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19th May 2024 Infill Service - One Word From God Can Change Your Life Forever

An Inspiring Word from RCF, Egham, Runnymede,

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  1. Father, We thank you for Simon. We thank you that is the one

  2. you chosen to bring us your word today. We ask you to bless him.

  3. We ask you, Lord, that you're knowing the word he brings,

  4. that if you come with life, life abandonedly, that you will come with

  5. supernatural grace, extraordinary grace to pick us from where we are to where you

  6. want us to go. In Jesus' name. Amen, Yeah, sure,

  7. like turns out for small people. I'm not here today, so I'm standing

  8. the app Let's pray well this bit. We do welcome you this morning.

  9. We thank you. This is the day that you've made and we will rejoice

  10. from brand nick nud. Please open our hearts to receive the word you've got

  11. for us this morning. We can build on precept upon precept. Lord,

  12. in Jesus name, May this'll be a fresher for people and a new manner

  13. for those who haven't heard it before. In Jesus name, So this morning

  14. we're finishing off the that's not finishing off day. We're on the series.

  15. Our work changes everything, And I've tweaked the title to say one work from

  16. God can change your life forever, because I do believe that one work from

  17. God can't change your life forever. Do you believe that good that helped me

  18. out of the preach? You know, words are containers. They carry something,

  19. lessens that's what's left in my bottle of water. That's transparent, you

  20. can see through it, but it could be any color, any liquid,

  21. and words have different colors. There's words that lift up, there's words that

  22. put down. I'm sorry if somebody's said to you, thank you very much,

  23. or some sort of sect or something like why did you do that?

  24. You're no good? You know that's not true. Everyone has a value for

  25. God. But words are containers. They carry something, And today I want

  26. to talk about one work from God can change your life forever. So God's

  27. words are positive. God's words are affirming. God's words may say I don't

  28. need to do that. However, it won't be said in a way that

  29. doesn't lift you up or build you up, because that's not a bit of

  30. God's in. God is a builder. He builds people from the inside out

  31. anyway. So what I want to share you is how God speaks to us.

  32. God wants to encourage us to hear from Heaven for ourselves. Okay,

  33. now, God can give us a word which is directive, a word that

  34. guides us. It can be a confirming word, a word that verifies a

  35. situation or a circumstance. It could be an affirming word where God encourages us

  36. to do something for example. One thing thing is for sure that when God

  37. speaks to us, we will know that He's spoken to us by his by

  38. His Holy Spirit, who dwells within us. When we're born again, we

  39. receive the Holy Spirit. I want to see the bats and of the Holy

  40. Spirit, as the Holy Spirit is our connection with God. So when we

  41. when we hear something, it resonates with our spirit. It doesn't resonate your

  42. spirit. You've had too much cheese or whatever, but you know, ignore

  43. it. H And today I want to talk about the still small voice.

  44. Generally speaking, when God speaks to us, it's things like don't fear,

  45. don't worry, don't be anxious, because generally speaking, it's a propensity to

  46. fear, to be worry, to be anxious in the flesh. He wants

  47. us. The people who walk in the spirit, like Juliet pres say not

  48. anxious, we don't worry, we don't fear. And it's a journey from

  49. where we begin to where we are, where we're not worrying, we're not

  50. fearing, and that journey starts with God's word. One work from God can

  51. change your life forever. When he says don't fear, that's the start.

  52. But yet there's something that we have to do to make that work for us.

  53. When it says trust me, we hear that word, that's something we've

  54. got to do if all that work becomes a reality in our lives. Although

  55. it's God's word, we need to activate it. Otherwise, it is a

  56. word, and it's good, and it's there. Unless we activate it,

  57. it still is the word. We have to receive it. We need to

  58. put it into action. The Bible says faith without works, he is dead.

  59. There's a scripture New Testament. I've got my phone which is called the

  60. Weymouth New Testament, and James two and verse eighteen says that's the nivy.

  61. Some will say you have faith, I have actions. Prove to me your

  62. faith apart from corresponding actions, and I'll prove mine to you by my actions.

  63. I didn't like that, you know, the corresponding faith and actions,

  64. because I want to talk about actions today. I didn't want to talk about

  65. being passive. You know, we are not called to be passive, to

  66. sit there like a bump on the log. Were called to be advancing,

  67. progressing, taking what the devil has stolen, progressing the Kingdom of God in

  68. our generation. And you don't do that by sitting. You do that by

  69. moving. So that's why I like this scripture. You have faith, I

  70. have actions. Prove to me your faith apart from corresproractions, and I'll prove

  71. mine to your actions. Other words, faith is the fact, but faith

  72. is an act. Summarizing that We've got to activate. We got to move

  73. with the word of God. So when the word of God says peace,

  74. I leave with you my peace I gift to you. Do not let your

  75. heart be troubled, and you let it be afraid. Stop on myself to

  76. be agitated and disturbed. Don't permit yourself to be fearful, intimidating, canabis

  77. and settled. Then we need to activate that. So we need to choose

  78. to activate our faith, otherwise we get to have a roller coaster existence.

  79. We just came back from Denmark. It's a place called of course typically I

  80. think it was, is that right on here? Typically? Yeah, anyway,

  81. this second oldest theme park who we went went to one and I don't

  82. do theme parks, but my wife on the one ground the theme park and

  83. there's lots of trees and all that sort of stuff. But there's some of

  84. these weird rides where people go up and they scream when they get to the

  85. top and then it drops and they think it's fun. Doesn't get doesn't It

  86. doesn't do it for me, but you know, but the roller coaster is

  87. sometimes the Christian roller coaster where we check check them down then up, and

  88. then down then up. And God doesn't want to live as a rock roller

  89. coaster existence. He wants us to be living and walking in the spirit.

  90. And things may move up and things may move down, but we walk constantly

  91. in the spirit. He wants to take each step out of time and each

  92. step is a miracle. Why because we serve a miracle working God. Yeah,

  93. he split the red sea, he heals the sick, he raised the

  94. dead, He raises the dead. Nothing is impossible for God. So don't

  95. get your list out of your backpop and go, except here's my list of

  96. ten things nothing impossible for God. Whatever circumstances we are facing, nothing is

  97. impossible because one work from God can change our life forever. Doesn't matter the

  98. size of the issue, right doesn't matter about the size of the issue anyway.

  99. So when you hear something from God, like John fourteen twenty seven,

  100. hear him speak it. Write it down, put a date next to it,

  101. underline it in your Bible you want to do, write it out,

  102. commit it to memory, keep thinking about it, speak it out of your

  103. mouth. Because God's word carries power, keepers four verse twelve of you.

  104. It carries power. So God wants to encourage us to engage with him.

  105. It's not like, oh, thank you for the world God, that's very

  106. nice. Then go off and just live in fear and worry or anxiety.

  107. You must go thank you for the word, and let's apply it. You

  108. know, when we're a child or a child, God dissed things for us

  109. and it was like done and dusted. When we're getting bigger, you know,

  110. we've got a man up or woman up, and get on with it.

  111. So he takes as a step of the time. You don't just get

  112. your kid. And as youngsters say, o, if you go and the

  113. wobble around and fall over, you know you hold the hands that they develop,

  114. and God develops us. And we're all in different places today and Go

  115. wants to develop us. I understand it. Harviest word. So this is

  116. foundation stuff I'm just talking about now, which fagil. Yeah, I get

  117. that. That's good. But let God build on what you know. If

  118. it is new to you, let God build on that. He wants to

  119. build each individual person that appear and listen to the live stream. Wants to

  120. build us up so it can bigger on the inside than we are on the

  121. outside, so we can do above and beyond anything. Yeah, it's a

  122. bit overcomers. Yeah. This is about preparation. This is about practice.

  123. This is about doing and walking in God's miracle power. This is about doing

  124. the impossible. Yeah, don't let that frighten you. Don't that's scare you

  125. because that's where God lives and that's where he wants us to live. Doubts

  126. now, so write it down, speak it out over yourselves, memorize it,

  127. declare it. For instance, a typical thing you means to people thought

  128. usually is fear two tenthy one seven steps. For God, they given us

  129. a spirit of fear, but a spirit of power love, sound mind.

  130. Yeah, So when people meditate on that word and speak it of their circumstances,

  131. things change. God moves them an incremental step at a time, not

  132. all at once, but an incommended step of the time. So when they

  133. get attacked with a fearful, fearful thought, they can use the word of

  134. God. And the more they use it, the stronger they get. I've

  135. seen that happen in people's lives, whether they take the wha they go and

  136. build on that as an example. Like I said before, it's one thing

  137. to know the word of God. It's another thing to receive it and to

  138. apply it and sit in action in your life. Then give a testimony about

  139. what God has done for you. Very often we live in our own world

  140. where we don't deal with these situations in circums and just try to put a

  141. stick in places when it can get by. But God wants us to be

  142. overcome us in every area, which is tough because we've got to do something.

  143. Yeah, you gotta get you go on with it. You can't just

  144. sit there. Sometimes God will give somebody a word for us, which is

  145. cool, and you get a little note or you get a text or a

  146. WhatsApp and it says think of you today, gotta share this with shared this

  147. with me for you, and that jumps off the screen or jumps off the

  148. card. If some people do cards, aren't they? It seems to be

  149. a dying art nowadays. Cards Now it's all chat, snapchat whatever or Dave's

  150. World. But it speaks to us, isn't it. It speaks into our

  151. situation and that's good and that's positive, and that build us up. But

  152. God wants to stretch as well. Away we hear from God every day.

  153. That's the best possum to be. Words from friends and family are great because

  154. that means they're praying for us, they're believe with us, which is good.

  155. But when we're on our own at work or wherever we are, and

  156. something happens, we've got to be able to deal with it. Yeah,

  157. be about to get on with it because they aren't there. Yeah. So

  158. let's look at Exus fourteen thirty twenty two. I'm reading from the amplified version.

  159. Am I going to look? We got spoke to on what that effect

  160. was, and I'm going to apply that to our lives. Okay, So

  161. I'm reading from the ampithied classic version. It might be different to this on

  162. the screen. So I'm reading about when Moses split the Red Sea. You

  163. let's talk about rods. Has had a rod in his hand. So the

  164. backstop of this story is they left Egypt, they got to near the right

  165. sea. Pharaoh decides he's going to get up and go for it. In

  166. Texts Texas six hundred and twenty odd chariots my brayers and pursues the tune of

  167. Israel. And so they got the Egyptian army coming towards them, we got

  168. the sea behind them. There's no ohing to go but God. So reading

  169. from verse four thirteen, Moses told the people fear not, stand still,

  170. firm, confidence and dismayed, and see the salvation of the Lord, which

  171. you will work for you today. For the Egyptians you have seen today,

  172. you shall never see again. The will thoughd like for you, and you

  173. shall hold your peace and remain at rest. The Lord said to Moses,

  174. why do you cry out to me all the people of Israel, to go

  175. forward, Lift up your rod and stretch out your hand over the sea and

  176. divide it. And the Israelites shall go over on dry ground through the midst

  177. of the sea. And I behold, I will harden, make stubborn and

  178. stronger the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go into the sea after

  179. them. And I will gain honor over Pharaoh and all his hosts, his

  180. chariots, and horsemen. The Egyptians shall know and realize that I am the

  181. Lord. When I've gained honor and glory over Pharaoh, his charge, and

  182. his horsemen. The Angel of the God, who went before the hosts of

  183. Israel, moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud went before

  184. them and stood behind them that went before and stood behind them. Coming between

  185. the hosts of Egypt and the host of Israel, it was a cloud and

  186. darkness to the Egyptians, but he gave light by night to the Israelites,

  187. and the one host did not come near the other all night. Then Moses

  188. stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lot caused the sea to

  189. go back by a strong east wind all that night and made the sea dry

  190. land. And the water was divided, and these lights went into the midst

  191. of the sea on dry ground, the water's being a wall to them on

  192. the right and on the left. Notice, God said to Moses, don't

  193. look at me, mate, stretch out your rod and divide the water.

  194. When we get to certain maturity, don't look at me, use my word.

  195. You get on with it. And we need to be ready to do

  196. that. I'll go, Oh, mir room, pastor Dave, let merry

  197. and my friends. You know we need to be there. Yeah. God

  198. wants us to be in that place. So what did old Moses do?

  199. He stretched out his rod and the water's parted. I've never seen that.

  200. Yeah, but a wall of water to the right and a wall of water

  201. to the left, and then dry ground. Now that was God's spoken word

  202. to Moses. We have God's written word in our hands or in our phones.

  203. Yeah. God's word carries that power to change things. Yeah. And

  204. God speaks that word to us, to you and to me. And that's

  205. big in my thinking. That should be big in your thinking. It's not

  206. just words on the page. I look at my sell wing hughes every day

  207. with jeez, every morning. It's the word of the living God. I'm

  208. going to speak that word to you and to me and to you in the

  209. life streage of you living later. You wants top that word to you.

  210. It's important to get this understanding. It's not words on a page. It's

  211. living, it's alive. It is powerful. What does people thought walking with

  212. a wall of water to one side, whether they could see the fish or

  213. that. I don't know if I thought about that. A wall of water

  214. dry ground, fish here, fish there, nose and they're walking through that

  215. with their all their prolong is and their kids and what not. It wasn't

  216. like a two minute walk. It's a bit of a across a bet sea.

  217. But noticed Moses a bade and the actor to remember faith as a fact

  218. and faith as an act. So we need to be doing that. And

  219. then when she has walked on the water. Matthew fourteen, he was all

  220. night prayed, didn't he? He fed the five thousand, then he sent

  221. the boys away in the boat. He went up to pray. I think

  222. it says in one of the versions that he was between about about the fourth

  223. watch of the night, which was about between three and six in the morning.

  224. He decided to get up and walk on the water. Forget that the

  225. water was chopping. So we got he walked on the water. Noticed it

  226. wasn't easy to work on the wall for Jesus, but you just go on

  227. with it. That's what we we need to do. Let's read Matthew fourteen

  228. twenty five through thirty one. Now about the fourth watch the night, which

  229. is about between three and six of the morning, Jesus went to them walking

  230. on the sea. And when the disciples saw him walk into the sea,

  231. they were troubled, saying it's a ghost. And they cried out in fear.

  232. These are some tough fishermen. But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying,

  233. be of good cheer it is I. Do not be afraid. And

  234. Peter answered and said to him, Lord, if it's you, command me

  235. to come to you on the water, So he said, can and Peter,

  236. when it come down out of the boat, he walked on the water

  237. to go to Jesus. When he saw the wind was boisterous. Who was

  238. afraid and beginning to sink. He cried out, saying, Lord, save

  239. me. And immediate Jesus stretched out his hand and caught him and said to

  240. him, oh, you a little faith, Why did you doubt? Notice?

  241. Peter said to Jesus, Lord, if it's you command me to come

  242. to you. Jesus said, come figure out, and walked on the water.

  243. When we walk by faith, it's just like walking on the water.

  244. It's doing the impossible, otherwise it won't be walking by faith. Right.

  245. Yeah, Yeah, I can pad around this room and you know, no

  246. problem, you know, but I've got to believe God for something. I've

  247. got to use my faith, and we'll use our faith. It's just for

  248. us thing to think something that. You know, we can't do it by

  249. ourselves, so why do we try. So let's have a reset and think

  250. and recognize and understand that we cannot do things in our own strength. That's

  251. why His spirit lives within us. So let's not circumvent God's plan. Let's

  252. apply God's word and let's live the life of faith. Let's walk on water

  253. every day and do the impossible. Where it's a job. We're looking for

  254. a family, a relationship to fix. We're looking for finances to build a

  255. ministry, finances to build an orphanage, finance to build whatever well a God's

  256. put on our heart to do. God gives us dreams which are impossible,

  257. and then says, go and do it. And many people don't do it

  258. because they don't do it by faith. They don't take the word of God

  259. and apply it. That's what Jesus did, and that's what he wants us

  260. to do. But that's what this is. This preach is about today.

  261. It's a boy encouraging us to stretch to the next level where we are.

  262. We're all in different places many yeah, no does a carbon copy. Jesus

  263. do carbon copies. We're all individuals and we walk in the relation that God

  264. has given us. We get some more revelation, walk in that revelation.

  265. If haven't got any revelation, will start, write it down, pray over

  266. it, move forward. That's what he wants us to do. This is

  267. something. This is in some respects foundational respe respects. It stretches where you

  268. want to be. And you can get as much out of this word you

  269. want to get out this worth this morning. Yeah, you can get this

  270. much, you can get that much. It's entirely up to you. You

  271. need to stretch your faith to receive what God is saying today. I'm just

  272. here as a mouthpiece to give what God gave me in Copenhagen, I sat

  273. on the beds. Some other examples in the work today where people who believe

  274. God changed their lives. Judge just six. We it's about Gideon. It

  275. was not old really, so the backstory there is is that there is lights

  276. have done their own thing again and served other God and think it's bar this

  277. time. And then obviously got to put them under the and they're under subjection

  278. to the midday knights and the midnights to steal their food. It was a

  279. bit of a tough time for them because they choose to turn their back on

  280. God. I think it was for seven years. I think it put into

  281. their hands seven years. And so every time they grow their coat, they

  282. can and take their crop. So they were stuffed. So they started using

  283. wine presses to hide the grains as a treading out of their break. And

  284. we pick up the story of giving the Gideon who's in the wine press doing

  285. this stuff, and the Angel of the Lord says to him verse twelve of

  286. just six, the Lord is with you, you, mighty man of valor.

  287. He's going, the Lord is with me, a mighty man of valor.

  288. God is calling those things that are not as though they were. He

  289. was saying to this gentleman, you're a mighty man of valor. He's hiding

  290. the wine press, sorting out the grain. Sometimes God will speak to and

  291. said, you're a mighty man of valor. He called those things not as

  292. though they were. It's so to us to take that word, to write

  293. it out, to talk it over our lives, and to believe God to

  294. do that, to bring us to that place where we are that person,

  295. so we can do what we need to do. Not to go that's nice.

  296. I'll make an actress and my bile and leave it there. Yeah,

  297. we need to be always advancing, always progressing in the Kingdom of God.

  298. Without advance, we stand in still stand is till you're going backwards. You

  299. know. Gideon in that in that discourse spoke the problem when he was a

  300. solution, but the Lord didn't respond to that. God doesn't respond to our

  301. problems by going, yeah, I agree with you, mate. Whatever the

  302. world words want to use doesn't say oh yeah. He only speaks words of

  303. faith. So verse six June just six, verse fourteen, he said,

  304. go in this might of yours and you should save Israel from the Midian?

  305. Have I not sent you so? After Gideon's unbelief, God just reiterated what

  306. he said, go. So, don't come to God with a long list

  307. of what you can't do along the problems. Come to God, expect him

  308. to give you a solution and then expect you to apply your faith to get

  309. to the answer. That means we've got to do something proactive, which is

  310. something we don't like. To Dodoma speaking, we like to be fed.

  311. So get him prepared an offering to the Lord and began to follow his instructions.

  312. He tore down the bar alter and he started to obey God. In

  313. Judges six thirty four, I swech a lord came upon with him. Yeah,

  314. but the straight of the Lord came upon Gideon. Then he blew the

  315. trumpet, and the abas rights gather behind him. We know the rest else

  316. gathered behind him, and they routed the Midian Nights because the spirit of God

  317. was upon him. I think at one point that they had a big army

  318. said no, no, no, let's go down to three hundred men,

  319. and they said, okay, get your get your get your it's like,

  320. get your tortures basically with your weapony hand and then then shout for the Lord.

  321. So God is going to let men take the victory. Three hundred men

  322. with a torch in the hand of the sword and the hand going to fight

  323. with the torch and the sword and then shout for Lord and God, and

  324. then he routed them. They killed themselves and they were away. God will

  325. fight for us, but we've got to take a step of faith. We've

  326. got to activate our faith. It doesn't matter how big our challenges may appear.

  327. Like Juliette said earlier, God's plan is that when we obey his word,

  328. we will overcome. It might there might be some progression time before we

  329. actually get to the where we need to be. It's not like become an

  330. instantaneous message sometimes, because sometimes it's a bit of prolongation before you get to

  331. where you need to be. That's where patience comes in. Not to jacket

  332. and no, it didn't work. It does work. It's got to keep

  333. on with it. We must not look at our circumstances rather than as look

  334. at the bigness of our God. Our sur those are only hindrances to see

  335. things from God's perspective. One of my prayers sometimes is shown me, youths,

  336. from your perspective, Please not from my perspective. So let's use the

  337. word of God. Let's apply the word of God. M don't be like

  338. Gideon. Took a long time for God to get through to Gideon. You

  339. know he we have the spirit of God within us, who's talk to us

  340. every day all the time. Sometimes don't do that, don't do that,

  341. but you know he always speaks to us. So let's look at Elijah one

  342. King seventeen. So Elijah the tish bite. I'm not sure what a tish

  343. bite is, but he's a tish bite. In the contact of Elijah one

  344. King one seventeen is they have worship bar the rain God, and his mississ

  345. was a lady called Jezebel. She was a nice lady. Ah there was

  346. a yes and no man. So Elijah in One King seventeen finds they have

  347. and he says, as the Lord God e Israel lives before might stand,

  348. there shall not be duee no ray these years except by my word, as

  349. a Lord the e Israel lives before whom I start. There shall not be

  350. jew nor rain these years except what my word. That's one King to one

  351. seventeen. Notice before he was nice guy, He's study in the presence of

  352. God. He knew the presence of God. It was a prophet. So

  353. he gave his word, it's not in the rain for three years. And

  354. then God said to him Verse two through four of One King seventeen. Get

  355. away from here and turn eastward and hide out of the brook Sheriiff, which

  356. flows into the Jordan. And it will be and it will be that you

  357. shall drink from the brook. And I commanded the ravens to feed you there.

  358. So droughts come in by a brook and wait for some burds to feed

  359. him. Sometimes, because I should do the important simple, go and do

  360. that. But you've got up and walk to the brook and then sat down

  361. and think, okay, it's time for my dinner. Where the ravens please?

  362. Or would you thought that's still I'm not going to do that. Sometimes

  363. God has to do things which aren't sensible in our own thinking. That's when

  364. we need to know the voice of God. Yeah, don't be flakey.

  365. Don't go and do something like step back in front of the car because think

  366. God's at that. No, no, the voice of God. No,

  367. the voice of God. But he obeyed God without hesitation. Forget this.

  368. The brook dried up. He prophesied that's going to be drought. So the

  369. brook dried up. So he sat there. The brook dried up. So

  370. he's got to get up and go somewhere else. But you listen to God

  371. one King seventeen eight through nine. The word Lord came to him saying,

  372. Arise, go to Zarah Fath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there.

  373. See I've commanded a widow there to write for you too, Rose and

  374. went to Zarapeth. A widow is going to provide for him. Again,

  375. God does things differently to we. We doing something. A widow means she's

  376. got no enter the income. You know, where's she going to get some

  377. some vision from? But God, h but God, so don't look at

  378. your circumstances. Look at the bigness of your God. For surfa, God

  379. can be hindrances. Yeah, Elijah got on with it. He went to

  380. Zara faith without hesitation. If remember the story, she was gathering some sticks

  381. to make a last meal for her in the sun and she's going to die.

  382. So what did he say to her? Bring me some water. It's

  383. been a famine. Bring me some water. She bring some water and then

  384. made me a cake. She got some old rancid oil, She got some

  385. old rancid meal. And how that was, I don't know. Make me

  386. a bit of your cake before you make your cake. Notice she didn't say

  387. no. She got on with it. She obeyed what God had said,

  388. look after this man? What did God do? That jar of oil was

  389. never empty, that bag of grain was never empty for that period of time,

  390. and then during that time she raised He raised his boy from the dead.

  391. God works miracles right. Sometimes it might not look like it's the way

  392. to go, But God's way is the way we need to walk. So

  393. we need to understand this is the way. You walk in it and listen

  394. to him. But it all starts with the word. Then we have to

  395. apply that word. You know, we've all been given the measure of faith.

  396. Roman's twelve anverse three says, through the grace given to me, to

  397. everyone who is among you, not to think itself more higher than they ought

  398. to think. This is poor speaking, but to think soberly as God has

  399. doubt, to each one a measure of faith. So God projects a measure

  400. of faith, you know, all of us. Then we need to activate

  401. that firth faith faith. That's why I say faith is a fact faith and

  402. actually got to put into action. When God speaks into our lives through the

  403. written word, we need to activate that word. I meditating it by speaking

  404. it out and by believing it, by putting into action. Like I said,

  405. it took a long time before Gideon was convinced to act. And the

  406. look what God did quade Elijah. What more of a relationship with God he

  407. was in his presence? He acted more quickly that was under the old covenant.

  408. You know the Bible's two books, the Old Covenant and the New Covenant.

  409. We have a new covenant with better promises. The Bible says, bit

  410. of God now dwells within us, not upon us. Hebrews eight and verse

  411. six says, but now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as

  412. says he also a mediate of a better covenant. This is speaking of Jesus,

  413. which was established on better promises. Jus cutting your covenant in his body

  414. and his blood. Covenants made through bread, which is broken. Jesus body

  415. was broken. It's made through shed blood. He could have covenant with the

  416. Father. So now they can break that covenant. They are going to mess

  417. up. So we have access to better promises than the old covenant. One

  418. Printin's three of Us sixteen says, do you not know that you're a temple

  419. of God and that the faith of God dwell in you? So We're in

  420. different position to Elijah. The spirit of God dwells in us. So how

  421. much more should we be able to walk in faith? How much more should

  422. be able to see the miracules in their everyday lies because of the relationship that

  423. we have. So where from where we are we need to stretch to where

  424. we need to be. Yeah, this is not about although of God,

  425. I'm not there. Well, that's not a problem. It's good to recognize

  426. where we are. But we need to stretch to where God wants us to

  427. be. We need to take the word of God and the blight starting in

  428. every day of our lives. Every day of our lives. That might be

  429. to overcome fear. That might be to overcome worry, that might be to

  430. overcome down. That might be about food on your table, that might see

  431. a pair of shoes. We all start in different places. The thing is

  432. to start and to move. You know, Jesus is the author and the

  433. finisher of our faith, and so we're just sort of rat This preacher Freed

  434. and John at eleven. It's the Count of Lazarus and how Jesus raised him

  435. from the dead. Jesus knew that Juan Lazarus. He also knew his sisters

  436. Martha and Mary. They lived in Bethany, and Dass was sick. And

  437. then Lazarus died, and Jesus hung out for another two or three days.

  438. For he left to go to Bethany because that's the Holy Spirit asked him to

  439. do. And then when he got up there, they said, oh,

  440. you know, come earlier. If you come earlier, Jesus, and be

  441. all right mate. When he died, even Martha didn't the time, they

  442. said in the Resurrection of the life, and they said to her, move

  443. the tomb. Move the stone to the tomb. She's going, Jesus,

  444. it's been dead four days. He's going to smell. It's going to smell.

  445. Jesus said, move the stone. Sometimes you go to Jesus, Hey,

  446. Jesus, this is there is a two bigger problem for you. You

  447. know it's been four days. Now, man, what we're going to do?

  448. Move the stone. We can't move the stone, Jesus. And then

  449. Jesus moved the stone. Move the stone. Verse thirty eight through forty four

  450. says Then Jesus, again, groaning in himself, came to the tomb.

  451. It was a cave and the stoneway against it. Jesus said, take away

  452. the stone. Martha said, Martha, the sists of him who was dead

  453. to him. Lord, by this time, there's a stench. The king

  454. James says, it stinkers that better. He said, he's been he's been

  455. dead for four days. Jesus said to her, didn't not say to you

  456. that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God. If

  457. we would believe, we need to believe God's word. We need to activate

  458. God's word. Not look our circumstances. He's been dead four days us as

  459. he stinks. Don't look at your circumstances. When God is speaking to you,

  460. don't look at your circumstances. Look at him. Then he took away

  461. the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. And Jesus lift

  462. up his eyes and said, Father, thank you that you've heard me.

  463. And I know that you always hear me. But because of the people who

  464. as done by, I said this that I may believe that you sent me.

  465. And when he had said these things, he cried out with a loud

  466. voice, Lazarus come forth. And he who had died came out bound hand

  467. and foot, with the grave clothes, and his faith backed in a cloth.

  468. It's like a napkin around the head. And Jesus said, loose him

  469. and let him go. You know, God wants to lose us and let

  470. us go from some things today, right, But we need to look at

  471. not look at ourselves up look at the bigness of our God. Jesus obey

  472. God, who was not moved by what people said. We need to obey

  473. God and not be moved by what people say. As God raised Jesus from

  474. the dead, he can work in our lives through his resurrection power. You

  475. know, it's my body, but it's his life. The life inside this

  476. lump of flesh is God's life. If I drop down dead, my spirit

  477. was to be alive and that's what goes to heaven. But we carry it.

  478. Each one of us carries that heavenly treasure in these earthly bodies. But

  479. we need to believe and apply His word in our lives every day, every

  480. day. So let's just wrat this up with a prayer and the over well,

  481. Lord, I pray that your word and not return to your void.

  482. But it will come if that we should please and prosper the thing right here

  483. sent it in Jesus name, pray. Speak to every people, every person,

  484. every person in this room, every person on the live stream, every

  485. person later, Lord in Jersney. But it's checking from where they are to

  486. where they need to be. This happened to walk by faith. I know

  487. you're going to do it for them, God, but you're going to help

  488. them. It's happened to do the miraculous, to overcome by the below lamb

  489. and by the word of their testiny, by the word of God. I

  490. pray for miracles, Lord in Jersney, as people to apply your word in

  491. the name of Jesus. Remember h