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Speaker 4: so much for tuning in today, and thank you again
Speaker 4: for coming out. I like to start with something funny,
Speaker 4: and I heard about this man named Bubba. He lived
Speaker 4: way out in the country and had this stray dog
Speaker 4: that kept showing.
Speaker 6: Up at his house.
Speaker 4: His wife said, Bubba, you got to put him in
Speaker 4: the truck and take him down to the woods and
Speaker 4: drop him off.
Speaker 6: That's where he lives.
Speaker 4: So Bubba took him a mile down the road, dropped
Speaker 4: him off. When he came back home, the dog was
Speaker 4: walking up the driveway practically beat him back. He did
Speaker 4: it again, same thing. Dog came right back. So I said, Bubba,
Speaker 4: you got to take him way out, drive him around
Speaker 4: in circles, get him all mixed up. Bubba put him
Speaker 4: in the truck, drove him an hour away. Chris crossed
Speaker 4: these country roads that he had never seen before. Two
Speaker 4: hours later, Bubba called from the truck ask his wife.
Speaker 4: Did the dog happen to show back up? She said, yep,
Speaker 4: he's walking up the driveway. He said, do me a favor.
Speaker 4: Put him on the line.
Speaker 6: I need directions.
Speaker 4: Hold up your bible, say it like you mean it.
Speaker 4: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.
Speaker 4: I have what it says I have. I can do
Speaker 4: what it says I can do. Today I will be
Speaker 4: taught the word of God. I'll boldly confess. My mind
Speaker 4: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be
Speaker 4: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want
Speaker 4: to talk to you today about one more time. When
Speaker 4: God laid out the plan for your life, it wasn't
Speaker 4: dependent on you never making a mistake. He didn't say,
Speaker 4: here's my best plan. Now. If you perform perfectly, if
Speaker 4: you never make a wrong turn, never lose your temper,
Speaker 4: never give into temptation, then I'll bless you. I'll guide you,
Speaker 4: I'll protect you. No, God knew every wrong turn that
Speaker 4: you would make. Jesus told Peter, you'll deny me three
Speaker 4: times before the rooster crows tonight. He already knew that
Speaker 4: Peter wouldn't be there when he needed him the most.
Speaker 4: Nothing you've done is a surprise to God. The good
Speaker 4: news is God has already lined up mercy for every mistake.
Speaker 4: Romans five says, where sin abounds, grace does much more abound.
Speaker 4: In other words, God's mercy will always supersede any mistake.
Speaker 4: If sin abounds at a level five, mercy will show
Speaker 4: up at level fifty. If sin abounds at level fifty,
Speaker 4: mercy will show up at level five hundred. Looking at
Speaker 4: some of you, I better take it one more step.
Speaker 4: If sin abounds at level five hundred, mercy shows up
Speaker 4: at five thousand. Well, Joel, I've made a lot of mistakes.
Speaker 4: I got away from God, started running with the wrong crowd.
Speaker 4: I was unfaithful in a relationship. I wasn't honest in
Speaker 4: some business dealings.
Speaker 6: I blew it big time. Let me help you out.
Speaker 4: God has bigger time mercy. It's supersedes every failure, every weakness,
Speaker 4: every mistake. I was talking to a man last week.
Speaker 4: He was so down on himself, telling me all the
Speaker 4: things that he had done wrong, on and on. He
Speaker 4: ended by saying, I blew God's plan for my life.
Speaker 6: I'll tell you what I told him. You're not that powerful.
Speaker 4: You think your mistake can stop what the creator of
Speaker 4: the universe has destined you to do. You think your weaknesses,
Speaker 4: your shortcomings, your failures, can undo what the Most High
Speaker 4: God ordained for you before you were formed in your
Speaker 4: mother's womb. The scripture says God's calling on your life
Speaker 4: is irrevocable. That means God never disqualifies us. If that mistake,
Speaker 4: that weakness, was going to keep you from your destiny,
Speaker 4: God would have never permitted it.
Speaker 6: It may have taken you a.
Speaker 4: Different route than you expected, but God knows what he's doing.
Speaker 4: He can still get you to your final destination. Psalm
Speaker 4: thirty seven says the steps of a good man are
Speaker 4: ordered by the Lord. Though he falls, he will not
Speaker 4: be destroyed, for the Lord upholds him with his hand. Notice,
Speaker 4: even though God is directing our steps, there will be.
Speaker 6: Times that we fall.
Speaker 4: We don't perform perfectly, we lose our temper, we make
Speaker 4: a poor choice. God promises that is not the end.
Speaker 4: That failure is not the end. The addiction is not
Speaker 4: the end. The divorce is not the end. Why God
Speaker 4: is holding you in the palm of his hand. He's
Speaker 4: not going to let you go now if you fall down.
Speaker 4: The key is don't stay down, don't walla around in guilt.
Speaker 4: Don't go through life feeling wrong on the inside, thinking
Speaker 4: that you've got to pay God back for your mistakes. No,
Speaker 4: the price has already been paid two thousand years ago.
Speaker 4: Learn to receive God's mercy. Start believing that He's going
Speaker 4: to be good to you one more time. Second Chronicles,
Speaker 4: chapter thirty three. There was a king named Manassa. He
Speaker 4: was the most wicked king that ever ruled Israel. He
Speaker 4: rebuilt the pagan shrines that his father Hezekiah had torn
Speaker 4: down in the temple that Solomon built, where David said,
Speaker 4: only Jehovah will be worshiped.
Speaker 6: Here, he made statues.
Speaker 4: Of the God bel put it up, and they all
Speaker 4: bowed down and worshiped.
Speaker 6: For fifty five years, he did all kinds of evil.
Speaker 4: One day the Syrian army overtook the city. They captured
Speaker 4: King Manassa. He was headed to Babylon, the most powerful
Speaker 4: empire of that day. Looked like his life was over looked,
Speaker 4: like he was getting what he deserved. After fifty five
Speaker 4: years of not honoring God, fifty five years of doing
Speaker 4: nothing but.
Speaker 6: Wrong, what did he do?
Speaker 4: Verse twelve says, while he was in great distress, he
Speaker 4: called out humbly to the Lord, his God, the God
Speaker 4: of his ancestors. Surely God would say, Manassah, you fair
Speaker 4: weathered friend. You don't even acknowledge me for fifty five years,
Speaker 4: and now you want my help. You've been the most
Speaker 4: wicked ruler. You're in the Guinness Book of World Wreckers.
Speaker 4: I don't think so. It's payback time. You're on your own.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 4: The next verse says when he prayed, God heard him
Speaker 4: and was moved by his request.
Speaker 6: It goes on to.
Speaker 4: Tell how God delivered him from the Babylonians. He returned
Speaker 4: to his land to rule his people a changed man.
Speaker 4: From then on he only worshiped Jehovah. That's the mercy
Speaker 4: of our God. We think I haven't lived the right
Speaker 4: kind of life. God's not going to help me. I've
Speaker 4: got this addiction. I blew a relationship, I didn't raise
Speaker 4: my children right. No, you're not any worse than Manassa.
Speaker 4: You're not listed in the scripture as the most wicked person.
Speaker 4: Why don't you be bold and say God, I've made
Speaker 4: a mess of things. I haven't performed perfectly. But God,
Speaker 4: I know where sin abounds, grace does much more abound.
Speaker 6: I know you're full of mercy. God.
Speaker 4: I'm asking you to help me. But Joel, God's not
Speaker 4: ever gonna help me, not gonna listen to me. He
Speaker 4: listened to Manassa fifty five years of doing nothing but wrong,
Speaker 4: and he was bold enough to ask God turned it
Speaker 4: around and brought him.
Speaker 6: Out of the mess that he made.
Speaker 4: Have you ever asked God to bring you out of
Speaker 4: the problem that you brought on yourself? Do you have
Speaker 4: the boldness to ask God to bless you in spite
Speaker 4: of your mistakes, to show you favor in spite of
Speaker 4: your failings. Every voice will tell you you don't deserve it,
Speaker 4: it's not right. God's not gonna listen to you. When
Speaker 4: you start shaking off guilt and condemnation, the enemy goes
Speaker 4: into overtime.
Speaker 6: He's called the accuser.
Speaker 4: He'll remind you of every mistake, every weakness. He wants
Speaker 4: you to go around feeling unworthy, carrying a heavy load
Speaker 4: of guilt, thinking about how undeserving you are. Hebrews four
Speaker 4: sixteen says just the opposite.
Speaker 6: Come boldly to the throne of grace.
Speaker 4: Why to receive mercy and find grace to help in
Speaker 4: time of need. If you're going to reach your highest potential,
Speaker 4: you gott to shake off the guilt, shake off the
Speaker 4: accusing voices, and come boldly to the throne. Dare to say, God,
Speaker 4: I'm asking for your blessing, your goodness, your mercy in
Speaker 4: spite of my mistakes. This is what Sampson did. An
Speaker 4: angel appeared to his mother and told her she was
Speaker 4: going to have a baby.
Speaker 6: He would be a deliverer.
Speaker 4: The plan for Sampson's life had already been laid out.
Speaker 4: He grew up and had this supernatural strength. At one point,
Speaker 4: these thousands of Philistines had surrounded him. He had no armor,
Speaker 4: no weapons. All he had was the jawbone of a donkey.
Speaker 4: He picked it up and defeated those thousands of men.
Speaker 4: Another place, he was trapped inside this city. The walls
Speaker 4: were high, the gates were locked. Looked like he would
Speaker 4: be caught. But in the middle of the night he
Speaker 4: went to the city gates, these big iron structures, and
Speaker 4: he ripped them out of the ground, put them on
Speaker 4: his shoulders, and carried them to the top of a hill.
Speaker 4: He was uncontainable. But Sampson started running with the wrong crowd.
Speaker 4: He started compromising, making poor choices, doing things that he
Speaker 4: knew he shouldn't do. He let his guard down, and
Speaker 4: he told the Philistines the secret of his strength. They
Speaker 4: cut his hair. He lost all of his power. They
Speaker 4: not only captured him, but they gouged out his eyes,
Speaker 4: bound him in chains. He ended up in prison, grinding
Speaker 4: at the mill. Here, this once powerful man, destined to
Speaker 4: do great things, had God's blessings in favor, is now blind, chained,
Speaker 4: living like an animal. The fact is it was his
Speaker 4: own fault. He brought the trouble on himself. Seemed like
Speaker 4: he was done, like God was finished with him. But
Speaker 4: one day the Philistines were having a big celebration, a
Speaker 4: big party, and there were several thousand people assembled in.
Speaker 6: This large room.
Speaker 4: They decided to bring Samson out to show him off,
Speaker 4: sort of like their trophy. As he stood there on display,
Speaker 4: people would go by and laugh, mock ridicule him. You
Speaker 4: would think that Samson would feel condemned, washed up, thinking hey,
Speaker 4: I'm getting what I deserve. I made some really bad
Speaker 4: sh choices. No, Sampson understood this principle. While they were
Speaker 4: mocking him, Under his breath, he said, Sovereign God, please
Speaker 4: strengthen me one more time. Imagine the nerve that took
Speaker 4: the boldness. After all the mistakes he made, he had
Speaker 4: the audacity to believe number one that God would hear him,
Speaker 4: and number two that God would give him the strength
Speaker 4: the favor, the blessing that he had before he had
Speaker 4: made those mistakes.
Speaker 6: God could have.
Speaker 4: Said, Sampson, you had your chance. You blew it again
Speaker 4: and again and again. No, when you come to the
Speaker 4: throne with boldness and you not only receive God's mercy,
Speaker 4: but you take it one step further and ask God
Speaker 4: to bless you in spite of your mistakes. Ask God
Speaker 4: to help you clean up a mess that you made.
Speaker 6: Ask him to show you favor.
Speaker 4: Even though you don't just irvid, God doesn't say too bad, No,
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna do it. The scripture says, supernatural strength
Speaker 4: came on Samson one more time. While those people were
Speaker 4: making fun of him, he asked a young boy to
Speaker 4: place his hands on the columns that he was chained to.
Speaker 6: Just so happened that these.
Speaker 4: Two big pillars were holding up the building. He felt
Speaker 4: that supernatural strength surge into him one more time.
Speaker 6: He pushed those columns.
Speaker 4: The building came tumbling down. He defeated more enemies in
Speaker 4: his death than he did his entire lifetime. What if
Speaker 4: he hadn't had the boldness to say, God strengthened me
Speaker 4: one more time, the story wouldn't have ended like it did.
Speaker 4: Maybe you've made mistakes, you're not where you want to
Speaker 4: be in life. And you could say, like Samson, Hey,
Speaker 4: a lot of it's my own fault. I was undisciplined,
Speaker 4: ran with the wrong crowd, did things that I knew
Speaker 4: I wasn't supposed to do.
Speaker 6: That's here's my question.
Speaker 4: Will you have the boldness to shake off the guilt
Speaker 4: and shake off the accusing voices and say, God, bless
Speaker 4: me one more time. God restore me one more time.
Speaker 4: God show me favor one more time. God deliver me
Speaker 4: one more time. Here's the beauty about our God. If
Speaker 4: you'll have the boldness to ask, God will do it
Speaker 4: one more time. Then he'll do it one more time.
Speaker 4: Then he'll do it one more time. God never runs
Speaker 4: out of the one more times. But too often we
Speaker 4: believe God forgives us. We know he's merciful, but we
Speaker 4: don't think that God will bless us, not after what
Speaker 4: we've done. He'll forgive me, but he won't restore my marriage.
Speaker 4: He'll be merciful to me, but he won't still give
Speaker 4: me that promotion.
Speaker 6: That's what he did for Samson.
Speaker 4: He not only showed him mercy, but he strengthened him
Speaker 4: one more time. Some of you are sitting on the sidelines,
Speaker 4: focused on your mistakes, living guilty, letting the accuser keep
Speaker 4: telling you that you're all washed up.
Speaker 6: No, God is.
Speaker 4: Saying I've got a one more time for you, and
Speaker 4: if you will go boldly to the throne, not condemned,
Speaker 4: not thinking, oh, I've blown it so many times. No,
Speaker 4: go to God and say God, I don't feel worthy,
Speaker 4: but I come to you with boldness, not because of
Speaker 4: how good I am, but because of how good you are.
Speaker 6: God.
Speaker 4: You said were sin abounds, grace does much more abound.
Speaker 4: So God, I'm asking you to bless me one more time,
Speaker 4: strengthened me one more time. God, bring me out one
Speaker 4: more time. God did it for Sampson, He'll do it
Speaker 4: for you. But when we make mistakes, the last thing
Speaker 4: we want to do is go to God.
Speaker 6: Joel.
Speaker 4: God is not going to help me. He saw me
Speaker 4: make the poor choice. I knew I wasn't supposed to
Speaker 4: be running with this crowd. I did it anyway. Now
Speaker 4: here's the key. God doesn't judge you by one mistake.
Speaker 4: He doesn't judge you by your last mistakes. God is
Speaker 4: not holding your faults against you. Think about Thomas. He
Speaker 4: was one of the disciples. There were reports that Jesus
Speaker 4: had risen from the dead, but Thomas didn't believe. The
Speaker 4: other disciples tried to convince him, but Thomas said, no, guys,
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna believe unless I see the nail prince
Speaker 4: in Jesus' hands with my own eyes.
Speaker 6: He was still filled with doubt.
Speaker 4: Later, the disciples were in a room together and Jesus appeared.
Speaker 6: He came walking through the door. They were all amazed
Speaker 6: and taken back.
Speaker 4: What's interesting is Jesus headed straight toward Thomas.
Speaker 6: He didn't go to the other believers.
Speaker 4: Jesus bypassed all the people with faith, and he went
Speaker 4: to the one man that had doubt. He reached out
Speaker 4: his arms and said, us, feel the nail prints in
Speaker 4: my hands, look at the scars on my feet. Thomas said, Lord,
Speaker 4: I believe Jesus could have thought Thomas, fine, I told
Speaker 4: you I'm all rise from the dead. If you don't believe,
Speaker 4: that's your own problem. No, God doesn't judge you by
Speaker 4: one mistake, by one weakness, by one bad season, by
Speaker 4: one felled marriage, by one addiction. God is not holding
Speaker 4: your faults against you. That voice that's always telling you
Speaker 4: what you're not, making you condemned, trying to get you
Speaker 4: to live guilty, saying God wouldn't have anything.
Speaker 6: To do with you. That's the accuser.
Speaker 4: You know why. He wants you to feel condemned, go
Speaker 4: around feeling bad about yourself, so that you won't go
Speaker 4: boldly to the throne. He knows God always has a
Speaker 4: one more time. He knows God will help you out
Speaker 4: of a mess that you may What am I saying?
Speaker 4: As long as you believe, there's always one more time
Speaker 4: for you. Fifty five years Manassa lived off course, but
Speaker 4: God had a one more time. God didn't hold that
Speaker 4: against him. Thomas traveled with Jesus. In other words, he
Speaker 4: was in church every Sunday. He still blew it. But
Speaker 4: God had a one more time for Thomas. We call
Speaker 4: him doubting Thomas. We put labels on people.
Speaker 6: You know what.
Speaker 4: God calls him believing Thomas the enemy. He will try
Speaker 4: to label you with everything that you've done wrong, doubter, filled, divorced, addicted,
Speaker 4: poor choices. God labels you forgiven, redeemed, restored, overcomer, more
Speaker 4: than a conqueror, victorious.
Speaker 6: When you make mistakes in life.
Speaker 4: When you fall, when you have moments of doubt, don't
Speaker 4: let the accuser keep you from going to your father
Speaker 4: for mercy. God is not judging you, he's not holding
Speaker 4: a grub, he's not finding fault with you. Your job
Speaker 4: is to go boldly to the throne and say, God,
Speaker 4: I need your mercy. I'm here knowing that you're a
Speaker 4: good God. I'm here believing that You've got a one
Speaker 4: more time for me. Jesus talked about how we have
Speaker 4: to have faith as a little child. When children make mistakes,
Speaker 4: Have you noticed they don't sit around guilty for six months.
Speaker 4: They don't go around condemned thinking that they've missed their destiny.
Speaker 4: They let it go and move forward just like them.
Speaker 4: Don't go around dwelling on your mistakes and all the
Speaker 4: times that you've failed. Let it go and move forward
Speaker 4: with your life. You're not a failure unless you quit.
Speaker 6: You're a learner.
Speaker 4: When our children are learning to walk, if they take
Speaker 4: two or three steps together in a row, we clap
Speaker 4: and cheer. We'll call our family. He's walking. He's walking.
Speaker 4: What we don't tell them is the seven thousand times
Speaker 4: he's fallen before in the same way, God is not
Speaker 4: focused on all the times that you've fallen. As long
Speaker 4: as you get back up and keep moving forward, God
Speaker 4: is pleased with you. You don't have to have a
Speaker 4: perfect performance. If your heart is perfect toward God, if
Speaker 4: you've got a desire to please him, your performance will
Speaker 4: catch up. Don't go around beating yourself up over past mistakes.
Speaker 6: Learn to receive God's mercy.
Speaker 4: When our children were small, I love taking them to
Speaker 4: the toy store. When I tell Jonathan, four or five
Speaker 4: years old, let's go to the store, do you know
Speaker 4: he never once said, no, Dad, I don't think I'm worthy.
Speaker 4: I don't think I deserve it. I made fun of
Speaker 4: my sister yesterday. No children know how to receive. As adults,
Speaker 4: we start accumulating all this negative baggage, mistakes, failures, missed opportunity.
Speaker 4: These we live under a heavy load of guilt regrets.
Speaker 4: The accuser keeps saying, you had your chance, you blew it.
Speaker 6: Just settle where you are now. You gotta shake that off.
Speaker 4: God is saying I've got a one more time for you,
Speaker 4: one more time. I'm gonna bless you one more time.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna restore you one more time. I'm gonna show
Speaker 4: you my favor. Now, will you receive this mercy? Will
Speaker 4: you shake off the guilt and get a new vision
Speaker 4: for your life? God is saying, your heavenly Father is saying, let's.
Speaker 6: Go to the store.
Speaker 4: I want to be good to you. I have mercy,
Speaker 4: I have forgiveness, I have new beginnings, I have restoration.
Speaker 4: Now are you gonna be like a child and say, God,
Speaker 4: let's go. I believe you love me. I believe I'm forgiven.
Speaker 4: I believe your mercy is bigger than any mistake. Or
Speaker 4: are you gonna say no, I don't deserve it. I've
Speaker 4: been struggling with this same thing again and then go
Speaker 4: to church last week, lost my temper last month. No,
Speaker 4: God is not finding fault with you. Stop finding fault
Speaker 4: with yourself. You're not a finished product. God is still
Speaker 4: working on you. This is what Jonah did. God told
Speaker 4: Jonah to go to the city of Nineveh share the
Speaker 4: good news, but he didn't want to go there.
Speaker 6: He did just the opposite.
Speaker 4: God told him to go left, and he went right.
Speaker 6: He ended up on a boat. They encountered a huge.
Speaker 4: Storm God so bad they thought they were all going
Speaker 4: to die. Jonah finally admitted to the crew that he
Speaker 4: was the problem, and they threw him overboard. He should
Speaker 4: have drowned out there in the middle of the water,
Speaker 4: but perfectly on queue, this big well comes by and
Speaker 4: swallows Jonah up. Friends, you can't outrun the mercy of God,
Speaker 4: the Psalmist said, if I go to the depths of
Speaker 4: the ocean or way up in the sky, God's presence
Speaker 4: is always with me.
Speaker 6: Jonah was sitting in the well.
Speaker 4: He had just done the opposite of what he knew
Speaker 4: he was supposed to do. It's one thing to get
Speaker 4: into trouble and you didn't really know better. But he
Speaker 4: knew and chose to do wrong. Seems like God would say, fine, Jonah,
Speaker 4: have your own way, watch what happens. No, God has
Speaker 4: already taken into account every wrong term, every mistake. Don't
Speaker 4: write yourself off. Get up and do better next time.
Speaker 4: Sitting in the belly of the well, the scripture says,
Speaker 4: Jonah cried out to the Lord in his great trouble,
Speaker 4: and God answered him. God caused the fish to spit
Speaker 4: Jonah up on dry ground, spared his life.
Speaker 6: That's the God we serve. He doesn't judge you.
Speaker 4: By past mistakes. He doesn't hold a grudge. He's not
Speaker 4: writing you off because you went left, and he said
Speaker 4: go right, even when you make mistakes.
Speaker 6: If you'll be bold.
Speaker 4: Like Jonah and go to God ask him to help you,
Speaker 4: God will show up one more time, one more time.
Speaker 4: He'll heal you, one more time. He'll deliver you, one
Speaker 4: more time. He'll bring you out. But some of you
Speaker 4: think that it's been too many times. Joel, I've blown
Speaker 4: too many chances. I'm still struggling with this same thing.
Speaker 4: I said I wouldn't do it again.
Speaker 6: That's okay. This is a new day.
Speaker 4: God's mercy is new every morning. He has a fresh
Speaker 4: batch of mercy just for you. Will you do like
Speaker 4: Jonah and say God, I've made a mess, but I'm
Speaker 4: coming to you boldly, knowing that you have mercy. God,
Speaker 4: I'm bold enough to.
Speaker 6: Believe that you will help me one more time.
Speaker 4: In the scripture, Jacob was known for his poor choices.
Speaker 4: When his brother Esau was extremely hungry and not thinking clearly,
Speaker 4: he took advantage of him. He traded him a pot
Speaker 4: of stew for Esau's birthright. The birthright was extremely valuable.
Speaker 4: Jacob knew it was wrong.
Speaker 6: He knew he was.
Speaker 4: Cheating his brother, but he did it anyway.
Speaker 6: That's the way he was.
Speaker 4: Another time, when their father was very old and couldn't
Speaker 4: see clearly, Jacob dressed up like his brother Esau and
Speaker 4: tricked their father into giving him the blessing of the
Speaker 4: firstborn that belonged to Esau. Time and again he went
Speaker 4: around deceiving no integrity. One day, Jacob got tired of
Speaker 4: living like that. He told his family that he was
Speaker 4: going to go down to the brook and get alone
Speaker 4: with God and make things right. An angel appeared to
Speaker 4: him in the form of a man. They began to
Speaker 4: wrestle this win on all night. The next morning, the
Speaker 4: angel was about to leave, and Jacob made an interesting statement.
Speaker 4: He said, no, I'm not letting you go until you
Speaker 4: first bless me. Imagine the nerve of Jacob asking God
Speaker 4: to bless him after living alone, life of cheating, taking
Speaker 4: advantage of people stealing his brother's birthright. Surely God would say, Jacob,
Speaker 4: you are the last person on earth I'm ever gonna
Speaker 4: bless You can forget about it.
Speaker 6: No, God said, in.
Speaker 4: Effect, Jacob, I like the fact that you come boldly
Speaker 4: to the throne.
Speaker 6: I like the fact that you know I'm.
Speaker 4: Full of mercy, that you know where sin abounds, grace
Speaker 4: does much more abound. God not only gave him the blessing,
Speaker 4: but he changed his name from Jacob, which means deceiver,
Speaker 4: to Israel, which means prince with God. From that day
Speaker 4: Jacob went out with the blessing a changed man. Friends,
Speaker 4: God is not holding anything against you. Some of you
Speaker 4: have been carrying the heavyload of guilt condemnation, thinking that
Speaker 4: God would never be good to you.
Speaker 6: Have you ever asked?
Speaker 4: Have you ever said, God, I haven't performed perfectly. I've
Speaker 4: made a mess out of things. But God, I'm asking
Speaker 4: you to bless me in spite of my mistakes. God,
Speaker 4: I'm asking you to strengthen me one more time. God
Speaker 4: did it for Jacob, he did it for Jonah, did
Speaker 4: it for Sampson, did it for Nassa.
Speaker 6: He'll do it for you. He's a one.
Speaker 4: More time God, one more time. He's gonna bless you.
Speaker 4: One more time.
Speaker 6: He's gonna restore you.
Speaker 4: The good news is he'll never run out of the
Speaker 4: one more times. Now, shake off the guilt and go
Speaker 4: boldly to the throne. If you do this, you won't
Speaker 4: be disappointed. I believe and declare God will restore you,
Speaker 4: bless you, bring you out, and you will still fulfill
Speaker 4: the best plan that He's laid out for your life.
Speaker 6: In Jesus' name.
Speaker 4: If you receive it, can you say it?
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Speaker 4: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord Jesus, I'll
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