¤ I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE ¤ ¤ SPEND MY LIFE ¤ 00:00:04.43\00:00:08.80 ¤ MENDING BROKEN PEOPLE ¤ ¤ I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE ¤ 00:00:08.80\00:00:17.68 ¤ REMOVING PAIN ¤ ¤ LORD, LET MY WORDS ¤ 00:00:17.68\00:00:26.86 ¤ LET MY WORDS ¤ ¤ HEAL UP HEARTS THAT HURT ¤ 00:00:26.86\00:00:33.16 ¤ I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE ¤ ¤ MENDING BROKEN PEOPLE ¤ 00:00:33.16\00:00:45.31 ¤ I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE ¤ ¤ MENDING BROKEN PEOPLE ¤ 00:00:45.31\00:00:56.75 >> HELLO AND WELCOME TO ANOTHER 3ABN THURSDAY NIGHT LIVE, AND WE 00:01:07.56\00:01:13.40 ARE LIVE FROM SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, WEST FRANKVILLE, ILLINOIS, 00:01:13.40\00:01:19.17 THOMPSONVILLE, KIND OF RIGHT ON THE LINE. 00:01:19.17\00:01:21.54 HOW HAS YOUR WEEK BEEN? I KNOW HERE AT 3ABN, IT HAS BEEN 00:01:21.54\00:01:25.28 A BUSY WEEK, A FUN WEEK, AND WE HAVE HAD SOME SNOW. 00:01:25.28\00:01:29.32 WE HAVE HAD SNOW ON THE GROUND FOR ABOUT A WEEK. 00:01:29.32\00:01:32.95 WE HAVE WHAT YOU CALL SLEET, AND CAUSED THE ROADS TO BE A LITTLE 00:01:32.95\00:01:37.49 SLIPPERY, BUT THE LORD IS GOOD. WE MADE IT HERE, AND WE JUST 00:01:37.49\00:01:42.13 APPRECIATE YOU TUNING IN, AND THANK YOU, AGAIN, FOR JOINING 00:01:42.13\00:01:47.14 US. BUT GOD IS GOOD. 00:01:47.14\00:01:49.04 WE'RE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE DO NEW 00:01:49.04\00:01:54.01 YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS, AND I KNOW THEY ARE HARD TO KEEP SOMETIMES. 00:01:54.01\00:02:00.15 I LIKE TO RECOMMIT MY LIFE TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, SO 00:02:00.15\00:02:04.72 TONIGHT WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT REDEDICATION, AND 00:02:04.72\00:02:09.76 WE'RE GOING TO DO SOME QUESTIONS LATER ON. 00:02:09.76\00:02:12.73 AND WE DID AN EMAIL BLAST EARLIER. 00:02:12.73\00:02:15.40 >> WE DID. WE ALREADY GOT SOME QUESTIONS 00:02:15.40\00:02:17.30 FROM YOU AT HOME, SO THANK YOU. >> YEAH, THAT'S FOR SURE. 00:02:17.30\00:02:20.97 ONE OF THE FIRST ONES THAT CAME IN WAS FROM DONNA. 00:02:20.97\00:02:26.14 SO THANK YOU, DONNA. >> AND THIS IS A LIVE PROGRAM, 00:02:26.14\00:02:29.68 SO SEND IN YOUR QUESTIONS. I'M SO EXCITED ABOUT TONIGHT'S 00:02:29.68\00:02:36.12 PROGRAM, BECAUSE WE ALL NEED A REDEDICATION, AND A 00:02:36.12\00:02:41.39 RECONSECRATION, AT LEAST I DO. AND WHAT BETTER WAY THAN AT THE 00:02:41.39\00:02:44.96 START OF THE NEW YEAR, TO COME BEFORE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND-SAY I WANT TO DEDICATE MY 00:02:44.96\00:02:55.44 LIFE ANEW TO YOU. GOD WANTS TO DO A NEW THING IN 00:02:55.44\00:02:58.17 EACH ONE OF OUR LIVES, SO IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW YOU CAN 00:02:58.17\00:03:01.94 BECOME A NEW PERSON IN JESUS, HOW YOU CAN EXPERIENCE THAT 00:03:01.94\00:03:06.55 TRANSFORMATION THAT HE WANTS TO WORK IN YOUR LIFE AND YOUR 00:03:06.55\00:03:09.42 HEART, SEND IN YOUR QUESTIONS RIGHT NOW, AND WE WILL DO OUR 00:03:09.42\00:03:13.09 BEST TO GET TO THEM, THAT'S LIVE@3ABN.TV. 00:03:13.09\00:03:20.33 I ALWAYS FORGET THE DOT-TV. LIVE@3ABN.TV, OR THE CALL CENTER 00:03:20.33\00:03:27.44 IS OPEN TONIGHT. SO YOU CAN ALWAYS GIVE US A 00:03:27.44\00:03:31.34 CALL. 618-627-4651. 00:03:31.34\00:03:32.64 AND I ALSO WANT TO SAY MAYBE YOU SAY -- I DON'T HAVE A QUESTION, 00:03:32.64\00:03:36.34 BUT I REALLY NEED PRAYER. I'M SEEKING SOMETHING NEW IN MY 00:03:36.34\00:03:39.41 LIFE. I'M SEEKING A NEW DIRECTION, A 00:03:39.41\00:03:42.32 NEW TURN. I'M STRUGGLING WITH THINGS I 00:03:42.32\00:03:45.39 DON'T KNOW HOW TO LET GO OF, THEN SEND IN YOUR PRAYER 00:03:45.39\00:03:49.42 REQUEST, AND WE WILL PRAYER FOR YOU TONIGHT. 00:03:49.42\00:03:51.86 AND WE HAVE SPECIAL GUEST TONIGHT. 00:03:51.86\00:03:54.10 WE SHOULD INTRODUCE THEM, SWEETY. 00:03:54.10\00:03:56.90 >> I AGREE. WE HAVE SHELLEY QUINN. 00:03:56.90\00:04:00.84 THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US. >> IT'S ALWAYS A BLESSING TO BE 00:04:00.84\00:04:05.27 HERE, AND I JUST WANTED TO ADD ONE THING TO JILL'S POINT, NOT 00:04:05.27\00:04:11.21 ONLY WILL WE PRAY OVER YOUR REQUEST TONIGHT, BUT THE 00:04:11.21\00:04:15.85 PASTORAL DEPARTMENT WILL CONTINUE TO PRAY OVER YOUR 00:04:15.85\00:04:19.35 PRAYER REQUEST ALL OF NEXT WEEK. SO BE SURE TO SEND THEM IN. 00:04:19.35\00:04:22.99 >> AND I APPRECIATE THE PASTORAL DEPARTMENT, BECAUSE IT'S A 00:04:22.99\00:04:28.73 LIFELINE TO MANY PEOPLE. YOUR HUSBAND LEADS THAT 00:04:28.73\00:04:31.53 DEPARTMENT, HE DOES A GREAT JOB, AND HE HAS A GREAT TEAM. 00:04:31.53\00:04:36.50 >> YES, SIR. >> AND PASTOR JOHN DINZEY, IT'S 00:04:36.50\00:04:41.01 NICE TO HAVE YOU HERE. >> IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE HERE. 00:04:41.01\00:04:46.61 I'M IN THE MIDDLE SEAT. I HAVE HAD THE MIDDLE SEAT ON 00:04:46.61\00:04:52.72 AIRPLANES AND PEOPLE SOMETIMES FALL ASLEEP ON YOUR SHOULDER. 00:04:52.72\00:05:01.63 >> I MAY DO THAT. >> AND YOU HAD AN ACCIDENT 00:05:01.63\00:05:12.01 RECENTLY. TELL US HOW YOUR WIFE IS DOING, 00:05:12.01\00:05:14.94 QUICKLY? >> YES, THIS WEEK I HAD THE 00:05:14.94\00:05:17.55 FOLLOW-UP OF AN MRI, THAT -- THE MRI WAS ORDERED BY THE 00:05:17.55\00:05:24.85 ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON, BECAUSE THERE WAS A LUMP -- THERE STILL 00:05:24.85\00:05:28.59 IS A LITTLE BIT ON MY KNEE, AND THE -- THERE'S -- MY ANKLE 00:05:28.59\00:05:33.60 WAS -- SINCE IT WAS SWOLLEN, HE WANTED TO SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON 00:05:33.60\00:05:37.93 IN THERE. ARE THERE ANY BROKEN BONES.-MUSCLE TEARS, THOSE TYPE 00:05:37.93\00:05:44.84 OF THINGS, BECAUSE I HAD X RAYS AND THERE WERE NO BROKEN BONE, 00:05:44.84\00:05:48.54 BUT THE FOLLOW-UP WITH THE ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON, HE SAID YOUR 00:05:48.54\00:05:52.51 ANKLE LOOKS NORMAL. >> AMEN. 00:05:52.51\00:05:54.45 >> AND IT'S LOOKING GOOD, AND THAT LUMP THAT -- HE THOUGHT IT 00:05:54.45\00:05:58.32 WAS -- HE SAID WE'RE TRYING TO EVALUATE IT, AND HE SAID IT IS A 00:05:58.32\00:06:06.90 CYST, OR A HEMATOMA. BUT HE SAID IT HAS GONE DOWN 00:06:06.90\00:06:16.34 CONSIDERABLY. THERE'S NO NEED FOR AN 00:06:16.34\00:06:19.67 OPERATION. >> PRAISE THE LORD. 00:06:19.67\00:06:20.78 >> NO NEED FOR AN OPERATION, PRAISE THE LORD. 00:06:20.78\00:06:23.51 >> AMEN. >> IT WAS A GOOD DAY. 00:06:23.51\00:06:26.61 A GOOD DAY TO HEAR THAT. MY WIFE ALSO HAD AN MRI, AND IT 00:06:26.61\00:06:34.16 REVEALED THAT SHE DOES NOT NEED ROTATOR CUFF SURGERY, BUT SHE 00:06:34.16\00:06:39.43 DOES HAVE SOME SWELLING IN HER SHOULDER, AND SHE STILL HAS 00:06:39.43\00:06:43.60 TROUBLE LIFTING HER ARM -- IT'S VERY PAINFUL, BASICALLY HER ARM 00:06:43.60\00:06:49.17 STILL HURTS ALL DAY, THEY ORDERED ANOTHER MRI, BECAUSE THE 00:06:49.17\00:06:55.08 MRI THEY TOOK DID NOT GO LOW ENOUGH -- BECAUSE THERE IS 00:06:55.08\00:06:58.95 SOMETHING GOING ON OVER HERE, AND IT'S LIKE THE MUSCLE HAS 00:06:58.95\00:07:03.69 LIQUID IN FRONT OF IT, BUT IT'S VERY SOFT AND TENDER, AND SO SHE 00:07:03.69\00:07:08.29 HAS PAIN MOST OF THE DAY, AND SHE DOESN'T WANT TO TAKE ANY 00:07:08.29\00:07:13.50 PAIN MEDICATION, BECAUSE SOME OF THAT PAIN MEDICATION IS 00:07:13.50\00:07:17.07 ADDICTIVE, AND SHE IS A STRONG, STRONG WOMAN -- 00:07:17.07\00:07:20.44 >> TELL ABOUT HER DIAPHRAGM. >> YES. 00:07:20.44\00:07:23.57 NO -- EXTERNALLY, YOU MAY NOT SEE, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THINGS 00:07:23.57\00:07:30.21 THAT TOOK PLACE BECAUSE GOD PROTECTED US FROM LACERATIONS IN 00:07:30.21\00:07:33.01 THE FACE AND BROKEN NECKS AND BROKEN BACKS, AND THOSE TYPE OF 00:07:33.01\00:07:38.09 THINGS, BUT -- I MEN THE PICTURES OF THE VEHICLE TO ME 00:07:38.09\00:07:41.89 ARE EVIDENCE THAT GOD SAVED US FROM DEATH OR SOMETHING 00:07:41.89\00:07:46.56 WORST -- OR NOT SOMETHING WORSE THAN DEATH, BUT SOMETHING WORSE 00:07:46.56\00:07:50.13 THAN THE CONDITION WE'RE IN. >> YES. 00:07:50.13\00:07:52.83 >> SHE HAS 10 BROKEN RIBS THAT ARE STILL HEALING. 00:07:52.83\00:07:56.50 WE HAVE RECENTLY SEEN SOME SCANS, AND IT SHOWS THAT ONE OF 00:07:56.50\00:08:01.78 THE RIBS IS NOT CONNECTING RIGHT, AND IT IS STILL NOT LINED 00:08:01.78\00:08:05.75 UP WITH THE OTHER, AND SO SHE SAID THAT IS WHY I FEEL LIKE 00:08:05.75\00:08:10.35 SOMETHING IS POKING MY LUNGS. SO THE DIAPHRAGM, EITHER THE 00:08:10.35\00:08:16.52 SEAT BELT OR THE STEERING WHEEL, PUSHED UP AGAINST HERE, AND IT 00:08:16.52\00:08:21.33 IS HIGHER THAN IT SHOULD BE, AND THE DOCTOR SAID IT'S PUSHING UP 00:08:21.33\00:08:27.10 AGAINST HER LUNG. AND HE SAID WE'RE GOING TO WAIT 00:08:27.10\00:08:29.64 FOUR TO SIX MONTHS TO SEE IF IT WILL GO DOWN ON ITS OWN, IF NOT, 00:08:29.64\00:08:35.91 SURGERY IS A POSSIBILITY, AND SHE'S MADE SOME PROGRESS, THANKS 00:08:35.91\00:08:41.22 TO THE LORD, BUT STILL, PRAYER IS NEEDED AND WE KNOW THE LORD 00:08:41.22\00:08:45.19 WILL BLESS US. >> AMEN. 00:08:45.19\00:08:46.72 >> AMEN. >> YEAH, WE APPRECIATE BOTH YOU 00:08:46.72\00:08:50.23 AND YOUR WIFE, AND GOD IS GOOD. >> M-- AMEN. 00:08:50.23\00:09:00.97 >> AND BOY WE JUST APPRECIATE YOUR PRAYERS FOR THEM AND FOR 00:09:00.97\00:09:04.87 THE 3ABN FAMILY. IT'S NEAT. 00:09:04.87\00:09:07.41 WE CAN JUST REACH OUT AND WE KNOW THAT GOT HEARS AND ANSWERS. 00:09:07.41\00:09:12.05 >> WHEN YOU KNOW SOMEONE HAS BEEN IN CHRONIC PAIN, AND 00:09:12.05\00:09:16.55 ESPECIALLY WHEN SOMETHING -- A LIFE-CHANGING EVENT, WE NEED TO 00:09:16.55\00:09:20.89 REALLY PRAY FOR THEIR EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING AS 00:09:20.89\00:09:26.16 WELL, BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU ARE PHYSICALLY DEPRESSED AND 00:09:26.16\00:09:30.77 YOU ARE IN PAIN, PRETTY SOON IT CAN TAKE AN EMOTIONAL TOLL ON 00:09:30.77\00:09:36.27 YOU. I SPEN THREE MONTHS IN A 00:09:36.27\00:09:39.21 HOSPITAL, AND A YEAR IN A BODY BRACE, AND YOU FEEL LIKE LIFE 00:09:39.21\00:09:43.78 WILL NEVER BE THE SAME, AND IT IS EASY TO BECOME EMOTIONALLY 00:09:43.78\00:09:52.59 DEPRESSED, AND IDALIA IS A VERY STRONG WOMAN, BUT I AM PRAYING 00:09:52.59\00:10:04.07 THAT FOR HER. >> SHE STILL HAS FOUR MORE WEEKS 00:10:04.07\00:10:08.10 OF THERAPY ORDERED BY THE ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON, AND THEN HE 00:10:08.10\00:10:13.71 WANTS TO SEE HER AGAIN, SO WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IS AHEAD. 00:10:13.71\00:10:17.15 WE'RE PRAYING FOR THE LORD'S BLESSING, BUT, YOU KNOW, YOU ARE 00:10:17.15\00:10:20.95 DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD AND THINGS HAPPEN. 00:10:20.95\00:10:22.85 FOR EXAMPLE, WE WERE IN WEST FRANKFORT GOING TO VISIT 00:10:22.85\00:10:27.59 THE -- SOME BROTHERS FROM THE CHURCH -- 00:10:27.59\00:10:30.36 >> SURE. OKAY. 00:10:30.36\00:10:31.83 >> -- AND A VEHICLE, COMING FROM A SIDE ROAD, IT SEEMED LIKE HE 00:10:31.83\00:10:35.80 WAS GOING TO KEEP GOING THROUGH THE STOP SIGN, AND SHE WENT -- 00:10:35.80\00:10:40.87 >> SURE. >> FLASH BACK TO THE ACCIDENT. 00:10:40.87\00:10:43.07 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> OF COURSE I SAW HIM TOO, BUT 00:10:43.07\00:10:45.97 WHEN SHE DID THAT, I AFFECTED ME TOO, BECAUSE THESE THINGS 00:10:45.97\00:10:51.48 ALMOST EVERY WEEK THAT WE'RE GOING TO THERAPY, SOMETHING 00:10:51.48\00:10:54.92 HAPPENS IN THE ROAD THAT -- YOU KNOW? 00:10:54.92\00:10:57.12 AND SHE HAS HAD TIMES -OF -- SHE -- SHE -- AND IT'S AN 00:10:57.12\00:11:01.89 ADJUSTMENT. >> OF COURSE. >> IT'S A TIME OF HEALING THAT 00:11:01.89\00:11:04.23 NEEDS TO TAKE PLACE. >> WE APPRECIATE YOUR LEADERSHIP 00:11:04.23\00:11:07.76 OF 3ABN LATINO, AND IT IS -- 15? >> IT IS GOING TO BE 15TH 00:11:07.76\00:11:15.97 ANNIVERSARY THIS COMING AUGUST, AND WE'RE ASKING THE LORD FOR 00:11:15.97\00:11:19.97 AMAZING THINGS TO HAPPEN. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:11:19.97\00:11:22.54 SITTING NEXT TO YOU, PASTOR KENNY SHELTON, AND I TELL YOU, 00:11:22.54\00:11:26.15 WE JUST -- WE APPRECIATE YOU AND YOUR WIFE. 00:11:26.15\00:11:30.09 IT HAS BEEN A -- ABOUT A YEAR SINCE YOU WENT THROUGH OPEN 00:11:30.09\00:11:34.02 HEART SURGERY AND GOD A GOOD. YOU KNOW, HE HAS SEEN YOU 00:11:34.02\00:11:37.16 THROUGH THAT, AND I KNOW THERE'S BEEN -- REPERCUSSIONS AFTER 00:11:37.16\00:11:41.16 THAT, BUT I TELL YOU, IT'S A BLESSING TO HAVE YOU HERE WITH 00:11:41.16\00:11:44.77 US THIS EVENING, AND I KNOW WE WERE TALKING EARLIER, RIGHT NOW 00:11:44.77\00:11:50.11 THERE'S A LITTLE SNOW ON THE GROUND, AND THE WINTER TO US IS 00:11:50.11\00:11:54.88 A LITTLE BIT COLD. WE HAD LIKE 2 BELOW ZERO THIS 00:11:54.88\00:11:59.25 WEEK, WHICH TO JILL AND MYSELF THAT'S KIND OF COLD. 00:11:59.25\00:12:03.55 I KNOW PASTOR KENNY, YOU DID CONSTRUCTION. 00:12:03.55\00:12:07.49 YOU HELPED YOUR BROTHER, DANNY SHELTON, MANY YEARS IN 00:12:07.49\00:12:12.49 CONSTRUCTION, AND IT CAN BE KIND OF BRUTAL THIS TIME OF YEAR. 00:12:12.49\00:12:15.86 >> YES. YES. 00:12:15.86\00:12:17.37 I THINK THIS HAS BEEN AN EXCEPTIONAL YEAR. 00:12:17.37\00:12:22.54 IT GETS IN THE 20S, AND THAT IS COLD, BUT GOD HAS BEEN GOOD -- 00:12:22.54\00:12:27.08 >> AMEN. >> AND I SAY LORD THANK YOU FOR 00:12:27.08\00:12:30.98 A WARM HOUSE. >> AMEN. 00:12:30.98\00:12:32.81 >> THANK YOU FOR THE FOOD. THANK YOU FOR THESE THINGS, 00:12:32.81\00:12:37.75 BECAUSE YOU JUST KNOW OUT IN THIS KIND OF WEATHER, YOU HAVE 00:12:37.75\00:12:42.22 TO BE PROTECTED, OR YOU ARE NOT GOING TO LAST VERY LONG. 00:12:42.22\00:12:47.66 >> AMEN. THIS EVENING WE WANT TO HAVE 00:12:47.66\00:12:51.60 MULTIPLE SEASONS OF PRAYER. WE WERE TALKING ABOUT GOD'S 00:12:51.60\00:12:55.07 GOODNESS, SEEING US THROUGH DIFFERENT HEALTH CHALLENGES, AND 00:12:55.07\00:12:57.84 THINGS LIKE THAT, BUT YET THERE ARE STILL THINGS THAT WE ALL 00:12:57.84\00:13:00.88 DEAL WITH, SO WE WANT TO ACTUALLY PRAY FOR YOU AT HOME. 00:13:00.88\00:13:05.25 AND MAKE WE CAN ALL PRAY TOGETHER. 00:13:05.25\00:13:07.18 YOU CAN BOW YOUR HEAD AT HOME. THOSE THAT ARE VIEWING EVEN 00:13:07.18\00:13:11.89 TONIGHT, NONE OF US KNOW YOUR NAME, BUT THE NEAT THING IS, GOD 00:13:11.89\00:13:17.46 DOES. I THINK IT'S PSALM 147 OR 145, 00:13:17.46\00:13:24.13 IT SAYS THAT GOD KNOWS THE NUMBER OF STARS D 00:13:24.13\00:13:27.10 >> 147. >> 147. 00:13:27.10\00:13:29.84 HE KNOWS THE NUMBER OF STARS, AND GET THIS, IT ALSO SAYS HE 00:13:29.84\00:13:35.44 CALLS THEM ALL BY NAME. AND HE KNOWS WHO YOU ARE. 00:13:35.44\00:13:40.75 SO PASTOR KENNY, WHY DON'T YOU PRAYER. 00:13:40.75\00:13:44.62 >> AMEN. WE INVITE YOU AT HOME TO PRAY 00:13:44.62\00:13:47.59 ALONG WITH US TOO. KIND HEAVENLY FATHER WHAT A 00:13:47.59\00:13:51.43 PRIVILEGE IT IS THAT WE CAN PRAY, AND COME TO OUR HEAVENLY 00:13:51.43\00:13:55.96 FATHER AND BRING OUR PETITIONS TO YOU, YOU SAID YOU WOULD HEAR, 00:13:55.96\00:14:01.50 YOU WOULD BEND LOW, THAT YOU WOULD PUT YOUR EAR DOWN CLOSE, 00:14:01.50\00:14:05.27 THAT YOU WOULD HEAR OUR CRIES, AND HEAR WHEN WE'RE JOYFUL AND A 00:14:05.27\00:14:10.11 LITTLE BIT SAD. THINGS ARE GOING ON IN THE 00:14:10.11\00:14:13.01 WORLD, SO, LORD, TONIGHT WE ARE REACHES OUT TO THOSE WHO MAYBE 00:14:13.01\00:14:17.45 HAD A ROUGH DAY OR A ROUGH YEAR. SOME OF IT WE CAN'T UNDERSTAND, 00:14:17.45\00:14:22.22 BUT WE KNOW FOR SURE THAT YOU ARE THERE. 00:14:22.22\00:14:25.79 YOU SAID I'LL NEVER LEAVE YOU, I'LL NEVER FORSAKE YOU, THE IT 00:14:25.79\00:14:31.30 SAYS THROUGH IT ALL, WE LEARN TO LEAN ON YOU, AND COUNT ON YOU, 00:14:31.30\00:14:37.81 AND WE ARE REMINDED FROM TIME TO TIME, AS WE GO THROUGH AN 00:14:37.81\00:14:40.94 ACCIDENT OR SOMEBODY GOING THROUGH FINANCIAL CRISIS AT HOME 00:14:40.94\00:14:44.01 RIGHT NOW. THEY ARE GOING THROUGH, MAYBE A 00:14:44.01\00:14:46.78 SEPARATION IN THEIR MARRIAGE, A DIFFICULT TIME OF SICKNESS AND 00:14:46.78\00:14:51.32 DEATH, DISEASE ON EVERY HAND, AND JUST PEOPLE LOSING THEIR 00:14:51.32\00:14:55.56 HOMES IN MUD SLIDES AND FIRE AND FAMINE, THESE ARE SIGNS THAT YOU 00:14:55.56\00:15:01.63 ARE COMING, AND LORD WE ASK THAT YOU GIVE US THE FAITH, BECAUSE 00:15:01.63\00:15:05.77 WHEN THESE THINGS HIT US, SOMETIMES WE'RE SO EASILY BESET, 00:15:05.77\00:15:09.87 AND WE GET DOWN AS MENTIONED HERE, AND WE NEED YOUR SPIRIT, 00:15:09.87\00:15:13.41 SO I PRAY TO THE SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD RIGHT NOW, TO REACH 00:15:13.41\00:15:17.11 DOWN AND TOUCH EVERY ONE OF THESE PRECIOUS SOULS THAT 00:15:17.11\00:15:20.82 BROTHER GREG JUST MENTIONED THAT YOU KNOW US BY NAME, YOU KNOW 00:15:20.82\00:15:24.32 ALL ABOUT US. I'LL NEVER LEAVE YOU. 00:15:24.32\00:15:27.99 I'LL NEVER FORSAKE YOU. I'LL BE WITH YOU ALWAYS. 00:15:27.99\00:15:30.76 WE ASK YOU TO MEET THE NEED NOW OF EVERYONE WHO MAY BE -- THERE 00:15:30.76\00:15:35.40 MIGHT BE SOMEBODY WHO IS NOT CALLING ON YOUR NAME RIGHT NOW, 00:15:35.40\00:15:38.30 BUT YOU ARE AWARE OF THAT INDIVIDUAL. 00:15:38.30\00:15:40.47 I PRAY THAT YOU WOULD JUST BLESS THEM, COMFORT THEM, CHEER THEM, 00:15:40.47\00:15:44.94 BLESS EACH ONE HERE TONIGHT ON THIS PANEL. 00:15:44.94\00:15:47.24 WE THANK YOU FOR EACH ONE, FOR THOSE BEHIND THE SEEN, THOSE 00:15:47.24\00:15:52.81 CONSTANTLY WORKING TO BRING THESE PROGRAMS TO EACH ONE OF 00:15:52.81\00:15:55.62 YOU AT HOME. BLESS THEM, AND LORD IN THIS NEW 00:15:55.62\00:15:58.25 YEAR, WE'RE LOOKING FOR GREAT THINGS TO HAPPEN. 00:15:58.25\00:16:01.66 WHY? BECAUSE WE SERVE A GRET AND 00:16:01.66\00:16:03.29 WONDERFUL GOD. BLESS US NOW WE PAY WITH THE 00:16:03.29\00:16:07.03 POWER OF THY HOLY SPIRIT. WE ASK YOU TO HELP US SMILE 00:16:07.03\00:16:12.97 TONIGHT BECAUSE OUR REDEEMER LIVETH. 00:16:12.97\00:16:15.70 >> AMEN. >> THANK YOU FOR EVERYONE WHO 00:16:15.70\00:16:17.77 HAS TUNED IN, EVERYONE WHO IS GOING TO, EVERYONE WHO HAS A 00:16:17.77\00:16:21.84 NEED TONIGHT IS GOING TO BE MET IF YOU HAVE THAT FAITH IN JESUS 00:16:21.84\00:16:27.88 CHRIST TONIGHT. AND WE THANK YOU IN JESUS 00:16:27.88\00:16:32.62 CHRIST'S NAME, AMEN. >> AMEN. 00:16:32.62\00:16:34.72 >> WE HAVE A SCRIPTURE TONIGHT. ISAIAH 43. 00:16:34.72\00:16:40.76 AND IT IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES. ISAIAH 43:18-19. 00:16:40.76\00:16:48.64 IF YOU HAVE BIBLE OPEN UP AND FOLLOW ALONG. 00:16:48.64\00:16:51.37 IT SAYS DO NOT REMEMBER THE FORMER THNGS, NOR CONSIDER THE 00:16:51.37\00:16:56.48 THINGS OF OLD, OFTEN WE SPEND TIME DWELLS IN THE PAST ON THE 00:16:56.48\00:17:01.02 MISTAKES AND WHAT HAS TAKEN PLACE. 00:17:01.02\00:17:04.55 VERSE 19, BEHOLD, I WILL DO A NEW THING. 00:17:04.55\00:17:07.29 >> AMEN. >> NOW I SHALL SPRING FORTH. 00:17:07.29\00:17:10.86 I WILL EVEN MAKE A ROAD IN THE WILDERNESS, AND RIVERS IN THE 00:17:10.86\00:17:18.27 DESERT, SO GOD WANTS TO DO A NEW THING IN YOUR HEART AND LIFE 00:17:18.27\00:17:21.37 TONIGHT. HE WANTS TO BRING ABOUT NEW 00:17:21.37\00:17:26.61 CONSECRATION, REDEDICATION, RENEWAL, TRANSFORMATION, VICTORY 00:17:26.61\00:17:30.65 IN YOUR HEART AND LIFE. AND WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING 00:17:30.65\00:17:33.55 ABOUT THAT TONIGHT. BUT FIRST LET'S GO TO OUR MUSIC. 00:17:33.55\00:17:36.75 >> THAT SOUNDS GOOD. >> WE HAVE RUDY MICELLI WITH US. 00:17:36.75\00:17:39.89 >> WE SURE DO, AND THE LORD HAS BLESSED HIM WITH A TREMENDOUS 00:17:39.89\00:17:43.79 TALENT. A LITTLE EARLIER HE RECORDED A 00:17:43.79\00:17:47.40 SONG ENTITLED "WERE IT NOT FOR GRACE." 00:17:47.40\00:17:50.13 LET'S GO TO THAT NOW. ¤ 00:17:50.13\00:18:01.18 ¤ I MEASURED OUT MY DAY ¤ ¤ LIFE CARRIED ALONG ¤ 00:18:11.09\00:18:24.60 ¤ DOWN IN MY SOUL, I LEARNED TO FOLLOW GOD ¤ 00:18:24.60\00:18:32.17 ¤ BUT WITH A MELODY SO STRONG ¤ ¤ I WORK HARD TO LEARN HOW 00:18:32.17\00:18:47.56 HEAVEN COULD BEGIN ¤ ¤ JUST TO END WHERE I BEGAN ¤ 00:18:47.56\00:18:56.93 ¤ WHERE HUMAN [ INAUDIBLE ] ¤ ¤ WERE IT NOT FOR GRACE ¤ 00:18:56.93\00:19:13.92 ¤ I CAN TELL YOU WHERE I'D BE ¤ ¤ WONDERING DOWN SOME POINTLESS 00:19:13.92\00:19:21.86 ROAD ¤ INTO NOWHERE ¤ 00:19:21.86\00:19:27.46 ¤ WITH MY SALVATION UP TO ME ¤ ¤ I KNOW HOW [ INAUDIBLE ] ¤ 00:19:27.46\00:19:36.87 ¤ THE BATTLES I WOULD FACE ¤ ¤ FOREVER RUNNING, BUT LOSING 00:19:36.87\00:19:49.92 THE RACE ¤ ¤ WERE IT NOT FOR GRACE ¤ 00:19:49.92\00:20:03.37 ¤ SO HEAR A SONG, ALL MY PRAISE ¤ 00:20:03.37\00:20:07.97 ¤ EXPRESSED WITH ALL OF MY HEART ¤ 00:20:07.97\00:20:14.48 ¤ OFFERED TO THE FRIEND WHO TOOK MY PLACE ¤ 00:20:14.48\00:20:25.22 AND RAN THE COURSE I COULD NOT EVEN START ¤ 00:20:25.22\00:20:31.56 ¤ AND WHEN HE SAW THINGS PULL ¤ ¤ JUST HOW MUCH WOULD THE LOVE 00:20:31.56\00:20:40.74 COST ¤ ¤ EVEN IN THE FINAL LINE BETWEEN 00:20:40.74\00:20:43.91 ME AND HEAVEN ¤ ¤ SO I WOULD NOT BE LOST ¤ 00:20:43.91\00:20:53.35 ¤ WERE IT NOT FOR GRACE ¤ ¤ I CAN TELL YOU WHERE I'D BE ¤ 00:20:53.35\00:21:05.89 ¤ WONDERING DOWN SOME POINTLESS ROAD ¤ 00:21:05.89\00:21:11.20 ¤ TO NOWHERE WITH MY SALVATION UP TO ME ¤ 00:21:11.20\00:21:19.74 ¤ AND I KNOW ALL THE BATTLES I WOULD FACE ¤ 00:21:19.74\00:21:31.89 ¤ FOREVER RUNNING, BUT LOSING THE RACE ¤ 00:21:31.89\00:21:36.93 ¤ WERE IT NOT FOR HIS GRACE ¤ ¤ FOREVER RUNNING BUT LOSING THE 00:21:36.93\00:21:49.67 RACE ¤ ¤ WERE IT NOT FOR GRACE ¤ 00:21:49.67\00:22:04.89 ¤ CHRIST, AMAZING GRACE ¤ 00:22:04.89\00:22:10.43 >> AMOAN -- AMEN, THANK YOU, RUDY MICELLI. 00:22:16.33\00:22:24.17 PRAISE GOD FOR HIS GRACE. >> AMEN. 00:22:24.17\00:22:26.57 >> THANK YOU AGAIN FOR TUNING IN THIS EVENING ON A THUSDAY NIGHT 00:22:26.57\00:22:31.05 LIVE FOR US IT'S COLD, BUT IT'S BEAUTIFUL OUTSIDE. 00:22:31.05\00:22:34.25 IT REMINDS ME OF WHEN CHRIST WASHES OUR SINS AND HE MAKES 00:22:34.25\00:22:41.52 THEM LOOK WHITE AS SNOW. PRAISE THE LORD FOR THAT. 00:22:41.52\00:22:43.76 >> AMEN. AMEN. 00:22:43.76\00:22:45.89 TONIGHT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT REDEDICATION OF OUR LIVES AT THE 00:22:45.89\00:22:49.36 START OF THE YEAR. SO WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO 00:22:49.36\00:22:53.60 REDEDICATE YOUR LIFE TO JESUS? IF SOMEONE WERE TO COME UP AND 00:22:53.60\00:22:58.81 SAY, I HAVE NO IDEA EVEN WHAT THAT CONCEPT MEANS. 00:22:58.81\00:23:01.51 WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, REDEDICATE YOUR LIFE TO JESUS? 00:23:01.51\00:23:05.31 >> TO REDEDICATE, WOULD MEAN IT HAD TO BE DEDICATED BEFORE. 00:23:05.31\00:23:11.32 >> THAT'S TRUE. >> WHEN YOU SAID THAT, THE 00:23:11.32\00:23:15.12 SCRIPTURE THAT CAME TO ME WAS 1 CORINTHIANS 10:12. 00:23:15.12\00:23:20.86 >> YES. >> THAT -- WHERE PAUL SAYS 00:23:20.86\00:23:25.27 THEREFORE LET HIM WHO THINKS HE STANDS TAKE HEED LEST HE FALL. 00:23:25.27\00:23:37.71 SO TO ME I THINK IT'S A GOOD THING TO DO A SPIRITUAL 00:23:37.71\00:23:42.25 INVENTORY EVERY NOW AND THEN. >> AMEN. 00:23:42.25\00:23:44.19 >> BECAUSE YOU CAN THINK THAT YOU ARE DOING THINGS FOR THE 00:23:44.19\00:23:46.82 LORD, YOU ARE DOING -- YOU CAN FEEL LIKE YOU ARE ON THE RIGHT 00:23:46.82\00:23:50.53 TRACK, BUT PAUL -- PAUL'S WORDS RING IN MY EAR EVERY NOW AND 00:23:50.53\00:23:57.93 THEN. TAKE HEED. 00:23:57.93\00:23:58.97 SO TO REDEDICATE -- I LOVE THE WAY DANNY SAYS IT. 00:23:58.97\00:24:02.90 I THINK IT'S THE EASIEST WAY TO SAY IT. 00:24:02.90\00:24:06.44 IT IS TO SUBMIT AND COMMIT YOUR LIFE TO THE LORD. 00:24:06.44\00:24:09.38 >> AMEN. >> IT'S SOMETHING THAT WHEN WE 00:24:09.38\00:24:14.48 COME FOR THE LORD, RECOGNIZING THAT -- APART FRM HIM WE CAN DO 00:24:14.48\00:24:19.65 NOTHING. RECOGNIZING THAT IT IS -- WE ARE 00:24:19.65\00:24:23.53 FULLY DEPENDANT UPON HIM. THAT'S HUMILITY, AND THAT'S WHEN 00:24:23.53\00:24:27.40 WE ARE SUBMITTING TO THE LORD, SAYING OKAY, LORD, NOT MY WILL, 00:24:27.40\00:24:32.27 BUT YOURS BE DONE. >> AMEN. 00:24:32.27\00:24:34.60 >> AND THEN COMMITTING -- MAKING THAT COMMITMENT SO IT'S NOT JUST 00:24:34.60\00:24:38.37 A MOMENTARY THING, BUT YOU ARE SAYING, LORD, HERE I AM. 00:24:38.37\00:24:43.85 TAKE ME. >> AMEN. 00:24:43.85\00:24:46.45 >> PRAISE THE LORD. >> I WOULD LIKE TO BRING IN 00:24:46.45\00:24:51.52 PETER FOR A MOMENT, BECAUSE -- >> GOOD. 00:24:51.52\00:24:54.09 >> -- A REDEDICATION IS ALMOST LIKE FOR SOME REASON SOMETHING 00:24:54.09\00:24:59.13 HAPPENED THAT INTERRUPTED YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD. 00:24:59.13\00:25:02.46 PERHAPS YOU ARE NOT LIVING YOUR LIFE IN THE WAY YOU SHOULD HAVE, 00:25:02.46\00:25:06.13 AND YOU UNDERSTAND THIS. >> UH-HUH. 00:25:06.13\00:25:08.07 >> AND SO THE PERSON COMES TO A -- THE LORD BRINGS THE PERSON 00:25:08.07\00:25:12.74 TO A DECISION THAT SAYS, I HAVE -- PERHAPS NOT EVEN 00:25:12.74\00:25:16.71 COMPLETELY GONE AWAY FROM THE LORD, BUT FEELS LIKE IN ORDER 00:25:16.71\00:25:21.42 TO -- TO -- TO -- LIKE START AGAIN -- 00:25:21.42\00:25:25.05 >> OKAY. >> -- THE PERSON DECIDES TO MAKE 00:25:25.05\00:25:27.56 A COMMITMENT TO SAY, I'M GOING TO, FROM THIS MOMENT FORWARD 00:25:27.56\00:25:32.76 FOLLOW THE LORD WITH ALL OF MY HEART. 00:25:32.76\00:25:35.86 PERHAPS I FELL AWAY FOR SOME REASON, AND -- AND PETER 00:25:35.86\00:25:39.90 WAS -- WAS SURPRISED TO HEAR THIS FROM JESUS. 00:25:39.90\00:25:45.27 HE SAID, SATAN -- >> WOW. 00:25:45.27\00:25:50.98 >> THAT HE MAY SHIFT YOU. BUT I HAVE PRAYED FOR YOU. 00:25:50.98\00:25:54.52 >> AMEN. >> AND THAT IS WONDERFUL. 00:25:54.52\00:25:57.15 AND THE VERSE CONTINUES AND IT SAYS, AND WHEN YOU ARE 00:25:57.15\00:26:01.09 CONVERTED -- >> AMEN. 00:26:01.09\00:26:02.32 >> YES. >> STRENGTHEN THY BRETHREN.-SO THE LORD -- JOOE 00:26:02.32\00:26:12.03 -- JESUS WAS TRYING TO SAY SOMETHING. AND HE DIDN'T KNOW 00:26:12.03\00:26:15.47 HIMSELF. HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN TO HIM, BUT 00:26:15.47\00:26:19.77 JESUS SAID I HAVE PRAYED FOR YOU, AND PETER HAD TO HAVE THAT 00:26:19.77\00:26:24.18 EXPERIENCE. WE KNOW HE DENIED THE LORD THREE TIMES, AND WHEN 00:26:24.18\00:26:29.15 HE REALIZED THAT HE DID -- WHEN IT FINALLY DAWNED ON HIM, AND I 00:26:29.15\00:26:33.09 LOVE THE SCRIPTURE THAT SAYS -- AND IT'S REALLY MARVELOUS. 00:26:33.09\00:26:36.86 I GET INTO THAT MOMENT, BECAUSE WHEN PETER FOR THE THIRD TIME 00:26:36.86\00:26:41.20 DENIES CHRIST, IT'S LIKE THE BIBLE TAKES YOU FROM THE SCENE 00:26:41.20\00:26:49.24 OF PETER DENYING, EVEN CURSING, AND IT SAYS AND THE LORD TURNED. 00:26:49.24\00:26:54.54 >> YES. >> AND PETER SAW -- AND I SEE 00:26:54.54\00:26:57.75 JESUS LOOKING AT HIM NOT ANGRY, BUT LOVINGLY, YOU KNOW? 00:26:57.75\00:27:01.02 >> AMEN. >> AND PETER REALIZED IT. 00:27:01.02\00:27:05.55 IT SAYS HE WENT OUT AND HE WEPT BITTERLY. 00:27:05.55\00:27:10.73 AND SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO COME TO THAT MOMENT TO REALIZED WE HAVE 00:27:10.73\00:27:18.00 FAILED. AND THE WONDERFUL THING IS, WE 00:27:18.00\00:27:21.04 HAVE THE PARABLE THAT TELLS US JESUS WILL RECEIVE US WAY, WAY 00:27:21.04\00:27:33.11 OFF. >> AND HE SAYS HE WHO COMETH TO 00:27:33.11\00:27:37.35 ME, I WILL NEVER CAST OUT. SO YOU MIGHT FEEL LIKE YOU ARE 00:27:37.35\00:27:41.36 FAR FROM JESUS, BUT THE BIBLE SAYS HE WILL NEVER CAST YOU OUT. 00:27:41.36\00:27:47.40 SHELLEY, I'M SORRY. >> I WAS GOING TO SHARE 00:27:47.40\00:27:50.20 SOMETHING THAT GOES WITH IT, BECAUSE WHEN THE LORD SAYS WHEN 00:27:50.20\00:27:55.04 YOU ARE CONVERTED -- >> UH-HUH. 00:27:55.04\00:27:58.04 >> MY MOTHER HAD TOTAL CARDIAC AND RESPIRATORY ARREST. 00:27:58.04\00:28:04.18 SHE DIDN'T BREATHE FOR OVER 15 MINUTES. 00:28:04.18\00:28:06.82 THEY KEPT WORKING ON HER AND BROUGHT HER BACK. 00:28:06.82\00:28:09.92 SHE WAS IN INTENSIVE CARE FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS, AND I WAS THERE 00:28:09.92\00:28:14.72 20 HOURS A DAY, AND HER HEART EVERY NOW AND THEN WOULD STOP 00:28:14.72\00:28:21.63 AGAIN. THEY WOULD SHOE ME OUT. 00:28:21.63\00:28:24.43 BRING IN THE CRASH CART, AND APPLY THE PADDLES. 00:28:24.43\00:28:28.67 AND THE DOCTOR CAME OUT ONE NIGHT AND SAID, WE HAVE 00:28:28.67\00:28:33.81 SUCCESSFULLY CONVERTED HER HEART. 00:28:33.81\00:28:35.24 >> THAT'S INTERESTING. >> AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY 00:28:35.24\00:28:38.78 CALL IT, BUT IT IS SOMETHING -- CONVERSION IS IN 00:28:38.78\00:28:43.35 THERE. BUT I THINK OF CONVERSION, WHEN 00:28:43.35\00:28:45.32 YOU WERE SAYING LIKE -- SOMETIMES WE GET OUT OF 00:28:45.32\00:28:48.52 RHYTHM WITH THE LORD. SOMETIMES -- MAYBE OUR HEART 00:28:48.52\00:28:52.36 JUST ISN'T BEATING ONE WITH HIM, OR SOMETIMES MAYBE WE HAVE DONE 00:28:52.36\00:28:56.13 SOMETHING THAT IT'S JUST ALMOST LIKE OUR SPIRITUAL -- YOU KNOW, 00:28:56.13\00:29:00.50 WE JUST BARELY HAVE GOT A PULSE LEFT, AND I SEE THE LORD 00:29:00.50\00:29:05.47 REACHING DOWN WITH HANDS OF LOVE, TOUCHING OUR HEART. 00:29:05.47\00:29:10.08 IT'S JUST LIKE THE PROMISE OF THE NEW COVENANT, THAT HE WILL 00:29:10.08\00:29:14.25 GIVE US A NEW HEART, AND I SEE HIM REACHING DOWN, AND JUST LIKE 00:29:14.25\00:29:19.29 ELECTRICAL PADDLES, TOUCHING OUR HEART WITH HIS LOVE AND HIS 00:29:19.29\00:29:23.19 LIGHT, AND CONVERTING US. >> THAT'S BEAUTIFUL. 00:29:23.19\00:29:26.13 YOU KNOW, YOU REMINDED ME OF SOMETHING THAT -- WHEN I WAS 00:29:26.13\00:29:30.03 LEARNING TO DRIVE, I HEARD OF PEOPLE THAT WOULD FALL ASLEEP 00:29:30.03\00:29:34.24 DRIVING. AND TO ME THAT WAS LIKE, WHAT? 00:29:34.24\00:29:36.87 HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN? >> HOW CAN THAT BE? 00:29:36.87\00:29:39.07 >> EXACTLY. IT DIDN'T FIT IN MY MIND, BUT I 00:29:39.07\00:29:42.71 REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME IT HAPPENED TO ME, AND IT HAS 00:29:42.71\00:29:46.75 HAPPENED OTHER TIMES, THAT I'M DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD AND I 00:29:46.75\00:29:51.65 WENT -- AND I SAID, IT HAPPENED TO ME. 00:29:51.65\00:29:55.02 AND I WAS REALLY ALERT AFTER THAT, BUT I WAS LIKE, IT 00:29:55.02\00:29:58.56 HAPPENS. BUT YOU DON'T KNOW WHEN THIS 00:29:58.56\00:30:00.53 THING HAPPENS TO YOU, AND I THINK SOMETIMES, FOR SOME 00:30:00.53\00:30:04.37 PEOPLE, THE SPIRITUAL LIFE IS JUST LIKE THAT. 00:30:04.37\00:30:08.04 THEY DON'T KNOW THAT THEY ARE SLOWLY FALLING ASLEEP 00:30:08.04\00:30:12.31 SPIRITUALLY. >> YES. 00:30:12.31\00:30:13.04 >> AND THEY ARE GOING THROUGH LIFE, NOT CONNECTED TO THE LORD, 00:30:13.04\00:30:16.91 AND -- AND THE LOR SEEMS TO SEND LITTLE MESSAGES AND 00:30:16.91\00:30:21.42 SEGMENTALS TO PEOPLE AND THINGS -- 00:30:21.42\00:30:23.15 >> OH, YES. >> -- AND WHEN YOU REALIZE THAT 00:30:23.15\00:30:27.92 THIS -- YOU ARE DRIFTING FROM THE -- FROM THE LORD. 00:30:27.92\00:30:31.83 IT'S LIKE SOMETIMES WHEN PEOPLE ARE SWIMMING -- THEY DON'T KNOW 00:30:31.83\00:30:35.36 WHEN THEY HAVE GONE INTO DEEP WATERS, AND THEY CAN'T SWIM, 00:30:35.36\00:30:38.53 THEY CAN'T HANDLE IT. HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN? 00:30:38.53\00:30:41.57 THE CURRENT TAKES THEM AWAY. AND SOMETIMES THE CURRENT OF 00:30:41.57\00:30:45.11 LIFE, ACTIVITIES, WORK, EVEN FALLING INTO SIN -- 00:30:45.11\00:30:48.41 >> UH-HUH. >> -- THE DEVIL TRIES TO -- LIKE 00:30:48.41\00:30:52.35 THOSE LITTLE -- YOU PUT THE LITTLE BAITS, HE KEEPS PUTTING 00:30:52.35\00:30:59.35 LITTLE BAITS, AND YOU KEEP TAKING, TAKING, UNTIL YOU FIND 00:30:59.35\00:31:04.26 YOURSELF FAR AWAY FROM THE LORD. AND THE WONDERFUL THING IS, YOU 00:31:04.26\00:31:07.50 DECIDE TO COME BACK TO JESUS, AND THE WELCOME SIDE IS OUT, AND 00:31:07.50\00:31:11.03 THE LORD IS -- I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU, NOR FORSAKE YOU, I 00:31:11.03\00:31:16.87 WILL NEVER CAST YOU OUT. AND THAT'S OPEN TO EVERYONE. 00:31:16.87\00:31:21.34 >> AMEN. >> PASTOR KENNY. 00:31:21.34\00:31:26.05 >> IN THE BIBLE REDEDICATION IS NOTHING NEW. 00:31:26.05\00:31:29.32 AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT THE HOLY MEN OF GOD EXPERIENCED, AND WHEN 00:31:29.32\00:31:34.56 YOU MENTIONED PETER A WHILE AGO, I SAID SOMETIMES I SEE MY OWN 00:31:34.56\00:31:41.10 CHARACTERISTICS, YOU KNOW, PETER MORE RAMBUNCTIOUS, 00:31:41.10\00:31:44.77 BECAUSE -- REMEMBER, TWICE YOU MENTIONED THERE THAT 00:31:44.77\00:31:47.17 WHEN -- PETER WAS -- FEED MY SHEEP. 00:31:47.17\00:31:50.24 FEED MY SHEEP. BUT WHEN HE WAS CONVERTED, WHAT 00:31:50.24\00:31:54.38 DID JESUS SAY? HE SAID FEED MY LAMBS. 00:31:54.38\00:31:57.45 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> THERE WAS A DIFFERENCE, 00:31:57.45\00:31:59.75 BECAUSE SOMETIMES WE WANT TO FEED THE SHEEP AND GIVE WHAT 00:31:59.75\00:32:04.12 MAYBE THEY DON'T WANT. THEY MAY NOT BE HUNGRY, BUT THEY 00:32:04.12\00:32:06.99 ARE GOING TO GET IT. ARE YOU STILL WITH ME? 00:32:06.99\00:32:11.19 [ LAUGHTER ] >> YES. 00:32:11.19\00:32:12.73 >> BUT WHEN CONVERSION COMES, IT HELPS US BY THE GRACE OF GOD. 00:32:12.73\00:32:17.20 THERE ARE SOME LAMBS. THERE ARE SOME WEE ONES IN 00:32:17.20\00:32:21.87 THERE, THERE ARE LITTLE ONES THAT NEED A SPECIAL TOUCH. 00:32:21.87\00:32:26.31 THEY DON'T NEED SUCH HARD THINGS. 00:32:26.31\00:32:28.61 SO DEDICATION IS NOTHING NEW, BUT WE NEED TO THINK -- I DO 00:32:28.61\00:32:33.38 WHEN I REDEDICATE MYSELF, IT'S ON A DAILY BASIS, AND IT COULD 00:32:33.38\00:32:38.52 BE SEVERAL TIMES DURING THE DAY. I NEED TO SAY, LORD, LOOK, I 00:32:38.52\00:32:44.06 NEED SOME HELP HERE. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, I 00:32:44.06\00:32:47.93 GIVE THE LORD PERMISSION TO COME IN AND TO SEND THOSE ANGELS AND 00:32:47.93\00:32:53.60 HOLY SPIRIT TO GET ME BEFORE I MESS UP, OR BEFORE SOMETHING 00:32:53.60\00:32:57.24 GOES HAYWIRE OR SOMETHING THAT MIGHT HAPPEN TO COME IN THERE 00:32:57.24\00:33:00.31 AND HELP. WE ASK THEM TO BE THERE TO HELP 00:33:00.31\00:33:03.75 US. >> AMEN. 00:33:03.75\00:33:04.48 >> BUT WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT DEDICATION, OR REDEDICATION, IT 00:33:04.48\00:33:08.78 SHOULD BE TO SOMETHING IN THE CAUSE OF CHRIST, 00:33:08.78\00:33:12.02 SOMETHING -- THAT'S WHAT DEDICATION IS. 00:33:12.02\00:33:15.19 IT'S SET APART FOR RELIGIOUS PURPOSE, REALLY. 00:33:15.19\00:33:19.76 IT'S A DEVOTION THAT WE SHOULD HAVE TO A CERTAIN CAUSE. 00:33:19.76\00:33:23.83 I NEED TO REDEDICATE FOR MY DUTY, FOR MY WORK FOR CHRIST, 00:33:23.83\00:33:28.67 BECAUSE I THINK GOD HAS SOMETHING BIGGER AND GREATER FOR 00:33:28.67\00:33:32.34 EACH ONE OF US. HE HAS MORE FOR EACH ONE OF US 00:33:32.34\00:33:36.88 TO DO. >> YES. 00:33:36.88\00:33:38.55 >> OUR CHILDREN, FOR INSTANCE, THERE NEEDS TO BE -- OUR 00:33:38.55\00:33:41.42 CHILDREN NEED TO BE DEDICATED WHEN THEY ARE JUST YOUNG. 00:33:41.42\00:33:47.16 YOU TAKE THEM TO THE MINISTER, AND YOU PRAY FOR THEM. 00:33:47.16\00:33:53.19 IT NEEDS TO BE. SALOMON HAD A PRAYER ABOUT THE 00:33:53.19\00:33:56.63 TEMPLE. WHAT A PRAYER IT WAS. 00:33:56.63\00:33:59.80 HE SAW THE LORD'S FACE. HE FOUND HIM. 00:33:59.80\00:34:02.60 HE FOUND THINK POWER THERE. HE OPENED THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN, 00:34:02.60\00:34:07.58 AND WHEN IT WAS TIME, EVERYTHING WAS CONSUMED. 00:34:07.58\00:34:10.91 WHAT AN AWESOME THING TO THINK ABOUT IF YOU WERE PRESENT. 00:34:10.91\00:34:15.22 AND THEN THAT TREMENDOUS PRAYER OF FAITH, AND HE WAS IN TUNE 00:34:15.22\00:34:18.92 WITH GOD, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THOSE WINDOWS CAME OPEN, AND 00:34:18.92\00:34:23.16 THIS FIRE COMES DOWN AND DeVIERS EVERYTHING. 00:34:23.16\00:34:27.30 AND GOD SAID, I'M WELL PLEASED. >> AMEN. 00:34:27.30\00:34:31.27 >> WHAT WOULD THAT DO FOR ME? I MIGHT JUMP AND RUN IN THE 00:34:31.27\00:34:35.60 OTHER DIRECTION, I DON'T KNOW. BUT YOU MIGHT WANT TO JUMP AND 00:34:35.60\00:34:41.61 SHOUT. IT MIGHT BE FRIEZ 00:34:41.61\00:34:45.78 -- FRIGHTENING, POSSIBLY. BUT TO SAY THIS IS WHAT I WANT 00:34:45.78\00:34:49.58 FOR MY PEOPLE. TO DEDICATION, REDEDICATION, I 00:34:49.58\00:34:52.69 THINK IS SUCH A WONDERFUL TIME. JESUS ATTENDED THE FEAST OF 00:34:52.69\00:34:57.43 DEDICATION, BUT WHEN HE WAS ATTENDING THAT FEAST OF 00:34:57.43\00:35:00.63 DEDICATION, WAS THE TIME THEY EXPERIENCED IN JERUSALEM, HE WAS 00:35:00.63\00:35:12.44 CAL CALLED A BLASPHT FAER, AND JESUS 00:35:12.44\00:35:18.21 SAID HE WAS THE LIGHT IN THIS DARK WORLD. 00:35:18.21\00:35:20.38 >> AMEN. >> BUT THEY DIDN'T PERCEIVE IT. 00:35:20.38\00:35:24.29 AND SOMETIMES IT MAKES ME WANT TO WEEP WHEN I READ THOSE PASS 00:35:24.29\00:35:29.86 AGES, JUST THE THINGS THAT THEY DID TO A SAVIOR, HE LOOKED AT 00:35:29.86\00:35:35.60 THEM WITH LOVE AND COMPASSION, AND REACHED OUT ONE MORE TIME. 00:35:35.60\00:35:40.20 AND SOMETIMES I WANT TO JUST LET SOMETHING GO, AND I NEED TO 00:35:40.20\00:35:44.54 BEHOLD HIM. HE -- HE IS THE TEACHER. 00:35:44.54\00:35:47.14 HE IS WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT. AND I BEHOLD HIM. 00:35:47.14\00:35:51.68 I SENSE A REDEDICATION EVERY MOMENT OF MY LIFE, BECAUSE 00:35:51.68\00:35:58.02 THERE'S NOTHING GOOD HERE BUT THROUGH HIM. 00:35:58.02\00:36:00.09 I LIKE ALL OF THESE THINGS BECAUSE I THINK, AND I KNOW EACH 00:36:00.09\00:36:04.13 ONE HERE, AND THOSE OF YOU AT HOME, MOST EVERYONE ONE WHO IS 00:36:04.13\00:36:08.16 TRYING TO FOLLOW JESUS, YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED IT. 00:36:08.16\00:36:11.53 YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED IT, AND I HAVE EXPERIENCED A NEED FOR 00:36:11.53\00:36:16.04 REDEDICATION, GETTING THINGS OUT OF MY LIFE AND GETTING THINGS 00:36:16.04\00:36:20.98 RIGHT SO THAT HEAVEN CAN BE MY HOME. 00:36:20.98\00:36:23.58 >> AND IT NEEDS TO BE ON A DAILY BASIS, LIKE YOU SAID. 00:36:23.58\00:36:28.65 WE TALKED ABOUT NEW YEAR'S -RESOLUTIONS, BUT IT'S A DAILY 00:36:28.65\00:36:34.36 PROCESS. I KNOW HERE I WAS RUNNING AROUND CRAZE ILLY ON 00:36:34.36\00:36:38.29 SOME THINGS, AND THEN IT WAS JUST LIKE, SIT DOWN BEHIND MY 00:36:38.29\00:36:43.77 DES AND SAY, LORD, HELP ME RIGHT HERE. AND I NEED TO DO THAT MORE 00:36:43.77\00:36:46.84 OFTEN. OKAY. 00:36:46.84\00:36:49.37 GOD, CAN YOU TAKE CONTROL HERE, AND I DON'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT 00:36:49.37\00:36:52.84 ALL OF THESE THINGS. YOU HAVE IT IN CONTROL. 00:36:52.84\00:36:56.54 EARLIER THIS WEEK -- I LIKE SALES, AND TO ME -- THIS STORY 00:36:56.54\00:37:00.35 HAS A WHOLE BUNCH OF -- IT HAS HARDWARES AND TOOLS AND ALL 00:37:00.35\00:37:06.82 KINDS OF STUFF -- >> IT'S A GUY STORE. 00:37:06.82\00:37:11.53 [ LAUGHTER ] >> DO YOU WANT TO TELL THEM WHAT 00:37:11.53\00:37:13.66 THE STORE IS? >> WELL, FOR SOME PEOPLE, IT IS 00:37:13.66\00:37:16.70 ONLY IN THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY, BUT I WAS WALKING 00:37:16.70\00:37:19.90 THROUGH THE STORE AND GETTING TOOLS AND DIFFERENT THINGS I 00:37:19.90\00:37:23.24 NEEDED, AND I SAW THIS VASE, AND IT WAS ON CLEARANCE, SO THEY DID 00:37:23.24\00:37:26.84 HAVE A LADY'S THING THERE, DIDN'T THEY? 00:37:26.84\00:37:30.18 [ LAUGHTER ] >> ANYWAY, THEY HAD A VASE OFF 00:37:30.18\00:37:32.05 IN THE CORNER, AND IT HAD A LITTLE RED STICKER ON IT AND IT 00:37:32.05\00:37:36.92 SAID $2. AND I SAID WOW, THAT'S A VERY 00:37:36.92\00:37:41.16 PRETTY VASE. I THINK JILL WOULD LIKE THAT. 00:37:41.16\00:37:43.53 AND THE VASE IT LOOKED LIKE THERE WAS DUST ALL OVER IT, BUT 00:37:43.53\00:37:47.86 IT WASN'T LIKE YOU WOULD GO -- AND BLOW IT UP. 00:37:47.86\00:37:53.03 THE DUST WAS STUCK TO THIS GLASS VASE. 00:37:53.03\00:37:56.27 IT WAS REALLY PRETTY. AND HAD ETCHING -- NOT 00:37:56.27\00:37:59.84 ETCHING -- BUT ANY WAY IT WAS REALLY PRETTY. 00:37:59.84\00:38:03.01 BUT IT HAD DIRT INSIDE AND EVEN DRIED SHRIVELLED BUGS IN THE 00:38:03.01\00:38:09.35 BOTTOM. SO I THOUGHT I WOULD GET IT AS A 00:38:09.35\00:38:11.85 GIFT FOR MY WIFE. THIS DOESN'T SOUND TOO GOOD, 00:38:11.85\00:38:16.96 DOES IT? [ LAUGHTER ] 00:38:16.96\00:38:19.03 >> BUT IT GETS BETTER. SO I BROUGHT IT HOME, AND I WAS 00:38:19.03\00:38:22.30 ALL EXCITED ABOUT IT, AND I SAID, OH, SWEETY, I SAID I GOT A 00:38:22.30\00:38:27.57 GIFT FOR YOU. I PULLED IT OUT, AND I SAID 00:38:27.57\00:38:31.37 DIDN'T THAT NICE? AND -- WELL, THIS IS WHAT SHE 00:38:31.37\00:38:35.01 SAID. SHE SAID, YEAH. 00:38:35.01\00:38:37.11 [ LAUGHTER ] >> OH, MY. 00:38:37.11\00:38:37.91 >> I WAS TRYING TO NOT MAKE HIM FEEL BAD, BUT IT WAS NOT 00:38:37.91\00:38:43.28 ACTUALLY THAT NICE.-p[ LAUGHTER ] >> SO I SAID TO HER -- I 00:38:43.28\00:38:46.62 SAID -- WELL -- YOU KNOW -- OKAY. 00:38:46.62\00:38:49.89 YEAH, I CONFESS, I SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE ONE TO CLEAN IT UP. 00:38:49.89\00:38:53.86 I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, JILL IS GOING TO MAKE SOMETHING REALLY 00:38:53.86\00:38:57.47 NICE OUT OF THIS VASE. BECAUSE I KNOW IT HAS A LOT OF 00:38:57.47\00:39:01.70 POTENTIAL. AND YES, YOU ARE CORRECT, I 00:39:01.70\00:39:03.94 SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE ONE TO CLEAN IT UP. 00:39:03.94\00:39:07.98 BUT MY DEAR WIFE, TOOK SOME WINDEX TO IT, SOME NICE SOAPY 00:39:07.98\00:39:12.91 WATER -- >> AND DUMPED THE BUGS OUT. 00:39:12.91\00:39:17.55 >> YEAH. >> YOU ARE A ROMANTIC. 00:39:17.55\00:39:19.82 >> I'M REMINDED OF THIS, BECAUSE IT WAS ON THE KITCHEN COUNTER 00:39:19.82\00:39:23.99 BEFORE WE WERE COMING HERE THIS EVENING, BUT THAT VASE LOOKS 00:39:23.99\00:39:29.30 BEAUTIFUL. >> IT IS FABULOUS. 00:39:29.30\00:39:30.80 IT IS GORGEOUS, AND SUCH A SWEET GIFT. 00:39:30.80\00:39:34.57 >> I WAS REMINDED OF IT, BECAUSE YOU USED THE TEXT ISAIAH, AND IT 00:39:34.57\00:39:40.88 WAS TALKING ABOUT DOING A NEW THING. 00:39:40.88\00:39:44.11 SO THE POOR VASE, IT COULDN'T CLEAN ITSELF UP. 00:39:44.11\00:39:47.42 SO I'M THINKING TO MYSELF, I'M A MESS. 00:39:47.42\00:39:50.95 I HAVE MAYBE BUGS ON THE INSIDE, DIRT, JUNK, WHATEVER ON THE 00:39:50.95\00:39:55.49 OUTSIDE. I CANNOT CLEAN MYSELF. 00:39:55.49\00:39:57.43 I CAN PHYSICALLY TAKE SOAP AND WATER, BUT I WANT YOU TONIGHT TO 00:39:57.43\00:40:02.10 REALIZE THAT JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONE THAT DOES CLEANING UP. 00:40:02.10\00:40:06.37 THAT VASE DIDN'T FIGHT JILL WHEN SHE WAS TRYING TO CLEAN IT UP, 00:40:06.37\00:40:11.01 SO THE KEY IS SURRENDER, AND THE REDEDICATION TO CHRIST IS, GOD, 00:40:11.01\00:40:16.34 I AM YOURS. BECAUSE WE CAN GET STRESSED AND 00:40:16.34\00:40:19.31 I SAY HOW DO I CLEAN MYSELF UP? HOW DO I GET THESE BUGS UP? 00:40:19.31\00:40:23.85 SO I THINK IT'S THAT CONVERSION EXPERIENCE OF ALLOWING GOD TO 00:40:23.85\00:40:28.36 TAKE THE JUNK OUT OF OUR LIVES, AND NOT BE STRESSED ABOUT IT, 00:40:28.36\00:40:32.49 BUT THERE IS A PART WE HAVE TO PLAY. 00:40:32.49\00:40:34.86 >> AMEN. YOU USED THE WORD SURRENDER, AND 00:40:34.86\00:40:40.47 I KNOW J.D. IS WATCHING AT HOME. AND HE IS SAYING, EXPLAIN WHAT 00:40:40.47\00:40:50.75 SURRENDER MEANS. I WOULD SAY TO HIM, HONEY, YOU 00:40:50.75\00:40:54.58 JUST HAVE TO SURRENDER, AND IT WAS -- THE WORD IS -- IS 00:40:54.58\00:41:00.66 SOMETHING THAT SOME PEOPLE -- IT'S OFF-PUTTING TO 00:41:00.66\00:41:04.83 COME, BUT THE WORD SURRENDER SIMPLY MEANS THAT YOU YIELD 00:41:04.83\00:41:10.23 CONTROL -- >> THAT'S GOOD. 00:41:10.23\00:41:11.60 >> -- IT'S JUST YIELDING CONTROL TO GOD. 00:41:11.60\00:41:14.57 IT'S JUST GETTING TO THAT POINT. >> YES. 00:41:14.57\00:41:16.91 >> WHERE -- YOU KNOW -- JESUS SAID THAT -- IF ANY MAN WOULD 00:41:16.91\00:41:21.64 COME AFTER ME, LET HIM PICK UP -- DENY HIMSELF AND PICK UP 00:41:21.64\00:41:28.32 HIS CROSS -- >> AND FOLLOW ME. 00:41:28.32\00:41:29.85 >> AND FOLLOW ME. WELL, I THINK OF THIS 00:41:29.85\00:41:33.32 THAT -- HAVE YOU EVER HEARD SOMEBODY SAY, OH, WE HAVE ALL 00:41:33.32\00:41:36.86 GOT OUR CROSS TO BEAR. AND IT'S SOME PROBLEM. 00:41:36.86\00:41:45.03 BUT WHAT JESUS WAS TALKING ABOUT IS WHEN YOU GET TO THIS POINT 00:41:45.03\00:41:50.84 WHERE YOU RECOGNIZE YOU NEED TO [ INAUDIBLE ] ITSELF. 00:41:50.84\00:41:54.98 BUT ROMANS 8:13 -- CAN WE TURN THERE? 00:41:54.98\00:42:01.88 >> YES. >> ROMANS 8:13. 00:42:01.88\00:42:12.93 WE CAN'T CRUCIFY OUR OWN FLESH. WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING. 00:42:12.93\00:42:17.37 JESUS SAID APART FROM ME, YOU CAN DO NOTHING. 00:42:17.37\00:42:20.94 SO IN ROMANS 8:13 PAUL WRITES AND SAYS IF YOU LIVING A 00:42:20.94\00:42:26.31 CHORDING TO THE FLESH, WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN? 00:42:26.31\00:42:28.38 >> YOU ARE GOING TO DIE. >> YOU ARE GOING TO DIE. 00:42:28.38\00:42:32.25 YOU ARE GOING TO DIE SPIRITUALLY AND SUFFER THE SECOND DEATH AS 00:42:32.25\00:42:37.32 WELL, BUT HE SAID, IF BY THE SPIRIT -- 00:42:37.32\00:42:39.99 >> POWERFUL. >> -- YOU PUT TO DEATH THE 00:42:39.99\00:42:44.89 MISDEADS OF THE BODY, YOU WILL LIVE. 00:42:44.89\00:42:47.36 SO HERE YOU SEE THIS WHOLE IDEA OF REDEDICATING OUR LIVES, 00:42:47.36\00:42:52.37 SURRENDERING, GIVING GOD CONTROL. 00:42:52.37\00:42:54.27 IT'S THIS IDEA OF SAYING LORD, FILL ME AFRESH DAY BY DAY.->> 00:42:54.27\00:42:59.67 AMEN. >> I'M ASKING, I'M SEEKING. I'M KNOCKING. 00:42:59.67\00:43:05.01 FILL ME WITH YOUR HOLY SPIRIT, AND HELP ME, BECAUSE YOU SEE, 00:43:05.01\00:43:10.12 IT'S BY THE SPIRIT YOU PUT TO DEATH, SO IT TAKES THE TWO OF 00:43:10.12\00:43:13.89 YOU WORKING IN COOPERATION. SO YOU CAN'T DO IT ON YOUR OWN, 00:43:13.89\00:43:18.16 AND THE HOLY SPIRIT IS NOT GOING TO FORCE GOD'S WAYS ON YOU. 00:43:18.16\00:43:22.60 WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO IS SAY HELP ME TO COOPERATE. 00:43:22.60\00:43:27.70 I'M WILLING TO DO YOUR WILL. OR I'M WILLING TO BE MADE 00:43:27.70\00:43:31.97 WILLING, YOU KNOW? >> AMEN. 00:43:31.97\00:43:33.88 >> SO THAT IS PART OF WHAT THIS -IS ALL ABOUT. >> AMEN. 00:43:33.88\00:43:38.15 WELL SAID. >> AND THAT'S NOT -- I 00:43:38.15\00:43:40.62 MEAN -- THAT VERSE -- IT'S ALL THERE -- IT'S LIKE PACKAGED IN 00:43:40.62\00:43:44.52 THERE REALLY NICE. >> AMEN. 00:43:44.52\00:43:46.35 >> UH-HUH. >> AND IT'S COOPERATION. 00:43:46.35\00:43:49.06 >> ABSOLUTELY. >> AND OUR PART -- YOU KNOW, 00:43:49.06\00:43:52.43 WHEN YOU THINK -- WHEN -- WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SCRIPTURES, IT'S 00:43:52.43\00:43:57.47 A PROCESS BY WHICH THE LORD THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT IS 00:43:57.47\00:44:00.64 WORKING IN OUR HEARTS. IT'S LIKE THE LORD GIVES US A 00:44:00.64\00:44:04.74 GIFT. I'M GOING TO HELP YOU. 00:44:04.74\00:44:07.04 >> YES. >> COME TO ME. 00:44:07.04\00:44:10.51 I'M GOING TO HELP YOU COME TO ME. 00:44:10.51\00:44:12.68 WE HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE. >> WE DO. 00:44:12.68\00:44:15.52 >> SO THAT THIS CAN HAPPEN. IT'S LIKE YOU SAID, YOU HAVE TO 00:44:15.52\00:44:19.19 GIVE UP, YIELD -- >> YES. 00:44:19.19\00:44:21.09 >> YIELD. AND WHAT DOES THE WORD YIELD 00:44:21.09\00:44:24.63 MEAN? IT MEANS YOU STOP, BUT YOU HAVE 00:44:24.63\00:44:26.66 TO MAKE A CHOICE TO LET THE LORD TAKE CONTROL. 00:44:26.66\00:44:29.30 BECAUSE WE ALWAYS WANT TO -- WE ALWAYS WANT TO GRAB -- I'M GOING 00:44:29.30\00:44:33.84 TO DRIVE NOW. WE ALWAYS WANT TO -- CAN I DRIVE 00:44:33.84\00:44:37.64 NOW? >> WHEN YOU ARE YIELDING, YOU 00:44:37.64\00:44:41.04 ARE LETTING SOMEONE ELSE GET OUT IN FRONT OF YOU, RIGHT? 00:44:41.04\00:44:44.41 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> LEAD. 00:44:44.41\00:44:45.98 >> THAT'S A GOOD POINT. >> SO IT SAYS HERE AS MANY AS 00:44:45.98\00:44:49.38 ARE LEAD BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD, THESE ARE THE SONS OF GOD, THIS 00:44:49.38\00:44:53.02 IS THE NEXT VERSE, BUT IT SAYS IF YOU LIVE ACCORDING TO THE 00:44:53.02\00:44:58.19 FLESH, SO LIVING MEANS IT'S -- IT'S A WAY OF -- 00:44:58.19\00:45:02.63 >> HOW YOU WALK. >> HOW YOU WALK. 00:45:02.63\00:45:05.13 EVERY DAY HOW YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE. 00:45:05.13\00:45:07.04 SO IF YOU LIVE ACCORDING TO THE FLESH, AND THE FLESH WANTS TO DO 00:45:07.04\00:45:12.97 WHAT? DO EVIL, AND THIS IS WHY WHEN 00:45:12.97\00:45:15.91 YOU AR TALKING ABOUT THE CROSS, AND THE CROSS SAYS YOU HAVE TO 00:45:15.91\00:45:19.98 CRUCIFY SELF, IT MAY NOT BE A PLEASANT THING TO SOME PEOPLE, 00:45:19.98\00:45:24.72 BUT IT'S THE BEST THING. >> AND THERE IS SOMEBODY OUT 00:45:24.72\00:45:29.52 THERE SAYING, I DON'T WANT TO YIELD. 00:45:29.52\00:45:32.66 YOU KNOW? I DON'T WANT TO YIELD. 00:45:32.66\00:45:34.00 I DON'T WANT IT TO BE GOD'S WAY. AND IF YOU DON'T WANT IT TO BE 00:45:34.00\00:45:38.53 GOD'S WAY, AND YET YOU THINK, I KNOW I SHOULD, BUT HOW DO I GET 00:45:38.53\00:45:44.81 THERE? JESUS SAID BLESSED ARE THEY WHO 00:45:44.81\00:45:47.84 HUNGER AND THIRST AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND IT WILL BE 00:45:47.84\00:45:50.88 FILLED. >> THAT'S A PROMISE. 00:45:50.88\00:45:52.05 >> IT'S A PROMISE. >> YES, IT IS. 00:45:52.05\00:45:54.52 >> BUT IF YOU ARE NOT HUNGERING AND THRUSTING AFTER 00:45:54.52\00:46:00.42 RIGHTEOUSNESS, JUST SAY LORD CAUSE ME, CAUSE ME TO HUNGER AND 00:46:00.42\00:46:07.20 THRUST AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS, I GUARANTEE HE WILL. 00:46:07.20\00:46:11.57 >> AMEN. >> FIRST OF ALL, YOU KNOW, 00:46:11.57\00:46:13.40 THERE'S CONSEQUENCES TO SURRENDER. 00:46:13.40\00:46:16.54 >> YEAH. >> CONSEQUENCES BECAUSE 00:46:16.54\00:46:20.28 SOMETIMES PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO MAKE -- SURRENDER, TO GIVE THEIR 00:46:20.28\00:46:24.55 LIFE TO CHRIST, BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID THAT THINGS WILL CHANGE. 00:46:24.55\00:46:28.85 CHANGES THEY DON'T REALLY WANT. THEY KNOW THEY NEED THEM. 00:46:28.85\00:46:31.69 THEY KNOW IT SHOULD HAPPEN, BUT THEY ARE AFRAID. 00:46:31.69\00:46:35.19 THEY DO NOT TRUT GOD. SO WE HAVE TO COME TO THE POINT 00:46:35.19\00:46:38.49 TO REALIZE IN SCRIPTURE, THERE IS NO PEACE WITHOUT SURRENDER. 00:46:38.49\00:46:44.07 WE CAN HAVE NO PEACE IN THIS LIFE UNLESS WE SURRENDER. 00:46:44.07\00:46:50.41 AND WE LOVE "STEPS TO CHRIST," AND IT SAID HOW TO MAKE A 00:46:50.41\00:46:56.71 SURRENDER. AND I THOUGHT THAT SOUNDSEL 00:46:56.71\00:46:58.61 MEANT TRY, BUT I WANT TO READ A PARAGRAPH. 00:46:58.61\00:47:01.48 I THINK IT'S SO INTERESTING, BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY WHO WANT 00:47:01.48\00:47:04.75 TO MAKE IT, BUT THEY ARE AFRAID THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE TO GIVE 00:47:04.75\00:47:09.06 UP SOMETHING THAT THEY WANT TO HOLD ON TO. 00:47:09.06\00:47:11.76 I CAN TELL YOU THIS, IF YOU MAKE A DECISION FOR CHRIST, YOUR LIFE 00:47:11.76\00:47:15.56 IS GOING TO CHANGE DRASTICALLY FOR THE GOOD. 00:47:15.56\00:47:18.37 >> AMEN. >> IT'S FOR THE GOOD. 00:47:18.37\00:47:20.80 >> AMEN. >> AND YOU WILL SAY, WHAT TOOK 00:47:20.80\00:47:24.04 ME SO LONG? BUT IT SAYS HOW TO MAKE THIS, 00:47:24.04\00:47:27.84 THAT'S "STEPS TO CHRIST" PAGE 47 AND 8. 00:47:27.84\00:47:32.08 IT SAYS YOU WANT TO MAKE THE SURRENDER, BUT YOU ARE WEAK AND 00:47:32.08\00:47:36.35 YOUR MORALLY BEGIN TO DOUBT, AND IT SAYS, YOU CAN'T CONTROL YOUR 00:47:36.35\00:47:41.09 THOUGHTS. YOU CAN'T CONTROL THE BAD HABITS 00:47:41.09\00:47:43.09 OR THE BROKEN PROMISES. HOPE IF WE UNDERSTAND THE TRUE 00:47:43.09\00:47:47.30 FORCE OF THE WILL, WHICH WE KNOW IS THE GOVERNING POWER IN THE 00:47:47.30\00:47:51.83 NATURE OF MAN. THE POWER OF DECISION AND THE 00:47:51.83\00:47:54.50 COURSE OF CHOICE, WE CAN'T CHANGE OURSELVES, BUT WE CAN 00:47:54.50\00:48:00.34 CHOOSE TO SERVE HIM. WE CAN CHOOSE TO GIVE HIM YOUR 00:48:00.34\00:48:04.15 WILL. YOU CAN CHOOSE, THE WHOLE NATURE 00:48:04.15\00:48:07.12 THEN WILL BE CONTROLLED BY GOD. INTERESTING. 00:48:07.12\00:48:10.65 WE CHOOSE TO -- WE HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION -- I CHOOSE. 00:48:10.65\00:48:13.69 WHATEVER HAPPENS. I MENTIONED ONE TIME BEFORE, WE 00:48:13.69\00:48:16.42 HAVE TO COME TO THE POINT TO WHERE WE LOVE HIM AND TRUST HIM 00:48:16.42\00:48:20.16 ENOUGH. >> UH-HUH. 00:48:20.16\00:48:21.23 >> WITH YOUR LIFE. >> YEP. 00:48:21.23\00:48:23.43 >> WITH YOUR COMPANION, WITH OUR CHILDREN. 00:48:23.43\00:48:25.73 AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS I MENTIONED NOT TOO LONG AGO. 00:48:25.73\00:48:29.74 I HAD TO COME TO THAT POINT IN MY LIFE WHERE I COULD TRUST HIM. 00:48:29.74\00:48:34.84 WE'RE PRAYING FOR HIM, AND I TRUST GOD. 00:48:34.84\00:48:38.28 COME TO TRUST HIM. AND MAKE THAT SURRENDER TO HIM. 00:48:38.28\00:48:42.72 BEST CHOICE YOU WILL MAKE. IT WOULD SURE BE A BLESSING IF 00:48:42.72\00:48:47.06 YOU DO. IF YOU HAVEN'T MADE THE TOTAL 00:48:47.06\00:48:50.19 SURRENDER TO HIM. IT NEEDS TO BE TOTAL. 00:48:50.19\00:48:53.73 IT NEEDS TO BE CHRIST. NOT I, BUT CHRIST. 00:48:53.73\00:48:56.80 >> AMEN. >> WE WANT TO GET TO SOME 00:48:56.80\00:49:00.20 QUESTIONS BEFORE WE GET TO THE SECOND HOUR. 00:49:00.20\00:49:02.74 IF YOU ARE JUST JOINING US, YOU CAN CONTACT US LIVE@3ABN.TV, OR 00:49:02.74\00:49:08.91 CALL US AT 618-627-4651 WITH PRAYER REQUESTS. 00:49:08.91\00:49:11.85 I EVEN SEE SOME PRAYER REQUESTS COMING IN THIS EVENING, SOME 00:49:11.85\00:49:16.85 QUESTIONS, AND MAYBE EVEN SOME COMMENTS. 00:49:16.85\00:49:18.82 WE'RE A FAMILY, WE'RE A TEAM. WE'RE IN THIS THING TOGETHER. 00:49:18.82\00:49:22.82 SO THANK YOU FOR JOINING US THIS EVENING. 00:49:22.82\00:49:25.53 THIS HERE IS A QUESTION FOR YOU ALL, AND IT SAYS HOW IN 00:49:25.53\00:49:30.83 PRACTICAL TERMS DO YOU PICK UP YOUR CROSS? 00:49:30.83\00:49:34.10 WE TAKED ABOUT THE CROSS EARLIER. 00:49:34.10\00:49:37.54 [ OVERLAPPING SPEAKERS ] >> YEAH. 00:49:37.54\00:49:38.57 SO HOW IN PRACTICAL TERMS DO YOU PICK UP YOUR CROSS. 00:49:38.57\00:49:42.98 THANK YOU FOR YOUR QUESTION. >> HERE IS HOW THE LORD TAUGHT 00:49:42.98\00:49:47.25 ME ABOUT SURRENDER, BECAUSE I WAS JUST BEGGING HIM. 00:49:47.25\00:49:51.95 REMEMBER IN 1 CORINTHIANS 3:18, WHERE IT SAYS -- ISN'T THAT THE 00:49:51.95\00:49:59.53 SCRIPTURE -- WHERE IT SAYS, WE'RE LOOK GOING A 00:49:59.53\00:50:06.20 MIRROR -- THAT WE ARE BEING TRANSFORMED FROM -- 00:50:06.20\00:50:09.84 >> THAT'S RIGHT. GLORY TO GLORY. 00:50:09.84\00:50:13.14 >> -- GLORY TO GLORY BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. 00:50:13.14\00:50:17.35 I WAS CLAIMING THAT ONE DAY. THANK YOU, FATHER THAT I AM 00:50:17.35\00:50:21.95 BEING TRANSFORMED GLORY TO GLORY, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, I 00:50:21.95\00:50:27.06 JUST BURST OUT CRYING. AND I THOUGHT I DON'T FEEL LIKE 00:50:27.06\00:50:30.76 I AM GOING FROM ON LEVEL OF YOUR CHARACTER TO THE NEXT. 00:50:30.76\00:50:35.13 AND I SAID, LORD, WHAT IS IT? WHAT IS HOLDING ME BACK. 00:50:35.13\00:50:39.33 >> YES. >> I JUST -- YOU KNOW, I DON'T 00:50:39.33\00:50:42.70 UNDERSTAND THIS. AND I SHOULD HAVE REFRESHED MY 00:50:42.70\00:50:45.11 MEMORY ON THIS, BUT HE WAS JUST BRINGING THIS BACK TO ME, BUT HE 00:50:45.11\00:50:53.35 SAID, SO CLEARLY -- HE SAID, I WILL SOON SHOW YOU THE -- OR HOW 00:50:53.35\00:51:00.39 DID HE SAY IT? THE WALL THAT -- LIKE THE 00:51:00.39\00:51:05.79 BARRIER BETWEEN US. >> WOW. 00:51:05.79\00:51:07.86 >> ANYWAY, WHAT HE SHOWED ME A COUPLE OF WEEKS LATER, WHAT HE 00:51:07.86\00:51:14.44 SAID TO ME, IS THIS WALL THAT WAS BETWEEN US, WAS A WALL OF 00:51:14.44\00:51:20.94 SELF PRESERVATION. >> WOW. 00:51:20.94\00:51:23.24 SELF PRESERVATION. >> SELF PRESERVATION. 00:51:23.24\00:51:26.58 >> WOW. >> ISN'T THAT POWERFUL? 00:51:26.58\00:51:29.68 >> THAT IS. SO TO PICK UP YOUR CROSS. 00:51:29.68\00:51:32.72 HE SHOWED ME THREE STEPS. FIRST YOU JUST HAVE TO FOLLOW 00:51:32.72\00:51:37.43 THE PATH OF CHRIST'S PASSION, AND IN THE FIRST PART OF HIS 00:51:37.43\00:51:41.43 PASSION WAS IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE, WHERE HE SAID, LORD, 00:51:41.43\00:51:48.37 NOT MY WILL BUT YOURS BE DONE, THAT'S WHERE WE HAVE GOT TO GET 00:51:48.37\00:51:52.61 TO THE POINT OF SAYING, LORD, PLEASE WORK YOUR WILL IN MY 00:51:52.61\00:51:56.11 LIFE. HE KNOWS THE END FROM THE 00:51:56.11\00:51:58.08 BEGINNING. IT'S GOING TO BE SO MUCH BETTER 00:51:58.08\00:52:01.82 WHEN HE DOES. BUT THE IDEA OF PICKING UP YOUR 00:52:01.82\00:52:06.32 CROSS MEANS YOU ARE WILLING TO DIE FOR CERTAIN THINGS IN YOUR 00:52:06.32\00:52:12.39 LIFE. AND MAYBE YOU ARE SMOKING. 00:52:12.39\00:52:15.33 MAYBE YOU ARE HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH A MARRIED PERSON -- OR 00:52:15.33\00:52:21.04 AFFAIR PERIOD, BUT THERE IS SOMETHING GOING ON IN YOUR LIFE, 00:52:21.04\00:52:24.41 AND YOU KNOW IT'S NOT PLEASING TO THE LORD, AND YOU DON'T YET 00:52:24.41\00:52:27.88 HAVE THE STRENGTH TO GIVE IT UP, BUT YOU HAVE GOT TO GET TO THAT 00:52:27.88\00:52:32.25 POINT WHERE YOU ARE WILLING TO DO HIS WILL, WHERE YOU ARE 00:52:32.25\00:52:36.45 SAYING, LORD, PLEASE HELP ME TO PICK UP THIS CROSS AND DIE TO 00:52:36.45\00:52:41.66 THIS, AND IT'S ONLY GOING TO BE BY THE POWER OF HIS HOLY SPIRIT, 00:52:41.66\00:52:45.56 AND I WANT TO READ YOU -- I LOVE THIS, BECAUSE THIS IS SOMETHING 00:52:45.56\00:52:49.30 THAT THE LORD GAVE ME, THAT I WAS PRAYING CONTINUALLY AS HE 00:52:49.30\00:52:53.74 WAS TEACHING ME TO SURRENDER. IT'S PSALM 143, I'M -- LET'S 00:52:53.74\00:53:04.21 BEGIN WITH VERSE 7. PSALM 143:7, AND I WOULD PRAY 00:53:04.21\00:53:11.05 THIS. ANSWER ME SEED ILLY OLD LORD. 00:53:11.05\00:53:17.09 DO NOT HIDE YOUR FACE FROM ME. CAUSE ME TO HEAR YOUR LOVING 00:53:17.09\00:53:20.70 KINDNESS IN THE MORNING, FOR IN YOU DO I TRUST. 00:53:20.70\00:53:25.43 CAUSE ME TO KNOW THE WAY IN WHICH I SHOULD WALK, WHEN I LIFT 00:53:25.43\00:53:30.51 UP MY SOUL TO YOU, DELIVER ME FROM MY ENEMIES, TEACH ME TO DO 00:53:30.51\00:53:37.28 YOUR WILL, FOR YOU ARE MY GOD. YOUR SPIRIT IS GOOD.-pLEAD ME IN THE LAND OF UP -RIGHTNESS. 00:53:37.28\00:53:48.19 REVIVE ME OH LORD FOR YOUR NAMESAKE, FOR YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS 00:53:48.19\00:53:53.53 SAKE, BRING MY SOUL OUT OF TROUBLE. 00:53:53.53\00:53:55.43 SO IF YOU FOLLOW CHRIST'S PASSION, FIRST IT WAS THE GARDEN 00:53:55.43\00:54:00.07 OF GETHSEMANE, THEN IT PICKED UP HIS CROSS AND PAUL TALKS SO MUCH 00:54:00.07\00:54:04.74 IN GALATIANS ABOUT -- I HAVE BEEN KRAUSEFIED WITH CHRIST. 00:54:04.74\00:54:09.91 HE TALKS A LOT ABOUT CRUCIFYING THE FLESH, BUT WE ALREADY TALKED 00:54:09.91\00:54:16.95 ABOUT THAT YOU CAN'T DO IT ON YOUR OWN. 00:54:16.95\00:54:19.89 SO IT'S THOUGH HOLY SPIRIT. BUT SOME PEOPLE SO CONCENTRATE 00:54:19.89\00:54:24.26 ON MORTIFYING THE FLESH, AND I WAS GETTING INTO THAT, EVEN, 00:54:24.26\00:54:29.20 LIKE, WHAT ELSE NEEDS TO BE PUT TO DEATH. 00:54:29.20\00:54:31.87 AND FINALLY IT WAS KIND OF LIKE, GET ON WITH IT, MY CHILD, I 00:54:31.87\00:54:38.64 DIDN'T STAY IN THE GRAVE FOREVER. 00:54:38.64\00:54:40.84 SO IT'S THAT RESURRECTION MORNING. 00:54:40.84\00:54:45.85 IN LUKE 13:11, WHEN JESUS SAID SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND, KNOCK 00:54:45.85\00:54:50.22 AND THE DOOR WILL BE OPEN TO YOU, AND THOSE ARE LINEAR VERBS. 00:54:50.22\00:54:55.02 THEY ARE -- IT MEANS THAT IF -- TO BETTER TRANSLATED INTO 00:54:55.02\00:54:59.03 ENGLISH, WE OUGHT TO BE -- JESUS WAS SAYING, ASK AND KEEP ON 00:54:59.03\00:55:04.57 ASKING, SEEK AND KEEP ON SEEKING, KNOCK AND KEEP ON 00:55:04.57\00:55:07.87 KNOCKING, AND THEN HE SAYS IF YOU BEING EVIL KNOW HOW TO GIVE 00:55:07.87\00:55:13.31 GIFTS TO YOUR CHILDREN, HOW MUCH MORE DOES THE HEAVENLY FATHER 00:55:13.31\00:55:17.68 KNOW HOW TO GIVE YOU THE HOLY SPIRIT. 00:55:17.68\00:55:21.35 >> JESUS PUT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER, DIDN'T HE? 00:55:21.35\00:55:24.65 THE FIRST IS DENY SELF. DENY SELF. 00:55:24.65\00:55:27.69 BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT GOING TO PICK UP A CROSS UNLESS YOU DENY 00:55:27.69\00:55:31.79 SELF. AND YOU ARE NOT GOING TO FOLLOW 00:55:31.79\00:55:34.36 HIM UNLESS YOU DENY SELF. JESUS PUT IT IN THE PERFECT 00:55:34.36\00:55:40.07 ORDER. IT HAS TO DO WITH DENIAL OF 00:55:40.07\00:55:44.57 SELF. AND LET JESUS REIGN WHERE SELF 00:55:44.57\00:55:48.61 WAS ONCE REIGNING SUPREME. >> AMEN. 00:55:48.61\00:55:51.71 WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE PEOPLE-TODAY -- A CROSS WHAT DO 00:55:51.71\00:55:57.95 YOU MEAN? PEOPLE PUT CROSSES IN THE CEMETERIES, WHICH MEANS 00:55:57.95\00:56:01.36 THOSE PEOPLE IN THE GRAVES ARE DEAD. SO THAT HAPPENS WILL HELP 00:56:01.36\00:56:07.23 UNDERSTAND WHEN JESUS SAYS PICK UP THE CROSS, YOU ARE GOING TO 00:56:07.23\00:56:10.43 PUT SELF TO DEATH. SO THE SCRIPTURE THAT SHELLEY 00:56:10.43\00:56:14.90 READ BEFORE, IF YOU BUY THE HOLY SPIRIT PUT TO DEATH THE DEEDS OF 00:56:14.90\00:56:20.58 THE BODY, YOU WILL LIVE. SO TAKING UP THE CROSS MEANS 00:56:20.58\00:56:24.81 EVERY MORNING WHEN YOU GET UP, YOU COMMIT AND SUBMIT YOUR LIFE 00:56:24.81\00:56:29.12 TO THE LORD. YOU SAID LORD, I'M GIVING YOU 00:56:29.12\00:56:32.59 CONTROL. THAT'S TAKING UP THE CROSS. 00:56:32.59\00:56:34.76 I'M GIVING YOU CONTROL OF MY LIFE. 00:56:34.76\00:56:36.99 I SURRENDER. I GIVE MYSELF TO YOU. 00:56:36.99\00:56:39.26 AND IT'S LIKE YOU SAY, THE STEPS TO CHRIST SAYS YOU CANNOT EVEN 00:56:39.26\00:56:44.07 GIVE YOUR WILL TO HIM. >> YEAH. 00:56:44.07\00:56:45.83 >> BUT YOU CAN SAY, LORD, I CONSENT FOR YOU TO TAKE MY WILL. 00:56:45.83\00:56:50.91 >> ANOTHER WORD FOR SURRENDER IS CONSENT. 00:56:50.91\00:56:54.41 YOU ARE CONSENT. IT'S JUST THAT SIMPLE. 00:56:54.41\00:56:56.85 >> AMEN. >> AMEN. 00:56:56.85\00:57:00.58 >> I LOVE PHILIPPIANS 2, IT IS GOD WHO WORKS IN US OF HIS 00:57:00.58\00:57:08.42 PLEASURE. GOD WANTS TO WORK IN YOUR LIFE 00:57:08.42\00:57:13.86 AND OUR LIFE TO DO HIS WILL. GOD KNOWS THAT WE ARE WEAK OF 00:57:13.86\00:57:18.93 OURSELVES, BUT WHEN WE CONSENT, WHEN WE YIELD TO HIM, HE WILL 00:57:18.93\00:57:23.34 TAKE CONTROL. WE ARE JUST AT THE END OF OUR 00:57:23.34\00:57:25.51 FIRST HOUR, BUT DON'T GO AWAY. I GOT A STACK OF QUESTIONS AND 00:57:25.51\00:57:30.25 PRAYER REQUESTS. WE'RE GOING TO GET TO THOSE IN 00:57:30.25\00:57:33.38 THE SECOND HOUR. WE'RE GOING TO START WITH DONNA 00:57:33.38\00:57:36.95 IN THE BEGINNING OF THE SECOND HOUR. 00:57:36.95\00:57:40.52 SO DONNA DON'T GO AWAY, AND ALL OF THE REST OF YOU, FEEL FREE TO 00:57:40.52\00:57:46.80 WRITE IN, OR CALL IN YOUR QUESTIONS DURING THE BREAK, AND 00:57:46.80\00:57:49.76 WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK. 00:57:49.76\00:57:52.30