Participants: J. D. & Shelley Quinn (Host), Mollie Steenson, Greg & Jill Morikone
Series Code: TDYFW
Program Code: TDYFW016019A
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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 Removing pain 00:23 Lord, let my words 00:30 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:45 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:07 Hello, and welcome to 3ABN Family Worship. 01:10 We wish you a very happy Sabbath, 01:13 and we're so glad that we're getting to share 01:15 this time with you too. 01:17 Get into the word of God and to worship our Lord. 01:20 I'm Shelley Quinn. I'm J.D. Quinn. 01:22 And we're just thrilled to be here. 01:25 Let me introduce very quickly who... 01:27 the 3ABN family that's with us today. 01:30 First we have my very dear friend 01:32 Mollie Sue Steenson, 01:34 who is the vice-president and general manager of 3ABN. 01:38 And part of this family that gets to come together, 01:41 thank you Lord, and welcoming the Sabbath, 01:44 and just be a part together of worshipping our Lord. 01:47 Amen. Amen. 01:49 It's such a privilege. 01:50 And then we have someone 01:52 who's like a spiritual daughter to me, 01:54 and that is Jill Morikone, and Jill as with her husband 01:58 Greg Morikone, who is... 01:59 You are the production manager at 3ABN, 02:02 and Jill is the assistant to our president Danny Shelton. 02:06 And we're just thrilled to have you all here too. 02:08 Thank you. 02:09 It's a blessing to be joining for family worship, you know, 02:11 after the busy week. 02:12 I mean 3ABN is good, it's a good type of busy, 02:14 but boy, it's sure is a blessing 02:16 to have a Sabbath hours, isn't it? 02:17 Amen. And boy... 02:18 Praise the Lord, 02:20 that He gave us those Sabbath hours, 02:21 so that we can relax. 02:22 But we also want to remember to introduce someone 02:26 that is with us, who is behind the piano. 02:28 And that is Summer Boyd. 02:30 And Summer is such a blessing to 3ABN. 02:33 And such a wonderful pianist, 02:36 we're just thrilled to have her here. 02:37 Now one thing that I would like to say, you know, 02:40 it's wonderful when you can sit around a table, 02:42 and you can talk about Jesus 02:44 with your like minded brothers and sisters. 02:46 Amen. Yes, that's right. 02:48 I know that I talk to people quite often and they say, 02:52 "Oh, I wish that I had someone that believed like 02:54 I do that I can talk to, and talk freely, 02:57 and this is an opportunity 02:59 for what we're gonna review tonight 03:01 is that we can grow together. 03:03 And we can try to exchange ideas, 03:05 but work and focus off of His word. 03:08 Amen. Amen. 03:09 And our topic for this study is going to be 03:12 "Walking in the power of God," 03:14 so we want you to just join with us, 03:18 get your Bibles out, 03:19 but first let's open with prayer. 03:21 Yeah, let's do. 03:22 Father, as we come together this Sabbath day, 03:25 we just want to thank you Lord 03:27 for Your mighty gift of life itself, 03:31 and second of all Lord, for Your plan of salvation. 03:35 And we just ask Lord as, as we sit around 03:38 and we visit and hug each other's neck, 03:41 we just ask Lord, 03:43 that You will just impress upon our hearts, 03:46 what You want us to learn. 03:47 Yes. 03:48 And Father that we can take what You give us 03:51 to help make a difference in other people's lives. 03:53 Amen. That's right. 03:54 Father, this is not about any one of us, 03:56 this is about you Lord. 03:58 And Father we thank You for the opportunity. 04:01 We ask this in the name of Jesus. 04:02 Amen. Amen. 04:04 But we always like to open with the song, 04:06 and none of us here are just what you would call, 04:09 they don't let us have a microphone and get out... 04:12 caught on the stage. 04:14 They haven't asked us to do solos lately. 04:17 Travel with the bus. 04:18 Yeah. 04:20 But, you know the Lord, it doesn't matter to Him 04:23 what we sound like, 04:24 He said, just make a joyful noise to the Lord. 04:27 So we're going to sing number 537 in the hymnal, 04:31 but the words will also be on the screen. 04:33 So sing with us, don't just sit and watch us sing, 04:36 that's boring. 04:38 Sing to the Lord, 04:39 and this song is titled "He leadeth me." 04:42 Amen. 04:48 He leadeth me! O blessed thought! 04:53 O words with heavenly comfort fraught! 05:00 Whatever I do, where're I be 05:06 Still 'tis God's hand that leadeth me 05:13 He leadeth me, He leadeth me 05:18 By His own hand He leadeth me 05:25 His faithful follower I would be 05:30 For by His hand He leadeth me 05:36 Verse three. 05:37 Lord, I would clasp my hand in Thine 05:42 Nor ever murmur nor repine 05:49 Content, whatever lot I see 05:55 Since 'tis my God that leadeth me 06:02 He leadeth me, He leadeth me 06:07 By His own hand He leadeth me 06:13 His faithful follower I would be 06:19 For by His hand He leadeth me 06:26 And when my task on earth I done 06:31 When, by Thy grace, the victory's won 06:37 E'en death's cold wave I will not flee 06:44 Since God through Jordan leadeth me 06:50 He leadeth me, He leadeth me 06:56 By His own hand He leadeth me 07:02 His faithful follower I would be 07:08 For by His hand 07:10 He leadeth me 07:15 Amen. Amen. 07:16 I love that song. 07:17 When, by Thy grace, the victory's won, 07:20 and it is only by grace. 07:23 And we're gonna find out little more about that tonight 07:25 actually as we talk about 07:27 walking in the power of God's spirit. 07:30 Amen. 07:32 Now, what we'd like to do right now, 07:34 we just can't pray too much, 07:36 let's have a prayer of thanksgiving. 07:37 Yes. 07:39 And we'll just kind of go around, 07:40 doesn't have to be a long prayer, 07:42 not in any particular order. 07:43 Okay. 07:45 Who would like to start, 07:46 we're just gonna pray to the Lord. 07:48 Jill, you want to start? Sure. 07:49 Oh, Father, we come before You in the name of Jesus, 07:51 and we praise You. 07:53 We praise You for who You are, 07:54 that You're God, that You're on the throne, 07:57 that You've saved us by the blood of Jesus. 08:00 And we thank You for that gift. 08:02 Amen. 08:03 Father in heaven, thank You so much for this week 08:05 that You have brought us through 08:07 for Your guiding us, 08:08 it's the song I was talking about. 08:09 Father, we want to put our trust in You. 08:11 Yes. Amen. 08:13 And Father, I just want to thank You 08:14 for our precious families. 08:16 Yeah. 08:17 Father, those who are in love with You, 08:19 those who are still searching Lord, 08:21 we just ask in the name of Jesus, 08:22 that they will allow the Holy Spirit 08:24 to touch their heart. 08:25 Thank you. 08:27 And they will follow Your lead. 08:28 And I thank You Father for Your grace and Your mercy 08:30 and Your goodness is renewed every morning. 08:32 Thank Your Father, 08:34 we can just commit our lives into Your hands, 08:36 and know that You'll safely take care of this 08:38 in Jesus name. 08:40 Yes. 08:41 And Father we just thank You for Your plan of salvation. 08:44 We thank You Father 08:45 that You sent Your son to die for us, 08:48 while we were yet sinners. 08:49 We thank You Father 08:51 for the gift of Your Holy Spirit, 08:53 and Your word Lord. 08:54 And we're so grateful to You Father, 08:57 that salvation belongs to You. 08:59 For we know, 09:00 we could never save ourselves in Jesus name. 09:03 Amen. Amen. 09:05 Amen. 09:06 All right, well, let's just hop right into this. 09:08 What we're gonna be doing is, this is 09:12 "Walking in the power of God's spirit," 09:15 and we're taking this. 09:17 We're going to turn scriptures into life affirmation, 09:22 and what I mean by that is, 09:24 when we are taking God's promises, 09:27 and we speak them over our life, 09:29 we pray them back to God. 09:31 And what I'm going to do is read to you 09:34 an affirmation from scripture. 09:37 And then we're going to look at the all of the scriptures 09:41 that actually support that, 09:43 so you'll understand where we got this. 09:45 Here is our affirmation. 09:48 I'm walking in the power of God's spirit. 09:51 Everything my Father requires of me, 09:54 He empowers me to accomplish. 09:57 He continues to equip me and strengthen me, 10:02 as I cooperate with Him, 10:04 He works in me to desire His will, 10:08 and to do His will. 10:10 I trust Him to cause me to be 10:13 all that He has called me to be. 10:17 I can't perfect my walk by my flesh, 10:20 I need His power to overcome my weakness. 10:24 I start with the spirit and continue by the spirit. 10:29 I'll not deny the spirit's power. 10:32 So now what we're going to do 10:34 is, look at the scriptures that support this affirmation. 10:39 There's something that, the Bible says, 10:41 "Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word." 10:45 And there is something that is so powerful, 10:48 when we speak God's word over our life, for you, 10:51 you know, we speak God's word into our children's life, 10:54 praying over them, and claiming those promises. 10:58 Because it rewires this computer up here, 11:00 it really does get to us. 11:02 You know, I think not to interrupt you there, 11:05 I think this book, 11:06 "Life Affirmations From Scripture," 11:08 was pivotal in transformational 11:10 in my own prayer life, and in my own walk with God. 11:13 Because I used to think, I enjoyed praying, and I did. 11:17 And I would come before God, and I would pray, 11:19 and I know that the Holy Spirit makes intersession for us 11:22 when we pray with growing inside 11:23 cannot be uttered, and I know that, 11:25 but I was just praying my own thoughts, 11:28 if that makes sense. 11:29 My own understanding, but when I understood, 11:32 that we can open up the word of God, 11:35 and pray God's word back to Him. 11:37 There is life-giving power in the word of God. 11:39 It revolutionized my walk with Jesus and my prayer life. 11:43 So this is powerful, what we are doing here. 11:45 Yeah, we're taking this word, 11:47 which is a living word of force. 11:48 The word of God is quick, 11:50 what's that word "quick" means alive, 11:52 living powerful, sharper than any two edged sword. 11:55 I just looked it up, Henry Ford. 11:56 And that's the power of this word. 11:58 It is. 12:00 It's not that we're not praying something 12:02 into our lives, or into our children's life, 12:05 that is not filled with life. 12:08 Amen. 12:09 We're putting into their lives, into their spirit, 12:11 a life producing-- 12:13 words that have life producing potential. 12:15 Amen. 12:16 They are life creating as they go forth. 12:18 This is a quick powerful word, and it won't return void. 12:22 Amen. Amen. 12:23 Even to accomplish that thing 12:24 which God designs for it to accomplish. 12:26 And just, since we're taking that moment 12:28 to talk about this 12:30 "Life Affirmations From Scripture," 12:31 was something that the Lord worked in me 12:33 so many years ago, when I was very, very sick. 12:36 But I had been praying His promises, 12:38 and still not feeling the faith 12:40 until He led me to the three scriptures, 12:42 Isaiah 55:11, 12:44 that says, His word is not return to void. 12:47 That's right. 12:48 He says, but it accomplishes every purpose 12:51 for which He sent it. 12:52 And Jeremiah 1:12, 12:54 God says, You're right, you sing correctly 12:57 'cause I'm watching over my word to perform it. 13:00 In Romans 4:17, it says, God who gives life to the dead, 13:05 and calls things that are not as though they already were. 13:10 So that's what we're doing, 13:11 when we pray God's promises back, 13:14 we're claiming-- 13:16 See God calls things are not as though they already were, 13:19 because He knows the end from the beginning. 13:21 But this is His testimony about us. 13:24 So as we pray that back, 13:26 His word is returning to Him, not void, 13:29 because he's watching over his word to perform it. 13:31 You know, before you start, 13:33 I thought of the something long time ago, 13:34 whenever you started doing this, 13:36 how did it applied to me from the practical standpoint. 13:40 And all of a sudden, as I was talking with someone, 13:43 this just started coming out of my mouth. 13:45 I love the way the Holy Spirit guides us. 13:47 And all of a sudden here you got little Johnny, 13:51 he's going to have his eighth birthday coming up, 13:53 and he was wanting a bicycle, and he says, 13:55 "Oh, mommy, daddy, can I have a bicycle?" 13:57 And he says, "Well, I don't know Johnny, 13:59 you gonna have to kind of step up the plate a little bit, 14:02 and you need to work on cleaning your room, 14:04 helping with the bringing the groceries 14:06 in etcetera, etcetera." 14:07 The morning came, morning came, it is his birthday, 14:11 all he couldn't run, 14:13 because he'd been making his bed, 14:14 he'd been cleaning up everything, 14:16 and sure enough, 14:17 he walked into living room, his eyes got so big, 14:20 'cause there was this beautiful red bike. 14:22 And he couldn't wait to get out there on that. 14:24 Yeah. 14:25 And so mom and daddy says, 14:27 "Listen, Johnny, there are few things 14:29 that you gonna have to know before you go out there, 14:31 that you can only ride this bicycle 14:33 on the sidewalk, 14:35 you cannot get out there on that street. 14:37 There's people coming up and down, 14:38 and accidents happen. 14:40 Do you hear Johnny, please tell me that you hear." 14:42 "Oh, yes mommy, yes mommy, I hear, I hear. 14:45 That afternoon, after school, he goes out, gets on his bike, 14:48 goes out there, meets his friends. 14:51 They want to dart out on the street immediately. 14:53 He says, "No, wait a minute, I can't do that, 14:55 mommy says, we got to stay on the street. 14:58 Sidewalk. Sidewalk. 14:59 I mean on the sidewalk, thank you. 15:02 Mommy would stand the door open, he was, 15:04 oh, how proud she was that Johnny had listen to her. 15:09 And had said the same words back to them. 15:11 And all of a sudden, that made sense to me, 15:13 whenever we give the words back to Him. 15:18 Oh, I just see that God looks down, 15:20 "Oh, thank you J.D. that you were listening-- 15:22 And you accepted my testimony. 15:24 And that you've given it back to me. 15:25 Yes. 15:27 And so that-- That's practical. 15:28 That is very practical and, it's a win-win. 15:32 Sure it's. Johnny wins, mommy wins. 15:35 J.D. wins, God wins. 15:37 Amen. Amen. 15:39 One more scripture, Joshua 1:8, don't you love that. 15:43 This book of law, 15:44 shall not depart out of your mouth. 15:48 But you shall meditate on it day and night, 15:50 that you may observe to do 15:52 according to all that's written there in. 15:54 For then you will make your way prosperous, 15:56 and you will have good success. 15:58 The whole purpose of the word 16:00 is for us to meditate on it day and night, 16:03 and it to change us. 16:04 Amen. 16:05 And he said, he mentioned like this. 16:07 Then we will make our way prosperous, 16:08 and be successful. 16:09 Amen. Amen. 16:11 But what we're gonna do now, 16:12 is we're going to start on our study, 16:13 Walking in the Power of God's Spirit. 16:16 And our first scripture is Ephesians 3:16, 16:22 Ephesians 3:16 I will read this, 16:25 this is coming out of the NIV. 16:27 There are several, but I chose that for this book, 16:29 because it made more practical sense. 16:34 I pray that out of his glorious riches, 16:38 he may strengthen you with power 16:41 through his spirit in your inner being. 16:45 Paul here is praying for the Ephesians, 16:48 and what does he say, 16:50 he's praying that out of God's glorious riches. 16:54 You know, God has unlimited resources, 16:58 unlimited power, unlimited everything. 17:02 Not out of us, but out of His glorious riches. 17:05 He, God, may strengthen you, 17:10 you, you, me, you at home with power. 17:15 And that word in the Greek is Dunamis. 17:18 It's dynamite power. Amen. 17:20 But how, through his spirit in your inner being. 17:26 It is only as we open up our heart to God. 17:30 And day by day we need to do this. 17:32 We need to pray, and say, you know, I tell people, 17:35 you've heard that American Express commercial 17:38 that says, "Don't leave home without it." 17:40 Well, I'll tell him, "Don't leave home without Him." 17:43 The first thing we need to do in the morning, 17:45 is pray to be filled afresh, with the spirit of God 17:49 because we were converted by God's spirit. 17:53 But to continue in our Christian walk, 17:56 we can only continue by the spirit of God. 18:00 So to me, this is a scripture, that-- 18:03 and I love the whole, you know, he goes on here to say, 18:07 as you go on in Ephesians, 18:09 that Christ dwells in our heart through faith. 18:12 And that we become rooted and grounded, 18:14 and Paul say, 18:15 "Big rooted and grounded and love, 18:17 so that you can understand the height, and the width, 18:19 and the depth, and the length of God's love, 18:22 and to now to Him who's able to do it measurably 18:25 more than what you could ask or think to Him be the praise. 18:28 Amen. 18:29 I like what it says, 18:31 I pray that I have His glorious riches, 18:33 He may strengthen you. 18:34 So not only does God ask us, to come before Him, 18:36 like you mentioned, 18:37 every morning, it asked to be filled with spirit, 18:39 ask for that power. 18:41 To walk out the Christian walk, 18:43 God calls us to pray for other people. 18:45 Amen. 18:46 Not to pray for other people just, 18:47 God I ask that you bless J.D. and give him a good day today. 18:50 Father he needs power, the Holy Spirit from on high. 18:54 Amen. 18:56 So we can actually ask 18:57 for the Holy Spirit's anointing God's power 19:01 to work in the lives of other people. 19:02 Amen. Amen. 19:04 And you know something that we do. 19:06 I pray every morning and every night, 19:07 at least twice a day, 19:09 praying that God will pour out His spirit on all 19:14 who call upon His name. 19:15 There are those who are calling upon His name 19:18 who don't know Jesus Christ. 19:21 There are those who call upon His name 19:23 who are of their monotheistic religions, 19:28 they believe in God. 19:29 But they haven't learned about His sons. 19:32 So I'm just pouring, 19:34 praying that God pours out His Holy Spirit, 19:36 that way each person can be lead by God integrated truth. 19:41 You know, I like this too, 'cause it's amazing, 19:43 you know, I have an imagination ark, 19:44 and it's amazing 19:45 where you can think about all kinds of things, 19:47 imagine all sorts of stuff, excuse me. 19:49 I like this, it says, 19:50 "Now to him who is able to do immeasurably 19:54 more than we can ask or imagine. 19:57 I mean, you know, 19:58 you can imagine all sorts of things. 19:59 But God is able to do more than we can even imagine, 20:02 take care of us more than we can even fathom. 20:04 Yes, amen. 20:05 He's got it all in control, comes back to faith 20:07 in my opinion that you know, okay, just trust God, 20:10 He's got it, He will take care of it, 20:12 and trust Him. 20:13 And it's in relation too are measured by 20:15 or to the extent that His power, 20:18 is it work within us. 20:19 Yeah. Yeah, and it's not our power. 20:21 And who make that decision, 20:22 how much powers it work within me? 20:23 Just as much as I will allow Him to put within me. 20:25 That's right. 20:26 He they hungers and thirst after righteousness 20:28 will be filled. 20:30 So it rest on me, 20:31 so He is going to work effectually within me, 20:35 according to the power 20:36 that I have allowed to be imparted into me. 20:38 Yes. 20:40 You know, that's a great point, 20:41 'cause I can't just sit back here in my chair and say, 20:42 "Okay, you said you're gonna do more than I can think of, 20:45 and you just stay here and dream and dream." 20:47 We have to do something about it. 20:49 That's right. Okay, yeah, that's well said. 20:51 And there's a lot of people that do sit in their chair, 20:54 and if it doesn't go just their way, 20:56 well then God's at fault. 20:57 Correct. You know, God died. 20:59 I knew that, there are some issues with him. 21:03 But boy, whenever he comes down to capital, like capital H-I-S, 21:08 we are talking about here, the creator of all. 21:11 Yep. He spoke. 21:14 It was done. Yes, sir. 21:16 And that's who owns the cattle on a thousand mountains. 21:23 That's who, it just says right here, 21:25 I know Shelley, just let me say this, 21:27 because this is powerful. 21:28 And Psalms 51, 21:30 I was looking at the owning the cattle 21:33 on a thousand hills. 21:34 Psalms 50:1. 21:35 Yes. Okay. 21:37 And I thought, wow, that's fantastic, 21:39 but then it goes up here in verse 1, Psalms 50:1, 21:43 "The mighty one the Lord has spoken, 21:45 and called the earth from the rising of the sun 21:48 towards going down." 21:50 Amen. 21:52 He is capital T-H-E. Oh, yeah. 21:56 The One. That's right. 21:57 So, that's whose glorious riches 22:00 that he is willing to share. 22:02 Amen. 22:03 So I'm going to simply now pray back Ephesians 3:16 22:09 to our Lord. 22:11 Heavenly Father, I thank You, 22:14 that it is out of Your glorious riches, 22:16 that You strengthen us with power, 22:19 through Your Holy Spirit in our inner being. 22:23 Help us to open up our heart to You Lord, 22:26 and to receive Your power. 22:28 We pray that You will pour Your Holy Spirit into us, 22:32 and into all who call upon Your name, 22:35 in Jesus' name, amen. 22:36 Amen. Wow. 22:38 Mollie Sue? 22:39 Hebrews 13:20, 21. 22:46 It says, "May the God of peace equip--" 22:48 And I'm gonna stop there with that word equip. 22:51 Do you recall when Shelley said earlier, 22:54 that it's like American Express that old commercial, 22:57 "Don't leave home without it." 23:00 Well, Jesus gave us one of those in Acts 1:4, 23:03 He told us not to leave home, He told the-- 23:06 Don't leave home without this. 23:07 Let me read this to you. 23:08 And being a symbol together with Him, 23:10 he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, 23:13 but to wait for the promise of the Father, 23:15 which He said, you have heard from me." 23:17 Do you know what that promise was, 23:18 it was the infilling of the Holy Spirit. 23:20 That's Acts 1:8. 23:22 And this is in red, this is something Jesus said. 23:24 But you shall receive power. Amen. 23:27 When the Holy Spirit has come upon you, 23:29 and you shall be witnesses to me 23:31 in Jerusalem and Judah and Samaria 23:33 unto the ends of the world. 23:35 So he said, he told them, 23:36 "Don't leave Jerusalem without it, 23:39 because there is that power that we walk in. 23:42 So here in Hebrews 13:20 and 21, 23:45 "May the God of peace equip you--" 23:48 How does He equip you? 23:49 With the power of that Holy Spirit. 23:51 "Equip you with everything good 23:54 for doing His will, and may he work in us 23:58 what is pleasing to Him through Jesus Christ." 24:02 So I love this scripture equipping, 24:04 that equipping, the equipping of the saints. 24:07 We don't equip ourselves. That's right. 24:09 Only He can equip us, 24:10 and He's given us everything necessary 24:13 through His word, through the power of His word, 24:15 through the power of the infilling 24:16 of His Holy Spirit. 24:17 But where does it start, that equipping starts 24:20 when we realize our need for a savior. 24:21 Amen. 24:23 When we say, 24:24 "Oh, mighty God, I am wretched and lost, 24:28 and what I need is a savior," 24:30 and Shelley then begins that equipping process. 24:32 Absolutely. 24:34 You know, in the New King James Version, it says, 24:37 "May the God of peace make you perfect 24:41 with everything good." 24:42 And the reason I chose NIV equip you, 24:46 is because some people have such a visceral reaction 24:51 to the word perfect or perfection, 24:54 when you're talking about that. 24:55 But that's what he's saying is, 24:57 and it's God who's doing the action. 24:59 Amen. 25:00 It's not us, we can't do the will of God. 25:02 That's right. 25:03 If we're not equipped by God with His Spirit. 25:05 Yeah, He equips us, and the word perfect, 25:08 I know there are people that shy away from that word, 25:12 but in my understanding of that word, 25:14 it just means mature. 25:15 Yes. 25:17 Don't we all want to mature? Yes. 25:18 Make us mature, it's a maturing process 25:20 and it's as we allow him to do that maturing process, 25:26 we've been called to be the sons of God. 25:29 Amen. 25:31 But don't yet appear what we shall be, 25:33 but we do know the theories that work, 25:35 that is going on within us, but it's a process. 25:38 Since beloved now are you the sons of God. 25:41 And as we mature, we mature into that full stature. 25:45 Yes. 25:47 I like what you said as far as process, 25:48 'cause I think that's key, 25:49 'cause an oak tree doesn't go from an acorn 25:51 to a full grown hundred foot oak tree 25:53 one day to the next. 25:54 It's a process to that maturity. 25:56 And I think that sometimes, you know, 25:57 we can get maybe impatient or wherever we think we're at, 25:59 we look at somebody else and say, 26:01 "Oh, man, they should be mature by now." 26:02 Yeah. But it's a process. 26:04 It's a daily process. 26:05 Is that becoming as many as received Him 26:07 to them gave you the power to do what? 26:09 Become. 26:10 To become is that becoming process. 26:12 That's right. Yes. 26:14 But, you know, it is one thing what you said is 26:16 we shouldn't be judgmental, we shouldn't be looking, 26:19 but there is a problem 26:20 if somebody's been in the church 20 or 30 years 26:23 and they're still in diapers. 26:25 That's true, they're still drinking the milk. 26:26 They should be the meat of the word. 26:28 Yeah, they're still, 26:29 if they are only getting the milk of the word still, 26:31 I mean, there is a maturing process. 26:33 And I think God wants us to cooperate with Him. 26:35 But I think that, you know, it brings a proportional there. 26:38 I love that word immeasurably, proportionally. 26:40 Yes. 26:41 Because some people, 26:43 they do mature more rapidly than others. 26:46 Sure. 26:47 And as we talked about while ago, 26:49 then that will be the amount of maturity, 26:52 and that will determine how they are equipped. 26:55 Yes. 26:57 And, you know, 26:58 we're looking at from a babe to a full grown man. 27:02 How in the natural, because you-- 27:04 the spiritual and the natural, 27:06 they can be compared one to the other, how. 27:09 In the natural how does a baby mature, 27:12 is through the food that it takes in. 27:13 Sure. 27:14 And what is our food, or what is our spiritual food? 27:16 Is this very word, Shelley, that we're looking at today 27:19 and studying and seeing how to apply it to our lives 27:22 and how to pray it back to God. 27:24 Amen. And it become affective in us. 27:25 Amen. Amen. 27:26 Mollie, why don't you pray that scripture 27:28 back to the Lord. 27:29 Okay, Holy Father, we praise You 27:30 and we thank You for the power of Your spirit, 27:34 that is at work within us to equip us Lord, 27:38 to do every good work, and to do Your will. 27:42 Father we commend our lives into Your hands, 27:44 we give ourselves to You. 27:46 And we ask Lord, that you would do 27:49 what is pleasing to You in our lives, in Jesus name. 27:52 Praise God. Amen. 27:54 Amen. Amen. 27:55 Jill, would you like to take Philippians 2:12 and 13. 27:57 I would. 27:59 I think this is one of my favorite scriptures. 28:02 I like this one very much. 28:04 And to be honest, in my-- 28:06 not that I'm the hundred year old tree, 28:09 I'm just a little sapling, 28:11 but I'm not an acorn anymore, thank you Jesus. 28:13 Praise God. Amen. 28:14 So I'm a growing sapling, but in my acorn days, 28:18 this scripture used to terrify me. 28:19 Me too. 28:21 The beginning of it, 28:22 it says, Philippians 2:12, 13. 28:25 "Therefore, my beloved as you've always obeyed, 28:29 work out your own salvation with fear and trembling," 28:35 and if you stop there, 28:37 I did have a lot of fear and trembling 28:39 'cause if you stop at that point, 28:41 I thought I'll work out my own salvation, 28:44 God, I thought it was by grace, you're are saved through faith 28:48 and that not of yourselves. 28:49 It is the gift of God, 28:51 not of works, lest any man should boast. 28:53 So that, this scripture used to confuse me, 28:55 work out your own salvation. 28:57 In the Greek, now, Shelley, you can correct me, 29:00 because she's the resident Bible expert here. 29:03 But to me, when I studied, it work out your own salvation, 29:06 it means to carry to completion. 29:08 It's the same word you were just talking about Mollie, 29:11 that maturing processing, the perfection, 29:14 work out your own salvation. 29:16 God wants to carry to completion. 29:18 It says with fear and trembling. 29:20 I have the Andrews Study Bible and at the bottom here, 29:23 it says, with humility-- 29:27 Not trusting in yourself. That's right. 29:28 With respectful obedience-- 29:30 Yes. And insincerity. 29:32 But then the next verse is my favorite. 29:34 Amen. 29:36 It says fore-- 29:37 Amen. 29:39 Therefore, it is God who works in you, 29:41 both you at home, us around the table, 29:43 each one of us. 29:44 Amen. 29:46 He works in us both to will and to do of His good pleasure. 29:50 And in the Greek, the will means the wish, desire 29:53 and the do means power, the aid that He wants to give us. 29:58 So God saying, 30:00 "I know you can't work out salvation yourself, 30:03 but if you come before me in humility, 30:05 in submission and willingness to let me, 30:09 I will give you the desire to be victorious. 30:12 I will give you the desire to follow me, to follow my way, 30:16 and I'm going to give you the power, 30:19 because I know you don't have it yourself." 30:20 You know, Jill, my experience was exactly the same as yours. 30:23 I would read Philippians 2:12 30:25 and I cannot tell you how many years 30:27 I tried to perfect my flesh in my own strength 30:31 to work out my salvation. 30:34 But what actually helped me, I was maybe 21 years old 30:38 when I got my first amplified Bible. 30:41 And the way it says there 30:43 is work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 30:46 But then it goes on to say, but not in your own strength, 30:50 for it is God who works in you too willing to do. 30:54 And what I found is that when we, 30:58 how He changes our will is, 31:01 when we're willing to surrender to Him 31:03 and say, Lord, I'm willing to be made willing,. 31:06 you know, change my desires. 31:08 And that's his first act, 31:12 is He lines our will up with His, 31:15 but even when you get that desire, if you just, 31:18 as you were talking about earlier, 31:20 if you're just sitting back and you're reclined in chair 31:22 and not doing anything. 31:23 God can't work in you to act. 31:25 It takes a step of faith, and as you step out in faith, 31:29 then the power of the Holy Spirit shows up. 31:31 Amen. And God works in us to act. 31:35 Amen. 31:37 Jill, why don't you pray that back. 31:39 Father, we come before You, we thank You 31:42 that we are Your sons and daughters. 31:44 We thank You Lord Jesus 31:46 that You want to work your salvation 31:49 into each one of us. 31:50 We give you permission to do that. 31:52 Thank You that You are a God 31:53 that You are the one who is working in us just now 31:57 to give us the desire, 31:59 to line up our will, our desire with Yours. 32:02 And thank You for giving us the power 32:05 to walk this Christian life in Jesus name. 32:09 Amen. Amen. 32:11 Well, now we're going back to Mollie, 32:13 you guys are going to do one, two, 32:14 but you each chose your own scriptures. 32:17 That's right, yes. All right, Mollie. 32:19 Well, I've got Galatians 3:3, "Are you so foolish--" 32:24 Boy, how to start a scripture. 32:27 "Are you so foolish having begun in the spirit 32:31 are you now being made perfect by the flesh." 32:33 And I just want to take you back 32:36 to when you first made Jesus Christ 32:39 the Lord of your life. 32:40 How many of you remember that, all the joy of your salvation. 32:43 Yes. 32:44 So excited, you had found the creator of the universe 32:48 and you found that He loved you. 32:50 Amen. 32:51 He loved you so much, He died for you, 32:52 the joy of your salvation. 32:54 We were so quick to repent, remember that, 32:58 Jill, we could even have a bad thought and we would say, 33:02 "Oh, God forgive me," because we were close to God. 33:05 We had that-- 33:07 Again, it's the joy of our salvation, 33:09 that we first sense when we-- 33:12 the newness, the freshness. 33:14 Oh, and having the burden of our sin rolled away. 33:17 And we're standing before the Lord. 33:20 I like to say like little just loving God, 33:23 and ready to do anything He would have us to do. 33:27 We are so close to Him and so willing. 33:29 And we spend time in the word 33:31 and we don't know how to do much. 33:34 We've got zeal, 33:35 we've got more zeal than we know what to do with, 33:38 not to wits worth of wisdom, but, oh, we love the Lord. 33:41 Yeah. The joy of our salvation. 33:44 We began in the spirit. 33:46 Did Jill begin in the spirit? 33:47 Oh, we began in the spirit. 33:49 And then, Mark talks about the cares of this world, 33:55 that start mounting up on us. 33:58 And we start looking at the situations, 34:03 we start looking at the circumstances. 34:05 We get so busy, we start doing this, 34:08 we get real busy for God sometimes 34:11 at the sake of our relationship with God. 34:14 And if you're not careful, 34:17 if we don't keep ourselves in that freshness 34:23 and that place with God, where we're sensitive to Him. 34:26 And the drawing of His spirit, 34:29 then we're going to find us falling into that area 34:33 where He's had begun in the flesh 34:35 are now you may perfect, 34:37 or began in the spirit are now you may perfect 34:40 by the flesh, start relying on our flesh. 34:42 Start instead of being sensitive to the spirit, 34:46 and I know 34:47 none of y'all at this table have ever done this. 34:50 When God by the power of His Spirit convicts you 34:53 there's something you're doing is wrong. 34:55 I thought you're having is wrong in action, 34:57 and you start justifying it. 35:00 And you start rationalizing it. Oh, yeah. 35:02 You've just changed 35:03 from that sensitivity to the spirit, 35:05 and you've morphed yourself 35:07 into the rationalizations of the flesh. 35:11 Oh, Lord, let us repent of that. 35:13 Amen. 35:14 Yeah, you know, when you think about-- 35:17 I mean this scripture, 35:18 God spoke so clearly to me one day in prayer, 35:21 because I was trying to learn how to surrender to Him, 35:25 and I just confess, 35:26 and I don't know about those of you at home. 35:29 But I've tried so many years 35:32 trying to perfect my walk in the flesh, 35:34 not relying on the spirit. 35:36 You know, if only I could study more, 35:37 if I could do pray more. 35:39 To do more. 35:40 If I could more, do more, do more. 35:41 And so, as I am praying, the Lord gave me 35:46 'cause I was praying 1 John 2:6, 35:48 that those who are in Christ must walk as He walked. 35:53 And I realized, "Boy, I don't," and I'm just upset before God. 35:57 And so I'm just really seeking Him, 36:00 and suddenly God gave me this picture 36:03 in my mind. 36:05 And there was a little bitty sugar ant 36:07 next to this huge elephant, 36:10 millions of times bigger than that little sugar ant. 36:12 And here's what the Lord impressed upon my mind, 36:15 this thought. 36:16 Shelley, your greatest strength 36:18 is like that of this little sugar ant 36:23 in comparison mine is like the elephant. 36:27 And it's like how do you think 36:29 that you can perfect your Christian walk 36:31 in that little strength, 36:33 when all I ask of you is to be yoked with me 36:37 and rely on my power. 36:40 That totally, boy, 36:41 that visual totally changed my Christian walk. 36:45 Amen. And God showed me that. 36:47 That's an incredible. 36:49 Yeah, it is. It is. 36:50 And God gets all the glory, it's not for me, 36:52 He spoke that clearly to me 36:53 just to impress that thought upon my mind, 36:56 but you think of this little bitty sugar ant, 36:58 this huge elephant. 37:00 And all of a sudden if the ant is yoked with the elephant, 37:03 who is carrying the weight? 37:04 The elephant. Oh, absolutely. 37:06 Yeah. 37:07 So see, it's not that, 37:08 if I can eat more strict vegan diet 37:12 or and I'm not there's wonderful things 37:14 about the vegan diet, 37:17 but that's not going to save you. 37:19 No, it's right. 37:20 And all of these things that we try to do in the flesh-- 37:23 I mean that's what when He was riding to the Galatians, 37:26 they had Judaizers coming there trying to get them to, 37:30 not only believe in Christ, 37:31 but to do all of these other things, you know, 37:33 like being circumcised and all of this. 37:36 And Paul saying to him, 37:37 "You foolish Galatians, 37:40 you gonna try to perfect your walk in the flesh. 37:42 All we need to do is rely on the Holy Spirit 37:44 and then God gives us the power to walk in obedience." 37:47 Yeah. Yeah. 37:49 I know many times that, you know, 37:51 trying to break it down, 37:52 that if you feel the Holy Spirit is there 37:56 to send up the red lights or whatever. 37:58 You know, their lives get amber in your life, you know, 38:01 wait a minute here. 38:03 And do I run this red light, or do I stop. 38:05 I've board many times, it says, 38:07 "Oh Lord, thank you Jesus, but increase my faith. 38:11 Because I don't want to get over here 38:14 where I'm trying to be perfect in the flesh," 38:17 because you know if you've lived enough years, 38:19 you know that itself, 38:20 you'll flunk out there real quick. 38:22 That's true. 38:23 Mollie, you want to pray that back? 38:25 Okay, I thought Jill had an answer coming. 38:27 Oh, I was just going to say, you know, in my own walk, 38:31 I believe that I want to begin in the spirit. 38:33 And I believe that I'm walking in the spirit, 38:35 but it's amazing that just every day 38:38 throughout the day circumstances can arise 38:41 and all of a sudden I'm switching. 38:42 Yes. Amen. 38:44 And I'm thinking, I'm walking in the flesh now, 38:46 and I thought I began in the spirit, 38:48 and I did begin in the spirit. 38:50 And I want to walk with the spirit, in the spirit, 38:53 and all of a sudden something happens, 38:55 and my flesh comes, and I make a response 38:59 out of the natural heart of Jill. 39:00 Yes. 39:01 Instead of submitting to the power of the elephant 39:04 and I don't mean that in a disrespectful way. 39:05 No. 39:07 But allowing God to pour His spirit into me. 39:09 So I think this verse, right here 39:11 is a moment by moment battle. 39:12 Yeah, it is. 39:14 And how do we get from the flesh to the Spirit, 39:16 God forgive me. 39:17 Yes. And what does He do? 39:19 He forgives us. He'll forgive. 39:20 And we're back in right relationship with Him. 39:21 You know, Mollie, you were mentioning about 39:23 as far as trying to justify, 39:24 like when the Holy Spirit speaks to us. 39:26 This happened to me recently within our work in production, 39:28 I had several staff members that I had said some things to, 39:31 and boy I feel conviction from the Holy Spirit. 39:33 I should not have said that to them, you know. 39:35 And so anyway, 39:36 I wrestled with this through the rest of that day, 39:38 trying to justify what I had said to them, 39:40 like I was good, it was accurate, 39:42 you know everything. 39:43 But it was the spirit how I said it. 39:45 Yeah. 39:46 So anyway, the rest of the day through the night, 39:47 you know I obviously slept, but it was not that well. 39:50 And anyway, I said, 39:51 "Okay, God, I got to go to these 39:52 several staff members and crew members and say, 39:55 you know, I'm sorry, you know I messed up and so." 39:56 Praise God. 39:58 Man, as soon as I made that, 39:59 you know said yes to Holy Spirit. 40:00 Amen. Ease. 40:02 I felt much better, even though 40:03 I hadn't said anything to the staff members 40:04 or the crew members yet, 40:06 and of course you know I did. 40:07 But it's funny how sometimes you can wrestle with that, 40:09 and just say, 40:10 "No, Holy Spirit no, I know I was right. 40:13 That was true, and but it was not the spirit you how you said 40:15 it was not correct and so." 40:17 Greg just wait till you are our age, 40:19 and you're thinking how can we not learn that lesson, 40:21 'cause we still go through, 40:23 don't you still do some struggling. 40:24 Well, I'm disappointed in myself, 40:25 'cause this was recent, you know, 40:27 it was like, "Oh my gosh." 40:28 Yeah, but what I'm saying is, at your age, you know, 40:29 you add the number of years of difference between you and us. 40:34 And you would think that we would finally learn 40:36 that as soon as the Holy Spirit impresses us, 40:40 that we would respond immediately 40:41 because He's always right. 40:43 And that's all He's-- Thank You Jesus. 40:45 It's all where you get the peace, 40:47 but there's still the times that you sit and you struggle 40:50 for that 24 hour period or something. 40:52 Oh, yeah, it's terrible. 40:53 Lord, why didn't I just respond? 40:55 And then you wonder why I struggled for so long, 40:57 I should have just said yes to the Holy Spirit right there. 40:59 Yeah, yeah. Well, it's a hard lesson. 41:01 And hopefully as years go by, you will do it more quickly. 41:03 Yeah, amen. 41:05 Because the older you get, the less you won't hassles. 41:07 Yeah. 41:08 Not just the physical hassles of everyday life, 41:10 but you know just, you just want to be cleaned up. 41:15 Amen. That's right. 41:17 Amen. Be cleaned up. 41:18 So how to pray this, Galatians 3:3, pray, 41:21 "Yes, God, we're foolish." 41:22 I think that's how I start this. 41:24 Amen. No, good. 41:25 Holy Father, we do recognize that we do walk in foolishness, 41:30 and we ask You to forgive us of that. 41:31 And Father, now we speak over our lives 41:34 that we know we began in the spirit, 41:36 because we began by accepting You as our Lord and our Savior. 41:39 Amen. 41:40 We ask now, oh Father that you would draw us 41:44 and continue to convict us 41:46 by the power of Your spirit that we will not, 41:51 as we began in the Spirit, 41:52 now try to perfect our salvation through the flesh. 41:54 Yes. 41:55 But Holy God, we will by the power of Your spirit 41:59 continue to grow in your nurturing your admonition, 42:02 and we thank You for it in Jesus name. 42:05 Amen. Amen. 42:06 Amen. Amen. 42:08 All right. 42:09 Well, we're back to, Jill. 42:11 You boys are going to get a chance here... 42:12 All right, Jill, let's... 42:14 We're doing okay. Oh, one of my favorites. 42:15 Mine too. 42:17 2 Corinthians 12:9, 42:19 and this is in the midst of Paul's discussion praying, 42:22 asking God to remove his thorn in the flesh, 42:25 and then God answers with this, the scripture. 42:27 2 Corinthians 12:9, this is from an NIV. 42:30 "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power..." 42:37 King James says strength, but I like power a better, 42:39 because in the Greek, that is power. 42:41 It is definitely power. It is dunamis. 42:42 "For my power, is made perfect in weakness." 42:46 And you know, 42:48 many times we wake up and we feel strong in Jesus. 42:51 You know, I've spent my time with God 42:53 and I'm feeling strong, but I'm just being honest. 42:56 Some days I wake up, and I feel weak. 42:59 And I say God, "I can't even face this day 43:03 or I can't go apologize like you asked me to 43:06 or I can't do what you've called me to do today, 43:10 God I'm weak." 43:12 But He says, my grace is sufficient, 43:16 My power it's made perfect. 43:18 And I think when we realize we are weak, 43:22 and that's when God can pour in His power 43:24 and that's when He can use us most effectively. 43:28 What I really, what catches my word in the scriptures, 43:32 the word sufficient, 43:35 because I think that 43:37 we all know what a speed bump is. 43:40 Yes, I've hit them. 43:41 So we go down, and we hit a speed bump. 43:45 And, boy, that speed bump can disrupt us. 43:48 Yes, it sure does. 43:49 Call Jesus. 43:51 He hears us. 43:53 "It's all right J.D., my grace is sufficient. 43:57 But then there's those days 43:59 where you run across a Pikes Peak. 44:02 If you don't know where Pikes Peak is, 44:03 it's one of the highest peaks areas 44:05 in Colorad in the United States. 44:07 No longer a speed bump, Pike's Peak and you say, 44:11 "No way, Lord," 44:13 but he uses the same terminology. 44:14 Yes, he does. It's good. It's good. 44:16 That's all right J.D. 44:18 My grace is sufficient. 44:21 And, oh, we talk about the God that owns all the cattle. 44:26 Yep. 44:28 Realizes the rising and the setting of the sun, 44:31 He says, "Sufficient I can give you..." 44:34 Amen. 44:36 "My grace." 44:37 Amen. 44:38 And you know, if we think about grace, 44:40 sometimes at least for me, I used to kind of have this 44:44 ethereal idea of what grace was. 44:47 But if you think it's God's unmerited favor, 44:49 His unearned, undeserved gifts that He gives to us. 44:55 What are His three greatest gifts? 44:57 For God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son, 45:02 but whosoever believed in Him would not perish 45:04 but have everlasting life. 45:06 So Christ Jesus is His greatest gift. 45:09 Amen. 45:10 And then you've already read it, Acts 1:8. 45:13 When he said wait for the promise from on high, 45:15 the gift of the Holy Spirit and then the gift of this word. 45:20 Amen. 45:22 This living active word. 45:24 So if you look at those 45:25 as the three greatest gifts of grace, 45:29 all of a sudden you've got to understand 45:32 the gifts to understand the effects of grace. 45:36 And now you can see that grace is Christ, 45:39 the Holy Spirit and His Word. 45:42 That's why it's sufficient for us, 45:44 that's how His powers made perfect in our weakness. 45:47 Amen. 45:48 Okay, we still have a couple more to go to, so, 45:50 Jill, pray that one back please. 45:52 Father, we thank You. 45:53 We thank You for Your grace. 45:56 We thank You that Your grace is sufficient 45:59 in every time of our need. 46:01 When we need it God, Your grace is there. 46:03 We thank You that Your power 46:06 is made perfect in our weakness. 46:09 And we accept Your power just now, in Jesus' name. 46:12 Amen. Amen. Amen. 46:14 Thank you, Jill, for praying it that way, 46:16 for saying we accept it, 46:17 because someone at home needs to hear this right now. 46:20 You may be feeling weak, you may be feeling like 46:23 "Oh, Lord, this has been, you know, 46:25 what's wrong with me, Lord? 46:26 How could I blow it so badly this week?" 46:29 But all you have to do as Mollie said earlier is 46:32 pray and repent, He will forgive you. 46:34 And then pray for the Holy Spirit, 46:37 and open your heart and say, 46:39 Lord, we accept it, we receive it. 46:42 I received this from you now. 46:44 Amen. Amen. 46:45 J.D., it's your turn. 46:47 One boy, one of the boys... 46:50 We've had fun commenting that... 46:51 Boy, we have. This is good study. 46:54 I love this. 46:55 I love the scripture because 46:57 I've learned a number of things about myself whenever I... 47:01 and that's Philippians 4:13. 47:03 We're familiar with for Philippians 4:13, because, 47:06 you know, I can do all things through Christ 47:08 who strengthens me. 47:10 We all interpret 47:11 and we all decipher information differently. 47:14 Now, that's from the King James, 47:16 and the New King James. 47:17 But let me read it to you 47:19 in the translation of the amplified. 47:22 "I have strength for all things in Christ who empowers me." 47:27 I am ready for anything, 47:29 I'm equal to anything through Him 47:32 who infuses His inner strength into me." 47:37 I can see that because when I do hit that speed bump, 47:41 when I do see Pike's Peak. 47:43 "Oh, Lord." 47:47 I don't need that little sugar ant. 47:49 Yeah. 47:50 I need God to represent here as the elephant, you know. 47:54 And I can hear him say, 47:57 "Okay, my son, I will empower you." 48:00 Amen. 48:01 That's what we're talking about here, 48:03 the walking in the spirit of God's power. 48:06 I will empower you, I will infuse the inner strength 48:10 that you need at that particular time, 48:13 so that you can handle this particular situation. 48:16 So thank you Jesus. 48:18 Yeah, I can't begin to tell you 48:20 how many times I've been up against something 48:22 or had to do something. 48:25 Like occasionally Pastor Lomacang 48:27 will ask me to teach at church, to fill the pulpit. 48:31 And I just, and I feel so inadequate about doing that, 48:35 and I except, and then 48:37 I just fuss it myself for weeks before him saying, 48:41 just call him and tell him no, you know, and I, 48:43 how many times I've had to say to myself, I can't do this. 48:48 But through Christ, I can do all things. 48:50 I can do this, 48:52 but it's only through Christ as He strengthens me. 48:55 I can get through this day, 48:57 no matter what's coming against me, 48:59 but it's only through Christ as He strengthens me. 49:02 And so we can go up against Pikes Peak, 49:06 immeasurable odds when we realize, boy, 49:10 I can't do it, I can't do it, 49:12 but through Him as He strengthens me, 49:15 I really can, I can do all things 49:17 but only as He strengthens me. 49:19 Amen. Amen, Thank You Jesus. 49:21 That's what God wants to do. 49:22 You know, you think, no matter what we face, 49:24 it could be a cancer diagnosis, you know, 49:26 it could be a marriage falling apart. 49:29 It could be, your kids have walked away from Jesus. 49:33 It could be something we think is simple, 49:35 but it's very difficult as 49:37 going and asking forgiveness like Greg shared. 49:40 It could be any number, or speaking for, you know, 49:43 in front of a crowd if that's not your natural thing. 49:45 Whatever it is, we can do all things. 49:48 Only through Him. Through Christ, as He empowers. 49:51 Yes. Amen. 49:52 You know, lot of times you may look, I'm sorry, Mollie. 49:54 No, I just said that's beautiful. 49:55 Okay, because a lot of times 49:56 we may look at something ahead of us like Pikes Peak, 49:58 you can see that off in the distance, 50:00 sometimes you could see an obstacle in the distance, 50:02 and you're like, "Oh my goodness, let's see, 50:04 I don't have enough fuel in my gas tank. 50:05 I don't think my gear ratio 50:06 is good enough to get up this hill. 50:08 I don't even know if my little bitty, 50:10 little car will even make it up Pike's Peak." 50:11 But, you know, it's interesting when you get to that point, 50:14 that's when God actually can give you the power, 50:16 'cause you can look where you currently are and say, 50:17 "Oh my, see the last days are coming up, the final days. 50:20 I don't know that I can even go through that." 50:22 But as we prepare ourselves, get fuel in the tank, 50:24 make sure our little car is ready to go. 50:26 God gives us the power at that point, 50:28 'cause I've been backpacking before 50:29 and you look up that mountain 50:31 and you see all those switchbacks. 50:32 And you're like, "I don't think I can make it," 50:34 but step by step pretty soon 50:36 you're at the top of Pikes Peak. 50:38 So I think that's the key. 50:39 I want to just put a little addendum. 50:41 Please. 50:42 To after I've been through the weeks of, 50:44 I can't do this only through You as You strengthen me. 50:47 I don't, and it doesn't matter like Jill was saying 50:48 what that situation is. 50:50 The times I've walked off of the platform or whatever, 50:55 and just God was there. 50:58 He empowered me and strengthened me. 51:01 Amen. 51:02 I'm so glad, I did that, I'm so glad, I didn't quit, 51:04 I'm so glad I have relied on Him. 51:07 Because now I feel victorious in Him, 51:10 because He did strengthen me. 51:12 And that prepares you for the next battle, 51:14 you know because we look back and... 51:15 Amen. 51:17 You know this is biblical, he says, 51:18 let's back and see where those altars are, and remember. 51:21 Amen. 51:22 Amen. Amen. 51:24 Jill or J.D? 51:25 Oh, J.D., yes. 51:27 Oh, Father, we come to you in the name of Jesus, 51:29 we just want to thank You Lord that You are there. 51:31 Amen. 51:32 That You are the rock, Lord that we can call upon you 51:35 at any time and knowing 51:36 that You have ears to hear and eyes to see. 51:38 And that You will empower us to get past the obstacle, 51:41 that perhaps is in our way. 51:43 Father that You will infuse, You're gonna strengthened us. 51:45 Yes, absolutely. 51:47 So that we can accomplish, 51:49 and fulfill our destiny on this earth 51:50 according to Your plan, Lord. 51:53 We love You, and we thank you again. 51:54 Amen. 51:56 Amen. Amen. 51:57 Well, Greg, we got 2 Timothy 3:1-5 for you. 52:03 Okay. 52:04 And this comes from the NIV. 52:06 I like this translation here, how this text is described. 52:09 So 2 Timothy 3:1-5. 52:12 It says, "There will be terrible times 52:15 in the last days..." 52:17 Then it goes on to describe this. 52:19 "People will be lovers of themselves, 52:22 proud, unholy, unforgiving without self-control. 52:27 Lovers of pleasure, rather than lovers of God..." 52:31 Serious. 52:32 Then this last part. 52:34 "Having a form of Godliness, but denying its power, 52:39 have nothing to do with him." 52:41 Yeah. 52:42 Serious text, obviously we're in the last days, 52:45 I believe that, without a shadow of a doubt. 52:46 Yes. 52:47 You know, and when I pick this text, you know, 52:50 when I was reading it, you know, you look at yourself. 52:54 You know I don't want to be a lover of the world 52:55 that's for sure, but you know, I do find aspects of the world. 52:59 I'm not a perfect person in my own life. 53:01 You know, so I see things in there, and I'm like, 53:02 "Dear God, please take those things from my life, 53:05 because that's not what I want to be. 53:07 I, you know, there's things maybe that I are little idols 53:10 sort of speaking, you enjoy this. 53:12 And I know I shouldn't like, you know, like, for example, 53:16 it may be nothing big, but may be just 53:18 how much time I give to God. 53:20 Like you're saying, you don't want to just stay 53:21 in the milk of the word, you should be progressing. 53:23 So it's like, "God, I should give you 53:24 more time than I should." 53:26 You know, things like that, 'cause I don't want to be, 53:30 I guess a bad influence, because this last part. 53:32 Having a form of Godliness, someone can look a certain way, 53:35 like I think in these wax museums, 53:37 where they have a look alike of something. 53:39 Oh, that's good. 53:40 Man, it looks realistic, does it? 53:41 That's good. 53:43 It looks like, if there was a wax, 53:44 there is nothing like that of me, 53:45 but there's a wax with wax image of me, 53:48 would that be the correct term. 53:49 I guess. Yeah. 53:50 But it's not me and there's no power, 53:52 it can't walk, can't talk. 53:53 So I don't want to have a form of Godliness, 53:56 but deny the power, the power is who? 53:58 Jesus. God. 53:59 God's the one that has the power. 54:01 The Holy Spirit. Amen. 54:02 So we can look at Christian, but we don't. 54:05 Go to church, every Sabbath. 54:06 You can, you can say all the right things, 54:08 you can do all the right things, 54:10 like you're saying vegan, 54:11 nothing against vegan, whatever. 54:12 But it doesn't save you, 54:14 it's not the power that's in you. 54:15 It's Jesus Christ that's the power in you. 54:16 So it's to me, this text is a daily passage for me. 54:20 We're in the last days. 54:21 Man, I can be sucked off into the world easily, 54:23 any of us can be so. 54:24 Yeah. Yeah. 54:26 Anyway that's my prayer. 54:28 Amen. 54:29 So I think the only way to pray that one back is to pray that, 54:33 we will never deny that power. 54:36 Yes. 54:37 And, you know, it's interesting that when he says, 54:40 have nothing to do with these people who are 54:43 so ungrateful, unholy without loving, 54:45 unforgiving, slanderous, brutal, 54:47 not lovers of the good, the treacherous. 54:50 I think that we have to be careful, 54:53 bad company corrupts good morals the Bible says. 54:55 That's true. 54:57 So we do have to be careful and pray for those people. 55:00 Absolutely. 55:01 But we shouldn't make them our constant running companions, 55:05 because we become what we behold. 55:07 Absolutely. 55:08 So, Greg, you want to pray. 55:10 Sure. 55:11 Father in heaven, we do realize that we are in the last days. 55:14 And we do want to be careful with the company, 55:16 and the things of the world that we spend our time with. 55:20 And Lord, doing, I just pray that in our own lives though, 55:23 that we would look in our own lives, 55:25 because it's easy, the devil is so slick, so subtle, 55:30 that we don't even realize 55:31 that we can being sucked into the world. 55:33 So, Father, we want to have, not just look like Christians 55:36 and say the right things, do the right things. 55:38 We want to actually have you in us. 55:41 So the things that are coming out of us are true and right 55:44 and it's the true power that is in us. 55:47 So, Father, we're thankful that You are so willing, 55:50 for we just want to accept that right now, that the power, 55:52 your power in us can work mighty things, 55:54 and in Jesus name we pray. 55:56 Amen. 55:57 Amen. Amen. 55:59 And I really appreciated your, 56:01 the idea of the wax model, that's amazing. 56:02 That's really good. 56:04 So let me pray this affirmation back, 56:06 we spoke at first, 56:07 let me pray it back to the Lord now. 56:09 Father, we thank you that we are walking in your power 56:13 and that everything You require of us, 56:15 Lord, You empower us to accomplish. 56:17 Thank You that You equip in us. 56:19 Thank You that You strengthen us, 56:20 and you'll complete this good work You've begun in us. 56:23 Thank You, Father, that as we cooperate with You. 56:25 You'll work in us to willing to do your good pleasure. 56:28 And that You causes to be all that You've called us to be. 56:32 Father, help us always to remember that 56:34 we cannot perfect our walk by the flesh, 56:36 that we need Your power to overcome our weakness. 56:38 Amen. 56:40 And thank You Father, 56:41 that we started with the spirit, 56:43 help us to always continue by the spirit. 56:44 Amen. 56:46 And never to deny the spirit's power in Jesus name. 56:49 Amen. Amen. 56:51 Well, I can't believe how fast this went. 56:53 Thank you so much for joining us. 56:55 Thank you for having us. 56:57 And we want to thank you at home for joining us. 56:59 J.D., you want to have a closing prayer? 57:02 Yes. 57:03 Father as we come to You again, we just want to thank You Lord, 57:05 that we can call upon Your name. 57:07 And Father, that we can be confident 57:09 that you do hear our plea. 57:10 Amen. 57:11 And Father, that you are there to work in us, 57:15 so that we can be all that we could be in Your name. 57:18 Again, we love You and thank You in Jesus' name. 57:19 Amen. 57:21 Amen. Amen. 57:22 Thank you so much. 57:24 And just for those of you at home, 57:25 remember that the Sabbath in Exodus 31:13, God says, 57:28 it is a sign that 57:30 He is the one who is sanctifying us. 57:33 Thank you so much for joining us 57:34 and we'll see you again hopefully next time. 57:36 God bless. Amen. 57:38 God bless. |
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