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Miracle Sunday

Legacy Church with Paul Strong

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

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

  3. through his work. Now let's tune into the message for all of our first

  4. responders and for our military who is standing in harm's way. No, I

  5. say, can you give God a praise for every person who stands in harms

  6. way. Come on, We are living in treacherous times and we thank God

  7. today for all of those who served. We pray for the families of the

  8. thirteen soldiers who gave their ultimate sacrifice. If you're not standing, I don't

  9. know why. Because we live in a place of freedom today, I said,

  10. we live in a place of freedom today. God, we just thank

  11. you right now. We thank you right now that we live in a country

  12. Lord where we can raise our hands and we can worship the Lord. Today.

  13. We are moved by the situations that are around us, and we recognize

  14. God today you've been so good to us. Thank you, Lord God.

  15. We just pray right now for our nation. We pray for the service men

  16. and women and airmen God and marines God that are standing in harmon's way.

  17. We pray for the hand of the Lord protect them. The Lord. They

  18. are saying that there's imminent danger. But we declare in the name of the

  19. Lord, come on, church, I want you to pray for all those

  20. soldiers. We declare Psalms ninety one nine. We call a nine to one

  21. one today that he that abided under the secret place of the Almighty shall abide

  22. in the shadow of the Almighty. And we declare today that God, that

  23. You're going to be a fortress, a strong tower to watch over these soldiers.

  24. Right now. We cover them in prayer today. God. We cover

  25. their families in prayer today, God, and we ask you God to do

  26. a miracle all the way in Afghanistan. God, we are declaring God a

  27. mirror. We declare angels of the Lord in camp around them that fear you.

  28. Today God, then God, we give you the praise in the strong

  29. name of Jesus. And everybody said, Amen, you can be seated today.

  30. I promise you're gonna get back up. But I gotta just do a

  31. few things. Pastorally number one, I want to say, we're launching small

  32. Groups AMD and so this week we'll be received to be receiving a directory.

  33. And we just believe This is why we do small groups. We believe multiple

  34. things, but number one, we believe that we're better together, that we

  35. are not just a service, but we are a gathering. See, the

  36. devil's not afraid. The devil's not afraid of a building. He's afraid of

  37. a gathering if something happens when we gather together in small groups all across our

  38. city, all across the days Monday through Sunday and gather together. So we

  39. want to encourage you. If you're not a part of a small group,

  40. please check our directory. We're having that out as well. We have new

  41. small groups. I'm putting a little selfish plug. I've got a men's small

  42. group. Men, how many of God's called you to be the head and

  43. out the tail? Amen, He's called you to be a man that leads

  44. today. And so I'll challenge you if you want to be part of a

  45. men's small group. I'm gonna be hosting one on Wednesday night in my office.

  46. We're just gonna break the word of God down. And they're just gonna

  47. challenge men. Go Iron sharpens iron. And so I'm putting my plug in

  48. as well, and there's gonna be women's small groups. And there's gonna be

  49. prayer groups, and there's gonna be outreach groups, and there's gonna be family

  50. groups. So and if you can't find a group, we want you to

  51. start a group. Amen. And there's so many opportunities that you can have

  52. if you are all about outreach. We have food pantry Tuesdays and Thursday every

  53. week we serve families in our community and literally about a thousand families receive assistance

  54. through our food pantry on a monthly basis. Can we give God praise for

  55. that? So that's number two. We are declaring this Sunday is Miracle Sunday.

  56. And so what I need you to understand. Listen, if you're a

  57. guest here today, we'll be receiving a miracle offering at the end and we're

  58. not asking you to do anything. We just want you to enjoy and be

  59. a part of the service today. And this is really geared towards Poles to

  60. call us their home church. So have you been coming for a few weeks

  61. or even a few months and just checking us out. We want you to

  62. receive today amed And we're not asking anything of you, but as a people

  63. of God, we're challenging you that as the Lord leads you, God is

  64. going to speak to you and you're going to be part of this giving at

  65. the end of service, and so we'll be part of the giving, and

  66. then as well we'll be praying for miracles. How many of the Bible declares

  67. that Jesus has the same yesterday, today, and forever. And so we

  68. don't care what size issue you are facing with a small great today, we

  69. want to pray with you and believe God for miracles to come in and on

  70. your life, Miracles in your home, miracles in your finances, miracles in

  71. your chur older, the miracles in your body, miracles in your soul.

  72. We serve a God of miracles today. How many believe that today? Come

  73. on, can you give the Lord of praise today? So what's gonna happen

  74. is at the end of service will be receiving the miracle offering and then praying

  75. for people. And it's gonna be an extended period of time. And we've

  76. got newcomers fellowship, and we've got leaders. They're gonna be out there greeting

  77. with you, but we're also gonna be praying and we're gonna be spending as

  78. much time as we can with as many people who are hungry, and so

  79. it's gonna be a little bit longer today. So if you have to step

  80. out, May the Lord bless you and keep you. May his face shine

  81. upon you, may be gracious to you, and may he give you peace.

  82. I'm already blessing you. You got that? Did you come on?

  83. Catch it? Now? Come on, somebody grab it? Come on now

  84. turn your names and I got it. Ain, I got it before even

  85. end to amy. So you got it. So now I set all that

  86. so you can get ready. Are you ready? I want you to go

  87. to the Book of Hebrews chapter eleven, and it is our some just standing.

  88. I know you had to stand once, but but you stay with me

  89. one time. It's a short verse. Hallelujah. Hm. Hebrews chapter eleven,

  90. verse six. And without faith it is impossible to please God. Now

  91. if you don't got Hebrews yet, I'm sorry. We got left on the

  92. screen. Hebrews is in the New Testament. Amen, you may no not

  93. if you got your Bible? How many got your Bible? Got your Bible?

  94. Have you got how many got like the like the tangible Bible? You

  95. know? Come on? Just wave it that got tangible. You put your

  96. notes in there, you got on your iPhone? How many got on the

  97. iPhone? Just wave it at me A look at y'all. Man. Come

  98. on now, I feel like a movement's coming on. You know what I'm

  99. saying. Without faith, it is impossible to please God, because anyone who

  100. comes to him must believe that He exists and that he rewards those who earnest

  101. seek him. Come on, turn your neighbors say no disclaimers. Come on,

  102. turn ther other say no disclaimers. You can be seated in the house

  103. today. I've already prayed already. If I haven't prayed, we're already in

  104. trouble. I've already prayed about what the Lord is speaking to me today,

  105. and I just want to challenge you today. No disclaimers. You know we

  106. know about disclaimers because every time you watch a commercial, there is a small

  107. type at the bottom of the commercial that gives out the disclaimer. You know,

  108. I was reading the disclaimer on America's Got Talent where they said that you're

  109. gonna receive a million dollar reward. Now that sounds really good until you read

  110. the fine printing. Do you know that the that the winner if you read

  111. the fine print, gets twenty five thousand dollars over forty years. I said,

  112. Lord, read the disclaimer, Read the disclaimer. How many? No,

  113. it's a million dollars. But it's gonna take a long time to get

  114. you the million dollars. You know, and you've got all kinds of all

  115. kinds of medicine, and the pharma companies they are so good about putting out

  116. the disclaimer. You know what I'm talking about, No matter what type of

  117. medicine you are taking, you know, listra or or or or whatever medicine

  118. that's treating whatever disease. You know, step back, stupid exin. I

  119. made that one up. Amen, stupid exon Amen. You know what I'm

  120. saying. They'll say, stupid exen is. See see if stupid xin is

  121. right for you. Side effects may cause rash, hives, irritable bows,

  122. syndrom, shortness of breath, shortness in general, detach retina, detached belly

  123. button cancer, chronic coughing, laughing, heart murmur, infection, heartworms,

  124. hangnails, and potential death. You know what I'm talking about. Like that,

  125. when you hear the disclaimer, the disclaimer is worse than the disease.

  126. Y'all know what I'm talking about, Like like, why would I want to

  127. take this if this is the possibility? And then it says again, please

  128. consult your doctor. You know what I'm talking about. Because disclaimers, Because

  129. and and and and when we come into our situations, you know, disclaimer

  130. set up our disappointment. Disclaimer set up our disappointment. Because we've all have

  131. faced disappointment. We've all have come into a situation and tried to remove any

  132. responsibility or have enough exits to get out of whatever we are in, or

  133. to place blame or to place responsibility somewhere else. And and and you know,

  134. we've all faced disappointments. I have faced disappointments. And my wife and

  135. I we have walked through even when we we've been here for the last five

  136. years. You know what we saw the Lord speaking to us and how it

  137. was gonna go. We thought it was gonna be victory after victory. We

  138. didn't know it was gonna be valley after valley. Hello, I mean we

  139. we thought that when we move forward. Have you ever felt like if you

  140. were moving forward, it felt like you were moving backwards? It just felt

  141. like and so that you have to almost guard yourself with disappointments, because disappointments

  142. will lead you to doubt. Come on that it will leads you to doubt,

  143. and eventually it will leads you to disbelief. And you and you've been

  144. there, and as I'm preaching, you may have walked in and you kind

  145. of get guarded when I even say the word miracles, you know, because

  146. it didn't happen the way you thought it was supposed to happen, or it

  147. didn't come the way it was supposed to come, or he was supposed to

  148. be there and he didn't show up the way that you thought he was gonna

  149. show up. And so instead of believing for miracles, you almost dismiss miracles.

  150. Oh, I'm talking to somebody today. I'm helping you because you you

  151. can almost get to the place my wife and I had almost got to the

  152. point sometimes in our and our walk with God that like we almost start dismissing

  153. the dream, like maybe maybe it wasn't for me, or maybe maybe we

  154. didn't hear what the Lord said, or maybe maybe it's not going to work.

  155. Maybe it wasn't for us, maybe it's for it, cause you start

  156. dismissing because it hasn't happened exactly the way you have thought it was going to

  157. happen, and our doubts, or few our doubts begin to become fueled,

  158. and we become become overwhelmed, and we start saying to ourselves, maybe it

  159. was for somebody else. Come on, talk to me, It was for

  160. somebody else. Maybe that promotion was for somebody else. Maybe that marriage was

  161. for somebody else. Maybe that maybe that pregnancy was for somebody else. Maybe

  162. maybe that miracle was for somebody else. I'm just gonna live with this.

  163. Maybe this is just the cast that was thrown on my life. Maybe maybe

  164. God has put this as a thrown in my flesh, and I'm just gonna

  165. live with this disease. I'm gonna have to deal with my bit my back

  166. issues, or with my with my head issues. I've been dealing with a

  167. migraine and it just seems like it's part of my portion and I and I

  168. just have just come to this place to dismiss it. Anytime we talk about

  169. miracles, you start looking to somebody else because you have been dealing with disappointment.

  170. But I have come to declare to you today that God wanted me to

  171. tell you that there are no disclaimers with God. Can I just talk to

  172. somebody in this that God is saying, I don't need a disclaimer. I

  173. don't need you to back me up. I am who I said I am.

  174. I can do what I said I can do, and I need you

  175. to tell my people God can do anything. Come on, somebody say God

  176. can do anything. I said, God can do anything. I don't.

  177. God's not up in heaven scratching his head trying to figure out how to heal

  178. you, how to bring breakthrough for your life, how to perform the miracle.

  179. He's not looking and saying what are we gonna do? He is seated

  180. on the throne and he wants you to know today that he is what he

  181. said he is, that he is I am of the I am, and

  182. I need to talk to somebody today, and I want to stir your faith

  183. because I want you to understand what faith really is. I'm trying. I'm

  184. trying to hold myself back. I know it's just the introduction. But ah,

  185. because you because we all gotta this, this, this text is gonna

  186. free you up, because I promise you it free me up. Because when

  187. we look at this text. We the Bible says that faith is not for

  188. the impossible. Faith is to please God. See when we read this text,

  189. sometimes we see we think it's and without faith, it's impossible to see

  190. miracles, it's impossible to see breakthrough, it's impossible to see the miraculous.

  191. But it doesn't say that. It says without faith, it's impossible to do

  192. what to please God. So my faith is not for an outcome. My

  193. faith is not for an outcome. My faith is not so there is for

  194. a tool for the supernatural. My faith is to ultimately please God. Because

  195. here's the deal. Now, how I'm gonna break it down. Because our

  196. faith many time is in a whin it's in a what, it's in a

  197. where. But I need you to know today your faith is not in a

  198. what. Your faith is not in a win. Your faith is not in

  199. a where. Your faith is in a who. Because when it doesn't happen,

  200. and when it doesn't happen where you thought it was going to happen,

  201. with what you thought it was going to be done in your life, the

  202. enemy whispers in your ear and he tells you that it wasn't worth it,

  203. that you wasted your faith. But I need you to know today your faith

  204. is not wasted because your faith is not in an outcome. Your faith is

  205. in God and you just are desired to please Him. You recognize today that

  206. my faith is not in a result. My faith is in a relationship.

  207. My faith is in a relationship, and it's liberating because have you ever felt

  208. like a failure. I only got six people that are honest in this house.

  209. We'll be praying for liars at the end of service. Ever felt like

  210. that you were not enough? He felt like that you didn't have what it

  211. takes. And I felt like that the equation didn't add up, and you

  212. were singing, Lord, I'm using my faith, but it seems like the

  213. mountain is not being moved. But can I tell you your faith is not

  214. in the outcome. Your faith is to please God. And even if it

  215. doesn't happen when it happens, or where it happens, or with what it

  216. happens, can I tell you at the end of the day, I can

  217. declare my faith was in the direction of just trusting God. Today. I'm

  218. not a spiritual gold digger. Come on, I'm not trying to hit the

  219. cosmic Jackpot. I'm recognizing that this is a walk by faith, and I

  220. can't live by what I see. I gotta live by what he said.

  221. I said. I gotta live by what he said. I can't walk by

  222. Santa. I gotta learn how to walk by faith. I gotta live with

  223. this faith walk because the opposite of the faith is not fear. The opposite

  224. of the faith is certainty. We got real quiet because this is what we

  225. want. We want certainty. Come on, we want guarantees. Come on,

  226. we want warranties. We're gonna do this, and this is gonna happen.

  227. Hello. Right, we don't want to walk into this realm of faith

  228. with the unknown. We don't want to walk into this faith with this the

  229. sense of I'm not sure how it's going to work out. I wanna know

  230. how it's going to happen, you know, back in the day. You

  231. know, I'm an eighties kid. Anybody eighties kids? Come on now,

  232. y'all gotta make some noise of your eighties kids. I'm talking about like you

  233. grew up with the original Nintendo Super Mario Brothers. Come on, Donkey Kong,

  234. come on now. I don't know if Donkey Kong was in that that's

  235. older. That's older. That's a tarry. I'm sorry forgive me, Lord

  236. Jesus. That's for you seventies. Come on now, I just want to

  237. throw it out there. But all kind of like Super Mario Brother. We

  238. played this game called Contra. You don't know what I'm talking about. Come

  239. on, and when you play Contra, the key was that you got a

  240. pass cold. You don't remember it? Up, up, down, down,

  241. left, right, left, right, b A, then start.

  242. You don't know about that. She saw these nineties and two thousands. They

  243. don't know what up, down, uptown, left, right, left,

  244. right and b A, then start. It was a passo. You push

  245. the thing on your on your Nintendo and it would give you unlimited lives.

  246. It's a cheat cold. It's the past cold. And this is what we

  247. want. We want to go into the realm of faith with already unlimited lives.

  248. We want to go in with an automatic guarantee. We want to go

  249. in knowing that no matter what's going to happen. But I need you to

  250. understand today that God is not calling us with certainty when we live in a

  251. world that wants to give us certainty right now, even in what we purchase.

  252. Everything has a warranty. Hello, toaster twenty nine dollars? You want

  253. a warranty with that? It's just a toaster? What does it need to

  254. have a warranty for twenty nine dollars? For six more dollars, you can

  255. get a warranty for three more years. I mean you what I'm talking about?

  256. Like, I mean, like you go to Walmart and you gotta fight

  257. the warranty just to get through the line. Buy a microwave is ninety nine

  258. dollars. Would you like seventeen dollars more to get a warranty? And here's

  259. the thing. We buy it now. See I'm not even gonna ask you

  260. if you raise your hand if you bought a warranty because some of us we

  261. know we got warranties. I know we got warranties because we got phones.

  262. Hello, we got we got a payment plan on warranty. We're paying sixteen

  263. dollars every month for a phone that's worth one hundred dollars, just so if

  264. we drop it, come on, just so if we drop it, we

  265. can replace it. See, we want rewards without risk. We want but

  266. I need you to know today that we are walking by faith. We don't

  267. know what's going to happen. We don't know where it's going to happen.

  268. We don't know what is going to happen. What we know who is in

  269. the realm that we are serving today and the who can handle all the what,

  270. when and where, and our faith is in Him today. And we

  271. have to now not only recognize that it's our responsibility to please God, but

  272. we have to recognize that faith is never passive, it's always persuaded. Persuaded.

  273. See, the Bible tells us that without faith, it's impossible to please

  274. God because anyone who comes to him must believe he exists. And see that

  275. interpretation is not a good interpretation. It really means anyone who comes to him

  276. must believe that he is. He is, he is, what, he

  277. is, who he says he is, that he is your salvation, that

  278. he is yourself, and that his blood has the power to cleanse you with

  279. his precious blood and make you write that he is your hope. Hope is

  280. not a place. Hope is a person. Today. I'm not hoping for

  281. something, I hope in someone. And he is the person that said he

  282. would never leave me or forsake me. He's been with me through thick and

  283. thin. I've had people come into my life, I've had people go out

  284. of my life. But can I tell you my hope is in him.

  285. My hope is not in people. My hope is not in my situation.

  286. My hope is not in my even my promise. My hope is in him

  287. today. He is? Who is he? He is my strong tower.

  288. I don't know about you. I need a strong tower. I need somebody

  289. who can be my shelter today. Who can be my fortress today? Who

  290. can be my rock today? I need somebody who I can stand on in

  291. all the world that is shaking. Anybody feel like the world is shaking and

  292. you need something strong to stand on? Can I tell it? He is?

  293. He is a raca, He is a fortress. He is a strong

  294. tower. Can I promise you today? Who is he? He is?

  295. He is more than enough. I need you to know. He's a healer

  296. today. By his tripe to he can heal. He can heal me with

  297. his strength or with his clarity, with his wholeness. He can give me

  298. physical, mental, emotional truth. Who is he? He is my king

  299. today, He's my battle ax Today, It's in him, I move live

  300. and have my being today. I am persuaded that everything that he said he

  301. is he is. I don't know about you today, but I am persuaded

  302. today. You can't move me out of the place of faith. I am

  303. persistently, patiently pursuing the purpose and plan of God. Why because he is

  304. somebody's shot. He is. I don't know what he is to you,

  305. but he's everything in a bag of chips to me. Come on today,

  306. he is he is. I am persuaded. You got to learn how to

  307. be persuaded. Our trust is not in the is in the process, even

  308. when we don't see the product. Our trust is in the process of that.

  309. No, he's slave me yet will I trust him? Though I'm pressed

  310. on every side, I'm not crushed, even though I'm persecuted. I'm not

  311. abandoned. Even though I'm struck down. Now, I'm not destroyed. I'm

  312. recognized. I'm persuaded. Is anybody persuaded in this place? Anybody ever gone

  313. through hell and didn't they You're gonna make it, and God brought you out.

  314. Anybody ever gone through a storm and He calmed the storm, not on

  315. the outside, but he calmed the storm on the inside, and when everybody

  316. else was pulling their hair out, you were recognizing that the Lord was with

  317. you because you are persuaded. Oh, I am persuaded. I'm persuaded today.

  318. I'm persuaded that He's a good God, even when bad situations happened.

  319. I am persuaded, paulse that neither height, nor death, nor angels,

  320. nor demons, nor pastor or president shall be able to separate me from the

  321. love of God. I am persuaded. I'm telling you, I'm persuaded today.

  322. See, my faith is in him. It's not in the thing today

  323. I've recognized today. You see what pastor is not working. It's getting worse.

  324. The marriage, the addiction, the brokenness, the finance of the crisis.

  325. It seems impossible, the doctor's report. Can I tell you today there's

  326. no cure? But can I tell you today my faith is in him?

  327. Now that's easier said than done. This past weekend, this past week I

  328. have a pastor friend and we went together the master's when I would do my

  329. master's degree, and that was fifteen years ago. And he's pastoring a great

  330. church in Birmingham, and his sister in law came down with a disease that

  331. was genetic, means that her mother had the disease, and her mother died

  332. of this disease. And they literally watched the sister in law passed away crueling

  333. disease. And literally, I could show you pictures, but I'm not just

  334. out of the sake of humanity. They literally watched the wife, the mother,

  335. the sister, the daughter waste away in the same process. When they

  336. discovered the disease, my pastor's friend, they went and got tested, his

  337. wife got tested, and the wife was diagnosed and they looked in the chromosomes

  338. and found that she had the same disease, like a death sentence. Literally,

  339. over the last few years, we've watched her take the same steps as

  340. her sister, watching a mom slowly come into a wheelchair at the age of

  341. forty five, to see her incapacitated in some level, and her husband,

  342. who's a pastor, holding her hand and believing God. They just moved her

  343. into a nursing home. And because of the situation with the variant that's going

  344. out and they could not go into the nursing home, and she's been literally

  345. isolated, and she every day has a confession that she posts and she put

  346. on Twitter. She put on Twitter this statement, our God is a good

  347. God. Now, I don't know about you, but that just moved me

  348. to recognize that no matter what I'm face, no matter what I'm going,

  349. our God is a good God. Our God is a great God. Our

  350. God is still able, Our God is still willing. Our God. We're

  351. putting our faith and our hope and we are persuaded today that our God is

  352. good and he nons just to understand the power of a seed, because when

  353. Jesus talking about our faith, unfortunately, Jesus said, your faith is like

  354. a mustard seed. Now, I don't know about you. That kind of

  355. makes me mad. Have you ever seen a mustard seed? Anybody? Come

  356. on, wave at me a mustrous seed? He said, your faith is

  357. like the size of a muster seed. And I gotta be honest, that

  358. seed is not very big compared to my mountain. Hello, if you look

  359. at the seed, the seed always looks small to your situation. Can I

  360. just break it down? I would rather him say your faith is like a

  361. mountain that can move things. Your faith is like a storm that can blow

  362. in and knock the devil down. Come on, I want I want my

  363. faith to be small. I want my faith to be big. I want

  364. my faith to be larger, because when I look at my faith and I

  365. look at my situation, it doesn't weigh the same. But I want you

  366. to know today when you look at these stories that the Hall of Faith declares

  367. that it was just small. It seemed impotent, it seemed tiny. But

  368. can I tell you by faith, Noah built a boat to by faith.

  369. Abraham obeyed God and followed after the call of God by faith that even when

  370. Sarah was able, wasn't able to have a child, she believed in her

  371. old age. When you look at the stories of by faith, you'll see

  372. that these people have had small faith, but it moved the mountains because it's

  373. not the size of your faith, and it is where you place it.

  374. And you need to know today your faith is in God. And it's God

  375. who can move the mountain. It's God who can heal the bodies. It's

  376. God who can bring deliverance. It's God who can bring up breakthrough for your

  377. home, your family, your marriage. Can I tell you by faith,

  378. God can do it? Somebody say say, by faith, by faith,

  379. we look at all the stories in the Hall of faith this prescriptive verse.

  380. They didn't have perfect faith, but they perfected their faith. They didn't have

  381. perfect faith, but they perfected their faith by being persistent. And that's what

  382. I need you to see today. Because there's gonna be a call and the

  383. enemy is gonna whisper in your ear. Don't go down there, don't believe

  384. that, don't step out in faith. But can I tell you today your

  385. faith is not only persuaded, it's persistent, persistent. Loqu they did,

  386. they were found faithful, They were found faithful. What do you mean,

  387. Well, Noah by faith for hundreds Lily, Lily for years was building a

  388. boat. When he was building a boat, every time that song said,

  389. Noah, you're gonna give up? By faith, how was he using his

  390. faith? He was taking that hammer and putting that nail in that wood.

  391. You see, it's practical, it's by faith. He was honoring God.

  392. By Abraham, what he did, he took steps of faith. That he

  393. literally took steps of faith into an unknown land away from his family, not

  394. wanting to go back, trust to God with the promised land over him and

  395. his family. By faith, Abraham and Sarah kept trying, come on somebody

  396. at seventy years old, dried up, womb, dried up body, dried

  397. up. Situation impossible. But Abraham, what did they do? They kept

  398. on meeting at the tent to come on somebody. They kept on believing God

  399. until Isaac came Joseph. Joseph told his family to bury him in the land

  400. of his father, because he knew that he wasn't That was not where he

  401. was gonna lay his body. That he may have been in Egypt, but

  402. he had a promised land. He said, even though I die, my

  403. promise is in the promised land. So bury me in my promise. God.

  404. Can I tell you today, in the name of Jesus, even the

  405. Israelites they marched around the wall six times, and on the seventh day looked

  406. like a full marching around the wall. What were they doing? They were

  407. found faithful Rehabs saw this situation turned her red light into a red card.

  408. How by faith she was persistently pursuing the God that she knew. She didn't

  409. understand who the God was, but she knew the God of Israelites, the

  410. God that was able to move mountain. Can I tell you today, God

  411. is looking for your faith that is moving in the direction that he's called you

  412. to move. It's the power. Just keep on. How many times has

  413. the enemy whispered in our ears and just give up, Just throw in the

  414. town. It's not worth it. But my faith says he's worth it.

  415. My faith says he's worth it. I'm gonna keep on plowing. I'm gonna

  416. keep on serving, I'm gonna keep on giving, I'm gonna keep on trusting.

  417. I don't know about you, but I'm gonna keep on worshiping, even

  418. in the middle of a storm, even in the middle of the rocky road.

  419. I'm going to continue to keep on dreaming. Today, I'm gonna keep

  420. on believing that that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the God

  421. of the day that has been manifested in the name of Jesus. Can I

  422. tell you and I recognize that in my believing, I am becoming I'm becoming

  423. stronger, I'm becoming wiser, I'm becoming better. I want you to know

  424. today there's something that God is doing on the inside, and I want him

  425. to see me boy well done and faithful servant. At the end of the

  426. day, I'm gonna be found faithful, serving and believing God, because I

  427. recognize God is more interested in my becoming than he is in my possessing.

  428. And you need to know the power of persistency. Worship team, Come,

  429. I'm ready. It's just keep on, keep on keeping on. That's the

  430. old Saints, they said, to keep on keeping on power persistence. Your

  431. tears have not been wasted. I need to tell somebody you've been praying for

  432. your kids to come home to the Lord. Your tears have not been wasted.

  433. Every time you come down to the altar, your prayers have not gone

  434. unheard. It's the power of persistency. Do you know how powerful persistence he

  435. is? You know a water? You know how powerful water is in your

  436. home and how it can bring devastation just by a simple leak, that a

  437. drip, a drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, not anymore,

  438. not any less, just a drip. You don't even know what he's

  439. doing. But that drip over time is breaking down wood, breaking down stone,

  440. breaking down hard things, just with a drip. If you watch the

  441. drip of water hitting a piece of rock, day in, day out.

  442. We were moving on twenty one days of prayer. Day one, drip day

  443. two, drip day three. Drip drip, Day four drip, drip,

  444. drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip. That

  445. water that's dripping all of a sudden, if it's hidden the rock, you'll

  446. start seeing an indenttion of whether drip is all of a sudden, the drip

  447. starts building, the crack crack starts coming out denths. There been dripping for

  448. a year, All of a sudden what seemed like a hard thing started to

  449. become possible thing, just with the trip. I'm just telling you today,

  450. if water in his persistency can break the rock, how much more, I

  451. said, how much more can your faith in the God that you serve?

  452. Tears rolling down your face, prayers going out. Drip, He's coming home.

  453. Drip, He's evil. Drip. He shall supply all of my needs.

  454. Drip. It's gonna come together, Drip. He shall do exceedingly abundant

  455. me above all that you even ask her. Think drip, trip, trip,

  456. trip, I promise you today we serve a god. He said that

  457. he is a rewarder. I wish I had somebody that knew what I was

  458. talking about. I said, he's a rewarder. You say, pastor,

  459. why are you talking about the driven? He said, not only that he

  460. is God, but he is a rewarder of those who diligently sin. See,

  461. your diligence isn't going waste to today, because he will reward those who

  462. faithfully, continually, steadfastly declare. He is God over your home, over

  463. your family, over your marriage, over your body, over your mind.

  464. I'm telling you, I said, not only is he able, but he

  465. said he's willing. I'm gonna reward him. I'm gonna pour it out on

  466. him. Say. I'm praying that the word of God has been richly deposited

  467. in your life today, and I'm praying that you'll not only hear the word

  468. of God, but do me a great favor. Take this word and replay

  469. it in your spirit. Go to your Bible, take the notes and allow

  470. it to begin to be journaled in a place where you'll never forget it,

  471. because I promise you the Word of God will not return void, and it'll

  472. accomplish what it was called to do it's purpose. And so listen, I

  473. want to say thank you for watching. Listen, do me a great favor.

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  478. do and in through your life as you read, study, and grow through

  479. His word.