Pastor Appreciation

Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast.

You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX.

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cross. Now let's join the service.

Bible says he the wind of souls is wise.

You have a wise pastor he loves He loves you.

They he and candy love you. They love, they love the Lord,

they love the work that God has called them to and the Bible

says it is a servant is worthy of his hire and everything that

you've said and shown appreciation for them about,

they are worthy of today. And I understand.

I understand how it is to be to be a pastor and to use this word

cautiously, but to endure days like today, it's not, it's not

easy, but it's necessary. And we understand that it's

necessary. It's necessary to show

appreciation and love. And you're, you've done a fine

job of that today. And I know you that you love

them And the Lord is the Lord is pleased with you today because

the Lord is pleased with his with his people today and be and

with his servants today. And, and Krista and I, we, we

honor, we honor you for honoring them and we honor them today.

And just so thankful that there were years ago, I don't know how

many years ago it's been now that our paths crossed and

connected and we just enjoy every opportunity that we have.

Most of the time when I come, it's, it's because he's either

going to be out of town, out of town or, or whatever.

But I always, always look forward to the opportunity and

try to make it accessible to to come and to be here because we

enjoy, we enjoy being with you and worshiping with you and

seeing the progress that that God is caused to happen here.

And it's not, it's not by chance, but it's because you've

labored together and you work together.

Some come, some go, some stay, some don't.

And that's just the life of the church.

But those of you that have been here and you've, you've, you've

helped dig this out and and you're here and you've stayed

and God bless you. And there's just the best is

still yet to come. And until Jesus comes, we're

going to keep working. We're going to keep preaching

the gospel and and seeing lives changed.

And I didn't come today to preach about I'm not a I'm not

a, I'm not good when it comes to special days of just doing a I'm

not a pastor appreciation day sermon kind of guy.

I just preach what the Lord puts in my heart and you know that

and I don't make any apologies for that, but I am going to

preach about the church because that's it's, it's, it's

necessary, it's important and, and I believe the Lord's going

to help us today. But since it is pastor

appreciation, though, let me tell you a couple.

I don't have any funny stories to tell about your pastor.

You have them, he has them, Candy has them, the family has

them. Those of you that have known him

a long time, you have them. But I don't have any of those.

But but I can tell you about about preachers and a funny

thing happened. Funny things have happened to

me. But a young, young preacher came

to a. Little, little rural.

Community town his first time to to pastor church and he hadn't

been there but two or three weeks and the funeral director

of the really only one Funeral Home in the county and he called

he called the the young preacher and said, Hey, I need I need

your assistance. I've got a I've got a.

Full, full. Day of of a couple funerals and

I have I have a deceased man who who didn't have any family

living and no friends. And so if you would just meet me

at the cemetery and if you could just pray and and say some say

some kind words. And as we lay his body to rest.

And the young man agreed to do that.

And so so the funeral director told him when to meet him at the

Funeral Home, gave him the directions out in the country to

a little little country cemetery.

And the young man goes and and tries to find the cemetery, but

he got lost and it took him, took him forever to find, to

find the cemetery. And he finally found it.

And and funeral director wasn't there, but he saw, he saw plot

open and he saw the workers over under their tree.

Just they're having a little break.

So he walks up, walks up and, and opens his Bible and says

prays and says some some kind words and preached a few few

minutes about the love of Jesus and committed, committed this

body, you know, to the to the earth and to the hands of God

and to the loving God and, and said a man and begin to walk

away. And as he walked past the

workers, he overheard one of the workers say, he said, I've been

in, I've been in this business for 30 years.

And he said. I've never seen a preacher pray

over a septic tank. Pastor was in his deathbed and

elderly pastor and was he was dying and he called two men from

his church to come visit him and they both showed up.

They showed up the same time. And the wife escorted him into

the pastor's bedroom and he's laying in his bed and, and his

eyes were closed And he's, he's just laying there quietly.

And he summons the sees the the two gentlemen come in.

He summons him to his bed, one-on-one on one side, 1 on the

other. And he reaches out and takes

their hand. They hold his hand.

He didn't say anything. He just laid there with his eyes

closed and he held their hands for several minutes.

Several minutes went by seemed like long minutes.

And finally, one of the one of the men said, Pastor, is there,

is there a reason that you, you, you called us to, we're happy to

be here. And but is there a reason that

we kind of find it a little odd that you, you asked for us to,

to be here? And the preacher opened his eyes

and said, he said, Jesus died with two thieves on each side.

And he said, I wanted to go. 1 was a car salesman, 1 was a

lawyer. He said, I want to, I want to go

to heaven just like Jesus between two thieves.

All right, that's enough of that.

There's no greater passage in Scripture in the Gospels about

the church than Matthew 16 familiar verses of Scripture.

If you want to turn with me, if you have your Bibles, you want

to stand. Let's stand for the reading of

God's Word. Matthew 16.

Begin with verse 13. When Jesus came into the coast

of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, whom do

men say that I am? I the Son of Man AM.

And they said some say that you're John the Baptist, some

say that you're Elijah, some say that you're you're.

Jeremiah or one of the. Prophets, but he said unto them,

But who do you say that I am? Simon Peter answered and said,

Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon

Barjona, for flesh and blood? If not.

Revealed this unto you. But my Father, which is in

heaven, and I say unto thee, that you're Peter, and upon this

rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not

prevail against it, And I'll give to you the.

Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. That whatever you bind on earth

will be bound in heaven and. Whatever you loose on earth.

Will be loosed in heaven and they charged he and his

disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the

Christ Father. I thank you for this occasion

that we've gathered today to celebrate Pastor Lance and Candy

for their incredible work and labor of love.

Or we just speak blessings upon them.

We speak blessings upon their their home, their health, their

life, Lord, And we just pray that you would just refresh

them, renew them, encourage them today.

And Lord, we just thank you for this church that you have raised

up. Thank you, Lord.

For the for the people. Here that have.

Stood. With this pastor and stood

beside him and behind him and around him and covered him in

prayer and love and support and I pray, Lord, that you would

just. Continue to do a great.

Work in this, in this area, in this community, in this county,

in this region, Lord, that you would cause this church to be a

lighthouse, that you would cause this place to.

To be filled with lives. That have been transformed and

changed. Disciples of Jesus Christ and

Lord, we thank you for the power of the Holy Spirit that is at

work. Here, Lord that.

Anything can happen today. Lord lies.

Can be touched and transformed, saved, delivered.

Healed, set free by the. Power of God because all things

are possible today and we'll give you the praise and the

honor and the glory for it in Jesus name, Amen and Amen.

You can be seated. I want to talk to you this

morning for a few minutes if you'll help me preach.

On the church that. Hell can't stop.

Say that with me, the church, that hell can't stop.

You know Hell's. Always had a strategy.

From the moment that Lucifer. Was cast out of heaven.

He's been on a mission to undermine, undermine God's

purpose, to oppose God's people, to obstruct God's power.

He couldn't stop God's plan in heaven, and so he's been trying

to sabotage God's plan. On the earth and his.

Favorite target is the church. And when we talk about the

church, we're talking about God's people, the the church

today. The church is not a building.

The church is a living Organism. We are the Church of the Lord

Jesus Christ. If you're here today and you're

born again and you're a citizen of the Kingdom of heaven, you

are the church. You are the Church of the living

God. The church wasn't man's idea, it

was God's. The church was birthed by the

blood of Jesus Christ. It was built on the rock of

Revelation, and it's sustained by the power of the Holy Spirit.

You see, Satan knows he can't dethrone God, so he tries to

deceive God's people. He knows he can't destroy

heaven, so he tries to divide the church.

He knows he can't stop the plan of redemption, so he tries to

silence the redeemed. I believe the enemy would say,

he said. If I can't defeat the Creator,

I'll try to corrupt. His creation.

So the enemy strategy today is this.

He tries to attack the message through false teaching.

There's a lot of false teaching in the world today.

There's a lot of false, false teachers in the Bible.

The Bible warns about in the last days that there would be

those who would come with false teachings.

Aren't you glad that you do have a pastor who preaches the word

of God today, man? And so he attacks the message,

but he also attacks the mission through distraction and

division. He attacks ministers through

temptation and burnout. They say that some 3700

ministers quit the ministry every, I believe every month

there are, there are over 3000 ministers who say, I can't do

this anymore. I quit.

I can't, I, I can't take the stress.

I can't take the the heat and the pressure and, and they quit

the ministry. Aren't you glad you've had one

who may have wanted to quit? But he said, I'm not going to,

I'm going to keep persevering now I'm going to keep, I'm going

to keep striving for Jesus Christ.

But he also not only attacks the message and the menace, the the

the message and and the mission and the ministers, but he

attacks members. He attacks us as the body

through fear, through compromise, through confusion.

Demonic deception is on the rise in this day.

Spiritual warfare, We sense it. It's intensifying.

And darkness is trying to dominate every dimension of

society. And the church is no exception.

The enemy wants to shut the doors of the church because it's

not the government that gives us hope today.

It's not. It's not Social Security that

gives us hope today. Hope comes through the message

of the true Church of the living God, the message of Jesus Christ

and him crucified. So warfare's intensifying

darkness is trying to dominate, but the church is meant to

survive the attacks of hell. We were built to survive.

We were built to to survive the Hell's attacks.

And we we weren't, but just meant to survive Hell's attacks.

We were meant to to overcome and to dominate Hell's attacks.

You see, we don't, we don't, we're not supposed to get backed

up into a corner and then try to come out fighting.

We've been given every weapon that is necessary to come

against all the powers of the enemy that comes against the

church. You've heard it said that the

church is not a cruise ship for entertainment, but the church is

a battleship to engage the enemy.

We are to rise up and engage the darkness in this world.

Satan opposes, but he can't overthrow.

He roars, but he doesn't reign. He may fight, but he can't

finish what he didn't start. Jesus started this church.

He said I will build my church. It's his church, it belongs to

him. We are the Church of the Lord

Jesus Christ. Paul said in Philippians one

sick being confident of this very thing.

He which hath begun a good work in you.

And can I just tell Cross Power Church, God has just begun a

good work in you and he's going to complete it.

He's going to finish what he started.

Can you give God praise for that this morning?

The church may be pressed, but it's not powerless.

The church may be attacked, but it's not abandoned.

The church may be oppressed, but we are not overcome.

Even today, as we face a generation of moral confusion

and spiritual compromise, the church is not fading, it is

flourishing. The darker the night, the

brighter the light. The heavier the pressure, the

greater the power that God sends into His church so that we can

be overcomers and come against all the powers of the enemy.

Several years ago there was a a movie.

That that came out. Called Unstoppable and it's it

was based on a true story it's about a runaway train some.

Of you may have seen it, it came out about. 2010 But it's based

on on a true story of a train in Pennsylvania freight train that

was barreling down the tracks and it it it had several cars

full of a biochemical or, or or very toxic fluids and liquids on

it and it was out of control. It was, it was, it was a

barreling toward through a city and they knew was going to was

going to derail and it could have potentially kill thousands

of people once that liquid became exposed and it crashed.

And, and so they, they tried to stop it and it was called the

CXCS XA8888 and they called it the crazy 8 train.

And they, they tried everything they could.

Finally they, they found an engineer who was who they found

a, a, a, an engine that is designed to to track down a

runaway trains and an engineer that that got on this engine,

the train engine and, and was able to catch up and, and latch

on to that train and finally able to get it stopped.

But it but it was called the unstoppable train.

You see, the church is unstoppable.

The Church of Jesus Christ is unstoppable.

It is a force that is unstoppable.

And just like just like the church, the world may try to

derail us and distract us and detain us.

But hell can't stop what heaven started.

God has started a good work here and hell can't stop it.

God has started a good work in your life and hell can't stop

it. All the powers of hell that come

again. It's your life and your marriage

and your family. Hell can't stop what heaven has

started. There is no power in hell.

Hell thought they had Jesus when he was in the grave, but they

found hell found out. They couldn't stop Jesus because

all power, all power was given unto him.

All power belongs under our Lord.

And resurrection power raised up Jesus from the dead.

And that same resurrection life is what's here today that is

working and is ministering to us and lives on the inside of us.

Aren't you glad for that today? So Jesus, Jesus made this

statement at a place called Caesarea Philippi.

It's very important that you understand the, the location of

this. Where was that?

Because it, it, it actually was previously called Pineus after

the Greek God Pan. The, the, the mythical Greek God

Pan was half goat, 1/2 man God. That, that, that was worship.

It was an idol that was worshipped.

And, and, and, and so this was this is what that area was

called. And it, and was at a a very

rocky high Cliff area. And it was believed that there

was a, there was a, a, a, a opening in that Cliff that was

believed to be the opening to the, the underworld.

And so literally it was called the gates of hell.

Jesus didn't just happen to go there.

Jesus didn't just say, well, this, you know, no, he

specifically went to the region that the people knew as the

gates of hell. And that's where Jesus first

introduced the concept of the church.

For he said, upon this rock I will build my church and the

gates of hell will not prevail. Jesus declared that the church

is going to prevail over the powers of darkness.

He didn't say it in comfort. He said it in confrontation.

He didn't whisper it in a sanctuary.

He thundered it in Satan's territory.

That's the kind of confidence that the church has to have

today that we stand in the darkest hour of that's that

we've been in and the darkest place.

And we declare we still have the advantage because what heaven

started, hell can't stop. That's why you can go to dark

places. That's why you can be in this

world and live in this world, but you're the light of the

world. We're a light in a dark place.

And we're not to hide our light under a bushel.

No, we're to let our light shine because we have the power.

We have the truth of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And it's, it causes hell to tremble when a child of God

understands that the church, that the body of Christ, that

hell can't stop it. Is this all right?

That savage incident a month ago, 3132 days ago, Hell thought

that it would silence the voice of a young patriot, a father, a

husband, a young man. You know what I'm talking about.

You know who I'm talking about, Charlie.

Hell thought we're going to. We'll silence, we'll stop this

movement. But you see what's happening

just in 30 days, the explosive growth, hell thought it could.

And you see, that's what hell thinks it can do to the church.

That's what hell thinks it can do to a believer.

That hell that the, that the, the try to silence the voice.

But I'm here to tell you, you can't stop the voice of God.

Hell can't stop God's. What Hell can't stop what heaven

starts. Hell can't stop it.

And it's the church Hell can't stop, the power and the movement

of the Church of Jesus Christ. So what kind of church is it

that hell can't stop? Well, I'm glad you asked because

I'm going to tell you this morning.

Hell can't stop the church that knows its author.

Jesus said I will build my church.

He didn't say Lance is going to build a church.

Lance. Lance may have started the

church. Lance may have had an, a vision

and A and a mindset to to begin a church and call people

together, to have a place of worship and to and to and to buy

a building and to and to tear down walls and to expand.

Yes. But you see, this isn't Lance's

church. This is God's church.

Jesus said, I'm the author of the church.

I will build my church. He's the author.

Hebrews 12/2. Looking unto Jesus, the author

and the finisher of our faith. Hell trembles when the church

and the believers remember who writes the story.

Do you know who's writing your story today?

Jesus isn't just the founder of our faith, He's the finisher of

our fight. The church didn't begin in a

boardroom, it began in the blueprints of heaven.

The church is a man's idea, it's God's idea.

We're not a human organization. We're a divine Organism that is

alive, and we've got the DNA of God in our midst today, Charles

Spurgeon wrote. If Jesus is the builder, no

bulldozer in hell can demolish his work.

Well, I like that because Jesus the author holds the copyright.

Hell can't rewrite the script. If Jesus is the author of your

story, he writes better endings than the enemy has planned.

If Jesus is the author of grace, he can turn our disgrace into

Amazing Grace. If Jesus is the author of peace,

he can calm storms that doctors can't diagnose.

If Jesus is the author of power, he gives strength in your

weakest hour. If Jesus is the author of faith,

he strips victory when fear tries to edit out your destiny.

If Jesus is the author of mercy, he rewrites chapters in your

life that you thought were ruined.

If Jesus is the offer of healing, Oh my goodness, been

signing his name where sickness had the last word.

If Jesus is the offer of deliverance, he breaks chains

and rewrites generational history.

If Jesus is the offer of hope, he pinned resurrection where the

world wrote. It's finished.

If Jesus is the author of love, He inscribes compassion upon

every line of my life. If Jesus is the author and the

finisher of my faith, He started it, He'll sustain it, and He'll

seal it with His glory. I know I'm preaching a little

different than I usually do. I might be.

Reading a little more than I normally do that you notice me

doing, but there's something here you need to hear today.

I'm taking my time is. That all right?

You see, Hell can't edit what heaven authored.

The pen of grace has already signed your victory.

Aren't you glad you know the author of your story?

I think somebody wrote a song about that.

He's the author of your story and it doesn't matter what hell

says. It doesn't matter what the

world, it doesn't matter the lies that the enemy comes to try

to bring condemnation on somebody here today, that the

enemy is telling you you're nothing, you're nobody, you're

no good, you're not going to make it.

You will never amount to of anything.

But I'm here to tell you, the author of your story says grace

is upon your life, Mercy is upon your life.

I start what I finish, and I finish what I start.

He's the author and the finisher of our faith.

So the church that hell can't stop knows its author.

But not only the church that hell can't stop knows its

author, it knows its authority. Do you know your authority?

Today? Jesus said, Behold, I give you

power to tread upon serpents and scorpions and over all the power

of the enemy, and nothing by any means shall harm you.

Jesus gave authority. He talked about, he said I give

you the keys of the Kingdom. There's two parts to this

authority and access. We'll get to access in a minute.

But if you have keys, you have access and you have authority.

If you've got keys to a building, that means you've got

right to enter it and you got a right to be there, right?

You don't give somebody keys to your home if you don't want them

to have access. You don't give them passcode if

you don't want them to have access.

So if you give somebody keys, you are authorizing them to have

authority and access. And that's what Jesus said.

He said, I am giving you authority, authority, Authority

over the enemy, Authority over darkness, authority over the

works of the enemy. The church doesn't.

We don't. We're not here begging for

authority today. We're not here praying.

Oh God, oh God, give us. Oh God, give us.

Oh, no. If you understand that when you

are born again, you have been given authority.

The blood of Jesus Christ, the name of Jesus that we sang about

this morning, that name gives you an eye.

Authority. We have authority.

We've been bestowed authority. Authority means legal right.

It means jurisdiction. It means endorsement.

When the church operates in that awareness, demons have to

recognize the command. Darkness has to has to respect

the decree. Doors have to open.

You see, Hell's greatest fear is that you begin to understand who

you are when you begin to know your identity.

If you don't know your identity, you don't have any authority.

Some walk they they walk in defeat because they don't know

their identity. And because they don't know

their identity, they don't have authority.

Hell has limited power, but the church has legal permission and

the church has unlimited power. I love the story in Acts 19.

In Acts 19, there was some, some, some guys, some they're

called the sons of Skiva. And they had been, they had been

watching Paul. They had been watching disciples

of Paul and disciples of, of Christ.

This is many years after after the outpour of the Holy Spirit

in Acts chapter. 2. And, and there was a man who was

demon possessed and, and these guys tried to, they thought it

was a formula. So they tried to cast this demon

out of this man. Well, the demon spoke and said,

Jesus, I know Paul, I know, but who are you?

Who do you guys think you are? And nothing happened.

You see, you see, there's a lot of counterfeits today.

There's a lot pretending that they're Christians, pretending

they have authority, pretending they have they have access.

But if you are a child of God today, if you'll become born

again, if you're not and you'll become born again to, you'll

have authority over the enemy. And so, so Jesus, I know Paul.

I know you see, You see, Hell knew Jesus and Hell knew Paul.

But they didn't know who these guys were because they weren't

walking in true faith. They were showing off a fake

badge. When you know who you are and

when you know who's you are, Hell won't ask.

Hell won't say I don't know you. Hell knows you.

Hell knows who you are. Hell knows you when you when you

begin to call on Jesus, when you begin to say the name of Jesus,

when you begin to speak Jesus over your children, when you

begin to speak Jesus over your needs, when you begin to call

upon the name that is above every name.

Hell knows who you are because you've got the blood of Jesus

Christ on your life. And you see, it's that blood

that not only that gives you authority, but His blood gives

you access. We can't approach the Father

without the blood of Jesus. You can't, you can't approach

the Father and ask for your needs to be supplied.

You can't approach the Father and, and, and, and receive the

benefits and the blessings of heaven.

If you haven't already, come through the name of Jesus and

through the blood of Jesus Christ that forgives us of our

sin. It's the blood that made a way.

The veil was torn not from the bottom up, but from the top down

so that access can to be made by you and I.

The Bible says let us come boldly to the throne of grace

that we may obtain mercy and find help in the time of need.

The church that that that hell can't stop.

It's the church that knows it has access.

And let me tell you something, every one of us has access right

now into the throne of God. You don't have to beg for

access. There's some places you and I

would go today. We could go today and we

couldn't get, we couldn't get through the front door because

we don't have an access pad. We don't have a keypad, we don't

have a key fob. We don't, we don't have access

into this building or we couldn't get past security.

We couldn't get on an elevator, we couldn't get up the

escalator. We couldn't get past this

secretary. We couldn't get past this floor

because they've got restrictions and it would say access denied.

But for the child of God, there is no denying of access for you

and I to come boldly to the throne today.

So whatever your need is, you can.

You've got access. You've got access to approach

Him. If you need deliverance, there's

access for you today. If you need healing, there's

access for you today. Into the surgical room of

Almighty God where He can perform healing on your mind,

body, soul, and spirit. Today, Churchill can't stop.

Knows its author, knows its authority, knows its access.

And here's I'll stop with this one knows it's anointing,

anointing, the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

You want to prevail, You want to overcome.

You got to have the Holy Spirit. You got to have the anointing of

the Holy Spirit because the Bible says the anointing breaks

yokes. The anointing destroys bondages

and breaks yokes. It takes the anointing of the

Holy Spirit, the anointing, the power of God that anointing

heavens. The anointing is heaven's

empowerment for earth's assignment.

It's not just oil on your head. It's God on your life.

The oil is symbolic there, there, there's there's

physically no power in this, in this oil, but it's a

representation. It's symbolic of the anointing

oil of God, the anointing of God's power.

And spirit of hell fears the anointed because the anointed

operate in a realm where flesh can't function.

When you're anointed, you speak and heaven confirms.

When you're anointed, you worship and change, shatter.

When you're anointed, you pray and prisons shake.

The anointing makes the the ordinary unstoppable.

That's why the Church has to operate in the anointing of the

Holy Spirit. That's why we lay our hands on

the sick and we anoint with all because we believe they shall

recover. The anointing breaks chains and

Samson's hair was restored. So was his anointing.

The anointing wasn't in his hair.

It was symbolic of the covenant. It was symbolic of the

relationship. But even in his weakness, Hell's

house fell because the anointing was restored.

When the anointing is present, Hell can't prevail, so Hell

can't stop. What the blood covers, what the

Spirit feels, what the Word sustains.

What the name empowers and the hope that anchors.

US. You're part of a church today

that hell can't stop. You're part of a movement today.

You're part. You're part of a living thing.

Be thankful for the church. Be thankful that God, God has

God has established the church. It's a place of refuge.

It's a place of. Healing it's a.

Sanctuary, it's a, it's a place of it's a place of communion.

It's a place of restoration. It's a place of renewal.

It's a, it's a place of laying down.

It's, it's a place of burying where we bury our, our, our sins

and our past and, and when we get resurrected to new life.

Are you thankful for the Church today?

Because if you're a part of the church, hell can't stop it.

Hell can't stop the strategies. Hell can't stop the church

because the tomb's empty and the throne's occupied.

I'm done. Hell can't stop the church

because it's marching under orders from the King of Kings.

Hell can't stop the church because its weapons are not

carnal, but they're mighty through God till the pulling

down of strongholds. Hell can't stop the church

because the Lion of Judah roars within her walls.

Hell can't stop the church because her foundation is

unshakable and her future is unstoppable.

Hell can't stop the church because what's owned by God

can't be overthrown by Satan. Tell your neighbor Hell can't

stop this. He's tried to stop.

He's tried to stop some of you. He's tried to.

He's tried to stop you from coming to church.

He's tried to stop you from confessing Jesus.

He's tried to stop you from giving up and laying down sins

and habits and addictions and hang ups.

He's tried to stop you from. Progressing in your faith, he's.

Tried to stop you from receiving healings and miracles.

He's tried to stop you from from putting your life back together.

He's tried to stop you from having your marriage restored.

He's tried to stop you from having peace in your mind.

He's tried to stop you from walking.

But I'm here to tell you, Hell can't stop.

Hell can't stop what God's put in motion.

Hell can't stop what what God has planned for you.

I'm glad today that I'm in an unstoppable.

Thing today. The Church of Jesus Christ,

would you stand please? Is this all right?

Did you receive anything today? The word encourage you today.

Because that's the power of God's Word.

It strengthens us. It encourages us, but even.

Now the powers of hell try to distract somebody, try to

distract somebody from saying. I need to.

Give my life fully to. Jesus.

Powers of hell try to distract somebody from receiving a

miracle that you. That you were designed and

intended. To have today the powers of hell

will distract. You even now from trying.

From keeping you and hindering you from opening up your life

and allowing the power of the Holy Spirit to just come in and

touch you. So would you just lift up your

hands toward him? Let's just.

Praise him for a moment. Thanks for listening to the

Cross Powered Church podcast. May you know that true hope,

peace, and salvation can only be found in Jesus.

If you're near Campbell, TX, we would love for you to join us in

person. You can find service times at

crosspowerchurch.com.