1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,000 Hallelujah. 2 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:07,600 How many of you ready to see Jesus? 3 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:09,760 Hallelujah. 4 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:11,920 I'm ready to see the Lord. 5 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:14,120 Even so, Lord, come quickly. 6 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:15,120 Amen. 7 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:16,120 Amen. 8 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:18,280 It's so good to see you in the house of the Lord today. 9 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:25,000 If you have your Bibles with you, be turning with me to Matthew's Gospel, Chapter 11. 10 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:31,920 And in our opening prayer today, I want us to remember Brother Harry Harmon, 90-year-old 11 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:38,440 preacher of the Gospel, about to make his transition from this life to glory. 12 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:43,360 And we just want to pray over the family and pray over him. 13 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:46,560 I'm sure he's ready, expecting. 14 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:51,560 Ninety-nine years old, probably been ready to see the Lord for quite some time. 15 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:53,520 Amen. 16 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:58,080 Before we leave this morning, we're also going to be praying over our resident missionaries. 17 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:07,440 We'll be leaving Saturday for Zambia, and we want to pray over them, the Lord's grace 18 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:08,440 and mercy. 19 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:09,440 Amen. 20 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:15,800 And his anointing so that it's as they go forward, the words that they say are just 21 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:19,040 going to do some great things in people's hearts and lives. 22 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:20,040 Amen. 23 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:21,040 Amen. 24 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:22,040 Matthew's Gospel. 25 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:26,240 Again, it is so good to see you in the house of the Lord today. 26 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:28,640 If you are visiting, thank you so much. 27 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:33,520 You could have been anywhere today, but you chose Hopewell, and I'm grateful and thankful. 28 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:38,560 And if you haven't already been blessed through your worship, then your wood's wet. 29 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:42,600 Because the Spirit of the Lord's been in this house today. 30 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:43,600 Amen. 31 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:48,160 And that's my whole modus operandi, to encounter him. 32 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:49,660 Amen. 33 00:01:49,660 --> 00:01:52,800 And I thank each of you for being here today. 34 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:56,720 And for the visitors, if you leave today, I don't know what this thing's going to end 35 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:58,880 like, so I'm getting this ahead. 36 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:02,200 If you'll go out those doors to my left and stop at that counter, they've got something 37 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:03,880 special for you. 38 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:05,200 You don't want to pass that up. 39 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:06,200 Amen. 40 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:09,200 If you don't leave a card, at least take the goody. 41 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:14,840 You'll save me about five pounds. 42 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:24,160 That's the priest portion. 43 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:29,760 Matthew's gospel chapter 11 verse 28. 44 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:36,000 Let's see what the Spirit of the Lord has to say to us today. 45 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:45,000 Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 46 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,680 Take my yoke upon you. 47 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:53,200 Learneth me, for I am meek, lowly in heart. 48 00:02:53,200 --> 00:03:05,920 You shall find rest under your souls, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. 49 00:03:05,920 --> 00:03:13,320 Simple thought today, it's time to take five. 50 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:14,680 It's time to take five. 51 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:17,040 Y'all know what that means, right? 52 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:18,040 Take five. 53 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:19,040 Take a little break. 54 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:20,440 Take a little, yeah. 55 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:28,840 So I'll pray for you if you pray for me, because it's going to take longer than five to get 56 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:29,840 to this. 57 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:30,840 Amen. 58 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:31,840 Father, we love you. 59 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:32,840 We thank you. 60 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:33,840 Thank you for your word. 61 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:39,520 We thank you for your anointing, the sweet, awesome presence that's in this house today. 62 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:45,840 I ask God that you would move and you'd have your way in every heart and every mind. 63 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:46,840 Use me, Lord, today. 64 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:51,560 I surrender myself to you in the lovely name of Jesus. 65 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:55,440 And the church said amen and amen. 66 00:03:55,440 --> 00:04:04,880 On Wednesday, Mr. Kathy and I are celebrating 37 years. 67 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:07,360 She's put up with me for 37 years. 68 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:09,680 I love you, baby. 69 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:11,040 Happy early anniversary. 70 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:12,040 Amen. 71 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:13,960 God is good. 72 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:20,040 He's faithful and true. 73 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:26,440 Saturday weekend, the unofficial close to summer. 74 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:30,200 Doesn't mean it's going to be cool on Wednesday. 75 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:34,720 It'd be cooler than it has been, but it's not winter yet. 76 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:38,360 But it is the unofficial close to summer. 77 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:46,760 I've seen some of you taking the advantage of the white taboo after today, or after Wednesday, 78 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:47,760 rather. 79 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:53,280 So I've been told by the fashion police. 80 00:04:53,280 --> 00:04:54,680 Can't wire white after Labor Day. 81 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:59,520 I don't know who did that or why. 82 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:04,620 But anyway, there you go. 83 00:05:04,620 --> 00:05:13,320 Labor Day was set aside as a day for appreciation to hard work. 84 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:20,400 Early on, it was established by the labor movement to get fair and equal labor laws 85 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:27,360 and so that the employer can't treat you like a slave and pay you like one. 86 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:37,320 And it's a day for a time to just take a little breather, take five, take a little rest. 87 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:48,720 The world in which you and I have become accustomed to, I think is referenced in the story of 88 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:56,940 Alice in Wonderland by the Red Queen who would say, now here, you see, it takes all the running 89 00:05:56,940 --> 00:06:01,100 you can do to keep in the same place. 90 00:06:01,100 --> 00:06:08,160 If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that. 91 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:13,200 Doesn't that the way you feel like sometimes, like the hamster on the wheel? 92 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:20,320 You just kind of going around and around and spinning life is taking things out of control. 93 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:24,920 And all you can do and seem to do is you're managing just to keep up. 94 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:28,600 If you're going to get ahead, you've got to go faster than what you're doing just to get 95 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:30,680 ahead. 96 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:35,880 And unfortunately that causes us to miss a good portion of life and the joy that the 97 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:39,160 Lord wants to bring us in our lives. 98 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:45,180 And this day and age when it seems all we have, all of us got a burden of some kind. 99 00:06:45,180 --> 00:06:47,420 We have some type of weight that we're carrying. 100 00:06:47,420 --> 00:06:50,320 We have some type of trouble that we're facing. 101 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:51,320 Amen. 102 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:52,700 Problem. 103 00:06:52,700 --> 00:06:59,680 But our scripture today brings us some assurance that we're not alone in the burdens that we're 104 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:01,640 bearing. 105 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:03,400 Amen. 106 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:07,840 You're not alone when you step inside the hamster oil. 107 00:07:07,840 --> 00:07:10,360 You're not by yourself. 108 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:14,400 There are many who face the burden of bodies that don't do exactly what we want them to 109 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:15,400 do. 110 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:19,560 Mine just continually wants to eat. 111 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:23,960 That's not what I want it to do. 112 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:31,240 Others face simple facts and difficult facts that they're living alone after they've lost 113 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:34,520 a loved one. 114 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:40,960 Others are coping with this world by themselves, bearing burdens. 115 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:42,800 We have financial difficulties. 116 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:47,800 Others face the facts of the hardships of life. 117 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,240 Others have broken dreams. 118 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:56,160 They have broken relationships somewhere within a family dynamic. 119 00:07:56,160 --> 00:08:01,880 Others have the burdens that they're facing making choices that affect their everyday 120 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:03,120 life. 121 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:06,560 Still yet others facing burdens. 122 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:13,160 They deal with sin and the temptations of sin, burdens of guilt and grief, burdens of 123 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:17,520 conflicting loyalties, burdens of providing for our families. 124 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:21,260 And it seems like that is getting more difficult. 125 00:08:21,260 --> 00:08:25,240 We understand that the life that we're living is filled with stress and different stressors 126 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:32,200 with cares and worries, situations that call on us to make choices and decisions that sometimes 127 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,280 are not pleasant to make and they're not easy to make. 128 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:40,680 But yet we are challenged daily with those types of decisions. 129 00:08:40,680 --> 00:08:44,260 When we think about those types of decisions in the world in which we're living, I am so 130 00:08:44,260 --> 00:08:51,700 glad that the word of God speaks in to every situation, every circumstance, every crisis, 131 00:08:51,700 --> 00:08:57,120 every burden, every trouble, every storm, all of these things that come into life. 132 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:02,960 I'm thankful that the word of God speaks hope and assurance that we do not have to go through 133 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:06,440 it alone and we are not by ourselves. 134 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:08,640 I know how the world turns things around. 135 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:09,960 I know how you can feel. 136 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:15,760 I know how the enemy attempts to try to make us feel that we're facing every situation 137 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:17,400 by ourselves. 138 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:23,480 But I'm here to share with you the assurance that you are not alone this very morning. 139 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:27,800 You are not, if you're a child of God, you have not been forsaken. 140 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:34,680 You have not been left to deal with the antidotes of life by yourself, but he has given you 141 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:37,840 a wonderful promise and a great invitation. 142 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:43,400 However, for many of us, we do not seize the invitation that has been extended, but I'm 143 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:48,480 here to encourage you this morning to accept the invitation and show up. 144 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:49,480 Amen. 145 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:53,760 And let God bring you into a moment in time where you can take five. 146 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:56,560 Every now and then it's good just to get a fresh breath. 147 00:09:56,560 --> 00:10:00,560 It's good to just set aside and just get a respite for a moment. 148 00:10:00,560 --> 00:10:07,000 It's good just to know that things are settling and that God is for you and not against you. 149 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:10,760 And it doesn't matter what the enemy is coming against you with, that he has not forsaken 150 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:12,720 you in it and you are there. 151 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:15,840 We hear this wonderful, wonderful invitation. 152 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:18,240 We've been given a respite. 153 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:23,240 We've been given the opportunity to be provided with a little bit of relief in life. 154 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:24,840 So we have that invitation. 155 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:28,960 Jesus says, it's more of a command than it is an invitation. 156 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:32,200 He says, come unto me, come now. 157 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:38,720 In Psalm 55 and 22, the psalmist says, cast thy burden upon the Lord and he shall sustain 158 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:39,720 thee. 159 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:42,240 He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. 160 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:45,240 We hear him command, come unto me. 161 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:48,240 It's like Peter, when he asked him, could he walk on the water? 162 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:51,840 Lord, if that's you, bid thou, it's me to come to you on the water. 163 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:54,120 And all he said was, come, come on. 164 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:55,120 Here it is. 165 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:58,120 Get out of the boat and make your way. 166 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:02,840 Sometimes we have to hear the word of Jesus and know it's a response to the faith and 167 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:08,000 the longing and the reaching of our hearts and soul and that he's responding to you with 168 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:09,680 a command, come on over here. 169 00:11:09,680 --> 00:11:10,880 You come on, I'm here. 170 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:11,920 I'm on your storm. 171 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:13,400 I'm walking on your storm. 172 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:14,920 I'm walking across your dilemma. 173 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:20,160 I'm walking across the crisis that you think about to take you out, but I'm standing above 174 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:21,160 it. 175 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:22,160 I'm standing on it. 176 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:25,520 And what I invite you to do is come out here and stand with me. 177 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:29,320 He's telling us that he is able to bring victory in our lives. 178 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:34,440 He is able to sustain us in the depths of the storm and the throes of the winds of the 179 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:38,480 midnight hour that he is able to say, come unto me. 180 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:39,480 Why? 181 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:41,640 Because it gives me an assurance and a confidence. 182 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:48,560 He's standing on my situation and my situation isn't threatening his wellbeing. 183 00:11:48,560 --> 00:11:53,240 And if he bids me to come unto him, then it will not threaten my wellbeing because my 184 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:57,160 invitation is to come unto him. 185 00:11:57,160 --> 00:12:03,720 Come unto me. 186 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:10,840 The word come by definition means to move towards something, to move with a specified 187 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:13,240 purpose. 188 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:18,800 We have an invitation to come to him with a specified purpose. 189 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:24,240 Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and here's the purpose. 190 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:30,000 My purpose for my invitation is that you might have some rest. 191 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:31,520 I know how life is. 192 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:33,680 I know how the devil is in life. 193 00:12:33,680 --> 00:12:38,800 I know how the enemy against your soul is trying to keep you torn up day and night, 194 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:40,600 night and day through the course. 195 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:43,160 No rest for the weary we hear. 196 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:45,240 There's no rest but in the midst of it. 197 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:50,000 Well, in the midst of it all, we hear Jesus say, come, I've got a purpose for you. 198 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:51,480 I know you're working hard. 199 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:53,040 I know you're laboring. 200 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:54,520 I know you're heavy laden. 201 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:59,080 I know the load of the cares of this life are weighing you down. 202 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:02,760 But what I want you to do is make your way forward. 203 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:08,000 You've got to come over here to, ah, you've got to come over here to where I am. 204 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,000 Because where you are is the crisis. 205 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:15,120 But where I am, I'm standing in the course and the vein of victory on your behalf. 206 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:21,080 But if you'll move from where you are to where I am, then the rest that I offer you, the 207 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:26,160 peace that I'm going to provide, you will find it near me. 208 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:33,800 Now, you see, when we think about the disciples with Peter's occasion and he hears the Lord 209 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:45,080 say, come out of the boat, it takes great faith to leave the only safety that you have. 210 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:50,280 The only safety for them rationally was to stay in the boat. 211 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:55,400 But let me tell you something, not always, sometimes the boat will fall apart beneath 212 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:59,520 you, but as long as Christ is for you. 213 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:00,520 Hallelujah. 214 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:04,880 We'll find ourselves like the apostle Paul in the book of Acts. 215 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:09,560 He stood before those after that storm, it ravaged for days on end. 216 00:14:09,560 --> 00:14:14,480 And he stood and he told them, the angel of the Lord has spoken to me. 217 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:16,120 We're all going to make it. 218 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:19,360 Just don't jump ship. 219 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:20,400 We're going to make it. 220 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:22,440 We're going to lose everything on the boat. 221 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:25,640 We're going to lose the boat, but we're not going to lose a life. 222 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:30,120 If you remain steady with me, just stay close to me. 223 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:35,440 And some of them swam, some of them grabbed a plank, a piece of the ship, but they all 224 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:36,800 made it ashore. 225 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:38,800 What does that have to do with me? 226 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:40,920 Don't abandon the ship of Zion. 227 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:46,200 The old ship of Zion, the songwriter talked about is he who is extending the invitation 228 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:48,120 to you to come to him. 229 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:49,680 Do not abandon him. 230 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:51,080 Do not leave him. 231 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:52,320 Do not forsake him. 232 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:53,320 Why? 233 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:56,440 Because he's not leaving you and he's not forsaking you. 234 00:14:56,440 --> 00:15:01,320 And he's the only hope and the respite that you're going to get in a sin-cursed world 235 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:03,160 and in a Christ is written life. 236 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:05,960 He is the only hope that we're going to have. 237 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:16,440 And the only rest that we're going to get will be found in him. 238 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:22,520 Songwriter put it this way, just as I am with one plea, but that thy blood was shed for 239 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:26,840 me, that thou bidst me come to thee. 240 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:30,480 O Lamb of God, I come. 241 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:33,560 I come just as I am. 242 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:42,000 Thou wilt receive, wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve because thy promise I believe. 243 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:46,600 O Lamb of God, I come. 244 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:47,600 I come. 245 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:48,600 Hallelujah. 246 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:51,160 He's given an invitation. 247 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:53,160 He's extended it to you. 248 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:58,000 And when we think about the validity of the word come, he says, come to me. 249 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,120 He didn't just say come to some unknown position. 250 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:04,480 He didn't just come to any space out there. 251 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:06,520 But he says, you got to come to me. 252 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:12,720 My invitation is that you move forward toward me because when you come to me, I've got your 253 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:13,720 answer. 254 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:15,520 When you come to me, I've got your help. 255 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:16,520 Who is the me? 256 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:18,360 He is the son of God. 257 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:24,000 It is Jesus Christ, the righteous, the same person that said, I am the way, I am the truth, 258 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:30,360 I am the life, I am the bread, I am the door, I am the vine, I am the light, I am that I 259 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:31,360 am. 260 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:37,240 It's his declaration in the darkness of your night and when circumstance overwhelm and 261 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:41,080 you can't see, you come to him and he is the light. 262 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:42,080 Hallelujah. 263 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:47,640 When you can't find a way of escape, you go to him because he is the door that unleashes 264 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:49,200 the goodness and the grace. 265 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:52,080 He is the one when you can't hold on. 266 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:56,880 Take hold of the vine and the truth of the vine will carry you through when you're so 267 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:59,440 desperate and hungry and in anguish. 268 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:03,560 He is the bread that will sustain you. 269 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:10,640 Come to me. 270 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:18,160 We spend our time going so many places but he said, come to me. 271 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:23,080 He didn't say come to Wal-Mart. 272 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:27,600 He didn't say come to Food City. 273 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:33,120 He didn't say come to Bass Pro. 274 00:17:33,120 --> 00:17:36,720 He didn't say come to Dr. Phil. 275 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:41,320 He said come to me. 276 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:45,200 He knows who he is. 277 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,200 He knows what he can offer you. 278 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:53,000 He knows what he can provide for us when there is no other. 279 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,440 We go to him. 280 00:17:55,440 --> 00:18:01,560 John 6 37, all that the Father giveth me shall come to me and him that cometh to me I will 281 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:06,560 in no wise cast him out. 282 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:10,480 Jesus said I'll welcome you when you get here. 283 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:14,120 Has folks ever invited you somewhere and they not be home when you showed up? 284 00:18:14,120 --> 00:18:15,120 Huh? 285 00:18:15,120 --> 00:18:20,560 If you ever showed up and wanted to overstay your welcome, they say well, just turn the 286 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:23,440 light off and get ready to leave and then just leave you sitting there. 287 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:28,000 They will go on to bed because you've stayed a little too long. 288 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,080 They cast you out. 289 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:32,800 Jesus said you can come to me. 290 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:34,360 The lights always on. 291 00:18:34,360 --> 00:18:39,440 That what old Tom Bodette said, we'll leave the light on for you. 292 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:41,240 Amen. 293 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:45,380 It's better than staying at a hotel express. 294 00:18:45,380 --> 00:18:51,360 When you come to him, he says if you'll come to me, I'll have provision for you. 295 00:18:51,360 --> 00:18:55,000 If you'll come to me, I'll have an answer for you. 296 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:59,320 If you'll come to me, I have sustaining grace for you. 297 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:01,360 When you're at your wits end, where do you go? 298 00:19:01,360 --> 00:19:02,600 You go to him. 299 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:08,360 When you're burdened down so heavily and you don't know how you're going to get up tomorrow 300 00:19:08,360 --> 00:19:11,480 to make it through another day, you go to him. 301 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:13,240 He says come to me. 302 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:18,160 There's so many in this world making promises, but what we're doing is making our way to 303 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:23,480 he who has spoken because he who has spoken has the authority and the power of heaven 304 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:25,720 and releases it upon the earth. 305 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:30,380 When we come to him, we live in this world of empty promises. 306 00:19:30,380 --> 00:19:34,200 You got one party that says if you'll come to me, I'll make you rich. 307 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:38,520 There's another party says if y'all come to me, we'll make you happy, but they can do 308 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:39,520 nothing. 309 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:42,040 It's like when the devil made Eve a promise. 310 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:45,320 You'll never die and you'll be a smartest God. 311 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:46,640 He told a lie. 312 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:51,840 But I'm here to tell you he that has spoken the truth to you and the invitation of karma 313 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:54,120 is one who cannot lie. 314 00:19:54,120 --> 00:20:00,200 He's not made empty promises as everybody around can make a promise and not withhold, 315 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:05,560 but he's made a promise that he can fully keep because he's fully empowered to keep 316 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:12,760 the burden carrying and the weight lifting promise to us. 317 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:20,520 He that speaks the invitation to come is able to do what he says. 318 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:25,260 He has all power in heaven and on earth. 319 00:20:25,260 --> 00:20:30,900 He holds the keys to death, hell and the grave. 320 00:20:30,900 --> 00:20:35,820 He is the wonderful counselor. 321 00:20:35,820 --> 00:20:38,720 He is the mighty God. 322 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:44,580 He is the Prince of peace and the government of the whole thing. 323 00:20:44,580 --> 00:20:47,840 He bears on his own shoulders. 324 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:49,080 He bears it all. 325 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:54,320 This is who has spoken to you come to me. 326 00:20:54,320 --> 00:21:00,240 He who was is and is to come. 327 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:02,520 He is the Alpha and the Omega. 328 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:04,360 He is the beginning and the end. 329 00:21:04,360 --> 00:21:05,520 He is the Lord of Lords. 330 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:07,120 He is the King of Kings. 331 00:21:07,120 --> 00:21:10,000 He's coming with righteousness and truth. 332 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:11,440 He's coming to reign. 333 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:17,400 He is. 334 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,720 He's faithful who promised. 335 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:29,240 He will not deceive nor lie or break any promise. 336 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:34,400 That which he has stated, he will perform. 337 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:44,040 So if he has said come unto me, all you that are overworked and overburdened and I'll give 338 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:50,760 you rest, when you get there, he'll lighten your load. 339 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:53,000 Amen. 340 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:58,680 He'll take the burdens of this life and lighten our load and give you a respite in the midst 341 00:21:58,680 --> 00:21:59,680 of the storm. 342 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:04,120 It doesn't matter the wilderness that you feel like you're wandering or the desert through 343 00:22:04,120 --> 00:22:08,720 which you feel as though you're crawling through, nor the darkness that you feel like you're 344 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:11,240 groping trying to get out of. 345 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:17,200 If you can just get to him, if you can just get to him, he's invited. 346 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:18,680 He's made you welcome. 347 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:23,680 And if you can just make your way to him, whatever's got you bogged down, whatever's 348 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:29,200 got you exhausted and flabbergasted, whatever's got you confused and overwhelmed, he's going 349 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:33,480 to be the one that'll take his hand and lift a burden. 350 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:35,440 He's going to make your work easy. 351 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:44,000 He's going to let you take five. 352 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:50,680 Lord invites each of us to come to him. 353 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:59,080 It's for any person, for every person, those wanting to be saved and those wanting to be 354 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:07,440 lightened, whosoever will come unto him. 355 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:12,560 This invitation is all inclusive. 356 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,280 It includes any. 357 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:19,880 So don't think I'm not preaching to you today because I am. 358 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,280 It's for you. 359 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:23,880 It's conclusive as well. 360 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:30,200 He is the author and the finisher of the faith which we are living. 361 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:36,120 He's the originator and he's going to be the one who completes it. 362 00:23:36,120 --> 00:23:37,400 He's the one who is also promised. 363 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:44,120 He that began a good work in you is also able to complete it. 364 00:23:44,120 --> 00:23:48,660 This invitation come as exclusive as well. 365 00:23:48,660 --> 00:23:57,360 It rules out any other method other than him. 366 00:23:57,360 --> 00:23:59,960 It's singular in access. 367 00:23:59,960 --> 00:24:08,680 So it's a very exclusive club, but it's all inclusive so long as you come to him. 368 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,840 You can't go to Hare Krishna. 369 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:15,920 You can't look up, what is it, Song Yong Moon? 370 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:20,960 You can't go and stand by Mohammed's grave. 371 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:26,600 You couldn't even get access to where they say his last footstep is on that temple mount 372 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:27,800 platform in that rock. 373 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:32,480 You can't get in there and find help, but you can come to Jesus. 374 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,440 And you don't have to be in a sanctuary. 375 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:40,240 I heard one man testify how the Lord saved him in his bathroom and he used a commode 376 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:41,360 for a throne. 377 00:24:41,360 --> 00:24:42,360 It doesn't matter. 378 00:24:42,360 --> 00:24:44,640 He used a commode for an altar. 379 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:49,440 It doesn't matter where you meet Jesus so long as when you hear the word come and the 380 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:54,280 invitation to move forward toward him, you begin to make your way there. 381 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:56,240 I've heard him getting saved in the woods. 382 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:58,200 I've heard him get saved under cars. 383 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:01,760 I've heard of people getting saved in and everywhere on the face of this earth. 384 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:02,760 Why? 385 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:07,480 Because the moving power of the invitation of Jesus Christ who declares, come unto me. 386 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:09,880 There's deliverance from wherever you are. 387 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:13,360 If you're on the sea, if you come to him, he'll calm the wave. 388 00:25:13,360 --> 00:25:17,600 If you're in the midst of a fiery furnace, if you come to him, he'll see that you're 389 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:21,040 not burned and the flames not kindled up against you. 390 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:24,760 If you feel like you're walking through the rivers and you're drowning in life, you can 391 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:30,000 make your way to him and he'll declare that the waters will not overtake you and the floods 392 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:31,480 will not drown you. 393 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:35,080 If you simply make your way to him, there's no other way. 394 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:36,400 There's no other gate. 395 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:37,400 There's no other door. 396 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:53,720 But when you get to him, he's better than some of these sci-fi movies you watch with 397 00:25:53,720 --> 00:26:02,160 these time traveling door opening devices. 398 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:11,120 He's got one on Dr. Strange, you know, he does this. 399 00:26:11,120 --> 00:26:15,800 And the door begins to spin. 400 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,200 He just steps out there. 401 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,960 No, Jesus is better than that. 402 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:22,960 He just shows up. 403 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:30,160 He don't need... He don't need all that. 404 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,600 He just shows up. 405 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:34,880 How do you know, preacher? 406 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:41,560 Because after his death, burial, resurrection, his disciples were scared to death hiding 407 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:49,240 for their lives behind locked doors and there wasn't no... And he come through. 408 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,040 He just walked into the room. 409 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:55,560 And when he got into the room, he said, look, I am here. 410 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:57,440 And he breathed on him some peace. 411 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,240 He said, receive ye the Holy Ghost. 412 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:05,000 My God, he'll make his way to wherever you are. 413 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:10,160 If you're in Elijah and you're in a cave somewhere and you've done junk called the Juniper berry 414 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,000 juice, you can stand. 415 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:13,000 He'll make his way. 416 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:19,240 And a still small voice, he'll speak into your situation. 417 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:33,320 Well, I did not realize the marvel was going to make an appearance today. 418 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:44,640 But evidently, you've seen it and you're getting the point. 419 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:48,760 Thank God he don't need all that. 420 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:52,600 He is space and time in continuance. 421 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:54,400 Why? 422 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:58,780 Because he's in your tomorrow waiting on you to arrive. 423 00:27:58,780 --> 00:28:08,280 But he's walking with you through today. 424 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:09,520 How so? 425 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:10,520 Because he's omnipresent. 426 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:12,360 What's that mean? 427 00:28:12,360 --> 00:28:17,320 He's everywhere all the time. 428 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:23,840 Hey, it's time we take five. 429 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:25,640 Labor Day gives you a day off. 430 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,120 Don't work yourself to death tomorrow. 431 00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:31,280 Taking a break, sit down and rest. 432 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:38,760 One of the most spiritual things you can do is rest. 433 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:44,280 Jesus separated himself many occasions away from the crowd, away from ministry. 434 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,280 He went to the mountain. 435 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:47,840 He didn't just do nothing. 436 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:49,680 He prayed. 437 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:57,920 He talked to the father and he was rested, refreshed, renewed. 438 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:06,480 Coming to me all you that are feeling fatigued, toiling and weary, heavy laden, overburdened, 439 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:11,760 financial stressors, physical stressors, emotional stressors. 440 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:19,920 Tori Tittenboom put it this way, she said, worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrows. 441 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:27,160 It empties today of strength. 442 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:31,240 Worry doesn't empty tomorrow of sorrows. 443 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:36,040 It empties today of strength. 444 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:37,040 How pastor? 445 00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:41,960 You're stressed about tomorrow and you'll never enjoy the grace of God today. 446 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:49,560 But if you'll take five, rest in his grace today. 447 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:53,920 Not only will he grant you strength for the day that you're traveling, but he'll grant 448 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:59,240 you grace for the morrow that you enter. 449 00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:00,240 It's a response. 450 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:03,920 Coming to me all you that are laboring and heavy laden, I will give you rest. 451 00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:10,800 Repose, reprieve, refresh, peace of mind, rest of heart. 452 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:15,960 What can be said to those who receive life debilitating news? 453 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:20,360 I think it's best captured in an old song. 454 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:28,560 When darkness veils his lovely face, I rest on his unchanging grace. 455 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:36,160 And all around my soul gives way, he then is all my hope and stay. 456 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:44,480 On Christ, the solid rock I stand, all other ground is shifting sand. 457 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:49,600 All other ground is shifting sand. 458 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,600 That's who says come. 459 00:30:52,600 --> 00:31:01,800 Christ, rock of ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee. 460 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:02,800 Right? 461 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,880 That's who's saying come. 462 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:09,200 That's who's inviting you to make your way. 463 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:13,400 You've heard the story of Horatio Stafford, I know. 464 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:18,000 Very successful lawyer in the late 1800s. 465 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,600 Big financial crisis. 466 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:24,640 He sends his wife and four daughters on a trip. 467 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,120 225 people on board. 468 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:31,080 They were traveling by ship, of course. 469 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:37,840 There's a collision at sea and how there's a collision at sea with that type of sailing, 470 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:41,560 why two ships would be that close together. 471 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:46,400 Only 87 people survived. 472 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,720 His wife was one of those among the survivors. 473 00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:53,360 And finally made her way to land, she telegraphed her husband. 474 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,800 These are her words. 475 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,560 Saved alone. 476 00:31:58,560 --> 00:31:59,560 Children lost. 477 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:06,080 What shall I do? 478 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:14,120 Stafford left for France to go be with his wife and bring her back home to Chicago. 479 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:25,480 And in despair, overwhelmed with grief, I can't imagine how long it took him to get 480 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:32,120 to her, thinking about losing his four children. 481 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:40,600 But in that process, he pinned his one and only him. 482 00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:53,280 He said, when peace like a river attendeth my way, when sorrow like sea billows roll, 483 00:32:53,280 --> 00:33:11,520 whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say, it is well, it is well with my soul. 484 00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,320 And we have an invitation. 485 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:21,960 When things aren't well, when the billows of life, the waves of life seem to be crashing 486 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:31,520 down on our very existence, can we too say, it is well? 487 00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:38,160 I think I find myself with the originator of that phrase. 488 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:42,740 I find myself with a Shudamite woman. 489 00:33:42,740 --> 00:33:52,280 After she had received the promise of the prophet, a son was born to her, but in the 490 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:59,560 field working with his father, grabs his head and dies. 491 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:02,800 They bring the boy home to his mama. 492 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:09,640 She lays him on the prophet's bed, tells the husband, I need some transportation made ready, 493 00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:10,760 some servants to go with me. 494 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:16,800 I've got to go find the man of God. 495 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:22,760 And he says to her, woman, it's not time to go to church. 496 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,520 There's no festivals, there's no feast. 497 00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:26,760 Who even knows where he's at? 498 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:27,760 I'll find him. 499 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,560 You just make way. 500 00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:37,880 And on her journey, when she sees the man of God turns and says, is that not the Shudamite 501 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:43,960 woman, he's going to meet her and ask her if everything's all right. 502 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,680 Here's where I find myself. 503 00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:49,520 Is it well with thee? 504 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:51,260 It is well. 505 00:34:51,260 --> 00:34:53,760 Is it well with thine husband? 506 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:55,800 It is well. 507 00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,920 Is it well with thine son? 508 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:03,280 It shall be well. 509 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:04,280 That's where I find myself. 510 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:11,560 It is right now, but I'm coming to him. 511 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:16,640 It isn't so good at the very moment, but I'm making my way to him. 512 00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:21,600 You see, when she made her way to the prophet, she was making her way to access to God because 513 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:22,880 God used the prophet. 514 00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:27,120 He had put his spirit upon the prophet and the prophet would move and the prophet followed 515 00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:30,500 her home and the prophet raised her son back to life. 516 00:35:30,500 --> 00:35:34,680 When you come to him, when you come to Jesus, that's our access. 517 00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:36,200 We don't got to find a prophet. 518 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:39,120 You can come alone at any time. 519 00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:46,640 You can approach him at your discretion and you can declare it shall be well. 520 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:51,120 Stand with me all over the house. 521 00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:59,600 When you don't have anywhere else to go, you can go to him. 522 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:03,240 Please remember this invitation. 523 00:36:03,240 --> 00:36:11,840 When you need to take five spiritually, emotionally, you come to him. 524 00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:23,440 You find him because he said come. 525 00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:27,000 It isn't so good right now, but it shall be. 526 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:28,000 Amen. 527 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:31,000 That's faith. 528 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:36,840 And I express my faith because of my invitation. 529 00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:43,880 Isaiah 40, 29 says he gives power to the faint, to them that have no mind. 530 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,480 He increases their strength. 531 00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:47,480 Who's that for? 532 00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:51,920 Those who are laboring just to make it. 533 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:55,080 It's not that you have to get up and go and face the grind and work every day. 534 00:36:55,080 --> 00:37:00,000 That becomes physically fatiguing, but when you have to get up and face the devil every 535 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:07,760 day, you face the enemy and you make go through the grind of spiritual warfare daily. 536 00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:12,800 You get spiritually tired, fatigued, exhausted. 537 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:20,560 The Psalmist said in 73, 26, my flesh and my heart fail, but God is the strength of 538 00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:28,160 my heart and my portion forever. 539 00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:44,280 Second Samuel 22, 33 says God is my strength and power and he makes my way perfect. 540 00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:51,120 It shall be will folks. 541 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:55,960 He knows what you're facing. 542 00:37:55,960 --> 00:38:00,920 He knows the storm. 543 00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:02,260 He knows the fire. 544 00:38:02,260 --> 00:38:07,300 He knows the wilderness. 545 00:38:07,300 --> 00:38:09,960 He knows it all. 546 00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:13,980 He knows the burden that you're carrying. 547 00:38:13,980 --> 00:38:17,020 He knows why you're carrying it. 548 00:38:17,020 --> 00:38:19,640 He knows what the enemy has done against you. 549 00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:22,120 He knows how he's turned loved ones away from you. 550 00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:25,840 He knows. 551 00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,520 And you know what he says? 552 00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:33,760 Come to me. 553 00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:38,920 He knows if your body's failing you. 554 00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:41,920 You know what he says? 555 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:49,680 He knows if you're tormented financially, spiritually, emotionally. 556 00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:51,520 He knows if the battle's in your mind. 557 00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:57,200 He knows what happens in the midnight hours. 558 00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,640 You know what he says? 559 00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:02,480 Come on. 560 00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:10,240 If that's you today. 561 00:39:10,240 --> 00:39:12,360 I extend his invitation to you. 562 00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:13,360 Come. 563 00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:14,760 I want to pray with you. 564 00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:15,760 I want to pray for you. 565 00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:17,880 I want to pray over you. 566 00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:19,120 He knows what's going on. 567 00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:20,120 He knows everything. 568 00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:23,600 And if you need him, you got to come. 569 00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:25,160 You got to move your way forward. 570 00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:40,800 Take your way forward.