WEBVTT 00:00:01.810 --> 00:00:04.650 It's time for the Champions in Christ broadcast 00:00:04.650 --> 00:00:11.990 with Rhonda Harrison on 1017 Bay FM. Good morning 00:00:11.990 --> 00:00:14.669 and welcome to Champions in Christ. We're so 00:00:14.669 --> 00:00:17.870 glad you're joining us today. Today is, this 00:00:17.870 --> 00:00:20.989 is the day the Lord has made and we will rejoice 00:00:20.989 --> 00:00:25.489 and be glad in it. God loves you today. You are 00:00:25.489 --> 00:00:29.469 loved, you are valued, you are precious in his 00:00:29.469 --> 00:00:33.240 sight. The Bible talks all about how much God 00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:36.840 loves us and that's why He sent Jesus, His only 00:00:36.840 --> 00:00:41.420 begotten Son. And Jesus came because there's 00:00:41.420 --> 00:00:44.859 no greater gift that God could have given than 00:00:44.859 --> 00:00:51.560 His Son for us. And before Jesus came, He was 00:00:51.560 --> 00:00:54.399 with the Father and the Holy Spirit, those three 00:00:54.399 --> 00:00:59.240 are one. Jesus wanted to come. He laid down his 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:02.520 deity, his kingship, everything in heaven to 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:08.180 come be born of a seed of a woman and a man to 00:01:08.180 --> 00:01:11.420 live here on earth and to become the Holy Lamb 00:01:11.420 --> 00:01:15.719 of God, the sacrifice that we needed for sin 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:18.219 so that sin could be abolished and we could have 00:01:18.219 --> 00:01:22.219 right relationship properly restored with God. 00:01:22.620 --> 00:01:25.040 And so we're going to talk about that great love 00:01:25.040 --> 00:01:28.299 today because he loves you today. I don't care 00:01:28.299 --> 00:01:31.040 where you are, who you are, what you've done. 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:36.519 It doesn't change God's love for you. You know 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:39.659 if we turn in the Bible and we turn to 1st Corinthians 00:01:39.659 --> 00:01:44.560 13 in the New Testament, it tells us what really 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:47.939 love is. So we're going to read that together 00:01:47.939 --> 00:01:51.079 and it starts in verse four. It says love is 00:01:51.079 --> 00:01:56.140 patient. kind. You know if you think about Jesus 00:01:56.140 --> 00:02:01.280 he was very patient and very kind. Love is not 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:06.900 jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does 00:02:06.900 --> 00:02:10.860 not demand its own way. Love is not irritable. 00:02:11.479 --> 00:02:15.699 It keeps no record of being wronged. It does 00:02:15.699 --> 00:02:20.069 not rejoice about injustice. but rejoices whenever 00:02:20.069 --> 00:02:26.250 the truth wins love never gives up never loses 00:02:26.250 --> 00:02:30.530 faith is always hopeful and endures through every 00:02:30.530 --> 00:02:34.150 circumstance praise god you know there's another 00:02:34.150 --> 00:02:39.150 scripture it says that god is love he is the 00:02:39.150 --> 00:02:43.610 very essence of love and so when jesus came He 00:02:43.610 --> 00:02:48.189 was focused, he was purposed, he was ready to 00:02:48.189 --> 00:02:51.550 die on that cross for you and me. He came to 00:02:51.550 --> 00:02:57.370 show us he is the exact expression of God's love, 00:02:57.449 --> 00:03:01.169 of who God is, the exact image, the exact expression 00:03:01.169 --> 00:03:05.509 of all God feels for you and for me. You know, 00:03:05.509 --> 00:03:09.289 God wants relationship with us and that love 00:03:09.289 --> 00:03:13.569 is what led him to the cross. You know, when 00:03:13.569 --> 00:03:22.509 you read in Isaiah, and it's in chapter 53, and 00:03:22.509 --> 00:03:27.229 it's talking about what Jesus did for us on the 00:03:27.229 --> 00:03:31.169 cross, it's amazing. You know, it says he was 00:03:31.169 --> 00:03:34.629 wounded for our transgressions. It was our sin 00:03:34.629 --> 00:03:38.629 that he was wounded for. He was bruised for our 00:03:38.629 --> 00:03:43.759 iniquities, the chastisement. our peace was upon 00:03:43.759 --> 00:03:49.400 him and by those stripes we were healed, by his 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:54.900 stripes. Why? He took all of that so that we 00:03:54.900 --> 00:03:59.419 could be free. We could be free, free from sin, 00:03:59.580 --> 00:04:03.319 free from sickness, free from anxiousness, and 00:04:03.319 --> 00:04:08.580 free on every dimension. So he came from a heavenly 00:04:08.580 --> 00:04:12.479 dimension, came to earth in the form of a seed, 00:04:13.000 --> 00:04:17.759 was born of a virgin, and walked the earth, performed 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:21.120 miracles to show everyone the express image of 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:25.000 who God is. Because he knew if we got to know 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:27.600 who God really was, we would want that relationship, 00:04:27.699 --> 00:04:32.360 and God so wants relationship with you. He loves 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:37.180 you, and he loves me. But he won't force himself 00:04:37.180 --> 00:04:41.459 on us. He offers it freely. You know, salvation 00:04:41.459 --> 00:04:44.860 is a free gift. You don't pay for it. You can't 00:04:44.860 --> 00:04:48.620 earn it. But again, there was no greater gift 00:04:48.620 --> 00:04:52.199 that God could have given than his only begotten 00:04:52.199 --> 00:04:56.720 son. That whosoever believes in him will not 00:04:56.720 --> 00:04:59.860 perish but have eternal life. you know he doesn't 00:04:59.860 --> 00:05:02.519 just want us to have eternal life in heaven forever 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:05.160 which if that is all is that's the only gift 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:08.740 we got out of his dying on a cross it would be 00:05:08.740 --> 00:05:12.379 well worth it you couldn't you can't even match 00:05:12.379 --> 00:05:17.399 that that love is so big but not only did he 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:20.680 give us his greatest gift jesus but when jesus 00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:23.199 rose from the grave and went back to heaven he 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:26.740 said go to the upper room I'm going to send you 00:05:26.740 --> 00:05:30.519 the promise. What was the promise? The Holy Spirit. 00:05:31.180 --> 00:05:35.379 He didn't want us just living on earth and trusting 00:05:35.379 --> 00:05:37.779 that one day we'll go to heaven. He wanted you 00:05:37.779 --> 00:05:41.639 and I to be champions on earth, victorious on 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:45.220 earth. And the only way we could do that is by 00:05:45.220 --> 00:05:49.379 the power of the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit 00:05:49.379 --> 00:05:53.139 of God. That's why when we get born again, Because 00:05:53.139 --> 00:05:55.819 we are dead in trespasses and sin, but when we 00:05:55.819 --> 00:06:00.100 receive Jesus, the beautiful, precious Holy Spirit 00:06:00.100 --> 00:06:03.620 comes to live on the inside of you, creates you 00:06:03.620 --> 00:06:07.230 new, you're a new creation in Christ. old things 00:06:07.230 --> 00:06:10.970 are passed away so that power that same power 00:06:10.970 --> 00:06:14.529 that raised christ from the dead he's the only 00:06:14.529 --> 00:06:18.490 saviour to the world the only one the bible says 00:06:18.490 --> 00:06:21.209 there's no other way you can get to heaven there's 00:06:21.209 --> 00:06:24.689 no other place you want to be but heaven and 00:06:24.689 --> 00:06:28.110 jesus is the only way to heaven he's the door 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:33.120 receiving that free gift. He loves you and me 00:06:33.120 --> 00:06:36.480 so much but he wants us to walk in that love 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:39.699 and that love we just read about the only way 00:06:39.699 --> 00:06:43.439 we can love like he loved is by the power of 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:47.240 the Holy Ghost because you and I both know it's 00:06:47.240 --> 00:06:49.980 not always easy to be patient and kind in the 00:06:49.980 --> 00:06:53.459 natural without the power of God. It's not always 00:06:53.459 --> 00:06:57.259 easy not to be jealous or proud or rude when 00:06:57.259 --> 00:07:02.560 people are rude to us. You and I know that a 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:05.860 lot of times we want our way and no other way 00:07:05.860 --> 00:07:11.160 and that's not love. A lot of times we're irritable 00:07:11.160 --> 00:07:14.500 and if someone wrongs us we want to get them 00:07:14.500 --> 00:07:17.689 back. But the Bible, that's not love. The Bible 00:07:17.689 --> 00:07:20.310 says, vengeance is mine, says the Lord. You don't 00:07:20.310 --> 00:07:22.769 have to worry. There's a scripture in Roman that 00:07:22.769 --> 00:07:25.990 says all things lie bare naked to whom we have 00:07:25.990 --> 00:07:28.990 to do before the Father. So everything God sees, 00:07:29.029 --> 00:07:31.310 he's omnipresent, he's everywhere. You can't 00:07:31.310 --> 00:07:34.709 get away from the presence of God. He's everywhere. 00:07:35.750 --> 00:07:39.329 And he sees everything done to you and he hurts 00:07:39.329 --> 00:07:43.550 when you hurt. but He wants to bless you, He 00:07:43.550 --> 00:07:46.089 wants to heal you, He wants to give you that 00:07:46.089 --> 00:07:49.810 peace. So whatever you're going through today, 00:07:50.029 --> 00:07:52.509 you're not going to go through it by yourself 00:07:52.509 --> 00:07:55.870 if you call on Jesus. If you receive Him as your 00:07:55.870 --> 00:07:57.829 Lord and Savior, He's not only going to walk 00:07:57.829 --> 00:08:00.230 with you through it, He's going to empower you 00:08:00.230 --> 00:08:04.920 to overcome. That's right. We are more than conquerors 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:07.860 in Christ, is what the Bible says. You become 00:08:07.860 --> 00:08:11.639 a champion by receiving Jesus Christ and the 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:14.459 Holy Spirit living in you, and then you will 00:08:14.459 --> 00:08:18.600 victoriously live as a champion throughout your 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:22.920 entire life. If you allow yourself to be led 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:26.160 by the Holy Spirit, you have a free will. But 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:30.139 that power of God, the love, that's the power. 00:08:30.660 --> 00:08:33.460 That's the power of the Holy Spirit, that love. 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:38.059 That's what empowers us. But the Holy Spirit 00:08:38.059 --> 00:08:42.980 will use that love and faith. And by your faith, 00:08:43.299 --> 00:08:46.100 many things can happen, miracles and miracles. 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:51.429 Faith is the currency of God. and by faith, and 00:08:51.429 --> 00:08:54.470 faith works through love, so we can only do it 00:08:54.470 --> 00:08:59.269 through love. You know, in John 15, starting 00:08:59.269 --> 00:09:04.169 in verse 13, he says, greater love has no man 00:09:04.169 --> 00:09:07.669 than this, that he lay down his life for his 00:09:07.669 --> 00:09:11.490 friends. Wow, that's what Jesus did for you and 00:09:11.490 --> 00:09:15.629 I. It goes on to say, you are my friends if you 00:09:15.629 --> 00:09:18.970 do what I command you. We are Jesus' friend, 00:09:19.429 --> 00:09:23.330 the friend of God. You are his friend if you 00:09:23.330 --> 00:09:26.250 know him as your savior and you do what he says. 00:09:26.889 --> 00:09:30.090 Henceforth he says, I call you not servants for 00:09:30.090 --> 00:09:32.950 a servant does not know what his Lord does. I 00:09:32.950 --> 00:09:36.389 have called you friends. For all things I have 00:09:36.389 --> 00:09:38.990 heard from my father, I have made note unto you. 00:09:39.330 --> 00:09:42.950 You have not chosen me, but I chose you and ordained 00:09:42.950 --> 00:09:47.110 you that you would go forth and bear fruit and 00:09:47.110 --> 00:09:50.769 your fruit would remain. And whatsoever you ask 00:09:50.769 --> 00:09:55.350 of the father in my name, he will give it to 00:09:55.350 --> 00:09:58.669 you. These things I command you that you love 00:09:58.669 --> 00:10:04.360 one another. That's a powerful thing and it's 00:10:04.360 --> 00:10:07.879 hard to do except if you have the Holy Spirit. 00:10:08.279 --> 00:10:12.139 The Holy Spirit will empower you to love the 00:10:12.139 --> 00:10:15.279 unlovely. That's what Jesus did. He loved the 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:18.320 prostitute. He loved the drug addict. He loved 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:22.820 the sick man. He loved everyone. He loved the 00:10:22.820 --> 00:10:26.940 rich man. Now riches can trip you up. but if 00:10:26.940 --> 00:10:29.360 your heart stays right, God doesn't mind you 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:32.860 being wealthy or blessed. He wants you blessed. 00:10:33.620 --> 00:10:37.080 He says for our sake he became poor that we might 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:39.960 be rich, but not everyone's going to be rich, 00:10:40.080 --> 00:10:42.840 but those that are also can walk with God if 00:10:42.840 --> 00:10:45.120 they have that relationship with him and allow 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:48.759 the Holy Spirit to work through them and with 00:10:48.759 --> 00:10:54.179 them. God loves you. And we cannot, you cannot 00:10:54.179 --> 00:10:57.700 love anyone. I cannot love anyone without giving. 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:01.840 Giving is a part of loving. You give a cup of 00:11:01.840 --> 00:11:05.620 water in His name and you get a reward. You encourage 00:11:05.620 --> 00:11:08.539 people, you get a reward. It's fruit, it's fruit 00:11:08.539 --> 00:11:11.299 bearing out of the tree, out of the seed of love. 00:11:11.379 --> 00:11:14.419 God's planted in your heart when you get born 00:11:14.419 --> 00:11:17.899 again because He's literally living in you. That 00:11:17.899 --> 00:11:21.710 empowerment, that's why He said in this verse 00:11:21.710 --> 00:11:25.230 that we can ask what we will and God will do 00:11:25.230 --> 00:11:28.110 it. He will come right there in the midst of 00:11:28.110 --> 00:11:33.370 your circumstance today. Today, God says now 00:11:33.370 --> 00:11:38.350 faith is, God says now he will begin the motion 00:11:38.350 --> 00:11:41.809 if you will call on his name, if you will trust 00:11:41.809 --> 00:11:46.480 him, if you will allow him. to move in your life 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:49.419 he will do it and your circumstance he will give 00:11:49.419 --> 00:11:52.480 you wisdom maybe it's wisdom you need for a financial 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:56.019 matter he's got it he says if you ask in faith 00:11:56.019 --> 00:11:59.639 he'll pour it upon you liberally that's what 00:11:59.639 --> 00:12:04.000 he says in james so god is available he loves 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:08.679 you he wants to crown you with many many treasures 00:12:08.679 --> 00:12:12.450 from out of the spirit of god But we have to 00:12:12.450 --> 00:12:15.789 trust him, he's a supernatural God. God left 00:12:15.789 --> 00:12:18.269 heaven to come to earth, returned to heaven and 00:12:18.269 --> 00:12:21.590 sent the Holy Spirit here. So that's why we have 00:12:21.590 --> 00:12:24.370 protection. We not only have the Holy Spirit, 00:12:24.669 --> 00:12:28.870 he's granted us angels. Now we don't seek angels, 00:12:29.070 --> 00:12:31.590 that's not their purpose. Their purpose is to 00:12:31.590 --> 00:12:34.789 serve the body of Christ. So we don't seek them, 00:12:35.029 --> 00:12:39.389 but God has dispatched them. for everyone that 00:12:39.389 --> 00:12:42.809 calls upon his name. Angels are everywhere. The 00:12:42.809 --> 00:12:45.029 Bible says there are more with us than there 00:12:45.029 --> 00:12:48.210 are against us because unfortunately Satan, when 00:12:48.210 --> 00:12:51.509 he fell out of heaven, he was Lucifer the angel. 00:12:51.549 --> 00:12:54.509 When he was cast out of heaven, didn't fall out 00:12:54.509 --> 00:12:56.070 of heaven, when he was cast out of heaven, he 00:12:56.070 --> 00:12:58.470 had already persuaded a third of the angels. 00:12:59.009 --> 00:13:01.389 But there's still two thirds and there's millions 00:13:01.389 --> 00:13:03.509 upon millions. They're everywhere. There's all 00:13:03.509 --> 00:13:06.220 kinds of them. But we don't seek them. They're 00:13:06.220 --> 00:13:10.080 just also ones that help us. The Bible says they 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:13.100 excel in strength and are obedient to the voice 00:13:13.100 --> 00:13:16.440 of God, which means when we speak the word of 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:20.720 God, they move. When God speaks, they move. They're 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:24.399 busy. They're busy. Angels like to be busy because 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:28.080 they're mighty and they're powerful. and they 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:31.600 help us. But more than all of that is the beautiful, 00:13:31.779 --> 00:13:36.000 amazing, precious Holy Spirit. You are so treasured 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:39.000 by God. He was not going to leave your eye on 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:41.980 this earth by ourself to go through the trips 00:13:41.980 --> 00:13:45.059 and the trials that happen in life. And trials 00:13:45.059 --> 00:13:48.039 happen. You know, we would not have a history. 00:13:48.779 --> 00:13:53.279 without testing. Without a test, you don't have 00:13:53.279 --> 00:13:57.200 a testimony. And without things happening, you 00:13:57.200 --> 00:14:00.519 don't have history. History, his story, your 00:14:00.519 --> 00:14:03.840 story, my story, we all have history. and books 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:07.100 are being written in heaven. Every time we talk 00:14:07.100 --> 00:14:09.639 about the Lord the word says something is written 00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:12.399 in heaven that we talked about him. So as you 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:14.860 and I are talking about him there's something 00:14:14.860 --> 00:14:18.039 being written in heaven about that. You know 00:14:18.039 --> 00:14:22.360 God loves you so very much that he wanted your 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:27.299 joy to be full. You know the Bible says that 00:14:27.299 --> 00:14:31.440 our heart will rejoice when we see him again. 00:14:31.529 --> 00:14:34.210 in the physical. He came to earth already and 00:14:34.210 --> 00:14:36.529 has returned to heaven. He can't wait for the 00:14:36.529 --> 00:14:39.090 bride of Christ. We are known, the body of Christ 00:14:39.090 --> 00:14:43.669 around the world is known as the bride of Christ 00:14:43.669 --> 00:14:48.139 and he's the head and we're the body. And so 00:14:48.139 --> 00:14:50.700 whatever the head, just like your own body follows 00:14:50.700 --> 00:14:53.679 the direction of your head, what you think you're 00:14:53.679 --> 00:14:56.120 going to do and how you want to do it is what 00:14:56.120 --> 00:14:59.460 your body does, that's what we do. When Jesus 00:14:59.460 --> 00:15:02.620 says go, we go. When he says say this, we say 00:15:02.620 --> 00:15:07.279 this. Jesus, God, the Holy Spirit wants to be 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:10.440 involved in every element of your life so that 00:15:10.440 --> 00:15:13.779 the power of God can come in there and show you 00:15:13.779 --> 00:15:15.980 great and mighty things. If you need healing 00:15:15.980 --> 00:15:19.639 today, there's provision. He made provision for 00:15:19.639 --> 00:15:23.159 healing and the Holy Spirit will do the healing. 00:15:23.620 --> 00:15:27.080 If you call upon His name, trust Him, give it 00:15:27.080 --> 00:15:31.769 to God, He will see it through. He's such a good, 00:15:31.769 --> 00:15:34.370 good God. Do you know He will never leave you 00:15:34.370 --> 00:15:36.629 and forsake you? Maybe when you were a child, 00:15:37.110 --> 00:15:39.470 you were abandoned by your mother or your father. 00:15:40.129 --> 00:15:43.210 God will never abandon you. Jesus said, I will 00:15:43.210 --> 00:15:47.970 never leave you. I will never forsake you. You 00:15:47.970 --> 00:15:50.509 know, we can walk away from God, but God never 00:15:50.509 --> 00:15:54.309 walks away from us. He loves His creation. Maybe 00:15:54.309 --> 00:15:57.059 you walked away. you know maybe you're what they 00:15:57.059 --> 00:16:00.000 call backslidden right now something you know 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:03.200 life through your curve ball and you said that's 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:05.779 done i'm done because you didn't understand you 00:16:05.779 --> 00:16:07.539 know there's lots of things we don't understand 00:16:07.539 --> 00:16:10.039 and won't understand until we get there but i 00:16:10.039 --> 00:16:13.039 can tell you this the bible is clear and you 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:15.659 can read it just search it through you'll see 00:16:15.659 --> 00:16:19.070 nothing but God's love in every circumstance. 00:16:19.230 --> 00:16:23.049 God loves us so much that he would give us instruction. 00:16:23.149 --> 00:16:27.669 He didn't just leave us empty -handed. He left 00:16:27.669 --> 00:16:31.009 us with the Word of God. The Bible was written 00:16:31.009 --> 00:16:36.610 by men who were inspired by the Holy Spirit to 00:16:36.610 --> 00:16:39.830 write the Word of Life. It is life. You know, 00:16:39.830 --> 00:16:43.529 the Word of God is logos, but the Bible says 00:16:43.840 --> 00:16:47.879 that the Holy Spirit brings it to life. You know, 00:16:47.879 --> 00:16:50.419 if you're going through a tough time, you know, 00:16:50.500 --> 00:16:54.659 he said in John 16, 17, he said, I tell you the 00:16:54.659 --> 00:16:59.159 truth, it is necessary for me to go away. For 00:16:59.159 --> 00:17:02.259 if I don't go away, the Comforter will not come. 00:17:02.379 --> 00:17:06.000 But if I depart, I will send him to you. Hallelujah. 00:17:06.519 --> 00:17:09.220 He has sent us, the Holy Spirit also is known 00:17:09.220 --> 00:17:12.740 as the Comforter. He will comfort you in those 00:17:12.740 --> 00:17:16.460 times when we've lost a loved one, when we've 00:17:16.460 --> 00:17:19.079 had a difficult situation, when someone's broken 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:22.740 our heart, he will come and comfort you and give 00:17:22.740 --> 00:17:26.960 you peace in the midst of the storm. You know, 00:17:26.960 --> 00:17:32.660 we can trust him. He's so, so very faithful that 00:17:32.660 --> 00:17:38.279 we can trust him no matter what. No matter what 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:43.079 he says in his word, we can trust him. The Bible 00:17:43.079 --> 00:17:46.720 says to trust in the Lord with all your heart. 00:17:46.779 --> 00:17:50.039 and don't lean to your own understanding, but 00:17:50.039 --> 00:17:53.160 acknowledge him in all your ways and he will 00:17:53.160 --> 00:17:56.440 direct your path. That's right, you don't have 00:17:56.440 --> 00:17:59.059 to worry about your future. If you've given your 00:17:59.059 --> 00:18:02.079 life to the Lord, the Holy Spirit is going to 00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:05.500 lead you and direct you in every direction. Does 00:18:05.500 --> 00:18:08.839 that mean it'll be a rose garden without any 00:18:08.839 --> 00:18:12.059 obstacles? Oh no, but through those obstacles 00:18:12.059 --> 00:18:16.250 you will be victorious every time. Jesus has 00:18:16.250 --> 00:18:20.789 planned no defeats for you, none. You are a champion 00:18:20.789 --> 00:18:24.730 in Christ. He wants you to exceed in every way 00:18:24.730 --> 00:18:29.430 in your life, physically, emotionally, financially, 00:18:30.470 --> 00:18:34.009 spiritually, educationally, relationally, in 00:18:34.009 --> 00:18:37.750 every area. So don't get beaten down by the news 00:18:37.750 --> 00:18:40.410 of the day. Don't get beaten down like the world's 00:18:40.410 --> 00:18:43.390 coming to an end. It doesn't matter with God. 00:18:43.470 --> 00:18:46.410 You can do all things through Christ who strengthens 00:18:46.410 --> 00:18:49.670 you. That's what the word says. That's what the 00:18:49.670 --> 00:18:53.890 word says. You know the world may reap and weep 00:18:53.890 --> 00:18:56.789 and be sorrowful and they're lost and undone 00:18:56.789 --> 00:18:59.829 because they don't understand God's love for 00:18:59.829 --> 00:19:03.089 them and his plan for a future. We're just passing 00:19:03.089 --> 00:19:05.549 through. Time on this earth is short. The Bible 00:19:05.549 --> 00:19:10.740 says it's but a vapor. it's over that's how quickly 00:19:10.740 --> 00:19:13.940 our life is over here but guess what you are 00:19:13.940 --> 00:19:17.180 an eternal being and we're gonna spend it either 00:19:17.180 --> 00:19:21.000 in heaven or hell we're not gonna just we just 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:24.019 don't die and it ends no because you are a spirit 00:19:24.019 --> 00:19:27.380 you have a soul and you live in a body this body 00:19:27.380 --> 00:19:30.440 is just a case and thank God glory to God we 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:33.480 get a glorified body when we get to heaven hallelujah 00:19:33.480 --> 00:19:37.349 I'm looking forward to that aren't you So God 00:19:37.349 --> 00:19:40.750 is so faithful. He's so faithful, but that's 00:19:40.750 --> 00:19:43.410 how great His love is that He would send His 00:19:43.410 --> 00:19:49.150 only Son, His only Son, to die for you and to 00:19:49.150 --> 00:19:53.230 die for me. He loves you today. Maybe you feel 00:19:53.230 --> 00:19:58.549 just completely lost and undone. We're going 00:19:58.549 --> 00:20:00.369 to listen to a couple of songs and we're going 00:20:00.369 --> 00:20:02.369 to come back and pray and you're going to feel 00:20:02.369 --> 00:28:51.529 His presence come. that's right it's amazing 00:28:51.529 --> 00:28:55.130 grace that God has given us that unmerited favor 00:28:55.130 --> 00:28:59.490 and he is a supernatural God with miracle working 00:28:59.490 --> 00:29:03.049 power so I want to pray with you right now I 00:29:03.049 --> 00:29:05.809 want you to pray in agreement with me just follow 00:29:05.809 --> 00:29:09.390 me in this prayer dear Jesus I come to you and 00:29:09.390 --> 00:29:13.609 I ask you to come with me to help me in my circumstance 00:29:13.609 --> 00:29:17.789 my situation to save me to deliver me out of 00:29:17.789 --> 00:29:21.200 this mess and to fill me to overflowing with 00:29:21.200 --> 00:29:24.200 your goodness, your grace, your mercy, your love. 00:29:24.759 --> 00:29:28.960 I give you my life, forgive me of my sin, I denounce 00:29:28.960 --> 00:29:33.079 the things of the world, and I receive you this 00:29:33.079 --> 00:29:38.019 free gift in Jesus' name, amen. If you prayed 00:29:38.019 --> 00:29:41.160 that prayer today and you received Jesus, all 00:29:41.160 --> 00:29:44.500 of heaven is rejoicing as do we rejoice with 00:29:44.500 --> 00:29:47.319 you. You need to tell somebody you did that. 00:29:47.309 --> 00:29:50.250 Go out and find a great church that preaches 00:29:50.250 --> 00:29:53.109 the whole council of God and the power and the 00:29:53.109 --> 00:29:56.009 presence of God is in that place. And listen, 00:29:56.450 --> 00:29:59.170 if you need a new Bible, get in contact with 00:29:59.170 --> 00:30:03.849 us. Reach us at championsinchrist3 at gmail .com. 00:30:03.910 --> 00:30:06.750 That's Champions in Christ 3. If you want to 00:30:06.750 --> 00:30:10.089 come and be with us, we meet at Fonz Cafe at 00:30:10.089 --> 00:30:12.950 530 on Sunday evenings. Come and rejoice in the 00:30:12.950 --> 00:30:16.349 Lord with us this week. Until we meet again. 00:30:16.559 --> 00:30:19.819 I want you to know that God loves you, we love 00:30:19.819 --> 00:30:22.960 you, and you are a champion in Christ.