Elements for a Miracle | Rev. Nathan Thornton

come on that's it let's just continue worshiping him oh we worship You Jesus thank you mom somebody shout hallelujah well my assignment it's pretty simple tonight to just tap into what's already here a deep reservoir of Revelation this church there's not many of them that have all five Offices of the ministry that really you call them offices or whatever that operating your worship service when you walk in this place these altars are easy they're not barren you can feel the spirit of prayer that's in this place now I know you probably can measure the dollar amount on this beautiful building every detail is unbelievable but probably the most expensive thing that is in this feeling is right when you walk through the door they are known and of the Lord that hits you and what you don't know is I preached my first revival for Bishop right after I got married and it was at that altar that the Lord called me to evangelize about 710 in the morning brother Erickson was I remember y'all were building your gym at the old property and brother Erickson was over there breaking concrete and I was the Evangelist so I went over there breaking concrete I was under the front row on the left side of the church pray and God called me to evangelize this church I'm just in all I'm refreshed I could go home right now with what has already happened in this this service don't you love this place don't you love what you feel if you got your Bibles to the book of Hebrews chapter 11 I give honor to Bishop and his wife and the Erickson's in their absence happy birthday Paris I hope everybody in here gives you a hundred dollar bill a man and the Hammond's and we certainly miss Nolan today in this wonderful church what an incredible incredible spirit of the Lord that is in this place today now you've got a you've got a pastor that invented preaching and so I feel absolutely no pressure to try to out preach the man that invented it but I am going to tap in to what is already here this is the kind of church you could preach on tithing you could preach on anything you wanted to and thirty people's gonna get the Holy Ghost and people are going to get healed because that's what could type a revelation that's in this place so tonight I'm just going to tap into what's already here and I'm gonna believe the Lord's going to do something incredible I give honor to my wife my three kids y'all pray for her she keeps them and they act like me and she has to take care of I don't know what her mother did but that's her punishment amen Hebrews eleven is six is good to have the Ark people here get to see my crew that come up for the wedding glad you hear and listen listen I love you dude I don't even know your God bless you you have in triplets is that what they said trip with twins they're multiplied that's what these altars do around here but I'm gonna just tell you I'm not proselyting you but if you ever get married don't ever leave this church I'll get me in trouble Hebrews 11 Jeff Burt chapter 11 verse 6 but without faith somebody say without faith it is impossible to please him for he that cometh somebody say that cometh that cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him I just want to talk to you just for a few moments tonight hopefully elements for a miracle elements for miracle to lift your hands and lift your voice and let's magnify the name of Jesus in this place I love you so much lord I feel your glory in this place I'll pray right now by the power of your holy word God that you would speak to us tonight God we bind every spirit of doubt fear confusion every spirit that would exalt itself above your knowledge we take authority over it right now we lose faith understand it in peace have free course in this place God do what only you can do Lord it will give you all praise and glory in Jesus name would you clap your hands would you lift up your voice a little bit louder than that hand pal god I praise you in this place I praise you somebody shout hallelujah may be seated we understand that faith is absolutely essential to everything that we do in fact in Luke 18 you find the parable of a widow who was going before an unjust judge the Bible teaches us that with her continual coming that she wearied him until he until he finally decided to do the request but the end of that great parable teaches us that when Jesus returns that he is going to be looking for faith is anybody got any faith in this place we have felt the reservoir the power the anointing of faith already in this service I'm reminded of the story when Jesus was setting on the whale and the woman who was had been married five times and the husband that she was or the man that she was with was it her husband Adams Clark says that that well that he said on is Drive of every day of the year except for one and it was the day that Jesus said on that well there's a reservoir of foundational faith that is in this place today a continual spring of water that lives right here in this sanctuary tonight some of you have walked in this place with great needs but I've come to tell you tonight that the answer is in the house tonight I know you look at the beauty of this great temple but what you don't understand is that this church has been built on something greater than just a beautiful magnificent building that the years added up to a promise that God has given a pastor that you would hear tell the stories that he would be praying in his office and talking through a cordless mic to the prayer room at an old church because there was something building in Merrillville this is a well-oiled machine this I know y'all are having a conference called the movement but I want you to know there is a movement inside of this fielding today I won't get better here in a moment there is a movement right in the middle of all of us in this place this church has not even seen the favor that is already moving in the atmosphere of the Spirit God has prepared a way and I've come here tonight to tell you that there's something different in the atmosphere I haven't been here in years and I don't know I don't know what you've felt over the last few years but I can tell you it's not because I'm here but there is something different in the atmosphere of this church there is something powerful there is something that God desires to do there is a work that God wants to do not just around the world but right here in Maryville Tennessee come on sir body can I tell you you want to know why people move here they come under the influence of their change in a job but no no no they felt something that was like a magnet I need to get to preacher when I took our church when I took our church in 2010 I wanted I looked at three churches that was having apostolic revival and I wanted to be and find out what they were doing three of them it was my home church it was this church and I'll just leave the other one alone but it was it was three churches that I looked into and Maryville was one of them and what I learned was that you build a church on prayer sale doctrine prayer sale doctrine and giving giving of money giving up I giving up their lives that's what I learned and I remember I remember when I'm not I know I'm on the way up so I'll be extremely careful tonight but I understand when I took our church we were 65,000 behind on our mortgage we were $18,000 missing in the tithe account to all really all I should say was we were broke y'all got what I'm talking about we were broke and I remember having trustee meetings and and crying all night my wife I'll remember weeks own in trustee meetings trying to figure out how to turn the ship around and and all I could hear was my bishop and your bishop and another great man of God preaching all I could hear was him preaching and I would go at the end of the month and I would say how much money we got in our account and Bishop all we would have would be $9 and I would say send it to missions now now I'm sure when they got that check at headquarters they grinned a little bit but I knew that God what go trust me with thousands until he could trust me with nine let me tell you what Marable sowed into our small our little Church in West Monroe we had our missions conference this weekend we've already taken in a hundred and seventy thousand dollars two hundred and fifty seven thousand dollars have been pledged you want to know what that's what happens with a nine see now I'm not preaching just about money I'm trying to get us to a level tonight that's already in this place if you knew outright the Spirit of the Lord was in this house everybody that needed the Holy Ghost would would get the Holy Ghost tonight so there's some things that we've got to do if we want to have a miracle faith is extremely powerful in its beginning state the Bible teaches us that faith in its beginning has the power to move a mountain where does faith start where the spade start I'm glad you asked faith starting point is extremely easy it starts when you believe that he is if you can believe that he is anything is possible any thing can happen among some people the majority of people that's in this building tonight anybody that believes that today what is he I'll tell you what he is he's better than a doctor he's better than a lawyer he's better than Mantha he's better than cocaine he's better than the alcohol he's better than the divorce somebody Satya he is he is he is so if you've got enough fake just to declare with your mouth that he is God and he is greatly to be praised I want you to know tonight he can't come in this place like he already has yes about a shot here if you want a miracle you got to learn how to position yourself somebody say position yourself you've got to anticipate his move let me tell you something let me tell you something this choir gives out cues to win he's ready to move come on your posture these men of God that lead the service they give out cues when God is getting ready to move you got to position yourself in Luke 19 Zacchaeus the Bible tells us he was he was small his stature was small and the Bible teaches us that he saw the way Jesus was going so he ran out in front of the Lord and he climbed the tree you want to know what he did he's broke his own limitations here's what I found out about the faith see faith will challenge every excuse that you have there's some of you you don't want anybody to know that you're struggling with your marriage but faith is willing to challenge you tonight before you end up in divorce court you need to try this halter because it's right some of you are fighting a sickness that's held you to appeal but they won't stir challenge that limitation and put you in the path of where people get healed can I tell you tonight you want to know what I like about the service that we're having I don't know if you got healed here in the choir or if you got healed during the preaching because healing takes place in this place at all time come on you need a challenge your limitations you said well I'll have to live I'll have to live to the altar will you walk back I'll need somebody to help me will you get part you need a challenge your limitations he said I might be shorter but I'm gonna climb my way up in the power climb my way up I'll get the attention of Jesus so if you want to get his attention you're gonna have to challenge your limitations or somebody in this building all to say I want God's attention Jesus is attention you gotta get in the right position you got to do the right thing I'm allergic to dead church Shh when we shall have a ditch I'm telling you I'm allergic to dead church I like spun spontaneity I like praise I like how running I know I can say it here I like tongue talking I like people getting a little crazy when I'm gonna tell you know what I like about it you a lot like about some of your gray headed folks were the one coming out of the pews when the choir was I like that you all know why because it challenges challenges limitation so I got a position myself hey number 2 Oh II got 47 of these number two you gotta leave the familiar as a guest preacher you won't know what the weirdest thing in the world to do is to walk in the church and worry am i getting somebody see that's all I could think of when I walked in this building like a little guy y'all give me a favor today don't let me sit nobody see we get familiar with things and don't get me wrong I love tradition but we can't we can't worship traditions can I say something the Holy Ghost today God's doing new things this is a new season for this church not a change in doctor this is a new season you haven't seen what God's gonna do in this place y'all y'all hear me right now this church is not an ornament on God's favorite tree this church is positioned for something great but if we're going to see it we gotta leave the familiar we gotta leave the familiar you want to know what I found out about Pentecostals we are sick and we don't even know it we're plying and we don't even know it you remember that blind man you remember that blind man that that wasn't invest Adia and the Bible said Jesus went and took him and grabbed him and led him out of town he led him out we got the school the blind and Ruston about 30 minutes from where our pastor and you can drive and and there's a lot of blind people there and man they can get around get around Ruston with no talk about and then they're teaching people and they come out with in big glasses and you're they can see and you're about to run over them because they're not in an environment that they were raised in and what I found that God is trying to pull us pull us out of some things that's uncomfortable its challenges or personality the way we think the way we talk our perception of church it challenges a lot of things in our lives but I promise you that's where the touch of God that's new territory and I'm gonna tell you what's not easy about new territory is when God takes you there you don't really know how to act or what to do but this church has been equipped for every territory that you go to what do you do I'll tell you what you do you do what you already been doing you let the praise of the church speak for God you let the worship connect us to something that's greater we gotta leave the familiar can I say something you not think I'm rude tonight but it's time for some of you to join the movement that's in this place you're comfortable behind your pews it's time for you to get out from among your pew I'm telling you some of you you've been itching in you've been itching in you like what you feel keep coming back do you like what you hear because it connects with your soul but something happen there's a restoration there's a redeeming power that's in this place some of the greatest soul winners in the all these pews come on missionaries imagine somebody gotta leave the familiar we gotta leave the famille we gotta leave the familiar when he got in there the Bible said he prayed for him well the greatest messages I've ever heard preached your pastor preached about this context this text in Scripture but he prayed for me touched him took his hand off and said can you see he said I see means and trees and he said touch him and and he prayed for him again I want you to pray for my thousand times just to prove that we live by the touch of God can I tell this church do you want to know why there's so much power here that's in this building because this church has done something that we haven't done in West Monroe and most churches don't do not conquer this church has broken the spirit of fear there's no fear here and I can sense fear because I've tried to pass her under the spirit of fear this church has said God if you point you'll provide you want to know why what's my brother's name is a grip you won't know why you're gonna have some of you better get ready they're gonna be taking some of your front seats you wonder why you're gonna have a revival because there's this church has conquered fear when you walk in you can feel faith you can feel the anointing you can feel something great I'm gonna tell you what would happen in this community is everybody in this building joined a small group or joined up with everything that's happening in this and that's the familiar that I I know I've been going here for years but we're gonna see apostolic revival we'll go see miracles signs and wonders I'll tell you what would happen you would see what is happening on a hundred time scale you would see hundreds receive the Holy Ghost in a first mom leaving the familiar number three number three is you got to be obedient and I love obedience my wife says I don't like to obey I just do it when she's not looking I love obedience John nine gives an incredible story about a man that was suffering and his his disciples it amazing don't you love people that are object lessons his disciples walked by him they use him as the object lesson and said hey Lord who's seeing this dude or his parents the Lord said no no no nothing nobody sin this is that the the works of God might be glorified or manifested in you officers do some of this looked at this he spit on the ground now you're not gonna find this on that what's that crazy religious that TV now I won't be honestly don't wait for me say something I'm I don't know what to say Oh naughty gotta fit me he spit and then he looks at that dude and says hey go wash in the pool salut for my house for where he was the dude had to walk blah in blind obedience he didn't understand he just knew I got I got a walk with blind obedience let me tell you what I feel in this church I feel such a powerful trust a spirit of trust in this building I'm telling I don't feel any divisive division I don't feel any of that I feel just some just just trust just trust I feel like this I feel like you folks you trust what's happening in here you believe what's happening in here but I'm gonna tell you we need to take the trust to one more level we need to go in blind obedience when God challenges you through the priests word of God you knew you need to just understand that at the end of the day there's power that dude went and he went down 36 steps into that pool and there was a reason why he had to go to that pool because when he went down to Washington that pool that water supply was from Mount Zion so really when he was washing his eyes he was washing his eyes in the name of Jesus and the Bible said when he washed his eyes he came he started seeing and he ran back and the people said my god this is that blind dude it looks like him but surely this is not human and it got to be such a debater that they called his parents and his parents said yeah that's our son but we don't know what happened he can speak for himself come on there's coming a revival to this church you're not gonna be talking about your grandmother or your mother you're gonna be saying to me come on you can have a miracle to speak for most I'm afraid I'm afraid that we've got healing in the church but we don't have wholeness some of you are fractured in your healing you still have you still have the residue of a divorce on you you still have the res of you of a broken huh or the residue of a broken home you you just you just you just you just you've come here you're part of here in the choir you can even swap would be nervous to death we're trying to get all rednecks to do that they're doing this you got your sway down but deep down inside you got the residue of all this brokenness these ten lepers they cried out in the Lord said hey go show yourself to the priest and they join the religious function and nine of them took off running to show the priest but the tenth one or one of them looked at him and said my god He healed me I don't have fingers but I can tell the leprosy has been healed again and the Bible said he went to Jesus and he got at his feet he started worshiping and the Lord looked at him and said well they're not ten where are the nine come on and in the man's lingering in the man's lean green he got homeless say what you know is when you linger around I know I know listen we're doing smile don't y'all got y'all don't feel any division I just feel like saying this is the old it goes you know got small groups and and trendsetters and I don't want to be in the trendsetters group i watch y'all wins tonight and just a carpenter guy here talked about all the energy and all the things that children that's the group I want to be in you know y'all there yeah y'all got all these different things going on this church listen it ain't just about lingering around the altar on the Sunday night it's about lingering around people that have found a wholeness you can only get that not in a worship service but in a lifestyle of worship can I tell you can I tell you you're at the right place this place was it just for you when you were broken this is the place that will make you whole again this is the place of wholeness somebody Sally now I've sermonize just a little bit now I got to go where I feel like the Lord wants to move in this place right now I've been afraid as a pastor we afar see the lack of miracles in our church it's not lack of preaching and sound doctrine and that produces miracles it's not the lacking of pure worship that produces miracle let me tell you something I was raised in the fire this thing I didn't get in church Psalm 16 my parents my parents back slid away from God and I got in church at 16 but my grandparents was in church and I remember them bringing my second cousin and laying her at the altar and my grandma are laying her in the living room for my grandmother putting it hair that she had been submitted to god about it and she put that hair on that leg that was twice as a baby it was twice the size as the other one and she prayed she said God I didn't do this for no standard of a church I did it because you said I would have power and I was submitted to the authority of your word and she said God she said you said when I prayed but you would hear me and I'm praying that this leg would be the saint she didn't pray for four hours but when she took that hair off of that leg that leg was the saint I was born in miracles you've come a you come a day late and a dollar short to tell me God Kate listen listen listen listen listen I think some of the most valuable faith is when people press through their sickness he come to the house of God I don't have all the answers I don't know why God doesn't heal everybody but can I tell you God still heals though and I feel something supernatural on this field and in the Holy Ghost that is so strong in this church it was here this morning is here tonight put that first picture up just let them pray this is how we have Church just a few few years ago just reach your hands right there father in the name of Jesus this six week sickness however long it's lingered we take authority right now this is your lady the first lady of this church there's a prophet that speaks through her God right now she's up she's up she's an instrument Oh God we come against it right now somebody shout hallelujah I believe God's gonna do it I mean you know you need a strong first lady I don't know how they do it I get tired just watching them a few years ago this is went for a few years ago he was diagnosed with stage 4 throat cancer a wisdom not a man of God came to our church he grabbed the microphone and he threw me an eraser he said whatever you give that to God will erase and heal well I drove he was having a surgery and I drove to that surgery and I put that eraser on his bed and we prayed in the name of Jesus and he went through and they told him it was Stage four and they started immediately in treatments and he had went through a couple of treatments and they let him come back home and he came back home honest owner on a Sunday night he was sick he was so sick he said I'm so sick of these treatments and and and he he come down to me at the altar see I believe God's gonna heal me and next thing I know he's out in the floor rolling rolling on the floor that's a big old dude I mean that's bulldozer and he's rolling well he rolled so much he come told me said man god's healed me he said God healed man here here here here here I am I'm like the doctor awesome and be honestly I probably do that a doctor can tell you you've been healed so so he roll and he said man this outdoor that doctor ain't doing no more treatments I said well you need go talk to the doctor you need to do some more tests and when they got there they said we can't we can't do no tests your insurance won't cover it we're not going to do the tests we need to just go to treatment where they took him back to do the treatment and while he was rolling he didn't realize he had missed that thing up so they tell him they said you know what they said you know we gotta fix that now good job pretty much good job bozo that's it that's the southward how they young how tell us about the other day we got sweet sweet tea here and I got God man to sweet tea that was so good he said we invented it Tennessee I don't know if that's true but I'm thinking no y'all take claim for everything so they took him in to do the test and here's what come up on the test that second picture that was in February 2015 that was in June and they told him they said we don't know what's happened but you've been healed I'm telling you you listen to me cards a healer he's a healer he's a healer he's a healer he's a healer he's a healer he's a healer somebody's chao-li's go heal me a cancer come on somebody says go heal me sugar diabetes somebody's gonna heal me of heart disease come on survival a guy can't heal me I believe he can heal me when I can't when I came to living when I came now it's called the Ark when I came to the ark I started giving a little group of guys Bible studies who immediately I was called to come to a funeral and that this funeral service I went in to do the funeral and it was the craziest funeral they allow people to get up and testify or say something and all over the audience they were getting up and they were saying things that wasn't even connected to the church and and I'm sitting there well how I got involved in that was a backslider from our church called me because she was dating this guy whose young brother had drowned and I'm sitting there listening to all these stories that are so disconnected from the church and all this and I'm thinking god why am i there and I looked and there was a young man there and the Lord spoke to me it was the girl it was the guy she was dating he said you're here for her why I went talk to him and got him to come to church on Sunday morning he was so scared he sit by the door he was scared man you know we can scare folks every once in a while he was scared he was sitting by the door we got side doors like these he was sitting on this side by the door and and he was trying to get out man I ran by the plant ran off the platform went and grabbed him and said Eric Samantha let me give you a Bible study y'all come to our house and we they came to our house and we started doing exploring God's Word and the backsliders she just wanted to talk about dinosaurs they're probably gonna watch this tonight look if you're taking somebody the Bible to it to a Bible study and you've been in church don't don't don't ask these guys about dinosaurs we don't know we're making it up I started pulling out morale corn well that was during the gap period okay y'all y'all get that someday but I started man so we scheduled it for the next Friday night and I went and prayed like I custom do when prayed before we gave the Bible said the Lord said look I want you to do it different I want you to come to mind I think it was the Lord my just been common sense but I think it was the Lord and I left my Bob about the church and they come in I looked at their cuz it man left my Bible to church let's go and I got him in that office and start talking to deer started coming down his face I baptized him on Friday night he went to you service just a couple of weeks later on a wizz denied you service and got the baptism of the Holy Ghost but here's what you didn't know about Eric Eric I believe he was 16 14 15 16 years old he was charged as an adult for for our second degree attempted murder he served eight years in an adult pennant or four years out of eight in an adult penitentiary he come out of that his home it was messed up his life was messed up everything about him was messed up we baptized him he got the Holy Ghost he's been a drug addict he's been in prison he's been messed up he does not have anybody in his family that he's even connected to the church and I'm gonna tell you we prayed him through God did a work in him he married Danielle he's got a master's or or a master's degree in counseling now and he's the biggest soul winner and he's a staff member at our church that's Eric right there he's got a baby girl right now let me tell you something to tell you something God can't do anything and I'm feeling I promise you I'm hurrying just give me a few more minutes I'm hurrying I'm hurrying we run buses we run buses we're in a real poverty area and I know when you're in different areas different kind of ministries work well one of ours is bus ministry and we were picking up Chris we're picking up Chris for seven years we were picking up this young boy I remember taking Christmas present we bless all of our bus kids with Christmas gifts and we took Christmas presents to his house I did not have a clue his mother was a backslide I didn't have a clue I didn't have a clue we were picking her boy up for seven years and in 2012 this lady walked in she was frail she looked like death and she walked in and she scooted in a Pew and I looked at her and I was like I know I recognized her but I couldn't place her so I walked back there after church and I'm telling him she looked like death and I shook her head and and I said how are you and and I couldn't I couldn't really I couldn't really figure out who it was so I was playing like how you know how we do and then I realized this Vivian that's Vivian that's Vivian and she tears was running down her eyes and I knew something was wrong she walked out the church I grabbed some I said what's going on with Vivian they said well she was just diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver she was an alcoholic we picked her boy up for seven years she was an alcoholic and she had been given a death sentence well I looked up Sunday morning the next Sunday morning here she come I looked up son and I hear she kind of looked up Wednesday night here she comes I look I just kept watching and every time she would come I'd look at somebody on the platform I said man her color looks really good here's Vivian put that picture up this is Vivian we picked her kid up seven years seven years that's Vivian she was dying of cirrhosis of the liver ant-man and I know they're sitting good and my god brother Hammond y'all y'all edit this but I looked at her finally I was like my god she's gaining weight I know that ain't good yet would have fed but not her case you're like she she was our cover her she was candid so what she would she look like damn and can I tell you can I tell you she came in probably the worst year I ever had in our church in 2012 that was part of the harvest of 2012 but here's the good story put that next picture the bus that picked up her boy she drives it now she don't only drive the bus on Sunday that picked up her boy but she drives the bus and keeps the kid at our catalyst program our addiction program she goes picks up people that were bound by alcohol and drugs and bring them to an environment I didn't say this when I was talking about Eric last year we baptize 40 people at least I was trying to think of them in the name the names of them today over 40 people was baptized because Eric drives a bus teaches Bible studies and he's going after those that nobody thinks has any any good in there but can I tell you what's on this church this church is a house of trend you walk in the right place this is where the Attic turns into a worshipper this is a place of miracles and signs and wonders you won't get to the right church come on look at your neighbor and say this is the right place this is the right stand with me tonight our felt himmat our felt emit at 9 942 i think it was when we walked through the entrance of this of these interests of this doors there's something special about this place it ain't because this buildings beautiful and it is but it's the anointing this is the place where the name some of you do you hear that sound that's the sound of deliverance right there don't let that scare you that's the sound of deliverance rapping when I got in church when I got in church I was so depressed source of thoughts of suicide messed up life you come in this you hear this music you you walk in your prayer room and you feel the wind of prayer before you walk through the doors when you come in here you won't know why your bishop and get up here and cry because there's something unique about this place I don't know who you are the night I got a feeling you ain't been here that much but you feel something different I never felt what you feel right now and let me just tell you what you feel right now this is real and if you were to take the mask off these beautiful people tonight you would find out there's ex drug addicts in lk x alcoholics people that went through divorce marriages that God put back together we're not perfect people we just found wholeness in his presence you know Baha Shia maja here's what I want to do tonight if you need God to deliver you of anything if you need him deliver you from alcohol drugs depression fear insecurity complacency whatever it is if you need God to deliver you I want you to come these altars are alive tonight won't you give God a chance tonight if you need a miracle in your body why don't you come you don't need a preacher to lay hands on you there's power all over this place tonight I come against cancer come on there's miracles in this house today come on why don't you come why don't you lift your hands high lift your boys lift your hair up to the heavens if you don't have the baptism the Holy Ghost God can fill you with it right now