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Pastor Joel Wolfe | Dec 28th 2025

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  1. Father and Jesus name. Lord God, I think you right

  2. now that your holy spirit is just going to speak

  3. through me. Lord God, I think you right now that

  4. I have prepared the horse has been made ready for battle,

  5. but the victory is yours. And God, I think you

  6. right now that these people in this room right now

  7. open up their hearts. They open up their hearts and

  8. their minds and their souls. Lord God, they are open

  9. books before you, Father, right on their hearts. Divide, use

  10. the sword, cut out anything that needs to be cut out,

  11. but Father God, that they might understand the heart beat

  12. of you, which is love in Jesus's name. Amen, are

  13. you ready? Buckle up, Buttercup, it's coming. I'm fun country too.

  14. So if you leave church on Sunday morning and you

  15. don't cry your eyeballs out and laugh, I have failed you. Okay.

  16. So I teach parenting around here. How many of you

  17. have been through my parenting class? Oh, Halla, Louijah, We've

  18. been doing it for years. There is I like to

  19. give parents hacks. You know what I mean by hacks

  20. where there's like one line zingers that kind of fix

  21. a lot of things, you know, because the kids come

  22. to you and they're like that, and you're like, what

  23. do I do with that? Right? And so one of

  24. one of my hacks, one of my good liners is

  25. and I've usually given it to the parents when they're

  26. the kids are fighting back, you know, kind of whining

  27. and fussing and wanting to debate. Any of your children

  28. ever want to debate your word of truth, and they

  29. want to debate. So the one liner hack, And if

  30. you walk away with nothing else this morning, this is it.

  31. You can look at them in the eye and you

  32. can say, I love you too much to fight with you. Right.

  33. So this line of I love you too much is

  34. a wonderful thing that helps you bring together truth with love.

  35. I love you too much to let you eat that

  36. whole bag of candy. It sounds all lot better than

  37. stop eating all that candy, right, I love you too

  38. much to let you Okay fill in the blank. So parents,

  39. you can take that home, use it, spouses can use it.

  40. I love you too much to leave the toilet seat up. Okay,

  41. never mind, I didn't try that first service, didn't go

  42. over well second, so I think I'll take that off

  43. my notes. Okay, So about two weeks ago they say

  44. that the word that has cut the preacher becomes the

  45. most powerful word. And I will tell you that the

  46. next coming thirty minutes is a rundown of what this

  47. little preacher has been going through for the last two weeks.

  48. So my goal here is that I'm just gonna kind

  49. of let you in the window of my world and if,

  50. if by any chance, the word might partially possibly apply

  51. to you, grab it and run. Okay, join me in

  52. my pain. But there was a moment about two weeks

  53. ago that I had a Holy Spirit moment where I

  54. heard him say, Joel, I love you too much to

  55. let you, and then he filled in the blank. And

  56. when you hear that from Holy Spirit, you're kind of like,

  57. there's a huge piece of me that wanted to say, yeah, right,

  58. you love me. That is not even nice, that's mean.

  59. And God, a God is a god of love, and

  60. a God of love doesn't make me do that. No, Joel,

  61. I love you too much to let you. And I

  62. was kind of stunned. I had to work through my rebellion,

  63. my frustration, my everything, and I had to start listening.

  64. Maybe you can relate. Okay, So my story starts back

  65. in twenty twenty in COVID. Remember COVID, who lived through COVID.

  66. I think you're all old enough to have no COVID. Well,

  67. COVID hit, and this little girl's response was to go

  68. into deep intercession and warfare prayer. Anybody there with me

  69. during COVID, you knew something was wrong and I, I mean,

  70. I'd always been a little bit warfairy. I kind of

  71. liked praying death upon evil and all sorts of things.

  72. I kind of enjoyed doing that, but I got even

  73. more and my war cry of uncover and cover, reveal, reveal, expose,

  74. expose the evil in the world. It was me and

  75. God against all the evil that was coming out. And

  76. I knew he was my buddy and we were working together. Amen,

  77. we were just like this. Now, let me describe to

  78. the me part of this. Okay, So the me part

  79. of miss of this is I am kind of a

  80. little black and white. Even though I'm fun and nice

  81. and warm and cozy and loving, I'm pretty black and

  82. white right and wrong. Right, And the part of I

  83. also really love the concept of God being the cleansing judge. Okay,

  84. so that's my part of the duo. God's part of

  85. the duo to be honest with you, he felt exactly

  86. the same as I did, and I just knew it.

  87. So now fast forward to twenty twenty five. Me and

  88. God are continually like this. We're still praying, believing, warfare,

  89. prayer and over everything. But at this moment I'm starting

  90. to get a little perturbed because in reality, he ain't

  91. doing his side of the job. He's the cleansing jaw,

  92. you know, the cleansing judge, and I'm the one supposed

  93. to be praying and believing, and he's not holding up

  94. his end of the bargain. And I'm getting kind of

  95. mad at him, and I'm getting more and more mad

  96. at all the evil. Okay, so this is kind of

  97. my brain set. This is my mind so the other week,

  98. and please know that there were other issues that were

  99. kind of playing into this as well, where I was

  100. starting to misalign myself and I needed help. God loved

  101. me too much to leave me where I was at,

  102. and if I had continued, it wouldn't be good. It

  103. wouldn't be good for me, it wouldn't be good for

  104. my dear husband. Oh and it would not be good

  105. for you. So I decided a couple months back to

  106. do a deep dive into the psalms. And you know,

  107. the psalms are kind of like a crackerjack box. You

  108. open up the box and every box has a new

  109. little surprise in it, and you never know what your

  110. surprise is gonna be. So with every psalm, there's a

  111. new surprise about right to spring upon you. Either David

  112. is screaming and moaning and crying because everybody hates it,

  113. and then the next one, God is so good, and

  114. then the next one you knows, you know what I'm

  115. talking about, right, So you never know. So every morning.

  116. So this morning, this particular morning, I got me a

  117. little mug of tea, my tea, and it's dark outside,

  118. and I sat down next to the Christmas tree, and

  119. I had my little blanket and my little foot heater,

  120. and I got out my Bible and I was all

  121. ready to go and just taste and see what that.

  122. The Lord is good in Psalm fifty. So I landed

  123. on Psalm fifty and I open up Psalm fifty and

  124. here we go, right, so we're gonna read this one.

  125. The first verse, the mighty one God, the Lord speaks

  126. and summons the earth from the rising of the sun.

  127. To the place where it sets, and all of a

  128. sudden I knew we were in for a good one.

  129. I love it. The three names of God. The mighty

  130. one that is the word l that is that push him.

  131. He's at the top of the god food chain.

  132. He is the mightiest, most powerful, most holy, most incredible God.

  133. And then the next word there God, just plain God.

  134. That God word right there is Elohim. So he is

  135. the highest of all of the spiritual things. He is

  136. the top once again the food chain of the God

  137. out there, and he is so mighty and so powerful.

  138. This is how the psalmist starts. And then the next

  139. word Lord. Do you notice that it's all capitalized. When

  140. you see the word Lord all capitalized, he's referring to

  141. the word Yahweh, which is not only the big God,

  142. mighty God, powerful, almighty, holy God, but he's the covenant

  143. God with his creation. So there's a different meaning in

  144. LRD when they're capitalized. It's telling you about how much

  145. he cares about us, that there is a love in

  146. this God, a caring for his creation, a covenanting with

  147. you and me, who are not God. I'm kind of

  148. liking this psalm. I'm thinking this is gonna be a

  149. grand one. It's gonna be a doozy. So I take

  150. another sip of my tea and say, okay, God, let's go.

  151. Let's go. You're summoning the earth, the whole earth, all

  152. the peoples from Zion, perfect in beauty. God shines forth.

  153. Our God comes and will not be silent. Hallelujah. You're

  154. finally gonna do your thing. You're with me now. A

  155. fire devours before him and around him, A tempest rages.

  156. The word fire there is a word that brings about

  157. active judgment. The word tempest means overwhelming power. Oh yeah,

  158. this is a good one. This is a doozy. These

  159. are the kind of psalms I love. So he gathers awe.

  160. So he summons the heavens above and the earth. And

  161. here's where it takes a turn that he may judge

  162. his people, like wait, wait a second, judge your people.

  163. There's a whole world out there to judge. We're all

  164. here standing watching, listening to you roll in with fire

  165. and thunder, and you're coming after your people. There's got

  166. to be a typo. Gather to me, my consecrated ones

  167. who made us covenant with me, by sacrifice, and the

  168. heavens proclaim his righteousness. For God himself is judge here,

  169. oh my people, and I will speak, oh Israel, and

  170. I will testify against you. So now I'm in it

  171. to win it, but I'm not liking it. And I

  172. want to give you a little hint, people of God.

  173. There are some things in the Old Testament that are

  174. completed in the Old Testament and don't come over into

  175. the New Testament. That would be ceremonial laws, the sacrificial system.

  176. All of that does not make it through the Cross.

  177. But there's a lot in the Old Testament that make

  178. said all the way through the Cross and into today.

  179. And this is something that we're gonna talk about here today.

  180. Even though we're reading from the Old Testament, it comes

  181. to us into the New Testament. But here's a truth

  182. from the Lord. God loves you too much to let

  183. you do anything that is against his word. He loves

  184. you too much, and he will convict you privately. But

  185. if the private conviction won't work, he has no bones

  186. about taking you public. I'm like, God, are you kidding me?

  187. In front of all the world. You're gonna judge your

  188. people first, And I know Over the last couple of years,

  189. there's been some judging of some of his consecrated ones

  190. very publicly. I want to listen to him privately. So

  191. I don't want my stuff. How many of you have, well,

  192. don't raise your hand. Anybody got some stuff, raise your

  193. hand on the inside. I don't want my stuff drug

  194. out before the world. I want to be judged privately,

  195. and that's what he prefers to do. So let's keep

  196. moving on Verse eight. I do not rebuke you for

  197. your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, which are ever before me.

  198. I have no need of a bull from your stall,

  199. or of goats your pens. For every animal in the

  200. forest is mine, and the cattle on the Thousand Hills,

  201. I know. Every bird in the mountain, and the creatures

  202. of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I

  203. would not tell you, for the world is the whole

  204. world is mine, and all that is in it. Do

  205. I eat the flesh of bulls or drank the blood

  206. of goats? And what he's talking, he says it it's poetic,

  207. so it's repetitive. But what he's saying is, I'm not

  208. going to rebuke you for all of your obedience. You

  209. have been following my instructions about sacrifice and about all

  210. of that to a tee' I don't want. I'm not

  211. here to rebuke you about that. But he's saying that

  212. ain't all it's about. So now he's going to go

  213. on here and he's going to start unveiling what it

  214. is about sacrifice, Thank offings to God. Fulfill your vows

  215. to the Holy One, and call upon me in the

  216. day of trouble, and I will deliver you and you

  217. will honor me. This these two verse here they shift

  218. to the heart. I need you to be thankful. I

  219. need you to to fulfill your your promises to me.

  220. I need in the time of trouble, call upon me

  221. and I will be don't don't turn to anything else.

  222. So God is saying here, I'm not gonna rebeal you

  223. got all the outside going on, you are being obedient.

  224. I am wanting See.

  225. God's love for you is a little ruthless. God's love

  226. for you goes so deep. He's so jealous and ruthless.

  227. He doesn't want just the outer stuff from you.

  228. He wants to go down into your very depths of

  229. your being. He wants to own your heart too. Oh,

  230. and we give him his our heart. Everything comes into

  231. alignment verse sixteen. But to the wicked God says, and

  232. now I'm thinking to myself, Okay, now it's turning around.

  233. We're gonna get back to business. But instead he says,

  234. what right have you to recite my laws or take

  235. my covenant on your lips? By talking about his law

  236. and his covenant, it's very apparent he's not talking about

  237. the world and the earth yet, He's still talking about

  238. his people. But he's his word is a little harsh there.

  239. It's a little harsh, wicked what you hate my instruction

  240. and cast my word behind you. When you see a thief,

  241. you join in with him. You throw in your lot

  242. with the adulters. You use your mouthful evil and harness

  243. your tongue for deceit. You speak continually against your brother

  244. and slander your own mother's son. Now he's getting a

  245. little personal. You hate my instruction and cast my words

  246. behind you. Pastor George, you're getting a little rough on

  247. me right now. It's not me, it's Psal. I'm fifty.

  248. Beat me up pretty good. The word picture in that

  249. sentence is a very holy, consecrated saint walking with the scriptures,

  250. reading it and going mmm, eh, oh that's good. That's good. Yeah,

  251. not really for me, picking and choosing, casting the word

  252. behind you. When you see a thief, you join, I

  253. have stolen nothing. But I will tell you that sometimes

  254. I kind of work things. You know, when you have

  255. to share the piece of cake with your brother, and

  256. you kind of cut the cake a little bigger on

  257. one side and then the other, and then you take

  258. the big sign just saying you throw your lot in

  259. with adulters. Well, I've never had adulterree Jesus, But can

  260. I remind you that Jesus is teachings said, if you

  261. even look with lust in your heart, you've broken the law.

  262. Oh see, God does God that he's a little ruthless,

  263. isn't he a little ruthless, getting a little personal, a

  264. little deep, a little harsh. He loves us too much

  265. to let us. You use your mouth for evil, and

  266. harness your tongue for deceit. You speak continually against your

  267. brother and slender your own mother's son. And this is

  268. one of the nights that kind of cut me, because

  269. I had been experiencing some things by some people, and

  270. I was kind of ticked off. It wasn't fair, it

  271. wasn't nice, it wasn't right. I had every right to

  272. tell my story, did I now? Verse twenty one, these

  273. things you have done and I kept silent. You thought

  274. I was all together like you? Yeah? Wow? That first

  275. half of that verse, these things you have done and

  276. I have kept silent. The Passion translation says it like this,

  277. and I love it. All this you have done, and

  278. I've kept silent. So you thought I was just like

  279. you sanctioning evil. Now remember that very first verse talks

  280. about who God is, mighty, powerful, holy. That's not me.

  281. I'm right here. But this verse in twenty one says

  282. you thought I was all together like you. The problem

  283. with sin is that sometimes God keeps quiet about it.

  284. Why does he do that? If you were to ask

  285. the Lord, he would say, because I'm giving you time

  286. to repent, time to turn. Honey. I've been working with you.

  287. You know, you know my heart. Come on, conviction, come on,

  288. it's better over Your life is better this way. He's

  289. working with you. You hear a sermon, you hear a

  290. little voice, and you have opportunity. Because he's keeping silent,

  291. you have opportunity to turn but instead God's people interpret

  292. his silence as accepting compromise. And when we accept compromise,

  293. we start thinking in our head, well, maybe God, you know,

  294. he understands, yeah, you know, a little bit here and there,

  295. he understands. There's a lot of grace in the cross.

  296. God is God is a good God. God is a

  297. good God. And so we start remaking God to be

  298. someone like me. I'm trying to be nice, but sometimes

  299. the word just cuts it. Just like that. C. S.

  300. Lewis speaks in Mere Christianity and he says, in God,

  301. you come up against something which is in every respect

  302. immeasurably superior to you. And unless you know that, you

  303. know God is that, and therefore know yourself is nothing

  304. in comparison, you do not know God at all. That

  305. raises a terrible question, how is it that people who

  306. are eaten up with pride can say that they believe

  307. in God and appear to be ever so wonderful. I'm

  308. afraid they are worshiping an imaginary God. They're theoretically admitting

  309. they theoretically admit themselves to be nothing in the presence

  310. of this phantom God, but are really all the time

  311. imagining how He approves of them and thinks them far

  312. better than other people. For for you, my dear precious saints.

  313. When we compromise and God's giving us time to come

  314. to him and repent, we have a couple of options.

  315. We can either repent and come back to Him, or

  316. we can begin to think that God is altogether like us.

  317. But I am here to say God is nothing like us.

  318. We are to become all together like him and his

  319. work in our hearts and he will never stop until

  320. we die. Is to be coming to us saying honey,

  321. I love you too much to let you do this.

  322. Come with me and become more like me. Become all

  323. together like me. Become all together like me. Stop making

  324. me be like you. I want you to become like me.

  325. Oh but God, if you want me to be like you,

  326. I have to fit inside. I have to be like Christ.

  327. Christ in me. I in Christ. I don't fit on

  328. the wrong shape. I carry anger, I have fear, bitterness,

  329. I have unforgiveness. And God says, no, don't make me

  330. be like you. Don't show my love through your lens.

  331. You come. You come and become altogether like me. Break break, break, break.

  332. Break off everything that you carry in your.

  333. Heart and in your mind. That is contrary. It hurts.

  334. I didn't like what he was bringing to me. But

  335. in reality, when we modernize the Gospel, it always removes

  336. his holiness, and we lose the holiness of God. We

  337. tend to create a God of our own making. I

  338. spent a few days walking around in a lot of humility,

  339. and I'm not gonna lie. It went between what I

  340. call conviction and condemnation. The Bible talks about both. Conviction

  341. is straight from Holy Spirit. Condemnation is straight from hell.

  342. Conviction is the Holy Spirit saying, come on, life's better

  343. over here. Come on, come on, let it go. Just

  344. let it go and love. I don't want to love.

  345. They don't deserve it. Come on, let it go.

  346. Life's better here, y'ah. But you don't know, Yes, I

  347. do know.

  348. Let it go. It's a song, right, How many of

  349. you were thinking that I won't even try. My little

  350. Ellie can sing it real good? Okay, Come back to me.

  351. Where was I let it go? So it took me

  352. a couple days to put God back on the throne,

  353. back into who he was and his holiness, and realign

  354. myself underneath it of his child his creature, say by

  355. grace covered in the blood setting aside condemnation. Condemnation is

  356. when the judge's gavel hits and you are sentenced to death.

  357. Conviction says honey, before you go, before the judge, come

  358. on over here, let's make it right. That's what Holy

  359. Spirit does. So it was time to move to the

  360. next psalm, Psalm fifty one. I got brave enough see

  361. what we got here. So before you put it up

  362. on the screens, though, let me the very beginning of it.

  363. It says for the director of music. You know, there's

  364. always this little addendum at the beginning? Is I called

  365. an addendum preface? I don't know. A psalm of day

  366. when the prophet Nathan came to him after David had

  367. committed adultery with Bathsheba. Now context, David, young boy anointed

  368. as king, mighty man of faith. I watched the David movie.

  369. Even how many of you watched the David What a movie.

  370. I want to be just like him, this kid singing

  371. and going out against Goliath and the faith and the obedience.

  372. He was amazing, and he worshiped, and he brought sacrifices

  373. before the Lord and his heart is the same as God.

  374. Him and God are just like this, and his heart

  375. is close to God. And then one day he wakes

  376. up and he looks over the balcony and he's consumed

  377. with lust. He's consumed with jealousy. He's consumed with what

  378. he sees. And then he commits adultery, and then he

  379. commits murder, and then he lies about it. That's four

  380. of the commandments, the ten commandments, at least four right there.

  381. He does all this stuff, and he goes to bed,

  382. and he wakes up in the morning. No lightning bolts.

  383. He puts back on his kingly robe, puts his crown in.

  384. Everybody comes out, Oh, your Highness, yourhiness. Sunday rolls around

  385. time to go to church, kind of walks into church,

  386. no lightning bolts, nothing. He starts thinking, well, hmm, maybe

  387. God's holiness isn't what I thought it was. Maybe his

  388. requirement of those ten commandments are quite what I thought

  389. it was. And David begins to reconstruct God altogether like him.

  390. For a year. This went on for a year. He

  391. came into the tent, danced before the Lord, saying, worshiped,

  392. brought sacrifices, did everything on the outside, but his heart

  393. had moved away. He looked good, but his heart so

  394. one day, I don't know, during that whole year, I'm

  395. sure Holy Spirit, I don't know. Holy Spirit is Old Testament.

  396. I don't know, but you know, I think I probably

  397. shouldn't have done that conviction reading the word. Ooh yeah, well,

  398. nothing happened. I'm doing pretty good until God ended his

  399. silence and brought Nathan to publicly bring truth to him.

  400. God loved David too much to let David be comfortable

  401. in his compromise. And God loved God David too much

  402. to let David reconstruct God's holiness, lowering it down to

  403. his level and just walk around like everything's fine, people

  404. of God. God loved me too much for me to

  405. walk in my compromise, my unlovingness, all the things, and

  406. it took him breaking. Now nobody publicly came to me,

  407. because praise the Lord, I came to him first. But

  408. I'm bringing it publicly because I wanted to help you.

  409. New Horizon is going to be a church filled with humility.

  410. New Horizon is a church that fails, filled with people

  411. that fail. But we know exactly what to do with

  412. our failures. Horizon as a church, that we will not

  413. serve a God of our own making, but we will

  414. serve the God Elohim the Mighty one. Hallelujah, Yahweh, Jehovah, Jirah.

  415. Everything that is the God I will serve. And it

  416. took me a few days to put God back on

  417. the throne and me to extradite myself as being co ruler.

  418. God is altogether not like me. God is not me,

  419. Praise the Lord. And I am in the process of

  420. becoming altogether like him. Amen. So here's the cool thing.

  421. Remember I told you we're gonna get Psalm fifty one.

  422. God is holy, He's the creator of all things, He's

  423. all powerful ways, and his thoughts are higher than mine.

  424. I will not cast his words behind me, not one,

  425. not one single one. I will not hate his instruction,

  426. but I will yield to it. We must undo the

  427. God of our making, and instead we must all become

  428. altogether like him, conform to his image. That means I

  429. have to break. That means I have to be honest

  430. and confess. I'd rather get up you here and tell

  431. you how cool I am. Be like me because I'm

  432. so good. But I found myself weeping before the Lord

  433. in great humility. Now, is this a works sermon? No,

  434. thisays a heart sermon. This is a heart sermon because

  435. if I can align my heart well, I can move

  436. into twenty six and God is free to do everything

  437. he wants to do. So would you join me in

  438. a little bit of contemplation? Would you join me? After

  439. a second service? It was pretty cute for service. I

  440. made a lot of really good points and there was

  441. very little clapping. It's like, I'm thinking, this is not

  442. going over well at all. But I guess this sermon

  443. needs to work in our souls. I had to bring it, you, guys,

  444. I had to. I kept fussing at the Lord. No,

  445. I want to bring the fun ones makes us all

  446. feel happy. And God says, this will make you happy.

  447. This will make you truly happy, because when we let

  448. go of anything in our souls and in our hearts

  449. that are misaligned, we truly become the better version of ourselves.

  450. Let go of fear, people of God, let go let

  451. go of lust, let go of anger, let go of offense,

  452. let go of everything that contorts you out of the

  453. image of Christ. And you're constantly being preached at take

  454. on the image of Christ, and you're like, I'm trying, No,

  455. this is the image of Christ. Let it go, and

  456. once again, don't sing the song. But what's a better

  457. way to say that? Let it go? No, let go

  458. release it. I'm hoping the Holy Spirit right now is

  459. talking in your heart. Maybe you got it all together.

  460. I sure hope so. Maybe, but maybe there's a little

  461. something something Maybe I don't know. I don't know. We're

  462. so we gotta be great at both where the outer

  463. works are in place, but we don't get our salvation

  464. through them. We're just obedient through them. We have an

  465. obedient heart, but our hearts on the inside are so aligned.

  466. Let holy spirits speak right now. Maybe if you have notes,

  467. write it down, maybe he'll bring you something this afternoon

  468. or the next day. But here's the beauty of our God.

  469. Remember that covenant. Yahweh. He's so connected with you, he's

  470. so in love with you. He doesn't leave us in

  471. our brokenness. He meets us there and he heals us there,

  472. and he brings us into great things. David, pray to

  473. prayer in Psalm fifty one, and I want to pray

  474. it over you. I want you to pray it with me.

  475. I want you to pray it through with me. I'm

  476. going to read Psalm fifty one out of the passion,

  477. and then we'll be done. You can go about your day.

  478. I've messed with you far enough. Just take a moment,

  479. take a deep breath, and just listen the Holy Spirit. Listen.

  480. We're here because we love God, we need God, we

  481. want God. Let's just say we want Him all the

  482. way down, not just on the surface. So let this

  483. sink in with you. Okay, it's the passion. It'll be

  484. on the screens, but I don't want you to get

  485. lost in reading the words unless that helps you. Let

  486. it come in close your eyes, if you can find

  487. a place of humility in your soul. Pride, it is said,

  488. is the worst of sins, because remember it's pride that

  489. made Lucifer Lucifer. We have to let it go. So

  490. here's David. God, give me mercy from your fountain of forgiveness.

  491. I know your abundant love is enough to wash away

  492. my guilt because your compassion is so great. Take away

  493. this shameful guilt of sin, forgive the full extent of

  494. my rebellious ways, and erase this deep stain on my conscience,

  495. for I am so ashamed. I feel such pain and

  496. anguish within me. I can't get away from the sting

  497. of my sin against you. Lord.

  498. Everything I did, I did right in front of you,

  499. and you saw it all against you, and you above

  500. have I sinned. Everything you say to me is infallibly true,

  501. and your judgment conquers me. Lord, I have been a

  502. sinner from birth, from the moment my mother conceived me.

  503. I know that you delight, who set your truth deep

  504. in my spirit. So come into the hidden places of

  505. my heart and teach me wisdom. Purify my conscience, make

  506. this leper clean again.

  507. Wash me in your love until I am pure in heart.

  508. Satisfy me in your sweetness, and your song of joy

  509. will return. The places within me you have crushed will

  510. rejoice in your healing touch. Hide my sins from your face,

  511. erase all my guilt by your saving grace, Create a

  512. new clean heart within me. People of God, he is.

  513. So ready fill me with pure thoughts and holy desires,

  514. ready to please you.

  515. May you never reject me. May I never take from

  516. May you never take from me your sacred spirit. Let

  517. my passion life be restored, tasting joy in every breakthrough

  518. you bring to me. Hold me close to you with

  519. the willing spirit that obeys whatever you say. Then I

  520. can show to other guilty ones how loving and merciful

  521. you are. They will find their way back home to you,

  522. knowing that you will forgive them. Oh God, my saving God,

  523. this is the Yahweh we're talking about. This is the

  524. covening God who's chosen to lay aside his holiness to

  525. connect with you and me. This is his answer that

  526. was my part. Then my heart will once again be

  527. thrilled to sing the passionate songs of joy and deliverance.

  528. Lord godlock my heart, unlock my lips, and I will

  529. overcome with my joyous praise.

  530. For the source of your pleasure is not in my

  531. performance or the sacrifices I might offer to you. The

  532. fountain of your pleasure is found in the sacrifice of

  533. my shattered heart before you. You will not despise my

  534. tenderness as I humbly.

  535. Bow down at your feet. Our God is a God

  536. who takes our shattered hearts, shattered by sin, compromise all

  537. of that. People of God. Even now today, every moment

  538. of every day, Jesus is there standing putting your heart

  539. back together again. He doesn't leave you a sinner. Oh

  540. but Jesus, sometimes we want to stay sinners. But today,

  541. oh people of God, New Horizon, New Horizon. New horizon

  542. is filled with consecrated ones, saints that hear the Holy

  543. Spirit in the quiet and responds so quickly it requires humility.

  544. Pride is gone out of New Horizon in Jesus's name.

  545. Pride from this very pulpit. Pride off of this stage.

  546. In every way, shape and form, Pride going through this

  547. the rose all the way to the back, all the way.

  548. Pride will not reign in this house. Pride will not

  549. find its place. And if you like pride, you're gonna

  550. have to go somewhere else because it's gonna feel really

  551. weird around here. But humility reigns in this house. This

  552. is a safe house. I feel so safe with you

  553. that you won't judge me for telling you about my troubles,

  554. because I know you love me too much to let

  555. me stay there, and you love me too much to

  556. leave me there. God loves you so much it's turned

  557. towards him. Amen. Okay, are you left bleeding and beat up?

  558. Or do you feel the love of God in here.

  559. Realignment Setting twenty twenty five aside. God does not hold

  560. your past against you. But if you're gonna drag it

  561. with you everywhere you go because you haven't let it go,

  562. He'll deal with y'all through twenty six too. But I

  563. don't know if I want that. Amen, it's all stand.

  564. It's all stand. Prayer warriors, come on up. If God's

  565. work work in your heart, don't let it stop just

  566. because we're shifting. Took me a few days to process

  567. this one, not because Holy Spirit wasn't there to love me,

  568. but I needed to become contride of soul and that's

  569. completely contradictory to my flesh. Anybody in the room, Okay,

  570. don't worry him. Praise you Jesus. Let's just let the

  571. Holy Spirit just settle in this room. If you need

  572. to go, I understand, but don't let the word go.

  573. Thank you for listening. I pray the Holy Spirit was

  574. released through it. Amen. If you have some confessions to make,

  575. if you have some people to straighten some things about,

  576. if you have some forgiveness to ask for, if you

  577. come to the altar and you know someone has aught

  578. against you, go to them. Let's clean it up. Let's

  579. realign all the way from the outer to the inner

  580. in Jesus' name. Hallelujah, have a blessed a come forward

  581. for prayer if you'd love to just you know, even

  582. if you just you have an acre of pain that

  583. you need prayer for, or you're believing for something, come forward.

  584. Or if you want prayer regarding the Word, that's fine.

  585. Come on up. We love you. Let's worship