WEBVTT 00:00:01.667 --> 00:00:05.410 Amen, bona Sifui, amen, bona Sifui. 00:00:05.410 --> 00:00:08.000 Tenor Amen, look at your neighbor. 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:10.125 Tell your neighbor you're still looking good. 00:00:10.125 --> 00:00:19.445 In Jesus' name, better than this morning And better tomorrow. 00:00:19.445 --> 00:00:26.501 Shiny, shiny, sparkle, sparkle, matter matter. 00:00:26.501 --> 00:00:29.164 Give your neighbor high five. 00:00:29.164 --> 00:00:36.106 Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen. 00:00:36.106 --> 00:00:47.569 While we are still standing, we want to read the scripture, second Chronicles 32. 00:00:47.569 --> 00:00:53.164 One to eight, second Chronicles. 00:00:53.164 --> 00:01:10.450 The Bible says this After all that Ezekiel had so faithfully done, senakerib, king of Assyria, came and invaded Judah. 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:19.287 He laid siege to the fortified cities, thinking to himself to conquer them for himself. 00:01:19.287 --> 00:01:41.481 When Ezekiel saw that Senakerib had come and that he intended to wage war again as Jerusalem, he consulted with his officials and military staff about blocking off the water from the springs outside the city, and they helped him. 00:01:41.481 --> 00:01:50.069 They gathered a large group of people who blocked all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land. 00:01:50.069 --> 00:01:55.670 Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water, they said. 00:01:55.670 --> 00:02:03.983 Then he worked hard, repairing all the broken sections of the wall and building towers on it. 00:02:03.983 --> 00:02:11.828 He built another wall outside that one and reinforced the terraces of the city of David. 00:02:11.828 --> 00:02:16.830 He also made large numbers of weapons and shields. 00:02:16.830 --> 00:02:47.979 He appointed military officers over the peoples and assembled them before him in the square, at the city, at the city gate, and encourage them with these words be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or discouraged because of the king of Assyria and the vast army with him, for there is a greater power with us than with them. 00:02:47.979 --> 00:02:53.950 Tell your neighbor, there's a greater power with us than with them. 00:02:53.950 --> 00:03:07.873 With him is only the arm of flesh, but with us is the Lord, our God, to help us and to fight our battles. 00:03:07.873 --> 00:03:18.224 And the people gained confidence from what Ezekiah, the king of Judah, said Amen. 00:03:18.224 --> 00:03:40.268 And then the next verse later, when Sennacherib, king of Assyria, and all his forces were laying siege to Lachish, he sent his officers to Jerusalem with this message for Ezekiah, king of Judah, and for all the people of Judah who are there, this is what Sennacherib, king of Assyria, says. 00:03:40.268 --> 00:03:47.932 On what are you basing your confidence that you remain in Jerusalem under siege? 00:03:47.932 --> 00:04:00.592 When Ezekiah says the Lord, our God, will save us from the hand of the king of Assyria, he is misleading you to let you die of hunger and thirst. 00:04:00.592 --> 00:04:04.590 And the story continues, because we'll talk about that story later. 00:04:04.590 --> 00:04:07.026 This is God's word and God's prophecy. 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:11.066 Amen, we may be seated in God's presence. 00:04:11.066 --> 00:04:16.646 Glad you came today. 00:04:16.646 --> 00:04:17.440 Look at your neighbor. 00:04:17.440 --> 00:04:19.365 Tell your neighbor when is your birthday. 00:04:19.365 --> 00:04:33.389 Hello, if your birthday is this month of June, i want you to know that we are going to cut cake today. 00:04:33.389 --> 00:04:39.283 We are going to cut cake today, daily, neighbor Kuna Keki. 00:04:39.283 --> 00:04:44.543 Amen, of course, those watching us online. 00:04:44.543 --> 00:04:57.312 We also want to tell you Kuna Keki Virtual cake And we want to wish all those celebrating their June birthday happy birthday. 00:04:57.312 --> 00:05:00.348 Do we have any of them in the service? 00:05:00.348 --> 00:05:06.187 I wish my many to honor, just so that we know how much cake we need. 00:05:06.187 --> 00:05:10.088 Amen, god bless you. 00:05:10.088 --> 00:05:19.569 I am going to please be seated, So I want to share our word and then we'll celebrate that cake. 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:24.531 But today we want to talk about unleashed courage. 00:05:24.531 --> 00:05:32.000 Our theme has been empowered obedience, unleashed courage. 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:35.410 We want to talk about unleashed courage. 00:05:36.461 --> 00:05:44.000 Another place where we find God saying be strong and courageous is in Joshua, chapter one. 00:05:44.000 --> 00:06:01.072 Let me read verse six, joshua, chapter one, verse six, and he says this be strong and courageous Because you will lead these people to inherit the land I saw to the ancestors to give them. 00:06:01.072 --> 00:06:03.264 That's one part. 00:06:03.264 --> 00:06:09.980 He says it Later, in verse seven, he says be strong and very courageous. 00:06:09.980 --> 00:06:21.593 Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses, gave you Do not turn from it to the right or to the left that you may be successful wherever you go. 00:06:21.593 --> 00:06:43.233 Then, in verse nine, he says it now the third time He says this have I not commanded you be strong and courageous, do not be afraid, do not be discouraged, for the Lord, your God, will be with you wherever you go. 00:06:43.233 --> 00:06:48.810 Now this verse gives us the basis of courage. 00:06:48.810 --> 00:06:53.470 Courage does not depend on what you have. 00:06:53.470 --> 00:06:55.161 So tell your neighbor. 00:06:55.161 --> 00:06:57.526 Courage does not depend on what you have. 00:06:57.526 --> 00:07:04.959 Courage does not depend on how big your army is. 00:07:04.959 --> 00:07:07.918 It doesn't depend on how much money you have. 00:07:07.918 --> 00:07:13.963 It doesn't depend on how much majority votes you have Hallelujah. 00:07:13.963 --> 00:07:16.524 It doesn't depend on that. 00:07:16.524 --> 00:07:24.490 This verse says courage depends on who is with you. 00:07:24.490 --> 00:07:31.069 So let me repeat that courage depends on who is with you. 00:07:32.682 --> 00:07:38.000 Another verse is Romans, chapter eight, verse 31 and 32. 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:39.182 You know this verse well. 00:07:39.182 --> 00:07:42.651 As we talk about unleashed courage. 00:07:42.651 --> 00:07:43.822 You have courage. 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:50.531 The Bible says in Romans 8, 31 what then shall we say in response to these things? 00:07:50.531 --> 00:07:58.033 If God is for us, who can be against us? 00:07:58.033 --> 00:08:13.932 The next verse says he who did not spare his own son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 00:08:13.932 --> 00:08:21.819 And then he lists some of the challenges we may face Round verse 35. 00:08:21.819 --> 00:08:23.283 Go to verse 35. 00:08:25.622 --> 00:08:27.887 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? 00:08:27.887 --> 00:08:42.586 Who shall trouble or hardship or persecution of famine, or nakedness, or danger or swords, as it is written, for your sake, we face death all day long. 00:08:42.586 --> 00:08:46.307 We are considered a ship to be slaughtered. 00:08:46.307 --> 00:08:52.883 No, in all these things, we are what We are, more than conquerors. 00:08:52.883 --> 00:09:23.307 Through him, who loved us And many, he now gives that last statement, for I am convinced that neither death, no life, neither angels, no demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height, no depth nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus, our Lord. 00:09:25.741 --> 00:09:29.870 Your courage depends on who is with you. 00:09:29.870 --> 00:09:44.676 Hallelujah, and I want you to know that in life you can count on this fact, that is, if God is for us, who can be against us? 00:09:44.676 --> 00:09:50.552 Many times, sometimes we think in terms of our religious minds, so we think spiritually. 00:09:50.552 --> 00:09:56.203 When we face things that are not spiritual, we lose courage. 00:09:56.203 --> 00:10:11.615 We are challenged by issues of rent, challenged by issues of politics, challenged by issues of uncertainty in the world, money markets and all kinds of things that cause you to stop being courageous. 00:10:11.615 --> 00:10:18.717 Let me tell you this if God is for us, who can be against us? 00:10:18.717 --> 00:10:27.158 And it's sometimes being able to convince you that God is really with you. 00:10:27.158 --> 00:10:29.307 God is with us. 00:10:29.307 --> 00:10:31.751 I'm saying God is with us. 00:10:31.751 --> 00:10:34.017 I'm saying God is with us. 00:10:34.017 --> 00:10:40.977 The Bible says greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world. 00:10:41.666 --> 00:10:47.668 God knows how to fight a battle, and so this story of Hezekiah. 00:10:47.668 --> 00:10:56.559 The Assyrians attacked him and he gathered his army together. 00:10:56.559 --> 00:11:20.836 They put protection, they did everything they needed to do, and then he made a very interesting statement and said to the people even though we have prepared enough and I want to say this when you are dealing with a situation, prepare, get ready, but remember your help is not in those things, your help is in God. 00:11:20.836 --> 00:11:33.078 So let me read what happened in 2 Chronicles 32, verse 7 and 8, because Hezekiah was now encouraging the people. 00:11:33.078 --> 00:11:34.205 This is what he said. 00:11:34.205 --> 00:11:50.278 He said be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or discouraged because of the king of Assyria And the vast army with him, for there is a greater power with us than with him. 00:11:50.278 --> 00:12:06.135 With him is only the arm of flesh, but with us is the Lord, our God, to help us and to fight our battles. 00:12:06.135 --> 00:12:10.815 Now I was reading the next few verses later because of what happened. 00:12:11.846 --> 00:12:25.309 Something happened because the Nakharyb begins to mock Hezekiah and it begins to tell the people Hezekiah is lying to you, this is not going to happen. 00:12:25.309 --> 00:12:28.716 We have been destroying all kinds of armies. 00:12:28.716 --> 00:12:31.410 What do you think Hezekiah can do? 00:12:31.410 --> 00:12:38.469 Let me tell you this Sometimes, when God tells you I'm with you, there are people who come to tell you when did he help you? 00:12:38.469 --> 00:12:39.711 You are in this problem. 00:12:39.711 --> 00:12:41.056 It has never left you. 00:12:41.056 --> 00:12:43.572 You are in this challenge, it's not going anywhere. 00:12:43.572 --> 00:12:50.205 And they begin to mock you And sometimes, in the mocking, you now become afraid and discouraged. 00:12:50.205 --> 00:12:54.676 By the way you start saying by the way, i've not seen God coming through for me. 00:12:54.676 --> 00:12:57.493 I've been praying about this thing and nothing seems to happen. 00:12:57.493 --> 00:13:05.477 Let me tell you this God fights at his own time, hallelujah. 00:13:05.477 --> 00:13:07.710 God comes through when he wants. 00:13:07.710 --> 00:13:08.913 He's not forced to fight. 00:13:08.913 --> 00:13:11.712 God comes through when he wants to come through. 00:13:11.712 --> 00:13:19.212 And I want to tell you this God will come through for you When he wants to come through for you Hallelujah. 00:13:19.212 --> 00:13:24.230 Now see what happened in verse 20. 00:13:24.230 --> 00:13:29.192 Now this is where God comes in Our second chronicle, 32, 20. 00:13:29.231 --> 00:13:40.005 The Bible says this King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah, son of Amos, cried out in prayer to heaven about this, because they were being mocked. 00:13:40.005 --> 00:13:53.796 And the Lord sent an angel who annihilated all the fighting men and the commanders and the officers in the camp of the Assyrian king. 00:13:53.796 --> 00:14:09.879 So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace And when he went into the temple of his God, some of his sons, his own flesh and blood, cut him down with a sword. 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:23.589 Hello, so the Lord saved Hezekiah and the people of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib, king of Assyria, and from the hand of all others. 00:14:23.589 --> 00:14:28.778 He took care of them on every side. 00:14:28.778 --> 00:14:30.750 I want to talk to somebody here. 00:14:30.750 --> 00:14:47.190 God will take care of you on every side On the financial side, on the health side, on the work side, marketplace side, home front, on every side. 00:14:47.190 --> 00:14:49.754 And he's saying why? 00:14:49.754 --> 00:14:52.558 Because I am with you. 00:14:52.558 --> 00:14:55.828 Happen, happen. 00:14:55.828 --> 00:14:58.673 Nobody can threaten you. 00:14:58.673 --> 00:15:03.707 Tell your neighbor, nobody can threaten me When God is on my side. 00:15:03.707 --> 00:15:10.046 Therefore, you better be on God's side, by the way, amen. 00:15:10.046 --> 00:15:16.635 You better be on God's side because that's what unleashes courage. 00:15:16.635 --> 00:15:20.707 Hallelujah, that's what unleashes courage. 00:15:21.811 --> 00:15:25.038 There used to be a boy in class six. 00:15:25.038 --> 00:15:28.734 Every time he went to school he got bullied. 00:15:28.734 --> 00:15:33.510 Every time They would take his lunch, they would throw his bag down. 00:15:33.510 --> 00:15:35.313 You know, it reached a stage. 00:15:35.313 --> 00:15:37.437 He really didn't like going to school. 00:15:37.437 --> 00:15:42.562 One time his big brother said why don't you like school, why don't you go to school? 00:15:42.562 --> 00:15:46.205 And you know, his brother was a guy who liked to go to the gym. 00:15:46.205 --> 00:15:49.030 So he used to walk with his aunt's bread. 00:15:49.030 --> 00:15:52.077 Hallelujah, he was a gym guy. 00:15:52.077 --> 00:15:54.653 So this boy says you know, i can't go to school. 00:15:54.653 --> 00:15:56.779 These guys bully me all the time. 00:15:56.779 --> 00:15:58.164 Take my food, eat it. 00:15:58.164 --> 00:16:04.677 And he told the boy tomorrow you go to school, i'll follow you. 00:16:04.677 --> 00:16:09.711 So the boy goes to school And guess what? 00:16:09.770 --> 00:16:29.159 The bullies show up and they are ready to just mess him up Before they could even grab him, voila, the brother walks in, muscles big and he tells him. 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:38.645 Now the boy, when he saw the brother unleashed courage, showed up. 00:16:38.645 --> 00:16:41.614 In fact he's the one who was telling them ah, ebuja ribukun ishika. 00:16:41.614 --> 00:16:43.966 Ah, you've been. 00:16:43.966 --> 00:16:51.184 The brother was there and it was the presence of the brother that caused these kids to scatter on every side. 00:16:51.846 --> 00:16:58.019 No wonder we say let God arise and let his enemies be scattered. 00:16:58.019 --> 00:17:00.447 This God is in your midst. 00:17:00.447 --> 00:17:03.793 Come on, you better give God a big hand. 00:17:03.793 --> 00:17:12.211 This God is in your midst And sometimes your enemies don't see them because this God is invisible. 00:17:12.211 --> 00:17:15.978 This God is not seen, but he is there. 00:17:17.345 --> 00:17:25.953 Sometimes you go for an interview and the interview seems to be very challenging and you're sitting there and everybody around you looks more intelligent than you Hallelujah. 00:17:25.953 --> 00:17:29.589 And you're wondering I'm not going through this thing. 00:17:29.589 --> 00:17:31.113 But guess what? 00:17:31.113 --> 00:17:32.935 You're not in that interview alone. 00:17:32.935 --> 00:17:41.818 God is with you and he's saying if God is for us, who can be against us? 00:17:41.818 --> 00:17:46.032 Your courage does not come because you're smart. 00:17:46.032 --> 00:17:49.038 It doesn't come because you are so able. 00:17:49.586 --> 00:17:52.391 No wonder the Bible says I look up to the mountains. 00:17:52.391 --> 00:17:54.454 Where does my help come from? 00:17:54.454 --> 00:17:59.125 My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth. 00:17:59.125 --> 00:18:02.088 He doesn't sleep, he doesn't slumber. 00:18:02.088 --> 00:18:05.054 He who watches over you doesn't slumber nor sleep. 00:18:05.054 --> 00:18:08.980 This God, let me tell you this he loves you so much. 00:18:08.980 --> 00:18:11.673 He's for you, he's never against you. 00:18:11.673 --> 00:18:17.849 And sometimes you feel you may have disappointed him, sometimes you feel you're not worthy of his help. 00:18:17.849 --> 00:18:23.058 But God says I'm here because I love you and I'll fight your battle. 00:18:23.058 --> 00:18:26.631 I'll fight your battles and there's nothing that can separate you from me. 00:18:26.631 --> 00:18:27.392 You know there are. 00:18:27.412 --> 00:18:30.517 Sometimes we live life as if the devil is stronger than God. 00:18:30.517 --> 00:18:35.829 Hello, the devil is not stronger than God. 00:18:35.829 --> 00:18:40.257 In fact, god never wants to fight the devil, because it is a mismatch. 00:18:40.257 --> 00:18:47.172 Hello, that's why he gives you the authority to handle the devil. 00:18:47.172 --> 00:18:53.229 That is why he says I cannot deal with the devil, it's too small a thing for me to handle. 00:18:53.229 --> 00:19:03.976 So he says I give you authority over all the power of the devil, trumple upon his necks and scorpions, and nothing shall harm you. 00:19:05.305 --> 00:19:21.781 This God that we serve is the one they call the almighty God, the eternal one, the one who is king, the one who is overall, the one who was able to stand with Joshua in every battle he took. 00:19:21.781 --> 00:19:31.144 He said Jericho is nothing, you don't need to do anything, just walk around it once a day and the last day walk seven times and then just shout. 00:19:31.144 --> 00:19:33.249 The walls will come down. 00:19:33.249 --> 00:19:35.172 This is the God you serve. 00:19:35.172 --> 00:19:37.175 This is the God. 00:19:37.175 --> 00:19:39.118 When you have an obstacle in front of you. 00:19:39.118 --> 00:19:41.990 Don't look at the obstacle, look at God. 00:19:41.990 --> 00:19:44.073 He's with you. 00:19:44.073 --> 00:19:52.151 He's with you, he's present with you, and sometimes you don't even have to call him and say oh God, come, come. 00:19:52.151 --> 00:20:00.589 He's already there, because he said I'll never leave you, i'll never forsake you. 00:20:00.589 --> 00:20:05.204 He said I'm with you always, even to the close of the edge. 00:20:05.204 --> 00:20:10.204 And sometimes you may not sense him, you may not feel him, you may not hear him, he may not even be saying a word. 00:20:10.204 --> 00:20:20.174 But let me tell you this He's in your presence And sometimes all you need to do is just to believe and say God, thank you, thank you, you're with me. 00:20:20.174 --> 00:20:26.631 I don't feel you, i don't hear you, but I know you're right here And, dear Lord, my help comes from you. 00:20:26.631 --> 00:20:30.757 So as I handle this situation, we are handling it with you. 00:20:30.757 --> 00:20:36.633 Those guys has a key. 00:20:36.633 --> 00:20:37.914 I did not throw any spear. 00:20:39.097 --> 00:20:42.184 By the way, if you read it in another, in another, there's another book. 00:20:42.184 --> 00:20:44.727 It actually tells how many soldiers were killed. 00:20:44.727 --> 00:20:56.858 It was about 185,000 were killed in one night by one angel. 00:20:56.858 --> 00:21:04.893 If you have 185,000 problems, god is about to sort them. 00:21:04.893 --> 00:21:10.026 Amen. 00:21:12.509 --> 00:21:16.055 In one night, tomorrow can be a very different day from today. 00:21:16.055 --> 00:21:19.460 This is the kind of God we serve. 00:21:19.460 --> 00:21:27.238 And so when people are mocking you and people are standing against you and people are saying your God can do nothing, you know God takes it personally. 00:21:27.238 --> 00:21:38.204 Hello, when somebody begins to raise their voice and mock your God, it's not about you God begins to take it very personally. 00:21:38.204 --> 00:21:45.617 He begins to say when do these people know that this is my son, this is my daughter? 00:21:45.617 --> 00:21:48.471 God does not send angels. 00:21:48.471 --> 00:21:49.773 He decides to show up himself. 00:21:49.773 --> 00:21:54.251 And when God shows up himself, he comes with solutions. 00:21:54.251 --> 00:22:03.718 He comes with answers to those problems God is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all that we ask or imagine. 00:22:04.965 --> 00:22:10.813 So this courage that God is giving us functions in five areas that I want to show you. 00:22:10.813 --> 00:22:17.501 Number one you need to unleash this courage to conquer. 00:22:17.501 --> 00:22:18.323 That's number one. 00:22:18.323 --> 00:22:26.526 This courage or this God enables you to unleash the courage to conquer. 00:22:26.526 --> 00:22:27.048 Number one. 00:22:27.048 --> 00:22:31.729 Number two unleashes the courage to pray. 00:22:31.729 --> 00:22:36.579 Number three unleashes the courage to trade. 00:22:36.579 --> 00:22:41.488 Number four unleashes the courage to disciple. 00:22:41.488 --> 00:22:58.368 And number five unleashes the courage to be godly, the courage to conquer, the courage to pray, the courage to trade, the courage to disciple And the courage to be godly. 00:22:58.368 --> 00:23:03.190 Let me start with the first one, the unleashing the courage to conquer. 00:23:03.190 --> 00:23:08.631 We already mentioned those verses Romans 8, verse 31 and 32. 00:23:08.631 --> 00:23:12.186 Let me read them one more time God gives us the courage to conquer. 00:23:12.186 --> 00:23:13.671 You are created to win. 00:23:13.671 --> 00:23:16.689 I'm saying you are created to win. 00:23:16.689 --> 00:23:19.406 I'm saying you're a champion. 00:23:19.406 --> 00:23:22.828 You're a champion before the battle even begins. 00:23:22.828 --> 00:23:26.000 Hallelujah, you're a winner. 00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:29.967 So God gives you that courage. 00:23:30.027 --> 00:23:34.055 It says what then shall we say in response to these things? 00:23:34.055 --> 00:23:40.203 Now, if you want to see what these things are, he starts them in verse 28. 00:23:40.203 --> 00:23:47.035 This is what he says in verse 28, because he builds up something and says be in light of these things. 00:23:47.035 --> 00:24:00.344 He says, and we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. 00:24:00.344 --> 00:24:25.066 Then he says for those, god for new he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters, and those he predestined he also called, those he called. 00:24:25.066 --> 00:24:27.726 He also justified. 00:24:27.726 --> 00:24:33.582 Those he justified he also glorified. 00:24:33.582 --> 00:24:36.820 Now remember they are all in past tense. 00:24:36.820 --> 00:24:42.794 God is not planning to glorify you In Christ, he has glorified you. 00:24:45.222 --> 00:24:49.625 Now, sometimes, when we read some of these statements, sometimes theologically, they really create problems. 00:24:49.625 --> 00:24:52.632 It says go to verse 29. 00:24:52.632 --> 00:24:56.386 So that verses like those should not sumber you. 00:24:56.386 --> 00:25:02.323 For those, god for new he also predestined. 00:25:02.323 --> 00:25:07.970 Now, many people think that God decides beforehand. 00:25:07.970 --> 00:25:10.839 Those will be saved and those will not be saved. 00:25:10.839 --> 00:25:13.263 So it's not that they are saved. 00:25:13.263 --> 00:25:17.212 If God decided you are not getting saved, you will not get saved. 00:25:17.212 --> 00:25:32.069 And if God decides you're going to get saved out of the banging gape, you will get saved. 00:25:32.069 --> 00:25:41.528 But my brother Elijah, he's not talking about that. 00:25:41.528 --> 00:25:44.256 He's not talking about saved or not saved. 00:25:44.256 --> 00:25:53.640 He's saying this verse for those God for new, he also predestined to be what To be conformed to the image of his son. 00:25:53.820 --> 00:26:03.909 All right, now, those who bake cakes, you know sometimes when you're baking and sometimes not even cakes, biscuits, whatever, you know sometimes you want to put them in a shape. 00:26:03.909 --> 00:26:09.510 So you want to put in the shape of a person. 00:26:09.510 --> 00:26:10.875 So you, you create a shape of a person. 00:26:10.875 --> 00:26:25.396 So whatever you're going to put, once you, who's a corrigo cake in, have it to come, i so, hallelujah, you put everything in it or whatever it is like, all the ingredients, everything. 00:26:25.396 --> 00:26:26.318 You start that fast. 00:26:26.318 --> 00:26:28.747 When you finish, you have a particular shape in mind. 00:26:28.747 --> 00:26:31.616 You want that cake to look like, so you put it in a mold. 00:26:31.616 --> 00:26:37.351 Hallelujah, that is shaped like a person. 00:26:37.351 --> 00:26:43.369 So you know what you're doing. 00:26:43.369 --> 00:26:50.756 You are making this in this, whatever this mixture to be conformed to the shape. 00:26:50.756 --> 00:26:56.386 So, no matter what happens When you put it in a mold, hallelujah, that is shaped like a person. 00:26:56.386 --> 00:26:58.987 So you know what you're doing. 00:26:58.987 --> 00:26:59.730 You are making this in this. 00:26:59.750 --> 00:27:08.574 Whatever this mixture to be conformed, when you put it in the oven and let it comes out, they will all pop up with that shape. 00:27:08.574 --> 00:27:21.640 In other words, that mixture has conformed to the image you wanted. 00:27:21.640 --> 00:27:35.346 Now that image for us is that God put a mold, not a mold looking like pastambra, and it was not a mold looking like pastashira, and it was not a mold looking like anything else. 00:27:35.346 --> 00:27:39.173 It is a mold that looked exactly like Jesus Christ. 00:27:39.173 --> 00:27:50.619 So when God had it's quite some ingredients, he for knew you and he worked all things together for good to those who love the Lord. 00:27:50.619 --> 00:28:04.991 Then he took all that and predestined it to be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ And he knew whatever happens once it goes into the oven. 00:28:04.991 --> 00:28:10.987 Okay, if you go to the next verse, once it goes into the oven. 00:28:11.409 --> 00:28:13.619 Those he predestined look at the next statement. 00:28:13.619 --> 00:28:16.895 Those he predestined verse 20, 30. 00:28:16.895 --> 00:28:17.579 Go to verse 30. 00:28:17.579 --> 00:28:28.640 Those he predestined he then justified They are in the oven, they needed to be conformed to the fast, but among many brothers, who is Jesus Christ, go to the next one. 00:28:28.640 --> 00:28:30.640 And those he predestined he also called. 00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:32.438 So those are predestined. 00:28:32.438 --> 00:28:34.336 He called Those he called. 00:28:34.336 --> 00:28:34.619 He justified. 00:28:34.619 --> 00:28:37.640 Those he justified, he also glorified. 00:28:38.382 --> 00:28:50.529 Now, if God is able to do this, if God is for us While he was baking, he was for us While we were in the oven. 00:28:50.529 --> 00:29:03.804 he was for us When the kabel rang that the cake, imaeva hello Akatutua. 00:29:03.804 --> 00:29:08.640 We were completely looking like Jesus Christ. 00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:11.948 Somebody better give God a big hand. 00:29:11.948 --> 00:29:35.434 And that is why, then, he says in verse 32, he says this He who did not spare his own son But gave him up for us all, how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 00:29:35.434 --> 00:29:40.426 So if it is victory that he gave Jesus, that victory is yours. 00:29:40.426 --> 00:29:45.808 If it is blessings he placed in Jesus, those blessings are yours. 00:29:45.808 --> 00:29:53.050 If it is opportunities he gathered and put them all in Christ, those opportunities are also yours. 00:29:53.050 --> 00:30:00.609 That means you are safe, that means you are good to go. 00:30:00.609 --> 00:30:05.619 If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. 00:30:05.619 --> 00:30:21.599 So, number one once you are saved Once because salvation is a choice The moment you make that choice of salvation and God saves you, then God begins to put you into this mold that you must end up looking like who? 00:30:21.599 --> 00:30:25.323 Like Jesus Christ. 00:30:25.323 --> 00:30:36.494 So you have courage to conquer, because Jesus conquered. 00:30:36.494 --> 00:30:40.420 He rose from the dead. 00:30:40.420 --> 00:30:43.809 So if he conquered, you will conquer. 00:30:43.809 --> 00:30:47.478 If he won the battle, you will win the battle. 00:30:47.478 --> 00:30:50.675 That is why we read Hebrews chapter 12. 00:30:50.675 --> 00:30:58.154 If I may read those verses Hebrews 12, verse one and two The Bible says this very quickly. 00:30:58.675 --> 00:31:19.945 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and the perfecter of faith. 00:31:19.945 --> 00:31:29.309 For the joy said before him he endured the cross, scawning it shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 00:31:29.309 --> 00:31:31.595 Keep going. 00:31:31.595 --> 00:31:39.727 Consider him Who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. 00:31:39.727 --> 00:31:41.230 He conquered. 00:31:41.230 --> 00:31:42.472 You must conquer. 00:31:42.472 --> 00:31:44.438 Guess what? 00:31:44.438 --> 00:31:45.740 He rose again. 00:31:45.740 --> 00:31:48.066 You shall rise again. 00:31:48.066 --> 00:31:50.875 He sat at the right hand of God. 00:31:50.875 --> 00:31:51.616 Guess what? 00:31:51.616 --> 00:32:00.638 You're sitting at the right hand of God, hallelujah, not because of you, but because of what Jesus did. 00:32:00.719 --> 00:32:04.278 In Jesus Christ, the victory is your victory. 00:32:04.278 --> 00:32:14.628 I'm saying you can walk out of this church totally confident that you have won the battle, because Christ who has won it for you, for you. 00:32:14.628 --> 00:32:19.257 So unleash your courage to conquer. 00:32:19.257 --> 00:32:20.259 Don't be afraid. 00:32:20.259 --> 00:32:25.340 Hallelujah, all authority is given to him, in heaven and on earth. 00:32:25.340 --> 00:32:29.733 God already has made a way for you where there seems to be no way. 00:32:29.733 --> 00:32:32.813 The Bible says trust in the Lord with all your heart. 00:32:32.813 --> 00:32:34.541 Don't rely on your own understanding. 00:32:34.541 --> 00:32:35.708 In all your ways, acknowledge him. 00:32:35.708 --> 00:32:37.236 He will direct your paths. 00:32:37.236 --> 00:32:43.548 You may not know what to do, you may not even have wisdom, but let me tell you this That moment, when you need that wisdom, it will show up. 00:32:43.548 --> 00:32:49.189 When you need that breakthrough, that breakthrough will do what Will show up? 00:32:49.189 --> 00:32:52.419 because Christ has gone ahead for you. 00:32:52.419 --> 00:32:55.145 So that is one part Conquer. 00:32:55.145 --> 00:32:56.328 The other part is praying. 00:32:56.328 --> 00:32:59.214 Unleash the courage to pray. 00:32:59.214 --> 00:33:11.394 In other words, you can pray and expect God to answer, because Jesus is sitting at the right hand of God saying Lord, i support what my son is talking about. 00:33:13.617 --> 00:33:16.655 The Bible says this in James, chapter 5, talking about prayer. 00:33:16.655 --> 00:33:17.579 Let me read those verses. 00:33:17.579 --> 00:33:26.804 This is the story of Elijah and about prayer, and it says this James 5, verse 16. 00:33:26.804 --> 00:33:27.987 We start with verse 16. 00:33:27.987 --> 00:33:29.951 We'll go to verse 18. 00:33:29.951 --> 00:33:31.255 16, 17 and 18. 00:33:31.255 --> 00:33:37.693 Prayer, therefore, confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. 00:33:39.017 --> 00:33:46.596 Then he says the prayer of a righteous person is what It's powerful and effective. 00:33:46.596 --> 00:33:51.432 Elijah was a human being, even as we are. 00:33:51.432 --> 00:33:55.805 He prayed honestly that it will not rain. 00:33:55.805 --> 00:33:58.114 So remember, this is a very. 00:33:58.114 --> 00:34:02.391 This is not that prayer you pray when you are talking and fellowshiping with God. 00:34:02.391 --> 00:34:03.714 This is not the prayer you tell God. 00:34:03.714 --> 00:34:07.280 God, father, i really love you, i really appreciate you. 00:34:07.280 --> 00:34:09.847 Thank you, my father, and see us are joy to be in your presence. 00:34:09.847 --> 00:34:10.769 No, this one. 00:34:10.769 --> 00:34:12.492 You pray honestly. 00:34:15.358 --> 00:34:20.713 Now some of us pray some prayers instead of fellowshiping with God and just talking to nicely. 00:34:20.713 --> 00:34:23.427 You are honestly fellowshiping with Him. 00:34:23.427 --> 00:34:25.670 You do not honestly fellowship with people. 00:34:25.670 --> 00:34:32.451 I don't know if you understand what I mean. 00:34:32.451 --> 00:34:39.420 Imagine going home and honestly talking to your wife. 00:34:39.420 --> 00:34:46.842 So here you're dealing with a situation that needs to be changed. 00:34:46.842 --> 00:34:49.150 So you deal with it with honestness. 00:34:49.150 --> 00:34:52.445 This is an honest, fervent prayer of a righteous man. 00:34:52.445 --> 00:34:55.411 You're saying God, block the heavens. 00:34:55.411 --> 00:34:58.336 We take authority over Satan. 00:34:58.336 --> 00:35:00.286 You don't casually talk with the devil. 00:35:00.286 --> 00:35:06.277 You honestly stop him in his tracks, hallelujah. 00:35:08.626 --> 00:35:12.481 So let me go back into that verse He says this He prayed. 00:35:12.481 --> 00:35:13.664 He was a man like us. 00:35:13.664 --> 00:35:16.510 Then says go to the next statement. 00:35:16.510 --> 00:35:18.255 Again, he prayed. 00:35:18.255 --> 00:35:20.340 Go back, verse 17. 00:35:20.340 --> 00:35:23.807 Elijah was a human being, even as we are. 00:35:23.807 --> 00:35:26.715 He prayed honestly that it would not rain. 00:35:26.715 --> 00:35:30.371 And he did not rain on the land. 00:35:30.371 --> 00:35:30.952 For how long? 00:35:30.952 --> 00:35:33.016 Three and a half years. 00:35:33.016 --> 00:35:36.088 Then the Bible says go to the next statement. 00:35:36.608 --> 00:35:40.456 It says this Next verse, verse 18. 00:35:40.456 --> 00:35:42.585 Again, he prayed. 00:35:42.585 --> 00:35:49.989 Now he doesn't say honestly, but if you actually read the text, he was a serious, honest prayer. 00:35:49.989 --> 00:35:53.056 His head was between his knees and he prays. 00:35:53.056 --> 00:35:55.438 He tells the man can you check if there's any rain? 00:35:55.438 --> 00:35:55.942 He comes back. 00:35:55.942 --> 00:35:56.646 He says there's nothing. 00:35:56.646 --> 00:35:57.768 He prays again. 00:35:57.768 --> 00:35:59.432 He says check, is there any rain? 00:35:59.432 --> 00:36:00.135 He comes back. 00:36:00.135 --> 00:36:00.597 He says no. 00:36:00.597 --> 00:36:01.889 He prays again. 00:36:01.889 --> 00:36:03.518 He says go check, there's nothing. 00:36:03.518 --> 00:36:04.461 He prays again. 00:36:04.461 --> 00:36:08.255 You know, there are some things that require you to pray again and again and again. 00:36:08.255 --> 00:36:12.186 The seventh time he prayed. 00:36:12.186 --> 00:36:26.244 The guy comes back and says there is a small cloud rising from the sea and Elijah told Ahab take off, there's going to be abundance of rain. 00:36:26.244 --> 00:36:29.577 These are what we call honest prayers. 00:36:29.577 --> 00:36:31.525 This is where you unleash your courage. 00:36:31.525 --> 00:36:46.925 When the situation does not seem to move, get hold of your courage and begin to speak into that situation until something shifts, hello, until something shifts. 00:36:48.789 --> 00:36:50.313 On Sunday we were praying for passports. 00:36:50.313 --> 00:36:59.856 I pray that you have a passport and if you are sitting here and you have a passport that has never been stamped, hello, yeah, it is very clean. 00:36:59.856 --> 00:37:03.085 Look at your neighbor, ask your neighbor, do you have a passport? 00:37:03.085 --> 00:37:10.628 If they have one and it has never been stamped, anybody here who has a passport that has never been stamped? 00:37:10.628 --> 00:37:13.358 Okay, we took care of yours. 00:37:13.358 --> 00:37:15.206 So you are going to Canada? 00:37:15.206 --> 00:37:18.791 Where do you want to go? 00:37:18.791 --> 00:37:22.356 my sister, sweden, amen. 00:37:22.356 --> 00:37:39.894 The sister behind me Where, uk, united Kingdom, yeah, take these nations. 00:37:39.894 --> 00:37:46.266 And you know when you are praying for this nation and you're saying, lord, ask me for the nations and I'll give them to you as an inheritance. 00:37:46.668 --> 00:37:48.893 You don't pray casually, you pray honestly. 00:37:48.893 --> 00:38:01.460 You begin to decree, you begin to declare Some of us have been denied visas several times, don't worry, keep believing God, hallelujah. 00:38:01.460 --> 00:38:06.355 So last Sunday we were praying for passports and visas and things like that for people to go out. 00:38:06.355 --> 00:38:08.112 And then this guy calls me on Monday. 00:38:08.112 --> 00:38:11.405 He says for some bros, you cannot imagine what just happened. 00:38:11.405 --> 00:38:19.568 My visa to Canada came through On Monday, came through. 00:38:19.568 --> 00:38:20.934 They are more. 00:38:20.934 --> 00:38:48.567 The most amazing thing is that he had sent the documents last week, less than a week, his things were cleared and, i'm told, with the Canadian visas they don't just come out like that, but you know, when we are dealing with a God who is in our midst, the one who is with us is greater than the one who is on that side. 00:38:49.471 --> 00:39:04.014 Let me tell you this Those are the things that give you courage and you're able to pray and believe God for the impossible, because God is in business handling impossible things, and they become possible. 00:39:04.014 --> 00:39:13.284 Unleash your courage when you pray and I'm telling you, in Jesus name, your prayers are not in vain. 00:39:13.284 --> 00:39:15.911 I'm saying your prayers are not in vain. 00:39:15.911 --> 00:39:17.293 Why? 00:39:17.293 --> 00:39:19.759 Because Jesus prays for you. 00:39:19.759 --> 00:39:20.567 He prays for you. 00:39:20.586 --> 00:39:23.773