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Series Code: TDYFW
Program Code: TDYFW190019A
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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 00:24 Lord, let my words 00:30 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:46 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:09 Hello and welcome to 3ABN Family Worship. 01:13 We are all kind of giddy around the table today 01:17 because it's Sabbath 01:18 and we're just totally worn out. 01:20 I think everybody here are sleep deprived. 01:23 But we're filled with joy, right? 01:26 Amen. Amen. 01:27 Amen. 01:29 And we want to welcome you to our Family Worship 01:32 and it wouldn't be the same without you, 01:34 so thank you for joining us. 01:36 I'm Shelley Quinn. I'm JD Quinn. 01:39 And let me introduce you who's with us today, Shelley. 01:41 Okay. Okay. 01:43 This is Johnny and Idalia Dinzey, 01:45 very good friend of ours. 01:46 We live in the same huge town of... 01:49 That's right. 01:51 Where we live. 01:52 But anyway, we just actually love you 01:54 and appreciate you and all that you do 01:55 for the kingdom of God. 01:57 We also have Summer Boyd over here. 01:59 Summer's going to be playing the piano. 02:01 Amen. 02:02 We have our special song 02:03 that we're gonna sing here in a few minutes. 02:06 And, you know, before we have our song, 02:08 Johnny, you wanna open with prayer? 02:10 Amen. Sure. 02:12 Our loving heavenly Father, 02:15 we want to thank You, Lord, 02:17 for not giving up on us. 02:18 Amen. 02:20 We wanna thank You because you have been there 02:22 as You have promised. 02:23 We thank You, Lord, for during this week. 02:26 We could have been swept away, 02:27 the enemy would have loved to have 02:30 put us out of existence, 02:31 but You have protected us. 02:33 And we thank you, Lord, for the things 02:35 You have supplied during this week. 02:37 We thank You, Lord, 02:38 that You through the mighty ministry 02:41 of Your holy angels have done things 02:43 that we have not seen in our behalf. 02:46 And we thank You 02:47 that the door of mercy is still open. 02:49 We pray, Lord, that all the people 02:51 that are with us wherever they may be, 02:54 Your Holy Spirit will reach them 02:55 and that this program will be a blessing. 02:58 We ask You, Father, to bless us with the Holy Spirit 03:00 that we may speak the words 03:02 that Your children need to hear. 03:03 We ask You, Father, in Jesus' name, amen. 03:06 Amen. Amen. 03:08 Amen. Amen. 03:09 Okay, we're going to sing, and we need your help 03:12 because we're all kind of a little bit 03:14 scratchy voice today. 03:16 So sing along with us. 03:17 We're gonna make a joyful noise to the Lord, 03:19 as we sing number 516 from the hymnal, 03:23 but it the words will be on the bottom of the screen 03:26 and it is "All the way." 03:33 All the way my Savior leads me 03:37 What have I to ask beside 03:42 Can I doubt His tender mercy 03:46 Who through life 03:47 Has been my guide 03:50 Heavenly peace 03:52 Divinest comfort 03:54 Ere by faith in Him to dwell 03:58 For I know whate're fall me 04:03 Jesus doeth all things well 04:07 For I know whate'er fall me 04:11 Jesus doeth all things well 04:16 All of the way my Savior leads me 04:20 Cheers each winding path I tread 04:24 Gives me grace for every trial 04:28 Feeds me with the living bread 04:33 Though my weary steps may falter 04:37 And my soul a-thirst may be 04:41 Gushing from the rock before me 04:45 Though a spring of joy I see 04:49 Gushing from the rock before me 04:53 Though a spring of joy I see 04:58 All the way my Savior leads me 05:02 Oh, the fullness of His love 05:06 Perfect rest to me is promised 05:11 In my Father's house above 05:15 When my way to life immortal 05:19 Wing my flight to realms of day 05:23 This my song through endless ages 05:27 Jesus led me all the way 05:31 This my song through endless ages 05:36 Jesus led me all the way 05:40 Amen. Amen. 05:42 Amen I will praise God for His leading. 05:45 Amen. 05:46 Well, tonight, we will talk about a topic 05:50 that some people seem to make a little complicated. 05:54 We will talk about Surrender Made Simple. 05:59 And, you know, surrender is a word 06:02 that some people have a knee jerk reaction to. 06:04 But it simply means that 06:06 we are going to submit our will to God 06:09 and accept His choices for our life. 06:13 And I have to tell you, 06:15 even though we're talking about it made simple, 06:17 if you try to surrender in your own strength, 06:20 it's impossible. 06:21 So we're gonna learn tonight 06:23 how God intends for us to be. 06:29 Would you all agree? Let me just ask this question. 06:31 How are we saved? 06:33 Is it by our good works and our obedience? 06:36 What brings salvation? 06:39 God's grace. God's grace. 06:41 It's... Amazing grace. 06:43 The righteousness of Christ by faith is how we're saved, 06:47 right? 06:48 So let's look at John 17:3. 06:51 JD, you wanna read that? 06:52 John 17:3? Yeah. 06:54 And this is eternal life 06:56 that they may know You, the only true God, 07:00 and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. 07:02 Okay, now let's take that apart. 07:04 Yep. 07:05 What is eternal life? Knowing Him. 07:09 Knowing Him. Amen. 07:11 I mean, salvation depends on knowing God 07:15 and on knowing Christ. 07:17 So what does it mean to know Him? 07:22 I know what it means to me. 07:24 That means to know anybody but right now we're... 07:28 Thank you, specifically talking about God, 07:31 and that is by having a relationship with Him. 07:32 Yeah. 07:34 And, you know, actually the word in the Greek here 07:35 that is used, 07:37 this is the same word like 07:39 for Adam knew Eve. 07:43 This is a very intimate thing of knowing. 07:46 It's not... 07:48 Did the Pharisees know God? 07:51 Or did they know about God? 07:53 About God. Yeah. 07:54 The words of Jesus concerning the Pharisees 07:57 and other people around, He says, 07:59 "These people honor me with their lips, 08:01 but their heart is far from Me." 08:03 In other words, they did not know God 08:06 on a heart to heart level. 08:08 Amen. Amen. 08:09 So I think the point that we wanna make here is that 08:14 to know someone, 08:15 if you wanna have a relationship with someone, 08:19 where do you begin? 08:20 Well, definitely requires conversation. 08:23 Amen. 08:24 Conversation, heart to heart conversation, 08:26 sincere conversation. 08:28 I recall when Johnny and I, 08:30 we had a long distance relationship, 08:33 oh, I couldn't wait 08:35 until that man called my house, 08:38 and we would spend so much time with him on the phone. 08:43 And then I learned to spend time with God 08:48 in a Chevy old chair, pink chair, I still have it. 08:53 And I love to spend that time talking with the Lord, reading, 08:59 praising the Lord, and music, 09:01 but also when I'm about to do all my things around the house, 09:05 you're just going to continually 09:07 stay in touch with the Lord in conversation with Him. 09:10 Amen. 09:11 And so prayer is us talking to Him 09:14 like a friend, 09:16 in opening our heart, 09:18 and then when we read the Word, 09:21 this is something that 09:23 this is how He talks to us really, 09:26 I mean, number one way. 09:27 Honey, was something that you learned about prayer? 09:32 Well, in my particular case, 09:34 you know, I've always had a love affair with Jesus, 09:36 I never really understood a whole lot, 09:40 but I don't really know how that all even came about, 09:43 but that's neither here nor there. 09:45 But I did learn that to start every day off 09:48 with the first thing I do, 09:50 Lord, fill me with the Holy Spirit. 09:52 Amen. 09:53 I just for some reason, 09:54 that just whether I even knew what I was talking about, 09:57 at least that maintain a connection. 10:00 Amen. 10:02 I know that practicality is very important in my life. 10:05 And I know we've talked enough about different situations. 10:06 Yes. I love your potato story. 10:08 I wanna get to your potato story 10:10 here in a little bit. 10:11 Yeah. 10:12 But it was just so important that even to this day, 10:15 except now it's this with more. 10:17 It's just all I have. 10:18 Lord, please, 10:20 I give You permission to come into my heart. 10:21 I gave you permission 10:23 to the aid of the Holy Spirit to guide me. 10:25 I want my marching orders. 10:26 I won't divine appointments. 10:29 And that is that conversation, you know? 10:31 You know, it's very interesting, 10:33 somebody, 10:34 I guess trying to illustrate the scripture that says, 10:38 where Jesus says, "I will be with you always, 10:40 even after the end of the world," 10:42 shows different scenes where Jesus is with people. 10:47 Somebody's fixing a car, 10:48 Jesus is right there under the car with the person. 10:51 And it even shows the scene where there's this guy 10:54 that his job is to work with the trash, 10:57 picking up the trash, and the truck, 11:00 and it shows Jesus helping pick up a can of trash 11:03 and throwing in the truck and then holding onto the truck 11:06 and going to the next place. 11:08 So like Idalia says, you know, Jesus is with us all the time. 11:13 And we can strike up a conversation with Him 11:15 and say, you know, what our wants, 11:17 our sorrows, our needs are, 11:19 and let Him know how much we appreciate 11:21 the things He does for us. 11:23 And in doing this, 11:24 we are connecting with Him 11:27 because we need a connection with Him 11:29 so that we can face the challenges of life. 11:33 I know in my growth, it was, "Lord, please give me, 11:39 please give me, please give me, please give me." 11:41 It was kind of like 11:42 that was the relationship that I know, 11:44 "Give me." 11:45 And then one day, it's kind of like as I matured, 11:48 and evolved into a more mature Christian, 11:52 "Lord, I thank You, 11:53 I thank You, I thank You, I thank You, I thank You," 11:56 and rarely do I say, "Give me." 11:59 I certainly say, "Help me," you know, but it's just, 12:05 I would think that if I was a parent, 12:08 I would love to hear from my children, "Thank you. 12:13 I know that you've sacrificed to help me," you know? 12:17 And so that is going in a positive way, I believe. 12:21 Now you brought up parenting and, 12:23 you know, I cannot stay quiet when you bring up parenting. 12:27 It's interesting how we instill in our children 12:30 to be courteous, 12:32 and to be proper, 12:33 and to talk to Jesus when we pray, 12:37 to do all the right things. 12:39 And we want them to develop that relationship with Jesus 12:43 because we're their teachers, 12:45 we have to teach them to be conscious 12:49 that there is a Jesus, 12:51 but they're not gonna believe there's the Jesus 12:53 if we don't have Jesus. 12:55 So what are we gonna show them 12:56 if we don't have Jesus? 12:57 So how do we can communicate with Jesus 13:00 and our children grow or learn to communicate with Jesus? 13:06 You know, when we go for our works, 13:08 when we even look at nature, 13:11 you know, we recognize that God is God, 13:15 and He's a great God. 13:16 And you know what? 13:18 You are so important to Him. 13:20 I mean, you see the ant, how small... 13:23 Is there anything smaller than an ant? 13:26 God notices even the ant. 13:28 Why not His children? 13:30 So yes, the please and the thank you, 13:32 "Thank You, Father..." 13:34 how many times have we heard ourselves, 13:37 I have to speak for myself to JD. 13:40 I was, "Give me, give me, give me, 13:41 help me, help me, help me." 13:43 But there's a strength 13:45 that I feel within me when I say, 13:47 "I praise You and I thank You, Lord. 13:50 Thank you, Lord." 13:51 Thanking Him for those things that have not come to fruition 13:56 but that I know 13:57 that He's going to see it through. 13:59 So it's kind of like when as you... 14:02 Sometimes I think baby Christians, 14:04 it's almost like, 14:06 God is Santa Claus up in the sky 14:09 and you're just asking for all these things. 14:11 But that doesn't really bring you into relationship. 14:16 But I will say this, I do believe, 14:18 you know, the Bible says, 14:19 "You don't have because you don't ask." 14:22 Well, if God knows all things, 14:26 why does He want us to ask what He already knows? 14:29 You know what I think it is? 14:31 I think He wants us. 14:33 He does it for our sake that we begin to, 14:40 I guess you could say, 14:41 we're learning how to depend upon Him. 14:44 You know, "Give us this day our daily bread," 14:46 we're learning that dependence. 14:48 But if I had met JD 14:51 and was trying to develop a relationship with him 14:55 and all I ever did or if you've got a friend 14:57 and if all you're ever doing is asking like, 15:00 "Do this for me, do that for me, do this," 15:03 that's not much of a relationship, is it? 15:06 But you have a potato story 15:08 that we want you to share because... 15:10 No, I mean, this is good. 15:11 What it's all about is learning to, 15:14 if you're gonna pray without ceasing, 15:17 it's understanding He is always with you 15:21 and I just pray and say, "Lord, when I get busy, 15:25 give me a divine awareness of Your presence. 15:29 I know You're always there." 15:31 You know, we don't have to say, 15:33 "Oh, Lord, please be with us through the night." 15:36 He's gonna be with you through the night. 15:38 It's, "Lord, thank You." 15:39 Thank you for being. 15:41 "Thank you for being with us. 15:42 And give me a divine awareness of Your presence." 15:46 And in practice that presence... 15:47 Yes. As your potato story. 15:49 Well, my potato story, 15:50 but it could be somebody's carrot story... 15:52 Yeah. I don't know. 15:54 But as I'm peeling potatoes 15:56 and sometimes one has a default in it, 15:59 you know, it's been cut and they turn brown, 16:01 so what do we do? 16:02 We cut that brown part out. 16:04 I said, "Lord," 16:05 just as I'm cutting this brown part of the potato, 16:09 I slice it up, and the potato is white, clean. 16:14 I said, "Lord, 16:15 please take the sins out of my life, 16:18 you know, the imperfections in our life." 16:22 So we surrender to the Lord, 16:24 our thoughts too because we could be prisoners 16:28 of our own thoughts. 16:30 But if we surrender our thoughts to the Lord, 16:32 as we pray, people are like, "Oh, pray without ceasing? 16:34 Are you kidding me? 16:35 I have to take care of the baby, 16:37 I have to cook, I have to drive. 16:38 How can you keep, you know, praying all day long?" 16:41 Easily, prayer, 16:44 and whilst you're doing your things, 16:46 praise the Lord, singing, right? 16:50 And testifying of His goodness, 16:52 I mean, I think that definitely connects us. 16:57 And, you know, I get in the shower, 16:58 I'll be washing my hair 17:00 and I'm praying in the shower saying, 17:01 "Oh, Lord, wash me thoroughly 17:04 and repeatedly and cleanse me from my sins." 17:07 It's unlike you. 17:08 I was in Walmart one day and I'm saying, "Now, Lord, 17:12 help me remember what..." 17:13 and somebody said, "Pardon me." 17:16 And I was wanting Him 17:17 to help me remember what I needed 17:19 'cause I forgot my list. 17:20 Yeah. Yes. 17:22 What were you gonna say, Johnny? 17:23 Well, I like to pick up on what you're saying 17:26 because you said 17:27 we should be aware of God's presence. 17:29 Knowing God, God tries to help us, 17:31 in the scriptures, even the disciples said, 17:33 "Jesus, Lord, teach us to pray," 17:36 as John also taught his disciples. 17:39 And Jesus says, 17:40 after this manner, therefore pray, 17:42 and not that this is the prayer you should pray, 17:45 but He says, He started with, 17:47 "Our Father, which art in heaven," 17:49 so God is trying to tell us, 17:51 we should recognize Him as our father. 17:54 And, you know, different people throughout our experience, 17:59 we pick up on things people have done. 18:01 I remember reading a book by Glenn Cohen, 18:03 and some people may know that name, Glenn Coon, 18:05 he wrote the book, "The ABCs of Prayer." 18:10 He was talking about this one day, 18:11 he still was driving on the road. 18:13 And he says, "Well, you know, the Lord says, 18:15 oh, He's with us. 18:16 You know, it seems to me like, 18:18 Lord, I have not acknowledged You." 18:19 He stopped his car. 18:21 He got out. 18:22 And he said, "Lord," opened the door, 18:24 he says, "Lord, Please come in." 18:26 How wonderful. 18:27 And after that, 18:29 he began his conversation with the Lord, 18:32 acknowledging His presence. 18:35 I've heard of some people that at their table, 18:38 there's another chair and a plate, 18:43 saying, "Lord, You are here with us. 18:45 You know, you are our guest at our table." 18:47 So different things people do, 18:50 but we should live with an awareness 18:53 that God is there. 18:54 He's ever with us. 18:56 Now what I wanted to share right now 18:59 is that there are people who are facing situations 19:03 that have never experienced God's power into your life 19:06 and they say, "God, if You are real, 19:09 if You are really there, and if You answer this prayer, 19:14 I will forever serve You." 19:17 Is that true or not? 19:19 Thank you, He certainly hears and, 19:21 you know, let's just say, 19:23 "Lord, if you'll get me out of debt this one time, 19:26 I'll help serve You the rest of my life." 19:28 And then they turn around 19:30 because they really didn't learn something, 19:32 and so here they are back in the corner again. 19:35 "Well, this time, I really mean it, Lord." 19:37 So, you know, I back it up a little bit. 19:39 And I think we're surrounding 19:42 this as I think that what Lord wants 19:45 from each one of us is involvement. 19:48 If we become involved in just little things, 19:52 probably in your question right there, 19:54 a matter of... 19:55 A matter of asking them a little different way, okay? 19:57 Yeah. 19:59 But you may not know any better way. 20:01 But I mean, He certainly will He... 20:03 He's not gonna, "Oh, don't listen to that person. 20:05 Don't listen to that person," you know, 20:07 it's all taken into account. 20:11 Now He knows the beginning from the end, 20:12 so when it's all said and done, 20:14 I believe, I've heard this from Shelley 20:16 the first time, 20:17 it's certainly not original. 20:18 But I heard it the first time is that the Lord always 20:21 has our eternal interest in mind, always, okay? 20:25 That's right. 20:27 Boy, that I might have heard it 10 times before it's sunk in, 20:30 but wow. 20:33 In a relationship, there comes a time 20:36 when in any relationship, 20:37 whether it be friends, whether it be husband, 20:38 what, there comes a time of that aha moment, 20:42 "Wow, I can trust this person." 20:44 And then that leads you to the next step 20:47 whatever the next step is. 20:48 Boy, let me segue off of that one because... 20:50 Oh, boy. 20:51 That's what, you know, 20:52 what God wants from us as His covenant children, 20:58 you know, I mean, the reason we pray for the Holy Spirit, 21:01 the Bible tells us that the Holy Spirit, 21:04 we don't know how we even ought to pray. 21:06 So I always pray at the beginning 21:08 for the Holy Spirit because it says 21:09 that the Holy Spirit intercedes for us 21:11 and helps us in our prayers. 21:14 We know it gives us the power, but it's the idea of trust. 21:19 God wants... 21:21 His covenant is, "I will be Your God, 21:24 you will be My people. 21:25 I'm gonna put the Holy Spirit in your heart 21:28 that you cry out Abba, Father." 21:30 So He wants this relationship. 21:33 And if you don't have a relationship with God, 21:36 you're not saved. 21:38 And, you know, we're talking a lot about prayer. 21:39 I wanna kind of move on, but prayer is how, 21:43 I mean, it doesn't have to be a formula, 21:46 it doesn't have to be on your knees. 21:47 It can be when you're in the shower, 21:49 if you're peeling potatoes, or driving down the road. 21:52 I talked to the Lord 21:54 all the time going down the road. 21:55 I like my car is one of my favorite 21:59 prayer closets, actually. 22:03 But that's the main way we're speaking with Him. 22:07 How do we hear from Him? 22:10 It's mostly through the Word, right? 22:13 And even if you hear the still small voice, 22:15 if it doesn't line up with the Word, 22:17 you got to always check and make sure 22:19 'cause the Holy Spirit will never tell us anything. 22:22 That's not God's Word. 22:24 That's right. 22:25 I think that someplace along the line 22:27 in your walk of maturity with the Lord, 22:30 you're wanting to be more Christ-like. 22:32 Amen. 22:33 And so I know that one of the scriptures 22:36 that we use it, 22:37 2 Corinthians 3:18, okay, 22:41 and that is "By beholding Christ, 22:43 we become changed." 22:45 And so there's that... 22:48 Now you know that you can trust Him. 22:52 You know that you're actually praying to someone, 22:57 and now there's fruit that's being produced. 23:01 You're saying that, "Wow! 23:04 I believe in You, Lord." 23:08 And so now you begin to look at things 23:10 in a more clear way. 23:12 And now you're wanting to take that truth 23:14 that He's given you and now it's like a mirror. 23:18 And then it comes in 23:20 and the reflection of Jesus is coming into you from Him, 23:24 now you're projecting to someone else. 23:26 Let's read this, 2 Corinthians 3:18. 23:30 It says, "We all with unveiled face, 23:33 beholding as in a mirror, 23:34 the glory of the Lord, 23:36 are being transformed into the same image 23:38 from glory to glory, 23:40 just as by the Spirit of the Lord." 23:42 So what that says to me 23:45 is that when we look into the scripture, 23:49 we're saying how God sees us. 23:52 This is a picture of who we are in Christ, 23:55 we're beholding as in a mirror, 23:57 the new creation that He's making us to be. 24:00 He's speaking to us. 24:02 He's giving us His promises. 24:04 And what is the glory of the Lord? 24:07 Character. His character. 24:09 So it's the Holy Spirit that leads you 24:13 from one level of His character to the next. 24:16 This is all about that relationship 24:19 as you're praying to the Lord and getting into His Word, 24:23 and the Holy Spirit is leading you from one... 24:26 I mean, does it happen overnight? 24:28 No. 24:29 No, what did Jesus say first? 24:32 The blade... 24:33 Then the head... 24:35 Then the... The head or the... 24:36 The head or the ear, then the full kernel in there. 24:39 How many kernels of corn are there in an ear? 24:43 I think that we've sat the other day, 24:44 it was 800 and something. 24:46 Eight hundred and something. 24:48 And one year of corn, 24:49 and you started off a planting one kernel. 24:51 Like a seed. 24:52 It's kind of like, "Wow!" 24:54 And you talk about dividends, you know, "Wait a minute, 24:57 you got to have some rain." 24:59 "Oh, where does that come from?" 25:00 "We're gonna have some sun." 25:01 "Wait a minute, now it's getting complicated," 25:03 and now you can see 25:05 why it wasn't that cheap start with 25:06 because you have to have all these gifts 25:09 in order to have this ear of corn 25:11 has got 800 and something kernels on it. 25:15 But that is the God that we serve. 25:18 But this as you, you know, these things tell us 25:22 that we have to have a participation 25:24 in relation too. 25:26 Now you talk about by beholding we become changed. 25:31 That's us having an active part in beholding, 25:35 reading the scriptures, 25:38 looking for the Lord in places of our daily lives 25:42 because daily He's trying to talk to us 25:44 through circumstances, people, and things that happened to us. 25:48 And so even the part where Jesus says 25:53 in Revelation 3:20, 25:54 "Behold, I stand at the door and knock," 26:00 and that's this part. 26:01 "If any man hears my voice and opens the door," 26:05 that's us now. 26:07 We hear the voice, we hear the knock, 26:09 we have to open. 26:10 So we have to have an active participation. 26:12 And then Jesus says, 26:14 "And I will come into him 26:15 and sup with him and he with me," 26:16 participation again, 26:18 "and having fellowship with Him." 26:20 So what you just said, 26:22 and that's the point I wanted to get to, thank you, 26:25 is that if we are not participating, 26:29 if we're not praying, if we're not in our word, 26:34 we can't keep a relationship going with the Lord. 26:38 I mean, because you've heard this before, 26:43 prayer is the breath of the soul. 26:46 How long can you go without breathing? 26:51 I mean, physically, how long? 26:53 How long... Not very long. 26:54 However, you know, some people say, 26:55 "I can do a minute. I can do two, I can..." 26:57 It's not very long. 26:59 So what do you think 27:00 if prayer is the breath of the soul, 27:03 if prayer is like 27:05 oxygenating your spiritual life, 27:07 if you go a full day without praying, 27:10 what's happening to your spiritual life? 27:13 All right. 27:14 And then Jesus said that, 27:17 "Man should not live by breath alone," 27:19 Matthew 4:4, "but every word that comes..." 27:22 We talk about the Word of God is what seeds us spiritually. 27:27 Well, now how long can you go without eating 27:31 and not feel weak? 27:32 Let me put that way. 27:35 I don't know, might be... 27:37 You know, some people can go a day or two days. 27:40 But I think that's what you just said 27:43 is what it's all about. 27:45 Amen. 27:46 We've got to learn, 27:48 if salvation depends on staying in relationship with God, 27:53 we need and this is all that God asks of us, 27:57 "Seek My face." 27:59 He wants to, He's your Father, you're His child. 28:03 He wants you to learn to depend on Him. 28:06 So, though we even try to do this... 28:10 Let's look at John 15:5 28:12 because we got to kind of move this along 28:15 and see... 28:17 Who's got john 15:5? 28:21 I can read it. Okay. 28:22 John 15:5, says, 28:23 "I am the vine, you are the branches. 28:27 He who abides in Me and I in him, 28:31 bears much fruit, for without Me, 28:34 you can do nothing." 28:36 So who's speaking? 28:38 Jesus. 28:39 Jesus is speaking and He says, "Hey, I'm the vine. 28:43 I'm the one that has the life and you're the branches. 28:47 And apart from Me, you can do," what? 28:50 Nothing. Nothing. 28:51 So do we realize then that 28:57 even surrender is impossible without Jesus? 29:04 Yes, it is. 29:05 You know, I tried, I don't know about you. 29:08 But I tried for so long 29:12 to surrender control of my life to the Lord. 29:16 You know, and I would say, 29:17 "Oh, Lord, I'm willing to be made willing, help me," 29:21 you know, but I didn't understand 29:25 that it's being in that relationship with Him 29:29 'cause Philippians 4:13, 29:31 that's one of your favorite scriptures. 29:32 What does that say? Well, I love it. 29:34 What the Amplified says, you know, 29:37 that "I can do all things through Christ who empowers me. 29:41 He infuses His inner strength into us 29:44 and consequently we're equal to anything 29:47 and can do anything 29:50 because He's the one that's in us. 29:52 He is the strength, He is the sap," 29:54 here we're just talking about the tree here. 29:56 You know, 29:59 that will help you get past any speed bump in life. 30:04 And so I mean, I just love... 30:06 Well look at the juxtaposition of those two scriptures. 30:09 John 15:5, "Apart from Me, you can do nothing." 30:14 And then Philippians 4:13, 30:16 "With Him, you can do all things." 30:20 So when it comes to surrender, and once again, 30:24 we just wanna give you the definition for surrender, 30:27 is submitting your will to God. 30:31 And in saying like Jesus said, 30:34 "Not My will but yours be done." 30:36 It's recognizing 30:38 that God is all knowing, all powerful, all loving, 30:44 that God knows the end from the beginning. 30:47 He has your eternal benefit, 30:50 everything He does in your life, 30:53 He has your eternal benefit in mind. 30:55 So it is coming to the Lord and saying, 30:59 "Lord, teach me Your will." 31:01 "Teach me Your will, get me out of the way, 31:04 I'm giving you permission." 31:06 And you've got to do it in relationship with Jesus 31:09 and know through Him you can. 31:12 So let's take a few scriptures. 31:14 I would like to bring out an illustration 31:17 that I guess could be a help to somebody that's listening. 31:20 Sure. 31:22 You know, when there are two armies fighting 31:24 and there's one that's overcoming the other, 31:28 the one that's losing 31:31 either becomes a group of people 31:35 that say, "Well, we're not giving up! 31:36 We're not gonna surrender." 31:38 Or they can say, "Well, they're wiping us out. 31:41 We're gonna all die here." 31:42 And they put up that white flag, which means, 31:46 "We're gonna stop fighting because we're gonna get hurt. 31:50 And our people are getting hurt. 31:51 We don't want anyone else to get hurt." 31:53 So when we surrender, we are saying to the Lord, 31:56 "I don't want to be hurt anymore 31:58 by making my own choices, by doing my own things." 32:01 That's good. 32:02 "I would like for You to take over, Lord, 32:04 take over my life, 32:06 I'm gonna stop fighting on my own." 32:08 So we are allowing the Lord, 32:10 we're giving Him permission to bless us and benefit us 32:14 because that's what God wants to do. 32:16 "I love you, I want to benefit you, 32:19 I want to help you, 32:21 I wanna give you strength, I wanna give you peace, 32:23 I wanna give you happiness, joy." 32:25 So we give Him permission by giving up, 32:28 doing stuff on our own, fighting on our own. 32:30 And, you know, as human beings, 32:33 I guess we're like the little children 32:35 that you're trying to help them do something, 32:37 "And I guess I grown up enough to say, 32:39 'I can do it. I can do it.'" 32:42 And they want to tell you, 32:44 "Stop helping me because I can do this." 32:46 Right. 32:47 But with the Lord, 32:48 we need to understand that without Him, 32:51 like you said... 32:52 We can do nothing. We can do nothing. 32:53 Well, I'd like to share one thing here 32:56 is that I need the spirit of humility. 32:59 You know, in order to surrender, 33:01 this is how I feel. 33:03 I need to recognize that 33:08 if I am too self-sufficient, 33:11 I'm not gonna have the will or the interest to surrender. 33:15 And, you know, it's interesting 33:16 'cause what are we taught as a child, 33:18 they're trying to teach us to be self-sufficient, 33:20 to be independent. 33:22 That's right. That's right. 33:23 But I just wanna thank the Lord for prompting my heart, 33:27 you know, the Holy Spirit prompts your heart 33:30 when you are not spending enough time with Him 33:33 or it's time to talk again, 33:35 "Let's regroup." 33:37 And God is just so awesome to just express yourself 33:43 and feel that you got it all out of your system, 33:47 and that something better 33:49 is bound to happen in your life, 33:51 so yeah. 33:53 But let me, I wanna just kind of, 33:54 I was just looking at the scripture 33:56 when you were talking about humility. 33:59 Yes. Boy! 34:00 You know, God has given me a new definition for humility. 34:04 Oh, really? 34:05 Humility is total dependence on God. 34:08 And here's why I'll say that. 34:10 Philippians 2:5, Paul writes to the Philippines. 34:15 And he says, "Let this mind 34:17 which was also in Christ Jesus being you, who," 34:22 talking about Christ, "being in the form of God," 34:24 in other words, Jesus was God, 34:27 "did not consider it robbery to be equal with God," 34:30 because He was God, 34:32 "but he made himself of no reputation, 34:35 taking the form of a bondservant, 34:37 coming in the likeness of men. 34:40 And being found in appearance as a man, 34:42 He humbled Himself and became obedient 34:45 to the point of death, even the death of the cross." 34:48 So what he says, let this mind be in you, 34:52 here's God who came to earth in the person of Jesus Christ. 34:57 And although He was perfectly human, 34:59 He was still perfectly God, 35:01 but He totally humbled Himself to the will of the Lord. 35:07 And humility is just saying, 35:10 "Lord, I'm totally dependent upon you," 35:12 'cause Jesus said, 35:14 "You know, I only say what My Father has to say, 35:16 only do what My Father shows Me to do." 35:20 So He was being completely dependent upon God. 35:24 That's what we need to do. 35:25 Our prayer is, 35:27 "Lord, help me to be willing to be willing," 35:29 You know, to accept God's will for our lives. 35:31 This is true. 35:33 You know, it's interesting, it was just yesterday, 35:36 I was looking at the disciples 35:41 on the way to Gethsemane and on the way to cavalry. 35:45 They were talking about, 35:47 "Oh, when He's on that throne, I'm gonna be this," 35:50 and they were arguing 35:51 who's gonna get number one spot, 35:53 next to Jesus. 35:55 And the lesson of humility is the next lesson 35:58 that Jesus taught them. 36:00 They were in the upper room, 36:02 Jesus put on the servant's attire 36:06 and started washing their feet. 36:08 This lesson of humility is one 36:10 that is very important for us to learn. 36:11 Amen. 36:13 And we need to learn 36:14 that this scripture Philippians 2:5, 36:17 Philippians 2, 36:18 helps us understand that God Himself humbled Himself. 36:24 That is an incredible picture. 36:26 It says, "Being equal with God," 36:30 and then it says, 36:31 "Being like in appearance of men or fashioned." 36:35 He humbled Himself like a servant. 36:38 And that is something awesome to think about 36:42 that He's trying to teach us something. 36:44 And in humility and in giving up our own way, 36:48 we find strength, we find peace, 36:52 and all the wonderful things that God wants to do for us. 36:54 You know, can I say this, you know, we were... 36:59 Luke 22:42, Luke 22:42 says, 37:03 "Not My will, Lord, but Yours be done." 37:07 As I was looking at that, we're talking about humility, 37:09 we're talking about growing, we're looking for peace, 37:13 what a comfort zone that is. 37:16 Whenever if things don't go 37:18 just the way you anticipated it, 37:21 then you are mature enough, "Lord, Your will be done. 37:25 You're the one that's in charge." 37:27 And then so I remember I was driving an 18 Howler, 37:33 and it was a brand new truck. 37:35 First time I'd been out in it. 37:37 And I was in Lubbock, Texas, and I came in, 37:40 it was raining, raining, raining, 37:42 and the streets were really slick 37:45 and I came to a stop sign. 37:47 And there's a Polish truck after the stop sign. 37:50 The whole truck just kept moving. 37:55 And here came a car this away 37:57 and I just knew that I was gonna be hit. 38:02 And everything came into slow motion and rare 38:05 that everything just comes to slow motion. 38:07 And here I'm just barely moving, 38:10 here comes this car, 38:11 barely coming and I, "New truck!" 38:15 You know, a new truck. 38:16 And boy, I said, "Lord Jesus," 38:19 you know, I may not called out His name. 38:22 And Wow! 38:24 I don't know whatever an... 38:27 What is the word? Infinitesimal. 38:30 Just a tiny of tiny this, I was protected. 38:36 At that time, I trust... 38:37 Squished the angel but... 38:39 Thank you, Jesus. 38:41 Thank you, Angel. Amen. 38:42 You know, that's exactly right. 38:44 But He was always there 38:46 but not knowing how it got over there 38:48 but this has been on my mind. 38:49 But anyway, to me, it gives me great comfort 38:54 to know that even if I had been hit, 38:57 "Lord, that Your will be done." 38:59 There was some lesson for me to learn there. 39:01 Today, I'm a lot more mature than I was then. 39:04 And I just thank the Lord for that comfort zone 39:07 that I'm in right now. 39:09 I'm gonna tell you now and I'm gonna tell at home, 39:11 be careful around truck drivers. 39:14 I always figured that they were really professional. 39:17 Here he is. 39:19 We sold our business and I always said, 39:20 he loved to drive 39:22 and he went up to work with his brother. 39:24 And he bought this 18 wheeler 39:27 and I thought, "You got to be kidding me." 39:30 Two hours of training and he was on the road. 39:33 Mercy. Wow! 39:35 Great experience in my life, 39:36 it's like a little boy going off to camp. 39:39 Anyway... 39:40 It was like just looking 39:41 for who they don't know who they are, 39:43 it's a great fun, but they'll be careful. 39:45 Let me pick up on what Johnny was talking about 39:47 because when you said 39:51 and I forget how you said it now, 39:53 but what thought came to my mind 39:55 is at the end of the day, sometimes, you know, 40:00 I start off surrendered, I pray. 40:04 And then by the end of the day, you feel like, 40:10 "Did I really pray about this project 40:12 I was working on?" 40:14 I mean, can you be surrendered 40:16 and not know you're surrendered? 40:19 Good question. 40:21 You know, I mean, 40:22 because really we are depending on God, 40:25 and that's something I was beating myself up like, 40:28 "Oh, Lord, I didn't pray before I did this." 40:31 But the Lord showed me, "Hey, trust Me." 40:34 Well, He reminded you that you didn't pray about it. 40:36 Yeah. 40:38 But it's like you're in relationship, 40:40 you prayed during the day. 40:41 It's not like, you've stepped away. 40:43 It's right. 40:45 So even though I may not, 40:47 we switch hats around here so often, 40:49 even though I didn't pray at the beginning of that, 40:53 you know, I just had to tell Him, 40:55 thank You for helping me through that 40:56 because You're the one that gave me the efficiencies. 40:59 You're the one, and I know that I don't know, 41:03 if Jesus prayed every minute before He said, "Spoke," 41:06 but I think God shows us what to do 41:09 when you're in relationship with Him. 41:12 We just need to acknowledge, like Jesus said, 41:15 "Hey, I'm just doing what My Father shows me to do, 41:17 I'm just saying what He's..." you know? 41:19 Amen. Amen. 41:21 Don't you think? Amen. 41:22 I certainly know that we're work in progress. 41:25 You know, I don't know 41:27 which one of these two things to share first 41:28 because while somebody was talking, 41:30 this thought came to my mind, I said, 41:32 "How does this even fit 41:34 into our relationship with the Lord 41:37 and the talk progressed this way?" 41:40 You know, I don't know how many here or there 41:44 that are listening to us have ever tried 41:47 to help an animal that was wounded, a bird 41:50 or some other little creature. 41:53 And as you approach, 41:54 this animal is afraid and scared 41:57 and tries to bite or growl. 42:01 And God is trying to help us. 42:03 And here we are growling or trying to bite Him, 42:06 or you know, hurt Him when He's trying to help us. 42:12 And we need to stop doing that 42:14 because the Lord wants to help us. 42:16 Yes. 42:17 He wants to relieve the suffering 42:20 that we're going through 42:21 because anybody that is not with the Lord 42:23 is suffering. 42:25 Really, that's the reality of it. 42:27 And the longer we resist surrendering to God, 42:32 the longer our suffering is. 42:35 And so when we surrender, 42:37 begins our joy, begins our freedom. 42:41 And yes, we'll face difficult times, 42:44 but the Lord is with us to give us strength. 42:47 I think I'd like to read it this time, 42:48 Psalm 29:11, if I may. 42:52 Psalm 29:11, 42:53 because this is a scripture that one day I read and said, 42:57 "Wow! This is fantastic!" 43:00 And it communicates to us what God wants to do for us. 43:04 Psalm 29:11 says, 43:06 "The Lord will give strength to His people, 43:09 the Lord will bless His people with peace." 43:12 Isn't that wonderful? 43:13 Give that some thought. 43:15 That's what God wants to do for us. 43:17 Amen. Amen. 43:19 Well, He also has promised that in Jeremiah 29:13, 43:23 that when we search Him with all our heart, 43:26 we're gonna find Him. 43:28 That's right. 43:29 It says, "You shall seek Me and find Me 43:31 when you shall search for Me with all your heart." 43:35 Just, you know, take... 43:39 I don't know if the expression is take a gamble 43:41 or take a risk, you know, into trusting God. 43:45 Take a risk that God is waiting for you. 43:52 As soon as you surrender, He is going to cradle you. 43:58 And you're gonna know it's the Lord cradling you. 44:01 When you enter in that, in His presence, 44:05 as you surrender your heart, your thoughts, your life, 44:09 and I just want you to try it. 44:12 And it may sound hard to do 44:15 because our nature is self-sufficiency. 44:18 But we have a standing invitation, 44:21 an open invitation to come unto Jesus. 44:24 Amen. 44:25 And I hope that people hear 44:26 what you just said because that is an invitation. 44:28 Amen. Yes. 44:30 Well, and you know, 44:31 I love the scripture before that in Jeremiah 29:12. 44:35 He says, "I am the Lord 44:37 and I've got a plan for your life, 44:40 a plan to do good, and not to do evil, 44:43 a plan to prosper you." 44:45 And when transitions knew it 44:49 to the next scripture it says, 44:51 then, "You will come and seek Me with all your heart 44:56 and you're gonna find Me." 44:57 But when do we seek Him? 44:59 When we finally recognize, 45:01 you know, we have the humility to recognize. 45:05 We don't know what's best for us. 45:07 Yes. But God's got this plan. 45:08 And if you recognize God has a plan for your life, 45:11 that makes you wanna seek Him, I think. 45:14 I just get frustrated sometimes 45:16 because we tend to trust human beings 45:19 more than we trust our Creator God, 45:22 you know, 45:24 our parents will give us anything in the world, right? 45:28 But they're still imperfect, they are not perfect. 45:32 But God, who is the Almighty, all powerful, the perfect God, 45:38 perfect parent, we leave Him for last. 45:42 Why is that? 45:44 You know, 45:45 I just want to overcome that temptation 45:49 of surrendering or seeking, not that there's bad things 45:55 in praying together and seeking counsel, 45:58 I so appreciate your phone calls 46:00 and praying together, JD and Shelley. 46:04 Shelley, you know, 46:05 you've been there and I missed your phone calls 46:07 and stuff when we got so busy. 46:09 But it's interesting that if we would just pull away 46:15 and just concentrate and making a purpose, 46:20 effort or effort with purpose, right, of surrendering. 46:25 Just five minutes let's surrender our thoughts. 46:29 Five minutes, five seconds. 46:31 You know, how many things go through our heads 46:33 in five seconds, right? 46:35 You know, there's something interesting. 46:39 There are people that think being a Christian, 46:41 you're a slave, you're miserable, 46:45 but the opposite is true. 46:47 You know, and I've even wondered 46:49 why some people are atheists and there may be some atheist 46:54 or they think they're atheists listening right now. 46:57 And I said to myself, either people are atheist 47:00 because they haven't really tasted, 47:03 they haven't tried the Lord. 47:04 Or there are some atheists 47:06 that because something didn't turn out 47:07 the way they thought they should, 47:10 they know there's a God, but they're like, 47:11 "I'm not gonna follow the Lord, I'm not gonna acknowledge Him, 47:16 I'm just gonna live my own, do my own thing." 47:18 Or they've been taught maybe that He is a God 47:21 that's gonna burn them for eternity. 47:23 Yeah. 47:24 And they've been taught error about the Lord. 47:27 That's right. 47:28 But the people that like the scripture 47:29 says in Psalm 34, 47:31 "Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good." 47:34 They know that their relationship with God 47:36 brings them freedom, brings them joy, 47:40 brings them happiness. 47:42 And where they go, 47:45 wherever they are, they have this peace, 47:48 they have this happiness about them 47:50 because they know that the Lord is with them. 47:53 "Oh, this situation is terrible, 47:55 but the Lord is with me. 47:56 And I don't know what He's gonna do with it. 47:58 But the Lord is going to help me through it." 47:59 You know, 48:02 I'm hoping to communicate to somebody out there 48:05 that has stayed away from the Lord, 48:07 because for some reason, 48:12 to realize that there's joy in knowing the Lord. 48:15 As the scripture says, and you know, 48:16 we're sharing scripture, it says, 48:18 within the presence of the Lord there is... 48:20 Joy forever. Fullness of joy, joy forever. 48:23 So I'm saying to somebody, 48:25 taste and see that the Lord is good. 48:28 Amen. 48:29 Let me ask the answer that will say one thing 48:31 to your point about thinking that you're gonna be a slave. 48:35 You know what, actually we're all slaves, 48:38 we're either slaves to the devil 48:39 or slaves to the Lord. 48:41 According to Paul, he says, 48:42 "Do you not know to whom you present yourselves," 48:44 this is Romans 6:16, 48:48 "present yourself slaves to obey, 48:50 "you are that one's slaves whom you obey, 48:53 "whether of sin leading to death 48:56 or of obedience leading to righteousness?" 49:00 The difference is, 49:02 the devil is a harsh taskmaster, 49:06 very controlling. 49:08 Whereas when we come to the Lord 49:10 and trust Him 49:13 that He loves us that He, you know, 49:16 with a wholehearted love, 49:17 one that He was willing to die for us, 49:21 and that He wants what's best for us, 49:23 He designed us, He knows what's best for us, 49:27 then... 49:28 And when we know 49:29 all He asks from us is loyalty and love. 49:34 I mean, He just wants love, right? 49:37 So then if you realize, all He's saying is, 49:40 "Seek My face, child, come close to Me, 49:43 stay in relationship with Me, let's talk." 49:47 And then we know that it's Jesus, 49:52 all things we can do through Him. 49:55 So, honey, talk about some of the scriptures 49:59 about how much we need the Holy Spirit 50:03 in order to even say, 50:05 "Not my will, but Yours be done." 50:07 How do we invite the Holy Spirit 50:09 by scripture promises into our life? 50:12 Well, first, let me just back up because, 50:15 boy, you hit on something here, and I got to speak this 50:21 'cause we're talking about relationship, 50:23 we're talking about surrendering, 50:25 and there are people 50:27 that are looking for a ministry, 50:29 and it might be bit more difficult to find 50:33 if you're just fine and volunteer for someone. 50:36 Just do something good for somebody, 50:40 make that the objective for the day, 50:42 and then that will produce fruit right there 50:46 because that's what we're talking about. 50:47 We're talking about relationship here, 50:49 the very bottom line, relationship, 50:52 and it has to start some place 50:53 and if you don't understand truly who God is, 50:56 because you haven't had an opportunity 50:58 to mature in that area, or just help a friend. 51:02 And is that... 51:03 And then as you start that walk, 51:05 then He will start adding in, 51:08 all of a sudden, this kind of like, 51:10 you're regretting of this tree, 51:12 I understand there are trees out there. 51:14 I don't have a tree that has multiple fruit on it. 51:17 One tree, let's just say, it's a plum tree, 51:22 and they've gone in and they've grafted, 51:24 you grown peaches off the plum tree, plums. 51:26 I mean, wow. 51:28 And so that is available 51:29 if you will allow yourself to be involved. 51:32 What I love here and I think 51:34 that we mentioned a while ago, Shelley, 51:35 and that's Psalms 143:10, 51:37 and I know that's worked in my life. 51:39 "Lord, teach me, teach me Your will, 51:42 teach me what I do not see. 51:44 I do feel like I'm missing something. 51:46 Something's not aligning up. 51:48 There's got to be more to life than just a dead end street. 51:52 There's got to be more to life than just being selfish. 51:55 There's got to be more than the laugh and there, 51:57 you know, just so I'm giving You permission." 52:00 But what a powerful statement that is. 52:04 "I give you permission, you know, to do..." 52:09 And so anyway, I love Psalm 143:10, 52:13 "Teach me do Your will, Lord, 52:14 for You are my God, the Holy Spirit is good." 52:18 And what I'm looking for, 52:20 I don't wanna walk through life, I've been over, 52:22 I wanna be able to walk through life upright. 52:25 Okay. 52:27 So let's we're getting down to the little time, 52:30 kind of let's go back and recap. 52:32 What God is looking from us is our love. 52:37 He wants to be your Father, He wants you to be His child, 52:41 all He says is seek my face. 52:44 Now if we're going to have a relationship, 52:48 and Jesus said in John 17:3, 52:51 that this is eternal life that you would know Him 52:55 and the one whom He sent. 52:57 So to know someone, you got to have conversation, 53:00 so we've talked about that's prayer and Bible study. 53:03 And we don't study the Bible 53:05 for just to answer the Sabbath school questions 53:08 'cause that... 53:10 I mean, that's for head knowledge. 53:11 I mean, the Pharisees had a lot of hidden knowledge. 53:15 What He wants us to do is to get into the Word 53:18 and let Him talk to us and say, 53:20 "Wow, Lord, is that what you mean? 53:22 And oh, Lord, this is a wonderful promise." 53:25 Let me... 53:26 You know, just for example, in Luke 11:13, Jesus says, 53:32 if we ask how much more will the Heavenly Father 53:37 give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him, 53:40 so as you read, you just go on, 53:42 "Oh, wow, Lord, thank You!" 53:45 And you're just talking with Him, 53:46 letting Him talk to you. 53:48 You talk to Him. 53:50 Now we've decided 53:52 it's difficult to stay in relationship with someone 53:56 when you're not having a conversation. 53:57 You can go out 53:58 and do all the service in the world. 54:02 You can be a pastor. 54:04 I interviewed, we interviewed, I should say, 54:07 a pastor recently, 54:09 who said he quit for like 12 years 54:12 because he was busy. 54:14 He said it got to the point 54:16 where he still gave good sermons, 54:18 but he was only in the Word 54:19 to come up with sermon material, 54:22 not to have a personal relationship 54:24 with the Lord. 54:25 And he lost his relationship, and he walked away. 54:29 But God brought him back. 54:31 I mean, halleluiah. Amen. 54:33 So the idea of surrender is saying, 54:37 "Lord, I want Your will to be done in my life. 54:42 Help me by the power of Your Holy Spirit. 54:45 Fill me with Your spirit. 54:46 Lord Jesus, live in my heart, 54:49 And help me to accept Your choices." 54:53 That's another reason why you got to be in the Word 54:55 is so that we know what God's choices are for us. 54:58 But let's... 55:00 I want to be sure that we look at Romans 8:13 55:06 because, you know, 55:09 we usually talk about 55:11 picking up our cross and dying to self 55:14 and certainly we're asked to do that. 55:18 But we can't do it in our own power, right? 55:20 That's right. 55:21 And here's I wanted to just show in Romans 8:13, 55:26 that Paul says, 55:28 If you live according to the flesh," 55:31 what's going to happen? 55:32 You'll die. You'll die. 55:33 "You'll die. 55:35 "But if by the Spirit, 55:38 you put to death the deeds of the body," 55:40 who's doing the work here? 55:43 The Holy Spirit's not gonna do it all for you 55:46 but neither can you do it without him. 55:48 It's a cooperative work. 55:50 "If by the Spirit you put to death 55:53 the deeds of the body, you will live. 55:56 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, 55:59 these are the sons of God," the children of God. 56:04 Oh, I hope that we made surrender 56:07 seem a little bit easier to you. 56:09 You can't do it apart from Jesus Christ. 56:13 But we know through Him, we can do all things. 56:16 So, honey, do you wanna close with a prayer 56:20 before we say goodbye? 56:22 Amen. 56:23 Father as we come together on the Sabbath day, 56:24 I just wanna thank You, Lord, for Your blessings. 56:27 I wanna thank You, Lord, 56:28 that we can call upon Your name. 56:30 I wanna thank You, Lord, that You are available 56:33 that we can have a relationship with 56:35 and, Father, with that relationship, 56:37 that we will progress positively 56:39 and we will be able, through cooperation with You, 56:45 fulfill our destiny on this earth. 56:47 Lord, we love You and we thank You 56:48 and give You all praise and glory 56:50 in the name of Jesus. 56:51 Amen. Amen. 56:53 Amen. Well, we just are so thankful. 56:56 You know we love you. 56:57 And I'm trying not to tap you on your sore arm here. 57:01 Thank you for the inspiration you are, 57:04 especially with the injuries, 57:05 you're still suffering from that too. 57:07 Praise the Lord. 57:08 You don't whine, you smile enough. 57:11 You just keep going for the glory of the Lord. 57:13 Amen. 57:14 And we wanna thank you, Johnny, because you do an... 57:17 God does an incredible work through you. 57:20 But I'm always very impressed with your humility, 57:24 and with your humility, my darling. 57:27 Amen. Amen. 57:29 And we just want to let you know 57:32 that our prayer for you 57:33 is at the grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 57:36 and the love of the Father 57:38 and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit 57:40 will be with yours, 57:41 and you will understand all He asks 57:44 is stay in relationship with Him. 57:46 He'll do the rest. 57:48 Happy Sabbath. |
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