Participants: Walter Pearson
Series Code: BOL
Program Code: BOL000221
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00:01 I BELIEVE THAT THE POWER OF GOD.
00:03 I BELIEVE THAT GOD CAN STEP INTO 00:05 YOUR VALLEY FULL OF DRY BONES. 00:08 I BELIEVE THAT GOD CAN STEP INTO 00:09 YOUR LIFE WHEN IT'S HOPELESS 00:12 AND THAT GOD HAS THE POWER 00:15 TO SPEAK TO THE HOPELESSNESS 00:18 THAT'S IN YOUR LIFE. 00:20 ♪ PRAISE THE LORD, LET'S JUST PRAISE THE LORD. ♪ 00:26 Announcer: THIS IS THE BREATH OF LIFE TELEVISION BROADCAST WITH PASTOR WALTER L. PEARSON, JR. 00:30 WHEN GOD GETS READY HE CAN DELIVER YOU, IF YOU CALL ON HIM, IF YOU TRUST IN HIM. 00:36 ♪ HE'S WORTHY OF THE PRAISE, JESUS IS WORTHY. ♪ 00:43 YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOWN FLAT ON YOUR FACE, BUT THE POWER OF GOD WILL LIFT YOU UP. 00:48 ♪ HE'S WORTHY OF ALL ALL THE PRAISE. ♪ 00:53 SAY LOOK, COME, COME, YOU 00:57 GRAND EDUCATED HUMAN BEING. 00:59 LET ME GUIDE YOU NOW DOWN TO 01:01 WHERE ALL THE FACTS ARE EXTRAPOLATED. 01:03 LOOK AT THEM, ARE THEY DRY ? 01:05 AND THEY WOULD HAVE TO DECLARE, 01:06 "YES LORD, WE HAVE ALREADY EVALUATED THIS. 01:09 WHY DO YOU ASK ? 01:11 WE'VE ALREADY SEEN THESE FACTS. 01:14 THESE FACTS ARE SELF-EVIDENT. 01:16 ERE IS NO HOPE FOR THESE PEOPLE. 01:19 WE HAVE SAID IT; WE'VE PUT IT IN THE NEWSPAPERS. 01:21 WE TRIED TO MAKE IT AS CALM AND QUIET AS WE COULD, 01:25 BUT CERTAIN PEOPLE MIGHT AS WELL GIVE UP. 01:27 WE HAVE STUDIED THE FACTS. 01:28 THE INDICATORS ARE ALL CLEAR, THEY CAN'T MAKE IT !" 01:32 AND GOD WOULD GUIDE THEM AROUND AGAIN AND SAY, 01:33 "WELL NOW, LOOK AT ALL THE DRY FACTS. 01:36 DO YOU SEE THEM ALL ? 01:37 CAN THESE PEOPLE MAKE IT ?" 01:39 WELL, THEY ARE NOT SO WISE AS EZEKIEL WAS. 01:42 THEY SAY, "NO, LORD." 01:44 THEY WOULD ANSWER QUICKLY, 01:45 "NO YOU SEE, WE HAVE -- PULL IT OUT. . ." 01:48 AND THEY'D BRING ALL THESE REAMS OF PAPER 01:50 "YOU SEE, YOU SEE -- RIGHT HERE, RIGHT HERE, WE COME UP WITH IT, 01:53 THERE IT IS, THE BOTTOM LINE; THEY CAN'T MAKE IT." 01:57 BUT THEN WHAT THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND, 01:59 IS WHEN GOD ASKS THE QUESTION, HE ALREADY HAS THE SOLUTION. 02:04 (applause) 02:07 NOW I AM NOT TRYING TO PREACH UTOPIAN CHRISTIANITY. 02:15 I'M A LITTLE DISGUSTED WITH PEOPLE WHO ACT AS THOUGH 02:20 IF YOU CALL THE NAME OF JESUS AND LIE DOWN IN YOUR BED, 02:24 THAT GOOD THINGS WILL COME TO FIND YOU UNDERNEATH YOUR COVERS. 02:30 I BELIEVE GOD FEEDS THE BIRDS, 02:31 BUT HE DOES NOT THROW THE WORMS IN THEIR NEST. 02:35 WHAT DO YOU SAY ? 02:37 I BELIEVE THAT GOD REWARDS THOSE WHO PUT FORTH EFFORT. 02:42 I WOULD HATE TO BELONG TO ANY GROUP -- I WOULD 02:45 NOT EVEN PURPORT THAT CHRISTIANITY IS GOOD FOR YOU 02:48 IF PEOPLE COULD JUST SIT DOWN AND JUST SIT THERE, 02:51 JUST WAIT AND BLESSINGS TO FALL UPON THEM. 02:55 WHAT WOULD YOU DO ? 02:57 I SUGGEST TO YOU THAT YOU WOULD BE NO BETTER, 02:59 IN FACT YOU WOULD PROBABLY BE WORSE 03:02 IF YOU COULD JUST SIT THERE AND BLESSINGS COME AND FIND YOU. 03:05 I BELIEVE THAT THERE OUGHT TO BE SOME EFFORT PUT FORTH, DON'T YOU ? 03:09 I THINK SOME FOLK NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT. 03:11 BUT UNDERSTAND ME MY FRIEND; 03:13 IN THIS CULTURE OF OURS IT IS POSSIBLE TO PUT FORTH EFFORT 03:21 TO DO YOUR BEST AND STILL NOT SEE A GLIMMER OF LIGHT 03:27 AT THE END OFTHE TUNNEL. 03:29 THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO HAVE MORE EDUCATION THAN SUCCESSFUL 03:33 FOLK HAVE BUT THINGS HAVE NOT FALLEN RIGHT FOR THEM. 03:37 THEY'VE SOMEHOW BEEN MARGINALIZED; 03:38 THEY'VE BEEN PUSHED ASIDE. 03:40 ALL OF IT IS NOT FOR THE REASONS THAT WE SUSPECT, 03:43 BUT THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE FALLEN THROUGH THE CRACKS OF 03:45 THIS WONDERFUL SOCIETY OF OURS AND THEY HAVE ENDED UP HOPELESS. 03:49 I GREW UP IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE PEOPLE MOSTLY AROUND ME WERE WITHOUT HOPE. 03:55 WE'D WAKE UP IN THE MORNING AND WE'D TRY TO MAKE IT THROUGH ANOTHER DAY. 03:58 I HAVE BEEN WITH THE LITTLE GROUPS WHO WENT AROUND 04:01 TRYING TO FIND OUT WHAT WE COULD TEAR UP ON THAT 04:04 DAY BECAUSE WE NEVER THOUGHT THAT WE WOULD OWN ANYTHING. 04:08 SO WE DID NOT FEEL PART OF THE AMERICAN DREAM, 04:11 WE FELT LIKE WE WERE PUT ASIDE AND CAST AWAY. 04:15 BUT I WANT TO LET YOU KNOW, THAT THERE ARE MIRACLES THAT ARE STILL HAPPENING 04:21 FOR PEOPLE WHO CLING TENACIOUSLY TO THE FACT THAT GOD STEPS IN 04:29 AND MAKES A DIFFERENCE. 04:31 GOD IS ABOUT TO STEP INTO THIS VALLEY FILLED WITH DRY BONES. 04:41 IN FACT, WHAT HE TELLS EZEKIEL TO DO IS, HE SAYS, "PROPHECY". 04:47 NOW FORGIVE ME IF I ALLOW THAT TO BE "PREACH". 04:52 PREACH TO THE BONES. 04:55 SOMEHOW I FEEL LIKE I'VE HAD SOME CHURCH MEMBERS WHO WERE NOT UNLIKE THAT. 05:01 I CAN REMEMBER PREACHING SOME SERMONS THAT I THOUGHT WERE FAIRLY GOOD 05:05 AND I WOULD LOOK OUT IN THE AUDIENCE AND THERE WERE PEOPLE. . . 05:08 AND I SAID "DON'T THEY KNOW THAT I'M PREACHING POWER HERE ? 05:13 DON'T THEY KNOW THAT IN THE POWER OF PREACHING YOU CAN GET UP ? 05:17 YOU CAN STOP BEING A DRY BONE AND LIVE." 05:20 EVIDENTLY THEY HADN'T READ THE TEXT. 05:23 SO THEY LOOKED AT ME AS THOUGH NOTHING WERE HAPPENING. 05:26 GOD SAYS TO EZEKIEL, 05:27 "PREACH TO THE BONES." 05:29 NOW LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, THERE IS SOMETHING THERE. 05:33 THERE IS A MEANING THERE THAT I DO NOT HAVE TIME TO PULL COMPLETELY OUT. 05:39 BUT THE FACT IS THAT WE CAN NEVER ADMIT TO FAILURE 05:45 WHEN THERE IS A GOD WHO CAN STEP IN AND BRING SUCCESS. 05:49 (applause) 05:51 YOU CAN'T GET COMFORTABLE WITH IT. 05:54 I KNOW, I HAVE MET PEOPLE WHO SEEM TO BE HOPELESS. 05:57 I MET A MAN A FEW YEARS AGO. 05:59 THE MAN SAID TO ME, "SIR, I WAS ADDICTED TO HEROIN." 06:05 I SAID, "YOU WERE ?" 06:06 HE SAID, "NO, IT GETS WORSE THAN THAT." 06:08 HE SAID "I THOUGHT HEROIN WAS ADDICTIVE 06:11 UNTIL I FOUND CRACK COCAINE." 06:14 HE SAID, "CRACK COCAINE IS WAY MORE ADDICTIVE THAN HEROIN." 06:19 AND I MUST ADMIT TO YOU NOW THAT I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT NOW, 06:22 BUT I LOOKED IN HIS EYES AND I BELIEVED HIM. 06:23 I COULD READ HIS INTENSITY. 06:25 THE MAN SAID, "WHEN I FOUND CRACK COCAINE 06:27 I BECAME SO LOST THAT I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO." 06:30 I SAID, "WELL SIR, WOULD YOU EXPLAIN SOMETHING TO ME ? 06:32 YOU SAY THAT YOU USED TO BE ADDICTED TO HEROIN, 06:35 AND YOU USED TO BE ADDICTED TO CRACK COCAINE, 06:37 BUT I'M LOOKING AT YOU NOW AND YOU LOOK OK." 06:40 HE SAID, "YEAH, I'M ALL RIGHT NOW." 06:42 I SAID, "BUT YOU CAN'T GET OUT OF THAT CAN YOU ?" 06:44 CAN THESE BONES LIVE ? 06:49 YOU CAN'T COME BACK FROM THAT; 06:52 NOT FROM HEROIN AND CRACK ! 06:55 HE SAID, "BUT I DIDN'T TELL YOU THE END OF THE STORY. 06:58 YOU SEE, HEROIN WAS POWERFUL; 07:00 CRACK COCAINE WAS MORE POWERFUL, 07:03 BUT I FOUND SOMETHING THAT WAS MORE POWERFUL THAN CRACK. 07:06 (applause) 07:10 I FOUND GOD. 07:13 GOD STEPPED INTO MY LIFE AND WHEN I LET GOD IN MY LIFE 07:19 I DISCOVERED THAT HE HAD MORE POWER 07:22 THAN THE ADDICTION TO CRACK COCAINE." 07:27 I DON'T KNOW ABOUT CRACK COCAINE, 07:28 BUT I KNOW THAT EVERYBODY UNDER THE SOUND OF MY VOICE 07:31 HAS HAD SOME PROBLEM THAT YOU THOUGHT WAS TOO BIG FOR YOU. 07:35 AND THERE ARE SOME WHO HAVE ALREADY COME TO UNDERSTAND 07:39 THAT GOD IS MORE POWERFUL THAN YOUR PROBLEM ! 07:43 (applause) 07:47 IF I DIDN'T BELIEVE THAT WAS TRUE, I WOULD STOP PREACHING. 07:51 I'D STOP PREACHING. 07:53 BUT I BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF GOD. 07:56 I BELIEVE THAT GOD CAN STEP INTO YOUR VALLEY FULL OF DRY BONES. 08:00 I BELIEVE THAT GOD CAN STEP INTO YOUR LIFE WHEN IT'S HOPELESS 08:05 AND THAT GOD HAS THE POWER TO SPEAK 08:09 TO THE HOPELESSNESS THAT'S IN YOUR LIFE. 08:13 EZEKIEL TALKED TO THE DRY BONES. 08:15 YOU KNOW, YOU GOT TO HAVE SOME FAITH TO PREACH TO DRY BONES. 08:20 'CAUSE THEY DON'T RESPOND MUCH. 08:23 MOST PREACHERS I KNOW LIKE TO HEAR A LITTLE SOMETHING, 08:27 THEY LIKE TO AT LEAST SEE YOU SHIFT IN YOUR CHAIR A LITTLE BIT. 08:31 THIS PREACHER IS CHALLENGED TO GO AND PREACH TO DRY BONES. 08:35 DRY BONES ARE INERT. 08:36 DRY BONES HAVE NO LIFE. 08:38 DRY BONES CAN'T MAKE NOISE. 08:39 WHAT CAN THEY DO ? 08:41 YOU SEE, MOST OF US THINK OF BONES AS JUST BEING DEAD ANYHOW, 08:44 BUT YOU'VE GOT TO UNDERSTAND THAT IF YOU REALLY KNEW THAT BONES ARE ALIVE. 08:49 I WENT BACK AND DID A BUNCH OF STUDY. 08:51 I WAS IN THE LIBRARY POURING OVER BOOKS. 08:53 I HAD A DOCTOR TO TELL ME WHICH BOOKS TO LOOK FOR. 08:56 BUT THE DOCTOR WAS KIND OF SMART, HE SAID, 08:57 "I'LL HELP YOU BUT I'M NOT GOING TO SPOON FEED YOU." 09:01 AND SO HE SENT ME DOWN TO A LIBRARY, 09:03 AND THERE I WAS POURING OVER THESE BOOKS. 09:06 AND I CAME ACROSS SOME INFORMATION THAT WAS AMAZING. 09:08 WAY BACK IN 1691 THERE WAS A MAN NAMED CLOPTON HAVVERS 09:15 WHO LOOKED AT BONE AND CAME TO BELIEVE THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING GOING ON INSIDE OF THEM. 09:21 MOST PEOPLE UP UNTIL THEN THOUGHT THAT BONE WAS INERT, 09:25 THAT IT WAS JUST FOR ENGINEERING PURPOSES, MECHANICAL PURPOSES. 09:30 THAT IS WAS BASICALLY FOR POSTURE AND LOCOMOTION. 09:33 THAT IT JUST STOOD YOU UP STRAIGHT AND MADE IT SO THAT YOU COULD WALK. 09:38 YOU KNOW -- BONES. 09:39 BUT HE DISCOVERED THAT IN THESE BONES THERE WERE CANALS. 09:45 IN FACT, THEY NAMED THE CANALS AFTER CLOPTON HAVVERS 09:49 AND CALLED THEM HAVERSION CANALS. 09:52 AND AFTER THEY GOT THE MICROSCOPES YEARS LATER AND BEGAN TO LOOK IN THE 60'S, 09:57 THEY BEGAN TO SEE ALL OF THESE BLOOD VESSELS. 09:59 RICH BLOOD VESSELS FLOWING THROUGH THE BONE 10:03 SO THAT BONE IS ALWAYS BEING BUILT UP AND TORN DOWN. 10:07 OSTEOBLASTS BUILD IT UP AND OSTEOCLASTS TEAR IT DOWN. 10:13 WELL, I READ THE BOOK. 10:15 (applause) 10:21 SO WHEN I BREAK MY BONE, AND LORD PLEASE DON'T LET ME AT MY AGE BREAK A BONE, 10:25 BUT WHEN YOU BREAK A BONE THEY CAN PUT IT BACK IN A CAST. 10:29 IT IS NOT THE PHYSICIAN WHO MAKES THE BONE GO BACK TOGETHER. 10:33 THEY PUT THE BONE IN THE RIGHT PLACE AND THE BONE HEALS. 10:39 AMEN ? 10:41 BLOOD IN THE BONE, BONE KNITS BACK TOGETHER. 10:44 NOW, WHEN YOU GET A LITTLE OLDER, 10:45 YOU GOTTA BE A LITTLE MORE CAREFUL NOT TO FALL, 10:47 BECAUSE THE HEALING PROCESS IS A LITTLE SLOWER. 10:50 SO NOW I AM MORE CAREFUL HOW I STEP. 10:55 BUT BONE HAS LIFE ! 10:56 BONES ARE ALIVE. 10:57 AND WHEN BONE DIES IT IS A TERRIBLE SITUATION, 11:00 ITS CALLED ASEPTIC NECROSIS. 11:03 IT ONLY HAPPENS IN STRANGE SITUATIONS. 11:05 BUT BONE IS ALIVE, IT'S LIVING AND IT'S CHANGING. 11:10 SO WHEN GOD TALKED ABOUT BONES THEY WERE ALIVE, 11:13 BUT THEY DON'T RESPOND WHEN THEY'RE DRY. 11:15 BUT PREACHER, GO OUT AND SPEAK TO THE DRY BONES, 11:19 AND TELL THE BONES, "BONES -- LIVE." ! 11:25 AND EVERY PREACHER LISTENING TO ME NOW KNOWS THAT IF 11:28 YOU SAY THAT IN YOUR OWN POWER, NOTHING WILL HAPPEN. 11:35 EVERY NOW AND THEN -- YOU KNOW I DON'T WANT TO GIVE AWAY TOO MANY SECRETS ABOUT PREACHERS, 11:38 BUT AFTER YOU'VE PREACHED FOR SO LONG BUT YOU BEGIN TO COME TO THINK THAT EVERY TIME 11:43 YOU PREACH IN GOD'S NAME SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN. 11:45 BECAUSE I'LL TELL YOU SOMETHING, WHEN YOU PREACH IN THE POWER OF GOD, SOMETHING HAPPENS. 11:50 WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT GETS INTO THE WORDS THAT GOD GIVES YOU TO SAY, SOMETHING HAPPENS. 11:55 BUT THERE IS A STRANGE COMPLEX THAT PREACHERS CAN GET. 11:58 WE SOMETIMES CAN BEGIN TO FEEL THAT WE HAVE BEEN PREACHING SO LONG, 12:02 WITH SO MUCH POWER THAT MAYBE WE HAVE IT. 12:11 SO EVERY NOW AND THEN A PREACHER WILL GO OUT ENSCONCED IN HIS 12:15 OR HER OWN POWER AND THEY WILL SEE SOME BONE AND SAY TO IT, "ARISE." 12:25 BUT LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, IT IS NOT THE POWER OF THE PREACHER THAT MAKES LIFE, 12:32 IT IS THE POWER OF GOD THAT MAKES LIFE. 12:35 SO IT HAS TO BE GOD MOVING. 12:37 AND SO THIS PROPHET IS TOLD BY GOD TO GO OUT IN THE VALLEY 12:42 FILLED WITH DRY BONES AND PREACH TO THE BONES. 12:45 AND EZEKIEL HAS ENOUGH FAITH AND GOES OUT, 12:48 AND I DON'T KNOW WHETHER THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN A PULPIT OR NOT -- PROBABLY NOT. 12:52 BUT LET'S ENVISION HIM OUT LOOKING AT THE VALLEY AS FAR AS HE COULD SEE. 12:55 HE SAYS, "BONES ! 12:59 ARISE !" 13:01 NOW, YOU REALLY DON'T EXPECT FOR ANYTHING TO HAPPEN WHEN YOU 13:05 PREACH TO BONES UNLESS THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS THERE. 13:12 AND THEN THERE CAME A CLICKING SOUND -- CLICK, CLICK, CLICK. 13:16 WHAT WAS HAPPENING WAS THE SAME GOD WHO PUT THE BONES TOGETHER 13:20 IN THE FIRST PLACE WAS CAUSING THEM TO COME TOGETHER AGAIN. 13:25 NOW CAN YOU IMAGINE THIS LITTLE, TEENY, WEENIE BONE HERE. 13:28 LITTLE BONE IN THERE. 13:30 THAT BONE IS SOMEWHERE OUT STREWN IN THE VALLEY. 13:35 BUT GOD KNOWS WHERE THAT BONE GOES, 13:39 SO GOD TELLS THIS BONE WHERE THIS BONE IS. 13:46 AND THEN TELLS THIS BONE WHERE THIS BONE IS. 13:49 AND YOU KNOW HOW IT GOES. 13:50 SO THE CLICKING IS THE BONES COME BACK TOGETHER. 13:53 AND THEN THE TENDONS ATTACH THEMSELVES; 13:56 AND THEN THE MUSCLES RESTRING THEMSELVES. 13:59 AND THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM IS VISIBLE NOW; 14:03 AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THERE IS A FORM NOW. 14:06 NO MORE BONES, BUT NOW THE BONES HAVE TAKEN ON SHAPE. 14:09 SOMETHING HAD TO HAPPEN INSIDE THE BONES. 14:12 YOU REMEMBER CLOPTON HAVVERS LOOKED IN THERE AND SAW SOME ACTIVITY GOING ON. 14:16 SO, BEFORE GOD CLOSED IT UP, 14:18 HE HAD TO MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN INSIDE THE BONES AGAIN. 14:21 SO THERE'S MARROW THERE, AND THERE'S POWER THERE, 14:25 AND THERE'S BLOOD CIRCULATING THERE; 14:27 AND NOW THE SKIN COMES OVER THE BONES; 14:29 AND NOW INSTEAD OF LOOKING AT A VALLEY FULL OF DRY BONES, 14:32 I'M LOOKING NOW AT A VALLEY FULL OF BODIES. 14:35 BUT, THEY'RE NOT MOVING YET, BECAUSE WHAT WE ARE ACTUALLY 14:39 LOOKING AT IS THE RECREATION OF LIFE. 14:43 AND IF YOU LOOK AT GENESIS 2 AND FIND OUT HOW GOD MADE MAN IN THE FIRST PLACE, 14:49 YOU'D DISCOVER THAT MAN WAS FORMED OUT OF THE DUST OF THE GROUND. 14:53 THEN GOD BREATHED -- FORGIVE ME, I HAVE READ THE POEM TOO, 14:58 BUT SUPPOSE AFTER MAN WAS FORMED AND THEN WAS PULLED UP 15:07 AND NOW -- THE WORD IN HEBREW 15:19 FOR WIND, BREATH AND SPIRIT 15:23 ARE ALL THE SAME; "RUACH." 15:27 SO, WE KNOW THAT IT WASN'T JUST BREATH. 15:30 IF YOU THINK THAT IT IS, YOU GO BREATHE IN SOMETHING INERT 15:33 AND SEE IF IT WILL MOVE. 15:36 THERE WAS MORE THAN JUST WIND. 15:39 THERE HAD TO BE POWER. 15:42 THE BIBLE SAYS THAT WHEN MAN WAS FORMED FROM THE DUST OF THE 15:45 GROUND THAT GOD BREATHED INTO HIS NOSTRILSHE BREATH OF LIFE 15:50 AND MAN BECAME A LIVING SOUL. 15:54 THE PREACHER STOOD OUT IN THE VALLEY AND ACCORDING TO WHAT 15:57 WAS TOLD HIM, HE CALLED TO THE FOUR WINDS AND SAID, 16:00 "BREATH, COME NOW." 16:03 NOW THE BREATH OF GOD -- FORGIVE ME, THE PROGRAM IS CALLED 16:06 "BREATH OF LIFE." 16:08 YOU KNEW I WASN'T GOING TO PASS BY THAT DIDN'T YA ? 16:11 THE BREATH OF LIFE WAS BREATHED INTO THESE 16:15 FLESHLY CREATURES NOW COVERED ONCE AGAIN WITH SKIN. 16:19 THE INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM THE MEDICAL PEOPLE CALL IT. 16:23 NOW, WHEN THE BREATH IS IN THEM, THEY ALL WERE ERECT, 16:27 A MIGHTY ARMY, THERE BECAUSE OF THE POWER OF GOD. 16:36 LET ME SAY THIS TO YOU, THERE MAY BE PEOPLE WHO THE 16:40 DEMOGRAPHERS HAVE CROSSED OFF THE LIST. 16:43 THERE MAY SOME SINGLE MOTHER SITTING AT HOME WATCHING RIGHT NOW, THINKING, 16:48 "I'M ALIVE, BUT I'M DEAD. 16:52 "I'M ALIVE BUT I HAVE NO HOPE." 16:55 I'M ALIVE BUT I'VE GOT TO GO OUT AND DO SOMETHING STRANGE 16:59 THAT IS AGAINST MY PRINCIPLES IN ORDER TO MAKE IT IN LIFE." 17:03 WELL YOU LADY; NEED TO UNDERSTAND 17:06 THAT GOD CAN DO ANYTHING. 17:11 THE BONES OUGHT TO TELL YOU SOMETHING, 17:13 THAT WHEN GOD SPEAKS TO IMPOSSIBLE SITUATIONS, 17:18 GOD MAKES IMPOSSIBLE BECOME POSSIBLE. 17:22 LUKE CHAPTER 17 VERSE 28: 17:25 "WITH MAN IT IS IMPOSSIBLE, BUT WITH GOD IT IS POSSIBLE !" 17:30 ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE ! 17:33 SOME YOUNG MAN WHO'S TRYING TO STRUGGLE AND MAKE A LIFE FOR HIMSELF. 17:37 SOME YOUNG MAN WHO'S TRYING TO BE A MAN 17:39 AND YOU KNOW IT'S BECOMING A LITTLE MORE DIFFICULT NOW TO BE A MAN. 17:43 FROM TIME TO TIME THEY CHANGE THE PARADIGM. 17:47 ONE TIME THEY WANT YOU TO BE ROUGH MAN, TOUGH. 17:50 THEN THEY WANT YOU TO BE GENTLE, LET YOUR FEMININE SIDE SHOW. 17:55 WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ANYMORE. 17:57 WE ARE CONFUSED. 17:59 THEY WANT YOU TO OPEN A DOOR SOMETIMES, 18:01 THEN AGAIN THEY DON'T. 18:02 BUT LET ME TELL YOU; INSTEAD OF CHECKING WITH THE MAGAZINES, 18:05 INSTEAD OF LOOKING AT THE TELEVISION, 18:07 GET ON YOUR KNEES AND HAVE LITTLE TALK WITH JESUS. 18:11 BECAUSE GOD IS ABLE TO MAKE A FUTURE OUT OF NO FUTURE. 18:16 THERE MAY BE SOMEBODY TONIGHT LOCKED IN A PRISON CELL, 18:26 AND WE LOOK AT YOU AND SAY, "GIVE UP -- NO HOPE." 18:34 BUT GOD GAVE YOU THE VISION. 18:37 THIS VISION IS NOT JUST FOR ISRAEL. 18:40 I READ IN GALATIANS CHAPTER 3 AND VERSE 29, 18:43 WORDS THAT HELP ME TO UNDERSTAND THAT WHEN I AM IN CHRIST, 18:47 I AM ABRAHAM'S SEED. 18:51 SO I CAN JUSTIFIABLY CLAIM THE PROMISES 18:55 THAT ARE MADE TO ISRAEL. 18:57 SO, IF GOD SAYS, "YOU DON'T THINK YOU CAN BE A NATION ? 18:59 LET ME MAKE YOU ONE." 19:01 I BELIEVE THAT SOMEBODY INCARCERATED TONIGHT; 19:03 YOU MAY BE INCARCERATED FOR SOMETHING THAT YOU DID, 19:07 YOU MAY HAVE BEEN CAUGHT RED HANDED. 19:09 BUT THE FACT IS THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO STAY WHERE YOU ARE. 19:13 GOD SPECIALIZES IN FUTURES THAT ARE IMPROBABLE, 19:19 NO-SCRATCH THAT -- IMPOSSIBLE. 19:22 HE IS THE GOD OF CHANCES. 19:25 HE IS THE GOD OF POSSIBILITIES. 19:27 GOD OPENS WAYS OUT OF NO WAY. 19:33 BUT YOU'VE GOT TO LISTEN TO THE PREACHING OF THE WORD. 19:38 NOT TO BECOME ENAMORED WITH SOME PREACHER, 19:42 BUT SIMPLY TO LET THE WORD OF GOD SPEAK TO YOUR HOPELESSNESS. 19:49 LET THE WORD OF GOD BRING LIGHT OUT OF DARKNESS. 19:53 LET THE WORD OF GOD BREATHE ON YOUR IMPOSSIBLE SITUATION. 19:59 GOD WILL MAKE BONES SNAP TOGETHER, 20:02 GOD WILL COVER THEM WITH MUSCLES AND SKIN. 20:06 GOD WILL BREATHE LIFE INTO AN IMPOSSIBLE SITUATION. 20:10 AND YOU WILL FIND THAT WHAT YOU THOUGHT COULD NEVER HAPPEN, WILL HAPPEN. 20:18 BECAUSE GOD IS ABLE. 20:21 BEFORE GOD STEPPED IN, IMPOSSIBLE. 20:27 BUT THE MOMENT GOD STEPS IN, POSSIBLE. 20:32 BEFORE GOD STEPS IN, A WALL SO THICK 20:36 THAT YOU CAN'T GET THROUGH IT. 20:37 BUT THE MOMENT GOD STEPS IN, 20:39 THE WALL EITHER DISAPPEARS 20:41 OR GOD ENABLES YOU TO WALK TO THROUGH IT. 20:44 GOD IS A GOD OF POSSIBILITIES. 20:48 NOW, I WANT TO MAKE A LITTLE CHANGE IN THE WAY THAT WE ARE GOING. 20:52 WE'RE ABOUT TO CLOSE FOR THIS EVENING. 20:56 AND SOME OF YOU HAVE BEEN CAUGHT UP IN THE INSTANT SITUATION, 21:02 BUT I BELIEVE THAT EVERY TIME THE WORD COMES TO OUR HEARTS, 21:07 THERE OUGHT TO BE A RESPONSE 21:08 AND IT OUGHT NOT BE GOVERNED BY SOME TELEVISED PROGRAM. 21:15 WHEN I PREPARED FOR THIS MESSAGE, 21:20 MY HEART WAS LIFTED AGAIN. 21:22 I THOUGHT ABOUT SOMETIMES IN MY LIFE 21:24 WHEN I HAD ERRONEOUSLY GIVEN IN. 21:28 I THOUGHT ABOUT SOME SMALL THINGS AND SOMEHOW THOUGHTLESSLY 21:35 I HAD ASSUMED THAT GOD COULDN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. 21:38 OR MAYBE I DIDN'T EVEN TAKE THE TIME TO SEE; 21:42 MAYBE I DIDN'T TAKE THE TIME TO FIND OUT. 21:45 MAYBE SOMEBODY HERE RIGHT NOW 21:48 IS FACING A SITUATION THAT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE. 21:55 WHAT I WANT TO SAY TO YOU BEFORE YOU LEAVE 21:59 IS THAT GOD IS ABLE TO STEP INTO YOUR EXISTENCE 22:05 AND SPEAK TO THE IMPOSSIBILITY. 22:09 SO IT'S IMPOSSIBLE ? 22:11 BUT GOD CAN MAKE A WAY OUT OF NO WAY. 22:15 AND I KNOW YOU MAY HAVE COME SIMPLY TO KIND OF ENCOURAGE US, 22:19 OR YOU MAY HAVE COME TO BE PART OF HISTORY, 22:21 OR I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU CAME, 22:22 BUT NOW THE WHOLE SITUATION HAS CHANGED. 22:26 GOD HAS STEPPED IN. 22:29 THERE'S SOMETHING IN YOUR LIFE THAT YOU HAVE BEEN TREATING 22:31 AS THOUGH IT'S IMPOSSIBLE, WHEN IN FACT YOU SERVE A GOD 22:35 WHO IS SO POWERFUL THAT NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE TO HIM. 22:39 IF GOD ALLOWS YOU TO GO ALONG WITH A SITUATION, 22:43 THERE MUST BE SOMETHING GOOD THERE FOR YOU 22:45 BECAUSE GOD IS ABLE TO MAKE CHANGES. 22:48 SO IF YOU'RE STILL LIVING WITH IT, 22:50 IT MUST BE THERE FOR SOME REASON TO STRENGTHEN YOU, 22:53 TO BRING YOU ALONG, TO HELP YOU TO SEE HIS POWER, 22:56 BECAUSE AS SOON AS GOD GETS READY, 22:59 GOD CAN SPEAK TO YOUR IMPOSSIBILITY AND MAKE A CHANGE. 23:02 I'M WONDERING JUST NOW BEFORE WE CLOSE, 23:05 IS THERE SOMEONE HERE WHO'S DEALING WITH IMPOSSIBILITY ? 23:08 WOULD YOU JUST SLIP TO YOUR FEET NOW ? 23:10 DON'T WORRY NOW ABOUT CAMERAS, 23:12 THE CAMERAS ARE NO LONGER A FACTION, 23:15 THAT'S NO LONGER AN ELEMENT, 23:16 LET'S NOT WORRY ABOUT THAT ANYMORE. 23:18 YOU'VE GOT SOME SITUATION IN YOUR LIFE THAT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE 23:21 AND TONIGHT YOU WANT TO GIVE IT TO JESUS AND LET HIM TALK TO IT. 23:24 WOULD YOU JUST STAND UP ON YOUR FEET WHEREVER YOU ARE ? 23:28 JUST SLIP TO YOUR FEET NOW. 23:30 LET GOD HAVE THE IMPOSSIBLE SITUATION. 23:32 SOMEBODY SAYS "WELL, THIS ONE IS TOO SMALL PREACHER, 23:35 I DON'T THINK GOD IS CONCERNED ABOUT THIS ONE." 23:38 WELL YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT GOD IS CONCERNED ABOUT. 23:40 WE KNOW ONE THING, GOD IS CONCERNED, ISN'T HE ? 23:44 WHAT SEEMS SMALL TO YOU MAY NOT BE SMALL TO HIM. 23:48 THEN SOMEBODY SAYS, "WELL, I GOT A SITUATION, BUT IT'S TOO BIG, IT'S TOO GRAND." 23:53 NOW I WONDER HOW IN THE WORLD COULD YOU ME TO THAT 23:56 CONCLUSION WHEN WE HAVE JUST SEEN GOD TAKE A VALLEY FULL 23:59 OF DRY BONES AND BRING THE BONES BACK TO LIFE ? 24:02 WITH GOD, NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE. 24:05 BUT IF THERE'S SOMETHING IN YOUR LIFE THAT YOU'D LIKE TO PUT 24:07 IN HIS HANDS TONIGHT, JUST SLIP TO YOUR FEET BEFORE WE PRAY. 24:10 WE'RE ABOUT TO DO THAT RIGHT NOW, JUST SLIP TO YOUR FEET. 24:13 NOT EVERYBODY IS IN THIS, I'M AWARE OF IT, 24:15 BUT THERE MAY BE SOMEBODY WHO BROUGHT SOMETHING IMPOSSIBLE 24:17 TONIGHT AND I'D LIKE FOR YOU TO TAKE IT HOME CONQUERED. 24:21 I'D LIKE FOR THE WORDS OF GOD TO ADDRESS IT. 24:23 LET'S BOW TOGETHER AS WE PRAY. 24:26 FATHER IN HEAVEN TONIGHT, WE HAVE COME IN YOUR NAME. 24:31 MANY OF US HAVE BROUGHT IMPOSSIBLE SITUATIONS, 24:35 BUT WE HAVE BROUGHT THEM TO A GOD WITH WHOM NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE. 24:41 SOMEBODY IS LISTENING TO THIS PRAYER, 24:43 SOMEONE IS PART OF THIS PRAYER NOW 24:47 WHO'S PROBLEM HAS SEEMED SO INTRACTABLE, SO NEFARIOUS, 24:53 AND RECALCITRANT THAT IT WOULD NOT RESPOND. 24:57 SOMEBODY HAS A HABIT THAT HAS BEEN SO STUBBORN 25:01 THAT PRAYER SEEMS TO HAVE HAD NO EFFECT. 25:04 AND TONIGHT YET AGAIN WE BRING IT TO YOU BECAUSE WE'VE JUST 25:07 LEFT A VALLEY THAT'S FULL OF DRY BONES, 25:10 AND YOU MADE THOSE BONES LIVE. 25:12 AND OUR FAITH IS TWEAKED, IT'S SPARKED NOW. 25:18 WE BRING OUR IMPOSSIBLE SITUATION; 25:20 WE LIFT IT IN THE HAND OF FAITH. 25:22 AND WE ASK THAT A GOD WHO IS ALL-POWERFUL 25:25 WOULD MAKE A DECISION OVER THAT IMPOSSIBILITY. 25:29 AND IF GLORY AND HONOR CAN BE BROUGHT TO THE NAME OF GOD, 25:32 THEN LET WHAT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE BECOME POSSIBLE 25:37 THROUGH THE POWER OF HEAVEN. 25:39 FATHER WE ASK THIS PRAYER, 25:42 WE TRUST FOR AN ANSWER IN THIS PRAYER. 25:45 WE ARE EVEN SO FAITHFUL THAT WE GIVE THANKS FOR THE ANSWER BEFORE IT IS RECEIVED. 25:51 KNOWING THAT GOD IS NOT A GENIE IN A BOTTLE 25:53 BUT GOD IS A FATHER WHO KNOWS WHAT WE NEED. 25:56 SOMETIMES HE GIVES US MORE THAN WE ASK, 26:00 HE SIMPLY WANTS US TO ASK. 26:02 SOMETIMES HIS ANSWER IS NOT ACCORDING TO OUR WILL, 26:05 BUT WHEN WE TRUST IN OUR FATHER, WE COME TO BELIEVE 26:08 THAT GOD WILL ONLY GIVE US WHAT'S BEST FOR US. 26:11 SO WE THANK YOU TONIGHT FOR THE PROPER ANSWER, 26:14 FOR THE CORRECT ANSWER, FOR THE MERCIFUL ANSWER. 26:18 AND WE GO TONIGHT DIFFERENT THAN WHEN WE CAME. 26:21 THAT IS OUR PRAYER IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, AND OF THE SON, 26:24 AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, LET EVERYONE SAY, "AMEN." 26:29 Announcer: GOD IS A HUMBLING MYSTERY. 26:32 BUT A MYSTERY ISN'T SOMETHING WE KNOW NOTHING ABOUT. 26:35 IT'S SIMPLY SOMETHING WE DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT. 26:39 SOMETIME GOD PASSES BY US AND WE DON'T SEE HIM. 26:43 WE LET THE WORLD GET IN THE WAY. 26:45 THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT THE GOD YOU ALWAYS WANTED IS REALLY THERE. 26:50 OUR OFFER THIS WEEK WILL HELP YOU KNOW HIM LIKE NEVER BEFORE. 26:54 IT'S A SOUL AWAKENING BOOK CALLED "SEARCHING" BY CHRIS BLAKE. 26:58 JUST CALL OUR TOLL FREE NUMBER 877-BOL-OFFER. 27:02 THAT'S 877-265-6333. 27:06 ASK FOR YOUR COPY OF "SEARCHING." 27:08 IT'S YOUR'S FOR A GIFT OF FIVE DOLLARS OR MORE. 27:10 OR YOU MAY WRITE AND ASK FOR THE BOOK. 27:12 JUST WRITE TO: 27:13 BREATH OF LIFE P.O. 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