Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today.
Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.
Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is.
Speaker 3: Moving in your life.
Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. Hey, why don't you look at your
Speaker 1: neighbor real quick? Let them know how good they look.
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Speaker 1: How you feeling in the chat? Hey, I want you
Speaker 1: to open up your Bibles to Mark chapter five. Everyone
Speaker 1: say Mark chapter five, verse twenty one. If you don't
Speaker 1: know who I am, my name is sim Summers. I'm
Speaker 1: the next gen pastor here at Elevation and today I'm
Speaker 1: excited to be able to bring the word as you're
Speaker 1: finding Mark five twenty one.
Speaker 3: I got an honor our pastor.
Speaker 1: I'd love to do. This is arguably one of my
Speaker 1: favorite things to do when on this stage, and I
Speaker 1: just want to honor specifically this ghost writer series that
Speaker 1: seven weeks was absolutely was a beneficial for you. I'm
Speaker 1: seeing snaps right now right Hey, just absolute fire preaching
Speaker 1: from both of our pastors, and if you missed it,
Speaker 1: you need to do everything you gotta do to get
Speaker 1: on YouTube and get that entire series. Okay, here's what
Speaker 1: I understand about fire. When you reach scripture. The prophet
Speaker 1: Moses was called by fire. Elijah called down fire, Elisha
Speaker 1: made a fire, Micah prophesied fire. John the Baptist cried
Speaker 1: that you'll be baptized by fire. Jesus said, I've come
Speaker 1: to send fire on the earth. Right. Fire is something
Speaker 1: that God always referenced and used in Scripture. And one
Speaker 1: thing I know about my old sinful nature is it
Speaker 1: may dodge the water, Baptist, but it will be destroyed
Speaker 1: in the fire Baptism. Come on, somebody, can I get
Speaker 1: an amen? So here's what I know. I'm grateful for
Speaker 1: a pastor that understands the power of the Holy Ghost
Speaker 1: fire that both destroys, purifies, worms, attracts, and empowers Amen.
Speaker 1: And what they did, the way they surgically preached that
Speaker 1: Holy Ghost series, let me tell you something was absolutely astounding.
Speaker 1: So what I want to do just for those seven weeks.
Speaker 1: We could go a lot longer, but just for those
Speaker 1: seven weeks, can we give it up for our pastors,
Speaker 1: Pastor Stephen and hollyfordit we love you. We hope you're
Speaker 1: getting rest and refreshment. We think the world of you.
Speaker 1: Thank you for preaching the Bible. It means the world
Speaker 1: has changed my life, and I know it's changed thousands
Speaker 1: and millions of people across the world. Okay, have you
Speaker 1: found Mark five? Okay, well you can find you a
Speaker 1: way to you see y'all all excited. I know it's okay,
Speaker 1: Mark five. It's a lot of verses, so I wouldn't
Speaker 1: want to do that to you, Mark five twenty one.
Speaker 1: This is what it says, is that when Jesus had
Speaker 1: again crossed over by the boat to the other side
Speaker 1: of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while
Speaker 1: he was by the lake. Then one of the synagogue
Speaker 1: leaders named Gyrius came, and when he saw Jesus, he
Speaker 1: fell at his feet. Everyone say come, and he pleaded
Speaker 1: earnestly with him, My little daughter is dying. Please come
Speaker 1: and put your hands on her so that she will
Speaker 1: be healed and live. And Jesus went with him. A
Speaker 1: large crowd followed and pressed around him, and a woman
Speaker 1: was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years.
Speaker 1: She had suffered a great deal under the many cares
Speaker 1: of doctors and has spent all she had, Yet instead
Speaker 1: of getting better, she grew worse. And when she heard
Speaker 1: about Jesus, she came, everyone say, come behind him in
Speaker 1: the crowd, and touched his clothes because she thought, if
Speaker 1: I just touched his clothes.
Speaker 3: I will be healed. And immediately her bleeding.
Speaker 1: Stopped, and she felt in her body that she.
Speaker 3: Was freed from her suffering.
Speaker 1: And at once Jesus realized that power had gone out
Speaker 1: from him. He turned around the court in the crowd
Speaker 1: and asked, who touched my clothes? And the disciples are like,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about?
Speaker 3: Who touched me?
Speaker 1: There's no way we could tell, but Jesus kept looking
Speaker 1: around to see who had done it. And then the woman,
Speaker 1: knowing what had happened to her, came everyone say come,
Speaker 1: and fell at his feet, and, trembling with fear, told
Speaker 1: him the whole truth and nothing but the truth. And
Speaker 1: he said to her, daughter, your faith has healed you.
Speaker 1: Go in peace and be free from your suffering. And
Speaker 1: while Jesus was still speaking, some people came, everyone say,
Speaker 1: come from the house of Gyros. The synagogue leader, your
Speaker 1: daughter is dead, they said, why bother Jesus anymore. Overhearing
Speaker 1: what they said, Jesus told him, don't be afraid, just believe.
Speaker 1: And he did not let anyone follow him except Peter,
Speaker 1: James and John. And when they came, everyone say, come
Speaker 1: to the home of the synagogue leader. Jesus sought commotion,
Speaker 1: with people crying and wailing loudly.
Speaker 3: He went in and said to them, why all this commotion.
Speaker 1: The child is not dead but asleep. They laughed at him,
Speaker 1: and after he put them all out, he took the
Speaker 1: child's father and mother and the disciples who are with him,
Speaker 1: and went in where the child was. He took her
Speaker 1: by the hand and said to her to lead the coop,
Speaker 1: which means little girl, I say to you, get up,
Speaker 1: And immediately the girl stood up and began to walk around.
Speaker 1: At this they were completely astonished, and he gave strict
Speaker 1: orders not to let anyone know about this, and told
Speaker 1: them to give her something to eat. I'm going to
Speaker 1: title the conversation that I'm just having with God while
Speaker 1: you're in the room the room where it happens. The
Speaker 1: room where it happens. Everyone say, the room, the room
Speaker 1: where it happens, who the room where it happens. You know,
Speaker 1: as I get older, I've realized that there are a
Speaker 1: lot of important rooms in my life. Oftentimes those rooms
Speaker 1: are not the rooms that I thought would be so important.
Speaker 1: Can I get an amen? I've realized I've labeled some
Speaker 1: rooms wrongly and would never think that some rooms are
Speaker 1: that as important as I never thought hospital room would
Speaker 1: be so important to me. Let me put a picture
Speaker 1: up real quick of the hospital room. This is when
Speaker 1: we had our first girl. And I'll never forget that
Speaker 1: hospital room. I'll also never forget that green, crappy chair
Speaker 1: that I have to lay in. Come on, Dad's you
Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. Do No matter how small
Speaker 1: you are, that thing is not comfortable. That thing is
Speaker 1: not comfortable. But the hospital room, man, I'll never forget
Speaker 1: about that room. But a hospital room, man, I just
Speaker 1: never thought that that would be such an important room
Speaker 1: to me. Let me show you another picture. This room
Speaker 1: is special to me. This is the room you're in
Speaker 1: it right now, Lake Norman. This is the Lake Norman Auditorium.
Speaker 1: This is the room where I came for just twenty
Speaker 1: four hours eight years ago for inside elevation In fact,
Speaker 1: if you zoom in real, real close, right on the right,
Speaker 1: you can see this little blonde patch of hair.
Speaker 3: Yep, that's still me.
Speaker 1: And I'll never forget that room because that was the
Speaker 1: room where I was called and formed and evident that
Speaker 1: I would be formed to this vision and called to
Speaker 1: this church and called to our pastors. But I didn't
Speaker 1: think that room was going to be that important. Let's
Speaker 1: check this other room out. This room, this is an
Speaker 1: interesting room. I want to show you the room. This
Speaker 1: is the actual room right here, the cafeteria of a
Speaker 1: campgrounds in Oklahoma. I know you can't, I say, you
Speaker 1: tell that, but that's true.
Speaker 3: I'm not lying.
Speaker 1: But we actually found it right there, and we were
Speaker 1: sitting in chairs like that, And little did I know
Speaker 1: that I would be sitting next to the person that
Speaker 1: I would eat meals with for the rest of my life.
Speaker 1: This is where I met my wife. And let me
Speaker 1: tell you something. I didn't think I'll be meeting my
Speaker 1: wife in a room like that Oklahoma campground. All right,
Speaker 1: let me show you the other room, this last room
Speaker 1: right here, this is the first time that I met
Speaker 1: my son, Brodie. He was eight years old. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you can tell first time, but his legs
Speaker 1: are already on my legs. He loved me from the beginning.
Speaker 1: Oh man, And that is a room, a a living
Speaker 1: room and Oklahoma still water, Oklahoma. I never thought that
Speaker 1: that living room would be such an important room for me.
Speaker 3: Never did I ever. Maybe you could think about.
Speaker 1: Some rooms right now that have importance to you that
Speaker 1: you would have never thought. Oh, never thought this would
Speaker 1: be so important. I can't help but to think about
Speaker 1: this passage because Peter, James and John have been brought
Speaker 1: into a room right. In fact, there were some of
Speaker 1: the only ones that got in to the room. And
Speaker 1: here's what I think is interesting. Because Gyrus is in
Speaker 1: there right, the mother's in there obviously, the child's in there. Oh,
Speaker 1: we need that. But to bring the three disciples in?
Speaker 1: And I always thought, very interesting why them? And I
Speaker 1: began to think about this, just maybe Peter, James and John,
Speaker 1: if you don't know, these are the closest disciples to Jesus. Oh,
Speaker 1: ain't that interesting? I wonder if that's why they were
Speaker 1: invited to the room. Maybe they hadn't been in previous
Speaker 1: rooms with Jesus, so it allowed the opportunity for them
Speaker 1: to get into the room where the miracle would happen.
Speaker 1: Right this is this is This is very interesting to
Speaker 1: me because what I know is this is a special
Speaker 1: room right here. This is a special room right here.
Speaker 1: And if you're online, you're watching, you're in the room,
Speaker 1: if you're out of campus, right now, these are special
Speaker 1: rooms where God begins to move. This is a room
Speaker 1: where a lot of things can begin to happen in
Speaker 1: your life. In fact, a couple of weeks ago, pastors said,
Speaker 1: don't leave Jesus in this room. That was a word
Speaker 1: for somebody you missed three weeks ago. Don't leave Jesus.
Speaker 3: In the room.
Speaker 1: Why Because Jesus goes wherever faith puts him. Jesus goes
Speaker 1: wherever faith puts him. What rooms are you putting Jesus in?
Speaker 1: You think that this room is special and it just
Speaker 1: is always like this. Let me tell you something about
Speaker 1: this room. There are people praying over this room all week,
Speaker 1: all week. Jerry Sumner walking down every aisle. This morning
Speaker 1: at seven in the morning, I watched them. There is
Speaker 1: again walking praying for you. I don't know why this
Speaker 1: room is special because there's a different kind of faith
Speaker 1: in the room. There's a different kind of expectation that
Speaker 1: was set in the room before you leave and got
Speaker 1: in the room. This is something we've got to understand. Like, man,
Speaker 1: every time I get into the elevation doors, that's just
Speaker 1: something different. Yeah, it doesn't just happen, right, it doesn't
Speaker 1: just happen. And when you show up and you feel
Speaker 1: this faith rise, what is that, ma'am? There's people praying
Speaker 1: for miracles. There's people that are sitting next to you
Speaker 1: that need a miracle in their business and they're saying,
Speaker 1: I only got today. There's people next to you this day,
Speaker 1: I need a miracle in my marriage. And you know what,
Speaker 1: this is the last time I'm going to church. So
Speaker 1: this is it. I hope God does something. I hope
Speaker 1: he shows up. I hope he begins to move in
Speaker 1: this room and they're praying and they're prepping, they're having
Speaker 1: these conversations with God. It doesn't just happen. But what
Speaker 1: you've got to understand is that whatever room you invite
Speaker 1: Jesus into, miracles can begin to happen. I don't care
Speaker 1: if it's this room with that room, the conference room,
Speaker 1: the breakroom, the living room, the waiting room, it don't
Speaker 1: matter whatever room. Look at your neighbors, say make room.
Speaker 1: But if we aren't careful, we'll never make any more
Speaker 1: room than the ninety minutes on a Sunday each week.
Speaker 1: If we aren't careful, we'll think, Oh, I'm doing everything
Speaker 1: I need to do. God right here, bless me, bless me.
Speaker 1: I'm here, I'm waiting. Gyrius didn't even have a room.
Speaker 1: He began to make room for Jesus. In this passage,
Speaker 1: verse twenty two, it says he came, and when he
Speaker 1: saw Jesus, he fell at his feet, and he pleaded.
Speaker 3: Earnestly with him.
Speaker 1: Oh, I want to lift up that earnest word real quick,
Speaker 1: all right, I want to say earnestly. Well, okay, put
Speaker 1: on Hebrews eleven six, real quick, that's yeah. Hebrews eleven six,
Speaker 1: it says, And without faith, or want to say, faith,
Speaker 1: is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to
Speaker 1: him must believe that he exists and that he rewards
Speaker 1: those who earnestly seek him, those who diligently seek him,
Speaker 1: those who consistently and persistently are praying and having conversations.
Speaker 1: We've got those who have that relationships, that intimacy with
Speaker 1: the holy spirits, that closeness that you.
Speaker 3: Can only feel, and you begin to describe it.
Speaker 1: They have been with Jesus. What is different about them?
Speaker 1: They have been with Jesus. What do you do when
Speaker 1: you see Jesus? I've asked this question before in a
Speaker 1: sermon in this very room. I think it's vital to
Speaker 1: ask again, what do you do when you see Jesus?
Speaker 1: Let me ask you something. When's the last time you
Speaker 1: fell at his feet? I think it's interesting because it
Speaker 1: says he came to Jesus and fell at his tea
Speaker 1: seven times. In this twenty one scripture passage seven times,
Speaker 1: it says he came and went. There was a journey,
Speaker 1: he came and went. There was a journey, he came
Speaker 1: and went. There was this there was this rhythm almost
Speaker 1: coming and going. He came to Jesus and he fell
Speaker 1: at his feet. And I think, I want to I
Speaker 1: want to sit on this for a little bit because
Speaker 1: I think we can look at this and go, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he came, he fell at his feet. But what's interesting
Speaker 1: is later with the sick woman, and she comes and
Speaker 1: falls at his feet. I thought, okay, so both of
Speaker 1: them come and fall at the feet of Jesus.
Speaker 3: What are they doing? What are they doing?
Speaker 1: What do they do? What do they doing? That they're
Speaker 1: they're earnestly seeking after him, they're pleading their begging, right,
Speaker 1: Because what you gotta understand about Gyrus is Gyrus has
Speaker 1: a history with God. He's a synagogue leader, so he knows, right,
Speaker 1: and he's aware of Jesus, right, and so he knows
Speaker 1: and he understands some of these some of these customs.
Speaker 1: But but, but what we've got to understand is that
Speaker 1: Gyros more than likely has some sort of rhythm established. Right,
Speaker 1: So when he comes to Jesus, more than likely he
Speaker 1: had already been in some private rooms with God. And
Speaker 1: he begins to plead with Jesus. And I think it's interesting,
Speaker 1: he says, he falls at his feet. So let me
Speaker 1: ask you again, how are you coming to Jesus. There
Speaker 1: is a humility presented when you fall at the feet
Speaker 1: of Jesus. There's a humility that is presented. Well, there's
Speaker 1: a humility that's presented when you come to the end
Speaker 1: of yourself. There's a humility that's presented when you come
Speaker 1: to yourself. Isn't it interesting that what we've done as
Speaker 1: as a church, Big c Church. Is we've gone like this,
Speaker 1: Hey God, prayer, Lord you deserve Oh Lord, you next Sunday,
Speaker 1: Hey Lord, prayer is a Lord? You deserve a Lord.
Speaker 3: That's not how Jirous came.
Speaker 1: If we're not careful, what we'll see is that every
Speaker 1: Sunday pray. It's like, well, that's not my personality. Tim,
Speaker 1: I know what you're about to say, because Gyrus went
Speaker 1: like this, Lord, no help me, bless me. I need you.
Speaker 1: I'm desperate. My daughter is dying. Okay, okay, And here's
Speaker 1: what here's what I know, here's what I know. I
Speaker 1: ask for my personality, Tim, Well, guess what personality goes
Speaker 1: out the window when desperation walks through the door. We
Speaker 1: gotta be really, really careful. Now we don't sing his
Speaker 1: praise and shun his person He said, no, no, no, no, Jesus,
Speaker 1: I come to you. I fall at your feet. Don't
Speaker 1: get a big head, chumps, I fall at your feet.
Speaker 1: There's a there's a humility that is resented from both
Speaker 1: of these subjects. I don't want you to miss it
Speaker 1: because at the end, when I start talking to you men,
Speaker 1: you gotta understand where where are your kids watching you?
Speaker 1: Be humble. He's like, I can't do it. It's just
Speaker 1: not my thing. It's just not my thing. I want
Speaker 1: to see my kids understand that I love the Lord
Speaker 1: and I need him more than anything else. There's nothing else.
Speaker 1: I don't care how stupid I look. I don't care
Speaker 1: how stupid I feel. I'm gonna get up at five
Speaker 1: in the morning and I'm gonna pray before you. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna fall at your feet. I'm coming to you, Lord God.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you have for me this week,
Speaker 1: but man, I need you. So you tell me, Lord,
Speaker 1: you know, show me. We gotta come to Jesus. And
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, we gotta follow this feet. Okay, maybe
Speaker 1: it is to change your posture. Change your posture. Work
Speaker 1: at it, change your posture. The lie of the enemy
Speaker 1: is that you have to hit rock bottom to become
Speaker 1: hungry for the things of God. Do not wait until
Speaker 1: a dying child to come to the Lord. Every day,
Speaker 1: his mercies are new every morning. That means his grace
Speaker 1: is new every morning. His strength is new every morning,
Speaker 1: his confidence is new every morning. His direction is new
Speaker 1: every morning, his vision is new every morning. This just
Speaker 1: cannot be a Sunday faith. What would it look like.
Speaker 1: What would this room look like if the rhythm was
Speaker 1: established with Jesus, the Father and the Holy Spirit in
Speaker 1: private before we got into the public Once I said
Speaker 1: this before Sunday church is meant to be a confirmation
Speaker 1: and affirmation of what God has already told you throughout
Speaker 1: the week. That's it. So some of you are walking
Speaker 1: in and I've done this, I've done this. I've walked
Speaker 1: in like, oh Lord, please, I hope he worth speaking
Speaker 1: a pastor because I really need a word. And he
Speaker 1: looked at me and said, I've been trying to speak
Speaker 1: to you, and you know how good God is. He'll
Speaker 1: still speak through pastor to me, even in the midst
Speaker 1: of my arrogance, even in the midst of my ignorance
Speaker 1: and ignoring him throughout the week, He's still does it.
Speaker 1: That's how good our God is. She got to get
Speaker 1: a rhythm. You gotta get a rhythm. You gotta get
Speaker 1: a rhythm, I would say, rhythm. So then it goes
Speaker 1: on to say, my little daughter is dying, Please come
Speaker 1: and put your hands on her so that she'll be healed.
Speaker 1: And Jesus went with them, and a large crowd followed
Speaker 1: and pressed around him. And then a woman who was
Speaker 1: there who've been subject to bleeding for twelve years, and
Speaker 1: she suffered a great deal under the care of many
Speaker 1: doctors and spend all she had, Yet instead of getting better,
Speaker 1: she grew worse. And when she heard about Jesus, she
Speaker 1: came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak.
Speaker 1: So an interruption comes for Gyrus, but an opportunity comes
Speaker 1: for this woman who an opportunity presents itself.
Speaker 3: For this sick woman.
Speaker 1: How many of you have kids, didn't want to have kids,
Speaker 1: didn't want to have kids? You got kids, be fruitful
Speaker 1: and multiply amens. What the Lord said but he didn't
Speaker 1: talk to me about was all the interruptions I was
Speaker 1: gonna get right. Oh, but how many times when you
Speaker 1: just like really take a breath and take a pause, and.
Speaker 3: You go, it's probably not that big of an interruption, and.
Speaker 1: You start focusing on your son, you start focusing on
Speaker 1: your daughter, and you realize, ooh, I'm glad I didn't
Speaker 1: misset opportunity. If your parents you know exactly what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about.
Speaker 3: But there's this opportunity.
Speaker 1: She's been sick for twelve years, and she's thinking to herself,
Speaker 1: there might be a little room for me. It's just
Speaker 1: a little walk by opportunity in essence, When we would
Speaker 1: look at that, we might say there's no time at
Speaker 1: all for her to get her healing. But God can
Speaker 1: do in one minute, well we couldn't do in an
Speaker 1: hour of time. What I really believe is that when
Speaker 1: it talks about verse twenty eight says because she thought,
Speaker 1: if I just touched his clothes, I'll be healed. Immediately,
Speaker 1: her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body there
Speaker 1: she'd be free from her suffering. And at once Jesus
Speaker 1: realized that power had.
Speaker 3: Gone out from him.
Speaker 1: When you leave a moment of prayer with Jesus, how
Speaker 1: much power have you taken from him? When you leave
Speaker 1: a conversation with Jesus, a moment with Jesus, how much
Speaker 1: have you been filled with this power? Is it enough
Speaker 1: for Jesus to notice? Because it sure was enough for
Speaker 1: him to notice the power had left this body. I'm
Speaker 1: here to tell you be selfish with this power. How
Speaker 1: many selfish people in the room? I got you all
Speaker 1: the single people that the other way, we got to
Speaker 1: be selfish with this power. But now here's what I said.
Speaker 3: What do I mean by that?
Speaker 1: Be careful? Be careful because I'm not talking about let's
Speaker 1: be transactional with this power. That's that's that's not what
Speaker 1: I'm here for. That's a slippery slope that we can
Speaker 1: get into. What I mean is that God has all
Speaker 1: that you need. He is all sufficient, and I can't
Speaker 1: operate with this power each in every day. And what
Speaker 1: I want to remind you is that the only power
Speaker 1: that God yields to is that of prayer and faith.
Speaker 1: Think about that the power left because all she.
Speaker 3: Was doing was praying. Maybe this is my moment, Maybe
Speaker 3: this is there was.
Speaker 1: Some faith when you begin to have that conversation with
Speaker 1: God and raise the faith. Ooh, God begins to notice,
Speaker 1: He begins to look back, he begins to wonder and
Speaker 1: go wait, wait, wait, wait, someone's praying, someone's trying to
Speaker 1: get my attention, someone's bothering me. He turned around in
Speaker 1: the crowd and asked, who touched my clothes? You see
Speaker 1: the people cried in against you. Yet you can ask
Speaker 1: who's touching. But Jesus kept looking around to see who
Speaker 1: had done it. And then the woman, knowing what had happened,
Speaker 1: to her, came and fell at his feet, trembling with fear,
Speaker 1: and told him the whole truth. And this is where
Speaker 1: we see it again. She comes to Jesus and she
Speaker 1: falls at his feet. What is different than Gyros because
Speaker 1: Gyros begins to list out the requests and says, can
Speaker 1: you lay your hand on my daughter and heal? But
Speaker 1: this woman, she doesn't do that. She comes to Jesus,
Speaker 1: she falls at his feet because the only prerequisite to
Speaker 1: come me to Jesus is humility. He comes to Jesus,
Speaker 1: falls at his feet, but she doesn't begin to list
Speaker 1: out request. She begins to tremble with fear, a reverence,
Speaker 1: knowing how holy this man is, and she begins to
Speaker 1: open up.
Speaker 3: They want to say, open up. Oh, I want to say,
Speaker 3: open up.
Speaker 1: Woo. All the introverts don't like that. Open up. You
Speaker 1: want me to be honest, You want me to be real,
Speaker 1: You want me to be transparent and wrong who you
Speaker 1: want me to open up? Yeah, to Jesus, please, because
Speaker 1: you're doing it too much to people. But if you
Speaker 1: begin to do it with Jesus, Ooh, what begins to
Speaker 1: happen is you begin to start making some room for
Speaker 1: God to move. He said to her daughter, your faith
Speaker 1: has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from
Speaker 1: your suffering. And while Jesus was still speaking, some people
Speaker 1: came from the house of Jedis your daughter's dead. Why
Speaker 1: bother the teacher anymore? Could you imagine being gyrous in
Speaker 1: this moment a relief. I'm thinking, man, it's about to happen,
Speaker 1: she's about to get healed. We on the way, we gucci,
Speaker 1: I prayed, and I'm feeling really good about it. I'm
Speaker 1: feeling a supernatural amount of peace. Have you ever experienced
Speaker 1: this before? Right, there's like a little breath of hope,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, the interruption, right, and
Speaker 1: then the crew comes around friends and starts telling you, hey,
Speaker 1: starts giving you the news, and it's like, hey, your
Speaker 1: prayers didn't work. Sorry, she's dead. Hey, I know you
Speaker 1: were hoping it was gonna be this way, but guess what.
Speaker 1: Too late, Too bad, it's not gonna work. In fact,
Speaker 1: don't even bother Jesus anymore, That's what they said.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, like, why bother the teacher anymore?
Speaker 1: WHOA, I'm gonna stay here right here, because sometimes we
Speaker 1: go and pray to yuh we feel that peace, we
Speaker 1: feel that hope, and we get around the wrong people
Speaker 1: and they start saying, yeah, I just don't think it's
Speaker 1: gonna work. Why bother? Why bother? Why bother the teacher anymore?
Speaker 1: Why bother? What do you mean? Why bother? That crew
Speaker 1: was not in the room when Gyros came to Jesus
Speaker 1: and fell at his feet. No one was there, not
Speaker 1: that crew. They don't know what's been happening. Gyros has
Speaker 1: something different because he was in a room with Jesus before,
Speaker 1: he's in a room with this crew. Do you see
Speaker 1: the value? That's why he ain't sweating it. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe he was sweating it. It's a
Speaker 3: pretty big deal.
Speaker 1: But like, could you imagine, like what do you feel
Speaker 1: like Givers was feeling. Do you feel like he was
Speaker 1: feeling like doubt? Or is there kind of like a
Speaker 1: swagger about of him? You know what I'm saying, like doubt,
Speaker 1: Like oh, oh really she did? That's probably what I
Speaker 1: would feel. I'd be like, oh darn right. But maybe
Speaker 1: he had a swagger. Maybe he had a swagger about him,
Speaker 1: Like yeah, yeah, no, for sure, I get it. But
Speaker 1: Jesus is on the way, and so I'm moving with him.
Speaker 1: I'm going with him. I already pray were good. We
Speaker 1: already had a conversation. He said he was coming my way.
Speaker 1: We're in it. We gotta be real careful. We got
Speaker 1: to stop inviting people into situations where the answer is
Speaker 1: only found in a private room with Jesus.
Speaker 3: I don't know about you, but what I do know
Speaker 3: what I do know what drivers did.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he felled doubt. I'm sure he did.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he had a swagger. But what
Speaker 1: I do know he did. So he kept moving with Jesus.
Speaker 1: He kept moving with Jesus. Everyone say move, Oh, how
Speaker 1: do you make room? Everyone say keep moving? Ooh.
Speaker 3: Pastor says in his book, do the new you.
Speaker 1: I'm not stuck unless I stop, do not keep going.
Speaker 1: Jesus is on the way. Well it don't look like
Speaker 1: it don't matter. We don't look at external sources. We
Speaker 1: look at Jesus. We look at the word of God.
Speaker 1: We've got hope. We understand he's on the way, and
Speaker 1: he can do something absolutely incredible. He can turn it around.
Speaker 1: A miracle is on the way. As long as we
Speaker 1: keep moving, just like Jyrus did, so team put up
Speaker 1: my put up my title real quick, because now it
Speaker 1: says in verse thirty seven, Jesus begins to get.
Speaker 3: The room ready.
Speaker 1: He says this. He did not let anyone follow him
Speaker 1: except Peter, James and John, the brother of James.
Speaker 3: So what is that right that closest there's a rhythm.
Speaker 1: There's a rhythm. I already got a rhythm with these
Speaker 1: three guys. I'm gonna make sure that they're in the room.
Speaker 1: Then verse thirty eight, when they came to the home
Speaker 1: of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw commotion with people crying
Speaker 1: and willing loudly, and he went in and said to them,
Speaker 1: why aren't this commotion and willing? The child's not dead
Speaker 1: but asleep. He saw an opportunity right there, here we go.
Speaker 1: I'm about to make a miracle happen. But they laughed
Speaker 1: at him. After he put them all out right, he
Speaker 1: took the child's father and mother, Oh right, he had
Speaker 1: to get real honest with them. He said, oh, you're
Speaker 1: gonna laugh. Okay, I need you you you you, you
Speaker 1: get out. I need you to get out right there, right,
Speaker 1: So what's Jesus doing. He's opening up right he's being honest,
Speaker 1: he's being real, he's being transparent. Okay, he said, hey,
Speaker 1: you can't be in this room, takes her by the
Speaker 1: hand and says to her to lead the coom, which means,
Speaker 1: little girl, I say to you, get up. Move. Immediately
Speaker 1: the girl stood up and began to move, and at
Speaker 1: this they were completely astonished.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you something. This is the room that
Speaker 3: I want to be in.
Speaker 1: This is the room where it all happens, the room
Speaker 1: where Jesus and I are having a conversation. Some of
Speaker 1: you have a prayer room. Some of you don't have
Speaker 1: a prayer room. Either way, I'm not here to tell.
Speaker 3: You that you got to be like the Shootamite woman
Speaker 3: and you got.
Speaker 1: To build another room. I ain't saying that. What I
Speaker 1: am saying is you need to make room for prayer.
Speaker 1: You need to make room for a relationship with Jesus.
Speaker 1: You need to make room for a relationship with the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. You need to make room with a relationship
Speaker 1: with the Father. All three of those relationships are very,
Speaker 1: very important. And here's what you got to understand is
Speaker 1: that is that I believe you got to make room
Speaker 1: so that you can have room to come to Jesus,
Speaker 1: so that you can fall at his feet, so that
Speaker 1: you can humble your so that you can begin to
Speaker 1: request things and ask things of him, so that you
Speaker 1: can begin to be honest with him and open with
Speaker 1: him and transparent with him, so that you can experience
Speaker 1: that moment of what trembling with reverent fear actually feels like.
Speaker 1: All of the spiritual work is done in prayer. That's it,
Speaker 1: that intimacy with the Holy Spirit, that spirit you like,
Speaker 1: I need you, Lord, pray, I want you, Lord Great pray.
Speaker 1: Let him speak to you, let him reveal things to you.
Speaker 1: We gotta start getting in the room with someone who
Speaker 1: can actually do something about my situation. We can't rely
Speaker 1: on all these external sources. We gotta go to the
Speaker 1: one who can make the miracle happened. It's the room
Speaker 1: where Jesus is. And here's the deal. I get the tension.
Speaker 1: I know what the tensions are. I just feel like
Speaker 1: prayers a little too complicated. No, come to them, done,
Speaker 1: come to them, he said, yea yeah, yeah, but like
Speaker 1: but like does it even work? Oh no, pray, No,
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. I do know, yes it works. It's like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: God's sovereign, Like, oh, God sovereign, He'll take care of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But you know what, I want God to do something
Speaker 1: through me. I don't want him to have to go
Speaker 1: to the next person because I didn't listen, because I
Speaker 1: didn't take the moment, because I wasn't humble, because I
Speaker 1: let pride and arrogance get in the way, because I
Speaker 1: didn't want to do this and say, Lord, come tell
Speaker 1: me what you need me to do. It's not about
Speaker 1: my agendey, it's yours. When God gave Pastor the vision
Speaker 1: of this church, see what God can do through you?
Speaker 1: Do you think it was all just about serving? Do
Speaker 1: you think it was all just about joining a group? Hey,
Speaker 1: we want to see what God can do through you.
Speaker 1: Do you think it was all about just giving of
Speaker 1: your first fruits and your tithes? No, that's the surface.
Speaker 1: That's just that's like a minimum. That's just like the beginning.
Speaker 1: That's just like that's like step one. Yay. No, see
Speaker 1: what God can do through you? Man, I want you
Speaker 1: to pray so you can watch healing happen in your family.
Speaker 1: That's what's Seeing what God can do through you really
Speaker 1: means when you walking to a room like this thousands
Speaker 1: of people in an auditorium. When God downloads something in
Speaker 1: your spirit and they highlight someone over therences, I need
Speaker 1: a prophesy to that person right there. That's what God
Speaker 1: can do through you. Oh, that's what I want to experience.
Speaker 1: I'm not limiting God to just serving at the church,
Speaker 1: which I think is amazing, but don't limit it. Whoo. No, man,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you God can begin to move in your
Speaker 1: life and speak to you, and you could go over
Speaker 1: to someone and start praying for them and encourage them
Speaker 1: to lift them up, and then they, you know, two
Speaker 1: weeks later like that's exactly what I.
Speaker 3: Needed in that very moment.
Speaker 1: They don't remember that sermon that day, but they remember
Speaker 1: you coming to them. That's what's Seeing what God can
Speaker 1: do through you means this is huge. God asked me
Speaker 1: a question on March twenty nine, twenty twenty three, Do
Speaker 1: you want more of me? I said yes, He goes,
Speaker 1: then I need more room than she said. I need
Speaker 1: more room because I need you to wake up at
Speaker 1: five in the morning, and you give me the first
Speaker 1: first hour of every day.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you something. I don't wake up at
Speaker 3: five in the morning.
Speaker 1: No, I don't. I don't do it. It's not me.
Speaker 1: It's not my personality. But if you don't listen to God,
Speaker 1: that's stupid. She's as playing as I can get on
Speaker 1: the youth pastor. So she's like, that's what I would
Speaker 1: say to teenager, Like, no, you have to listen to
Speaker 1: God or it isn't going to make sense. He's said,
Speaker 1: wake up at five am. Start praying to me, worshiping me,
Speaker 1: asking me, requesting things of me. And I began to pray,
Speaker 1: and then I realized, Man, I don't need to just
Speaker 1: pray to the Son. I need to pray to the Father.
Speaker 1: And then I said, I don't need to pray to
Speaker 1: the five. I need to pray to the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: I began to realize, Oh, I got three relationships I
Speaker 1: got to work with over here, I'm busy at five
Speaker 1: in the morning. Let me tell you something. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: but I'm not saying that to ooh look at me.
Speaker 1: I'm saying that to go It could be as simple
Speaker 1: as that for you. I'm saying that I had to
Speaker 1: get outside of my personality in my mind, like I no, no,
Speaker 1: I'll see God on the you know, in the other
Speaker 1: half of the moon.
Speaker 3: Right, like, I'll see him at night time. It'll be good.
Speaker 1: It's great. I still got the word in it right.
Speaker 1: But when you read scripture, it talks about how Moses
Speaker 1: gets up before the sun gets up. Jesus got away
Speaker 1: with the Father before the sun came up. David got
Speaker 1: away in the morning early before the sun came up.
Speaker 1: And I see, you know what, I'm done with the excuses, Okay,
Speaker 1: five am. He began to unlock something in my life.
Speaker 1: And what I've just realized that is that I had
Speaker 1: to be completely stripped by the Holy Spirit so that
Speaker 1: at the same time he could completely strengthen me. You know,
Speaker 1: Scripture says that he is our daily bread, but he
Speaker 1: also asks for a daily death. I said, I said
Speaker 1: daily death. So he's gonna feed me, but I also
Speaker 1: got to die to myself. He's going to take care
Speaker 1: of me, but I also got to think. You know what,
Speaker 1: I'm moving the distractions aside. I don't need it anymore.
Speaker 1: I want to end with this. Leonard Ravenhill said this.
Speaker 1: He said, prayer grasps eternity. No man is greater than
Speaker 1: his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is
Speaker 1: playing the people who are not praying are straying. The
Speaker 1: pulpit can be a shop window to display talents, with
Speaker 1: the prayer closet allows no showing off. We have many organizers,
Speaker 1: but few agonizers, many players and payers, but few prayers.
Speaker 1: Many singers, few clingers, lots of pastors, few wrestlers, many fears, tears,
Speaker 1: much fashion, little passion, many interferers, a few intercessors, many writers,
Speaker 1: but few fighters. Failing here we fail everywhere in the
Speaker 1: place of prayer. The two prerequisites to successful Christian living
Speaker 1: our vision and passion, in both of which are born
Speaker 1: in and maintained by prayer. The ministry of prayer is
Speaker 1: the highest ministry of all human offices, and it's open
Speaker 1: to all. God is not prodigal with this power, but
Speaker 1: to be much for God, we must be much with him.
Speaker 1: The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning
Speaker 1: man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.
Speaker 1: We are beggared and bankrupt, but not broken nor even bent.
Speaker 1: Prayer is profoundly simple and simply profound in the matter
Speaker 1: of the New Testament, spirit inspired Hell's shaking world breaking prayer.
Speaker 1: Never has so much been let by so many to
Speaker 1: so few for this kind of prayer. There is no substitute.
Speaker 1: We do it or we die. Today with everyone in
Speaker 1: the room, in the campuses, I just want you to
Speaker 1: stand up, even online. I want you to stay engaged
Speaker 1: because you're getting a glimpse.
Speaker 3: Into this room.
Speaker 1: I'm going to ask the staff and the leaders, the
Speaker 1: prayer team to come forward and just surround this altar.
Speaker 3: Here's what I know.
Speaker 1: I pray that we never eliminate the groaning at the altar,
Speaker 1: never let us put the power of the Holy Spirit
Speaker 1: and just raising our hand and leave Jesus in this
Speaker 1: room as we live our life for the rest of
Speaker 1: the week. Today's a moment that if you need prayer,
Speaker 1: whatever it may be big, small, children dying, needing healing,
Speaker 1: needing hope. However big, however small, it could be a headache,
Speaker 1: it could be a self esteem issue. What we want
Speaker 1: to do is just open up the altars to pray,
Speaker 1: to believe, to raise the faith, and to raise the
Speaker 1: expectation of who God is and how he sees moment
Speaker 1: like this, this is what it's like to just make
Speaker 1: I saw we're doing starting a rhythm right now, seeing
Speaker 1: an opportunity right now for the next few moments, and
Speaker 1: here's the deal.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna ask you.
Speaker 1: To move because for some of you, that right there
Speaker 1: will kill the pride, that right there. And I keep
Speaker 1: saying it because I had to do it too. I'm
Speaker 1: there with you, and if not, it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: thing I have to do every single day. You know what,
Speaker 1: maybe I do need to get a little uncomfortable, like
Speaker 1: this sick woman pushing through the crowd, just to touch
Speaker 1: his cloak, just to get a prayer, just to.
Speaker 3: Get a moment with Jesus.
Speaker 1: What I know is this the world is not waiting
Speaker 1: for a new definition of the Gospel, but a new
Speaker 1: demonstration of the power.
Speaker 3: Of the Gospel. Thank you for joining us.
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