Life Goes On | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter by Kenneth Carpenter First Apostolic Church of Maryville (Maryville, TN) Kind: teaching Scripture: 2 Kings 4:8-37, Mark 6:48, Matthew 6:6, 2 Kings 8:1-6 Source: https://acts238.life/repository/sermons/kenneth-carpenter--life-goes-on Published by Acts 2:38 Life from the sermon transcript on that page. Free to copy and share with attribution. ------------------------------------------------------------ well let me show you the good hand of Our Lord tonight they sent me a picture the Hannah sent me a picture of their car and uh if we could put it up on the screen right now they sent me a picture there's their car they walked away from that tonight glory to God what a mighty God we serve tonight don't we serve a good god tonight you have your B Bibles and would join me in Second Kings 2 Kings chapter 4 verse number 8 and while you're going there sister Olivia heill thank you so much for coming to mville for the last two Wednesday nights and uh teaching and just tremendous teaching you know and uh let let me let me just tell you this he said well she come to talk about weight no she talk come to talk about health and I think too many times people get weight in front they you know they they talk about well it's it's a weight no it's a health issue and I thank God that God has raised her up in the kingdom and she is doing an excellent job she is doing sister Olivia one more time let's give her a a great hand tonight heard a lot of great reports 2 Kings chapter 4 and verse number 8 and it fell on a day that Elisha passed to shunum where was a great woman she constrained him to eat bread and so it was that as often as he passed by he turned in fither to eat bread tonight I want to give you a title of my Bible Lesson and I hope we all can relate to it it's simply this life goes on Life Goes On Let's Ask ask God to bless us right now father I thank you for your word I thank you for the uh anointing I thank you Lord for the people that have come Lord many of them just an hour or so ago got off work and some of them have not even been home to eat a meal they come right on the Bible study and Lord I just ask you tonight for the next few minutes that you would anoint my heart let me speak spiritual relevant words to them God words that will help us Lord believe and trust more than ever before we give you praise and honor in jesus' name we pray amen and amen you may be seated and life goes on I inspired by that title tonight by the first few words of chapter four and verse number eight I believe you're going to see this a few times tonight as we read through this you're going to see this simple phrase here and it fa on a day and and it fail on a day you're going to read that several times here this evening and it just simply to put it in my vernacular it just simply is saying and life goes on and life goes on good or bad happy or sad and life goes on we have the Bible and the history of the Bible and you wonder sometimes when we study different um events that happen in the Bible with different people people you know why is that in there well there is a reason that it's in there it wouldn't it wouldn't be in there if there wasn't a reason for it to be there and uh it's there so that we can break it down and that we can look at it and then as we break it down and look at it we be we begin to see a similarity between what they went through some 3,000 years ago and what we're going through tonight and so the story just simply starts off by saying and it C and it fell on a day that Elisha whose name simply means god is salvation that's what his name means god is salvation and it says that Elisha passed by on his way to shudam this city he passed by a certain house where the scripture says was a great woman now I I not only believe that that she was great as far as in scripture can bear out that she was a tall she was a very tall woman but I believe the scripture also Bears out that she had a greatness of character she had a greatness of character the Bible said that Elisha passed by This Woman's House on his way to Shum and um this woman as she watched the prophet go by she had the compassion for a traveler and she would offer this traveler this Elisha she would offer him refreshment she would offer him water she would offer him bread to eat she would offer him a place to come and sit down as he passed by now the spiritual analogy that I would like to make from this is that God our Salvation passes by you and I frequently to see how we will treat him now I'll give you a little story in the New Testament now the Bible said the disciples were on a ship in the middle of the sea and it was a storm Jesus had put them in the ship Jesus had went to the mountain to pray they're in the midst of the sea in the middle of a storm and Jesus came walking walking on the water but here's the interesting thing here's the interesting thing about it it's found in Mark 6:48 it simply says and he would have passed them by that interesting and he would have passed them by in other words he's going to make himself known to them but he's also not going to come directly to them because he desires not not only to come to us but he desires for you and I to want him to come to us he is the god of our Salvation he passes by us to see how we're going to treat him now I I want you to know that uh we ought to wake up every morning and the first the first thoughts of our mind ought to be Lord I love you Lord I need you and Lord I praise you you see as he's passing by us continually I want him to know I welcome him I want him to know that I that I need him so as Elisha whose name is God is salvation pass by this woman would go out and she would offer him bread but that didn't seem to suffice her enough let's go to verse number nine and she said unto her husband behold now I perceive that this is a holy man of God which pass by us continually let us make a little chamber I pray thee on the wall and let us set for him there a bed and let us set for him there a bed and a table and a stool and a Candlestick and it shall be when he cometh to us that he shall turn in thither now there's two things that I want to bring bring out to you can I tell you people of Great Character have great perception they understand they can can see beyond the surface amen they can this is the difference between uh having wisdom and not having wisdom if you don't have wisdom you can only see the surface of something but wisdom allows you to have a perception you look beyond what you can see she looked beyond just a traveling man she looked beyond just somebody passing by her house and she brought him in until she developed a perception and that perception was this I receive this is a holy man of God I I perceive I understand I see he's no ordinary traveler this is a holy man how fortunate we are how fortunate we are we're not just giving a traveler a slice of bread we're not just giving a traveler a cold drink of water but we have entertained a holy man of God we have entertained a man that has connection with God we have entertained a man that can teach us the word of God can I tell you tonight that great people have a great perception about what we're doing right now some who have no wisdom see this is a waste of time but if you have perception in the spirit you see this as the greatest thing that you could ever do on a Wednesday is to come to the house of God the greatest place my children can be well yeah we're going to we're going to keep the the kids home tonight the kids have got homework and and and all of this can I tell you shame on you Mom and Dad shame on you for that let them do their homework some other time let them do their homework in between school and church but don't use this valuable time to do homework because I perceive that this is the most valuable time of the day I perceive it's a good thing I perceive that I can come to church down but let somebody begin to sing a song about holy holy holy and the next thing I know my hands are lifted up I have forgotten about my stress I have forgotten about my problem I perceive that this is a good thing now the next thing I'd like to say I love husband and wife wives team I love when husbands and wives are working together I'm going to tell you you can get so much more done husbands and wives working together oh you can get so much more and I could the time would not allow me to tell of the successful business owners in this church that are successful because that is a husband and wife team that work together well this is the same thing here she goes to her husband and she said I perceive this is a holy man of God that passes by SK continually let us make well let us add a room on let us add a room on to the house let us build a chamber on the side of the wall and let us out an extra bedroom and and and we'll put a bed there we'll go we'll go by bed and and we'll go by a table and a chair and a Candlestick and when the man of God comes he won't be a he won't be a visitor this will be where he lives when he's here you see there a difference between having a visit with God and having God live in your heart there's a big difference between that and you you see he first he first will pass by you and visit you and if you have the perception you'll build him a special place in your heart for him and so they did and so I can see them on that day I can see that husband and wife is Here Comes Here Comes Elisha he's Dusty and he's sweaty and he's tired and he walks in they say we got a surprise for you what is it well today you're not going to be sitting there on the couch you're not going to you're not going to come in and sit down on the couch you're not going to do that we we've got a place for you and they open up a door and they show him this is your room this is the place where you rest this is the place where you can study if you want to set up and stud th this is a this is a place for you Bel let's go to let's go to verse 11 please how does verse 11 start off and it fell on a day you know what that means Life Goes On Life's life just goes on fell on a day fell on a day that he came in thither and turned into the chamber and lay there called to gazah that's his servant his servant he said call the shite and when he had called her she stood before him he said he said unto him he's talking now get get the position here he's talking to gesi who's talking to the woman he says he said unto him say unto her behold thou has has been careful for us with all this care what is to be done for thee would thou be spoken for to the king or to the captain of the host she answered I I dwell among my my own people and he said what then is to be done for her now now now stop there for a moment he says in verse 13 let's just read that again he says to gazah say this to her say this to her behold thou hast thou has been careful for us with all this care what is to be done for for thee wouldest thou be spoken or to the king would you would you like me to speak to the king about you or to the captain of the host would you like me to talk to the Army maybe maybe get some extra security out here would you like a little would you like some favor with the king would you like extra guards around and she answered I dwell among my own people do you know what I hear there you know what I hear there contentment do you know that people that know how to bring God into their life are some of the most contented people you'll ever be around they're they're not people that always wanting bigger better trying to keep up with the Joneses only to find out that Jones is refinance you know you're always trying to keep up with somebody you know well when you really got God in your heart there is an undeniable Spirit of contentment that is there she said speak to the king I I I dwell among my I I dwell among my own people in other words L me tell you what she said she said I am very content I'm happy I'm thankful no know the words too let me say this thankful people are contented people when you're thankful when you when you actually you you're just you're you're thankful that that you you look around at your life and and my wife I I I was smile I guess she was wondering what I was thinking but I was driving the other day and I got to thinking how blessed we got we got we had brother and sister Ericson in Chile doing a work for God and and and Zach and Lauren were doing some kind of work for God that day and Nolan and Zach Nolan and Flanery were were doing some work and I was just driving down the road and I was thinking about it and I was smiling and she said what are you thinking about right now I said I'm thinking about how blessed we are for our family I'm thinking about how blessed we are I ended my prayer time in in the prayer room tonight I got up a few moments and I heard the men in the prayer room great number of men in there praying and I just begin to say God I thank you I thank you God for men that'll come and men and and and women that'll come and and and they'll pray and and and as I was we was going out of the prayer room we was talking to the Andes and and and and I just begin to tell them I am so thankful to Pastor a church where people pray I'm so thankful for that that that we pray and and I'm very thankful people are contented people and she just simply saying hey I'm content I I'm just I dwell among my own people I am I am content but let's go on verse 14 verse 14 and he said Elisha says to gesi what then is to be done for her and gesi answered verily she hath no child and her husband is old sorry brothers and her husband is old and he said call her and when he had called her she stood in the door now I I I don't want to get sidetracked here but a Godly woman is cautious of where she goes and how she appears Elisha is in that room which is his bedroom all right Elisha is in his room which is in his his bedroom when Elisha says I want you to call the woman I want to talk to her she didn't walk into the room oh I'm on Pastor now she wouldn't walk into the room she stood in the door cuz she wanted to protect her name do you know tonight church family we ought to be careful about our name and not let our good be evil spoken of we ought to be cautious about how how we interact with one another especially the opposite sex you may be seated she stood in the door and he said and he said listen to what he says about this season according to the time of life Thou shalt Embrace a son and she said nay my Lord do not lie unto thine handmaiden in other words it was a dream that she had listen to me now it was a dream that she had that she had given up on it was a hope and a dream anybody in this house tonight got a hope and a dream that maybe you've given up on you've got a hope and a dream that you thought but time and sorry again Brothers but gesi say she don't have a child that's her Hope and Dreams she don't have a child she won she want to hold a child that was her hopes and her dreams but her husband is old in other words time has run out can I tell you tonight that I believe if we will learn how to treat Elisha God is our Salvation the right way that God can resurrect our hopes and our dreams that nothing is impossible with our God that we will learn how to entertain the God God is our Salvation when he comes by we'll worship Him and praise him and give him his due Glory do you know even when the impossibility is written across our heads God is able to say by the time and listen it was too good brother Mayo it was too good she had never spoke to him this way before and when he said nine months from now you're going to embrace a son she said do not lie Li to me man of God don't you build my hopes up can I tell you something there is a difference between god making you a promise and somebody trying to Hype you up I am not trying to Hype you up tonight I am telling you this if you will learn how to build a room for the God is salvation and you will learn how to entertain the presence of God not just visit the presence of God when a trial comes your way or visit the presence of God when you need something it is God I want you to have a bed I want you to have a I want you to have a chair and a and a and a table and a I want you to live I want you to live at this house God so don't lie to me man of God and then let's continue on verse 17 and the woman conceived and bear a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her according to the time of life she had that baby wow we just hit such high parts in the Bible we build a room we're just going through this in speed time we build a room we build a room she gets a baby can you just imagine that it was building a room and that was a satisfaction we have we have the man of God living here and then we have a promise given to us and then our hopes and our Dream what is your hopes and dreams I hope that you have hopes I hope that I Pastor people that have hopes and dreams and Visions because life would be so dull without hopes and dreams and Visions I was talking with someone the other day and they were talking about retirement oh they're looking forward to retirement in a few years and to me I'm sorry but the only retire I know is the four on my car it's coming to a section near you I promise you think about that to me to do nothing would be the biggest to me to to not have Vision you see death is not the worst thing that can happen to you but to die with dreams inside of you I believe that could be the worst thing that could happen the worst thing is not a graveyard it's a graveyard that houses people that had potential that never dreamed and never hope oh I I want preach to you tonight resurrect your hopes resur resurrect your dreams God can bring things back that you never dreamed he could be back he can turn people's hearts around that you never that you never dreamed that could be turned around a baby a baby we have can't you see that woman we have a baby I'm pregnant I'm pregnant he's older why' you say I'm I'm pregnant I'm pregnant I'm pregnant babies born the laughter that they had the joy The Joy the joy that they had let's go on Verse 18 and when the child was what somebody say that word was grown say the next five words of that verse wow life goes on now when the baby was Bor was when the child was grown it means several years went by several years went by from crawling teething crawling walking running now going out to the field with a sickle in his hand to help his dad who's now older okay going out to the field to help his father and it fell on a day that he went out to his father to the Reapers and he said to his father my head my head and he said to a lad carry him to his mother and when he had taken him and brought him to his mother he sat on her knees till noon and then died can I tell you that as we go through life and it fail on a day that life is a journey life is a journey and we should never get content when it falls on a day and I'm told that my hopes and dreams are coming and we should never die on a day when our dreams die too many people too many people give up in Good Times and they give up in bad times and the story is tonight you got to keep on going and it fa on a day that he died well what do you do he sat on her knees till noon and he died watch her verse 21 and she went up and lay him on the bed of the man of God and shut the door upon him and went out stopped there why didn't she take him you all know as well as I do sister robs you know as well as I do that boy had his own bed why don't you take him Mama to his own bed and lay him down wouldn't that make more sense and she lay him upon his own bed there's a reason is because she went back to the source of the blessing whether or not it's a good day brother art or a bad day we got to keep coming back to the the source of our blessing got a pocket full of money keep on coming to the house of God got a lay off sliping you billfold keep on coming to the house of God got a go got got a baby you want to dedicate to God come on to the house of God got a baby that's wward on God come on to the house of God whether it's a good day or a bad day we've got to she just said I'm going to take this baby and I'm going to lay him on the bed of the man of God I want you to follow this woman she's a great woman she's a great example I want you I want you I want you to follow her for a moment she lay him up on the man of God's bed verse 22 and she called unto her husband and said send me I pray thee one of the young men and one of the asses that I may ride to the man of God and come again and the husband said wherefore will thou go to him why you going to the man of God it is neither New Moon nor Sabbath in other words it's not a holy day it's not a day to be going to the man of God it's not Wednesday and it's not Sunday but what did she say and she said it shall be well what faith that is you see when you're continually coming back to the altar the source of blessing whether it's a good report or a bad report you've got a work word of faith in your mouth and you say it shall be well wait a minute you got a dead boy on a bed that you bought for the god of Salvation you've got a dead boy in a room that you built for the man of God what what what what are you doing I'm speaking a Word of Faith whether God blesses me or God's hand is not blessing me I'm going to say with my tongue it shall be well it shall be well let me kind of skip down through here I don't want time to get away from me she verse 24 she sat on an ass and said to the servant drive and go forward slack not th for my writing in other words I need to get there as as quick as I can and she travels some great distance and verse 25 uh Elisha sees her coming and and he sends gesi his assistant he says go down and and see see why she see see why she is coming in verse uh 26 uh run now I pray thee to meet her and say unto her is it well with thee watch this is it well with thee is it well with thy husband is it well with the child look at look at this with me verse 26 said hey go ask her go ask her she's coming it's not a it's not a it's not a holy day it's not a new moon something's up with her something's up ask her is everything all right with her husband is everything all right with her is everything all right with the child I'm asking is everything all right looks that would be a great time to say no my son our son is dead but look at the answer she gives look at it and she answered can we say the three words together she answered wait a minute you told your husband it shall be well but you're telling the man of God's servant it is well because I'm telling you when I'm headed to the source of my blessing I can say by faith it shall be well but when I get to the source of my blessing I can say it is well it is well she said it it it it is it is well she comes to the man of God she comes and she she gets down let's see verse uh um 27 and when she she came to the man of God to the Hillel she caught him by the feet she just reaches out and wraps around his feet but gesi came near to thrust her away the man of God said let her alone for her soul is vexed within her and the Lord ha hid it from me and hath not told me then she said did I listen to her words now she said did I desire a son of my Lord did I not say Do not deceive me she begins to relive this she said didn't I tell you not to deceive me he says to gazah and I'm I'm going to abbreviate this so we can get on to another point he says to gesi he says take my rod go lay it on the face of the young man that he may revive gesi and I don't want to get too sidetracked here gazi takes the rod and lays it on the face of the young man and the young man does not resurrect okay he does not resurrect and some can say well well why did that not happen and it's easy when you study the life of gesi and do that tonight after church or before Sunday you'll you'll find that gazi's heart was not right with God his heart was not right with God and it doesn't matter who holy you follow if your heart is not right with God whoever you're following may get prayers answered but you can't get a prayer answered because your heart's not right with God and that ought to that ought to be an indication to all of us tonight it's not good enough to come to a church that gets prayers answered we ought to be able to get prayers answered on our own because our hearts are right with God amen amen so the man of God let's go on down let's go on down um to verse number um let's go to verse 32 y'all still with me tonight life goes on and when Elisha was come into the house behold the child was dead and laid upon his bed and he went in therefore and shut the door upon them Twain and prayed unto the Lord I can tell you another reason some some some things we battle in prayer the Bible says in Matthew chapter 6: 6 that when we pray we are to shut the door we are to specifically says when we pray enter into the closet and shut the door now it's not necessarily telling you that you have to pray in the closet as much as he's telling you you need to get in a private place where there's no distractions and you need to shut the door out you need to shut you need to shut the door and get distractions out of your mind so that you can focus on God and so you can pray so Elisha shut the door and he began to pray let's let's look at this for a moment verse 34 and he went up and lay upon the child and put his mouth upon his mouth and his eyes upon his eyes and his hands upon his hands and he stretched himself upon the child and the Flesh of the child waxed warm still no Resurrection then he returned turned and walked in the house he came out the door and walked in the house to and fro and went up and stretched himself upon him and the child sneezed seven times and the child opened his eyes now that's telling me there that there's some things that God is going to answer we got to get in close contact with and we got to we got to keep praying about it we got to keep taking it to the lord well brother Carpenter don't you think it's a lack of faith when I keep asking God over and over and over again no I do not believe it's a lack of faith I believe that intercessory prayer sometimes requires for us to shut the door and to get close to the issue he listen the Bible you can't get closer than what he was his eyes was on his living eyes was on dead eyes a living mouth was upon a dead mouth he stretched living hands upon dead hands but all that happened it got warm and now now this part of it brother Ericson I'm just surmising I'm just offering this as something to think about it's I I I don't know this for sure I'm just throwing this out for a thought he got up from laying on the boy and his flesh was warm but there was no resurrection and the Bible said that he got up and walked to and fro throughout the house now here's what I'd like to give you just to think about it was he looking for something in the house that had caused death was he looking for something that was left out was he looking was he looking for something because there's no need to have a resurrection if there's death allowed to be in the house there there's no need was he was he looking through making sure there was no no no poison open no nothing open that would take the life because he goes and walks through the house and then he goes back up he stretches himself upon the child the child sneezes seven times Seven's the number of perfection a sneeze is getting something that's come in you of an irritant getting it back out of you that's what causes a sneeze an irritant gets in and you want to you want to sneeze it back out and the boy sneezed seven times and his eyes open and he came back to life now I not only have a miracle birth I have got a miracle boy I have got a boy now that I can tell everybody oh I've got a story to tell do you know all of us tonight because we are living for God and it fell on a day and life goes on all of us tonight all of us tonight have a story to tell that's what makes us a soul winner we've got a story to tell we've got somebody that we can relate to we're going to meet somebody that we can start talking to do you understand that now she has a child that she can tell the story he was dead but God brought him back God brought him back to life let me quickly come to an end musicians would you come let me quickly come to an end right now so let's let's let's see where did I stop at somebody tell me the verse I stopped at 35 verse 36 and he called gesi and said call the shunamite so he called her and when and when she was come in to him he said take up thy son look at verse 37 she went in and fell at his feet and bowed herself to the ground and took up her son and went out we got a story to tell I got a story to tell brother Mike Fuller you got a story to tell you got a story to tell about your health I could Point them out around here we got stories to tell Kay and Wally Hannah Brantley and Bentley they got a story to tell they'll tell that story was was on our way to church on a Wednesday night a man came over and we had a head on collision this is what the car looked like we walked away from it I've got a story to tell you ever been through something you've been through something sure you have you thank that you got a you got a story to tell I I I got a story to tell but it doesn't end there now most of us think the story of the shite woman ends there but travel over with me to chapter number eight for a moment because it doesn't end chapter number eight verse number one follow this please then spake Elisha God is salvation then spake Elisha unto the woman whose son he had restored to life he talked to the shite woman now saying arise and go thou in thy household and sojourn wherever thou can sojourn get out of here for the Lord ha called for a famine and it shall also come upon the land for seven years he said you need to leave here for seven years famine coming the woman arose and did after the saying of the man of God and she went and her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years and it came to pass at the seven years end that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land in there at verse three now in there at verse three seven years she's been gone brother Joel from her house seven years she's been gone from her Fields seven years she's been gone from every she has sojourned she has went from Pillar To Post for seven years in the land of the Philistines she she has has lived under trees she has lived in caves she has did the best that she could do for seven years but at the end of seven years she comes back to the land of Israel and she does like everybody else the only way I get my house back the only way I get my Fields back the only way I get my property back is the King has to release it when I left everything went to the king and so she's coming to the king to cry for my house to tr cry for my field but watch this this is so good watch this the end of verse number three she's coming she's out in the courtyard I need the king's attention I need an audience with the king I need to talk to you about my house verse four and the King talked with gesi the servant of the man of God saying tell me I pray thee all the great things that Elisha hath done the king wanted to know what the god of salvation had done there was a lost man wanting to know how great God had been there was a lost King saying can you tell me what the god of Salvation has done could you tell me what he's done verse five and it came to pass as gesi was telling the king how that he had restored a dead body to life that behold the woman whose son he had restored to life cried to the king for her house and for her land and gazi said my Lord oh King this is the woman and this is her son whom Elisha restored to life right here it's more than a testimony right here is a living breathing walking example of a Mir right here it is right here it is right here it is oh it gets better and when the Kings ask the Woman verse six she told him so the king appointed her a servant a certain officer saying restore all that was hers all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land even until now he said I'm going to tell you you're going to get back I'm not only going to give you your house back your Fields back but I'm going to give you all the crops that was grown for the seven years I'm going to restore it all back to you can I tell you tonight and it fell on a day stay alive long enough for restoration stay alive long enough for God to give it all back to you stay alive long don't quit don't quit would you stand with me right now don't quit don't quit don't quit don't quit stay to the r you know what I'm going to go ahead and call you down around the altar right now come on let's come on around around the altar right now don't quit don't quit come on up around the altar come on up around the altar don't quit don't quit stay brother Mayo don't give up don't quit there's a restoration coming don't quit don't don't quit there's a restor wom hold up minute come on come on keep Gathering keep gther come on some of y'all turn come on now now I hate to get on I hate to get on to you it's a little lower I hate to get on to you right now but some of y'all listen I don't watch the movie I have seen I have seen commercials of the zombies I'm just telling you like it is I don't watch it but I have seen the commercials for the The Walking Dead and I Y some of you are coming to the altar tonight do yall not hear what I just preached to you come on now come on did y'all not hear what I do you have your dreams do you have your Visions now don't y'all that man our our P come on come on I'm G to stay alive that I get my restoration back because I'm going to tell you God's got impeccable timing I said God's got impeccable timing I think I'm just trying to get back and God is saying wait a minute I'm orchestrating something I'm putting something together in this place and you're not only going to get your house back you're not only going to get your field back but you're going to get everything that you lost now just in case some of y'all think boy he brother Carman he's really a he's little really a mean little p i mean I tell he's a rough little preacher I was watching Matt Tuttle the other night he was preaching down in Texas and he started having him sing this song He Shall what what we going to sing tonight what what's what how's it go this how we overcome this is how we overcome yeah yeah but don't it go to a part like he has turned he has what he has turn he did what he he he did what now see some of us I'm going to tell you this and we're going to baptize one here in a minute but some of us some of y'all remind me of a new convert that got really happy he's telling how God changed his life and he got up me he said Church praise the Lord said God gave me the Holy Ghost and I did a complete 360 it's a 180 so I don't want God to do a I don't want I don't want to do a 360 I want to do a 180 because God is able to turn things for you doesn't matter where you're at right now God is able to turn your sorrow into laughter God is able to turn your more do do you believe it right now God God is able why don't we sing it like that tonight come on sing it just for a moment and believe God is able to give restoration God is able to restore tonight God is able right now God is able he has turned oh yes your broke through my night restor see Joy oh yeah your grace like the rain and made this death yes God thank you Lord thank you Lord thank you yes God you you have sorrow come sing this with us your me up stand ground your gra Ro in my heart and made this found see your head Lifting me up your head Lifting me up stand on Higher Ground Higher Ground praise R in my heart in my heart sing you have I'm morning you have sorrow to Joy you have morning you have somebody give praise if he's turned you around and thank you Lord thank you Lord thank you Lord thank you Lord you oh this is how we overcome come on now that's right this is how we over this is how we do it this is how we do it this is how we do it this is how we yes God yes God yes God yes God yes God this is how we over this is how we do it this is how we do it this is how we do it this is how we do it this is how we all this is how we overcome this is how we overcome this is how we over this is how we overcome this is how we overcome this is how we overcome this is yes God come on I want you to lift your hands up right now this is how we overcome and it fell on a day and it fell on a day don't ever forget that tonight don't ever forget that tonight and it fell on a day sister Jennifer brother Trey I read Sunday I read that beautiful prayer you sent me such an awesome prayer Jennifer I love you too I love you all Jennifer your life could be like this and it fell on a day Jennifer came to church sat right over here cuz she had cancer in her body and it fell on a day that we prayed for her and it fell on a day it was a it was it was a it was it was a dark day for Jennifer but she came to the house of God we anointed her and we prayed with her and now it falls on a day four years ago I you you know you just remember those days don't you and tonight it's recorded and it fell on a day they came to the house of the Lord and they begin to worship God don't die on a dark day don't die on that day God is God is so good and it fell on a day that we're going to have a baptism church this is Josh adak and he has come to be baptized he's a college student with some of our other college students and we're going to pray over Josh right now and uh he sees his need to be baptized and we believe that God's going to fill him with the gift of the Holy Ghost amen Lord we thank you so much for Josh I thank you for God his life I thank you for all that you're going to do in his life Lord I Thank you that you moved on his heart Lord that you allowed him to see his need for you Lord his need for his sins to be REM Lord as we bapti him in the name that's above every name I pray that your spirit would come down in this room that you would touch him that you would direct his life from this point Christ we pray Josh adak on the profession of your faith and obedience to the word of God I now indeed baptize you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost in Jesus name in Jesus name in Jesus name