WEBVTT 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:14.480 We had one that we did over the summer. 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:19.280 And we felt like the Lord really wanted us to uh to add to our community groups. 00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:24.719 So our community groups happen during the week and usually every other week. 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:28.160 And they're we had them three times a year as well. 00:00:28.160 --> 00:00:38.320 But we felt like that it was important for us to also have some deeper, uh deeper dive into teaching, and especially when it comes from to uh discipleship focus. 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:41.280 So we're gonna start this series on revealed. 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:47.359 Uh it's we're talking about the Jehovah compound names of God found in the Old Testament. 00:00:47.359 --> 00:00:56.799 And uh we're talking about what the character and nature of God, who he is, and and how he describes himself through those things. 00:00:56.799 --> 00:01:07.200 And then also it's really easy, it's really amazing, I should say, to see the connection point between the Old Testament names of God and Jesus. 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:12.400 Jesus is the fulfillment of all of those things that we find in the Old Testament. 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:16.319 I know that we're getting close to the end of our reading uh this year. 00:01:16.319 --> 00:01:33.040 We've been reading through the Old Testament, and I know it can get laborious at times because it's like the same thing over and over again where Israel's doing great, they have a great king, and then all of a sudden they don't, they're not doing well, they fall, and but then there's a promise they're gonna come back and all of that. 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:39.920 But when we read the Old Testament, we understand that it's pointing to Jesus, then it makes a lot more sense, right? 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:46.719 And so these different names are found in the Old Testament in the Hebrew language, and we're gonna be uh studying each one. 00:01:46.719 --> 00:01:48.799 So there'll be eight different weeks. 00:01:48.799 --> 00:01:53.599 There'll be two weeks where we won't meet, and we'll just send out a text to everybody. 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:56.480 So if you can just be looking for that text, we'll let you know. 00:01:56.480 --> 00:01:59.760 And it's one of them's going to be the day before Thanksgiving. 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:01.280 So is that a good reason? 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:02.319 Okay. 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:07.439 I figured somebody may be wanting to make a pie somewhere, so give you that night up. 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:11.680 And then there'll be another night where we're having a special meeting here with Master Builder. 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:15.120 So but we'll we'll you don't have to worry about the dates, we'll get those to you. 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:15.520 Okay? 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:39.120 So tonight we're gonna start off, and also another thing that these meetings do is give a chance for people within our body that God uses to teach, but don't necessarily always get a chance on Sunday mornings, just because there's six guys, and and also with actually with Neil, there's seven that uh that have an opportunity to share here uh on a regular basis and then special speakers that come in. 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:50.000 And so this is really a great privilege for me to be able to see some of the other uh powerfully gifted people within our church be able to share truth from the word of God. 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:59.120 So, without further ado, we have Miss Patty Clemens who's gonna come and share the Word of God with us tonight, and we're so excited, and so please let's welcome her. 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:06.240 I'm so glad to be here tonight. 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:09.759 I want to pretend that y'all are prisoners at the prison. 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:11.919 Yeah, because that'll help me. 00:03:11.919 --> 00:03:20.800 But I love the subject I got to speak on, Jehovah Jireh, our God that provides. 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:28.159 That means so much to me because I'm a living testimony of Jehovah Jireh, the God that provides. 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:33.680 I don't want to read the whole chapter of Genesis 22, but you can read it later. 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:42.000 But in Genesis 22, 11, Abraham named the place the Lord God provided. 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:44.639 And I love the story of Abraham. 00:03:44.639 --> 00:03:52.719 He was a man of faith, but I have a feeling he had the power of the Holy Spirit on the inside of him. 00:03:52.719 --> 00:04:00.879 Because when God asked him to lay down Isaac, and you know, God's asked me to lay stuff down before. 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:10.000 But when God asked Abraham to lay Isaac on the altar, also God called Abraham a friend of God. 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:14.960 So I have a feeling that Abraham had been intimate with God. 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:23.199 I had a feeling that Abraham knew if he surrendered something to God, that God would take care of him. 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:31.519 And so when he uh surrendered and took Isaac and put him on the altar, can you imagine? 00:04:31.519 --> 00:04:34.319 We can't even imagine what that was like. 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:38.959 But God provided, he provided a lamb. 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:44.560 And that goes into another place where God says he will provide, Psalms 23. 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:47.759 The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:53.680 God is faithful, he is Jehovah Jireh or provider. 00:04:53.680 --> 00:05:00.480 And it also says, My God will supply all of your needs according to his riches in glory. 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:04.959 Now, when we talk about needs, we sometimes just think about money. 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:13.759 Sometimes it's wisdom, sometimes it's guidance, sometimes it's just being, maybe you're lonely. 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:20.079 And I love the scripture that says that God will even provide in your lonely times. 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:23.920 He will be that friend that will stick closer than a brother. 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:29.920 Now that I'm a widow, my whole season changed and I was lost. 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:33.839 And God always told me, He said, I will provide. 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:36.240 And he has provided for me. 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:48.319 So as we go along in the journey of knowing that Jehovah Jireh is our provider, he also tells us, I will never leave you and I will never forsake you. 00:05:48.319 --> 00:05:54.560 I don't want us to think about when uh we think about Jehovah Jireh, that's just about money. 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:59.759 It, I mean, God will supply our needs, but it's not always about money. 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:03.519 It could maybe be that you have been in depression. 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:06.560 Well, God says He is your hope. 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:09.759 Or it could be maybe you've lost a job. 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:14.480 But if God allows that door to shut, he'll open another door. 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:19.519 We can always rely on the greatest thing, and that's the faithfulness of God. 00:06:19.519 --> 00:06:21.360 He is faithful. 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:27.680 So as we move along, I want to tell you a story of when God provided for me supernaturally. 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:30.319 Did you know God can provide supernaturally? 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:34.319 He can provide through people you wouldn't believe. 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:35.920 He can provide. 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:44.399 Went blank. 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:44.879 Sorry. 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:47.439 Can that be wiped out right there? 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:48.800 Okay. 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:53.680 Anyway, Econo Windows Inciting, that's what it was. 00:06:53.680 --> 00:07:04.639 We had a business, me and Wade, and um, y'all don't know the whole story, we won't go there, but as Wade started getting sick, you had to measure windows a perfect way. 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:15.279 He messed up on a multi-million dollar home, measured every window wrong, because now he was in the second stage of dementia, which we didn't know. 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:20.399 And I remember getting a phone call from the man saying, We're gonna sue you. 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:22.480 And I remember just panicking. 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:27.759 I went before uh some elders at the time and they said we're gonna have to pray. 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:32.879 And God whispered in my spirit, I will provide for you. 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:34.959 I will provide. 00:07:34.959 --> 00:07:42.959 I had no clue how he was gonna do it, but at the time we were making $150,000 a year. 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:47.040 Now that was a lot of money for me because I came from poverty. 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:54.319 And man, and we were just going along, and God always just said in my spirit, I will provide. 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:59.600 But sometimes when we're facing a challenge, our mind will tell us different. 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:02.560 You're not gonna make it, you're going under. 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:08.800 But God promised in his word, I have come to give you life and to give it to you abundantly. 00:08:08.800 --> 00:08:10.319 That just don't mean money. 00:08:10.319 --> 00:08:15.439 It means peace, love, kindness, joy, all these things. 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:24.639 And I remember getting a phone call from a guy, Wayne Justice, and he said, Miss Patty, I'm going out to that job site. 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:29.120 Pray for me that God will help me fix this. 00:08:29.120 --> 00:08:32.399 God was going to provide through a man. 00:08:32.399 --> 00:08:36.240 And God does use people at times to provide. 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:39.039 At that time, it looked impossible. 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:44.480 But Wayne Justice went out and he talked to the guy and they fixed the job. 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:48.720 Well, at the time, now we were going to be sued for all kinds of money. 00:08:48.720 --> 00:08:52.159 And once again, the Holy Spirit spoke to me. 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:54.720 Be still and know that I am God. 00:08:54.720 --> 00:08:59.039 Sometimes you just gotta be still and let God do it. 00:08:59.039 --> 00:09:00.879 Because God is faithful. 00:09:00.879 --> 00:09:02.720 He's not a man that he can lie. 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:06.480 So as time went on, we shut the business down. 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:10.720 When God closes a door, he's a God that provides. 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:12.639 He opened another door. 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:16.559 And the man of God, Wayne Justice, a servant of God. 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:21.519 At the time we went from $150,000 to zero now. 00:09:21.519 --> 00:09:32.159 And I knew in my spirit that God would provide because God is faithful, and with God, nothing's impossible. 00:09:32.159 --> 00:09:36.799 And I remember the man of God, the servant of God. 00:09:36.799 --> 00:09:42.720 He said, I'm going to pay Wade so much money a week to ride him around in my truck. 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:45.279 And that's what they'd done. 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:50.559 They rode around together for two years, and they had church in the truck. 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:52.720 They had church on the job side. 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:55.919 Because anybody that knew Wade, he was a preacher. 00:09:55.919 --> 00:10:00.080 And I could not believe how God provided for us. 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:04.080 Sometimes it looks like you're not gonna make it. 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:05.759 But you know what God says? 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:10.080 Though you walk through the valley of the shadow, death fear no evil. 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:12.080 Now you got to walk through it. 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:14.080 Because God will provide. 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:17.440 He's Jehovah Jar, our provider. 00:10:17.440 --> 00:10:27.360 And I remember them driving around for two years having revival in that truck and leading all kinds of people to Jesus Christ. 00:10:27.360 --> 00:10:29.919 Our ways are not God's ways. 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:33.919 And another thing I want to say about our provider. 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:36.559 Did you know He provides rest? 00:10:36.559 --> 00:10:40.879 Wow, rest is so amazing. 00:10:40.879 --> 00:10:43.120 God gives us rest. 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:47.519 In the middle of a storm, rest can come. 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:49.360 Excuse me. 00:10:49.360 --> 00:10:54.720 God can give you rest if you're looking at maybe a child that's not serving God. 00:10:54.720 --> 00:11:01.519 He will provide that rest and that affirmation that your child will be saved. 00:11:01.519 --> 00:11:07.840 Or maybe you're facing a health problem and the doctors have told you you have this or this. 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:13.120 God is Jehovah's provider, your great physician. 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:15.840 He can do the impossible. 00:11:15.840 --> 00:11:25.360 But what I love most about Jehovah Jireh is he is our prince of peace. 00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:27.919 He can give us peace. 00:11:27.919 --> 00:11:34.480 And lately, when I've been pressing into God, he has given me such peace. 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:36.960 And we can have peace. 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:43.679 We are a part of a kingdom that is unshakable, unmovable. 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:45.759 We're not a part of this world. 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:50.399 Now we have to live in this world, but Jehovah Jireh will go with us. 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:52.000 He says, I will never leave you. 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:53.759 I will never forsake you. 00:11:53.759 --> 00:11:58.320 What the enemy meant for evil, God said, I can turn it around. 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:00.799 Need some turning around tonight? 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:01.679 I do. 00:12:01.679 --> 00:12:04.240 God turns things around for us. 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:06.080 He's so faithful. 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:07.440 He's so kind. 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:13.759 And I love that the Lord says, I will love you with the everlasting love. 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:17.039 Remember, Jehovah Jarr means so many things. 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:18.240 God is love. 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:19.519 He is kind. 00:12:19.519 --> 00:12:21.279 He's merciful. 00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:23.360 He's so good to us. 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:25.759 And I love this story. 00:12:25.759 --> 00:12:29.120 One time I was at the end with Wade. 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:32.080 I had taken care of him for nine years. 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:34.240 I was pretty exhausted. 00:12:34.240 --> 00:12:44.559 And going back to the story of Abraham, Abraham asked him to give up the most precious thing, and that was Isaac. 00:12:44.559 --> 00:12:50.639 And I remember Wade was in the nursing home for 16 months because I couldn't care for him anymore. 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:52.240 It broke my heart. 00:12:52.240 --> 00:13:01.919 But I remember going home to my beautiful home where Wade and I used to live, and the Lord said to me the same thing he asked Abraham. 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:04.320 Will you give your life up? 00:13:04.320 --> 00:13:06.879 Will you give your life up? 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:09.120 I said, I can't do it, God. 00:13:09.120 --> 00:13:10.639 I can't do it. 00:13:10.639 --> 00:13:12.639 I've been doing this for so long. 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:16.080 And I remember him just challenging me. 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:19.120 Will you give your life up? 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:24.639 I didn't know what God meant until he said to me, Will you surrender? 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:28.879 I said, Lord, I don't know if I can say that yet. 00:13:28.879 --> 00:13:31.200 I don't know if I can say that. 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:40.960 So finally the next day I go to the nursing home, sit with Wade, and I come back and the Lord asks me again, Will you lay your life down? 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:43.919 And now he was telling me what it meant. 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:48.000 Will you take care of Wade if he lives 20 more years? 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:52.320 My flesh said, no. 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:54.399 No. 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:58.960 But have you ever noticed when you get in the presence of God? 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:01.919 You feel his presence and you want to please him. 00:14:01.919 --> 00:14:04.879 And I remember I surrendered. 00:14:04.879 --> 00:14:12.080 In my living room, I fell on my face and I raised my hands and I said, God, here I am. 00:14:12.080 --> 00:14:14.159 I'm laying it on the altar. 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:17.200 I'm laying my ministry down, I'm laying it all. 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:20.159 I say yes to you, God, I'll do it. 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:23.600 And I meant it with everything in me. 00:14:23.600 --> 00:14:24.240 I meant it. 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:30.480 Jehovah Jarr was there to provide through the Holy Spirit the power to lay that down. 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:35.279 You cannot lay anything down without the power of the Holy Spirit to help you. 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:42.080 And I remember I went to the nursing home and they were telling me, Wade's at the end of his life. 00:14:42.080 --> 00:14:47.279 I mean, it was like God was asking me, and now Wade was going to leave me. 00:14:47.279 --> 00:14:49.279 And God was speaking to me. 00:14:49.279 --> 00:14:53.039 I wanted to see if you would surrender. 00:14:53.039 --> 00:14:57.279 And sometimes God just asked us, Are you willing? 00:14:57.279 --> 00:15:04.720 Abraham was willing, but God provided the Lamb of God. 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:08.320 Look what God has provided for us. 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:13.600 He has provided everything we need in Christ Jesus. 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:22.960 And I can honestly say that after Wade left, the first thing the enemy does is he comes to steal, kill, and destroy. 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:25.679 And he was bringing all this condemnation. 00:15:25.679 --> 00:15:33.840 But Jehovah Jar had already provided peace for me because I knew that I had surrendered my life to him. 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:37.600 And I knew I had done everything for Wade I could do. 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:47.360 So I want you to be challenged through the Holy Spirit if He allowed if He comes to you and says to you, are you willing to surrender? 00:15:47.360 --> 00:15:49.600 Maybe surrender offense. 00:15:49.600 --> 00:15:53.440 Maybe surrender being selfish or pride. 00:15:53.440 --> 00:16:00.879 All these things you surrender to God, He gives you the beautiful fruits of the Spirit in the place of them. 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:06.480 And I can honestly say tonight that for many years I prayed for my family. 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:08.399 Very dysfunctional. 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:17.360 But the Lord spoke to me a year ago and said, if you'll pray and you'll stand, I'll save every family member. 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:18.879 And I said, Really? 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:20.480 Well, they're half crazy, God. 00:16:20.480 --> 00:16:21.519 Are you so are you? 00:16:21.519 --> 00:16:23.600 Are you I mean I'm serious? 00:16:23.600 --> 00:16:25.120 I was like, are you serious? 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:25.679 You know. 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:31.120 He said, No, if you'll pray and stand, I will save them. 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:36.799 Once again, Jehovah Job was going to provide salvation for my whole family. 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:40.320 One by one, they started coming into the kingdom. 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:45.840 And I can stand here and say to you, every sibling I have is serving Jesus Christ tonight. 00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:47.519 Every one of them. 00:16:47.519 --> 00:16:50.720 Every one of them are serving Jesus tonight. 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:53.759 And that is the faithfulness of God. 00:16:53.759 --> 00:16:55.039 But you know what? 00:16:55.039 --> 00:16:55.919 I had to do. 00:16:55.919 --> 00:17:01.279 Remember what I said when God asked me in the living room in my beautiful home. 00:17:01.279 --> 00:17:02.960 We're waiting, I lived. 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:05.119 Will you lay your life down? 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:07.519 You gotta lay your life down. 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:13.359 But I am here as a testimony that God will give you himself. 00:17:13.359 --> 00:17:16.799 He's a rewarder of those that diligently seek him. 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:20.880 He's a rewarder of him, of his presence, his glory. 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:22.799 He will give you himself. 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:24.400 It's worth it. 00:17:24.400 --> 00:17:25.279 Does it hurt? 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:26.640 It hurts a lot. 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:31.039 Recently I had to surrender something that was very painful. 00:17:31.039 --> 00:17:35.119 And the Lord just spoke to me again, just like he did Abraham. 00:17:35.119 --> 00:17:40.400 Every time you surrender something, the Lamb of God is coming through. 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:42.319 He's coming through, man. 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:45.119 And it will be better than what you had before. 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:48.720 And I can't wait to see what God does in my next season of my life. 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:52.400 I'm just in a waiting time, but I'm not wasting it. 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:56.720 I'm letting Jehovah Jarr provide for me peace and joy. 00:17:56.720 --> 00:18:01.759 And I remember the story after Wade had passed away. 00:18:01.759 --> 00:18:04.880 Somebody was watching my house for months. 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:11.920 Soon as Wade passed away, I was standing at my door and there was a knock that came to my door. 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:13.920 And there was a guy in a hoodie. 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:17.440 And he seen me and he ran away. 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:21.039 And I thought, oh my God, what was that about? 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:22.240 I had no clue. 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:25.920 But once again, God had provided peace for me. 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:36.880 Well, I went away to spend the weekend with some women, and I came back home, and I walked in and I said, something's not right. 00:18:36.880 --> 00:18:39.039 Something's not right here. 00:18:39.039 --> 00:18:42.000 And someone had broken into my house. 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:45.119 They had taken all the valuables. 00:18:45.119 --> 00:18:48.319 They took all the medication. 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:51.599 Not one thing was damaged in my house. 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:53.440 They knew where everything was. 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:57.200 We still don't, we kind of know who it is, but we won't go there. 00:18:57.200 --> 00:18:59.279 They took everything. 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:05.440 And the detective came and he said, ma'am, all I've got to say to you is this. 00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:09.920 Whoever came to your door that night, I don't know what stopped them. 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:11.759 Because you shouldn't be alive. 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:14.160 Once again, God provided. 00:19:14.160 --> 00:19:17.279 He provided safety for me that night. 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:25.440 And um, so as we go along, he took the most precious thing, and that was my wedding ring and Wade's wedding ring. 00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:27.039 Those were the things I loved. 00:19:27.039 --> 00:19:36.960 Clem Ferris came, um, I don't know what year it was, it was four or five, maybe four years ago, and he said to me, Miss Patty, I see a diamond. 00:19:36.960 --> 00:19:39.759 I said, Yay, I'm getting married. 00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:43.440 He said, No, I don't think it's that. 00:19:43.440 --> 00:19:48.960 Anyway, he said, God calls you a diamond, but I see a diamond. 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:58.160 Well, about two weeks after that, Anderson County Sheriff's Department called me and said, Patty, we need you to come to the sheriff's department. 00:19:58.160 --> 00:19:59.759 I said, Am I in trouble? 00:19:59.759 --> 00:20:02.319 They said, No, we think you're going to be very happy. 00:20:02.319 --> 00:20:09.279 So I go and the detective that had my case for those years, he says, I want you to sit down. 00:20:09.279 --> 00:20:10.559 I want to show you something. 00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:12.720 He found my diamond ring. 00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:14.079 He found it. 00:20:14.079 --> 00:20:18.720 And the Lord spoke to me again and said, I provided. 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:21.119 I knew where that ring was all those years. 00:20:21.119 --> 00:20:23.440 I just saved it to give it to you today. 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:26.720 So God knows everything we go through. 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:30.640 So when we talk about Jehovah Jarreh, it just doesn't mean money. 00:20:30.640 --> 00:20:35.279 It means kindness, love, compassion, all these things. 00:20:35.279 --> 00:20:42.240 So I have seen God provide, but I've also seen God ask me, will you surrender? 00:20:42.240 --> 00:20:44.400 And I'm a living example. 00:20:44.400 --> 00:20:46.640 I'm not perfect, but I will tell you this. 00:20:46.640 --> 00:20:54.480 I am a living proof that when you lay your life down for him, he will give you more of himself. 00:20:54.480 --> 00:21:00.880 Every single time you lay your life down, he will give you more of himself. 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:04.240 And you know that's what God is after right now. 00:21:04.240 --> 00:21:07.200 He is after us saying this. 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:10.000 Will you surrender? 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:12.640 Abraham surrendered everything. 00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:16.799 Did you know God called Abraham a friend of God? 00:21:16.799 --> 00:21:19.200 I want to be God's friend. 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:22.400 If I'm God's friend, I can love anybody. 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:28.400 I told him Friday night, you don't have to like me, but you're commanded to love me. 00:21:28.400 --> 00:21:30.240 So, you know, that's it. 00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:32.240 We're commanded to love everybody. 00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:36.799 But we can't do that unless we have the power of the Holy Spirit. 00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:40.799 But Jehovah Jirah is our provider. 00:21:40.799 --> 00:21:49.200 But anytime you surrender anything for Jesus, he will give more of himself. 00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:55.039 There used to be old soul, less of me and more of Jesus. 00:21:55.039 --> 00:21:58.000 Wow, that's what we're looking for right now. 00:21:58.000 --> 00:21:59.839 We're in a troubled time. 00:21:59.839 --> 00:22:02.160 It's dark, it's gonna get darker. 00:22:02.160 --> 00:22:06.160 But the Bible says, arise and shine, for your light has come. 00:22:06.160 --> 00:22:10.640 Jehovah Jarrell will put the light of God in you wherever you go. 00:22:10.640 --> 00:22:12.160 He's gonna go with you. 00:22:12.160 --> 00:22:14.000 He will not fail you. 00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:18.880 I've lived through times where I didn't even know if I was gonna make it or not. 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:21.359 God moves at the last minute. 00:22:21.359 --> 00:22:22.720 Have you ever noticed that? 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:25.200 Can you imagine what Abraham felt? 00:22:25.200 --> 00:22:27.119 I mean, I'm a visionary. 00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:29.279 He was probably carrying his son up there. 00:22:29.279 --> 00:22:32.400 His son was probably saying, What are you doing? 00:22:32.400 --> 00:22:36.319 But Abraham knew the intimacy of God. 00:22:36.319 --> 00:22:38.480 He had been with God. 00:22:38.480 --> 00:22:45.440 He knew, maybe he knew, well, if he dies, God can raise him from the dead. 00:22:45.440 --> 00:22:46.640 I don't know. 00:22:46.640 --> 00:22:50.720 But he knew that he knew that God was with him. 00:22:50.720 --> 00:22:56.319 That's what I want you all to know tonight that Jehovah Jar is your provider. 00:22:56.319 --> 00:22:59.039 Anything you need, he's got it. 00:22:59.039 --> 00:23:00.400 He's got it. 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:03.359 And he will not leave you. 00:23:03.359 --> 00:23:07.519 Sometimes it looks like that God's not moving. 00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:08.880 I love this though. 00:23:08.880 --> 00:23:13.039 When God is silent, that doesn't mean he's not moving. 00:23:13.039 --> 00:23:17.599 I'm sure when Abraham was carrying Isaac, it was very quiet. 00:23:17.599 --> 00:23:20.720 But some we're deep in his spirit. 00:23:20.720 --> 00:23:25.680 I think Abraham recalled the times that he has spent with God. 00:23:25.680 --> 00:23:29.519 In those intimacy times with him. 00:23:29.519 --> 00:23:35.359 I have I've never known God like I've known him now when I became a widow. 00:23:35.359 --> 00:23:37.759 And if widows are in here, they understand. 00:23:37.759 --> 00:23:42.400 But when I became a widow, God took away the orphan's heart. 00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:46.160 He said, I'm going to give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you. 00:23:46.160 --> 00:23:51.279 I'm going to provide and I'm going to let you see who I've created you to be. 00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:52.880 That is awesome news. 00:23:52.880 --> 00:23:54.319 Do y'all agree with that? 00:23:54.319 --> 00:23:56.640 That is awesome news. 00:23:56.640 --> 00:24:00.240 I mean, God is our provider. 00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:02.880 He provides everything we need. 00:24:02.880 --> 00:24:08.000 When it looks like we're not going to make it, he gives us brand new mercy every single morning. 00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:13.359 Get up, amazing grace waiting on us, brand new mercy waiting on us. 00:24:13.359 --> 00:24:15.279 He's waiting on you. 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:26.160 I was driving the other day just to let you know that God wants to provide through you to be somebody else's provider. 00:24:26.160 --> 00:24:28.960 It's so important that we give. 00:24:28.960 --> 00:24:31.599 And we are a giving church. 00:24:31.599 --> 00:24:33.839 But I just want to touch on that for a minute. 00:24:33.839 --> 00:24:35.200 It's so blessed. 00:24:35.200 --> 00:24:37.599 It's more blessed to give than receive. 00:24:37.599 --> 00:24:42.240 And I have to honestly say that I live totally by faith. 00:24:42.240 --> 00:24:44.079 I live by faith. 00:24:44.079 --> 00:24:51.680 But I have some amazing people that are God's human beings on this earth that help me. 00:24:51.680 --> 00:24:52.400 Why? 00:24:52.400 --> 00:24:54.640 Because they believe in what I'm doing. 00:24:54.640 --> 00:24:57.039 I'm nothing without Jesus. 00:24:57.039 --> 00:24:59.359 But with him, I am something. 00:24:59.359 --> 00:25:07.359 So God will provide you the identity in him so that you can go provide for other people. 00:25:07.359 --> 00:25:09.200 That's what it's all about. 00:25:09.200 --> 00:25:11.920 We are his hands and we are his feet. 00:25:11.920 --> 00:25:18.960 Sometimes I hear the Holy Spirit just asking me if it's somebody that I really don't click with. 00:25:18.960 --> 00:25:21.039 Just go give them a hug. 00:25:21.039 --> 00:25:22.720 I don't want to, God. 00:25:22.720 --> 00:25:24.160 Well, too bad. 00:25:24.160 --> 00:25:25.359 Do it anyway. 00:25:25.359 --> 00:25:26.640 Too bad. 00:25:26.640 --> 00:25:27.920 That is tough. 00:25:27.920 --> 00:25:29.359 Just do it. 00:25:29.359 --> 00:25:32.160 Or maybe somebody's offended me. 00:25:32.160 --> 00:25:40.400 One time somebody came up in church right before church and they said, Something must be wrong with you, Miss Patty, because you never got married. 00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:42.319 I was like, what? 00:25:42.319 --> 00:25:43.519 You know? 00:25:43.519 --> 00:25:47.440 And the next Sunday, the Lord said, now you're gonna have to go over and give them a hug. 00:25:47.440 --> 00:25:49.440 I wanted to smack them, kind of. 00:25:49.440 --> 00:25:51.599 I mean, I'm just being honest. 00:25:51.599 --> 00:25:53.519 I just wanted to like, you know. 00:25:53.519 --> 00:25:58.400 So we have to be, we have to let the Holy Spirit help us. 00:25:58.400 --> 00:26:02.160 We cannot do none of this without the help of the Holy Spirit. 00:26:02.160 --> 00:26:09.599 But one thing I want to touch on for just a minute is the Bible says it's more blessed to give than receive. 00:26:09.599 --> 00:26:13.440 That's what Abraham was doing when he was giving up Isaac. 00:26:13.440 --> 00:26:14.880 I've lost a son. 00:26:14.880 --> 00:26:16.640 I can't imagine. 00:26:16.640 --> 00:26:23.039 He was a young, a little baby, but that broke me when I lost him. 00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:24.160 I can't imagine. 00:26:24.160 --> 00:26:25.759 I don't know how old Isaac was. 00:26:25.759 --> 00:26:28.319 I think he was up in his years, maybe. 00:26:28.319 --> 00:26:34.240 But Abraham knew that if he gave to God, God would give back. 00:26:34.240 --> 00:26:40.319 So I want you to know that Jehovah Jirah is our provider. 00:26:40.319 --> 00:26:49.359 And he loves it when we give our finances, our love, our kindness, just a pat on the shoulder. 00:26:49.359 --> 00:26:52.720 Just maybe just saying, you know, I love you. 00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:55.839 You know, I send out a lot of texts every day. 00:26:55.839 --> 00:27:01.200 So I test some people sometimes just to see what, if they miss me, if I don't text them. 00:27:01.200 --> 00:27:08.799 So I'm not gonna text them for a few days and see if they miss me. 00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:13.039 And sure enough, after two days, they're like, where are you, Miss Patty? 00:27:13.039 --> 00:27:14.799 You know, so it's funny. 00:27:14.799 --> 00:27:20.559 But anyway, I do like to exhort because God exhorts me, and what he gives to me, I want to give back out. 00:27:20.559 --> 00:27:26.319 But I want you to realize tonight that Jehovah Jire is the provider. 00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:27.519 And I've seen it. 00:27:27.519 --> 00:27:31.039 Every one of you all in here have seen God provide for you. 00:27:31.039 --> 00:27:37.920 Y'all seen another story I want to tell, because I love telling stories because when you tell stories, people know it's real. 00:27:37.920 --> 00:27:40.559 Um, we were in a tornado. 00:27:40.559 --> 00:27:43.599 I know y'all think, wow, she's been through a lot. 00:27:43.599 --> 00:27:44.799