When The Supernatural Becomes Natural | Associate Pastor Chad Erickson

the Bible in Mark 6 and verse 47 if you will turn there quickly I'm not going to have you stand much longer but I'm going to go from Mark 6 to Mark 16 and read just two different two different accounts that are going to go with what I believe is is going to be what minister to the church this morning so thankful for a God who speaks and a God Amen who ministers through his word have you been enjoying the the the Book of Genesis we've been in the Book of Genesis in the in the month of January uh we're almost through almost through the month and almost uh about to hit the the 50th chapter of Genesis here in just a little bit uh but please uh be looking at your I guess we call them a the bread calendar or the the reading the the Bible uh reading for the year and we're going to be going and we're kind of skipping around different books of the Bible and we're just not just reading this year we're studying we're studying these books we're also going to introduce some heal helps uh some steady study guides we're going to introduce to you in the next couple Services before we hit February um but please get through Genesis and we'll we'll stay together Mark 6 and verse 47 says and when evening was come the ship was in the midst of the sea and he speaking of Jesus alone on the land and Jesus saw them toiling and Rowing for the wind was contrary unto them in about the Fourth Watch of the night he cometh unto them walking upon the sea and and I like this next phrase here it says and would have passed them by he would have just kept on walking by and we we'll pick up that story here just a few minutes but then look look with me in Mark 16 turn a couple pages mark 16:1 17 very familiar these signs shall follow them that believe in my name shall they cast out Devils they're going to they're going to cast out we're going to cast out evil spirits spirits that are not of God and they shall speak with new tongues I'm thankful I got the Holy Ghost anybody speak with new tongues in this place I just just wave at me a little bit all right at least at least 20% of us good speak with new tongues I hope there's more they shall take up serpents anybody done that lately don't admit it if you have uh if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them they shall here we go lay hands on the sick and they shall recover these signs shall follow them that believe you know know signs are given for for a couple reasons one is to Enlighten the unbeliever of the power of God but I believe that signs are also given to encourage us to encourage the believer that we ought to be comfortable operating in the Supernatural this shouldn't be a a a spooky thing or or uncomfortable or awkward we ought to be comfortable working in the Supernatural amen my title today is simply this when the supernatural becomes natural when the supernatural I want to become natural in my life do you want that to become natural in your life not something just happens once in a while but God I want to live in the Supernatural I want to just be a natural thing come on why don't you put your Bibles down and lift up your hands father I believe you've given me a word today for this great congregation God I see standing before me Lord there's all kinds of needs there's there's all kinds of situations and people are living in seasons and I just believe today God you're going to give us the power you're going to give us the anointing Lord something's going to FL flow through me that's going to flow into this congregation and Lord it's going to flow down into our families Lord our children who are in Sunday school and Kids Quest today I believe Lord God it's going to flow into them we're going to be changed Lord God because we're going to live in the Supernatural power of miracles signs and wonders Lord that you have given in the church today Lord God it's going to empower us it's going to help us it's going to guide us and Lord God it's going to cause the world to take attention Lord God of what's happening right here in this church clap your hands if you're thankful for Supernatural power that's still alive in the church today still alive in the church today amen you may be seated in Jesus name and I too want to say welcome to the Hunley uh love them so much love your family amen and of course brother Adam he's in my in my generation and just such a blessing such a blessing to myself my family and the body of Christ uh thank y'all for being here it means a lot to us that you're here worshiping with us um I'll just be up front and tell you I I preached this message yesterday to our Spanish congregation um but what we probably you may or may not understand is when you preach with an interpreter you only get to preach about a third of the message right you you make a point and then you got to wait for them to make the point and while they're making the point you get off your notes and you make another point that you didn't mean to make okay my preachers might understand I'm talking about but it it gets hard sometimes um and I I have preached listen Spanish is by far the easiest language to preach and and have interpreted for you um I have I have preached in in Taiwan and um they speak Mandarin there and there's probably about 25 Mandarin words to every one of our one word so I would say something like God is good and it was like five minutes later and you got to kind of pick and choose what you preach right because you may never you may not even get to your topic Because by the time you get through preliminaries you're like well it's been about 40 minutes I'm I'm GNA have to put the mic down uh but yesterday had a great time and let me just give a report of our Spanish church because we are celebrating this weekend one year as a Spanish Church First Apostolic Church espanol and um oh we had such a good time and um Let me let me just just quickly I want I want to give a report uh I want to say just a couple weeks ago a couple Sundays ago was the last time that uh Pastor stto will give me will give me their attendance and tell me what happened he'll tell me how many got the Holy Ghost how many they baptized um every service I get a text from him and I believe it was it was a couple Sundays ago uh we had snow and I I'll just be honest with you we we we struggle with our crowd because people could hardly make it uh but they have a 2:00 service and I want to say they were well over 80 on a snow Sunday Come On One Year y'all over 80 and and I want you to know most of those were were what we would call home folk they weren't our volunteers from the English service um and I'm so thankful and and I'm I'm I'm just uh God is doing great things things and uh got to meet just a brand new friend we have a pastor all the way from El Paso Texas Pastor Emanuel kios did pretty good kios uh preached yesterday also and just absolutely we had church yesterday and then what makes what makes Spanish church so amazing is we always eat afterwards and so I mean I'm talking I mean if the preacher didn't do a good job which he did awesome but if the preacher didn't do a good job you at least know you need some physical food right uh but we had we had a a great time and and God has been been doing great things but here here a year into it thank God thank God the soal family sister mccre all the volunteers matter if fact put your hands together for all the volunteers that volunteer at Spanish church I know Sister Patterson is teaching English um teaching English um and and and they'll send me they'll send me pictures and they'll have a they'll have a large class room full of people brother Kano and I don't recognize anybody I love that I mean that's that that just it brings Joy because God is doing great things but but but here here's what and I apologize but I've got to finish this message okay I got about a third of the way through it and uh and and had my had my timer going I thought I got to get done I got to get out of here got to get out of the way but I just I began the message like like this I I began by saying now listen we're only one year into this but we are an Apostolic Church we're Apostolic in Doctrine we're Apostolic when it comes to our experience thank God for the Pentecostal experience where we believe the Holy Ghost is still falling today we're Apostolic in identity we are absolutely Apostolic we're unapologetically Apostolic come on we want to pass down the very same thing that was passed down to us I thank God for parents who oh one day my God a preacher knocked on my dad's door and and and and and and invited my dad to church I'm thankful that I'm still preaching the same thing that was taught to him this Holy Ghost listen it's for us today it's not just on the name of our sign out front we are Apostolic through and through I want to pass down the same power I want to teach the same gospel but if we're going to be truly Apostolic and and I preach this because I I I guess I just feel there's uh sometimes you travel enough and if you travel and you preach out and you you go to different conferences sometimes words like Supernatural aren't being used very much anymore words like rival are not being used very much anymore and it's at a conference this week when I remember you would hear the word revivable 10 times every message in years past and I don't know Pastor h and I we I might have been I might have been out Dearing a preacher but I don't know if I heard the word Revival used one time so I just want I guess it's so important to me if we're going to be Apostolic we got to give the Next Generation what was given to us and I want to be a Revival Church we're bringing up the Spanish work it's going to be a Revival Church there's going to be miracles signs and wonders because that's Apostolic right the nine gifts of the Spirit that's Apostolic it's got to work in the church today I want the same power that the apostles had I want the same Spiritual Authority that the apostles had amen and so here it is we desire to live and I hope you do but I desire to live in the Supernatural but to truly understand the supernatural we we first got to Define what natural is because sometimes we can just say the word Supernatural not really realize what we're saying other than miracles signs and wonders but there's a natural laws there's there's natural laws that govern the Earth natural laws that that we would call science they're laws that God put in motion from the very beginning of time uh laws like gravity right what goes up must come down uh the law of aerodynamics the the law of planetary motion right this this law of of of water buoyancy or or just buoyancy in liquids all of these all of these laws were were here from creation it's a God thing thank God for Gravity thank God for buoyancy thank thank God for for planetary motion that that the Earth doesn't get two degrees too close to the sun right thank God that the Earth is revolving on an axis and the axis is turned one way and then turn the other throughout the different seasons thank God for that or I got news for you we wouldn't be here today we'd either be crispy or Frozen right but we wouldn't be so so thank God for laws but the Supernatural is when God overrules himself it's when he breaks the very laws that are natural now now there's nothing wrong with the natural there there's natural in all things in human bodies there's sickness and pain that's natural right in human bodies there's disease that's natural there's death we're we're all going to die we've been given there's a time we're going to die we understand that I thank God for healing but I don't know about you there's there there comes a place in life where you're just like you know what Lord okay I'm ready to meet my reward within nature sewing reaping seed time and harvest nature it's it's natural thunderstorms and hurricanes and blizzards tornadoes we understand those things are all natural and I I I don't want to get too deep into this right here but but basically this the natural is normal it's a law of Nature and the Supernatural is when God just says you know what we've got to set that law aside for a moment got to set that law aside so miracles signs and wonders are nothing more than God stepping in and changing what Nature has brought forth so in three and a half years of Jesus's Ministry he really performed four types of Miracles it was miracles of creation provision Miracles that displayed the power over nature we understand he calm storms and uh miracles of healing the phys physical and spiritual sickness and then miracles of life and the resurrection of Life those are the four types of Miracles that Jesus performed and all throughout the New Testament Jesus overruled nature or the natural and the supernatural occurred and and that's what that's what brought most attention to his ministry right we understand that people noticed Jesus because they saw the signs and wonders that he did it was more than just healing it was more than just raising people from the dead he was trying to prove a point that he was able to blow people's minds he was able to cause and again it wasn't for fame or popularity he wasn't making money off it we understand it wasn't so that he could he could start his own his own Ministry and and call the Jesus ministry that wasn't about that wasn't what he was all about he was all about bringing people's attention to the power of God and that he was God robed in flesh and he was dwelling among the creation that he created somebody said amen and we understand he he turned water into wine that's not natural he fed 5,000 with two loaves and three fish that's that's not natural right those things don't happen those those types of things uh comb storms and and and comb waves and stop the wind all none of that was natural these were Supernatural acts when he said peace be still it was to show his disciples I'm not only a to control the weather and control the storm but I can give peace in your life too walking on water he overruled the law of gravity he overruled the law of buoyancy he even healed Peter's mother-in-law y'all and all I can get out of that is that he wants us to know he loves our mother-in-laws and so we should too and I do and I do love my mother-in-law I would I wouldn't be alive today if it wasn't for my mother-in-law he healed a leper in Matthew chapter 8 wasn't supposed to happen uncurable disease he healed a woman with a 12year issue of blood he he healed 10 lepers at one time he healed barus from blindness he performed Supernatural acts that overruled laws of nature I'm about to move on I know you got what I'm saying I know you're picking up what I'm dropping but that's not all he had the power over because he also had the power over death he raised a Widow's son back to life he raised js's daughter back to life he raised Lazarus after four long days in a tomb and then he raised himself from the grave he said you all thought that was good check this out right here we serve a supernatural God who is willing to break his own laws in order for a miracle to take place but there's only one there's really only one common denominator with every miracle that Jesus performed in the Bible there's only one common denominator with every Supernatural event that took place and it was not faith and I know I know I I've watched the faith healers on television and I I've heard what they say I know if they pray for you and you don't get healed it's because you didn't have enough Faith anybody heard that that's that that's not biblical because there was nobody with faith when it came to raising Lazarus from the dead his own sisters Lazarus is Mary and Martha what did they say to Jesus they said if you would have been here they said sister Paul they said where Were You Jesus said I was just taking some time I I I intentionally took some time before I got to you because I wanted you to understand that I'm the resurrection and the life that death doesn't there there's there's no death cannot control if I want want to raise somebody from the grave I don't care if their body stinketh I don't care how long they've been in the grave I don't care if Rick a mortise has sent in Jesus was simply telling them I don't need your faith your faith is not going to limit my power I I said it earlier feeding 5,000 with with a with a boy's lunch you think anybody had faith that Jesus was going to feed 5,000 with that lunch there wasn't a soul with enough Faith to believe that so obviously it doesn't require faith it doesn't even require desperation because there's a lot of Miracles that took place where nobody was desperate it it doesn't require people even petitioning Jesus there's some miracles in my life I didn't even ask for Something's Happened in my life I don't know if it's you call it favor of the Lord or blessing of the Lord I turn around say Lord I didn't even know I needed that but thank you so much I wasn't expecting it I didn't petition it I didn't ask for it I didn't beg you for it you just set it in my lap and God I'm thankful for anybody been blessed in this place where you didn't even see where the blessing was coming from you just woke up one day and said hey I thank God that he's given me favor there's love and kindness and goodness things that I didn't even know I needed things that spiritual things I didn't even know I needed are just raining down in my life so what is that one thing what what does every single Miracle every Miracle every I'm talking Old Testament through the New Testament and even today every Miracle had one thing in common somebody was facing a problem there was a problem where there was people that were starving listening to Jesus thousands of people on a hillside where there was no there was no McDonald's or Dairy Queens or anywhere to feed them or if it was a little girl who had died a 12-year-old girl who had died and her Daddy had come to Jesus desperate and saying please come to my house my daughter is near unto death and a servant walks up and says bother not the master your daughter's dead the problem was simply this she's my daughter she's my Offspring she's my child I love her and I need her to be healed and I've got to find somebody something that's going to oh that's going to heal her and make her well again there's got to be a problem if you've got a problem in this house it qualifies you for a miracle it qualifies you for the supernatural to take place in your life I don't know what you came in here needing I don't know what you're facing in your home in your family on your workplace in your school I don't know if you're getting bullied or getting abused I don't know what's happening in your life but if you could just realize that you are in the right place for a miracle to take place in your life but you got to recognize who Who The Miracle Worker is you got to be will to step into the Supernatural and say God it looks impossible but God you're able to do exceedingly abundantly above all I could ask and or think I can't even imagine the things that you could do for me in my life somebody shout He's Able come on shout He's Able nothing is impossible for Him With God all things are possible sickness oh that's a problem disease that's a problem depression that's a problem worry frat fear broken heart there our problems Sino that's a problem but I know the most miraculous event that can take place in your life if you got sin inside of you I know where the super can join in with the natural and a Supernatural event could take place in your life that could change you forever we're going to preach about it in a moment but I've got good news all problems they're natural but we serve a supernatural God and he just wants to step in and do something for us there's healing power there's delivering power there's salvation power oh it's all natural for God so I said faith faith faith I know I know faith is not the common denominator for miracles however I will say this it does put you in line for a miracle it definitely increases your chances of receiving a miracle if you have faith right cuz Faith is the ability to visualize the miracle even before the miracle takes place you're like that woman with the issue of blood who says if I can but Touch the Hem of the Garment of Jesus if I can just get close enough to him she had already VIs Iz in her mind I shall be made whole before Jesus Jesus didn't even see her coming he said virtue has left me who touched me you know the story I'm not going to insult your biblical intelligence you you you know the story but all throughout the Bible faith it was when people began to see their Miracle take place even before it happened Hebrews 11:1 says now Faith is a substance of things hoped for is the evidence of things not yet seen you may not be able to see it in the physical but I just believe somebody in this place if you could turn your faith up just a little bit to see it in the spiritual I just believe somebody in this room and you might have a problem in your body I feel the Holy Ghost right now but you might have something you might have a mass that's in your body we just had wo we just had a a young lady at this church who had a tumor you know had a tumor in the the base of her brain in the back of her neck and God knew that it was there and when she found out it was there let me tell you what faith does faith says you know what I'm going into surgery for this I'm going to get it removed but I can already see in my mind's high I can see that thing being taken out I can see that thing not being cancerous and you know what it wasn't cancerous and I just believe enough faith if we could build up and say God even before the report comes back that it's not benign even before the report comes back I believe God in my mind's eye that I can see the miracle taking place when Faith and Hope Collide we have what we have the supernatural what about this what about getting God's attention I think that's important getting God's attention you say well come on if God knows the number of hair upon my head and for some of us it's not that big of a deal to know some of y'all laughing that shouldn't be laughing you see if he knows that if he knows when the sparrow Falls well then he already knows about my sickness he already knows about my need he already knows about my problem he does and and I don't take away from his power he's all knowing he FS all space face there are a little over 8 billion people he's taking care of right now but I just believe like this story right here you have these disciples who it seems like everything they've lost all control the waves oh my God the waves you in a boat like that and waves like that you're not going to stay on top of the water very long and they understood what was happening in their life but we read the story that Jesus would have passed them by and I don't know maybe sometimes I just believe that Jesus that God knows we have an issue but we he got he got to know do they know they have an issue listen God sees the problem sometimes I'm like oh God please just if you could just look the other way he sees the problem he knows there's a problem but some he just wants to know are you willing to step out of Pride and admit to me that you've got a problem and I already said we're Apostolic my God we know how to do the two-step dance better than any other denomination the drum man we we look good all dressed up come to church bring our little family with us get our kids on the pew get the little name tags and stick them to their back and we we come into church and we got our hands up and we know we know we we we know exactly when it's time to worship when that drum gets a beaten and that choir gets to singing We got to look down and sometimes God might come into this place and say you know what I'm not entirely sure if they even realize they need me again he knows we need him Jesus saw the same thing we're looking at right here he he saw the waves he saw the wind he saw them toiling and they're here they they're rolling with all their might they've given it everything they they they're not even moving forward because the the winds blowing and listing their boat from side to side Bible says that he just comes walking on water and would have passed them by but the disciples this is so the disciples looked and saw what they thought was a spirit and the Bible says they cried out they cried out maybe for more than one reason you and I would have cried out too and probably for more than one reason but there was one in the boat that recognized Jesus he was the same one when Jesus said who do men say that I am and said Peter who do you say that I am Peter said I know who you are you're the Christ son of the Living God that same brother Fuller that same Peters he's on this boat right here and here's the deal this is what this is just not cool I'm I'm going to tell you I'm going to tell you something that's not cool Mark didn't even mention Peter walking on water y'all think that's not cool that's not cool cuz I'm thinking like if my boy walked on water I think I'd add it in my gospel Mark didn't even put it in there you got to read that in Matthew Matthew's account Matthew's like oh yeah and Peter he stepped in the water the water was cold it chilled his feet started walking on the water right but why did that happen I'll tell you why it happened Peter cried out probably for a different reason than the rest of the disciples cried out they cried out because they thought they saw a ghost walking on the water but Peter looked out and said hey we're about to we're about to drown right here this boat's about to capsize Jesus is at you if that's you B me come come on sometimes we got to get in a desperate situation where we tell God God I'm so desperate I need a miracle in my life I need a supernatural to take place in my life if you don't step into this situation I'm going to die if I don't die physically I'm sure going to die spiritually I need you to step into my hall I caught Jesus's attention and Jesus stopped the direction he was going and said hey hey somebody recognized me somebody cried out to me they didn't have so much pride inside of them that they didn't say Jesus I've got a need you know what keeps people from coming down to the front to get anointed with oil that are sick Pride I'm not going to walk down there again Pride people here here people are seeking for the Holy Ghost and maybe they don't get it the first time they they seek for it the second time and pride starts to sit in and say you know what I don't want people thinking that I need something people to think that I don't have everything that they have my God something inside of us if we want the supernatural to take place in our life we got to be willing to swallow PR and say God I need prayer Lord I'm to allow an an an elder to anoint me with oil I allow that oil to signify your presence in your spirit in your healing power and Lord God I'm just going to believe Lord because I have a need and because I'm willing to step out and say Jesus I've got a need I believe that it's going to catch the attention of the one that can save and heal and Deliver Me amen am somebody woo we got to look through we got to look beyond our own self and the way we feel and we got to say God I need to practice humility in my life God I got to practice humility that says God I cannot do this on my own we preached not long ago we got to realize I am not the Christ I can't fix certain things in my life I've got to cry out to Jesus and say you are the Christ uh you are the Messiah you are the Savior you are the deliverer and if you will pass by me I will cry out your name Jesus I will cry out your name Jesus W common denominator the problem the problem has got to be brought before the one that can do something about it because the greater the problem the greater the miracle it's a natural to have major problems in a crowd Bes size and even within your body there's there's people that have ongoing sicknesses I I pray we got we have shut inss that they want to be here so bad but they got sickness in their body their body's too weak they can't even get out of bed my god oh brother Burkin in Jesus name I'm praying for you sir Bill Burkin he's in N I believe he just turned 93 or 92 in Jesus name God touch that man of God he's lived his life for you I'm praying for you brother Burkin I'm believing in Jesus name he's going to give you strength right where you lie I believe right now you're watching this this broadcast in jesus' name I pray help him give him a supernatural experience in Jesus name there's diseases in this house there's cancers there's diabetes there's there's heart issues there's kidney problems there's lung issues there's blood pressure issues there's sugar issues and that's all natural but we don't have to settle for the natural because we serve a supernatural God come on I'm preach about experiencing the supernatural preach about bringing our problem before God whether you think it's great or small to God he will take care of it for you he'll step in the Supernatural step in the very natural things of life he says I will change and overrule laws in order to produce healing in your life miracles signs and wonders if I could just make one last point then I'll give an opportunity to respond Mark 16 17 we read it earlier these signs shall follow them that believe miracles signs wonders it's Apostolic It's Supernatural it says right here in my name shall they cast out devils and I just believe right here I just believe when Mark in his in his gospel that was the very first thing that he listed before healing before be before protecting us from snake bites or drinking or or eating something poisonous before laying on of hands before people being recovered and healing of bodies the very first thing that St Mark mentions is we are going to be able to cast out devils in the name of Jesus you see that in my name cast out evil spirits unclean spirits cast out spirits that are not from God but let me Define a devil that our Spanish church is facing right now see 2 Timothy 1:7 says for God hath not given us the spirit of fear fear is not a spirit from God fear is an unclean Spirit fear is an evil spirit fear is the spirit of the devil and I know sometimes I know sometimes when you think of this of this you you think of of exorcism you you think of of of somebody convulsing and and foaming at the mouth and their eyes rolling back in their head and and and you think of missionaries in foreign lands casting Devils out of people but that's not the only kind of devil that I believe Mark was talking about being cast out any spirit that is not of God is a spirit of the devil right there's no in between right it's either it's either a spirit of God it's a good spirit or it's an evil spirit and there are spirits and and one of those Spirits is is fear itself but the Bible says that God it's fear is not of God it's not a spirit of God so we understand that it's a spirit of the devil but I I talked to them yesterday and I felt listen I felt the spirit in the room I'll be honest with you I felt the spirit in the room spirit of fear and I know what it's all about matter of fact my my wife sent me uh uh this Instagram post and I'm going to read it to you it's from a friend of ours that that she saw on Instagram and and texted to me and it says to my friends and family in the Hispanic Church says I am very disappointed in leaders and groups pushing narratives of fear and disillusion within our community he says there will not be immigration raids targeting churches ice is focused on removing a criminal element that has ravaged our own community and our nation cartel members murderers drug and human traffickers and such in an attempt to flee prosecution these same ones could hijack our churches and hold our congregation's hostage and president Trump's executive action gives law enforcement the ability to remove such people should they try to hide amongst our houses of worship and I'm going to stop right here and just say listen we got to pray for a house of worship you say well that that would never happen in in a little town of mville you got another thing coming come on somebody we are in a we are in a wicked Wicked World and we pray over the church and we pray over the security here we pray over those that are that are that are protecting us and keeping us safe but there's an agenda within corrupt movements within our country to incite fear within the Spanish speaking community and here it is it's it's fear for both those that are here legally and those that are here illegally it's not just for those that are here illegally there's fear within our whole Spanish Community right now now Spanish speaking Community right now and it's attack listen it's an attack from hell I told them yesterday I said this is an attack from hell it's to keep you afraid it's to keep you to feel like like like like like our good police and our good public servants are your enemies and you got to hide from them oh my God I pray in Jesus name let me just say this to all of the law abiding members of our community we love them we are not prejudiced now let me just step on on a soap box just for a moment because I feel a little push back we are not prejudiced I cannot blame a family that's coming from a third world nation where there's drug cartels raping people are taking taking young girls and putting them into sex trafficking I can't blame those people for wanting to get into this nation they're not here to try to get rich they're they're trying to survive you say are you condoning illegal people coming on hey their souls it's our job to win the souls it's not my job to judge who's here legally who's here illegally that's not my job I believe if if they're a drug dealer if they're a murderer if they're a rapist if a sex trafficker put them on a bus and send them home but we have people in our community that I love so much and you love so much that are here that are adding value to our community they're adding value to marille Tennessee they're adding value to Blunt County they're doing great work they're doing I just want to see him saved I want to see him filled with the Holy Ghost I want to see him baptized in Jesus name I want to see their lives delivered out of sin God help us to reach I'm not going to be the one to judge right or wrong I just want to give them an opportunity to be saved come on so I feel the Holy Ghost right now and I don't know it's a holy ghost or I'm just a little upset at this at this whole movement that's trying to cause fear and inight fear into a community of people but I just believe we got young people that are talking about being missionaries there was a day when you had to go overseas to be a missionary you don't have to go overseas anymore we we got about every nation living right here in Blunt County open up your eyes uh learn Spanish uh be a part of Spanish Church uh learn Mandarin be a part of our Mandarin Church uh do whatever you have to do we have people from every nation under the sun who live in our County God make us missionaries right here in Blunt County I feel I listen I I feel good now I felt a little wall but I think you understand what I'm saying now here it is fear is not of God the spirit of fear is a spirit of the Antichrist it's a spirit of the devil to incite fear into people so they have to coward down but God has given us a spirit of Victory he's given us a spirit that says hey if you'll just get into a good church or two or three are gathered in my name I'll be in the midst of them I don't care what color you are I don't care what race you are I don't care what cards you hold in your walk come on there Spirit Mark said the first thing you're to do is cast out Devils you may be seated I'm hurrying I'm hurrying wo but that's not the only Spirit oh my God that's not the only spirito the spirit of fear is just one of the evil spirits that we face in today's day there's Spirits there's destructive Spirits called depression and oppression spirits of offense I'm hurrying to an end but I'm going to slow down right here spirits of offense spirits of hurt spirits of bitterness come on we're talking about the bait of Satan offense would get into somebody but we listen if you live in the Supernatural you don't have to live there you don't have to live offended that's the worst way to live I feel sorry for people that are always living offended because you know what that causes you start hating those that you feel did you wrong and I got news for you in heaven there's going to be a lot of people that when they died on Earth they might have had cancer in their body they may never Reed a healing woo they might have blinded eyes when they died here on Earth they might have been missing an arm or a leg because they were in war and they never received they never received the supernatural you know sometimes we look at Miracles as just being like opening blinded eyes and opening deaf ears but there's more miracles than just physical Miracles there there's emotional Miracles there's spiritual Miracles and I just believe before before we get into this whole thing about will we're up here to start praying for people that they recover and that they're they're they're sick and they got the flu or or they they've got diabetes and and I believe all those things that God wants to heal us but the very first thing Mark said he said said you're going to cast out devils and here's the deal you can get to heaven with one arm you can get to heaven with a tumor on your brain but I tell you how you're not going to find yourself in heaven is if you don't cast out some of these Devils my God I feel the Holy Ghost right now I feel there's people in this room that have bitterness in their heart and in their mind and I want you to know you might have a healthy body but there's much less of a chance of you making it into Glory than somebody that leaves this place because they got blown apart in a war vehicle you are in trouble if you don't cast those Spirits out God said I I am not the author of confusion I'm not the listen some people in this place that's what that's what depression is it's confusion oppression is confusion bitterness is confusion it's no way to live if you have found yourself like that today I'm about to make an altar call in just a few moments and invite you up here but please before you pray over a sickness in your body that's physical the first thing we got to do is make sure there's no bitterness God I don't want to be that guy that all I think about is how people have wronged me and offended me God I would rather die of a disease in my body than die Lord God of a spiritual disease disase of an unclean disease in my mind I don't want to get critical I don't want to get cynical I don't want to become always in the negative but God I want you Lord God to open my mind and open my heart and let me see you for who you are and let the supernatural take place in my life beginning with the spiritual matter of fact if you just stand to your feet because I'm going to make this altar call in just a moment but I just believe these signs shall follow them that believe in my name they shall cast out Devils they should cast out Spirits they're going to cast out anything that doesn't belong because God has made us listen God has given us a mind not to think about uh and always contemplate the wors uh he's given us a mind that we can say God you're wonderful you're kind we sang about the blessings tonight today already you've blessed us you've given us Lord so much I want to be a part of the supernatural I want the supernatural become natural in my life so what is your problem here it is this is where it all begins I'm giving application it's the quickest application you've ever heard but it's going to be the invitation to this altar what is your problem the first thing you got to Define it and I will say if you're like me it's not going to take that much time to Define it some people it might be cancer it might be diabetes it it might be something that you suffer with and I others it might be a financial issue you're struggling trying to get food on your table you're struggling it's a problem some of you it's a mind game it's a mental problem second thing you got to do is begin to cry out to God be like Peter and say Peter say say Jesus bid me to come to you come on sometimes sometimes we want Jesus to come to us oh come come come come come here come here but sometimes it's like Peter just realized and recognized woo here's a supernatural right here my friend my master is walking on water y'all he said bid me come and so here we go yes Jesus says come on and he starts walking on water but you know the story he began to look around at the elements and issues around him and he got his mind off Jesus and the Bible says he began to sink and Jesus had a reach down grab him by the hand and pull him back up and the story here's here's the cool thing s m f the story even Matthew doesn't tells the rest of the story but I just got to believe I mean if it makes sense Jesus pulled him back up to the top of the water and so I'm thinking to myself my God I do things and I think things and God I get in spiritual States I shouldn't be in but the good news is if we will rely and keep our focus on Jesus he's going to pull us back up oh don't you know Saint is nothing more than a sinner Who falls down that gets that back up again oh they used to sing that song We Fall Down we get up we fall down but we get up we fall down but we get up for a s is just a sinner who fell down but God up I feel the Holy Ghost in This Place I believe somebody has a problem in this place and you're just simply here today and you're saying I just made it to one more service I didn't know if I was going to make it or not but I'm here I just want to please please please I'm begging you don't leave with your problem why walk out of these doors with the same issue you walked in with uh come on woman with the issue of blood hasn't 12 years been long enough if you see it in your mind get your way into this Altar and Touch the Hem of Jesus's garment uh come on Peter come on Peter you've rode and you've toiled uh you're struggling to survive why in the world would you go down with the boat when Jesus is within our Arm's Reach say Jesus help me come on somebody you got to cry out you got to put pride aside and begin to cry out and say Jesus help me Jesus help me Jesus help me come on there's got to be a cry there's got to be a cry of desperation a cry that says Lord I'm going to petition as long as I have to petition I'm going to ask you every day in prayer I'm going to come to church early in the mornings and I'm going to ask you every single day until I see some results of my prayer and my petition I'm just going to keep on begging and keep on saying God B me come God heal me God save me God oh I like what I hear right now come on it's a sound of a desperate people it's a sound of a people that say I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired I'm sick and tired of living in this problem I'm sick and tired of living in this mess as for me and my house we're going to get right as for me and my house we're casting out Spears that don't belong as for me and my house we're going to live for God we're going to live for him with everything we are and we're going to live in the Supernatural come on before they begin to sing come on can we just lift up our voices uh we always say lift up your voice loud enough for you to hear I'm not saying that this morning I'm saying lift up your voice in a sound of desperation in a cry that says God unless you step in unless you step into this situation I'm going to die Lord God Jesus Jesus Jesus come on if you don't even know what to say that's okay just say Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus I see you come on I see people all over this place uh you're in a bad spot you're in a bad place uh but you don't have to leave in that place woo come on you're going to change locations you're going to change States you're going to change state of mind right here from my God from a person who's struggling to a person who's Victorious from a person who's fighting to a person who sees Liberty come on why don't you pray for somebody nearby we need one another you're my brother you're my sister take me by the hand together we'll work until he comes there's no fool that can come between us if we're walking side by side side come on as long as there's love as long as there's Faith we're going to stand together