1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,420 Thank you for listening to this message from Life House Church. 2 00:00:13,420 --> 00:00:18,180 Good morning, good morning. 3 00:00:18,180 --> 00:00:23,300 Listen, turn somebody, give them a high five, tell them it is Do Not Do Life Alone, Do Not 4 00:00:23,300 --> 00:00:25,200 Do Life Alone Sunday. 5 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:26,800 Give them a high five, tell them that. 6 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:28,860 That's a mouthful, all right? 7 00:00:28,860 --> 00:00:34,560 Make sure you go back, check out those Life Group signups, and take a look. 8 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:36,020 There's donuts back there. 9 00:00:36,020 --> 00:00:39,160 We like to get you sugared up before you sign up, all right? 10 00:00:39,160 --> 00:00:41,120 And we want to get you signed up for Life Groups. 11 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:43,800 We believe in that deeply here at Life House. 12 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:49,280 We believe in community, and we believe in coming together and really kind of following 13 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:53,160 Jesus in a community of believers. 14 00:00:53,160 --> 00:00:57,600 There's something special about walking beside other people. 15 00:00:57,600 --> 00:00:58,880 That's really how God designed it. 16 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:00,680 It's how Jesus set up the church. 17 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:02,000 So we want you involved in that. 18 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:05,880 This is just one of the ways you can do that, but we want to give you an opportunity. 19 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:09,700 So make sure you get a donut afterwards, and make sure you sign up and take a look at those 20 00:01:09,700 --> 00:01:11,580 Life Groups and those Life Group leaders. 21 00:01:11,580 --> 00:01:16,040 You can go online and look at all kinds of information there about the Life Groups. 22 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:21,000 But listen, we are on the cusp, say the cusp, all right? 23 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,520 We are on the cusp of a brand new year. 24 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:25,640 We're saying goodbye to 2023. 25 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:28,520 We're heading into 2024, a new year, right? 26 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:33,640 New starts, new beginnings, new opportunities, all those things we hear around New Year's. 27 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:38,160 And if the Lord allows us a few more hours, you all are going to get together with somebody, 28 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:39,160 probably in your family. 29 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:41,680 You know, I don't know what your New Year tradition is. 30 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:44,960 Maybe you get together and eat, you know, if you're from central Pennsylvania or maybe 31 00:01:44,960 --> 00:01:47,520 Western PA, you eat sauerkraut and kibossi. 32 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:48,520 I don't know why. 33 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:49,520 I don't know what that's all about. 34 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:51,680 But you'll eat sauerkraut, kibossi, all right? 35 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:56,560 You'll get together with family, friends, maybe just you and your dog, whatever it is. 36 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:58,560 How many of you are planning on staying up past midnight tonight? 37 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:00,160 Come on, raise your hand if you're going to do it. 38 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:01,600 How many of you are like, that's crazy. 39 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:02,600 That's nonsense. 40 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:03,600 I'm not doing that. 41 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,720 All right, you're sleeping in the New Year, right? 42 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:08,000 But our prayer is this. 43 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:13,160 Our prayer is that you bring in and that you ring in the New Year with Jesus. 44 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:16,280 That's really what we want to hear. 45 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:21,360 And we want you to really focus on Christ. 46 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:22,720 You've heard it all morning in the worship. 47 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:23,720 You heard it in the announcements. 48 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:25,240 You heard it in the offering. 49 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:30,040 Just put your focus on Christ and really kind of come into this New Year looking up as much 50 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:31,240 as you are looking out, right? 51 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:34,880 Because we're looking up and we're looking out into the New Year. 52 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:37,800 And our heart here is really to hear you do that. 53 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:41,840 And we're starting this brand new message series going into January. 54 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:45,880 We want to start the end of 2023 and launch into the New Year. 55 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:49,840 And we want you to hear from God and we want you to hear from the Father, the Son and the 56 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:50,840 Holy Spirit. 57 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:52,600 And we want that to be, look on the sides of the wall. 58 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:53,600 Look right now. 59 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:54,600 Right? 60 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:56,560 We want that to be loud and clear. 61 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:57,560 Say it. 62 00:02:57,560 --> 00:02:58,560 Loud and clear. 63 00:02:58,560 --> 00:02:59,560 All right? 64 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:03,640 We want your spiritual ears tuned in as you go into this New Year. 65 00:03:03,640 --> 00:03:06,000 And we've really got a threefold plan to do that. 66 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:07,600 One is the message series, loud and clear. 67 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:11,080 We want to bring God's word to you and what God's word has to say about hearing God loud 68 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:12,080 and clear. 69 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:14,680 Second, we had that fasting devotion that you heard about. 70 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:15,880 Staff got together. 71 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:16,880 Each wrote a devotional. 72 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:21,840 It's just a one page deal for each day of the seven days of the fast. 73 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:23,120 You can take that. 74 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:27,920 We'll have those available next week, January 7th for East Shore, West Shore and online 75 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:28,920 as well. 76 00:03:28,920 --> 00:03:32,640 We'll have that devotional ready to go so that you can just kind of give yourself a 77 00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:33,640 jumpstart. 78 00:03:33,640 --> 00:03:38,720 Maybe read that in the morning as you go into a day of fasting and prayer and focusing, 79 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:39,720 you know. 80 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,880 And we also, you know, have a worship night. 81 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:48,080 We've got multiple ways, multiple levels for you to get involved and really to take, go 82 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:52,920 into the New Year focusing on God and hearing Him loud and clear. 83 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:53,920 And here's what I know. 84 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:54,920 Here's what I know. 85 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:57,800 If you don't participate, you miss out, right? 86 00:03:57,800 --> 00:03:58,800 All right. 87 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:01,040 If you don't go back to that table and get a donut, you missed out. 88 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:02,400 That's all I got to say. 89 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:03,400 Right? 90 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:05,280 Prayer and fasting is the same way. 91 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:06,280 It's not my idea. 92 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:08,480 Prayer and fasting is biblical. 93 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:09,480 It is scriptural. 94 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:10,480 It's God's idea. 95 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:14,920 If we don't engage, if we don't get involved in it, you're going to miss out. 96 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:17,080 So you know, we want to hear. 97 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:21,960 It's good to get engaged in prayer and fasting and increase your listening. 98 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:22,960 Right? 99 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:23,960 It's good to learn how to listen. 100 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:24,960 Right? 101 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:26,720 My wife's still trying to teach me how to listen. 102 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:29,880 If she was here, she's at East Shore campus this morning. 103 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:30,880 She just said, amen. 104 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:31,880 Right there. 105 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:32,880 Right? 106 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:34,520 It's intentional time. 107 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:35,520 It's intentional time. 108 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:37,000 That's what we're looking at. 109 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:41,680 Intentional time to hear from God loud and clear. 110 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:45,440 And I don't know a follower of Jesus Christ who doesn't want to hear from the Lord in 111 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:46,560 a more clear manner. 112 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:48,040 I've yet to meet one. 113 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:49,040 Right? 114 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:53,600 I want to hear his voice clearly, free of static, free of noise, free of distraction. 115 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:54,600 Right? 116 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:56,400 Free of distortion. 117 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:59,040 Free of all the things that seem to get in the way. 118 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:02,560 Because sometimes it can feel like that when we're communicating with God. 119 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:05,400 Sometimes when we get in prayer, it sounds staticky. 120 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:07,640 Sometimes I throw up a prayer and all I hear is noise. 121 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:08,640 Right? 122 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:09,640 I don't seem to really hear God. 123 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:12,000 And it just feels that way. 124 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,080 It's a little bit like a long time ago when I was a kid. 125 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:16,640 How many of you know it was a long time ago when I was a kid? 126 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:17,640 You can say, hey man, it's okay. 127 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:18,640 All right? 128 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:20,640 It was a long time ago when I was a kid. 129 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:23,920 But when I was a kid, there weren't a lot of electronic forms of communication. 130 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:26,280 As a matter of fact, they were extremely limited. 131 00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:27,280 Right? 132 00:05:27,280 --> 00:05:28,280 We didn't have cell phones. 133 00:05:28,280 --> 00:05:31,280 We didn't have those nice cell phones, iPhones, whatever you got. 134 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:32,280 Right? 135 00:05:32,280 --> 00:05:35,320 All the people under 25 were going, you didn't have a cell phone? 136 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:36,320 Right? 137 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:37,320 We didn't have cell phones. 138 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:38,320 We didn't have tablets. 139 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:39,320 We didn't have computers. 140 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:40,400 We didn't have gaming systems. 141 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:42,120 We didn't have any of those kinds of things. 142 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:43,880 We didn't even have the internet. 143 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:48,160 In fact, when I was growing up, the only form of electronic communication that I had as 144 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:51,120 a kid was these crazy little things called walkie talkies. 145 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:52,640 How many remember walkie talkies? 146 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:53,640 All right. 147 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:56,160 They're going to put a picture up there for you. 148 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:58,240 That's the walkie talkie from the 1980s. 149 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:00,440 They're about the size of a brick or a block. 150 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:01,440 Okay? 151 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:03,040 Had one big old orange button on them. 152 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:04,040 All right? 153 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,840 And when you got your walkie talkie out, you and your buddies, they had a distance of about 154 00:06:07,840 --> 00:06:12,080 50 foot that they would carry if it was nothing in between you and the other person. 155 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:13,080 Right? 156 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:16,720 And you get on and the other could be on and you're like... That's what happened when 157 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:21,240 you push the button. 158 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:23,160 That's what it sounded like. 159 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:24,800 That was our form of communication. 160 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:30,160 And the person on the other end would be going... Right? 161 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:31,160 Which was a total lie. 162 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:32,160 You know? 163 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:33,160 So they would. 164 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:34,160 And it was loud and clear. 165 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:35,160 You know? 166 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:37,920 And many times it feels that way when we pray. 167 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:42,960 You know, we're praying and we're trying to communicate with God and it just sounds like 168 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:43,960 that. 169 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:45,600 It's just you got something or almost nothing. 170 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:46,600 Right? 171 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:51,120 You feel like you hear a few muffled things back from God or maybe you just feel something 172 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,480 just in a little bit of way, but it feels like you're distant. 173 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:57,120 How many know that happens in prayer? 174 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:01,920 And if that happens enough, you'll do exactly what we used to do with the walkie talkies. 175 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:04,520 We played with them for 15 minutes and we figured it's not worth it. 176 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:05,520 We put them down. 177 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:06,520 Right? 178 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:07,520 We just let... We put them down. 179 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:08,760 They went in a toy box, whatever. 180 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:13,840 They stayed in there until the 9 volt battery leaked on them and they were ruined. 181 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:17,080 That's what happened with them in the 80s. 182 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:19,320 And we do that... We'll do that with prayer. 183 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:23,320 We'll pray and if we're not hearing back and we feel like we're not getting anywhere with 184 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:25,520 it, we just stop praying. 185 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:26,840 We put it down. 186 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:27,840 We put it away. 187 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:31,080 And if we're not hearing back and we'll even start to say things like this. 188 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:33,560 People start to say, well, I just don't think God talks to me. 189 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:35,720 I've heard... I've had a lot of people telling me that. 190 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:38,440 I get talked with them like, well, God doesn't talk to me. 191 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:39,640 And that's a whole nother conversation. 192 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:40,640 God does. 193 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:43,240 And I don't got time to go there right now. 194 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:44,240 Right? 195 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:46,880 But they'll say things like that or God just talks to other people. 196 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:47,880 Right? 197 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:48,880 That's for other people. 198 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:53,240 And sometimes they'll think, well, I must not be holy enough or I'm just not good enough. 199 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:54,440 Well, I got news for you. 200 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:55,560 None of us are good enough. 201 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:56,560 Right? 202 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:57,560 He's the only one that's good. 203 00:07:57,560 --> 00:07:59,360 He's the only one that's right. 204 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:00,600 So it's not that. 205 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:02,740 But here's the thing. 206 00:08:02,740 --> 00:08:04,120 God doesn't work like a walkie talkie. 207 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:05,720 He doesn't work like our cell phone. 208 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:07,360 He's not like an iPad, a tablet. 209 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:08,360 Right? 210 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:10,160 It's not a matter of holding in just the right button. 211 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:11,160 It really isn't. 212 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:16,080 It's not about plugging in the right Wi-Fi password to get to God or just to have the 213 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:17,680 right cadence in your prayer. 214 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:19,560 How many of you got the right cadence when you pray? 215 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:20,560 Right? 216 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:22,020 If you pray good enough, then God hears. 217 00:08:22,020 --> 00:08:23,020 That's not how it works. 218 00:08:23,020 --> 00:08:24,320 It really isn't. 219 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:28,320 It's a matter of positioning ourselves to hear God. 220 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:29,320 All right? 221 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:30,960 Taking notes is a good spot to take notes. 222 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:32,560 And I encourage you to do that. 223 00:08:32,560 --> 00:08:33,560 It's a good place. 224 00:08:33,560 --> 00:08:37,440 You want to position ourselves to hear God. 225 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:39,160 He is the creator of the universe. 226 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:40,160 He is God. 227 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:41,160 He is all powerful. 228 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:42,400 He is omnipresent. 229 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:45,200 He has all things in his power. 230 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:47,840 And it's not a matter of just a sterile, right? 231 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:51,880 Mindless kind of action of pushing a button or a spiritual button of some kind, dialing 232 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:56,800 up a number, you know, throwing up a prayer and hoping it sticks kind of thing and hearing 233 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:58,200 God loud and clear. 234 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:03,680 It's about positioning ourselves to hear God and the problem of static noise and distortion 235 00:09:03,680 --> 00:09:09,040 when we're praying, it is never an issue on God's side of the equation. 236 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:10,040 Right? 237 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:12,480 He's transmitting to us all the time. 238 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:13,480 He really is. 239 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:15,680 The problem is on the receiving end. 240 00:09:15,680 --> 00:09:16,680 Right? 241 00:09:16,680 --> 00:09:17,680 I'm the receiver. 242 00:09:17,680 --> 00:09:18,680 He's the transmitter. 243 00:09:18,680 --> 00:09:19,880 It's on the receiving end. 244 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:21,000 It's me. 245 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:25,240 And I'm not hearing because I'm not tuned in sometimes to the king of the universe. 246 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:29,160 I'm not hearing sometimes because I'm on the wrong spiritual channel. 247 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:30,160 Right? 248 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:32,960 I'm not on the right wavelength. 249 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:36,640 If you've got a radio, and I know it's not like it used to be old school, right? 250 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:43,080 You turned the knob right to the station and the new ones, you look for the digital readout 251 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:47,240 and how many others a number associated with a radio station, right? 252 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:49,600 WJTL is 90.3. 253 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:52,000 K Love is 107.9. 254 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,280 WDAC 94. 255 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:58,120 Whatever the radio station is that you're listening to has a number for it. 256 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:02,520 That number is not just a call number that they give to a radio station. 257 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:05,600 That's a frequency that they transmit on. 258 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:08,520 That's the wavelength that that signal goes on. 259 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:09,520 It goes out on. 260 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:14,640 And when you're tuning your radio, you're you're dialing into that frequency. 261 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:18,360 And how many know when you get to that frequency, what happens? 262 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:19,680 You got music, right? 263 00:10:19,680 --> 00:10:21,280 You got someone talking to you. 264 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:22,680 If you turn it off one, right? 265 00:10:22,680 --> 00:10:25,600 It's 90.3 and you turn it to 90.4. 266 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:26,600 What happens? 267 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:29,080 That's what you hear. 268 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:30,300 All right. 269 00:10:30,300 --> 00:10:31,760 You might catch a couple of words. 270 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:34,340 You might be on a completely different station. 271 00:10:34,340 --> 00:10:41,800 If you go to 90.4, spiritual tuning is about positioning ourselves to hear God. 272 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:43,080 He's transmitting. 273 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:46,560 We just got to get in a place to position ourselves to hear. 274 00:10:46,560 --> 00:10:50,480 And for a lack of better a way of saying it, we got to get on God's frequency. 275 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:52,040 We really do. 276 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:56,320 We got to pick up what he's putting down and tune into his spiritual station, tune into 277 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:58,480 what he's trying to relay. 278 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:00,840 It's not a transmission problem. 279 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:05,080 It's a receiver problem most of the time on our end, if not all the time. 280 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:06,080 Right? 281 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:09,720 How I'm receiving so many too many times we're on some other frequency. 282 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:10,720 Right? 283 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:15,040 God's on 90.1 and we're on 90.5 and not a good don't go look those stations up. 284 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:16,040 Right? 285 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:17,040 I don't know what that is. 286 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:18,040 I just made that up. 287 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:19,040 All right. 288 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:22,360 So we're going in to hear God loud and clear, get in the frequency right. 289 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:23,760 So first step, say first step. 290 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:24,760 Good. 291 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:25,760 You're with me. 292 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:30,640 First step, first step in getting the frequency right to hear God on a regular basis is this. 293 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:37,360 Jesus must be savior and Lord of our life if we want to hear from God loud and clear. 294 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:41,880 Now I am not saying that Jesus doesn't talk to those who are far from him. 295 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:45,980 I'm not saying that he doesn't talk to those who don't know him as Lord and Savior. 296 00:11:45,980 --> 00:11:51,320 What I am saying is if you want to hear God loud and clear, if you want communication 297 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:54,760 in the way we want communication from God on the regular, how many want to hear from 298 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:55,920 God on the regular? 299 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:56,920 I do. 300 00:11:56,920 --> 00:11:57,920 Right? 301 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:03,040 If you want to hear from God on the regular, he it's about being him being savior and Lord 302 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:04,800 of our life. 303 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:09,240 It's it's a if you want to hear from God in a way that's going to direct you in life. 304 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:10,240 Right? 305 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:13,960 If you want to hear from God like maybe a child hears from a good parent. 306 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:14,960 Right? 307 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:21,440 If we want to hear from God in it, not be a one time event, but clear communication 308 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:23,040 on a regular basis. 309 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:28,040 He must be Lord and Savior and maybe a better way to say that in a right order is he has 310 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:31,440 to be Savior and Lord of our life. 311 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:32,440 Right? 312 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:35,520 Savior first, Lord second. 313 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:38,880 God is not Google God. 314 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:39,880 He's not a fortune cookie. 315 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:42,000 He's not some cosmic crystal ball. 316 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:43,000 Right? 317 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:46,120 He's not a magic once in a while when you need some good advice or answers. 318 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:47,120 Right? 319 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:50,240 He's not just an instantaneous intervention when things aren't going well. 320 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:52,480 He's not a heavenly Santa Claus who's just leaning in. 321 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:53,480 Right? 322 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:56,960 Just waiting for our every women wish to be spoken to him. 323 00:12:56,960 --> 00:12:59,360 The earth is the Lord's and everything therein. 324 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:00,360 He's sovereign. 325 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:01,360 He's powerful. 326 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:02,360 He's righteous. 327 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:03,360 He's holy. 328 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:04,360 He's creator. 329 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:05,360 He's not just creative. 330 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:06,360 He is the creator. 331 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:09,680 He is the king. 332 00:13:09,680 --> 00:13:15,840 First Peter 312 says this, for the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears 333 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:18,320 are open to their prayer. 334 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:22,360 But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil. 335 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:27,200 What kind of communication do we think we're going to have if God's face is against us? 336 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:28,200 Right? 337 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:30,040 Have you ever had somebody's face against you? 338 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:32,320 Come on. 339 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:33,320 Come on. 340 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:34,400 You ever had somebody's face against you? 341 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:36,760 Somebody who does not like you at all. 342 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:38,160 Maybe somebody who hates you. 343 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:41,800 In fact, if you've ever had somebody's face against you, what kind of communication do 344 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:42,920 you get from them? 345 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:44,360 Is it pleasant? 346 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:45,760 Is it lovely? 347 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:48,160 Is it something you want on the regular? 348 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:49,160 Absolutely not. 349 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:50,160 Right? 350 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:54,340 First Peter tells us that his ears are not even open to the prayers if we're rejecting 351 00:13:54,340 --> 00:13:55,680 him in his way of living. 352 00:13:55,680 --> 00:13:56,680 Right? 353 00:13:56,680 --> 00:14:00,680 If we're just thrown up by Hail Mary prayer and hope that something sticks to the ceiling 354 00:14:00,680 --> 00:14:02,560 and see what might shake out. 355 00:14:02,560 --> 00:14:03,560 Right? 356 00:14:03,560 --> 00:14:06,640 Which I might get in a desperate moment and throw that thing up there. 357 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:07,640 Hear me. 358 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:13,680 I'm not Google God for the evil and those whose faces against he is a loving, patient, 359 00:14:13,680 --> 00:14:16,960 holy, righteous, merciful God. 360 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:19,960 But too many times we mistake God's mercy. 361 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:26,320 We mistake his patience for acceptance of the relationship as it is. 362 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:32,320 God hears and communicates on the regular with those who are close to him. 363 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:34,360 Those who see him as savior and Lord. 364 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:36,680 Now, just so you don't think I've cherry picked one scripture. 365 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:37,680 Right? 366 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:40,480 So you Bible theologians, you're saying he only picked one and just built up. 367 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:43,640 I'm going to give you some scripture to back up what I'm talking about this morning. 368 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:48,720 Psalm 66, 16 says this, come and listen all you who fear God and I will tell you what 369 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:50,040 he did for me. 370 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:53,760 For I cried out to him for help praising him as I spoke. 371 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:56,080 If I had not confessed, listen, there's the savior part. 372 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:57,080 Right? 373 00:14:57,080 --> 00:14:58,080 He's Lord and savior. 374 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:01,560 I confess the sin in my heart the Lord would not have listened. 375 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:02,780 But God did listen. 376 00:15:02,780 --> 00:15:04,800 He paid attention to my prayer. 377 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:09,560 Jesus God who did not ignore my prayer would draw his unfailing love from me. 378 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:12,160 Listen to the words of Isaiah to those who are religious. 379 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:13,160 Right? 380 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:15,320 But not righteous, not in relationship with God. 381 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:18,680 Isaiah 1, 10 says, listen to the Lord, you leaders of Sodom. 382 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:21,180 Listen to the law of our God, people of Gomorrah. 383 00:15:21,180 --> 00:15:24,440 What makes you think I want all your sacrifices? 384 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:25,440 Says the Lord. 385 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:29,240 I'm sick of your burnt offerings of rams and the fat of the fattened cattle. 386 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:32,760 I get no pleasure from the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. 387 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:36,440 When you come to worship me, who asks you to parade through my courts with all your 388 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:37,440 ceremony? 389 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:42,360 Stop bringing me your meaningless gifts and incense of your offering disgust me. 390 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:46,640 As for your celebrations of the new moon and the Sabbath and your special days for fasting, 391 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:48,240 they're all sinful and false. 392 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:50,320 I want no more of your pious meetings. 393 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:54,320 I hate your new moon celebrations and your annual festivals. 394 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:55,520 They're a burden to me. 395 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:57,040 I cannot stand them. 396 00:15:57,040 --> 00:16:00,400 When you lift up your hands in prayer, I will not look. 397 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:06,000 Though you offer many prayers, I will not listen for the hands are covered with blood 398 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:07,920 of the innocent victims. 399 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:09,400 He was talking to people. 400 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:13,520 He was talking to the Jewish people of that day who were living a lie. 401 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:17,280 They were doing the ceremony, but they were not following God. 402 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:22,560 If we want to hear God loud and clear, he's got to be Savior and Lord. 403 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:25,840 I'm going to drive it home with one last scripture in the New Testament. 404 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:30,480 Hebrews 10 26 says this, for we willfully sin after we receive the knowledge of truth, 405 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:35,440 there is no longer means of sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of 406 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:39,920 judgment and fiery indignation that will devour the adversaries. 407 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:45,520 Anyone who has rejected Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 408 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:50,720 Of how much worse punishment do you suppose will he be thought worthy who has trampled 409 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:54,600 the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, 410 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:57,720 a common thing and insulted the Spirit of grace? 411 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:01,920 For we know in him vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord. 412 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:04,600 And again the Lord will judge his people. 413 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:10,320 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God. 414 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:12,100 God wants to speak to us. 415 00:17:12,100 --> 00:17:13,920 He wants to speak to his children. 416 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:16,480 He wants to bless us in our lives. 417 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:19,280 He wants us to hear him loud and clear. 418 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:21,800 We got to get on the right frequency. 419 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:23,440 We got to stay tuned in. 420 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:28,280 We got to be in the right place on God's spiritual down. 421 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:31,880 And that starts with Savior and Lord. 422 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:35,640 Savior means that I have recognized that I am sinful and I am lost without him and I 423 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:38,280 am separated from God without him. 424 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:44,640 And the only way to God, the only way to hear him is that I say God I confess this, I know 425 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:49,280 this of me and I need you Jesus to be the sacrifice for my sins. 426 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:50,280 Right? 427 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:51,360 That is Savior. 428 00:17:51,360 --> 00:17:54,320 Lord of my life means that he is first. 429 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:55,320 He is first. 430 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:58,560 I dethrone me and I enthrone him. 431 00:17:58,560 --> 00:17:59,560 Right? 432 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:03,120 I dethrone me and I enthrone him. 433 00:18:03,120 --> 00:18:06,080 That is what it means for somebody to be Lord of your life. 434 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:07,080 Right? 435 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:08,080 That is what it is. 436 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:09,680 That is why Dixie doesn't call me Lord. 437 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:10,680 Alright? 438 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:11,680 My wife does not call me Lord. 439 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:12,680 She never will. 440 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:13,680 Alright? 441 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:14,680 Amen? 442 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:17,680 I thought I would get some amen from the ladies from that one. 443 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:18,680 Alright? 444 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:19,680 Come on. 445 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:21,040 It is Lord. 446 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:23,720 If he is Savior and Lord we are tuned in. 447 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:24,720 We are in the right position. 448 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:28,080 You think man you are preaching hard going into the New Year. 449 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:29,080 No I am not. 450 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:31,600 I am telling you straight what God's word says. 451 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:32,600 Right? 452 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:38,680 If he is Savior, if he is Lord it is not going to be a walkie talkie relationship of. 453 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:39,680 Right? 454 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:44,680 We are going to begin to hear. 455 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:45,680 It positions us. 456 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:46,680 It positions us. 457 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:47,680 Say number 2. 458 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:48,680 Number 2. 459 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:49,680 Alright. 460 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:50,680 Second one. 461 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:55,880 It is God speaks loud and clear according to his will. 462 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:57,560 God speaks loud and clear according to his will. 463 00:18:57,560 --> 00:18:58,560 You might want to write that down. 464 00:18:58,560 --> 00:18:59,560 Right? 465 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:05,480 If we want to tune into what God is saying to us we tune into God's will and not ours. 466 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:11,040 If we really want to hear God loud and clear we pray according to his will and not ours. 467 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:12,880 We look for, we pray what? 468 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:15,900 For the sovereign will of God and not our own. 469 00:19:15,900 --> 00:19:19,360 We pray for God's good pleasure and not for our own good pleasure. 470 00:19:19,360 --> 00:19:23,400 We pray for God's instruction and his bias and not mine. 471 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:24,400 Right? 472 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:25,400 That is what it means. 473 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:26,960 We really want to tune into God. 474 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:29,040 We start to pray according to his will. 475 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:34,140 In fact praying according to his will should not only be a mindset but it should change 476 00:19:34,140 --> 00:19:35,140 how we pray. 477 00:19:35,140 --> 00:19:36,880 It should change how we pray. 478 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:42,240 If we pray according to his will we will drop, tell me what I need, what I want you to know. 479 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:43,240 Right? 480 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:44,240 We get into prayer. 481 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:46,180 Tell me what I want to know God. 482 00:19:46,180 --> 00:19:48,320 Just please tell me what I want to know. 483 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:52,320 It changes from that to what do you want me to know. 484 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:54,540 There's a difference between the two. 485 00:19:54,540 --> 00:19:56,560 There's a big difference between the two. 486 00:19:56,560 --> 00:20:00,560 It's a big difference if I come and tell you what I want and let's see what you can do 487 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:01,560 about it for me. 488 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:02,560 Right? 489 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:03,560 We do that with God. 490 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:04,560 Right? 491 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:07,380 I come and tell them what I want and let's see what you can do about that for me God. 492 00:20:07,380 --> 00:20:10,780 There's a big difference between that and me coming and saying Lord this is what's happening 493 00:20:10,780 --> 00:20:11,780 in my life. 494 00:20:11,780 --> 00:20:13,460 Tell me what you want me to do. 495 00:20:13,460 --> 00:20:15,520 What's your will in the middle of this? 496 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:20,040 What, you know, because I can come with all kinds of requests and ask God to do all kinds 497 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:23,080 of things but I should be coming with the requests and saying God what do you want me 498 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:24,080 to do? 499 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:25,080 There's a huge difference. 500 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:26,080 Right? 501 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:30,240 If I tell you to come fix my problem versus here's my problem please tell me what to do 502 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:31,240 about my problem. 503 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:32,240 Right? 504 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:36,480 Way too often we come to God and we tell him the problem and we should. 505 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:37,480 Right? 506 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:39,680 But then I want to tell him how to fix it. 507 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:42,820 Lord, you put this person in my life. 508 00:20:42,820 --> 00:20:45,800 You know this person is a sandpaper person in my life. 509 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:48,040 Ever have a sandpaper person in your life? 510 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:49,040 Come on. 511 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:50,040 I have. 512 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:51,040 Alright? 513 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:52,280 They're sandpaper in my life Lord. 514 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:54,080 Could you just smooth them out a little bit? 515 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:59,680 God, hey anybody ever pray, Lord could you just relocate them somewhere else? 516 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:02,380 Colorado is lovely this time of year. 517 00:21:02,380 --> 00:21:04,160 Could you just move them God? 518 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:05,160 Right? 519 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:06,920 Glory to God for their benefit of course. 520 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:07,920 Right? 521 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:11,240 Could you just move them a little God? 522 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:12,240 We do that right? 523 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:16,240 We come and we ask God about the problem and then we say Lord, Lord let me tell you what 524 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:18,240 would be really good. 525 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:21,240 This would be awesome for me anyway. 526 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:22,240 Right? 527 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:24,200 Or I got a financial need. 528 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:28,240 Lord, you know if I open my door and there's a big bucket of cash in front that would be 529 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:29,240 awesome. 530 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:30,240 Right? 531 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:31,240 Could you just send somebody by Lord? 532 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:32,240 How many have had that happen? 533 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:33,240 Right? 534 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:35,500 Just drop off a big bucket of cash in your doorway. 535 00:21:35,500 --> 00:21:38,240 If you have that happen let me know because I haven't. 536 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:39,240 Right? 537 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:44,080 If you don't pray and say God this is the problem and I want your will to be done on 538 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,280 this, what do you want me to do with this? 539 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:48,960 Sometimes I think we don't do that because God might say well you know that sandpaper 540 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:49,960 person in your life? 541 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:54,680 I want you just to love them a little bit more than you would somebody else. 542 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:56,160 Right? 543 00:21:56,160 --> 00:22:01,640 Or maybe God I need more cash in my life and Jesus saying you know Sheetz is hiring right 544 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:02,640 down the road. 545 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:03,640 You know? 546 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:06,640 Sometimes we don't want to hear what he has to say. 547 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:11,040 It's kind of like taking your car to the garage to get fixed and then you walking in the garage 548 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:13,120 and telling the mechanic how to fix it. 549 00:22:13,120 --> 00:22:17,960 That's really what it's like versus going in and saying hey my car's got a problem can 550 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:21,600 you tell me what we got you know what I what I got to do about it or what you can do about 551 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:22,600 it. 552 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:23,600 Right? 553 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:24,600 There's a big difference. 554 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:31,840 Life shifts in our prayer life if we're asking God what the will His will is and we talk 555 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:34,200 and listen you got to talk to God about the thing. 556 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:35,200 Right? 557 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:36,400 Because we all got things. 558 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:37,400 You got to give them the thing. 559 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:39,400 That's actually scriptural right the Lord's Prayer. 560 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:40,960 You come and ask for your daily bread. 561 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:45,600 This is a word of God says when did when the disciples asked Jesus how to pray and he began 562 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:47,520 to do the Lord's Prayer with them. 563 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:49,260 We asked for daily bread. 564 00:22:49,260 --> 00:22:50,800 We bring the thing to God. 565 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:51,800 Right? 566 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:54,680 But it also says your kingdom come and your will be done. 567 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:56,680 So we got to bring the thing. 568 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:58,300 Say bring the thing. 569 00:22:58,300 --> 00:23:04,400 Bring the thing to God and then you got to say hey God what's your will about this thing. 570 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:06,960 What do you want me to do about this thing. 571 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:08,840 What are you thinking about this thing. 572 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:12,040 How should I handle this thing. 573 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:14,440 Instead of saying God just fix the thing. 574 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:15,560 Right? 575 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:18,280 Your kingdom come your will be done. 576 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:25,560 We ask God and we hear from God when we do this because God always talks His will. 577 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:27,600 He's always speaking about His will. 578 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:29,320 He doesn't speak about my will. 579 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:30,320 Thank God. 580 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:31,320 Right? 581 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:32,680 He speaks His will. 582 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:37,720 He speaks what He's talking about and we should count on that because God has all knowledge. 583 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:38,800 Right? 584 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:40,640 He can see all things. 585 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:44,840 If I got you up right now and told you I won't do this because there's liability issues but 586 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:48,400 if I got you all up and told you to stand on the chair spin around your chair and tell 587 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,280 me everything you see you all could describe what's in this room. 588 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:52,840 How many know you're not going to see beyond that. 589 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:53,840 Right? 590 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:55,320 That's all the further you can see. 591 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:58,640 You might think you're very detailed and you can see a lot of things but you can't see 592 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:00,240 all that far. 593 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:01,640 He sees the whole way. 594 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:04,440 The Holy Spirit knows what's going to happen tomorrow. 595 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:05,440 He knows. 596 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,160 He knows the Father and the Son. 597 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:09,160 They know. 598 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:10,720 They know all things. 599 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:15,440 So when I come to God and God's speaking I need to say God what's your will. 600 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:16,440 Right? 601 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:20,520 Romans 12.1 says I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that you present your 602 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:26,320 bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God which is your reasonable service. 603 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:29,480 I give Him my body for His purposes. 604 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:31,920 How many know your brain is included with your body. 605 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:32,920 Right? 606 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:34,480 Nobody's walking around with their brain over here. 607 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:35,880 I hope not anyway. 608 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:36,880 Right? 609 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:37,880 It's in your body. 610 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:38,880 I give to God. 611 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,320 When you come to prayer you've given yourself to God. 612 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,520 I come and sacrifice to God. 613 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:46,520 And look what the next verse says then. 614 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:50,000 It says do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your 615 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:56,240 mind that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect what? 616 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:58,040 Will of God. 617 00:24:58,040 --> 00:24:59,960 Right? 618 00:24:59,960 --> 00:25:02,480 God's will instead of mine. 619 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:03,840 You will hear from Him. 620 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:07,760 One of my favorite verses is Proverbs 3, 5 and 6. 621 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:10,640 Trust in the Lord with all your heart lean not on your own understanding. 622 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:14,280 In all your ways acknowledge Him and He'll direct your path. 623 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:16,400 That is His will. 624 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:18,240 I'm going to look for His will. 625 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:19,240 Right? 626 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:20,240 Amen. 627 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:25,440 I think hearing God's will is a little bit like flying a commercial airliner. 628 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,120 Not that I've ever done that. 629 00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:30,320 But it's a little bit like flying a commercial airliner. 630 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:33,240 I don't know if you've ever got into a commercial airliner where there's hundreds of people 631 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:35,320 that ride on that plane. 632 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:38,620 And I've had the privilege a couple of times of the door being open right into the cockpit. 633 00:25:38,620 --> 00:25:40,520 And what do you see when you look in that cockpit? 634 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:41,520 Right? 635 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:42,520 There's switches. 636 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:44,480 There's 5,000 switches knobs in there. 637 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:47,440 There's instrumentation of all kind inside there. 638 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:48,440 There's screens. 639 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:49,440 Right? 640 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:51,160 There's communication devices all kind. 641 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:53,160 Do you know what that pilot does not do? 642 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:58,400 He does not get in that plane on a Saturday morning and they fill the plane up and he 643 00:25:58,400 --> 00:25:59,400 says, you know what? 644 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,320 I'm just really tired of people in the control tower. 645 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:02,320 I've had it. 646 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:03,320 All right? 647 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:04,320 I'm not talking to them today. 648 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:05,320 Click. 649 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:06,320 Shut the radio off. 650 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:07,320 Right? 651 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,960 You know, I'm sick of all these instruments blinking at me all the time and telling me 652 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:10,960 where I'm at. 653 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:12,560 I'm just shutting all that off too today. 654 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:13,560 Right? 655 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:14,560 I'm just doing this. 656 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:16,200 I've been piloted for a long time. 657 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:20,320 I've been driving this plane around back and forth right from Florida back to Harrisburg. 658 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:21,920 I've done this a hundred times. 659 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:25,800 I think I'm just going to shut all that off and I'm just going to wing it today. 660 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:26,800 No pun intended. 661 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:27,800 Well, a little bit. 662 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:28,800 All right? 663 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:30,800 I'm just going to wing it today. 664 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:32,280 I'm going to make it happen today. 665 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:33,280 Right? 666 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:34,280 I got my coffee. 667 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:35,280 I'm going to make it happen today. 668 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,080 They don't do that. 669 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:39,600 They're talking to the control tower. 670 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:42,320 They're saying, when can I take off? 671 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,160 In what order do I take off? 672 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:45,940 They're checking when they get in the air. 673 00:26:45,940 --> 00:26:48,720 They may not even have any visibility when they get in the air. 674 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:50,040 They're checking their instruments. 675 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:51,040 Right? 676 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:57,280 And then they're waiting for the control tower to tell them what ceiling or what altitude 677 00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:02,520 they're going to fly at today, whether it's 25,000 or 35,000 or somewhere in between. 678 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:06,360 They're listening for all of that going on and they listen for when they're going to 679 00:27:06,360 --> 00:27:08,600 land and what order they're going to land in. 680 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:12,320 And from beginning to end with that flight, they're depending on the one that they're 681 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,080 speaking to. 682 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:15,620 They're part of the equation. 683 00:27:15,620 --> 00:27:20,040 They got to walk it out and work it out, but they're listening. 684 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:23,320 That's what it is to follow God's will. 685 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,360 If you follow His will, He'll tell you when to take off. 686 00:27:26,360 --> 00:27:27,760 He'll tell you when to land. 687 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:29,800 He'll tell you what altitude you should fly at. 688 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,440 He'll tell you what speed you should be flying at. 689 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:33,440 He'll tell you. 690 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,840 But you got to pray according to His will. 691 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:37,840 You can't come in. 692 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,480 We cannot come in and say, God, here's my problem. 693 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,480 Now let me tell you what I think. 694 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:43,480 Amen? 695 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:44,480 Amen? 696 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:45,480 I'm going to ask you to stand. 697 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:52,480 Thank you for tuning in to this message from LifeHouse Church. 698 00:27:52,480 --> 00:28:01,880 We pray that you were impacted powerfully by this message. 699 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:06,000 If you have been personally affected by our ministry and you would like to partner with 700 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:14,720 us as we love God, love people every day, visit our website at www.LifeHouseCOG.com.