Episode Transcript
Welcome to the World Changers Church Gold Coast Podcast. Join us as we listen to today's message. Hallelujah.
Thank you, worship team. Come on, I don't know. Y'all asleep this morning?
Y'all tired? Is it too warm in here? Y'all got the heat on.
That's what it is. Y'all making people comfortable. Y'all making me hot.
Amen. People going to sleep up in here. Hallelujah.
Y'all good? Look at your neighbor and say, you good? Take about one or two minutes and say hello to someone.
Tell them that you're glad that they came to church this morning. I don't know about you, but winter in Australia just feels like life with air conditioning. It doesn't really feel cold to me.
I feel like, you know, I lived in places where it was like negative 32 degrees Celsius. For y'all that's cold, for me that just feels normal. Zero Fahrenheit felt normal some winters, amen. Going outside and seeing your breath and throwing water into the air and it turning into icicles falling on the ground, that was just normal.
Y'all wouldn't know what to do with yourself if you did that, amen. But to me, Australia just feels like life with air conditioning. So I thought I'd get up and I'd start a little different.
I've been telling a lot of dad jokes lately, so I thought I'd try a couple on you. So a pastor comes to God and he says, God, I wonder if you'd grant me anything that I would wish or that I would pray for. And God said, surely it says that in the Bible.
Whatever you believe, you receive, and those who believe that anything is possible. And the pastor said, I want to understand people. I want to understand how they think.
I want to understand how they walk. I want to understand marriages. I want to understand women. I want to understand men, teenagers, babies. I want to understand people.
God said, okay, let's try something else. So the pastor says, well, I don't like planes. Can you build me a bridge around the world?
You know, any country so I can just drive there. And God says, well, I don't know if that'd work out for the economy. What else would you like?
And the guy said, well, since we're not going to understand people, can I understand women? God said, how many lanes you want on that bridge? See, I got more men in here than I do women, because if it was the other way around, I'd be in a lot of trouble right now. See, guys, the reason we don't understand women is because women think a lot, and they think things through.
We just react. Amen? So women, thank you for your thoughtfulness.
Thank you for your love. Michelle's looking at me like, you in trouble later. Thank you for everything.
But I'm telling you, it's like, let it be, let it be. But I thought I'd just start that. Yeah, guys are like, yes.
Women are like, no. Okay. Today's message is let it be.
I was gonna name it Don't Touch This, or Can't Touch This, and all I could imagine was MC Hammer dancing every time I said it, the old song, Can't Touch This. And I'm not gonna do a little dance, because I'm too old for that. I like breaking ankle up here, amen? You wanna do it, Eli?
No, okay. And so I decided to call the message Let It Be. And the idea behind that is let God.
trusting God when things are out of our control. And no, this isn't the serenity prayer. If you're Catholic, this isn't the serenity prayer. This is simply saying, God, I don't know what to do.
Or, you know what, somebody just said something about me, I'm gonna call them up on the phone. Or, woo, I just heard something about you, I should let it know. Or, you know what, I'm gonna get into that fight.
Things that you don't need to entertain and you need to leave to God. Amen? Well, we need to buy a new house, so we're going to do ABC, or we're going to get a new car. You know, a lot of times in life, we don't know how to be still and let God do it.
Amen? You're praying for something right now. Right now, you're praying for something. Amen, are you?
Yeah? Yeah? No?
Okay. Well, are you thinking about things? Amen.
But some of you, you're saying, God, I want to see this come into fruition. And some of you actually got tired of praying for the one thing. Some people are praying for a woman to come into their life.
Other people are praying for a man to come into their life. I keep asking, why do you keep inviting stupid trouble into your life? Amen. Just pray for other things.
Let that happen. Amen. I know another dad joke. Stop.
But we need to pray for things that in a different way. We need to pray for things in the way of saying, God, I've said it, I believe it, I receive it, I thank you for it. Amen? A lot of times when we pray, we do different things, and sometimes God introduces things to us, and we don't know what to do with it.
So there is moments in our lives, y'all still with me? There's moments in our life when we force roadblocks into and we force detours or we have things come into our life that just defy logic, amen? You shouldn't say amen there.
Okay. Effort, it defies logic, it defies everything that we wanna do and it goes against our deepest prayers. Sometimes things happen and we're just like, we're praying and nothing's moving.
Has God stopped working or is it just not time yet, amen? So if the door remains closed and we're fasting, we're praying, we're declaring, we're confessing, and the situation still remains unchanged and the outcome still looks uncertain, what are we supposed to do? Let it be. Trust God with it.
Amen? That you can't control everything and you can't make every outcome come and come out the way you want to. And sometimes life just happens or people do things they shouldn't and they're going to have to pay the price. Amen?
The reality is simple. Let God do it. So in times like these, God gently whispers an invitation that is both challenging and freeing.
Let it be. How challenging is it to leave it alone? Oh, I got some y'all over here, the whole crowd over here.
How challenging is it to leave it alone? Amen? You shouldn't say amen there. How challenging is it to leave it alone?
It's hard because we want it fixed, we want it now. We live in a microwave society where five minutes later we got a meal. We live in a society, if you can't do it, I'll get him to do it, and if they can't do it, I'll go online and they can do it.
We don't know how to wait anymore. And because society has conditioned us to be consumers, we have, watch this, become consumers in the kingdom of heaven. We're not taking it by force. We've become consumers of the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, we've made God a real estate agent, a car dealer, a fitness trainer.
Amen. We've made God everything else but what he is, our Lord and our master. Amen.
I'm saying this with a smile on my face, but does it make you feel better? Amen. Let it be.
So how do we let it be? It takes divine surrender. I did not see this in Scripture, Jules, until this week, and I can't believe I missed it.
You know, and it just stuck out so much to me in Luke 1.38, don't put it up yet, when the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary and announced that she would birth the Messiah. Her world was turned upside down in a moment. God's command, the blessing on her life, and her life was flipped upside down.
She didn't fully understand how it would all work out, and she asked an honest question. But the final response is both beautiful and powerful. Luke 1.38.
I am the Lord's servant, Mary answered. She took a position. May your word to me be fulfilled.
She surrendered. All in one breath, she took a position to serve, which meant a position of surrender. Amen?
A position to serve, which meant a position to surrender. How often do we take a position to serve, but we don't take a position to surrender? We think we're surrendering to the pastor. We think we're surrendering to the worship leader. We think we're surrendering to the member care pastor. We think we're surrendering to the assistant pastor. But what we don't realize is that we are surrendering to God.
Amen? Thank you, I appreciate that, buddy. In other words, Mary said, let it be.
God said something that was going to flip her world upside down, She took a position in her heart that said, I surrender to your word over me, to your word in me. How many times has God said, forgive that person, and you've said, but? How many times has God called you to do something and you said, no, not me?
How many times has God said, quit your job, do something else, and you've been like, but what? Let it be. When God's in control, it goes better.
Amen? But you calling mama and them. You calling the false prophet and them.
The sidewalk prophet. The parking lot prophet. You calling the podcast evangelist.
You're sowing in the ministries that don't even know you. Don't even pray for you. You got a partner number.
Amen? Amen? Oh, hallelujah.
I better stop. Mary's response, Mary's response, Tina's like, let it be. Move on.
Let it be. Mary's response was not one of resignation. All right, I quit.
It was trust. She didn't have the full picture, but she trusted the one who did. The posture was that God invites us to is to adopt this in our lives.
Sometimes we need the full picture to do it. How many of you need to see it before you believe it? I don't know.
We shouldn't say amen there either. But sometimes I need to see how it's gonna turn out to walk in it. But do you know that when God calls you, you're not always gonna see the period at the end of the chapter?
Sometimes you're just gonna see the title and it says storm. And you're like, hold on, God. What am I about to go with? But you don't realize that the first line in the chapter says, peace you will have in the storm. Sometimes we get caught up in the title before we get caught up in the transition of believing God.
You can say, yes, Lord. So God invites you to adopt the let it be, yes, Lord, I trust you into your life. When you reach the end of your understanding and strength, listen to me here.
When you don't know what's about to happen, listen to me here. When you don't well know what your next step is, listen to what I'm about to say. Faith doesn't always push harder.
Sometimes it quiets itself and trusts God. Sometimes when life gets hard and you don't understand what's going on, you're looking for something to do. But what you need to do is trust and be still and know that he is God and he still has what's best for you in his hands.
Yes. Yes. Trust him.
He's not leading you wrong. Thank you, Lord. Let it be.
Faith doesn't always push harder. Sometimes it quiets itself and trusts God. Sometimes I see people that are praying and they're getting louder in their prayer.
Do you think your volume changes the outcome? That's just your expression and your emotion. That's just your passion talking.
But you don't really need that volume. But if you need to do it, do it. That's you.
That's your style. Go ahead, honey. Do a little dance, wave a flag.
I don't care. But do you. But make sure the end result is that you trust God.
Because there's wisdom in stillness. So the first thing I talked about was divine surrender. Mary had divine surrender. What we need to learn is wisdom and stillness.
Let it be doesn't mean giving up, it means giving in to God's way. It means pausing long enough to remember that he is still in control even when we're not. I can imagine Hosea in the Bible when God said, I want you to go marry the harlot so I can show Israel how great of a horse she is and that how much I love them.
Now that's how the Bible wrote it. I'm sorry if y'all got offended just then. Is that close to how it says it?
Yeah, somewhat, yeah. Now what if you were chosen for that work of the Lord? Ruh-roh, Jesus.
Shaggy give me a Scooby snack because I'm gone. Amen? We're looking for the beautiful thing.
That's my ministry. We're looking for the pretty thing. That's my ministry.
We're looking for the building and the image. That's my ministry. We're looking for the comfort.
That's my ministry. But what if God calls you to uncomfortable to show faith? What if God shows you to the uncomfortable to be in you what other people can't see?
God ain't causing it. God ain't doing it. But he's asking you, will you trust me?
Well, I don't have to be in the desert for other people to see. No, but God's going to ask you to do things that you don't like. Well, I'm God's favored.
Listen, if God's favored means you're never going to do anything tough, then why do we go to the gym to get built? We go to the gym, we put in hours, we come home, leg day. Everybody's doing pictures of like, uh. Stop posting your leg day pictures.
Nobody cares. Amen. Uh, uh.
Anyway, we go to the gym. I ain't looked at any of y'all's Instagrams. Stop looking at your neighbor being like, whoa. We're doing all these leg day things, but we know what the result of that pain's gonna be. We put in the work to build strength.
Faith is about putting in the work to build strength in your trust in God, not the pain in your life. Amen. Amen.
Amen. Learn to trust him more. Let that be your faith workout.
Stop causing yourself pain or allowing sickness, trial and trouble and calling that God. That is not what God's calling you to. But just because it's uncomfortable doesn't mean God can't call you through it, out of it and bring people out of it as you went through it.
God knows that you will trust him as you go through that valley and you'll bring a mess of people out of that valley with you. He didn't cause you to go in it. He sent you in there to get people out because you are a light in a dark place.
You ain't going through it because you're supposed to grow. You're going through it because someone else needs to grow. Do you understand?
Do you understand? These trials, these persecutions of your faith are more precious than silver and gold. When your faith can stand the trial, it's because you've already been through the fire.
Lord Jesus. Lord Jesus, I'm going off. Help me, Lord.
Consider the Israelites when they stood before the Red Sea. With Pharaoh's army closing in behind them, fear and desperation filled the air. Yet Moses said in Exodus 14, 14, y'all making it hot in here.
Turn those jokers off, get a blanket. Amen. I ain't kidding, turn them off.
Please, please. Consider the Israelites. Moses said in Exodus 14, 14, The Lord will fight for you.
I'm kidding, guys. If there's somebody in cold in here, leave them on. I'm just so kidding.
I just made a joke. I'm sorry. Y'all scrambling to get somebody a blanket.
Leave them on. It's all right. The Lord will fight for you.
I'm going to say that again. The Lord will fight for you. You need only to be still.
Now this is Old Testament. This is a resting Holy Spirit, not a dwelling Holy Spirit. Amen?
We have a dwelling Holy Spirit, which means we have access to that divine power at all times. They had a resting Holy Spirit, which means only by God's command was that spirit placed upon them. And in that moment, God said, I am with you.
I will fight for you. Amen? You need only to be still.
Now in the New Testament, we have that fighter for us at all times. You need only to be still. Stillness in Psalms 23 says, When it says a sheep lay down by pastures, for a sheep to lay down, the situation has to be perfect.
They have to trust their shepherd. Amen? So that means that for there to be stillness, there has to be trust.
Do you trust him? Do you trust him? Stillness is not passivity.
It is an act of trust. It's refusing to run ahead of God. It's choosing to rest in the truth that some battles are not ours to fight.
Come on, somebody. I have had in the last eight years, people talk about me in so many ways. And two things have helped me.
A little 18 year old social media person that doesn't even know who I am. And she just accidentally showed up my feed that said, people that only want to hear their side of the story have already made up their mind about you. Quit wasting your time trying to tell your story.
Amen. The second thing that's helped me is learn to not worry when somebody's running their mouth about you. You give attention to it.
Do you know something strange? Listen to me, what I'm about to say. When somebody's talking about you, listen.
When somebody's backstabbing to you, listen. Listen to what I'm about to say. Do you know that you are the main character in their life and they don't have enough in their life to talk about, so you are their first choice?
Amen? Ouch. Ouch.
That means their life is so boring they chose you to talk about. Move on. Let it be.
Quit running and entertaining when people gossip about you. Quit making phone calls when somebody says something about you. Quit getting angry and throwing plates on the ground saying, opah, when somebody gets mad at you.
Amen. Quit getting mad at everybody around you because somebody else made you mad. It's okay.
Let it be. Unless it's true. Amen? Let it be.
Because if not, we can step into a trap of forced outcomes. Listen to me. We often get into trouble when we try and force God's hand and manipulate outcomes.
We pray, but then we push. We trust, but then we scheme. In doing so, we end up creating more problems than we solve.
I'm gonna say that again. We pray, but we push. We trust, but we scheme.
God doesn't need your help. He needs you to trust him. When you pray, leave it in God's hands.
When you worship, when you fast, you're not worshiping the outcome, you're worshiping the one with the outcome. Amen. Do you understand?
Hallelujah. If you're worshiping for the outcome, you're worshiping the problem, not the promise. And not the promise giver.
A to the men. You need to say, God, I believe. I have received.
Their so, so be it. And I leave it in your hands. Let it be.
Amen. And whatever the course of action is, I trust that God knows and will see through no matter how long it takes. Joseph, with the robe of many colors, got thrown into a pit by his brothers, sold as a slave, went to jail because of a woman that thought he was a little pretty. Amen.
I shouldn't say amen there. He went to jail, and then he had visions, and then he got elevated and all these things. Do you think there was a time in that whole process that he was going, Lord, what you doing?
When Peter was locked up in prison, Lord, what you doing? Paul in prison, Lord, what you doing? John being bold and about to be sent to the Isle of Patmos, Lord, what you doing? Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, Lord, what you doing?
Mary was saying that you're about to give birth to the Messiah, Lord, what you doing? No matter what's happening in your life, let it be. God has the outcome in his hands.
Moses facing the Red Sea and everybody behind him saying, look, you brought us here to die. I know what it's like to lead a bunch of people to get to a place that's too hard for them to comprehend. Amen.
But I got to trust what God said. I was talking to Tony last week out in the parking lot. One of the things he said to me, I don't even know how to look at problems anymore.
I don't know if you said it like that, but if something that matters how it resonated with me, I don't get it emotionally anymore. I just got faked up on the inside of me and I let that release, amen. Honor where honor is due, and I glorify God.
Hallelujah. See, we don't know how to encourage one another anymore, is that? Crabs in a bucket.
What's that thing y'all caught here in Australia that's a curse from the devil? Oh, tall poppy syndrome. I curse tall poppy syndrome in the name of Jesus, so I have no work and effort in this church or the body of Christ anymore.
Hallelujah. Because if you rise, I rise. If we rise, they rise.
We all in this together, amen. Avoid the trap of forced outcomes. Let's look at the story of Abraham and Sarah.
Ooh, Lord. God promised them a child, but the wait was long and painful. In impatience, they took matters into their own hands.
So she said to Abraham, the Lord has kept me from having children. Lie. The Lord said, you will have children. She didn't trust that the Lord would fulfill his word.
So then, God, so go sleep with my slave. Perhaps I can build a family through her. Abram agreed to what Sarah said.
They both wanted an outcome, but they didn't want to wait on God to do it. Therefore, The result was the birth of Ishmael, a decision that brought division and distress rather than peace and fulfillment. Your way will not solve it. God's way will.
His is the way of love, peace, righteousness, humility, brotherly kindness. His is the way of the Spirit. He may look good, but he may have the darkest, dirtiest heart.
I got a friend that she's got such a checklist for men. I'm just like, Lord, have mercy. Is there a man that you've created that can match that?
We two checking off what we want versus what God's sending. Lord, what are you doing? Do not go into the trap of forced outcomes.
Let it be. This is a cautionary reminder in Genesis 16. When we refuse to let it be, we risk delaying or distorting the very thing God wants to give us.
Trusting his timing requires faith, but forcing the outcome requires cleanup. Every time you try and force, manipulate, scheme or push, you distort the outcome and God has to clean that up. God, step into my mess.
You know what you need to stay? God, clean up what I tried to do again. You would have less spilt milk if you would just let God do it.
Amen? Amen? Let it be as a lifestyle is living with a let it be mindset, meaning continually surrendering control.
I used to hear this phrase a lot back in the early 2000s or mid 2000s, I don't know, it was back then. God is my co-pilot. Oh Lord, you about to land in the wrong place.
What would Jesus do? You better already know that answer, amen. All these things that we would say, but let it be means, Lord, I surrender and I wanna follow you.
I surrender not out of resignation of my position in life, not just to become a robot, but I surrender that your way is a better way. I surrender. Every day in every season, it means choosing obedience over understanding, and listen to this, obedience over understanding, watch me now, panic, peace over panic.
Obedience over understanding and peace over panic. Sometimes things, man, I've learned it's the hard way. Sometimes you're trying to fix stuff and it's just getting worse.
But Lord, I'm doing it, I'm doing it, I'm doing it, I'm doing it. And you start to panic, you start surviving instead of thriving. But when peace is not guiding you, panic is driving you.
When peace is not guiding you, panic is driving you. Jesus modeled this in the Garden of Gethsemane just before facing the cross, Luke 22, 42. Now, let's look at the, do we have that one, Luke 22, 40?
Father, I love this. If you're willing, take this cup from me. Look at Jesus' response to his own question.
Yet not my will, but your will be done. How many times we want out of a situation or something that God has called us into to go through to overcome that we're like, Lord, just get me out of this. We need to say, let your will be done. The thing is, you're going to love this, brother.
The thing is, we keep thinking we're getting called to the cross. The sacrifice has already been done. We ain't called to sacrifice.
We're called to obedience. We're not called, we're a living sacrifice, but not the sacrifice that comes at a personal cost. That's been done by Jesus.
That part is over. Your only sacrifice is to be a living sacrifice and to surrender to him. Amen.
On the altar of worship, giving alms, giving your praise and your thanks to him. We don't have to make sacrifices that are troubling. We don't have to, oh my goodness, oh Lord, I know that you've given me cancer so that other people can see faith in me.
Well, if the Lord is causing cancer, he is the wrong God to serve. God is the healer of cancer, not the causer of cancer. God is the healer of diabetes, not the cause of diabetes.
God is the God of good, not the God of havoc and calamity. Even in agony, Jesus chose surrender. Let it be.
It was not a weakness. It was his strength. You ever been so mad, so sad, so down, and the Lord says to you, my grace is sufficient.
You ever been so down, so sad, the Lord says, joy comes in the morning. You ever been so mad, so sad, some Christian decides to say that to you too? Y'all know what I'm talking about.
But the heart posture is wrong if that offends you. If you're not in the posture of trust, those words are offensive. If you're not in the posture of faith, those words are troubling. If you're not in the posture of God loves me, those words will cause havoc in you.
But when your heart is settled, grounded in God, in his love, no matter what's going on in your life, your response is, let it be, Lord, for I trust you, for you will supply all my needs according to your riches and glory. I can do all things according to Christ Jesus. Amen.
When your heart is in the right posture, those words are not troubling. Sometimes you just want to be mad. Sometimes you just want to be sad.
Sometimes you just want to throw a pity party. Do it and then come through it. Amen?
Hallelujah. God is working even when you can't see it. I've got one minute. Hallelujah.
Lord Jesus, help me. Even when you can't see it, God is working. When you surrender your will to God, it opens up doors for God to step in and work where you've had control to orchestrate something better.
You've been wondering, God, why are you letting this happen? God, why am I going through this? God, why is this so messy?
And God's responding, saying, well, you've been in control. If you let me have control, things will clean up. Amen?
Amen? You need to let God do it. You're looking for a man, let God send him.
You're looking for a woman, let God send her. You're looking for a relationship, let God send it. I told somebody one time, I said, you know what you need to do while you're looking for a partner in life? Run for God as hard as you can and every once in a while, turn around and see who's running with you. Amen, you're looking for somebody you wanna be with, run for somebody, run with somebody who wants to be with God.
Amen. And when they want to be with God, you ain't never turning around saying, come on, let's follow God. Come on.
We got another mile. Come on. You're sometimes going, hold up.
Wait a minute. I need to catch up too. God is working even when you can't see it.
The apostle Paul reminds us of this great promise in Romans 8, 28. And we know that all things God works for good of those who love him and who have been called according to his purpose. Now, taken out of context, it's saying that everything bad in your life, God can turn around, that's true.
But this is saying, for those that love him, trust him, rely on him, lean on him, and those that have been called according to his purpose, God will turn all things around. We shouldn't expect this if we don't trust him. We shouldn't expect this if we don't love him.
We shouldn't expect this if we haven't answered the call. Well, all promises are mine, yes and amen. They are, but have you went and put in the access key or the pen yet?
Have you applied faith, trust, and love, which opens the doors and windows of heaven fully? Not just, because see, a bucket that has the lid half on can't get full. But a bucket that is open as a willing vessel can be filled with all that heaven has to the point it overflows.
That's what God is wanting to do today. He's not wanting you to just be still. He wants to fill you up. God doesn't want to waste anything.
Not delays, not detours, not disappointments. He is weaving all these things together for his glory. So, Here's my final thoughts.
Let go, let God, let it be. Paddy, you messed me up there, buddy. Let go. All I could hear in my head right then was, let it go, let it go.
Frozen song. Let it be. It's not the language.
Listen, listen, listen. If you haven't heard anything, let it be is not the language of defeat. It's the language of deep trust, right?
That's what God wants from you. It is the anthem of those that believe that they will see God's whole picture for their life. And when we only see the mess, we have a passive resignation to not see the promise.
But when we have deep, active faith, we can see the blueprint that God has for us. Amen? So whatever your faith, amen.
At least you got that amen out through a yawn, sister. Amen. Come on, praise God.
So whatever you're facing today, whether it's a relationship, a dream closed, a door closed, something shut, a broken plan, step back, breathe deep. Do it for me. And surrender fully to God.
Whisper these words like Mary. You ready? Let it be to me according to your word. That means you've just surrendered to every promise the Bible speaks about.
You didn't just say yes to this moment. You said yes to every promise that is written in that book. You said yes to every blessing that is written in that book. When you say let it be according to your word, you're not just getting to this moment, you're saying yes to everything that God has for you.
As you trust God, he will take you there. All right, we're gonna try something, Alex. I'm gonna ask you to stop playing for a second.
We're gonna come back to you. What do we have? Audio or video?
All right. My wife sent me this song in the hardest time of my life when I haven't been worshiping for months. Now, I was a part of worship.
I hadn't fully opened my heart. I didn't feel worthy to come before God. And I got to this place of leave it alone, let it be, try again.
And my wife sends me this song. And... I didn't have at that moment a pretty prayer for God.
All I had was, I'm here. And I was bringing my dragon along, hurting the whole way. Come to you God, highest praise I got. And in that moment, he took ashes and gave me beauty. In that moment, again, he gave mourning and gave me dancing.
See, salvation is continual. Deliverance is continual. Sozo is continual.
He will complete the work he started in you. And when you forget how good he is, he'll take your unable to speak, your unable to pray, your unable to talk, your unable to sing, your nothing but crying, groan, hallelujah before him. Because the Bible says sometimes the Holy Spirit gives utterance to us because we're going through something.
But Tony, on the other side of that, we're giving praise, Tracy, that people don't understand. Why are you smiling right now? How can you, with the world's condition, how can you trust?
Because I believe God. I have faith. I have faith.
So whether you're going through it, been through it, overcame it, on the other side, got the t-shirt and the tattoo, God is still with you. If it's hurting or it's healed, if it's painful, panic or promise, God's still with you. This ain't a message about beat you down.
This is a message about pull you through. This is not a message about give up, give in. This is a message about deeper trust in God.
God is good and His grace is sufficient. For grace is not just favor. Grace is strength. Grace is not just unmerited, unearned. Grace is Jesus. Grace is not just a word we sling around.
It's something we believe in. On the cross, he made us able. He made us more than conquerors.
We can do it. We can get through it. We have been through it.
We can talk about it, teach about it, preach about it, pray about it, go win the lost. How many of you got a burning sensation on the inside of you to lead people to the lost? How many people got a burning sensation to preach and teach the word that makes people excited and alive again, passionate and thorough? Today, God, let them awaken to what they already have in you.
Every head bowed, every eye closed. If I could have... Some believers up front to pray.
Paddy, will you just pick them? I don't know who to call this morning. I just need about three or four people up here to pray with people.
Y'all just put yourselves across the front and help me pray. I believe today you can start singing your anthem. I'm going to need people to stand behind people as well.
I know I've been loud today and I've said some things that are kind of maybe out of pocket. But if you're here today and you dare to take that step for prayer, would you come and receive prayer from one of these people to say, Lord, I'm bringing my heartfelt, self-torn, it is well, hallelujah. If that's you, would you come forward and receive prayer this morning?
If you want to pray for the person next to you, if the person next to you says, I need prayer, but they don't feel like moving. Hallelujah. Hey, Tony, can you do me a favor? Can you come pray with this gentleman over here for me?
My big buddy, Tim. Yeah. Can you just begin to pray for the person next to you and simply say, I believe God has best for you.
Hallelujah. Amen. Hey, Guy, will you pray for these three?
Never mind, you're already doing it. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Now, I believed and I received all that God has. Amen. Father, I thank you that today as we enter into worship, we say, let it be.
We say, let it be. According unto your word, let it be. See, sometimes you need to not just say yes and amen.
You need to say yes and amen according to your word. Sometimes you can agree to things that were never meant for you. Make sure you say yes and amen according to your word.
I believe according to your word because your word is important. Thank you for tuning in to today's message. To connect or find out more, you can reach us online at worldchangers.life.
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