I Want An Encounter With Jesus-James Woodley and The Upper Room Church

That Jesus is here. He's in our midst Amen, hallelujah.

The scripture that I want to give to you this morning,

I want to focus on praise God to starting out

Amen is Mark chapter eleven, verse twenty two. And it's

a very simple scripture, Praise God, not very long. And

the scripture says, and Jesus answered saying, unto them, have

faith in God.

Have faith in God. Amen, Thank you Jesus.

And I were thinking about the song Praise God, Hallelujah.

He says, have faith in God. This is what Jesus said.

And I was thinking about the song this Morning says

Come Jesus Come. And then Ella Floyd ministered the song

says he is here. Amen, Praise God Halloween. That song

all ties in together.

Amen.

And my subject is come Jesus Come. And I was

thinking about the song Whings cec Whiners Praise God. Song

says Come Jesus Come.

He says.

Sometimes I feel sometimes I fall on my knees and pray.

Come Jesus Come. Let today be the day.

Sometimes I feel like I'm gonna break, but I'm holding

on to a hope that won't fade. Come Jesus Come

now the Floyd just minister in song. He is here,

and I'm saying, come, Jesus, Come, praise God, hallelujah. Based

on the scripture have Faith in God mock chapter eleven,

verse twenty two, Praise God. And as we look into

the Word of God this morning, there's a thing that

takes place throughout all the scriptures, and again and again

we see where there's ordinary people praise God who have

been experiencing all kinds of difficulties in their life life.

They're standing in pain for a long time. We see

ordinary people like you and I are in impossible situations

praise God and they have deep needs praise God in

their life. But that takes a place, there's a moment

that takes place praise God when Jesus shows up. That's

why I'm saying this morning, come Jesus Come, because you

and I praise God, are experiencing some situations praise God

where we need Jesus. Praise God, hallelujah. And we see

in the Word of God where people encounter the presence

of Jesus, and when Jesus shows up, things change. And

I don't know about you, prays God, but I need

some things that change in my life.

Praise God.

And some of these people that we see in the

Word suffered many years. Some of them carried diseases that

was considered in are not able to be cured, got

impossible diseases. Some bore situations that the doctors could not solve.

Amen. In the lives of these people, prays God.

But one of the things that I noticed in the

scriptures that one touch one moment when Jesus came, prays God,

it changed their life. Amen, Praise God. You know the

woman with the issue of blood prays God in Mark

chapter five, pays God. She had been bleeding for twelve years.

I don't know if it was five broads or whatever

it was. She had Praise God, but she experienced this

bleeding for twelve years. She could not be around people

like she wanted to. She had to change clothes often.

Praise God. She had to be careful about where she went.

Prays God. But twelve years she experienced this thing, and

she had tried everything that she could try. She had

spent all the money, and she had insurance. She exhausted

her insurance policy. Pays God, and she tried every natural reason.

Praise God to solve her problem. Praise God. But and

she had a reason to give up hope. She had

a reason to lose hope, praise God. She had a

reason to stay home because she didn't want to be

around people with that condition.

But you know what she said.

In her heart, if I only could touch the hem

of his garment, I will be made whole.

I will be made well. And her faith caused.

Her to move out of that house, go down the

street in that crowd of people, praise God and reach

for Jesus' garment, reach for the hem of his garment.

It was a faith that did that. Praise God.

Can you and I exhibit that kind of faith today?

Praise God.

That's why I said, come Jesus Come, because I want

to praise God. I want an account with Jesus this morning.

I don't know about you, but I want an account

with God. Don't you want an account with Jesus Christ.

That's why I say, come Jesus Come. Then if we

go to Matthew chapter eight, there was a leper praise God.

He was considered to be untouchable. He couldn't be around

folk because when he showed up praise God, people didn't

want to be associated with him. They didn't want him

to be touching him because they didn't want that disease

that we spread to them. Matter of fact, the lepers

Praise God. When they went and went somewhere, they were

supposed to cry out, let people know that leopers are

a leopards. Person is coming into your miss so people

could get out of the way.

But you know what, when he.

Came to Jesus, the scripture says, Jesus touch him and

immediately he was healed.

Prays God. So that's another example.

Praise God when Jesus shows up, when you have an

account with Jesus, prays God that they ain't changed. Halleluj

your story change. Praise God. One moment you were bleeding

all over the place. Now all of a sudden, the

bleeding is started. One moment you was leprosy and you

couldn't bear around people. Praise God. Associated with people. But

when Jesus shows up and Jesus touched him, Praise God.

He was healed. Amen.

And then in Mark chapter one, Praise God. We see

where Praise God. Peter's mother in law was bed ridden

with a fever. Praise God. And there was nothing Praise

God that medicine could do for her in those days.

But you know what, when Jesus walked in the house,

Jesus touched him.

That one touch from Jesus and she got up.

Not only did she get up, but she picked up

the plates and the spools and fox and the pans

and the pots and pen and start serving folk. Prays God, Hallelujah.

Where she was laying down could not get up. But

when Jesus touched her hand and that fever left her.

Praise God. She jumped, prays God and served the meal, Hallelujah.

Just from one touch from Jesus. When Jesus come and

he touches you, prays God, he changes the circumstances, he

changes the outcome.

Praise God.

Then there's the situation where two blind men cried out

in faith, and when Jesus touched their eyes, the sight returned. Amen,

Praise God. And there was a man that could not speak,

Praise God, hallelujh. Jesus touch him, Praise God, put his

fingers in his ears and touch his tongue and instantly

prays God. His faculties were restored. Why because Jesus came.

Jesus showed up and Jesus touched in all of these testimonies,

in all this scripture that Jesus is pointing out to

us today, teach us that prays God, that transformation can

come when you're in the presence of Jesus.

Praise God, Hallelujah, Jesus. Praise God. Came not just for

their needs, but Jesus came.

Praise God from their desire, Praise God from their faith

that led them to Jesus. Is your faith leading you

to Jesus this morning? Is your faith causing you the

crowd come Jesus, Come this morning. See how long they've

been sick, had nothing to do with it, how severe

that pain and the condition was, has nothing to do

with it. No matter how impossible the situation did not matter.

The part of the body that was sick did not matter.

What mattered most was that they came to Jesus. Prays God,

that came to Jesus, and they bought their faith with

them to Jesus.

Praise God.

And what I'm trying to communicate to us this morning,

that and encounter with Jesus, whether it happens or progressively,

praise God. See, don't put no requirements on God. Praise God.

If he wants to heal you instantly, he can heal

you right now, or he wants to do it progressively

over some hours, over some days.

Praise God. It's still a miracle.

If it takes a week for you to be delivered,

it's still a miracle. Or if he does it right now,

it's a miracle. Praise God. So we need to come

to Jesus in faith today, not fear. Praise God, hallelujah.

Every person that I named out prays God. They received

that miracle because they came to Jesus, prays God expecting

a miracle. They're expecting a change. Praise God, hallelujah. Don't

let how long you've been dealing with the situation. Praise

God death in your faith this morning. Praise God, hallelujah.

Because most of us have not been in a situation

where we experienced twelve years of bleeding like that woman did.

That did not stop her faith. Praise God. But she

said within herself, Praise God. I want you to notice

she sped within herself. She spoke to herself. She talked

to herself. If I could just touch Hallilud the hem

of his coment, I believe I'll be made Ho can

you say this much? If I could just touch Jesus,

I believe I'll be made whole, I will be delivered.

Praise God.

So don't let how long you've been dealing with it,

or how long you've been struggling with it dampens your faith.

Bring the impossible situations of Jesus, the leper, the blind man,

the death, all medical impossible cases.

But Jesus is not limited by what the doctor said.

Praise God.

Hall. The doctor can talk all they want. The doctor's

just like the weather man. All he can do is

report what he see on the screen. Praise God. But

God determines the outcome. God has a last say. Expect

Jesus prays God to touch every part of your life today.

Whether it's physical healing, whether it's emotional healing that you need,

Praise God. Whether it's emotional restoration, Praise God. Some of

us have been injured emotionally we don't realize it. Praise God.

Whether you need spiritually new if you need, praise God.

If you need to turn back to God, you need

to come back to God. Praise God. Hallelujah. That's because

you straight away, hey man, that's no problem for God.

Whatever you need, If you need a breakthrough, his Jesus

touch will restore, Praise God everything to what you need. Hallelujah.

So I'm believing, Praise God. I hope you are with me,

believing for and encounter with Jesus, not just an outcome.

Praise God. Yes, I want to be healed, prays God.

I want to break through in my life, Praise God.

But I want Jesus himself. Paul made the statement say

that I may know him and the fellowship of his suffering,

Prays God. Hallelujah. Seek Jesus, Praise God, hallelujah. Praise God.

Come Jesus, Come, Praise God. Hallelujah. So what what what

situation do you find yourself in today? That's a long

standing situation like that woman that had the twelve twelve

year issue. Praise God. If you got something that's been

you've been dealing with for a long period of time,

prays God. It's no problem for Jesus Christ to come by,

Praise God and heal.

You and deliver you. Hallelujah.

So don't let how long you deal with it, prays

godsp weaken your faith. Don't let how many times you've

been disappointed? Weakens your faith? Praise God? What impossible? Report,

prays God. Do I have, prays God, that I need

to bring to Jesus.

Praise God? What what? What?

What do I need to bring to Jesus. Whatever you're

dealing with, take it to Jesus. Hallelujah, Thank you, Jesus. Come,

Jesus Comes, I'm saying, Praise God, Jesus. When Jesus comes,

Praise God, Hallelujah. Seek Jesus himself, Praise God. Yes I

want to be delivered, prays God. Yes I want to

be restored. Yes I want to break through. But seek

Jesus Come, Jesus Come, is what I'm saying this morning.

Praise God, Hallelujah.

As she says in that song, Praise God, Hallelujah, Thank

you Jesus. Sometimes I feel like I'm gonna break, and

sometimes we do feel like that. Sometimes we feel like

we come to our end. Praise God. Somebody said man's

extremity is God's opportunity, and I believe that we.

Would come to the end of ourself.

We realize that we have nobody else to depend on

and to lean on, but Jesus Christ and him crucified.

That's where God wants to be. Hey, man, the scripture

tells us that he that hunger and thirst after righteousness

shall be feeled. Praise God. Are you hungry today for Jesus?

Are you thirsty today for Jesus? Hallelujah, Praise God, Hallelujah,

Thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus. Praise God. I'm hungry

and thirsting after his righteousness. Amen, and I believe I'll

be made whole. Praise God. So this morning, praise God.

I want you to remember that scripture with Jesus said

have faith in God. If you can have faith in God,

you know what your faith will take you to Jesus.

It'll put you in the presence of Jesus. Praise God,

and one touch from Jesus.

Will make it all right. Amen.

I'm gonna close out with his word of prayer. Praise

God for those that are on our prayer list, for

those that are listening to us right now.

Amen, I don't know what you're dealing with individually, prays God.

All of us got something to continude with. So all

of us got something something to deal with. Amen, But God,

it's able. Hallelujah.