God Hasn’t Left You

And sometimes it feels as if God is leaving you.

I would suggest that some of the moments when it

feels as if he's walking away from you, he is

creating a desire within you so that if you draw

near to him, he will draw near to you. God

is trying to set your faith free from the need

to feel it.

To have it.

As if somebody say, as if the next time the

devil tries to tell you God has left you, that

God has abandoned you, look him right in the eye

and say, with your hand on your hip, in your

best white girl teenager voice, say as if, as if

he would leave me. He said he would never leave me,

never forsake me, never abandon me.

He will stop.

But he started higher, miss, and he is mine, and

he's with me in the middle, as if he were

going further. And they asked him to come in and

stay with them. Now, professional pointer, be careful when you

ask Jesus to come in, because if he comes in,

he's going to take over.

So God is not going.

To settle for a shout out. He's not going to

make himself a cot in the foyer of your heart.

He's coming in the kitchen.

He's coming in the kitchen.

I feel God on that, and I don't know why

I touch somebody, say he's coming in your kitchen. He's

coming in your kitchen. He wants to get into the ingredients.

Watch what Jesus does. He walks in. This is verse thirty.

He sits down at the table, takes the bread. Remember

it is Cleo's house. But Jesus reaches right across the table,

takes Cleo's bread and just starts doing stuff. See. I

need you to know that God is not going to

come into your life and stay on standby so that

when you kind of sort of need him and maybe

confit him into your schedule. Maybe I can get a

little Jesus juice when my boyfriend isn't calling me back.

Maybe I'll bread see Jesus when he comes into your life.

I feel the spirit of God is all up in

me right now. I feel it.

God said I'm taking over Today is the.

Day of salvation. I'm taking over your thoughts. I'm taking

over your matter. They said, I'm taking over your desires.

Salvation is total surrender. This is how I used to

preciate when I was twenty three. Manus how I used

to preach the people who thought that God could be.

A part of their life.

If God gets in your life, He's gonna get all

up in the middle of it. God is gonna change

who you have listened in the contacts of your iPhone.

Don't hear me.

God is gonna change who you friend on Facebook.

God is gonna.

Change what you're doing eleven thirty on Friday night. God

isn't just gonna wait for you to get to church

on Sunday morning and bless you with a goosebump. God

wants I know where to preach. I know where the

love is.

It's in the middle.

Nobody said us in the middle.

Anyway, Is it okay?

God Jesus doesn't ask any permission. He sits down at

Cleo's kitchen table, takes Cleo's bread, blesses Cleo's bread, breaks

the bread, and gives the bread. And when he gives

the bread that he broke, which is also the bread

that he blessed, which is also the bread.

That he took.

When he takes over your life, he blesses your life.

But the same hands that bless your life are the

same hands that must be trusted.

When your life is broken. I mean when your heart.

Is in a million pieces. See. I need to preach

this because sometimes we think when we get saved that

everything is gonna be sanitized and everything is gonna be safe.

And we think that when we get safe. See, this

is the kind.

Of preaching that will help you when life is doing

its best to tear you apart. You can now beyond

a shadow of a town.

Somebody shut, I'm still saved. I'm saved when i'm happy.

I'm saved when i'm sad. I'm saved when they're with me.

I'm saved when they walk away. I'm saved when i'm up.

I'm saved when i'm down. I'm saved when i'm blessed.

I'm saved when i'm broken. I'm saved in the palace.

I'm saved in the pit. God is with me.

In the middle.

I was saved, it happened. I will be saved. I'm

gonna be with him forever. But I need him to

be with me in the middle. This is not a

moment to moment contractual arrangement with God because we kind

of think like his grace will save you, and his

grace will get.

You to heaven.

You're on your own in between. I want to declare

that the same grace that will get you there wherever

you're there is is with you here if you will

believe the words coming out of this country preacher's mouth

today that God is in the process, and number one,

the gift.

Is in the middle.

They sat down to eat with Jesus, but they didn't

even do what they sat down to do, because while

he was breaking the bread, the process of the way

that he broke the bread revealed his presence to them.

God is in the process and the gift is in

the middle.

Today you will be with me in paradise. What an

awesome promise to that thief. But I got a better

one for you, because that's pretty good, right. I mean,

come on, you're a dying thief and you're trying to

slip in before the door closes. You're trying to get

on Noah's ark and it's already halfway out in the water,

and with your drowning, dying breath, you half heartedly make

a request just in case it works, and that.

Guy got in.

Okay, today you will be with me in paradise. But

God has made you a better promise for He says

to each one of us today. Help me say, God,

not today you be with me in paradise, but today

I will be with you.

In the process. You see.

To me, that's even better that I have not only

his statement, but I have His spirit. I am sealed

with a guarantee that He is with me, not just

when I raised my hand, not just when I went

down in the baptismal waters.

That was awesome.

Your wedding was beautiful, and we all appreciate so much

the catering service.

But we're not waiting, please.

Like God left you on earth to wait to go

to heaven. Have you noticed that so much of what

we talk about in terms of salvation has to do

with us getting out of here, like Christianity is God's

cosmic evacuation plan. But what about.

The middle?

See, the gift is in the middle. Can I show

you something Peter said one time? Peter knew something about

the middle because one time he was in the middle

of the sea, in the middle.

Of the storm.

All of a sudden, in the middle of the sea,

in the middle of the storm, here comes somebody walking

toward him. And he's not quite sure, but he thinks

it might just be Jesus. So he cries out in

the middle of the sea, in the middle of the storm,

if it's you, tell me to come. And he gets

out the boat and he does pretty good. And by

the time he gets where he's going, God reaches down

and grabs him. That's a picture of the grace to

get started and the grace that will be there in

the end.

But what about the middle.

He was walking on water above what could have killed him,

and all of a sudden, the wind and the waves

on the right and the left caused him to lose

this focus.

On the man in the middle, and he sinks. And

so Peter.

Says, sometimes you are so focused on what's behind you.

I'm preaching to somebody, and you are so focused and

concerned and anxious about what's ahead of you, you are

missing the presence of God. He is not the great

I was, and he is not the great I will be.

He is the great I am.

And his presence is not just what heavened one day.

The Kingdom of God is that hand. He's here.

In the middle.

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