It’s easy to obey God when you are sure of what the outcome of that obedience will be, but what about when the outcome is not clear, or when things turn out differently than you expected? In this full sermon, Bill Johnson teaches from Judges 20 and the importance of developing a heart of willingness to obey God, regardless of the outcome. A lifestyle of obedience to God provides us with a clean conscience, and establishes in us confidence in God and His goodness.
see it’s easy to obey God when you have
an expected anticipated outcome
the challenge in the lifestyle of
obedience is facing things that you
can’t control and you can’t explain they
don’t happen quite the way you
anticipated
good morning nice to see you
um several years actually 2012 a profit
friend of mine sent me a note and they
said an opportunity is going to be
coming
where an opportunity for you to connect
with Kenneth Copeland
and
um and sure enough a few years ago I was
able to meet with him in his office
spoke at one of his events and uh and we
have been given the privilege of
privileges because tonight Kenneth
Copeland is going to be here
and is that they’ve already landed in
town and and excited for him to become a
real gift and this particular prophetic
word also released a promise to us about
perhaps we’ll go over at another time
but a promise that uh of of the Lord’s
favor and provision released over this
house so I’m so thankful I’ve enjoyed
being with him I’ve enjoyed
developing friendship and and I’m very
very thankful for this wonderful
wonderful man tonight’s going to be a
treat I suggest you get here just a tad
early
just a tad
laughing at your own mistakes lengthens
your life
laughing at your wife’s mistake shortens
it
dad the spider bit me am I going to
become Spider-Man no this is Australia
you’re going to die
I was lonely until I glued a coffee cup
to the top of my car now everyone waves
at me
behind every husband who thinks he wears
the pants is a wife who told him what
pants to wear
this this was just wrong but I need to
read it anyway
I met a woman outside them all crying
she had lost 200 so I gave her 40 from
the 200 I found
when God blesses you you must bless
others
now that I’ve lived through an actual
plague I totally understand why Italian
Renaissance paintings are full of naked
fat people laying on couches
one more one more sorry yes see if we
can bring it up from there from the
naked naked fat people
a pastor is uh forming a wedding and
um
he at this wedding he intends to read
first John 4 verse 18.
he mistakenly opens to John 4 verse 18.
first John 4 18 says love never brings
fear fear is always related to
punishment but Love’s Perfection drives
the fear of punishment far from our
hearts whoever walks constantly afraid
of punishment has not reached Love’s
Perfection that’s first John 4 17 John 4
7 4 18. John 4 18 says
but I’m not married the woman answered
that’s true Jesus said for you’ve been
married five times now you’re living
with a man who’s not your husband you
have told the truth
not the best mistake in uh in Reading
scripture
I’m I’m sure it had a tremendous effect
on that audience yes it did
all right I have been wanting to talk to
you out of this chapter in judges for a
long time and I finally get a chance to
today it’s one of the Bible’s weirdest
stories
so Judges chapter 20.
open there if you would judge is 20.
a lot of the Old Testament stories out a
lot of the Bible stories I want to rent
the DVD when I get to heaven because I
want to see it the story I’m about to
tell you I don’t want to see ever ever
ever ever
this story
is beyond R-rated
so I won’t go into
too much detail but let me just say this
a husband and his concubine wife go to
give you
and they’re going to a man’s house and
they stay there
and the it says the perverted men of
that City surrounded that home and
demanded that they throw the man out of
the house so they could have their way
with him all night
they didn’t instead the concubine was
thrown out
she was killed
by them having their way with her all
night long
the man woke up in the morning walked
out his concubine wife is dead
he’s outraged he cuts her up into 12
pieces
puts a piece on 12 donkeys
and send them to the nation of Israel so
that every tribe could get a peace
are you grossed out yet I am and I’ve
told it three times today so
it’s a it’s a horrible Story the nation
of Israel is outraged at who would do
such a thing this is crazy so they rally
together and they come upon this place
and they talk to this man and this man
tells them what happened that the men of
gibia ravaged her all night and uh and
so the leaders of Israel they come to
this city they talk to The Tribe of
Benjamin and so you guys got to own up
to this you’ve got to repent this is
absolute sin and perversion it’s got to
be done away with and they refuse to
repent they protect the sinfulness of
these of these guys
and they refused to repent and so Israel
the 11 tribes end up going to war with
the Tribe of Benjamin to rid the nation
of this evil that they refused to repent
of all right are you with me so far
all right chapter 20 we’re going to
start with verse 18. I’ve got quite a
few verses to read uh eight or ten I
guess and so just follow with me if you
would Verse 18 then the children of
Israel arose and went up to the house of
God to inquire of God
and they said which of us shall go up
first to battle against the children of
Benjamin the Lord said Judah first of
course the name Judah means praise
praise first so the children of Israel
Rose in the morning and encamped against
gibia and the men of Israel went out to
battle against Benjamin and the men of
Israel
put themselves in battle array to fight
against them and give you than the
children of Benjamin came out of gibea
and on that day cut to the ground 22 000
men of the Israelites
and the people that is the men of Israel
encourage themselves and again formed
the battle line at the place where they
had put themselves in a ray on that
first day
then the children of Israel went up and
wept before the Lord until evening and
asked counsel of the Lord shall I again
draw near to battle against the children
of my brother Benjamin and the Lord said
go up against him
so the children of Israel approached the
children of Benjamin on the second day
Benjamin went out against them from
gibea on the second day and cut down to
the ground 18 000 more of the children
of Israel all these drew the sword
then all the children of Israel that is
all the people went up and came to the
house of God and wept they sat there
before the Lord fasted that day until
evening and they offered burnt offerings
and peace offerings to the Lord
so the children of Israel inquired of
the Lord the Ark of the Covenant which
is the Abiding Place of God’s presence
the Ark of the Covenant was there in
those days Phineas the son of Eliezer
son of Aaron stood before it in those
days saying shall I yet again go out to
battle against the children of my
brother Benjamin or shall I cease and
the Lord said go up for tomorrow I will
deliver them into your hand
it goes on from there and they of course
win the battle
when Israel came out of
wilderness
the first city that they faced was
Jericho
many of you are familiar with the story
they came out against Jericho the Lord
said destroy everything everything in
the city belongs to me and Israel
defeated that City in their first step
of taking over the land that God had
promised them
and their victory was tremendous the
problem was they went to the next city
AI and there was someone in Israel that
took something that belonged to the Lord
and they kept it privately in their tent
they withheld what belonged to God
as a result when Israel went out to war
against AI they lost
and so they went to the Lord and they
said Lord what’s up what did we do wrong
and the Lord said somebody took
something and they end up bringing
destruction on that but the point is is
when they lost it was connected to
sin obvious disobedience
but not in this story
see it’s easy to obey God when you have
an expected anticipated outcome
the challenge in the lifestyle of
obedience is facing things that you
can’t control and you can explain
they don’t happen quite the way you
anticipated
he’s not a slot machine he’s not a
vending machine
that you put prayers in and you pull the
button and you always get your intended
outcome you always get his goodness you
always get his activity but he
distributes them according to his wisdom
his purpose and his plan
sometimes we collect the promises of the
Lord
this is the extreme but just follow me
sometimes we collect these promises to
use before him as though we had control
of him
and we never have that right to direct
The Sovereign one what we do have a
right to do is to partner with him and
say what he says do what he is doing to
watch his hand be released
in this story Israel goes against the
sons of Benjamin this Army
and they have 22 000 of their comrades
22 000 of their relatives their friends
their families who were killed in that
battle
and there’s no rebuke for sin there’s no
exposing a reason all they know
is that they lost
and it was a battle that God sent them
into
a lot of bad theology is created
when we’re put in situations we don’t
understand because we need explanations
we don’t need explanations as much as we
need the willingness to do whatever he
says next wow my heroes in the story are
the soldiers who are still alive because
they woke up after a loss that came
before the Lord and they said do we go
out again
and the Lord says specifically
go out again
the Second Battle they lost 18
000.
of their comrades
once again no
addressing of hidden sin
there’s no items that have been stolen
there’s none of that stuff that we see
elsewhere in scripture instead what we
see is the incredible mystery of being
sent into a battle by God that you lose
no explanation
what amazes me
is the resolve of the children of Israel
at this moment because they’ve just lost
twice
they don’t know what’s going to happen
the next time
and that they prayed again
that’s a stunning part to me they prayed
again do we go out again
and the Lord speaks and he says yes
tomorrow you win
obedience cannot be connected to
our intended outcome
it’s easy to fall into that trap that I
will lay it all down because he will do
this for me
now he’s the god of reward he’s the god
of promises nine times out of ten that’s
the emphasis I have whenever I talk to
you in fact it’s probably 99 times out
of 100. that’s the point that I address
because we’ve been called as co-laborers
to live with faith to live with risk and
to partner with the Lord to see his
purposes accomplished on Earth but there
is a remaining mystery in this story
that you can obey and not have things
turn out as you thought they should
I’ll call Larry Randolph again it’s one
of my favorite uh quotes he gave us
years ago
he said God will keep all of his
problems promises excuse me God will
keep all of his promises but he’s not
obligated to keep our potential
sometimes the Lord speaks to us
not revealing what he’s going to do but
to give us an opportunity of what we’re
to co-labor with him on to see what he
will do
in this situation Israel was brought
into
a conflict by the direction of the Lord
and they lost
how do they ultimately lose this
they stopped doing what he said
but they didn’t
they got up after the first loss they
got up after the second loss
yvetta understand what’s going on in
their mind they don’t know if they’re
going to lose yet again the third time
and they said Lord do you want us to go
into battle again and this time he says
yes for tomorrow I will give them into
your hand
we live with a confidence knowing the
goodness of God we live with a
confidence knowing that he keeps his
promises he is the faithful and he is
the one who rewards those who seek Him
He rewards those who give themselves uh
completely to him we know that this is
absolutely true but still even in that
promise he doesn’t work for me I work
for him he doesn’t show up on my timing
he shows up on him and there’s something
powerful about yielding to the
sovereignty of God knowing that his
goodness will more than make up for
anything that I am in that is so
confusing and doesn’t seem to be headed
in any kind of Redemptive Direction
confident of his goodness yielding to
his goodness
that’s the lifestyle of obedience
obedience provides us with several
things this probably we can make a list
of 100 things but the lifestyle of
obedience provides us with something
that is one of the rarest Commodities in
the church and it should be the most
common
and that is a clean conscience
many people have little things that
they’re just tucked away they don’t want
to deal with yet
don’t want to talk about don’t want to
admit to
well he he understands he sees my
weakness and he knows and there’s this
hidden lifestyle where there’s little
secret compartments I’ll deal with it
later
God understands he understands he’s the
one who made me this way and there’s
these little secret things that are
hidden and what it’s done is it’s
defiled the conscience
many people will come and they say bill
would you pray or ask any of us pray for
me to have boldness not realizing
boldness grows in the atmosphere of a
clean conscience yeah
that’s good baldness grows in the
atmosphere of a clean conscience when
you protect your heart when you guard
yourself against anything that would
weaken or defile the conscience that
that conviction that I will do anything
to honor and obey the Lord to protect
that that sometimes Frailty
of a conscience
Proverbs says if you make a contract
with somebody
and when you’re through with that
contract you you realize oh you’re going
to lose money
you didn’t do the math right you realize
you didn’t lose you’re going to lose
money
stick with the contract stick with the
agreement to your own loss knowing that
protecting that heart of Integrity
protecting that heart that conscience
has its reward in the long hole
I know for a fact I’m harvesting things
today
seeds if you will that I planted 20 and
30 years ago
he he is faithful but he’s also wise and
he knows exactly when I will need what
my responsibility is not to obey so that
he will do something for me I obey
because he is Lord
I remember talking to a friend once who
was willing to obey if he could
understand what the outcome would be
he doesn’t work for you
he owes no explanation he is God
I remember I had a I forget the the
storyline now I’d had a pretty
challenging schedule for a number of
weeks and I remember I was being I was
here on a Sunday morning and spoke four
times
Chris and some of the guys said hey
don’t even come tonight don’t even come
just stay home stay home and rest and so
I thought that sounded like a pretty
good idea because of the schedule that I
had
I got home and Benny said you’re gonna
you’re gonna go tonight knowing that I I
just always go but she said you’re going
to go tonight because of the schedule
I’d had I said you know I think I’m I
think I might stay at home tonight then
I remembered when I was at the back door
I was just talking to people as they
left
and somebody walked by asked me a
question
and I said
I’ll see you tonight
and I remembered nope
I gotta go
because I told them
I’ll see you tonight
see you do anything you can to protect
that tenderness of heart
that conscience that cannot be defiled
by compromise
not protecting the conscience
is what actually invites compromise and
ultimately out not deception out not sin
the lifestyle of obedience
that tries not to control God but
instead to be yielded to God that
lifestyle of obedience
is afforded a Priceless commodity called
the clean conscience
but the second thing Jesus taught on in
the Gospel of John I think is chapter 15
could be 14. but he makes a statement he
says if you love me
keep my Commandments
if you love me keep my Commandments
it’s interesting that my love for Jesus
is actually demonstrated
in my obedience
my obedience is the litmus test it’s
it’s that which proves am I an authentic
lover of God
or am I in word only
Jesus said if you love me
keep my Commandments if you love me obey
do what I said
the third thing
that is afforded to us in the lifestyle
of obedience
is it actually helps to
um
reinforce this concept that I am a
citizen of Two Worlds right now
here on Earth
but also Heaven why do I say that Jesus
said there are those among you he’s
talking a group of people he says you
you do your religious service out in the
open so everyone can see you because you
desire the Applause of man
interestingly in John 5 Jesus says how
can you believe you who seek the favor
of men in other words the hunger for the
favor of men undermines faith
the hunger for the favor of man
undermines faith it weakens that place
of Faith so Jesus says of these who do
their spiritual activities in the open
to be recognized by people he makes this
conclusion he says they have received
their reward already
the point is what
in heaven is reward and on Earth there
is reward
but these people lived in such a way
that their entire reward was here on
Earth
when you and I stand before the Lord
there’s this crazy picture of a pile
that represents our works it’s silver
gold you know precious stones and wood
hands stubble and the fire of God
touches that thing and everything that
is left the gold the silver that
represents what was done in Christ and
that’s the basis for reward when you and
I stand before the Lord
our greatest treasures will be the
things we didn’t get rewarded for here
on Earth
our greatest treasure will be every time
we were rejected
instead of celebrated
the greatest moments where you’ll you’ll
stand before and you’ll be so thankful I
was ignored in that moment I should have
been honored but I was ignored because
in that moment
you receive his reward
the greatest rewards
will come to us in that moment for
things we didn’t get fulfillment of here
on Earth
you will be thankful
together we will be thankful
for every time somebody passed us by
when it was time for promotion
when it was time for recognition
because in those moments he makes up for
everything we missed here
see the lifestyle of obedience connects
us to this this system of reward but
it’s reward from a sovereign God who
knows what’s best he’s wise and he
builds us for eternity he knows what I
need now and he knows what I will need
then
and there’s this abandonment to trust in
the lifestyle of obedience it’s not
obedience unto it’s not I I will give
this so that I can receive this it’s
literally I am I am yielding myself to
the Lord
because my Supreme pleasure in life is
obeying the one who is the rightful Lord
over all that exists yes he is the
rewarder I don’t ever want to undo that
but there’s something that takes place
in those tender tender moments where
there’s a willingness to obey God no
matter what
he is not in my control
he is my Lord and I say yes
I’m thankful for the incredible rewards
and things that he releases into our
lives How He blesses us increases us
gives us opportunity greater anointing
bless all the stuff I’m thankful for all
of it
but there is a day coming
when you will be thankful for these
moments where you said yes
and it didn’t end up like you thought
because those are the moments
or he more than makes up for what you
expected here
the last one that I want to point out to
you is in Genesis 22 and I’ll just read
it for you
it’s verse 18. it’s a story where
Abraham
takes this incredible risk to obey the
Lord in offering his son Isaac as an
offering as a sacrifice and the Lord of
course stops him it’s a profound story
but what I’m going to read to you is the
verse that is the conclusion to that
story
foreign
Verse 18 in your seed all the nations of
the Earth shall be blessed because you
have obeyed my voice now listen to this
in your seed
all the nations of the Earth shall be
blessed why
because you have obeyed my voice here’s
the deal
our obedience never just affects our
life
there’s a domino effect multiple
Generations are impacted by the
lifestyle of obedience
the Wake created by the one who says yes
to God to live the lifestyle of risk no
matter what
I believe for this outcome it’s like
Shadrach Meshach Abednego thrown into
the fiery furnace
they said God will deliver us but if he
doesn’t we’re still not bowing yeah now
this is what we anticipate this is what
we believe we declare it with our mouth
we confess it this is what we expect but
if it doesn’t turn out that way we’re
still not bowing to this false god
and that’s the lifestyle of of the
believer that lives with the passion for
the yes the yes unto God
so good
so here
the scripture says
that the nations of the Earth are
blessed because of Abraham’s obedience
our lifestyle of obedience affects not
only our family line in fact is a I love
seeing this in in the Psalms especially
for some reason now Psalms 25 for
example says
if you fear the lord your soul will be
prosperous
now listen everybody wants to prosperous
Soul because everything that happens
around you from Health to finances is
dictated by the prosperity of soul
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so he says if you live in the fear of
the Lord your your soul your inner world
will have more than enough
emotional mental creative Health all
that area will be overflowing with life
if you live with the fear of the Lord
and then he says
your soul will be prosperous and your
descendants will inherit the land
are you alive or did I talk too long
you’re still alive
you will live with a prosperous soul
but you will have an effect on the Next
Generation and they inherit the land
your decision to say yes here to guard
your heart to walk in the fear of God
will have a tremendous impact on your
life but you will see it have an even
greater impact on your descendants why
because nobody’s yes is confined to
their own little circle their own little
world the yes unto the Lord changes and
confronts atmospheres the yes shouts
the the Yes to God that was a whispering
quiet shouts in public and changes and
transforms atmosphere
one of my favorite stories in the Bible
is with Jonathan the son of Saul
and his armor Bearer
they are standing
together they’re out on their own I
don’t know why but they’re out on their
own and they look across they’re on this
little rise this little Hill they’ll
look across the Ravine up on the Hilltop
up there is the Philistine Army
now there’s just Jonathan in his armor
bear armor Bearer is kind of like an
equipment manager if you’re a member in
school the ones who would take care of
the the equipment at recess that’s
that’s the armor Bearer he’s the
equipment manager
and they are standing there and Jonathan
sees the Philistine Army up there and he
turns to his armor Baron he says I think
we can take them
and the hero the story is the armor
Bearer he goes
yeah
the guy with the equipment says yeah we
we can take him and Jonathan has this
plan it’s it’s one of the worst military
plans in in Bible History unless God’s
in it and in this case God was but he
said Jonathan said I’ll tell you what
I’m going to do he says I’m going to go
out in this little opening over here I’m
going to make myself conspicuous
and if they tell us come on up here
then we know God has given them into our
hands
why is that a bad military strategy well
number one we’ve got an army there we
have one soldier and an equipment
manager here
and if they say come up here it means
they have to crawl on their hands and
knees to an approaching awaiting Army
not a good plan
and so Jonathan he says if they invite
us up there we’ll go up there God has
delivered them into our hands and if
they come down to us I don’t even
remember what their plan was but but
anyway they go into the open Jonathan
does this and they said oh look and they
start mocking and they said hey come on
up here we want to show you something
yeah
now how many remember when you were like
12 years old anytime that somebody was
16 17 years old they said we want to
show you something it was never good
it it never turned out positive at all
so that’s the moment these guys are in
Jonathan is armor Bearer and the Army
says come on up here we want to show you
something and Jonathan says encouraged
as you can get when he shouldn’t have
been but he was and so they the Bible
says they crawled on their hands and
knees to this
approaching Army
on their hands and knees and when they
come close the Lord knocks them all down
the armor Bearer forgets who’s the
soldier Jonathan is the soldier not him
he gets so excited he just starts
killing everybody
he takes Jonathan sorry he starts
killing everybody it’s a bizarre story
but it doesn’t end there because see
Israel was in a time of horrible
horrible backsliding
some the Bible says in this is in first
Samuel 14. some of them had had sinned
so
so bad that they actually left
the Israelite their identity as Jews
and they joined the Philistines learned
their language wore their clothing
fought in their army and tried to be
what they weren’t
and it says when they heard the story of
Jonathan’s courage when they heard the
story of his obedience
something woke up in them and if you
could just see this picture they’re
they’re numbered with the Philistine
Army and they hear the story of radical
courage of radical obedience they begin
to strip off the Philistine garb they
begin to throw down their Philistine
identity and it says they ran to join
the Israelis in the fight they left the
lie to embrace truth because they heard
of somebody else’s obedience your
obedience never just affects you
and yet there’s another part of the
story it doesn’t end there that’s one
more part
it says that not only were there some
that join the Philistine Army there was
actually a group of people
they didn’t have the courage to join
another Army but they were so afraid
they were Paralyzed by fear and it says
they went and they hid in the mountains
and the caves I believe of Ephraim if I
remember right
they hid
they no longer identified with their
people they didn’t identify with the
Philistines they were just too afraid to
take a stand for anything
and they hid
and somehow
good news traveled fast
and people carried them back into the
cracks and crevices of the mountains of
Ephraim and they found these fear-ridden
people and they heard the story
of Jonathan’s courage
of the armor Bears courage and their
radical obedience
and it says listen to this they left the
caves
they left the hiding places and they
said they ran to the front lines of
battle
they didn’t just join politically with
the movement they joined putting their
yes their lives on the line for what
they knew they were born for The
Obedience of Jonathan created a sense of
identity in those who are bound by fear
fear could not hold down anyone who
knows who they are yeah
fear cannot hold down anyone hold back
anyone who knows who God made them to be
and it’s all because radical obedience
chapter 15.
first Samuel gives us the story of Saul
and Saul was instructed by Samuel the
prophet
it was to wipe out this group of people
to kill the king he was
a bad man
and take all the Sheep everything
Slaughter everything nothing lives
regardless of what you think about that
plan this is what happened Old Testament
Saul
the king
and the best sheep
Samuel comes and and Saul greets him you
know basically
welcome wonderful man of God
and the prophet Samuel says be quiet
in our language shut up
shut up
and the Saul goes whoa what’s going on
here he says what’s the bleeding of the
sheep that I hear you’re instructed to
kill all the Sheep so Saul see when
you’re not living a radical obedience
you want to deflect blame unto someone
else so Saul says oh it’s the people
they insisted we kept the best sheep to
give unto the Lord to sacrifice to God
it’s amazing how sinful Lifestyles will
often get explained away
through phony spiritual
terminology and purposes
hide sin under this guise we’re going to
sacrifice to the Lord so that makes it
okay and this is where we get this
statement
it’s in the middle of the right page
verse 7-15 right in the middle
obedience is better than sacrifice say
that with me obedience is better than
sacrifice say it again obedience is
better than sacrifice let’s be honest
God doesn’t need burning sheep
there’s nothing about it everything he
has his dues for us
everything we do in giving and serving
and loving and dying and Rising all the
stuff that he has us do is for us none
of us he doesn’t need it he’s not in
need
he he’s he’s more committed to what I
become on the inside than what I
experience on the outside
and so In this passage the prophet says
obedience is better than sacrifice and
then he pulls no punches on the second
statement he says for Rebellion is as
the sin of witchcraft
so we’ve got two bookends here obedience
and Rebellion
obedience is better than sacrifice
Rebellion actually connects you what is
rebellion it’s it’s the insistence on me
being in control and what is witchcraft
witchcraft as its most basic Foundation
is manipulation control
and he says Rebellion is as the sin of
witchcraft
obedience is better than sacrifice say
that with me obedience is better
and Rebellion is as the sin of
Witchcraft Rebellion is as the sin of
witchcraft
I think
there’s a unique reward
a unique promotion a unique Grace if you
will give them to people
who get up on the third day
after two losses I did exactly what he
said to do I did not get the intended
outcome
but I’m still willing to go to war again
there’s something
I believe that God is is raising up you
know the Green Beret the whatever you
want to call them in this hour of people
that will say
I will obey
regardless of outcome because my
obedience is under the one I call Lord
it is unto the one I call Lord
I have this sense that there are planned
outcomes and breakthroughs that God has
for all of us and ways that we’ve never
imagined I really believe that what’s
coming our way is greater than we have
the intelligence or faith to ask for I
really do but I also have this sense
that some of us are in the middle of a
lesson
and the lesson is can you get up the
third day
and pray do we go out again
do we go out again
there are measures and Realms of Triumph
and Victory
that you were born for that I was born
for
some of which you only get to taste of
on the third day
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at least we got away from chopping up
the woman and
yeah
it was kind of touching going for a
while there but you you stuck with me
I’m so glad
yeah we just say yes to you or we do
we just say yes
God I honor you a thank you give you
praise that you are the rewarder of
those who seek you we we celebrate that
amazing amazing reality thank you thank
you thank you
thank you
mm-hmm I pray that you give great
courage to everybody in the room every
one of us in this family
to get up again on the third day
and ask do we go out again
and the Cry of our heart is for you to
receive all the glory all the honor all
the praise
and that your name would be held in
highest honor throughout the Earth
because of her yes
thanks
I need to ask the question if there’s
anyone here that you’ve never made a
personal commitment to follow the lord
Jesus Christ
you’ve never made that
that personal confession of faith in
Jesus as Lord as Savior and that you
would say today I really don’t I don’t
want to leave the building until I know
I have found peace with God
please if I can have nobody moving
around right now this is the most
special moment of the day
I want to make sure that anyone in this
room that is not in a personal
relationship with Jesus you don’t know
what it is to be born again to be
forgiven of sin and yet you would say I
know that’s why I’m here
I want you just to put your hand up and
by doing so you’re saying bill I don’t
want to leave the building until I know
I found peace with God put your hand up
high
I want to take just just a moment
to make sure everybody everybody in the
room is in the family those online we
have pastors on online we just welcome
all of our friends who have joined with
us all over the world we love you guys
we’re so thankful for you I bless you we
have people constantly that are coming
to Christ online
and we do we celebrate that so much
so father I pray for a great spirit of
breakthrough to rest upon your people in
this lifestyle of obedience in Jesus
name yeah I’m so glad that you watched
this video I do pray that it’s a great
great strength and encouragement to you
and I’ve got a verse that it really is
My Cry for all of us and it’s Psalms 20
it’s verse 4. may he grant you your
heart’s desire and fulfill all your
plans
that’s my prayer that’s my prayers that
this would be the season of rich rich
fulfillment
thanks for joining us