WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:02.080 Raise our hands real quick and say a quick prayer. 00:00:02.240 --> 00:00:07.919 Father, we just thank you for my mom and dad, our pastor and and first lady of this church. 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:15.759 And Father, we just thank you that they are filled to overflowing with supernatural strength right now in Jesus' name. 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:17.440 And Father, I just thank you. 00:00:17.519 --> 00:00:26.719 We uh we first of all we rebuke this sickness in his lungs, the that crud in his lungs, we command it to dry up right now in Jesus' name. 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:31.600 We thank you for free breathing, that he has all of the oxygen that he needs. 00:00:31.760 --> 00:00:41.280 And Lord, I just thank you that this is an all you're setting him up to have an awesome week in you, in Jesus' name, to start the month of June off right. 00:00:41.679 --> 00:00:50.640 And hallelujah, that that uh this is the year of new things, and our pastor is stepping in himself into new things in Jesus' name. 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:51.920 In Jesus' name. 00:00:52.079 --> 00:00:52.560 Amen. 00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:54.320 Amen. 00:00:54.479 --> 00:00:58.000 So I just want to talk a little bit about perseverance tonight. 00:00:58.240 --> 00:00:59.200 Perseverance. 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:09.920 And it's kind of a uh, I just was reading my Bible, I think it was Thursday morning, and I was in my backyard, and the Holy Spirit led me over to Romans chapter 8. 00:01:10.079 --> 00:01:13.120 And how many of you enjoy Romans chapter 8? 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:16.079 You know what Romans chapter 8 is all about already. 00:01:16.319 --> 00:01:27.200 And so I was, I got all the way down to uh verse 25, and um let's see, I've got to open my own Bible to that. 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:29.200 Romans chapter 8. 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:37.200 And so God, the Holy Spirit, long story short, the Holy Spirit just showed me we're gonna have like more of a Bible study tonight of Romans chapter 8. 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:37.920 Is that all right? 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:44.799 We're gonna, I'm not literally gonna change, turn to any other scripture, and if we make it through the whole thing, that's great. 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:50.319 And if we don't, I'll I'll go really quickly, maybe, and and uh at some times. 00:01:50.480 --> 00:02:00.079 But in 20, verse 25, um it says, but if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance. 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:09.840 And when I got to that per the word perseverance, and I'll explain to you later in context of what this means, the Holy Spirit's like, that's a message. 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:18.960 And so I began to write down a message, and I didn't know when I'd get to preach it, but the next day, you know, here I am filling in for my dad. 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:36.800 And uh, and but you know, I I started thinking, you know, in the natural, I was gonna use, you know, I I was I was having a conversation with Mo Alexander last week about Mike Tyson and how he really knew how to how to punch, but he knew how to take a punch. 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:40.719 And so he he began to tell me how that's that he's a whole different man. 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:42.000 He's been saved. 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:46.800 And and uh and he has no more fight in him for people. 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:48.800 He just fights the devil, of course. 00:02:48.879 --> 00:02:54.879 We always were fighting uh from victory, not for victory, but he knows he's just a lover of people now. 00:02:54.960 --> 00:03:02.719 And he did he that left him, that that mean, angry, you know, the the rage that he had to win all those battles. 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:07.840 And then uh I didn't write her name down, but there's a lady right now that's fascinating to me. 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:21.280 She's rowing in a boat that's a little bit bigger than a kayak, but she's rowing from uh California to Hawaii, the first person to cross the ocean, first female solo. 00:03:21.759 --> 00:03:22.560 Does anybody know her name? 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:24.319 Anybody see her on the news? 00:03:24.479 --> 00:03:26.000 This is news to everybody but me. 00:03:26.240 --> 00:03:26.560 Okay. 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:29.439 Um, and and I just thought it was fascinating. 00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:33.199 I've been following her on Instagram, and she's misguided. 00:03:33.280 --> 00:03:36.560 You know, she's doing it for some some, you know, to save the whales. 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:38.639 I just hope she doesn't get eaten by a whale. 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:40.960 Maybe she was supposed to go to Nineveh. 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:45.759 And she's uh not the next Jonah, I hope. 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:56.639 But uh, but anyways, it was she was at she, I think she's like day 11 here, but on day eight or nine, she it was so hard to get off the coast. 00:03:56.800 --> 00:04:06.960 And she was like at day eight, and a huge storm came and blew her almost back home, and she had almost had to start over again, and she's just in tears. 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:19.279 And and uh, but the next day, uh another that she picked up the westerly wind, and she's like moving at like two and a half knots an hour, and she's well on her way to Hawaii. 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:20.319 And I hope she makes it. 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:22.959 I don't know, she even though I don't really care the purpose. 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:29.360 Uh I mean I do, but you know what I mean, God cares, but just um misguided perseverance, right? 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:31.040 But still perseverance. 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:38.319 Some, you know, she's not getting that grit and determination out of her spirit that I know of that I could that I could witness. 00:04:38.399 --> 00:04:40.560 Again, I'm not speaking against her. 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:53.279 Uh, but then the Kuntzes walked in, and and we have Katie Koontz back with us, and she's a track star and uh and from Tulsa University. 00:04:53.600 --> 00:04:55.680 And what are your two races that you're running? 00:04:55.920 --> 00:04:58.560 The 3,000-meter, what is that called? 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:00.560 Steel Chase. 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:03.120 And then your other one, don't you run like a 2,000-something? 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:03.360 No? 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:06.240 A 5K, I'm sorry, thank you. 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:08.160 I should know this these things. 00:05:08.399 --> 00:05:10.240 But grit and determination. 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:27.040 So when so when she finds that, you know, um, when it's nearing the end of the race to dig down deep, and no matter what the wind, she was running into a headwind and her last win, and she dug down deep. 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:34.079 And what causes her to have that strength on the inside, she's not getting, yes, her legs are strong. 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:43.279 Yes, her lungs are filled with oxygen, but it's her spirit man that's giving her supernatural strength to overcome in every arena. 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:45.920 And that's what I wanted to talk today about. 00:05:46.480 --> 00:06:16.160 Uh, but then I was sitting there thinking, and there's no greater person, when I when I said that this morning after baptism, I started talking about I was uh being in awe of the anointing and watching my parents this morning from the tub, like looking into their eyes, but also seeing my dad preach a message, knowing that yesterday he had no energy, he could barely talk, his lungs were full of crud, you know. 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:17.839 Can't can I say crap? 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:18.639 I can't say crap. 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:20.000 Okay, crud. 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:27.600 And so uh, and so here he is today preaching his guts out, and it was so anointed. 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:42.800 And you could put that message in the top of any of his other messages for 30, whatever, however many, 40 years, however long he's been preaching, and uh it was so good, but perseverance, grit, determination, endurance. 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:49.199 You know, um uh Webster says that it's the ability to get hit and keep on going. 00:06:49.439 --> 00:06:57.040 You know, the the storms of life, you know, we can get uh you know hit in the face by a wave and we just keep going. 00:06:57.120 --> 00:07:00.959 We keep paddling, we keep, we keep on trucking, right? 00:07:02.079 --> 00:07:11.279 And uh it also means the continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties or failures or opposition. 00:07:11.839 --> 00:07:25.199 And so um let's just go down through Romans chapter 8, but read it with the idea of perseverance in uh in every way, right? 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:32.959 And so right away it says, there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. 00:07:33.120 --> 00:07:39.839 So if we pause for a second, the Pastor John Osteen that's still in me, it says, uh therefore, what is it therefore? 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:54.480 And you so you back up to uh all of Romans chapter 7, especially from verse 13 on, is saying exactly what Pastor preached this morning about the old covenant, the old law, the old law of bulls and goats. 00:07:54.560 --> 00:07:56.480 It could not save us from sin. 00:07:56.639 --> 00:07:59.920 It could not save them from sin, it just covered their sin. 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:05.920 It did not rescue them and bring freedom from sin the way Jesus' sacrifice did. 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:11.680 And so now there is therefore now no zero, no means zero, right? 00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:13.920 Condemnation, but for who? 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:25.279 To those, to everybody, no, but to those that are in Christ, who do not walk according to the flesh, but instead walk what? 00:08:25.439 --> 00:08:27.439 According to the Spirit. 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:37.279 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ has made them free, made me free from the law of sin and death. 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:41.200 So the law of sin and death has no more power over me. 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:44.159 Sin has no more power over me. 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:46.240 I'm not dominated by sin. 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:55.360 I'm not dominated by my flesh, but I live under a new spiritual law that did not, that not that did not exist before Jesus. 00:08:55.519 --> 00:08:56.399 You see that, right? 00:08:56.559 --> 00:08:58.639 That God created just like gravity. 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:03.120 All of a sudden, God created gravity and we're we're sure footage, right? 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:05.279 We're not just floating around in the air. 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:08.159 We have with a natural law of gravity. 00:09:08.320 --> 00:09:09.919 Then you have the law of lift, right? 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:12.320 We can get in an airplane and I could take you up. 00:09:12.480 --> 00:09:21.759 It's been many, many years since I've flown as a pilot, but somewhere in my wallet is a is the pilot's license that says I'm supposed to be able to fly. 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:27.519 And uh maybe I could get it back off the ground, but be getting back on the ground might be the issue. 00:09:27.679 --> 00:09:30.960 Um, because it took me a lot of landings to figure that out. 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:38.639 But uh, you know, the there's a new spiritual law, and it's more powerful than any natural law that's in existence. 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:44.960 And it never was in existence before, and it's the law of the spirit of life in Christ. 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:47.360 So uh that's my number one. 00:09:47.519 --> 00:09:53.840 We persevere through the law of the spirit of life in Christ that's lifting us, right? 00:09:54.080 --> 00:10:00.799 And so uh the power of sin, like I said, cannot dominate you, and we operate under a new law, right? 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:18.480 And so we keep reading verse 3 for what the law could not do, the old law, the law of sin and death, not uh uh could not do in that was weak through the flesh, God did by sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin. 00:10:18.879 --> 00:10:21.039 He conquered sin in the flesh. 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:22.159 What is this saying? 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:37.679 It's saying that Jesus conquered sin in a state that was just like me and you, in the in with the same flesh that we have, with the same mind that we have, with the same strength that we have, he conquered sin forever. 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:40.960 And so now sin has no more rule over us. 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:52.799 And so, verse 4, that the righteousness requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. 00:10:53.039 --> 00:10:54.159 Where is the might? 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:57.279 Is the might on God's side, like Pastor just said this morning? 00:10:57.440 --> 00:10:58.399 No, it's on our side. 00:10:58.480 --> 00:10:59.759 There's a might in there, right? 00:10:59.919 --> 00:11:02.399 There's lots of ifs in this chapter. 00:11:02.559 --> 00:11:10.559 There's lots of mites, maybe not lots of mites, but there's lots of conditional things that we need to do, decisions that we need to make. 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:13.919 When you see an if, that means there's a decision there, right? 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:15.600 And we make the right decisions. 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:28.639 Verse 5, for those who live live according to the flesh set their minds on things of the flesh, but those who live according to the spirit set their minds on the things of the spirit. 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:30.559 So it's a spirit thing, right? 00:11:30.799 --> 00:11:36.960 God has not given us a spirit of fear, but a spirit of power, spirit of love, and a spirit of a sound mind. 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:43.840 So it's a spirit thing that your mind thinks for uh and let's see if I can grab my number two. 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:47.279 And all of these verses think of this point. 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:50.399 We persevere by staying in the spirit. 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:59.120 We walk in the spirit, we speak in the spirit, we operate and we're led out of our spirit, and we think out of our spirit. 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:01.759 God requires our brain, our mind. 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:14.080 Our mind is important to God, but verse 6 uh for to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life in peace. 00:12:14.320 --> 00:12:15.600 Do we want to have life? 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:16.559 We do. 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:18.559 Do we want to have peace? 00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:19.279 We do. 00:12:19.519 --> 00:12:25.279 Did you know that you can live in perfect peace whose heart is stayed on the Lord, right? 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:28.639 So our heart is focused and stayed on Him. 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:31.600 We can have and live in perfect peace. 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:41.759 Verse 7, because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can it be. 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:47.519 Um it cannot be subject to the law. 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:48.559 Okay, sorry. 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:58.879 Um I want to make this point and I want to make it clear that uh when you're living in your flesh, the carnal mind, so so your flesh also has a mind, right? 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:06.799 It can, you know, if you're living out of the flesh, you have carnal thinking, and that carnal thinking is enmity, it's enemies with God. 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:11.440 It cannot be subject to the law of the spirit of life in Christ. 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:12.720 I want you to see that. 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:19.600 That we live in a new under a new spiritual law, that carnal thinking is not going to get you there. 00:13:19.840 --> 00:13:26.159 Your regular IQ separated uh away from God is not gonna get you there, right? 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:27.759 It's not gonna get you anywhere. 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:33.919 So, so then, verse 8, so then those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 00:13:34.159 --> 00:13:37.840 So if so, what is our duty on earth is to please God, right? 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:47.919 It's to walk in his will, it's to walk in his way, and it and he needs us in order to fulfill the calling of God on each one of our lives. 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:50.720 We need to please him in every way. 00:13:50.960 --> 00:14:01.679 That means we please him in our bodies, we please him in our minds, and we please him because we're walking and talking and living out of our spirit. 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:02.320 Amen. 00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:05.919 We are a spirit, we have a mind, and we live in a body. 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:13.120 And we're quickly going to get to this in a few verses that they're all connected to our spirit, living out of our spirit. 00:14:13.360 --> 00:14:14.000 Amen. 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:15.519 Amen. 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:32.000 So, uh, but you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if indeed the spirit, verse 9, uh, if indeed, if, there's another if, indeed the spirit of God dwells in you, now if anyone does not have the spirit of Christ, he is not his. 00:14:32.240 --> 00:14:37.360 In other words, if we don't have the spirit of Christ, we don't belong to him. 00:14:38.399 --> 00:14:47.519 And it says, and if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness. 00:14:47.759 --> 00:14:52.960 And so our body, so step one, it really does have a lot to do with dying, doesn't it? 00:14:53.200 --> 00:15:00.240 Dying to our old ways, dying to our old flesh, and living unto his spirit. 00:15:00.399 --> 00:15:05.600 And so that's exactly what happened in the death and the burial and the resurrection of Jesus. 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:10.159 We just saw that uh portrayed in baptism this morning, didn't we? 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:11.840 How many of you have been baptized? 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:13.440 You've been water baptized? 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:18.240 You've been baptized in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues, amen. 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:21.039 I'm in a church full of tongue talkers, amen. 00:15:21.279 --> 00:15:25.360 So we're filled with and controlled by the Holy Spirit, right? 00:15:25.759 --> 00:15:29.600 And so um, hallelujah. 00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:43.840 So we persevere by staying in the spirit, and so uh, and if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the spirit of life be uh be uh because because of righteousness. 00:15:44.480 --> 00:15:45.679 Verse 11. 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:50.639 Pastor Joseph, you want to shout out at me if I'm ever gonna skip one of these verses. 00:15:51.200 --> 00:16:05.279 But if the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give you life or give life to your mortal bodies through his spirit who dwells in you. 00:16:05.440 --> 00:16:06.320 So there you go. 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:09.679 We're alive to Christ and our mortal bodies. 00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:12.559 This, I'm talking about this, you know, squeeze your arm right now. 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:18.879 This, this mortal body has been given life through the spirit who dwells in you. 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:19.679 Amen. 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:31.039 Uh, the same spirit that raised Jesus, the same power that raised Jesus from the dead lives in you and it operates in you, and it gives life to your flesh. 00:16:31.200 --> 00:16:41.120 And so if it gives life to your flesh and it gives thoughts to your mind, then you're fully persuaded that you're controlled by the Holy Spirit, aren't you? 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:41.759 Amen. 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:42.799 You see that? 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:46.240 Right in line, boom, boom, boom, boom, that all goes together. 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:51.919 That's why it's real, it's good sometimes to just read the Bible in context, right? 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:54.799 You're gonna get like exactly what Paul meant. 00:16:54.960 --> 00:16:56.159 Boom, boom, boom. 00:16:56.320 --> 00:16:59.919 And this is uh next we're gonna move into sonship through the spirit. 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:00.720 Verse 12. 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:05.759 Therefore, brother, we are debtors not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 00:17:06.079 --> 00:17:10.640 For if you live according to the flesh, there's another if, you will die. 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:17.599 But if by the spirit you put to deep to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:22.079 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:24.799 Our pastor preaches about this a lot, doesn't he? 00:17:24.960 --> 00:17:26.799 And he turned gets to turn that around. 00:17:26.960 --> 00:17:31.920 He says, For those that are sons of God are led by the Spirit of God. 00:17:32.079 --> 00:17:34.720 And that that is so true, right? 00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:45.920 Verse 15, for you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, Abba Father. 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:55.039 As we continue, that leads me to our number three, which is we persevere because we know God takes care of us in grand style. 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:57.680 In other words, we know who our God is. 00:17:58.160 --> 00:18:04.079 Our God is our heavenly, our heavenly Father, our Abba Father, and He takes care of us. 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:10.640 He's not up there with a baseball bat ready to hit us and smack us in the face when we mess up. 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:21.119 No matter what that sin is, no matter what mistakes you have made, he is not there to punish us or bloody our noses. 00:18:21.279 --> 00:18:24.559 He's there to receive us, he takes care of us, he loves us. 00:18:24.799 --> 00:18:32.799 So, so other scriptures obviously, and especially the message from this morning, from Pastor, was encouraging us to keep short accounts. 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:35.440 And when we mess up to turn to God. 00:18:35.599 --> 00:18:40.720 And when when we turn to him, he turns to us, he meets us right where we're at. 00:18:40.960 --> 00:18:49.359 And so the whole per point of coming as you are to church, you know, we've had all kinds of different people come inside these doors. 00:18:49.599 --> 00:19:02.640 You know, one time we had the head of the gang task force of HPD here in the building, and he's he came for on and off for several months, maybe even years. 00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:14.880 Um, but he came to our security team one time and he said, Hey, you got one of the Southside gangs, the head of the South, you know, one of those Southside gangs is sitting in the back and he pointed them out just so we'd be watching. 00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:15.759 But what was he doing? 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:17.119 Was he here to cause trouble? 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:17.599 No. 00:19:17.759 --> 00:19:20.480 He was here to enter in, he was here to receive. 00:19:20.640 --> 00:19:21.200 Amen. 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:23.279 So we are a regional center. 00:19:23.359 --> 00:19:27.119 We have that kind of the those God sends us those type of people. 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:30.000 The doors of the church are open. 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:38.319 You know, we uh I remember in the Seventh-day church, we we're not Seventh-day at Venice, but we did rent their building for four and a half years as part of our church history. 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:46.880 But I remember there for a long time we had a stripper coming to church with her uh bandito 1% boyfriend. 00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:59.119 And Claire would minister to her and she would cry, and and she began the deliverance process, but just didn't quite get over, you know, her past and uh didn't stay. 00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:10.319 But you know, uh we have power, the power of the Holy Spirit is here, and so God brings us all kinds of different people uh through this church, and God takes care of us. 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:17.759 God knows how to speak through us, and uh we persevere because we know that God takes care of us, amen? 00:20:17.920 --> 00:20:24.240 And that we we're not returning, there's no reason to return again to the bondage that you once had. 00:20:24.480 --> 00:20:34.319 There's not a bondage that that uh that hell has created that the devil has in store for you that can hold you compared to the blood of Jesus. 00:20:34.480 --> 00:20:49.359 The blood of Jesus is enough, it's powerful enough, and our God, by the love of our Father and the obedience of His Son, Jesus Christ, He sent the Holy Spirit to dwell on the inside of us, and we don't have to stay bound any longer. 00:20:49.519 --> 00:20:50.000 Amen. 00:20:50.160 --> 00:20:56.880 So we're not we we didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you receive the spirit of adoption. 00:20:57.119 --> 00:20:58.960 He's taken us into his family. 00:20:59.119 --> 00:21:00.000 Verse 16. 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:05.680 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God. 00:21:05.839 --> 00:21:10.559 So therefore, the devil can't talk you out of being an heir. 00:21:10.720 --> 00:21:15.759 He, we, everything that God put into Jesus, he put into you. 00:21:15.920 --> 00:21:18.240 And you wait a minute, that'll blow your mind. 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:25.039 Every single thing that God poured into Jesus, he poured into you by the blood of Jesus. 00:21:25.200 --> 00:21:28.559 That's why his sacrifice is so special. 00:21:29.119 --> 00:21:33.440 It's worth honoring in every way, it's worth respecting in every way. 00:21:33.599 --> 00:21:35.200 We don't just take it for granted. 00:21:35.359 --> 00:21:38.400 We don't just show up at church and to check a box, right? 00:21:38.640 --> 00:21:51.519 But everything we do is because of that sacrifice that Jesus made, we can look different, we can sound different, and we can speak faith because we are heirs of his promises. 00:21:51.680 --> 00:21:54.000 Every single promise it belongs to us. 00:21:54.160 --> 00:21:54.640 Amen. 00:21:54.880 --> 00:21:59.759 Verse 17 and if children then heirs, heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:00.799 Christ. 00:22:01.039 --> 00:22:04.720 Again, that means everything it gave to Jesus, it gave to us. 00:22:05.119 --> 00:22:07.039 I didn't make, I'm not making that up. 00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:08.000 It's right there. 00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:08.720 Read it. 00:22:08.880 --> 00:22:09.759 Hallelujah. 00:22:09.920 --> 00:22:15.200 If indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified together. 00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:16.480 What's that word suffering? 00:22:16.720 --> 00:22:17.440 Is it cancer? 00:22:17.599 --> 00:22:17.839 No. 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:19.119 Is it car wrecks? 00:22:19.200 --> 00:22:19.440 No. 00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:21.279 Our pastor just preached that this morning. 00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:22.000 Amen. 00:22:22.240 --> 00:22:26.400 It's uh it's um persecution. 00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:27.519 Thank you, Miss Gwynn. 00:22:27.599 --> 00:22:28.640 She's a better preacher than me. 00:22:28.720 --> 00:22:29.680 No, I'm just kidding. 00:22:30.880 --> 00:22:32.240 It's uh persecution. 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:36.480 And so uh this leads us to verse 18. 00:22:36.640 --> 00:22:41.440 And we persevere because we keep our eye on the prize, our heavenly crown. 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:42.160 Amen. 00:22:42.319 --> 00:22:55.599 And it says in verse 18, Paul says, For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us and through us. 00:22:56.079 --> 00:23:03.920 In other words, there's not one thing that we suffer on this side that makes up for the glory that was gonna be on the other side. 00:23:04.000 --> 00:23:04.319 Amen. 00:23:04.640 --> 00:23:05.920 It's worth it, amen. 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:13.440 That one one day we're gonna receive a crown and we're gonna be able to throw that at the feet of Jesus, amen. 00:23:13.680 --> 00:23:16.640 For for your obedience, for your service. 00:23:17.039 --> 00:23:20.960 And and then and your service is through his service, right? 00:23:21.200 --> 00:23:26.079 And it's it's through, it's nothing that you've earned, it's through his sacrifice. 00:23:26.240 --> 00:23:39.200 Verse 19, for the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God, for the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it in hope. 00:23:39.519 --> 00:23:48.559 Because the creation itself was also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 00:23:48.720 --> 00:24:00.720 For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now, not only that, but we also who have the first fruits of the Spirit, everybody say that's me. 00:24:01.200 --> 00:24:07.680 Even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption and the redemption of this body. 00:24:07.839 --> 00:24:12.400 You know, one day this body is gonna turn into a glorified body, amen? 00:24:12.559 --> 00:24:15.200 And we're gonna be in heaven together, right? 00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:27.440 And so um we're we're in in the light of this, we're keeping in mind that we, at verse uh my number four point, we persevere because we keep our eye on the prize, right? 00:24:27.599 --> 00:24:33.359 And so we're we're gonna make it to heaven, we're gonna be in heaven rejoicing together one day. 00:24:33.920 --> 00:24:40.000 It might be in five minutes, it might be tomorrow, it might be in five years, but we're gonna be there together. 00:24:40.240 --> 00:24:40.720 Amen. 00:24:41.519 --> 00:24:45.920 Verse 24, for we were saved in this hope. 00:24:46.240 --> 00:24:49.200 But hope that is seen is not hope. 00:24:49.440 --> 00:24:52.559 For why does one still hope for what he sees? 00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:59.599 But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance. 00:24:59.759 --> 00:25:01.359 We're overcomers, amen. 00:25:01.440 --> 00:25:03.200 We're overcomers in every area. 00:25:03.359 --> 00:25:07.759 No matter what the devil throws our way, we we're overcoming, amen. 00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:17.519 We have grit, we have turn determination, but it's not a mindset, it's our spirit, and our spirit receives strength from the Holy Spirit, amen. 00:25:17.759 --> 00:25:22.960 And it's out of that that we're able to live and move and have our being, right? 00:25:23.680 --> 00:25:29.680 So verse 26, likewise, the spirit also helps in our weaknesses. 00:25:29.839 --> 00:25:31.039 I wanted to cover that. 00:25:31.200 --> 00:25:34.720 Um so I've heard this preached many different ways. 00:25:34.880 --> 00:25:44.079 So I looked it up today in the Greek, and it does mean multiple things, but one of the meanings that hit me so hard is in our soul. 00:25:44.240 --> 00:25:46.480 So it's in our mind, our the weakness. 00:25:46.559 --> 00:25:47.920 We're talking about weaknesses. 00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:50.000 Your mind can become weak. 00:25:50.160 --> 00:25:56.799 Your mind can you can become tired in your thinking, you can become tired and weary in your mind. 00:25:57.680 --> 00:26:02.960 And um, so this leads me to my number five point. 00:26:03.119 --> 00:26:05.920 We persevere through our prayer life. 00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:06.799 Amen. 00:26:07.680 --> 00:26:23.680 So we have the Holy Spirit who's praying over us and um and interceding for us, but that word weakness in the Greek, it's of the soul, and it says want of strength and capacity to bear trials and troubles. 00:26:23.920 --> 00:26:31.279 So sometimes we we're tempted to faint in our mind and give in to that trial or give in to that trouble. 00:26:31.440 --> 00:26:40.960 You know, when your back's up against the wall, instead of giving in to that trial, instead of giving in to that trouble, know that the Holy Spirit has your back. 00:26:41.119 --> 00:26:42.079 What does it say? 00:26:42.240 --> 00:26:58.720 For we uh likewise, the spirit also helps in our weaknesses, for we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 00:26:59.039 --> 00:27:03.039 And so um the Spirit makes intercession. 00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:04.640 He makes intercession. 00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:12.799 So when you feel like your back is against the wall, be strengthened to know that the Holy Spirit Himself is praying for you. 00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:15.279 He's interceding on your behalf. 00:27:15.359 --> 00:27:17.920 And so you don't have to faint in your mind. 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:20.079 You can just lean on the Holy Spirit. 00:27:20.240 --> 00:27:25.920 And that's why it's so good to have a prayer life, to be able to pray in tongues. 00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:28.160 Pray in your prayer language. 00:27:28.319 --> 00:27:32.960 It builds you up on your most holy faith, the book of Jude says. 00:27:33.119 --> 00:27:36.559 And so when you pray in the Holy Ghost, it changes everything. 00:27:36.799 --> 00:27:52.559 And so when you're praying in the Holy Ghost, and the Holy Spirit is over there interceding and praying, uh, boom, there's a connection that happens in the spirit, and you're uplifted, and the Holy Spirit is not afraid of any mess. 00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:58.240 And he can grab a hold of your elbows and just yank you right out of that mess. 00:27:58.400 --> 00:27:58.960 Amen. 00:27:59.119 --> 00:28:01.119 You don't have to stay in that mess. 00:28:01.279 --> 00:28:03.519 You don't have to stay in that weakness. 00:28:03.599 --> 00:28:06.799 You can receive supernatural strength right now. 00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:16.640 It's not complicated, it's not something that's impossible, it's not something that you have to beg for for hours and hours and hours, but just lean back. 00:28:16.720 --> 00:28:18.559 I like the way I say this every time I preach. 00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:20.240 Selena makes fun of me. 00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:28.480 But uh the the Amplified Classic Bible says, leaning back our whole entire human personality back into Him. 00:28:28.559 --> 00:28:35.599 And that, you know, uh I relate to that so much because sometimes my human personality needs a dose of the Holy Ghost, right? 00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:38.160 I can be a little bit uptight sometimes. 00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:41.599 I can take some things a little personally sometimes. 00:28:41.759 --> 00:28:48.000 And so, uh, but but uh me apart from the Holy Spirit, I I can't get anywhere. 00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:57.039 I wouldn't, I wouldn't be 99% of what you know, 100% of who I am is because of the anointing. 00:28:57.200 --> 00:28:59.839 It's because of the Holy Ghost. 00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:05.920 And it's because of of uh of his IQ that I'm borrowing to be to be smart. 00:29:06.079 --> 00:29:08.240 It's the Holy Spirit that makes me smart. 00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:09.759 I don't mind saying that. 00:29:09.920 --> 00:29:14.799 That's not any any uh, you know, I was I had I was I tell this story sometimes. 00:29:14.880 --> 00:29:22.079 I was a couple years ago, I was having lunch with another minister, and he said we were just talking about dumb things people do. 00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:28.160 And he's like, I think even aside from the Holy Ghost, I could make it a lot further than most of these people around here. 00:29:28.319 --> 00:29:32.000 And so I'm like, no, I don't I'm so glad I don't have to do it without the Holy Ghost. 00:29:32.079 --> 00:29:34.799 I'm not going five seconds without the Holy Ghost. 00:29:34.960 --> 00:29:35.519 Amen. 00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:37.759 Verse 27. 00:29:38.240 --> 00:29:44.559 Um uh now he who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is. 00:29:44.720 --> 00:29:49.119 We're talking about, remember that we're talking about the Holy Spirit interceding for us. 00:29:49.440 --> 00:29:56.240 So he who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. 00:29:56.400 --> 00:30:05.119 So not only that, God is, I mean, the Holy Spirit is praying the perfect will of God over you because he knows the perfect will of God. 00:30:05.279 --> 00:30:13.839 We don't, we might not know how to pray as we ought, but the Holy Spirit is interceding for us, and we just lean back into that prayer, right? 00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:16.319 And allow that prayer to take us. 00:30:16.559 --> 00:30:21.200 But and we do that through the power of us speaking in tongues, right? 00:30:21.440 --> 00:30:26.160 We can't just do that because we can't just decide to do that in our brain or in our flesh. 00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:29.920 No, it's a spirit thing, and it happens through the power of the Holy Spirit. 00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:43.599 Verse 28, and we know that all things, all things work together for good to those, what's the you know, there's not an if here, but it's it is conditional. 00:30:44.079 --> 00:30:52.160 All things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to what? 00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:54.000 His purpose. 00:30:54.240 --> 00:31:04.880 It's all about his purpose, it ain't about your purpose, it's about his purpose, and so we do love God, which gives brings me to point number six. 00:31:05.519 --> 00:31:08.319 We persevere because we are called. 00:31:08.559 --> 00:31:15.599 Everybody say this: I am called, I have a purpose, I'm fulfilling your purpose, Lord. 00:31:16.319 --> 00:31:16.960 In me. 00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:22.240 I live in you so that you can live through me. 00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:23.599 There we go. 00:31:23.839 --> 00:31:24.480 Amen. 00:31:24.720 --> 00:31:25.359 Amen. 00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:31.680 Because we love God, we lit, we are called, and we're it's a bit according to his purpose. 00:31:31.759 --> 00:31:36.880 Uh verse 29, for whom he foreknew, this this trips up a lot of people. 00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:39.279 This this next little little verse. 00:31:39.440 --> 00:31:42.880 Also, it's it's in Ephesians a lot about being predestined. 00:31:43.279 --> 00:31:46.799 People get caught up on that in that word because they don't know what it means. 00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:50.240 It just means that he knew everything ahead of time. 00:31:50.400 --> 00:31:51.680 Why does that scare us? 00:31:51.839 --> 00:31:55.680 He knew every decision you'd ever make, good, bad, indifferent, whatever. 00:31:55.839 --> 00:31:58.160 He knew all your doubts, all your fears. 00:31:58.400 --> 00:32:02.079 He knew exactly where you'd get to, and he's cheering you on, anyways. 00:32:02.319 --> 00:32:15.599 He knows exactly where you're gonna end up, and you're we're serving him, and we're on uh we're we're called to fulfill his purpose in our life, but it's it's been predestined. 00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:18.079 It's been set up for us ahead of time. 00:32:18.240 --> 00:32:20.079 But that's a good thing, it's not a bad thing. 00:32:20.240 --> 00:32:21.759 We're not afraid of it, right? 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:30.880 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 00:32:31.039 --> 00:32:43.200 Moreover, whom he predestined, these he also called, whom he called, uh he also justified, and whom he justified, these he also glorified. 00:32:43.519 --> 00:32:44.160 Amen. 00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:45.279 Amen. 00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:49.920 So um, so we're called, we're justified, and we're glorified. 00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:58.960 And he in Jesus, talking about Jesus too, that Jesus was all these things, and everything that he put inside of Jesus, he put inside of us. 00:32:59.200 --> 00:33:03.039 And so we are carriers of his glory, amen. 00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:18.240 Now we're shifting, we're talking about uh uh that God of God's everlasting love, and that leads me to number seven, that we persevere because God is for us. 00:33:18.799 --> 00:33:19.839 God is for us. 00:33:20.079 --> 00:33:21.039 So let's read about it. 00:33:21.119 --> 00:33:21.920 Verse 31. 00:33:22.160 --> 00:33:24.799 What then shall we say to these things? 00:33:25.119 --> 00:33:30.079 If God is for us, who can be against us? 00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:44.240 He who did not spare his own son but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him, also freely give us 25% of things? 00:33:44.400 --> 00:33:45.839 No, all things. 00:33:46.400 --> 00:33:49.519 Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? 00:33:49.759 --> 00:33:52.319 Is it God who justifies? 00:33:52.799 --> 00:33:54.720 Who is he who condemns? 00:33:54.960 --> 00:33:58.240 Is it Christ who died and furthermore is also risen? 00:33:58.480 --> 00:34:03.920 Who is even at the right hand of God who also makes intercession for us? 00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:07.279 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? 00:34:07.599 --> 00:34:16.079 Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? 00:34:16.400 --> 00:34:27.920 As it is written, for your sake we are killed all day long, we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter, yet in all these things we are conquerors? 00:34:28.079 --> 00:34:32.079 No, we're more, more than conquerors, through what? 00:34:32.559 --> 00:34:34.079 Through him who loved us. 00:34:34.239 --> 00:34:35.280 Great is his love. 00:34:35.440 --> 00:34:35.840 Amen. 00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:38.559 And I'll I'll finish this point in just a second. 00:34:38.719 --> 00:34:42.480 But if God is for us, who can be against us? 00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:51.760 I like to say it this way, since God is for us, because we know he is, there's no really if, God being for us, he is for us. 00:34:52.639 --> 00:34:54.159 So who can be against us? 00:34:54.320 --> 00:35:02.000 I think, you know, um, there are so many examples that I could use, but I started this afternoon. 00:35:02.159 --> 00:35:10.239 Um I was going over my notes, and uh maybe later off recording we can pray over this person. 00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:22.800 But there's a person right now that's uh that's a pastor that's all in the news, he's going through a divorce, and we would all know him if I said his name, and maybe later I'll say his name. 00:35:23.119 --> 00:35:40.960 We can pray over him, but it's just terrible because it's dragging his whole church and his whole family and the legacy of that church down, and um, and people don't really know what the truth is. 00:35:41.199 --> 00:35:46.159 I don't know, nor do I care what the truth uh is of his marriage. 00:35:46.320 --> 00:35:55.360 I just know that he's hurting and his wife is hurting, and they need our prayers way more than they need any judgment coming from us. 00:35:55.599 --> 00:35:58.639 So if God is for him, then who can be against him? 00:35:59.039 --> 00:36:16.239 And so we pray a hedge of protection, we plead the blood of Jesus over his ministry and over his future ministry, and whatever comes out comes out, but um, but God has a plan and God has a purpose for his life. 00:36:16.880 --> 00:36:42.000 And uh I've gotten to witness several times now uh how Pastor Mark and Trina handle things like that, and it's really changed, it's marked me the generosity, but how um I better be careful who uh uh how I say this, but um you know, one man in particular had his whole family turn against him. 00:36:42.320 --> 00:36:44.159 He became an alcoholic. 00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:52.800 And Pastor Mark didn't run from that situation, he ran to him and he began to call him and he began to love on him. 00:36:53.039 --> 00:36:54.880 And he said, Hey, I'm having some meetings. 00:36:55.039 --> 00:36:56.239 Why don't you come out? 00:36:56.480 --> 00:37:07.119 And so he came out, and instead of throwing rocks at him, he's he uh he came, he got him to come up and he prayed over him, and then he handed him the microphone. 00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:07.920 Are you kidding me? 00:37:08.159 --> 00:37:13.119 Handed him a microphone in that situation, he said, Hey, tell us a little bit of your testimony. 00:37:13.840 --> 00:37:19.119 And I'm telling you, that person is completely restored to this day. 00:37:20.559 --> 00:37:30.639 He he is completely restored, and his he's back with his family, they're back in fellowship, and it is an awesome story. 00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:31.920 And that's not the only one. 00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:47.840 I've witnessed this over and over and over again, how some how the rest of everybody is talking bad about this person or that person or that pastor, and they're struggling, and Mark and Trina just pull them up close and say, How can we help? 00:37:48.000 --> 00:37:49.199 How can we pray with you? 00:37:49.360 --> 00:37:54.639 How can we kick the devil in the teeth with you and and help restore them? 00:37:54.880 --> 00:37:58.880 You know, uh uh being a minister, people really don't understand. 00:37:59.119 --> 00:38:04.639 Even uh Morris, what's his first name? 00:38:04.800 --> 00:38:05.280 Dallas? 00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:09.679 Uh Robert Morris, even Robert Morris, you know, he's a child molester. 00:38:10.079 --> 00:38:13.679 You don't know, you don't know what he's I just see the fruit. 00:38:13.920 --> 00:38:20.719 I see the fruit of a man who served in ministry for decades, and I don't know every detail. 00:38:20.880 --> 00:38:26.480 I don't, I know what the news said, and I know what we'll never know what happened behind the scenes. 00:38:26.639 --> 00:38:30.719 And we sure will never know his heart towards the Lord. 00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:38.960 Whether his, I mean, we will, we'll we can be, you know, see the fruit of it in the future, but I'm just saying, um, we're not God. 00:38:39.119 --> 00:38:40.079 You're not God. 00:38:40.320 --> 00:38:47.679 And so I just think of in all these situations, I happen to see an Instagram post that was really positive about him. 00:38:47.840 --> 00:38:53.039 Like the people were actually quoting the word, talking about the spirit of life in Christ, you know. 00:38:53.199 --> 00:38:57.039 You he's he is it is it does it mean the same for him? 00:38:57.280 --> 00:39:00.159 Is he uh exempt from that scripture? 00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:06.880 Uh does Jesus have to come back and die again for him because he messed up 30, 40 years ago? 00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:08.639 However long it is? 00:39:08.800 --> 00:39:26.159 And so uh I better be careful what I'm saying, but but uh before I name too many names, but people like they go so far outside just to judge on themselves, on you know, and and and spread so much vile hatred against their own body. 00:39:26.320 --> 00:39:38.079 Don't they realize that we're we're one body and that we're called to love, and we're called to if if somebody gets off, you're called to restore them, not speak against them. 00:39:38.239 --> 00:39:40.239 It's different if they're a false prophet now. 00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:42.159 That's a whole different thing. 00:39:42.400 --> 00:39:46.719 And uh, and so we do name names in that department, don't we? 00:39:46.960 --> 00:39:49.760 And so by we we mean our pastor mostly. 00:39:50.800 --> 00:39:57.039 And so um, but I'm just telling you, if God is for us, who can be against us? 00:39:57.360 --> 00:40:07.360 We are more than conquerors through Him who loved us, and He loves us with such a great love, and that leads me to my last point eight. 00:40:07.679 --> 00:40:11.039 We persevere because God loves us. 00:40:11.360 --> 00:40:30.960 Uh Verse 38, for I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing shall be able to separate us from the love of God. 00:40:31.199 --> 00:40:32.400 Where is that love of God? 00:40:32.559 --> 00:40:35.760 Which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord. 00:40:36.079 --> 00:40:37.760 He loves us so much. 00:40:38.159 --> 00:40:40.880 Great is his love for us. 00:40:41.039 --> 00:40:46.079 I'm telling you, um, we made it through the entire chapter, praise the Lord. 00:40:46.239 --> 00:40:51.679 But his love is so great for you, and it's so great for me. 00:40:53.840 --> 00:40:56.400 And he has a plan and a purpose for us. 00:40:56.559 --> 00:40:59.599 Let's just bask in that love for a little bit longer. 00:40:59.760 --> 00:41:00.800 Hallelujah. 00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:07.119 Father, that we just thank you that we persevere through anything that's thrown at us. 00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:15.679 Lord, that we have grit and determination that comes from you, that we're strengthened in our inner man, like the Ephesians prayer says. 00:41:15.920 --> 00:41:19.840 Lord, that it's a supernatural strength, it's not a natural thing, strength. 00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:21.599 And so, Lord, I just thank you. 00:41:21.840 --> 00:41:35.280 We look at uh people like my mom, that despite all of the things that are thrown at her, she continues to live, she continues to breathe, she continues to walk, and she continues to fight the devil. 00:41:35.440 --> 00:41:43.920 And Lord, she's not fighting for victory, she's fighting from victory, from a standpoint of victory, because she has victory on all sides. 00:41:44.000 --> 00:42:02.639 And so, Lord, we just thank you for the for the prayer warriors uh that we're grateful for those people that intercede, but mostly for the Holy Spirit that intercedes, that sees each and every one of our weaknesses and knows that that weakness sometimes can come in the form of our mind. 00:42:02.719 --> 00:42:10.079 So, Lord, we just thank you that through our spirit we're strengthened in our mind, that we can think your thoughts. 00:42:10.320 --> 00:42:12.800 Lord, that that we're strong in our thinking. 00:42:12.960 --> 00:42:14.960 Lord, we're strong in our confession. 00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:32.719 Lord, that we're strong in every area of our lives, Lord, that we refuse to give in to any doubt that would tell us to quit, that would tell us to pull back, that would tell us uh that our time is over, that it's time for a rocking chair and sit on the side of a mountain. 00:42:32.880 --> 00:42:42.000 No, we're we've got our hand on the plow, doing your will, doing your ministry, loving on the people that we come in contact with. 00:42:42.159 --> 00:42:48.639 Each and every one of us are called for your purpose, and we're achieving your purpose in our lives. 00:42:48.880 --> 00:42:51.440 Lord, we're ministers of your gospel. 00:42:51.679 --> 00:43:00.719 And Father, we just thank you that everywhere we go, we're a witness of your faithfulness, of your goodness, that we're carriers of your glory. 00:43:00.960 --> 00:43:03.119 We're carriers of your glory. 00:43:03.360 --> 00:43:11.039 I say we're carriers of your glory, and your glory is your manifested presence, but it's also your goodness. 00:43:11.519 --> 00:43:13.280 It's also your mercy. 00:43:13.599 --> 00:43:18.000 Lord, that we can have mercy over the ones that we have come in contact with. 00:43:18.239 --> 00:43:21.360 Lord, that people need to see your mercy. 00:43:21.599 --> 00:43:26.320 Lord, they need to be come in contact with your miraculous power. 00:43:26.559 --> 00:43:28.800 Lord, that healing is your dinner bell. 00:43:28.960 --> 00:43:34.800 And Lord, we're hungry and thirsty for the supernatural to move in our midst in this church. 00:43:34.960 --> 00:43:41.519 And Lord, that's gonna send in the hungry and the thirsty and the sighing, crying, dying humanity. 00:43:41.760 --> 00:43:44.239 Lord, and we're not waiting on them to show up. 00:43:44.400 --> 00:43:46.559 Lord, we're out on in the streets. 00:43:46.719 --> 00:43:52.800 We're preaching, we're teaching, we're we're sharing your love with everyone that we come in contact with. 00:43:52.960 --> 00:43:55.519 We're quick to invite them to come in. 00:43:56.480 --> 00:43:59.440 Lord, to sit in your presence and to be changed. 00:43:59.599 --> 00:44:03.039 And Lord, when we when they get here, we have a supply. 00:44:03.440 --> 00:44:08.400 We have a supply because you are our supply, that we don't lack in anything. 00:44:08.639 --> 00:44:17.440 Lord, that we are with the right people working arm in arm to reap the harvest in our in our lives that you have in front of us. 00:44:17.599 --> 00:44:20.079 And Lord, we persevere in every area. 00:44:20.320 --> 00:44:30.000 I say we persevere in every area because we have your heart, because we have your strength, because we have your character on the inside of us. 00:44:30.239 --> 00:44:32.960 Lord, that we're abounding in every good work. 00:44:33.199 --> 00:44:38.559 We're abounding in every good work in Jesus' name, in Jesus' name.