And so, November is a month of Thanksgiving. We're so thankful. Gotta start over. Good morning, Rock Church. Good morning.
Welcome. Welcome this November 12th, 2023. Once and only. The only day that we're going to be able to enjoy today. Yes. So welcome and...
I was just so thankful, and I was just praising God for all the beautiful gifts that he's given me personally. And just to name a few, this shirt was given to me by my wife for Christmas last year. So, you know, I was just so thankful for it.
I got to get it off the rack and at least wear it, right? And I just love it so much from the heart. Not only that, I actually found this. It was by my bed, and I thought, you know what?
I just love my grandkids. I have more than this. I've got, you know, more than I can mention right now.
But these are three that were close to me, and I just wanted to share that. So, anyway, let's just take a moment and welcome one another. and shake hands and meet somebody that you don't know. So, yeah. Yeah, that's great.
I'd like to meet you as well. Nice to meet you. I'm Rob. Okay.
Okay, how much time do I have? I think we have other people still out there getting their plates full. Anyway, I'd like to go ahead and just open up with a prayer for today, okay?
Oh Lord God, we thank you for this day, and we thank you, Lord, for the opportunity to meet and greet new people and share the love that we have from you, the Father, to the Son, to us. Lord God, we thank you that you bless us daily. We thank you for the peace that we have in our country, Lord, and we just pray, Father, that your peace would be the peace that surpasses all understanding, Lord God. It's something that the world does not understand, but yes, we have the persona that you give us, Lord God.
We just pray, Father, for the lost world to know and find you, Lord God, in our testimony. And it's in Jesus'name we pray. We praise you. We worship you today.
Glorify your name. It's above all names. We thank you, Lord God, for your great salvation.
In Jesus'name, amen. Oh, he was. Where would we be, oh, if it wasn't for Jesus? Come on, stand on your feet, hallelujah.
Where would we be if it wasn't for Jesus? It's all about you, Jesus. Where would we be if it wasn't for Jesus? Oh, this whole thing, this whole thing is all about you, There's your praise in this place, it's all about him, it's all about him Hey! Oh, we I feel the room going, Come on, surrender your heart to Him, surrender your burdens to Him, oh Oh, stay right there, stay right there Oh, He's in through on us.
As the Spirit was moving over the world, Spirit come move over us. Come rest on us. Come rest on us.
Yes, the spirit was moving over the water. Spirit come over the water. Come on, talk to him this morning.
Come rest on us. Hey, hey. Come rest on us.
Spirit was moving over the water. Spirit come over the water. Come on, lift it. Come rest on us.
Come rest on us. Fire and wind come and do it. Fire in the air, come and do it again, open up the gates, heaven on end, come rest on us, come rest on us, so come down, spirit when you move, you make our heart pound, when you feel the wound. You're here and I know you are moving I'm here and I know you will feel me come down Maybe when you make my heart pound When you feel alone You're here and I know you are moving I know you are moving I'm here and I know you will feel it Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, feel us up, God Feel us up, God Hey, We will move over the world. Spirit come over us.
Come rest on us. Come rest on us. Fire and wind come. Do it again Open up the cage Let heaven on it Come rest on us Come rest on us Fire and wind Come and do it again Open up the cage Let heaven on it Come rest on us Come rest on us So calm down Spirit when you move You make my heart When you feel the rules, you're here and I know you are closing I'm here and I know you will fill me Come, come, spirit, when you're closing, take my heart When you feel the rules, you're here and I know you are closing I'm here and I know you will fill me Oh Come on, lift your voice.
You're all we want. Say Holy Spirit, come rest on us. You're all we want. You're all we want.
You're all we want. Holy Spirit. Come on, lift your voice in this way.
Come on. Come on, talk to him. You're all we want. You're all we want. Holy Spirit.
Spirit, come restore us. You're all we want. It's me, I want more, I want more, so pour it out.
I want more, I want more, I want more, I want more, so pour it out. So come like the spirit, we welcome you. Come on, gaze into him. We lock eyes with the man of God. We lock eyes with the Lamb of God.
We lock eyes with the Lamb of God. He's coming for his bride. Oh! We lock eyes with the Lamb of God.
He's coming for his bride. We lock eyes with the man on fire. We lock eyes with the man on fire.
He's coming for his bride. Come on, you ready? We lock eyes with the man on fire. We lock eyes with the man on fire. We lock eyes with the man on fire.
He's coming for his bride. So Holy Spirit, come. Say hey, Paul! You're all we want, Jesus.
You're all we want, Jesus. You're all we want, Jesus. You're all we want, Jesus.
You're all we want, Jesus. Cause I wanna know you. Not just about you, I wanna be with you And not just around you, I wanna love you And not just be loved by you, I wanna walk with you I said, I wanna know you, not just about you.
I wanna be with you, and not just around you. I wanna be loved, I wanna be loved by you. Come on, just press into him.
Hallelujah. Come on, press into him. There's something about the pressing when you press into him. You literally get lost.
Lost in his presence. Lost. You forget about time. You forget about issues. You forget about pressures.
You forget about deadlines. You forget about traumas that you had. It's such a comfort. Engage in him today.
Pastor Nate said on Friday night, join the dance. Join the dance. He's reaching out to you today. He's pulling you on the dance floor.
Even with two left feet, you can still move because he guides every step. And in the awkwardness, as you flow with him, you begin to just be in sync. Oh, he's in the room.
Oh, grab his hand. He's in the room. Come on, press it, press it, press it. Come as you are.
Just as you are, it's time to come home Out of the dark There's no need to hide, he's waiting for you Don't be afraid Show him your face He won't turn you away He won't turn you away Everybody needs, everybody needs, everybody needs saving. Everybody breaks, everybody bleeds. Savior is a breath away. Call on Jesus. Say His name.
Just receive it in your heart and you will be saved. God has raised him from the grave. Just believe it in your heart and you will be saved.
As simple as that. Don't overthink, don't complicate it. No strings attached.
He loves you, He loves you. Everybody needs, everybody needs, everybody needs saving. Everybody breaks, everybody bleeds. The Savior is a breath of way. So you don't have to be ashamed.
Call on Jesus, say His name, just receive it in your heart and you will be saved. God has raised him from the grave. Just believe it in your heart and you will be saved.
Go on, Jesus. Go on. Jesus Just receive them in your heart And you will be Oh You will be saved, you will be saved, you will be saved, you will be saved, you will be saved, you will be saved, just believe it in your heart and you will be saved.
What you did on the cross still saves us, saves us, saves us. There is power in the name of Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, what you did on the cross still saves us, saves us, saves us. There is power in the name of Jesus, what you did on the cross still saves us.
Saves us, saves us. There is power in the name of What you did on the cross still saves us, saves us, saves us. There is power in the name of Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Jesus, what you did on the cross still saves us, saves us, saves us.
There is power in the name of Jesus. Say his name. Say his name, raise him, oh Jesus, say his name, your heart is... He's raised you from the grave to be saved.
What you did on the cross still saves us. Jesus, Jesus, there is power in the name of Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. What you did on the cross still saves lives, saves lives, saves lives.
There's a It's simple as that. Don't overthink. Don't complicate it. No strings attached.
He loves you. He loves you. Listen. So often do we think we have to perform or come a certain way to him, but it's so simple.
It's just surrenderance. It's just full surrenderance. Full.
You don't have to get it together before you come to him. You come to him as you are and he gets you together. Don't overthink. Don't overthink. This week I was just telling my sister, I want to...
For the past year and a half I've been in a class and I know some of you have heard this before and it's a spiritual warfare class and it has shifted my life for the reality of the war that we're in on a daily basis. We get so caught up in our daily routines that we don't even realize how heavy The open door of armory that the enemy pulls open to attack us. He literally slides the door open and he has every arsenal that you can think of to wipe us out. It's that serious.
I want to explain to you how serious it is. Don't think because you're on a platform or don't think because you have some degrees or that he doesn't attack. He attacks everybody. Everybody needs, everybody needs. Everybody needs saving and it's a constant check up with the father.
It's constant. Matter of fact, he said daily pull up your cross daily. A very, very, very dear friend of mine. Very dear. who is 74 years old in her right mind absolutely amazing in the kingdom absolutely when i say absolute like everything about her i feel like when she walked by you just felt delivered by her shadow very prophetic very well known in the community her husband very well known in the community And all of a sudden, she gets some pain in her body that's unbearable, like unbearable pain.
And it travels to another place and she's in excruciating pain. And I know that, I know that, I know she was calling out to the Father. Asking for a miracle because as she went to the doctors they had no answer for her none she began to lose sleep And we talked to her just maybe a month ago she always poured into the the ministry she financially and by word by deed she always poured in, sent us letters of prophecy, just constant. And her husband said a couple days before we got the news that she had passed away, she was just not sleeping.
She was in so much pain. He said it didn't make sense that they were turning her away. Every time she went to, they would just turn her away. She couldn't get past the reception desk.
It was being turned away. And I cried. I was so angry about that.
So angry. So she passes away and I was like, wow, she was really sick. For those who know, Pastor Nate went to Idaho last week to minister and he met with her husband. And he said, you know, she wasn't sleeping and she was kind of talking crazy the last two days, like just not in her right mind.
She was just so much pain. It was making her just crazy. And he said, you know, she wasn't sleeping at all and woke up.
I heard this loud noise and I woke up and she wasn't in the bed. And I got up to find her and she was laying on the ground in the other room and she had killed herself. This is how serious I'm telling you. The Bible says even the elect can be deceived.
It's very important. We're not just singing songs. We're not just coming to church. It's the gathering and the strengthening of his people. that even in the midst of reading your word that when the trial and the struggle comes you have something to just someone to glean from someone to reach out to someone that it doesn't take you out it's that serious i just want to invite you to the altar Everybody, please come to the altar, lay your burden down.
Maybe you're good, but let me tell you this. You might be good today and the enemy has a plan for tomorrow. You can't just get ready. You got to be ready.
You have to be ready. Be ready. Stay ready.
Don't take off the armor of God. Don't take it off. Matter of fact, keep your head on a swivel. Look behind you.
Watch your children. Press into your marriages. The houses are being divided. The enemy is coming for families and households. Identity, he's coming after.
Confusion, he comes to steal, kill and destroy. He hates your guts. He has no nothing else to do but study you and study what makes you tick.
That's his job and he's good at it so be better than him and that is by equipping yourself with the Word of God. Fill yourself with worship. Fill yourself with a posture of surrenderance.
My husband said that this week, stop just waking up and getting up and getting yourself ready for a job. Get yourself up and ready yourself before the king so that he carries you through the day. Pray for your children before they leave your household.
As Nate was flying back from Idaho, I get a mass text after I just hear the news. I hear a mass text that three children in Idaho killed themselves. And they were doing a huge march for suicide awareness.
One junior high and two high schoolers. Then Sister Katrina calls me on Friday morning. who was here on Friday night saying she said my brother just killed himself he was going to be 18 next month. I've never had suicide so close to me this close where they're just dropping like flies I come against the spirit of suicide and depression I come against that spirit in the name of Jesus And I said, be alive. Speak to the dry bones, Father.
In this house and every person that's in here connected to who they're connected to, all their surroundings, Father. We come against the spirit of suicide. We come against the spirit of depression and oppression. We come against the spirit of identity confusion, Father.
We watch in salvation of the Lord. We pull down strongholds. Who do you say that I am?
You are the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. You are. I'm coming back to the art of worship and it's all about you. It's all about you, Jesus. I'm sorry, Lord, for the thing I made it.
But it's all about you. It's all about you, Jesus. It's all about you, Jesus.
It's all about you, Jesus. It's all about you, Jesus. Caught up in your praises. And I just want to sit here at your feet.
Caught up in this holy moment Never won't No, I'm not here for blessing Jesus, you don't owe me anything, more than anything that you can do. I just want you. And I'm sorry, we're not just gone through the motions, I'm sorry, but God, that you're enough, take me back to where we started, I open up my heart to you. Say it again, I'm sorry. And I'm sorry that I've come with my agenda.
I'm sorry that I forgot your love. Take me back to where we started. I open up my heart.
Caught up in your feet, I just wanna see you here at your feet Caught up in this hole in your heart I just want you, I just want you, I just want you Come on, stay right there. Say it again. I just want you. Oh, I just want you. Only you, God.
I just want you. Jesus. I just want you.
I just want you, and nothing else, and nothing else, nothing else will do. I just want you. And nothing else.
And nothing else. Nothing else will do, Lord. I just want you. And nothing else.
Come on, lift it. Nothing else. Nothing.
And I want to talk with you, I want to talk with you, and I want to know you, not just about you, I want to be with you, not just around you. I wanna love you, not just be loved by you. I wanna know you, know all about you. I wanna be with you.
I'm not just around you, I wanna be by you Jesus, Lord I wanna know you Jesus, yeah I want to go just through the bullshit sky Oh, I want a relationship with your father Oh, intimacy with your father Hey I want to know you I just allow you I want to be with you And I just surround you Oh I You satisfy, you satisfy Come on if you're thirsty and hungry, tell them, hey You satisfy, you satisfy So I just want you, nothing else, nothing else, nothing else will do, I just want you. Nothing else, nothing else, nothing else will do, I just want you, nothing else, nothing else, nothing else will do, I just want you. I just want you No turning back No turning back I have decided No turning back Pass me not, O gentle Savior.
Pass me not, O gentle Savior. I love you, Lord, and I lift my voice. To worship all my soul be.
Come on, lift it up. Take joy, my King. Be in one. Let it be a sweet, sweet sound in your heart. One more time, everybody.
Say, I love you. I love you, Lord. My king, in what you will hear, let it be a sweet, sweet, oh let it be, let it be a sweet, sweet, oh let it be.
Let it be a sweet, sweet song in your heart. Come on, give Him some praise. And this way, listen.
Oh, He's worthy of all the praise. Oh, You're worthy of all my praise, Jesus. He's so sweet. Good morning, church.
Good morning. You know what I love about being here on a Sunday and listening to this worship and coming to a place where I can, I can sit and marinate with God. on the things that have happened throughout this week and listen to some beautiful music that just brings me closer and closer to the understanding of knowing god you got me god you got me And church, the reminder today is there's something that we need to do. And I thank God for the reminder today that surrender, surrender is the message.
You have it today, God wants you to surrender it. You're safe. He loves you.
The Bible tells us of an agape love. An unconditional love. Where you don't have to be afraid. You don't have to worry. That you can come just as you are, the Bible says.
And surrender. Don't be afraid, church. Don't be afraid to let that thing go to game.
Don't forget to come to a place with God. You can embrace him and he can embrace you and you can lay it down at the foot of the cross and never pick it up again. I don't know about you, church, but man, that's a weight off my shoulders.
And I feel so relieved every Sunday when I can come here throughout the week and lay it down at the foot of the cross. Listen to the music. Listen to how the music penetrates the soul, the heart.
And it brings you to a place where God, where you're just like, you're moved. To those of us with a heart, and you know who you are. something happens inside of you and if any of you are in here that think you don't have a heart let's talk let's pray we got a great message coming right now this is pastor nate coming up to share a word before we start i just want to say glory to god everybody lift your hand thank you lord for doing it once again i surrender i'm all yours Thank you, Father. In Jesus'name we pray, and the church says... Thank you, Lord.
Thank you. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Father. We thank you for your warm embrace, oh God.
You have never left us. I don't care what people say, what the enemy has said, you have never left us. You have never forsook us, oh God. You've been constant.
Thank you, Lord. Come on, somebody talk to him. Lord, I thank you.
Thank you, Lord. Come on, somebody talk to him this morning. Lord, we love you.
We love you, Lord. When everybody else has kicked us to the curve, oh God, your love has been constant in our mind. It's been constant. When the whole world is in chaos, you never lose order. You have been constant in my life.
Even when I put you on the back burner, I set you to the side. You're still there. Thank you, Lord.
Somebody pray this morning. Somebody talk to the Lord this morning. Tell him you thank him. Tell him thank you that he woke you up this morning.
Come on, come on, just sit in his presence right now. Come on, take it in. Take in his peace right now. Some of your lives are chaotic. Come on, take that peace.
We release peace in this house in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. We release your peace, Lord. Calm that heart.
Calm that marriage. Calm that child. We release peace in this house in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. We release your tranquility, God, your calmness.
In the name of Jesus Christ. Let it flood their minds. Let it guard their hearts, oh God, in Jesus'name. I want somebody to talk to him this morning.
He's saying, give it to me. I'm the burden barrier. He's saying, lay that weight aside, and even the sin that so easily entangles you.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Come on, somebody talk to him.
Come on, come on. We ain't waiting on him. He waiting on us right now.
Talk to him. Tell him all about it. Hallelujah.
Abba, you're so good. You've been so good to us. You're a way maker.
Miracle worker. Promise keeper. Light in the darkness, oh God. That's who you are.
Come on, somebody talk to him this morning. Come on, exalt his name this morning. You're Elohim, God. You're Jehovah Jireh.
You're our provider. You're Jehovah Rapha, the God that heals. Come on, somebody talk to him. Call on his name. It's the name that's above every name.
Hallelujah. You're the bright and morning star, the prince of peace. Wonderful counselor.
Everlasting God. Come on, y'all feeling me? Come on, y'all.
Come on. Let it get in your spirit. You're the Messiah.
You're the one Abba revealed to Peter that you are the Christ, the son of the living God. Come on, somebody talk to him. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord.
The Lord's been so good to me. Yeah. Hey, y'all.
Man. I've just been in a season of reflection. Just reflected on his goodness. And I tell you, I got countless, countless encounters with the Lord. Countless.
But there's a word that won't leave me. And the Holy Spirit is continually having me push this word, continually push this word. And you might have heard it on Friday night, but this is something that's on the heart of the Father, okay? And it comes from Luke, the 10th chapter, and starting at the 38th verse. And it reads, it says, now it happened as they went that he entered a certain village.
And a certain woman named Martha welcomed him, him as Jesus, into her house. And she had a sister called Mary who also sat at the feet of Jesus and heard his word. But Martha was distracted.
with much serving. And she approached him and said, Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore, tell her to help me.
And Jesus answered and said to her, Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. Put your name there. But one thing is needed.
Some translations say necessary. And Mary has chosen that good part, which will be taken away from her. I went to Idaho, and the last day I was up there, I preached at Riverwind. And I had a mother come up to me, and she said, which was confirmation what the Lord said, is that.
She looked me right in the eye. She says. The road that you're on is very narrow. And where he's taking you is going to cause for a deeper consecration. I say the same thing to all of us in this church.
The road that you're on is narrow. And in this season, it's going to require a deeper consecration. And whatever that looks like, Holy Spirit, it looks like in your life. But you got to begin to ask the question.
What does that look like in my life? The road that we're on. Monica shared that testimony. When I tell you she was like a mama in the spirit realm for us, and I still don't understand it. I still don't understand it.
Like, what, what went wrong? What, what, what? To where the pain was so excruciating, she had to take her own life.
Thank you. The Lord keeps saying, Nathaniel, you're distracted. Trouble about many things. So I literally had to shut off stuff. People, social media, some concerns.
And do you not know it? And this has been the whole year. It's been the whole year of shedding off people, things.
This whole year. Worries. Things that were troubling me.
But the intimacy. And the anointing and the love that I have been feeling since obeying what he's telling me to shut off has been out of this world. I had such, this morning, got up in prayer. I went in another place. I don't know if you understand that.
I was not in that office. I was somewhere else. And Zach, I hadn't felt that. I used to, when I first came to the Lord, when I first really got going and I went to Idaho, I was in that place, like, and it wouldn't take long to get there.
I was just, but it's somewhere along the way we get what? We get troubled. We get bogged down, weighed down, some things consciously and some unconsciously.
We take on things that we're not supposed to take on. We don't want to ask the Lord if we should even sign our kid up for this. Let's be honest.
And because we have not talked to the Lord about everything, then we get set up. And then we find ourselves drifting and drifting and drifting away. And we're no longer at the feet of Jesus, but we're doing many things.
He never told to sign that child up for that. I was going to be honest because our kids are our biggest thing. My kid comes to me and she says, I want to do this.
And I see her face. But also, too, I hear the Holy Spirit saying, this is going to drip. It's going to pull you off. It's going to pull you off.
And because of me not obeying the voice of the Lord, then I find myself off over here, distracted, frustrated. We got to talk to the Lord and ask him about everything. Do you not know?
how cunning and how slick the devil is. Oh, go ahead. Go ahead. And it sounds good, but it's not the best thing for you. It looks good, but it's not the best thing.
You know why it's not the best thing? Because it's not the Lord's word. It's not what he's directing you to do. What's that word?
The good thing. It could be the bad thing if it gets in the way of the best thing. The best thing is what Christ wants. And in this hour, the Lord is summoning us, summoning the church back to his feet, back from the distractions, back from the trouble. You see, you get these big things going on in the church, and it's a good idea, you know.
It's a good idea to do certain, certain things, but... What comes with that, it comes with a cause. I got to keep it up to keep the people up, you know. And now you're frustrated because it's taken away. And so there's a lot of things that the Lord never told us to do.
And there's some things he has told us to do, but not worry in it. Don't worry. Like, sometimes he literally does say, step out of faith and buy that house.
Seriously. Like, where is it going to come from? Like, leave this job and go over here and do this. How is my family going to eat? You know, he does summon us to the deep waters.
Step out of the boat. You, in your spirit, you already told me you'd come. Okay, I step out of the boat. I'm coming to you.
But as soon as... The wince gets boisterous, right? All of a sudden, the bills are more than the money, and you're like, uh, and then you start sinking, and then you and your wife get into something, and the kids, you know, they need this, and you find yourself sinking.
But you're only sinking because of worry, the weight of worry cemented to your feet that you put on. You put them shoes on. He didn't put them on. God is saying, I know your works. I know your patience.
I know how you've labored. But one thing you lack, you lack your first love. You remember when you first loved me?
You always wanted to eat from my mouth. You were gleaning from me. But a whisper came to you and you turned your head and then all of a sudden now you're up. off your feet from that very anointed place.
You forgot to love me with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. You forgot. You're doing the work. Yes, people are getting saved. People are getting delivered.
People are getting healed. People are coming to the Lord. But you.
Have forgotten your first love. You have forgotten your first love. Don't you know that miracles will happen even when you're out of alignment of the Lord? He says, not everybody's going to say, Lord, Lord is going to enter.
He said, have I not prophesied in your name? Yeah, we're doing the works, but we're not connected to their first love. Not connected to Appa.
Not depending on it's more important that you be in connection, be one with the Lord, then try to do all this work. Because on the day of judgment, when you go, you might not even enter in because your connection was off. You know, witches can do miracles.
You know that, right? The devil can do miracles, too, right? We cannot be distracted by money.
You cannot be distracted by the houses and all these things. We have to, as the body of Christ, this church, we have to come back into the right posture at Jesus'feet. Even mothers with new babies.
It's, it's, it's, you look, take that baby and start singing. Like, like, like my sisters are going around the house, singing, reading the scripture like this. They didn't make it easy for you. So she got a little thing to carry the baby out.
Just going up in the house is reading your Bible, singing. And you know what's happening? They getting fed too. So there's no excuse. Oh, I can't.
No. Hey, God will give you some strength. There's no excuse for nobody, okay?
This is a real short message, real easy. But the Lord has summoned us back to his feet. What is that thing? What is that thing that is drawing you away, has drawn you away from the Lord?
It's caused a weight. It's caused sin. It's caused a distraction.
I even was saying the other day. That I literally had the Holy Spirit say, why are you posting on my time? You know how we do it. We get a good word and we want to post it.
But this is my time. Y'all don't want that, huh? That thing, oh, boy.
But it was real. It was revelation. Now, what are you going to do when the Holy Spirit revealed that to you?
Your flesh is like, the flesh is weak, but the Spirit is willing. You got a choice to make. Am I going to put that thing away and rightly divide the world, get into the world, rightly divide it, and get before the Lord, or am I going to continue? Oh, man, I'm telling on myself.
I did, too. Look what he told me. What else?
You know, do you know, like, I'm coming after these phones, man. These phones is a big distraction, bro. Okay?
Holy Ghost already told me. So. That's why I don't even have my phone up here right now.
I literally put it in the back. So I actually got two things I'm going to talk about. So I'm in the word. Man, hey, Thomas, I'm deep into the word, right?
Man, it's good. And then. I hear, you know, you got it on silent, but then that thing, rubber gets to it, it go off, it kind of vibrate.
And then you want to go and look. He said, turn it off. Completely turn it off. See the layers that are getting peeled off this thing? He's peeling off layers right now.
He's trying to get your attention. Trying to get you into the right posture so you can hear what's coming around the corner. So you can hear the revelation, so you can eat from his mouth.
So you ain't starving, so you ain't lethargic. Yeah, y'all don't want this. And look, I literally, look, I literally don't even wear my Apple watch no more.
I was literally, I told Debbie this a while back. I was literally in the spirit. I feel like I was in heaven. And all of a sudden, a text come on. And it literally took me out of, y'all don't want that kind of, that's real talk.
But I'm up in, up, up, up there. And the thing just goes off. And I take it off.
We're going to drop some weight tonight. I'm talking about things that distract you from the very presence of God. You might not think it's a big thing, but it is a big thing. I should want more of him than all this other stuff.
If you're watching, is it on? Some of y'all that are watching need to come to church. Y'all don't want that.
Well, I'm going to just stay at home. If you can make it, you need to make it. It's the difference when you're with the brother. It's different. What devil told you, whisper in your ear and say, it's enough just to be at home and look at that.
You're in there cooking and flipping. I know it's on, but you ain't paying attention. Let's be real. Let's get free in here today. Okay?
Let's come back to our first love today. And the enemy is so cunning, right? And you got a good flow going on.
Man, you getting up early in the morning, right? Before the Lord. And then you get into an argument with your spouse.
And now you frustrated. Now you ain't even coming to the feet of Jesus. You're so fired up and mad.
And what you're carrying is making you tired. The alarm goes off that you set for your time with the Lord. And you hit snooze once.
And you hit snooze twice. And you hit snooze a third time. And you still ain't got up. I'm talking about distractions. The enemy, man, do you not know when I worked in corrections that you had to be on guard?
Okay, because they're watching. They're watching you to make one wrong move. That's why there's rules in there.
Don't take this from an inmate. Don't do this. Don't do that.
Because once you take it once, you're taking it twice. And the first time, it's just something little. Say like a book. And you know you can't take that book.
And now they got you. Well, if you don't do this, I'm going to tell about this. Who do that?
The accuser of who? The brethren. Distractions. Troubled about many things. Who are my business owners up in here?
Who got businesses? You don't even need to worry. God got it.
All he says, just get before me. Let me do the work through you. Free your mind.
Get up early before you go to work. Continue to read. Continue.
Sometimes you got to fast the whole day. But he says, I got you. Our first love. Jesus says, Martha, I'm not taking this from Mary.
Where she's at right now is very needed. And God is saying to the church right now, this is needed. This is necessary to get back to the feet of Jesus.
Real simple message, but convicting. Some of y'all are having relationship issues, and it's on you. You got to get it off you. Let me say this.
You can't change that person. Get out of the way of God. That is not your position. That is not your place.
Your place is a place of love and prayer. That is not your place. You're frustrated because you're in the wrong seat. Get up out of that seat and get in your seat.
Glory to God. Thank you, Lord. We thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.
Distractions. Can I be real? Oh, boy.
So, Facebook, Instagram, the Holy Spirit told me in October. there was going to be a cleansing month for me. So social media was one of them things. And you know how we can kind of make up things in our own mind?
And I said, well, it's just going to be for October. But what the Lord first said, I'll tell you when you can. Y'all don't want this today.
You can ask my sister over here. I said, you need to do the whole, you need to post for me. And so when November hit, first hit, and because the awakening thing is coming, you know, I got to get the news out there.
I got to let people know. Let me tell you something. This morning.
He ain't going to let you get away with it, okay? This morning, he said, who told you to go back on social media? See, I don't want, you know, you start stuttering.
Start stuttering in the spirit. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I shut that thing off. The word of the Lord came to me. The world is narrow, and it's going to cause for a deeper consecration.
Are you willing to give it up? Are you ready to push the plate away for some time? You look good, bro.
Man, trim. That's what happens when you suffer for his name. The weight come off. We got a suffering problem, huh?
I got a weight problem too. Can't wait to eat. Y'all helped me this morning.
The Lord is saying is that we got to eliminate these distractions. And it's going to be uncomfortable. Okay?
But the blessing on the other side is going to be amazing. So, Father, we thank you, Lord. We thank you, Lord. Lord, I just pray for every heart in here today, Lord.
Every heart. Every heart. I pray for every heart, Lord. Every heart, Lord. Every heart that is just clogged, overwhelmed.
Every heart, oh God, that feels defeated, discouraged, restless, tired. We commend that thing to come off of them right now in the name of Jesus Christ. We command that that artery, that heart, whatever that thing is to be removed right now in Jesus'name.
Lay it at his feet right now. I command it to leave right now. I don't want it, Lord. Lord, I want what you have. Lord, rain down your peace, your joy, your love, long-suffering, your goodness, your faithfulness, your kindness.
Temperance, rain down your fruits on me, Lord. Fill me up, oh God. Push all the junk out, oh God. Plunge my life, oh Lord.
Plunge it, purify it, consecrate it. In Jesus'name. So you got homework. Homework.
We got to activate this, right? We got to activate this, right? So, you know, you know that area.
Oh boy. You know that area, okay? So this week. You got to work on giving it up. This ain't no shout message.
This is a message saying we got to line up. We got to line up. Because, listen, how can we really discern? How can we really see, discern what's on people's lives if we're blind and we're bogged up? We won't be able to see.
And look at what all this stuff is going on. I'm so bogged down by my troubles that when I go on my job, I can't discern. I can't sense this person is going through something.
We got to get on the playing field. It's not negotiable. We got to get on the plate, but we got to get rid of our issues and keep them gone. Keep them gone. If you never received Jesus as your Lord and Savior, and you want Christ to come into your life, come on up here.
If you heard this word and you felt that knocking on your heart, that's the Lord. He's saying, I want to come in and show you something different. I want to show you something that you've never experienced before.
A love that you've never experienced before. A peace that you've never experienced before. A joy that you've never experienced before. If that's you, come on up here. You want Christ to be head of your life.
I tried this. I tried that. I tried this.
I tried that. Try Jesus. Try him.
The Bible says just taste it. Taste them. Just taste and see that the Lord is good. Just taste it. You know, just get a slice of that, you know, whatever your pie is, your favorite pie.
Just taste it and see that the Lord is good. Amen? Amen. Amen. And if you need prayer.
We're going to have prayer right after. Yeah, ministry team, come on up. If you need prayer, come on up.
Come on up. If you need prayer about anything, you need healing in your body, you need anything, begin to make your way. Blessings, blessings, blessings, blessings. And that's a good word, a suffering problem. Amen.
Amen. No one likes to suffer. Amen.
Just being able to embrace suffering is an absolute blessing. Thank you, Pastor Nate. For that encouraging word.
I hope you received something today that it touched your heart. Yeah, man. Go ahead and bless him.
If you are recovering from sickness, I know that sickness just swept through this house and just has been going on throughout, just throughout this region, this area. If you are recovering from any type of sickness or whatnot, please receive healing prayer for that. I know it hit me really, really, really hard after Sunday.
So I know there are some of us in here who feel so much better and radically better, and there are some who are still yet. trying to recover. So if you've been sick, please know that it's not something we fear. We pray into that.
We want to see that healed. Amen. So if there's anything going on with that, please feel free to receive prayer for that as well. What do we have going on for this week? I always put this forth.
If there's an opportunity for you to be able to grow and mature in who you are in the Lord, it always happens best when you're with the brothers and sisters. is a good opportunity to be encouraged. So we got a number of things going on. I hope for some of you who were there on last Friday, that was an absolute opportunity. And what an amazing time of worship and a word and all kinds of amazing things happened on this past Friday that if you weren't here, please connect with Pastor Nate and Monica and some of those who were there also who got the opportunity to...
to experience what God was doing. So with that, lots of opportunities to engage in community here. Know that we have a number of things that are coming up as we go into the holidays, but ministries that have been constant.
We do have a men's group on Tuesday mornings. If you could show that reel, my brother. We also still have Bible study happening on Wednesday nights, walking through the letter of Rome. the letters to the Romans. In that particular teaching, we've been talking about the subject of the foreknowledge of God, predestination, calling, and all these amazing things that scripture speaks into and that the church is really, really touchy about.
So know that it's been a really amazing time to be able to engage in that, provide some understanding, and be able to move forward with that. Just to let you know, when it comes to those things. things.
Here's what I can give you as the clearest answer. Clearest answer is this. God is sovereign, and he can do whatever he pleases.
That's predestination. That's his foreknowledge. He can do it however he wants, whenever he wants, with whoever he wants to, and it's just a blessing to know that you have a God that makes his own choices, amen?
Even outside of what I think he should do, amen? So we're going to be... catching into more of that.
And again, I'm not one who stands here and says, I know the entire scriptures. I know it perfectly. I interpret it perfectly. No, I'm not going to say that. However, I will tell you that with the Lord, I feel like the Lord is speaking into my heart.
I am going to release it and be able to work with it from there. So if you want to join, if you want to know more about what scripture has to say about a variety of different subjects, please join us on Wednesday nights. We will be here.
You can also watch. Watch it online. But if you can be here, be here for that.
Amen. All right. Thursdays and Fridays, we've got Pastor Thomas out on the front line.
An amazing ministry that continues to bless this city and this area. So thank you so much, brother, for what you're doing out there and continue to encourage our community. We are doing many thanks.
Can you put that up there? And for this Sunday, I think it's a different one. Do we have a different one? for that?
A different slide. We have a different grouping that we are going to do thanks for. But I do want to run the reel for you guys.
Again, this month we're focusing on thanking the ministries, the people in ministry who have been serving and serving and serving and serving this house. And this is an opportunity for us to be able to share our thanks with them, to let them know that we appreciate the work that they do. We're going to play a video here shortly just before we exit out of here. But there's going to be additional ministries that are coming up.
If you have been blessed by any of these ministries, please come over to this back area, this room. We're going to record you. There it goes.
So, Revive Faith. You also got Audiovisual Tech. um and ministry team so if you received any type of ministry up here before please come in and just share a word of thanks to those folks also if um the audio visual tech sean raise your hand back there brother so sean has one of the most stressful jobs in the house i just want to let you guys know that okay he gets pulled every which way all right okay um you got to have a special heart and mind to be Doing what he does because it's a lot of things happening all at once.
OK, so all the sound you hear, the mixes with all the worship, the visuals you see up there. He's also working the online and he's doing a whole bunch of other things with what would would very limited resources. So, again, please share thanks in these different things. Revive faith as well.
That's the tent ministry. The you guys do tent. International ministry, prison. Is that it? Marriage.
You can do it all. Amen. So anyhow, so we're going to be doing the thanks.
Please, please make your way. Don't make me have to come and ask you. Did you hear me? I just went pop up. Don't make me have to ask you.
Please, just know that you've been blessed and just come on, make your way back there. Don't make this so difficult for me, people, all right? All right?
I just, you know, anyhow. So please be a part of that. Lastly, offering.
I can't tell you enough how much of a blessing it is to be in this house and all the people who support it. These are the things that we do with the giving. There's our goal up there.
we want to be able to make improvements. We also want to be able to bless this ministry. Pastor Thomas is going into the holiday season. He's going to need supplies and resources for the holiday season. So know that these are all things that are coming up down the road.
And being able to pour and to revive faith is also a thing that is on our heart as well. So these are our missions for within this house that we want to be able to bless. able to pour into this house, we can also pour into other things, amen. So just know that that's where we're going to go with that. These are the ways in which you can give.
Go ahead and go to those other two slides just to give them an update where we are. That's our monthly go from the last. month.
So we've reached our goal and go ahead to the next one. And this is where we are. We're still we're still behind as it comes up to the year today to in terms of what our budget is. So be in prayer in the Lord and as to what you're going to give. I'm going to put this out there to you.
I say this to you all the time. It is upon you to really speak to the spirit of the Lord when it comes to this in your area. Listen to me. You are blessed. You are beyond blessed.
As Pastor Tom says, you are blessed beyond measure. Why? Because you have Christ in you. You can't get more blessings. You cannot.
Okay? So I'm not going to connect your blessing to your giving, but I will connect your favor. So I'm going to tell you like this.
When you give, it's literally of an invitation for the Lord to put some favor on your finances. The scripture is clear. Would you sow?
You're going to reap. And not only are you going to reap, but it's going to be pressed down, shaken together, and running over. Okay?
So if you have a financial problem, a cash flow problem, what better way than to invest in the things of the kingdom that the Lord may overflow you. Amen? Amen.
So, again, you are outrageously already blessed, but here's another opportunity to bless yourselves. Amen? So with that, thank you so much. Come and receive ministry.
And also, many thanks. Be a part of that. God bless you all. Have a wonderful, wonderful week.
We will see you soon. Amen.