of God because he understood the one who he met too suffered.
I'm just trying to give you a realistic view of the road that we signed up for.
Suffering is fellowship with God.
Hardships magnify the goodness of God because.
[00:27:05] Speaker B: It proves God's grace is stronger than your circumstance.
[00:27:10] Speaker A: So often people like Romans 8:28, God will make all things work together for our good. Amen.
My question is, why is it always.
[00:27:18] Speaker B: Connected to material possessions?
[00:27:23] Speaker A: God will make oh yeah, yeah.
[00:27:24] Speaker B: He might form patience in you.
[00:27:27] Speaker A: Hardships come. God will somehow make it monetarily work out for me.
I don't know. What if there's a higher way?
What if God used that situation to form patience in you?
You see how we've lowered it down? Like anytime something gets hard, God will give me an upgrade here. Maybe in Christ likeness.
See, our mind jumps to Romans 8:28, because material possessions have become an idol.
So anytime something gets hard, God will give me and maybe he will, but maybe he will form dependency in Christ. Like what is your highest goal?
See, I think Paul was lost at sea for day and a night going, God, I thank you for these trials which produce character and faith in me.
I thank you that I'm becoming Christ, like right now, like I'm trusting that you will do this miracle. But even if you don't, you are faithful and you are good.
God is so good that he will use a circumstance to form you to form Christ in you.
Hardship magnifies the goodness of God because.
[00:28:36] Speaker B: It proves grace is stronger than circumstances.
[00:28:41] Speaker A: See, Paul is in prison worshipping.
[00:28:44] Speaker B: Why?
[00:28:46] Speaker A: You know that that verse where he says in Philippians 3:10, hey, you'll be conformed to a suffering. He's writing to the church that was.
[00:28:54] Speaker B: Birthed through his blood and chains. In Acts 16.
[00:29:00] Speaker A: They understood this very meeting hall that we in. And God moving was birthed through these men bleeding and worshiping. And when they worshiped and their pain, an earthquake came and the whole place came crumbling down. They understood that those men were the.
[00:29:16] Speaker B: Reason that they got to experience this.
[00:29:20] Speaker A: Does Romans 8:28 still apply to people that were martyred for his faith?
Material possessions didn't come their way.
[00:29:27] Speaker B: But the church, they were the seed for the church.
[00:29:33] Speaker A: We have such a narrow minded view sometimes Paul and Silas are in prison because they know God will use the circumstance to form me if he wants to set me free.
[00:29:46] Speaker B: Amazing.
[00:29:46] Speaker A: If he doesn't, he is still enough.
[00:29:51] Speaker B: That's why they can worship.
[00:29:54] Speaker A: That's why often we one bad day away from shipwrecking our faith because we've allowed the enemy to talk us out.
[00:30:00] Speaker B: Of the true gospel.
[00:30:03] Speaker A: To whisper in our ears who we are.
To allow disappointment and entitlement to creep.
[00:30:08] Speaker B: In where the cross is no longer enough.
He is enough.
[00:30:14] Speaker A: See, in the modern day we say if God is good, he will remove this.
But the true ethos of the churches of God is good.
[00:30:23] Speaker B: He will use this.
[00:30:32] Speaker A: We today say if God is good.
[00:30:33] Speaker B: He will remove this.
But the true ethos of the church is if God is good, he will use this.
I'm passionate about this because we need a church that even on our worst day we trust that God will form us.
[00:30:47] Speaker A: We shall serve such a good God. And this is not to say God is not good, to say he's better.
[00:30:52] Speaker B: Than you thought he was.
But his goal is one goal, to form Christ in you.
[00:30:59] Speaker A: It's not an easy life, it's to Form Christ in you. And can I tell you the joy expressible in that place?
Resurrection life comes through this journey.
Hardships will come and God will use them.
[00:31:16] Speaker B: Hardships have already come and God is using them.
[00:31:22] Speaker A: People in this room today, they're blaming God for situations. Can I tell you what if those.
[00:31:26] Speaker B: Situations we apply Romans 8:28 to God wants to use them, you go, it's hard.
[00:31:32] Speaker A: You know what Jesus did when it was hard?
[00:31:33] Speaker B: He went to his father and said, help me.
Welcome to dependency.
Can we stand right now?
I appreciate that, Jesus. We love you.
Lord. We pray that we would never shipwreck our faith.
Lord, I pray that we would never know a day outside of your presence. Every person in this room, including myself, Lord, we are aware of our need for you. Lord, we need you. Jesus.
We stand before you, God, every strength and every weakness, aware of our need for you.
[00:32:20] Speaker A: Help us, Lord.
[00:32:22] Speaker B: Lord, we say yes to being formed into the image of your son.
What I want to do right now is I felt specifically in prayer, like I said a few weeks ago, that God wants to work in miracles this morning.
And Marjorie, she takes me this morning not knowing. She's like, I feel like God's going to heal people.
So I want us to pray for you. This is a part of community. This is where it says, hey, bring the sick to the church and they'll anoint them and pray for them and go into all the world and lay your hands on the sick. We want to pray for you.
[00:32:56] Speaker A: So if that's you this afternoon and.
[00:32:57] Speaker B: You need a miracle healing in your body, I just want you to come forward right now. Just make your way out of your seeds. Come forward, anything at all from a small toe. Don't let pride get in the way of you.
[00:33:06] Speaker A: Can God not heal your small toe?
[00:33:09] Speaker B: Sometimes people are like, well, I'm not.
[00:33:10] Speaker A: Going forward because what if somebody else has cancer?
[00:33:12] Speaker B: That's to assume that God's power is limited.
[00:33:17] Speaker A: God's not limited.
[00:33:18] Speaker B: He's not like, I've got four miracles.
[00:33:22] Speaker A: The cross paid for it all.
[00:33:23] Speaker B: Anyone else come? You can come, you can stand, you can heal, whatever you want.
[00:33:26] Speaker A: Just come right now. Any healing at all. Even if you've been prayed for before.
[00:33:34] Speaker B: You might not even have faith for healing. That's okay. We have some believers around you today.
Thank you, Jesus.
If the ministry team can begin to pray, any pastors in the room can begin to pray.
Lord, we thank you for your healing presence.
Thank you, Jesus, for healing.
I want the team to pray with authority.
Sickness has no place.
It's already been paid for on the cross. Lord, we thank you for your healing presence right now. We thank you for all that you've done. Lord, we thank you for every miracle right now, touching every sick body.
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