You can turn with me to 1st Peter chapter 1.
1st Peter chapter 1. And Cami mentioned that
we're going to be in Pittsfield tonight. I have
been for the last three or four years on some
Sunday nights going to different churches and
ministering. And at the beginning of the year
I felt the Lord tell me to lay that down. and
that he would launch me back when it was his
time. And so I did not pursue it and have not
done anything like that for quite a few months.
And then about a month ago, I got five different
calls for ministry. And I said, I think the Lord
is opening up the door for ministry again. And
it seems like, Every time that we have gathered
together. In fact, I posted this on my Facebook
page Every time recently that we have gathered
together Whether it be a one -on -one meeting
or whether it be a small group The seniors had
an amazing small group time at the Cubatz home
How many seniors were there and it would say
wow look what God did? God is doing something
unique In every gathering that we come to, God
presences Himself in a unique way. We thought
we were done, didn't we, last Wednesday? We thought
we were done and the Holy Spirit just showed
up. And as the joy of the Lord was coming on
different ones, there were declarations that
were being made and We sing the song he's gonna
do it again this morning. He'll do it again breakthrough
God is bringing breakthrough to people in their
walk with Jesus God is touching people. He's
awakening things inside of people God is using
national events even to awaken desire for God
in people. I'm getting testimonies of people
saying, you know, I've had this Bible in the
back of my shelf for years, and now I'm picking
it up and I'm starting to read it. And that's
not to bring condemnation if you have not been
doing those things, but God is awakening in the
hearts of people. Amen? We are seeing it happen
Nationally, we are seeing it happen We are seeing
it happen on a local level and we are believing
God That he is gonna give us not only our city,
but this entire region in Jesus name this morning
another missionary that was driving on his way
to Bloomington felt led of the Lord to stop in
here And he hasn't stopped, he's a missionary.
He preached here in 2015, hasn't been here in
10 years. And I had him close us in prayer. And
you know what he prayed? He prayed that God would
release a prophetic and an apostolic anointing
on this house. And he said, God, give them this
city and God, give them this region. And he has
I've never shared with him my heart for ministry
that God called us to to raise up a local church
and to partner with people around the region
that are seeing God's kingdom move forward. Amen.
And so that's what we're doing. And we're and
we're watching God work and it's powerful and
it's wonderful. People are being healed. physically.
Talking to different ones that have received
emotional breakthrough in their life. Freedom
from fear and anxieties. God is doing an incredible
work and we're believing for more. We're believing
for more. God has breakthrough for your family.
Amen? God has breakthrough for your family. I
don't know how much of this I'm going to get
through this morning. I want to just start in
1 Peter chapter 1 because I believe that God
has something to speak to us. And this might
be a different kind of a message for you this
morning. I might preach it in a way that I don't
normally preach in. But I believe that God is
going to speak to us powerfully To the pilgrims
of the dispersion in Pontus Galatia Cappadocia
Asia Bithynia elect according to the foreknowledge
of God the Father in sanctification of the spirit
for obedience and sprinkling the blood of Jesus
Christ. Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
Father I want to thank you for your word this
morning and I ask God that you would just apply
it to each one of our hearts. I ask God that
your word that that penetrates and goes in deep
would change us and shape us and make us and
mold us. God I have no power to to change a life
but you do. The anointing that is upon your word
as it's being preached. God is powerful and I
ask God that you would just Speak to each one
of us today in Jesus name Amen Peter starts out
by using language pilgrims of the dispersion
This is language that the Jewish people although
he's not just writing to Jewish people But that
they would that they would know about they had
been called pilgrims of the dispersion Psalm
147 verse 2 the Lord builds up Jerusalem he gathers
the outcasts of Israel that's talking about the
pilgrims of the dispersion Isaiah 1112, he will
set up a banner for the nations and he will assemble
the outcasts of Israel and gather together the
dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the
earth. Some of you were alive when Israel first
reclaimed their land in the nation of Israel.
God is fulfilling his promise, those that are
dispersed. But he is not just talking about those
that were dispersed physically, although they
were in Acts chapter five. He's talking about
those that are outcasts, those that society has
written off. In fact, the religious people in
Jesus' day, this is a lot later than many, this
is many decades later, but the religious people
in Jesus' day had written many people off that
Jesus focused his ministry on. He came not to
buddy up with those that already thought that
they were righteous. But Jesus came to seek and
save those that were lost and those that had
been rejected as impossibles Jesus brought them
near those that had been dispersed We like it
when people come into our church and they're
already polished and they're already Looking
good and hey, here's somebody that that that
can fit right in But how many of you know that
God is not just looking for those that already
have the the Bible memorized from cover to cover
God is looking for those that everybody else
overlooks and and and stares right past and says
and says no not this one but God does not say
no not this one God says draw near to me come
on I'm choosing you for my team And so Peter
opens up and he says, the pilgrims of the dispersion,
the outcasts, all the people that nobody wanted
in Pontus and Galatia and Cappadocia and Asia
and Bithynia, you are now not outcasts, you are
now elect according to the foreknowledge of God
the Father, hallelujah. You are now sanctified.
Glory to God, that means that you are now washed.
hallelujah and that you have right standing with
God he called you for sanctification of the spirit
he called you for obedience amen I'm thinking
of John chapter eight. I'm thinking of the woman
that was caught in adultery. A woman that they
were ready to stone. A woman that certainly nobody,
none of the religious leaders would ever think
could do any good. But Jesus looked at that woman
and said, go and sin no more. Do you know what?
He was giving her the ability to overcome her
prostitution and overcome all of the garbage
of the past and she could too. become a new creation
in Christ and walk with God. Hallelujah. Obedience.
People that you look at and say they are far
from obedience. But God says, you can walk with
me. Sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ.
the twofold work of the cross that forgives us
of our sin and heals our broken body according
to Isaiah chapter 53 by his stripes we are healed
and God has called us that this term sprinkling
of the blood it means that you walk in the power
of God And when you pray over people, sometimes,
in fact, if you grew up with me in the late 80s,
and I was fortunate to be surrounded with great
men of God that knew how to pray, and they knew
how to seek God. And so here I was a young teenager
and I would listen to these men of God pray,
but it wasn't just the words that they said,
it was the interaction that they had with God.
Isn't that what discipleship really is all about?
Being able to see with your eyes and hear with
your ears. And so I was brand new in my faith,
but I would go to the prayer meetings and I would
listen to my pastor and he had a deep voice and
he would say, hallelujah. He would just he was
just be in the corner and he would just be saying
hallelujah And It wasn't the words that he said
or how they said them but I could tell that he
was fellowshiping With with God and he carried
an anointing that I wanted to carry And many
times I would hear these great men and women
of God say this, Lord, we plead the blood of
Jesus. Over this one that needs healing how many
of you ever heard that term before? Plead the
blood of Jesus. Well, it's similar to this straight
out of the scriptures sprinkling the blood of
Jesus and and Peter is saying you were you were
once an outcast but now you have the authority
to pray with power to Sprinkle the blood of Jesus
everywhere you go to pray over people that the
same the same blood that Jesus shed that cleansed
and washed you of your sin, the same blood that
healed you, you can sprinkle the blood, you can
pray the power of that blood over everybody.
Hallelujah. And so you were once an outcast,
but now you're used mightily of God to see miracles
happening wherever you go. Grace and peace be
multiplied to you. He goes on and and I Might
not get past this next section here. I intended
to preach clear down through chapter 2 As long
as I preach good you'll sit there and listen,
right? Blessed be the God and father of our Lord
Jesus Christ Who according to his abundant mercy
has begotten us again to a living hope through
the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead
to an inheritance in corruptible and Undefiled
and that does not fade away Reserved in heaven
for you who are kept by the power of God through
faith for salvation Ready to be revealed the
last time glory to God The word that came forth
this morning and that many of you responded to
was a confirmation to me of the scripture that
God wanted me to preach and I want in fact, I
prayed over a couple of you that God would restore
hope to your life Hope about things that you
have given up about. Hope to walk in health again.
Hope to be used by God in a ministry again. Hope
to see some things that he's whispered in your
spirit and now you're at the point where you're
saying, well I'm just not sure if that dream
was really from God or not. But God wants to
put hope back in your life amen and This phrase
that's in verse 5. There's so much in here, but
let me skip to verse 5 we are of those who are
kept by the power of God Amen now I read This
morning a story that captivated me It is the
story of a man named Larry Walters Larry Walters
in 1982 Thought that he could use some Hot air
balloons some small ones many to raise himself
up in his backyard and He blew up 42 small hot
air balloons with helium and He sat in the chair
thinking he would go five or ten feet in the
air and He cut the rope He was a truck driver
and they nicknamed him lawn chair Larry Because
when he cut the rope that held him to the weight
He began to rise in his lawn chair Now he wasn't
complete he wasn't completely Christian he brought
two things with him He had a pistol and a beer.
And his lawn chair began to rise. Begin to rise.
And lawn chair Larry rose. 16 ,000 feet over
his city, no seatbelt. This is July 2nd, 1982,
over San Pedro, California. And when he got so
high, he thought, How am I gonna get down and
he began to shoot balloons The flight lasted
45 minutes He interrupted flight patterns as
as me is major airlines Picked him up on their
radar and had to alter their path On the way
down He entangled in power lines and caused a
blackout in Long Beach, California He was not
seriously injured and was fined by the Federal
Aviation Administration for violating aviation
regulations. His flight became a media sensation.
He inspired movies, a musical, and holds the
Guinness World Record for lawn chair flight.
Larry Walters I Read that story and I thought
that story is sermon worthy Because I was picturing
myself 16 ,000 feet somebody figure out how many
How far that is up in kilometers or miles? Somebody
pull your phone out and figure that out for me
Three miles I can't even imagine. Now I went
up in a balloon one time for Balloon Fest. Me
and my son traveled up and we got up so high
and it wasn't near this high and we could not
hear a thing. It was still, it was magical. How
many of you have been up in a balloon before?
And you know what I'm talking about. And you
know what I thought when I was up there? There
is nothing holding me from my death except for
this platform, this high, this basket that we
are standing in. And I found myself kind of knuckling
the rope behind me like this is nerve wracking.
And I begin to imagine myself as I'm reading
this story. of me sitting in a lawn chair three
miles above the earth with nothing keeping me.
Nothing keeping me, it's making some of you nauseous
even as you're sitting right there in your chair.
I remember when we went to the Sears Tower, it's
now called the Willis Tower, I have trouble calling
it that. Chicago and we went up to the hundred
and third floor and on the hundred and third
floor they have a glass walkout and you that
have been there know that even though you know
in your mind that you're gonna be okay that stepping
out onto that glass walkout it feels it gives
you a sensation that is a little bit disconcerting
And even I, I'm not afraid of heights at all,
but here I am standing over 103 stories looking
down over Chicago. How many of you have stood
on that platform before? Some of you have been
there before. And you get a little bit disconcerted.
And you can start to picture what it's like,
what it might be like if you had nothing. keeping
you. Nothing keeping you. This morning in your
spiritual walk some of you have felt like nothing
is keeping me. I'm kind of interested in God,
but I don't know if I can trust Him again. I'm
kind of pressing in, but if I put all my eggs
in one basket, is He going to do it? I want to
bring the simple message confirming the word
that was already spoken this morning That the
same God That brought you here today The same
God that really has been working in your life
all along you haven't recognized it so much But
God has been working in your life every step
of the way friend He has been there He grieved
with you silently although you didn't hear him
He he he protected you and that car wreck He
was there With his hand on your life when when
you weren't even thinking about him He has been
more faithful to you than ever you realize And
I want to declare to you today that you can trust
Him with your life to bring you all the way through
to the end. Some of you see obstacles that you're
facing and can I tell you between now and the
end you are gonna face a lot more obstacles than
the ones you're facing now. It's just the truth
that in this world we will have trouble. But
I want to elevate this morning your level of
Trust in a God that is never going to leave you
and he is never going to forsake you He is going
to walk with you every step of the way You are
kept by the power of God Amen You are not kept
by the power of a pastor Isn't that good news?
Because I fail people all the time But there
is one that I try my best Feebly though it might
be to represent there is one that I represent
Who will never fail you? He will never leave
you. He will never forsake you glory to God You
are kept by the power God. Whoo! I feel the anointing
in this place right now because there are some
there is some thinking in your mind that needs
to crumble. God is able to keep you. Some of
you have just overcome addiction and you've thought
well I've overcome this addiction before but
and so what is different now? What's different
now is that you're gonna trust in the God that
is able to keep you from falling Hallelujah,
let me read a couple of other scriptures to you
right now Thank You Father glory to God John
chapter 10 verse 27 says this my sheep Any sheep
out there if you're a sheep go That was kind
of weak. We need to do that again. Ready? That
was awesome! My sheep hear my voice and I know
them and they follow me. I give them eternal
life and they shall never perish neither shall
anyone say anyone neither shall anyone snatch
them out of my hand my father who has given them
to me is greater than all and no one is able
to snatch them out of my father's hand I and
my Father are one. Glory to God. Now do I believe
that somebody can choose to walk away from God
and deny the faith? We see that even in the Bible.
Paul discipled people that then turned and walked
away from God. That's true. You can walk away
from God. But friend, nobody. that is after the
heart of God. Nobody that comes before the Lord
and say, God, I'm doing my best to follow after
you. Nobody that is a sincere believer that is
coming after Jesus. Nobody, nobody will ever
be taken out of the Father's hand that is after
the heart of God. Hallelujah. You are secure
in your salvation. Well, Pastor, I messed up
last week. Pastor, I messed up last week. I sinned.
I sinned. Friend, the Bible says this, that the
righteous may fall seven times, but this is what
the righteous do. The righteous get up again.
They get up again and they keep on going. And
so if you're one of those sheep, guess what?
You've been made righteous by the blood of the
lamb. That does not mean you've been made perfect
yet. You are being perfected and you do grow
from glory to glory. We're watching people's
lives transform as they're set free from sin.
Right? I want to thank God. Let me give you a
statistic from Barna Research Group. Four years
ago, 55 % of adults in the United States said
that they had a relationship with Jesus that
was meaningful to them. 55%. Now, how many of
those are actually born again and following Christ?
I don't know. But 55 % that was down from 2003
which was 87 % 87 % down to 55 % in a matter
of years that does that tell you the direction
that our nation is heading? Well, let me give
you some hope because four years later that number
has rebounded to 67 % two -thirds Now that does
not mean that they're all born again But they
have some kind of knowledge of Jesus that is
meaningful to them Among but but let me give
you a statistic now that that is not so good
61 % of Christians Are addicted to pornography
61 % on a weekly that's a weekly or daily basis
61 % Jesus came to set captives free We you know
you wonder why industries grow the way that they
do is because of the sin of mankind. You wonder
why we don't have revival yet. Friends, it's
coming. It's coming. I'm not trying to be a wet
blanket. What I am calling us to is to be kept
by the power of God. Because you're kept by the
power of God, you can overcome. I'm through the
introduction of my sermon, I'm not going to preach
the whole thing tonight, this morning. And so
in conclusion, what we are watching, what we
are watching is God setting captives free. And
God exercising, keeping power, right? Not snatched
out. I love the passage in Jude. It's a praise
to God. Now to Him who is able to keep you from
stumbling and to present you faultless before
the presence of His glory with exceeding joy.
Now I often wonder, well, who there gets the
exceeding joy? Is it Jesus that is presenting
us before the Father? And is it Jesus that has
the joy in doing so? Or is it us that as we are
presented, we have exceeding joy? I believe it's
both. believe it's both that that Jesus is looking
forward one day to present you to the Father
and say hey this one this one that this one's
come through a lot but this one was kept by the
power of God here he is father here she is father
they made it to the end hallelujah This is a
verse that every that maybe this is the one we
memorize from next week Jude Just one chapter
in Jude verse 24 now to him who is able to keep
you from stumbling and To present you faultless
before the presence of his glory with exceeding
joy To God our Savior who alone is wise be glory
and majesty Dominion and power both now and forever
Amen Amen. Amen. Can I say this? Most people
that are addicted to pornography wish they weren't
because the conscience and the conviction of
the Holy Spirit and the shame, they're just tired
of it. It destroys. Every part of your being
it destroys marriages It destroys families and
that's just one addiction How am I gonna face
it pastor Because you're gonna look to your mountain
you're gonna look to your sin that that secret
sin Whatever it might be God is applying this
to everybody and You're gonna look at that thing
and you're gonna stare it down and you're gonna
say I have a Jesus in my life. That's bigger
than you and The Jesus that's in my life According
to Titus has taught me to say no to ungodliness
and worldly passions and pleasures this Jesus
is able to keep me from stumbling and walking
the wrong direction hallelujah whoo glory to
God And so some of you this morning, you're gonna
take this into your prayer closet and you're
gonna say, God, I thank you for the power that
you've given me to overcome. It's not power for
tomorrow, but it is strength for today. To deliver
me according to the Lord's prayer, you taught
us to pray. God, deliver us from the evil one
and deliver us from temptation. In the name of
Jesus, you help us to overcome, hallelujah. You
can overcome that eating addiction. You can overcome
that lazy addiction. You can overcome that spending
addiction. You can overcome any enemy of the
cross so that God God's work can happen in your
life. Where does it start? It starts with the
most beautiful word in the Bible, repent. Repent.
If we confess our sins, He's faithful and just
not to not to just forgive us of our sin but
to cleanse us from it to get it out of our life
Amen I'm gonna stop right here because I believe
that God wants to work in some people. I'm gonna
ask if the worship team would come You've got
some overcoming to do but you're not alone in
it You've got some overcoming to do you're not
alone in it because there's people right in this
room that have been right where you're at Addicted
to the same thing you're addicted to But Jesus
set them free and now they're walking in power
And so repentance is a word that's celebrated
it's it's Do I feel repentance? Yeah, sometimes
it feels like godly sorrow Because it's that
sin that put Jesus on the cross Right that sin
put Jesus on the cross And we feel that God I'm
sorry But it's a beautiful word because it's
the first step that you take Toward God when
he comes running toward you And you say God set
me free What do I need to repent of? Anything
in my life where I've strayed that doesn't line
up with God's Word. If you're a new believer
in the house, there might be things in the Bible
that you're not aware of yet. Where your life
isn't completely lined up yet. I want you to
know that God is patient with you. And He is
going to lead you as you grow. In fact, the second
part of this message that I'll preach next time
I have an opportunity is about how to do that,
how to grow. And it comes down to this, to feeding
on the milk of the Word, giving yourself to prayer,
and getting involved with a local church body.
Having others around you. It's simple. But repentance
is the beginning. You're coming to the one that
can keep you. You're just confessing your need
for Him. And you're saying, Lord, I just put
myself in Your hands. Will You forgive me? Will
You wash me? If you've never come to Christ,
That's the first step. But how many Christians
in here after you came to Christ still needed
to repent? Linda's laughing down here. She must
have needed to repent a lot. Jesus wants a bride.
That's the church, the bride. The bride of Christ
is the church. He's the groom. He wants a bride
that is clean and pure. Clean and pure. And that's
how I want to be. When I go the wrong direction,
I want the Holy Spirit to show me. so that I
can go the right direction. Father, all across
this room you are working, you are speaking to
hearts, you are convicting, but you're also assuring
that you will keep your people. And so God, I
pray that you would help us to have the courage
to respond. And so Lord, all over this place,
as Holy Spirit is convicting people, I just pray
that you would work your work. If you're here
this morning, and you're saying, Pastor, I need
forgiveness. I need to repent. All over this
place, on the count of three, I'm just gonna
ask you to stand. By standing, you're just saying,
the Holy Spirit's speaking to me, drawing me
closer to Him. showing me an area of my life
that hasn't been right with Him. And I need to
get that area of my life right with Him. On the
count of three, stand. One, two, three. Just
stand up all over this room. Come on. Come on.
Don't wait for the next person. Come on. Come
on. Come on. Come on. I'll give you a moment.
Come on. Take heart. Take courage. Take courage.
And ask all of you that are standing. This is
what we call the altar area. The altar is a place
of worship. It's not just a place to repent,
but it is a place to just come before the Lord
and lay that thing down. So I want to invite
you that are standing to come down to the front
And just say Jesus here. I am he loves you so
much He's here for you. Come on come down to
the front. We're gonna pray together We're gonna
pray together This walk that you make it's just
an act. It's an action of repentance Thank you,
Lord Thank you, Lord It might be the way you
spoke to somebody It might be the thought that
you thought about somebody. It might be something
that others, if they knew, would say, that is
huge. But it isn't about everybody else. It's
about you and Jesus. Those of you that are up
here at the altar right now, I just want you
to begin to pray, just you and the Lord. Just
close your eyes. Close your eyes and say Jesus
will you forgive me? Jesus will you wash me?
Just confess your need For him to you might even
speak to that thing pornography get out of my
life in the name of Jesus I belong to the Lord
You might speak to that thing Addiction you do
not have me anymore I belong to Jesus. God, I
thank You for Your power operating around these
altars right now in the name of Jesus. Hallelujah.
I thank You, Father, for people from every generation
responding to the work of the Lord, responding
to what You're doing in their lives right now
in Jesus' name. things that when they came in
this room were not right with God. But when they
leave, we're going to stay here at the altar
in the name of Jesus. Father, we thank you for
the shed blood of Jesus Christ. God, I ask that
right now that there would be a washing and a
cleansing over this house. Hallelujah. God, I
pray that you would cleanse from the mind to
the spirit, God, all through the soul in the
name of Jesus. We look to the cross right now.
We look to the blood of the lamb and we say,
Jesus, wash me. Jesus, wash me. Jesus, wash me.
Jesus, wash me. Jesus, wash me. Oh my God, my
God, my God. Would you wash your sons and daughters
right now around this altar in the name of Jesus.
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Oh my God,
my God, my God. Jesus Jesus Jesus come on just
lift your hands to the Lord right now and just
receive from him receive from the Lord right
now a touch from heaven glory to God he loves
you he loves you he loves you he loves you in
Jesus name we thank you father hallelujah hallelujah
hallelujah hallelujah I want you to agree with
me in this prayer. In fact, just pray it with
me. Lord, this morning I thank you for washing
and cleansing me. I thank you for removing my
sin and nailing it to the cross. I thank you
for forgiving me. I break the power of shame.
And I embrace the power of Jesus. I thank you
Lord for freedom. I thank you Lord for victory.
I thank you that you've chosen me. I thank you
that you've made me your elect. I thank you that
you've empowered me to walk in obedience. In
Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Thank you Father. Thank you Father. God's doing
a work around this altar right now. Jesus. Jesus.
Jesus. Lord, I want to lift up the men that are
up here at the altar right now. I want to thank
you Lord Jesus for men that are sensitive to
your spirit. Lord, for generations women have
carried the church in sensitivity to you. But
I thank you for men also that are sensitive to
the Holy Spirit, for young men that are sensitive
to the Holy Spirit, that are leading the way
and saying, God, I want to walk in right relationship
with Jesus. I've allowed things in, but no more.
I'm drawing a line. I'm moving forward in Jesus'
name. Hallelujah. Now look at me for a moment.
Some of you are up here for simple things and
you've felt God's touch and that's the end of
it. But some of you are gonna need a brother
or a sister to specifically agree with you in
prayer, for you to overcome. There are some things
that God just removes from our lives. When I
gave my life to Jesus, I was delivered from swearing
instantly. I have not sworn since the time I
was 13. I'm 52. 39 years. God has kept my, it
doesn't mean that everything that I've said is
sanctified, but the swearing part has not been
a part of me and God just took it away. But there
were other things in my life that I needed to
go to somebody. I remember going to my youth
pastor. because of sexual sins. They were what
some might consider to be very minor. But for
me, they were holding my relationship with Jesus
back. And I had to go to my youth pastor as a
young man. And I wept. In fact, I wept and my
youth pastor laughed. And he said, I'm laughing
because you think you're the only one that's
ever been in this place. But he prayed over me
and he broke the power of that thing and it was
gone. Some of you have things that you need somebody
to agree with you about. And I want to encourage
you to not be afraid to make the phone call to
set up the meeting. They're not gonna blab all
of your stuff all over the world. You know, later
on, it's just going to become part of your testimony.
And you're going to actually be able to help
others that overcome the very thing that you're
wrestling with. And you're not going to be ashamed
of it anymore because you're going to see, I'm
helping others get free. But for now, you need
to go to somebody. And you need to say, brother,
will you pray with me? Sister, will you pray
with me? And it can be a trusted man or woman
of God. It doesn't have to be Pastor Cammie or
myself. But we are here for you. And you can
come all the way through to freedom. Amen. Let's
give the Lord praise this morning for what He's
doing. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord.
Thank you, Lord. Just take the hand of the person
next to you right now. take the hand of the person
next to you and I want you to just pray over
them and I want you to pray God's blessing over
the person on your right and on your left and
just say God will you give victory to my brother
to my sister in the name of Jesus give victory
to my brother to my sister in the name of Jesus
that we can walk in victory in this place hallelujah
hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah oh my God my
God we thank you Father we give you praise we
give you praise you are good hallelujah lord
oh we love you lord god is good god is good just
one final encouragement eventually And hopefully
immediately you will never need to repent for
this same thing again. But God will put his finger
on something else in your life. And you'll have
to come to the altar again. And I want you to
know that that's what believers do. They follow
Jesus. They're becoming more and more and more
like him. And so he's dealing with one thing
and then next week he might deal with another
thing. And that's okay. How many of you say,
Jesus, make me more like you? Repentance is a
good thing. Jesus, make me more like you. Amen.
Give somebody a hug before you go. Bless somebody.
In Jesus' name, thank you for being here today.