The Theology of Thoughts | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter

will you stand with me in honor for the reading of the word of God tonight and I want you to turn with me to the Book of Jeremiah the book of Jeremiah chapter number 29 and we're going to read verses 10 and 11. and then we're going to go to the Book of Psalms and we're going to read verse number 40 and verse number 5 verse number 40. and verse number five If You're Happy and the Lord say Amen what an awesome crowd here this evening in the house of the Lord and of course our classes have been broken up and they're going and each are being taught a lesson on their age level and I've got I've had many many parents that's commented and thanked us for doing this on Wednesday evening that their child is somewhere in the building hearing the word of God and we're thankful for that I'm thankful for all the teachers that we have available for this Jeremiah chapter 29 and verse number 10 for thus saith the Lord that after 70 years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you and perform my good word towards you and causing you to return to this place for I know the thoughts that I think towards you saith the Lord thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you an expected an expected end Psalms chapter 40 and verse number 5. many oh Lord my God or thy wonderful Works which thou Hast done and thy thoughts which are to us word they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee if I would declare and speak of them they of course the they are the thoughts of God they are more than can be numbered tonight for a Bible lesson I want to teach on this subject the theology the Theology of thoughts the theology the Theology of thoughts place your Bibles down let's pray father I thank you tonight for your word Lord from your word we receive our guidance Lord from your word we receive our strength Lord from your word we receive our promises Lord from your word you speak to the weary one and Lord through your word you strengthen us God I pray tonight that for the next few moments that you would anoint your servant that I through the anointing of the Holy Ghost may cause this word to come alive inside of our hearts they allow it to chart our course before us Lord we'll give you that praise in the name of Jesus I do pray amen and amen you may be seated the theology the Theology of thoughts and of course the word theology here is the study of God the study the study of God theology is the study of God and so I've chosen as a the theology the Theology of thoughts and of course I am in reference I am in reference um pinpointing the god thoughts the god thoughts that we're having the god thoughts brother Erickson really stirred me up Sunday night I I don't know about I don't know about you but he really he really stirred my heart uh on the subject on the subject of thoughts that's that's that was my take away from Pastor Erickson's message Sunday night and uh just simply based uh you know if you are if you are what you eat then then you are the product you are the product of your thoughts you are the product of your thoughts and it really Disturbed my truly Disturbed me up um Monday and Tuesday I've just been pondering on this you know a lot of people believe how to correct their behavior is just to stop bad behavior well that's only part of it um it's only part of it to stop bad thoughts or wrong thoughts you have to replace you have to replace wrong Thoughts with the right thoughts you have to put the right thoughts in the place of the wrong thoughts you have to you have to put the right action or the right behavior in the place of the of the wrong Behavior it's just not a we're not going to get better just by restraining ourselves from thinking bad thoughts we're not going to get better just by restraining ourselves from doing bad behavior we have got to replace the bad thoughts with good thoughts and we've got to replace the wrong Behavior amen with the right Behavior so it's led me to this Theology of thoughts and of course Israel they had sinned and their punishment was to be in the land of Babylon for 70 years they they had been taken captive and they were in the land of Babylon and they were going to be there for 70 years now during this period during this period several false prophets rose up among the Captivity and began to tell them things like any day now we're going to go back to Jerusalem any time now thus saith the Lord we're going back anytime now and and of course this was although it might have been something they wanted to hear these were not God's words this was not what this wasn't what God had intended for them so in that scenario Jeremiah 29 and 10 is written and Jeremiah prophesies trying to correct the false prophets he says in verse 10 again we'll read for thus saith the Lord that after 70 years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you in other words you're not coming out next week you're you're in fact he told them to he told them to build houses plant Vineyards he told them to marry he said you're going to be here for 70 years but when 70 years is accomplished I will visit you and perform my good word towards you and causing you to return to this place those are all actions I'm going to visit you I'm going to cause you to return these are all this isn't what we would call as an action an action verse here now what caused the right action to take place verse 11. for I know the thoughts I know the thoughts in other words he's saying I know in 70 years I'm going to come and get you and take you back to Jerusalem now how do I know that's going to happen because of verse 11 I know the thoughts that I think towards you saith the Lord thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you unexpected in he says all this is going to happen in reality all of this is going to be a reality to you one day because God says these are my thoughts that's why they're going to happen they are my faults psalmist in Psalms 40 and verse 5 the psalmist wanted to give praise and glory to God and he says many many O Lord my God are thy wonderful Works which thou has done again this is action The Works of God these are actions that are being performed many oh Lord my God are thy wonderful Works which thou has done watch what follows and thy thoughts which are to us word they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee then watch what he says he's talking about Works he's talking about actions he's talking about actions but then he goes to God's thoughts and he says if I would declare and speak of them the them being God's thoughts they are more than can be numbered in other words God's thoughts that he has to us God's thoughts that he has are more in number God's mind is upon you and I tonight God's thoughts are toward you and I this evening now this word thought is the most frequent word in the Old Testament which refers and this this really got me this word thought in the Old Testament refers to a device a device or a purpose a purpose that is firmly fixed in other words when when we hear about a god thought when we hear about a god thought it is a device it is a device I I the only thing I know to use as an example tonight is my Apple watch that could be considered a device would you not agree with that that could be considered tonight a device why would we call it a device well because it fulfills a purpose it has a purpose by the designer everything this watch is able to do everything this watch is able to do had a purpose from the designer of this watch so using that tonight and using the word god thoughts is is God's thoughts is a device it is a device and we know that it is a device that is good for you and I is good for you and I we serve a good God so the thoughts that our God would have toward us are for our benefit they are they are good it is a it is a device or a purpose that is firmly firmly fixed now turn with me if you would to Isaiah chapter 55 and verse number six now one of the reasons I'm just kind of keeping our minds tonight on God thoughts on God thoughts because in just a few moments I'm going to turn the corner in my my Bible Lesson and I'm going to teach about our thoughts our thoughts now let's go ahead and settle it let's go ahead and settle it we can't compare our thoughts to God thoughts there's there's no comparison there's no comparison when we think about God thoughts God's device God's purposes are firmly fixed and our fickled thoughts that we have in our mind well let's see how it comes out here in Isaiah 55 and verse 6. seek ye the Lord while he may be while he may be found call upon him while he is near seems like that verse there is telling us we better take advantage of every opportunity that we have he said seek the Lord while he's near call upon him call upon him while he may be found or you you need to you need to seek the Lord seek the Lord while he may be found and call on him while he's near folks a word of a Word of Wisdom tonight take advantage of every spiritual opportunity you have if you get an opportunity to go to church go to church your health May one day render you unable to come to the house of God if you um you get an opportunity to sing sing you get an opportunity to lift your hands and praise God you better take advantage of that opportunity because you need you need to seek the Lord while he may be found and you need to call upon him while he is near take advantage of the opportunities you have to serve the Lord verse 7 let the wicked forsake his way let the wicked forsake his actions let the wicked forsake his behavior and the unrighteous man his thoughts isn't it amazing how we couple these two together actions and thoughts and let him return unto the Lord and He will have mercy upon him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon he said every one of you that have Wicked actions you need to come to the Lord every one of you that have Wicked thoughts you need to come you need to come to the Lord for he will pardon abundantly not just to Pardon not just pardon but he will abundantly pardon you look at verse 8 how's this going to how's this going to be fulfilled for my thoughts are not your thoughts neither are your ways my way saith the Lord stop thinking God thinks like you stop thinking God thinks like you God doesn't think like us his thoughts are are not our thoughts and how he works things out is not how we would work things out you see Israel at its best would have tried to turn around and fight with Pharaoh it never came in their mind that God would make a way through the Red Sea but God's ways are not our ways our thoughts not his thoughts now watch this in verse 10 as this stay couples together he Likens his thoughts for as the rain that cometh down and the snow from heaven and returneth not thither but watereth the Earth and making and maketh it bring forth and Bud that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the Eden now what she said what he says about his thoughts God's thoughts are productive God's thoughts are productive God's thoughts come down from heaven God's thoughts are like the rain and the snow that come down from heaven and the rain and the snow have a purpose they water the ground and the ground gives us our vegetation and the water and the snow fulfills the god-given purpose so what God is saying about his thoughts he is saying lift up your head and let my thoughts from Heaven come down upon you because my thoughts are a device my thoughts have a purpose in them and it's a purpose to water you to bring something out of you that is not visible right now you see the farmer puts the seed in the ground you can't see the seed anymore but let the rain come down let the Snows come down and then what is hidden in the earth will begin to resurrect through the dirt and you will begin to see it you see there's a there's so much in you and I tonight that needs to come forth but it can only come forth when I get out of my way of thinking my way of thinking may be I've messed up God doesn't want to deal with me anymore God can never use anybody like me I went too far and when God is saying just let me rain down on you just let me tell you that I'm going going to make I'm going to make a mighty person out of you can you say Amen verse 9 again for as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways my thoughts and your thoughts for as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven and returneth not thither but watereth the Earth and maketh it bring forth and Bud that it may give seed to the sower and bread to either eater so shall my word thoughts be that goeth forth out of my mouth it shall not return unto me void but shall accomplish that which I please and shall prosper in the thing where to I sin it now watch where God's thoughts come out God's thoughts come out of his mouth and that's important God's thoughts come out of his mouth what is God's mouthpiece today in our world God's mouthpiece is his word do we want to hear God's thoughts read the Bible do we want to hear God's thoughts listen to an anointed man of God preach the word and when you hear the man of God preach the word or you read the word in your devotion guess what you're hearing you're hearing the mouth of God speak his devices into existence for so shall my word verse 11 again for so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth it shall not return unto me void it shall not return unto me empty God's word will return to him with an answer God's word will return to him with an answer and here's the answer tonight Church here's the answer when God sends his word his answer comes back one of two ways God they heeded your word god they believed your word god they believe you're going to do everything that your word says and they're acting upon it God they're acting upon the word that you have given or the word comes back and the word says God they don't believe you God they don't believe you they don't believe that you're going to do what your word says that you're going to do I don't want that to be my answer from God God I believe every promise in the book is mine every chapter every verse every line I'm trusting in his love divine ever promise in the book every promise in the book is mine verse 11 again so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth it shall not return unto me void but it shall accomplish that which I please and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it for ye shall go out with joy now follow this now this verse here verse 12 is someone that has said yes Lord yes Lord I hear your word preach Lord yes Lord I hear the promise of the Holy Ghost preached that's for me Lord yes Lord I I hear that when we're baptized in your name it is for the remission of our sins yes Lord that promise is for me yes Lord I hear that when we get sick that we have the promise of healing by your stripes we are healed yes Lord that promise Belongs to Me Lord I hear that if I will become a covenant partner with you and honor you in tithe and offerings that you will live you will open up the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive yes Lord I claim that yes Lord I claim that we train up our children in the way that they should go and when they're old they will not depart yes Lord I claim those promises look at verse 12. for you shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace you see you want to change your climate if you want to change your emotions if you want to change your emotions start believing the word of God if you want to change your piece of you want to change your emotions stop leaning on your thoughts and start leaning on God's thoughts because God promised that he would never leave us and that he would never forsake us and that he would be with us always even to the end of the Earth God also promised us that no weapon formed against us will prosper he said well brother Cartman somebody's trying to destroy me did you hear what I said no weapon formed against you will prosper but every tongue will that rises up in judgment he will condemn that's interesting to put those two together the weapon that is formed is a tongue I got news for you friend if you believe God's thoughts God's thoughts isn't I'm going to come and die for them I'm going to come and I'm going to come and shed my blood I'm gonna come and make a way that they can come back in my presence oh and one devil is going to be able to destroy all those people that's not God's thoughts God's thoughts are we're more than conquerors we're more than conquerors through him that love to that's God's thoughts you we can set around and feel sorry for ourselves all day long and we can get in depression and we can get all by ourselves and like a dark room and we can we can just we can just get all by ourselves and feel all sorry or we can bring take out and say God these are not your thoughts your thoughts are not me be going down your thoughts are me coming up your thoughts are not me being in bondage your thoughts about me being a blessing if you receive that word would you praise him right now would you praise him right now if you receive that word when you change the Inner Man for ye shall go out with joy somebody shout Joy Joy you shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace now watch this the mountains and the Hills shall Break Forth before you into singing in other words people complain about their environment can I tell you that if you will get God's thoughts your environment around you can begin to work in harmony with you he says the mountains and the hills shall Break Forth before you into singing and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands instead of looking at your environment instead of looking at your surroundings and seeing and thinking everybody is against you why don't you get God's thoughts and start looking at your environment and then seeing the environment is actually for us the environment can make us into what we need to be in Jesus Christ he said the mountains are going to work in harmony the hills are going to going to clap the the Trees of the field are going to clap their hands and look at verse 13. instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree instead of the Briar shall come up the Myrtle tree and it shall be to the Lord for a name for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off he says stop thinking you're going to bring forth another thorn bush so stop this stuff of thinking I don't know if I'm going to make it I don't know if things are going to work out he says when you allow my thoughts to dominate your life you're not going to have the thorn anymore you're going to have a fir tree that's something you build with you're not going to have a briar anymore that's something you burn you're going to have a myrtle tree and then it's going to be for the Lord For A Name an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off but please don't forget where this whole thing took a turn for my thoughts are not your thoughts my ways are not your ways in case you have a hard time grasping this tonight creation the Earth that we live on is the visible work of the thoughts of God expressed everything you see on creation the beautiful mountains that you and I are privileged to live close by the beautiful scenery that we are privileged to live close by the breathtaking views of the leaves changing in the fall of the Year all of the beautiful streams and rivers and lakes all of the beautiful things around here when the sun comes up and goes down in the Moon can I tell you what it is I know what the world wants to think it is the product of evolution but you know what it is it's no more than the product of the thoughts of God expressed Express they were already there the Earth was already there in the thoughts in the mind of God the rivers the Lakes the oceans the sunrise Grand Canyons on and on and on was already there but they came into visible View in Genesis chapter 1 and verse number 3. and God said let there be light and there was light one translation says it this way God said light be and light was God said like me and light was where did light come from it was already in the thought of God it was already there all of creation was already there but it just simply had to be expressed through the word of God let there delight and there was light the fullness of the Earth's creation was already in the mind of God the thoughts they were changed from thoughts to matter by the expression of God speaking let's turn a little further for this Psalms chapter 19 and verse number 1. and I hope this evening and this actually may become a series I mean I may stay on this a few Wednesday nights but I hope that we can see the value of the preached word the value of the preached word because the preached word if it is the word is nothing more than the expression of God's thoughts that's what it is it's the expression of God's of God's thoughts you see it's God's thought for you to come to the altar but you would have never known that thought had a preacher not preached repentance right it is God's thoughts for you to be immersed in water in his name for the remission of your sins but you would have never known that until what expression and when that preacher preached it then you heard God's thoughts and yielded to God's thoughts Psalms 19 chapter 9 chapter 19 and verse number one it says the heavens declare that means speak the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth forth his handiwork day unto day utter speech night unto night showeth knowledge there is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard their line is gone out through all the Earth and their words to the end of the world in them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun stop right there we see right now that when God spoke creation into existence that now creation begins to speak the very thing God created begins to speak of a Creator it begins to speak of a designer you you you have to willingly fight against a designer when you look at creation you have to willingly struggle and fight that that there was a that there wasn't a Divine designer and the reason was there was a desire a Divine designer it was God and whatever God creates follow this now whatever God creates he creates it to speak for his glory that's why when God created the church we are a praising church we are a worshiping church because God creates things that will speak back to him and give him glory and honor why don't you do that right now if you consider yourself part of the church why don't you begin to speak back to the Creator tonight just speak back to him praise David spins four verses talking about creation has speech and then from verse 5 down to verse 9 he just he just hammers away about the value of the word of God from verse number five of this Psalm to verse number nine sister Carpenter he just hammers away at the value of God's word he comes to verse 10. Psalms 19 and 10 he comes to verse 10 he says about the word of God it is more to be desired or they than gold yea than much fine gold sweeter than the honey and the honeycomb moreover by them he's talking about the word is thy servant warned and in keeping them there is a reward look at this twofold thing here sometimes you got to understand the word of God's going to warn you it's not always going to be warm fussy sermons that make you feel good about who you are sometimes there's going to be a warning God's word is going to find you on a on a road where the bridge is out God's word is going to find you in a situation you're going in the wrong direction and he's going to warn you turn around go back don't come this way death and danger awaits you here the word of God is going to warn you or the word of God is going to reward you the word of God is going to keep saying keep on coming keep on doing what you're going what you're doing and you're going to receive a reward how many here tonight would say Amen to the fact that God's word has warned you before amen I led the pack amen God's word has warned me before but how many of us now with a shout can say that God's word has rewarded us God's word yes God's word has given us so many rewards in our lives and oh I praise His name tonight but listen to what David closes out the psalm with this chapter 19 this chapter 19. where David talks about creation being nothing more than the expression of God this chapter 19. where creation is the is the visible thing of the thought visible matter of the thoughts of God how do you end the chapter you end it with verse 14. let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable unto thee be acceptable in thy sight O Lord my my strength and my redeemer this psalmist looked back over the power of God's word and the power of God's thoughts this psalmist stood in awe at creation that creation was nothing more than the expression of God's thoughts and he saw the power of thoughts and he had to end it by saying by saying these words let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight O Lord my strength and my redeemer he had to stop and he just said said every word that comes out of my mouth is the expression of my thoughts and so he was saying let my thoughts be acceptable unto thee Oh God Let My Words God what I speak I want you to be pleased with God Lord when I begin to talk I want you to be pleased with I'm talking God lord you're not only listening to me during a praise and a worship service but you're listening to me tonight when I go out to the restaurant and I sit down and I began to have Fellowship God I want you to be pleased Lord I want you to be pleased with my words oh God come on can you give him a praise right now I want you to be pleased with my words it's interesting we go to the Gospel of John go to the Gospel of John chapter number one John chapter number one and verse number one John John begins it this way in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the word was God doing no harm to the Bible tonight doing no harm to the Bible but it can very well be read like this in the beginning was the thought and the thought was with God and the thought was God I had an illustration tonight and um sorry I got in a hurry to get to prayer and left my illustration on the desk in my office but the illustration I wanted to use tonight is the plans for the sign the church sign out front it's the plans for the church sign that's out front right now it it it shows the How deep the foundation would be it shows how tall how wide the brick the block the electric shows everything about it shows everything about it it is it is a set of blueprints but how many knows that though that set of blueprints isn't the sign because you have the blueprints doesn't mean you have a sign just the blueprints so using that in the beginning was the word the thought and the word thought was with God and the word thought was God this word here w-o-r-d is logos which means thought or reasoning it can be defined as a word a word uttered by a living voice a conception an idea the first time we have written in history of this word being used a Greek philosopher first used the term logos around 600 BC that's 600 years before Christ to designate the Divine reason or plan which coordinates a changing Universe in other words he used this this word logos that this must be the thoughts of the Divine designer change must be the thoughts of the Divine designer but understand something with me in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the Word was God John 1 14. and the word same word John 1 14 that he's talking about in John 1. and the word the thought the concept the idea was made flesh and dwelt Among Us and we beheld his glory the glory as of the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth you cannot see thoughts you can see actions but you cannot see thoughts in the beginning was the thought and the thought was with God in the beginning and the thought was God what is this thought John 1 14. and the word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld you can't see a thought but when the expression from God the thought becomes flesh the thought becomes flesh the spoken word of God that caused creation that same spoken word of God spoke over a virgin Girl by the name of Mary and it was God's thought before the creation of the earth it was God's thought to love us it was God's thoughts to save us God hasn't left us alone please anyone here tonight that feels like that God has just pushed you to the side and not interested in you anymore that's a lie that's a thought that doesn't come from God he has more thoughts about you and I than we can number them and I believe that he ought to be praised tonight I just believe that he ought to be loved and worship shipped and ignored but when God spoke over that virgin girl when the Holy Ghost overshadowed her verse 14 and the Word was made flesh and dwelt Among Us and we beheld his glory the glory as of the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth go down to verse number 9 18. no man has seen God at any time the only begotten son which is in the bosom of the father he hath declared him how is it that no man has seen God because God by nature is a spirit and our eyes are not capable of seeing the spirit of God so God you can't see thoughts so God expressed himself just like the planet is the expression of God that's why come on Church let's take care of our planet let's take care of let's don't be foolish with our planet let's take care of this but let's not believe that our care for this planet is going to keep this planet either going down or staying up the Sun is going to shine until the Creator says you've done the work I've called you to do everything is going to work in harmony until the Creator says so don't go to bed fearful about the ozone layer don't go to bed fearful about an ice age and global warming and all of this hoop law this Earth is the expression of the creation of God and it's going to last as long as God says for it to last Jesus Christ is an expression of God to give us salvation he is to give us salvation and listen listen Jesus Christ is more sure than the sun coming up in the morning because there's going to be a day the Sun is going to not not going to shine but there'll never be a day that Jesus is not our God we ought to rejoice in this tonight and we ought to give him praise speaking of his Humanity speaking of his Humanity of humanity Humanity of Jesus Christ in the beginning was the word the thought the plan the idea the thought the unplanned the idea was with God and it was God and the thought became flesh and in Hebrews chapter 10 and verse number five Hebrews chapter 10 verse number 5. it simply says wherefore when he cometh into the world he saith sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not but a body thou Hast prepared me and burn offerings and sacrifices for sins thou God has had no pleasure then said I lo I come in the volume of the book it is written of me to do thy will o God above when he said sacrifice and offerings and burn offerings burn offerings and offerings for sins thou witness not neither hath pleasure therein which are offered by the law then said he Lo see I come to do thy will o God he taketh away the first that he may establish the second by the which will we are Sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all every high priest stand up daily ministering and offering often times the same sacrifice which can never take away sin but this man but this man you see you you need to understand and understanding the godhead and understanding Jesus Christ there were times he spoke as God and there was times he spoke as man why because he is both he is fully God and he is fully man and here Paul uses Old Testament prophecy to say that God was never pleased with Old Testament sacrifices of sheep and goats and Bullocks and oil and all of this God had no pleasure but God had a plan it was written in the volume of the book God had a plan and that plan was a body thou Hast prepared me in the beginning was the word the Word was God the word was with God in the Word was God and as that prophecy is being fulfilled he says a body you had no pleasure in the Old Testament sacrifices but a body thou has prepared me you had no pleasure they stood in Daily offering and ministering but it could never the end of verse 11 take away sin but look at the first three words in verse 12 but this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever sat down on the right hand of God from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool for by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are Sanctified can I tell you God doesn't have to do one thing for me Calvary is the great picture of an eternal flame in love that cannot be put out there was enough blood shed at Calvary to cover our sins tonight oh dear One Stop pleasing God that stop fleecing God to find out if he loves you put your eyes back to Calvary and there on Calvary he shows you this is how much I love you and this is how much I care for you you ought to you ought to boldly Proclaim that the devil is a liar tonight you ought to boldly Proclaim that there's not enough condemnation to drown the love that was shed for us at Calvary oh on Calvary what love was shed oh on Calvary what love was shed for you and I on Calvary the Bible simply says and I come to a close tonight the Bible simply says in first Timothy chapter 2. and verse number five First Timothy Chapter 2 and verse number five for there is one God and one mediator between God and Men the man the man Christ Jesus the man Christ Jesus the expression of God in the thoughts and in the minds of God and hasn't it worked hasn't it worked hasn't it changed our lives oh has it I'm not just simply talking about the Earth as a creation it works it works but I'm talking about something more the purpose purpose for creation is it creation the purpose of redemption the purpose of creation was Redemption hasn't it worked hasn't he changed our lives because God's thoughts are not our thoughts God's ways on our ways and your thought may be that that person can't be reached that God's thoughts are that they will be reached he will touch them and he will save them they will call upon him and he will hear their voice and he will be saved they will be saved so I just found a good place to stop tonight but I do believe if it be the will of God that next Wednesday night I'd like to divulge I'd like to go into connected to God we can connect our thoughts to him and just as powerful as God's thoughts are if it is God's will if it is God's will and we connect our thoughts to him that our thoughts can lead to the right actions and our actions can turn our lives our our actions can turn our lives all around do we not see it so plainly in the parable of The Prodigal Son what was his thoughts I'm tired of Father's House I'm tired of the restraints I'm tired of all of this father give me he never made that request brother Nolan until he first had that thought father give me and the father gave him he ended up in sin but guess what turned him around somebody help me tonight what turned him around when he came to himself what does that mean he started reasoning in his mind he started reasoning in his mind when he came to himself he said how many servants in My Father's House have bread and up to spare and I'm here dying with hunger I will arise what is that a thought I will arise and go to my father what is that a thought and I will say to him father I'm no more worthy to be called thy son make me it's one of thy sermons and he arose he would have never got up from his Pig Pen until he first had the right thoughts oh friend if we can connect our thoughts to God it is God's will for us to be happy it is God's will for us to have joy it is God's will for us to be dynamic Witnesses for him it is God's will for our children to be saved it is God's will we just need to think those thoughts would you stand with me right now and I want to employ I want to employ every person here tonight I'm stopping just a few minutes early this evening because on Friday night on Friday night on Friday night will be our school program we don't have a school in a daycare of course our school our school's mission of the school is building character in our children a christ-like environment a quality education and a christ-like environment and I'm thankful for our children that have a school to go an Apostolic Christian school to go to and then when we allow those that are not of this Faith or not of this church to come here our goal is to evangelize them our goal is to shine the love of God on them we're not in the child care business to be in the child care business we want to meet the people in this community and we have such a beautiful staff of child care workers anointed anointed people that are child care workers here that that are ministers ministers in in their own right their ministers and so I want to take just a few moments in my life for everybody to help me but could we just just make sure that at the end of every Pew somebody is praying at the end of every piece somebody's praying if you see due to our class being our classes being out there's a few sections of empty pews here there's a few empty pews and I almost stand there for a moment make sure if somebody's at the end of every pew thank the Lord thank the Lord thank the Lord thank the Lord oh God Of Heaven oh god of Heaven tonight Lord we call out upon your name Lord I pray God for sister Flannery and the staff of people that she has Lord I pray for our audio and I pray for our video technicians Lord that God this production that will be going on here Friday night Lord I pray God for the message to come through clear God to come through loudly oh God oh God I pray for people Lord I pray for God the people that will come here on Friday night Lord God that will not be here any other time but come to to hear and to see their children or grandchildren oh God would your spirit use this program Lord with your spirit God use to tell the truth God lord Jesus use o God ACA use this daycare God lord I pray for the parents it'll be here Lord let a word be spoken Friday night God let a word be spoken Lord in this place that would cause some weary warrant tired somebody God that that's at the end of the Rope somebody God that that may even be contemplating ending their life oh God In The Name of Jesus Lord use this program on Friday night Lord use this holy atmosphere God lord use it for your glory use it for your honor God Lord let Souls have a light to shine upon them Lord let Souls God that that are in Satan's grip Lord let the love and the Holy Ghost Friday night begin to move upon their hearts oh God begin to move upon them Lord God let your hand be upon them tonight Lord oh come on Church let's lift up our voice let's pray over this Soul let's pray let's lift up our voices come on oh let it be done tonight Lord let it be done tonight Satan we come against you in the name of Jesus Satan we do spiritual warfare against you in the name of Jesus Satan these children Lord they need to be brought up in a daycare where they can hear prayer they can hear the songs of Jesus they need to be brought up in the school Lord where they have rush hour where the presence of God begins to move Lord move upon them God move upon them Friday night Lord move upon them my prayer my heart my my heart God move upon them Friday night touch them in Jesus wonderful name we pray amen and amen God bless you see either Friday night or my see tomorrow Thursday night or I see you Sunday for sure God bless you dismissed in Jesus name