Winning, Rain or Shine
Pastor David T. Elms Preached on 2/23/2025
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Summary
Reflecting on Jonathan's victory over the Philistines, Pastor Elms explores how believers can maintain faithfulness in an age of technological explosion and spiritual deception. He calls the church to move past 'itching ears' and conspiracy theories toward a robust, local life of prayer and sound doctrine.
Key points
- •The biblical account of Jonathan and his armor bearer demonstrates that God is not limited by numbers or circumstances to bring victory.
- •Modern global events, including the regathering of Israel and the exponential rise of AI (information increase), are framed as fulfillments of biblical prophecy.
- •In an era of information overload, believers must guard against the 'Prosperity Gospel,' the 'Spiritual but not Religious' movement, and obsession with end-time conspiracy theories.
- •True spiritual safety is found in 'locally' committed faithfulness, sound doctrine, and a consistent prayer life rather than chasing 'insider' prophetic knowledge.
- •Repentance isn't a one-time event but a continuous heart-posture of aligning one's life with God's mark.
Scripture
Faithfulness
Prophecy
Prayer
End Times
Discernment
Life application
This week, audit your 'digital diet' and spiritual influences to ensure you are following sound doctrine rather than just 'itching ears' that tell you what you want to hear. Commit to a daily moment of 'soul talk' with God, prioritizing simple faithfulness over the pursuit of spiritual novelties.
Reflection questions
- Jonathan said, 'Perhaps the Lord will work for us.' How does leaving room for God's sovereignty (the 'perhaps') change the way you pray?
- In what ways have you been tempted to 'pray the lottery' for a divine bailout rather than practicing faithful stewardship?
- Pastor Elms mentioned that we cannot love globally, only locally. How can you deepen your commitment to your local church family this month?
- When you face a 'tight fight' in close quarters, do you rely on your own weapons or do you take a knee in prayer like the example of Colonel Hughes?
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Full transcript
0:00coming Sunday my subject today is
0:00winning rain or
0:03shine
0:06winning rain or shine your text for you
0:11Bible readers you recognize to be a very
0:15significant moment in the history of
0:17Israel and that there is a
0:20battle that is Raging the Phil Ines have
0:23come to
0:26attack God's people
0:28Israel and Jonathan the son of the king
0:32son of King Saul is alone on a venture
0:37with his armor
0:38Bearer many times they would take
0:41prospective GI gifted young men somewhat
0:44Knights and pages and Squires the armor
0:48Bearer would be a man that was very
0:50gifted in the upkeep of weapons he
0:53himself very skilled in battle but he
0:57was not the
0:58foremost uh battle worn or prepared
1:02leader Jonathan as the son of the king
1:05had his armor Bearer with him and Came
1:07Upon A group of the Philistines that
1:10were situated on a high mountain the
1:13Bible says that Jonathan took both to
1:16hands and feet because the incline of
1:19the hill was so great it took all for to
1:23get up it it before they ascended up the
1:26side of this hill he turned to his armor
1:29Bearer and said you know who we
1:33are we're God's people do you understand
1:37who is with
1:39us God is with
1:41us and one of the most significant
1:44verses in the Bible is this text with
1:47which we have read today obviously
1:50there's verses before and behind
1:53and if you're true to a desire for
1:55knowing truth it is expedient for you to
1:59study scripture not just pluck or
2:01cherry-pick if you will verses out that
2:04fit the narrative you're trying to build
2:07the Bible doesn't build our narratives
2:10we build into its
2:12truths and so this this Jonathan climbed
2:17this mountain Jonathan will be David's
2:20closest friend King David Avid will be
2:23anointed if you read in the chronology
2:27of 1 Samuel Samuel goes to anoint David
2:31as a lad for the first time in the 17th
2:35and 18th chapters of 1 Samuel but this
2:39is the 14th chapter this is before
2:42Jonathan knows anything about David if
2:45the chronology of Samuel is in perfect
2:48or proper alignment and this Jonathan
2:51will stand by David and prove that they
2:53are what the scripture says their souls
2:56were knit together or bound together it
2:59was a deeply spiritual thing and of
3:03course Jonathan as Saul's Heir who ought
3:07to be the next king recognizes David as
3:11God's chosen and it plays out throughout
3:13the rest of the story but my story to
3:17you today that is a picture that I'm
3:19trying to see is for you to understand
3:21just how faithful Jonathan understands
3:24his God to be in fact part of his
3:28loyalty to David is part of the
3:30Revelation that whatever good his daddy
3:33had with regard to being God's man it
3:37had been passed down to Jonathan because
3:40Jonathan says something that is quite
3:43revelatory he says that perhaps what I
3:48love is this word of I just don't know I
3:53kind of get weary with people who are
3:55always speaking for God as if they
3:58always know no you don't always know
4:03it's good to put a perhaps in there let
4:07it be said it could be let it be said
4:10that it might be but don't walk up and
4:14say you will because you will but it may
4:18not be when you thought you would and so
4:22this this is what Jonathan says he says
4:26perhaps the
4:28Lord will fight with us then he says
4:32this amazing phrase there is no
4:34restraint to the Lord to save by many or
4:39by few what David or Jonathan was saying
4:42here is that it really doesn't
4:45matter how much you're working with if
4:48you got God that's all you need
4:53it's all you
4:54need whether by many or by few in other
4:58words when I'm down to nothing he's
5:00still up to something when I am broken
5:04blue God still comes
5:08through all things Romans 8:28 work
5:13together say it with me for the good of
5:17them who are the called according to his
5:21purpose all things work together for the
5:24good just because the report that we've
5:27received is filled with despair it
5:29doesn't mean that God is not working on
5:32our behalf it could be that you don't
5:37understand who's on our side whether by
5:40many or by few the Bible says in
5:43Proverbs 19:21 many are the plans of the
5:47Mind of a man but the purpose of the
5:50Lord will stand many are the plans of
5:54the Mind of a man but it is the purpose
5:57of the Lord that will stand chaos does
6:01not mean that you're going to end up in
6:03loss doesn't mean you're going to end up
6:06with it all being upside down the Bible
6:09says in Isaiah 14:27 for the Lord of
6:12hosts has
6:14purposed and who will anal it his hand
6:19is stretched out and who will turn it
6:22back the New Living Translation tells us
6:26like David or Jonathan said perhaps the
6:29Lord will help us for nothing can hinder
6:32the
6:33Lord nothing can hinder the Lord he can
6:37win a a battle whether he has many
6:39warriors or a few
6:41Warriors now that's my setup I've got
6:44three points that I want you to learn
6:46from today and then we're going to open
6:48this Altar for our customary usual
6:51powerful
6:52prayer service you say how powerful
6:55about as powerful as you want it to
6:57be because I can't pray your prayer if
7:00you don't want to pray a prayer if you
7:02want to listen to others pray have at it
7:04if you want to pray feel careful where
7:08you're at I many times will close my
7:11cover my face and cover my mouth because
7:13I'm going to say some things that maybe
7:14you don't need to hear but I'm going to
7:16have a talk with Jesus hearing the
7:18preaching of the word does not
7:20substitute your trip to the altar I'm
7:24saying we have a figurative altar up
7:26here but the altar is really what you
7:28build in your heart in a response to the
7:31preached word of God and the word of God
7:33is sent to heal us David said Thy word
7:37have i hidden my heart that I might not
7:39what sin against thee if I can sin
7:43against a lot of things that's not
7:45what's important what matters is am I
7:47sinning against God sin means to miss
7:51the mark what the mark that he set for
7:53me I don't want to miss the mark that he
7:56set for me we are standing today at the
7:59crossroads of Eternity and what's
8:02striking to me is how often ancient
8:04proph prophecies are
8:07reexamined and they arrive with amazing
8:10accuracy in our modern era even though
8:13it seems as if they were written and
8:15recorded many years ago is it just that
8:18a teach a preacher keeps keeps
8:20stretching them over to try to make them
8:23applicable or are they accurately
8:26applicable that's a good question Elms
8:29that's a good
8:32question because people who represent
8:35any cause can be flea market
8:40salesmen people who represent any cause
8:43can be
8:45salesmen I Pastor some of the best most
8:47honest salesman of Integrity in all the
8:50world but there there is a small
8:55reputation of stretching things that are
8:57not always
8:59accurate here's one of the things that
9:01is a prophecy that we need to look at
9:04again because it's grown so common that
9:07we forget and I'm going to give you
9:08three dangers of things that we've got
9:11to watch out for in this hour one
9:14prophecy that we've heard is that in the
9:16last days the Ezekiel said in 36:24 that
9:19there would be a regathering of the
9:22Israelites to the land of Israel and
9:25what we thought was just something that
9:27occurred in
9:281948 facts show that there is a Revival
9:32of the Gathering of Israelites back to
9:34the land of Israel amid the Israel Hamas
9:38conflict that escalated on October the
9:407th thousands of Jews are returning back
9:44to Israel in spite of the war agencies
9:48like the Jewish agency which is nephesh
9:51but fesh and Israel's
9:54ala industry which is those returning an
9:58integration Ministry report a surge in
10:01applications they said quote there is a
10:04unique wave happening in the past two
10:08years a unique wave of people returning
10:12to Israel in France the r rise is
10:1735% uh applications rise going back to
10:21live in Israel
10:22in America there is an over
10:26100% rise of people applying to leave
10:29America to go back and live in Israel
10:33the Bible said that there's going to be
10:34a
10:35regathering of the people in the end of
10:39time there's another prophecy that says
10:41in the last days Daniel said but to you
10:43Daniel shut up the words this is 124 and
10:47sealed the book until the time of the
10:49end everybody say the end the end the
10:52time of the end I know many don't
10:55believe there's going to be an end they
10:57think that we're going to continue
10:58president after president world leader
11:00after world leader rumor of war after
11:02rumor of War uh all of this there is
11:05going to be an end full
11:10stop for all you legal experts in this
11:12place you know what I'm
11:16saying there's going to be an end to the
11:19World As We Know It And The sign of that
11:22is that knowledge shall increase Daniel
11:26shut up the words and seal the book
11:28until the time of the end many shall run
11:32to and fro and
11:35knowledge shall
11:37increase we know to and fro has happened
11:40because of the Advent of of
11:43Transportation but I don't know of more
11:45people that are trying to displace thems
11:47from one nation to another as there has
11:50been in the last season of our world and
11:54I'm talking about the entire world not
11:56just a few this is a fact knowledge
12:00shall increase I've tried to not talk
12:04about AI now I'm going to just tell you
12:07when you attend this church it's going
12:09to be the Battle of AI every
12:12Sunday hopefully Tuesday night I will
12:15exhort and lead some of you more to
12:18utilize AI in your work because I want a
12:21church that is uh employed
12:24intellectually Nimble and utilize every
12:27power tool that is in their toolbox to
12:30make sure that they're among the top and
12:33the elite movers and shakers of our city
12:36I will show you that but the Advent of
12:38AI happened in November 22 and I'll
12:41never forget sitting at Brother hail's
12:43house on December of 22 the first time I
12:47had ever seen this and I typed in I want
12:50you to write me a point po about and I
12:53think I named somebody uh finding gold
12:57in the Colorado mountains and I pressed
13:00sin and in less than 20 seconds I had
13:04the most elegant unique thoughtful poem
13:09with the Rhymes and rhythms and you
13:12could tell it in what style to write it
13:14it would rewrite it according to Henry
13:16Longfellow or or the different poets
13:19Jack Frost or not Jack Frost
13:23listen Jack Frost wrote the best
13:25Christmas song I've ever heard so don't
13:27mess with me Jack Frost does nip at the
13:34nose but I I I want to tell you a fact
13:37okay AI is a blob of information that
13:41many people say stop talking about let
13:43me live in the real
13:44world I'm I'm I'm here to help you like
13:47it or not this past Monday night yes yes
13:526 days ago was released the largest
13:56computer the world has ever known it's
14:00what is called a super cluster Google
14:04has huge computers meta which is
14:07Facebook has massive computers open AI
14:12which you know about as chat GPT has
14:14massive computers but they
14:17compile these gpus which is about that
14:21big and so y long and they pile them
14:24together in clusters of 10, thousands
14:28the ones that have run Apple and Google
14:31and meta the largest numbers are between
14:3410 and 40,000 of them stacked together
14:37in one room and it's a major Logistics
14:41challenge but what was released last
14:44Monday night is known as Gro 3 and while
14:48all of Google and apple and Facebook and
14:53uh uh Intel whatever all of them that
14:56have these big Deals they talk in
14:5910,000 this computer is known it was
15:02just released on Monday night it talks
15:05in hundreds of thousands it has already
15:08tied together
15:11200,000 of these computers now that may
15:14mean nothing to you but it's going to
15:17change everything that you know about
15:19life on June 11th
15:222024 that wasn't one year ago which by
15:25the way thank you for acknowledging my
15:27wife and I serving here as Pastor for 33
15:30years
15:34today I mean it's amazing when I'm just
15:3735 years old how I've served here all
15:40those
15:45times but on June 11th SpaceX starlink
15:49became available to more than a 100
15:52countries worldwide it's made up of
15:556,400 satellites it consists of over
15:5910,000 lasers and it exemplifies it is
16:04more real than any other preaching
16:08you've ever
16:09heard more real than any preaching
16:13you've ever heard about knowledge shall
16:17increase so you can still use your 70s
16:21profit preachers example on How Deeply
16:24you feel about that prophecy coming to
16:27pass you can use your '90s prophecy
16:30preachers about what you think about
16:32knowledge shall increase but never in
16:35the history of the universe has there
16:38been such an up in knowledge increasing
16:41as happened six
16:44days
16:48ago I know you wish I would teach you
16:50how to have a happy marriage
16:53I know many of you would like me to
16:54teach you how to soar in promotions
16:58categories but I want you to have all
17:00that thing but if you're not ready for
17:02heaven if you're not ready filled with
17:05the Holy Ghost baptized in the name of
17:08Jesus Christ repented of your sins and
17:11by the way you don't repent once that's
17:12the one you keep doing over and over and
17:14over and over and over and over and over
17:16not because we sanction sin but because
17:19we are
17:20flesh and so when you look at this this
17:23thing's called Colossus and I know
17:25there's some people out there say it's
17:26the mark of the beast brother Realms it
17:29could be but until we got to worship it
17:33it's
17:34not the man you might know who is the
17:37mark the Beast or the the the the the
17:39Antichrist I don't care if he's wearing
17:41a t-shirt it doesn't matter until he
17:44starts demanding that we worship him
17:47that's when it's over all bets are off
17:50and I don't even bet
17:52so here's my
17:54point we had better
17:59reinvigorate our understanding that the
18:01coming of the Lord draweth
18:05nigh don't get caught up chasing news
18:10from
18:11Washington news from New York there's
18:15elections happening in Germany
18:17today German elections don't be caught
18:20up chasing politics of France all of
18:23this stuff I'm interested I read the
18:25newspaper I stay up to date with most of
18:28it but every bit of it needs to make you
18:31say I'm going to pray like I've never
18:33prayed I'm going to worship like I've
18:35never worshiped I'm going to be faithful
18:36like I've never been faithful if ever
18:38there was a moment to get right with God
18:40now is the time to get right with God if
18:42ever there was a time to get moving
18:43forward now is the time to say all
18:47pauses are
18:50off in a word drowning with information
18:53where every Bo every voice clammers for
18:56attention the Bible says in 2 Timothy 4
19:00three and four for the time will come
19:03now we've heard this I've heard this
19:04quoted my whole life but it's more true
19:07now for the time will come when they
19:09will not endure sound Doctrine but after
19:13their own lusts shall they Heap to
19:15themselves teachers I'm going to explain
19:17this having itching ears there wasn't
19:19poison IV on the teachers ears
19:22it literally means they find people that
19:26tell them what they want to hear and
19:29they Heap them to themselves it's called
19:33follow who are you
19:36following you follow people that say
19:38things you want to hear Lord save us
19:42from that I want balance in my life I
19:46want to have enough wisdom to be able to
19:49discern between the light and the dark
19:52between the holy and the profane and if
19:55I haven't taught you how you discern
19:58don't come say what did Brother Elms
20:00think no what do you think you got as
20:03much brain as I do you're not as smart
20:05as I am but other than
20:07that you got as much brain as I do what
20:12do you think about what is Holy and what
20:15is profane because until you figure it
20:18out you won't be walking circumspectly
20:21enough another 10th grade word carefully
20:24and observantly and watchfully and
20:26intelligently and having intellectual
20:29honesty where you ask the right
20:31questions not that you ask questions the
20:34wrong question will give you the right
20:37answer every time what's the right
20:40question and so there's three things
20:42that I want to touch briefly since I've
20:44got one minute
20:46left the rise of the Prosperity
20:50Gospel the spiritual but not religious
20:53movement the Allure of end time
20:56conspiracy theories let me talk about
20:59the arise of Prosperity Gospel you're in
21:01a financial depressed state you're
21:04flipping around on YouTube and you find
21:07a polished preacher with a fantastic
21:10voice and confidence declaring that if
21:13you will give a generous
21:15donation that it will unlock God's
21:18Treasure Chest sew a seed he said
21:22and watch Miracles multiply and people
21:25in this moment get desperate for God to
21:28move and they got the right heart they
21:30got the right desire but they got false
21:35Doctrine God doesn't call for low Place
21:38giving he calls for faithful giving that
21:43means low place and high place not when
21:46you get sick not when you get well no
21:49faithfulness and they say sew a seed and
21:52so they're desperate they scrape
21:54together their last dollars and send it
21:56off clinging to a dream of of a Divine
22:00bailout praying the
22:03lottery I said it right not playing the
22:08lottery praying the
22:10lottery God is a blesser you can out
22:14give God but if you think you can pay
22:17the lottery of the spirit you're
22:20believing false Doctrine don't fall prey
22:25to one of these emotional Low Mo moments
22:28to thinking that all of a sudden I'm
22:30trying to Lottery my way into blessing
22:34you can give your way into blessing but
22:36you can't do it through the foundation
22:38of false
22:39teaching Jesus spoke of one taking up
22:41his cross not cashing in on the cross he
22:45talked about persevering through
22:47suffering not Prosperity that takes away
22:50your need need for a suffering no those
22:54who craft their own spiritual uh uh
22:57spirituality is another thing that is
22:59very concerning this spiritual but not
23:02religious movement that's my second
23:05point so have I covered the Prosperity
23:08Gospel this church still needs your
23:10giving it still needs your faithfulness
23:13but it will not happen because we have
23:15used an emotional play or poy to get
23:18your giving if you don't want to give
23:20don't give just leave the church the
23:23church is made up of
23:25givers yeah I said that out loud didn't
23:27I God that's something how that came out
23:30like
23:30that it just came right
23:33out give and it shall be given unto you
23:37pressed down shaken together running
23:40over the second point is this spiritual
23:43but not religious movement those who
23:46craft their own spirituality their
23:48morning meditation is borrowed from
23:49Buddhism their get inspirational quotes
23:52through the day from a Christian Author
23:55and then they've got a horoscope app on
23:57their phone to check their daily steps
24:00it's a mosaic of beliefs pieced together
24:03to fit them it's their own heaping to
24:08themselves sources that feed what they
24:11want to hear and these words piled
24:14together are uplifting what a great word
24:18uplifting sometimes you need to be
24:19driven to your knees
24:22well I just want things that are
24:23uplifting no you don't need things that
24:25are uplifting you got flesh you need to
24:27go to Calvary Calvary will lift you up
24:29and Calvary will put you
24:31down so this spirituality that's crafted
24:35through the minds of Flesh they go
24:37through this Mosaic of beliefs and piece
24:39them together uplifting undemanding and
24:42unique to me they build personal relief
24:45systems they cherry-pick practices that
24:48resonate and discard those that all of a
24:50sudden I don't feel like that's for me
24:52today it's an appealing approach in a
24:55world that wants full
24:58autonomy I'm by myself I'll be good I'm
25:01good I'm good you're not good we are
25:04bought with a
25:06price that price of the Cross is real
25:10and if you don't go to Calvary just
25:13about every day in your spirit and take
25:15a spiritual glance at the price that was
25:18paid for my freedom oh Lord then I'll be
25:22a man that is out of balance a tailor
25:26made Faith is nothing more than a
25:28feel-good fable which has no power
25:32imagine your own heaven then you better
25:34go build it imagine your own way to the
25:37sky then you better go build that
25:39Highway imagine your own happy thoughts
25:42then you better make them happy happen
25:45because there's only one who promis
25:47streets of gold walls of Jasper Gates of
25:50pearl forever life joy unspeakable full
25:54of Glory but he didn't promise it to
25:58everyone he said whosoever will let him
26:01draw from the wells of Salvation let him
26:04drink from the Water of Life he said I
26:07am the water I am the bread I am the
26:10life no man can go to the father except
26:13by me no man no man no man it's Jesus
26:17who is the door Jesus who is the SA
26:21sacrifice Jesus who is the resurrection
26:24Jesus who healed Me by his stripes I am
26:28healed Jesus who said forgive them Jesus
26:32who spread wide and died Jesus who was
26:36carried to a borrow tomb Jesus who on
26:39that third day all of Hell backed up
26:44while he came out Jesus rose up from the
26:48grave he arose with all power over his
26:53[Applause]
26:55foes and my last Point musicians come is
26:59this Allure of end time conspiracy
27:02theories folks this is something I
27:05needed to put last because the other two
27:08seem usual to apostolics and we've heard
27:11that but as a Apostolic in the last days
27:15you can find YouTube videos titled the
27:18end is near and a self proclaimed
27:21Prophet SL expert that has all the
27:25answers on how the conspiracy will
27:28unfold drops what I call a
27:31Biblical plague on the body of Christ
27:35because they come speaking of harbingers
27:38and apocalypses and they use cryptic
27:41verses which promise now can decode the
27:45chaos and they present themselves as the
27:48modern-day expert which now all you want
27:51is to get the new bell to ring as they
27:54drop a new video you know nothing about
27:57their life you know nothing about their
27:59marriage you know nothing about their
28:01faithfulness except they what they want
28:04reported you haven't watched them you
28:06don't know them that rule among you and
28:09it can get you chasing under the guise
28:11of being more spiritual things that seem
28:15like Insider knowledge and it sweeped
28:18you up I want to tell you beware of last
28:22day apocalyptic prophetic utterances the
28:26Bible cautions against fixing on times
28:30and Seasons those will come in Acts 1
28:33and7 it emphasizes that we be faithful
28:37over all of our speculations that we be
28:41faithful over all of our supposed
28:45chasing of Insider knowledge and it can
28:48cause souls to wander from the church
28:51body wonderand from the church faithful
28:53wonderand from the people they know to
28:56start chasing the people they don't know
28:58and at the end of the day you cannot
29:01love globally you have to love locally
29:05you got to find the people that is like
29:07a family fitly joined together and you
29:10got to find the people that emphasize
29:13faithfulness over speculations you've
29:16got to change the run from sound
29:19Doctrine or you got to get around sound
29:22Doctrine and not chase this Maze of
29:25information which driven by the Lust For
29:29answers that were never given to any
29:31generation before us and they won't be
29:33given to us in the last days all the
29:36Lord said is those people of mine they
29:39will be faithful shall there be
29:41faithfulness on the Earth when the son
29:44of man comes not shall there be
29:46Revelation not shall there be power not
29:49shall there be D Dynamic apocalyptic
29:52preaching no shall there be faithfulness
29:55on the Earth when the son of man comes
29:58get up eat your breakfast be kind to
30:01your children go to work smile a while
30:05let them know we win rain or shine go to
30:10bed if you lost something that day cry a
30:13little while but get back up I win when
30:16it's raining if you got your biggest
30:18bonus today hop twice then get back to
30:21saying I win when the Sun's shining it
30:25doesn't matter come what may a God is
30:29with his people
30:34Perhaps
30:36Perhaps the Lord will be with
30:40us and it matters not if there's two of
30:45us and 20 of them you find in that space
30:49there's some details I missed because of
30:50I don't have the time to get into them
30:51but I've studied them the battle
30:53happened in about the space of half an
30:55acre there were 20 people dead which in
30:58you read that it means it was a real
31:00tight battle area I mean 20 bodies laid
31:03out two men took out 20 within the space
31:07of about a half an acre this wasn't a
31:09running battle this wasn't a battle that
31:11was spread out across the battlefield no
31:13it was a tight fight in a very close
31:16quarters and it showed that God wins
31:21so our God can save by many or by few so
31:27we've got to recognize where we're at
31:29right now in
31:322025 what's my answer to this I don't
31:36have a new way to stir your heart you're
31:39gon to have to stir up the gift that's
31:41in you you say Brothers I don't have the
31:43Holy Ghost yet you have a gift though
31:45not the gift but a gift you got the gift
31:48of intellect you've got the gift of
31:50thought fulness you've got the gift of
31:52being willing to talk to somebody you
31:54say I don't know how to pray do you know
31:56how to
32:00talk well I know how to talk but I don't
32:02know how to pray well let me just tell
32:04you praying is
32:07talking to
32:10God and then he speaks to you in ways
32:13that include more attributes than just
32:16these ears it's amazing how loud he can
32:19speak Lou than these ears can receive at
32:22times and so you come and you realize
32:25that no matter what Peril we're facing
32:28and there's a lot of danger ahead of us
32:31a lot of things that are unsettling
32:33ahead of us I cannot tell you what
32:36tomorrow holds I can tell you tomorrow
32:38is going to be different than
32:40today I know you want to tweet that I
32:42said
32:43that because that's quite an amazing
32:48statement not
32:51so you recognize the Peril and you stop
32:55and realize God's in love with
32:59me and so I'm going to be faithful to
33:03praying and
33:04repenting and adjusting my life I
33:08preached it years ago a message entitled
33:11the wheel or the field and I talked
33:12about how we're all like a clay on a
33:15potter's wheel and as long as we're
33:16willing the Lord to mold us and move us
33:19he's still working on us but the moment
33:22you remove yourself from the place of
33:24needing to be
33:25adjusted then you will get the field
33:29because he doesn't work with people who
33:31are not able to
33:34move in Iraq in 19 I mean
33:382004 it was an amazing thing that
33:41happened there was a lot
33:43of talk in the city was on the outskirts
33:47of
33:49Baghdad that that the soldiers of
33:51America were coming in to take over a
33:55certain uh
33:58Shrine the Imam Ali
34:01Shrine and as the soldiers were coming
34:03in under the command of Lieutenant
34:06Colonel Chris
34:08Hughes this hostile mob who was not
34:11armed but they did have stones and they
34:13were ready to die in the
34:17process they were coming and shouting
34:19and surrounding ing Chris Hughes and his
34:23troop of
34:25soldiers and Hughes made a decision at
34:28that moment that was not
34:31conventional they were well armed and
34:33they had a lot of ammo they had big guns
34:36and they could have mowed down all of
34:40the crowd and it could have been the
34:42massacre at the Imam Ali Shrine but at
34:46that
34:48moment lieutenant colonel
34:51Chris Hughes told his men take a knee
34:56and lower your
34:59weapons and while the people all
35:02around were ready to die defending their
35:06Shrine instead of using power of
35:11bullets they Ed the power of the
35:14heart and that day no one was
35:18killed the crowd slowly
35:21dispersed and one of the most
35:23significant moments of the battle for
35:25Iraq that ever existed happened because
35:29there's a
35:31power in the
35:34knee Bible says every
35:37knee shall
35:41bow every
35:43tongue shall
35:46confess that
35:47Jesus is Lord
35:51and so on this morning you have come to
35:53church to just hear a few
35:56facts that I hope make you want to
36:00pray I hope they make you want to assess
36:04your
36:05choices your
36:07life if you have sins in your life today
36:10you need to repent of those sins you say
36:12what does that mean well I'll tell you
36:13what it means means three hops on this
36:15foot four hops on this foot and a back
36:17twirl with a cartwheel thrown in
36:23I'm being
36:26ridiculous
36:28no it demands in your soul you
36:31acknowledge Lord I know this doesn't
36:35please
36:36you I want it
36:38changed I haven't proven that I've had
36:41the power to change it on my own but I'm
36:43not going to wait until I find the power
36:46I'm going to tell you I need power
36:50forgive me of my sins turn me from my
36:53Wicked Ways let me walk in the light of
36:57your joy and your peace let me find my
37:00Supply in you not in this that and the
37:04other
37:06oh forgive me Lord and then pray with
37:10your
37:11soul see I just gave you words to
37:15say words are
37:23cheap I know that's all we have in a
37:25prayer's words no you don't you've got a
37:29heart
37:30print you got the very breath of your
37:35truth when you're saying it it's like
37:38telling the one you love you love
37:40them I was starting to talk to my wife
37:43we'd get carried
37:44away I love
37:46her but just saying that I could say it
37:5020 different
37:51ways I love
37:59you I know you don't know what I just
38:02said she
38:05does I could go to
38:09her what am I saying I'm saying when you
38:12want to seek his face you don't come
38:14with a list to read it's falling in love
38:18it's a heart print it's a old cry it's a
38:22tear it's a smile it's an
38:25acknowledgement you're not just giving
38:27surface talk you're giving Soul
38:30Talk that's why as a Cathedral of
38:34Pentecost Church they say we're
38:36emotional no we're not we can be Rock
38:38Stone Cold
38:42baby but we know with whom our soul has
38:46to
38:47do poker is over
38:50there ain't no playing with
38:53God now it's
38:57Jesus youve heard me Preach Today oh
39:01Lord you know how
39:04much I've wanted to say things that
39:06would move Souls closer to
39:09you you know the longing of every heart
39:13that God in the car
39:15today and drove into this house you know
39:19every thought that they have warted off
39:21and thrown out as praise went forward
39:25you know every time that they said I
39:28love you
39:29Lord I Want More Of You Lord Come Into
39:33My Heart Lord and as they do it
39:38you by your living power in breath you
39:43respond you fill them with your
39:46spirit and when you do so they speak
39:48with a language no one has taught
39:51them not from me not anyone else they
39:53speak what some would say is just
39:57gibberish but we know according to your
40:00word it's the vocabulary of the Angelic
40:04hosts it's a language that's emanating
40:07from on high you'll wash them in your
40:10blood and when you do so it m doesn't
40:13matter what happens in this present
40:15World we're going to be ready when you
40:18call us home
40:20oh
40:21Lord hear my prayer
40:23today and save this morning fill them
40:29with your spirit this morning wash them
40:33in your perfect blood this morning let
40:37them be
40:38transformed this morning let them be
40:41turned around let every fear be cast out
40:45let every voice of the enemy to be shut
40:48down we call fall into captivity every
40:52thought that would come and press back
40:55against God and we say you have no place
40:58in our mind we will praise him we will
41:03worship him we will adore him we will
41:09lift up our hands in
41:11adoration we will draw nigh to him shall
41:17We Stand the singers are going to sing
41:20we're going to turn this whole place
41:21into a house of Consecration and
41:24dedication take advantage of it will you
41:27there's much room at the altar where you
41:28can come and stand close in the presence
41:31of the Lord and I invite you to come if
41:33you've never received the Holy Ghost
41:34speaking in other tongues you can do it
41:37right now here today as the spirit
41:41speaks to you as you feel the purity of
41:44his voice come over you you've got to
41:47give voice to what he tells you to
41:52say let it happen this morning let it
41:56happen this morning because we're going
41:58to win rain of
42:01shine by many or by few it matters not
42:06if I'm high or low I I'm coming to you
42:11Jesus you brought me over