WEBVTT - Michele Jackson - Oct 26 - 3:30 pm 0:00:00.710 --> 0:00:02.750 Today with Bishop Harry Jackson. 0:00:03.230 --> 0:00:06.029 I believe God was waiting. Will he call on me? 0:00:07.110 --> 0:00:10.940 Is it bad enough that he realizes that all he's 0:00:10.980 --> 0:00:13.700 got to do is look up? When is he going 0:00:13.740 --> 0:00:18.100 to call? His heart was to be a deliverer, to 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:24.260 be a healer. But Asa just got worse. And he says, 0:00:24.300 --> 0:00:28.800 yet in his distress, he sought not the Lord himself. 0:00:30.010 --> 0:00:31.370 But to the physicians. 0:00:32.250 --> 0:00:40.010 He sought the natural remedies. He sought man's understanding. How 0:00:40.050 --> 0:00:45.440 many know that every breakthrough, every scientific breakthrough has come 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:46.580 ultimately from God? 0:00:47.700 --> 0:00:49.460 God who put all the principles in the earth. 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:53.559 God allows human understanding to be enlightened so we know 0:00:53.580 --> 0:00:56.730 how to use what he's already preordained and put into 0:00:56.770 --> 0:00:57.310 the earth realm. 0:00:57.390 --> 0:00:57.850 Are you with me? 0:00:59.730 --> 0:01:03.150 When you're under pressure, whose wisdom do you seek? The doctor? 0:01:03.330 --> 0:01:07.169 The lawyer? God holds every key to your breakthrough and 0:01:07.430 --> 0:01:11.090 all wisdom comes from him. That's today on The Hope Connection. 0:01:11.150 --> 0:01:14.370 Stay with us. But before we get started, The Hope 0:01:14.410 --> 0:01:16.610 Connection is about turning hearts to God with the hope 0:01:16.670 --> 0:01:18.789 of the gospel of Jesus Christ. 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Now here's Bishop 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:12.440 Perry with part two of his message, Faith Under Pressure. 0:02:15.940 --> 0:02:21.780 God has began to send me, it's been supernatural, to 0:02:21.860 --> 0:02:25.250 people who are going through a major crisis in their 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:29.550 lives and to help them. And the more I help 0:02:29.570 --> 0:02:33.210 them get perspective, guess what? It helps me with my perspective. 0:02:34.350 --> 0:02:37.290 The more I serve somebody else, the more I see 0:02:37.350 --> 0:02:40.200 that it's okay. A few weeks ago, I was standing 0:02:40.780 --> 0:02:43.900 in the St. Louis airport, getting ready to go speak 0:02:43.940 --> 0:02:46.829 to a bunch of pastors. And for the first time 0:02:46.870 --> 0:02:51.360 about a year, a joy began to just jump up 0:02:51.419 --> 0:02:54.440 in my heart and spirit. And I thought to myself, 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:58.010 my goodness, I get paid to do this. I get 0:02:58.050 --> 0:03:02.230 to go and talk to a bunch of leaders. I 0:03:02.270 --> 0:03:06.089 get to share about the things of God. I get 0:03:06.130 --> 0:03:10.040 to do this full time. And guess what? Yes, I've 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:13.919 lost my wife. Yes, I've lost some years. I'm not 0:03:13.980 --> 0:03:18.440 a spring chicken, but I still, I started thinking, I'm 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:21.910 still standing. I'm still alive. 0:03:22.850 --> 0:03:28.690 I'm healthy. I'm whole. I'm healed. I'm anointed by the 0:03:28.810 --> 0:03:37.480 most high God. Hallelujah. Man, I felt like dancing in 0:03:37.500 --> 0:03:45.050 the airport. Hallelujah. The devil wants to tamp down your joy. 0:03:45.090 --> 0:03:48.170 He wants to take away your expectation. He wants you 0:03:48.210 --> 0:03:52.670 to feel like you are surrounded. But we may sing 0:03:52.710 --> 0:03:54.470 a song a little bit later. This is a song 0:03:54.490 --> 0:03:58.670 by Michael W. Smith. He says, this is how I 0:03:58.750 --> 0:04:02.680 fight my battles. He says, it may look like I'm surrounded, 0:04:02.740 --> 0:04:05.030 but I'm surrounded by you. 0:04:08.010 --> 0:04:09.750 This is how I fight my battles. He's talking about 0:04:09.790 --> 0:04:10.590 praising God. 0:04:11.690 --> 0:04:14.630 Praising the most high God who's in the ultimately in 0:04:14.730 --> 0:04:16.900 charge of anything and everything. 0:04:16.770 --> 0:04:18.000 That pertaineth to me. 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:24.099 Our God, his name is a strong tower until the righteous. 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:25.620 Run in and they're saved. 0:04:26.900 --> 0:04:27.580 Woo! 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:32.560 So faith under pressure. 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:38.280 2 Chronicles 16, 9-13 says this. For the eyes of 0:04:38.339 --> 0:04:42.339 the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth. 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:44.700 To show himself. 0:04:44.420 --> 0:04:50.660 Strong in behalf of them whose hearts is perfectly toward him. 0:04:52.660 --> 0:04:54.640 Herein thou has done foolishly. 0:04:55.760 --> 0:05:01.570 Therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars against And then. 0:05:02.770 --> 0:05:05.169 Asa was wroth with the seer. Let me stop there. 0:05:06.390 --> 0:05:13.580 King Asa began his ministry, his kingship, in a time 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:17.500 of a massive move of God, where there was safety 0:05:17.540 --> 0:05:21.400 in the land. Everything he asked for, he got. Favor 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:25.840 was upon him. And under a time of pressure, when 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:29.750 he thought he was threatened, he went into the house 0:05:29.790 --> 0:05:32.719 of the Lord and took all the silver and gold 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.000 out of God's house. You can read all this in 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:40.750 2 Chronicles 16, a little bit higher. You can read 0:05:40.770 --> 0:05:46.380 the beginning of what Asa's reign was like in chapter 14, 0:05:46.370 --> 0:05:47.560 a couple chapters ahead. 0:05:48.310 --> 0:05:51.260 But he goes and he gets the articles that. 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:54.880 Were meant to be used for worship and to honor God, 0:05:55.000 --> 0:06:00.440 and he gives them And he thinks he's bartering with 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:05.320 a satanic representative. Like I already told you, you can't 0:06:05.420 --> 0:06:07.160 barter with the devil. You can't make a deal with 0:06:07.180 --> 0:06:09.980 the devil. That doesn't work. He'll take everything you've got 0:06:10.060 --> 0:06:12.220 and then still keep asking for more. 0:06:12.660 --> 0:06:15.400 He'll renegotiate the deal. Come on, somebody. 0:06:16.779 --> 0:06:18.860 And so you'll wind up in a worse place than 0:06:18.900 --> 0:06:22.880 you've been by trying to feel like by carnal ability 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:26.279 and carnal mastery that somehow you can make the devil 0:06:26.339 --> 0:06:29.290 slow down He doesn't have quitting sense. 0:06:29.310 --> 0:06:29.730 You got to. 0:06:29.730 --> 0:06:34.070 Knock him straight out and beat him down. And if 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.720 you don't do that, then he's going to rise up 0:06:36.779 --> 0:06:39.839 again and keep coming. It's good at least to know 0:06:39.900 --> 0:06:45.100 the nature of our enemy. So here, Ace has done 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.590 this and a prophet came and said, hey, you did 0:06:47.610 --> 0:06:51.669 the wrong thing. Now you're going to have war in 0:06:51.830 --> 0:06:57.680 trying to negotiate, compromise your principles, do what you know 0:06:58.130 --> 0:07:02.960 is in the flesh. God won't supernaturally work for you. 0:07:04.300 --> 0:07:07.460 And verse 9 is the key about the heart of God. 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:11.630 You need to hear this today. If there's an impossible situation, 0:07:12.030 --> 0:07:14.790 we're going to talk for a few minutes about health 0:07:15.190 --> 0:07:19.630 and overcoming health problems because health and finances are the 0:07:19.750 --> 0:07:24.420 two big battlegrounds that most people struggle with in a 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:25.340 day-to-day basis. 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.900 Are you all with me? So we're going to talk. 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:29.740 About these in the next few weeks. But I want 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:31.610 you to see this. Look at verse 9 again. It says, Now, 0:07:32.060 --> 0:07:35.000 it's saying that God, listen to this, is looking around 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:38.040 to find somebody that he can show himself strong to. 0:07:56.780 --> 0:08:00.480 He's looking for people and at people that are in trouble, 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:04.820 at people that are in problems. He's looking all around 0:08:04.860 --> 0:08:10.080 the earth, looking for somebody who he can show up 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:14.900 and manifest deliverance. So you may need a new job. 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:18.440 You may need more finances. You may need health issues 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.240 turned around. You may have marital problems. You may have 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:26.040 problems with your children. Jesus is looking for you right now. 0:08:27.180 --> 0:08:30.760 But there's a special kind of needy person. He's not 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:33.460 going to just show up because you have a need. See, 0:08:33.500 --> 0:08:35.819 you could be a needy and be a devil worshiper. 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:40.339 He's not coming for you. Y'all there with me? Let's 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:42.660 look at verse 9 again. For the eyes of the 0:08:42.700 --> 0:08:46.199 Lord run to and fro through the whole earth to 0:08:46.260 --> 0:08:51.670 show himself strong in behalf of those whose heart is 0:08:51.870 --> 0:08:53.849 perfect toward him. 0:08:55.410 --> 0:08:56.410 So if they're people. 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:02.620 who will love him, if there are people who will 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:07.210 worship and honor him, they are the people with perfect heart. 0:09:08.090 --> 0:09:12.569 They are the ones when they are in need, he'll 0:09:12.929 --> 0:09:20.480 come in and rescue you by showing himself strong. Amen? 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:26.200 He wants to be that arbiter for you. 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:30.400 He wants to be, as old times do say, your 0:09:30.470 --> 0:09:35.309 lawyer in the courtroom, your physician when you're ill. He 0:09:35.370 --> 0:09:39.410 wants to intercede, intervene. He wants to come for you. 0:09:39.809 --> 0:09:44.190 He wants to rescue you. It's a part of his heart. 0:09:45.290 --> 0:09:49.790 And so the prophet was telling him, God was waiting 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:53.439 to move on your behalf, but your heart wasn't perfect. 0:09:55.260 --> 0:09:59.480 And instead of looking up, You look to your resources. 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:04.100 You look to what you could do. You try to 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:11.959 manipulate circumstances. You are down here playing checkers or marbles 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:15.990 and God's up there playing chess. In fact, he's got 0:10:16.020 --> 0:10:20.480 a three-dimensional chessboard and He's playing on a level your 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:22.180 mind can't even comprehend. 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:23.800 Come on, somebody. 0:10:23.820 --> 0:10:30.520 And he's ready to be your deliverer in the midst 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:34.710 of your situation. Go down to verse 11 with me. 0:10:34.710 --> 0:10:38.550 2 Chronicles chapter 16. If you're with me, say amen. 0:10:40.030 --> 0:10:43.650 And behold, the acts of Asa first and last, lo, 0:10:43.690 --> 0:10:45.250 they are written in the book of the kings of 0:10:45.309 --> 0:10:49.700 Judah and Israel. And Asa in the 39th year of 0:10:49.780 --> 0:10:53.260 his reign was diseased. 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:53.380 In his feet. 0:10:54.540 --> 0:10:57.940 God had kept his territory in peace. God had made 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:02.300 him wise and wealthy. But now he had a personal problem, 0:11:02.980 --> 0:11:09.880 a problem with his feet. Until his disease was exceeding great, 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:13.000 started small, kept getting worse. 0:11:13.950 --> 0:11:19.150 I believe the eyes of the Lord were watching. I 0:11:20.410 --> 0:11:23.150 believe God was waiting. Will he call on me? 0:11:24.190 --> 0:11:28.020 Is it bad enough that he realizes that all he's 0:11:28.059 --> 0:11:29.290 got to do is look up? 0:11:30.970 --> 0:11:32.070 When is he going to call? 0:11:32.429 --> 0:11:36.840 His heart was to be a deliverer, to be a healer. 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:43.760 But Asa just got worse. And he says, yet in 0:11:43.820 --> 0:11:50.640 his distress, he sought not the Lord, but to the physicians. 0:11:53.970 --> 0:11:56.330 The Hope Connection will be right back with more. But 0:11:56.370 --> 0:11:58.830 before we continue today's message, I want to let you 0:11:58.850 --> 0:12:02.320 know about a special offer. Today on The Hope Connection, 0:12:02.380 --> 0:12:05.680 we are offering you a series called Look Beyond. 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Now 0:12:48.540 --> 0:12:50.599 let's get back with more of today's message. 0:12:53.260 --> 0:13:01.030 He sought the natural remedies. He sought man's understanding. How 0:13:01.070 --> 0:13:06.450 many know that every breakthrough, every scientific breakthrough has come 0:13:06.590 --> 0:13:07.550 ultimately from God? 0:13:08.700 --> 0:13:10.480 God who put all the principles in the earth. 0:13:10.860 --> 0:13:14.579 God allows human understanding to be enlightened so we know 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.939 how to use what he's already preordained and put into. 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:18.900 The earth realm. Are you with me? 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:26.079 So every medicine, every scientific remedy, every formulation, calculation, every 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:32.290 potential healing balm or healing medicine came out of the 0:13:32.370 --> 0:13:37.570 imagination of man tapping to the preordination of God. So God, 0:13:37.610 --> 0:13:39.730 knowing we'd need it, put it in the earth that 0:13:39.809 --> 0:13:46.090 it could be discovered. But it's downstream from the wisdom 0:13:46.130 --> 0:13:50.750 of God. It's inferior to the revelation of God. It's 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:55.700 a second, third level shadow of the full brilliance of 0:13:55.740 --> 0:13:57.400 the glory of God, of. 0:13:57.380 --> 0:13:59.220 The genius of the Almighty. 0:13:59.660 --> 0:14:06.100 It's nowhere near his full light and glory. And so 0:14:06.140 --> 0:14:09.540 this guy is so prideful. All he can see is, well, 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:12.080 I don't understand how this can be. I'm just going 0:14:12.100 --> 0:14:17.040 to go to the doctor. And he doesn't even think about. 0:14:18.580 --> 0:14:22.230 God can just blink his left eye and all my 0:14:22.260 --> 0:14:24.790 physical issues are gone. 0:14:26.210 --> 0:14:27.810 It takes him no. 0:14:27.590 --> 0:14:33.030 Energy, no authority, no ability to just turn my stuff 0:14:33.070 --> 0:14:37.920 around all the way around. He says, yet in his disease, 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:44.500 he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians. 0:14:45.820 --> 0:14:49.160 And Asa slept with his fathers. What did that mean? 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.970 He died. He slept with his fathers. 0:14:55.170 --> 0:14:56.850 Right now, even though I want to go to heaven, 0:14:56.930 --> 0:14:57.630 I'm not trying to. 0:14:57.610 --> 0:15:01.670 Sleep with my fathers, okay? I just want to let 0:15:01.690 --> 0:15:05.880 you know about that. And he died in the one 0:15:05.940 --> 0:15:09.440 and 40th year of his reign. God put him in place. 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:13.640 God gave him favor early on. But God gave him 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:17.260 the choice. We are free moral agents. We can choose 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:19.080 to look up. We can choose to look down. We 0:15:19.260 --> 0:15:21.960 can choose to look away. We can choose to get help. 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:25.400 We can choose to resist help. And God's saying to us, 0:15:25.950 --> 0:15:30.230 faith under pressure is understanding the resources that are yours. 0:15:30.630 --> 0:15:35.020 The opportunity is yours. Let's look at a slide on 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:39.540 the screen. Asa began his reign in a move of God. 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:47.330 I said this already, but what? He never learned God's heart. 0:15:48.530 --> 0:15:50.070 You can be saved and not know the heart of 0:15:50.090 --> 0:15:53.290 God for you. You can be born again for years 0:15:53.650 --> 0:15:57.590 and not know how much God is watching and looking 0:15:58.190 --> 0:16:04.600 for somebody that he can show himself strong to. somebody 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:09.470 he can rescue. Somebody, it's almost like God, if God 0:16:09.550 --> 0:16:11.550 were to go to sleep, we know he never sleeps 0:16:11.630 --> 0:16:16.490 or slanders, but somehow if God were to go to sleep, impossible, but, 0:16:17.150 --> 0:16:20.050 and he were to wake up in the morning, first 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.780 thing he would do in the morning is get up 0:16:22.860 --> 0:16:26.000 and say, is there somebody I can bless? 0:16:27.140 --> 0:16:29.440 I'm looking for somebody I can rescue. 0:16:29.460 --> 0:16:32.580 I'm I'm looking for somebody I can take out of 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:36.860 their hopeless situation and bring. 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:37.920 Them into my deliverance. 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:43.410 I'm waiting for an opportunity that Larry will call on me. 0:16:45.210 --> 0:16:48.430 I'm looking for Hannah to finally realize that she can't 0:16:48.510 --> 0:16:51.690 make it on her own and that I want to 0:16:51.730 --> 0:16:58.450 be her great strength. I'm waiting for you. My power waits. 0:16:58.530 --> 0:17:03.230 My mercy waits. All my ability waits. Every promise that 0:17:03.310 --> 0:17:07.040 I've given in the word awaits for your moment of 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:12.419 awakening and your heartfelt request. So all I've got to 0:17:12.460 --> 0:17:16.540 do is have a pure heart and a real need. 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:23.760 And almighty God says, I'll move heaven and earth to 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:28.990 touch you. What a God. Just lift your hands with 0:17:29.030 --> 0:17:32.230 me and let's thank him. Lord, we thank you for 0:17:32.250 --> 0:17:35.990 your heart. We thank you that you are God who 0:17:36.590 --> 0:17:41.070 is watching over us now. Thank you, Lord, that you've 0:17:41.109 --> 0:17:44.970 kept me. You have not forsaken me. 0:17:46.330 --> 0:17:51.659 Oh, hallelujah. One more minute. 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:58.090 How do we respond to God in crisis? Slide number four, 0:17:58.109 --> 0:18:02.470 remember our message from faith. We started off with my expectation, 0:18:02.510 --> 0:18:06.100 my confection. Expectation, I need for you, we're going to 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:08.260 close with this, and we're going to spend just a 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:11.400 few minutes worshiping. I need for you to go to 0:18:11.420 --> 0:18:16.980 the word. And start your expectation with what the Bible promises. 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:20.290 Don't be so quick to pray, you know, hey, God, 0:18:20.330 --> 0:18:22.990 help me, God, heal me. What would be great if 0:18:23.030 --> 0:18:26.030 you're having a physical problem now is to get on 0:18:26.050 --> 0:18:31.629 some three-by-five cards and to write down Isaiah 53.5 and 0:18:31.670 --> 0:18:38.330 to begin to declare that word over yourself. Slide number 0:18:38.369 --> 0:18:40.490 five says this, Isaiah 53.5, but he. 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:49.340 Talking about Jesus, was wounded for our transgressions. He was 0:18:49.420 --> 0:18:54.399 bruised for our iniquity. In other words, the twistedness of 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:59.250 our character, generational problems, the in and out, the addiction, 0:18:59.310 --> 0:19:04.770 the abusiveness of the lostness of our inner world, our soul. 0:19:05.190 --> 0:19:09.469 He said the chastisement of our peace. Or the chastisement 0:19:09.550 --> 0:19:13.630 or the punishment that brings us peace was upon him. 0:19:13.650 --> 0:19:17.969 In other words, Jesus took your punishment. Jesus took the 0:19:18.050 --> 0:19:22.669 penalty of your sin. Jesus paid the price for health 0:19:22.790 --> 0:19:25.430 for you instead of sickness. 0:19:26.450 --> 0:19:32.040 And with his stripes, with his stripes, we are healed. 0:19:33.290 --> 0:19:35.629 Now, there are many other scriptures you can look at, 0:19:36.150 --> 0:19:38.900 but if I were in the middle of a healing crisis, 0:19:39.340 --> 0:19:41.960 I'd take that one verse, maybe one or two others, 0:19:42.540 --> 0:19:44.850 and I would put them on three by five cards, 0:19:45.290 --> 0:19:47.970 and I would read them over, and I would take 0:19:48.310 --> 0:19:52.959 that word like you're would take medicine take it twice 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:56.740 a day three times a day if necessary come on 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:01.950 every time you started feeling like I don't know if 0:20:01.990 --> 0:20:05.030 you've been through what I've been through in my life 0:20:06.630 --> 0:20:08.889 I don't know if you've ever been so sick that 0:20:10.170 --> 0:20:14.940 that negativism washes over you several times a day. I 0:20:14.980 --> 0:20:19.140 don't know if you've been so hurt or hopeless that 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:24.640 waves of negative thoughts literally wash over the inside of you. 0:20:25.250 --> 0:20:27.790 At those moments, I'd take out that little card and 0:20:27.850 --> 0:20:31.350 I'd read it. I'd read it out loud. I'd stare 0:20:31.430 --> 0:20:34.230 at it. I'd look at it. And I'd say, this 0:20:34.310 --> 0:20:37.439 is your promise, Lord. I'm not at a point I'm 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:39.930 going to pray how to do it. I'm not going 0:20:39.950 --> 0:20:42.770 to say I want this kind of thing and that 0:20:42.850 --> 0:20:45.630 kind of thing. I'm just going to say, Lord, you 0:20:45.670 --> 0:20:50.260 promised you'd heal me. By your stripes, I'm healed. I'm 0:20:50.300 --> 0:20:51.550 going to believe for it. 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:57.580 You're listening to The Hope Connection. We'll be right back 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:01.410 to conclude today's message. But first, each month, the Hope 0:21:01.450 --> 0:21:04.050 Connection wants you to grow in your faith and relationship 0:21:04.090 --> 0:21:06.859 with God. One way to be connected to God is 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:10.859 by knowing His voice, how He speaks, understanding prophecy, and 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:14.760 how we can respond. Through Bishop Harry's five-part message series, 0:21:14.930 --> 0:21:18.260 Look Beyond, you'll discover answers and understanding on how to 0:21:18.300 --> 0:21:21.740 respond to God's voice and find hope when everything around 0:21:21.780 --> 0:21:25.070 you feels hopeless. The Look Beyond series is our way 0:21:25.130 --> 0:21:27.830 of thanking you for your gift to help support this ministry. 0:21:28.270 --> 0:21:32.230 Your generous gift allows us to continue broadcasting life-changing messages 0:21:32.300 --> 0:21:41.960 like this one. Call 1-888-778-7146. That's 1-888-778-7146. Or give online 0:21:42.060 --> 0:21:46.590 at thehopeconnection.org. Now here's one final thought for you today. 0:21:49.350 --> 0:21:53.810 If I was sick right now, I'd do something really 0:21:53.869 --> 0:21:58.169 sick now. And if I'm going through a restoration, I 0:21:58.210 --> 0:22:02.649 got a magazine. This is a bodybuilding magazine. But if 0:22:02.770 --> 0:22:06.310 I had physical problems, I'd find someplace in my house 0:22:06.350 --> 0:22:12.720 where I could put images of healthy people up. And, 0:22:12.980 --> 0:22:16.180 you know, your imagination has a lot of power. But 0:22:16.359 --> 0:22:21.080 what you want to do is basically free your inner 0:22:21.140 --> 0:22:27.330 world from the negative expectation that that somehow this is 0:22:27.350 --> 0:22:31.470 getting worse, somehow you're going to get worse and things 0:22:31.510 --> 0:22:34.380 aren't going to get better. I'd create a little space 0:22:34.619 --> 0:22:40.360 where I could sit there and feel safe and think 0:22:40.400 --> 0:22:45.020 about one day I'm going to be able to run again. 0:22:46.700 --> 0:22:50.889 One day, some of you may not understand what I'm saying. 0:22:51.730 --> 0:22:54.520 You're talking about looking at a guy who said, you 0:22:54.560 --> 0:22:57.680 got 10% chance of living. You're not going to ever 0:22:57.740 --> 0:23:00.960 be normal again. You'll never go back to work again. Well, honey, 0:23:01.020 --> 0:23:01.920 I'm working today. 0:23:07.440 --> 0:23:09.480 Quises kept. I may be doing better than you are. 0:23:09.680 --> 0:23:13.609 No matter what they say with all their degrees and 0:23:13.650 --> 0:23:17.330 their science and all of this, it's all right. They 0:23:17.350 --> 0:23:20.710 can have their opinion, but God's got the final word. 0:23:24.680 --> 0:23:27.600 It may look like it's hopeless. It may look like 0:23:27.640 --> 0:23:30.480 you can't get out of this thing. But first thing 0:23:30.500 --> 0:23:34.379 you've got to struggle for is anchor your heart in 0:23:34.440 --> 0:23:36.020 the promises of God. 0:23:36.460 --> 0:23:39.640 Don't worry how he's going to do it. Don't question 0:23:39.770 --> 0:23:40.859 when he's going to do it. 0:23:41.330 --> 0:23:45.550 Just say, my God has made a vow that he's 0:23:45.590 --> 0:23:46.570 going to show. 0:23:46.410 --> 0:23:47.030 Up for me. 0:23:47.050 --> 0:23:54.090 His eyes are searching for me. Lift your hands and 0:23:54.210 --> 0:23:58.429 say your name out loud. Harry, say your name out loud. Harry, 0:23:58.470 --> 0:24:02.899 what's your name? He's looking for you. Lift your hands 0:24:02.980 --> 0:24:06.760 and say your name out loud. He's looking for you. 0:24:07.740 --> 0:24:12.199 He's watching for you. I don't care what your situation is. 0:24:12.600 --> 0:24:16.040 I don't care what the darkness is. Our God is 0:24:16.119 --> 0:24:20.760 coming after you. He's chasing you down with the love 0:24:20.820 --> 0:24:21.360 of God. 0:24:22.320 --> 0:24:23.119 Hallelujah. 0:24:26.100 --> 0:24:28.840 Before you go, remember our gift to you. Bishop Harry 0:24:28.900 --> 0:24:32.060 Jackson's audio series, Look Beyond, to thank you for your 0:24:32.119 --> 0:24:34.480 gift to help keep the Hope Connection on the air. 0:24:35.000 --> 0:24:41.619 Call 1-888-778-7146 or visit thehopeconnection.org to get the good news 0:24:41.680 --> 0:24:45.540 of hope in Christ. Thanks for joining us today. We 0:24:45.580 --> 0:24:49.320 want you to be empowered with hope and destiny through prayer, worship, 0:24:49.560 --> 0:24:53.310 and the Word. So don't miss next time, The Hope Connection.