When God’s Plan Doesn’t Make Sense

Something's happening across the streets of America.

It's not a program, it's not a strategy, it's not a campaign.

It's a movement because love has officially broke out of the

building. Love is actually on the loose.

We call it Night Out with Jesus. It's not about a title or church

name. It's about people who believe

that Jesus still walks the streets, still heals the broken,

still feeds the hungry, and still finds the one who's lost

at the gas pump, in the grocery store or sitting on the

sidewalk. Everywhere we go, miracles

happen. Same with me.

That's crazy. No, that's God.

The Kingdom of God isn't stuck inside the four walls of a

church. It's breaking out into the

neighborhoods. Parking lots, pizza shops and

St. Point groceries are being paid

for. Tears are turning into joy.

Addictions are losing their grip.

The lonely bill seen in the gospel, the good news comes

alive in real time. This is what we like to call

revival. With sneakers on wherever we go,

He goes before us, Jesus. Then he just teaches the

synagogue. He sat with the outcast.

This is the moon. This is the this is your

invitation to come out with us, to step into the story that God

is writing. Be the hands, be the feet, be

the light. This is night out with Jesus in

the streets. We'll never be the same.

Come on, Illuminate Church, let's get excited.

Come on everybody, say it with me.

That's crazy. No, that's God.

Come on, one more time. That's crazy.

No, that's God. Listen, we got to stop chasing

the that's crazy because we got to start following Jesus.

We chase Jesus and the that's crazy automatically happens.

Let me tell you something. What started out years ago, you

know, with two people, you know, that we, we were going to just

go bless somebody. We went to an IHOP and the whole

goal was to pay for their meal and then back up.

So we weren't going to go on a Friday night and spend the money

on us. We were going to spend it on

somebody else. So we wind up going to this

place, we IHOP to be exact. And we fed them and then we kind

of watched and then they kind of were like what?

And then we were like, boom, we ran home.

And then we that was our night out with Jesus.

Then we got the whole church to do it, and then the whole church

went out and we just invaded our community, the subway.

Nobody, there was no nobody left in that community that we didn't

touch with Jesus. Are you with me?

Every store around that community knew who we were, not

just because we were a building on the side, but because they

knew we were the church. And then we always said mission

American. We always thought about these

things. Then all of a sudden it wound up

to where Right there. I think we had 10 churches.

This last one in November, we have 15 churches.

Join us around the state of all the states in America and then I

winded up recording with a praise the Lord network, a

television show with Jim Baker and all that and they wind up

broadcasting to over 8 million homes.

And now what started with two people in the nudge of the Holy

Spirit. Now the guys like look, I'm

going to prophecy next year America will be saved 50 states

will do be doing night out with Jesus.

So we're hoping you guys can join us.

We're praying that Pastor Tim and you guys will be doing it in

Kissimmee. Why?

Because while everybody's getting fed all this negativity

and the Muslims this and that, and everybody's complaining

about stuff, I'm like, well, let's do something about it.

Let's mobilize, Let's get established and let's go out

there and show who Jesus is. Amen.

Praise God. Listen, let me tell you

something, Pastor Tim, everybody's sending me messages

because I don't know if you know this about your dad, but when he

was at Gay Raptor, he came in like this because he had all the

guys with tats and all that. I think he was sharing recipes.

You know, he had like guys who did 20 years in prison asking

about pancake recipes. I'm like, what is going on?

This guy has a superpower. And so he did incredible.

I love that your pastor is the same no matter where he goes.

And he was reaching all kinds of people and it was incredible.

Now, for those that don't know me in Pastor One, that's my

beautiful wow, I feel good. Look, this is my beautiful wife,

Ruthie. I call it my baby Ruth.

Listen, we have two books out there.

A lot of things. We reach a lot of prisons

because I was in prison for about 10 years.

Don't worry, I've been saved. So you don't have to run out

that you know, everything's OK. I did about 10 years in

physical, physical bars and then 23 years where I say I had bars

around my heart. This is henceforth why I wrote

this book, Prison Break. I didn't write it for the people

that were incarcerated. I wrote it for the church that

looked incarcerated and I should know, are you with me?

So this is how to actively listen.

And then this one is once you're free, let's learn how to live

the that's crazy. No, that's God life.

Stop chasing the big dramatic spectacular stuff because God is

into the little things and there's a lot of things that we

miss because we're looking for the wheelchair rather than peace

in the storm. Are you with me?

So this one is how to live though.

That's crazy. No, that's God.

We're going to teach you how to follow Jesus and then the rest

happens. Are you with me, pastors Tim and

Christine, thank you for the job that you guys are doing out

here. Incredible work.

Let's give it up for your pastors.

Let me give you that's crazy. No, that's God.

Connor Delaney. I know he's not here right now,

but my that's crazy. That guy done ran all kinds of

stuff that said with a broken foot in her.

I'm like, they can only be Jesus.

My goodness, listen, today we're going to talk.

The message obviously is going to be that's crazy.

Oh, come on, we're and listen, it's a matter of you're a little

late. You came in, that's all that

matters. And so listen, we we, we, we

talk about the supernatural, but we talk about it from a place of

being spooky or sensational. When I talk about the

supernatural, I mean a life of the Spirit working through the

believer. In other words, transforming

what's natural into godly. Come on, transformation.

This is the verse of the day, Ephesians 320 and 21.

OK, Ephesians 3/20/21. We'll get into some other

verses, but this is like the theme verse.

Are you ready? Come on.

Listen, there's this thing I do at the church and I don't know,

I want to make Bibles cool again.

So you have your Bibles. Let me see them, raise them like

you, like you just don't care. Oh, look at all these Bibles.

Pass the 10. This is my Bible.

Come on, stay with me. This is my Bible.

It's the word of God today. I'm good soil.

I'm going to hear what it says. I'm going to accept it and it's

going to bear fruit. Isn't the only job for you is to

hear and accept? Listen, if somebody was giving

you a gift and they gave me the gift and I go like this, did

that mean you accepted it? No, in order to accept it, I

have to almost use the gift, right?

You've taken a Christmas gift and stuck it in the closet.

You didn't really accept the gift, you actually re gifted it.

This is about that time of year where you start pulling out

those gifts. And so with Jesus, when he gives

you the word, you receive it. That means you accepted it.

That means you're going to live it out.

Are you with me? OK now to him who was able to do

immeasurably more. Everybody say immeasurably more

then all we ask or imagine according to his power,

according to whose power, his power that is at work within us.

Everybody say within me. Now the incredible part is that

a lot of times we read this and we're kind of selfish.

So we make this more about things, but immeasurably more.

He's talking about everything heaven has to offer through the

Spirit. He is talking about peace, joy,

revelation, salvation, transformation.

Come on supernatural provision, come on divine purpose.

Not more of just what we want, but the fullness of what God

wants for us. Can I get an Amen?

See, Paul is writing from a prison.

And this gets me a little bit excited because when I see that

Paul's writing from a prison, we can identify.

This is why I read the Bible and I go, OK, it's not that bad.

Doesn't matter where you were asked what you know, it's where

you end up. And so here he's writing from a

prison and I'm thinking, man, he's speaking like a free man

filled with faith, not in circumstances, but in the

supernatural capacity of God. Think about it.

He is in a prison and he is writing.

So I know a lot of times we go through things and maybe you're

in a circumstance right now and you rather go by sides and not

by faith or you rather go by the natural and not what God says.

And here I see a man who could be writing, man, I'm stuck here

in prison. I don't know when I'm going to

get out. Life's not good.

And he is like now to him who is able to do immeasurably more.

See, he is writing from a place that says heaven can intervene

any circumstance or any situation you might be going

through if you're a son or a daughter of the king.

See, what we call crazy is often God at work.

His ways are not our ways. They're supernatural.

If you would have told me that I would have been preaching the

gospel, that I would have been on any of this stuff that God

does, that sometimes I never even thought.

I don't even think of the outcomes.

I don't even know how I wind up there.

I just think about doing the little things well every day.

My marriage is awesome, not because of the vacations we

take, but by what we do every single day.

Are you with me? I never would have thought in a

million years that I would be preaching the gospel that we

would be doing night out with Jesus across America.

Some people have been in church a long time, and we've only been

as good as the chair. We live in a world where

supernatural things of God often look irrational, risky, or even

foolish to human logic. See, God's ways don't fit human

logic. Isaiah 55, eight and nine, it

says, for my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your

ways my ways, declares the Lord, when life doesn't make sense and

you can't see what God is doing. Isaiah 55 reminds us of this,

that God's plan is still perfect even when it feels painful.

I often ask people, do you think that God is perfect?

And everybody says yes. And I go, why do you go to him

after the after you go through something.

If I had a good friend that was perfect, I want you to just I'm

pausing for dramatic effect perfect.

Would you not ask him about everything first?

We usually go to him like a Hail Mary.

We don't read our Bibles. Some of us have like the whole

collection of Bibles, every translation, but we don't have

time. So do it by faith.

He delays. His delays are not denials.

They're divine designs. His mercy outlasts your

mistakes. This is where you see somebody

forgiving somebody or having mercy.

And you're like, man, that that person killed your, you know,

murdered your child. And you see them in the

courtroom. And I forgive him.

And you're like, whoa, because people don't see it often.

His vision includes what you can't see.

Instead of trying to understand everything, God invites us to

trust Him through everything. So my next point is that the

natural can't grasp the supernatural. 1st Corinthians

214 says the natural person does not accept the things of the

Spirit of God, for they are folly of foolishness to him.

I love reading first Corinthians 1-2 and three because you see

the natural mind at work. And he he begins to say, my

speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom,

but with a demonstration. Everybody say demonstration.

Come on, the demonstration of the Spirit's power so that your

faith tap your neighbor and say so that your faith, come on,

might not be based on human wisdom, but on God's power.

Illuminate church. I believe today a decision is

going to be made where the world is going to say that's crazy and

we're going to say no, that's God.

Where we're going to be walking this out and people are going to

see the demonstration of the power, not just human wisdom, he

said. I didn't come, you know, in

eloquent speech or persuasive words.

Come on. The planet is tired of just

seeing people that have no power.

Come on. There's no, there's these little

testimony like, oh, I go to church now.

Come on, you're going to last. I check.

I read the Bible. To follow Jesus, you have to

deny, crucify and follow. We're not we just say crucify.

We forget about deny. Deny means you could say no to

the flesh because you're alive with God and you crucify because

you got to do it his way. So it's going to hurt a little.

It's going to hurt your little ego.

It's going to hurt your little pride and then you follow in his

ways. It's quite simple, but we've

overcomplicated the gospel. When you take a step in faith,

the world should say that's crazy.

See the supernatural life is not about chasing experiences, but

about being transformed by the Spirit through faith in Christ

so that we can see his hand in all circumstances as we walk by

faith and not by sight. Let me tell you there are

stories. I love the which wheelchair

story I've seen, you know, heard of blind eyes open and deaf ears

pop. And you know, I, in the

beginning, I, I was like, God bring me a wheelchair and God

brought him like 2 minutes later.

And so they brought him in. I, I, I freaked out.

I put my hand on his shoulder and I was like, Lord bless his

family. And I walked away.

Few minutes before that I was like, I'm going to stand them

up. Full of pride, full of ego, not

enough dependence on God. But then the day came and we

were in this little city called Palacios, TX, Small town,

everybody knows everybody and I'm there and I'm preaching.

My wife says I thought I took the man's Walker and put it to

the side, but she said I grabbed it and chucked it across the

room. That's crazy.

So I Chuck it across the room. I don't even realize what I'm

doing. I just thought I did like this.

But you know, and then he falls over, grabs me, and before you

know him, we're jumping up and down.

You know, he's excited. Then he starts running.

The service that started at 10:30 winded up ending at 3:00

in the afternoon. The the altar became, I didn't

even have to do an altar call. They just they just ran up there

and they started confessing their sins.

Come on. Everybody got of that

complacency and that comfortable Christianity by faith.

Everybody moved forward because they seen the power and the

demonstration of what God can do.

Listen, we got to start start walking by faith and not by

sight. Second Corinthians 57 says for

we walk by faith and not by sight.

And a lot of times I've seen these cute little posts on

Facebook and all the social media where they say, you know,

faith is the opposite of fear. And I'm like, that's not

accurate. The opposite of faith is sight.

And the reason why you get into fear is because you're walking

by sight. And fear is not just a little

feeling, it's the spirit of fear.

But He gave you spirit of power, love, and sound mind.

He did not give you the spirit of fear.

So when you're in the fear or insight, when you're in fear

because you're walking by sight and not by faith, you're

actually in the demonic realm. Are you with me?

The enemy will always try to talk you out of living by faith.

He'll use fear, logic and delay. You got to replace fear with

truth. Fear is fueled by lies about

God, about you, about your future.

See, faith doesn't deny reality. It declares God's authority over

it. I think of all these times where

I was challenged and I think about even Noah building boats.

And his ways are not always in his thoughts.

And he's building. We would have looked at it

through sight and we would have been like, you know what?

He needs a new sermon. Pastor Tim, 120 years, nobody

saved, only his family. That guy can't be a pastor.

And yet in God's will, it was perfect.

This is how God calls us. He he called us into ministry

where one day I was a translator for for this church.

I was making $300 a month and everybody was like, hey, you

need to go get a job. Are you going to support your

family? But I knew in here that the Lord

was telling me to do that. And so that means that I had to

go through some suffering. We don't like that word in

church. Come on.

Whenever you're getting crucified, you should be

suffering. That's really where you

experience resurrection. Without suffering, there's no

resurrection. Are you with me?

So I'm translating, you know, Hola como estan tolos.

You know, I mean, it was exciting.

I was so saying, you know, on this, I mean, you know, big ups,

all my Puerto Ricans. Come on.

Hey, hold on. Can we come back?

Let me come back. Let me come back.

And that's what happens when you're before you know it, you

know? So I got to come back.

I got to come. We got to get.

Hold on. Holy, holy, holy Whip.

Hold on. Hey, all these words.

I'm like, see, I know there's a lot of Puerto Ricans here.

They're going to pass with him. You haven't brought the Puerto

Rican guy back. I love a multicultural church.

And so we're doing that. And all of a sudden he says,

hey, listen, I got a problem with the Spanish pastor.

Do you mind like taking over for a little while?

And I was like, I don't want to be no pastor.

I said, I'm going to be ripping and running.

I'm a bad come on. He's like, no, no, no, like,

like think about it. And so we go and I tell my wife

and she laughs because it's early stages and she's like,

look, I don't, I don't. And I for me too, because when I

met Jesus, he was like, hi, Juan, how are you?

He didn't say como esta. When I met Jesus, it was more

like, you know, American Jesus. Now I know how to talk Spanish,

but to show you how bad it was, you know my mom, you know, I

called her and I was like, Mom, you have a whole Bible, miss, a

whole book missing because I was looking for James.

And I thought to me, you know, we're Puerto Rican.

So we make everything make like Sprite is a Sprite.

Like we don't we don't change the words.

So I just thought James was Jaime.

So I'm like, I, there's no J up in here.

So I call her. She's like, son, it's Santiago.

So I'm like, why don't they just make it easy?

Even that was a mystery, right? So just to show you where I was

at. And now my wife goes to fast and

I fast and we come back all sad. What did he say?

He's like he said yes. And so there we go.

We're running a Spanish congregation.

But in that, see, God will hide things in insignificant places

because most people don't look there.

You look for the easy and the big, and God likes to hide it in

a little boy with a sandwich bag.

He's into the little things like what's big for God?

You ever think of that? We think God's like, oh, this

was big. He's like, no, he loves the

little things. You do the little things.

Well, he'll make you ruler over much.

But we're so focused on the ruler over much, we missed the

little things. That's why I like when we give,

when we pray, when we fat, that's not like do it.

When we do it, that's like when like like brushing your teeth.

But we think those little things don't matter.

So we're just running around looking for the big, spectacular

thing, the next big profit, the next big deliverance comp, the

next big. And it's like, no, that's cool.

That's a good catalyst. But it should point you back to

the little things. Are you with me?

Oh this is so good. So we wind up taking it and

there I got the heart of a pastor.

Before you know it, we start a Bible study with eight people

because the Lord put in my heart like start a Bible study.

So I'm like, OK, no plant. I didn't even know I was

planting a church. Peston.

I'm just like, all right, I got a Bible.

I want to see people free. I was crying in the back talking

to Wayne because I'm like, I still have that same.

Like, I still want to see people free.

Tired of seeing people not experience what I've experienced

in 15 years. And you've been in church 30

years already. And I'm thinking, wow, this is

so good. Everybody needs to know about

this. And so we, we start with that

thought and we got eight people. And I told my wife in the car

and go, babe, guess what we're going to do?

Oh, we needed a new place. So I go, we're moving and she's,

we, she's like, oh, well, how we're going to move.

We barely could afford. And this place was $200 more.

That's crazy. It's $200 more.

It's not making sense. Come on.

We're building a boat before it rains.

And so we're tripping out and she's like, so were you going to

leave your $300 job? We're going to move to an

apartment that costs more, and we're going to do a Bible study.

I'm like, doesn't that sound awesome?

And guess how I thought? I said, babe, I know this is

true, that I know this is real because the apartment said

mansions at Turkey Creek. And she said, well, how do you

know? I said, babe, there's a verse

that says that he prepared for us a mansion and he said heaven

on earth. So I'm not waiting.

These are our mansions. And guess what?

It worked. But it did not make sense to the

logic or the reasoning of my mind.

I had to walk by faith. Don't minimize the small ways

God is working in your life. The supernatural is already

happening. You just need to see it.

You need to open up your eyes. It's already there.

We actually walk this out by faith, by the finished work of

the cross. You see, faith is God's realm.

See, a lot of times we think that faith is just like, for the

big moment, I got to have faith. It's like, no, you're supposed

to live by faith. When you walk by faith, it means

your lifestyle, your habits, your direction, your daily

decisions. See, when you walk by sight,

that's the fleshes realm. And some of us walk in the

fleshes fleshes realm as a lifestyle.

That's where we get our decisions from.

Fear is the enemy's realm. That's the demonic realm.

Sight means basically how you see, what you see, what you

perceive, what you interpret, what you feel.

Not just your physical eyes, but natural thinking.

See, the supernatural is already at work.

According to James, 1/2 through 4.

The testing of your faith produces endurance.

The testing of your faith produces endurance.

Miracles aren't always about the spectacular.

They're about transformation. See, it's it's about having

peace in the middle of chaos, Forgiveness towards someone who

hurts you, kindness towards an enemy, joy when the enemy

attacks. All of these things, my, my,

I've been on this quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow

to get angry. I just been on this thing

because I've realized in life that what's made my life better

is not being reactive, but responding.

When you're reacting, most of the time you're in your flesh.

When you're responding most of the time you're in faith because

you're pausing. How do you know?

Because the beginning of chapter 1.

Remember, consider it a pure joy when you have various trials,

right? You have trials, you have things

that happen. He says ask for wisdom later.

It says be quick to listen, so to speak, and so to get angry.

What does that mean? That when I'm going through

life, something happens. I need to unplug and pause.

Why? Because I'm having a trial.

I'm going to go to God first, ask Him for wisdom so that

heaven can intervene so I could be led by the Spirit, not by my

flesh or not by the natural realm that is also demonic.

Are you with me? And these things are important.

They're so important. They're so important.

It's so interesting that we we've forgotten about Ray.

I love Oh, listen, oh man, this time's up text Pastor Tim and

he's like, I'm on my Sabbath. I'm going with my kids.

I'm going. He takes care of his home first.

A lot of us, we the only time we have Jesus, when we come in here

at home, they're like, you know, I was always, that was the only

thing that had me nervous about ministering the gospel and all

that was like that. I never wanted to be up here

when my kids are all in their 30s and 20s, right?

I never wanted to look down and my kids be duck lipping me like,

like you don't do that because I mean, you can get over once you

can get over when they're like 8-6, they don't know no better.

But when they get older, they're like, yeah, he sure gets angry.

And I don't ever see him. Be gentle.

Are you with me? Because even if you miss it,

they should see the gospel. They should see, hey, man, my

bad. I wasn't really kind with you

right now. And I should have maybe said

that a little different. But sometimes, man, I'm telling

you, I've been walking this out and I don't know why God winds

up putting a crazy Puerto Rico like me on television.

But sometimes I get on there and I see stuff and I'm like, what

is going on? He would be looking like they

baptized in vinegar, little Tabasco sauce.

On top of that, they're like upset with the world.

I'm like no joy, no peace, no kindness, no love.

But listen, they could say Jesus and I'm like, oh, there's no

power in that got him. Listen, the only one, the only

way you could experience everything I'm talking to you

about so you don't become a chaser of the times.

My Bible says that there's going to be rumors of war.

There's going to be rumors that. Don't worry about that.

Why is everybody worried? I know Jesus.

Are you with me? Come on.

There's the trap of offense happening in the latter days.

The undertone of everybody's offended.

Don't fall for the trap. See, to see these things, you

can't look at it in the natural. That's why social media, you

know why social media does so well?

Because everybody thinks in the natural and looks at sight.

But if you was to pause for a minute, you don't get caught up

in that stuff. You just have side conversations

with other guys who have wisdom. Are you with me?

You have to be born from above. You have to be born again.

John 3 says it like this. You can read 3 through 8, right?

It talks about what the flesh gives the flesh, the Spirit

gives the spirit. But but this part right here,

unless a man is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.

Listen, Nicodemus could not understand this.

He said how can a man go back into his mother's womb?

That is living in the natural, that is living by sight.

You got to understand something. This guy prayed, fasted, he did

all that, read his Bible. He knew the Bible probably

better than some of the people that you know today, but yet he

could not see the Kingdom because you can't grasp the

supernatural with the natural. You have to be born again.

That's the supernatural moment when heaven touches your soul,

your spirit. Man, come on.

There's words we toss around like the regeneration of the

Holy Spirit. There's all these terms,

repentance, all these things. The Spirit of God doesn't just

come to visit, He comes to inhabit.

You have to be once you're born again, you become a new

creation. Listen, I want, I want to show

you this little video that they're going to be playing in

the back. Let's see how it starts.

And you're going to see this Caterpillar.

See this Caterpillar? Everybody see the Caterpillar.

Just take a look at that Caterpillar.

I'm going to let you Stew on that Caterpillar because we

think that salvation is just the makeover or remodeling, but it's

spiritual metamorphosis. That is when you're transformed

by the renewing of your mind is the word metamorpho.

And you see this Caterpillar. Just enjoy me.

Let you watch it for a little bit just so you could have a

little fun watching the Caterpillar.

And you see it's crawling up the thing and you know, he's having

a blast. He's like, oh, I'm just

crawling, you know. Then all of a sudden he starts

experiencing metamorpho. And see, the problem is that a

Caterpillar doesn't crawl better when it becomes a butterfly.

It flies because it's nature changed.

That's what happens when you're in Christ.

You don't live by willpower. You live by his power.

Now let me tell you, you crawled.

This is what we're trying to do at church.

We're trying to crawl better and I just came here to have a

better life. I was going to my finances to

get a little better. You know my day to get a little

better. You know, I want my relationship

just to get a little better. And so you're crawling a little

faster all in your effort. You know you're getting wore

out. That's it.

I crawled a little better last week.

Thanks for your prayers this week.

Try and crawl again and you just go through this crawling thing

and that's how most people. But let me tell you what's

happening there, OK? Because you are born again, a

new creation. This is about to be a new

creation. They say that I used to have a

message a long time ago called no struggle, no flight.

When it's in the cocoon, it's basically denying, dying,

denying, dying. No struggle, no flight, right?

It's in there waiting because it's getting fluid in its wings

so that when it's done it could come out and fly because if it

doesn't do this, read its Bible and fast and pray, posture their

hearts and learn all the Christian terms and believe in

our hearts and come in agreement that he is actually Lord.

It's not just the words, it's a belief in your hearts.

Confess with your mouth. Look at what happens.

He is going after it and all of a sudden, and I was thinking

right now, I was like, man, imagine it didn't do that.

It would just come out and be a butterfly and it wouldn't have

no power. It would just fall.

But because it was in there, look at this.

I should have had somebody come out with some wings.

Listen, God is not looking. Listen, you weren't just sick in

your sin. You were dead.

And He doesn't want you to crawl better.

It's not a remodeled view. It's a pull everything up,

foundation, walls, all of it. He's like, hey, matter of fact,

the dirt don't even look good. Let's get some new dirt in

there. And he wants to change you from

the inside out. I'm looking for some people who

want to fly like a butterfly and sing like a bee.

Come on, you are new nature. You don't live like that

anymore. You are new, totally transformed

by the power of the blood. Oh, Jesus, Oh, I feel the Holy

Spirit in this room tapping on shoulders, saying, hey, maybe

you've been a carnal Christian. You've been living led by the

flesh, and you have a little good week and then bad week,

good week, bad week. You just keep going back and

forth. You just want to crawl a little

bit. Then you want to fly.

You want to crawl. You want to fly.

Craw, fly, craw, fly. Maybe you're just not.

You've just been a catholer this whole time.

You've been at church for a long time and you just been trying to

crawl better because you didn't understand a completely new

nature. Born again.

You were dead and now you're alive.

Let let me read it for you in Scripture.

Ephesians 2, one through 5 and you were dead in your trespasses

and sins in which you once walked.

See if you're constantly doing the same thing, Catherine,

you're just a Caterpillar. You haven't been born again.

You're not a butterfly. You're not saved following the

course of this world. It's not just the people out

there. It's a world system following

the Prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now is at

work in the sons of disobedience.

You're constantly disobedient. You come to church, but you're

constantly disobedient throughout the weeks, about the

months, throughout the years. Matter of fact, instead of

yelling happy New Year this year, you should yell happy same

year. Among whom we all once lived in

the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the

body and the mind. And we're by nature children of

wrath like the rest of mankind. Oh, this is a that's crazy.

No, that's God moments ready. That's crazy because we were all

there. Maybe some of you are still

there, but God, come on. But God, listen, I don't know

what situation you're in, but right now he wants to intervene

with a But God being rich in his mercy because of the great love

with which he loved us even when we were dead and our trespassers

made us alive. I feel like that butterfly I'm

shaking right now. I feel like jiggle, wiggle,

jiggle, wiggle, jiggle, wiggle made us alive together with

Christ. Together with who?

So you can only be alive if you are born again, new creation

together with Christ, living in the power of the blood.

It says by grace you have been saved.

The same Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you.

I don't know if I have anybody in this room who is willing to

be transformed, who is willing to fly, who is with.

Come on, Stand up with me. Y'all.

Stand up. Stand up.

Oh, I feel like, listen, we ain't looking for a revival.

But I send something in the atmosphere.

I send something. Some people will be born again.

I feel it. Born again.

Born again. Come on.

Someone who's been led by the flesh right now are being

crucified. Come on.

Oh, Jesus, I'm stirred up. I am stirred up.

Listen, I I, I want to do something.

I want God to open your eyes. I want God to help you see what

he's doing in the middle of what you don't understand.

I met a person in the last service that was.

I feel like the spirits of homosexuality broke and she was

so excited and she was like, I don't even know why I'm crying.

I was like, you're a new nature man.

You're like, she's like, I joined the I joined the young

adults. She was like, I'm coming.

I'm doing all these things. I've been in church.

She goes, I quit smoking pot two weeks ago.

I'm like, girl, learn how to fly.

Are you with me? I feel like God is breaking

something in this room. What looks crazy is really, God,

are you with me? And So what I want you to do

right now is I want you to close your eyes.

Listen, you're closing your eyes because we're stopping

distraction. Listen, maybe you've never

closed your eyes in a moment like this before, but God wants

to speak to me and every person in this room at this moment.

Come on, if Jesus right in the room right now, in this moment,

I want you to give him your full attention and I want every mouth

in the room to move and say this Holy Spirit, what are you saying

to me? Ready go.

Thanks for joining us today. We hope God is speaking to your

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