1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,580 Let's read this morning Luke's Gospel 8 chapters look at verse 40 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:12,320 And it came to pass that when Jesus was returned the people gladly received him for they were all waiting for him 3 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:19,000 Now that right there in itself would would probably be suffice if we were to just 4 00:00:19,660 --> 00:00:26,520 Talk about they were all waiting for him. Amen and behold there came a man named J iris and 5 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:34,280 He was a ruler of the synagogue and he fell down at Jesus feet and besought him that he would come into his house 6 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:39,860 For he had one only daughter about 12 years of age and she lay dying 7 00:00:40,860 --> 00:00:43,860 But as he went the people thronged him 8 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:45,640 and 9 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:51,120 A woman having an issue of blood 12 years which had spent all her living upon physicians 10 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:58,800 And neither could be healed of any came behind him and touched the border of his garment and immediately her issue of blood 11 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:01,680 staunched or stopped 12 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:07,160 Jesus said who touched me when all denied Peter and they that were with him said 13 00:01:07,740 --> 00:01:12,900 Master the multitude thronged thee and pressed thee and sayest thou who touched me 14 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:16,680 And Jesus said somebody had touched me for I 15 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:20,680 perceived that virtue is going out of me and 16 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:26,600 When the woman saw that she was not hid she came trembling and fell down before him 17 00:01:27,320 --> 00:01:32,960 She declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him and how she had 18 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:41,160 How she was healed immediately and he said unto her daughter be of good comfort thy faith hath made thee whole go in peace 19 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:45,980 And while he yet spake there cometh one from the ruler of the synagogue's house saying to him 20 00:01:45,980 --> 00:01:47,980 Thy daughter is dead 21 00:01:48,700 --> 00:01:50,540 Trouble not the master 22 00:01:50,540 --> 00:01:53,900 But when Jesus heard it he answered him saying 23 00:01:54,620 --> 00:01:55,980 fear not 24 00:01:55,980 --> 00:01:57,820 believe only 25 00:01:57,820 --> 00:01:59,820 She shall be made whole 26 00:02:01,700 --> 00:02:07,700 Just a simple thought this morning I'll speak to us on the on the thought of living in the holding pattern 27 00:02:08,900 --> 00:02:12,840 Living in the holding pattern. I don't know what the times over the years 28 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:19,060 I have preached from this particular passage. It's just so rich just like so many of the others 29 00:02:19,060 --> 00:02:22,340 I think we never exhaust the scripture 30 00:02:22,340 --> 00:02:29,020 I think we could read this again next week and the Lord enlighten us on something else and and we preach totally something different 31 00:02:29,020 --> 00:02:32,940 I know it's multiple times and every time I read it. I think about 32 00:02:33,780 --> 00:02:36,500 J-Iris been in a condition of double jeopardy 33 00:02:36,500 --> 00:02:44,220 With this issue that he's having with his daughter and now the help that was on its way has been delayed has been stopped 34 00:02:44,220 --> 00:02:46,900 And then from that he receives the worst news possible 35 00:02:47,860 --> 00:02:54,780 Your daughter is dead trouble not the master, but I I'm so grateful that the master was already troubled and 36 00:02:55,340 --> 00:02:58,580 He was already in in route if you will 37 00:02:58,580 --> 00:03:04,300 He was already in progress going to meet his need and I'm so grateful that he continued on his way 38 00:03:04,300 --> 00:03:12,140 Amen, but this thought living in the holding pattern father. I love you today. I thank you for your goodness and your mercy 39 00:03:12,140 --> 00:03:17,180 I thank you for your word because it is life to us. It's enrichment to our souls Lord 40 00:03:17,180 --> 00:03:22,620 It's it's the enablement of the tomorrows that we have in our life that we can walk in your word 41 00:03:22,820 --> 00:03:26,060 Or your word is hope help and your word is life 42 00:03:26,500 --> 00:03:30,740 Lord may we that have ears to hear Lord may it penetrate into our? 43 00:03:30,740 --> 00:03:37,180 Situations of life Lord. I know that you've you put this on me. I know you've burdened my heart with it 44 00:03:37,180 --> 00:03:39,980 I know you've stirred me and the unction is here to preach it 45 00:03:39,980 --> 00:03:45,460 And so father I ask that you would touch us today each of us as I am included 46 00:03:45,740 --> 00:03:52,140 Lord touch us today that we may hear and receive of your heart and what the spirit's saying to the church in Christ's name the 47 00:03:52,140 --> 00:03:53,900 church said 48 00:03:53,900 --> 00:03:57,020 Amen, I don't know if you've been aware. There's there's 49 00:03:57,020 --> 00:04:00,580 Seems like sister Kathy and I as we try to watch television 50 00:04:00,580 --> 00:04:07,060 We have we have noticed that I don't know how much dumber commercials can get if that's a 51 00:04:07,580 --> 00:04:11,220 If you're an English teacher, and I just butchered the Kings again. Just forgive me 52 00:04:12,140 --> 00:04:14,140 But I don't know how much dumber 53 00:04:15,700 --> 00:04:17,700 commercials can get 54 00:04:18,540 --> 00:04:22,540 It just baffles my mind. I thought really I mean was that all about you know 55 00:04:22,540 --> 00:04:27,260 But there's one about this new car deal carvana 56 00:04:29,740 --> 00:04:30,460 And 57 00:04:30,460 --> 00:04:37,020 During the commercial they're they're trying to the whole point is she's they're gonna sell their van this man and his wife 58 00:04:37,020 --> 00:04:42,180 They're gonna sell their silver minivan and so she's gonna sell it on carvana 59 00:04:42,180 --> 00:04:49,340 And so they're watching carvana for the best rate and every time he thinks the money's right. She says hold 60 00:04:49,340 --> 00:04:52,340 Huh? Now how many have seen that one? 61 00:04:52,860 --> 00:04:57,700 Then about six different times. He's he's at the grill honey. It's up to boy. Hold 62 00:04:58,700 --> 00:05:02,380 You know and he keeps going and she gets more boisterous with her. Oh 63 00:05:03,420 --> 00:05:06,540 Right, and then in the middle of the night she hits the button and 64 00:05:07,180 --> 00:05:11,300 Shouts she sold it and he jumps up in the bed. What what what she said? I just sold it 65 00:05:13,500 --> 00:05:15,500 The whole point of the matter is to hold 66 00:05:15,500 --> 00:05:17,980 The whole point of the matter is to hold 67 00:05:19,220 --> 00:05:25,540 When we stop and think about life sometimes we we are placed in what's known as a holding pattern 68 00:05:26,540 --> 00:05:32,700 Think about this by definition. It's the state or period of no progress or 69 00:05:33,300 --> 00:05:39,820 Change have you ever witnessed things in your life situations in your life where you've been put on hold 70 00:05:40,340 --> 00:05:44,420 And you're ready to move forward and you keep hearing the Spirit of the Lord say hold 71 00:05:44,420 --> 00:05:47,740 Not yet. It's not time to move. It's not time to proceed forward 72 00:05:47,740 --> 00:05:54,460 It's it's time to hold when I think about different times and periods over our history 73 00:05:55,140 --> 00:06:01,260 during the 1933 inaugural address from President Franklin Roosevelt that that 74 00:06:02,220 --> 00:06:08,020 Kindly brought about an acclaim of one famous sentence and statement come out of that where he declared 75 00:06:08,020 --> 00:06:12,060 There's nothing to fear but fear itself as he's trying to 76 00:06:12,060 --> 00:06:17,060 Calm a nation in the throes or in the clutches of a great depression 77 00:06:17,380 --> 00:06:22,180 and he's trying to stimulate them to have some hope and trying to 78 00:06:22,700 --> 00:06:26,180 Instill in them that there is a future a brighter future 79 00:06:26,180 --> 00:06:32,700 It's hard to get a hold of that when you see a nation in a holding pattern of that nature 80 00:06:33,020 --> 00:06:39,700 You have the dust bowls in Texas and people are starving and it's a very hard and difficult time in a 81 00:06:39,700 --> 00:06:42,700 Nation and we don't understand how that we can be 82 00:06:43,060 --> 00:06:47,460 But put in these holding patterns and and fear is a factor 83 00:06:47,980 --> 00:06:55,460 Concerning a holding pattern sometimes fear will put a hold and put its own lock on us and and bring about a sense 84 00:06:55,460 --> 00:07:01,460 of paralysis and we're unable to move and unable to progress and and to go any further and 85 00:07:01,780 --> 00:07:03,780 When we stop and think about what? 86 00:07:04,300 --> 00:07:07,300 Roosevelt would say in that statement and the power 87 00:07:07,300 --> 00:07:12,780 It really did stabilize a nation. There's nothing to fear but fear itself 88 00:07:12,780 --> 00:07:19,220 It brought about a calming because the reality when you face the situation and you face the issue 89 00:07:19,220 --> 00:07:24,740 Yes, you may be at a point of no progress. Yes. You may be in a period of no change 90 00:07:24,740 --> 00:07:29,780 But that means it's not any worse. It may not have gotten any better. But hallelujah 91 00:07:29,780 --> 00:07:35,820 It hasn't gotten any worse. Amen. No progress no change and things are going to be better 92 00:07:35,820 --> 00:07:38,860 No change and things are staying the way they are 93 00:07:38,980 --> 00:07:46,100 it brought about something that that brought hope into a people and and the plan that he would bring in and begin to see 94 00:07:46,140 --> 00:07:51,860 America rise again out of the despair of that Great Depression fear ranges 95 00:07:53,100 --> 00:07:59,780 It brings a sense of dread and of hopelessness in it and it ranges from a mild anxiety 96 00:07:59,780 --> 00:08:06,820 Anxiety to crippling panic attacks where you are unable to move frozen because of fear 97 00:08:07,140 --> 00:08:10,740 the Psychiatric Association have listed over 98 00:08:11,940 --> 00:08:18,060 500 different phobias, you know acrophobia and I'm not even going to mention the snake of phobia 99 00:08:18,060 --> 00:08:21,620 It's a word. I can't even hardly get out but you understand what I'm saying 100 00:08:21,620 --> 00:08:27,820 It's the fear of natural things that cause us to be gripped in a state of 101 00:08:27,820 --> 00:08:34,500 Immovability we are just immobile. You cannot move your grip to the point where you are frozen. Can I 102 00:08:35,380 --> 00:08:42,100 Illustrate today that can happen in our spiritual lives as well that we can be so gripped with fear that we become 103 00:08:42,700 --> 00:08:46,680 Immobile we're in a holding pattern fear brings on us 104 00:08:46,860 --> 00:08:52,820 Sometimes God will place us in a holding pattern and and it's not because of fear. It's not because of doubt 105 00:08:52,820 --> 00:08:59,540 It's not because of sin not because of unbelief, but there are times that God himself may place us and a holding pattern 106 00:08:59,860 --> 00:09:07,140 Where there seems to be no progress there seems to be no change with our situation and when the enemy tries to come in at 107 00:09:07,140 --> 00:09:13,020 Those times remember that phrase of Roosevelt's there's nothing to fear but fear itself 108 00:09:13,020 --> 00:09:17,140 But also remember what the Word of God proclaims over your and my life 109 00:09:17,140 --> 00:09:24,340 We've not been given the spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind and if I'm in a holding pattern 110 00:09:24,340 --> 00:09:31,580 There's a reason and a purpose for that in my life research indicates that there are only two natural fears 111 00:09:31,580 --> 00:09:34,340 We're only born with two natural fears 112 00:09:34,340 --> 00:09:38,700 One of those is falling and the other is of loud noise and loud 113 00:09:38,980 --> 00:09:44,380 Sounds and it never ceases to amaze me how these mamas bring these brand new babies in here 114 00:09:44,380 --> 00:09:51,820 And they're gonna sleep all the way through this noise that I rattle on with to the top of my lungs when you get happy 115 00:09:51,820 --> 00:09:52,700 And you praise it 116 00:09:52,700 --> 00:09:59,340 Isn't it wonderful that there is a peace that comes up when you're in the presence of God and babies can sleep and not just babies 117 00:09:59,340 --> 00:10:02,260 I've seen some of you snore just a little amen 118 00:10:02,380 --> 00:10:06,500 You're you're unmoved by the loud noise of my voice 119 00:10:06,500 --> 00:10:13,700 You can get so rock but I guess a restful peace and the anointed presence of the Lord is better than anywhere else 120 00:10:13,700 --> 00:10:17,500 So if I nudge you I just want you to come to a man 121 00:10:17,500 --> 00:10:24,140 But let the baby sleep on but it never ceases to amaze me how that even in the noise of a Pentecostal 122 00:10:24,420 --> 00:10:32,380 Worship service that little babies can just sleep on a man because they're knowing that there's nothing to fear and what they hear 123 00:10:32,820 --> 00:10:36,740 Especially if that little baby has been formed in the sanctuary 124 00:10:37,300 --> 00:10:39,580 Amen, that's the reason I think a lot of times 125 00:10:39,580 --> 00:10:45,700 They're not so stressed out when I reach for them to hold them at baby dedication. They're familiar with the preacher's voice 126 00:10:45,740 --> 00:10:48,820 They've heard the pastor's voice for at least nine months 127 00:10:48,820 --> 00:10:55,020 Hello, and so they're unshaken and they know that that loud noise is not gonna hurt them nor harm them 128 00:10:55,020 --> 00:11:00,240 Can I tell you this morning that the voice of God speaking into your life will not hurt you? 129 00:11:00,380 --> 00:11:03,900 Neither will it harm you but he will speak into your situation 130 00:11:03,900 --> 00:11:09,620 He will speak into your crisis moment and he will bring a peace that will pass all understanding 131 00:11:10,660 --> 00:11:16,540 Every other fear that we have in life is learned and we train ourselves to be aware of them 132 00:11:16,540 --> 00:11:23,300 Oh as it takes the form of the fear has the form of success you realize there are people who are afraid to succeed 133 00:11:23,740 --> 00:11:28,220 Because they don't know what doors that may open and they feel overwhelmed with success 134 00:11:28,220 --> 00:11:34,140 There are others who have the fear of failure so they won't do anything and they remain paralyzed 135 00:11:34,420 --> 00:11:38,960 There's the fear of rejection. How many of us enjoy being accepted? 136 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:45,900 We enjoy being loved a man and when we don't want rejection so many times we won't put ourselves out there 137 00:11:45,940 --> 00:11:47,940 We won't expose our feelings 138 00:11:47,940 --> 00:11:54,020 We won't expose ourself because of the fear that people will not accept us for who we are 139 00:11:54,020 --> 00:11:58,860 Oh, there's the fear of disease and the fear of the future. I'm telling you 140 00:11:58,860 --> 00:12:04,180 I believe that in our nation right now many are gripped with a fear of the future because of its uncertainty 141 00:12:04,620 --> 00:12:10,740 But know this today child of God. You don't have to be afraid of the future. It's already pinned out 142 00:12:10,740 --> 00:12:16,820 It's already written down. It's gonna get worse. Oh preacher. You're a big bundle of help this morning pastor 143 00:12:16,820 --> 00:12:19,220 You're a big boost to my faith today 144 00:12:19,220 --> 00:12:24,820 Well, it ought to be because it's fallen right in line with the word of the living God 145 00:12:24,980 --> 00:12:27,100 But he said even though it gets worse 146 00:12:27,100 --> 00:12:33,100 He said be of good cheer why because he knows that this world will bring about tribulation in our lives 147 00:12:33,100 --> 00:12:40,260 But he also know what he afforded to the believer while these tribulations coming into their life be of good cheer because I have 148 00:12:40,980 --> 00:12:44,900 Overcome the world a man knowing that we're just pilgrims here 149 00:12:44,900 --> 00:12:51,540 We're just on a journey through life and this journey's taking us to the hope that we have the eternal hope that we have in Christ 150 00:12:51,540 --> 00:12:55,260 And Christ alone. Oh my home is not here. Amen 151 00:12:55,380 --> 00:12:58,020 My residing place is in eternity 152 00:12:58,020 --> 00:13:04,580 Oh a man and him and with him forever to be and so when you look at the grander scheme of life 153 00:13:04,580 --> 00:13:06,700 Why do you have to be afraid? Amen 154 00:13:06,700 --> 00:13:12,280 Why does fear have to well over your soul be of good courage this morning? The Lord is on your side 155 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:20,040 He will watch over you. He will protect you and he will keep you even in your holding pattern 156 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:25,760 The Lord said in Luke 21 26 men's hearts 157 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:29,400 Will be felling them for fear 158 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:36,880 And for taking and looking after the things which are coming to the earth 159 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:40,360 Fear produces 160 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:42,360 negative effects on our life 161 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:49,000 It paralyzes to the point where we can't make rational decision 162 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:54,440 It paralyzes to the point where we cannot make a rational 163 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:56,640 logical 164 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:59,840 Decision on things that are facing us in life 165 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:06,720 I've already told you to mobilize this it causes you to be frozen in your position. It causes you to be 166 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:10,320 Stunned it just hinders action hinders prayer 167 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:17,760 Fear limits our faith eight man when we are believing more in the negative report of the enemy than the positive 168 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:25,680 Word of God it causes the limits on our faith. It restricts our hope it restricts relationships 169 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:30,720 It lowers your spiritual productivity and fear will even lower your physical productivity 170 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:37,320 Amen, it jeopardizes the good health that God has given us it and I'll tell you another thing fear will do 171 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:43,280 Fear is the king of robbing you of your joy, but I'm here to tell you today your joy does not 172 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:48,020 Determine is not determined by what goes on in this world now 173 00:14:48,020 --> 00:14:51,560 It affects our happiness to a great level and to a great degree 174 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:56,360 But the sooner you realize that it is joy a man that is a hope of glory 175 00:14:56,360 --> 00:15:02,840 It's the joy of the Lord that feels your life. It's drawing from the joy of the well of salvation that 176 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:07,560 Stabilizes your hope even though you're in a world it affects your happiness 177 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:13,480 But the joy of the Lord is will and always become the strength of the believer 178 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:18,560 Because I have a joy in knowing that this is not all there is the 179 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:23,840 Circumstances of life at the very moment is not the end of it all hallelujah 180 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:28,800 Hallelujah, the way that it works for J iris is exactly this J iris comes 181 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:34,000 He has a great problem. First of all, he is a devout man. He's a pastor if you will 182 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:38,740 He's over the synagogue of his area and his town and over his community 183 00:15:38,740 --> 00:15:41,880 So he is a very devout man and somewhere in this 184 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:49,960 Devotedness to God he's come to an understanding that this man called Jesus is who he claims himself to be 185 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:57,480 Somewhere in his study of scripture somewhere there's been this stirring in this depth of his heart that he knows that the answer that he needs 186 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:04,560 And requires for his life the fear that is overwhelming him for losing his daughter's life and losing her 187 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:11,240 It can only be answered by approaching Jesus Christ and look what he does. He renounces his own faith 188 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:16,860 He steps against his own religious tradition of the day, but yet he steps out in faith 189 00:16:16,860 --> 00:16:23,460 Can I tell somebody this morning if you'll just deny all of the garbage that's going on around you all the tradition? 190 00:16:23,460 --> 00:16:28,340 That's going on around you and all of what everybody else has to say about your situation 191 00:16:28,620 --> 00:16:35,600 And let a step of faith be extended by your feet and by your heart and by your uplifted hands if you can just let 192 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:39,380 Faith reach out hallelujah. It'll be a difference maker 193 00:16:39,500 --> 00:16:43,280 It'll be what breaks the yoke and the bondage of fear off your life 194 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:50,740 If you just have enough faith and what you've heard somehow another J Iris had heard that Jesus was the real deal 195 00:16:50,740 --> 00:16:54,420 And he's about to let go he's about to get out of a holding pattern 196 00:16:54,620 --> 00:17:01,420 He's about to be released because there's faith coming his way and his faith's going to hoard the faith of all men 197 00:17:01,420 --> 00:17:06,780 Which is Jesus Christ the righteous and at his feet he falls 198 00:17:06,780 --> 00:17:12,540 Devout upstanding desperate can I tell you desperate folk or dangerous folk? 199 00:17:14,540 --> 00:17:16,540 That when you become desperate 200 00:17:17,580 --> 00:17:20,780 To get into Jesus's presence you become very dangerous 201 00:17:21,500 --> 00:17:27,380 Because you don't worry about it all of a sudden. It doesn't matter what everybody else says or things 202 00:17:28,500 --> 00:17:30,500 Amen 203 00:17:30,500 --> 00:17:33,220 So what happened when two dead men were killed? 204 00:17:33,220 --> 00:17:37,700 Amen, so what happened when two desperate people collide? 205 00:17:38,940 --> 00:17:41,900 In our story you have two desperate people 206 00:17:43,140 --> 00:17:45,740 colliding for the same answer 207 00:17:47,500 --> 00:17:50,060 You have a desperate man whose daughter is sick 208 00:17:51,100 --> 00:17:55,980 He's about to it be introduced to a desperate woman who is about to die herself. I 209 00:17:55,980 --> 00:18:00,900 Think it's noteworthy to know she'd been sick for 12 years and his daughter was 12 years old 210 00:18:02,100 --> 00:18:09,340 You've got two very desperate people who are colliding at a point of faith and the point of that faith is Jesus Christ 211 00:18:09,660 --> 00:18:13,580 Both had been in a holding pattern. I don't know how long the daughter had been sick 212 00:18:13,580 --> 00:18:19,340 We do know how long this woman had been sick. She had been sick for 12 long years 213 00:18:19,340 --> 00:18:22,620 She had spent all that she had she had sought out every physician 214 00:18:22,620 --> 00:18:26,620 Every new doctor every new quack and if you study ancient 215 00:18:27,580 --> 00:18:29,980 Medicine you're gonna find out they were some real 216 00:18:30,220 --> 00:18:37,220 Quacks in their day and the cure would be the thing would probably kill most of them other than the condition that they had 217 00:18:37,220 --> 00:18:41,780 Some of the desperate measures they went to trying to save people's lives 218 00:18:41,780 --> 00:18:45,740 There is no telling that the torture under the guise of medicine 219 00:18:45,740 --> 00:18:48,260 Some of you probably know what I'm talking about this morning 220 00:18:48,260 --> 00:18:53,540 Some of you probably tortured under the banner of medicine and and you just thank in God 221 00:18:53,540 --> 00:19:00,820 You survived what they did to you let alone what you had and that's where this woman finds herself as this desperation in her life 222 00:19:00,820 --> 00:19:05,620 She'd spent all she had there was no other answer. There was no other help. There was no other hope 223 00:19:05,620 --> 00:19:11,020 We've got a man who's devout in his religious practice who has no other help and no other hope 224 00:19:11,020 --> 00:19:14,020 Don't you know every doctor had been through his house as well? 225 00:19:14,020 --> 00:19:19,780 Every physician had to come and see his daughter as well and he had lost hope and desperation 226 00:19:20,260 --> 00:19:26,180 Collides at the feet of Jesus my God and as J iris makes his way and falls at his feet 227 00:19:26,180 --> 00:19:30,900 He'd be sought that word be sought is literally begged. You've got a righteous man 228 00:19:30,900 --> 00:19:32,900 You've got a man noted in the community 229 00:19:32,900 --> 00:19:36,660 You've got a man that everybody knows and recognizes and now here 230 00:19:36,660 --> 00:19:42,020 He is in the middle of the street on his face begging him back to help him 231 00:19:42,020 --> 00:19:48,580 He's on the street on his face begging a man called Jesus to come to his house my my my my my 232 00:19:48,580 --> 00:19:56,260 He's about to break a holding pattern because of faith is about to be released out of his heart because faith has now found its way 233 00:19:56,260 --> 00:20:03,780 To the only help and the only hope that had any help and doing something for him and J iris is finding himself now 234 00:20:04,260 --> 00:20:11,300 Begging for the only hope that my god wouldn't it be wonderful if we found ourselves at the feet begging 235 00:20:11,300 --> 00:20:15,940 For more of what we need and more if we get desperate enough 236 00:20:15,940 --> 00:20:23,940 We'll find ourselves again falling at the feet of Jesus and be seeking him and begging him to come and move 237 00:20:24,260 --> 00:20:26,260 on our situation 238 00:20:29,860 --> 00:20:36,340 He knew that Jesus was his only help hope and it seems as though his prayer had been answered 239 00:20:36,340 --> 00:20:39,300 They're moving toward his house 240 00:20:42,180 --> 00:20:47,780 And the collision of this second point of desperation 241 00:20:49,300 --> 00:20:51,300 This woman with this issue 242 00:20:52,980 --> 00:20:54,980 Interrupts his answer 243 00:20:55,540 --> 00:20:57,540 Have you ever felt like your answer had been interrupted? 244 00:20:57,540 --> 00:21:06,660 Have you ever felt like your answer had been interrupted? Have you ever felt like Jesus was doing something? I mean you you were feeling better about it and then wham 245 00:21:08,100 --> 00:21:12,660 All progress is stopped and you're back in the holding pattern 246 00:21:15,060 --> 00:21:20,900 I don't like holding patterns in airplanes. I don't know how they work it. I don't know how they figure it 247 00:21:22,100 --> 00:21:25,540 Getting enough gas on that thing to circle around Miami 248 00:21:25,540 --> 00:21:30,260 I mean, you know, evidently they don't gas and go like I do I get enough to get to where i'm going 249 00:21:31,380 --> 00:21:33,380 Not right around town 250 00:21:33,380 --> 00:21:35,380 Hello 251 00:21:36,020 --> 00:21:39,780 I'm not going to circle the city when I get there. I get just enough to get to where i'm going 252 00:21:41,140 --> 00:21:43,860 Save every gallon I can to help me get back 253 00:21:45,620 --> 00:21:50,100 Pilot comes on since we're in holding pattern waiting on the thunderstorm. I thought well how much cash we got 254 00:21:50,100 --> 00:21:55,880 I have tank quarter tank what we're looking at here. It'll help me in my desperation 255 00:21:57,380 --> 00:22:03,380 I'm thinking this thing goes down. I hope it goes down on that swing out over the water so I can use my seat as a flotation device 256 00:22:04,820 --> 00:22:07,460 My luck should go down right over the middle of florida 257 00:22:10,420 --> 00:22:14,100 I'm thinking it's going to go down on that swing out over the water so I can use my seat as a flotation device 258 00:22:14,100 --> 00:22:19,320 My luck should go down right over the middle of florida 259 00:22:21,300 --> 00:22:23,300 I get just enough to get to where i'm going 260 00:22:25,540 --> 00:22:30,420 How long lord do we have to wait how long do I have to how long am I going to have to be here 261 00:22:31,780 --> 00:22:33,780 12 years 262 00:22:33,860 --> 00:22:38,580 How long am I going to be in this holding pattern fear then begins to take hold doesn't it? 263 00:22:38,580 --> 00:22:45,220 When you think about holding patterns when fear takes its grip adam and eve they hid from god in the garden because 264 00:22:46,820 --> 00:22:48,820 Of fear 265 00:22:48,980 --> 00:22:51,140 We know the direct result of that was sin 266 00:22:53,140 --> 00:22:55,780 They were hiding from god because of fear of god 267 00:22:56,660 --> 00:22:58,980 israel a nation of people 268 00:23:00,020 --> 00:23:03,940 Gave up on the promised land because they were afraid 269 00:23:05,620 --> 00:23:07,620 Of the giants that were in the land 270 00:23:07,620 --> 00:23:12,180 According to psalm 789 ifrim turned back in the day of battle 271 00:23:13,620 --> 00:23:15,220 Because of fear 272 00:23:15,220 --> 00:23:22,020 Saul's army fled before goliath in first samuel 17 because they were afraid an army afraid of one man 273 00:23:24,100 --> 00:23:30,280 Gideon have you ever heard of a gideon revival pastors don't like to hear about gideon revivals 274 00:23:33,460 --> 00:23:35,880 That's revival by subtraction 275 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:42,120 Gideon started out with 32 000 men which was already a very small army at the force he was going out to face 276 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:47,240 And then god's going to whittle that down. He said gideon you tell everybody that scared half to death 277 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:54,040 Just go back to the house 22 000 of his 32 000 left that day 278 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:57,640 By the time he gets down to him drinking at the pool 279 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:00,360 He's left with 300 come on 280 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,000 But that's enough 281 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:09,240 That's enough if god's in it you're talking about a holding pattern i'm thinking gideon saying you want to do what? 282 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:16,920 A pitcher put a candle in it a trumpet in other hand where am I going to carry my sword? 283 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:19,560 This is a fight 284 00:24:20,120 --> 00:24:23,080 Well, if god's in my I ain't got time for that. Let's move on 285 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:29,800 Elijah's gripped by fear and depression sets in his life 286 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:35,320 In first kings 19 Jonah runs from the call of god because of fear 287 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:37,400 All right 288 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:44,200 The disciples cried out master carest not thou that we perish because they were afraid of a storm 289 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:48,280 Fear gripping their lives 290 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:54,200 They leave him at calvary because they were afraid for their own lives 291 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:58,200 And we live in a world that's gripped with the chaos of fear 292 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:04,360 And in this world god speaks like he did here to jay iris 293 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,240 fear not 294 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:12,760 The worst news possible happened to jay iris as after the delay 295 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:17,960 With a woman with the issue of blood now she's healed and now she owns up to it 296 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:23,240 And now he's blessing her and now we can come out of the holding pattern and move toward 297 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:27,240 Move toward my miracle then the worst thing possible happens 298 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:30,440 Trouble not the master your daughter's dead 299 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:38,520 But I love it as luke records he said and jesus heard it 300 00:25:42,360 --> 00:25:44,860 And he heard what was said to jay iris 301 00:25:44,860 --> 00:25:51,260 He heard it he knows your situation he knows how desperate it may seem he knows how desperate it may appear 302 00:25:51,900 --> 00:25:53,900 He knows 303 00:25:54,140 --> 00:25:58,620 And one thing I love about the lord once he starts on a journey. He doesn't stop till he completes it 304 00:25:59,420 --> 00:26:01,420 He knows 305 00:26:01,820 --> 00:26:03,820 He knows 306 00:26:03,900 --> 00:26:05,900 He knows 307 00:26:05,980 --> 00:26:07,980 He knows 308 00:26:08,060 --> 00:26:10,060 He knows 309 00:26:10,060 --> 00:26:14,780 And one thing I love about the lord once he starts on a journey. He doesn't stop till he completes it 310 00:26:16,620 --> 00:26:19,260 No matter the interruptions of the faith of others 311 00:26:20,220 --> 00:26:21,820 Hello 312 00:26:21,820 --> 00:26:23,900 He told jay iris i'm coming. Let's go 313 00:26:25,100 --> 00:26:28,220 And nothing would suffice him until he got there. Amen 314 00:26:31,820 --> 00:26:33,820 Fear not 315 00:26:34,380 --> 00:26:36,380 Believe only 316 00:26:36,860 --> 00:26:38,700 Let's go 317 00:26:38,700 --> 00:26:41,420 How do you how do you do that? How do you get up out of the dirt? 318 00:26:42,060 --> 00:26:45,100 He had to have been back down in the dirt. I would have been in the dirt 319 00:26:47,100 --> 00:26:49,260 You tell me my daughter's dead i'm in the dirt 320 00:26:51,260 --> 00:26:54,220 You tell me my 12 year old baby has just passed i'm in the dirt 321 00:26:55,580 --> 00:27:00,460 I don't know in a crowd this size. Some of you may have already had the deal with that and you've been in the dirt 322 00:27:02,540 --> 00:27:05,900 But then you hear the lord declare fear not 323 00:27:05,900 --> 00:27:07,900 Believe only 324 00:27:09,020 --> 00:27:11,020 Believe only 325 00:27:11,020 --> 00:27:14,140 Believe only for your situation knowing that he is able believe only 326 00:27:14,700 --> 00:27:20,860 Knowing that god himself is able to take care of the situation that you're dealing with and the issue and the circumstance 327 00:27:21,180 --> 00:27:25,420 That has driven you to a point of desperation. He is 328 00:27:25,980 --> 00:27:27,980 able 329 00:27:27,980 --> 00:27:29,980 He's able to move in every situation, right? 330 00:27:30,860 --> 00:27:33,020 Read a little story. I thought was funny 331 00:27:33,020 --> 00:27:38,940 But it got to the point a little girl five six seven years old in the middle of the night storm comes up 332 00:27:39,340 --> 00:27:42,380 She's asleep in her room and comes running to her mom and dad's room 333 00:27:42,380 --> 00:27:46,540 She bursts through the door and moms they always go to mom's side. Hello 334 00:27:47,980 --> 00:27:52,060 She goes to her mother said mom I want to sleep with you and daddy and you know how it is 335 00:27:53,020 --> 00:27:55,500 Honey, you're gonna be all right. It's gonna be okay 336 00:27:56,060 --> 00:27:59,660 Nothing to be afraid of it's just a storm. You can go back in there and go to sleep 337 00:27:59,660 --> 00:28:03,020 No, I won't sleep with you and daddy said well, honey, it's gonna be fine 338 00:28:03,020 --> 00:28:06,220 You're going to be okay. And besides that Jesus is in the room with you 339 00:28:06,780 --> 00:28:11,020 The little girl looks at mom says that's okay mom. You go in there and sleep with Jesus. I'm getting in the bed with dad 340 00:28:16,380 --> 00:28:18,620 You know sometimes seeing is believing 341 00:28:20,140 --> 00:28:23,820 You go in there and sleep with jeez i'm staying right here with dad 342 00:28:24,620 --> 00:28:26,620 And that's the way it works sometimes with our life 343 00:28:26,620 --> 00:28:29,820 We hear the lord say some things like that to us. It's going to be okay 344 00:28:30,780 --> 00:28:34,620 It's going to be all right. He's going to take care of he's going to answer. It's a storm 345 00:28:34,620 --> 00:28:38,940 You're in a holding pattern. It will pass over it will pass by 346 00:28:39,500 --> 00:28:43,740 It will be done with and we have to have hope and trust god knowing 347 00:28:44,060 --> 00:28:46,940 That it's going to be over when we're in that holding pattern 348 00:28:46,940 --> 00:28:51,420 And the only way you can do that is that you accept the assurance of god's promises 349 00:28:52,140 --> 00:28:54,540 That's the only way you can do that 350 00:28:54,540 --> 00:28:59,020 That's the only way you can go back in a storm and go to sleep 351 00:29:01,820 --> 00:29:04,300 That's the only way you can get up out of the dirt 352 00:29:05,820 --> 00:29:09,580 Because you are assured of the one who has made you the promise 353 00:29:10,140 --> 00:29:17,740 And that he is full well and able to supply everything that he has promised to you in your life 354 00:29:18,300 --> 00:29:21,200 If we just continue focusing to look at the circumstance 355 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,640 I assure you fear will grip you 356 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:31,520 I assure you that the devil will bind you up with it if that's all you can see 357 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:39,440 But you have to do as the psalmist we we have to condition our faith to do as the psalmist in that psalm of the assentin 121 358 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:41,920 Where does my help come from? 359 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,000 I'll lift up my eyes into the hills 360 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:49,120 Where does my help come from? Where am I assisted? Where do I receive my aid? 361 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,680 It's not the hills, but it's above the hills 362 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:58,320 I lift up my eyes into the hills from which cometh my help my help comes from the lord 363 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:03,120 When you get desperate in desperate moments know this your help comes from the lord 364 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:07,840 Sometimes you don't get assurance from the doctor. Sometimes you don't get peace from the diagnosis 365 00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:11,040 Sometimes you you you leave in worse shape than you went in there 366 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:16,640 Yeah, but when you hear the word of god, it's going to be all right when god has made a promise to you 367 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:23,280 Amen, then you can be assured of every promise that he's made in your life and know that that assurance is 368 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:25,680 accompanied with his peace 369 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,480 You have to be assured that god is big enough 370 00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:34,560 You have to assure yourself 371 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:39,680 You know, there are times you can't assure others until you have assured yourself 372 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:42,720 That god is able 373 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:45,040 And to know according what he said to isaiah 374 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,040 That he will keep him 375 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:49,520 in perfect peace 376 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,960 Whose mind is stayed upon the lord? 377 00:30:53,840 --> 00:31:00,240 Trust me. I know how it is and how easy it becomes when you look at the circumstance and you you can't keep your mind 378 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:06,640 fixated on the promises of god because of the reality of the moment of what you are seeing 379 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:14,000 And the report like a j-iris that you just heard it's real. It's the real deal. It's the reality 380 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:18,320 It's the reality of life. Don't bother the master anymore 381 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:20,880 He is gone 382 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:31,120 But then the master interjects because he hears the negativity of the voice of fear and then he speaks in and says fear not 383 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:33,680 believe only 384 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:40,720 A lot of times we we invert that we say only believe but I think there's a reason it's believe only 385 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:46,000 Because if you begin with the believe and the singularity of it only 386 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,240 Leaves no other option for us 387 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:53,360 But if we invert it only 388 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:58,160 Believe it gives me other options before I have to believe 389 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:01,760 For me myself, it gives me other options 390 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:08,480 for me myself it gives fear an opportunity to interject its ugly head into my situation, but if I 391 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,280 believe only 392 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:16,560 It brings a new reality in a sense to me that it tells myself trust in the lord 393 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:19,840 Trust god believe 394 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,320 believe 395 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,920 Believe that's the simplicity of our life with christ 396 00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:34,400 That's the simplicity of our life in this world believe only you know when I was a sinner, I only believed I knew there was a god 397 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:40,400 Hello, and I scared of him to a degree more afraid of mother than god 398 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:46,400 It's that immediate reality that she struck into my life and my belief system 399 00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:50,080 I brought you in i'll take you out you do this this and this 400 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,080 Hello, am I the only one in here that heard that speech? 401 00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:57,600 And even worse than that was if you don't listen to me i'm gonna tell your daddy 402 00:32:59,920 --> 00:33:01,920 That's not a place I ever wanted to end up 403 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:12,000 It's where we are in our life that matters with your faith and believing god and god alone 404 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,720 I know we're slowing down this morning, but i'm trying to help somebody today 405 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,400 Fear will announce itself into your circumstance 406 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:25,120 Be assured of that the enemy will see fit to that 407 00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:30,000 That fear will interject into your situation 408 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:40,400 And if we're doing anything but believing god it will cause a paralysis in our faith 409 00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:44,720 My lord, I know 410 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:49,440 Paralysis in our faith my lord, I know 411 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,840 But rest assure the promises of god are ye and amen in christ 412 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:01,920 Jesus assure yourselves of that 413 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:10,160 His promises are unfailing first kings 8 56 says there's not one word not one word of any promise that god made to israel 414 00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:14,560 That he did not fulfill 415 00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:19,360 Romans 421 they are assured being fully persuaded paul said that 416 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:28,320 What the lord and what he had and what he had presented 417 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,480 Knowing that he was able to perform it 418 00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:36,560 Whatever god had spoken 419 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:39,360 He was convinced 420 00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:41,360 That god was able to perform it 421 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:44,400 Are you convinced? 422 00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:50,080 Are you convinced of the promise that god has made you in your circumstance? 423 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:57,280 And the holding pattern that you're finding yourself in this this period of unchanged this 424 00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:03,280 State of being spiritually that you feel like you've been stuck in for a while 425 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:10,800 Do you trust god? Is your faith in god maintaining and staying whole and complete? 426 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:14,480 Knowing that god is able 427 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,560 And then if you are then it's not hard to commit 428 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:22,400 The results to god 429 00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,120 Of whatever it is 430 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:28,800 And to trust god that the outcome is his will 431 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:31,440 And to trust god that the outcome is his will 432 00:35:34,460 --> 00:35:36,460 Emphasized over our own 433 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,720 That was that's a hard one to that's a hard one to ingest right there 434 00:35:44,240 --> 00:35:46,720 Because god doesn't always do it the way we want it done 435 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,800 But he knows you and I better than we know ourselves and he performs 436 00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,320 According to his will for our life 437 00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,640 And if our lives are subjected to him 438 00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:01,840 He's faithful 439 00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:06,880 Stand with me. I'm gonna wind this down. I got a long way to go, but I'm gonna wind it down 440 00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:14,640 You cannot be in doubt 441 00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:20,480 That god is on your side 442 00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:22,480 God is on your side 443 00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:28,480 Cory 10 booms definition of faith 444 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:35,200 Don't doubt the dark what god has shown you in the light that's that's pretty powerful 445 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:39,760 God has revealed himself 446 00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,520 Don't doubt it when the midnight hour comes 447 00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:48,800 But randy's been doing a wonderful job walking us through the book of acts 448 00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:53,920 As we finished up last week after the shipwreck on the isle of malta 449 00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:57,280 Paul and all the others 450 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:00,560 God told paul you're going to rome 451 00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,160 And rome he would show up 452 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:07,520 No matter what tried to stop him 453 00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:16,640 Tried to stop him hurricane-tight storm shipwrecked on an island bit by poisonous snake 454 00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:19,920 And many other peril and danger along the way 455 00:37:22,720 --> 00:37:25,360 God said paul you're going to rome. I need you there 456 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:31,840 There was only one final destination for paul that was rome 457 00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,960 No matter how rough the journey 458 00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,640 His life may have only been spared by 459 00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:43,040 A plank off a ship that he rode to shore doesn't matter 460 00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:46,800 His life was spared somebody you need to hear this this morning 461 00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:51,360 You may be like a jacob you may come out of your holding pattern with a limp 462 00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:55,120 But when you come out of it, you're going to be blessed 463 00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:59,520 If god has spoken something over your life to your life 464 00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:01,520 And in your life 465 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:05,840 I don't know what condition you'll be in by the time you get to it, but you will get to it 466 00:38:10,240 --> 00:38:13,440 Desperation drives us to many different measures 467 00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:19,120 And don't for a moment think you're the only one that's in a holding pattern 468 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:23,440 Sometimes we live in the holding pattern 469 00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:27,440 Abraham waited 470 00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:29,440 For isaac to be born 471 00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:33,760 Joseph waited through the pit 472 00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:36,640 Through the prison 473 00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:38,640 To get to the palace 474 00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:41,440 He'd already had a dream 475 00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:49,920 The moon the stars were going to bow before him that's what got him in the pit 476 00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,840 Joshua and kala had to wait for the moon to come 477 00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:58,640 Joshua and kala had to wait 40 years 478 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,860 For the reality of something that they had already once partook of 479 00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:11,600 To the fulfillment of it 480 00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,160 You don't about a holding pattern 481 00:39:14,720 --> 00:39:21,200 One of my favorite favorite scripture is that about concerning the ending of that 40 year holding pattern when the lord said 482 00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:23,760 You've can pass this mountain long enough 483 00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:25,760 to turn 484 00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:29,040 My god, I wait for that don't you 485 00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:33,200 That's what i'm waiting for by holding pattern to be broke 486 00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:39,760 You've been here long enough you've walked in circles long enough it's been 40 years 487 00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:44,080 And I want you to turn 488 00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:50,320 My David waited 489 00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:58,000 Go tear you in Jerusalem till you be endued with power jesus said 490 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:02,080 The disciples waited 491 00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:07,200 And so here you and I are here we are 492 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,000 In a holding pattern 493 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:19,440 I don't know what your wilderness looks like. I don't know what the storm of sea of life is doing to you 494 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:30,100 I don't know how you're being affected by the grip of fear as it comes into your situation and individual circumstances 495 00:40:30,100 --> 00:40:37,460 And you're in this holding pattern no progress no change 496 00:40:39,220 --> 00:40:45,620 Could be just a few days weeks months some of you could be in the circling pattern for years it seems 497 00:40:50,180 --> 00:40:53,220 And you're living in the holding pattern, but i'm here to tell you child of god 498 00:40:53,220 --> 00:41:02,580 There's an appointed moment when the lord says you've compassed it long enough 499 00:41:06,340 --> 00:41:12,980 Turn father. I love you this morning. What I've preached what you've laid on my heart 500 00:41:12,980 --> 00:41:20,260 Turn father. I love you this morning. What I've preached what you've laid on my heart 501 00:41:23,700 --> 00:41:25,700 Lord I felt the shift 502 00:41:26,980 --> 00:41:28,980 I felt it in here a few moments ago 503 00:41:31,540 --> 00:41:33,540 That's why we're winding this to this point 504 00:41:33,540 --> 00:41:40,740 To the point of desperation 505 00:41:44,660 --> 00:41:46,660 Mercy never fails me 506 00:41:48,740 --> 00:41:50,740 All my life 507 00:41:53,700 --> 00:41:55,700 In your hands listen 508 00:41:56,980 --> 00:41:59,540 Moment that I wake up 509 00:41:59,540 --> 00:42:02,340 Till I lay my head 510 00:42:04,260 --> 00:42:06,260 I will sing 511 00:42:06,900 --> 00:42:08,900 Of the goodness 512 00:42:09,940 --> 00:42:11,940 Of god 513 00:42:11,940 --> 00:42:13,940 You said pastor i'm in a holding pattern 514 00:42:15,380 --> 00:42:17,380 Life you have been 515 00:42:18,180 --> 00:42:20,180 I'm in a holding pattern 516 00:42:20,180 --> 00:42:22,980 And I needed that word today. I hear the voice of the lord 517 00:42:22,980 --> 00:42:26,020 I know what he's saying to me in my circumstance in my situation 518 00:42:26,660 --> 00:42:28,660 And I just need strength 519 00:42:28,660 --> 00:42:30,660 I need his added grace 520 00:42:30,660 --> 00:42:32,660 I need a touch this morning 521 00:42:35,620 --> 00:42:37,620 Are you desperate enough to make your way to this altar? 522 00:42:40,100 --> 00:42:42,100 If you are come right on 523 00:42:42,100 --> 00:42:44,100 Stand right here in the front just line up here in the front 524 00:42:48,100 --> 00:42:50,100 Just come on in I'm in a holding pattern 525 00:42:50,100 --> 00:42:52,100 I'm ready 526 00:42:52,100 --> 00:42:54,100 I wish today was the day I heard turn 527 00:42:54,100 --> 00:42:56,100 You've been in here long enough 528 00:42:58,900 --> 00:43:02,900 Oh my god I see the lord working his people are moving this away 529 00:43:04,900 --> 00:43:06,900 He's heard everything he's heard it all folks 530 00:43:06,900 --> 00:43:22,900 Thank you jesus