Reformation: It Matters What You Consider

Welcome back to The Gathering Tabernacle Podcast. Today's episode, we welcome back guest speakers Pastor Chris & Sue McDonald for Redemption Night. There are miraculous testimonies shared, teachings, and further revelation on faith/prophecy. Everyone deserves a chance to go to Heaven. No one is too far gone from the Lord if they are willing to repent and lay their life down at the feet of Jesus. If you want a stronger faith, it matters what you consider. What you allow in your life is what is going to transform your mind. God ALREADY made you promises and you have a choice to receive them or receive what your environment/circumstances say about you. Don't be weak in your faith. Be bold. Be courageous. Speak faith out loud. Find out what the Word says about you, then hold each other accountable. 

Sermon from 7-11-26 by Pastor Chris & Sue McDonald at Redemption Night.

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Welcome to the Gathering Tabernacle Podcast. We're located in Rocky Comfort, Missouri. Our mission at TGT is to host the presence of the Lord, to see his glory fall like fire and free those who are in bondage. He came to set the captives free. On the podcast, we share our live sermons from leak pastors Dan and Sarah Goostry, teachings from special guests, and personal testimonies. Thank you for joining us today. If you would like to contact us, you can find us on Facebook or online at www.thegathering tabernacle.com. Let's jump into today's episode.

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Come on, just tell him how great that he is. He's a great God. You are a great God. You are greatly to be praised. We lift our voice to you tonight, Father God, and we tell you that you are great. There is no other God like you. I've searched the world over and I have found nothing. I have found no one as great as you, oh God. And so I stand tonight and I lift my voice in praise. I stand tonight and I lift my voice in praise. I stand tonight and I lift my voice and praise. Holy, holy, holy are you the God? It's Tom 66. Make a joyful noise unto the Lord. Holy earth, sing forth. Make his name glorious. Say to God, how awesome and fearfully glorious are your works. Through the greatness of your power shall your enemies submit themselves to you. And all the earth shall bow down to you and sing praises to you. They shall praise your name in song. We worship you, O God. We sing your praises, O Lord. Glory to your name. No one has ever done for me what you've done for me, Lord. No one's ever touched me like you've touched me, O Lord. We stand tonight giving ourselves to you, Lord, singing, great, great, great are you, O Lord. When I was at my worst, you reached down and you saved me. On my worst day, you still love me. On my worst day, you still love me. Because when I called on your name, you loved me too much to leave me in that shape. I thank you, Father, for your goodness. I thank you, Lord, for your kindness. God, you sent your son Jesus Christ to die on a cross for me, for the people in this place. You sent Holy Spirit to live and dwell on the inside of us so that we would never be alone. There would always be a comforter. There would always be a peace on the inside of us. There would always be a guide and there would always be a counsel. You loved us too much to leave us alone. Father, we're so grateful. We're just grateful for you. You know, when you give your heart to the Lord, you can't help but be grateful. Because when you remember, or when you think about where you've been in life, or maybe you may be here, and it's where you're at in life right now. But I'm here to tell you that we serve a great God, we serve a good God, and we serve a God that loves you so much that He has no desire for you to stay where you're at right now. He has sent Holy Spirit to dwell on the inside of you, and all we have to do is receive Jesus Christ as our Lord and our Savior. And to understand what that means. When we say Jesus, we want you to be our Lord, we say we surrender ourselves to you. We decide to stop running. We decide to say, I give myself to you for you to make the calls on my life, for you to help lead me, for you to help guide me, so that I don't have to make those decisions anymore. See when I gave my heart to the Lord, Holy Spirit came and live on to live on the inside of me, and now there's so many decisions that I don't even have to make because Holy Spirit says no, we don't do that. Holy Spirit says no, you don't touch that anymore. Holy Spirit says no, you don't go down that road anymore. So I don't even have to question because Holy Spirit on the inside of me, because I ask Jesus to be the Lord of my life and to be my savior. What does it mean to be your savior? It means when you close your eyes in death, you'll open your eyes in heaven. Am I telling you that everything will be easy? Am I telling you that everything will be like roses? But no. I'm telling you that Holy Spirit comes and lives on the inside of you and helps you. And heaven will be your home when you breathe your last breath. That's how great of a God. That's why we're singing, how great are you, Lord? Nobody else can do that for us. As much as I love my husband, he can't do that for me. As much as I love him, he can't do that for me. No pastor can do it for me, only Jesus Christ. And so I'm asking you tonight. If you're here and you say, I've never asked Jesus to be my Lord and my Savior, and I want that life. I want to know him that way. I've tried the world's way and it doesn't work. But I want Jesus as my Lord and my Savior. I want salvation. I'm asking tonight because I think everybody deserves a chance to go to heaven. And this is your chance to get to go to heaven when you die. So if you're here today and you say, I've never asked Jesus to come into my life, but I want him in my life. Sue, will you pray with me? I would love to pray with you. I would love to lead you in a prayer that would make that happen. If you're here tonight and you say, I want Jesus as my Lord and Savior, and I've never asked him to be my Savior. I've never, I've never experienced him in my life. Would you just lift your hand so I know you're here? I see that hand. Is there anybody else? Anybody else? Young man, would you come and would you meet me right here? I just want to pray with you. Come on, you all clap your hands to heaven. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Tell me your name, son. What is it? Mark. Mark, my name is Sue. This is Pastor Chris. And we're just some businessing pastors here from Kentucky. But everything I just said is true. He wants to be your Lord and your Savior. And I'm going to help you. Because it's as simple as admitting that you've sinned in your life. We don't have to know all of your sin. It doesn't matter. But you admit you're a sinner. You've done things that are wrong. And then you believe just what I said that Jesus Christ is Lord. That Jesus went and died on a cross so that you would not have to do all that. He died in all of our plays. He did that for you. He did it for all of us. And then confess Jesus Christ as Lord. Listen, I can help lead you in a prayer. And I will do that. Because I don't think everybody knows how to pray. Pastor Chris, listen, when he gave his life to the Lord, he had no clue how to even pray. But a man helped him and led him. So it's not the prayer. Yes. And so when we say this prayer, you put the meaning to the words. You mean it with everything on the inside of you. And there's a transformation that happens on the inside of you. Amen? And then you found yourself in a church of people that would love to help you, that would lead you. Because like I said, when Pastor Christ started, he had no clue what his next step was. But because we stay connected to a church, they helped us. They helped us both on a weekly basis, on a daily basis. Amen. Amen. So let's just pray this with me. I'm praying. You repeat after me. Again, it's not the way it's your meaning for your heart. I want him with everything that I have. Amen. Amen. Say this part. Say in the name of Jesus. I believe that Jesus died on a cross and rose three days later. I stand here tonight giving my sin to him. Never to pick it up again. I say tonight that Jesus Christ is my Lord and my Savior. I believe that I will never be the same. The old man is gone, and there is a new man living on the inside of me. Holy Spirit, come and dwell inside of me right now. I believe, I believe, and I receive. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Father God, for this young man. I believe in the name of Jesus that his life is made new tonight. I thank you, Father God, that everything from his past is now washed away. He's made clean in the mighty name of Jesus. I thank you for it. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Yes. Amen. Amen. And just like that. Just like that. Made new. Amen. Amen. This is Pastor Dan. He's the pastor here at this church. Thank you, Father. Come on, let's give him some praise. There's angels. There's angels in heaven. That's praising. We should join. We should join the angels in heaven. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

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Amen. Amen. What a way to start off the night. Hallelujah. The night's still young. Amen. Amen. Amen. You have your keys with you, Pastor Tim? Your keys? You have keys to the kingdom? There you go. Alright, everybody, get your keys out. Oh well, you really do have keys. Well, didn't think people had keys to cars anymore. Sure, we'll hear some more about faith tonight, right? You know what? Without faith, it's impossible to please him. You know, the just shall live by faith. Amen. You know, uh faith without works is dead. I used to struggle with that so much, you know, because well we have a works-based salvation. We have a faith-based salvation, you know, and this and that. Well, what's the answer? Yes. But but then I then I learned it's awesome when you begin to dig into the word of God and then take your concordances and see what the Greek words actually mean. But faith without works is dead as faith without corresponding action is dead. So if you don't act on the word of God, your faith is dead, right? It's kind of like having these keys. I got the keys, well, to Pastor Donna's car. But anyway, I got the keys to Pastor Donna's car. And if I went out there and I stood on the hood of Donna's car, and I was like, man, I got the keys to the car. I can get in this car and I can drive to Venita, Oklahoma tonight. I got the keys to the car. How many believe I could go to Venita if I just stood on the hood and said, I believe I have the keys to the car? I would never get to Venita. You could come back here next time Pastor Chris and Sue comes, and they could still be out there on the hood of the car going, I believe I'm gonna get to Venita, Oklahoma. I got the keys to the car. But it'll never happen unless you get down and put the key into the ignition of that car and go. And that's how the difference in believing and faith is. Faith is action. He said, the demons believe, they tremble at the name. You know, he said, well, the demons believe, you know, and they threw all that around, but the problem is they believe, but they don't act on the word of God. And I'm telling you, tonight's a night that they're acting on the word of God. Praise you, Lord, for Mark for stepping in and acting on the word of God. He could have come to church, he could have sat back there and he said, He could have said, you know, I believe I'm saved. But he never would have been if he wouldn't have taken the action to come walking up here and confess Jesus as Lord. So, amen. Hallelujah. All right. It's an honor to have uh Pastor Chris and Sue from uh Life in Christ Church in Marion, Kentucky. So, so it's gonna be a fabulous night, you know, and I was I was thinking about that as as we're uh preparing our giving to take up an offering, you know. You know, when you give an offering, you're you're putting to action, you're putting your words to action. You say, well, I'm just giving money. No, you're not giving money. You're putting your faith to action, you're putting the word of God to action. You are supporting Christ's work throughout the world. Throughout the world. So when you when you're giving, it's just like you're you're sowing a seed and the seed you sow into uh Chris and Sue McDonald ministries, CSM ministries. If you're writing a check, you can just make it to TGT, we'll give them one check altogether. But but you're you're planting a seed, and and when you plant a seed, you expect seed to produce, right? You what so what do you expect it to produce? You if you planted corn, what would you expect the sort, the corn seed to produce? Corn, yeah, you wouldn't expect it to produce watermelon, you wouldn't expect it to produce thorns, you'd expect it to produce corn. So when you're planting seed, when you're planting your hard-earned money that you earned uh throughout your job or retirement or whatever you had, you're planting a seed of money. What do you expect money to return? Money. Praise the Lord. We got one in here that gets it. Hallelujah. You know, it starts with one, but you expect money to produce money. Amen. A hundredfold and a hundredfold. One thing that Mike England taught me more than anything, he's like, you know, a hundredfold means more than a hundredfold. And I was like, well, what do you mean? He said, that's a potential. That's a potential. So, you know, some 30, some 60, some hundredfold, some 30%, some 60%, some 100%. I'm expecting my money to produce full potential. Full potential, you know, because we talked about a corn farmer that grows corn, if he plants one seed and produces a hundred seeds, he's gonna go broke. He's gonna go broke. You know, because I think on a corn ear there's like seven or eight hundred. And I think in in Kentucky this year, with all the rain they've got, maybe there's ten thousand. I don't know, but but there's no telling how long them ears are gonna be in two ears, but but but full potential. So we speak full potential on your giving tonight that it's sown into good ground. So let's hold up our giving. Father, we praise you, father, we honor you, Lord, and we thank you, Lord. We get to give. It's something we get to do, we get to sow into the kingdom of God. And we're, Lord, tonight we get to sow into fabulous, good, fertile ground that's going throughout the world, Lord. And we thank you, Lord, for the full potential of the seed that's planted tonight in Jesus' mighty name. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. All right, Pastor, come on up. Let's get it. Did you get your videos?

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Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, they got it took care of. Praise God. Well, good evening. It's great to be here. It's great to see our friends, Pastor Tim and Donna Long from Bonita, Oklahoma. We'll be there in uh August. A little less than a month now. We were there last August, and God just showed out, didn't he? I mean, we got wild and uh how many times did we end up like when we were there? It was a bunch. We kept back and forth and back and forth, I kept the road on I didn't either. I had myself two times on everything. We started on a Sunday morning, and I think we went home next Thursday or Friday. We drove separate that we got back, and then after you didn't drove back on the Saturday, you drove back on the Saturday Sunday. Anyway, it was a lot, and it was awesome, and God really did some cool stuff there. It was really amazing. Laundry Saturday, that's right. That's how the day Pentecostals get off when you're in the movie. God is Saturday. You get to go do your laundry, get groceries, and then we're coming back to church. That's that works. But anyway, it was awesome. And God does some cool stuff in the need of and uh so excited to be back here in this part of the world. We love it out here. It's great. I mean I don't know. I just like it out here. We drive around there and I'm like grateful for that. Great friend of our people. At least one nation. That really happened. We left Atlanta on a Monday afternoon at three thirty. Flew to back in over three hundred thousand people, and on Thursday afternoon we're back in Atlanta. Borderland clinically insane what we did. I I don't know. I'm like I don't recommend it, but I probably would do it again. It was something else. I mean, it was really amazing. They recorded and documented uh it was like there was like three hundred and thirty thousand people there and they count them all because they're bringing them on buses to their village registration, I think. And they had they had people on buses going back to their villages and they asked all the questions Had you ever heard the gospel? Did you ever see Jesus as Savior? Did you get healed anyway? And then about thirty minutes of preaching, only preach fifteen minutes of preaching. Can you believe that? Can you believe that at all? I know, right? Was a miracle. That was one of the biggest miracles of the night. That we actually only preached 15 minutes. Think about that. We flew halfway halfway around the world, preached 15 minutes, got on a plane and flew back home. Hey, what are we doing? What are we doing? We were gonna be there longer, but a war broke out. You know, they start lobbing missiles at each other. I'm like, eh, I'm gonna take a rain check. I I'm I'm good. And uh, but we were actually going, what? It was like two months prior to that, I think, or something like that. We're in the airport getting ready to board the plane, and a war broke out. So we're like, I mean, should we go really? I mean, and so anyway, everything got canceled, kind of like the deal that you had to deal with with the Africa trip. They canceled all the flights, all the stuff. So we agreed, we'll go back as soon as you get a they get some kind of peace deal signed to ceasefire, and we'll jump on a plane to come back over there. And so that's why it was such a quick turnaround. So I preached 15 minutes on Jesus the healer. They documented over a hundred thousand healing and miracles. The people testified to that. Bishop preached for 15 minutes on Jesus the Savior, and they documented what was it like 270,000 people got born again, gave their life to Jesus. Amen. Amen. That's pretty awesome for 30 minutes of preaching. And uh they planted in those villages, they planted over 700 churches in just a short amount of time. So the gospel's going forth. Amen. Amen. So I do have a video. I told you last night I would show you a video, and uh so I don't know, I guess this is uh January of this year and May of this year in the Philippines. So this is just like a I don't know, two or three minute highlight video. So roll that beautiful bean footage if you wouldn't mind. Praise the Lord. Man, I love that place. Praise God. I mean, praising lungs, that's awesome. One of the one of those places uh Hawaiian. Uh one of those clips, I was standing on a platform in a green shirt, and there was a ton of people in the altar. Those were all people getting saved. There was like 2,000 young people getting born again that night. I mean, it's an it's just like holy moly. There was like 4,000 young people there that night. And so we we're seeing a really big move in the young people in that nation. And so I ask, uh, you saw one of the girls singing. That is Pastor Edu's daughter, and he has another daughter that sings in the band, and then his son also, and they travel with us all over wherever we go. Their whole band, there's like, I don't know, 20 or 30 in that whole team, but um I ask Pastor Jason Adair and myself. We're setting, talking with the Pastor Edu's two daughters, and then two other girls that that are have been raised with them, and they they all grew up together, they all travel together, and they're asking us all these questions. Pastor, what about this? Pastor, what about this? Pastor, what about this? Well, finally, I wanted to ask my own questions. I said, I feel like I picked on some picked up on something in the spirit the other night when we were preaching, but I want to ask you because you're in that age group. I said, We're seeing so many young people get born again. I have a question about that. Because you know, a lot of them are coming with churches and and different stuff. I said, I perceive that a lot of these young people are going to church because it's the right thing to do, but they're not born again. And all four of them said, that's exactly right, Pastor. I said, Well, praise the Lord. They're getting born again. They're already in a church. So, so that part's easy, right? They and uh so anyway, it just you know, it's just an awesome thing that we're getting to do over there. I think that was my 11th trip over there, and uh, I love that place. We'll be back there in January in Manila doing a crusade in Kazon City. And uh when we go there, we do pastors and leaders conferences during the day, and then we do youth on fire at night. And so, depending on the schedule, uh, you know, it just depends on how many times you preach when you're there. But a typical day uh is about I don't know, you can preach six to eight hours in a day, and then the next day, and then the next day, and then the next day, and about day five of that, you're like, how about uh we sleep in and take a break? How about that? And uh, but anyway, it's amazing what God's doing there and the relationships we've built with the pastors there. There's about four or five pastors that travel with us everywhere we go over there, and they're like our family. I mean, it is like a family reunion when we get back, and so they're great, great people, and they're super hungry for the Lord. And uh it's it's amazing to watch their passion for God and uh just see how they go for it. So thank you for giving any what whatever you gave. And he said, Well, I didn't give anything, just pray then, pray for us, pray, pray for what God's doing there. You know, when we go, pray that it just keeps opening up more because that's what's been happening. We've built more relationships with more pastors. We had a pastor's meeting in Kazan City on our way out of the country this time, and uh we actually met with like it was like 140 or 150 pastors, but when we go back to do the to do the pastors meeting, there could be 2,000 to 4,000 pastors in that meeting, depending on, you know, it's kind of depending on who shows up. But in uh Kawhi in this time, we had 2,000 in a meeting. I mean, think about it. 2,000 pastors and leaders. Like, man, you get 2,000 pastors together in America, you've had a you know, feed the 5,000 miracle. I mean, and uh so anyway, it's just really cool what God's doing, and I'm super humbled that we get to do it. Sue went with me in January, that was her first time over there, and she said, I'm going back. And I said, Praise the Lord. So it's good. Because I love Zeke. You saw Zeke, they're the kind of the bald guy that was preaching. He goes he's uh he's my translator, he speaks perfect Ilocano because he was raised there, and I love hanging out with Zeke, but I like hanging out with her way better. And uh so I can hug her and she's okay with it. If I hug Zeke, he gets a little weirded out. So anyway, so thank you very much for your prayers, your seed, and uh we use it, I promise you, we put it to work in the kingdom. Amen. Amen. So great to see everybody. Glad you're here. We uh last night we you know I taught on one of my favorite subjects, which is faith. And uh what is faith? How do you get faith, and why is faith necessary? Those were the three questions posed, and we went through that. And uh, how many of you know without faith, it is impossible to please God, right? You gotta have faith. Now, once you have faith, you gotta do something with it. You can grow it, but you gotta keep it strong. And you keep your faith strong, and it it matters what you consider to keep your faith strong. So, you know, I've I've watched people through the years, and I'm I'm not even saying I haven't had a faith crisis of my own at some point, where you know, you kind of you might get lax on this a little bit. Well, this is where faith comes from, right? Faith comes by hearing and hearing by thee. Yeah. So if if you're not putting this in, then faith can start to wane a little bit in an area. So it's super important what you consider. It matters what you consider to keep your faith strong. It matters what you consider. Now, we learned last night, and many of you know this, and I would say, I would venture, guess that just about all of you know it, that we walk by faith and not by life. That's right. So you there is the decision-making process of what you're gonna consider. Am I gonna consider what I can see with my natural eye, or am I gonna consider what the word of God says? Because if I consider what the word of God says, then yes, I may see something with my natural eye. There may be something going on, and that's a fact, but the truth of the matter is the word of God overrides every fact. Amen. So it matters what you consider. Now, not only does it matter what you consider, it matters what you're saying. Well, I know what the Bible says, but this is what okay. Get your butt out of the way. And that's what happens. People say, I know what the word says, but this is what's going on. Okay. Then you need to get over here and put the word on what's going on to see this change. That's how it works. Now, I know, you know, there's all these people out there that say, Well, I don't know if I believe all that. Well, you don't have to believe it, but it's still the truth. It's still how it works. God created us speaking beings. Now, you can't just, you know. Well, I'll say this. You will have what you say. Period. Either way. Bad or good. Well, you know, nothing ever works out for me. Well, it's not going to start working out for you if that's, you know, you. I mean, every time I get I get a raise, somehow something goes wrong, and then I eats all that up. Well, it's going to keep doing it. Well, I can see this is starting off real good. That's okay. I got plenty of gas in the tank. I can just keep mashing it. Here's the thing, okay? Maybe that's been the deal before, but watch this. If you say, man, I tithe, I do what I'm supposed to do according to scripture, okay, then you have tithers' rights. You can declare in Jesus' name, I'm putting a stop to this. This is not okay. This is not what I'm supposed to be doing. If I get a raise, it shouldn't be eaten up by something going wrong all the time. I should be blessed because that's what the word of God says. So I'm going to get on the word of God. Now, you may have to do this more than one time. I said it once, nothing worked. Well, no wonder. Since you said it like that, it wouldn't work. You didn't believe it anymore, and I believe I'm Superman. And trust me, I jumped off a roof trying, and it didn't work. Now, an untrained tongue. Write this down if you're taking notes. I know Miss Pat's taking notes. She takes notes off of YouTube when I'm preaching. She came and showed me one of my sermons I preached. So I'm going to have to tighten up. Watch it. And you watch every one of them? Well, I'm going to start saying hi to you then. An untrained tongue is the voice of an unrenewed mind. I'll say it again, just in case you're taking notes. An untrained tongue is the voice of an unrenewed mind. So if you're just running off at the mouth about everything, then I can tell you straight up your mind is unrenewed to the word of God. Because when your mind gets renewed to the word of God, it changes, it changes how you navigate with your mouth. Now, just because you say something doesn't mean you believe it. You can have mental assent. I've watched many people through life. You know, I just feel, I know last night we taught a lot, and I feel like that's what's happening again tonight. I already can tell. I'm just like, I prefer running and yelling and spitting and screaming, but sometimes, you know, it still is what it is. I've watched many people in life have mental assent to the word. But when it comes down to a situation changing in their life, nothing happened. And they were very frustrated by that. And they're like, well, it didn't work. I'm like, no, no, no. The word works. It worked, the word is true. Somewhere you missed the method of getting this done. And I'm telling you, I can stand here, both Sue and I would admit, there have been times in life where we've missed that point. But it's never God. It's never a word failure. It can be us having a faith failure, right? Because, okay, I know what the word says, okay, but do you know in here? Do you have revelation of it? Has light come? Like has revelation come into your heart where that you know when you say it, that's it. Done. I don't have to, I'm not thinking about it. It's over with. Well, now what about? No, it's not what about. I've already put the word on it, and the word's doing the work now. I'll just keep, I can keep putting the word out there and letting it do the work. Amen. Now, let's go to Proverbs 3, verse 1. And we'll we'll start here because I just want to lay a little bit of groundwork on how important the word is. My son, do not forget my law, but let your heart keep my commandments. For length of days and long life and peace they will add to you. Let not mercy and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart, and so find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and man. Now watch. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Lean not on what you can see or do. Lean on God. Lean on the Lord. Trust in the Lord with all of your heart. Not your blood pump, but your heart down in here, down in your spirit. Trust in the Lord and lean not on it. Well, you know, I mean I'm a scientist and I have okay, that's great. That's great. But science came from God. So lean, trust in the Lord, and then let the Lord lead you in the science. Well, I mean, I work in the medical field and I know what this diagnosis means. Okay, great. Glad you work in the medical field. That's awesome. But trust in the Lord and lean not on your own understanding. Lean not on what you learned out of a medical book. Lean on what you know that God has said in his book. This is what the Lord says. This is what the word says. I'm grateful for what you know in the natural, but this is what I know in the supernatural. And I'm gonna put the word on it. Amen. Praise the Lord. So, verse 6 in all your ways, acknowledge him, and he will direct your path. I just don't know where I'm going in life. I just don't know. I mean, you watch people spend their whole life like that. They've had 47 jobs. You know, they've been married like seven times. They can't, it's like, I can't, I just don't know what I'm doing. Okay, okay. You're not acknowledging God. Oh, yeah, I am. No, you're not. No, you're not. You're not. According to the word, you're not, because if you acknowledge him in all your ways, he directs your path. Do you think he's directed you to 47 jobs and seven marriages? I do not think so. No, no, no. No, if you acknowledge him, he directs your path. I'm telling you, following God is not as hard as religious people make it out to be. Just do what the book says. And it works. Amen. Now, what about Abraham? Do you think, do you think he uh paid attention to what was going on, or do you think he kept his attention off the wrong thing and on the right thing? Just a question. He is the father of our faith, after all. We are in his lineage. He was childless and his wife was barren. And the Lord said, You're going to be the father of many nations. In fact, I'm changing your name so that every time you walk up to somebody, that's what you tell them. You know, he didn't walk up like we do. Like if I introduce myself, I say, hi, I'm Chris MacDonald, and then whoever, you know, Jeff Erwin. Erwin. Yeah, I was like, I don't know your last name, I forgot it. But Jeff, so we introduced ourselves to one another a while ago. I, you know, I didn't walk up and tell him what my name meant, but that's the they historians say that's the way they would introduce themselves. Hi, I'm the father of many nations. Sorry, what? What you don't even have a kid. See, that's what people do. They look around and go, Well, you don't have no kids. He said, Oh, I got kids you don't even know about. Oh, my children and my loins at this point, right now. The Lord said, I'm the father of many nations, so that's the end of it for me. Now he had every option to believe otherwise. Right? All right, we'll go a little deeper here. Now, let's go to Romans 4, 17 through 21. I'm getting out of a little bit out of order what I gave you, Josh, but as it is written, look, now this watch this. I have made you. Not gonna make you, already have. See, the Bible says that we have been blessed with all earthly blessing. Have been. Not gonna be, have been. Have been. Have been. I have made you. Not gonna make you, not thinking about it, already have. Already made you. So in God's eye, he he had already deemed that Abraham was the father of many nations, period. Child on the earth or no child on the earth, in God's eye, he saw every one of them.

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Do you understand what I'm saying? Like let's let's not make God small to fit our pea brain. Let's keep God big like God is. Amen. I have made you, I've made you, son. Listen to me. I've made you, I've made, I made you, I did it. Not your wealth, I did it. I made you a father of many nations. And the I mean, we're talking about a guy who was a pagan God maker. You understand? His family made gods for the pagans to worship, and God shows up and says, Hey, come with me. Leave all this and come to a place that I'll show you, and I'm gonna do something for you. How many would even go now and you love Jesus? Okay, that's fine. Teaching's over. How many of you would go now if God said, I need you to go to such and such and go there and give your life? And you say, Man, I love the Lord. But I mean, I got a job. Okay? I mean, you know, you might at least CVS to go follow Jesus, you think? Nothing wrong with Oregon is CVS. But if the God of heaven says, I want you to go somewhere and give your life for the gospel, I think you should just go do that. Because he's the God that provides, he's the God that takes care of us, he's the God that's the God of more than enough. He is El Shaddai, not El Chipo. He'll take care of you wherever you go. Hallelujah. So he tells Abraham, go on, leave everything and come and follow me. And so he does. He takes off. He said, I've made you the father of many nations in the presence of him who believed. God who gives life to the what? Oh yeah, to the dead. He wasn't having kids, let's just say it that way. He was an old man. Who gives life to the dead and caused those things which do not exist in the natural? It's not that they don't exist, they just don't exist here yet.

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Cause gives life to the dead and cause those things which do not exist as though they did. Praise the Lord. Verse 18. Who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations. Now God said, I have made you. And Abraham said, I agree. I agree. So then he became. So you listen, and and when I say this, I mean it. I believe in the in the modern day prophet. I believe in prophecy, but you must know something. Prophecy is conditional based upon your response. It's not just gonna fall in your lap like ripe cherries off a tree. If you get a word of prophecy from somebody, then you got to stay on the path with God to fulfill that prophecy. Sue and I have had many prophecies through the years. You could go back to the first one we ever got in a public meeting and follow the thread all the way through all of them, and every one of them line up to where we're standing today. Every one of them. Many times I think it's just a reminder from God. You're on the right path, and this is coming next. Yeah, because it's things, it's like things are opening up to what God's saying. Okay? I can abort the mission at any point. Why? Because I have a free will, just like you do. You don't ever have to serve God another day of your life. And God will allow that. What does that mean, God? No. No, no, no. God will let you do whatever you want. Doesn't mean he agrees with it. I mean, you can go out here and just act like a circus clown the rest of your life. Don't mean God agrees with it. It doesn't mean it's God's will. I must make God's will. God's in control of everything. No, he's not. He is not. He's not in control of everything. Prove it. If that's how you believe, prove it. Because he's not in control of everything. He's not. He's not in control of women miscarrying. Because his word says there'll be no miscarriages among you. Just what the Bible says. And you can take it or leave it. I'm taking it. And I'll pick up what you leave. Amen. Shouldn't be no early death because the Bible says with long life I'll satisfy you. Amen. Well, I know, but man, in my family, I mean, every all the men died. Okay, well, you don't have to. You don't have to agree with all that. You can live long, just like the Bible says. With long life, you'll satisfy me. You know, I was just looking up the other day. I mean, I knew my great-grandfather's name, but I mean I had no connection to him at all. He was long gone before I showed up. But I, just the other day, on Google, I mean, you can find anything, I guess. I just I looked up my grandfather's name and his dad, and it popped a picture up of my great-grandfather and my great-grandmother. And I'm like, holy moly. And then I looked at his cause of death. And when it said his cause of death, I said, it'll never be me. It won't be me going out like that. Because I've had people in my family that's had the same issue. Do you see what I'm saying? And I'm like, it'll never be me. I'm looking at my phone and right out loud. Why? Because I can see something with my natural eye that is opposite of what the word of God said. So right out of my mouth, I said, I'll never have that condition in the name of Jesus. I won't die early with that in Jesus' name. You say, Well, I don't know about all that. Okay. Well, if you'll let's live long enough, you'll see. Then I'll still be around. Amen. Yeah. So, who contrary to hope in hope believed, so that he became the father of man. So he became what God had said he already was. He kept his mouth in line with what God had said. And he had every reason to not believe it. Every reason. Yet he chose to say what God had said. I'm telling you, if you will choose to say what God says, you will fulfill the call of God on your life. Amen. Years ago, I mean, I'd never, I mean, I hadn't hardly been anywhere. And this guy who we never met shows up and starts prophesying about what we're going to do, and I'm thinking. Okay. I reckon that's what we're doing then. I mean, I didn't know. I mean, I'm telling y'all, we were just, I don't know. I don't even know how you say it. We were being led by the Holy Ghost and didn't even know it. I mean, we're just like, okay, that's what we're doing then. Praise God. It matches in here.

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It bears witness in here. So then that's the direction. We're already on that direction. Let's just keep going that way. Let's just see what God's going to do. Let's see where God's going to take us. Let's see what's going to happen. And so that's how that happens. Well, I got a word, nothing's ever happened. What have you done with it? See, if you just sit around and do nothing, you just become a do-nothing. But if you're going forward with God, a man told me something, it's probably the best piece of advice I've ever gotten as a Christian. I'm a man, we're serving God, you know. It's like whatever. I don't care. I just want to serve God. Doesn't matter. You need toilets clean, we're there. You need a floor sweat, we're there. Okay. You need the pulpit clean. Okay, we're there. What just it what are you doing at the church? Well, we're just gonna be up there moving rock. Okay, I'll be there. Oh, we're gonna be trimming bushes. Oh, I'm there. I'm I'm like, and that's what that's what so I knew I was called to preach, and we were going and preaching, doing stuff. And so I asked the pastor, I said, I have a question. He said, Okay. I said, look, man, I know that God's called me to go to nations and called me to do all this stuff, and it's not happening right now. Can you tell me what I need to do? He said, Yeah. Okay, let it rip. Tell me. He said, busy your hands with what God has in front of you right now, and keep doing that, and you'll walk right into what God's called you to. I said, Okay, good enough for me. So that's what we did. And I'm telling you, this is a hundred percent true. We served our way to where we're pastoring right now. 100%. It's so true. And I tell people all the time, I'm like, you're getting, people get out over their skis, man. You know what I mean? They're like, they get ahead of what they're where they're at. It's like, man, I've been called to preach, I've been called to nations. Okay, okay, but you've not even preached yet. You've not listened to, you've not listened to any kind of correction. No one knows what you can do. You're probably not gonna go win the world if you can't get out of the house by yourself. Plus, you don't even have a passport. You're going nowhere, dude. I'm just telling you. Like, no. I'm called to the nations. Do you have a passport? No. Well, you're not going. Sorry. I mean, it's like, I don't know what happened in our culture where people cannot let people teach them stuff. Well, I mean, I'm called by God too. Okay. I'm not saying you're not, but you might want to ask someone about that. You know, I'm sure, I'm sure Abraham wasn't sitting around with all the people that didn't have children. That were his age. Hey, you know, I'm the father of many nations. Yeah, whatever, dude. You're like 90. No. No. No, he he glorified God. He stayed, he's kept that word in his mouth and in his mind. Now, let's go to verse 19. And not being weak in faith. Watch now. Watch. Matters what you consider. It matters what you consider. He did not consider his own body already dead. Yeah, he didn't consider it. Or that wasn't a factor. Yeah, or, or, that's right. Since he was about a hundred years old and the deadness of Sarah's womb, he didn't consider any physical circumstance against what God had said. Nothing in the natural said you can have one child, let alone be the father of many nations. Abraham said, I don't consider any of that. I found God to be true. Now, Abraham, look, you know. No, I don't know. It doesn't matter to me. This is what God said. God's either true or hidden. And I and I'm willing to I'm willing to hang my head on he's true and go out believing that he's true. Amen. Verse 20. Man, you're doing great back there. Thank you. They did great last night, too. Who? One of you is back there. Yeah, sorry. Kind of a thing. He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief. Notice. And then remember what James says. Anyone that wavers is like a wave of the sea tossed to and fro. And then he goes on to say they shouldn't expect to receive anything from God. People think preachers like me are stout. I'm like, man, I'm puny compared to some of these guys. They were just coming in throwing haymakers. Oh, you're wavering. Well, then don't even expect to receive anything from God. Whatever. No. Why? Because you're unstable in all your ways, because you're double-minded. That's what the Bible says. I didn't write it. That's what the Bible says. You're unstable in all your ways because you're double-minded. A double-minded man is unstable in all of his ways and shouldn't even think that he's going to receive anything. So if Abraham is three days into this deal with God and then looks at Sarah and goes, I don't know, this will never work. That's it. But I mean, I love the Lord. I mean, I'm going to be the father of many nations. You know, I don't see how this is ever going to work. Notice, you're just back and forth. Back and forth. I mean, when you know, when you know what the word of God says on a subject, get on it and stay on it. Don't get off of it. Don't, don't, don't get moved around by what other people say. Well, I don't know how this is going to work. You know what? I ain't too sure how God's going to work it out either, but all I know is this is what the word says. So if the word says it, I believe it, that's it. It's going to happen. It's going to happen. I don't have to know how God works it out. How are we ever going to figure God out anyway? The minute you think I got God figured out, wrong again. How do you figure out a God that can put all the universes in the span of his hand, then pitch them out? And you know, thank God for NASA and all the people that do all the stuff they do. But you know, they'll find a different universe or a galaxy, and they're like, look what we discovered. I'm like, I hope you've already got the new telescope you're working on done, because there's more out there. Keep looking, pal. You're not done. It's still going. You know why? Because just like what Pastor Dan said. God said, light be, and he didn't say stop, and it's still going. There's stuff being created right now that we have no knowledge of. Yeah. God. I'm going to try to figure God out. Forget it. Forget it. We can figure a lot out, but you're not going to figure out everything about God. God is infinite. God's amazing. I'm telling you, man, God is amazing. He's so infinite. I mean, think about it. They can't even figure out the human eyeball. It's so intricate. They can't figure it all out. And we're talking about people sitting around talking about, I'm going to figure out God. How about you figure out an eye first? And then we'll see if we can move you up a little. I mean, think about, think about your body. Our brains are the fastest computer. I mean, it's sending signals, I don't know, a bajillion miles an hour. I have no idea. Fast. Like I don't even have to think about walking. I just start doing it. It just starts happening. Why? Because my brain's firing and shooting stuff everywhere, telling my body what to do. Move feet, move toes, move ligaments, move legs, knees bend, do all the stuff, move around, keep going. I don't even have to think about it. I'm gonna figure God out. No, you're not. No, no, no, no. No. I I did a study one, and I can't remember it now. It's been a long time ago. I did a study one time just on the eye, just the human eye. There's so many parts of the human eye, and then at the end of the thing, they were like, we know very little about the human eye. Like we cannot figure it out. And I'm like, mm-hmm. Got God figured out, do you? He made it. Isn't that something? You know, which brings me to something I want to talk about. We were just talking earlier about the greater works. And then I don't know why I got on this eye thing, but it but it makes me think about it. Years ago, I think this was in Africa, T. L. Osborne, it was in Africa. Because it was in uh it was in Uganda. No one had been into Uganda. You couldn't get in. And they were preaching a crusade in Uganda. This is when Edi Amin was in power. He was a cannibal. You know, that's not good when the leader of a nation is a cannibal. It's a bad deal. Bad. And uh the Lord spoke to TL and Daisy to go to Uganda. Now, it's already, you're already up against it because it's two white Americans going to Uganda. I don't even know how they got in. That's crazy. She walks right up to Edi Amin. Well, they hate women. She's standing looking at him, and she kneels down to pray for him, puts her hands on his feet, and starts praying in the Holy Ghost. And they said she felt hot blobs of water on the back of her neck. And Edi Amin, a ruthless dictator, is standing there weeping. And he said, Who are you? I mean, they've got guards waiting to kill them both. She said, I am Daisy Osborne, and God sent me here to pray for you. And he looked at her and TL, and because he, see, it's communist. They owned all the television stations, like three or four televisions. He said, anything you want. You have all of state TV. You can publicize all your crusades. So this is going all over Uganda. I'm telling you, that that couple broke so many nations open to the gospel that nobody had ever been in. So they're preaching. This might just be for you, but it's making me feel real good. They were preaching a crusade in Uganda, and this mama brings her child up. The child has no eyeballs, but not only that, the child has no opening for eyeballs. Just a nose and a mouth and just slick. No openings. So they pray for the child. I don't know how old the baby was, maybe her size. They pray and and they see two slits open up. Well, the mama's going nuts. She's thinking, holy moly, like that's a big deal. There wasn't anything there before. And they got the slits opened up and they looked inside, and there were two little bitty things that looked like little peas in there. And then while they're all watching, two eyeballs form. They grow and the baby can see. Yeah. Well, you know, it don't take long to break a nation open at that pace. Yeah. Now, you tell that in most places in America? I don't believe all that. I mean, do we serve God the Creator or no?

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I'd like to see two eyeballs formed, I'll tell you that. Amen. That'd be pretty awesome. I want to see arms grow out and legs grow out. So I don't know about all that. Well, I do. I just want to see it all. I've seen a lot of stuff. There's some stuff I have yet to see, but I want to, and I will. Amen. Because I'm going to keep putting myself in a position to see it. Amen. You will. You'll see it too. So he didn't waver at the promise of God through unbelief. Watch. But was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God. Watch. He's giving glory to God because of what's going to happen, and it's just causing him to get stronger all the time. Oh, God, I thank you that I'm the Father of many nations. I glorify you, Lord. Now what's he doing? He's rehearsing back to God what God has told him, and glory now is coming into that deal. He's giving glory to God. But watch, when you give glory to God, the glory of God gets in. Gets in what's going on. I'm telling you, watch, this past Sunday at Life in Christ, I don't even know what happened. I don't even know how to explain what happened. The last five or six meetings we've had there, I've been preaching on praise, thankfulness, gratitude, and people have been going after God. And Sunday morning, it's like God just pulled a chair up and sat down in the room, and everybody else was speechless. It was otherworldly. I mean, people coming to the altar, I'm not, I mean, watch. When you start getting Americans going to the altar by their self and repenting and getting right, you got a move of God on your hands. People are coming to the altar and just weeping before God, getting their heart right before God. I mean, it was otherworldly. I mean, all kinds of stuff's going on in the room, and we're not, I'm like, okay, I don't want to touch this. I'm a little nervous about the whole deal as far as I don't want to mess it up. I love the presence of God, but you don't want to mess that stuff up because you can cut it off. So I'm just like, I'm walking on the platform, and then I'd kind of go off in the corner and I'm like, Lord, what do I do next? Like, I don't want to mess this up. What do you want me to do? And he wouldn't say anything for a little bit, so I just wouldn't do nothing. Okay, fine. It's your deal anyway. And then finally he would say, now do this. And I and then, you know, you do something different, and then something else will start happening. So it was just amazing. But watch, we were giving glory to God, and then God's glory got in the room. Lord, send your glory. I'm like, people treat God like a prostitute about half the time. They want something cheap and quick. Yeah, I know. That shocks people, but whatever. That's still true. What was going on in some of that video? Those 4,000 young people in that room, I never preached not one lick of a sermon that night. Never preached. Walked up after praise and worship. They looked at me and said, okay, Pastor. And I'm thinking, I don't want to do that. Because I could feel the weight of God in that building. I just walked up on the platform and gave an altar call for salvation. I mean, and here they come, pouring out of the crowd, here they come. I turned around and looked at the band. I mean, I'm telling you, the people in the band, they're like family. I turned around and I went, what? If you saw one of the videos with audio on it, I'm like, what? They're pouring out, just losing their marbles before God. We didn't do anything. We just got in the room and praised God. And God got in the room and got his glory. Amen. It was awesome. Verse 21. And being fully convinced, oh yeah. Are you fully convinced that the word of God is absolutely true? That's the key. I hope it works. I mean, I I mean, my grandma, I mean, she loved Jesus, but it didn't work for her. I don't, they probably don't say that in Missouri, but they do in Kentucky. Well, now I know so-and-so. Okay. So is so-and-so bigger than God? Like, are we gonna base our life off of so-and-so? Or off the word of God? And being fully convinced, fully convinced, that what he had promised, he was able to perform. God had promised Abram, to Abraham to be the father of many nations, and Abraham was fully convinced that what he had promised, he was able to perform. Amen. Now, 2 Corinthians 10 verse 3. 2 Corinthians 10 verse 3. For though we walk in the flesh, we're in it. Right? We're a spirit, have a soul, live in a body, flesh body, flesh and bone body. We do not war according to the flesh. Verse 4. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds. Where are strongholds? Your mind. When you renew your mind to the word of God, what are you doing? Tearing down strongholds. Now, okay. Verse five. What? Casting down arguments. You ever had an argument in your own head? Did you win? I don't win arguments in my head. They just get bigger. You know, you don't cast a thought down with a thought. You gotta verbalize this over that thought. Casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. Bringing every thought, every thought, every thought that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. Bringing every thought captive uh into captivity to the obedience of Christ. Now let's run through them again. Verse 4 or verse 3. Sorry. For though we walk in the flesh, we know we do, we're all sitting here wrapped in it. We do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds. Well, we renew our mind with the word of God, that's one weapon. Pray in the Holy Ghost, that's another weapon. Why? Because when you do that, you're building yourself upon your most holy faith. So, you know, there's a lot of ways to deal with stuff that's going on in your head. I just got voices. Well, we can get rid of them too. Amen. Casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought, every thought, every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. Now, there's times I'll have thoughts and I'm like, no, that don't that don't sit right in here. What does the word say about that? If the word says something different than that, I have to now take the word, capture that thought, and bring it into obedience to that word, and then that changes your thinking. What is that? That's part of renewing your mind. Romans 12, one uh one and two. That's right. When you bring it into captivity, it has no voice and no opinion. Sorry, that one wasn't on the radar. Romans twelve. One and two. Perfect. I beseech you therefore, brethren. Believers. By the mercies of God that you present your bodies, a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. I feel like that's what we do when we travel and preach. I'm like, God, I'm giving you my body. Let's go do something with it. I'm giving you my mouth. I'm getting whatever. Let's go do something. And do not be conformed to this world. How many of you know the world's trying to conform everybody? Right? But be transformed by the renewing of your mind. So watch. When you bring those thoughts captive with the word of God, you bring them into obedience to Christ, and that is part of transforming your mind. Does the Bible say we had we have the mind of Christ? Shouldn't we have to work on a little something to develop that mind? Because when you first get born, I mean, look, when I first got saved, I didn't know how to live for Jesus. I didn't know how to live right. Just what Sue was saying to Mark earlier. We got around people that were living for God and learned how to live that way. We learn, that's like, you know, when a baby is first born, they don't know how to do anything but eat and poop. That's it. And cry. And they cry when they're hungry, they cry when they're messy, they cry. All those cries mean something. Now, mamas know that way better than daddies do, but they all mean something. It's like a cry language that men do not understand. They're screaming, do something. That's man's response. And the mother's like, oh, it's no big deal. They just got a little gas, or you know, they need they're hungry, or they need, you know, it's just like they know all the language. How do you know cry language? It's things that I don't understand. See, we men can't figure that out, and then men will sit around and try to figure God out. I'm like, figure out the cry language and then come back. What are you nuts? So when you're a born-again Christian and you first get saved, you need help. You need help. But if you're a 30-year-old, grow on helping. We shouldn't still be walking you through the grow up. Suck it up. You're not a newborn. You should have teeth by now and eat meat. Anyway, so be transformed by the renewing of your mind so that. Did it go out? Well, I can't quote it all. Okay, yeah, verse 2. That you may prove, watch, transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Notice that. God's will is good, God's will is acceptable, and God's will is perfect. All this running around talking about, well, that must have been the will of the Lord. Well, was it good? Is it acceptable to you? Is it perfect? Well, no, not really. Then it ain't the will of God. It's not complicated. I just don't understand why people make it so. That you may prove. I need to transform by renewing my mind so that I can prove what the will of God for my life is. And so do you. This is not just a preacher thing. This is everybody that says I love Jesus thing. Amen. You transform by the renewing of your mind. It's already 1509. What is happening? Have I been preaching that long? Holy moly. Look, I have all these notes. Well, I'll be here tomorrow. Praise the Lord. So maybe I'll just pick up right here. And the hotel's not fun. Hotel basement. By the renewing, renew your mind. Think about this. When Abraham's standing out there confessing back to God, he's renewing his mind and his thought process the entire time. He's transforming himself into proving the perfect will of God for his life. You say, well, he didn't have the New Testament. Yeah, I know, but he had God. Praise the Lord. Yeah. You see what I'm saying? It's like he was doing what we ought to all be doing to prove the perfect will of God for his life. The perfect will of God for Abraham and Sarah's life was to be the parents of many nations. That was God's perfect will. They could have aborted the mission at any point. At any time. They tried it on their own, messed that deal up, got straight, and then did it the right way. Right? It's just in your Bible. They thought, you know, Sarah was like, Won't you take my handmaiden? I mean, let's get this thing figured out and we'll just do it ourselves. That's what a lot of people do. They get them a handmaiden and have an ishmail. And then Lord, we all got problems then. They're still dealing with it over there. That's why we're lobbing missiles over there right now. That's why. It'll be something that's dealt with until Jesus returns. It's gonna be. Transform your life by renewing your mind. It matters what you consider. And you know what you're considering. I don't, because I'm not in your head. I got enough going on in my own to keep up with. But it matters what you consider. There's many conversations that me and that woman right there have about the word of God and about things that are going on. And then we have to ask ourselves, what are we going to consider? What are we going to really consider here? Are we going to consider the situation that's opposite of what we know it ought to be? Or are we going to consider the word of God? And we'll and we'll ask each other, what's the word say? What's the word say? Well, what are we doing? We're holding each other's feet to the fire. What does the word say? Well, I mean, I know, okay, but what does it say? We're not don't let each other off the hook. Well, I mean, I know what it says. Okay, what does it say? Tell me what it says then. Get it out of your mouth. Get it out of your own mouth where your ears hear it. We're it now. Watch. When you hear it, when it comes out of your mouth and goes in your ears, where's it going? Back down in here and stirring around. Yeah, and then back out of your mouth, and then back into your ear, and then back into here. That last night when I was talking about meditate, it's mutter, utter, and speak. It's actually the word ruminate. You know what a cow does when they're chewing their could? They're ruminating. That word, you ruminate on that word. You get it back up there and chew on it and talk about it and think about it and go over it and get it back down in here and then get it back up here and chew on it some more and get some more good out of it. I mean, how much can you chew on the word of God? You'll never exhaust it because it is an inexhaustible resource given to mankind by God Almighty Himself. Inexhaustible, this book. My God, the Bible. Well, good for you. But do you know the Bible? Do you know the author of the Bible? Do you know anything about the Bible? I'm not talking about from a religious standpoint. I'm talking about from God's eye view. Amen. Oh man, I thought I was just gonna behave tonight. Boy, that went out the window. I'm like, all these people say, Oh, I know what the word says, but I'm just gonna tell you, preacher. I'm like, okay, I don't even want to hear what you got to say. I'm done listening to you now because now you're going around the way God does things to come up with your own idea out of some religious hogwash you've been fed to try to come up with a solution. Don't want to hear it. Tell me what the word says. I mean, yeah, okay, you don't know what it says. You have an idea because someone in unbelief taught you a certain way to live that is opposite of the word of God. So then people get this developed idea that God doesn't want to do anything good, and that God's not a blesser, and that God's not a healer, and that God's not a deliverer, and that it couldn't be any further from the truth. I mean, for crying out loud, look, look, when you get saved, all that's available, but you have to prove that. Praise the Lord. You gotta prove that. Well, I mean, I know the Lord's a healer, I guess, but if he wants to heal me, I get okay. Well, you're probably gonna die quick then. You gotta receive it all. I mean, I know God's a healer, but I, you know, if something's going on, I gotta get aggressive. I mean, I don't know. Just think of it like a rattlesnake getting in your house. Are you just gonna let one crawl around? I am not. I'm shooting a hole through the floor if have to be. I mean, I'm blowing holes in the wall. I don't care. You'd ever give him when we got in the house and commenced the firing until this thing's gone. Like, get it out. Can we just call somebody? I mean, call them anybody, shoot it now. You see it, kill it. We can just wait. I mean, waiting. I'm making a hat band out of it. I'm killing that thing. Well, I mean, you know, I got this going on. And that got okay. Don't tolerate it. Don't tolerate it. Get aggressive with it. Start talking to your body. You listen to me, body. You're created by God. I'm telling you, this is not okay. You're a trespasser. I'm not putting up with this. I mean, get the word on it. Whatever it is, money, situation, anything.

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Come on, man.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:34

It is good because it's the word of God. It's like the word is, I'll never forget hearing a great preacher say, just keep it simple. Because it is. And it is simple. Just follow what God said, and you'll be all right. Amen. Amen. Bow your heads, Father, or look around, whatever you want to do. I don't care. I'm praying. Father, thank you for this night. Thank you for your word. Thank you for these wonderful people. Thank you, Lord, that this word transforms our lives. Thank you that your word is a transforming force in our life. Thank you that it goes in. Thank you that it gets down on the inside of us. Thank you that it starts swirling on the inside. Thank you, Father, it starts coming out of our mouth. Thank you, Lord, that when it comes out of our mouth, it starts creating a situation in our life according to your word. I thank you, Lord, you've given us the ability to speak your word. And when we speak it, the devil don't know if it's you or who it is. He just thinks it's you because we look like you, because you're in us. We're full of you, God. And when we speak your word, the enemy thinks we are you. Hallelujah. So, Father, I thank you that you've given us speaking ability. In the name of Jesus. Amen and amen. Pastor Dan.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:07

Amen. What a great night. Amen. Speak the word over your life. The word works. So so um guess we can stand. If anyone needs specific, specific AMPM specific prayer, then we'll gladly pray for you. And uh if not, if you have a home church, be there in the morning, support them. If you don't, come here. We'd love to have you. So uh an honor to have Pastor Tim and Donna from Venita with us tonight. Thank you guys for coming. So so amen. Oklahoma's okay in my book. So all right. Well love you guys. Unless you want prayer, you're dismissed. So