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Right, Mercy and Grace

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  1. You're listening to a message to go from acts church.

  2. We hope this message will light up your tea.

  3. So even speaking its authority a lot of us, I

  4. wish this mountain will move in the Bibles, he didn't

  5. say wish speak to your mountains.

  6. And I want all Christians will know their rights.

  7. But when it doesn't work for you, I want you

  8. to know that there is mercy.

  9. But his grace is sufficient.

  10. If he's not delivering you out there, he will deliver

  11. you through. When we talk about right, we talk about power,

  12. So right means more power to you. I'm going to

  13. write down here so as well, right e goals. How

  14. let's talk about the Christian right. Okay, very quickly, let's

  15. go on. But as many as received him to them,

  16. he gave the right to become children of God. So

  17. all of us have a right. Amen, we have a right.

  18. God gave it to us.

  19. Okay.

  20. Number two, Blessed are those who do his commandments that

  21. they may have the right. You probably need to remind

  22. yourself and the devil that we have the right. And

  23. he was not given to me by the Pope. It

  24. was given to me by Jesus. He gave me the

  25. right you all have a right to vote. You know,

  26. that's your right. Whether you want to exercise it or not,

  27. that's a choice. But you do have a right. You

  28. push your way through the spr if you wanted to know.

  29. But that's your right, and nobody can stop you. All right,

  30. let's go, let's move on. And when he had called

  31. his top disciples to him, he gave them power or

  32. the right over unclean spirits to cast them out into

  33. all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease. You

  34. have the right to do this. Don't let the enemy

  35. lie to you, or you cannot pray for people. Know

  36. this is my right. God gave it to me. Let's

  37. move on, so Jesus said to them, because of your unbelief,

  38. For surely I say to you, if you have faith

  39. as a master, see you will say so. Even speaking

  40. is authority. A lot of us. I wish this mountain

  41. will move the Bible seat didn't say, wish speak to

  42. your mountains. But you won't speak if you don't have authority. Right,

  43. you won't speak if you didn't know that you had

  44. the right. In fact, I don't have a right to speak.

  45. You say, right, this is not the forum. This is

  46. not my place. No, this is your place. Is your forum.

  47. You're the right, Okay, move on, And as CPCs you

  48. have the right. As elders, you have the right. As

  49. the pastors. Death and life are in the power of

  50. the tongue. You better believe it, and those who love

  51. it will eat its fruit. Amen, we will eat the

  52. fruit of what we believe in what we say, what

  53. we speak.

  54. Behold, I give you the authority.

  55. While there you go again, the right to trample on

  56. serpents and scorpions, and over all the power the enemy,

  57. and nothing shall by any means hurt you love it

  58. most as surely I say to you, he who believes

  59. in me, the works that I do, he will do also,

  60. and greater work than this he will do. Who said

  61. this me? You know Jesus, you will do greater works

  62. than the Lord. He wants that for you, He wants

  63. it for me. So there's a right in the Lord.

  64. And towards the end he says, if you ask anything

  65. my name, I will do it, amazing promise. All right,

  66. let's move on. So what do you do with the

  67. right given to you? First of all, you need to

  68. know you have a right. The question is what do

  69. you do with the right, Because it's one thing about

  70. having a right, it's one thing about another thing about

  71. doing something with it. A lot of Christians don't know

  72. they have a right, and then when they know it,

  73. they don't know how to use it. So we're going

  74. to learn how to use it, learn how to cast

  75. out demons, learn how to pray for the sake Tuesday

  76. Hour of prayer. The reason why we keep doing is

  77. because we know we have the right to do it,

  78. you know. And when we pray, I mean if I

  79. didn't believe the right, you think I will dare do it.

  80. No, of course not.

  81. I believe I have the right, and I believe I

  82. have the right from the right, and I want to exercise.

  83. I got to use it because if you don't use it,

  84. you might lose it, you know. And that's what the

  85. enemy is trying to do to many Christians. Try to

  86. tell you that you have no right. You've got to

  87. tell him back, you know, away from me. Satan is

  88. the lord who gave me this right. I didn't even

  89. ask for it. He gave it to me simply on

  90. the premise of me believing right. As many as of

  91. you have received him to you. He gave the right,

  92. so you have the right by receiving him every morning,

  93. make the choice to receive him. You know, Lord, you

  94. know I want to follow you. You know, I receive

  95. you this morning, you know every morning. So right, it

  96. goes power and you have to exercise. So not only power,

  97. but you must exercise. You got to you got to exercise.

  98. Oh my word, you've got to exercise that power. Very important.

  99. So some of the troubles we are going through, actually

  100. we have the right to overcome it. I just want

  101. to say that to you right now. Okay, some of

  102. the things that going on with your children, you have

  103. the right to cast it out. You have the right

  104. to overcome it and bind it and you know, break it.

  105. You have the right. And I pray that you understand that.

  106. This morning as.

  107. CPC's you know, we will talk about talking about taking territory.

  108. Do you know there's a spiritual thing, right, But your

  109. right came from the Lord. So when you enter there,

  110. you know, and the Bible really says right every place

  111. that the soul of your foot will tread upon I

  112. have given it to you. It's just it's just a

  113. man of understanding. And then exercise it, you know, take

  114. hold of the land, take hold of your marriage, take

  115. hold of your family, take hold of your church. Amen,

  116. that's a right. There's a power. Just have to exercise it. Okay, Now,

  117. don't sell your right for temporary pleasures. You know who

  118. sold his right right his birthright? Yeah, and it's you know,

  119. I see Christians doing all the time, you know, And

  120. let's not do that. Next one. Next one is mercy.

  121. So if right is power, then mercy is to plead.

  122. Because can I tell you very honestly, my dear friends

  123. and family, that there are some days the power might

  124. not work as effectively. Okay, now, let's get really honest.

  125. You're buying. You cast out, it doesn't happen.

  126. You pray in Jesus' name, nothing moves, and then you

  127. realize that something else at work. God is not answering

  128. that prayer according to your right. He is moving in mercy.

  129. And my personal experience of this is that, you know,

  130. I pray for the sick and all that, and we

  131. do see people get healed. So one time I was

  132. so ill, at least I felt ill in my body.

  133. I actually thought I was good. I went on my

  134. bed and I was shivering, and I already have been

  135. praying for a week, if not ten days, to cast

  136. us out. And then there were ups and downside. They

  137. were like, oh it's working, oh denstally when worse. Oh

  138. it's working the other day than when worse. And then

  139. that that night when I went to bed, I only

  140. went to bed because I was so ill, and all

  141. I could say is Lord, have mercy on me, Lord

  142. have mercy, because I knew this was not the right issue.

  143. This was not a power issue. This was I needed

  144. God's mercy. So a lot of Christians who don't understand

  145. this keep binding the enemy and keep you know, praying

  146. for power when actually it's not a time for powers,

  147. the time of pleading. And I'll explain to you in

  148. a little while while why God allows it. Maybe let

  149. me do it now. He allows it because humility is

  150. very key in a Christian life. And sometimes when we

  151. start binding and casting out and all that, class all

  152. starts working for you very well.

  153. Right. You might think it's you.

  154. You might think that I'm all right, you might think

  155. that I'm okay, I've got this together, and your dependency

  156. on God gets less. And so there are times where

  157. God holds his hand. He does for our sake. He

  158. loves us too much to allow us to be proud.

  159. So I was there as like, for example, quote unquote

  160. a healer not being able to heal himself. Right, they

  161. look at Jesus, you know he delivers so many. Let

  162. him deliver himself. So every one of us will get

  163. there to a place whereby uh, there is a you know,

  164. sort of like an allowance by God to keep us

  165. looking at him, depending on him. So let me move on.

  166. The Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him. This

  167. is almost my daily quote to the Lord. I caught

  168. it back to him. I said, the Lord takes pleasure.

  169. He takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those

  170. who hope in his mercy. So, ladies and gentlemen, hope

  171. is not in the right. Our hope is not in

  172. the power. Our hope is not in how much knowledge

  173. of the world we have, how much scripture we can quote,

  174. which Bible school we went to. Our hope it's not

  175. even in the name ex Church. Our hope is in

  176. his mercy, not even in his power.

  177. Mercy.

  178. Where is your hope? Where is your trust? What's the

  179. next one? But I have trusted in your mercy. I trust,

  180. I've trusted in your not power, mercy. Where is our trust? Finally,

  181. my trust is no, Lord, your mercy. Really, at the

  182. end of the day, thank you for the power. But

  183. it's your mercy that gets me through every day.

  184. Amen.

  185. So mercy is God's mercy is going to grow this church. Right,

  186. So have mercy on me, Oh Lord, for I am weak.

  187. Oh Lord, heal me for my bones, our trouble. I

  188. love these scriptures because it shows that even great men

  189. of God knew where to turn to when things weren't working.

  190. This is one of those things you can fall back

  191. on time and time again.

  192. If you're right it's not working, then don't keep pressing

  193. that button because the button will break. And then you

  194. get so discouraged because one was upon a time what

  195. cancer was here? Then suddenly you know your own family,

  196. my own father in law, right, and then I just

  197. you know, after praying for him, you know, it cast

  198. out the spirit of cancer or that you know, but

  199. I realize God allows. Why does he allow? Because he

  200. reminds us really, without him we are nothing. So here

  201. we go through the lots of mercies, you like this one.

  202. This one is We always use this one to say

  203. your mercies are new every morning. But actually this is

  204. how it is said in the Bible. Through the lots

  205. of mercies, we are not consumed. That means we will

  206. go through hell sometimes, but it won't be consumed because

  207. of his mercies because his compassions fail. Not they are

  208. new every morning. No, they missed this morning's new because

  209. yesterday it was used up.

  210. That's why.

  211. Yes, we knew because yesterday he was used. Today we

  212. use that again. There's more morning. But it's as shure

  213. that every morning we knew. One thing's a shurt. He's

  214. mercy every morning. Right, Great is your faithfulness. Okay, praise

  215. the Lord for his mercy and your survive forever.

  216. You know.

  217. This is what The army went out and they just

  218. continue to say, say say say, say it. And there

  219. the armies were defeated. Okay, three great armies against Israel.

  220. And I think it was King Jehoshavad who said, you know,

  221. I'm gone on basically, and then he just begged God's

  222. mercy and they were out to fight. The praisers go

  223. out first, and the praisers has got God's mercy, not

  224. even God's power. No, Lord your mercy, you know, and

  225. because it was God's mercy that was going to deliver

  226. that man.

  227. Let's move on. So God's mercy is not a right.

  228. Let's get that right. Okay.

  229. We talked about right at the beginning, and I want

  230. all Christians to know their rights.

  231. But when it doesn't work for you, I want you

  232. to know that there is mercy.

  233. Fall back onto mercy, all right, because His mercies are

  234. new every morning, and we trust in his mercy.

  235. Okay, is totally undeserving.

  236. Well else right, Sometimes that you can feel like, okay,

  237. I deserve because God gave it to me. He gave

  238. me the right, so it's deserved. Right, and deserve sometimes

  239. is synonymous. Right, completely his discussion. He wants to do,

  240. he do, he doesn't want to do, He don't know.

  241. You're completely at his mercy and yet fully adequate and

  242. impossible to repay.

  243. Okay.

  244. Next one just tells you the only way you can repay,

  245. if it all, is to show mercy to others. That's

  246. why you want to remember the servant who got so

  247. much mercy from his master. He forgave all his dead,

  248. and then he went out and then he took the

  249. other servant by the throat. And then the Master was

  250. so angry, said, you are going to pay by everything

  251. because I show you so much mercy, you can't show

  252. another person mercy.

  253. So the Lord doesn't want us to repay.

  254. But the only way we want to repay, if we

  255. want to repay, is to show other people mercy. Okay,

  256. let's move on. You know the scripture, right, so let's

  257. go on. But go and learn what this means. Ah,

  258. I design mercy, not sacrifice. The god of mercy wants

  259. us to also show mercy to other, to one another,

  260. to others.

  261. Yeah, he puts it even above sacrifice.

  262. Now, And I know yesterday we talked about sacrifice, and

  263. I know from even a barcelon senner he was saying,

  264. and sacrifice is needed, I know, to build anything, to

  265. build a family, to build anything good, anything great. But

  266. still mercy trumps and triumphs over sacrifice, because sacrifice is

  267. still looking at your sacrifice, man, see what I'll.

  268. Do this for you.

  269. Therefore you are blessed right, So it's still you in

  270. a sense, But mercy is no longer you know, wory

  271. is him.

  272. So I can do all my best at the chest.

  273. You don't grow.

  274. Okay, Lord, your mercy, your mercy, and our churches are

  275. all sustained by his mercy. Somebody say, amen, praise God.

  276. Let's move on. Okay, So mercy pleading all right? And humidity, okay, humidity.

  277. Why does God allow it so that we can remain humble?

  278. And I'm telling you are there's only good things that

  279. come out of humility, Only good things.

  280. Right.

  281. He resists the prout James four six. He resists the proubt,

  282. but gives grace to the Humber, all right. He exhalts

  283. the humble, He lives up the Humber. Why don't you

  284. want to be Humber? I want to be Humber because

  285. God loves me out and God that exalts me. I

  286. rather choose that way, right, And that way is the

  287. way where you don't look at yourself anymore.

  288. You just look at him and Lord is your discretion?

  289. All right? What's the next slide?

  290. Next line says mercy brings us out of uncomfortable situations.

  291. What I want you to see is it brings us

  292. out of it does so that day after I cried

  293. out to God's mercia, I think I said it. I

  294. don't know. I can't count, but it was probably I

  295. don't know, a hundred times.

  296. No lesson that.

  297. I actually said, Lord, have mercy or me lod because

  298. my body was like, no wasting away my bit and

  299. you know, you know now when your body is going

  300. crazy right here, why your medicine can't help.

  301. Lord, have mercy. Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy.

  302. Lord, And I fell asleep, he saying, Lord, have mercy.

  303. I will got the morning totally well. So I knew,

  304. I know that God's mercy was at work. But God

  305. wanted to teach me something, Kenneth is by my mercy

  306. that you wake up in the morning or so you know,

  307. it's not your right.

  308. So I say, Lord, thank you for your mercy.

  309. And I was well, totally well, like nothing happened in

  310. the last eight days, you know that kind of thing.

  311. So I say Lord, thank you.

  312. I understand now, Okay, So I will grunt your mercy,

  313. not to my right but to your mercy every time

  314. and something doesn't happen. So he brings us out of mercy,

  315. brings you out. Okay, next one, grace. So when does

  316. grace kick in? When that's good? For grace you need patience,

  317. so right, you need power or it's expressive power. Exercise mercy,

  318. you plead, Grace is patience. Patience, okay, So what happens

  319. when mercy also does a work that mean is that

  320. he doesn't choose to bring you out. Then you know

  321. he will bring you through. He will bring you through.

  322. And I understand because some of us are so long

  323. in Christianity here, so strong in your word and in

  324. your faith and all that you wish that it was

  325. only just right and cast out the devil right. Then

  326. you realize life teaches you that there's other faces and

  327. other responses. God allows for different things in your life.

  328. And then so you go down to mercy. And then

  329. now you all understand is because you're not novices, there

  330. is a timer that God brings you through. I know

  331. with Elvin and his son Timmy. You know, of course,

  332. who doesn't want to lay hands and go like boom,

  333. he's here, all Lord, have mercy and bring him out

  334. after two weeks. And when I sit with Alvin, he says,

  335. pastor me and Jess have grown so much in walking

  336. with outside through this. It's very powerful, very very powerful.

  337. Why does God allow us to go through it? So

  338. let's move on. My grace is sufficient for you for

  339. my strength. It's made perfect weakness. Look at the top.

  340. But unless I should be exalted above measured by abundance

  341. of revelations, that's the reason why God allows it. A

  342. thorn in the flesh was given to me, so there

  343. will be thorn. Sometimes I ask God, why why do

  344. I still have been on this pillar? You know, let's

  345. just say it's a aloprinal for gout. And sometimes do hear?

  346. You know, Kenneth, You're blessed so many ways to be.

  347. You're going, you're praying for the sick people are getting

  348. here from cancer. I'm gonna just put us on your side.

  349. Don't worry about it. It's not a big deal. It's

  350. just to remind you, La, you're human. You need me.

  351. I don't. I'm not. I'm not killing you. I'm just allowing.

  352. And this is a message of satan Ah. I just

  353. told you earlier. There's an enemy that sows to see

  354. that right ere. They think, no, they think just to

  355. have a loude little pebble in your shoes always everything

  356. you walk the whole day.

  357. But He loves it because right keep your mind on God.

  358. Concerning this thing.

  359. I pleaded so that means that he went through the

  360. face of mercy ady, because mercy is plead, So he

  361. pleaded with lot three times means he has already gone

  362. from right. Dude, don't you think that Paul knows he's right?

  363. My word, how many demons he casts already? But he

  364. pleaded with a lot three times means that he said, Lord,

  365. take me out of this, Lord, take me out of this.

  366. Mercy gets you out, but the Lord refused to get

  367. him out.

  368. I pleaded.

  369. Mercy is plead, means the face of mercy also done ready.

  370. And now there's another level.

  371. My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is

  372. made perfect in your weakness. Therefore, most likely I would

  373. rather boast in my informaties that the power of Christ

  374. may rest upon you. Grace takes us true. And you

  375. know what I love is because the right what you

  376. end up with. When you exerist your right, you end

  377. up with good things. But if you're right, it's not

  378. enough mercy. You engage mercy, And when you engage mercy,

  379. you also end up with good things.

  380. And then if mercy doesn't work, you have to experience grace.

  381. And when you experience grace, you also end up with

  382. good things you with me.

  383. So what I'm trying to say, also, don't fight Taylor,

  384. So exercise right. Engage mercy, oh Lord, have mercy. Engage it,

  385. and finally grace, just experience it. Just Lord, I don't

  386. know what to do earlier. But your grace is sufficient

  387. because not all of us are have one winning stories

  388. all the time.

  389. Not all our children are listening to us all the time,

  390. you know. But his grace is sufficient.

  391. If he's not delivering you out there, he will deliver

  392. you through. That's what God to, what promises us. Let's

  393. let's move on, ya. Do I walk through? So I

  394. still have to walk? No value of the shadow death?

  395. Are some Christians? Most Christians all Christians kind of white one.

  396. But the Psalmist, who knows how God works, he says,

  397. I walk through. Amen, somebody, you need to speak into

  398. your stitution. I'm going to walk through this. I'm gonna

  399. walk through this. Whenever the Lord wants to deliver my

  400. child from this, he's mercy, okay. And the day he

  401. wants me with excise my right, I will I also

  402. have that. One day he might even say, now Canneth speak,

  403. you know, after seven years of grace and walking through

  404. the velly. He might he might change it back and

  405. said speak now, because at the time to speak the

  406. mountain and so so it can.

  407. It can also fluctuate all according to the Holy Spirit

  408. how He works.

  409. Okay, it can happen or it might be for life

  410. that you might have to go through this, and it's

  411. going to be. It's telling you now it's going to

  412. be okay because His grace is just experience it and

  413. tell you what something beauty. Something beautiful will come out

  414. of something ugly, because God makes beautiful all things in

  415. its time.

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