29 December 2024 9am Service, Pastor Erik van Rhyn

The speaker shares a thought about how every thought God thinks of us is good. He encourages pondering on what God's thoughts for the new year might be. He emphasizes God's goodness and invites praise. He mentions the theme of "behold" and the invitation to enter into something new. He talks about possessing our promises and believing that God's word is for us. He emphasizes the power of God's Word. He believes that God has brought the listeners to this place for a purpose. I want to share a thought with you quickly before you take your seat. Jeremiah makes a declaration that every thought that God thinks of me is a good thought. Read that in your Bible, Jeremiah 29 and 11. Every thought that God thinks of you is a good thought. You know that God can't have a bad thought. You know that God can't have a bad thought. It's impossible. It's just too good to have a bad thought. So every thought that He thinks about you is good. So here's what I want you to ponder on with me for a moment. What if we could see the thoughts that God thinks about you for next year? Just like next year, not even the rest of your life. What if you could see it? What He holds, what He thinks about you for your new year. I would be praising today if we could know the thoughts of tomorrow. It's the first time I've done it in church. It's the first time in the nature of church. He's been good to me this year. He was good for me. He's been good for you as well. Church, I tell you, He's a good God. Come on, He's giving praise. He's got good thoughts about you. I love you. I like you. That's who we serve. That's the God that we serve. Praise the air. If you've got a neighbor with you, say, Maybe he's been good to you. Learn to have a neighbor, say, Maybe he's been good to me as well. Praise the air. Come on, let's just love our worship team. Can we appreciate them, bless them, honor them for tomorrow. I tell you, the more I get to see the goodness of God, the more I'm confronted with the reality of how I struggle to actually see the goodness of God. In everything, God is good. God is good all the time. And all the time, I'm definitely at the right church this morning. He's an incredibly good God. I'm emphasizing that this morning because today is all about maybe taking a moment and reflecting on what God has done in your life. I tell you, I could probably hand you a piece of paper, and by the end of the service, you could probably write a hundred things on there. I just feel you've just been starting on the goodness of God in your life. How many days of our lives have we not lived our lives focused on what we haven't seen, haven't gotten? The great truth is that we haven't skipped into heaven. Yes, he is incredibly good in everything. And he's been good to you as well. And I'm so glad that you came to church this morning. It's our last Sunday for 2024. I see a lot of new faces. Can I just ask, if you're here for the first time, we're not going to sell you insurance now, I promise. I just want to ask, if you're here for the first time, why don't you raise a hand quickly? Just raise them high. Oh, bless you. Keep them high. We're going to bless you with a free coffee. It's not insurance, just a free coffee. Keep your hands raised until you've received the card. We've got some people on that side as well. Just keep them raised until you've got your free coffee. And whoever brought you here, the family member, the friend, just bless you as well for bringing somebody to church this morning. I'm excited about what God wants to share this morning. I think I say that every Sunday, don't I? True story, because every Sunday I'm excited about what God's going to share. I've said this to this church many times before. Before I preach any message to you, I preach it to myself. And I'm not the kind of guy that stands in the mirror and preaches to myself. It's just I allow the Word to change my life further. Because if it hasn't impacted my life from Monday to Saturday, it's not going to do anything in your life. People have asked me, Eric, why don't you look at your notes? Most of the time I don't have a lot of notes. I just have the Word burning in my heart. And it's burning in my heart for what God wants to do today. Because what's going to happen in the next three to four hours as we spend time together, or the first time visitors are like, as we spend time for the next couple of minutes, you know what's going to happen? God's going to release power to you. I say that because I know something that you don't. But by the end of the service, you'll know what I know. And that is that God's going to release power to you today. Power for your life, and power for the lives of others. There's incredible power that's released from what we're going to share about this morning. And maybe before I jump into that, I just want to backtrack for the last three to four weeks. We've been speaking around the theme, behold. What does behold mean? It means that I don't just look, but I see. It's not just an observation. I don't just scan the perimeter. I actually take an intention to look. If I look at that word in the Hebrew, it actually means, don't miss it. Like it's something that God wants us not to miss. What is that? That there's an invitation into the new. It's not just because it's a new year. It's December. It's the rollover. It's the crossover. There's something new that He possesses in the Hebrew. As a church, I tell you now, mark my words. Write it on your mirror. Post it to somebody in a letter. I tell you by the end of next year, this time, this church will look completely different from what it does now. Not because we're special, although I do think we are somewhat special. But it's because God has just had it in His heart to do something incredible through this group of people. Established this church three and a half years ago. It's been going through different growth and different phases of development. And it's like in this year, there was just an invitation that constantly went out to us as a church. And I think at the right moment, I've said this before, I just think we said yes at the right moment. It's not because we did anything special. It's not because we twisted the arm of God, introduced, doing something for us. It's just there was an invitation, wanting to do something great through this body of believers. And we said yes at the right moment. And He's taking us into something. That means that He's taking this church into something new. He's taking you into something new. It's like 17 of you that believe that. I tell you, He's taking us into something new. Many of you will see new things. It's not just this motivational word. I'm not trying to push you through the same. I'm telling you, mark my words. There's going to be some things that will accelerate in your life. I think it will happen. I saw some of those things and I prayed for some of you. And I have this expectation as I studied the word of the Lord for 2025. I became even more excited. Because it's the word of the Lord. If you study the Jewish calendar 5-7-8-5, I'm not going to jump into that now. It's the year of beholding. It's the year of open doors, open windows, seeing the new, stepping into the new. I tell you, it's been in his heart before you were even born. That this year, coming now, will be a significant year. Some of you will see the prayers that you've prayed for for years answered in this year. Some of you will see God answer prayers that you haven't even prayed. Why? Because He's good. Because He's good. Because He's good. Because He is good. He is way better than what you would ever imagine Him to be. And He's just been His invitation. It's been constant for the last 3-4 weeks of my life. It's like when I wake up, I wake up with an invitation. When I go to bed, I go to bed with that same invitation. Here I come into the new, come into the new. I use the symbolic picture of the Israelites crossing into the promised land. The invitation to profess the promise. What promise? Your promise. Every one that's left in Amen. Almost 7,000 of them in Scripture. They all belong to you. It's your Bible. It's your testament. It's your testament. That's where we're going this morning. Praise Him. I tell you now, there's this invitation for you to possess what is rightfully yours. That's why the Righteousness Series in October and November was so important. Because I can never possess the promise. I can never enter the promise if I don't possess the promise first. If it's not something that I can possess. If I don't understand that I am a son. I have a rightful inheritance. That is mine. If I don't believe that, I'll never possess it. If you don't show up at the lawyer's office, you'll never inherit the boat that your uncle left you. God's been taking us through this process and we understood more and more and more who we are and what we possess. And for many of us, I choose to believe most of us, is actually realizing it's not just a promise that's there for somebody. It's my promise. I spoke to somebody the other day and said, Pastor Eric, I've been listening to your whole series around Behold, Enter the New. And only last week I actually had the thought, Do I really believe that that Word is for me as well? Do you really believe that that Word is for you as well? That God has it in His heart for you to enter into the new. Can I ask you this question? Why would you be here this morning? Why would you be here this morning? You could be a hundred different places. You're not here by accident. Even though you've been in this church for three years, you're not here by accident. I mean, Pastor Rion could be celebrating with Pastor Sid around at Stormont Swim last night and having a bride today. They could be. Can we just take a moment and appreciate the Western Province for winning last night. Stormont, thank you. You could have been anywhere. Some of you were invited by a friend. Why are you here today? Why today? Why are you here today? I can tell you God has brought you to this place today. Not so that I could entertain you with a good sermon, but so that the Word of the Lord can do something in your life. Do you know that the Word of the Lord is powerful and active? Stronger than any two-edged sword. Do you know that it can separate anything? It can do anything. It can establish anything. Do you know there's power in the Word? Do you know that the Word has the power to change you, even if you don't want it to change you? There's a stage where you read the Word, you listen to the Word, and then the Word starts reading you. So life begins to change. Some of you, if you think back of where you were in Jam. Think of where you were in Jam. And where you are now. What has happened? Has it been the extravagance of our worship? Has it been the greatness of our lives? Has it been the charismatic way in which I deliver a message? No, it's the Word of the Lord that has impacted your life. It's established you in truth. It has established you in power. It has established you if you can believe it. You see, that's what the Word means. Hebrews 4.12 says the Word of the Lord is like a double-edged sword. That word double-edged is bestowed with double-mouthed sword. The Word is spoken by God. You agree with it. You say, yes, Lord. Two mouths, one sword cuts through anything. If you can believe the Word of the Lord, if you can actually say, yes, I get it. If it's a new year, a new beginning, a new season, I get it. For me, for my age. If you can put your mouth with God in faith, anything can change in your life. Anything can change in your life. That was my introduction. Three to four hours. I want to share one or two thoughts with you. The Israelites enter into the Promised Land. Last week, we spoke about the step of faith in the Jordan. They needed to put the foot in the river. If you missed that, go listen to it. If you're not getting our audio podcast, just ask some of the pastors to subscribe to our WhatsApp channel. Just join us. Get the link. We post our weekly sermons every week. There's something that we stepped into last week, and today is a significant day. A significant day, I believe, for where we are heading into in crossover on Tuesday night. Can I have that scripture? Joshua chapter number four. Maybe we can change the color of that, if at all possible. If you're struggling to read, I'm going to just read it for you. And it came to pass, when all the people had completely crossed over the Jordan, that the Lord spoke to Joshua. Thank you, that's great. That the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying, Bless you. Take for yourselves twelve men from the people, one from every tribe, and command them, saying, Take for yourselves twelve stones from here, out of the midst of the Jordan, from the place where the priest's foot stood firm. You shall carry them over with you and leave them in the lodging place where you lodge tonight. You'll get the picture. You'll get the picture. Take the twelve stones where the priest was standing. The priest was standing in the middle of the river. All the Israelites were crossing through. We're not talking about ten or twenty, or three hundred like we had here this morning. We're talking about millions of people crossing through that river. While the priest was standing with the ark of the covenant on their shoulders. He says, Take twelve stones from where they're standing, and you put them on the other side of the river, in the promised land. You carry them over and you leave them in that lodging place where you lodge tonight. Then Joshua called the twelve men who he had appointed from the children of Israel, one from every tribe. And Joshua said to them, Cross over before the ark of the Lord your God, into the midst of the Jordan, and each of you take up a stone on his shoulder. There's a sermon in every scripture according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, meaning everyone needs to be represented here. This word is not just for the leaders of the entire church. This word is not just for the mature that's been with God for the last ten, fifteen years. This word is for everybody. Young, old, black, white, color, doesn't matter. This word is for everybody. That this may be a sign among you, when your children often come to come saying, What do these stones mean to you? Then you shall answer them, that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord when it crossed over the Jordan. The waters of the Jordan were cut off and these stones shall be a memorial to the children of Israel forever. Can I have verses 14 and 15? Verse 14 Then the Lord spoke to Joshua, verse 15, saying, Command the priest to bear the ark of the testament to come up from the Jordan. Just read about the ark of the covenant. Command the priest to bear the ark of the testament to come up from the Jordan. Next verse. Joshua therefore commanded the priest, saying, Come up from the Jordan. And it came to pass, when the priest who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord had come from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priest's feet touched the dry land, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their places and overflowed all its banks as before. I want you to take note of something. Last verse, but I want to read you. Verse 9 Listen to what Joshua did before the priest moved from the middle of the river. Then Joshua said, The twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan is the place where the feet of the priest who bore the ark of the covenant sit, and they are there until this day. Quick picture of what happened then. The priest put their foot in the water, command of the Lord, put your foot in the water. We know from our message last week that the moment they put their foot in the water, there was an immediate change. The waters dried up 61 kilometers upstream to a town called Adam. They stood there by faith with a hopeful expectation that God's word would come to pass. And the river started clearing, drying up before them. They walked into the middle of the river. They stood there with the ark of the covenant, which is now called the ark of the testament, on their shoulders. The Israelites crossed through the river and took from themselves twelve stones as appointed by Joshua. Twelve men took a stone each and they put it on the other side of the river. They created a memorial, a place of remembrance, that when they keep it, and the children's children asked them, Dad, what do those stones mean? They can tell them it was on that day, it was on that day, that they crossed the Jordan dry ground. It was a testimony, a memorial that God established in the midst. Joshua himself said, I in this day will create my own memorial. And he took twelve stones and he walked to the middle of the river where the priest was standing, and he himself piled up twelve stones, created his own memorial. That memorial is not seen today. The rivers are overflowing with his twelve stones. But in his heart and in his memory, a testimony that God has been good to him as well. What do you think went on in the heart of Joshua in that moment? Why did he establish his twelve stones? It was his personal testimony. Not just this is the day that God made us cross the Jordan. This is the day that God had something for me and he erected his own memorial. I want to speak to you this morning about the memorials that we erect in our lives, the power of testimony. I believe that if you understand what the word of the Lord is to you this morning, that He will give you the power to take from the old. As we look back, we always say that the past doesn't mean anything. I choose to differ. The past mistakes has got no power in the future. The past, whatever you've gone through, attacks from the enemy has got no power over your future unless you give it power. But God has done things in the past that if I can understand the impact of that in my life and understand the power of testimony, it will launch me into the new. There's something powerful about testimony. Revelation 12, listen to this. Revelation 12, I've got it here. Revelation 12, 11. And they overcome. Now he's speaking about the brethren that was accused by the enemy. And now it says here. And they overcame him by the blood of the lamb and the power of their testimony. They overcame the enemy by the blood of the lamb and the power of testimony. I'm not going to dive into that scripture now. I want you to just understand one truth from that scripture, that there's incredible power and victory in your testimony. There is incredible power. And I choose to believe that most of us, and I say this with humility, most of us don't understand the true power that is found in your testimony. Why is this so powerful? Because it's the testimony of Jesus Christ. Isn't that what your Bible says? New testimony. It's the testimony of Jesus. The word testimony in Hebrew means do it again. Do it again. Do it again. The old creates a faith, a hope, a trust, a belief in you. That if God did it again, if God did it in the past, sorry, you can do it again. You've had one bad month where you needed to pray for finances to come through. If God did it once, you can do it? What if you faced that month and you've never had it? Now you've got a trust. You don't even know how to trust. But then your neighbor tells you, hey, my boy, I've also had a month like that, and let me tell you what God did for me. And just out of what he shared, his testimony. You have the faith that God can do it again. Do it again, Lord. If I had to send this mic around, there are probably 250 whatever people in this building this morning. If I had to send this mic around and say, Pastor Sidney, Pastor Mareika, Miguel, all of you, testify. Just give us one testimony or two or three. Some of you, just take the mic. I mean, that would be your four hours of preaching. Just testify what God has done for you in this year. I'm not talking about your whole life. Just this year, what can you testify about? I tell you now, we'll say it until at least Thursday, Friday. Come on. We come to church and we hear the pastor's testimony. I want to remind you that you've got a testimony. Come on, God has been good to you in this year. It's not just a song that you sing, nada, and thank you for what you've done. It's a testimony that you have. It's the goodness of God that becomes a weapon in your hand. They overcame, meaning there was an overcoming, a battle, a victory that they fought with. Testimony. Come on. We often speak about the power of prayer and the power of our worship and praise is a weapon. I tell you, your testimony. And I'm not talking about just going and sharing your testimony of what Jesus, how you got saved. We often, if we think about testimony, that's what we think about, how I got saved. The testimony of what God has done for you in this year is a weapon. Is a weapon. It's a weapon, number one, to you and number two, to others. Can I stand still and boast with you? Number one, best example I can find in scripture, 1 Samuel 13, verse 6. Have you ever read that scripture? Very easy to remember. And David strengthened himself. He's a Lord, he's God. Let me give you a bit of background. King David, he's been anointed king. I think he should be king. He should have already been anointed. Now, he's been rejected by his own nation. The king tries to kill him. I mean, even his own brothers rejected him. Come on, for people like people. I mean, David is an outcast. He's been pursued by king Saul. Tries to kill him. I mean, David surrounds himself with a bunch of crazy men, which later becomes the mighty men of David. He hides in caves and in the desert for years and years. Eventually, he's so rejected by his own people that he fights with the Philistines. Then he reaches a place where the Philistines reject him. It's like when the devil says to you, get your own child full of blood, you're not going to come out. I mean, hey? Have you been there in your life? Not even the enemy wants you. He's like, yeah, but no. I mean, he's completely rejected. The town where they say, Dikla, I mean, it's burned to the ground. Their wives, their children, taken. Everything they possess. He has nothing. He has nothing. Except his mighty men. Well, so he thought. Then the mighty men turn on him. They say, it's your fault. It's your fault that our wives and our children have been taken. Now he's got absolutely nothing. And in that moment, can I just share this with you? I mean, we've all gone through stuff in the last year. I don't think anybody of us has found ourselves there. We've lost everything in our life. And all it says, David strengthened himself in the Lord his God. I wish we had more to work with. Honestly, I've said, God, can you just have given us more in that scripture? How did David do that? A couple of years ago, I actually did a study. How did David strengthen himself in the Lord his God? What did David do? It's interesting. Did he fast? Did he pray? Well, we know he didn't do a 40-day water fast or something, because it just says that he went back to the men. The wives and the children have just been taken. We're not talking about days. We're talking about minutes. Maybe an hour. But David needed to strengthen himself. He went back to his men and he says, You guys, get your act together. Let's go. Let's go get our wives and our children. Takes them from the enemy. Retrieves everything that was stolen. And days after that, he's made king of Judah. His biggest breakthrough, before his face, he's the biggest. You might have had a year, 2024, stuff like that. Biggest onslaught of your life. You never know what God has in store for you in 2025. I'm saying again, I'm not trying to make you feel good. I'm not trying to hype up your emotion yet. If you can believe that God is good for you, then you never know what's going to happen tomorrow. Hey, this could be the best day of your life. There are seven people that think that. This could be the best day of your life. And David strengthened himself that the Lord is God. Out of the whole study that I did, you know what scripture moves my heart the most? This one. Psalm 66, verse 67. And David says the following, When I remember you speaking to God on my bed, I meditate on you in the night watches, because you have been my help. Therefore, in the shadow of your wings, I will rejoice. There's a picture of David on his bed, in the night watches, meditating on the goodness of God. Oh God, I remember when that happened. Oh God, and you came through for me. God, I remember when I lost my job, but you supplied supernaturally. God, I remember when my marriage was on the rocks, but God, you came through for me. God, I remember, and he reminds himself, he testifies to himself, on the goodness of God. And it releases power, and David strengthened himself in the Lord is God. Yeah, that was good for me. I want you to see something. The enemy brings an onslaught in your life. You lose something. You, whatever, he steals something from you. Whatever that may have been this year. I can either take on a position of defeat, or remind myself that in everything, God is for good. Romans 8, 28. All things work together for my good. Because I've been called according to His purpose. The one that He loves. And in that moment of defeat, you rise up and you strengthen yourself in the Lord your God. Now some of you don't even need more than that. You know exactly where I'm going with this. You start to strengthen yourself. Maybe you don't even know what to pray. Well Jude gives us the answer. Verse number 20. You strengthen yourself. You build yourself up in your most holy faith by praying in the Spirit. You start to meditate on the goodness of God, what He's done. You call on the name of Jesus. Hey, come on, have you ever done that? Have you seen the incredible power in the name of Jesus? I remember, I can tell you, and I'll tell you some stories of my own life. There was a time in my life where I was down and out. I didn't know what to pray. And even my tongue felt like it didn't carry power. I just started saying the name of Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Do you know that there's power in the name of Jesus? Come on, that's overcome by the blood of Jesus. I can tell you there might be a hundred different things that you can do. And your testimony, the power of your testimony might look different in your context than mine. But I tell you now, you have the power to test the fire over your own life and release power into yourself. Some of you, you're looking towards 2025 and you're somewhat anxious. You're not sure what it's going to hold. How about this? How about this? How will I do this? Maybe got an S&S from Discovery. I got one yesterday. Your medical aid has gone up. I'm like, yeah? Have any of you been, like, seven? Okay. They're Discovery or something. Okay. And all of a sudden, the enemy creeps up on you. You have the power to test the fire to yourself. Amen. God has been faithful to me before and He'll be faithful again. And come on. You know, there's nothing, there's no answer that the enemy has for a person that lives like that. I mean, he's still got, you know, the answer for the guy that goes to the pastor for help. And please, I'm not saying don't go to the pastor for help. Sometimes we need people. But if that's been your go-to 2024, that's what you should say, say, don't go. Let us bother. He's okay with you. But when you rise up in power in your own life, you know, and you believe the Word of the Lord, you believe the power of God, you believe that you're carrying the dunamis power of the Holy Spirit within yourself. You see, there's a difference between power and authority. The enemy has the one, he's only got power. He's got power, but he hasn't got authority. How do I know that? Well, the keys have been taken from him. And God gave the keys to whom? To the believer. We've got power and authority. You've got authority. Take it up in your life. Take it up in your life. This is a word that some of you need to hear. You need to go into 2025 with this word, that I have been given the power and the authority. I have the word of testimony in my own life. You remind yourself like David did in the night watches. You walk your room. You walk the beach. You walk whatever, your garden. You say, Father, I thank you. You've been good. Father, I thank you. You are a provider. Father, you are the one that forgives. You are gracious. You are kind. Father, I thank you that you are the one that still heals. You are the miracle working God. You are the God that calls people from darkness to light. You start, I tell you now, friends, I don't care who you are. Do that for five minutes and tell me how you feel afterwards. I've not done, I've not led one prayer meeting in my life where we've prayed with that kind of authority and people leave like this. No. You catch what I'm saying? There is power that is released in your testimony. Not just the testament of Scripture. Your testimony. Your testimony. Do you have a testament, Arches? Okay, some of you are not sure. Do you have a testament? Is there anybody that can raise their hand and say, God has done something for me in this year? I just want to see if I'm a, okay, let me show you the power of testimony. Who of you, in this year, you got saved in this church? You made a commitment. Stand. I want you to stand. Who of you, you got saved, you prayed that prayer, you gave your life to Christ in this church in this year? Keep on standing. Keep on standing. Keep on standing. Who of you, by the, by the, by what you believe now in your heart, you said, well, there's an outflow of that into an out yet evidence called water baptism and you got baptized at Empower Church in this year? Please stand. If you got water baptized in this church this year, please stand. Okay? Okay? Who of you got filled with the Spirit? You got prayed for for the insulin of the Holy Spirit. Please stand. You received the insulin of the Holy Spirit. Okay? Maybe some of you were prayed for before but this has been the year that you started speaking in tongues. Why don't you stand? You started speaking in tongues this year in this church. Stand. Okay? Keep on standing. Everybody that, just keep on standing. I want, I just want to show some of you somewhere in this year there was a sickness, a disease, an infirmity or something and somebody prayed for you. It doesn't even have to be in a cray line yet and God touched you. You got healed. Stand. In anyone, God touched you. You got healed. Hey! Okay. Who of you in this year was set free by God? And I'm not talking about you, you know, that there's some I'm talking about deliverance and freedom. Maybe there was a demonic power that broke over your life. Maybe God just delivered you from addiction but you got free. Any form of deliverance or freedom is God set you free from something. It's energy. Okay. Some of you for the first time you were able to forgive people. This year was the year where you forgave people that you really struggled to forgive. Stand. Some of you lost your joy and somehow in this year God just rekindled the joy. It's like you just found you found joy again in life. Anybody? Okay. Okay. Yes, stand. Keep on standing. Keep on standing. Woo! We've got half the church standing already. Okay. Before I go to the next one. Some of you seated here you've lost your joy. There might be people here this morning you've never given your life to Christ. You've never had the joy of salvation. Like I give my life to Jesus and He actually turns my life around. It's never. Some of you are here and you've got a sickness or a disease or a pain in your body. These people are the testimony. Not because Pastor Eric said. These people ordinary men and women can testify that God did something for them. I'm not paying any of these people to stand. These are people that they could have sat. But there's something that happened in their life that's undeniable. That's why they stand. And their life testifies to you as well. What if you've been in this church and somewhere in this area you utter these words Since I came to Empower it feels like my life has changed. Stand. Is that you? Since I joined Empower it feels like my life has changed. No sign of sound I went somewhere. How beautiful is this? Father, I give you thanks for every person in this church that's standing right now. It's not a name of a church. It's not a brand. It's not a name that has empowered them to testify today. It's the working of the Holy Spirit. It's through the name above every other name that they testify today that they have a testament of your goodness. And Father, in this morning at this church I give you thanks for every lost person that came home every sick person that became well every person that was empowered by whatever form of addiction or bondage that became free every person whose life has changed in this year I give you thanks. Can we do that together in Jesus' name? The power of peace. If God can do it for them He can do it for me. I'm halfway through my sermon. No, I'm joking. I'm going to wrap up in a couple of minutes but before I wrap up today we're not going to wait for the end of the sermon because people here today God wants to change your life. He wants to change your life and He wants you to give Him your life. Remember this moment you need to say Jesus I give you my life. It's not a complicated prayer that you need to pray it's not a Greek understanding that you need it's a decision you make to say Jesus I give you my life. Here is this one life that you don't have and I give it to you today. If that's you I want you to stand right now. Ready? Just pray with me in your spirit softly, just softly. There's people today that need to give their lives to Christ I'm not just talking about praying in salvation prayer you might have prayed that six years ago praying but you've never given your life you might have given your little heart to Jesus but you've never given Him your life and He makes that invitation to you today to go give Him your life I want to show you what I can do with it. Pray with me church there's people that need to stand and we're going to contend for them tonight today. I'm not trying to manipulate anybody standing they shouldn't stand they wouldn't want to stand but I know there's people here today thank you I see you sir there's people here today you need to stand you need to give Him your life thank you sir I see you there's more people there's more people you need to give Him your life it's going to be the best that you can make your life will change today I'm not trying to make you feel good I'm not trying to try and sweep you off of some emotion that God's just going to come and magically take all your problems away but He's going to change your life and you will have eternal life because of the decision you make now you will spend eternity with God and you'll be able to bring Heaven to Earth in your circumstances today there's more people stand now don't be afraid if your heart is beating that's how you'll know it's you it feels like your heart is beating out of your chest don't miss this moment you don't know what tomorrow holds don't miss this moment I have this moment now I have this moment now that my God is in my life I come against every spirit of fear and intimidation that keeps people to their feet in this moment because they know they need to stand what will people think what will people say not every one of those suggestions lying voices will be whispering out the pyramid let there be a boldness that arises now in the hearts of men and women whoever needs to stand one more ten more it doesn't matter God let them stand now let them make their decision let them boldly stand for you as you stood for them God I praise this now in Jesus' name come on we're going to continue we're going to continue now for people I need to give their lives to Jesus I pray I see you I see you I see you I see you I see you I see you I see you I see you I see you I see you I see you I see you I see you I see you I see you I see you I see you I see you I see you I see you I see you I see you I see you I see you I see you I see you I see 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