The Power of Our Thoughts | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter
by Kenneth Carpenter
First Apostolic Church of Maryville (Maryville, TN)
Kind: sermon
Scripture: Jeremiah 6:19, Proverbs 15:26, Isaiah 66:18, Acts 8:22, Genesis 6:5, 1 Chronicles 28:9, 1 Chronicles 29:18, Isaiah 26:1-3, 2 Corinthians 10:3-5, 2 Kings 5:11, Psalm 139:1-5, John 19:17

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jeremiah chapter six and verse number 19 here o earth behold i will bring evil upon this people even the fruit of their thoughts and that's what i want to preach on today say that with me the fruits of their thoughts because they have not hearkened into my words nor to my law but rejected it father i ask you today that you would touch my heart touch my voice touch my mind holy god today may your spirit go out up and down the aisles and in between the pews god may this message today cause us to produce a victorious frame of mind which will result in a victorious tongue and a victorious action god help us today we bind every devil and we ask god that the holy ghost has free will to move through this place this morning in jesus wonderful name we pray amen amen give the lord a hand of praise before you're seated today come on give him a good hand to praise right now you may be seated in jesus name how many is old enough to remember the old etch and sketch boards that you had huh we got a few of us in the house how about any of you old enough to remember that if you wasn't if your parents wasn't wealthy enough to buy you an etching sketchboard there was another little game that you could get didn't cost very much just simply had a man's face on it he had no facial hair he had no hair on top of his head it was a little magnet there and some little metal shavings we wasn't rich enough to have an etching sketch i think i stole one from the neighbors and that was before i knew the lord okay but but you could take that little magnet you can move you could put hair on top of his head you give him a full beard you just do you know a number of things but when you got done with that etching sketch and if you didn't like what you had drawn guess what you could do shake it brother dean you could shake that etching sketch and guess what it gave you a brand new screen that you could start all over again or if you didn't like the guy's mustache you could simply take the game and turn it this way and all the little metal shavings went to the bottom and then you laid it back down you could start all over again now what made me think about that was the season of life that we're in nobody would have ever wanted to have drawn this etching sketch of cobot on our screen nobody would have wanted to put the things on that man that the last six seven months had put but i'm glad today that god gives us the ability to reach up and take the season of life that we're in and through the help of god through praise through worship through focus on god who focus on god's word we're able to shake our lives and when it's all said and done we look down at a new season that god has given us and we're able to allow god to start all over again i haven't got this out of my spirit for some time now i have been thinking about the power of our thoughts and just how powerful our thoughts are how that our thoughts have the ability to shake that etch and sketch board of our minds and begin to create something new i discovered in jeremiah chapter 6 and verse number 19 that even god testifies that our thoughts produce fruit our thoughts produce fruit so powerful what you think it's so powerful what you think it's so powerful what you focus and cause yourself to think proverbs 15 and verse number 26 the bible says the thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the lord but the words of the pure are pleasant words so god begins to deal he didn't necessarily say the actions now he does refer to the works of the wicked in several passages of the scripture but god goes to ground zero with the works because before there was ever a work of wickedness or before there was ever a work of righteousness there was first either a righteous thought or there was a wicked thought and so god says the thoughts of the wicked or an abomination to the lord now something interesting about thoughts is this a lot of people take a little bit of comfort in the fact that no one knows what they're thinking and you are partially correct no one knows your mate may not know the thoughts that you're thinking your friends may not know you may have thoughts in your mind that you don't want anybody to know you may have thoughts in your mind that you visit and possibly even nurse that you take comfort in the fact that really nobody no one knows what i'm thinking and again you're partially right but the one who does know what you're thinking is really the only one that matters he's really the only one that matters if my thoughts are known by god in isaiah 66 and verse number 18. listen to god for i know their their works and their thoughts it shall come that i will gather all nations in tongues and they shall come and see my glory he said i know your works and then he wanted to step it up he said i not only know what you do externally but i also know the thought that led to that external thought that's why jesus that's why jesus put an addendum on one of the ten commandments on several of the ten commandments he put an addendum to it jesus did he put an addendum to it he said you have heard it said in the old testament thou shalt not commit adultery but i say to you that whosoever looketh upon a woman whosoever looketh and of course doing no harm but he's talking about the thoughts that you would have we know that in the book of acts grace period being in the grace dispensation did not release us from the high standards of thoughts was it just an old testament thing even in the grace dispensation acts chapter 8 the holy ghost had fell upon the samaritans the samaritans were was addicted to the narcotics of the day the samaritans had been bewitched and addicted to a drug dealer of the day named simon but when philip came to town preaching the chain breaking message of the gospel people begin to be delivered people begin to be baptized people begin to receive the power of the holy ghost and when the power of the holy ghost began falling upon those that simon sold his drugs to the bible said that simon knew was going out of business and so he started following the crowd the bible said that simon was baptized but it would be in acts chapter 27 it would be in acts chapter 8 verse number 22 simon's true motive would be revealed because simon approaches philip and says to philip would you sail me this power of laying on the hands and received people receiving the holy ghost would you sell me the ability to give people the power of the holy ghost it's the first roots of the commercialization of the gospel it's the first time someone raised their ugly head and said we can take what god did for you on the cross we can take healing and deliverance and we can package it up and we can make money off of it and it reared its ugly head here in acts chapter 8. but listen to what listen to what peter answered back listen to what peter answered back in verse number 8 chapter 8 verse 22 he told simon to repent thereof of this thy wickedness and pray to god if perhaps listen to this if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee you see peter understood where this came from he said simon you have had the wrong thought you have had the wrong thought well brothers and sisters today we understand the power of thoughts when we see the very reason that god decided to destroy the entire earth by a flood we see the very reason that god decided it had nothing to do with the timetable it wasn't no it wasn't nothing to do that god told noah's day to repent and they that gave them a set amount of months we find the reason that god slapped his hands together in heaven and said that's it that's it it's over all but noah and his family are going to drown here's the reason genesis chapter 6 and verse number 5 and god saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of the heart was only evil continually you know when god slapped his hands and said that's it when he could not find one thought of entrance into the mind of man that could change the course of man when god watched daily over the thought processes of humanity and could not find one man woman boy or girl that had one thought of turning around it was then that god says man is hopelessly lost because he's not even thinking about his lifestyle but you'll notice with me in genesis 5 6 and verse number 5 that the word imagination is used the word imagination is a combination of the word image because thoughts have the ability to create an image in your mind it has the ability to create before it is ever tangible before it is ever something you can touch before it's ever something that you can hold it is first an image burnt upon the mind of the person that has the thought it means framing it has this imagine this word imagination has the word has the imagery of a potter sitting down with a shapeless piece of clay and beginning to mold that piece of clay into a vase into a bowl that bowl that vase that came from that lifeless shapeless clob of clay was first in the mind of the potter the shape the depth of the dish the height of it was first in the mind of the one that is forming the potter just like our lives today like your life or not your life is all the product of the thoughts that you have allowed and fought with to have if you are a vessel of jesus christ today you are a vessel at the high price of fighting to put the right thoughts in your mind and fighting to keep the wrong thoughts out of your mind your life today is all the product of what you have allowed yourself to think or not think it would be david in first chronicles chapter 28 and verse number nine it would be david as he prayed on his death bed he prayed on his death bed for his son solomon and in chapter number 28 and verse 9 he said in thou solomon my son know thou the god of thy father and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind for the lord searcheth all hearts and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts if thou seek him he will be found but if thou forsake him he will cast thee all forever so even david dying on his death bed knew that the success of the kingdom depended upon solomon and solomon's imagination and solomon's thoughts can i tell you that the next generation of this church hinges upon the thoughts that the next generation are thinking right now the next generation of this church is all hinging upon the thoughts if the adversary can numb the minds of our youth and cause them to see this as mom and dad's church grandpa and grandpa's church somebody else's churches the days of first apostolic church of having glorious services with the gifts of the spirit in operation and baptisms and all the things that go on here and the power of the holy ghost those days are numbered but if you'll give me a youth group if that youth group will heed our youth pastor tonight as he begins to pour his heart out but you give me some young men and young women that'll look at a world around them and begin to think i don't want to be like that give me some young people that'll stand up in a culture that wants to make fun of them and ridicule them and say i don't think i'm going that way i don't think i'm going to have that in my life and i'm going to tell you something i'll show you a church that can't build fast enough to house the people they they will be a glorious church it would be in first chronicles chapter 29 verse number 18. flip over just one chapter and the prayer is prayed oh lord god of abraham isaac and israel our fathers keep everybody say keep say it again please keep keep keep this forever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people and prepare their hearts unto thee now this word cheap is i'm going to introduce it today because few of us really understand when we use the word keep that in the bible context it is i am giving you something that needs to be protected i am giving you something that you must keep and it's not just having in your possession but you've got to understand that the power of faults is something that god has given us god has given we're not a bunch of robots this is why our praise and our life brother larry is so pleasing to god is because we are not a bunch of robots programmed to come to church we are not a bunch of robots programmed to be baptized we're not a bunch of robots programmed to receive the holy ghost we're not a bunch of robots programmed to live a separate lifestyle we have what's called a free will and that's what makes our praise special today angels can sing far better than any of us could ever sing but the reason god wants to hear the song that the angels cannot sing is because the angels were created simply to do that but you and i have a whole different life to give god because i choose to be here today i choose to lift my hands today i not only made a choice to come to church but some of you even made a choice to say let me take my burdens to god let me walk down to the front stand on a blue dot lift my hands up in the air and begin to thank god because we have a free will you get to choose you get to choose you choose whether you raise your hands today but also you choose whether you don't raise your hands today you choose whether you sing today but also you choose whether you don't sing today you choose whether you you fight with your mind to stay concentrated upon what's being preached today or you choose to slide your cell phone to your lap and while you're listening with one ear very tuned out you've got a conversation maybe even going with somebody in this congregation today or you've already got a congr conversation going but all of that is your choice but remember this god will give you the fruit of your thoughts god will give you if you don't have any thoughts of god don't be surprised if your life is marked with demonic activity and nothing goes right and it's just it's just depression it's just a hard way to go but if you fight and you struggle and you keep yourself tuned into god and it's a fight and it's a struggle but you keep yourself listening to the word of god and you fight and you keep the good thoughts in there think if not strange when the sun of god's presence begins to reign upon you and good things begin somebody say keep say it again please keep the man prayed in this 29th chapter of first chronicles and he said i i've given you something that you need to keep what was that he said keep this forever in the imagination of the thoughts of thy heart he said you're going to have to keep living for god in your heart you're going to have to guard it you're going to have to keep it just because you had victory yet last week doesn't mean you're going to have victory today just because you made a decision to follow god you felt god's presence and you got baptized and got the holy ghost doesn't mean that you're going to keep it because the moment you begin to think those those good thoughts all hell wants to rise up against you and it wants to bombard your mind with all kind of thoughts such as you know the very first thoughts that satan tries to flood our minds with god doesn't care is there a god and once you once you defeat the thought is there a god then he steps in and he says let me give you another thought does he care and if you don't get you some bible to counteract it's like antibiotics if you don't get you some bible antibiotics to counteract those thoughts those thoughts will become real to you and you will begin to see the image you'll begin to see through the lens of the image that god doesn't god doesn't care and that's how you'll live a short season of your life so you must understand that the adversary wants to come and you've got to keep the thoughts why look at look at isaiah chapter 26 and verse number one the military terms that are used the defense that is used isaiah 26 and verse number 1 in that day shall this song be sung in the land of judah we have a strong city salvation will god appoint for walls and bulwarks all of this has to do with protection you had a strong city because you had a strong enemy you built a wall around that city not for the not not for the beautification of the city but cities had walls because of enemies right they had walls because of enemies he said open ye the gates verse 2 that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter listen to verse 3 oh read it enough to quote it thou will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusts up in thee if you're battling having peace and can i tell you peace i want you to hear this today peace is not a program peace is a person too many people are coming to church asking what kind of programs do you have well we got a few programs but before you ever get involved in a program we got to introduce you to a person of the program because peace isn't a program how many steps do i have to go to to get peace this isn't a program peace is a person and that person is the lord jesus christ if i can keep my mind on jesus if i can keep my mind on god allah hallelujah and notice the word keith is there because there's an adversary that wants to come into my mind and he wants to have the way with my thoughts he doesn't mind if i go to church like a robot as long as i don't think about what god can do in my life he doesn't even have a mind if you pay your tithe he doesn't have a mind if you don't cut your hair he don't have a mind if you wear the right thing but if you begin to think about a god that's able to step into your life and a god that's able that's right brother dean a god that's real a god that's 24 7. a god that's there all the time when i wake up in the morning and i feel the gloominess of despair i can say god you're on the throne you are great and you are greatly hallelujah would you just lift your hands and praise him with me for a moment come on lift your hands and praise him with me right now all of you that have been battling thoughts come on i need you to help me pray right now come on this is the antibiotic this is the antibiotic right here you will keep me in perfect peace whose mind just stayed upon thee oh that's the reason mighty god that's the reason i need to get things out of my life that bring the wrong thoughts ah worldly music you tell me one thing you tell me i'm going to tell you that when you may be seated i'm going to tell you the one thing that's wrong with worldly music i can just sum it up with this it doesn't produce the right thoughts forget about the rape forget about the immorality that it glorifies forget about they don't mention god forget about it has nothing to do to connect you with scripture forget all about all that and just remember it doesn't produce the right thoughts it produces suspicion it produces a spirit of not being satisfied because all of these songs are written by people that are not satisfied you can't separate the song from the songwriter when the songwriter doesn't know god the song won't know god when the songwriter is having to booze it up then the song is going to have to booze it up if the songwriters got to have multiple relationships the song will have to have multiple reluctant ships but give me a song about when we all get to heaven what a day of rejoicing that will be give me a song how great is my god give me a song this is my star oh i wish i had somebody to help me today this is my story this is my story this is my story about being lost this is my story about god finding me this is my story about god changing me this is my story this is my nothing but the blood this is my story so we understand that this military word keep comes into mind it's a reason in second second chronicles excuse me second corinthians chapter 10 and verse number three it's a reason paul says in second corinthians 10 3 4 though we walk in the flesh that's right we walk in the flesh we do not war after the flesh he said i'm walking in the flesh i'm breathing oxygen i'm drinking h2o i'm in a fleshly body but i want you to know that i don't war after the flesh for the weapons of our warfare are not mighty or not carnal but mighty somebody say that word the weapons of our warfare what the what through the pulling down through god to the pulling down of what's a stronghold it's where the enemy is at it's where the enemy gets dug in he gets a stronghold he gets a a dug in place he gets a foothold he gets a place in your life if you don't deal with things in your teenage years you will deal with them all through your life if you don't learn to deal with sin in your adolescence that's why every age group is important that's why every age group and it's bothering pastor right now it's really i'm trying to do i'm trying to do my very best but these kids need to be in a sunday school room and not just so they're not in here with us they they they need they they they they need brother nolan they need to be being taught the word they need a place because if they don't learn how to deal with things in their adolescence they're going to take it through their teenage years some of the things they're battling today some of the things 40 and 50 and 60 year olds are battling it's because you never really cast satan out of that stronghold place in your life he got a he got a foothold he got a stronghold but the bible says we pull them down we pull them down and then look at verse number five still still the same subject casting down imaginations look at that casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of god and bringing into captivity every whole look at that bringing into captivity what every to the obedience of christ leave that verse up there please bringing in captivity you know what happens with something that is captive it means you have conquered it whatever is in captivity means you have conquered it and yes it is possible to conquer thoughts it is possible not to let the devil get the first word out of his mouth that's the problem some of us and and we even confess it we'll say i know the devil's telling me this and i'm thinking if you know that why are you listening now brother carmen i knew tell you i know the devil what why are you listening to him he's a liar come on and if you're from the deep south he's a lure he's a liar hear me he is a liar when he talks to you he's not talking to you right it's the lie it's the seed of a lie so what you got to start doing it's going to be a battle you may be letting the devil give you a paragraph you got to start you got to start fighting till you just get a sentence just you know and it goes like this when you begin to think it you just begin to think don't even go there don't even go there i'm not even going there i'm not even going there the lord doesn't care i'm not even going there for the lord is my shepherd i shall not want he leadeth me beside the still water he don't care about you yea though i walked through the valley of the shadow of death i promise you the same jesus that quoted scripture and sent the devil packing will be the same jesus that will stand with you when you learn scripture and i'm not even going there i'm not even going there life's not even worth living i'm not even going there he came that i might have life and that i might have life more abundantly i'm not even going there i'm never going to get delivered i'm not going there it could happen any time it could happen at any time if i keep on trying i'm going to make it if i keep on reading i'm going to make it i'm getting stronger stronger stronger stronger stronger as the day goes by oh i tell you a good thing to pull on slew foot i'll tell you a good thing to pull on slow foot say something like this i'm not what i want to be but i'm not what i used to be can i get a witness in this house this morning come on surely you can praise the lord for this i'm not what i want to be i'm telling you as a pastor i'm not what i want to be this morning but i got news for you i'm not what i used to be either i'm somewhere between being brought out of sin and being changed in a moment and in a twinkling of an eye you want to know where i'm at devil i'm i'm in the dressing room of the rapture i'm in the dressing room of getting oh my god you want to come on by shane you won't know where i'm at today i'm in the dressing room for the rapture i'm about to get an immortal body i'm about to be changed i'm not what i used to be come on give him some praise this morning come on get up get music out of your life get entertainment out of your life get books and literature out of your bible life you see i hope this is all right this morning musicians would you just come and put get your place on the platform i hope this is all right thank you i love my voice back there sis that's my lady back there dean are you listening to this today bringing into captivity every what too many of us are trying you see if you're here today and that habit of nicotine has got a hold on you you're trying to reach and get that pack and see if i remove this pack from me if i remove this pack from me if i just if i just remove these cigarettes from me we had a person many years ago and if you are here this morning i hope you're delivered but they got in a happy way one night up on the hill and ran and put their cigarettes on the altar and i was just rejoicing they ran and got their cigarettes and put them on the altar man that's great went out to eat that night and got back early we had another car at the church when i pulled up in the parking lot my car lights shined on the dumpster and there that person was digging through the dumpster looking for their cigarettes all right well see here's the problem bro perry too many of us are trying to bring into captivity the pack you're starting at the wrong place you need to start reading some information about what the pack does for your life you may be seated you need to start you need to start looking and get some information about what the pact does and what the word says about it and if you'll start thinking the thoughts of what it does you'll start seeing it different you you see things the way you think about things you hear me you see things the way you think about things if you don't think the right things about if you don't think the right thoughts about things then it's your willpower against that pack and quite honestly you're really no match for it but if you can start thinking about that and start bringing those thoughts into captivity what does captive mean it means i have brought you into captivity oh my you're not just going to think anything you want to think i have gates on my mind i have walls around my mind i'm not going to allow just anything to make its way through my mind i'll stop it and i'll arrest it and i'll bring it into captivity and i'll measure it up does this line up with the will of god for my life i'll begin to look at it you see if you think see you can have thoughts today and your thoughts can be of dismissing this sermon oh i know what he's saying but there's got to be another way there's got to be another way so many people miss out on what god wants to do all because of thoughts do you realize that in the second book of kings chapter 5 verse number 11 that a man that had a death sentence on his life a man that was in stage five of cancerous leprosy a man whose days were numbered i won't celebrate next christmas i won't be here next thanksgiving i won't have another birthday i have leprosy but somebody told him about a man of god and that there was a god that could heal him but do you know he almost missed it he almost missed it because when the man of god walked out and told him what he needed to do to be healed here's what he said but naaman was rough and went away and said behold i thought he will surely come out to me stand and call on the name of the lord his god and strike his hand over the place and recover the leprosy what had he been thinking he had been thinking in the imagery he's going to come out he's going to raise his hands he's going to call on the name of his god and he's even going to come to this big place of leprosy and he's going to strike his hand over it and i'm going to get better but when the man of god sent the servant out that simply said go wash seven times in the jordan river he got mad and almost missed his miracle because he thought it ought to be a different way can i tell you church family today you can think of a lot of ways your life is going to change but your life is going to change one prayer at a time one decision at a time one one thought at a time it is the right way gathering together and worshiping god is the right way the church might have a few problems but there's more blessings in the church than there is problems and the only reason we got problems is we've got people and if we didn't have the the people we wouldn't have problems but if we didn't have people we wouldn't have the life-changing ability of god would you stand with me this morning i thought amazes me and i'm not throwing off on this kind of ministry i'm not throwing up on this kind of ministry because i i believe in this i believe in this i believe that god has used men to walk back to people in service and minister a word to them i believe that god has used men and women to walk back in service and say this saith the lord but when you begin to think that that's the only way god's going to deal with you the bible said it pleased god by the foolishness of preaching now wait a minute i'm going to misquote this scripture i'm going to purposely misquote it brother naomi it please god by the foolishness of preaching to save them that are lost it doesn't say it does it brother cincotta it says it please god by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe you know the method god is using to save you well i i just thought somebody come back whisper in my ear and say this saith the lord you ate a cheeseburger two days ago at 12 42 in the afternoon and thus saith the lord your social security number is 412. and thus saith the lord your middle name is this or that and you'll be surprised of how many people stand in a congregation just like this and hear the word of god preached and never make a move because they thought they thought you see today the preaching the preacher it's the way let me read one more verse would you just would you just pray right now with me for a moment i don't want us to lose the moment would you pray would you think about praying right now come on come on pray i think i'm gonna be obedient to my pastor i think if my pastor says to pray i don't have to feel like praying i'm going to pray a pastor's asking me to pray right now oh god oh mighty god mighty god mighty god mighty god mighty god oh hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah the bible said the bible says he thought what he needed was in a far country he thought what he needed was to get out from under father's heavy hand he thought what he needed he needed today's inheritance he thought what he wanted was to find out what the bar life looked like and felt like he thought what he wanted was to know what it was like to sleep with women he thought that was alive until he found himself in a land that had a famine he found himself broke he finds himself in a pig pen and the bible said when he came to himself oh i wish to use the word thought but i think i'm doing no violence to the bible brother justin i don't think i'm doing any violence to the bible he's in the pig pen and he said he said i don't think i'm doing any i i wish he would have said he thought but he said well he thought it before he said it what do you think how many servants in my father's house have bread you know his mind began to replay the father's house and the loaves of bread on the table his fa he began to see in his mind servants coming up and eating bread and he said i will arise i will go to my father and i will say father i'm no more worthy i've sinned i'm no more worthy to be called your son make me as one of your hired servants he thought it and boy this made a lot of sense to me this made a lot of sense to me he's coming home and the bible says and he arose and came to his father but when he was he had a great way off wait a minute his father saw it what does that have to do with the with the whole story it's that the father knows your thoughts the father knows your thoughts the father knows what you're thinking the story is about god and when that prodigal son began to think those good thoughts god up in heaven began to say i know what they're thinking i know what he's thinking but oh we need a verse for this don't we psalms 139 verse 5 1 psalms 139 verse 1 o lord thou hast searched me and known me thou knowest my down sitting in my uprising thou understand that my thoughts are far off thou compasseth my path my lying down and art acquainted with all my ways there is not a word in my tongue but lo oh lord thou knowest it all together thou hast set me set me behind and before and laid thy hand upon me do you know why the prodigal's father saw him a long way off is because he knew his thoughts and he said he's coming home he's coming home he's coming on but here's the thing here's the thing the prodigal son jared his whole rehearsed story was this father i have sinned i'm no more worthy to be called a son make me as one of the hired servants but when he came home god only let him get a part of that out god only let him confess what had separated them he only let him say father i have sinned and no more and god stopped him and god said bring the robe bring the ring bring the fatty cap why did god stop him because it's not your place to tell god what he makes you it's god's good choosing and the only oh hallelujah the only thing standing between you and god this morning is a three-letter word called sin and all it takes for you to get that word out of your life get that out of your life so that he can begin to make you is this father i have sinned every head bowed every eyes closed come on i need my prayer warriors all over this place sections one two three four five and six i need somebody that knows god to start praying in those sections right now hallelujah lord i have preached all this because i'm thinking about a sinner coming home today god i'm thinking about a person that is here whose life has been marred whose life has been made miserable because of sin i'm thinking today god i've been thinking about a prodigal that's going to be here this morning god and i have the image in my mind of them walking out of their pew right now and coming and standing on one of these blue dots and begin to get sin out of their life begin to say god take my sin away from me god take my sin away from me god take my sin come on right now i open this altar up right now i open this altar up right now come walk down this aisle i've been imagining this i've been having an image of this here they come right now find you a blue dot find you a blue dot if you're here today come on i need you to pray with me today we need to create an atmosphere that the spirit of god is stronger than anything in this building in the name of jesus christ in the name of jesus christ are you in section six today and your life is away from god please step out of that aisle please step out into that aisle today please begin to walk down to this altar right now you're in section 5 please come to the altar today please i beg you in jesus name i beg you in jesus name today section 5 4 3 2 and 1. oh listen to me today please come today your life is not what it needs to be but the only way that you can do is to do something that appears to be foolish it appears to be foolish but walk down the aisle right now i know you've done this before i know you've tried this before but would you please try it one more time would you please try it one more time you know you're not where you need to be with god you've even said it to people i know we're not where we need to be with god please come to this altar today i beg you to come to this altar today i beg you today come on see it in your mind see it in your mind you just took a step out of the pew you just walk down see it right now see your face leave me with joy right now oh god in jesus name help me pray church i really feel a burden today how did it feel to burn today oh god how god would like to see you come to this altar how god would like to see you come to this altar right now how god would like to see you let go of the back of that pew and walk down to this altar how god would like you to see you come and believe god for the holy ghost this morning how god would like to see you be baptized this morning oh god come on we still have several of these blue dots and nobody stands oh mighty god mighty god mighty god mighty oh god oh god oh god oh god are you going to miss your opportunity today oh i think i don't need it and you're going to eat the fruit of that i don't think i need to come if you think you need to come what's holding you back if you think you need to be here what's holding you back today i promise you not a god thought's holding you back i promise you not a god thought's holding you back today you're thinking what will people think about me if i come what will people think who cares what people will think who cares what they'll think about you today you've been wrestling with sleepless nights you've been wrestling trying to have a big drink who cares i think we got about four more dots left jesus jesus jesus go ahead and play with them thank god now we've not done this in a while and we're not going to do it this morning but normally i'll ask you to pray lay your hand over on somebody beside you don't do that but i do want you to begin to pray for the person beside you right now brother christian would you come stand on one of these dots today hell's been trying to destroy you i don't know if you understand that or not brother christian but hell's been trying to destroy your life in the name of jesus christ the name of jesus christ the name of jesus christ this morning that's right brother joel come on over here and pray right now brother joe come over and pray for him right now come on it's not about just that church about about having a gathering we want to move a guy this morning think about it today come on brother dean take a few steps and stand on that dog right there brother dave take a few steps that dog right there stand on that dot right there raise your hands brother jesus oh god if you'd like to come to the offering day as long as we social distance we're going to talk to god this morning go ahead god please i am a child of god you split the sea saw i could walk right through my fears and see my fears you must kill me is i i am a child i am i am the child of god i surrendered i surrendered r oh is lord yes this morning before we go home there is no one else like you oh yes there is there is no would you give me john chapter 19 verse 17. to those of you would you lift your hands up right now all of this building all of this building come on lift up your hands today now would you just ask god to help your thoughts right now so hopefully that's the whole purpose of the message god help my thoughts god let me think thoughts about you and about what you want in my life god oh let me see people through the right thoughts god oh god i love you jesus of all the places of all the places you could have chosen to plant your cross of all the places jesus that you could have chosen for the greatest act of god's love to be demonstrated you chose a hill but not just in the ordinary hill and he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of i wish you would say it a place ugly let's go of all the places that you could have chosen to plant your cross you would choose a place that resembled a skull i don't think it's coincidence i don't think it's by happen chance i think in eternity past god knew the struggle man would have and the struggle starts right here and so he said i'll plant my cross at the place of a skull god bless you today