1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:16,100 Welcome to Hub City Vineyard. 2 00:00:16,100 --> 00:00:22,720 To get connected or to give online, go to hcv.church or give.htv.church. 3 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:26,960 If at any point during this message you feel called to make a change in your life, text 4 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:30,400 change me to 970-00. 5 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:33,520 Thank you and enjoy the message. 6 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:34,920 This is Sharon Mead everybody. 7 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:39,840 She is joining us from Vineyard Community Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia. 8 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:40,840 I'm a little jealous. 9 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:45,300 Many of you know I love the beach and wanted to plant there, but God had other plans. 10 00:00:45,300 --> 00:00:46,300 We ended up here. 11 00:00:46,300 --> 00:00:48,440 I mean really in this place. 12 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:54,920 But anyway, Sharon and Andy have been our regional leaders in the vineyard for the last 13 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:55,920 10 years. 14 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:59,640 They are our specialized regional leaders and they are just strong impactful leaders 15 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:03,880 that have been a great job leading the vineyard and leading the Mid-Atlantic region. 16 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:08,240 She has just got something special for all of you this morning. 17 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:10,520 This series is just, I'm just excited about this series. 18 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:15,360 It's just going to be a great month of March as we dive into the Bible and find those women 19 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:16,360 that said yes. 20 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:17,360 Amen? 21 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:18,360 Amen. 22 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:19,360 Alright Sharon, it's all yours. 23 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:20,360 Thank you. 24 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:21,360 Alright guys. 25 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:25,200 Well, I do want to say hi from Virginia Beach. 26 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:27,960 While it might be warm for you, I've got my boots on. 27 00:01:27,960 --> 00:01:30,480 I was thinking about putting my coat back on. 28 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:31,480 Right? 29 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:34,120 It's a little chilly for me, but it's beautiful. 30 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:35,120 It's beautiful. 31 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:36,800 I love my drive up here. 32 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:44,040 I want to encourage you because I really think that, yeah, you have some of the most just 33 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:46,880 beloved pastors, right? 34 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:51,400 And Chris and Jess, they're very special, but it's not just them, it's their children. 35 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:56,920 I'm going to tell you, down in Virginia Beach, we love the children, their children when 36 00:01:56,920 --> 00:01:58,520 they come in, right? 37 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:00,440 And so we so enjoy them. 38 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:03,000 And I want to tell you what a gem you have. 39 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:10,680 Their example to be a passion, you know, and just to care for the community is huge. 40 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:14,040 It's unmatched in my opinion, right? 41 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:16,920 And so make sure you take good care of them, alright? 42 00:02:16,920 --> 00:02:19,400 Or we'll be having them down in Virginia Beach. 43 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:20,400 No. 44 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:21,400 That's not true. 45 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:22,400 They wouldn't leave you. 46 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:23,960 They love you so very much. 47 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:24,960 Alright. 48 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:28,840 Well, it is my practice to always like to open in prayer, okay? 49 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:32,480 And so if you bow your heads, I'm going to just take just a few moments and invite the 50 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:37,680 Holy Spirit, which is God's presence, to even come more than it is now. 51 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:41,960 Yes, Father. 52 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:44,920 Holy Spirit, you are welcome here. 53 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:47,480 Yes, Lord. 54 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:48,480 I hear you. 55 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:52,520 You know, every hair on every head that walked in here. 56 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:55,960 That says He's well acquainted with you. 57 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:56,960 Ah. 58 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:03,240 And He has brought you, I see that He's brought you in for a moment such as this because He 59 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:04,760 wants to talk to you. 60 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:07,840 He wants your life to change. 61 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:13,320 And it's not because I have any special skills, but because He loves you. 62 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:18,640 So Holy Spirit, I ask that you would pull every wall, Father, that you would pull it 63 00:03:18,640 --> 00:03:19,640 down. 64 00:03:19,640 --> 00:03:26,360 That you would cause nothing to be erected before you and Him, you and her, you and them, 65 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:27,360 Lord. 66 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:30,760 That your Spirit might go in and hit its target. 67 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:32,320 I thank you, Jesus. 68 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:34,840 I thank you for your love and your mercy. 69 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:40,680 And I thank you that you'll take this humble message and you'll use it, Father. 70 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:41,680 In Jesus' name. 71 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:42,680 Amen. 72 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:43,680 Amen. 73 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:49,160 Okay, well I am blessed and honored to open up your series. 74 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:51,040 She said yes, right? 75 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:54,600 I'm very honored that they asked me to do that. 76 00:03:54,600 --> 00:04:00,520 And when I was praying for you on one of our Saturday prayer services we had, I was sitting 77 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:03,840 there and going through my stuff and then I brought up Hubb sitting. 78 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:06,640 I said, well, what do they need to hear about, Lord? 79 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:08,840 And he said, I want you to be speaking on Mary. 80 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:09,840 I said, Mary? 81 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:10,840 Mary? 82 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:12,840 And he goes, Mother of Jesus? 83 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:16,040 And I was like, Lord, it's not Christmas, right? 84 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:21,360 So we're all familiar with that story, you know, the Mother of Jesus, because it gets 85 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:23,640 recounted all the time, doesn't it? 86 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:24,640 At Christmas. 87 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:27,440 So we're all kind of familiar with that and we give her a nod. 88 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:31,360 But you see, she deserves more than a nod, right? 89 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:34,980 She's probably one of the most powerful women in the Bible. 90 00:04:34,980 --> 00:04:37,160 And she has a lot to say to us. 91 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:41,600 I also think she's the most misunderstood woman, okay? 92 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:42,600 Why? 93 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:47,520 Because I think tradition has gotten a hold of her and in certain religious circles they 94 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:51,040 have elevated her up to be like a god, right? 95 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:53,320 That she's equal with Jesus. 96 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:54,320 And the scriptures don't teach that. 97 00:04:54,320 --> 00:05:00,500 And matter of fact, I think if Mary were here today, she would tell you, she would tell 98 00:05:00,500 --> 00:05:04,320 you that she herself needs a savior. 99 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:05,320 She's not a god. 100 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:08,480 Actually, she's a very ordinary lady. 101 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:13,920 She's an ordinary woman that had extraordinary things happen when she said yes to God. 102 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:17,500 And so she is so worthy of us looking to her, right? 103 00:05:17,500 --> 00:05:20,680 And I'm gonna tell you, I'm gonna try to humanize her for you because I know people 104 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:25,360 lift her up and make her out to be this glorious human being and she is. 105 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:27,360 But it gets lost. 106 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:28,560 She's so human like us. 107 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:32,360 Matter of fact, when the angel came and talked to Mary, right? 108 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:35,100 Mary was just a little 14-year-old girl, right? 109 00:05:35,100 --> 00:05:39,600 When the angel first appeared to her, that's what the historians tell us, about 14. 110 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:45,400 And so when he came to her, right, to talk to her, he said, you can remember a story 111 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:49,080 where the angel comes in, you can see the angel comes in and says, hey, Mary. 112 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:51,760 Now that would be enough to scare most of us, right? 113 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:53,920 But hey, Mary, I'm here. 114 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:55,880 I got some good news for you. 115 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:58,720 You're gonna get pregnant with God's son. 116 00:05:58,720 --> 00:05:59,720 You know? 117 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:00,720 It's like, whoa. 118 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:04,000 Mary's like, what? 119 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:05,760 That's the plan for my life? 120 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:06,760 Right? 121 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:12,120 And so all of a sudden, it hits her and, you know, and I'm thinking that she's there going, 122 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:17,040 wow, I'm gonna tell people I'm pregnant, no husband, and it's God's son. 123 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:18,960 They're gonna say I'm cray-cray. 124 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:20,280 That's my paraphrase. 125 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:22,280 I am crazy, right? 126 00:06:22,280 --> 00:06:24,080 And so you can just see that. 127 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:25,640 But here you go, guys. 128 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:30,320 Out of the response that Mary gave, right, the way she responded to the angel and then 129 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:35,640 how she conducted her life, she has actually made a pathway for you and I, a pathway to 130 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:40,520 be able to understand how she did her life that we could follow in her example. 131 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:46,440 So she has a lot to say to us, and she wants us to understand that these, what we call 132 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:51,000 God moments will come into our lives, and she wants us to take advantage of those. 133 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:52,560 Now what are God moments? 134 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:56,360 God moments are just the Holy Spirit in breaking, happening. 135 00:06:56,360 --> 00:07:00,520 You know, the Holy Spirit is the spiritual aspect, and it in breaks into the physical 136 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:03,580 world, it in breaks into our world, all right? 137 00:07:03,580 --> 00:07:07,960 And so Mary wants us to understand that this stuff is going on all the time. 138 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:09,680 The Holy Spirit has given us direction. 139 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:13,760 He was in here talking to some of you when we were worshiping, right? 140 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:17,560 And so he's talking a lot more than we're listening, right? 141 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:22,040 But he wants us to move for the extraordinary, to come out of the ordinary and go into the 142 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:23,960 extraordinary, right? 143 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:28,200 So that requires us to allow him to work in our lives. 144 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:31,000 And so today we're going to take, and I'm going to show you just a couple of simple 145 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:35,000 things that Mary did that impacted her life and can impact ours. 146 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:36,000 Okay? 147 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,920 So pull out your outline. 148 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:43,880 First thing, she said yes when her God moment came, when she says to us, they often seem 149 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:45,680 impossible. 150 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:49,120 They often seem impossible, right? 151 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:51,000 You know, I would go beyond that. 152 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,000 They're not just impossible. 153 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,120 They're like scary. 154 00:07:55,120 --> 00:08:00,040 They are, they're frightening and they're awkward and you just, you know, you just can't 155 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:01,560 conceive them in your brain. 156 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:06,040 Your brain just doesn't want to compute that this is happening, you know, when you hear 157 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:09,480 things that God will talk to you or move on you. 158 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:14,720 And so we see the first thing is when Mary had her first encounter, her God encounter, 159 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:17,360 I want you to see what happens here. 160 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:19,840 It's in Luke 1, 31 through 34. 161 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:26,480 It says this, you will conceive and give birth to a son and you are to call him Jesus. 162 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:31,080 He will be great and will be called the son of the most high. 163 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:36,880 The Lord God gave him the throne of his father David and he will reign over Jacob's descendants 164 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:37,880 forever. 165 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:40,160 His kingdom will never end. 166 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:42,160 I like this part. 167 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:46,160 How will this be, Mary asked the angels since I am a virgin. 168 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:49,640 Here's what I think is funny, right? 169 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:54,120 She gets this pronouncement and it's right. 170 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:58,920 And so I love this because she only goes to grab the thing she knows, right? 171 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:04,640 And so she talks to him, she goes, Hey, angel, just in case she didn't know, you have to 172 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:07,680 have sex with somebody to get pregnant. 173 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:09,320 Not me, right? 174 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:14,200 So she's like trying to correct the angel because in her mind, nothing has prepared 175 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:15,720 her for this moment. 176 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:16,720 Right? 177 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:24,000 So you get this pronunciation of this great thing that God wants to do and she's like 178 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,000 struggling with it, right? 179 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:29,120 You know, the human mind cannot understand it. 180 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:32,000 She didn't even get to the part that's going to be God's son, right? 181 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,080 She's just stuck with, Hey, you can't get pregnant that way. 182 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:36,080 Right? 183 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:39,280 And so with us, I think it's true. 184 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:43,600 You know, when God gives us something and we can't figure it out in our minds, right? 185 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:45,840 Our mind can't comprehend it, right? 186 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:50,520 We begin to push back on God and we're like, wait a minute, God, you know, this can't happen. 187 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:54,000 I see it over and over and over again in my church. 188 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:58,160 When I'm working with people, you know, I can sense a God moment happening, right? 189 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:00,640 And I'm like, Oh, this is so cool. 190 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:04,320 And then people will turn to me and they'll be talking to me and say, Hey, I don't understand 191 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:05,320 that. 192 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:09,320 If I can't understand it up here in this brain, then I'm not jumping, right? 193 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:10,320 I'm not going to jump. 194 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:14,320 And it could be when salvation is offered to them, right? 195 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:16,280 And they're in a dark place and God's calling them out. 196 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:19,280 It's like, I don't want, I got to understand it all up here. 197 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:20,280 Right? 198 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:24,560 Or we're talking about how God wants us to be with our bodies, what he wants us to do 199 00:10:24,560 --> 00:10:26,640 with our bodies, right? 200 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:29,840 Or how he wants, you know, us to handle his finances. 201 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:36,040 When any time a person can't understand from here, a reasoning type person might, they're 202 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:37,760 going to go, um, I'm going to push away. 203 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:38,760 No, thank you. 204 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:39,760 No, thank you. 205 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:41,000 I don't want that. 206 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:45,640 And I always give, I always draw back, I'm pretty gentle girl for the most part. 207 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:48,480 Uh, but there is a part that isn't anyway. 208 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:53,440 So I'll step back and go, okay, then let's see how that works out for you. 209 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:54,440 Right? 210 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:58,880 Because I know that they'll never encounter God's fullness of what God has for them. 211 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:03,120 If they try to make everything make sense in their brain, it's like you take the God 212 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:06,800 of the cosmos and you say, you're going to work in my brain. 213 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:10,560 If I can't understand you right here, then it ain't real. 214 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:11,560 No. 215 00:11:11,560 --> 00:11:12,560 Right? 216 00:11:12,560 --> 00:11:15,280 God is bigger than our mind. 217 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:17,760 That's why he's God and we're not. 218 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:21,680 And so we need to get out of our mind and then we need to drop it down into our hearts. 219 00:11:21,680 --> 00:11:22,680 Right? 220 00:11:22,680 --> 00:11:24,960 We need to think through our heart also. 221 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:26,600 That needs to be a part. 222 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:31,600 And it's almost like God is saying, you know, get out of here, come here and trust me. 223 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:32,600 Right? 224 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:35,280 Trust me and follow in this impossible situation. 225 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:39,720 Now, my practice is always talk to the Lord in the morning. 226 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:42,120 It's because my life. 227 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:43,120 Right? 228 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:44,720 It's how I breathe each day. 229 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:46,840 And so I get up and I spend time with Him. 230 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:52,760 Well, in our church, my particular, because I work side by side with my husband. 231 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:53,760 Right? 232 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:57,840 We are co-senior founding pastors and people always go, look, how does that work? 233 00:11:57,840 --> 00:11:59,520 Well, it's our gift mix. 234 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:01,200 We lead out of our gift mix. 235 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:05,000 We always come together and so we can have an agreement on where we're going. 236 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:06,000 Okay? 237 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:10,320 We lead out of those folks that are following in those ministry areas that we're leading 238 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:11,320 out of. 239 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:12,320 That's how that works. 240 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:17,760 Anyway, mine is I am a person who comes out of business. 241 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:18,760 Right? 242 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:19,760 In education. 243 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:21,640 And so we were getting ready. 244 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:25,880 We just bought our building and we paid it off three years, so excited about when we 245 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:26,880 did that. 246 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:30,080 And then we were turned around and I knew we had to renovate this building. 247 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:35,800 And so I was making a campaign, trying to put it all together and stuff so that I could 248 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:39,080 go to the people and present it before them and stuff. 249 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:45,520 And in the process, that morning time, the Holy Spirit shows up and He says, Sharon, 250 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:47,280 whenever He says your name, look out. 251 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:48,280 Right? 252 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:51,360 He says, Sharon, I want you to do something different. 253 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:53,120 I was like, okay. 254 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:56,560 He says, I want you to build somebody else's church first. 255 00:12:56,560 --> 00:12:59,160 I said, what? 256 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:04,600 And He goes, yeah, I want you to collect the money to build the church in a little place, 257 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:07,080 an impoverished place that I'm part of. 258 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:08,800 It's down in Mexico. 259 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:11,840 You've been there before and they don't have a building. 260 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:14,520 And I want you to build their building first. 261 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:15,520 Wow. 262 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:19,000 You know, yes, the shock and all. 263 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:20,000 Right? 264 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:21,000 That's the impossible. 265 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,120 I'm like, come on, God, does that mean we can't do our house? 266 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:26,320 You mean you want me to prioritize their house over my house? 267 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:28,120 He's like, mm-hmm. 268 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:29,120 Mm-hmm. 269 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:31,120 So God speaks to us. 270 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:32,120 I couldn't figure it out. 271 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:33,120 I did what Mary did. 272 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:34,760 I did what Mary did. 273 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:39,240 I'm like, God, let me tell you, this isn't a good business plan. 274 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:40,240 You know? 275 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:42,040 I'm like, why do we do that, right? 276 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:43,040 But we do. 277 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:44,400 I'm like, it's not a good business plan. 278 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:46,400 He's like, nope, I want you to do it anyway. 279 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:48,640 And matter of fact, He gave me a scripture. 280 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:49,640 He gave me a scripture. 281 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:50,640 It's on your outline. 282 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:51,640 It's in Mark 10, 27. 283 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:59,320 It says this, Jesus looked at them and said, with man, this is impossible, but not with 284 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:00,320 God. 285 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:02,200 All things are possible with God. 286 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:08,080 And so what He was telling me, and He tells you and I, right, together, is that what seems 287 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:10,240 impossible is possible with Him. 288 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:13,480 We just gotta focus there and not here, right? 289 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:17,840 And so this is gonna be an important theme that comes through because I truly believe 290 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:22,680 that God gives us the impossible because we come to the point of knowing that we can't 291 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:23,720 do it. 292 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:26,640 And so we have to trust Him if it's gonna happen. 293 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:27,640 See that? 294 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:28,640 We have to trust Him. 295 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:33,960 And so Mary's leading us on this journey and we go, oh, so when our God moments come, they 296 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:36,040 are supposed to be impossible. 297 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:37,680 They do feel like that. 298 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:42,800 The next thing she says when God moments come, that we're supposed to be able to say, just 299 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:45,000 say yes. 300 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:46,000 Just say yes. 301 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:47,720 It's like, really? 302 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:50,920 I saw those dresses up there and you know what I thought of, girls? 303 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:51,920 Just say yes to the dress. 304 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:54,400 I was like, oh, okay, God. 305 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:57,000 Well sometimes it's complicated, isn't it? 306 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:58,040 Just say yes. 307 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:01,920 And watch this, what Mary says here in Luke 1, 38. 308 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:04,800 I am the Lord's servant. 309 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:05,800 Okay? 310 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:09,640 Mary answered, may your words be to me fulfilled. 311 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:11,480 Then the angel left her. 312 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:14,960 And so what I want you to see here is that she agreed. 313 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:16,480 She agreed with the words. 314 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:20,480 And so God wants us to agree with the word that He wants to share with us, whether we're 315 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:24,400 reading it or somebody's, you know, praying over us and it comes up, right? 316 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:25,400 He says agree with it. 317 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:27,960 If He puts a dream in your heart. 318 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:28,960 Agree with it. 319 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:30,520 We agree with it, right? 320 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:33,880 And so we need to know that that's something that He wants us to do. 321 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:39,240 I actually have heard a teaching and I thought, oh, this is brilliant, about Mary. 322 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:44,800 When Mary actually said yes, when she said yes, she actually got pregnant at that moment 323 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:47,400 because that's when faith got released, right? 324 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:48,400 I thought, oh, I like that. 325 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:50,320 I'm gonna steal that and use that, right? 326 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:51,320 It's good stuff. 327 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:52,320 It's good stuff. 328 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:55,600 The yes is the signing on the dotted line. 329 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:56,600 Very important. 330 00:15:56,600 --> 00:16:02,600 It's very important and so we need to understand that God is waiting for us to say yes, even 331 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:04,480 when we don't understand it. 332 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:05,480 And it seems impossible. 333 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:08,000 He says say yes and follow me. 334 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:13,920 And even if you're afraid, you see, again, I think Mary being pregnant, right, without 335 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:18,080 being married in that time and age, that's a shameful thing, right? 336 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:21,800 I mean, she was part of a Jewish community, right? 337 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:27,680 So I can just see now, you know, she's living with her family, her belly starts to grow 338 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:30,880 and her parents are looking at her thinking, is she eating more or what? 339 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:31,880 Right? 340 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:35,040 Her belly's starting to grow and they're like, they're looking at her and go, come on, you 341 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:38,040 and Joseph could wait, right? 342 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:39,800 Yes, right? 343 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:45,960 And then Joseph, poor Joseph, when he gets that news, right, he's gonna not only be devastated 344 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:47,560 but he's gonna feel like she's unfaithful. 345 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:50,520 Hey, this is not mine, right? 346 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:55,920 And we know that from scripture, that he wrestled with this and God had intervened. 347 00:16:55,920 --> 00:17:01,000 So this whole group of people that she's very close to, they're pushing back. 348 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:06,400 Her society or her culture is gonna push back and say that this is scandalous. 349 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:10,000 Nobody's gonna believe that this is God's child, right? 350 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:13,160 And Mary knew all that, all that. 351 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:15,760 And she said yes. 352 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:17,920 She said yes to God, right? 353 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:22,360 So it's something we need to do, even if it's hard and it's dark and you're not quite sure. 354 00:17:22,360 --> 00:17:28,200 I was thinking about a teaching that Jesus gave us when he was walking on the earth with 355 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:33,560 his disciples and it involves a man named Jairus who was a synagogue leader. 356 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:40,320 Well, Jairus comes to Jesus and his daughter is very sick and so he falls down and he pleads 357 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:42,780 with Jesus, please come to my home. 358 00:17:42,780 --> 00:17:46,040 My daughter's so sick, she's going to die. 359 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:49,080 Jesus has compassion and says, okay, I'll go. 360 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:50,080 I'll go. 361 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:54,440 But we know from scripture that on the way to the house that there were so many people 362 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:57,140 that are compressing Jesus all around, touching him. 363 00:17:57,140 --> 00:18:01,400 And scripture tells us, you know, there was a healing, he stops to have a conversation 364 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:07,600 and right in the middle, somebody from Jairus' household comes and looks and says, your daughter's 365 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:08,720 dead. 366 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:10,880 Do not bother the master anymore. 367 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:13,040 It's too late. 368 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:15,760 I just wonder if that's how some of you feel. 369 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:19,600 Things have gone on and you just feel like this is just too late. 370 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:22,980 How could God help us in the midst of where we're at? 371 00:18:22,980 --> 00:18:25,440 Now watch what Jesus says here. 372 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:31,440 Over hearing what they said, Jesus told them, don't be afraid. 373 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:33,760 Just believe. 374 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:35,080 Just believe. 375 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:40,040 You know, Jesus wants to challenge us to get our eyes off our situation and to believe 376 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:42,080 that he can do the impossible. 377 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:43,960 Just say yes. 378 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:44,960 Yes, God. 379 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:47,200 You know, I can't do it, but you can. 380 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:49,280 And so God is looking for that. 381 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:53,720 He's looking, he wants to resurrect, I hear that, he wants to resurrect some dreams tonight. 382 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:56,600 He wants to resurrect some things in your life. 383 00:18:56,600 --> 00:19:01,920 And you have to go with him and say, yes, God, I believe you can do it and take that 384 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:02,920 step of faith. 385 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:04,800 That's how you do that. 386 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:11,640 All right, the next thing that Mother, Jesus, just as Mom said as a teenage girl when she 387 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:16,360 said yes to God, she said her God moment produced, right, this. 388 00:19:16,360 --> 00:19:18,960 They open up God's best in your life. 389 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:24,520 So this door gets to be opened up for God's best, for him to descend on you, right? 390 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:31,320 And so when these doors open up and we say, yes, I'm stepping into it, right, and we start 391 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:34,600 to walk in that, that's an act of obedience. 392 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:38,500 And it's an act where you have to go, I think you know better than me, right? 393 00:19:38,500 --> 00:19:42,940 But once you're starting to walk that way, resist the whys, you know? 394 00:19:42,940 --> 00:19:44,240 Why God is it this way? 395 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:45,520 Why did you close that door? 396 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:47,000 Why did that person die? 397 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,520 Why, why was somebody so cruel to me? 398 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:51,520 Why? 399 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:53,840 You can fill in the blanks, right? 400 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:59,240 And you know you're going down that way and the tendency is to want to go why. 401 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:03,940 But you know, I've been doing ministry for over 40 years and I have learned with every 402 00:20:03,940 --> 00:20:10,120 yes and stepping that the why I no longer need, it starts to go away. 403 00:20:10,120 --> 00:20:11,120 Why? 404 00:20:11,120 --> 00:20:16,720 Because the one that has been faithful in my past is faithful in the present and he's 405 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:19,600 so faithful in my future, right? 406 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:22,200 And so we just got to know that. 407 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:27,280 And I was looking at Mary and I surmised that when she said yes in her fear, she still said 408 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:28,980 yes, she started walking. 409 00:20:28,980 --> 00:20:32,080 And when I read scriptures, here's what I think is happening here. 410 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:35,420 I think she's getting discouraged, right? 411 00:20:35,420 --> 00:20:37,000 Because things are happening around her. 412 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:41,840 She's getting these negative things come at her, you know, especially in her hometown stuff. 413 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:43,680 And I think she's going to get out of Dodge, right? 414 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:45,880 She's going to leave her hometown. 415 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:50,660 Because next thing we know, we know that she is going to, which girls in that time didn't 416 00:20:50,660 --> 00:20:55,920 travel by themselves, but she's going to go to her cousin Elizabeth's house, right? 417 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:57,760 She's going to go there and hide out. 418 00:20:57,760 --> 00:20:59,780 That's what I say, right? 419 00:20:59,780 --> 00:21:04,320 Because she's beginning to feel anything but helped, you know, anything but blessed. 420 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:09,940 I mean, this is hard for her and she's feeling so discouraged and thinking, you know, what's 421 00:21:09,940 --> 00:21:11,060 happening here, God? 422 00:21:11,060 --> 00:21:16,360 I'm not quite sure and I'm not strong, I love this, I'm not strong enough to do this. 423 00:21:16,360 --> 00:21:18,400 I'm afraid, right? 424 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:22,200 And so you can see that when you're reading the scripture, when you start to sit and reflect 425 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:23,200 on them. 426 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:27,400 And I love the fact that God knew that she was going to get discouraged. 427 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:28,880 Yeah, I hear that. 428 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,120 God knows you are discouraged. 429 00:21:31,120 --> 00:21:33,040 God sees that and He knows that. 430 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:37,280 And He wants to speak into whatever that discouragement is, right? 431 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:41,080 And so for Mary, He provided her cousin Elizabeth. 432 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:45,400 Now Elizabeth had her own God moment, you know, that she stepped in and said yes, her 433 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:47,800 and her husband, because she's pregnant, right? 434 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:49,720 And she's ahead of Mary. 435 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:54,760 She's pregnant and she's going to have John the Baptist, who's the forerunner and preparer 436 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:56,720 for Jesus Christ, right? 437 00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:01,600 And so now Mary's at the doorstep of Elizabeth's home. 438 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:03,880 Elizabeth didn't know she was coming. 439 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,880 Elizabeth didn't know she was pregnant and yet look what Elizabeth says here. 440 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:14,360 In Luke 1, 42, she says, in a loud voice, Elizabeth exclaimed, blessed are you among 441 00:22:14,360 --> 00:22:18,120 women and blessed is the child you will bear. 442 00:22:18,120 --> 00:22:19,120 How does she know that? 443 00:22:19,120 --> 00:22:21,440 The Holy Spirit is telling her stuff. 444 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:29,960 Blessed is she, blessed is she, Mary, who has believed, right, said yes, that the Lord, 445 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:34,120 to the Lord would fulfill His promises to her. 446 00:22:34,120 --> 00:22:40,040 And so Mary now, who's standing unsure, is getting greeted with this positive message, 447 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:41,040 right? 448 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:44,440 She's getting greeted with this, you can do it, God's in the middle of this, He told me 449 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:48,240 about this, isn't this great, even my baby jumped, right? 450 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:51,320 And so what you see is God is preparing a way. 451 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:56,000 And I think He used Elizabeth, by the way, girls that are older like me, right? 452 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,720 Because He uses us older girls because we've gone through life. 453 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:03,320 You know the perspective, you know to tell younger women, you know, hang on, right? 454 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:05,000 Hang on, because it's going to get better. 455 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:06,640 Same with the older guys. 456 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:12,280 God wants to use you in the years you've had, if you are a man of faith, He wants to use 457 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:17,540 that because you've seen God time and time again carry through and do stuff. 458 00:23:17,540 --> 00:23:20,800 And so we need to know that that's exactly what's going on here. 459 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,520 Elizabeth has given her a different perspective. 460 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:28,120 Now I started thinking about in my life, right? 461 00:23:28,120 --> 00:23:35,360 In my life, saying yes to Christ has been a journey, has been a journey for me, being 462 00:23:35,360 --> 00:23:38,520 able to just, I don't know, trust Him, right? 463 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:44,420 There's a lot of things that have happened in my life and I have said one yes after another. 464 00:23:44,420 --> 00:23:50,120 One very profound one though came when I had to have children, right? 465 00:23:50,120 --> 00:23:53,320 I got married when I was 29, right? 466 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:57,720 I was smitten by Pastor Andy Meade, who was just a kid at the time in grad school with 467 00:23:57,720 --> 00:23:58,720 me. 468 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:02,860 And you know, he was going to become a minister of me. 469 00:24:02,860 --> 00:24:06,240 I was a business and an education major. 470 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:08,840 That's what I, and I actually had my own business at the time, right? 471 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:11,080 So that's my trajectory. 472 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:18,160 And so anyway, I marry him and we try to have children and over five years we lost numerous 473 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,520 children in miscarriages. 474 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:22,680 So hard, so hard. 475 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:29,480 And so, you know, I talked to the Lord a lot about it because it was something that burns 476 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:31,560 inside of you, right? 477 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:36,360 Especially when you're a leader type person and you can't make something happen, right 478 00:24:36,360 --> 00:24:37,360 girls, guys? 479 00:24:37,360 --> 00:24:39,240 Yeah, it's true. 480 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:42,680 So in spending time with the Lord though, He did promise me, I'm going to give you a 481 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:45,080 child and He actually gave me His name. 482 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:46,080 His name is Samuel. 483 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:51,880 I was like, okay, but then when I got pregnant and they did an ultrasound on Samuel because 484 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:57,120 I was high risk and they came away with, oh, this is about the fourth month now. 485 00:24:57,120 --> 00:24:58,760 They're going, oh, he has some problems. 486 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,600 I was like, oh gosh, okay, what? 487 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,920 And so they described his problems called C-CAM and it's where his heart can be pressed 488 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:08,080 by the lungs and so it's just a mess. 489 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:13,120 And so their advice to me when we sat down is, hey, here's what's going to happen. 490 00:25:13,120 --> 00:25:17,320 Well, they first told me to abort him and then they could see I wasn't really grooving 491 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,080 on that nor Andy. 492 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:23,640 And so they began to tell me of the painful journey we would have where he would slowly 493 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:29,600 die in the womb and then I would either birth him stillborn or he would die shortly after 494 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:31,260 birth, right? 495 00:25:31,260 --> 00:25:35,320 And so I pushed back, decided to say, God, I'm going to believe you. 496 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:37,480 I'm going to trust in you, right? 497 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:42,160 So I started walking through that pregnancy, ended up in bed rest where I had to count 498 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:43,160 his movements, right? 499 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:46,400 Because they were going to, when he stopped moving, they were going to take him out of 500 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:50,320 me, C-section to make sure he was, they could give him a shot. 501 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:56,160 So all that to say that about the, I don't know, end of the seventh month, I really took 502 00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:00,680 an inventory of who I was and I was like, God, I can't do this. 503 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:03,000 I actually was so discouraged and without hope. 504 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:04,880 I fell to my knees outside one day. 505 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:08,840 I looked up in the scar and I just started yelling at God, right? 506 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:12,600 Like, God, why, why are you got me here? 507 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:14,320 Why is this happening? 508 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:19,480 And then I realized, God, I don't have it in me because when that child dies, right? 509 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:25,360 When that child dies and I have to bury him, I will have to go into a mental hospital because 510 00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:27,320 I cannot do this. 511 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:32,760 And in there, I heard the quiet whisper and the quiet night said, trust me, Sharon, trust 512 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:33,760 me. 513 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:37,040 You know, I thought, oh, I can't do anything else but trust you, God. 514 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,000 My whole life has been about following you. 515 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,440 I'm going to go and follow you some more. 516 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:45,880 And so I went to the hospital, you know, they're doing the ultrasound and stuff because the 517 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,080 movements had begun to cease. 518 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:51,840 And at that moment, I have a little Jewish doctor. 519 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:54,520 He starts looking and he goes, something's going on here. 520 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:55,520 Wait a minute. 521 00:26:55,520 --> 00:27:00,440 And then he goes out and Andy was with me and I grabbed Andy's hand because I know I 522 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,200 can't, I can't hear he had died. 523 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:08,120 And so the little Jewish daughter comes back in but he's got like 10 people and they're 524 00:27:08,120 --> 00:27:09,600 all like looking at the ultrasound. 525 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,160 I'm like, and Andy finally goes, what's going on? 526 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:15,960 And he goes, the little Jewish doctor looked at him and I'm like, I think this is what 527 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,320 you call a miracle. 528 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:19,320 And I'm like, what, what? 529 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:20,320 Right? 530 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,920 And he goes, hey, the lungs are starting to decrease and the heart's starting to come 531 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:26,280 back and he doesn't look compressed anymore. 532 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:27,280 Right? 533 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:31,360 So we began to look week after week and the child was being healed. 534 00:27:31,360 --> 00:27:35,400 You see, I didn't know but God was healing that baby. 535 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:36,400 Right? 536 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:38,600 He was healing that baby because he gave me a promise. 537 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:39,880 His name shall be Samuel. 538 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:41,680 Asked of God. 539 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:47,520 And it was up to us to believe God that he would fulfill his promise even if it took 540 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:51,240 all the way up to the ninth month when he began to do that healing. 541 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:52,240 Right? 542 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:54,080 He began to do that healing. 543 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:58,720 Listen, we need to say yes to God's moments. 544 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:00,000 That we need to say yes, God. 545 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:04,400 I'm going to follow you even if I don't understand, I'm going to follow what you have for me. 546 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:05,400 Right? 547 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:06,400 The best that you have for me. 548 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,320 We need to trust, we need to trust God. 549 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:13,960 We need to follow him and we need to just realize he's going to work all things out 550 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:14,960 for God. 551 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:16,360 You know, for the good of us. 552 00:28:16,360 --> 00:28:17,360 Right? 553 00:28:17,360 --> 00:28:21,760 Now, I got so caught in my story, I lost. 554 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:22,760 So here you go. 555 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,520 That story always gets me. 556 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:26,520 Right? 557 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:28,280 So did I go over? 558 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,840 Mary said yes and they opened the doors up for her. 559 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:33,360 You guys got that, right? 560 00:28:33,360 --> 00:28:34,360 Okay, good. 561 00:28:34,360 --> 00:28:36,040 Thank you, Lord. 562 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:37,200 I can now move on. 563 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:44,960 Alright, so we see that Mary is working to try to tell us to be encouraged, you know, 564 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,840 encourage us that these God moments are going to be hard. 565 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:49,720 But we can do it. 566 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:50,720 We can do it. 567 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:54,320 We just got to lean on, not on our understanding, but in all our ways acknowledge him. 568 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:55,320 Okay? 569 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,840 So now we're going down to the next section there. 570 00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:02,240 I also felt like she was saying to us that we need to stay connected to God. 571 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:03,880 We need to stay connected. 572 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,840 And we can stay connected in these couple ways. 573 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:10,920 This is your, well that's a great story, but then what does that mean to me? 574 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:11,920 Here you go. 575 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:13,120 You stay connected to God. 576 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:14,120 Right? 577 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:15,120 That's the first one. 578 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:16,120 We stay connected to God. 579 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:19,760 Very, very important that we stay connected to him. 580 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:26,220 And the one thing that will get me to disconnect from the Lord, it's not sin. 581 00:29:26,220 --> 00:29:27,220 Not as a believer. 582 00:29:27,220 --> 00:29:29,240 For me, it's my busyness of my life. 583 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:30,240 Right? 584 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:31,240 And they're good things. 585 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:33,880 They're family, ministry, you know, health. 586 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:37,640 I mean all these things will cause me to push back because I'm so busy. 587 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:41,840 Our society, we spend a lot. 588 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:42,840 We run a lot. 589 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:46,120 And it can take our time away from connecting with the Lord. 590 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,560 So that's something I wanted to push down on. 591 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:51,040 And I even seen it in Mary's story. 592 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:55,600 You know, when the angels came and told the shepherds that Jesus was born, right? 593 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:57,000 And these are their responses. 594 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:58,120 The shepherds' responses. 595 00:29:58,120 --> 00:29:59,120 They start spinning. 596 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:00,120 Look at this. 597 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:01,960 In Luke 2, it says, 598 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:07,280 So they hurried off, these are the shepherds, and found Mary and Joseph and the baby. 599 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:12,640 When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what they had been told about this 600 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:13,640 child. 601 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:18,000 And what I want you to see there is the spin, hurry, run, exciting stuff. 602 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:19,000 All good stuff. 603 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:20,000 We talk about it. 604 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:21,000 I preach about it. 605 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,000 Right? 606 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:23,000 All good stuff. 607 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:24,000 But I wanted you to notice. 608 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:25,480 Now don't miss this. 609 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:27,400 Look at what Mary did, right? 610 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:28,440 Look what Mary did. 611 00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:29,440 She said, 612 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:35,480 But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. 613 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:40,320 She pushed back from the spinning and the busyness of the world and the culture, right? 614 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:42,320 And that's what she's saying to us. 615 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:44,620 Don't get caught up in the spinning of the culture. 616 00:30:44,620 --> 00:30:46,480 Make sure you have your time with God. 617 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,400 Make sure you sit and talk with Him and know that you're good. 618 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:50,400 Right? 619 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,640 Make sure you have your time where you sit and you listen to worship music and you're 620 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:54,640 like, 621 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,040 I am a child of the God most high. 622 00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:58,840 Gosh, I can do this, Lord. 623 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:00,060 You are with me. 624 00:31:00,060 --> 00:31:04,360 If you are for me, no weapon that can hurt me. 625 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:05,360 Right? 626 00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:10,640 And so we get in our mind, we get in our mind that we need to sit and connect because when 627 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:14,120 you connect with God, everything is okay. 628 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:18,480 You connect with Him and He begins to show you who you really are. 629 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:19,480 Connection with God. 630 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:21,160 Very, very first thing. 631 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:25,480 If you want to know what to do with this message, you make sure you're connecting with God. 632 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:30,200 Second thing, the second thing she says to make sure you connected with people, right? 633 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:31,880 With people who will encourage you. 634 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:33,680 And that's the next point there. 635 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:37,200 To make sure that you are with people who encourage you. 636 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:43,240 In Mary's story, you remember I was kind of alluding to this in Luke 1 to 56, it says, 637 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:47,320 Mary stayed with Elizabeth, and this is the part I want you to notice, for about three 638 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:48,320 months. 639 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:49,320 Right? 640 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:51,240 And then returned home. 641 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:56,680 So what I want you to see is, is her time with Elizabeth was over a long period of time. 642 00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:57,680 Why? 643 00:31:57,680 --> 00:31:59,160 Because she was so discouraged. 644 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:03,400 She needed to have, she actually needed to have that positive input. 645 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:04,400 Right? 646 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:08,360 When, when Mary would call and say, you are blessed in her mess. 647 00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:09,360 Right? 648 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:10,840 She's like, oh yeah, that's right. 649 00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:11,840 I am. 650 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:12,840 Right? 651 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,620 And so she's, she's helping her and we need help. 652 00:32:15,620 --> 00:32:19,360 When you were going through those God moments and you're stepping out, you knew people in 653 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:20,360 your corner. 654 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:21,480 You knew people talking to you. 655 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:26,240 I put it this way, you need to have dream makers in your life, not dream busters. 656 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:27,240 Right? 657 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:31,000 You need to have people that have the same spiritual foundation that you do. 658 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,000 Why? 659 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,040 Because then they can remind you who you are. 660 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:35,040 Right? 661 00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:36,040 So you need that. 662 00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:41,400 You know, I was having a dinner with your pastors last night and Pastor Jesheed said, 663 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:46,060 you know, when we finish this series that we're doing, I'm going to start a group of 664 00:32:46,060 --> 00:32:50,920 women that they would, to encourage them to be all that God has for them. 665 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:52,400 I thought, yay. 666 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:53,400 So here you go. 667 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:57,840 If you're a woman and you're listening to this, you want to be in that group. 668 00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:02,560 You want to make time for that group, to be encouraged, to begin to discover what is God 669 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:04,160 doing in your life. 670 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:05,320 You need people. 671 00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:08,600 You need people to encourage you and be your dream makers. 672 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:15,480 And lastly, Mary says to us that we need to make sure we have the bigger picture. 673 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,480 We need to make sure we have the bigger picture of what God is doing. 674 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:20,480 This is going to be really important. 675 00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:21,480 Right? 676 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:26,360 You mean if you fast forward 33 years, we've been talking about Mary and the birth and 677 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:27,360 all that. 678 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,560 Will you fast forward 33 years? 679 00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:36,160 Mary, Jesus' mom, is sitting at the cross looking up at her son who is getting ready 680 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:39,240 to be crucified. 681 00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:44,280 You know, I've heard many preachers talk about the cross and they talk about the cross in 682 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:49,440 terms of what the perspective of Jesus dying on the cross, the pain, suffering. 683 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:50,560 I've heard that. 684 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:57,640 I've heard somebody talk about, the pastors talk about the Father God, His perspective, 685 00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:01,600 His only begotten Son on the cross. 686 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,760 I just wonder what Mary's is. 687 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:11,660 I just wonder what is Mary's perspective of the cross. 688 00:34:11,660 --> 00:34:19,360 You know, in my line of work, I have to walk with people that lose their children. 689 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:24,320 And if you've lost a child, I don't mean to pull in stuff that make you real sad, but 690 00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:28,920 is one of the hardest things that has to go. 691 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:30,160 One of the hardest. 692 00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:31,800 Parents weren't meant to outlive their kids. 693 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:32,800 Right? 694 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:38,200 And so when they had to bury their children, I know my young apprenticing pastors, they 695 00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:42,520 come to me when we have to do this and they're like, Sharon, what do we say? 696 00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:47,960 I mean, you're standing at the grave site of a child that's just died and you've got 697 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:54,000 grieving parents, what do you say? 698 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,240 That's where Mary is, guys. 699 00:34:56,240 --> 00:34:58,480 That's exactly where she's at. 700 00:34:58,480 --> 00:34:59,480 Right? 701 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:04,120 She's right there and she's getting ready to enter into this place, this really hard 702 00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:05,120 place. 703 00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,480 Look what it says here in your last scripture in John 19. 704 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:12,120 Jesus' mother, right? 705 00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:17,080 Jesus' mother, His aunt, and Mary, the wife of Claudius, and Mary Magdalene stood at the 706 00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,400 foot of the cross. 707 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:25,040 Thank God she had somebody with her. 708 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:26,400 Right? 709 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:31,920 And Jesus in his darkest hour, now he's going to remember his mother. 710 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:38,360 Jesus saw his mother and the disciples he loved standing near her. 711 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:43,080 And he said to this woman, woman, here is your son. 712 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:46,200 Then to the disciples, here is your mother. 713 00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:53,800 From that moment, the disciples, the disciple accepted her as his own mother. 714 00:35:53,800 --> 00:36:01,760 What Jesus is saying here, is He's saying, Mary, I can't be your son anymore. 715 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:04,720 I have something I have to do. 716 00:36:04,720 --> 00:36:09,880 I have to die for sharing meed sins. 717 00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:14,720 But mom, John, John's going to be your son. 718 00:36:14,720 --> 00:36:18,440 And John's going to take care of you all the days of your life. 719 00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,360 And then she watched Jesus die. 720 00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:29,000 I mean, when I think about it, it wrecks me. 721 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,720 It wrecks me. 722 00:36:31,720 --> 00:36:33,560 How does she get through that? 723 00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:36,920 How does she get through one of the darkest times of her life? 724 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:37,920 You know? 725 00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:42,560 What did she do when she walked away and her son's gone and he's dead? 726 00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,720 What then? 727 00:36:45,720 --> 00:36:51,320 What happens to you when you face death? 728 00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:54,400 What happens to you when you lose somebody that you love dearly? 729 00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:58,880 I mean, how are you going to get through that? 730 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:03,360 I think we get through it by remembering eternity. 731 00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,580 By remembering eternity. 732 00:37:05,580 --> 00:37:11,240 You see, the blessed hope that we have is that heaven awaits us. 733 00:37:11,240 --> 00:37:13,160 And that's what gets you through it. 734 00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:14,480 And that's that bigger picture. 735 00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:20,600 You got to always keep it because the reality is we put too much effort and too much time 736 00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:22,120 and thought into this world. 737 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,160 And we're like a vapor here today and gone tomorrow. 738 00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:26,560 We're just a sojourner. 739 00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:28,800 This is not your home. 740 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,800 This is the place you were meant to be in an ambassador. 741 00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:32,920 Right? 742 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,800 One day you will stand face to face with Jesus. 743 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,580 That is eternity. 744 00:37:38,580 --> 00:37:39,640 That is the point. 745 00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,280 That is the bigger picture of all things. 746 00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:47,800 I can talk to you about God moments, but all the God moments that I have had has now driven 747 00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:51,040 me towards being the woman of faith that I am today. 748 00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:52,040 Right? 749 00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:53,040 Powerful. 750 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,960 Powerful if we trust God and we walk. 751 00:37:55,960 --> 00:38:02,960 But all that I do is because I know like you with 100% certainty that my life will end. 752 00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:07,320 And I will stand between, you know, before a holy God. 753 00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:08,400 And oh, I hear that. 754 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:15,000 And when I'm standing before Him, right, and I got to give an account of my life, listen. 755 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,000 Yes, why? 756 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:21,000 Because there are some of you, you know about God, but He doesn't reside in your heart. 757 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,760 And so God has asked me to give you this analogy, this thought. 758 00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:28,440 And it's for this service. 759 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:34,000 He says when you stand before Him, those of you who have on earth declared Him Lord and 760 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:39,720 Savior, He's going to come around, you know, before you, you can say one word to a holy 761 00:38:39,720 --> 00:38:42,600 God like God, this is why I did what I did. 762 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:45,280 Because it's all going to be on a display. 763 00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,440 God is going to send His Son Jesus Christ, who's going to walk over. 764 00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:52,400 He's going to slip His arm around you. 765 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:57,720 Before you can even say a word, He's going to say, Father, this one belongs to us. 766 00:38:57,720 --> 00:38:58,720 This one belongs to us. 767 00:38:58,720 --> 00:39:01,920 See, He throws our sins as far as the east is to the west. 768 00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:08,800 But you want to have Him doing that because there's no way, no way you want to stand up 769 00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:13,240 before God and try to give an account for all the things in your life. 770 00:39:13,240 --> 00:39:17,120 No matter how good they are, we always have sin. 771 00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:23,040 And so I encourage you, your next step in here, if you feel far from God, is hear the 772 00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:24,040 Spirit of the Lord. 773 00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,160 You have ears to hear what He's saying. 774 00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:32,800 He's saying come home, come home, allow me to lead you in a prayer in just a few minutes 775 00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:35,400 because He's saying come home. 776 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:42,360 He's also been talking to me a lot and He was talking to me about people that, people 777 00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:47,840 in Hagerstown, this is for you guys, that there are many of you that do feel hopeless 778 00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:54,600 in this situation and there are some of you that are struggling with loss, loss, loss 779 00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:57,560 of a child, loss of a loved one, right? 780 00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:00,320 And God wants to bring some peace into that. 781 00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:06,680 And then there are many who need to grow in trust, right? 782 00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:08,440 Who need to grow in trust. 783 00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:10,520 And so I believe that God's going to talk to us. 784 00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:13,640 We're going to do ministry time in a few moments, right? 785 00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:16,920 And that's your time to come forward and to receive prayer. 786 00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:22,440 But right now, Father won't let me get off the fact that not everybody in this room is 787 00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:24,040 right before Him. 788 00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:28,560 So I'm going to end this part of my time with you by praying over you, giving you an opportunity 789 00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,040 to upright yourself, all right? 790 00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:36,040 We're going to go into prayer, but listen, if one of those things I called out is something 791 00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:38,640 that you're wrestling with, you want to come up here. 792 00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:39,960 You want to come up here. 793 00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:43,600 All right, bow your heads with me. 794 00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:56,960 Holy Spirit, whoa, that's all I can say. 795 00:40:56,960 --> 00:41:02,100 I thank you that every wall that was erected against you by the words, Father, were brought 796 00:41:02,100 --> 00:41:04,300 down low. 797 00:41:04,300 --> 00:41:12,040 I thank you, Father, that you work through my weaknesses, all of them, Lord. 798 00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:13,040 Yeah. 799 00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:16,800 And so Holy Spirit, just come more. 800 00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:21,480 Father says that the most important thing in life are people that are far from Him, 801 00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:26,400 that He wants to draw you in because He wants you to be with Him in all eternity. 802 00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,000 I see that. 803 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:32,960 So Holy Spirit, just breathe. 804 00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:35,960 Breathe upon your people. 805 00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:39,720 Bring about, I hear that, breathe on the ones that came in today. 806 00:41:39,720 --> 00:41:46,240 Oh, the one that was crying in their closet and saying, do you know me? 807 00:41:46,240 --> 00:41:50,080 The ones that were saying, why, God? 808 00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:54,000 The ones are saying, is it really real? 809 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,840 Holy Spirit, I ask that you would begin to stir in their hearts. 810 00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:58,160 I hear that. 811 00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:02,220 Just stir in their hearts, Father, right now. 812 00:42:02,220 --> 00:42:04,440 The Father always gives us a chance to respond. 813 00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:07,880 And so you see every head is bowed and every eye is closed. 814 00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:13,760 But for those of you that feel like, no, you know, I feel distant from God. 815 00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:15,440 Today God wants you to upright yourself. 816 00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:19,520 And so in a moment I'm going to ask you to raise your hand so I can see who you are so 817 00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:21,560 I can lead you in a prayer. 818 00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:23,840 And this is between you and God. 819 00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:27,720 But I'm going to do that to give you that opportunity because that is what the Father 820 00:42:27,720 --> 00:42:29,520 put in my heart. 821 00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:33,600 So right now, if you want that while every head is bowed and you know what an important 822 00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:37,680 place this is if you've made that decision, you'd be praying for those folks. 823 00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:41,800 And you just stick your hand up so I can see you because I'm looking for you. 824 00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,800 I'm looking for God's hand. 825 00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:46,280 Yeah. 826 00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:47,920 Okay. 827 00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:50,560 Anybody else? 828 00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:51,800 Okay. 829 00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:56,200 You put your hands down. 830 00:42:56,200 --> 00:43:00,000 And right where you're at, I want you to pray a prayer with me. 831 00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:05,840 Just say, Father God, I don't understand everything. 832 00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:10,920 But I choose today to come home. 833 00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:15,760 Jesus, forgive me for my sins. 834 00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:21,760 Those places that I knew I shouldn't have gone and I went. 835 00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:24,700 Place I missed it. 836 00:43:24,700 --> 00:43:26,760 Forgive me. 837 00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:32,640 Holy Spirit, come inside of me and lead me. 838 00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:35,080 I give you my life. 839 00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:38,480 I say yes to you. 840 00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:40,040 I'm going to pray for those praying that. 841 00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:43,360 Father God, I thank you that you seal that in their heart and that you've written their 842 00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:45,400 name in the book of life. 843 00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:51,660 And that yes, Father, and that from this day forward, that yes marks a place of faith that 844 00:43:51,660 --> 00:43:56,440 you will bring them to a different, a different reality than they were on. 845 00:43:56,440 --> 00:44:01,880 Now Father, bless this church. 846 00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:03,520 Bless it, Father. 847 00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:05,260 Bless its pastors. 848 00:44:05,260 --> 00:44:10,880 Allow it to be like a, I see that like a lighthouse Father that jets up and for all the communities 849 00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:13,620 surrounding it, it would see you Father. 850 00:44:13,620 --> 00:44:18,480 And that all that are lost and drift would be able to find haven, safe haven and come 851 00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:19,480 here Lord. 852 00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:24,720 That you would begin to call the people that have a voice to hear what your spirit is saying, 853 00:44:24,720 --> 00:44:29,240 that they would rise up and be able to help take care of those that you want to bring 854 00:44:29,240 --> 00:44:30,240 in. 855 00:44:30,240 --> 00:44:33,580 For Father says many are lost, many are adrift. 856 00:44:33,580 --> 00:44:39,480 But if you come close to me and you lift me up, he says, I will bring all men onto myself 857 00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:41,840 and onto this church. 858 00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:43,800 And Father, I thank you for that. 859 00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:45,760 Just bless these folks. 860 00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:47,760 In Jesus name. 861 00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:48,760 Amen. 862 00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:49,760 Alright, first. 863 00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:50,760 I'll go down to him. 864 00:44:50,760 --> 00:45:01,600 Sharon Ledgerwahn, if you could text me this week, the number's on the screen there. 865 00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:08,360 Just text changeme to 9700 and I'll follow up with you this week praying for you and 866 00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:10,560 encouraging you to take some next steps. 867 00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:14,280 But I don't feel like God's done here yet. 868 00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:20,080 You know, Sharon was hitting on that issue of loss. 869 00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:25,960 And I really feel like God wants to minister to anybody that's going through and grieving 870 00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:28,160 a loss. 871 00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:36,400 It could be a death, it could be a relationship, it could be many number of things that you 872 00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:37,400 could be going through. 873 00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:43,360 But I want to encourage you, our prayer team is going to be up here. 874 00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:48,640 And if you're dealing with some sort of loss, don't leave here without allowing God to just 875 00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:50,640 wrap his love around your heart. 876 00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:51,640 Amen. 877 00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:55,920 So we will be up here for you directly after this. 878 00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:56,920 So if you're joining us online, thank you for welcoming us into your home. 879 00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:57,920 We look forward to connecting with you. 880 00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:13,580 Amen.