A Resilient People - Evangelist Justin Carver

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Without further ado, let's get right into it. God bless.

His people. Amen. We're so glad to be with you tonight.

God is moving, and I feel the presence of God. I don't even know how to get started right now.

I feel like I'm about to run or shake one. I don't know what I'm going to do.

Amen. Amen. God is good. Amen. I appreciate that testimony. Amen.

How many feels the presence of the Lord?

Happy to be back with you all tonight. Excuse me.

Amen. But yesterday, I was about to walk out the door, and then Brother Young,

called me and said, we're not going to have church tonight.

And I was a little disappointed.

And in another way, I got me some rest. And then, like moments after he called,

my stomach started to give me a little bit of problem.

So all things work together for the good, amen?

There's nothing that God doesn't see, amen?

He's always on time. He knows exactly what you have need of.

I'm so happy to have my family with me, Olivia, Joseph, and my wife,

Amanda, and this revival, like other revivals, it just seems like as soon as

you get started, it's almost over as soon as you get started.

Time flies, amen? But we had a good time here Monday night, amen?

And I just believe that God's got something in store for tonight, amen.

How many of you came expecting tonight?

How many came expecting to receive from the Lord? Amen. You can receive what

you need tonight if you just put your heart into it.

Praise the Lord. Thank you again, Brother Young, for having me and my family be with you.

We are always appreciative every time you open the door for us to come back.

And I believe that God is going to do great things in this church.

Amen. For the coming years and coming months and years ahead. Amen.

Amen. Just for a moment, why don't you look at your neighbor and say,

it's good to see you tonight. If you don't mean it, repent.

We mean it, right? Amen. If you have your Bible tonight, turn with me to Micah chapter 7, verse 8.

Micah 7:8

If you don't know this scripture, then heaven help you.

It's one of the most well-known scriptures in all of the entire Bible.

Amen. Micah chapter 7, verse 8.

Micah 7:8

Praise the Lord And today or yesterday Brother Young and his wife took us out to eat,

And we had a good time Good fellowship in the Lord Appreciate the accommodations

and everything The hotel and everything Brother Young, Sister Young Amen I believe

in giving honor to whom honor is due Amen Respect,

That's what's lacking a lot in this world today Is respect,

And people don't even hardly know how to say thank you anymore God help us This world needs revival,

This country needs revival Like it's never needed it before I'm convinced of

that Amen Micah chapter 7 verse 8 I'll try not to take up much time tonight,

Micah 7:8

Micah chapter 7 verse 8 Rejoice not against me, O my enemy,

Micah 7:8

When I fall, I shall arise. I like that because we are not perfect people.

We serve a perfect God tonight. When I fall, I shall arise. And when I sit in

darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me.

Now, if we lift our hands to the Lord right now across this sanctuary and begin

to pray, amen, we're going to ask God to fill this house tonight with his presence.

Lord, I pray that you would help me to do a good job.

Rebuke and bind every spirit of distraction and hindrance right now in the atmosphere

that would try to shut down our praise, that would try to rob us of our victory.

God, I pray, Lord, that you just be God tonight and have your way in this house,

Lord, and we give you all the praise, glory, and honor.

In Jesus' name, you may be seated.

You may be seated in the house of the Lord, But you may not be quiet Amen Amen

How many is going to Preach with me tonight?

Praise the Lord. Tonight, I want to speak on this thought of resilient people.

A resilient people. Amen. A resilient people. A people that don't quit.

That don't give up. That don't just, when something, the smallest thing happens,

some people just give up.

They just throw in the towel and they don't hardly have any stability about them.

They don't hardly get any root in them. They're just kind of going through the

motions, and they don't get any roots in God where they don't see their self

getting stronger in God,

but yet they're living for God from time to time, from just putting God on the

back burner, putting God on the back burner and just eventually I'll get to

church whenever I'm ready to.

Amen. You see, you got to have more than that. You got to have a backbone when you live for God.

You got to have, amen. I remember whenever my father-in-law first met him,

this is way before I married his daughter.

He came to my dad's church, and the first time I was with the wrong girl back

in 2012, and she was down from Oak Ridge, and I allowed her to just walk on

me. First thing he said to me is, you need to grow a backbone, sir.

Well, it's good to meet you too. Amen. But he was being honest. It was tough love.

And he's said many things since then that I kind of got offended and upset over,

but he was right all along.

We got to get tough skinned.

Amen. The enemy may knock you down, but you got to respond. Amen.

By saying, I'm going to trust in God.

I'm going to give this another chance. I'm going back to the house of the Lord.

I'm going to keep on fighting the good fight of faith. I'm going to lay hold

on eternal life. Amen. Don't let the devil steal your crown.

Don't let the devil steal your joy. Don't let the devil steal your peace.

I said it on Sunday morning. I said, you got to keep going.

You got to get up. you've got to rise up and say, hey man, maybe all of hell

is against me, but praise God, I've got a God who is for me, who has not left me,

he's on my side, and I want to know tonight, do you believe you're on the winning

side? Come on, clap your hands.

Praise God. We're on the winning side. We're going to make it to heaven. Praise God.

Some people want to serve the devil and they want to hail devil and all that

stuff. You know it's true.

I don't understand that mind. They're deceptive. They're deceived,

I mean. But when you've got a sound mind in you and you have a...

To preach hard sometimes, don't we, Brother Young? Amen. But I don't want to get offended.

Oh, my, we're living in a mamsy-pamsy generation where everybody gets offended

over the least little thing.

It's time to grow that backbone and say, hey, amen, if I'm going to be hurt.

Resilient people, say resilient, has the ability to recover, to recover.

How many needs a recovery tonight?

Amen? Maybe somebody said something to you you didn't like, and it hurt your

feelings. I've been there.

Amen? But I cannot become weak and thin-skinned where that stuff hurts me.

I've got to become thick-skinned and say, you know what? I'm just going to bounce

back up after the enemy knocks me down.

Amen? The Bible says, when I fall.

Praise the Lord, all you people. Amen. So we had a power outage last night.

Knocked us out of service. Make sure you don't have a power outage in your life in serving God.

Make sure you don't start out and then just fizzle out.

Make sure you don't lamp out, but make sure the fire is still burning inside of you.

Amen. The only way you can overcome the devil and.

Resiliency is getting back up when life knocks you down.

One of the most strong and most powerful verses in the entire Bible is this

very verse of resilience and faith, amen, and hard times and bad times.

We face a little adversity here and there, but God woke you up this morning.

He put breath in your body. He put you in your sound mind.

He clothed you today with righteousness. Amen.

What are you going to do for God today?

Come on, we need to rise up. We need to rise up.

We don't need to accept failure. We don't need to accept that I'm weak or I'm

some weak flesh or something.

We're more than that. We're more than a conqueror. We're more than a conqueror.

To hit you on every side but you've got a shield that protects you

that is the lord jesus christ tonight he is a 360 degree shield all around you

even in blind spots god is able to detect that.

Praise God. I'm usually more rowdy than this.

Man, I love to praise God. I love to sing the songs.

I love to worship the Lord. Amen. He's a good God.

He's not a has-been God.

He's not a, oh, I used to be God. He's a right now God.

He's a suddenly God. Whatever your need is tonight, all you got to do is call

on the name of the Lord, and you can receive your touch.

He wants them to thank you done for it's over you had a good run no devil your

time's about up let me remind you satan everybody do it with me your your kingdom is coming down,

hey man that just gives me a little joy and a little skip in my walk hey man

when i think about all this evil and perversion and craziness going on in the

world it's just a short time it's going to be over and god is going to destroy

sin he's going to destroy the devil

the false prophet and the Antichrist and all of that, but we which.

My, what a time we had here Monday night. I can't get over it.

Amen. Is it going okay tonight?

When I fall, failure happens. The Bible says this, that a just man falls seven times.

Somebody living for God, trying with all their heart. They're still subject

to failure and messing up, thinking the wrong thing, saying the wrong thing.

Anybody ever been there?

Since your time coming to the Lord, have you been there? How could they do that? What?

Really? There's no super Christians. There's a super God. You don't need a super

man. You need a super God.

Amen. So when I fall, I shall rise. Somebody say that with me. I'm getting back up.

I'm going to climb my way back and I can't do it on my own. Amen.

It's not my might. It's not by human might or human ability.

It's by His Spirit. That.

Your life around, to raise you up and say to you and I, keep going.

Keep on marching. Amen. There's a hell to shine. There's a heaven to gain. Amen.

You've got everything to get a hold of and to receive in your future.

Don't worry about the past no more. I'm so glad I know him tonight.

Amen Jesus is God Jesus is King Jesus, I want to say it loud.

Amen. So your faith in God is the only way to get back up on your feet.

That's the only way to do it. That's the only way to have a good life is by

living with God, living your life for God, living the best life is living the

blessed life, living in accordance to God's will, living in tune and connection

with his word. Amen.

And every time the enemy tries to knock you down, You need to remember and let

this resound through your mind and soul tonight that the enemy does not possess a knockout punch.

Anybody know about boxing? Amen. Praise God.

You got to just keep on going. You got to go the distance. Amen.

It's not a quick knockout. The devil's won and he's over. You rejoice and say,

what are you going to do? I think we need to surprise the enemy and say, look here, devil.

This is my last time. I may be knocked down today, but I'm rising up tomorrow.

I'm going to get back up. I'm going to look you square between the eyes,

and I'm going to tell you how it is instead of you telling me how it is.

Amen. I choose to have joy.

It's not for the faint of heart. It's not for the softies. I tell somebody,

sometimes I say, this generation is soft as cotton ale.

They don't make them like they used to. My Lord, my grandpa,

and some of my loved one that's already went on, they have some grit about them.

They have some determination about them. And I believe there's a few of them

left in the earth, but it's time to get more incorporated and recruited back into that field.

Come on, we gotta be like, Amen. We got to have that tough skin.

Amen. We got to rise up and say, not on my watch.

Or do I let some situation or some adversity or something just cause me to stumble

and I just give up? I don't know, I lost my joy somewhere. I lost my peace somewhere.

I used to praise God. I used to worship God. I used to really get in there at

the altar call. Don't used to anymore. Be like God, he's still got it.

You need to still have it yourself.

Amen. A stumble is not an identity. Amen. If you stumble, get back up,

rise back up, and say, here I am, God. I know you've never left me.

You're a friend that's sticking closer than my brother. You're a friend that's

sticking closer than anyone else in my life, God.

So I'm gonna do this, Lord. I'm gonna lift my hands to you, Lord.

I'm gonna take my hands away from my problem.

Praise God. Thank you. Keep on clapping. Somebody do something apostolic.

Amen. Say that again with me. There is life after the fall.

David failed. What was David? He was a man after God's own heart.

Moses failed. Look at Moses, prophet of the Lord.

Amen. That God used mightily. Took somebody's life back in Egypt.

But still God forgave him.

And he went on to do many marvelous and miraculous things.

Peter, who denied the Lord three times, was the one standing up on the day of

Pentecost delivering the plan of salvation message to the Greeks and to the Gentiles.

Amen. And tonight, don't think that.

And you probably couldn't see the sun this morning, but I guarantee you it's out there.

Amen. Amen. When it came up, the mercy of Jesus Christ came up with it.

Amen. So tonight, me and you need to stop seeing ourselves as failures and start seeing what God sees.

Amen. A man or a woman that can change the world, that can make a difference

in the area that they're at and the people that they are around.

Amen. We are more than conquerors. We are overcoming.

Where would we be I'm so glad I'm not hell-bound,

and I don't feel worthy at all of God's goodness in my life,

do you I don't feel worthy of any of it praise God but he sees something in

you and I thank God we don't see it ourself if you do then you got pride,

I'm a nobody somebody say that I'm just I'm just a nobody that song says try

to tell everybody all about something I have a nobody but I know somebody,

there's nothing good about me but the Holy Ghost that lives in me I'm just a

bag of bones and just dust that's all I am amen but when the Holy Ghost comes

in amen they give me power,

over all the unclean spirits of the enemy even that old enemy that knocks me

down a man oh devil I'm not gonna listen to you I'm gonna rise back up on my feet.

Lord, I come at you in the name of the Lord of hosts.

So that big old giant that knocks you down says, look at you.

I know what you are. I know who you are. Amen.

David said this, I come at you with the name of the Lord of hosts.

You come with me at these materialistic weapons, sword, shield,

and spear. But listen, I come to you.

If you're a believer tonight and you're being baptized in the name of Jesus

and filled with the Holy Ghost.

Japanese Proverbs said this, and I think whoever wrote this was reading the Word of God.

Fall seven times, rise up eight.

Winston Churchill, you know who that is? Way back there in the 1940s,

he said failure is not fatal.

It's not final. It's not the end of the story. It's just a temporary holding

place because the moment you realize that my God's greater than all my problems, Amen.

Back to my feet I come. Amen. Amen. See, if you get knocked down,

it does not mean you are done for.

It does not mean it's over. It's final.

Unless you choose not to look to the Lord again.

Amen. But if you say, hey, I'm looking back to the Lord.

I'm looking on him. I'm casting my eyes on him. I'm casting my cares on him. Amen.

When I fall, I shall arise. Amen. Falling down does not make you a failure.

Choosing to stay down makes you a failure.

Choosing to stay there and doing nothing about it. Get up, weakling. Get up.

Man's a pansy. Amen. We got to get that grit, determination.

Fight the good fight. Paul said, I tell you, one of the best people in the Bible

to read about is Paul. He said, I have fought a good fight.

I have kept the faith. I have finished my course. Church, we're in a fight right now.

America's in a fight right now. You know what it's a fight over?

Islam versus Christianity. Right up there in Chicago, they're marching in the

streets. But I saw the other day that Christians were coming down that same street marching.

Amen. We're not supposed to be intimidated by the enemy.

We're not supposed to be intimidated. We're supposed to be intimidating.

Amen. Because we're more than conquerors. We're children of God.

Amen. And the victory is ours.

We don't have to live our life in fear, but we can rise up in faith. Amen.

Fear knocked on the door, and faith answered, and fear ran in the opposite direction. Praise God.

When I submitted to God, the enemy fled from me.

Our feet at this time. We're going to praise the Lord. Amen.

We're going to worship the Lord. If the musicians could come ahead at this time,

amen, we're going to have an altar call. We're going to see what the Lord will do tonight.

The Bible says that God will confirm his word with signs following.

How many believes that? So don't give up.

Don't give in. That one right there is a big one.

Don't give in, but I'm too weak. Well, get strong, right?

I've been there. Somewhere along the line, I learned to trust God more and seek

him more and study his word more.

Anybody know what I'm talking about? Can I get a witness? Like the black people

say, can I get a witness up in here?

Brother Young, I pray that black people come to share. I'll tell you.

You get some Spanish people, black people, you get some multicultural,

you talk about, Woo, hallelujah. They don't know when to sit down.

Amen. But we got some faithful saints here tonight and I can hear some amens

and I can hear some hungry lips.

People love God here tonight. And I want to tell you tonight,

whatever you're going through, amen, it's all about where you're going to.

It's not going to be an easy ride, Brother Jamie, Jamie or James,

Jamie, it's not going to be an easy ride. It's not an easy ride for any of us.

Amen. But God will keep you.

He's a keeping God. If we trust Him, give Him our heart. Amen.

God will sustain us. He'll keep us from day to day when temptation or trials come our way.

I'm going to go to the Word of God. I'm going to pray. I'm going to seek the face of God.

I'm going to overcome this thing. I'm going to overcome that.

And I'm going to say, look what the Lord has done. All the credit belongs to God.

And get back up and say, here I come, devil. In the name of the Lord,

you're going down in Jesus' name.

Praise the Lord. I feel the Holy Ghost in here and it's burning in here.

I feel like somebody turned up the heat in here.

Good to see you, James. I mean, I hardly recognize you on day one, first service.

But I want to tell you something I feel in the spirit.

The best of your life is not behind you. The best of your life is still in front of you.

I feel led to say that tonight. Amen. Not because I feel pressure to say it.

I feel like saying that tonight.

Amen. Your life is not over. Your life has just begun. Amen.

It's going to be okay. Amen. You're going to make it. Why? Because there's a God that has never.

Lord is in this house. His goodness is moving through this place.

Hallelujah. In Jesus' mighty name right,

now. Thank you for listening to our podcast. Southwest Apostolic Church is a place of refuge.

If we can help you, we'd be glad to do it. Pastor's cell number, 317-469-3100.

If we can help you, we'd be glad to do it. God bless.