Can You Hear Him Now?
Rev. Scott Sistrunk Preached on 6/14/2026
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Summary
Rev. Scott Sistrunk challenges the church to cut through the noise of modern information and religious routine to hear the clear, unmistakable voice of God for themselves. Using personal stories of God's guidance, he illustrates that hearing from heaven is the birthright of every believer and the key to a purposeful life.
Key points
- •God is not silent; rather, human beings often struggle with selective hearing or the noise of information overload.
- •The voice of God is a personal necessity that goes beyond religious culture or the experiences of others; every believer must hear Him for themselves.
- •God speaks through various channels, including prayer, Scripture, circumstances, other people, and even the beauty of creation.
- •Resisting God's voice often stems from a fear of change, yet God's direction is always for our ultimate benefit and good.
- •Seeking the 'face of God' provides a level of relational intimacy that clears up the misinterpretations common in distant communication.
Scripture
Spiritual Growth
Prayer
Faith
Obedience
Discipleship
Life application
Identify one 'noise' in your life this week - such as social media, constant news, or busywork - and intentionally silence it for fifteen minutes a day to ask God, 'Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.'
Reflection questions
- When was a time you felt a 'prompting' from God? Did you follow it, and what was the result?
- Are there specific areas of your life where you have been 'selectively hearing' only what you want to hear from Scripture?
- How does viewing God's face - seeing His tenderness and love - change the way you feel about His commands for holiness?
- Why is it dangerous to rely solely on the spiritual experiences of your pastors or parents instead of developing your own hearing?
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0:00fresh water for us every time we come.
0:00Amen. And those of you that know know
0:00that I travel and preach. I think this
0:02is my fourth worship set this week that
0:04I've been through. So, and uh
0:08maybe my [music] third sermon. Uh but
0:11I'm in church more than you all.
0:14I'm not uh in church here as much as
0:16we'd like to be, but I thank God for a
0:20local church. The real work of God's not
0:23done at WEC.
0:27Don't tell Brother Bernard I said that.
0:29No. Uh it's done in the local church.
0:33And but we have the privilege of helping
0:35local churches and so that's why we do
0:38what we do. Amen. Praise God. Well,
0:43Uh,
0:46I'm going to preach today, but the Lord
0:48spoke to me
0:51a little different direction today. May
0:54do something I've never done before,
0:57but uh, I'm I'm trying to reach you
0:59today.
1:01Isaiah 30 21.
1:07Isaiah 30 21.
1:11and your ears shall hear a word behind
1:13you saying, "This is the way.
1:16Walk in it when you turn to the right or
1:20when you turn to the left."
1:23John 10 3-5. [music]
1:26To him the gatekeeper opens,
1:30the sheep hear his voice, and he calls
1:34his own sheep by name and leads them
1:38out. When he has brought out all his
1:40own, he goes before them, and the sheep
1:43follow him, for they know his voice.
1:48A stranger they will not follow, but
1:50they will flee from him, for they do not
1:52know the voice of strangers.
1:56Romans 8:14,
1:59for all who are led by the spirit of God
2:03>> are the sons of God. Amen.
2:07I want to preach to you on this subject
2:09today. Can you hear him now?
2:13>> Can you hear him now? Jesus, I thank you
2:16for your word today. I thank you for
2:18your voice that's here. I thank you for
2:20your word that's here. I thank you for
2:22your people that are here. God, speak to
2:25us today in clear and unmistakable way,
2:28God. And give us direction today through
2:30your word in Jesus name. Amen.
2:34>> You may be seated.
2:36We live in an amazing time. So much
2:39information, too much information,
2:42right? So many facts at our fingertips.
2:45Um,
2:46artificial intelligence,
2:49doesn't that just fill you with
2:51confidence? Artificial. I had an
2:54exchange with uh co-pilot the other day.
2:58Uh, I was concerned about what I was
3:01seeing in the news about the Charlie
3:03Kirk assass assassination. And so I
3:07typed this prompt in to co-pilot. Can
3:09you compare the assassinations of Martin
3:12Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy to
3:14the Charlie Kirk assassination
3:16specifically in public polls that show
3:19acceptance or approval of these acts?
3:23and co-pilot says, "There has not been
3:26an assassination of Charlie Kirk."
3:30If you're referring to a fictional
3:31scenario, satire, or rumor, I can help
3:35clarify or redirect the conversation.
3:37But just to be clear, Charlie Kirk is
3:40alive and there are no credible reports
3:43or public polls related to any such
3:46event.
3:49So I said, "Are you kidding me?
3:54You don't know about the assassination
3:57of Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2025?"
4:02I waited a minute and co-pilot said,
4:05"Oh, thank you for your patience. It is
4:07now confirmed that Charlie Kirk was
4:10assassinated on September 10, 2025
4:13during an event at Utah Valley." Thank
4:15you for all the details, co-pilot.
4:19So I am the guy who told artificial
4:21intelligence.
4:29There's so much information and we're
4:31supposed to know so much. But uh in this
4:35day, this hour, we don't know what to
4:38believe.
4:39>> You don't know if what you Googled is
4:41right. If the person next to you Googled
4:43the same thing and got a different
4:45answer. And so with all the information,
4:48uh, sometimes we're more confused than
4:50ever.
4:51>> Add to this noise that we have, uh,
4:54religious leaders telling us that the
4:57Bible is not the foundation of our
5:00faith.
5:02>> Prominent religious leaders undermining
5:06the very foundation of our faith, which
5:08is the word of God.
5:12One of the prominent reformers said,
5:15"God lisp to us."
5:20In other words, the Bible
5:23speaks
5:25down to us, speaks in language and and
5:28the the the implication, if not the
5:30implication of that statement, but uh
5:33the uh doctrines that follow from this
5:36reformer is well, that's not really what
5:39the scripture means. Listen
5:42to me and I'll tell you what it really
5:45means.
5:47And of course, the Catholic Church
5:50denies the believer's right of biblical
5:53interpretation.
5:55And it interposes a sacraidal
5:57sacramental system between the believer
6:00and grace where the New Testament calls
6:04us kings and priests.
6:09And popular opinion says if you're
6:11hearing the voice of God, you may be
6:14crazy,
6:17>> but the Bible says
6:20>> your ears shall hear a word behind you
6:23saying this is the way. Walk in it.
6:27>> Whenever you turn to the left or the
6:29right, this way.
6:31>> That doesn't sound like lisping to me.
6:34That sounds pretty clear that God still
6:38speaks.
6:45My sheep hear my voice
6:48>> is what Jesus said.
6:52>> God is still speaking today.
6:56>> I'm here to tell somebody today, you can
6:58hear the voice of God.
7:01>> You can hear directly from heaven. And
7:04that's what this church stands for is to
7:08help you hear [screaming] God's voice.
7:17Whoever is of God, John said, hears the
7:20words of God.
7:23Jeremiah 33 and3 says, "Call to me and I
7:27will answer you
7:30and will tell you great and hidden
7:33things that you have not known."
7:41Sitting on the front row this morning,
7:42God told me to make this sermon a little
7:46autobiographical.
7:48I apologize for the personal references.
7:52But I'm going to tell you, I'm here
7:55today because of the voice of God.
7:58>> Because of the voice of God. My life.
8:02One reason I love this church so much is
8:04I was raised in one like it.
8:08Legacy Church. I was raised in Jackson,
8:11Mississippi. Brother Thomas L. Craft was
8:14my pastor. My greatgrandfather,
8:18not great-grandfather, my great uncle We
8:21gamblin started that church. My family
8:24members were all founding members. My
8:28grandfather on my uh my grandfather
8:30Duran on my mother's side, my
8:32grandmother, uh Memo Cester, uh they
8:36were founding members with all of my
8:37aunts and uncles.
8:40grew up on a Pentecostal pew, had
8:44probably 200 Bible school students in
8:46church with us. Uh we had I will tell
8:50you when I was 10 years old in Sunday
8:52school, uh Bruce Howell was at one
8:54center of interest table and brother
8:57Andy Carpenter was at the other and
9:00brother Jeff Arnold was doing magic in
9:02the children's church.
9:04Now that's and David Bernard was
9:07teaching Wednesday night Bible study.
9:10That's a pretty good church.
9:13Daryl John's was the assistant pastor.
9:16David Reaver was the youth pastor. Lanny
9:19Wolf was the minister of music.
9:23I grew up a great church.
9:27But it wasn't enough for me.
9:33It wasn't enough just to be around it.
9:37It wasn't enough to hear somebody else
9:39talk about the voice of God.
9:41>> It wasn't enough just to worship and
9:44have music and and have demonstration
9:47that I was not personally connected
9:50with.
9:52I loved God. Brother Krauss said,
9:53"Scott, you never went over fool's heel.
9:56I never backslid. I I never did anything
9:58stupid. But I had to find out God's
10:02voice for myself.
10:06And I found out that God does speak
10:08today.
10:10I'll never forget Sister Nona Freeman
10:12coming to and preaching a sermon called
10:15My Friend.
10:17She told a story. She told many stories,
10:20but one that I'll never forget burned in
10:22my mind. She said she was standing at
10:25her sink washing dishes and God spoke to
10:30her and said, "Go out on the front porch
10:33and start waving."
10:36And she said, I said, "Lord, surely
10:38that's not the Lord." She kept washing
10:40dishes and God said, "Go stand out on
10:43the front porch and start waving."
10:47So she dried her hands and she went out
10:49on the front porch. She said, "I felt a
10:51little silly, but I started waving and
10:56she said, "Here came a car down the
10:58road." She said, "Well, then I really
11:00got inspired and I really started
11:02waving." So, she waved. She said, "I
11:04waved until that car went clear out of
11:08sight."
11:09And she said, "I went back in the house
11:12and said, I probably will never know
11:15what that was about."
11:17Five years later, she was preaching at a
11:19church and a man came up to her and
11:22said, "Sister Freeman, uh, you don't
11:25know me. We've never met, but I want to
11:27tell you a story." He said, "I had just
11:31lost my business. My family was in
11:34shambles." And he said, "I had decided
11:37to end my life."
11:40And he said, "I
11:42got a shotgun in my car. I had it on my
11:45front seat and I was headed to the
11:47gravel pit and I was going to blow my
11:50brains out.
11:52And he said, "I drove by your house."
11:55And he said, "There you were on the
11:57porch waving."
12:00He said, "You kept waving at me until I
12:02was clear out of sight." And he said, "I
12:06just felt in that moment, if somebody
12:08cares that much about me, I think I
12:12might not do this thing." And she said,
12:14"I'm here today because of that." I I I
12:18tell you, when I heard that as a
12:2013-year-old boy, I said, "Okay, God.
12:23Okay, God. I I want that kind of
12:26relationship, God. I I want to hear your
12:29voice. [applause and cheering]
12:32I want to hear that voice that says,
12:35"This is the way. Walk in it."
12:42God still speaks.
12:48>> It's a still small voice,
12:52a conviction,
12:54an inner prompting.
12:57I remember the first time it happened to
13:01me.
13:02I remember sitting in the lazy boy next
13:05to my father. My father was sitting next
13:07to me and I was very private about my
13:10prayer life and I didn't uh my parents
13:14didn't even know how desperately I was
13:17seeking God and they they probably
13:19didn't even really realize that God was
13:21calling me into the ministry. I kept it
13:23so private and and and I'm sitting there
13:26and I I I heard that voice.
13:30The Lord said, "Go pray. Go to your room
13:33and pray.
13:35And I
13:37had never heard it before,
13:40but I'd been seeking it. I went into my
13:43room and I began to pray. And about that
13:46time, the phone rang.
13:49And my cousin who lived down the street,
13:51she was desperate. And I heard my dad
13:54say, "What? What's going on? What's
13:55going on?" And and and uh uh he called
13:59my name, "Scott, come come quick." and
14:02and he said, "Uh, Ben is choking." That
14:05was Robbie's uh two-year-old boy. And
14:08and said, "He's choking." And and and so
14:11we begin we got in the truck to go down
14:14the street to help and calling 911 and
14:17and and I be to pray. I begin to lift my
14:20voice. God, touch this baby right now.
14:22God, heal him. I'd never done that
14:25before, but I I I was tuned in because
14:27that voice
14:29>> had spoken to me.
14:32When we got there, Robbie was holding
14:34Ben and everything was fine and he was
14:38no longer choking. I'm like, "Okay, God.
14:42This is what it's about right here, God.
14:44I I want to touch heaven. Let me tell
14:46you, there's nothing greater than
14:48communicating with the creator of the
14:51universe. That's what it's all about. It
14:53It's not about playing church. It's not
14:55about performance. It's not about uh uh
14:59whatever all of this is. and it's lovely
15:01culture. I love church culture. I love
15:03being in the middle of church culture.
15:05I'm so thankful my parents put me right
15:08in the middle of it. I'm thankful for
15:09every Sunday school teacher. I'm
15:11thankful for every youth pastor, every
15:13youth service, every youth camp. But if
15:16you don't learn to hear the voice of God
15:19for yourself, you're missing out on what
15:22God has for you.
15:25God died for you, not Pastor Bachelor.
15:28God died [screaming] for you. Not the
15:30United Pentecostal Church. God died for
15:33you. He created you. He made you in his
15:37image. He knows every hair on your head.
15:39[screaming] He knows everything that you
15:42think and do. And he loves you.
15:46>> And he is speaking.
15:49>> Speaking.
15:52He's
15:52>> speaking.
15:54Oh, he speaks through prayer.
15:57Oh, I knew to pray. I was taught to
15:59pray. You can believe I was taught to
16:02pray. I If you hear me pray, you won't
16:06know it, but I pray like uh uh not
16:11Sister Nona Freeman, but there was
16:12another Sister Freeman. It's actually
16:14Diane Schoalter's uh uh mother. Sister
16:19Freeman. I pray like her because I
16:22listen to her pray. I pray like Aunt
16:24Vernell. I pray because I heard him pray
16:28in the prayer room and I knew to pray.
16:31But but but there's something that's
16:33more than just saying something. It's
16:35what happens in the prayer room. It it's
16:38it's the change that God makes in your
16:40heart. It's the insight that he gives
16:42you when you pray. It's the answers that
16:45you get when you pray. It's the voice of
16:47God that you hear when you pray.
16:53In the middle of all of that,
16:56I did like most teenagers, I began to
16:59question everything.
17:01I went through a terrible period where I
17:04was wondering, is there even a God?
17:08Is there even a God? I so embarrassed
17:12about it. What was my thinking,
17:14questioning
17:16existence of God?
17:18For all I've seen, after all I know, and
17:20I I'll tell you, I never missed a
17:22service. I'd never missed an event. I
17:24was inv but I was struggling
17:28trying to find my way.
17:32And I was sitting in seventh grade class
17:34and Coach Perry who was a Baptist who
17:37didn't even believe in speaking in
17:38tongues and spent most of his time
17:40trying to convince me I didn't have to
17:42speak in tongues.
17:44But he was a good man. He loved me.
17:47He said, "Scotty, what's wrong with
17:49you?" Called me out in the hall. He
17:50said, 'What's wrong with you?
17:53He said, "You're not yourself."
17:56I don't know why I decided to open up to
17:58Coach Perry,
18:00who didn't believe in speaking in
18:02tongues.
18:05I said, "Coach Perry,
18:08I am struggling." I said, "I don't even
18:10know if I believe in God."
18:14He said, "Boy, get out there to that
18:16dugout right there." He said, "You go
18:19out to that dugout." and he said, "You
18:20don't come back until you get an
18:22answer."
18:27>> I went out to the dugout. I'll be quite
18:28honest with you. They were mowing the
18:31grass.
18:33It wasn't a steel, quiet place. I'm
18:36sitting in the dugout and
18:45>> but somewhere
18:48somewhere I don't know I just felt it
18:52[snorts]
18:53I just felt God's embrace
18:56I just felt
18:59his presence
19:01and there was something that came in my
19:03heart that said the fool has said in his
19:05heart. There is no God. The heavens
19:08declare his glory. There was something
19:10about the faith that welled up in me.
19:13And I said, I don't know that I have all
19:15the answers, but [screaming] I know that
19:17there's a God. I know that there's a
19:20God. I can't deny the presence that I
19:22feel.
19:25Oh hallelujah.
19:31Thank you Jesus.
19:34>> In prayer
19:37you can hear from God.
19:40In prayer you can feel his presence.
19:46Be still
19:48and know that I am God.
19:51>> Come on. I know you feel God when the
19:53music is playing. I know you feel God
19:55when everybody's running around and and
19:57it's wonderful. But but there's going to
19:59be times when it's not all there.
20:02>> I I I didn't know that I was going to be
20:04in South Africa 25 years old with kids
20:07three, two, and seven months all by
20:09myself and have important family members
20:13die while I'm in South Africa. Can't get
20:16to them. Think my seven-month-old baby
20:18is going to die. He's dying of
20:20malnutrition and I can't do anything
20:22about it because he has an eating
20:24disorder. I God knew I was going to be
20:27in a place where there wasn't a Lanny
20:29Wolf choir, where there wasn't a David
20:31Bernard teaching, where there wasn't a
20:33Jeff Arnold doing that. He knew where I
20:35was going to be.
20:40And he knew I needed
20:43to be able to hear his voice.
20:46>> Oh, he's still speaking. He's still
20:50speaking.
20:53>> [snorts]
20:56>> God speaks to us through our
20:58circumstances.
21:00There's things that God just weaves in
21:02your life
21:05in all things. God works all things
21:08>> for our good. There's no just it so
21:11happened. There are so many things in my
21:14life, brother Bash just it just
21:15happened.
21:22It's about 10 o'clock one night. I had
21:25this thought come to me. You know, God
21:29wants to give you good thoughts.
21:32We know. We know about those bad
21:34thoughts the devil puts in our mind. But
21:36do you know God can put thoughts in your
21:37mind? God can put thoughts and let this
21:41mind be in you which was in Christ
21:43Jesus. God can just put thoughts in your
21:46mind.
21:49It's 10 o'clock. God says, "Call."
21:52[snorts]
21:52I was going to ask my wife his name. I
21:54can't remember. The guy in Detroit that
21:58had the two kids. Um, anyway, I can't
22:02remember his name. Let's call him Bob.
22:05Uh,
22:08all I had was a visitor card on my phone
22:11for Bob. I'd never met Bob. Seems just
22:14so happened he came. I was gone two
22:17Sundays and he came each Sunday I was
22:19gone. But I had his card and I I knew uh
22:23that he had been there and and the about
22:2510 o'clock one night the Lord says call
22:27Bob.
22:29I'm like man I don't even Bob's never
22:32met me
22:34and it's 10 o'clock.
22:37But you know what I know when God is
22:39pushing me to do so. Oh, it's a
22:42wonderful thing when when you when you
22:44tune your ear to the voice of God. So, I
22:47picked up the phone. I called I called
22:49Bob. I said, "Bob, you don't know me.
22:51I'm I'm Pastor Cy Truck. You visited the
22:54church a couple times." And he I said I
22:56said, "I just felt like calling you and
22:58telling you I'm praying for you
23:00tonight."
23:02He said,
23:04"You got to be kidding me."
23:08He said, "I was just praying,
23:11God, if you're out there, have somebody
23:13call me."
23:15I said, "Well, Bob, I'm calling you."
23:19He got the Holy Ghost. He got baptized
23:21in Jesus' name. Baptize his kids in
23:24Jesus' name.
23:26[applause]
23:27God still [screaming] speaks.
23:30[cheering]
23:36speaks through other people.
23:39God speaks to us through other people.
23:43I worked at Jitney Jungle
23:46when I was in Bible school. That was
23:48better than Piggly Wiggly.
23:53And I I had my spot on the front row. I
23:58was in spot on the front row. I sat
24:00there uh and they would leave my seat
24:03open. That was my seat.
24:06I mean, and it was a pretty big church.
24:08800,000 people there. That was my seat.
24:12And so, Wednesday night, I got off work,
24:15took my little strip of vest off. I was
24:18going to be late for church, but I was
24:19going to church.
24:21And I came in.
24:25Sure enough, my seat was available, so I
24:28sat there and song service was about
24:30halfway through. And
24:32uh I was tired.
24:35I I was 20 years old at the time. I was
24:37a senior in Bible college. Carla and I
24:40were dating, but I hadn't proposed to
24:42her yet. Didn't know I was going to
24:44propose to her at that time. But uh
24:47preacher was preaching. He had first
24:49time he'd ever been to church, our
24:50church. I don't know if he ever came
24:52back, but he was preaching that
24:54Wednesday night. And [snorts] he in the
24:57middle of his sermon, he looks over at
24:59me and he says, "Stand up, young man."
25:02He said, "I got a word from God for you.
25:06I stood up. He said, "God's going to
25:09grow you up fast.
25:12And when he does, don't you worry about
25:14it. God knows what he's doing. It's
25:18going to be okay."
25:20Five years later,
25:23I was married.
25:25I had three kids
25:28and they were all on a 747.
25:31and we were headed to South Africa to
25:33pastor three churches.
25:37That's pretty fast.
25:43Three-year-old 2-year-old 7-month-old
25:45was in the bulkhead in the infant seat
25:47and that 747 started taking off and
25:50gaining speed and I had a panic attack.
25:52I mean, what am I doing?
25:55I've never pastored a church.
25:58I I I have a one-way ticket.
26:05That word came back to me.
26:08God's going to grow you up fast. When he
26:10does, don't you worry about it.
26:13I remember sitting back at that seat.
26:16Let's see.
26:18Man, I'm glad I went to church that
26:20Wednesday night. I'm glad I was there so
26:23that I could get a word from God.
26:27A word [screaming]
26:28from God.
26:30Oh, when you crave the word of God,
26:33[screaming] all I want my ears to be
26:35able to hear is what thus saith the
26:38Lord. I want them to be deaf to every
26:41other voice. I want every other voice to
26:44be less than. [screaming]
26:45I want to hear what the spirit is
26:48saying.
27:03I've got to hear your voice, God.
27:11Oh, God speaks through creation.
27:17I I
27:20I'm sure my wife gets tired of it, but I
27:22I can't stop watching sunsets
27:26and sunrises.
27:30I love to go to the Florida Keys. It's
27:32my favorite place on earth because you
27:35can see the sunrise and you can see the
27:37sunset. And every day we're in the
27:40Florida Keys. I'm at the Seven Mile
27:43Bridge and I watch the sun because it
27:47says to me, "God loves me.
27:50God loves me." He puts on this beautiful
27:55display
27:57>> and I take it personal.
27:59>> I do. I take it personal because the
28:03heavens declare the glory of God. The
28:06heavens declare the glory of God. Day
28:08unto day utter knowledge, speech night
28:12and night.
28:15>> The problem is not God's silence. It's
28:18our selective hearing.
28:24When cell phones first came out,
28:27there was a lot of little companies and
28:30it wasn't the big two, AT&T and Verizon,
28:36but Verizon at the time was just a
28:38little startup. I think they bought Air
28:40Touch and they were trying to make their
28:43way and it was a big competition. But
28:46what put them over the edge was a
28:49commercial. They said, "Can you hear me
28:52now?"
28:54And had this guy, he'd be in all kind of
28:56places. He'd be out in the desert. He'd
28:57be on the mount. "Can you hear me now?
28:59Can you hear me now?" And of course,
29:01this was before the days of networks and
29:04and
29:07now
29:08that's a great way to get off the phone,
29:10isn't it? Oh, I can't hear you.
29:13What' you say?
29:17Call me back.
29:24Sometimes we move around spiritually not
29:27to hear but to avoid hearing.
29:31>> Avoid hearing. Jonah heard.
29:36>> He heard
29:38but he ran.
29:42>> It It was It was too difficult.
29:46Saul heard selectively,
29:50but when he got impatient, he decided he
29:52couldn't hear anymore. What? What's that
29:55you say?
29:59>> The rich young ruler heard,
30:04>> but he walked away sorrowfully.
30:10>> Come on. If you're not hearing God,
30:13the problem is not God's silence.
30:18>> It's our selective hearing.
30:21>> Sometimes we resist hearing God because
30:25we fear what God might ask us to change.
30:34I realized
30:36in my journey
30:39I was so terrified God would call me to
30:43preach
30:45I stopped listening.
30:51I told my youth pastor, I said, "I I
30:53just want to be a prayer warrior like
30:55Sister Frasier."
31:00Of course, in his wisdom, he said,
31:02"Well, that's fine. No problem.
31:07Sometimes we have our dreams and our
31:09plans that we want to do."
31:13I grew up around a Bible school. I knew
31:15everybody that said they were called to
31:17preach didn't preach.
31:22I knew that everybody that was called to
31:24preach didn't necessarily it wasn't
31:26necessarily an easy journey.
31:31My daddy didn't want me to preach.
31:34He wanted me to go to college.
31:40So
31:41part of my struggle
31:46is I didn't want to hear what God was
31:47saying.
31:51Let me tell you,
31:54God will never ask you to do something
31:56that's not for your benefit.
32:00Whatever God asks you to do, even though
32:03it's hard, even though it may cause you
32:06to give up something you love, it will
32:08be for your good. He thinks good
32:12thoughts about you. He's got great plans
32:14for you. He knows the end from the
32:16beginning. You know little. Listen to
32:19God. It'll always be for [screaming]
32:23your good.
32:30If there's one thing I thank God for, if
32:33there's one thing I've done right in my
32:35life is I've always let God choose.
32:40There's so many things that I wanted to
32:42do and I tried to talk God into
32:46almost none of them worked out.
32:50>> And I'm so thankful
32:52>> that somebody taught me God's way is the
32:55best way.
32:57and I can have my say. I can make my
32:59case. God, do this.
33:04>> I think Sister Freeman is one that said
33:06we we go on a hunger strike and call it
33:08fasting.
33:11>> We pick at the throne and call it
33:13praying.
33:15>> Well, I've gone on a few hunger strikes.
33:18I've picketed the throne.
33:21But I love God's voice too much
33:25to not get my flesh under control
33:28>> and decide that I'm not going to listen
33:31to anybody else's opinion. I'm not going
33:33to elevate anybody else's advice. I'm
33:36not going to elevate my own desires. I'm
33:38not going to elevate my own ambitions.
33:40I'm going to say yes [screaming] to God.
33:43Yes to God's voice.
33:46[applause]
33:51Even though it changes
33:54my direction, my desired direction.
34:00Often God calls us out of comfort zones.
34:05I was taking up an offering for brother
34:06Nicks. It was our Christmas vision
34:09offering. We took it up every year to
34:11help plant churches in the Detroit metro
34:14area. I I had had three kids without
34:16health insurance.
34:19I was in debt.
34:21The debt was $8,000 and it might as well
34:24been $80,000.
34:29And I'm up there encouraging everybody
34:31to give. And God's I'd already given or
34:35put down a pledge that was more than I
34:38had. It was a faith promise for sure.
34:41And uh and God says, "Double it."
34:46Well, that couldn't be God. There's no
34:48way that's God. Get thee behind me,
34:50Satan.
34:52[laughter]
35:01But I I never will forget.
35:04I did double it and I paid it.
35:09And I was moaning to God one day about
35:12all my debt.
35:15I'm laying in I could take you this
35:17spot. I was laying. God,
35:19this you got to help me. I was I I
35:22called it praying. I was really just
35:24having a panic attack.
35:28And God said, "Well, how much do you
35:31owe?"
35:33I said, "It's I think it's I think it's
35:36I don't know. It's a lot.
35:40The reason I know it's 8,000 because God
35:42said, "Go add it up."
35:46>> I
35:48said, "Go add it up." So, I got my
35:50folder out.
35:52I added it all up and sure enough, it
35:54was about $8,000. The Lord said, "I want
35:57you to call and make sure these amounts
36:00are right. I want to know exactly how
36:03much you owe."
36:05So, I got to calling when I got off that
36:08phone
36:10after multiple people said, "No, we no
36:12longer show you owing that bill. We
36:14wrote that off. Uh, no, we reduced that.
36:18I owed about $1,400
36:21out of $8,000."
36:23Come on. [applause]
36:25Come on. God may call you out of your
36:27comfort zone, but he's got something for
36:30you. You can trust his voice.
36:33>> [cheering and applause]
36:47>> I I I've got to come to a close.
36:51Let's go a little further.
36:55You ever been misunderstood through
36:57email or Facebook post?
37:02It may have been a joke your reader
37:04didn't pick up on, or it may have been
37:07worded completely right, but was in
37:10interpreted differently due to how the
37:12reader was feeling at the time.
37:17But there's something about face-toface
37:19communication
37:22>> that removes misinterpretations.
37:26>> Same is true with God. Psalms 27
37:317-9. Hear, O Lord, when I cry aloud. Be
37:35gracious unto me and answer me.
37:38You have said, "Seek my face.
37:42My heart says to you, your face, Lord,
37:46do I seek.
37:48>> Hide not your face from me."
37:51>> Yes.
37:54Does
37:54>> this sound familiar?
37:57>> Mom or dad?
37:59smiles at baby.
38:03Baby looks at mom and dad's face,
38:06sees dilated pupils,
38:09which is a sign their sympathetic
38:11nervous nervous system is pleasurably
38:14aroused. And so the baby's sympathetic
38:18nerve system is automatically aroused
38:21and pupils dilate, heart beats faster.
38:26A natural feelgood chemical nurepide is
38:29released in the prefrontal cortex
38:33and this chemical helps build
38:35connections between nerve cells and
38:38stimulates brain development and makes
38:40the baby feel good.
38:42At the same time, another chemical
38:44dopamine is released in the brain stem
38:47of mom or dad. And this chemicals help
38:50brain cells take up energy in the form
38:52of glucose.
38:54And so mom or dad registers the baby's
38:58positive response, keeps smiling and
39:01engaging the baby and also experiences a
39:05release of pleasurable chemicals in the
39:08brain.
39:10And the end result is you can't keep
39:13your eyes off the baby.
39:19the studies done in CO
39:22the damage that was done to developing
39:25children because of masks them not being
39:27able to see the face
39:30of mom or dad or adults.
39:35Prayer is often viewed
39:38as talking to an invisible God
39:41and the idea of seeing his face is
39:44thought of as impossible.
39:47But the scripture says, "Seek his face."
39:55I was
39:57le I was on staff. I was bocational. I
40:00was on staff at
40:02uh church in Ipsellani.
40:05I started the church in Ann Arbor.
40:09I had started another church in Clinton,
40:12Michigan.
40:14And I was going to the
40:17church and leading service, leaving out
40:19going to Clinton at 11, going to Ann
40:22Arbor at 2:30, and on some weeks we
40:26would have a homeless shelter service in
40:27the evening in Ann Arbor. And I had
40:31three kids
40:33and a wonderful wife
40:36and I'm trying to manage all of this.
40:41And I was so
40:44getting so stressed out. I I kept
40:46getting tickets and having wrecks.
40:49I'd be my mind would be on something and
40:52I'd be going up and down Michigan
40:53Avenue. Somebody traffic be stopped in
40:55front of me and I just plow into people.
41:00Man, I almost lost my license. Like I
41:03got one more ticket and they're going to
41:05take my license.
41:07And it was like, man, something's got to
41:10give. God,
41:12I got all these decisions coming at me.
41:17And the Lord began to speak to me. He
41:19said, "Why don't you seek my face?"
41:23You know, there's sometimes you don't
41:24have time to pray an hour about every
41:26decision.
41:30I remember sitting in church as a kid.
41:34Well,
41:36my mom could say a lot from the balcony.
41:39All I had to do is look up there. I got
41:42a whole book
41:44about what was going to happen to me
41:45when I got home if I didn't stop playing
41:47and fooling around.
41:52>> My wife and I uh we got she she always
41:56played the keyboard. Our keyboard was
41:58over here and um we had three kids and
42:02I'm preaching and there's only the two
42:04of us and we're doing all everything. We
42:05we got pretty good at communicating
42:08through our face.
42:10In fact, one night I told her I'm
42:12teaching Bible study. A guest came in. I
42:15I don't I usually taught Bible study and
42:17dismiss. She started crying. And so I
42:20communicated without saying a word.
42:22We're going to have an altar call
42:23tonight. You need to come up here and
42:25play the piano because I got to give an
42:27altar call because this girl needs to
42:29get the Holy Ghost. I said all that
42:30through my face. And she understood it
42:33and came up and played the keyboard and
42:35the woman got the Holy Ghost and we
42:36baptized her.
42:39>> [applause]
42:44>> God said, "I want you to just look at my
42:46face. I'll tell you if it's right or
42:49it's wrong."
42:51>> You know, you can walk with God. You
42:53say, "God, what do you think?"
42:57He can direct you.
43:00>> He can direct you.
43:02Seek his face.
43:09As you look into his face, he may tell
43:11you to be holy, but all of a sudden, you
43:13no longer see it as a rebuke or an
43:15unreachable goal because you can see the
43:18tenderness in his eyes. Now, there's
43:20nothing else in the entire world you'd
43:22rather do. And you believe it's possible
43:26>> because you looked him through his face.
43:32>> 2 Corinthians 3:7 through8 can come.
43:35Now, if the ministry that brought death,
43:36which was engraved in letters on stone,
43:38came with glory, so that the Israelites
43:41could not look steadily at the face of
43:43Moses because of its glory, transitory
43:46though it was, will not the ministry of
43:50the spirit be even more glorious.
43:55The experience of Moses is not the high
43:58mark of Christian faith, but instead
44:01it's the baseline of what we're expected
44:03to experience. We can boldly enter the
44:06throne room of God.
44:09>> Hebrews 12 tells us to fix our eyes on
44:12Jesus.
44:22I was, you know, I I I'll have to tell
44:25you this doesn't leave pastor out of
44:28this. I'm talking about me. You know,
44:30sometimes preachers sin on Saturday
44:32night.
44:37I have never one time felt worthy to
44:39stand in a pullpit.
44:42I've never felt worthy one time
44:46to stand here and deliver the word of
44:47God.
44:49The only reason I can deliver the word
44:51of God with boldness and authority is
44:53because I'm covered by the blood of
44:54Jesus.
44:56I stand in his righteousness.
44:59[applause]
45:03My my custom always has been on Sunday
45:06morning, I'm the first person at church.
45:09You ought to try that sometimes.
45:12You really should. You ought to try
45:14coming here about six o'clock in the
45:15morning.
45:17You know what you're going to feel?
45:19You're going to feel the hovering
45:21presence of God
45:23waiting on his people to gather.
45:26It's a beautiful thing.
45:32And you know, as as want to do when
45:34you're busy with life, has anybody ever
45:37gotten to Sunday and look back over
45:38their week and said, "I prayed enough.
45:42I fasted enough and I studied."
45:47I can't say never, but I don't think I
45:50remember
45:53because we always want to do more,
45:55right?
45:58And so I
46:01walked into the dark sanctuary that
46:04morning and
46:06I
46:09turned on some low lightss and I was
46:11about to begin my prayer like Jesus
46:15taught us
46:18worship
46:20uh our father which art in heaven
46:23hallowed be thy name but I always
46:24skipped on to the forgive us our debts
46:30as we forgive.
46:32I was about to make all my apologies to
46:34God. God, I'm
46:37forgive me, Lord.
46:40God, and I I have prayed this prayer.
46:43This may be too transparent for you. I I
46:45apologize, but I prayed. God, don't
46:48strike me dead today in the pull pit.
46:51God, give me mercy.
46:53God, let me be covered by you. I'm
46:56unworthy.
46:58And before I can get all of that out,
47:02the Lord said, "It's good to see you."
47:11What?
47:12He said, "I'm glad you're here.
47:15I love you."
47:20Talk about feeling acceptance.
47:24You know,
47:27you know my weakness.
47:30I I will tell you something broke in me
47:32that morning
47:34and all that striving to be perfect.
47:38All of that tension that I had lived
47:40with of having to dot every eye, cross
47:44every tea or
47:48you do love me.
47:50You know, somebody can tell you they
47:52love you, but if it's not in their eyes,
47:55you know, people can smile at you, but
47:57if they don't smile with their
47:59countenance,
48:02when you look into the face of Jesus,
48:08you see the way he really feels about
48:10you and the way he really,
48:14really cares for you,
48:17it'll change your life.
48:24For the righteous Lord loveth
48:26righteousness, and his countenance
48:30doth behold
48:32the upright.
48:39Stop arguing with friends and family,
48:42co-workers. Stop googling and doom
48:44scrolling.
48:47Stop trying to find another word of
48:50prophecy.
48:54Stop listening to sermons incessantly to
48:57see what somebody else to say.
49:00And start seeking the voice of God
49:02today. God's still speaking.
49:06I want God to put a hunger in somebody's
49:08life right now. Every head bowed, every
49:10eye closed.
49:12I I I I I want to make you want this
49:16like Nona Freeman made a 13-year-old boy
49:19want to hear the voice of God today.
49:23I I I want everybody in this church to
49:25hear and know and understand the voice
49:29of God. You say, "Oh, but I'm not I'm an
49:30immature Christian." Let me tell you,
49:32the boy Samuel, the first thing Samuel
49:34learned, the very first instruction that
49:38Samuel got before he became the greatest
49:41judge of all of Israel was he learned
49:44what the voice of God sounded like.
49:49Just a young boy,
49:52just a young lad.
49:55Samuel. Samuel.
50:00God wants to give somebody a Samuel
50:02moment in this auditorium right here
50:04tonight. Today.
50:07Come on, let's let our voice out right
50:08now. Somebody say, "God, I'm I'm
50:10listening." Somebody say, "Speak, Lord,
50:14for thy servant heareth." Come on, say
50:17it. Speak Lord.
50:20Speak Lord.
50:23Speak Lord, for thy servant hearth.
50:32Speak Lord.
50:34I'm listening. Lord, I'm listening.
50:36Lord,
50:41draw near to God and he'll draw near to
50:44you. The scriptures,
50:46if you seek him, he'll be found of you.
50:51I'm opening up this altar right now for
50:53somebody to come down and say, "God,
50:56I've got to hear your voice." If you've
50:58never heard the voice of God, if you
51:00don't know, if you've never experienced
51:02some of the things I've described today,
51:04I'm telling you, you come and start
51:06seeking it today. Come seek it today. If
51:09you're going through something in your
51:10life and you need an answer today, come
51:13seek the voice of God. He's speaking.
51:16He's speaking in this auditorium this
51:18morning. God speaking.
51:24Come on. I'm talking to some young
51:26person right now. You you you need to
51:28come and hear the voice of God. You need
51:31to start learning the voice of God.
51:41Behold, I stand at the door and knock.
51:44If any man will open, I will come in and
51:48I will suck with him.
51:52Come on. God wants to sit down and have
51:56fellowship with you today.
51:59Come on. I know what it's like to be in
52:01church and never hear God's voice. You
52:04You better change that today. Make up
52:07your mind that's not going to be your
52:09story. make up your mind that you're not
52:12going to listen with uh envy as other
52:16people tell their stories about how God
52:19spoke to them, but you're going to have
52:20your own story where you heard God say,
52:23"This is the way. Walk ye in it."
52:35[music]
52:36Come on. There's not near enough people
52:38at this altar seeking the voice of God
52:40today that uh there's not near enough
52:43people here. Come on. If you want God's
52:46word, if you want to welcome God's wise
52:49voice and God's word in your [music]
52:51life, come and make it known. Make it
52:54known physically, come on. You got to
52:56say, "God, I want it. Speak to me, Lord.
52:59Speak to me, Lord.
53:02My sheep hear my voice."
53:06You got to crave the voice of God.
53:08You've got to reach for the voice of
53:11God. Don't you remember the story of
53:13Mary and Martha? Come on. Don't be so
53:16busy serving God that you forget to hear
53:20God's words.
53:28Come on. Somebody's life's been [music]
53:30changed right now. Somebody's life's
53:32been changed right now.
53:37Come on. Somebody's life is being
53:39changed right now.
53:46>> Oh, it starts today.
54:03Word of God speak
54:06when you pour out my grave.
54:10Washing my [singing and music] eyes to
54:13see
54:15your majesty
54:17to be still [music and singing] and
54:21you're in this place.
54:25Please let me stay
54:29in your holiness.
54:32Word of God speak.
54:35Would you pour down my I praying
54:39[singing and music]
54:40my eyes to see
54:43your [music and singing] majesty
54:46to be still.
54:50You're in this place.
54:58>> [singing and music]
55:04>> You pour down [music] my graing
55:09my eyes [singing]
55:10to see
55:12your majesty.
55:15Be still and
55:18you're in [music] this place.
55:22Please let me stay
55:26in your holy [music and singing]
55:28name. Word of God speak.
55:32Would you pour down [music and singing]
55:34my graing
55:37my eyes to see
55:41your majesty [music]
55:43to be still and
55:47you're [music and singing] in this place
55:50every day.
55:55In your holiness, [music]
55:58word of God.
56:01Would you pour down my grace?
56:05Washing [music and singing] my eyes to
56:07see my eyes to see your majesty.
56:10[singing]
56:12[music] To be still.
56:16You're in this place. [music]
56:19Please let me ste
56:23in your [music and singing] holiness.
56:27But there's a hunger
56:31and a [music] thirst.
56:34I am desperate. [singing]
56:38He loves me.
56:42I'm not [music and singing] waiting.
56:45Not anymore.
56:49I need [music]
56:50you Lord.
56:52I need you, Lord. There's a hunger
56:57[music]
56:59and a thirst.
57:03I am desperate
57:05in mercy. [music]
57:07Mercy.
57:10I'm not waiting.
57:14Not anymore.
57:18I need [music]
57:19you Lord.
57:21I need you, Lord. [music]
57:25There's a hunger
57:28and a thirst. [music]
57:32I am deser.
57:38[music]
57:39I'm not waiting.
57:42Not anymore. [music]
57:46I need you, Lord.
57:50I need [music] you.
57:53There's a hunger
57:57and a thirst.
58:00I am desperate. [music]
58:04Give me
58:06your way. your way.
58:11Not anymore. [music]
58:15I need you, Lord. [music]
58:18I need you, Lord.
58:22and the hunger
58:26and the thirst. [music]
58:29I am desperate.
58:32[music]
58:33I mercy
58:36on my way
58:40[music] anymore.
58:44Mighty mighty [music]
58:46Lord.
58:47I need you.
58:53There is no [music] one like you. There
58:57is nothing like you. Open [music] up my
59:02eyes and
59:06show me who you are and me with your
59:12heart.
59:14[music]
59:15in love to love
59:20holy.
59:22There is [music and singing] no one like
59:25you. There is none beside
59:28[music and singing] you. Open up my
59:31eyes.
59:33You wondering [music]
59:40[music]
59:40[singing]
59:44in your world to those
59:46[music and singing]
59:46around me. Holy. [music] There is no one
59:52like you. There is none like you. Open
59:59up my [music] eyes.
60:02Oh, show me who you are and [music] fill
60:08me with your heart and lead me in your
60:13love to holy,
60:18holy,
60:19there is [music] no one like you. There
60:23is none like you. Oh,
60:27[music and singing] I love my
60:32show
60:34who you are and fill me with your heart
60:39and [music] lead me in love with all
60:43those.
60:46I will build [music] my love
60:51[singing] upon your love. [music]
60:55It is a
60:58foundation.
61:01I [music] will put my
61:09[music and singing]
61:10will.
61:13I will build my life will build my
61:18[music]
61:19upon the earth
61:24is the [music and singing]
61:26foundation.
61:29I will pour my soul
61:37and I will [music]
61:41be
61:42>> I will build my life. will build my life
61:49upon [music and singing] your love.
61:55[music and singing]
61:56>> I'll put my trust in you.
62:01My trust in [music] you.
62:05[singing]
62:07Are you ready? [music]
62:10>> You are holy, holy.
62:14There is [music] no one like you. There
62:18is none like you. Open [music] up my
62:24eyes.
62:26Show me who you [music] are.
62:31Lord with your heart and lead
62:35in your love
62:39to those around me. [music]
62:49[music]
62:57Heat.
63:14Heat. [music]
63:36I will build my life. I [music] will
63:40build my [singing] life upon
63:44[music] your love. It is a
63:50salation.
63:52[music and singing]
63:53I will I'll put my trust in you all
64:01and I will
64:04[music and singing]
64:06>> I will
64:09my life.
64:13>> All your [music] love
64:16is
64:18my firm foundation. I'll put my trust in
64:21you [music]
64:26in you.
64:33You are holy, Lord. You're holy. [music]
64:37There is no one like you. There is no
64:43[music]
64:44Jesus. Open up my eyes.
64:50Show me who you are. [music] Fill me
64:55with your heart and lead me in your
65:00love.
65:01Holy, holy, holy, holy. [music]
65:06There is no one like.
65:10There is love beside you. Open up my
65:15eyes. [music]
65:16You wonder
65:20who you are.
65:24With your [music] heart and lead
65:27in your love.
66:30Heat. Heat.
66:40Heat. Heat. N.
67:39Hey. Hey. Hey.
69:10Hallelujah Jesus. Hallelujah Jesus.
69:13Let's all stand all over this place
69:15right now. Thank you, brother Sis Trunk,
69:18for bringing us the word of the Lord
69:20today. We have heard the voice of God.
69:26Praise God. Praise God. We're
69:30We're going to pursue. We're going to
69:32pursue after his voice. Thank you for
69:34helping me with my mic. We're going to
69:35pursue after the voice of God today.
69:38Praise God.
69:40Thank you, Jesus.
69:42Oh, we need the voice of God.
69:47Oh, we need the voice of God.
69:50Let's just lift our hands to the Lord
69:52right now and talk to him again together
69:53as the body of Christ. Lord, we thank
69:56you for the word that you've brought to
69:57us today. Right now, our hearts are
70:00stirred. Our faith is lifted. Maybe
70:03there's even some conviction here today,
70:05Lord. Of those of us that have filled
70:07our lives full of the noise of this
70:10world, Lord. We've listened far too long
70:12to the enemy's noise and to the [music]
70:15world's noise, but we turn our attention
70:18and we turn our ears and our heart
70:21towards you right now to seek your face.
70:24Heavenly Father, I pray you would start
70:26right now with this pastor. [music]
70:28I pray Lord that you would continually
70:31keep on speaking to me. I pray that you
70:33would draw us closer together till your
70:36voice is the only voice that is
70:38important and matters in our life that
70:40will give us direction and order our
70:43steps. I thank you for a people that's
70:45hungry and thirsty after you [music]
70:47today. I thank you for those that have
70:50made up their minds, Lord, to pursue you
70:53no matter what it takes. [music] And I
70:55pray that if there's any cold,
70:57lethargic, apathetic hearts in this
71:00house, I pray that you would stir us up.
71:04I pray that you would baptize us with
71:06Holy Ghost and fire again. Let the fow
71:09ground be broken up for it is time to
71:11seek you, Lord. I thank you that you've
71:14given us grace. I thank you that you've
71:17given us a space, Lord, to get it right.
71:19And we're pursuing after what we've
71:21heard today. I thank you for your
71:24messenger, Lord. I thank you for the
71:26word that he's brought to us today. I
71:28pray we would not just be hearers only,
71:31but obedient to it in Jesus' name. In
71:35Jesus' name, Lord. In Jesus' name. In
71:39Jesus name.
71:44Oh yes God.
71:49in Jesus name we seek after you today
71:53Lord. [snorts]
71:54Hallelujah Jesus. Hallelujah. We have
71:57one that's getting baptized in the
71:59precious name of Jesus going down in
72:01water today. Somebody heard the voice of
72:04God. Somebody responded to the word and
72:07said, "Today is the day of salvation."
72:12If you've never been baptized in the
72:13name of Jesus Christ for the remission
72:15of your sins,
72:17you cannot go to heaven without it.
72:28Jesus said, "Except a man is born of the
72:32water and of the spirit, you cannot
72:36enter into the kingdom of God." Somebody
72:38say cannot. Cannot. Somebody say cannot.
72:42That's right.
72:44Then Peter said unto them, because they
72:46said, "What must we do to be saved?" And
72:50I'm glad he didn't just say, "Well, just
72:51open your mouth and tell the Lord that
72:53you believe in him."
72:55And that's important. Confess with your
72:58mouth the Lord Jesus Christ and thou
73:01shalt, everybody use the King James
73:03version word and say, "Shout."
73:06>> Thou shalt be saved.
73:08In other words, Jesus [snorts] has
73:11already done everything that he needs to
73:13do for your salvation. The lamb has
73:15already been slain for your salvation,
73:17but now it's up to you. Somebody say,
73:20"It's up to me." It's up to you to obey
73:24the faith.
73:25>> [music]
73:25>> Then Peter said unto them,"Repent,
73:29be baptized, every one of you, in the
73:31name of Jesus Christ for the remission
73:33of your sins, and you shall receive the
73:36gift of the Holy Ghost. For this promise
73:39is unto you,
73:41and it's to your children."
73:44Woo! It's to your children. Come on,
73:47Logan. It's to your children.
73:50You remember the day you got baptized in
73:52Jesus name? How old? I don't know. How
73:53old were you?
73:56You were eight years old, Lincoln. How
73:58old are you today?
73:59>> Six.
74:00>> We got a six-year-old,
74:07you know. And I can't help but think,
74:10brother and sister Brazwell, of all the
74:12families and the children you invested
74:14in and you poured in, that there's no
74:16greater joy
74:18than to see your grandson baptized in
74:20Jesus name today. To know your children
74:22are walking in the truth today. There's
74:24no greater joy. Are you ready for this?
74:26Pastor just keeps on talking. You know
74:28why? Cuz I'm trying to get some of them
74:30to do what a child is doing cuz Jesus
74:33said a child shall lead them.
74:38My Lord, if you're above the age of six
74:41years old and you haven't been baptized
74:43in Jesus name, you better get yourself
74:45over to that sign right now.
74:50Don't you let Lincoln outdo you today.
74:53Praise God. You ready to get baptized?
74:55Let's do it, bud. In Jesus name. Come
74:57on, give him a big hand clap as he gets
74:59in the water.
75:15All
75:27right.
75:30All right. Praise God. Amen. Let's
75:33stretch our hands forth and pray over
75:35this young man right now in the [music]
75:36name of Jesus. Heavenly Father, thank
75:38you for Lincoln's faith in you. Thank
75:40you for the faith of his father and
75:42mother, his grandparents. Thank you,
75:45Lord, that Lincoln has decided is the
75:47big day. He takes the step of faith to
75:49be baptized. [music] I thank you, Lord.
75:51Let him never forget this moment when he
75:53decided to have his sins washed away,
75:56your name placed upon his life. Lord, I
75:58pray that he would follow you all the
76:00days of his life. In Jesus name we pray.
76:04Amen. In Jesus name.
76:07All
76:08right, Brother Lincoln, based [music]
76:11upon your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ
76:13and the confession of all of your sins,
76:16it's [music] my privilege to baptize you
76:18in the only saving name of Jesus for the
76:20remission of all your sins.
76:38>> [music]
76:51[music]
76:58>> Come on, somebody thank the Lord. and
76:59give a hand clap right now [music] to
77:01Jesus.
77:44>> [music]
78:10>> Praise [music] God. We got one more
78:11that's going to be baptized in the
78:12precious name of Jesus. you're
78:15dismissed. [music]
78:15Otherwise, you're able to hang around
78:17with us and celebrate one going down in
78:19water in Jesus name.
78:56Heat. Hey, Heat.
79:07>> [music]
81:09>> Great
81:12boxes.
81:43Jesus
82:10name. Sister
82:26Praise God. [music] Praise God. This is
82:28Sister Melody. She said today her day to
82:31be baptized in Jesus name. [music] This
82:33is her third Sunday at New Life St.
82:35Louis. She's feeling the presence of God
82:38all over her life today. Would [music]
82:39you just stretch your hands forth right
82:41now? Help me pray a blessing over her
82:43before we baptize her. Heavenly Father,
82:46I rejoice in your great salvation today.
82:49I give you thanks, Lord, because you
82:51love us, because of your great [music]
82:52grace that covers our sin and for the
82:55obedience of my sister, Lord, to the
82:57faith. I pray that she'd never forget
82:59this moment. Even as she comes up out of
83:02the water, let your Holy Ghost fill up
83:04her life till she's overflowing. I give
83:06you great thanks and praise today that
83:09she'll never be the same again. Lord,
83:11thank you that you love her. Thank you
83:13that you love her. Hallelujah, Jesus.
83:18Oh, glory to God.
83:24Old things are going to be passed away
83:26and all things are going to become new
83:29in Jesus name.
83:36Yes Lord.
83:38>> Yes, Lord.
83:47Just like that.
83:55Sister Melody, based [music] on your
83:57faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and the
84:00confession of all of your sins, it's my
84:02privilege to baptize you in the only
84:04saving name of Jesus for the remission
84:07of all your sins.
84:38Heat. Heat.
84:45Heat. Heat.
85:10[music]
85:26Heat. Heat.
85:46Hey.
85:48[music]
86:04Hey,
86:13hey hey.