Your Dream, In His Time | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter
by Kenneth Carpenter
First Apostolic Church of Maryville (Maryville, TN)
Kind: sermon
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:11, 1 Kings 21:27-28, Genesis 1:1-2, 2 Peter 3:5, 2 Kings 4:32-36, Revelation 21:1-5

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go with me to the book of ecclesiastes chapter number 3 verse number 11. i will thank god for his word ecclesiastes chapter 3 and verse number 11. god hath made everything ecclesiastes 3 and 11. god hath made everything beautiful in his time there's more to that verse but that's all i'm going to preach from today he hath made everything beautiful in his time father i love you this morning god i thank you for the holy ghost i thank you lord for salvation i thank you that i once was lost but now i'm found thank you god that i was a wretched sinner blind crippled had no desire in and of myself to reach out to you but god your hand reached further down than mine could ever reach up thank you god for salvation thank you lord for how you have blessed all of our lives today god anoint me for the next few moments that i may minister to your people that i may encourage your people that i may help your people in jesus name we pray amen would you give him a hand to praise before you're seated oh thank god thank god thank god when allowed through our surrender of our self-will to god our surrender our self-will to god when we surrender our self-will to god his touch his touch upon our lives without fail when we surrender our self-will to god his touch without fail will yield produce a noticeable divine improvement in your life his touch it is impossible to be touched by the hand of god and not be made better it is impossible it will not happen but in order for god to touch you he must have your permission you must yield your self-will to him you must yield yourself to him but the yielding is worth it the yielding is worth it when we understand the good that the yielding is going to produce his touch as a matter of fact it is god's nature to touch you for good it is his nature it is his delight it is god's delight it is god's desire to touch you to make you better god exists god is good god is love it is god's nature and i want to hammer this away because this is the foundation for what i want to leave you with today it is god's nature to improve our lives it is god's nature when god touches us it is god's nature even when god has to touch us through judgment he chastens us for our good he doesn't chasten us he doesn't discipline us because he wants to harm us even his disciplined touch is because he loves us and he wants our good god is seen when we allow through our surrender of our self-will when we realize as the song says i can't even walk without him holding my hand when we realize and we begin to live this actually in our lives you are the potter i am the clay you are the vine we are the branches when we begin to live our lives understanding that the only way god can touch us for our good is for us to surrender our self-will to surrender how we feel and how we think and how we think we should walk as a matter of fact surrendering your self-will is very powerful in the sight of god because surrendering yourself will can and has caused god to change his mind the bible tells us of many times that god's mind was to destroy certain things but because somebody surrendered their will god changed his mind asked jonah god was going to destroy nineveh but because the people surrendered their self-will to god it changed god's mind and god touched nineveh and granted them repentance and life all because they changed their mind now i want you to know today that there's some pretty wicked people in the bible i mean some major league uh on if god had an fbi list some of these folks in the bible would be in top 10 most wanted all right and i just don't think today i just don't think today that we have anybody in here that lives up to the level of wickedness that some people in the bible did and there's one i'm going to tell you about his name was ahab all right and if you're having a little time stumbling over ahab he was the husband to jezebel all right there you go everybody okay yeah we know him now yeah i mean the bible says he sold himself to do wickedness i mean it wasn't that he was weak and he fell in sin it wasn't that he was battling with something he sold out he just sold himself to do wickedness god sent a prophet to him and the prophet told him all of this judgment that was going to come to him i mean it was horrible judgment it was judgment to match the sin that ahab had committed but in first kings chapter 21 verse 27 this is interesting the prophet comes and the prophet says all these horrible things are going to happen to you ahab because of how vile dirty nasty sinful you've been and and you're not just he wasn't just sinful uh with with lewdness he fought god he fought the messenger of god he hated jehovah he hated jehovah's prophets he hated jehovah's worship he hated anything about jehovah and god said i'm going to match and i'm going to have this horrible judgment to come upon you the prophet came and delivered it and it came to pass verse 27 when ahab heard those words that he rent his clothes put on sackcloth upon his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went softly he heard all of this judgment was coming and he humbled himself he surrendered his self-will he didn't mind what he wore he didn't mind how he appeared to be he saw that judgment was coming and god was going to touch him with judgment and he put on sackcloth and he prayed and he fasted and he went softly that word there meant he watched his steps he weighed his words he weighed his actions out he went softly verse 28 and the word of the lord came to elijah the tishbite saying seest thou how ahab humbleth himself before me because he humbleth himself before me i will not bring the evil in his days but in the days of his sons will i bring the evil upon his house look at what god did and i really again i don't think there's anyone and of course you have to realize i'm not god i can't read your heart today but just kind of looking out i don't believe there's anyone that lived as low as ahab lived i don't believe anybody in this room today has fought against god the way that ahab and my point would be to say this if god would change what he was going to do to ahab's life because they have surrendered himself to god and let god touch him how much more will god help us today if we'll just surrender our will to god do you know what your bitterness is ma'am ma'am do you know what your bitterness is sir do you know what your bitterness is that you're holding on to your bitterness is the fuel that you keep inside of your soul to tell that person i'm still in control i say today it's time to give bitterness to god it's time to ask god take away the bitterness from me take away the unforgiving spirit from me take away the hatred out of my heart god i'm tired of the sourness that possesses my soul god baptized me with honey from above god i want some sweetness to come into my life today god i humble myself god i'm gonna stop talking about this i'm going to stop reliving this god because i want to surrender my life to you let's just pray let's just surrender right now the universal sign of surrender is just to put both hands up now i know this is just actions today i know this is just actions today but could we just lift our hands and i just surrender to you today god god i don't know if things are ever going to get back the way that i my dream wanted it god i don't know if things are ever going to be the same but god i'm lifting my hands to you right now lord i'm surrendering all that i am and all that i would ever want to be god i'm surrendering it to you god had made all things back to my text god have made everything god hath made everything everything god has made now there's three parts to this verse number one god hath made everything number two god has made everything beautiful and number three god has made everything beautiful in his time now you have to understand that first part god has made everything but you don't stop there because beautiful is another step some folks have some things that god has made and you're looking and saying but this is not beautiful of which i have to tell you in his time god hath made everything beautiful in his time as a matter of fact genesis chapter 1 and verse number 1 and 2. in the beginning now we have genesis 1 not to tell us about creation we have genesis 1 because god wants to declare his nature if there's one thing god wants us to walk out of here with today is to understand his nature he is a good god and if we will surrender our self-will to him he will touch us and if when he touches us not might if maybe we will be improved in our lives that's right that's right that's right genesis 1 and 1 is not to tell us about creation it's to tell us about the nature of god in the beginning god created the heaven and the earth and the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep and the spirit of god moved upon the face of the waters now i i sent you i sent the some pictures of how beautiful the earth is and let's just kind of run through those pictures isn't that a beautiful sight isn't that breathtaking give me the what about that that's in our backyard hey i found us in the bible today i did i found this in the bible the bible says in psalms that god toucheth the mountains and causes them to smoke i said praise god that's a smoky mountains right there i always always knew it was close to heaven here right that's in our backyard that's in our backyard go ahead and let it roll hey look at le that's out in california look at that's a tree you see that little person that's a person that's a tree behind that person that's unbelievable that's unbelievable the next time i go to california i'm going to slow down long enough every time i've ever went out we we've been preaching and we go in and go out i'm going to go look that's a tree out there you can drive a car through it beautiful right beautiful hey what about that anybody like to buy that right there come on keep it going we back to number one that's right but now you do understand don't you that the verses i just read you one and two is not that god created something without form void empty god created it that's what god created what did god create man i got a picture i i stand i scanned last night i was trying to find a picture of something that would that would be and the earth was without form and void and darkness on the face of the earth and all i could find to to kind of help us know what we're looking at give me that picture of the landfill all right right there that's what god created right now he didn't create the landfill i'm just saying go back to the waterfall i've lost everybody all right go back to the waterfall all right all right because everybody wants that but you do realize you don't get that without time because god hath made everything stop landfill landfill please god have made everything stop beautiful next picture please in his time so when you begin to think about in the beginning god created god created the heaven and the earth and the earth was without form void darkness was upon the face of the deep spirit of god moved upon the face of the waters second peter chapter three verse number five gives us a little bit better depiction a picture of what the earth looked like for this they willingly are ignorant of that by the word of god by the word of god the heavens were of old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water all right peter paints up peter paints a picture all right he said they're doubting whether the lord's going to come again we know the lord is going to come again because his word says he's going to come again and how peter debated with them about that since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were he says you don't understand that the world the heavens were created by the word of god and the earth was in the water and standing out of the water the closest i could come if you can imagine with me today icebergs but don't imagine them the icebergs coming out of the water but don't imagine them as beautiful snow-capped pieces of ice imagine them as ugly pillars of mud the earth was in the water and standing out of the water but god hath made everything what you have today may be ugly but god hath made everything what you may be holding in your life today may be an ugly situation but i gotta tell you saint of god surrender yourself will to god surrender yourself to god because god is able to touch the ugliness of your life and god is able to cause it to produce something beautiful in his time how many believe that today god is able some of us have been through ugly situations some of us have been through ugly situations some have been through ugly situations in their lives some were raised as children in ugly situations some entered into relationships and it's an ugly situation some have financial ugly situations some just have ugly situations in your life but i've come today as your pastor to tell you that the only way that god can take your ugly situation and cause it to be beautiful is for you to surrender yourself will to god you are the vine we are the branches you are the potter we are the clay i can't even walk without you holding my hand it's jesus my first thought of the morning it's jesus many times before i eat lunch it's jesus when the sun goes down it's the lord in my life come on church but even god does he not even god loves to move on ugly situations bible says in genesis 1 and verse 2 and the spirit of god moved upon the face of the waters the spirit of god moved upon that ugly situation oh god if we've ever needed you to move on our ugly situations god it's now god it's today if it's a prayer request of someone friend who is odd if it's the prayer request of someone who's wasting their life away oh god these ugly situations we need you to move and the spirit of god moved this word moved means to be soft the spirit of god moved this word moved means to be soft it means to be moved to be affected by what one sees it means to have tender love and care it means to cherish as a parent does a child think about i i want to leave you with today what is the nature of our god because quite honestly we can peak our emotions during our praise and worship but i want something to get a hold of you tomorrow morning at 10 30. i want something to get a hold of you tuesday when you receive that call or or this afternoon when you walk back into your home to that ugly situation i want you to remember hey our pastor told us that even god loves to move upon that which is ugly and not pleasant everybody believes god wants to move at the waterfalls everybody believes that god wants to move at a plastic lake everybody believes that god wants to move in when you see the mountains the leaves change colors but can i tell you today the nature of our god if you will let him is to move upon the ugly situation of your life he'll be tender with you he'll be easy with you don't let the enemy tell you he's an old mean god that wants to zap you and burn you up he's a loving god he'll go easy with you he knows you're fragile he knows that you're fragile he'll go easy with you he'll cherish you he'll go easy with you he'll cherish you this word moved and the hebrew means to go softly it it means to be affected it means to be affected by what you see it it affects you it moves you it stirs you it causes tender love and care it means to to cherish to cherish uh as a parent does a child i don't know about you and and and and i don't care they're grown right now i i i do not care and you may say i got a lot of feminine in me or whatever whatever it is i still love to hug my children i still love to hug my children and i'm just going to tell you today i still kiss my daughters and i'm going to tell you today and this whole world's perverted but i still kiss my boy i still kiss my son i never forget nolan was about in the first grade and i dropped him off one day at the school and and i kissed him and then some some boy i don't think the young boy went to church here but he made fun of nolan all day long your daddy kissed you your daddy kissed you and uh nolan after school that day he asked he said daddy of course he was kind of missing his front teeth he said a little lisp you know he said when are you going to stop kissing me i said never never you know why it's my child age has nothing to do with it but you do know where i got that from don't you now you think i can show love to my child being as sinful as i am how much more can our heavenly father come on that's what i want you to leave i i know i know we peaked during the choir singing i know i i did a little two-step deer in the choir singing but that's not really gonna help me today when i go home and hold that ugly situation in my head i gotta know that there is a god that says here let me have that why do you want it god because i'm going to make everything not most things i'm going to make every ev i wish somebody shot everything i'm going to make i'm going to make i wish somebody would shout i'm going to make beautiful in my time in my time let me see if i can move some scriptures around here you got a dead situation you got a dead situation i know a woman in the bible that her dream died her dream died she'd always dreamed of having a child she'd always dreamed of it but the child never came i don't know i don't know how many times that woman went through the part of could i be pregnant could this be so only to live our lives so disappointed of which let me add this sometimes god comes through for you when you lose all hope in yourself and depend solely upon him as as long as you think that there's a possibility of getting pregnant god stands to the side because god doesn't want you to have a child but when god gives you that child god wants you to know beyond the shadow of any doubt i have this child because of god i don't know i don't know how long she went but she finally probably just gave up i'm never this something but but she loved god she loved god and she loved the things of god you see see that's where we got to get some understanding if to really love god you've got to learn how to love the things of god and there's two specific things in the bible that god loves there's two things in the bible that god just spells it out i love it the bible said god loves the gates of zion that's the church the bible says god loves the church so don't get to thinking that you can be in love with god but not be in love with the church all right and there's a second thing god loves for god so loved the world so if you want to please god you better love what god loves he loves the church and god loves a lost and a dying world well the woman had something going for her because she loved god she loved jehovah and she showed she loved jehovah by when the man of god the prophet elisha would come by her house when the prophet elijah would come by her house she would she would bring him in she would bring she would bring the prophet prophet in and because she showed such love toward the things of god god spoke to the prophet and told the woman you're going to bear a child her dream came true she bore a son but a few years later when he was a young man her dream died her dream went out to the field one day to work with his father and while they are the closest that we can imagine is he had some kind of aneurysm he began to say father my head my head my head and they carried him back to his mother and he stayed there on his mother's knees till noon his very small child he stayed there on his mother's knees till noon and he died the woman took her dead dream because now she has a dead dream she took her dead dream and she laid it in the bed where the man of god would sleep and she went after the man of god the man of god sent his his servant gehezei with a staff in his hand and said i want you to go lay i want you to go lay this staff on her son's face so hazel goes to the house and he takes the staff the cane and he lays it across the face of the dead dream the dead child but the child remained dead it's an interesting thing that we read about because elisha comes in ii kings 4 and 32. elisha comes in the room second kings 4 32 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 the twain upon them twain and prayed unto the lord watch verse 34 now 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 he stretched himself upon the child and the flesh of the child waxed warm then he returned 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's eyes were open give me the next verse verse number 36 please he called gahazad and said call this shooter might so he called her and when she was come into him he said take up thy son take it back in your arms take it back up in your arms i want you to see this take this child he's not dead anymore he's alive take this child back up i i took listen there's nothing any more uglier than a dead child or a situation to have a dead baby a dead dream a dead dream in your hands and have to take that dead dreamy he he cried she was a mother says carpenter she was a mother just like any of you can you imagine the panic she probably called his name when he was talking about his head hurting she probably called his name over and over can you talk to me and finally he stopped talking and he stopped breathing and she realized she was a mother that loved him just like any of you mothers would act if you were holding your dead child in your arms but she took that dream and this is what we need to do if you don't take your dead dream to god it turns into a nightmare but if you will take your dead dream to god he is created everything and he can make all things beautiful in his time you got a mother crying you got a mother so heartbroken my boy i heard him laugh this morning i saw him playing bald and now he's a corpse laying on the bed but she went to god that's what i want you to do that she went to god because listen if we will surrender our self will one touch from god's hand will make us better with our lives no one is excluded in this room i'm talking to you and you and you and you and you and you i'm talking to everybody today god can make it beautiful they gave it but sometimes we have to understand that hazel went down and lay a staff there's some things there's some things you can't get a male in order you can't get a prescription for there's some things they laid that staff on a boy's face and nothing happened but look at the imagery here look at the imagery he came up and he stretched himself look at this get in your mind he got in bed with that boy he took his hands and laid it on the hands of the dead boy he took his mouth and laid his lips on the lips of the dead boy he took his eyes that were open and looked into the closed eyes he stretched himself out you know why because that's how god does things that are ugly because in the beginning god made the heaven and the earth and the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep but the spirit of god stretched itself out the spirit of god stretched itself out and ladies and gentlemen when it started with a landfill when god was finished in the days of creation we have the beauty of the waterfalls we have the beauty of the redwood trees in california we have the beauty of the earth that we now live in i want you to know just one touch from god today i i think i'm getting into somebody's head right now i think somebody's beginning to think i i'm kind of understanding this a little bit better that's exactly right that's why you need to give him it all give it all to him today that's why you need to decide right now right here i'm tired of the ugly situation i had an ugly situation a year ago i still got an ugly situation today but it's time to start seeing some changes it's time to start seeing god do some great mighty thing if you believe that today would you help me would you praise him with me for just a moment if you believe that our god is that god it's an ugly situation alcoholism is an ugly situation drug addiction is an ugly situation pornography is an ugly situation child sexual abuse is an ugly situation but somehow god if you could come down and stretch yourself out now i don't believe that things are recorded in the bible i don't believe that things are recorded in the bible just to be recorded i do not believe that things are recorded in the bible just simply to be recorded the bible says that he stretched himself upon the child and the child verse number 35 he stretched himself upon the child and the child sneezed seven times i don't believe seven is recorded i don't believe the sneeze is recorded by accident and i don't believe the seven sneeze is recorded by accident i believe that all of these have spiritual significance i believe there's something there what happens when we sneeze we have an irritant that is entered our nasal our nose there's an irritant that has entered in and how the body reacts to a foreign object that comes in is to sneeze sometimes we have death because we have allowed things to come into our lives that do not belong in our lives we have opened the door we have allowed things to come into our lives that never belonged into our lives and what was enticing as sin has a moment of pleasure now becomes an irritant the sin that tells you it will be pleasurable you will enjoy it you deserve it i guarantee you you will live to see that same sin become an irritant but you will never get it out unless you allow the only thing that can get it out to stretch itself over you there are some things in our lives that i'm telling you i'm not against counselors i'm not against going and getting counsel as long as it's good christian value based i'm not against that i believe that but there are some things that cannot be counsel counseled out of you there are some things that can only come out when you allow the holy ghost to stretch itself over you you can have you can have your little got it all together i'm coming to church look how prissy i am look how i've got it all together you ought to see the little pony and the little polo shirt i got on and you ought to see the car that i'm driving and you ought to know the you ought to know the big bucks that i'm not that i'm knocking down you can have all that if you want to and your situation is going to remain ugly but if you can be somebody that comes in you can still have the polo shirt and you can still have the good car and you can still knock the big bucks down but you better be willing to let god stretch himself over you and let god begin to gotta go easy with you today gotta go easy with you today but there's some things inside of you that you need to get out you need to have a good sneeze now you may be seated the sneeze is there i don't believe that they just wrote it i don't believe the boy just sneezed it was just something that happened and they said hey we need to we need to fill up a whole chapter here man of god so can i record that he sneezed no the holy ghost said you record he sneezed because sneezing gets a foreign object that's in you out but now the number seven is a whole totally different ball game because the number seven is completion some folks have a couple good sneezes on sunday but they don't have seven of them some folks sow their wild oats six days out of the week and come to church on sunday and pray for a crop failure some folks come and they get just a little warm they like that staff laying on the face they like that i gotta i like that staff you know that staff that staff everybody understands laying a staff on your face everybody understands that way of worship everybody understands laying the staff there but that guy getting in the bed with the dead boy that guy gets stretched that's that's odd everybody understands a little program service you can pack buildings out as long as they know they're going to get out at a certain hour and as long as they know you know they can they can follow along on a piece of paper this is going to happen they give you that piece of paper so you know how much more you got to endure okay they they you you look at that but can i tell you that staff never raised that boy dead formalized religion will never raise you i don't care how they promise to make you better they will never raise you but give me that old-time religion give me that old-time hand clapping hand waving let me tell you who jesus is let me magnify the name of the lord i'm still educated i still got a polo shirt on i still got a good car but i want you to know that i want god to stretch himself on me i want god to stretch it because sometimes my hands need to touch sometimes my feet need to touch sometimes my mouth needs a touch sometimes my eyes need a touch get it out the sneeze is a foreign object that enters in the number seven is to completely get it out i've come to tell somebody today it's time to go all the way it's time that this sunday morning marks the time that you had your seventh sneeze it's time that it's time today that you just it right now well i've been battling with jealousy yeah you've been battling with that ugly situation for years i've been bad i can't stand anybody else to be blessed and if anybody else drives a better car lives in a bigger house or does anything then i get to thinking they must have got it by unjust means so i need to start talking to everybody you know he couldn't really drive that car he couldn't really live in that house if he was really honest i i don't know how how you do you know what you need to get delivered you need to have you a seventh sneeze this morning because what a trophy in life that you're going to go through when they stretch you out in a box up here and the only thing they won't say it we'll say nice kind flowery words about you and all that stuff but everybody's going to be thinking it boy he's a jealous guy what a trophy to take to your grave that you were jealous over people all your life let's have the seventh sneeze this morning or or what about bitterness today what about well somebody did me wrong get in line get in line you ain't the only person been done wrong y'all better help me today well i've been done wrong you just don't know what that i got a right to be backstage you don't have a right to be backslid you've got a right to let god stretch himself out over you and say come on i'll help you they did the same thing to me hey do you know that i had 12 disciples i poured myself into them for three and a half years i taught them i performed miracles for them i did all kinds of things for them i provided for them i gave them money i did all kinds of things and do you know that they all left me and one deny that he even knew me and one sowed me out but he went on to the cross he went on to the cross and he came out victorious come on stop feeling sorry for yourself you need to have your seventh sneeze today he said why i i just can't see that i know why you can't see it i know why you can't see it because you've not had your seventh sneeze because you don't get your vision back until you had your seventh sneeze where is that at verse 35 then he returned and walked in the house to and fro and went up and stretched himself upon him and the child sneezed seven times right that's a comma right the child sneezed seven times now if he's sneezing he's breathing nobody doubts he's alive the boy has sneezed seven times but you don't get your vision back until you sneeze seven times and the child sneezed seven times and the child opened his eyes oh if you could just see what god's got for you if you can just feel the joy of the lord that he wants to give you the level of a depth of a walk with him that he wants to give you but you've got to sneeze that bitterness out you've got to sneeze that jealousy out you got to sneeze that pride out you can't be into this i wonder what somebody would think if i went to the over the carpet i'd go to the altar but i don't want folks talking who cares if they talk i come on now who cares if they talk if i'm needing the touch of god i don't care what anybody says i'm coming to that altar because i need who cares what they think they can't help you they can't bless you they can't keep you only the one that you serve that said i made everything beautiful in my time come on musicians come on come on i'm here to tell you that the god that i serve whose name is jesus anytime he is allowed to touch you it will without fail produce improvement in your life without fail isaiah said i can't do it isaiah said i've got unclean lips and i can't do it but god said let me touch your mouth and you'll speak jeremiah said i'm but a child i cannot speak and the lord put forth his hand and touched his mouth and said i have put my words in your mouth jesus touched a manger mangers were never famous until jesus touched them every year around the world manger scenes are created all because god touched a manger ever thought about that you would you wouldn't have a second thought of a manger a smelly stinky place where animals live you'd have not a second they wouldn't be little boys and girls at christmas time in a christmas play in a robe and a manger hear me now because our god whose name is jesus touched the manger changed the manger not only that there was a little town that had a bad reputation matter of fact if you were in trouble with the law or you were in trouble with the church you were morally messed up you moved to a little old town that's where everybody lived that was messed up everybody everybody knew everybody moved to a little old town called nazareth but when they introduced jesus of all the places you could live jesus he said you know i think i'll go down and touch nazareth when they were introducing him he said hey he's from nazareth and somebody jeered and said can anything good come out of that hell hole could anything good come out of nazareth they just simply said come and see he touched the dead and they came back to life he touched a cross which was the symbol of death it would be the equivalent you had a bunch of people wearing a an electric chair on the end of a chain you'd look and say what in the world are you wearing the cross was the equivalent to an electric chair but because he touched the cross it now is a symbol of victory the grave he touched the tomb and the tomb now we commit saints of god's bodies back to the earth with the promise of a day of a resurrection but i'm living for that final touch that final touch comes in revelation chapter 21 and verse number one i'm living for this would you stand with me i'm living for this i'm living for this final touch and i saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away there was no more sea and i john saw the holy city new jerusalem coming down from god out of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband and i heard a great voice out of heaven saying behold the tabernacle of god is with men and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people and god himself shall be with them and be their god i want you this is what i'm living for and god shall wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away and he that set up on the throne said behold i make all things new and he said right for these words are true and faithful i'm living for that final touch from god when there's no more tears when he reaches down to touch us and he wipes away all the tears from our eyes no more pain no more suffering no more agony but until then we are his body he is not here with us as god manifested in the flesh no he ascended and he said go back to jerusalem and wait until you're filled with the power from on high and when you become filled with the power from on high you go and lay your hands up on the sick and the sick shall recover today this morning he's not here with us in a bodily form but he has given us the power of a touch today oh i would love to pray with someone today to lay my hand upon your head and call out the only saving name of jesus would you just lift up your voices all over this building right now come on in the name of the lord jesus today in the name of the lord jesus say sister carpenter come up around the altar with me today you're over here to my left to step up just a couple of steps there you're over here to my left there's any woman in this room today that wants hands laid on you why don't you make your way down around sister carpenter honey i want you to lay your hand on them today in the name of jesus today i want us to pray right now if there's any men in this room that would like to come down i'd like to lay my hand on you today and begin to pray over you right now in the name of jesus come on brother dean in the name of jesus god in the name of jesus in the name of jesus in the name of jesus god oh god i lay my hand upon you brother dean oh in the name of the lord jesus right now oh i lay my hand upon you today brother holland god in the name of the lord jesus today oh god i lay my hand oh god i lay my hand oh god lord touch right now in the mighty name of jesus god lord in the mighty name of jesus right now god lord through the power of your word stretch yourself out over dean right now god stretch yourself out over him right now god lord stretch yourself out over brother holland right now god stretch yourself out over them right now god oh god my precious brother lord in the name of jesus christ i lay my hands upon my brother right now in the name of jesus christ god help him right now god in the name of jesus in the name of jesus in the name of jesus christ god jesus i need your help foreign i praise you god i need you god oh is you're the only one here is only one foreign is foreign is you're the use my only new oh oh is you came along and put me back together here oh is oh oh is shame into glory the only one who cares is is is foreign is oh let's lift up our voices right now let's thank god for the conscious morning thank god for his touch thank god for the touch of the holy ghost thank god for the touch of the holy ghost today thank god for the touch of his spirit today thank you lord go ahead and praise it right now thank you for the touch thank you for the holy hallelujah somebody touch me glory hallelujah somebody touch me and it must have been the hand of the lord glory hallelujah somebody touched me and it must have been i won't leave you with this today i want to leave you with this please nobody has ever lost any weight by walking one time for two miles nobody has ever lost any weight because they ate one 400 calorie meal but you give me a man or a woman let's be fair they'll decide they're gonna walk every day two miles and you give me a man or a woman decides i'm gonna be every meal healthy you may not notice it on day one day two day three day four but somewhere up there around that seventh day that jacket just begins to button one more time all of a sudden you begin to realize you got a little bit more energy than you had you're not needing that afternoon nap anymore you you got all kind of energy and he said why are you saying that because a lot of people think they can come one time and bring their ugly situation and then next week they get discouraged because there's no change you know what you need to do we need to be back here tonight at 5 30 go over in the prayer room have a talk with jesus get a touch from the lord then come back out here tonight at six o'clock sing them songs and hear the preacher preach and then at the end of the message tonight you get up here around this altar and do the same thing you did right now and i promise you somewhere down the road you're going to begin to notice there's some spiritual changing taking place in your life things are starting to change a matter of fact i'm going to tell you a lot of times things just change with you they'll really change outside of you they just change you for that so let's do that let's see the hand of god touch us prayer room at 5 30 you're dismissed in the name of the lord jesus christ god bless you