Latest / The BLAZE (Bible Study) / Authentic Imitationology #96 [Morning Devo]
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- 0:02Speaker 1: Good morning family, Good morning God bless you. Welcome back
- 0:05Speaker 1: to the Morning Devo. It's Friday, and you know what
- 0:08Speaker 1: happens on Fridays right over here Celebrated Network, so Win
- 0:11Speaker 1: is with a zida RG on the music platforms and
- 0:14Speaker 1: also on the podcast platforms. We switch gears and we
- 0:18Speaker 1: get into authentic imitationlogy. This is episode number ninety six.
- 0:23Speaker 1: We're closing in on one hundred episodes. Low willing we
- 0:26Speaker 1: get there. Amen, that's a milestone for this Friday Morning Sessions. Amen,
- 0:33Speaker 1: authentic imitationlogy. We're going to authentically imitate, right, the most
- 0:38Speaker 1: successful person who has ever lived on this planet Earth,
- 0:41Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus Christ from Nazareth. Of Nazareth, the one
- 0:45Speaker 1: who was born from a virgin, lived a sinless life,
- 0:48Speaker 1: right because he had no sin in him, lived thirty
- 0:52Speaker 1: three and a half years, and lay down his life
- 0:56Speaker 1: for us on a cross, and then rose again on
- 1:02Speaker 1: the third day. And he's still alive, and he's promising,
- 1:05Speaker 1: and he promised us that he was going to come back.
- 1:07Speaker 1: But in the meantime he sent one just like him,
- 1:10Speaker 1: Holy Spirit God, to live in us, a man, to
- 1:13Speaker 1: remind us of what we were taught where we heard
- 1:15Speaker 1: from him. But we're learning now he's leading us into
- 1:19Speaker 1: all righteousness and guiding us into all truth. A man.
- 1:23Speaker 1: So we're talking about that Jesus, the All Powerful One.
- 1:28Speaker 1: That's the title for today's authentic imitation knowlogy. The all
- 1:32Speaker 1: powerful One, one, all powerful, almighty, King of Kings and
- 1:36Speaker 1: Lord of lords, the Lord Jesus himself a man, and
- 1:39Speaker 1: we can imitate him. The Bible says, imitate Christ, imitate
- 1:43Speaker 1: God's in the scriptures. I'm not making this up. Events.
- 1:46Speaker 1: So we're here on Fridays represented for the King of
- 1:49Speaker 1: Kings and the Lord of Lords, and we are disciples
- 1:51Speaker 1: of the Jesus of the Only, all powerful One. God
- 1:57Speaker 1: is more powerful than our enemies. You could put an
- 2:02Speaker 1: escamation point, you could put a period to that. God
- 2:06Speaker 1: is more powerful than our enemies. Romans, chapter number eight,
- 2:10Speaker 1: verse thirty one. That's what we're gonna be today. That's
- 2:13Speaker 1: the starting point for today's morning devo. Romans, chapter eight,
- 2:16Speaker 1: verse number thirty one. Here to encourage you. I know
- 2:20Speaker 1: people have enemies. We all have a common enemy. He's
- 2:23Speaker 1: the devil. I don't care if you're a believer or not.
- 2:25Speaker 1: I really do care. But you know, what I mean,
- 2:28Speaker 1: both sides, believers and unbelievers, Christians and all the religions.
- 2:32Speaker 1: We have the we have a common enemy, a common
- 2:35Speaker 1: folk's named the devil. He's defeated, and who did defeat him,
- 2:41Speaker 1: the All Powerful One, Amen, the Lord Jesus. So welcome
- 2:45Speaker 1: to the Morning Devo. Brenda Robinson, good morning, God bless you. Welcome,
- 2:48Speaker 1: my sister, my friend, to the Morning Devotion. Amen. So listen.
- 2:52Speaker 1: If you have any questions, comments, concerns, prayer requests, that's
- 2:57Speaker 1: what we're here for. The live chat is open. And
- 3:00Speaker 1: if you're at live that soberness with his z Org,
- 3:03Speaker 1: that means you know about that website. That's a platform
- 3:06Speaker 1: that has drama free. It's like no distractions. Over there
- 3:10Speaker 1: has a live interactive Bible. You could listen to the podcast.
- 3:13Speaker 1: You can watch the YouTube channel. You can subscribe to it.
- 3:17Speaker 1: You can subscribe to the podcast. It has what we do,
- 3:20Speaker 1: what we believe, our vision statement, everything over there at
- 3:24Speaker 1: Live the Sole Winners with a z Org. Now if
- 3:27Speaker 1: you have celebrating on network, you had Sol Winners with
- 3:29Speaker 1: a z do Org, which is the Lehigh Valley's number
- 3:32Speaker 1: one urban gospel music station. We've been online since two
- 3:35Speaker 1: thousand and eight. So we've been here for a little bit.
- 3:37Speaker 1: All glory to God. Hey man, I can't take no
- 3:39Speaker 1: credit for that. What I will take credit for is
- 3:42Speaker 1: that God gave me the strength and gives me the
- 3:44Speaker 1: strength to show up into the studio and to do
- 3:47Speaker 1: what he called me to do. Why because He's the
- 3:50Speaker 1: all powerful One. Amen, All Powerful One, Sister Jawaanne, I
- 3:53Speaker 1: see you. Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back to
- 3:56Speaker 1: the morning DV with my sister, my friend. Let's go
- 3:58Speaker 1: for it. Let's pray first. After we pray, we'll share
- 4:01Speaker 1: this out for like sixty seconds, and on the other
- 4:03Speaker 1: side of those sixty seconds, we'll come right back and
- 4:06Speaker 1: we'll get into Romans chapter eight, verse thirty one. I'm
- 4:09Speaker 1: calling this one all Powerful One, All Powerful One, and
- 4:14Speaker 1: we are here. Let me check the audio before we pray,
- 4:17Speaker 1: and it sounds okay, and let's go for it. Father,
- 4:20Speaker 1: I thank you so much that you are the all
- 4:22Speaker 1: powerful One. Yet you made your way into our lives,
- 4:26Speaker 1: not forcing us to believe, not forcing us to follow,
- 4:31Speaker 1: but showing and revealing yourself as the one true, only, living, holy, righteous,
- 4:36Speaker 1: all powerful God, all Just God, all merciful God, all
- 4:40Speaker 1: graceful God. Thank you, Lord God, for revealing who you
- 4:43Speaker 1: are through your son Jesus Christ of Nazareth. I pray,
- 4:47Speaker 1: Lord God, a hedge of protection, A pray, Holy Spirit,
- 4:50Speaker 1: that you would continue to guide, guard and protect us
- 4:52Speaker 1: and move us into the direction of righteousness. And we
- 4:56Speaker 1: come against any wickedness in this month of October from
- 5:00Speaker 1: the time of this recording, that many are in the
- 5:03Speaker 1: occult and they are practicing all kinds of witchcraft and
- 5:06Speaker 1: all kinds of things that are hidden in Halloween. Over Here,
- 5:09Speaker 1: we don't celebrate Halloween. We celebrate life. We don't celebrate death.
- 5:13Speaker 1: We don't pray to the God of the dead. We
- 5:15Speaker 1: pray to the God who gives life, the God of
- 5:17Speaker 1: the living. So I pray, Lord God, that everyone who
- 5:20Speaker 1: is in that deception mode about these holidays and Halloween
- 5:24Speaker 1: and all this wickedness that's involved in it as it's masqueraded,
- 5:29Speaker 1: literally masqueraded to look like it's a family friendly thing.
- 5:32Speaker 1: I pray you will open the eyes of those individuals
- 5:35Speaker 1: and it will take their children out such celebrations and
- 5:38Speaker 1: we will move forward in victory knowing that you are
- 5:40Speaker 1: the all powerful one that we are praying too. And
- 5:43Speaker 1: that we are praying because we love you. We know
- 5:46Speaker 1: your power, we know your love, we know your grace,
- 5:48Speaker 1: and we know your mercy. So I step forth arkhen angels,
- 5:51Speaker 1: ministry angels under the authority of the powerful name of Jesus,
- 5:56Speaker 1: will move in our lives, move in our households, moving
- 5:59Speaker 1: our jobs, moving our schools, and move through our children
- 6:02Speaker 1: to God guard and protect them as well. And every
- 6:04Speaker 1: single person on the other side of the screen and
- 6:07Speaker 1: on the other side of this mic will be guided,
- 6:10Speaker 1: guarded and protected as well. And Jesus hold the name
- 6:13Speaker 1: of prayer. It's by faith no weapon for uced against
- 6:16Speaker 1: us shall prosper. And God is powerful that all of
- 6:19Speaker 1: our enemies, there's not one enemy from how there's not
- 6:23Speaker 1: enemy from this earthly whelm or anyone that could penetrate
- 6:27Speaker 1: the wall of God that He has placed before us
- 6:30Speaker 1: as a protection. And we thank you, lo God for that.
- 6:33Speaker 1: In Jesus' name. We pray by faith, knowing that you
- 6:36Speaker 1: are able to answer any prayer petition according to your
- 6:39Speaker 1: will and purpose for every single individual in Jesus' name.
- 6:42Speaker 1: And we all say amen and Amen, let's go for it.
- 6:46Speaker 1: Let's take a minute to share this side when we
- 6:47Speaker 1: come back, We'll get right into All Powerful One. Romans
- 6:50Speaker 1: shot the eight verse, number thirty one. I'll be right back. Amen. Amen.
- 8:40Speaker 1: Let's see what the Word of God has for you
- 8:43Speaker 1: and for me today as we moved forward. Man, because
- 8:46Speaker 1: yesterday is gone? Why do I see my dreaming? Jacob,
- 8:50Speaker 1: God bless you, my bro. Welcome back to the morning devo. Amen,
- 8:55Speaker 1: this morning, early, this morning. What you're doing out a man?
- 8:57Speaker 1: So God bless you. Welcome to the morning Devo. So
- 9:00Speaker 1: listen the All Powerful One. If you know me, you
- 9:03Speaker 1: know that all I preach is about the Lord. Amen.
- 9:06Speaker 1: And I know the word somewhat right. I can learn more.
- 9:10Speaker 1: I'm always learning more. Amen. I follow after Jesus. I
- 9:14Speaker 1: rely on His Holy Spirit to do what I do.
- 9:17Speaker 1: And also those who came before me, those who are
- 9:19Speaker 1: more experienced. Amen. I admire and I follow them as
- 9:23Speaker 1: well as they follow Christ. Because we're supposed to imitate God.
- 9:28Speaker 1: In order for us to do that, we see I
- 9:29Speaker 1: have to see his power. I know a lot of
- 9:31Speaker 1: people want to see His grace. We have it. I
- 9:34Speaker 1: know a lot of people want to see His mercy.
- 9:35Speaker 1: We have it is love, we have it. It's justice,
- 9:39Speaker 1: we have it. It's all truthful, right, never lies to us.
- 9:43Speaker 1: And at the same time he's showing us his power.
- 9:46Speaker 1: When the enemy comes against us, and he will and
- 9:49Speaker 1: he won't win, he'll fail. The only thing that or
- 9:52Speaker 1: we might lose in is when we're battling our own flesh.
- 9:56Speaker 1: When you're born again, when you're in Christ, in God,
- 10:00Speaker 1: you'll protect it. Psalm ninety one tells you all about
- 10:03Speaker 1: the protection of God a man. When Jesus says all
- 10:06Speaker 1: through scriptures, I have this book called the Jesus Quotable.
- 10:09Speaker 1: I don't know if you can see that, the Jesus quotable.
- 10:12Speaker 1: And when Jesus speaks Amen, it happens, it comes to pass.
- 10:17Speaker 1: He tells us, the harvest is so great that the
- 10:19Speaker 1: workers are so few. Luke chapter ten, verse two, he
- 10:22Speaker 1: tells us in Mark sixteen fifteen, go into all the
- 10:25Speaker 1: world and preach the good news to all creation. He
- 10:28Speaker 1: tells us and Acts chapter one and eight. You will
- 10:31Speaker 1: be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria,
- 10:35Speaker 1: and to the ends of the earth. And Luke ten
- 10:37Speaker 1: sixteen says, he who hears you hears me. And he
- 10:42Speaker 1: who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me
- 10:45Speaker 1: rejects him who sent me. In other words, he's saying,
- 10:48Speaker 1: I am the all powerful one. I'm the one who's
- 10:51Speaker 1: with you. I'm the one who is going to protect you.
- 10:53Speaker 1: I'm the one who's going to send you. I'm the
- 10:54Speaker 1: one who's going to empower you to get the mission
- 10:57Speaker 1: that he wants us to get done on this planet Earth.
- 11:00Speaker 1: So we have everything we need as a born again believer.
- 11:03Speaker 1: What trips us up is not really the devil. All
- 11:05Speaker 1: he does is make suggestions. What trips us up most
- 11:09Speaker 1: of the time is our own sinful evil desires that
- 11:14Speaker 1: take us and distract us. Distracts us, doesn't take us
- 11:17Speaker 1: out of the will of God, doesn't take us out
- 11:18Speaker 1: of the presence of gods, that take us away from
- 11:20Speaker 1: the love of God, none of that. But it trips
- 11:23Speaker 1: us up, and it kind of like wastes our own time.
- 11:26Speaker 1: So instead of wasting your time, Amen, you go to
- 11:30Speaker 1: the one who's all powerful, the all powerful one of
- 11:32Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus and everything and every part of life.
- 11:35Speaker 1: And then you will see that your life will transform
- 11:38Speaker 1: in a quicker way, in a better way, in a
- 11:40Speaker 1: more powerful way. Because we see now we see God's
- 11:43Speaker 1: power in our hearts, in our lives, Amen, and our
- 11:46Speaker 1: surroundings readings in the name of Jesus Christ. Seer God
- 11:49Speaker 1: bless you. Welcome to the morning devo with my friend.
- 11:52Speaker 1: I am an evangelist. You see a Hanif from Pakistan. Amen. Amen,
- 11:56Speaker 1: welcome Pakistanians out there are brothers and sisters in Christ.
- 12:00Speaker 1: God bless you all. Brother Frank, I see you, good morning,
- 12:03Speaker 1: my brother from God. Bless and you and your family.
- 12:07Speaker 1: To you and your family as well, Blessings. Let's get
- 12:09Speaker 1: into the scripture, man, before I keep on talking and
- 12:12Speaker 1: then I'll start preaching, and then we never get into
- 12:14Speaker 1: the scriptures. You know that the priority, Amen, My authority
- 12:18Speaker 1: is the scripture. If I don't speak scripture, then turn
- 12:22Speaker 1: the channel, amen, because then I'm just giving you too
- 12:25Speaker 1: much commentary and note enough word. So I like to
- 12:28Speaker 1: balance that out with the Word of God. And it
- 12:30Speaker 1: keeps me on track, keeps me on point, and it
- 12:32Speaker 1: keeps the message going of what God gave me to give. Amen.
- 12:36Speaker 1: This for all of us. Man. We all benefit when
- 12:38Speaker 1: we read the scriptures. We all benefit when we read
- 12:41Speaker 1: the scriptures. Amen. Yes, Amen, thank you so, Lord Jesus Christ.
- 12:46Speaker 1: Bless you. Blessings to you as well, my friend. So
- 12:49Speaker 1: let's go for it. Authentic imitationlogy. We're here, episode number
- 12:54Speaker 1: ninety six. Can you believe it? We're closing in on
- 12:56Speaker 1: one hundred episodes. God told me to do man Romans,
- 13:01Speaker 1: Chapter eight, verse thirty one. The Bible says, what then,
- 13:05Speaker 1: shall we say to all these things? All these things
- 13:08Speaker 1: that are going on in your life and my life,
- 13:10Speaker 1: all these things that are happening in the world, All
- 13:12Speaker 1: these things that are trying to distract us and deceive us,
- 13:15Speaker 1: all these things of life, death, hurt, loss, strength, weakness,
- 13:23Speaker 1: all these things. What should we say about all these things?
- 13:27Speaker 1: If God is for us, who can be against us?
- 13:34Speaker 1: Who can be successfully against us? There's gonna be a
- 13:37Speaker 1: lot of people against us. I can guarantee you that
- 13:40Speaker 1: I don't even have to preach that. You already know.
- 13:42Speaker 1: There's people against the Gospel, there's people against Christians, there's
- 13:48Speaker 1: people against you and me. For whatever reason, they're against us.
- 13:52Speaker 1: But the question still remains, who can be successfully against us?
- 13:59Speaker 1: Think about a clear life. This is not to boast
- 14:01Speaker 1: about our own strength, and this is to boast about
- 14:04Speaker 1: the all powerful One. This is to boast about our
- 14:06Speaker 1: God and Heaven, our Father in heaven, who supplies everything
- 14:10Speaker 1: we need in earth. As it is in heaven, it
- 14:13Speaker 1: shall be on earth. We are talking about the almighty One,
- 14:17Speaker 1: the all powerful One, Jesus to Christ, the Lord, God, Father, Son,
- 14:23Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. We're talking about Triune God. We're talking about
- 14:26Speaker 1: the Trinity, the triune God, who perfects himself in himself,
- 14:31Speaker 1: and then he's perfecting us as soon as receive him.
- 14:35Speaker 1: What shall we say to all these things? If God
- 14:37Speaker 1: is for us, who can be successfully against us? Think
- 14:42Speaker 1: about it? Clearly, that's a great question. Right. You could
- 14:46Speaker 1: also see the reference in Psalms one eighteen verse six
- 14:50Speaker 1: a Men Psalm one eighteen verse six. You could combine
- 14:53Speaker 1: Romans eight thirty one with Psalms one eighteen verse number six.
- 14:58Speaker 1: Put those powerful words together, Amen, powerful life being worked together,
- 15:02Speaker 1: and you will be so encouraged, and you would know
- 15:04Speaker 1: that there's no weapon for him against you. That's your prospect.
- 15:07Speaker 1: Nothing can go against us successfully when God is orchestrating
- 15:12Speaker 1: our life, when God is leading us. Amen. Now I
- 15:16Speaker 1: always say this because people might get a little confused
- 15:20Speaker 1: when they hear this type of word or this type
- 15:23Speaker 1: of message. We're going to go through hard times. As
- 15:27Speaker 1: a believer in Christ, I can tell you from experience.
- 15:30Speaker 1: Maybe you haven't experienced hard times yet, and praise God,
- 15:33Speaker 1: God is strengthening you up for the hard time that's
- 15:36Speaker 1: coming or the hard times that are coming. But even
- 15:39Speaker 1: in those hard times, we have an all powerful one
- 15:41Speaker 1: that we could turn to, all powerful one who protects us,
- 15:44Speaker 1: or all powerful one who loves us, or all powerful
- 15:47Speaker 1: one who listens to our heart and listens to our
- 15:50Speaker 1: prayer and sees what we're going through. He's the God
- 15:53Speaker 1: who provides for every single one of the needs that
- 15:56Speaker 1: we need according to His riches and glory through Christ Jesus.
- 16:00Speaker 1: Why do I know these scriptures that just come out
- 16:02Speaker 1: of my mouth? Because out of the abundance of the
- 16:04Speaker 1: heart that Bible says, the mouth speaks. So the more
- 16:08Speaker 1: of a word a gain inside of me, the more
- 16:09Speaker 1: I want to speak it. The more you get the
- 16:11Speaker 1: word inside of you, the more you gonna speak it.
- 16:13Speaker 1: And normally, right when you speak something, you about that
- 16:17Speaker 1: you're about. Normally you're about that life that you speak about.
- 16:22Speaker 1: So when you speak life, guess what's gonna happen in
- 16:24Speaker 1: your life? You're gonna walk in lights, you coulda walk
- 16:27Speaker 1: in life, you coulda walk victoriously because you're speaking it out.
- 16:31Speaker 1: And the challenge is once you're speaking around your friends, family,
- 16:34Speaker 1: your enemies, they gonna expect you to really be about
- 16:38Speaker 1: what you're saying. And if you're from where I'm from,
- 16:42Speaker 1: when I was growing up, if you said something and
- 16:44Speaker 1: it wasn't about what you said, and we would call
- 16:47Speaker 1: you fake, called phony, right, a fraud. You're not about
- 16:50Speaker 1: that life, So why would you say something that you're
- 16:53Speaker 1: not about. But when we do speak life, when we
- 16:56Speaker 1: do speak God, when we do speak Christ, the word
- 16:59Speaker 1: of God Amen changes things. And when the enemy hears
- 17:02Speaker 1: the word, he has to go because there's no enemy
- 17:05Speaker 1: from hell that's gonna be able to conquer the word
- 17:08Speaker 1: of God. There's no enemy in hell that's gonna be
- 17:10Speaker 1: able to tear down the wall that God put up
- 17:12Speaker 1: to protect us. There's a fence, a holy fence around us,
- 17:16Speaker 1: and he's the all powerful one that put it there.
- 17:18Speaker 1: And there's a reason why defense is there. It keeps
- 17:21Speaker 1: us boundaries. It's boundaries that's protecting us and keeping us
- 17:25Speaker 1: in the will of God. And the evil one hates
- 17:29Speaker 1: that a man once you notice truth, the even one
- 17:32Speaker 1: has less and less and less influence over your life.
- 17:35Speaker 1: That's why I know as a believer I've been saved
- 17:38Speaker 1: in two thousand and one. The real enemy that I have, really,
- 17:42Speaker 1: other than the devil, the lust of the eyes, the
- 17:44Speaker 1: pride of life and this world system, is my own flesh.
- 17:49Speaker 1: My worst enemy is the one I look in the
- 17:51Speaker 1: mirror at every day, and there's a fleshly nature about me,
- 17:55Speaker 1: a man that I have to be mindful of. So
- 17:57Speaker 1: we have an all powerful one living within it us,
- 18:00Speaker 1: the hope of glory that we could truly rely on
- 18:03Speaker 1: in any situation in life. Since Joys says, yes, I've
- 18:07Speaker 1: been through that, been through so much, and God is
- 18:09Speaker 1: still there yet for me and my family, and I
- 18:12Speaker 1: I thank the Lord for everything. Amen. Amen, And you're
- 18:16Speaker 1: at a position where we know Lord the Lord has
- 18:19Speaker 1: been doing such tremendous things in your family. Things have
- 18:23Speaker 1: been happening to your family, to your own health, to
- 18:25Speaker 1: your husband's health, to your family, and you're still standing
- 18:28Speaker 1: on God's word. So guess what. You're strong and you're
- 18:31Speaker 1: wise for it. God's not wasting your time, is not
- 18:34Speaker 1: putting pain or allowing pain to answer to your life
- 18:37Speaker 1: for no reason. He has a reason and a purpose.
- 18:40Speaker 1: Do I know all the reasons and purposes that God
- 18:42Speaker 1: allows things to happen in my life? Absolutely not. But
- 18:45Speaker 1: what I do know one hundred percent is that He's
- 18:47Speaker 1: the all powerful one. He will never leave me, he
- 18:50Speaker 1: will never leave you. He never forsake me. He would
- 18:52Speaker 1: never forsake you. He would never turn away from you.
- 18:55Speaker 1: You never turn away from me. All his promises that
- 18:57Speaker 1: he gives us is all yeay. It ain't meant to
- 19:00Speaker 1: all power from one. When he speaks a word, that
- 19:02Speaker 1: word comes to pass. I don't care if you have
- 19:04Speaker 1: to wait four or five, fifteen, twenty years for the
- 19:07Speaker 1: promise of God. Wait, it'll be worth the wait. Amen,
- 19:11Speaker 1: and keep on going. The power in the tongue, yes, Jacob,
- 19:14Speaker 1: the power that is in the tongue. We could speak life,
- 19:17Speaker 1: and in the same tongue we can speak death. But
- 19:20Speaker 1: what I'm trying to do is when I speak life,
- 19:22Speaker 1: I'll speak it and be about it. When I speak death,
- 19:25Speaker 1: I'm coming against things that are trying to kill my flesh.
- 19:29Speaker 1: Not my flesh. You could kill the flesh, right to
- 19:32Speaker 1: kill my testimony, to try to destroy my testimony to
- 19:36Speaker 1: try to steal from what God has for me. I
- 19:40Speaker 1: come against that. I speak death to those things. I'm
- 19:43Speaker 1: starting to learn to do that. A man's better speaking
- 19:45Speaker 1: death over people and things like that. I speak death
- 19:48Speaker 1: over the spiritual realm. That's trying to really infiltrate my
- 19:52Speaker 1: way of thinking. Bless you Joanne and your family. Yes,
- 19:55Speaker 1: keep the blessings going, Brothers and sisters to one another.
- 19:58Speaker 1: That's what we need. We need to encourage one another.
- 20:00Speaker 1: We need to let each other know, Yes, we've been
- 20:02Speaker 1: through the storm, we're going through a storm. We're here now,
- 20:05Speaker 1: and we all together now, and we could pray for
- 20:08Speaker 1: one another, and we could go through these devotions. A
- 20:11Speaker 1: man to read the scriptures and really believe it. Now,
- 20:14Speaker 1: I can't help you if you don't believe in the scriptures.
- 20:18Speaker 1: God will do the convincing that His word is real.
- 20:21Speaker 1: God will do the convincing that he himself is God.
- 20:24Speaker 1: God will do the convincing and convicting, convince you that
- 20:27Speaker 1: he's the love of your soul, the Savior, the Lord
- 20:30Speaker 1: of lords, of the king and kings, and convict you
- 20:32Speaker 1: from all the things that you and I've been doing
- 20:35Speaker 1: outside of His will. He does that. That's his work. Amen.
- 20:39Speaker 1: So don't think that because you're a Christian you have
- 20:41Speaker 1: to go and convince everybody of who Jesus is. As
- 20:45Speaker 1: a matter of fact, I don't think it could be done.
- 20:48Speaker 1: You can't argue somebody into the Kingdom of God, because
- 20:51Speaker 1: if you can, then somebody can argue them right out
- 20:53Speaker 1: of the Kingdom of God. God draws all people to him,
- 20:56Speaker 1: Jesus said, when the son of Man is lifted up,
- 20:58Speaker 1: all men will be drawn to him. Why, because people
- 21:02Speaker 1: are gonna recognize that man, I did this, I did that,
- 21:05Speaker 1: I follow that one, I followed this one. I would
- 21:08Speaker 1: practice this religion. I pray to this God and this idol.
- 21:11Speaker 1: None of it satisfied, none of it accomplished anything. None
- 21:15Speaker 1: of it gave me victory. And when you go to God,
- 21:18Speaker 1: when you go to Jesus, the one who's lifted up
- 21:20Speaker 1: on that cross a man, you find victory, You find strength,
- 21:23Speaker 1: you find love, you find purpose, right, you find power,
- 21:27Speaker 1: you find authority. We find the word to speak Amen,
- 21:32Speaker 1: over your life and over others' lives. And when you pray,
- 21:35Speaker 1: God hears, and not only hears, he responds to the
- 21:38Speaker 1: prayers that he hears from his children. What else do
- 21:41Speaker 1: you want? Amen? We have victory in him. We have
- 21:44Speaker 1: everything we need financially, physically, emotionally. Amen. The devil's defeated.
- 21:49Speaker 1: What else do we need? Amen? We're talking about the
- 21:52Speaker 1: all powerful one. We're talking about the God of Abraham,
- 21:55Speaker 1: Isaac and Jacob. We're talking about the one who died
- 21:58Speaker 1: and rose again, talking about the one who is eternal,
- 22:01Speaker 1: the one who in history and all of history, God
- 22:04Speaker 1: has never missed the day a man. In other words,
- 22:08Speaker 1: God has always been here. He's not a created god
- 22:12Speaker 1: or created being. He's to create, tour over all things
- 22:16Speaker 1: a man, and all things rest and are created through
- 22:19Speaker 1: and for and by the Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible says,
- 22:23Speaker 1: I know a lot of people will be like, Ah,
- 22:24Speaker 1: that's just you know what you're saying. No, that's not
- 22:26Speaker 1: what I'm just saying. That's the gospel. Truth is in
- 22:29Speaker 1: the scriptures. A lot of people are afraid to confront
- 22:32Speaker 1: the scriptures because they know, deep downside God put a
- 22:36Speaker 1: deep understanding in us. He wrote the Law of the
- 22:39Speaker 1: Lord in our hearts and on our hearts. So a
- 22:42Speaker 1: lot of people are afraid to engage the scriptures because
- 22:45Speaker 1: they're afraid to find out the truth. They just want happiness,
- 22:49Speaker 1: they want self fulfillment, they want self help books. They
- 22:53Speaker 1: want a God that they could control and manipulate. That's
- 22:56Speaker 1: not the God that you're going to find in the scriptures.
- 22:58Speaker 1: You got to find a better God. You got to
- 22:59Speaker 1: find a true God. All those other gods are false
- 23:02Speaker 1: idols and false gods, and the enemy uses all of
- 23:05Speaker 1: it to try to throw us off track. But the
- 23:08Speaker 1: question still stands, if God is for us, who can
- 23:11Speaker 1: be against us? That's a great question. I want to
- 23:14Speaker 1: know if anybody has an answer to that, right, I
- 23:17Speaker 1: don't care who's your enemy or anything like that. Do
- 23:20Speaker 1: they really think that they could go beyond what the
- 23:24Speaker 1: Word of God speaks over our lives? Or they could
- 23:27Speaker 1: just knock down walls that God placed before us as
- 23:30Speaker 1: protecting us and as boundaries. You think that can happen. No,
- 23:34Speaker 1: The only way the enemy can be in your life
- 23:37Speaker 1: is if you open the door to a part of
- 23:40Speaker 1: your life. You let them in and say, come on in,
- 23:43Speaker 1: you can hang out with me. But as soon as
- 23:45Speaker 1: you get filled with Holy Spirit God Amen, and you
- 23:48Speaker 1: realize who you are in Christ, you tell the enemy, Hey,
- 23:52Speaker 1: the same door that I invited you in. I'm kicking
- 23:55Speaker 1: you out, and then you shut the door and you
- 23:57Speaker 1: keep it moving, turning from submit to God. The Bible says,
- 24:02Speaker 1: resist the devil, and what will happen the enemy? The
- 24:05Speaker 1: devil himself will flee from you, flee from me. That's
- 24:09Speaker 1: the all powerful authority that the all powerful One has
- 24:12Speaker 1: given all his children. A man, whether you're a Christian
- 24:16Speaker 1: one minute or Christian fifty sixty years, a born again believer,
- 24:20Speaker 1: has the power and authority of Holy Spirit living within us.
- 24:24Speaker 1: I might not understand everything about the scriptures. You might
- 24:27Speaker 1: not understand everything about the scriptures. But when we realize
- 24:30Speaker 1: who we are, and we identify as a Christ follower,
- 24:33Speaker 1: and God shows up in our time of need, you
- 24:36Speaker 1: will know for sure one hundred percent that you are
- 24:39Speaker 1: following the true, living, holy, righteous One, the all powerful One.
- 24:43Speaker 1: That's an encouragement. Man, I don't know what else to say.
- 24:46Speaker 1: Jesus is King of kings. Jesus is the mighty fortress.
- 24:51Speaker 1: Jesus is our savior. He is Lord, he is sovereign.
- 24:54Speaker 1: He's in control this world's system and the little dominion
- 24:58Speaker 1: of this temporary world. Stace is being run by the
- 25:01Speaker 1: devil and all his people's right. And we know that.
- 25:04Speaker 1: If you don't know that, and you've been living on
- 25:06Speaker 1: his planet Earth, and you think that God is running
- 25:10Speaker 1: the political system, God's running the world system, God's running
- 25:14Speaker 1: the nations, God is doing this that. And third to
- 25:17Speaker 1: hurt us, I don't know what God you're talking about.
- 25:19Speaker 1: That's not the God that we read about in the scriptures.
- 25:21Speaker 1: And I know people say, oh, the God of the
- 25:23Speaker 1: Old Covenant was different god than the New Governant. The
- 25:27Speaker 1: God of the Old Covenant was a god who was
- 25:29Speaker 1: you know, he was taking everybody out, and the God
- 25:32Speaker 1: of the New Testament, he's a god who's taking everybody in. Nope,
- 25:36Speaker 1: the same God from Genesis all the way through Revelation.
- 25:40Speaker 1: He responded differently in different situations according to different people
- 25:45Speaker 1: and cultures and nations and all of it. But at
- 25:49Speaker 1: the very end Jesus said, well, we lost, We're going
- 25:52Speaker 1: to regain Genesis chapter three. Read it for yourself. We
- 25:55Speaker 1: got kicked out of the perfect situation. We got kicked
- 25:57Speaker 1: out of the perfect guard. And why because I wanted
- 26:00Speaker 1: to kick us out? No is because we disobeyed him.
- 26:03Speaker 1: Humanity disopayed a holy God and what did they do?
- 26:06Speaker 1: They got into fear, they started hiding themselves, and what
- 26:09Speaker 1: did God asks Adam? Where are you? In other words,
- 26:11Speaker 1: what are you doing? What did you do? Why are
- 26:14Speaker 1: you not relying on me? The All powerful One kicks
- 26:17Speaker 1: them out, shows them grace because he could have annihilated them.
- 26:20Speaker 1: And then from there you see the grace of God,
- 26:22Speaker 1: the power of God, the authority of God, the SmackDown
- 26:25Speaker 1: of God, when he smacked down those nations that wanted
- 26:27Speaker 1: to worship idols instead of Him, And all through the
- 26:30Speaker 1: scriptures you see a thread there. The threat is that
- 26:32Speaker 1: we're going to have redemption, that we're gonna have peace again,
- 26:35Speaker 1: that it's gonna be a new world. There's gonna be
- 26:37Speaker 1: a new heaven and new earth. And Jesus holds all
- 26:39Speaker 1: of that in his hands. He's gonna crack open the
- 26:41Speaker 1: sky and say I'm back. And when that happens, all
- 26:45Speaker 1: those people, all our enemies that came against his word,
- 26:48Speaker 1: that rejected the godspel and all that, they're gonna be like, oh, oh,
- 26:51Speaker 1: I made a big eternal mistake. But not us. We
- 26:54Speaker 1: didn't make a mistake. We chose, and we chose life
- 26:57Speaker 1: not death, and we chose the savior. He chose first,
- 27:00Speaker 1: We loved because He loved us first, and we're born
- 27:02Speaker 1: again because that's the way we live once you get saved.
- 27:06Speaker 1: So I'm out of time, Amen. I don't know I
- 27:07Speaker 1: was so preacher this morning. But God is good. Amen.
- 27:11Speaker 1: Let me just send you off with a blessing. Read
- 27:13Speaker 1: Roman chapter eight, the whole chapter for yourself, so that
- 27:15Speaker 1: way you don't think I'm trying to take this out
- 27:17Speaker 1: of context. And when you read Roman chapter eight, let
- 27:20Speaker 1: me know what you think the whole chapter. So God
- 27:22Speaker 1: bless you all, got keep you all and remember always
- 27:25Speaker 1: that God is good. Peace,