The Nautical Hour | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter
by Kenneth Carpenter
First Apostolic Church of Maryville (Maryville, TN)
Kind: teaching
Scripture: Mark 1:35-39, Psalms 63:1, Proverbs 1:28, Proverbs 8:17, Genesis 22:3, Genesis 28:18, Exodus 8:20, Exodus 24:4, Exodus 34:4, Job 1:5, Matthew 20:1, Isaiah 14:12, Ezekiel 28:13-15, Luke 11:1-2, Psalms 57:7-11, Acts 2:1-3, 1 Peter 2:4-5

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let's go quickly in our Bibles to the Book of Mark chapter 1 and verse number 35 so good to be back home it's good to go on vacation it's good to come back home but the only thing I wish we could do I wish we could find something that when it comes Wednesday night I mean the internet's good the internet's good don't get me wrong the webcast is good oh we feasted on brother White's message what what a message we feasted on that we feasted on brother Johnstone what what a message what we feasted on brother we's message I just going to tell you something though watching it online is like taking a shower with your socks on you like it I just wish that on Sunday you just give me some pill knock me out till Monday cuz my body may be on vacation but my heart and soul is right here in this room with the presence of God and you wonderful people of God and uh we love you and it's so good is so good I could I could go on and on about how good it is but God God is better than how good it is to be here tonight God is better than how good it is to be here let let me say one thing I understand brother bill burket turned 90 have I been informed right turn 90 and give him a hand 90 years old having having said that let me say this you know uh sister Helms and her team they do a lot of cooking they do a lot of cooking and they made brother uh it's a prayer request they made brother burket a birthday cake put 90 candles on it and U went ahead and lit the candles and they had a house fire that part of it's not true all right not even the cake brother Bill I hope somebody made you a cake I hope I hope so hey speaking of cake how many still got your cake God first amen God God first all right let me get let me get let me get to preaching truth it is true he turned 90 it's not true the Helm's house burnt down all right Mark chapter one are you ready Mark 1:35 and in the morning would you say that with me and in the morning rising up a great WI while before day he went out and departed into a solitary place and there prayed Simon and they that were with him followed after him and they that and when they had found him they said unto him all men seek for thee he said unto them let us go into the next towns that I may preach there also for therefore came I forth and he preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee and cast out Devils go back to verse 35 go back to verse 35 if you underline in your Bible underline these words and in the morning and in the morning Father in the name of Jesus thank you thank you Lord for safety thank you for your presence thank you God for your ever abiding presence God thank you Lord Jesus for your spirit thank you God for your love Mercy thank you for the hope that you give us God thank you for allowing us to be a part of the Great Redemptive story God tonight for a few moments anoint your servant that I may feed the people that you love the word of God Lord let us leave from here with faith and prayer in Jesus name we all pray amen and amen you may be seated this evening I want to minister tonight on the nautical the nautical hour the nautical hour I am currently reading a book I very seldom recommend books um a lot of books that you read today outside of the Bible you have to U you know eat the Flesh and what is it eat the Flesh and spit out the bones right there's just things there so I very seldom because sometimes if I recommend a book and I find myself the bullseye for criticism well brother Carpenter this book said this well you got to spit that part out right you you got to spit that there's a book called the nautical hour that I can highly recommend is a book on prayer I'd like to read just a little bit from the book The nautical hour before the days of satellite guidance systems navigation on the Open Sea took a great deal of skill and understanding in order to point the ship in the desired heading the Navigator had to know more than where he desired to go he had to know the ship's present location since no landmarks are visible on the Open Sea stable points of reference had to be discovered before the Navigator could accurately determine the ship's position the night sky offered these reference points in the form of stars and Celestial patterns the Navigator would study the stars and with a few simple calculations determined the approximate longitude and latitude of the ship by the night sky but the night sky offered no visible Horizon toward which the ship could be directed Ed for the proper Horizon to be found the Navigator needed the light of day which with its arrival would wash away the visibility of the Stars the nautical hour was soon discovered as the most crucial hour of the Navigator's day it was the only time of the day when the stars of Night and the Horizon of the coming day were both visible to the Navigator was a period of time before Sunrise when the night is changing into day once the sun was up the Navigator lost the ability to calculate the location of the ship but during the nautical hour the Navigator could determine not only the location the location of the ship but he could also determine its proper heading or its proper direction so tonight I I want to have a three-point Bible lesson tonight and uh there there there's simply three points to this Bible Lesson the first point is going to be early of the morning early of the morning the second point is going to be where am I where am I and the third point is going to be where do I want to go where do I want to go you see you can't give somebody directions if you they can't tell you where they're at you ever had somebody call you on the phone lost in a city I'm over here well tell me where you're at tell me where you're at well I'm sitting here and there's cars going by well that's great I'm sitting here and you kind of keep going until they tell you something you're familiar with then from that point you can direct them for to where you want to go now I have a little paragraph that I've typed out that I'd like to talk to you from my heart it goes like this as your pastor on this Wednesday evening January 10th 2024 I humbly and passionately ask you to join me for the next 21 days of spiritual renewal now I'm going to tell you we a good church but you better not break your arm by patting yourself on the back because if we forget what brought us to where we're at we'll become stale and Powerless we'll become just another group meeting in a building I I humbly and passionately ask you to join me the next 21 days of spiritual renewal through prayer fasting and reading the word for the next 21 days starting tomorrow morning from 6:30 until 8:30 a.m. this Auditorium this Sanctuary will be open for prayer Monday through Friday during this 6:30 to 8:30 time someone either myself or someone from the Pastoral team will be in this this Sanctuary Leading The Way of prayer it's very informal you don't have to come and stay for the whole two hours unless you want to you can come by on your way to work you can come in kneel down pray for a while get up the lights will be bright enough in here that you'll be able to read your Bible just to spend a few moments in the presence of God I promise promise you no no I don't promise you I prophesy to you I prophesy to you that if you will spend the next 21 days giving God the morning of your life I don't promise you I prophesy to you that God will bring about a tremendous change in you and in the things around you if you'll dedicate yourself to 21 days prayer f fasting and we'll talk about that a little bit at the end of my Bible lesson tonight prayer and fasting reading the Bible I want to first start off with Point number one everybody say early in the morning ear early in the morning early in the morning make this statement to you the person that rules their day must first rule their morning if you're going to rule your day you got to learn how to rule your morning the battle is in the morning if you can rule the morning you will rule the day God never made us to be ruled God made us to have dominion God didn't make you to be the tail God made us to be the head God didn't make us to be some powerless paralyzed puny body but he made us to be a marching Army that's able to take Dominion can you say Amen if you can rule the morning if you can rule the morning of your life you can rule the day there's no coincidence I don't believe when Mark wrote that he just it was a coincidence that the Holy Ghost said not only do you you tell that Jesus got up and went to prayer Mark could have just been inspired to say and Jesus arose and went to prayer but the Holy Ghost inspired Mark to write and say it was early in the morning a great while before day we'll find this and just follow along with me on the screen Psalm 63 verse number one David is in the wilderness David is in a battle of his life David cries out in Psalm 6 63 and 1 oh God Thou Art my God early will I seek thee my soul thirsteth for thee my flesh longth for thee in a dry and thirsty land where no water is David is running for his life David didn't wait he didn't operate in his own strength till noon time he didn't operate in his own strength till he wore out David knew if I'm ever going to get out of this Wilderness if I'm ever going to get out of this dilemma I've got to learn how to rule the morning because if I can get up early and seek him I'm going to walk in his power all day long can you give him a praise a hand clap can you give him an affirmation can somebody just simply say yes yes yes listen to Proverbs 1 vers verse number 28 listen to Proverbs as God speaks through a proverb he says in Proverbs 1: 128 then shall they call upon me but I will not answer they now that's a that's a people that call on him and get no answer I don't want to stand in that line do you you ever stood in the wrong line stand you ever stood in you ever stood in the long wrong line for a long time huh that's pretty got you brother that's pretty aggravating you standing the wrong line for a long time find out I'm in I'm going to tell you that's one line I don't want to be in I don't want to be in the line that they'll call upon me but I will not answer that's a wrong line to be in but here's the line I want to be in they shall seek me what early that's five of you they shall seek me that's about half of us that they shall seek me but they shall not find me now it's amazing that this verse right here is talking about people with the wrong motive don't think that the magical hour is the morning the magical hour is you're going to touch God in the morning Proverbs 8 and verse 17 follow along with the proverb Proverbs 8 and 17 God says I love them that do what love me and those that what time shall find me now he says if you love me and you seek me early you're going to find me again I don't believe that words are put in the Bible by coincidence I don't believe they're just there to be there for example the trial of Abraham's life was not leaving ER of the calines that was not the trial the trial of his life was not waiting decades to get Isaac the trial of his life was when God said to Abraham take thy son thine only son Isaac whom thou lovest us and offer him there on one of the mountains for a burnt offering now Genesis 22 and verse three I don't believe it's a coincidence Abraham has been told to offer Isaac up on a burnt sacrifice a place where I will show you Genesis 223 and Abraham rose up what time early early in the morning saddled his ass took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son clav the wood for the burnt offering and Rose up and went unto the place of which God had told him again sister Carpenter I don't believe it's coincidence that just early in the morning it could have just read Abraham got up saddled the asses and went and we'd all just believe it because it's there but God wanted us to know the time that Abraham got up because remember if you can conquer your morning you can conquer your day if you can rule your morning you can rule your day that's in Genesis 223 Genesis 28:18 watch Jacob as he gets a revelation of who God is and what his future plans are and and the Bible says and Jacob rose up early in the I I want to keep saying this this tonight early in the morning he got up early in the morning took the stones that he had put for his pillows and set it up for a pillar and poured oil upon the top Jacob got up early in the morning said I've got a new plan Abraham got up early in the morning to fulfill God's uh obedience to God not only that Exodus chapter 8 verse 20 is interesting God is speaking to Moses God is speaking to Moses about Pharaoh the children of Israel are slaves Moses is their deliverer God says in Exodus 8 and 20 and the Lord said unto Moses rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh Lo he cometh forth to the water say unto him thus sayeth the Lord let my people go that they may serve thee now we all know that Pharaoh I mean in Sunday school I believe in the nursery class around here kids are taught boys and girls are taught pharo is a type of the devil Egypt is a type of sin we're all taught about that Moses is a type of deliverer of Deliverance and isn't it amazing using that same anal ology there God said I want you to go talk to the devil I want you to go talk to the one that's got you captive I want you to go talk to him and when did he say go talk to him early in the morning for he cometh to the water can I tell you the water represents the word and if there's one thing the adversary wants to get up early and keep us from is the word of God but I believe in the next 20 one days we're going to get up early in the morning and instead of checking Facebook instead of talking about how miserable we are and everybody else is we're going to go down to Pharaoh early in the morning and say you let my people go you let my people somebody say Amen you go down early in the morning Exodus 24 verse four again Moses wrote all the words of the Lord and Rose up early in the morning and built an altar under the hill and 12 pillars according to the 12 tribes you want to build an altar build it early of the morning Exodus 34 and verse number four brother Hammond brother Ericson every one of these verses you could just stop and preach a message on and I I I want to get us out of here in a little while so I I'm really having a tough time doing this right now Exodus 34 and verse 4 Moses hued two tables of stone liken to the first Moses rose up early in the morning and went up to Mount Si as the Lord had commanded him and took in his hand the two tablets of stone job which I believe was one of the best fathers in both the Old and the New Testament job had a tradition he knew the nature of his children and so anytime his children had a party job thought in his mind they just may get a little loose and they just might sin but job had a remedy for that it's found in Job chapter 1 and verse 5 and it says and it was so when the days of their feasting that's his sons and daughters were gone about that means it was over over that job sent and Sanctified them and Rose up early in the morning and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all for Jo job said it may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their heart thus did job continually I wonder I wonder when they were their partying if they did sister sharp let's just say one of job's Youngs did just want to do something they shouldn't do want to be with somebody they shouldn't be with every last one of job's 10 kids knew you better watch what you do today because tomorrow Daddy's going to pray us all through he's going to call us to his house he going to sanctify all of us and he's going to pray us all through I wonder if we wouldn't I'm getting off my sermon tonight but I wonder if we wouldn't raise better kids if they knew they knew when they get home we're going to have a prayer meeting we're going to pray through right now you're going to have to give well Lord y'all y'all be seated tonight Lord God this cutting this Cutting Edge message tonight Lord Jesus how about Matthew chapter 20 verse number one oh you people want to find the will of God oh I want to do something for Jesus Oh I want to do something for the Lord oh do you Matthew 20 and verse one and the Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a man that is a householder he's a controller he's a wealthy man he's got a lot of plans he's got a lot of work to do he's wealthy he's powerful sounds like my God unto a man that is a householder which went out early in the morning to hire labers into his Vineyard can I tell you something God will find you if you'll get up early in the morning and start conquering your mourning you may very well find the will of God in your life how do you know that for sure because the great householder God said he gets up early in the morning and begins to look for people to use don't you want to be somebody God can use don't you want to be a Sunday school teacher don't you want to be a greeter don't you want to be somebody that works in the kingdom of God if you do I got a brand new message for you let's get up early in the morning he's looking for people early early in well let's let's go on let's go on huh you kind of got hung up on early in the morning didn't you Pastor you got two more points to make it's 8:22 36 37 early in the morning B yeah yeah yeah but I wonder if this doesn't have something to do with why God has us up early in the morning let's look at Isaiah 14 verse 12 tells about Satan and what he used to be what he used to be before Pride got in his heart what he used to be before Rebellion entered him what he used to be in his original God created form Isaiah 14:12 listen to God talk to him how art thou fallen from Heaven oh Lucifer what does he call it look out now brother P what a title to give him Lucifer repeat it with me son of the morning son of the morning Lucifer in eternity past was God's son of the morning how are you cut down to the ground which did weaken the Nations remember the devil bore the title somebody help me now I I just want to make sure you're getting this he bore the title of what son of the morning let's read a little bit more about him in Ezekiel chapter 28 and verse 13 through 15 let's read a little bit more about Satan in his original form thou speaking of Satan Ezekiel 28:13 Satan thou Hast been in Eden in the garden of God every precious stone was thy covering the Sardis the topaz the diamond the Burl the onx The Jasper the sapphire the emerald the carbuncle gold the workmanship of thy tab t tablets and thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou was created Thou Art the anointed cherub that coverest I have set thee so thou was upon the holy mountain of God thou walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire thou was perfect in thy ways from the day that thou was created till iniquity was found in thee now he was covered with all the Stones diamonds all of these Stones he was covered but you have to understand one thing a diamond brother Nash does not emit light just like the moon does not emit light it reflects Light No Light No reflection I don't care how beautiful beauti the diamond the carbuncle the topaz I don't care how beautiful the rubies were I don't care how his covering was he did not glisten he did not Dazzle until he stood in the presence God is light and in him there is no Darkness at all he lives in a light which no man can approach to Ju Ju Ju Just Just lift your hands and worship him to the top of your lungs worship Him to the top of your lungs worship Him the Sardis the topaz the diamond the worldl the Onyx The jaspar Jasper the sapphire the emerald the carbuckle the gold God put them on the sun of the morning so that when he came into his presence the light from God reflected off of him and he became more than what he was he became the reflection of the glory of God the glory of God but there's something else where he walked where he walked notice with me in verse 14 not only did he have these jewels that reflected verse 14 Satan Thou Art the anointed cherub that cover I have set thee so thou was upon the holy mountain notice this upon the holy mountain of God you walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire two things he's reflection he walks up and down in the stones that are on fire now not to give you a lengthy Bible lesson but he fell from heaven and when he fell to Darkness he no longer reflects the glory of God he can only spew out his deception he can only transform himself into an angel of Light or an angel of information he is not an or any longer he does not dazzle with the glory of God any longer he has lost that ability and he has lost his position of walking in the stones of fire let me tell you what we have been underestimating horribly the power of appraiser the power of appraiser it's not just Pentecostalism all that's just how Pentecostals do it's not God has clothed us with praise so that we can get in his presence and we can reflect the glory of God preaching you can never replace preaching but I'll tell you if you can couple a worshiping church with a preaching preacher it is something that hell cannot stop the word can get it done alone but if we can couple worship and we can couple the word there is no telling what God will do with us in the next 21 days your hand clapping is not Pentecostalism it is your weapon your lifted up hands is not Pentecostalism it's your weapon your shout is not Pentecostalism it's your weapon if you've been wondering why you've been defeated ask yourself have I I've been wearing what can reflect the glory of the almighty God why don't we take about 30 seconds and why don't we Magnify Him right now oh praise God praise God praise God praise God praise God praise God praise God praise God I'm not going to praise him to get out of the battle I'm going to praise him before the battle I'm not going to I'm going to Hallelujah some of you are trying to praise because you're in the battle if you can rule the morning you can rule the day get up praising God get up worshiping God you don't have to have the the drums you don't have to have the piano you don't have to have the 150 choir members you don't have to have the sanctuary you can begin to praise him right where you're at Hallelujah I'm going to tell you something right now you may be seated I'm going to tell you something right now when that brother Ben Lee takes off running around this church oh isn't it nice he's running around here I think I got some Bible tonight to tell you that Ben Lee running around this church may just be running demons out of here that's trying to take Sinners to Hell somebody worshiping God is telling the devil that's what you used to be that's what you used to have you used to reflect the glory of God but you lost him and God gave it to a church God gave it to his people why don't you use it come on use it right now use it right now sure I'll cancel you but listen I can't csel what praise can give I can get you surviving but if you want to thrive you got to learn to praise him okay okay okay okay okay okay okay that's a neat little neat little connection you got there no it's not a NE next it's a Bible prayer is praise prayer is praise Luke 11:1 came to pass as Jesus was praying in a certain place when he ceased one of his disciples said unto him lord lord lord teach us to pray sure here we go he said when you pray say Our Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy name it starts with praise it starts with praise he said praise is your weapon Satan the former son of the morning gets to watch you the current son of the morning get up and begin to say glory to God and Satan says I better get out of this room I better step out of this room she just got up saying glory to God you know what happens when somebody begins to praise him the Bible said let God arise and let his oh wait a minute she just rolled over she didn't check her Facebook she just rolled over she didn't check her text message she rolled over she begin to magnify God we better get out of here God is about to show up God is about to show up God is about to show up Hallelujah Hallelujah hallu Hallelujah Hallelujah the analogies given about the church the thing we got to watch as the rap Rapture draws N is a church getting sleepy and in order to go to sleep you have to get in a certain position and condition sleep comes when you get in the right position and sleep is something that we cannot afford to get into it's too late in the hour to go to sleep listen to Psalms 57 and verse 7 are you still with me tonight oh Hallelujah I wish somebody shout a big amen right now oh yes yes yes yes yes Hall that was a that was a tip right there amen you ever thought about really tipping God good the waiter brought me his bill today but you know what he give him more than just what he the bill that man kept my glass full of water that man noticed that table there that man waited on us and and waited on us and we had a staff meeting that went for 2 hours and a half and that man was so kind not once did he come over and say hey folks y'all we charge rent here in this building we you know what we did we didn't just walk out of there and say I paid my bill we said you've been good to us we gave him a tip I wonder when's the last time you I wonder if 21 days takes us from what do I have to do what must I do until the place of what can I do more my wedding vows sister Nichols I didn't I listen I I I watched it I've watched our wedding I never said one time I promised to open the car door for you I I I I I promised to buy you roses I promis to do this and I promise to do that I promis to do all this stuff I promise that you can go in the mall and buy you a dress and don't you ever the probably one of the most embarrassing moments I ever had in my life life we hadn't been pastoring a year and sister Carpenter went shopping with a lady here in the church and she called me sister Selena from the mall with the woman standing there and said do I have your permission to buy this dress don't don't don't do peny don't do that no no no no no no no babe you don't have to have my permission I love you go ahead I wonder I wonder how many of us to tonight that God is saying you know what I wish you'd give me a tip I've been awful good to them do you remember when your car hydroplane and you should have smacked that telephone pole and spent 6 weeks in rehab but God stepped in and drive that car over the side you ever thought about just going to church I think one of these days before I die before the music ever starts I'm just going to come down the middle saying thank you Jesus glory to God thank you Lord I praise you mighty God you're so good to me Lord come on you ever thought about giving him a tip come on praise him right now give him a tip right now think back on what so how about that doctor's report you got how about when you went for that exam and that doctor came out and said we find nothing how about that long season that your child went cold how about that long season that your child got out of the choir how about that long season your child didn't want to come to church but you nurse them through it and now they're on fire for God did you think you you see please be seated please please please be seated sleep sleep I went into a restaurant here I want to brag on you for a moment church I went into a restaurant here in this town when I walked in it was later at night because we normally get out later and uh we normally get out later somebody said we beat the denominal people there uh we sometimes we stay longer than the people drinking do amen so restaurant was about half empty and it might have been more than half empty but as I walked in the restaurant I no all the waitresses was standing there by the hostess stand and they said said we're waiting I said you see that me and my wife my my family here and the others stood there and he said I got in a conversation they said oh we wait on your people we wait on your people they because really I could in the Bible study brother mafer and told you're not my people and brother mayfer surely you're not but anyway um don't feel sorry for him said oh we wait on your people I said why you wait on my people she said they temp good you ever thought while you went in that restaurant and there's a pile of people standing there waiting to get in and they singled you out and told you you come around here said they tip good I wonder now I'm just I'm getting out on the lamb right now but I wonder if God doesn't look down and say I'm going to do something for them cuz they praise me good they praise me good they worship me good my note said you get more excited okay let me go on all right Psalms 57:7 my heart is fixed oh God my heart is fixed I will sing and give praise awake my glory awake Sury and harp I myself will awake what early early I will praise thee Oh Lord among the people I will sing Under thee among the Nations for thy mercy is great unto the heavens and thy truth unto the clouds be thou exalted oh God above the heavens let the glory be above all the Earth can I tell you if they can put you on hold and put all kinds of Godless music in your ear while you're waiting to check on car insurance surely to God we can walk around and say he is passing by this moment your needs to supply oh just Reach Out And Touch the Lord as he goes by Hey sir I'm here at Lowe's where's the PVC fitting I'll 17 Reach Out And Touch the Lord as he why they're going to think you're they're going to think you're a Jesus freak oh I guess it's okay to put a juke box on your shoulder and go through town blaring the music I guess it's okay to put subwoofers in the trunk of your car that vibr you five cars back from that I guess that's okay we the church are supposed to remain dumb and Silent not so get your praise on get your praise on come on son of the morning come on son of the morning don't just fight your addiction on Wednesday and Sunday fight it every day of the week fight it every day of the week if you're battling with depression don't just get up on Wednesday night and and fight it get up on Thursday morning and begin to praise him praise him okay you you you you connected that our praise is like diamonds and when we take our praise into the presence of God we begin to glisten we begin to dazzle with that light but what about that stones of fire well Acts 2 verse one when the day of Pentecost was fully come they were all with one Accord in one place suddenly there came a sound from Heaven as a rushing Mighty Wind filled all the house where they were sitting there appeared unto them clothing tongue like as of fire Satan had something to reflect we have praise to reflect Satan walked among fire and we're baptized y'all getting this tonight we're baptized with the Holy Ghost shout it out with the Holy Ghost and Fire Fire all right where you going to get the stones at where you where you going to get the stones at thought you'd never asked I know you're going to go home and stay up late wandering where the stones are First Peter chapter 2 and verse number four speaking in verse four of Jesus to whom coming as unto a living Stone Jesus is the Cornerstone as unto a living Stone disallowed indeed of men but chosen of God and precious he is the great Stone he is the stone cut out a mountain that'll bring every Kingdom down at the end of time he the stone cut out of the mountain not with man's hands he's a Cornerstone but look at verse five ye also say that with me ye also say it again ye also the church as Lively stones are built up a spiritual house a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ listen to me tonight your praise draws the light your praise causes you to glisten your praise causes God to reflect from you identifies you as a worshipper tell Satan he better not mess with you the fire was the Holy Ghost and the stones is that now we're something that God can build upon we have taken the place of the son of the morning the book of Acts is the only book in the Bible that doesn't have an ending every book in the Bible has an ending but not the book of Acts say why does the book of Acts not have an ending because the book of act the book of Acts is still being written today and it shall record that on January 10th 20124 First Apostolic Church started a 21 day prayer fasting and Bible reading and they set apart the morning to do so and God will say they are truly the son of the morning now let me bring this to a close I know that it may not be possible for all of you it would be wonderful but I know it may not be possible for all of you to be here in the morning or to be here for the 21 days I know that I understand that but to those of you that can please do so to those of you that can but to those of you that can't would you commit to do the next best thing would you get up sometime between 6:30 and 8:30 and go to God In Prayer at your house and ask God to touch your situation and ask God to touch you can I tell you when you got a burden you'll do it when you care you'll do it we was on that weak vacation we K vacation all right the only thing we a k was all the flights getting cancelled to come home and we sure put the rental car business in business all right but can I tell you something Monday was a good day Tuesday was a good day but Wednesday I fell under a burden why because it ain't an occupation it ain't an occupation dude it's a calling this ain't just a church are you a member if you're a member it this is all going right over here but if you see this place as your Salvation Station although you can't get here in the morning you'll get up and say I'm going to do the ne best next thing although I can't go to 13:31 I'm GNA get down sometime between 6:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. and I'm going to talk to God are you picking it up right now Thursday was a great day Friday was a great day but Saturday evening that burden starts coming and Sunday morning although we were in a different time zone I'm not trying to put a pat on my back I'm just trying to tell you how strong I feel about it although we were in a different time zone although I was in a room where I couldn't holler to the top of my voice I guess the drunks could but I can't you know they can holler up and down hallways all they want to but you get in hotel room start praying like you ought to they knock on the door and ask you if you're all right I guess if I was in the bar doing that that'd be acceptable I may couldn't holler like I wanted to but I found me a dark corner in that room and on your time zone when you were here praying I was praying right along with you not an occupation it's a calling can I ask you are you just a member here see there's there's three types of people you might have heard this years ago there's three types of people buyers renters and freeloaders ouch you know what a buyer does we all had to rent cars to get home do you know that I did not run my rental car through the car wash I only did a very Humane thing is I took all the McDonald coffee cups out of it all right I didn't run it through a car wash I didn't go get the oil changed I didn't get to windshield wipers I didn't do anything to that car as a matter of fact right now so help me God you may be able to but I don't even I can't even remember the color of the car that we had what was it what was it white it was a white car you know why I'm just renting it I'm giving something and they're giving me something back and it's a fair trade and I'm walking away but do you know when you buy into it when you buy into it that's when you run it through the car wash that's when you take it down and get the tires balanced that's when you take it down every 3,000 miles and get the oil changed that's when you take care of it why why you take care of that car CU I'm buying it why you to going to take care of this church cuz I don't want to be a freeloader I don't want to be a spiritual hitchhiker here tonight some people I get I get blessed when I go to that church and I'm I'm off I'm off tonight I'm done the notes are done I'm just kind of off in pastoral land right now well I really get a blessing when I come there I guess you do I guess you do you know why you get a blessing you know back in the day when they didn't just give you a cup but they put a saucer underneath it everybody remember that you not only got a cup of coffee at somebody's house but they put a saucer underneath it do you know why you get a blessing is because David said my cup runneth over and all you're getting is somebody else's prayer time all you're getting is what somebody else put into this and it just lasts you from from the time you're here you get goosebumps while you're here you like the warm cozy spiritual feeling that you get when you get here but you walk out and you live the same way that you've always lived it's time in 2024 that we don't have any freeloaders here and we don't have any renters here it's time that we all get bought in this is your church this is your church would you stand with me right now if you'd put up on the streen for me please the forms of fasting that will start tomorrow the selective fast this type of fast involves removing certain elements from your diet one example of a selective fast is the Daniels fast during which you remove meat sweets and bread from your diet and consume water juice for fluids fruits and vegetables for food that's called the Daniel that called that's called the Daniel diet or fast go ahead and give me the next one please the complete fast in this type of fast you drink only liquids typically water with light juices as an option that's a complete fast and let me say this let me say this if you're not used to fasting don't don't don't let this message get you on the I'm fasting 21 days all right that's like not lifting weights and going down to the gym in the morning and say put 450 lbs on there for me please start off conquer half day oh I love it tonight complete fast all right give me the next one partial fast this fast is sometimes called the Jewish fast and involves abstaining from eating any type of food in the morning and afternoon this can either correlate to specific times of the day such as from 6 uh a.m. to 300 p.m. from sun up to sun down you choose it but I'm going to tell you buy into it please God in Jesus name buy into to it don't just let it go over don't be a freeloader here don't be a freeloader don't even be a renter here buy into this thing buy into it wholeheartedly could we just take a minute lift our hands and have a time a prayer of commitment right now oh God I preached my heart about early in the morning God I preached to him tonight God I need to be preached to tonight because God I'm not perfect God I need to be renewed and I need to be stirred up and I need to be revitalized God God let the next 21 days of fac God Lord let it turn it around God let it turn families around God God people that are fighting in the flesh people that are getting weary and worn people God that are that that their walk with you their relationship God is numb God I pray tonight that the next 21 days God that you would use it Lord God that you would touch it tonight God as we commit Lord for the next 21 days God that you would move you would touch God In The Name of Jesus God touch these people tonight God I commit this Bible Lesson to their hearts tonight God haunt them God haunt them with this message tonight God wake us up in the morning bring us back Jesus mighty name we pray amen and amen let me say this and I'm gonna say dismissed but I didn't mention Saturday that's because on Saturday I want you to have family prayer together at your home on Saturday and Sunday we'll resume our normal prayer time here God bless you shake hands hug necks you're dismissed in Jesus name