Thank you for listening to this message from
Lifehouse Church. Good to have you here this
morning. Thank you for being at LifeHouse, coming
to worship God. You sounded amazing, by the way.
Every single week we hear you singing praises
to God, and I know that's sweet savor in His
ears, and we love to hear it as well. And this
morning, I'm going to jump right into the message.
And if you got your Bibles and or your notebooks,
you can go ahead and begin to turn. If you've
got your Bibles and your notebooks, you can go
ahead and turn this morning to Luke chapter 5.
Luke chapter 5, verse 1. And while we're turning,
we're going to pretend that didn't happen this
morning. Let me start off with a question. Is
there anyone out there who enjoys an interruption?
Our sound guys are awesome, all right? Our tech
guys. Does anybody like to be interrupted? If
you're out there, raise your hand if you like
getting interrupted. About, yeah, one of you.
Okay, right? You don't like to get it? All one
of you. You know, none of us enjoy getting an
interruption. We might tolerate it, right? We
kind of tolerate interruptions. Once, maybe twice.
Even three times, right? And I know there's a
lot of parents in here with small children who
are like, you don't understand. That is my way
of life, is interruptions. But how many of you
know it's a little different when an adult interrupts
you, right? And if an adult begins to interrupt
you in some way, you're like, okay, all right.
The first time, you're like, I'm all right. I'm
okay. But how many know about the fifth interruption?
You're like, I'm going to tackle you right now.
All right. I will tackle you. I will put you
down, and we're going to have a talk right now.
Right? And if there's a person who interrupts
us on the regular, if you've got somebody that
kind of regularly does that, and you see them
in a grocery store, what do you do? You go hide
in the ice cream aisle just so you don't have
to talk to them, right? You're just praying they
don't buy ice cream. You shoot down the aisle,
and you get out as quick as you can. And listen,
I can even take this a little bit further. If
you really want to find out what the effects
of being interrupted is all about and how it
can light people up and frustrate them, I want
you to try this out this week at home with somebody,
either while they're watching TV or actually,
particularly, if they're walking from you, away
from you, and they're going to another room.
until they get about two rooms away, and then
in a frantic moment go, hey, hey, come back,
come back, come back, and get them to come back.
And when they get back to you, just stop for
a few seconds and say, how far would you have
been if I wouldn't have called you back here?
And don't say another word, all right? How many
know you better duck, right? We don't like getting
interrupted. We don't like interrupted, interruptive
moments, right? Because it is so interruptive.
Right? Turn to somebody right now. Turn to somebody.
Look at the person beside you and say, don't
interrupt me. Just don't do it. Don't interrupt
me this morning, right? We don't like getting
interrupted. And interruptions can seem obnoxious.
They can seem irritating. They can seem frustrating.
They can even be downright aggravating. But many
times, it is the divine interruption that is
exactly what we need. to move us forward in life.
It is the divine interruption that can save our
lives, that can get our attention, and literally
shift the course of our lives, truly. And Jesus
uses divine interruption to move people all the
time from death to life. He really does. He will
interrupt you personally. He will interrupt you
corporately as a group of people. And He will
even interrupt you naturally. He will shake all
of heaven and earth. To turn your attention to
him with interruption. And how many know we don't
mind interruption so much if it's to save our
life? If I'm about to walk in front of a bus,
please feel free to interrupt me, okay? Stop
me. Grab my arm, yell my name, whatever you got.
Throw something at me, it doesn't matter what
it is, right? We don't mind those kind of interruptions.
And Jesus will personally interrupt us to keep
us from getting taken out. Jesus will personally
interrupt you. He'll get up close. He'll get
personal. He will get up in your business at
times. He will shake you down. He'll do what's
necessary because he loves us that much. He really
does. And he's not near as concerned about my
personal comfort or even my feelings in the moment.
I mean, we're all about feelings, right? He's
not all about our feelings in the moment. He's
more concerned about my eternal position, right?
He's more concerned about the eternal outcome
or even the temporary outcome in my life. And
he's very, very comfortable with turning up the
heat in my life to purify me, to draw out the
right elements in my life, to get me moving.
And he will do it. interruption. He'll do it.
He'll turn up the heat. A hundred years ago,
when I used to work in the elevator industry,
and it was about a hundred years ago, I used
to do something, and one of the tasks that I
used to do was part of is we would change the
cables on elevators. And they had these things
that, there's something called a shackle that
attaches to the elevator. And when you're putting
new cables in, you got to put the cable through
the shackle, bend the ends over, and then pull
it back in. This is how they do it old style.
And they did something in particular. Once you
pulled it back in, that wasn't an enough strength
to hold the entire weight of the elevator. So
what they did is they heated up a metal alloy.
And we would heat this metal alloy called babbit.
And it was funny because when you see this in
a chunk, right, it's just a chunk of metal that
you throw in a pot and you heat up. But when
you look at it, it's kind of dull and it's porous
and it doesn't look like much. And when you throw
it in that pot and you turn up the heat, right,
you interrupt its state, its solidified state,
and you turn the heat up. Something interesting
happens. It turns the most perfect silver you've
ever seen. Literally a reflective silver liquid.
But also at the same time, this material would
rise to the surface and it would turn black on
top of that silver metal that had liquefied.
And it was dross. It was garbage. And you would
have to take the garbage and take a ladle and
throw that off on the ground. And then you had
this... Perfect silver metal that was liquefied
and it had this red iridescent glow to it. And
that's what happens when Jesus interrupts us.
He'll come into your life. He will interrupt
you. He will turn up the heat in your life. And
all of a sudden, things begin to change. All
of a sudden, the sin in our life begins to come
to the surface, right? The black stuff comes
to the surface and it draws. But also when you
get that dross out. There's this perfect silver.
He begins to change things and purify us in our
lives. And in Luke chapter 5, which is where
we were going before we were so divinely interrupted
from the back. Those guys are awesome. They did
a great job. Give them a hand back there. Would
you do that? Come on. They do it every single
week. Luke chapter 5. Jesus is going to interrupt
several men at a place of employment. Actually,
their place of business. He's going to heat things
up. He's going to rock their world. and he's
going to mold them into something brand new.
Now, as we go into Luke chapter 5, I want you
to do something because sometimes we go into
scripture and we go to read a scripture. We just
read it and then we go to the next thing. I want
you just to picture in your mind. I know you
all got good imaginations out there, right? This
is just like kids club, you know, or uptown and
downtown. I want you to imagine a lake. I want
you to picture a lake in your mind. You can make
your lake look like any way you want, right?
I want you to picture a lake in your mind and
I want you to look down by the shoreline of the
lake and I want you to picture two boats there
and alongside of those two boats. maybe just
a little ways off, or a couple of fishermen,
about four of them, and they're cleaning nets.
They were out fishing all night and they're cleaning
nets and they're fishing. And then I want you
to see a man coming. It looks like the Son of
God. I want you to picture a man coming, and
behind him is a crowd following. This is the
scene in Luke chapter 5. How many of you see
it this morning? Come on. If you're listening
online, type it in the chat. I see it. Okay?
I want you to see it. Luke chapter 5 verse 1
says this. So it was, as the multitude pressed
about him to hear the word of God. And he stood
by the lake. This was Jesus. He was the guy walking
in. There was a crowd following him. The lake
of Gennesaret. And saw two boats standing by
the lake. But the fishermen had gone from them
and were washing their nets. And he got into
one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked
them to put out a little bit from the land. Simon
Peter. His brother Andrew, they're all been out
fishing all night long along with two other gentlemen.
They're out trying to make money. They're not
out fishing for pleasure. They're not out just
for a relaxing evening. They're out trying to
do business. They're trying to catch fish. This
is their livelihood. This is what puts food on
the table literally for them. And they just made
zero dollars that evening. How many love making
zero dollars and working all day long, right?
Zero dollars. They're cleaning their nets. They're
tired. They're frustrated. They've lost money
all night long, right? And now they're left with
nothing but cleaning a bunch of nets, cleaning
the boats, complaining a little bit, and going
home and trying to get some sleep, right? And
a man walks up to him on the shoreline as they're
cleaning their nets and the boats with a crowd
of people following. And he hops into Simon Peter's
boat and interrupts the whole thing, right? And
it's Jesus. And he says, Peter, I need you just
to put out a little bit from shore. I need to
talk to these people. And it'll work great if
you just get me out a little bit on this lake
shoreline. I can speak back at the people. I
need you just to go out just a little bit. Now,
let's be honest. Sometimes we look at Scripture
and we're thinking it's all holy and pure and
everybody's thinking wonderful thoughts. And
I think, I wonder what I could, if you could
read Peter's mind at that moment, I wonder what
he was thinking, right? I'm tired. I've worked
all night. How many know he might, that seemed
like, maybe seemed like a very irritating interruption
at the moment. This guy that he doesn't know
comes and hops in his boat, not sure what he
was thinking at this time. But Peter goes on
with it. He's cooperatively, maybe irritated
and cooperative all at the same time, right?
And he's thinking, I'm going to do this. don't
really want to do this. I want to go home and
get some sleep, but I'm going to go ahead and
do it anyway. I'm going to hop in the boat. And
I think Peter was thinking those things. And
maybe even, it's amazing he didn't say anything,
because if you read anything about Peter in scripture,
how many know Peter was the one that was always
speaking out, speaking up, hopping in and hopping
out, right? He was always the first guy doing
that. But Jesus isn't worried about Peter's weariness.
He's not worried about his frustration. He's
not even worried about his personality traits.
Jesus is concerned about Peter's soul. He's He's
concerned about Peter's future and the future
of the men that are with him and the crowd that
is there. Luke 5, 3 says this. Then he got into
one of the boats, which was Simon's. I'm rereading
3. And asked him to put out a little from the
land. And he sat down and taught the multitudes
from the boat. Then he stopped speaking. He said
to Simon, launch out into the deep and let your
nets for a catch. Now Jesus preaches for a while
and he tells Simon. Peter, let's launch out into
the deep. But Simon answered and said to him,
Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing.
Nothing. Right? Nevertheless, at your word, I
will let down the net. And when he had done this,
they caught a great number of fish, and their
net was breaking. So they signaled to their partners
in the other boat to come and help them. And
they came and fueled both boats so that they
began to sink. And when Simon Peter saw it, he
fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from
me, for I am a sinful man. Another gospel says
that they all left everything and followed Jesus.
Jesus steps on the scene with a divine interruption.
Simon Peter, Andrew, his brother, James, and
John, he heats them up. He astonishes them with
a miracle of fish. And then he begins to mold
them into something different. Fishermen of men.
He says, no more fishing for fishies, you guys.
You're going to fish for men. And they leave
all and follow him. And what started out as maybe
an annoying interruption on a very ordinary,
frustrating day. of Peter and these other men,
changes everything. And it's one very personal
divine interruption that can change our lives
and shift them as well. It can change everything.
This week, I had the privilege to sit down with
a couple. who God divinely interrupted in the
last couple weeks. And they began to tell me
their story. Now, it's their story to tell, so
I'm not going to tell it all to you this morning.
But as they begin to unfold from a year ago plus,
God unfolding this story and this interruption,
and all of a sudden it all culminated. God interrupts
them on a little local trip, a little local vacation,
and they get called into missionary work. God
calls them to launch and to be missionaries.
It's a divine interruption. Jesus will personally
interrupt us. And it might not be for something
as drastic as going to be a missionary or laying
down your business, right, and to go start something
new like Peter. But he will personally interrupt
us. And it's to bring the heat on us sometimes.
Sometimes he'll interrupt you just enough to
get you heated up. And all of a sudden, how many
know the drops will come to the surface? That's
what happened with Peter. Word of God says he
fell on his knees and he said, depart from me.
I am a sinful man. He got in the middle of this
divine interruption. He realized who was in the
boat. He realized this was the son of God. This
wasn't just some itinerant preacher. He realized
he was there. God will interrupt us sometimes
to get you in the right position. to get you
to the right place, to get you in the right situation.
He'll get you where he needs to get you. He will
personally and divinely interrupt us so that
we recognize who is in the boat with us. He'll
do it. He'll do it for you, and he'll do it for
me. Peter, he realized this, right? Jesus tells
him, I'm going to interrupt you, and then we're
going to go fishing for a little bit. So he tells
him to put out into the deep. He puts out in
the deep, and they get so many fish, they can't
even get him in the boat. He's in a boat with
a man who can command nature. And he realizes
what Philippians 4 .19 tells us, and God shall
supply your needs according to his riches, right,
in Christ Jesus. He really will. Jesus was personally
and divinely interrupting his life. And he receives
the revelation of who he is. And God will do
this so you understand that he's Lord. He will
interrupt you so you understand that he's Savior,
that he's provider, that he's the coming king.
He's the one with all the authority, right? The
word of God tells us that. He's the rock and
the shield. He'll do it. Turn to somebody right
now, tell them, he will personally interrupt
you. He will personally interrupt you. He'll
do it. He'll do it. And Jesus doesn't just interrupt
us personally. But Jesus also interrupts us corporately
as a group of people. He doesn't limit his interruptions
to just a personal level. He'll interrupt a village.
He'll interrupt a city. He'll interrupt a state.
He'll interrupt a nation if he needs to, to shift
and to change the village, the city, the state,
or the nation. And in Luke chapter 8, Jesus and
his disciples go across the Sea of Galilee, the
Word of God tells us, and land somewhere on a
hilly shore of the Gadarenes. And this location
that they land in... Landon is not a typical
Israelite place where they're ministering to.
It's not the normal Jewish crowd that they've
been ministering to. Because up until this point
in time, Jesus is ministering in places that
are surrounding where they're at. And people
that are in that area are traditional Jewish
people who understand the God of Abraham and
Isaac and Jacob and serving Jehovah. But now
they slide across. area in a boat, and they land
in an area that's more Syrian. And these are
Hellenistic Jews that are in this area. And these
Jews do not serve Jehovah. They worship in temples
that are two gods that are more of Greek mythology.
I've read on this somewhat, and the god Zeus
and Jupiter are some of the gods that they worship.
And they don't come with the sacrifices of the
traditional Jew of bringing a lamb to be sacrificed,
a spotless lamb. But they actually sacrifice
pigs. It was common in these temple practices.
And Jesus and his disciples cross this lake from
Galilee, right? The Lake of Galilee or the Sea
of Galilee for a divine and personal interruption
on a corporate level. It starts off personal.
but it shifts to corporate. It says this in Luke
8, 26. Then he sailed to the country of the Gadarenes,
which is opposite Galilee. And when he stepped
out on the land, there met him a certain man
from the city who had demons for a long time.
And he wore no clothes, nor did he live in a
house, but in the tombs. Quite the welcoming
committee, okay? A naked demon -possessed man
who lives in the tombs. How many know they didn't
put that on the brochure for the Gadarenes, all
right? And when he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell
down before him, and with a loud voice said,
What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of the
Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me,
for he had commanded the unclean spirit to come
out of the man. For it had often seized him,
and he was kept under guard, bound with chains
and shackles. And he broke the bonds and was
driven by the demon into the wilderness. Jesus
asked him, saying, What is your name? And he
said, Legion. because many demons have entered
him, and they begged him that he would not command
them to go away into the abyss. Now, up until
this point, Jesus is having a personal interaction
with this man, right? This person, this is a
deeply spiritual in nature kind of personal interruption
that takes place. It's pure demonic evil that
has taken this individual over, and he's now
standing face to face with Jesus along the shoreline.
And when Jesus asks his name, the demons speak
up and say, legion. There are many. And Jesus
is there to set this man free from this torment.
But this very divine personal interruption is
about to become a divine corporate interruption
very quickly. Verse 32 says, now the herd of
many swine were feeding there on the mountain.
So they begged him that he would permit them,
and this is the demon speaking, to enter them.
And he permitted them and the demons went out
of the man and entered the swine and the herd
ran violently down the steep place into the lake
and drowned. And when those who fed them saw
what had happened, they fled and told it in the
city and in the country. And then they went out
to see what happened. And Jesus... Now you would
think at this point. Now, this is an unusual
story in Scripture. You don't see a lot of this
in Scripture. This is an unusual story. But you
would think that the people that were in the
surrounding areas would come out and be deeply
curious about a man that they've seen out of
his mind and demon -possessed and living out
in the tombs, completely healed. You think they
would be astonished. You think that they would
come out and say, this is amazing. Who is this
man that spoke to him? And in moments, this man
is set free and is sane. even has clothes on,
right? You'd think that would take place. But
the fact was that the word of God says that they
were seized with fear and they wanted nothing
to do with Jesus. Because 37 says, when the whole
multitude of the surrounding region of the Gadarenes
asked him to depart from them and they were seized
with great fear and he, Jesus, got in the boat
and returned. Jesus comes to an area called the
Gadarenes and it's on the southeast side of the
Sea of Galilee and Jesus interrupts this community.
with one salvation for one man, right? And the
whole community should have responded in a different
way. It should have been a divine interruption
for this man personally, and honestly, for this
whole community. But this pagan society decides,
who's steeped in mythology, that they don't want
anything to do with Jesus. They look right past
the man, right, who is healed, and all they can
see is the pigs that had drowned in the sea.
All they can see is the profits because people
sold these pigs for a profit to sacrifice in
the temples. All they could see was money going
up in smoke. And they could care less about this
man that was tormented in the wilderness. And
I got a little curious about this guy. And the
word of God doesn't tell us a lot about it. And
all we can do is kind of conjecture. And when
I conjecture something, I'll let you know because
it doesn't say in God's word. But I did read
in ancient cultures where sometimes somebody
that was in the outskirts like that, that was
demon possessed, they were called scapegoats.
And what it was is in these pagan societies,
sometimes what would happen is that the witch
doctors and those who were in these pagan societies
would pick an individual in the community and
they would literally kind of transfer the demonic
activity onto this one person to keep the community
free. And they would literally, this person would
be driven through town or forced through town.
They would beat him with green rods. They would
throw stones at them. And then they would banish
him outside of the city. And they were this scapegoat
for all the evil to be placed on this one person.
We don't know if that's who this individual was,
but it kind of seems like it, right? I don't
know. Jesus delivers this man. He's free. Somebody
comes on their shore to interrupt everything
that could set them all free, and they rejected
them and sent them away. Sent them back across
the Sea of Galilee. What am I saying? Jesus will
interrupt you personally, and he will interrupt
you corporately. And he's there for the same
reason. Both times. It's because he loves you.
It's because he'll move heaven and earth. He
will interrupt somebody personally, and he will
interrupt the whole group corporately. He went
there for that one man. I think Jesus knew that
culture would reject him. He went there for one
guy who was living in the tombs that nobody cared
about, and he went there and set that individual
free. God interrupts us. Jesus interrupts us.
The Holy Spirit interrupts us so that we understand
and know that God will move heaven and he will
move earth to reach us. Jesus did move all of
heaven and all of earth to reach us. Amen? Worship
team, if you'd come. This is Palm Sunday, and
you might have come into the house thinking,
well, he's going to preach on Palm Sunday. I'm
just going to touch on it at the end. Because
Palm Sunday was also a divine interruption. It
really was. The days leading up to Jesus' crucifixion
were filled with divine interruptions. Jesus...
personally and corporately began to interrupt
what was taking place. And if you know the scene
going up to the crucifixion and even Palm Sunday,
what takes place leading up to that is a man
named Lazarus dies, and he's friends with Jesus.
And Jesus shows up four days late to the funeral.
He dies. They bury him. He comes. Lazarus is
four days dead. Jesus shows up, calls Lazarus'
name, and pulls him from the tomb. He comes back
to life. Tell me that's an amazing thing, right?
Yeah, come on. And the Jews in a nearby city
of Jerusalem, they hear about this. And they
hear about this interruption that took place.
And the Jews there, they know a couple things
about Jesus. One, they know he just raised a
guy from the dead. Two, they've heard how he's
healed others and how the diseases have to flee
at his word. They hear about a man who can speak
to nature and elements, right? And they have
to listen. A man who spoke to Simon Peter and
fish jump into the boat practically. They jump
into the net. They hear about this. And the Jews
in that area under Roman rule are thinking, here's
our king. Here's the one who has all the power.
Here's the one who can get us out from underneath
Roman rule and the brutality of Rome. And there's
an interruption. And Jesus decides to go into
Jerusalem. This is part of leading up to what
he's doing. And he rides in on a donkey, and
the Jewish people in that city come out, and
they begin to lay palm branches, and they begin
to throw their clothes down, and they begin to
shout to their next king, who they think is going
to be their next king, the one who's going to
set them free. And there's disruption going on.
The Romans, the guards, they hear all this. They
hear these Jewish people yelling about this new
king, and that was illegal. Only Caesar could
be called king. And they're getting ready for
an uprise. The Pharisees and the scribes, the
hypocrisy of the religious leaders of that day,
they are jealous of Jesus getting all the attention.
Jesus has been confronting them for years on
their hypocrisy. And they're in this city plotting
and scheming how they're going to kill Jesus
and take him out. And I can see Jesus' disciples
thinking, Jesus, this is a bad idea. Let's not
go to Jerusalem. Let's go somewhere else and
minister. They're interrupted. They know that
this is dangerous. They know what they're walking
into. And they know that in a few days, right,
Jesus is the only one that knows in a few days
that he's going to unfold the plan for mankind.
It's divine interruption. I'm going to ask you
to stand this morning. As Jesus comes into the
city, He knows that it's only going to be a few
days until he goes to a Roman cross, that he
dies, that he's buried in a tomb, and three days
later, he would do what no one else has done.
He would raise himself to life. By the power
of God, he would raise out of the grave to create
the biggest divine interruption of all of time.
All this led up to Jesus going to the cross,
coming out of the grave, so that he could interrupt
all of time, and so that we, could connect back
to God. So we could be forgiven of sin. So we
could know a God that we formerly did not know
other than from a distance. I'm here to tell
you, Jesus has no problem with divine interruption.
He wants to heal and make those whole, just like
he did for the demonic of Gadara, right? He wants,
just like Peter, he wants to call some of you
into a new place and a new space. He wants you
to come to faith. He wants you to see the sin
in your life and to remove that sin. He wants
to get you in the right location, in the right
station, and in the right vocation. He wants
you engaged in mission, and he'll interrupt.
He'll do it. He doesn't want you to be the scapegoat.
He doesn't want you the one that's tormented
outside the city by Satan himself. He doesn't
want that. He'll interrupt personally. You interrupt.
I'm going to ask you to bow your heads as they
begin to softly play. I'm going to ask you to
do something this morning. I'm going to ask you
to pray a dangerous prayer. Dangerous prayer.
I want you to pray, and only do this if you mean
it, but I want you to pray, Lord, interrupt me.
Interrupt my life. This is a dangerous prayer.
I'm going to be honest with you. Because he'll
do it. And it might seem small. Somebody on the
outside may never notice, but it will shift your
life. It will change you. And it might be that
you're in a Y in the road somewhere in your life
right now. And God wants to take you from the
left to the right or from the right to the left.
And if you pray for a divine interruption, he
may just shift that. It might change. He might
turn you. Some of you, he might change your vocation,
your profession. He might change the direction
that you're heading in. He may give you a new
avenue that you've never seen. But some of you,
he'll divinely interrupt and to the surface will
rise the dross. will rise the blackness. It's
in the interruption where the sin comes to the
surface and you're going to have to confess and
repent and let go of it and choose a new way.
But it happens in the divine interruption. Jesus
rode into Jerusalem to be crucified so you could
be divinely interrupted. If you're in the house,
and I want every head bowed still and every eye
closed. If you're in the house this morning and
you don't know Jesus as Lord and Savior, today
you can. This is the day. If you want to know
the one I'm talking about who loves you more
than you'll ever know, the one who literally
interrupted heaven and earth just for you. so
that you could be in relationship with them,
so your sins could be washed clean. If you're
in the house this morning and that's you and
you want to be saved today, I'm going to ask
you to do one thing and one thing only. I want
you to lift your hand, put it up, and put it
right back down. Thank you for your obedience.
Thank you. The Word of God says this very simply.
All you have to do is ask and believe, right?
So first we believe. that Jesus is who he said
he is. And if you believe that in your heart,
the word of God says that you can be saved. So
you believe first, and then you confess him as
Lord. And that means you make him Lord in your
life. And you say, Lord, come into my life, wash
me clean of all the mess that's in my life. I
want to be whole. I want to be rooted in you.
Lord, I want to follow you all the days of my
life. And Lord, I want to be in relationship
with you here, now, and one day when I pass from
this life to the next. I want heaven to be my
destination and not hell. So Jesus, come into
my life. Just pray that prayer very simply and
in your own words. And the word of God says that
if you believe, confess, and repent, which means
to turn from the way you're going and follow
him, you will be saved. Pray that in your own
words. So there's two prayers going right now.
And as I pray, those who are asking for salvation,
those who want to meet with Jesus. Just pray
that. Just say, Lord, come into my life. I believe
in you. I trust in you. I confess right now that
I need you. I need you to remove my sin. I need
you in my life. I need to follow you. Confess
that right now. And for the rest of you who do
know Jesus, we're going to get ready to pray
the dangerous prayer. Interrupt me. Father, we
come to you today. I thank you for your great
mercy and your love, your peace and your presence.
And God, right now, Lord, I ask, God, that you
would just come down and minister to your people.
And Lord, as they begin to say a dangerous thing,
Lord, as they begin to do something, Lord, that
could shift their lives, as they ask you to interrupt,
God, I pray that you'll meet them. And it could
be in a still, small voice. It might be lightning.
It might be thunder up the line. I don't know
what it's going to be, but interrupt. God, shift
things. In Jesus' name, I pray right now over
the house, Lord, that there are people, Lord,
asking you to interrupt their lives. Interrupt.
For divine purposes, for divine reasons. Lord,
I ask this in Jesus' name. And amen. I want you
to look at me. Felt this prompting in my spirit.
Some of you just prayed that prayer. Get ready.
There are a few in this house. I don't think
there's a lot, but there's a few in this house.
He's going to speak something to you, and it's
going to require a big change. He'll speak it.
You're going to have to be obedient in doing
it. That's what faith is, right? God speaks it.
You step. He meets you. And it can be radical,
and I'm not going to even tell you it's going
to be easy. Sometimes following Jesus isn't an
easy thing. But it will be life to you. He'll
be life to you, okay? That's a word, you can
write it down. I tell people when you get a word,
that's not me, that's from the throne room of
grace. When you get a word, you need to write
it down. If you felt that prompting in your spirit
that it's you, write down what I said, because
he'll do it. Not my word, it's his. Amen. Thank
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