Rejoice

come on pray with me right now before we go to the word lord god today we are thankful for the miraculous move of your spirit in our church we thank you lord for all that you have done and all that you plan to do in advance we thank you you have shown yourself strong lord god today in our assembly we have sung the songs of zion we have prayed god and called upon your name and now lord we look to your word for health and strength in our bodies the bread of life lord to lead us i make myself available to you jesus one more time that the anointing of the lord move in this place lord i pray let the glory of the lord reign down upon the congregation we come lord expecting today we come lord in faith believing god oh come on somebody the holy ghost can move on you right now that's right jesus can do something in your life right now hallelujah holy is the name of the lord worthy is the name of jesus hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah for revival it's coming it's coming it's here yeah yeah jesus jesus thank you for everybody involved at cornerstone singers musicians teachers parking lot folk water putter routers greeter smiling face anything that you do for the kingdom i want you to know i love you and i thank you for that it is as unto the lord amen thank you all so much y'all ready before you sit down we're going to read the word from the lord that okay that all right psalm 107 you probably already have it memorized if you don't open your word go to your app or trust the preacher and see how far that gets you psalm 107 21 oh that men would praise the lord for his goodness for his wonderful works to the children of men and let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving come on and declare his works with rejoicing oh that men would praise the lord for his goodness oh that men would praise the lord for his goodness hallelujah his wonderful works toward the children of men somebody turned around to somebody else and say i rejoice with you today come on tell them i rejoice with you today and you may be seated if you feel like you have to stand here today with a full heart we as a church family and as individual families there have been trials and challenges for sure somehow the mercy and the grace of god have allowed us to come to this place today and i will say it one more time from this sacred desk god has made a way god has made a way you saw the numbers moments ago how what seemed to be an impossible god began to put a little bit of light and shed some hope to it the giant question that we all face even right now is can we and can god will we and will god i say to you right now as a pastor and as a man i understand challenges i do i know that god has a purpose and a plan for all things that we go through on planet earth amen but i also know that a short time ago the lord began to move on our congregation and things begin to settle into our assembly give me just a moment if you would the spirit of god began to move therefore i realize the hand of the enemy begins to move because the entity would like nothing less than to try to distract you and destroy you and bring you to doubt and fear therefore i know when my phone rings or when the text message comes or when somebody broadcast online or on the app that i've got this problem devil's chasing me things are happening problems are at work things are going on in finances stuff's happening here and there i'm convinced nothing has changed except somebody is lifting your head towards jesus and if you'll ever get your eyes off of what's going on around you you're going to discover there's a whole lot of stumbling blocks that have been placed in your path some of them you put there but the lord has given somebody hope today and faith to say but i'm looking beyond i'm looking for a city whose builder and maker is not man i'm looking for the there and then and not the here and now i'm interested in streets of gold and gates of pearl i'm interested in seeing my grandparents my dad i'm interested in seeing loved ones that have gone on before me if anybody wonders today what i'm talking about allow me to remind you one more time heaven is still in view the gates of heaven i'm still marching toward i realize that it's straight and narrow but i'm making my way to heaven you can have what you want of this world but as for me give me jesus i rejoice with us today we are here this is our sabbath turn your neighbor say sabbath now i know that we're smack dab in the middle of part of the country where there's questions about is it saturday or sunday i come to tell you i had a sabbath last week on tuesday because by the definition of the word it's a reflection and remembering of what god has done and then loving him for it so i come today on this sabbath to tell somebody look what the lord has done he's making a way he's providing he's healing he's putting back together he's opening doors he's putting things into place i know that a hundred thousand dollars might be easy for you but i'm trusting that god knows what he's doing and the next that we need god's gonna make a way i believe that somebody can believe god for great miraculous things and if you'll trust him open your face up to believe god can do anything he will we ought to take some time every time we remember the goodness of the lord we ought to take time that's why if you don't pray every day shame on you if you were able to climb out of your bed in the morning you ought to pray you ought to talk to the lord i thank you one more time i believe you one more time listen to pastor if you've got some lost loved ones in your life you better pray come on you've done done all you can do now let god get in there and do what he can do you have seen the hand of god move i have witnessed with my own eyes the provision of the lord and now here we are where do we go from here i am encouraged about what god is doing but i am also still doing what god is encouraging us to do i am moving forward where do i go from here how do i do the next step who do i talk to next who has money to help us and who doesn't have money and who will and who won't and on and on it goes but i've come today to tell somebody that psalmist wrote it like this in psalm chapter 37 verse 23 the steps of a good man are ordered by the lord and he delighteth in his way though he falls he shall not be utterly cast down for the lord upholdeth him with his hand i'm encouraged today to tell somebody god will order our steps if we are seeking the righteous ways of god he will show us what to do next i know that he will encourage somebody to pray a prayer of faith that will lift your family above the doubt and fear i'm believing that god is demonstrating one more time he is still a healer he's still a waymaker he's still a deliverer god is still god so what is our church at cornerstone look like in the future well look around you some of you got mad i don't want them in heaven with me i don't know they're bothering me over there ain't no even worse and i'm joking i'm joking i'll tell you one thing i do know is i'm not really sure what it's going to look like i do know that we live in a world that's hurting and falling apart and crashing it appears to they have lost their minds so i have to stand here and i have to look at myself and say am i going to judge them or am i going to love them and if i love them am i going to be okay with how they turn out you see there's one thing about helping an apostolic stay apostolic that's a chore in and of itself but somebody who doesn't even know about the power of the blood of jesus you begin to demonstrate to them how the cross of calvary applies to their life and you watch the lights come on and their heart begin to swell there is nothing like a new baby born into the kingdom they wake up in the middle of the night crying and hungry they get up early in the morning eating their diaper change they come to church with all kind of issues and problems and we're either going to do one of two things we're either going to help them nurture them feed them allow them to grow or we're going to let them die on the vine i declare the whole counsel of the lord we're going to be a church that loves jesus and loves the folk that come through the doors we're not going to pass judgment we got no judgment to pass because such were some of you some of you were walking in drugs some of you were walking in alcoholism some of you were walking in lifestyles that would embarrass your parents but today you're under the blessings of an almighty god who says i'm coming to save your soul from a devil's hell i've come today to rejoice why because god is making a way god is opening doors it is time to activate your faith it is time to activate your story it's time to tell your testimony it's time for you to consider what are the possibilities with god i'm on bear strong again sports reporter on thank you for being my friend i could have asked him last sunday can god do a miracle in your life and he might would have should have said you know i really think he can why because the redhead won't leave you alone and because a little squeaker won't leave you alone talking about their little one right i'm using him as an example and only god knows why we do dumb things in our lives but the rain falls on the y'all know that one but also falls on the smart and the not so smart next time note to self don't use rubber gloves gotcha okay but he's standing with the pain in his body and his wrist and fingers all twisted and mashed up and swollen and blood and all of the stuff that's there and his wife texted me please pray pastor ron's hurt his hand and he's crying well i would too bet i can cry more me and payne don't like one another what do i do all right you've already done the first thing you prayed now take his hand and stick it in a bucket of cold water and ice and leave it there as long as he can stand it i don't know what else to do that's what my mom did i bruised my nose one time and i questioned that no your head needs to be in the bucket it's something i'm joking nine minutes in it's done it's i'm joking i'm joking he's gonna go get an x-ray what'd i say of course he is he needs to confirm and then for whatever reason his poor little wife says i don't know what but god touched him and he's not broken now the reason that that excites me is because in the midst of all the stuff going on in his faith saying god there's more god there's something else listen to pastor in him what feeling is like a stagnant state i know god's there and i know god can but step after step wondering just saying god is there something now god simply steps in and says watch what i can do in this pain and as the miraculous happen and the miracle begins to unfold there is only one thing that is undeniable the hand of the lord god came and the voice of god spoke and the healing virtue of the cross of calvary flowed therefore today that's a different man he's going to stand here now and say look what the lord has done i don't know how else to claim it but god's done it now y'all hear this preacher right now some of you sitting under the sound of my voice or you're watching online you're wondering where are the miracles of god why is all this bad stuff happening to me could it be that the lord god is positioning you are in a place so that the miraculous can begin to unfold and you too can stand and say look what the lord has done he's healed my body he's touched my mind he saved me just in time he put me on the straight and narrow i declare i rejoice god answers prayer if you know what i'm talking about would you lift your hands to the lord and say yes huh time to activate time to allow god to be victorious in your life listen to this listen sometimes i have moments you may know what a moment is the moment could be a lot of things for a lot of folk it's kind of like when you when you figure out something man i should ought another run in front of that car that's a moment or as you get older i get lots of moments now but it's him skateboard don't even think about it don't i don't care it's just four little wheels yeah i know come on somebody dare double dog dare me i'm saying take the dogs i ain't doing it you ain't gonna you're gonna proud me into that thing no i look at that i'm smart settles in that's like climb that ladder and go up there and do that thing that ladder this one mm-hmm let me make a phone call i made you skinny fella and light fella to come over here for a minute listen to pastor listen to pastor i want you to notice something i have learned in my life that i can complicate things so well i can confuse things i can blow things apart i can get things so out of whack that i can't even see god in the midst of it because my humanity is so frail and fragile but i have also noticed this jesus spoke in matthew listen to this chapter 11 he wrote it down so that we as a church would not forget it matthew 11 and 12 and from the days of john the baptist until now hear this the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence the violent take it by force jesus is giving reference here and we have seen this lotus and in your king james version the letters are in red this would have been spoken by the master that the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence he's referring to the word of god becoming flesh dwelling among us jesus through the story of how he was going to be born it was prophesied about years decades centuries before now comes to this place from the time hear this that the voice of almighty god for the generation began to be preached and spoken from that moment the kingdom of heaven begins to suffer violence i've looked at that often and i've wondered in my mind how can it be that you associate violence with the things of god how can it be that violence can be connected to the name of jesus and i looked at it and i prayed over and i saw it and i said god help me to understand it and this was the understanding i feel like that i've come to understand this the kingdom suffers violence because there are systems of the world that are fighting tooth and toenail against the plan of god there's the devil himself trying to do what he can do to thwart and to sidetrack the plan and the system of god there are things happening on your job in your family in your home in our culture that is fighting against the things of god and the bible says that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence there is a battle that's going on there's something that's trying to battle in war against what god is trying to do and things are coming against the things of god john the baptist being the chief of them how that everyone mocked him look at this guy coming wearing those clothes screaming about repentance and turning around and from that moment violence began to demonstrate itself in such a terrible hope looking way that it distracted people and folk began to die at the sword things begin to happen because they were trying to stop kingdom of heaven y'all hear the preacher today the violent take it by force now i have at that particular point begin to say well there's the church we stand up and we violently go in and we violently fight for it man was i ever wrong understand the preacher today we're going to rejoice the devil and the systems of our world are fighting against the plan of god what john the baptist brought into this world was a word of faith to tell people repent turn from your wicked ways i know that today listen to this preacher i know in 2022 this message is unpopular you see there's a lot of religions hear this religious systems in our world that are drawing battle lines against the church the true church of the living god they're deciding you hear this preacher that if you can shake a hand and you can wave something and you can read a prayer that everything's going to be all right that you're going to have prosperity and you're going to have this and that because that's what god does for his people and there's all kind of lies in our world that's rumbling even through the church age telling folk listen you just need to believe you just need to shake a hand you don't have to get all excited you don't need to be all caught up in that you don't need to understand and do all that the holy ghost outpouring speaking in tongues for them it's not for us today you simply got to believe you simply just gotta walk into it and i begin to look at this and i'm trying to figure out if the violin are going to take it by force then help me god to understand the systems of our world in 2022 there is a messenger that is weaving itself into the culture of where you and i live and in a simple beliefism god's gonna wash it all away heaven is still out there the devil can't do nothing to you just simply stand up you want saved you're going to be saved it don't matter what you do i've come to tell somebody that the violence that was happening against heaven is still happening today and the violence are trying to take it by force but i stand and i declare devil you're not going to get cornerstone apostolic church up you're not going to get the true believers you're not going to get those who still believe in the word of god there are some that are violently coming against i have no reason to be violent against anyone some in this room even some watching online would declare where we're just supposed to love everyone we are we're just supposed to embrace everyone true but i come to tell you my granny taught me when i was little not everybody's going to heaven well why not because you didn't make heaven foreign there weren't 15 crosses there weren't 35 places there weren't 15 000 religions or thoughts there was simply the word of god became flesh dwelt among us hear me and as that was established john the baptist began to scream and preach coming out of the wilderness repent you better turn around from that stuff it's a lie from that moment the kingdom of heaven suffered violence we better stop the church we better stop that message we better keep them from doing that it was even our spoke to the last week about it come on when the miracles happen with peter and john going in the temple only thing they could tell to that man was this you go home and don't say nothing about it we don't know what to do with this stuff we don't know how to handle this stuff we don't know we don't understand the true power of the name of jesus oh but honey i do why because in the midnight hour when my wife's laying on her bed sick and doesn't know what to do i know the power of the name of jesus i declare it over her daily when i pray over my children lord i don't know where they'll go today but i know the name of jesus can go before them come after them and go beside them therefore the violent are trying to stop the true message of the word of god but i've come to declare chattanooga there's still a church that believes in the whole council of god it is going to be by the blood of jesus christ it is going to be by the name that's above every name there is no no other name like the name jesus there's none other given among men whereby you must be saved only the name of jesus stay with me a minute jesus was walking in shoe leather people have attempted so many times to make their own way their own place in heaven the world its systems have attempted to tell everyone else listen heaven is just about you're eternal therefore peace love dove let's all just hooky juki into the heavens hear me there has been an onslaught in the last several years against the word of god and onslaught even from religious sects about the word of god pastor how do you know that because i see a lot of folk today in our culture and in our world are white sepulchers full of nothing they deny the power in the name of jesus pastor then why is it that other churches and other denominations are growing and they have the miraculous happen because miracles don't depend on man come on the voice of god spoke into a world it repents me that i made this i need you to build an ark for the saving of your family in the midst of all the chaos the negative and the junk god spoke to somebody and noah began to work and he began to work in the midst of all the junk and the trash and all the things and the sin that was going on this man knew who was working and the day came when noah went into that ship oh here's somebody into that ark and the waters begin to fall the animals began to come and here's noah standing or saying okay here we go back it in elephant you're a big dude where am i going to put the mouse i'm i don't know all this stuff happening in god's plan you tell me that god is not going to move in the midst of darkness and chaos i've come to tell you right now today in this house was a clear demonstration that you've had a week from hell in your life you're confused you're concerned you wonder it don't make sense but when you got into the presence of the lord somebody began to lift her voice someone begin to praise god and rejoice and in the midst of all of that the angels of the lord come in and they encamp round about those who are called as children and they begin to set up oh hear this they set up in bushments in encampments and they begin to say come on devil get on in here if you want to i'm taking care of the church of the living god there's nothing that can be formed against them that will prosper there's even some today who would say there's no place called heaven heaven's a state of mind oh lord help us all my mind can't conceive it the best i can come up with is meatloaf day at my house oh now here you go come on said hang on to me huh y'all you listen to this just a moment more than ever before now more than ever before the church must be the church we must show his plan and his love we must live according to his will now some of you sitting here are somewhat uncomfortable at this point because you're looking at me saying well yeah but can't we just love everybody and everybody get along i'm all for that but it's not going to happen you know why i know that because humans have gotten involved in the plan and from the beginning god knew that that's why jesus even told the church in the new testament they're going to hate you for my name's sake they're gonna take you like sheep to the slaughter and want to kill you there for my name's sake you're going to do things and they're going to question and wonder why and i'm going to be there with you why because they will hate you for it i'm standing reading this in the word and i'm saying ain't nothing like being hated until i get it closer to the name jesus and then i realize you know what take this whole world but give me jesus i'm not turning back right now what our city needs is jesus come on we're all very aware of what's going on downtown in our city of the gangs that are busting out things that are happening shots fired and we hear it every weekend you get your paper out you listen to the news somebody else shot somebody drove through a crowd somebody says he got a gang with that that and i'm sitting here going lord help us can we just trust you for things all the while i am reminded there is violence in the spirit world that's happening and if the world could ever get the church to a position to where we stop believing that it is still the name of jesus then the church has lost and the world has won but i've come to tell somebody paul wrote it this way to the ephesians and chapter 4 verse 1 i therefore the prisoner of the lord beseech ye that you walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called with all lowliness and meekness with long-suffering forbearing one another in love endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit and the bomb the peace there is one body and one spirit even as you are called in one hope of your calling one lord one faith one baptism one god and father of all who is above all through you all and in you all one is the key here that was being presented to the church understand that if the one true living god has established it it will last through all the generations it doesn't matter who tries to stop it it doesn't matter what they say or what they throw against it today i've come to rejoice with you for the simple fact that god is exercising the faith of the saints to say i'm going to sacrificially give into the kingdom and therefore the battle is going to be on but i'm going to stand victorious in the name of jesus christ you cannot walk away at this hour you cannot throw in the towel at this moment but church it is time to be praying like you've never prayed it is time to believe like you've ever believed it is time to trust that every step you take god is going to move faith is working faith is working if we truly understood faith hear this there would be no reason to have faith brother herb would you come helped iran out he needs it come on if you understood everything you wouldn't have to have faith would you you would just simply will it and it would be but faith says what evidence but things it's what i hope for but i don't see it i wish i could but i can't count it out i can't shake it loose i'm simply going to have to have faith in god do you realize that your journey will start when your faith in god activates lord i don't know what to do next good put your foot down good move lord i'm just going to hold pattern here for a while till i figure it out and all the while heaven's drawn closer hell is getting wider they're in a building program you know that right they're widening their gates i know there are many that would is anybody i know you don't have to answer this because you'll be slow about it anyway are you a procrastinator oh oh yeah i just demonstrated it right there some of us if the lord were to ask you to do something right now that sounded so outlandish would you the lord asks you to say something to somebody right now that just sounds so out of whack would you if the lord gave you something for someone a word an encouragement something could you find the strength for simply trust i'm here to tell you today to help somebody realize what what transpired over the last two sundays in a one hundred thousand dollar offering and sixty two thousand dollars throughout the year to help support a building that is a miracle and some would say well if it were a real miracle then it would be enough to cover everything i've come to tell somebody again let me remind you the story is not over story's not over pastor where's it coming from i don't know i didn't know where this was but god began to work on folk foreign church i don't know i don't know that ain't up to me that's not up to me i'm closing today we celebrate and rejoice with the miraculous of god tomorrow you know what we're gonna do we're going to continue to walk by faith trust god we cannot afford now to stop and whatever the future of cac looked like looks like i'm not really sure what to tell you i do know this that there's a small group in this church that are foolish enough to sit down and take some study and some classes on how to help the hurting the hopeless the broken i have no idea chasing what's about to happen you're gonna ask her celebrate recovery program ask her what that means only i've been trying to tell them i've been warning am i right chess i've been warning i'm every time i come you all listen to pastor a minute i don't know a whole lot but there's a reason i have gray hair you're going to be put in positions that are going to be so uncomfortable you're not going to know what to do but as soon as you open your mouth the spirit of god is going to work and move the only way to know that's true put yourself in that position and open your mouth in this room right now there is faith some of you are saying i'm not really sure yeah there is faith i declare that right now there is faith and the spirit of the lord has been talking to many of you over the last several weeks and months about the future and what god is doing and some of you are being stirred in your sleep you don't know what to do with things you've been unctioned and you've been pushed into things of prayer and times of fasting or maybe sacrifice that doesn't make a whole lot of sense because in your life you haven't done that you know what that is somebody's asking god to work and god always works with work man i fell from heaven did it not and fed the children of israel those poor souls had to get up walk outside and pick it up if they didn't pick it up guess what they didn't do that day and if they thought they was going to be smart and carry double for this so the next day they could have a break guess what happened to the stuff they took in that they didn't eat that day it rotted god's gonna bless but you're gonna have to move you're going to have to do you're going to have to function so stand with me please all over this room if you're online watching right now i want you to know the spirit of the lord is speaking to you as well i wish you'd get out of your chair wherever you are and i want you to go find somebody brother to brother sister to sister come on it's easy to stand here and pray with your spouse that's that's easy you can do that all time get out of your chair and go find somebody we're going to bind together with some prayer right now come on that's right go find someone go find somebody foreign where you are come on go find somebody everybody needs someone now listen carefully pastor for just a moment as you pray right now for them for whoever whatever situation they're in whatever circumstance they're in i want you to pray two things god help them lord to do what you're telling them to do number two lord let my faith be enough to help their faith do what it's supposed to do its job for this hour pray right now come on every voice in here right now should be moving come on every set of lips right now should be moving praying god i pray lord that you would move in this place i pray lord you would anoint my brother and my sister i pray spirit of the living god fall fresh upon them come on open your mouth pray that's right come on we're rejoicing together today because of what the lord has done but i'm rejoicing right now for what he's doing and what he's going to do i see the promises in fulfillment oh come on time come on let your faith grow all over mine come on he can fill you with the holy ghost right now he can heal your mind right now come on young folk pray one with another let's try to find somebody pray come on we are united in prayer we are gathered together in faith we are trusting by the word of the lord and the word of our customers there is anointing right now i am believing you lord for great things come on come on lift up your voice jesus pour out of your spirit you're the healer you are the waymaker you are the one lord that puts things in a strong perspective come on i pray for that that's right believe lift your voice come on shout with a loud voice come on use your prayer voice jesus i'm calling upon you oh i'm reaching for you jesus oh that's right that's right jesus you can't make a way jesus you know god all over my life oh come on church pray you know what we need jesus is you know jesus where we are all over come on let's write believe for it come on you need the holy ghost let it flow through you right now i see begin to worship your goodness i see your promises oh that's right let's face bro right now let's face mirage right now exercise faith right now i'm believing you jesus i don't know how it's going to turn out but i'm believing you poor cross the empty grave i rejoice because of you oh jesus hallelujah that's right come on don't pray with someone else that's right come on don't pray with someone else the evidence is there yes yes yes all my sin rolled away come on trust the lord for cause if you won't believe the lord hallelujah i see your promises in fulfillment all over my life all over my life i see the evidence of your goodness all over my life all over my life i see your promises in fulfillment all over my life thank you see the cross the empty grave the evidence is endless all my sin rolled away because of you all jesus see the cross oh come on that's right believe foreign the name of jesus i love you jesus i believe in you you're my god all you're my healer you're my way maker i rejoice in you today i promise a rejoice i tried belief for it believe him for it yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah oh he's away maker he's a healer he is the promise i love you lord jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus how many he knows that god can heal you know he can save you know he can make things right he can put stuff together that's fell all apart he's doing it right now in your life he's doing that right now in your home i want to ask you this week would you pray extra hard for our church some some prayers that we need answered well like i said we've submitted paperwork they've got to review it come back yes or no up or down if i said i have peace about the whole thing i'm just simply walking trusting god and then if you know that person or it might be you that will financially help because it's going to take more money i don't know how to say that come see me come see me god's god's been good to you god can put somebody in your path in your way that you know now please understand this is not i'm online this is not go rob a bank understand that this is faith saying god let me find favor i pray that every day for our church let me find favor lord in the eyes of our community let us find favor lord and what we do god help us lord you know the inspector you know the banker you know the lawyer you know everybody of god just help us find favor amen take a hand pray with me lord thank you for our time together today at cornerstone for our guests lord that have been here god i pray the work you began in them you are drawing them to you that you would continue that to our home folk god by faith we trust you lord for a great week this week our calendars full or a lot of things we're doing but help us not to lose sight of what you're doing in us we honor you we love you and we praise your name forever we thank you jesus for your grace and your goodness lead us in the way everlasting lord we're going to look to you and honor you in everything we give you thanks in jesus name somebody say amen amen