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would you pray with me church lord one more time we pray we believe lord and you we believe in the power of the cross and the power of the word in the name of jesus today lord as we gathered in this room we have sung songs we have prayed we have sought your face we have given we've reached for you lord we have interceded now god we come to the word and we so desperately need in this hour i make myself available to you jesus take holes from the altar today lord and touch lips of clay speak to the church lord let us hear what you would say in this hour i feel lord such an urgency in the spirit i feel such a declaration of our day and our time in which we are here so much to do and so much to accomplish for you raise us up lord in this city god i pray as a church let us be the church of the our lord that will arise to the occasion and follow you taking up our crosses every day lord to what you would have in jesus name would you give the lord a hand clap of praise together as you're seated i love you jesus i love you jesus hallelujah you may be seated thank you singers musicians thank you to all of our staff workers video audio parking lot water classrooms everybody that's involved here at cornerstone i appreciate greatly and i want you to know i love you and i'm thankful for what you do in the kingdom amen this morning when you woke up from your sleep the air was still surrounding you everybody reach out and grab a handful of air still there the sky remained above you and the earth below you reach to the sky somebody point to it it's still there still there life continued in its motion now yesterday might have well been the worst day of your life this past week could possibly have been the terrible test of your resolve might even be that the challenges that you have come through you felt like folding up caving in and throwing in the towel but when the sun came up this sunday morning you got yourself up out of bed you dressed yourself you climbed into your car and with a purpose you navigated the roads and now you're here turn to your neighbor and say you made it come on tell somebody you got here another day brings another opportunity to know god and to serve him as you came here today you begin to sing as you got here today testimony and witness begin to happen invite you right now in this room at 12 56 for us clock watchers on a sunday i invite you with a resounding voice from cornerstone apostolic church would you raise your voice and simply say thank you jesus come on thank you jesus he remains the same he abides still his plan continues on the road and you are in that plan thank you jesus now i know that i have seen in my life so many ways that i personally have taken the love of god for granted i have taken the plan of god for granted as if i should look at him and simply expect him to do everything that i bid him to do anybody else witness that the bible does say by the way that there are promises and there are blessings for those who will call upon the name of the lord amen i know that he's a great god and i can call upon him and his love for me unfolds in so many ways i stand here today also as a witness to provisions and protections from the hand of god when it looked like i was going to be swallowed up in pride or negativity the hand of the lord came in and brought me closer to him when i was justifying the wrong and i was wallowing in sin the power of god came in and moved in my life i stand here today and i declare if you want to join me you're welcome to my god has been good to me oh come on somebody god has been good to you i can say it with certainty right now that in and of ourselves there are things that we do but i truly believe today that it is a joy to serve the lord in all the trials and in all the mess-ups of life my god is faithful jeremiah penned it this way in lamentations chapter 3 verse 22 it is of the lord's mercies that we are not consumed because his compassions fail not come on they are new every morning say it with me great is thy faithfulness oh somebody better say it again great is thy faithfulness i believe that god is a great god i believe he's a faithful god i believe his kindness and mercies they are a constant reminder of who he is so on this sunday with all that we see with all that we feel every day how that god continues to move in our lives and we trust him and we follow after him he continues to unleash upon us his blessings his grace his mercy that leads us to wonder in amazement of how much he really loves us i believe today that if god were to roll back the windows of heaven and speak into our lives that it would be indeed the voice from an almighty god the creator who spoke everything into existence and knowing that that voice of god breathes into your life ought to thrill you from the soul of your feet to the crown of your head realizing that god's plan is unfolding in your life and regardless of what brings or what comes your way or what life brings to you god is still in control he is still on the throne and he is still working in the hearts and the lives of humanity help me today somebody the bible refers to in the book of acts chapter number two verse number one i want you to notice how that things begin to unfold in your new testament when the day of pentecost was fully come they were with all with one accord in one place and suddenly there come a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and it filled all the house where they were sitting and there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as a fire sat upon each of them and they were all filled with the holy ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them utterances this body of followers these ones that were following jesus to jerusalem for the simple celebration of pentecost a week-long gathering for the people of god it was the mosaic law that followed they followed there to do their rights in their rituals according to that law but something that happened on that particular day of pentecost would change everything forever from the ancient of days they were following the law but now we have a reminder that as they gathered there for that time that the voice of god began to speak through humanity in one place somebody say suddenly in one place somebody say a sound in one place somebody say it sat upon them come on in one place somebody say it began to speak through them as the spirit of god gave utterance there was an ability that filled that room now something was going to be different no longer would they simply look to the flesh of jesus but now there was a feeling that came to them and in filling that rested upon them and then dwell depend upon them there was a power that came from heaven they witnessed the power they came out of that room on that day not sure what was going on they were simply secure in one thing this is that brother rob they weren't out hunting around at the market they weren't out looking for something down the road they weren't wondering if there was better or worse over there over here they got into the presence of an almighty god and suddenly it began to move in their life and they were convinced they knew within their heart beyond the shadow of any doubt that their witness had begun to grow their testimony would now take wings and as they left that upper room and spilled out in the streets of jerusalem that day there was a glory there was an anointing there was a fire there was a breath there was a power from on high that it began to move through all the streets of that city and they began to hear the preached word of god and something happened in that day suddenly everything changed now what were they to do with this spiritual outpouring the first demonstration was follow this please it's in your bible peter and john were going to the temple to pray anybody hear this story there was a man that was brought laid at the gate of the temple who was lame he was simply looking for provision the church is brand new with this new outpouring and peter and john are still doing their daily tasks going to the temple you all know this story if you don't give me a moment the bible said the man looked at them lifted his hand and expected to get something from them now the story is very simple silver and gold i don't have that but what i do have i give to you in the name of jesus christ rise up and walk now we got the end of the story we celebrate the story in and of itself because we know as it is written what transpired but in that particular day we got to believe that something had happened in the lives of peter and john to simply have the audacity to reach for this young man and to speak jesus name to them to him knowing full well that the power of god was about to do something in his life jesus in that spirit began to present himself through humanity and a healing happened a witness began to happen the man the bible said jumped up grabbed a hold of their hands leaped up and began leaping and jumping and shouting and causing a ruckus and causing this big outcry and everybody's pointing and looking at them y'all know the story and they came into the temple now and they weren't bowing their head doing this they weren't doing that shuffle no they come in with this big old loud boisterous guy jumping up and down saying i used to lay out there but i don't lay out there anymore i'm now able to come into the presence of god i can come to a prayer meeting now i don't have to sit outside and wait i can come and i can entertain the presence of a holy god i don't have to stay out there any longer i've come to let somebody know today your testimony says i once was blind but now i see i once was lost but now i'm found that's what this man was declaring on that day my what a testimony listen to this acts chapter 4 rest of the story you ready for paul harvey verse number 23 and being let go they went to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them and when they heard that they lifted up their voice to god and with one accord everybody say one accord said lord thou art god which has made heaven and earth see and all that is in them all in them that is everything that's out there who by the mouth of thy servant david has said why did the heathen rage and the people imagine vain things the kings of the earth stood up and the rulers were gathered together against the lord against the christ christ verse 27 for of a truth against thy holy child jesus whom thou hast anointed both herod pontius pilate and the gentiles the people of israel were gathered together for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done but verse 29 listen to this and now lord behold their threatenings and grant unto thy servants that with all boldness they may speak thy word by stretching forth thine hand to heal and that signs and wonders may be done by thy by the name of thy holy child jesus and when they had prayed hear this the place was shaken where they were assembled together and they were all filled with the holy ghost they spake the word of god what's it say with boldness there was something that happened from that prayer room from that prayer meeting from that miracle that had transpired when all of the religious folk the only thing they could say one to another and scratching their head get into the story we don't know what to do with these guys i tell you what men why don't you leave here be quiet don't tell nobody and go about your business and we'll let you live understand that when peter and john came out they didn't go be silent they didn't go sit down they came running saying oh you won't believe what happened there was an anointing that happened just the other day in the upper room the glory of the lord spilled out into the streets but all today another common day another ordinary day we were going into the house of prayer and there was a man that was lame but when we reached out to him in the name of jesus everything changed the whole world took on a new light and you know all the thing that they could say to us was this y'all be quiet y'all don't go tell nobody now you better not use your testimony you you better not tell somebody what just happened these newly filled members and followers of jesus came together and the only thing they could say was this the heathen rage things are happening out there but one thing we know there is glory in the presence of the lord god there is anointing that breaks a yoke there is things that's happening in the spirit world that we have not seen here too far therefore i will not stay silent i will not be quiet but i will tell anyone and everyone about the goodness of the lord god all i know is i once was lost but now i'm found i once was blind but now i see now why today september 11 2022 why am i reminding us of happenings that transpired so long ago because the church my friend was established on some principles that the spirit of god placed into the hearts of his people one of them was to go pray everybody say pray look at your neighbor and say you better pray come on you believe in prayer that was established from the beginning because in prayer it's interesting to me brother gibson that when this miracle transpired it was after the holy ghost was out was poured out but it was at the hour of prayer i believe the new testament is built on prayer sister stacy i still believe in prayer come on i wish somebody believed with me i wish somebody believed with me and connected say yeah pastor i believe in prayer i believe in praying in the morning i believe in praying at noon time i believe in praying in the midnight hour i believe whenever it seems good to pray i believe when everything's bad to pray i believe when i'm sick i need to pray i believe when i got plenty i need to pray i believe in prayer i believe in prayer i believe my kids ought to know that i pray i believe the church ought to know that i pray i believe my coworker needs to know that i'm a prayer warrior i believe somebody needs to understand there is a glory that rests upon the church because they pray they pray i'm reminding you because notice what else transpired they prayed but notice in acts 4 32 and the multitude of them that believed hear this we're of one heart and of one soul neither said any of them that had ought of the tithe of the things excuse me which he possessed was his own but they had all things common verse 33 of chapter four and with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the lord jesus and great grace was upon hear it them all one heart one soul one desire we will pray listen to this but we will also understand our possessions because if our possessions supersede our prayer we have missed the power of the holy ghost so there's a lot of a sister renee that'll pray when the good times and there's even a bunch of us that will go to the stories of paul and silas wrapped up in a jail cell somewhere and every one of us know the story that at midnight they prayed and chains fell and all that but then a whole lot of us raising our raising our hands saying can i get in that jail there ain't none of us want to do that huh how many believe god's a healer but you don't want to be sick but the only way you'll know him as your healer is if you're sick and he intervenes how many you know he's a provider but to know he's a provider you've got to lack something to know that only god can come through with this one come on my testimony says god has been good to me and god has blessed me at that particular time when the holy ghost was poured out there was miraculous power working through all the people of god and the bible said they came together they were welded together if you will with one purpose in the power of a holy god they had community if you will they had things in common there was a connection there they knew that if they were ever going to proceed forward it was going to take more than just one or two but it was going to take all of them binding their hearts together in prayer come on can you imagine after this particular day that peter and john went into the temple at the hour of prayer can you imagine the following monday night all church prayer the whole church is out now saying hey i know now that god's a healer how do you know because two men were willing to take a chance and go into the house of prayer at the time of prayer and say i don't have silver no gold but what i have i give to you in the name of jesus christ get up and walk the end of this portion of the bible y'all stay with me just a few more moments it tells us very specifically that they were so in love with the things of god and the purpose that god had put in their life the bible says they sold possessions and they brought the money and they laid it at the apostles feet y'all hang on to me man i'm not asking nobody selling i'm telling you this story all right hang on to me look at your neighbor if he got his fingers in his ear help him pull him out listen carefully to pastor if he's plugged up the ears of his heart help him unplug him i'm going to help you right now we'll help you right now i'm going to help you right now and then in 2022 you do not need more stuff you need more of jesus telling me the answer what they saw at that moment in history was distribution was made to those who had need those who begin to attach themselves to the stuff begin to realize once the spirit of god came in them they no longer needed to depend on the stuff but they needed to allow god to work in their situation and to move in their particular circumstance therefore those who had possessions things they began to get rid of those things and they brought finances to the apostles feet and laid it down what were they declaring at that point it's simply this it's more stuff than we need we we have allowed it to become the gods of our lives we have allowed our stuff to lead us instead of let god lead us come on some of us in here we're big old prayer warriors when all the bills are paid but when you've got a bill that's due you'll take it from god and pay that bill and all the while god's saying it was not yours to begin with why don't you trust me with it and watch how i can not only pay that bill but if it's associated to a health problem i can come in and heal your body i can heal your mind i can put your home back together come on there's some sitting in this room right now you'll pay hundreds of dollars for counseling to put your home back together i declare to you that one moment in the presence of a holy god he can speak a word and change things and put it back together i know that to be true because that's happened in our lives i know that when i had a physical body i didn't know what else to do but one thing when i had that issue in my life god of glory i know you're a healer not sure how not sure when not sure where but i'm believing you for healing i'm trusting you lord for good things i don't know who else to call on but the god who is my healer so they decided this stuff is a distraction to us therefore we will distribute now here's the question give me a moment y'all okay pastor's okay my watch hasn't sounded yet to call 9-1-1 if they were truly children of god why were their needs in the beginning shouldn't god have simply just there you know what should have happened come on well lord help me stay on track get me on my soapbox we'll all come to church in the good times but in the bad times past i wasn't feeling well today i was i stayed home i'm like you should have been here you should have been here where's my little friend at where's the little man today see in the nursery y'all are so unkind they got these this couple right over here bless their heart he learned how to grow hair he's just such a failure seth and kristen had a beautiful baby boy that was underdeveloped y'all hear this preacher today he was in thy nicu for weeks and weeks and weeks and we prayed and we sought god god you can raise him up god you can this little baby ain't done nothing to nobody to hurt anything am i right but the lord intervened in weeks and weeks in the nicu the doctors came and said he's gained enough weight he's developed enough we've had a surgery everything's fine y'all can take him home i don't know about you but i was rejoicing this all right guys it's okay but i i'm on a job site brother duran and i'm working a job site and i get this text from sister christian over here the the doctors have released little man as he's coming home he's coming home he's coming home okay good i'm glad to hear that and a few minutes later i'm on a job site working and i get a text and there's a photo in it herb you know what that photo was it was her with that little baby on this altar before i took him home i brought him to the house of god before i walked him into the house i lived him i brought him to god's house before i took him home i wanted to recognize god it was by your mercy that you healed his body huh anybody here know the little redhead durran am i right little redhead man there was weeks weeks and weeks of this little guy talking about going in and doing surgery but there was a mom and dad who in church service decided i got to have a healing touch for this little boy and by the word of god and the word of testimony and the power of what god could do i got a text one day pastor god has healed our little boy god has taken away that little problem in there he's now growing he's now sleeping we're not having to sit there watching make sure he doesn't stop breathing drawn on my right and now that little guy's running around here looking like he's a banshee why because a church gathered and prayed a mom and dad gave him to the lord god saying you know what this is bigger than me it's bigger than my possessions it's bigger than my finances it's bigger than my stuff it is a god that's a healer i won't even in my notes y'all mess me up today they determine within themselves we want to see the hand of god in our lives now listen to pastor very carefully these past few weeks have been very very interesting for cac family we have seen the hand of the lord protect us through tornado through a building program through borrowed facilities through turning our facility around in less than a month carpet paint stuff things here we are turn to your neighbors aren't you glad you're here today these past few weeks have been very very interesting now i know this is not a shock to anybody in here but we have been in this temporary mode for some time the path has seemed to lead us to a point that we move from one location to the other looking for the hand of god and wondering why why the challenge why the difficulty why the task and all the while sometimes we feel like why are we in this puzzle and all these pieces don't fit and they don't seem right and why god is this happening to our church but i'm here today to tell you that the lord through it all has been very kind and gracious to our church family and he has given us opportunities that we have never before been brought to except we went through what we did the doors that opened from the hand of god have brought us to new doors as provision has come as we sought god's favor opportunities came and things began to unfold so here we are a couple of weeks ago i presented on a midweek service to those who would come early we did not stream that service i was simply giving facts and figures to our church family we're in a position to buy a property i declared to you on that particular service time the numbers and where we were what i think ought to be twenty dollars somebody else thinks ought to be more than that 3.8 million dollars for a facility now i could write a check for that all day long i have a whole book full of them but my wife keeps our account and it wouldn't be very long she would come to me with overdraft fees in the tune of a ball bat i need your checkbook now i didn't say she'd use it i just said she bring so i informed the bank this is where we are this is what we've got this is how much is in our account this is how much we have coming in every month and i present financials to the bank and the banker looks over them the banker comes back and she says pastor sloan i want you to know something you guys are in very good shape but the industry has changed and things have happened over the last couple of years and now what used to be a 15 down payment has been lifted to 30 down payment banks are taking less risk with churches you only have this much coming in in order to afford that you're going to have to have this much coming in you've got to have this much in hand to put down as a down payment then somehow you go so all these numbers and all these figures and facts begin to be thrown at me and i'm very good at dodging them but the more they were thrown at me the more i realized as pastor i need to understand them so brother dakota i began to write it all down and then i realized something god this here's what i would call a need and as a southerner would say a great big old need lord i don't know how this is even going to happen and so we we talked about it and then a couple weeks ago i gave a challenge guys let's pray about it let's fast about it let's sister stacy prayer coordinator said pastor we're going to do a prayer chain fasting chain people are going to we're going to ask god to help us know what to do this past friday night for those of you that were interested or those who got the text or those you that found out however we several of us went over to this facility walked through it just i know i'd already been through it the church board had already visited and i began to look we all looked it over and and as i looked and wonder at those who came and walked around it it's just it's it's just it's just a great big old spot isn't it anybody anybody do that wow there's like nine stalls in the bathroom we only have to wait in line you ain't got to pull no number oh it's my ask me can i gonna know no oh i'll wait chairs rooms to sit down i mean i'm saying all kinds of stuff and we begin to pray about it i've been praying for the last six months or more i've asked the church board who's been on board with me month weekly what are we going to do we got to look so we're looking at properties we're looking at places we've got this one for a certain time and then we've got to make a decision do we stay continue the lease or do we move or do we shift gears and begin to pray about that and i'm standing here today true to my word it is september the 11th last week the lord began to deal with me on our willingness to do our willingness to bring our willingness to submit to god and in that service last sunday some of you may remember about about 50 000 was committed to go towards this whether it's that building or any other building 50 000 was committed we're at a very important juncture in the church y'all hear me please there's some watching online you're wondering why is pastor talking this way i'm talking this way because i'm asking god to see our city and i'm asking god to help us as a church to realize where we are and to allow our faith to say my stuff is less important than eternity so i asked the church to pray about this some of you came to me some of you came to some of the board members you begin to kick around ideas and thoughts as it turns out it was as this all comes together honestly this was not a draw of the straw this wasn't a roll of the dye this was not this was simply how things happen my wife reminds me maybe we got talent show coming up and so people begin to play okay talents come on we can do it ten dollars here 50 there 100 there people are okay that's that's the purpose of the church somebody say that's what happens yeah that's what happens but this is a big chunk of money this is a big chunk of money and then as it turns out again unbeknown so many months ago i began to put together lessons on wednesday night and lo and behold more than grasshoppers they saw in their eyes we can't do this and a couple of guys said yes we can it took them 40 years to get back around to the can we now my dear precious wife reminds me baby all these things are pointing you better make sure you're hearing from god lord don't let me miss it there's a generation coming that's looking for a place to love and serve god so i asked you guys to pray maybe there's some of you that are willing to help with a one-time donation maybe some of you are willing to help with monthly donation commitment to building fun or maybe some will do both brother dan would you help me please we have cards for everybody in the building that'll take one come on quickly guys you need an ink pen raise your hand they got those too i need everybody to have one of these cards come on fast guys move i know you know how to run come on the donut's over there run move come on mccain listen to pastor very carefully please please listen there are some that will believe you know what we're going to pray about it and god will provide i agree 100 but the only way god ever provided was through people listen to me do you realize that when the children of israel messed up and were forced to walk in the wilderness that god still provided them food listen to pastor but when they mishandled the food what happened to the food it spoiled they were given a command to strike the rock so water comes out and they disobey god and what happened god still took care of them but god made the man pay for it god uses you and me to do the things of god we're reminded today at september 11th i know where i was on that day in 2001 i was in montevideo uruguay as a missionary my wife and my daughter were in the united states on an airplane you talk about freaking out went got my little boy from school my little boy gets in the car dad what's wrong i said buddy i have no idea only thing i know is the world's falling apart right now mom okay and i don't know buddy brother rob i went home and got the little black and white out that i had in the closet tv and i put these rabbit ears on and i took about 30 pieces of aluminum foil and i began to stretch it out and now okay well i couldn't have internet access phone system had shut down even in uruguay because everything was so overloaded and i finally got an image on the screen and the first thing i saw on that screen was a plane hit the tower and i heard the voice come on and say they have grounded all aircraft we don't know if more is going to happen and in that moment in that moment i remembered my wife was flying randy i fell on the floor and said lord only thing i can do now is trust you it was hours and hours later before i finally got a phone call from somebody that said michelle's all right she's in memphis sitting in the airport well that's a fine place to be but she's okay brother nate when i took my little boy and i wrapped him up in my arms as tight as i could i said buddy i don't know what's gonna happen but we're going to be okay why dad because one generation passed to the next generation to the next generation and we're going to trust god through this you all listen to pastor very carefully i want to pray with you right now for those of you who went the other night and watched or walked through the building you know what i'm talking of there's a whole lot of opportunity there's a big thing to do if that happens to be the one the lord wants us to have i want to make sure we do it if it's not i'm okay with that god knows i don't need the undue stress and worry i want to make sure i'm in the perfect will of god doing whatever i do so there's two things i want you to write on this card if you will one of them is going to be a one-time offering today i'm going to give this to go towards the project then i'm going to ask you if you'll give a monthly amount but i'm going to support every month with something to help go towards it before you're right let's pray jesus right now lord your spirit is moving in this place your spirit and anointing lord is moving in this house dear god we know that the reality is simply this without you lord we can do nothing and we'll fail and we'll miserably make a mess of it but lord if your spirit is leading us to this point in this hour to trust you and to believe in you god for great things for the next step of our church whatever that is lord i'm praying that today would be the day that we would honor you we would rise to the occasion we would give sacrificially lord give with a budget lord we would give with purpose lord monthly we will give we'll we'll do what you're leading us to do god because we believe that this world is not our home our testimony lord will be one day i remember the day that an opportunity came and we trusted the lord and he came through and he moved mountains and he allowed things to happen we have no idea how it happened but god stepped in this is not a surprise to any of us listen carefully your pastor on that easter when the tornado hit our building and i stood there and i speechless and standing next to me pastor you okay i think i am man i think i'm all right he said i don't know if this is your coping mechanism or what i don't know either but i know this drawn the lord gives the lord takes away blessed be the name of the lord he said what we're going to do i said what do you think we're going to do see we're going to work we're going to build we're going to do what we got to do day or so later josh standing in the church there were picking up stuff i felt my weakness josh i felt like i was afraid i didn't know why things were happening josh looks at me said pastor you okay and i said to him josh i don't know if i have the strength to do this again true confession i've done three years of 17 18-hour days over there myself and then y'all came jumped in and helped and some of y'all spent 150 hours a day in there and all the hard work we did and then so now i stand here today years later and a little more gray hair and a tad bit more wisdom and i'm looking at y'all saying lord i don't i just don't know i went to a lot of my pastor friends and they said man you can just ride this out just let time take it and it'll just kind of work itself and i look at them i see how can i do that when i got grandbabies that need a church i got little ones that's coming and hugging me saying pastor i'm glad you're here today how can i not do more for god and how can i not press forward i've got to would you take a moment right now and pray about it and then would you help me that card would you fill it out just put your name or your last name whatever on there pastor this is what i'll give in one time pastor this is what i want to do to help monthly to support the work because it's going to take it dakota come help me friend dakota's our church treasurer he's going to help me with this y'all stand with me all over the place come on the lord's talking to you the lord already has young folk you can do this mom's dads you can do this i want you to bring your card would you once you bring your card now if you want to come first to the altar and pray over it do that and then bring it but we're going to spend some time as a church family in the altar it's 137. i want to invite you to come would you come on will you help will you fill in the gap would you make up the difference come on will you help will you follow the voice of god will you follow the voice of god lord it's going to stretch me lord it's going to it's going to be a challenge god but lord of victory i'm believing you for it come on now find your place and pray lord you've got to provide now lord you've got to make a way god i know you can i know that you already have so where i stand today lord it's all from you i'm willing to invest in the future lord i'm willing to invest in chattanooga god we need a church here lord victorious and full of the spirit of god working we need you jesus come on would you believe god now pray over what you're doing pray for god i give it to you lord nobody's held a gun to my head nobody's threatened me nobody's twisted my arm i'm following the spirit of god at this point yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah come on pray church would you families draw together pray one for another come on respond to the spirit speaking in your life respond to the spirit working today jesus i believe you're making a way jesus i believe you're leading us lord give us wisdom and knowledge and understanding lord of the times that we may move forward we may proceed forward god in you in the name of jesus the name of jesus listen church there was a letter written to the church at corinth said this but this i say he which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly he which soweth bountifully shall reap off so bountifully every man according as he purposeth in his heart so let him give not grudgingly or of necessity for god loves a cheerful giver show us your face feel this space our world needs you right now jesus our world needs you jesus our world needs you canada needs a church lord walking in the spirit following you we need you right now jesus come on saint lift your hand to the lord right now commit your ways to him lord i'm gonna trust you for this and i'm gonna rejoice with my church family god is souls are born into the kingdom we're going to accept the challenge of the hour lord and take our responsibility and move the work forward god whatever direction you would have us go give us the wisdom we need to accomplish that give us the understanding lord what it's going to take to accomplish that jesus come on somebody believe god for it lord you know lord you know god of glory you are very aware lord of where we are we're believing you for it jesus trusting you for it savior we know god that you will you will make a way you always have jesus yeah yeah yeah yeah you always have jesus come on anybody else thank you buddy anyone else today yeah yeah yeah yeah lift your voice to the lord right now all over the sanctuary lord we love you today we believe you for it we trust you for it jesus we trust you for it jesus we trust you for it jesus god you're doing the work lord you're doing the work you are doing the work jesus yeah yeah yeah yeah we need you g come on you need the holy ghost god will fill you right now in this spirit of giving you need a healing in your body god can heal you right now in this atmosphere of healing this atmosphere of giving god can move right now in your life come on you can repent of your sins right now turn around god will show you the way come on somebody that's right in the name of jesus he can speak life into you right now come on he can speak hope into your life right now through the word through your giving god can open make opportunities in the name of jesus we commit committed to you jesus we committed to you lord we we give it to you jesus we give it to you jesus we trust you for it lord we trust you for it jesus somebody say in jesus come on in jesus name thank you so much for your response to the word now listen carefully to pastor if you'll notice in the story that i read to you from the church in the book of acts the bible said they had things in common they they were they were in agreement with things and this spirit of giving brought unity and they were able to give and support and help and so forth i don't get sidetracked today it's waning late as they say but as you leave here today i want to encourage you to encourage someone else come on tell them i'm praying for you god is doing magical momentous things in your life through the spirit of god incredible powerful things are happening in your life because of your submission to the things of god in your obedience to the word of god tomorrow night all church prayer wednesday night small home groups next weekend we're back in here for time of worship amen i love all of you shake hands and be friendly don't forget meetings and stuff training and all that going on you all have a wonderful week i will send out a broadcast of what the amount is that was committed so we'll all know we can all rejoice together somebody go with jesus amen i love y'all