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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today on the Converged Network, Apostle Michelle Jackson will be
sharing God's heart with you through the Word of God.
Before she ministers to you. Apostle Michelle serves as Senior
Pastor of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland. She's the
founder of the Converged Network, which is home to Harry
Jackson Ministry's Hope Connection and her podcast for Women Life
(00:22):
In the Overflow. Today's teaching, we'll explore how the Lord
is using people like you and me to build his
kingdom and usher in a new heir of glory. But
before we get started, we want to share some exciting news.
Apostle Michelle will be ministering all day on Pray Radio Sunday,
November sixth. Tune in all day on November six for
(00:43):
life changing truths from God's Word. We also have a
free resource this month for you. Go to our channel,
the Converged Network and order your free book, a Manifesto
Christian America's Contract with Minorities by Bishop Harry Jackson, while
supplies last. Now for today's message from Apostle Michelle, here
(01:05):
we go.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Hey everybody, it's Michelle Jackson. Today we're gonna be talking
about Jesus being in the boat with us in the
midst of storms. I don't know about you, but there
have been times in my life where I've been like
the disciples, where I felt like, do you not see
the water that's coming in the boat? Like do you
are you asleep on me? Like are you asleep right now?
Are you asleep right now? Like I am dying. And
(01:31):
I think that that's a normal emotion that we can feel. However,
Jesus is not one to leave us nor forsake us.
And so I want us to look at Mark chapter
four today. We're going to start reading in verse thirty five,
and I just want us to remember, like kind of
have this thought in our minds as we look at
(01:52):
the scripture together today that ninety percent of warfare's perspective,
that ninety percent of the warfare we go through is perspective.
So Mark chapter four, verse thirty five, it's it reads,
and I'm in the New Living Translation. So here we go.
(02:13):
As evening came, Jesus said to his disciples, let's cross
over to the other side of the lake. So they
took Jesus in the boat and started out, leaving the
cross behind. Although other boats did follow them. But as
soon a fear storm came up, high waves were breaking
into the boat and it began to fill with water.
(02:36):
Jesus was asleep in the back of the boat with
his head on a cushion. The disciples woke him up, shouting, teacher,
don't you care that we're going to drown. When Jesus
woke up, he rebuked the wind and he said to
the waves, silence, be still. Suddenly the wind stopped and
(02:57):
there was great calm. Then he asked them, why are
you afraid? Do you still have no faith? The disciples
were absolutely terrified. Who is this man? They asked each other.
Even the winds and the waves obey him. So let's
talk about this today. Let's talk about ninety percent of
the warfare we're experiencing is perspective. Here the disciples are
(03:21):
and they're in the boat with Jesus. They have seen
his authority, his miracle working power, and they are shouting
at him to wake him up, saying, don't you care
that we're gonna drown? And you know this is true
that what we focus on, what we see, becomes reality,
That what we focus on is amplified in our lives,
(03:44):
and it's true for our spiritual life as well. When
we magnify what our fears are creating or what the
devil is doing, we see him bigger than our God.
And that's not the truth of the story.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
It's kind of like when you look in the rear
view mirror the side view mirror and it has that
little wording on there right like things may not appear true,
is what it's telling us. And so we have to
remember that we have to guard our perspective just as
much as we guard our hopes and our faith. Fueling
(04:19):
our hopes and our faith, as we've been talking about
the last couple of days, and so it's important that
when we found ourselves in a top season, and you
may be in one right now, a lot of people are.
I have been when you're wrestling through issues in your
life and you're worried that you're going to drown, that
you're going to be capsized, that you're going to be
this one might take me out. Lord, I don't know
(04:42):
how you're feeling today, but I want you to look
at this and see that Jesus was in the boat,
and while he was asleep, he was not devoid of power.
So right now you may feel like Jesus is asleep.
You may feel like he's silent right now, and that
he should be speaking. But he is not devoid of authority.
(05:04):
He is not devoid of power. He is not devoid
of grace to be able to step right into your
situation and to bring you out today. He is not.
He is almighty God. And so right now in this
passage of scripture, we're seeing how the disciples they were
just so consumed with the storm, They were so consumed
(05:25):
by the water crashing in, by the waves, by what
was happening to the boat. Probably the Bible says that
other boats followed them, so maybe they could no longer
see the boats that were behind them. Maybe they were
just looking at all of the crashing waves. But Jesus,
he cares, He cares, regardless of his silence in this moment.
(05:47):
He cares for you with an incredible love, with an
ever lasting love. And so take note, this wasn't just
any type of storm. This wasn't just bad weather. They
had they had handled bad weather before. I don't know
about you, but like this twenty twenty, these twenty twenties,
Chiah listen, it's been crazy. And it's not like I
(06:10):
haven't been through hard times before. It's not like I
haven't been through challenges before. It's not like I haven't
been overwhelmed in the past, and it's not like I've
never felt outmatched by life circumstances. But when we have
to recognize and ask this, you know, this question of
our is the Lord still powerful? Is he still available?
(06:35):
Is he still capable? And if he is, then we
have to step into that place of shifting to the
place where Jesus was when he just woke up. As
soon as he woke up, he stepped into his authority.
As soon as he woke up, he spoke. He rebuked
the winds, and he told the waves to be quiet.
(06:57):
He spoke to the waves. And so Jesus has shown us,
even as believers, as disciples, how to move in our
authority when he was awakened, when he came to attention.
And so today, right now, I believe this is a
wake up call for you not to be consumed with
the things that are going to be taking you out,
the things that you think that are formed against you,
(07:18):
that will succeed and cause demise. No, it's the time
to come alive, to come to come awake to your authority,
and to begin to rebuke the waves and to speak
to the storm in the name of Jesus. He said, silence,
be still, and everything responded to the authority of God.
(07:43):
And Jesus asked them, why are you afraid? Do you
still have no faith? And I wonder here, like what
the fear was rooted in because they were afraid, but
they had a deep awe and reverence that they'll Lord
God Almighty, the son of the Son of God, was
with them, and they were they were captivated by his authority.
(08:09):
Even the winds and the waves obey him. Well, maybe
in this storm that you're in right now, you're about
to have a power perspective. You're going to have a
shift in perspective that what you thought was going to
take you out, actually God has authority over and that
you're going to see him with fresh eyes and fresh perspective,
(08:33):
just as the disciples did in this moment, that even
I don't know what you're struggling with today, but that
the name of Jesus has authority over it. That even
what's come against you, what sought harm, even all of
all of the things that come as accusations against us,
that even the name of Jesus, that these things must bow,
(08:55):
they must come to nothing, that the attack the enemy
must fall because we stand in the authority of Jesus.
Christis is so powerful. And so I want to talk
to you a little bit more about the fact that
not only can Jesus see you in the storm that
you're facing today, he can also call you into a
deeper place through this storm. And that's what happened for them, right,
(09:18):
That's what happened for the disciples, that in this moment,
they had never been in a circumstance like this, and
so it drew a deeper dimension out of them that
maybe they thought they were there. Maybe they thought, Okay,
we're with the Lord. It's no big deal. I don't
know how they felt that day. But trials have a
(09:39):
way in life. This is true for my life. Trials, problems, circumstances, difficulties,
adversities have a way of exposing places where I really
need to know a deeper dimension of God. It's in
those times of stretching a trial that I grow up
in my faith, that I become more mature as a
(10:02):
woman of God. And oftentimes I believe that the Lord
will use storms and challenges our life to call forth
things that we don't need, that don't serve us. But
he'll also like infuse us with things that we need.
And I believe in this story we're able to see
the power of the spoken word of God, the command
of God, but also the rebuke of God. That the
(10:26):
enemy has to back off when the Lord rebukes him,
when the Lord rebukes him saying get back, fall away,
step back, get out of here, that he has to
respond to the authority of Christ. That he has to
respond to the authority of Jesus Christ. You know, the
(10:46):
name of Jesus was given authority over the earth, under
the earth. Come on, in every realm, the name of
Jesus has authority. And so today, no matter what you
are going through, and no matter what realm it originated from,
the name of Jesus has authority over it. And he
(11:10):
can subdue every storm. And he will cause you to
know how to use your authority to speak to the
storm and to speak to the mountains in your life
and see them cast into the sea. David and Psalm
forty two to five. He found strength by encouraging himself,
(11:32):
and so oftentimes you know, now the Father has given
us the Holy Spirit, and so the Holy Spirit will
hover over us, and we brood over us, cause us
to remember things, teach us truth. And David, this is
(11:52):
this is what I love about David. He just poured
out his soul to the Lord, and so Psalm forty two,
verse five says, why are you downcast, oh my soul,
why are you disquieted? Within me? Hope in God, for
I will yet praise Him for the help of his countenance.
And so I just want to encourage you today that
(12:15):
you are not forgotten. Jesus is not asleep on you,
and that he is devoid of power, and that He
will not arise for you even with healing in his
wings today, that the Son of Righteousness will arise with
healing in his wings for you today. It what you're
going through the circumstance is not greater than what the
(12:39):
power of God will do and can do in your life.
So I love that David. He just strengthened himself. He
urged his own spirit to shift the focus from all
of his troubles and onto his Savior and from what
was happening to the countenance of his God. He said, Oh,
(13:00):
if I could just gaze upon your glory, gaze upon
your face, my salvation will be found in you. And
so so many times, you know, it's it's it's that
we don't feel like or we don't think about. We
got to move beyond all that stuff, to getting in
his face, to beholding him, to get him in our
(13:23):
gaze and in our in our in our mind's eye,
and in our emotions, to then begin to focus on him,
and to remember and depress into him, and remember that
as he becomes bigger in our view, the storms, the issues,
and the problems grow smaller. That when we're focused on him,
the world passes away. The world passes away. This is so,
(13:47):
this is so good, right, So so many times in
life there are opportunities for us to agree with the
word of the enemy that we are helpless and hopeless.
He wants to get to us, to a place. Come on,
he came to steal, kill, and destroy. So if he
can't kill us physically, early death, all these kind of things,
(14:09):
you know, he can't destroy us by using others or
even using us to destroy ourselves, he will try to
steal from us with lies and deception and all kind
of devices. And so it's important for us to recognize
that the Lord will allow storms in our lives, just
(14:30):
like he allowed testing in Job's life for proving but
also for maturing right. And so we don't become hardened.
We become spiritually mature. We become tougher, We have a
more resilient nature. We become people who are able to
stand against against the test and stand against the wildest enemy.
(14:52):
We become the church that the gates of hell cannot
prevail against. And so what's difficult when you think about
people face facing terminal illnesses or loved ones who are
dealing with difficult struggles, It's like, why wouldn't God just
go boom and make it better? But God knows he
(15:12):
has manifold wisdom and power, and we must worship him
for both right. And so sometimes our loved ones, our
children are facing challenges and it's like we have to
know that He is perfect in his wisdom and he's
also perfect in his power. So I just want you
to close your eyes today and I don't want you
to think about your circumstance today. I just want you
(15:37):
to ask yourself and ask the Lord. Where are you
right now? Just sit and quiet yourself before our Father
right now, right where you are. If you're driving, you
can't participate, okay, because that's dangerous. But if you're in
a place where you can, I just want you to, like,
quiet your soul, sit before the Lord right now. The
(15:58):
Lord is present, He's in our very miss and I
want you to ask yourself, where are you, Lord? Why
can't I see you right now? In what I'm going through?
Where are you? And see what he says? And even
(16:23):
as the Lord is beginning to download to you the
answers that you need, I just want to encourage you
that He is there at your side. Let the peace
of God rule your heart and your emotions, and anchor
your emotions and be that umpire because even as the
world gets darker, it's our as the body of Christ,
(16:45):
to shine brighter and brighter and brighter. So let's pray together,
if that's okay, Father, in the name of Jesus, in
our eyes and our focus on you. Lord, I thank
you that you've given us the peace and the reassurance
(17:10):
that you are in our midst that you are with
us right here. And Lord, I thank you that You've
prepared a place for us, You prepared victory for us.
And God, we just thank you that you see fit
to mature us and to cause us to grow up
in the spirit, even through all the things that we're facing.
And Lord, we just thank you that you have a
(17:30):
mighty call for us to fulfill and that greater works
your church will do. And so Lord, we thank you
that you've called us even into that place. In every
aspect of our lives and our family and our marriage
and our business and the things that we do, you've
called us to this greater work. So Lord, would you
show us how what that looks like and how to
(17:51):
allow you to be the ruler and the leader in
those aspects of our life. Lord, we thank you because
you are the maker of heaven and earth, and you
see us in our fears, and you see us in
our place, and instead of fear, you bestow upon us peace, safety,
(18:13):
and fellowship. And we thank you for that in Jesus name. Amen,
Let's look at Psalm one, verse one really quick, because
this is just a time of affirmation. I feel like
the Father is just affirming you today in his love
for you, and it says I will lift my eyes
to the hills. From where comes my help? My help
(18:36):
comes from the Lord who made the heaven and earth.
And so the psalmist question is where does my help
come from? And we know that the help that we
need comes from the Lord, and so acting on that
is an act of faith to run to him instead
of running to our understanding, instead of running to our
book knowledge, instead of running to Google, instead of running
(18:57):
to a friend, instead of running to the wisdom of
our mother in law. Come on, we must remember that
our help comes from the Lord. And he does not sleep,
and he doesn't slumber. We saw Jesus. He woke up
and he was spurred to action. And so wherever you
may be today, know that He is with you, and
(19:21):
he is with your loved one in the midst of
everything that you're going through.
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Today on the Converged Network, Apostle Michelle Jackson will be
sharing God's heart with you through the Word of God.
Before she ministers to you. Apostle Michelle serves as Senior
Pastor of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland. She's the
founder of the Converged Network, which is home to Harry
Jackson Ministry's Hope Connection and her podcast for Women Life
(00:22):
In the Overflow. Today's teaching, we'll explore how the Lord
is using people like you and me to build his
kingdom and usher in a new heir of glory. But
before we get started, we want to share some exciting news.
Apostle Michelle will be ministering all day on Pray Radio Sunday,
November sixth. Tune in all day on November six for
(00:43):
life changing truths from God's Word. We also have a
free resource this month for you. Go to our channel,
the Converged Network and order your free book, a Manifesto
Christian America's Contract with Minorities by Bishop Harry Jackson, while
supplies last. Now for today's message from Apostle Michelle, here
(01:05):
we go.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Hey everybody, it's Michelle Jackson. Today we're gonna be talking
about Jesus being in the boat with us in the
midst of storms. I don't know about you, but there
have been times in my life where I've been like
the disciples, where I felt like, do you not see
the water that's coming in the boat? Like do you
are you asleep on me? Like are you asleep right now?
Are you asleep right now? Like I am dying. And
(01:31):
I think that that's a normal emotion that we can feel. However,
Jesus is not one to leave us nor forsake us.
And so I want us to look at Mark chapter
four today. We're going to start reading in verse thirty five,
and I just want us to remember, like kind of
have this thought in our minds as we look at
(01:52):
the scripture together today that ninety percent of warfare's perspective,
that ninety percent of the warfare we go through is perspective.
So Mark chapter four, verse thirty five, it's it reads,
and I'm in the New Living Translation. So here we go.
(02:13):
As evening came, Jesus said to his disciples, let's cross
over to the other side of the lake. So they
took Jesus in the boat and started out, leaving the
cross behind. Although other boats did follow them. But as
soon a fear storm came up, high waves were breaking
into the boat and it began to fill with water.
(02:36):
Jesus was asleep in the back of the boat with
his head on a cushion. The disciples woke him up, shouting, teacher,
don't you care that we're going to drown. When Jesus
woke up, he rebuked the wind and he said to
the waves, silence, be still. Suddenly the wind stopped and
(02:57):
there was great calm. Then he asked them, why are
you afraid? Do you still have no faith? The disciples
were absolutely terrified. Who is this man? They asked each other.
Even the winds and the waves obey him. So let's
talk about this today. Let's talk about ninety percent of
the warfare we're experiencing is perspective. Here the disciples are
(03:21):
and they're in the boat with Jesus. They have seen
his authority, his miracle working power, and they are shouting
at him to wake him up, saying, don't you care
that we're gonna drown? And you know this is true
that what we focus on, what we see, becomes reality,
That what we focus on is amplified in our lives,
(03:44):
and it's true for our spiritual life as well. When
we magnify what our fears are creating or what the
devil is doing, we see him bigger than our God.
And that's not the truth of the story.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
It's kind of like when you look in the rear
view mirror the side view mirror and it has that
little wording on there right like things may not appear true,
is what it's telling us. And so we have to
remember that we have to guard our perspective just as
much as we guard our hopes and our faith. Fueling
(04:19):
our hopes and our faith, as we've been talking about
the last couple of days, and so it's important that
when we found ourselves in a top season, and you
may be in one right now, a lot of people are.
I have been when you're wrestling through issues in your
life and you're worried that you're going to drown, that
you're going to be capsized, that you're going to be
this one might take me out. Lord, I don't know
(04:42):
how you're feeling today, but I want you to look
at this and see that Jesus was in the boat,
and while he was asleep, he was not devoid of power.
So right now you may feel like Jesus is asleep.
You may feel like he's silent right now, and that
he should be speaking. But he is not devoid of authority.
(05:04):
He is not devoid of power. He is not devoid
of grace to be able to step right into your
situation and to bring you out today. He is not.
He is almighty God. And so right now in this
passage of scripture, we're seeing how the disciples they were
just so consumed with the storm, They were so consumed
(05:25):
by the water crashing in, by the waves, by what
was happening to the boat. Probably the Bible says that
other boats followed them, so maybe they could no longer
see the boats that were behind them. Maybe they were
just looking at all of the crashing waves. But Jesus,
he cares, He cares, regardless of his silence in this moment.
(05:47):
He cares for you with an incredible love, with an
ever lasting love. And so take note, this wasn't just
any type of storm. This wasn't just bad weather. They
had they had handled bad weather before. I don't know
about you, but like this twenty twenty, these twenty twenties,
Chiah listen, it's been crazy. And it's not like I
(06:10):
haven't been through hard times before. It's not like I
haven't been through challenges before. It's not like I haven't
been overwhelmed in the past, and it's not like I've
never felt outmatched by life circumstances. But when we have
to recognize and ask this, you know, this question of
our is the Lord still powerful? Is he still available?
(06:35):
Is he still capable? And if he is, then we
have to step into that place of shifting to the
place where Jesus was when he just woke up. As
soon as he woke up, he stepped into his authority.
As soon as he woke up, he spoke. He rebuked
the winds, and he told the waves to be quiet.
(06:57):
He spoke to the waves. And so Jesus has shown us,
even as believers, as disciples, how to move in our
authority when he was awakened, when he came to attention.
And so today, right now, I believe this is a
wake up call for you not to be consumed with
the things that are going to be taking you out,
the things that you think that are formed against you,
(07:18):
that will succeed and cause demise. No, it's the time
to come alive, to come to come awake to your authority,
and to begin to rebuke the waves and to speak
to the storm in the name of Jesus. He said, silence,
be still, and everything responded to the authority of God.
(07:43):
And Jesus asked them, why are you afraid? Do you
still have no faith? And I wonder here, like what
the fear was rooted in because they were afraid, but
they had a deep awe and reverence that they'll Lord
God Almighty, the son of the Son of God, was
with them, and they were they were captivated by his authority.
(08:09):
Even the winds and the waves obey him. Well, maybe
in this storm that you're in right now, you're about
to have a power perspective. You're going to have a
shift in perspective that what you thought was going to
take you out, actually God has authority over and that
you're going to see him with fresh eyes and fresh perspective,
(08:33):
just as the disciples did in this moment, that even
I don't know what you're struggling with today, but that
the name of Jesus has authority over it. That even
what's come against you, what sought harm, even all of
all of the things that come as accusations against us,
that even the name of Jesus, that these things must bow,
(08:55):
they must come to nothing, that the attack the enemy
must fall because we stand in the authority of Jesus.
Christis is so powerful. And so I want to talk
to you a little bit more about the fact that
not only can Jesus see you in the storm that
you're facing today, he can also call you into a
deeper place through this storm. And that's what happened for them, right,
(09:18):
That's what happened for the disciples, that in this moment,
they had never been in a circumstance like this, and
so it drew a deeper dimension out of them that
maybe they thought they were there. Maybe they thought, Okay,
we're with the Lord. It's no big deal. I don't
know how they felt that day. But trials have a
(09:39):
way in life. This is true for my life. Trials, problems, circumstances, difficulties,
adversities have a way of exposing places where I really
need to know a deeper dimension of God. It's in
those times of stretching a trial that I grow up
in my faith, that I become more mature as a
(10:02):
woman of God. And oftentimes I believe that the Lord
will use storms and challenges our life to call forth
things that we don't need, that don't serve us. But
he'll also like infuse us with things that we need.
And I believe in this story we're able to see
the power of the spoken word of God, the command
of God, but also the rebuke of God. That the
(10:26):
enemy has to back off when the Lord rebukes him,
when the Lord rebukes him saying get back, fall away,
step back, get out of here, that he has to
respond to the authority of Christ. That he has to
respond to the authority of Jesus Christ. You know, the
(10:46):
name of Jesus was given authority over the earth, under
the earth. Come on, in every realm, the name of
Jesus has authority. And so today, no matter what you
are going through, and no matter what realm it originated from,
the name of Jesus has authority over it. And he
(11:10):
can subdue every storm. And he will cause you to
know how to use your authority to speak to the
storm and to speak to the mountains in your life
and see them cast into the sea. David and Psalm
forty two to five. He found strength by encouraging himself,
(11:32):
and so oftentimes you know, now the Father has given
us the Holy Spirit, and so the Holy Spirit will
hover over us, and we brood over us, cause us
to remember things, teach us truth. And David, this is
(11:52):
this is what I love about David. He just poured
out his soul to the Lord, and so Psalm forty two,
verse five says, why are you downcast, oh my soul,
why are you disquieted? Within me? Hope in God, for
I will yet praise Him for the help of his countenance.
And so I just want to encourage you today that
(12:15):
you are not forgotten. Jesus is not asleep on you,
and that he is devoid of power, and that He
will not arise for you even with healing in his
wings today, that the Son of Righteousness will arise with
healing in his wings for you today. It what you're
going through the circumstance is not greater than what the
(12:39):
power of God will do and can do in your life.
So I love that David. He just strengthened himself. He
urged his own spirit to shift the focus from all
of his troubles and onto his Savior and from what
was happening to the countenance of his God. He said, Oh,
(13:00):
if I could just gaze upon your glory, gaze upon
your face, my salvation will be found in you. And
so so many times, you know, it's it's it's that
we don't feel like or we don't think about. We
got to move beyond all that stuff, to getting in
his face, to beholding him, to get him in our
(13:23):
gaze and in our in our in our mind's eye,
and in our emotions, to then begin to focus on him,
and to remember and depress into him, and remember that
as he becomes bigger in our view, the storms, the issues,
and the problems grow smaller. That when we're focused on him,
the world passes away. The world passes away. This is so,
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this is so good, right, So so many times in
life there are opportunities for us to agree with the
word of the enemy that we are helpless and hopeless.
He wants to get to us, to a place. Come on,
he came to steal, kill, and destroy. So if he
can't kill us physically, early death, all these kind of things,
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you know, he can't destroy us by using others or
even using us to destroy ourselves, he will try to
steal from us with lies and deception and all kind
of devices. And so it's important for us to recognize
that the Lord will allow storms in our lives, just
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like he allowed testing in Job's life for proving but
also for maturing right. And so we don't become hardened.
We become spiritually mature. We become tougher, We have a
more resilient nature. We become people who are able to
stand against against the test and stand against the wildest enemy.
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We become the church that the gates of hell cannot
prevail against. And so what's difficult when you think about
people face facing terminal illnesses or loved ones who are
dealing with difficult struggles, It's like, why wouldn't God just
go boom and make it better? But God knows he
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has manifold wisdom and power, and we must worship him
for both right. And so sometimes our loved ones, our
children are facing challenges and it's like we have to
know that He is perfect in his wisdom and he's
also perfect in his power. So I just want you
to close your eyes today and I don't want you
to think about your circumstance today. I just want you
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to ask yourself and ask the Lord. Where are you
right now? Just sit and quiet yourself before our Father
right now, right where you are. If you're driving, you
can't participate, okay, because that's dangerous. But if you're in
a place where you can, I just want you to, like,
quiet your soul, sit before the Lord right now. The
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Lord is present, He's in our very miss and I
want you to ask yourself, where are you, Lord? Why
can't I see you right now? In what I'm going through?
Where are you? And see what he says? And even
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as the Lord is beginning to download to you the
answers that you need, I just want to encourage you
that He is there at your side. Let the peace
of God rule your heart and your emotions, and anchor
your emotions and be that umpire because even as the
world gets darker, it's our as the body of Christ,
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to shine brighter and brighter and brighter. So let's pray together,
if that's okay, Father, in the name of Jesus, in
our eyes and our focus on you. Lord, I thank
you that you've given us the peace and the reassurance
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that you are in our midst that you are with
us right here. And Lord, I thank you that You've
prepared a place for us, You prepared victory for us.
And God, we just thank you that you see fit
to mature us and to cause us to grow up
in the spirit, even through all the things that we're facing.
And Lord, we just thank you that you have a
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mighty call for us to fulfill and that greater works
your church will do. And so Lord, we thank you
that you've called us even into that place. In every
aspect of our lives and our family and our marriage
and our business and the things that we do, you've
called us to this greater work. So Lord, would you
show us how what that looks like and how to
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allow you to be the ruler and the leader in
those aspects of our life. Lord, we thank you because
you are the maker of heaven and earth, and you
see us in our fears, and you see us in
our place, and instead of fear, you bestow upon us peace, safety,
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and fellowship. And we thank you for that in Jesus name. Amen,
Let's look at Psalm one, verse one really quick, because
this is just a time of affirmation. I feel like
the Father is just affirming you today in his love
for you, and it says I will lift my eyes
to the hills. From where comes my help? My help
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comes from the Lord who made the heaven and earth.
And so the psalmist question is where does my help
come from? And we know that the help that we
need comes from the Lord, and so acting on that
is an act of faith to run to him instead
of running to our understanding, instead of running to our
book knowledge, instead of running to Google, instead of running
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to a friend, instead of running to the wisdom of
our mother in law. Come on, we must remember that
our help comes from the Lord. And he does not sleep,
and he doesn't slumber. We saw Jesus. He woke up
and he was spurred to action. And so wherever you
may be today, know that He is with you, and
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he is with your loved one in the midst of
everything that you're going through.
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