WEBVTT 00:00:01.840 --> 00:00:04.480 God, we've been fasting for 21 days. 00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:12.880 I went and went out with a couple uh two nights ago, and they sat down with their children and they said, The church is called a church-wide fast. 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:16.879 Children, we want to fast some things. 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:20.079 And the kids were like, What's a fast? 00:00:20.399 --> 00:00:24.640 And they said, Well, we're gonna we're gonna we're not gonna have them anymore for 21 days. 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:28.320 We're not gonna, if we decide what we're not gonna eat, we're not gonna eat that for 21 days. 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:33.600 Because every time that we have a thought about that, we're gonna ask God to heal those that are on our prayer list. 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:36.640 We're asking God for the supernatural. 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:44.000 These this family decided that the kids would not have dessert and sweets for 21 days. 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:45.920 And the kids agreed to it. 00:00:46.159 --> 00:00:51.200 They said on Thursday night at dinner, they said, our kids can't wait till Sunday night. 00:00:53.759 --> 00:00:56.000 But it's giving them a whole new perspective. 00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:59.759 Folks, we are asking God for the supernatural. 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:08.159 For you see, if you live the life that we're living only in the natural, you never get the full expression of God's heart. 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:14.319 I'm not only asking for the supernatural in healing, I'm asking for the supernatural in everyday living. 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:15.519 I need it. 00:01:16.799 --> 00:01:18.079 I want it. 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:20.560 I need it in my marriage. 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:22.959 I need it in raising my children. 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:25.439 Hey, I've never been a parent before. 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:26.640 This is kind of new. 00:01:26.719 --> 00:01:28.959 I got two teenagers in my house. 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:31.760 I need the supernatural. 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:40.239 So, what I want to talk to you this morning about is not how do we get a one-time supernatural event, but how do I live in the supernatural? 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:46.640 As I watched Jesus live on the earth for three years, he lived daily in the supernatural. 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:50.879 That's what I want to do, that's how I want to live. 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:53.200 So I began to ask the Lord. 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:57.920 I said, uh, how do I get this supernatural experience? 00:01:58.239 --> 00:01:58.879 Daily. 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:07.519 He said, Why don't you look at supernatural events and see if you see some keys to the supernatural? 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:09.199 I said, that's a good thought. 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:11.039 I said, where should I start? 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:14.560 He said, why don't you go to the first supernatural event that I did? 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:16.960 I said, I like the way you think. 00:02:18.159 --> 00:02:18.960 He said, good. 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:21.919 You think more like me, you'll you'll be, it'll get better. 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:24.080 So I want you to turn to John chapter 2. 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:31.680 This is the story of the first supernatural event recorded that Jesus did after, of course, there were some supernatural things that happened. 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:33.039 His birth was supernatural. 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:34.479 I recognize that. 00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:44.080 But this is the actual first supernatural event that he allowed to unfold when he started his ministry. 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:47.680 And it's the woman, not the woman, but it's his mother at a wedding. 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:49.919 There was a woman there, she was getting married. 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:52.960 Um verse three. 00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:54.879 I summarized from one and two. 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:58.000 The disciples came with Jesus to the wedding. 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:00.879 Verse 3 we pick up. 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:08.560 And when they ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to him, They have no wine. 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:15.120 And Jesus replied to her and said, Woman, what does your concern have to do with me? 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:17.680 My hour has not yet come. 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:30.479 And his mother said to the servants, rather sternly, Whatever he says to you, do it. 00:03:30.639 --> 00:03:31.919 I've watched him. 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:33.039 Now, watch it. 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:34.960 I've seen him do some stuff. 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:38.960 Now, whatever he says to you, do it. 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:52.080 I personally believe there are three keys in these short few verses right here that will help us walk in the supernatural in every area of our lives. 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:54.639 And that's what I want to explore with you this morning. 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:56.879 I'm going to ask you a question. 00:03:57.199 --> 00:04:10.159 Does this concern of Mary that we see in verse 4, when Jesus says, woman, what does your concern, does this concern that Mary has, is it a life or death concern? 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:12.000 No. 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:18.959 Is anybody gonna be upset they don't get another glass of wine at this wedding? 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:22.000 Maybe. 00:04:22.639 --> 00:04:24.800 But who who normally attends weddings? 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:26.480 In it's your friends? 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:29.120 Now I recognize this is a different culture. 00:04:29.839 --> 00:04:33.839 I don't go into all the culture issues of wine and if, you know, is it okay? 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:34.560 Is it not? 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:36.240 Not even an issue. 00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:37.920 This is what I want you to hear. 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:46.480 She has a concern that at the wedding, and it's not life or death, but she brings it to Jesus anyway. 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:58.079 Why is it that we as Christians wait until it's almost crisis before we take our concerns to Jesus? 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:01.439 You ever notice how we do that? 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:05.839 We like to wait because we think we can handle it. 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:08.480 I mean, folks, I want to tell you something. 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:11.040 He wants to handle your concerns now. 00:05:11.439 --> 00:05:18.560 Two weeks ago, Robert called and said, hey, we want to have a two-day elder meeting, and I want you to call and and get a hotel room. 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:21.519 We want to do it off-site from the building so that we don't get interrupted. 00:05:22.079 --> 00:05:23.360 We want to handle some things on vision. 00:05:23.519 --> 00:05:25.519 We want to we want to look at some things, we want to short some. 00:05:25.839 --> 00:05:27.279 We just want to talk about some stuff. 00:05:27.439 --> 00:05:28.319 I said, great. 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:32.000 And he gave me the date and we talked about it, and I said, I'll have the hotel meeting. 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:33.439 Nothing, piece of cake. 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:35.759 Folks, I've planned a lot of I've planned a lot of meetings. 00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:37.199 I've been in pharmaceuticals for eight years. 00:05:37.279 --> 00:05:38.240 I sold pharmaceuticals. 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:39.360 I was a manager in pharmaceuticals. 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:40.800 I set up meetings all over. 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:43.199 I mean, I've been everywhere, all over the United States. 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:45.920 I've set up meeting after meeting after meeting. 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:47.439 This was nothing moving to me. 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:48.800 I had the skill to do it. 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:53.759 I called four hotels and I was getting frustrated because none of them would do what I wanted them to do. 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:56.000 I was getting frustrated. 00:05:56.160 --> 00:05:57.279 It doesn't work out. 00:05:57.439 --> 00:05:59.279 Couldn't find a non-smokery, not smoking room. 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:00.000 I don't want a smoking room. 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:00.800 I need a non-smoker. 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:02.560 Well, that if you're gonna do that, it's gonna be$500. 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:03.839 I don't want to pay$500. 00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:05.600 I'm going through this whole rigmarole. 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:08.480 I'm feeling frustration starting to build in my heart. 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:10.639 This ought to be a lot easier than this. 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:11.439 It's not working. 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:16.000 And I heard the Lord say to me, Why don't you let me handle that? 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:18.560 I said, Do you book hotel rooms? 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:21.600 He said, Yeah, I'm pretty good at it. 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:22.879 I said, Really? 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:25.199 He said, Yeah, why don't you give me that one? 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:27.600 I said, It's yours. 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:29.519 I'm gonna trust you. 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:30.639 He said, Good. 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:38.480 I went on about my business that morning and I had a lunch appointment at uh at noon, and I was driving to my lunch appointment, and all of a sudden this thought drops on me. 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:39.199 I know where it came from. 00:06:39.279 --> 00:06:40.240 It came from the Lord. 00:06:40.399 --> 00:06:42.800 He said, Why don't you call Ken Jackson? 00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:47.360 I said, Wow, Ken works at a hotel. 00:06:48.079 --> 00:06:49.120 I said, That's a good thought. 00:06:49.279 --> 00:06:50.959 I picked up my cell phone, dial Ken on the phone. 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:54.240 I said, Hey Ken, um, I'm trying to set up a meeting of such and such a date. 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:54.720 It's two days. 00:06:54.959 --> 00:06:56.000 I need he said, I'll take care of it. 00:06:56.160 --> 00:06:57.519 Call you back in five minutes. 00:06:59.120 --> 00:06:59.680 Five minutes? 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:01.040 That's pretty good. 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:05.120 Five minutes later, he called me back and he said, I got the room all set up. 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:07.360 I need a hundred dollars. 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:10.879 He says, This is the room, it's the greatest room. 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:13.680 I've got suites on the side, we got it's perfect. 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:14.720 Done. 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:17.600 Hung on the phone lord and said, I told you I'm booked a room. 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:23.040 He said, Why don't you give me all your concerns? 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:26.480 Why do you think you have to bear them up? 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:31.680 Why do you think Mary took this concern to Jesus? 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:45.439 Because she knew that he was able and willing to handle it. 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:49.759 See, I want to show you key number one is you gotta go to Jesus with your concerns. 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:51.279 I don't care if they're life or death. 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:53.519 If some of you walked in here today, you're concerned about your marriage. 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:54.879 I know what that means. 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:57.759 There was a day I was concerned about my marriage. 00:07:58.399 --> 00:08:02.639 There was a day my wife was packing her bags and leaving, and I didn't care. 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:06.800 I know what that concern feels like. 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:14.319 But we had a supernatural experience happen that day because she was willing to go to Jesus with her concern. 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:19.279 I wasn't willing at that point, but she was gonna save our entire marriage. 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:29.279 I was a jerk, and she was a saint, and a saint living with a jerk makes it difficult. 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:38.320 But she trusted God with her concern, and he worked it out. 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:39.919 She didn't have to say a word. 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:43.360 You know when the Bible says a woman wins a man without a word? 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:44.000 You know what? 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:45.600 She won me without a word. 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:46.960 You know what the Lord told her to do? 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:48.080 This is how I want you to serve. 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:50.559 This is gonna be rocket science to most of you, okay? 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:53.600 Really difficult to catch, so really listen hard. 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:57.120 The Lord said to her, I want you to begin to serve him. 00:08:57.840 --> 00:08:59.440 I don't like him, Lord. 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:02.159 I want you to serve him anyway. 00:09:02.399 --> 00:09:04.000 I think he's a jerk. 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:06.000 Serving. 00:09:06.240 --> 00:09:06.559 How? 00:09:06.720 --> 00:09:08.240 Make him a glass of tea every day. 00:09:08.480 --> 00:09:16.159 When he walks in the door, I want you to have a glass of tea, his favorite kind with sugar in it, ready for him. 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:18.639 She's like, oh Lord, that's gonna hurt. 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:19.759 I don't know. 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:21.519 You try it. 00:09:21.759 --> 00:09:22.720 And she did. 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:27.200 That day, that first handing me that first glass of tea. 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:29.600 I could tell things were changing in her heart. 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:32.000 And I began to watch her. 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:35.519 What are you doing, woman? 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:37.279 I on you. 00:09:40.159 --> 00:09:41.440 Why are you serving me? 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:44.000 It began to melt my heart. 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:48.639 I have a supernatural marriage today. 00:09:49.440 --> 00:09:53.120 Supernatural, I'm telling you folks, it's the most wonderful experience. 00:09:53.679 --> 00:09:56.320 This is the greatest gift God's ever given me. 00:09:56.559 --> 00:10:06.240 It's supernatural because we take every issue that's a concern to either one of us and we hand it to the Lord and we say, we don't want to pretend like we can handle this because we can't. 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:09.279 It's awesome. 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:12.000 But she took her concern to Jesus. 00:10:12.159 --> 00:10:16.159 Second thing she was she knew, and Mary knew at the same time, is that he was willing and able. 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:21.919 There's something inside of us that we we think God is able, but we don't know that he's willing. 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:24.879 Last week Robert preached on Jesus was a physician. 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:26.720 If you weren't here, please get the tape. 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:28.399 It is an incredible message. 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:35.919 When he talked about the leper that came to Jesus in Luke 1.41, and he said, If you're willing, you can cleanse me. 00:10:36.159 --> 00:10:38.320 And Jesus embraced him. 00:10:38.559 --> 00:10:40.639 Folks, he embraced the leper. 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:46.080 Because he wasn't afraid of leprosy. 00:10:47.679 --> 00:10:49.279 And he loved the man. 00:10:49.919 --> 00:10:54.159 And he looked him right square in the eye and he said, I am willing. 00:10:55.200 --> 00:10:58.799 You know, God is willing to take care of the things that you're facing. 00:10:58.879 --> 00:11:00.720 He's just waiting on you to ask him. 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:06.080 He's able and willing to take care of it. 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:08.799 If you'll just ask him. 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:11.840 The first key is you have to take the concern that you have. 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:17.279 It can be life or death, and it can be a crisis, and it can be just a general concern. 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:20.000 He's wanting to be a part of your life. 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:23.360 This is a lifestyle, not a one-time event. 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:26.480 He wants to be a part of your life. 00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:33.600 There are going to be circumstances and situations that come into your life that he is allowed so that you'll turn to him. 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:38.559 He loves having relationship with you. 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:44.480 And that's why some of you, in the circumstances that you're in, you think you created them. 00:11:44.799 --> 00:11:47.200 He's allowed them so that you'd run to him. 00:11:49.440 --> 00:11:51.840 I remember one time we were at my wife's family. 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:53.279 I hadn't thought of this story in a long time. 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:55.600 It just popped in, so I'm going to share it. 00:11:56.240 --> 00:11:58.879 We were at my wife's family, we just got a dog. 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:01.759 My wife did not want a dog, by the way. 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:05.840 Well, one day as she was praying, the Lord said, I want you to get your kid the dog. 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:07.440 Every child deserves a dog. 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:09.679 Lord, I don't want to get him a dog. 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:13.279 So get him a dog. 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:14.399 Okay. 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:17.120 So we have a little weenie dog. 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:23.679 See, all my family names are Jeff and Jenny, Jessica, Joy, Julie, and Jordan. 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:26.480 We got a guardian. 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:29.039 His sister's name was Angel, but we got guardian. 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:34.559 So we thought about changing his name to Jardarian, but we kind of just shortened it to Duger. 00:12:34.799 --> 00:12:36.559 So he responds to a lot of different things. 00:12:36.639 --> 00:12:41.840 But there was one day we were at my wife's family and just thinking about how we get in situations. 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:43.600 We were out walking him one day. 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:49.440 And uh in in her parents' neighborhood, and we were just walking a dog, and we're just talking like we love to walk and talk. 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:54.639 I don't know if you as couples exercise together or what we love to exercise, walk and talk. 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:55.600 It's just one of our times. 00:12:55.679 --> 00:12:58.799 We love, we don't do enough of it, but we're trying. 00:12:59.039 --> 00:13:06.320 And um we I was walking out walking my dog that day, and we were just talking, and all of a sudden, out of a garage comes two huge dogs. 00:13:06.559 --> 00:13:08.399 My little weenie dog, I mean, he's bad. 00:13:08.480 --> 00:13:08.960 He's mean. 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:11.759 I mean, I'm telling you, he's he'll bite your ankle right off. 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:14.720 And the fur on the back of his neck stood up. 00:13:14.879 --> 00:13:18.399 He got that little point on him like, come on, you big bad dog. 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:24.240 By the time that dog got about five feet from him, he turned and jumped up my lap. 00:13:27.679 --> 00:13:29.360 Isn't that a lot like us? 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:34.159 Daddy just wants you to jump earlier. 00:13:34.559 --> 00:13:36.000 You don't have to wait so long. 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:37.919 You don't have to flex your muscle. 00:13:38.080 --> 00:13:40.000 You don't have to experience what you're experiencing. 00:13:40.080 --> 00:13:41.120 Just jump in his lap. 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:45.440 Share your concern with him, and he is able and willing to take care of it. 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:47.360 Here's the catchy part. 00:13:47.679 --> 00:13:50.080 30 kids, you've got to do what he says. 00:13:51.440 --> 00:13:54.080 This seems rather difficult to most of us. 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:59.840 Somehow or another, our mental capacity wants to figure God out. 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:03.519 Something inside of us thinks God's partial. 00:14:03.759 --> 00:14:06.000 He does heal some, but he doesn't heal all. 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:08.399 Not what the Bible says, but that's what we get. 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:11.120 We get it from our experience because we don't see an instant. 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:12.480 I want you to know this. 00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:19.120 God is as interested in your soul, your heart, your mind, your will, and emotions as he is your body. 00:14:19.679 --> 00:14:21.759 He's as interested in your spirit. 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:23.919 Spirit, soul, and body. 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:25.200 He's interested in all three. 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:29.759 He's not just interested in healing you, he's interested in your soul being free. 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:34.639 That's why he says, You've got to do what I say. 00:14:36.720 --> 00:14:39.679 Whatever, and Mary said it pretty sternly. 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:43.200 Because she was confident that whatever he said, he was going to take care of it. 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:44.799 And he was going to say something. 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:47.519 She didn't argue with Jesus when he said, It's not my hour. 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:48.320 I'm not going there. 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:49.600 I'm not arguing with you about that. 00:14:49.679 --> 00:14:52.399 That's your call, but I know you can handle the situation, and I know you will. 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:54.080 I can see Mary do this. 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:56.399 She walked over and said to Jesus, hey, you're out of wine. 00:14:56.480 --> 00:14:57.360 He goes, It's not my problem. 00:14:57.440 --> 00:14:58.480 He goes, We're out of wine. 00:14:58.639 --> 00:14:59.360 I want you to handle it. 00:14:59.519 --> 00:15:02.000 And he turns and said, Whatever he says to do, I know you can do it. 00:15:02.399 --> 00:15:03.039 I've seen you. 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:04.159 I've seen you do some stuff. 00:15:04.240 --> 00:15:06.879 And I want you to, whatever he said, don't question him. 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:07.679 Don't, don't, okay? 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:08.240 Just do it. 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:11.840 And then she walks over, right over to her girlfriend, and she goes, What's this? 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:13.519 Is it gonna be good? 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:14.080 She says, What? 00:15:14.320 --> 00:15:15.120 So we're out of wine. 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:15.840 We're out of wine. 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:17.600 So loud. 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:18.559 We're out of wine. 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:19.120 Whoa, whoa. 00:15:19.679 --> 00:15:20.240 What's going to happen? 00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:21.759 Well, Jesus is going to take care of it. 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:23.279 What's he going to do? 00:15:23.759 --> 00:15:24.559 I don't know. 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:25.360 Just watch. 00:15:25.440 --> 00:15:26.159 I told you to watch. 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:27.120 Well, how's he going to have? 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:30.080 Would you just zip it and watch? 00:15:34.399 --> 00:15:37.600 They filled up the water pots and it became heaven's wine. 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:41.600 Now, a couple observations about this. 00:15:42.320 --> 00:15:45.279 Did you notice that Mary didn't make any suggestions to Jesus? 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:55.360 You notice how we like to make suggestions, how he should handle our circumstances. 00:15:58.399 --> 00:16:00.159 We like to help God. 00:16:01.120 --> 00:16:04.559 Now, Daddy, I've got this problem, and that's the way I think you ought to answer it. 00:16:04.799 --> 00:16:07.919 I need a little money, so I think you ought to tell so-and-so to give me$100,000. 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:09.039 What do you think? 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:11.840 He said, Why don't you go to work? 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:13.840 No, I like the giving part better. 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:19.039 We like to suggest to God how he ought to do things. 00:16:19.279 --> 00:16:22.080 The Lord told Abraham and Sarah, I'm going to give you a son. 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:28.399 And when it didn't happen immediately, instead of just holding on to the word, their mind began to do this. 00:16:28.559 --> 00:16:30.720 Well, I wonder what he meant by that. 00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:36.799 I wonder, maybe we ought to do it a different way. 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:40.080 I got it. 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:42.159 And they had an Ishmael. 00:16:42.320 --> 00:16:44.559 God said, not what I was talking about. 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:50.799 He said, I'm going to give you a sign. 00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:53.519 You and Sarah. 00:16:53.759 --> 00:16:55.679 Stop trying to figure it out. 00:16:56.480 --> 00:17:00.000 Put your mind at rest and only do what he says to do. 00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:02.639 He didn't tell them to go do anything different, did he? 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:05.920 He told them just to believe what I'm telling you is going to happen. 00:17:06.079 --> 00:17:07.200 And it's going to happen. 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:10.720 Do you know why laying on the hands and people get healed from that? 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:12.160 You know why that works? 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:14.000 Because Jesus said it would. 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:19.519 You know why? 00:17:19.680 --> 00:17:21.279 We can cast out devils? 00:17:21.519 --> 00:17:23.039 Because Jesus said we could. 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:26.640 Do you know why we can raise the dead? 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:28.799 Because he said we could. 00:17:29.519 --> 00:17:32.640 You know why we can drink deadly poison and not hurt our bodies? 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:34.160 Because he said we could. 00:17:34.559 --> 00:17:35.759 Are you catching the picture? 00:17:35.920 --> 00:17:37.920 You gotta do what he says to do. 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:40.240 That's the key. 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:45.519 About three years ago, I'm uh having a little difficulty at home with my children. 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:48.319 I have four, two teenagers, and I'm not equipped to be. 00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:50.160 I mean, I'm a fun guy. 00:17:50.240 --> 00:17:51.759 I mean, I like being in the children's department. 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:54.079 We have a great time, but I have limits. 00:17:56.799 --> 00:18:00.240 One of my daughters and I are arguing on a regular basis now. 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:06.240 And I told the Lord, I said, uh, I don't like this. 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:07.039 It's not working. 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:09.039 He said, Well, why don't you give it to me? 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:10.799 I said, Okay, I'm gonna give you this. 00:18:11.119 --> 00:18:11.759 You're gonna help me? 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:13.119 He goes, Yeah, I'm gonna help you. 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:15.599 I said, Okay, I'll give it to you. 00:18:17.519 --> 00:18:21.680 Two weeks later, we're having one of those arguments. 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:23.599 And in the midst of it, I'm intense. 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:24.960 I mean, I'm I'm right. 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:26.720 I'm intense, and she thinks she's right. 00:18:26.799 --> 00:18:28.160 And we're I mean, we're in the midst of it. 00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:31.759 And she gets up and walks out of the room, slams the door behind her, and goes in her room. 00:18:32.640 --> 00:18:38.160 I'm not the room argument, and I'm the dad, I'm gonna win! So, what did I do? 00:18:38.240 --> 00:18:39.920 I chased her right to her room. 00:18:40.400 --> 00:18:42.960 Open the door, and I'm gonna finish the argument. 00:18:43.119 --> 00:18:46.079 I walk into her room, and then it's a disaster zone. 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:48.640 And there's a little fire that went later. 00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:52.000 Boom! She doesn't even obey with keeping her room clean. 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:54.880 She don't make her bitch, she doesn't clean her clean, she don't do nothing. 00:18:55.440 --> 00:19:00.079 And about that time, I'm just about to say something to her, and the Lord said, Okay, I'm ready to help you. 00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:05.680 I said, Well, it's about time you showed up. 00:19:08.480 --> 00:19:10.240 He said, Okay, I want you to do what I say. 00:19:10.400 --> 00:19:11.200 I said, Okay. 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:13.279 You mean whip her? 00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:16.960 I can beat her hard, Lord. 00:19:17.759 --> 00:19:20.480 I can kill her, buried, and just tell you she died. 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:23.519 He said, No, I want you to clean a room for her. 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:26.799 I said, obviously, you have not been here the last 15 minutes. 00:19:27.359 --> 00:19:28.799 This is not my responsibility. 00:19:28.960 --> 00:19:31.359 She's not being faithful to what I tell her to do. 00:19:31.680 --> 00:19:33.519 He said, No, clean a room for her. 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:36.559 Oh, Lord, anything but that. 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:38.240 Can we just think of a different thing? 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:39.759 He said, No, clean a room. 00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:40.559 I said, Okay. 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:42.960 So I started picking up, I mean, that was a lot of clothes. 00:19:43.039 --> 00:19:45.599 I started picking up clothes, started putting a clothes basket, and started getting. 00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:48.319 She's like a little puppy dog looking around the corner at me, like. 00:19:49.359 --> 00:19:52.240 Finally, she says, What are you doing? 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:55.440 I turned and kind of went, What am I doing? 00:19:56.720 --> 00:19:59.519 He said, just tell her all you wanted to know is you love her. 00:19:59.680 --> 00:20:00.799 I said, That's pretty good. 00:20:00.960 --> 00:20:02.000 Now that was good, huh? 00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:03.359 Now we're getting somewhere. 00:20:03.519 --> 00:20:06.799 I just turned back to her and said, Baby, all I want you to know is I love you. 00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:09.200 I don't know how to be a great father. 00:20:09.279 --> 00:20:09.920 I'm learning. 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:11.440 I I don't know all the answers. 00:20:11.519 --> 00:20:12.480 I don't have all the answers. 00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:14.079 I just want you to know I love you. 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:18.160 I just finished picking up clothes, made her bed, made it real nice, and I went out to the laundry room. 00:20:18.319 --> 00:20:25.440 Walked into the laundry, put the clothes down, and then all of a sudden I'm putting things away, and I turned around and she's standing in the door, and she had tears streaming down her face. 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:28.400 She said to me, Daddy, I'm sorry. 00:20:28.799 --> 00:20:30.079 I'm wrong. 00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:32.000 Will you please forgive me? 00:20:33.759 --> 00:20:35.680 I said, baby, I love you. 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:41.039 I embraced her and I hugged her and I was holding her close, and the Holy Spirit said, You like my way or yours? 00:20:41.759 --> 00:20:42.720 I said, You know what? 00:20:42.799 --> 00:20:43.839 Your way's really good. 00:20:44.480 --> 00:20:45.839 I said, You're incredible. 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:53.279 Made no sense to my mind, but I want to tell you, that day I began to become a supernatural father. 00:20:54.000 --> 00:20:58.559 The walls in my heart of having to be right broke that day. 00:20:58.720 --> 00:21:06.400 And I can tell you, many day after many days, when I go in, the Lord said, Now I want you to talk to your children, but I want you to listen, I want you to hear them, and you stop talking. 00:21:06.640 --> 00:21:08.400 You stop trying to fix them. 00:21:08.799 --> 00:21:10.160 I said, that's good. 00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:14.240 And it works because I listened to what he said to do. 00:21:14.559 --> 00:21:17.200 Whatever he says to do, just do it. 00:21:17.440 --> 00:21:18.000