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House of Jabez

Legacy Church with Paul Strong

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  1. Welcome to the Legacy Churches Podcast. We are so glad that you get you

  2. win us today. We praise that God speaks to you through his message and

  3. through his work. Now let's tune into the message. Oh there you are,

  4. First Chronicles, chapter four, verse nine. I want you to go

  5. there, and it is our custom to stand for the reading of God's word

  6. that is in the Old Testament, First Chronicles, First Chronicles, Chapter four.

  7. Today is a standalone message. Next Sunday is our September eleventh service.

  8. You do not want to miss this service. In fact, you I need

  9. you to bring somebody. I need you to bring I need you to bring

  10. more. I need you to bring a whole row. I need you to

  11. bring your family, your friends, whoever you can get them in the house

  12. is going to be in a powerful moment. We've got guests coming, fire

  13. department members, police officers are gonna be here, constables are gonna be here.

  14. It's gonna be a great day as we remember the twentieth anniversary of nine

  15. to eleven. How many people remember the day that you the day that that

  16. happened, how many remember where you were. It's gonna be a powerful,

  17. powerful message, and I'm just believing God is going to bring people into a

  18. place of relationship with Christ. Amen. First Chronicles, chapter four, verse

  19. nine. Jabez was more honorable than his brother. His mother had named him

  20. Jabez, saying I gave birth to him in pain, Jabez cried out to

  21. the God of Israel. Now I want you to see this all that you

  22. would bless me. And then I put parenthetically indeed and enlarge my territory.

  23. Let your hand be with me and keep me from harm, so that I'll

  24. be free from pain. And God granted his request. Come on, turn

  25. your neighbors, say God's about to bless you. God. Come on,

  26. turn to the other neighbor that you didn't want to talk to, tell them,

  27. say God's about to bless you. You know you didn't turn that way.

  28. You looked over Adam. But you turn and you talk. But just

  29. go ahead and tell that person God. Now tell your other net tell everybody,

  30. say God's about to bless me. How many believe God's gonna bless you

  31. today? Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you for the

  32. word of God. I pray today for clarity of thought. He's of expression.

  33. As I teach and preach your word today. I pray for the listening

  34. audience that's here and online today that God that they would not just be hearers

  35. of the word of God, but Lord, let impart into their into their

  36. heart and such a place that they become followers of your word. And I

  37. give you the praise in Jesus name. And everybody said, Amen. And

  38. I'm gonna welcome all of those that are online, that are at the lake

  39. today, Amen, that are on their three day We knew it was going

  40. to be a three day week. We knew folks were gonna be out.

  41. But aren't you so thankful for technology that you can watch me wherever? Amen?

  42. Thank God. I don't even know. He may be still getting out

  43. of bed. I know it's eleven o'clock. But some folks, you know,

  44. hey Sunday, they sleeping in. So we want you to know today

  45. with whether you're in your jammis or you're at the lake, wherever you are,

  46. come on, we welcome you. Come on. Let's welcome them right

  47. into the house. Amen. Today I'm on a standalone message. There's a

  48. message that the Lord has really laid on my heart for the house. This

  49. is a this is a message for the house. If you're part of Legacy

  50. Church. This message is divinely designed for you today. And if you know

  51. anything about the Book of Chronicles, the Bunk of Chronicles is something that you

  52. read and you almost can follow asleep with it is It is not the most

  53. inspiring chapters. It is literally the story of genealogy. Somebody begat, somebody

  54. who begat, somebody begad begad begat. You want to put that on the

  55. Bible app and read it at two point zero and just let it get through.

  56. And that's how it is in the story. It is all the way.

  57. It is a chapter upon chapter and then it comes into this this text

  58. of Jabez and it kind of reminds me of a graduation service. It's a

  59. graduation service where they tell you that we want you to hold all of your

  60. applause to the end, and then they call name after name after name,

  61. and you know how they do that little golf clap. Come on this practice

  62. with me, Come on the little golf clap. You know that was like,

  63. that's a little bit ble bit louder than that, you know what I'm

  64. saying, not a little golf clap. And and in the process, you

  65. know, there's always that one family. I don't know why it is.

  66. I want to be that family. I promise you when my kids graduate,

  67. I want I want to pack the whole section. Hello, right, because

  68. you know how it is. You know you got that one family. It's

  69. like up in the up and nosebleed. They don't even got a good seat,

  70. you know what I'm saying. But they got like they're forty strong in

  71. the back, all right. And when they you know, they're walking across

  72. the stage and they're like Paul strong, and all of a sudden, they

  73. start young baby woo, and they start making so much noise that you can't

  74. hear the person that they call. The next time. They literally gotta stop

  75. the procession. You know what I'm talking about, because Mama still holler at

  76. you you bool baby, that's my son. You know what I'm talking about,

  77. just hollering and everybody starts snickering. You know what I'm talking about,

  78. Like, Lord a mercy, what is going on with them? This is

  79. exactly what happened right here in the story. Like god Like, out of

  80. all the names, god Like puts a celebration right in the middle of the

  81. text. And you got to catch this because he calls him, he says.

  82. He says, Jabez was more on honorable then his brothers. His mother

  83. had named him jay Bez. Now, I don't mean, I don't want

  84. you. I want you to understand this that he named him Jabez. His

  85. name means pain. Hello, Now, I know you want to name some

  86. of your children pain. Now you've been a pain. But you know,

  87. I mean, you know you can talk about that like you know, figured

  88. a little bit. Literally, they named him pain. We got John over

  89. here, and then we got Susie, and then he got other son pain.

  90. Y'all getting this? I mean got Judah that's the house of praise,

  91. praise the Lord. That's Juda's praise. Samuel that's one, here's the Lord.

  92. And then j Bez Jabez. Jbez means pain. And I don't know

  93. what actually happened. I don't know why his mother named him a pain,

  94. but the Bible gives us some instruction concerning that I gave birth to him in

  95. pain. We don't know if she had a hard labor. We don't know

  96. if she had lost her h husband. We don't really know all the story

  97. of what is going on, but we know that he was named pain and

  98. when you are named something, that label can stick. You know, labels

  99. can limit you. That's why people put labels on you. I just want

  100. to say this to somebody in the room. I don't care what label they

  101. put on you. I don't care what they called you in school. I

  102. don't care what they called you. I don't care what people identify you with.

  103. Can I tell you your pain may be your reality, but it doesn't

  104. have to be your destiny. I'm telling you today, wherever you have come

  105. from in your story in life, you may have gone through your pain,

  106. and your pain may be your reality, but it does not have to be

  107. your destiny. Because this is a story of a man by the name of

  108. Jabez. We don't know what he walked through, but what we do know

  109. is he prayed an audacious prayer. And I believe if you pray this prayer,

  110. I believe, if you pray this prayer with all of your heart,

  111. I believe God can bring transformation and he can put you on a whole another

  112. place when it comes to him and what He's going to do in and on

  113. your life. Thank you for three amens. It's a little slow, y'all,

  114. but this is the prayer that I want us to pray. This is

  115. the prayer that I believe God is about to call us in this house to

  116. pray. It is the prayer of jay Best. It is, and I

  117. believe God's about to make us the house of jay Best. He wants us

  118. to make us the house of jes And so he prayed a prayer and he

  119. said, Lord, oh Lord, that you would bless me. Indeed.

  120. I know it's crazy, but number one thing that I need you to learn

  121. today is I want you to pray for blessing. Now when you look at

  122. this text, when you say pray for the blessing, the word actually it's

  123. an exclamation mark, and some translations it says, oh bless me indeed,

  124. which means like exclamation, our exclamation, our exclamation, our exclamation, or

  125. like or like if you have an emoji, it's like fire fire fire fire

  126. fire, or like pred percent hundre percentership you want talking about like like God,

  127. see pray And when when I say bless me, Now, when you

  128. may have walked in here and you may say, Lord Lord, I'm coming

  129. into one of these, name it and claim it, blab it and grab

  130. it kind of churches. Now, No, no, no, you're not

  131. coming into this. I need you to understand that blessing is so much more

  132. than material things. Like that is like the that is like so far down

  133. the totem pole. That's like talking about marriage is just the bedroom. Come

  134. on now, I just want you to understand there is more to your relationship

  135. in the blessing of God than material things. And the word blessed is baruk

  136. and it means that God would stoop down and overwhelm you, That God,

  137. in who he is and all he is, would stoop down into your life

  138. and bring you acts as to his presence, to his power, to his

  139. to his provision over your life. How many no God wants to bless you

  140. today? And when I talk about blessing and identify the blessing of God the

  141. wisdom that God would give you wisdom beyond your years, that God would give

  142. you insight and understanding and counsel to make the right decisions. Have you ever

  143. prayed God Lord, I don't I need I don't need money. I need

  144. the right decision. I need the right direction. I need you to show

  145. me your path for my life. I need to know when to hold them

  146. and know when to fold them and want no when to walk away? Can

  147. I get a witness to the God bless me? Indeed, bless me with

  148. strength? Yeah, go ahead and bring it up here. Bless me with

  149. strength today. I need stamming today. I need I need the be ability

  150. that when you put the blessing on me, that I can stand under the

  151. blessing of God. I don't want the blessing to be a burden. I

  152. want the blessing to have the strength to be able to carry everything that you

  153. promised in and on my life. I mean the physical, emotional fortitude,

  154. the strength to walk out your plan and your purpose for my life. I

  155. need health. I don't know about you. If you know how powerful the

  156. blessing of God is, that He gives strength to your body and health to

  157. your bones, that your frame would have health in a world that is sick.

  158. Can I tell you today, God can bless you with good health,

  159. good eyesight, good things in your life. When you wake up in the

  160. morning, God will strengthen you. He'll renew you like the egle. You'll

  161. rise and not be weary. You'll walk in nothing. I wish I had

  162. some help in the room. Does anybody need God to give you vision?

  163. To be able to have a purpose and a clear picture, so you know

  164. when to say yes and you know when to say no. So you understand

  165. the divine design destiny that God has for your life. That you were created

  166. for a purpose today. And it's not just to sit, it's not just

  167. to take up space, but it's to make a difference. And said that

  168. when you discover your purpose, that you become a deadly weapon against the enemy

  169. because you start walking in your divine design. Can I tell you today there's

  170. fullness of life under the blessing of God. Oh my Jesus, I feel

  171. something in this room. I'm telling you today God made you for a purpose.

  172. Today, He made you with a gift. He made you. Yes,

  173. she went through what you went through. I need to tell somebody that

  174. your past is not a rap sheet, it's a resume. Yes you went

  175. through hell, Yes you went through high water. Yes, the enemy wanted

  176. to destroy you. But I came to tell you what the enemy meant for

  177. evil. God wants to turn it around for his good. And whatever thing

  178. that the enemy is thrown at you, God will take that rap sheet and

  179. turn it into a resume for his glory. If you recognize him blessings.

  180. Oh, this is the prayer that I want you to pray. God wants

  181. more for you so you can be a blessing. Hello, bless me indeed,

  182. bless me indeed. Now, then when I say that, listen,

  183. I want you to understand when I talk about that, that you know the

  184. problem is is that God? How many no, God is so good at

  185. blessing. I mean, I mean pressing down, shaking together and running over.

  186. But here's the problem. The problem is is that we've been praying God

  187. just meet our needs. And I need you to understand something. There's nothing

  188. wrong with us praying God meet our needs. But I moved out of a

  189. place that God meet our needs because when you just pray for your needs,

  190. you you're living a small life. How many no, God wants to bless

  191. you beyond what you need. I ain't got no help in this room.

  192. I said, God wants to bless you beyond what you need. And here's

  193. the problem is is that when God wants to bless when he pours He's got

  194. all this blessing. Now he pours it out on your life. But because

  195. your your cup is so small, you can't even handle the blessing. And

  196. even when he pours it into you your cup, your cup can't handle it

  197. spills over, but it doesn't it doesn't have the capacity to pour it back

  198. in. And too many of are praying God, just bless my needs because

  199. our cup is too small. We can't catch all that he has. Hello.

  200. This is why the Bible says in the Second Printhing, chapter nine says,

  201. now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread of food will also

  202. supply And someone say increase, increase what the store is saying, the store

  203. of seed and enlarge the harvest because you if he doesn't enlarger capacity every time

  204. he pour, Lord is a blessing on you, you won't be able to

  205. handle it. So this is what I've been praying, Lord, Lord,

  206. when you pour out the blessing, y'all hear me, Lord, When you

  207. pour out the blessing, Lord, I want you to pour it in such

  208. a way that I can catch every drip of blessing you have on my life.

  209. I don't want just a little bit. I want to catch every drop,

  210. so that when you use me, Lord, that I have the capacity

  211. to do what well. Now, Sister Sally is underneeded and saying brother Joe

  212. is underneaded, and brother Bill is in need. Can I tell you today,

  213. God, you gonna pour out a blessing so that I can meet to

  214. my brother's needs. So I can be a blessing, So I can be

  215. a blessing in my church, so I can be a blessing in my home,

  216. so I can be a blessing in my community. God, you've given

  217. me that. Does anybody want to be somebody that when people come into you,

  218. God, don't give me a blessing, make me a blessing. God.

  219. The more you pour out in my life, the more I'm going to

  220. give to the other people around me. I'm not trying to raise my living.

  221. I'm trying to raise my giving. I'm trying to raise my worship.

  222. Do I got anybody in the room that said, God, bless me.

  223. Indeed? If you believe that, come on, give the Lord of praise

  224. today. Come on, give the Lord of prayer. Bless me, indeed,

  225. bless my house, bless my capacity. I don't want just so little.

  226. I want more, See God, I want more. I want you.

  227. I want to move from God meeting my need to God wants you meet

  228. your vision. Hello, Can I tell you God, move us from a

  229. place of just meet our need. God, move us to a place where

  230. you meet our vision, meet your vision for our life. God, that

  231. you can move us to the place of God. That Lord, that we'll

  232. be a blessing to teen Challenger. They're getting ready to raise up a building

  233. it and they need seventy thousand dollars. God, would you use Legacy Church

  234. to be a blessing over teen Challenge? God who got missionaries in Africa?

  235. We got missionaries in Cairo, we got missionaries in Oman. They've been calling

  236. us. But God, what you make us a blessing? That Lord,

  237. we can reach local and global of the work of God in this house and

  238. around this house. God, you bless us make us debt free. Can

  239. I get a witness so that Lord will be the head and not the tail.

  240. We'll be the lender and not the borrow. Can I get a witness

  241. in this place? God, bless us, indeed bless us. See it's

  242. hard for us to pray that because we think that the blessing is material.

  243. Know, the blessing is all that who God is and all He wants to

  244. do in our lives. So I need you to I need to challenge that

  245. God would raise your vision, raise your vision, raise my vision of God.

  246. So I want more. I don't want to be and I'm not doing

  247. it to get big. See, I'm not asking God to make us big.

  248. I'm asking God to make us great. It's a difference. I'm not

  249. trying to get mega, I'm trying to I'm trying to be great. What's

  250. the difference, pastor Well? See, big is how many you get?

  251. Great? Is how many of you sin? Y'all missed that. It's not

  252. about how many come in. It's how many people going out. It's how

  253. many people are going out in the strength of God. How many going out

  254. in ministry, how many people going out and planning a church. How many

  255. people are going out in the fullness of God. God bless me. And

  256. this is why he prayed the prayer. God, when you bless me,

  257. Lord, I'm praying that you enlarge my territory. He say, I want

  258. you to pray for influence, because when God blesses you, he's blessing you

  259. so that you can make an impact. Are you getting this? See?

  260. God has available to you a life bigger than you. Oh did you hear

  261. me? God has a life for me that's bigger than me. I mean,

  262. he wants to do something that will blow mind. When we think about

  263. when we think about people that are successful, we think it's because they maybe

  264. they got more money. But can I tell you money doesn't solve your problems.

  265. Hello. In fact, if money solved the problems in our federal government

  266. would have solved it a long time ago. They spend billions of dollars and

  267. they haven't solved problems. But this is what I need you to understand.

  268. See when you get influenced, see what God wants to do. He wants

  269. to give you a purpose bigger than your problems. He wants to give you

  270. a purpose bigger than your problems. Can I tell you something I know it's

  271. gonna be hard for you to hear. You're always gonna have problems. You

  272. can't get rid of your problems. You can't get out of your problems.

  273. The problems are part of your life. But can I tell you when you

  274. wake up, your eyes don't have to be on your problems. Your eyes

  275. can be on a purpose that's bigger than your problems. That's why we have

  276. next steps. That's why because when you discover your purpose, when you wake

  277. up in the morning. You recognize that I'm not living till I can solve

  278. my problems. I'm not living so I can pay my bills. I'm not

  279. living till I can just get a check. I'm living on purpose because my

  280. life makes a difference. And can I tell you how you know that?

  281. Now? Listen, this is where you need to know your purpose. It's

  282. the area where the enemy diminishes. Can I tell you that he is afraid

  283. that you would expand into what God has called you to be. It's the

  284. area the enemy diminishes. This is what he tells you. That's what he

  285. tells you. It's just a it's just a what. It's just He makes

  286. it small. It's just a marriage small group. It's just a fitness small

  287. group. It's just a passion for serving. It's just a camera. It's

  288. just a camera. It's just just serving kids. It's just it's just it's

  289. just a it's just a dream about having a food truck. It's just it's

  290. just a food truck. It's just a food truck. He diminishes. It's

  291. just parking cars. It's it's just an idea. He just tries to diminish

  292. it because he recognizes that it's more than that. So he tries to tell

  293. you it's just uh, but can I tell you it's more than that.

  294. It's more than a marriage, small group, it's more than a fitness It's

  295. more than just a camera. It's more than that. You understand, behind

  296. every camera worker in this room, there are millions of people that are being

  297. reached with the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's more than that.

  298. It's more than that. And everybody is trying to pray for God to open

  299. the door. But I'm not praying for God to open up the door.

  300. I'm praying for God to make me a door. Oh I'm trying to I

  301. want you to understand there is a difference when you start praying, but behind

  302. it when you never know the value of a door until it's locked. Hello,

  303. my son, his nan about him afrigerator for his bedroom. Now,

  304. I just want to say something. I never had afrigerator from my bedroom until

  305. I got to college. But he's got his own frigerator. And so what

  306. was going on was his little brothers and sisters were going into his bedroom and

  307. getting the snacks and the drinks out of his bedroom. So he decided that

  308. he was going to put a turbo locked door access cold on his door.

  309. Let me just say, it's not his door, it's my door. And

  310. I really didn't know the value of that of that door because I'm used to

  311. going into everybody's room and all that time my wife was saying, why don't

  312. you go into a cole's room, and why don't you do this? And

  313. that. I need you to get something out of that. And I went

  314. in there and I turned and it turned, but it would open. I

  315. looked at that thing. I said, I don't have the access cold,

  316. and I was punching a kind of numbers in there, getting frustrated, banging

  317. on the door. It wasn't opening because it was locked. Everything that was

  318. behind that door. I couldn't have access to everything. And I was frustrated

  319. because it's my door and that's my bedroom. I remind my son, what

  320. you why don't you lock my door? He said, Dad, that's not

  321. your door, that's my door. He finally gave me the access cold and

  322. it was amazing. I punched the colt in hit the button, boom,

  323. opened up the door. It was so great. I put a lock on

  324. my door. Now we got a locked Yeah, I know you upset.

  325. We got a locked up. Our kids used to be able to pick the

  326. lock. You know what I'm saying. Now they gotta knocker. They gotta

  327. be able to knock because you can't come in just because you're picking it.

  328. Now you gotta know the access code. And no child has the access cod

  329. to my door. And you don't understand there are people, there is provision,

  330. there are things that God wants to use that are standing at your door,

  331. but you've kept it locked. And until you become a door, you

  332. go to miss out on all that God has for your life because there is

  333. treasure behind your door. That's why the enemy is trying to diminice your door.

  334. He's trying to say there's nothing behind your door. There's nothing behind your

  335. testimony, there's nothing behind your gift, there's nothing behind your talent, there's

  336. nothing behind your past. But can I tell you today, God turns beauty

  337. out of ashes. Today God turns a joy out of the morning. And

  338. God has a purpose. All the pain, all the struggle, all the

  339. things, all the gifts, all the talents, all those things. God

  340. wants you to be a door so that people can walk through. So people

  341. can discover their purpose so that you can receive ministry from your door. Do

  342. you know how many people will become life changed because of the doors that you

  343. open when you pray the prayer? God, enlarge my chair. God,

  344. make my life bigger than me. What you're saying is, God, you

  345. got full access to my life. God, you can do ministry out of

  346. my life. God, you then use my gifts and my talents so that

  347. lives can be changed. So that I can be a door opener for somebody's

  348. life. So I can be a door opener for our marriage, so I

  349. can be a door opener for our student, So I can be a door

  350. opener for somebody that's broken hearted that they wouldn't know that there's hope. My

  351. door's a door of hope. My door's a door of healing. My door's

  352. a a door of restoration. I'm praying, God, make me a door.

  353. Make my life bigger than me. God, open up in large my

  354. territory. Let the fullness of God. Now, I want you to understand

  355. today that when you start praying these dangerous prayers, can I tell you that

  356. you're gonna need the hand of the Lord on you. This is the third

  357. thing that he prays. I prayed. He prayed the prayer, Lord,

  358. let your hand be with me, because Lord, it's too big for me

  359. to handle. Lord, I need your hand on my life. When I

  360. talk about the hand of the Lord, it is the presence and the power

  361. of God. That's why we just came out of twenty one days of prayer,

  362. because what God is getting ready to do in this church, we need

  363. the hand of the Lord on Hello. God's getting ready to do some big

  364. moves in this house, and we need the hand of the Lord. That

  365. if God even whispered some of the ideas that he had for us, it

  366. would blow our mind. We say, Lord, I don't know if we're

  367. able to do that, But he says, but my hand is on you,

  368. and my hand is going before you, and you need my hand.

  369. As long as we got God's hand, we can handle it. We need

  370. the oil of the Lord. When we talk about the oil of the Lord,

  371. it is the anoying. The awe of the anointing means it means.

  372. It's a church word, but it just means that it means to be rubbed.

  373. It means to be rubbed that we've literally let that God's presence has rubbed

  374. on us in such a way that it becomes tangible that we have God's presence,

  375. that it becomes evident on our lives, that when people look over your

  376. life, they say, I don't know how they were able to do all

  377. that they were able to do. And you say, it wasn't by mind,

  378. and it wasn't by power, but it was by my spirit. And

  379. there was no way I could have done that. There's no way I could

  380. have known that, but it was the hand. Although I need the Lord's

  381. presence, That's why I exited. Chapter thirty three, verse fourteen. It

  382. says the Lord replied, my presence will go with you, and I will

  383. give you rest. Then Moses said to him, if your presence doesn't go

  384. with us, do not send us up from here. How will anyone know

  385. that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us.

  386. What else will distinguish me and your people from all the other people on

  387. the face of the earth. And the Lord said to Moses, I will

  388. do the very thing you've asked, because I'm pleased with you and I know

  389. you by name, he says I. He said, Moses, I don't

  390. even want to go anywhere. If you don't go, see when God moves

  391. you into God's dream, You're gonna be dependent on God's hand. That's what

  392. we're praying today that when you start praying these audacious prayers, God, we

  393. need your presence because He's gonna do something beyond your imagination. Can I tell

  394. you when you look at your life, you say, well, I'm just

  395. this and I'm just that. But can I tell you, God, when

  396. he sees you, he sees your divine purpose. He sees that you are

  397. a weapon, that you are an arsenal for the glory of God. When

  398. he sees your life, he sees that He has so much more for you

  399. and in you and through you. And that's why we need the presence of

  400. God. This is the fourth thing. And I close with this, and

  401. we gotta pray for protection. The Bible says the prayer of Jabe, I

  402. said, Lord will bless me. God give me more than I need.

  403. Lord, give me a life bigger than myself. Lord, keep your hand

  404. on me, keep your hand on this house today. Don't let us get

  405. too big for our riches. Come on, somebody, God, don't let

  406. us think it's about us and it's not and we forget. It's all about

  407. you. Don't let us ever forget that. It's you that we live and

  408. move and have our brain. God, we could never we can't change one

  409. life without you. Our words will fall to the ground, but your word

  410. will never fail. Oh Jesus, my word will fall to the ground,

  411. but your word will never fail. Your word will go forth and it can

  412. change the hearts of men. And that's why we gotta pray for protection,

  413. because when you start praying these types of prayers, you're gonna need You don't

  414. need some you need some Come on, you need some fire? Hello?

  415. How many know you don't need some protection? Now I know, Texans,

  416. we know about protection. Hello, we are praying for protection. Just to

  417. bring that. Bring that down for me, bring that down. Let me

  418. just say this to you. There's a difference between harm and hurt. He

  419. said, keep me from harm. There's a difference between harm and hurt.

  420. How many know you may get hurt, but God will make sure you never

  421. get harmed. Hurt. There's all types of hurts that we deal with.

  422. See, the enemy is trying to use hurt to harm us. The heart.

  423. Hurt can be corrective. Hert can be vulnerability, Hurt can be misunderstanding.

  424. But can I tell you, but God promises that he'd never allow us

  425. to be harmed. Harm is destructive, Harm is divisive, Harm is devouring.

  426. The enemy wants to harm our homes. The enemy wants to harm this

  427. church. But can I tell you that's why we're praying for God to protect

  428. us. How many want to pray that God will protect us today? Stay

  429. with me today? See whatever the plan the enemy has, it won't work,

  430. It won't prosper, it won't end in destruction. Doesn't mean that we

  431. aren't going to be attacked. The enemy is going to attack us, Coach.

  432. The enemy is gonna try to try to let distractions devour us. But

  433. what we have to do is we have to remain focused, keeping our eyes

  434. on the author and the perfector of our faith, Jesus Christ, and praying

  435. God. Whatever the enemy is trying to do, it will not work.

  436. I said, it will not. I wish I had somebody that believed that

  437. with me. I said, it will not. Oh my God, you

  438. hear that. That's what you're gonna be in to pray every morning. This

  439. is what I've been praying, Lord, that you bless me, God,

  440. that you bless legacy Church to make a difference. Lord, that you bless

  441. this house. Lord, let this become a house of Jabez. Let this

  442. be a house of Jabez. You bless us beyond our ability. God,

  443. you bless us today. God, so that we can be a blessing to

  444. this city. So we can be a blessing to Stafford, So we can

  445. be a blessing to sugar Land. So we can be a blessing to Missouri

  446. City. So we canna be blessing to Katie, So we can be a

  447. blessing to Fort Ben County. So we can be a blessing to Houston,

  448. so we can be a blessing to the school districts that around it. God

  449. bless us, Indeed, bless us. God overwhelm us. Give us more

  450. than we need. Oh God, Lord in large our territory, make us

  451. be a people that's beyond ourselves. God in large our territory, give us

  452. influence. Give us influence with government. Give us influence in the schools.

  453. Give us influence in the business place. Give us influence in the medical field.

  454. Give us influences and decision making. Give us influence. God, God,

  455. give us influence in every area of this area of our lives. God,

  456. give us influence our neighbors. Give us influence among our friends, Give

  457. us influence among our family. God calls us to be risen above that when

  458. people are in need, they'll call on us because God, you giving us

  459. influence. God today, and we recognize God, we need you. We

  460. need your presence. God. We need your presence and God, keep us

  461. from harm. Put your hand on us and cover us with your wings.

  462. God. We ask for your protection. We want to know. We want

  463. people to know God. God. We want people to find freedom. We

  464. want people to discover purpose and God. We want to make a difference.

  465. Every head and doubt, everybody close, no one looking around. Can I

  466. tell your friend those that are watching online, those are in the stream you

  467. say today Today, I'm coming to this house. And I may not feel

  468. like I'm enough. I don't feel like I can measure up. I don't

  469. feel like God can bless me. I don't feel like I've done too many

  470. things wrong, or I've done too many mistakes, or I've tried and I

  471. failed. Can I tell you that's a lie? The pit of hell.

  472. God loves you so much all he wants is your surrender. All he wants

  473. is your availability. And you say, Pastor, today I want to surrender

  474. my life to Jesus. I want to surrender to him today. I want

  475. God to bless me. I don't know how he can bless me, but

  476. I want him to bless me. Can I tell you he wants to bless

  477. you more than you want the blessing. He wants to bless you more than

  478. you want the blessing. And all he wants you to do is surrender your

  479. life to him. With every head about, every I close, no one

  480. looking around. You say that's me, Pastor, that's me. That's me.

  481. Those are to watching online? He say, Pastor, that's me.

  482. Just want you to slip your bed right now, say I want to surrender

  483. my life to Christ. Come on, come on. You may be online

  484. today, he say, Pastor, I want to surrender my life to Christ.

  485. Click that link. I'm talking to you right there. I'm telling you

  486. today, I surrender. I surrender. I surrender. I'm You're worth waiting

  487. on, You're worth waiting on. Every whisper that the enemy's lying to you

  488. right now is a lie. In the name of Jesus. Today, God

  489. wants to bless you. He wants to make you a blessing. Every excuse

  490. my dad, my mom of this that it's a lie. He says you're

  491. wonderfully and fearfully made, and all he wants you to is surrender. Want

  492. you to prayer this prayer with me. If you raise your hand and say,

  493. Jesus, today I surrender. I give you my life. I ask

  494. you right now to come into my heart to forgive me and my sins today.

  495. I believe you have the power to change my life. Today, I

  496. confess you as my savior and to make you my lord. From this stay

  497. forward, I will follow after you. If you pray that prayer. Can

  498. I tell you not only to hear you, but he's a God that answers

  499. you, and he's forgiven you, and he's made you his child. In

  500. Jesus' name. Can you get the Lord of praise right there? Come on?

  501. Come on? Can you get the Lord of praise right there? Come

  502. on? Can you give the No. I didn't say, I said,

  503. not a paddock cake, I said, give him a prayer