What's Inside Matters Most to God
August 13, 2023 · 2:16:11 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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Summary
This service centered on the truth that God cares far more about the heart than about outward appearance or visible ministry. Drawing from Matthew 7:21-23 and Ephesians 4, a guest preacher warned that gifts, miracles, and an impressive platform can move people, yet still leave the Lord saying, "I never knew you." What counts is integrity - being the same person at home as on the stage - and never putting ministry above character. He pointed to Joseph and Moses, shaped by God through years of hidden hardship, and reminded the church that real growth is formed in the secret place of prayer, not under the spotlight.
Earlier, before the offering, a word from Luke 12 (the rich fool) called the church to guard against greed and to be rich toward God, giving with a cheerful heart, since no one knows what tomorrow holds.
A second preacher testified that God helps in His time. From Acts 3 and the lame man at the temple gate, he taught that everyone carries weakness, and that help begins only when we honestly confess our need instead of pretending to be perfect. Through personal stories - a strained relationship, the wait for a wife, and a slow healing from severe back pain - he urged believers to keep coming to Jesus until the answer arrives.
Key Points
- God weighs the heart - what is inside matters more than what is seen outside.
- Gifts and ministry can never replace character; be the same person in private as in public.
- Do not grieve the Holy Spirit - let what displeases God die so what pleases Him can grow.
- Lasting transformation is formed in the secret place of prayer, as with Joseph and Moses.
- Be rich toward God, not toward possessions, and give with a glad heart.
- Everyone has weaknesses, and God helps those who honestly admit their need.
- God answers in His time and His way - keep coming to Him until help arrives.
Devotional
Take a quiet moment and ask not what others see in you, but what God sees within. The platform, the applause, and the appearance all fade, while the condition of your heart remains before Him. Name the weakness you have been hiding and bring it honestly to Jesus, for He cannot heal what we refuse to confess. Then wait in faith, because His help is never early and never late, but always right on time.
To God, what is inside you matters far more than what is on the outside.
Never put your ministry above your character.
God helps in His time - keep coming to Him until the answer comes.
Transcript
Auto-generated transcript of this service.
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Jesus said this word that we're gonna read right now under special circumstances they couldn't divide the inheritance encourage the Son of God to say this this word this parables foreign watch out be on your guard against all kinds of greed life does not consist in an abundance of possessions and he told them that Parable the ground of the certain rich man yielded an abundant of harvest he thought to himself what shall I do I have no place to store my crops it's because then he said this is what I I'll do I'll tear down my Burns Barns and build bigger ones and there I will store my Surplus grain is and I'll say to myself you have plenty of grain laid up for many years take life easy eat drink and be merry no prayer American dream no problem wants to retire like that and live and be married and God bless this country we have plenty of harvest and people have money in this country that's he was said that but the verse 20 says but God said to him presume you fool this very night your life will be demanded from you then who will get what you have prepared for yourself [Music] verse 21 this is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God I think nobody No One Believes [Music] um righteousness or goodness leads to to toward richness we came here to be rich in God that God wants us to be the rich in good deeds in the spirit is he told the disciples not to worry about what they're gonna wear or what they're gonna eat because he told them the examples of the birds they don't store don't sow and God provides for them we give toward the work of the lord it's a big privilege it was nice do you know what happened in in the world this and this week foreign foreign what came to Beijing and about 2 million people were left without a place to live just because people would like to serve the Lord would like us to to give something but they don't have anything anymore that's why it's written do not store up here but stir up over there be rich in God amen amen that's why it is written when you give give it with a glad heart with a joyful heart because all of us we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow morning is people are blessed do not listen to what greed tells you or or Satan tells you listen to what God tells you images whoever gives willingly God loves him whoever gives me God loves it I'm here where's our sister let's sacrifice to the glory of the Lord okay [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] for the slower [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] they're young [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] discussion [Music] is [Music] lovable [Music] praise God I'm so excited to be here today your faces are you going to be in English are we going to be in Ukrainian uh because the English one right there next one uh we're happy to see you guys here watching a lot of videos and especially yes to serve to you for the glory of God bless I'd like to sing a song right now and then we're gonna share a word let's sing another song and I think you guys know these songs so please sing along thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I'll be your presence there I am restored so when you come I wonder [Music] about you please [Music] [Music] crucified you said [Music] [Music] how my weakness so when you you all I only live [Music] no wonder ful Jesus Christ [Music] come on but Jesus [Music] crucified [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] and until I think God gave me a word yes and I believe he has I believe this is the highest form of Christianity so the thesis of my sermon is to God it is more important what's inside rather than what's on the outside now my my sermon is not about clothes it might appropriate ideas I want to go a little more deeper yeah and I understand this is something that we all know yes it's like I'm preaching to the choir there's a saying we know that God weighs the heart if you would open up with me Matthew chapter 7 verse 21 to 23. Matthew 7 21. not everyone who says to me Lord Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven but he who does the will of my father who is in heaven will enter business many will say to me on that day Lord Lord did we not prophesy in your name in your name did we not cast out demons and in your name did we not perform many miracles then I will declare to them I never knew you yeah depart from me you who practice lawlessness now just imagine this for a second um your church you have a guest come to church he has a very nice sermon a very nice word then after a sermon he makes an altar call he posted while he's praying for people in the name of Jesus people are being delivered people are being healed he's saying words of Prophecy we would all leave the service we would say that it was a blessed service and it was and we would look at the brother I want to say what a blessed brother the God is moving mightily in his life he's doing the will of God but at that same time according to scripture God can look at this man or a woman and say I never knew yeah what's on the inside is more important than what's on the outside the stage the stage the podium is [Music] it can be lied it could lie um you know when I was younger I used to travel a lot yeah I'm not gonna put your shirts to vote I think uh once or twice a month I would be somewhere and um I love that period of my life I love to serve and there are many times I made mistakes there are many wonderful things that I saw that I treasure still today but you know if I look back and here there are many many people kids who are growing up in the church yes and I I'm also I'm a pastor's kid yeah they call they call him PKS yeah Americans PK and I grew up in church and and I was serving in church and in other churches and as I look back the biggest lesson that I believe God was teaching me is never put your ministry above your character because what's more important is once on the inside I was more concentrated to serve and to minister than to be a good Sonam I wasn't a hooligan yeah I didn't cause trouble yeah I wasn't always obedient and in that season of my life I was a student and my priority ought to be is I had to be a good son and a good students there's a proverb he who Hastings his steps he who is too fast in his steps he makes errors for God it's more important what's on the inside Ephesians chapter four would you open up with me verse 17. so this I say and I'm from I'm gonna read along so maybe just keep it you read it in English so that's nice saying in front together with the Lord that you walk no longer just as a Gentiles also walk in the futility of their mind being darkened in their understanding excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them because of the hardness of their heart and they having become callous have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity ingredients but you did not learn Christ in this way if you indeed you have heard him and have been taught by him just as truth is in him that in a reference to your former manner of life you lay aside the old self which is being corrupted in accordance to the lusts of Deceit and that you'd be renewed in the spirit of your mind and put on the new self which is in the likeness of God and has been created in righteousness and the Holiness of Truth therefore laying aside falsehood speaking truth to one another with this neighbor for we are members of one another be angry you do not sin do not let the sun go down in your anger do not give the devil an opportunity he's he who steals must steal no longer but rather must labor performing his own hands what is good so that he will have something to share with one who has need let no one hold some word proceed from your mouth let only such a word that is good for Education according to need of the moment so that it will give Grace to those who hear do not grieve the holy spirit of God by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption let all burdens and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away with you along with all malice be kind to one another tenderhearted forgiving each other just as God in Christ has also forgiven you take everything that I said everything that the Bible says regarding what's on the inside we can summarize it in this one phrase do not grieve the Holy Spirit the way we live the way we say and how we speak how we behave the Bible says it comes from the heart and we have God's spirit inside of us and there's a moment where we can do or say something that comes from the heart is the Holy Spirit you know and after after reading this now Ministry is important Ministry is absolutely important it's necessary but after reading this I want to ask myself a different question am I a good husband to my wife my good son to my parents am I a good parent to my kids am I a good wife to my husband how am I as a co-worker this one's gonna hurt on the roads what kind of driver am I what kind of Christian am I what's on the inside there's an English word that I love and this is a it's called Integrity yeah I couldn't find it yeah in Translation the closest was cheers so what does integrity mean it means that whatever I'm doing in front of you when I go home it doesn't change that's Integrity if you're if you're a businessman and you have a company you want to have workers who have integrity whether the boss is there or he's not there yes the work doesn't change it is the same thing is and also on the contrary the Italians I'd like to encourage you yeah maybe you're a mother you're working at home no one sees you working on the kids maybe you're a father and you're working from sunrise to sundown you love your family you care for them and no one sees your your sweat and your tears maybe you're a trucker trucker 's truck driver you're in the car by yourself God says maybe you're a young kid you're home by yourself it is and you decide you know what I'm gonna clean the dishes no one sees but God does what's more important what's on the inside the stage the stage was that your platform the lights popularity the riches you can't compare that old guy named abrahamas that God says he's my friend I I can't do my plans unless I tell my friends and of course we have our callings it's very important we have to fulfill our callings but I think we have to do it the way God did it in uh and he showed us how would he do it great examples are Joseph and Moses Joseph had to go to 12 years of getting his character you know imagine if he went from his father's home to being a Kingda [Music] I mean it's not a nice word but he would have been a snitch that's what he was doing at home but he had to go to 12 years of hardships to develop the character Moses had to be 40 years then the Bible says he became the most Meek person and then God made him one of the greatest leaders to ever live for is everything we need to be in our rooms you don't need a microphone you don't need a stage you just need four walls the Bible in your knees a new watch as God develops your character and he's going to prepare you for once again maybe maybe for many years we've been stubborn we're stuck in our ways there's a Bible verse in Romans it says be transformed [Music] I know your Bible shows differently than what I have yes and in a moment you say Lord I want this and the transformation process begins read the Bible prays your wife won't uh she won't notice who who you are now yes foreign there was once a man he wasn't a close friend of mine and I don't know why I even thought of him I was thinking about I was driving and thinking maybe some of you guys know him his name is uh Pavel hollandevskyo [Music] and I was just thinking man he had a nice goatee you said wow I couldn't think that you can say that you know how sounds it in Russian well it is it's a goatee yeah and I remember thinking like his mustache was it was it was really good it was very nice and you can appreciate guys who take care of their facial hair yeah and for some reason I was thinking about him and then I kept thinking about him well he's no longer here with us he's with the Lord he was relatively Young and whatever he did in his life however he accomplished to come close to God it ended and now he he's in heaven and if he wanted to come down to change anything he couldn't but we have this opportunity we're still alive we still have a chance and starting Monday or even tonight make a decision still Lord I want more of you in my life I want you to transform me so that when I get to heaven you can give me those two characteristics that's my desire for all of us if you agree say Amen I'm going to sing a song and it's a song It's a song that we all know it's not really sung uh in church service Sunday it's more at funerals but I think it's a very good reminder for us the words are going to be on the screen so would you please sing with me [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] did some crystals [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] oh judging is [Music] [Music] [Music] let's all say praise be to the Lord Jesus Christ I want to invite Pastor Bogden we'll be sharing a word with us right now but before I want us as ministers and as a church to bless him let's stand and pray for him I mean thank you praise be to Jesus our Our God deserves all the honor and praise God is a wonderful God and he speaks with us and we have fellowship and he gives us Revelations from him when he would desire because he is Sovereign and like I said it's very sometimes it's wonderful how God speaks to us Samuel said this word sometimes not in the best services and you know what thought came into my heart for me maybe it'll be edifying to you God spoke to my heart about the word of funerals God told me with every encounter with me you must have joy but you also must have a feeling you must Rejoice having fellowship with me and something that you have that I don't like must die every encounter with me it is your great joy but because I'm your God and I'm with you stress like we heard today to look inside ourselves and into scriptures so that what's in me would die so that what God does not please God so that what does not bring praise would die in my life but what brings God praise and builds people up and gives them that it would live and it would grow in Jesus mighty name praise be to God a few Sundays ago a few of your brothers and sisters had the opportunity to greet us and join us in our service we thank God that his presence and his anointing was in that service the sermon of the gospel and praising God and in prayers I want to share a short testimony my wife is here with us he it is first to praise Jesus to praise His holy name with God's help line to bring encouragement and strength to every one of us including me in the fact that God is with us and God has great desires for us praise be to him for this I'm not going to have such a theological sermon there will be a few thoughts that align together with scriptures and in sermons it's very rare that I bring my own life examples into them and today I have a little bit less Theology and more practical things in my sermon what happened in my life when I was working on myself and reading God's words and I think this German today will just be a continuation of what God was speaking through us to us through brother and the theme of my sermon helps in his time God helps in his time if we receive this simple word with faith it would be enough for us for today just to receive this holy truth that there is God he is Holy he is righteous he was he is full of goodness and mercy God he intervened God he is a just judge God loves people foreign [Music] foreign foreign and that's something that happened in Jerusalem [Music] and it talks about Peter John and the sick man Acts chapter 3 verse is we're going to read Verses 4 to verse 9. iskazal is foreign and this is where Apostle Paul talks to Believers is we all need help is looking at scripture and all of us here in this place there's not one person that does not need God's help Apostle uh Apostle Paul or the author of of Hebrews he teaches Believers to teaches us about our hearts today so that we would always follow in our walk with Jesus that we have difficulties we have weakness that will follow us throughout all of our Lives there's not one person on this Earth who does not have weakness we heard about Moses the most Meek man on Earth he had his weakness [Music] and that's why my desire for me and for us it's very important for us to recognize that we have weaknesses looking at themselves only um a pride person would say they don't have wings and very often the enemy of our souls will send us these kind of thoughts [Music] sends us this image that we see ourselves almost perfect but scripture says the complete opposite we have weaknesses we have a struggle and that is normal and God our Lord Jesus Christ he teaches us to find those weaknesses because if we don't confess those weaknesses he cannot help us overcome that weakness he wants us to be righteous before him so that we would be open before him and so that we could recognize that we need his help and I don't want to ask but if I would ask today if there's people among us that need help from God I think that very many hands would raise and that's not just for our bodies or for our health is and I think the biggest weakness that we're struggling with is in our Spirits it is our character that we say it is the things we think about it is sometimes where we are very maybe it's a love to the things of this world it's very often spiritual things sometimes it's un being unable to forgive us it's a very hard weakness sometimes when we can't love somebody that's a problem that's a weakness it's being unable to be open and transparent in your family where you're embarrassed to come and ask for forgiveness and you can continue this list all of those things are weaknesses and if we don't recognize them before and we don't ask him for help for us to overcome they're not going to go away by themselves [Music] and sometimes you just look at a person that confesses the Living God and you look in their eyes and there's no hope oh and when you look at him it looks like they're living such a difficult life is a problem and most of the time it's because they don't recognize their problems and the moment that we recognize and confess our problems and we say Jesus I have this problem I have this weakness the scripture tells us God will give us his house the scripture says he helps us because of his mercy and his grace praise be to Jesus sometimes the enemy gives us this word you don't deserve that happen God's not going to help you you're not as good as your brother as your neighbor or even the pastor of the church and that's a big lie God did not save us through our righteous works but by his grace and by his mercies and Chicago I was living in Chicago uh and we are visiting a church in Chicago we were working in that church [Music] and in that moment I was the choir director is and I want to just share a few examples of my life these defining moments how God helps us when we recognize our weaknesses [Music] and in the choir there was one brother and always there was some kind of struggle between us at first it would almost blow over but then it became into problems and I felt like he's always saying something or doing something to make it more difficult and in some moments that was true but God looks at my life my reaction and how I walk before him and maybe in two three months it became a very big problem for me yeah and it's not that I couldn't love him in a true way by the gospel it got to the point where every time I would just see him everything would move inside has anybody lived through these moments You're such blessed people but I had this is and I would come to service you know you're preparing you're praying and everything as soon as I see that brother and we get together with him and we praise God you know I'm directing and he's singing but there's no peace that in that situation I just need help from God I just need this move of God in my life that wouldn't just teach me the theology that I need to love because it's not working in that moment but I need the power I need power power from God I began to pray Jesus Jesus because I have to react the way the scriptures I must cover it in love I have to pray for him and do this cheerfully cheerfully [Music] you know my peace start stop disappearing more and more and the moment where that brother was living the same life like yesterday and he could have said very wise remarks to me during the practice but it stopped touching me as much and it God may be some kind of layer of protection came around maybe it could have been something changed in my heart foreign so if our problems there's some things that you don't need to tell people there are some things that you do need God will give us wisdom Hallelujah but before our Lord the one who already knows everything you don't need to hide anything and don't give the devil the opportunity to throw into our thoughts that I will fix it myself brothers and sisters we will not fix it so the author in the scripture says we come to him we come to him that means always until we receive the help and it will come in time we talk about God we strengthen our heart with God we preach about and give praise to God the one who gives his help praise be to Jesus God will give the good help that we need God will give the answer that we need sometimes it's not the way that we and sometimes I would build in my mind what kind of girl I'll fall in love with and I'll marry yes absolutely nothing like I thought would happen in my life everything in a different way but I'm very blessed because I have the best wife uh my crust one time a brother said for me it's the best wife but for you guys I don't know praise be to Jesus God gave yeah and I was in need of this I was praying I was praying and the time came and I said God I want from you I don't want to choose myself and God knows how to give us a name and God won't be late the answer will come it will come faithfully and it'll come and maybe a year ago this will be a testimony that won't touch the spirit so much but more of the body about how God knows and I got very sick the lower part of my back would hurt so much and I work in construction and moving for me it's very important and I was walking almost like a yeah I barely stepped on my left leg and put all the pressure on my right and that's how I limped now I did what I could what I needed I went to very good therapists that knew how to massage everything correctly it would help for a little bit but not for a long time and we would pray and this was over a couple of months and nothing would change dumov and I was already thinking maybe this will be the rest of my life like this is my problem I said well that's no problem if God Wills for it I have faith in him and this is true I tell you in God said I said that to God and you know when we read about this man who for more than 40 years he was a from a young age they would bring him to the temple in his name so comparing myself to him I was still a very healthy man and one time in one of our service on Friday one sister during the prayer [Music] but somewhere there inside really deep in my spirit I will help you switch Us in my time and in my way me getting healed went over half a month first the pain went from my back down lower to my legs and then I was walking in my hip hurts then it went down to my knee and lower it doesn't hurt in my back anymore but all down here and you know I want to caution you and one day where all of a sudden the pain got me very much a revelation comes into my spirit this word from God just confess that God is your healer just confess it is how God is healing how God is healing that your faith would be strengthened from day to day and every time I would begin to hurt a lot more I would say God is God is God helps us God is my strength Hallelujah and then I would say get out of my fingers in the name of Jesus and it went down all the way to the bottoms of my feet it felt like it was um everything was filled down there and I would take off my shoes and I would see that my foot is it looked like it was bigger but everything was normal that's just what it felt like and then one day and one day of God that was the last day that I felt that was the last time I had to say that God is my healer and the pain left my body is and he knows how to help us but he the holiest place of Israel the place where the temple was built and they would sit him down in front of the gate and every year to maybe he was thinking to himself planning something praying I think every person that has a need does that but nothing would change they told them about a really powerful God that they served but nothing would change until one day where somebody whispered into his ears and they say do you know who came into Israel a great prophetel a strong teacher all sickness cannot stand before him he speaks and demons flee from people I think this is the time for you he will come to Israel and he will for sure will come to the temple we can't take you over there where that pool was because you anyways won't have enough time to be first into today but now you have a chance Grace from God this man this man from God he doesn't look at people's faces and he doesn't condemn people that their sickness is because they are such things he forgives sins and heals people's bodies such a prophet today in Israel I think that heart that lost all hope began to be ignited with hope and maybe even faith and by a minimum one time a year Jesus went into the temple and do you know what happened the person heard the crowd he heard that something happened because Jesus and in Jerusalem people were healed but every time Jesus walked past him how is that possible how do you explain that is and sometimes those questions and on that one your blessing was poured out but for me there is nothing and for him but we're talking about a God who does everything and maybe in this service for someone it is in God's [Music] [Music] in some time foreign they killed him they crucified that Jesus the one in who your Hope Was Your Last Hope wasn't him he's no longer but I thank God for those people that continue to bring it they would not put their hands down and we don't need to work if not yesterday then we have today and if God blessed us then it will be praise be to God he went into heaven he's not here and the scripture tells us that he didn't even look at people that his faith was so you want to know what happens when you have hope and nothing happens your faith drops even lower than it was before and I think he was in that circumstance because Peter said lift your eyes lift your eyes the Jesus that was crucified he is Holy Spirit is in his church spirit is in his church look at us we have Jesus let's close our eyes and let us pray foreign if in this place there's people that need help from God I have in my heart to make this call help in any area of your life right now please raise your hand right if possible we will pray today in the name of Jesus Christ so that today he would give you history so the day of grace and mercy through Jesus Christ foreign [Music] [Music] let us pray church let us pray would you Jesus we thank you we come before you we glorify your name Jesus we come before you the king of kings the Lord of lords you are worthy Jesus we stand here before you Lord we come into your court we come into your presence with Thanksgiving and we ask you Lord we bring all of our weaknesses and all of our problems before you Jesus we bring them all to you Jesus because we know you're in control of it all we know you're the Lord Of Our Lives Jesus we know you're in control and we just bring all that weakness all that problems all of our struggles maybe all of our sicknesses all of our needs and our desires all the things that we're struggling with all the things that we need freedom from we bring it all to your feet today and we ask you to help us Jesus we ask for your mercy and your grace to cover us cover our lives cover our families cover our church so that your grace would flow through our lives so that it would not stop flowing Jesus so that every time we would struggle with something we would come running back to you that we would not try to fix those things on our own that we would not try to solve our problems on our own that we would not listen to the lies of the enemy Jesus but we would come to you Jesus we would come to your word and we would stand firm in faith and hope that you will solve our problems in your time that you will solve our problems how you need to God that we would just bring it all to you we would put our trust in you God right now we pray for every person here up at the front God every person that brought a need before you we ask that you bless them right now we ask that you fill them right now God we ask that your Holy Spirit begins to move Lord so whatever problem might be in their lives that you would come you would bring healing you would bring Health God you would be their help in their time of need Lord so that you would speak to them when they might not hear you and they're afraid you would give them Comfort holy spirit that you would flow in their lives holy spirit that you would flow in their lives that you would flow with your peace with your love wherever we do not have enough of you wherever we are lacking you Jesus holy spirit that you would come and you would fill you would fill us wherever we are lacking you that we would be full of you each and every single day God that we would come to you in faith God we would come to you in faith that when your word when you would speak to us when you would speak to our problems we would receive it with faith when you would speak to our problems God we would receive it in faith and boldness and we would act on your word we would stand firm on your word God we would stand firm on your word and faith God whatever word you are speaking to us today whatever Revelation you are giving us today in this service God that that revelation we would stand affirm on it that I was we leave this place God we would stand firm in it even though it may take time we would not lose hope we would not lose faith in your word god this word that you are giving us God that we would never forget the word that you have given us today that we would never forget that when we have weaknesses when we have problems when we have things that we struggle with we would never forget to come to you Jesus because you are the one that solves our all our problems Jesus you're the one that comes into our life to give us hope you're the one that gives us faith so we ask right now that we would put our eyes on your cross we would put our eyes on your sacrifice and your Victory and we would never forget what you have done for us Jesus we would never forget that what you have given for us we would never forget about your blood that you poured out for us Jesus so that we would always come back to you we would always come back to you Jesus in our moments of weakness when the enemy is attacking when the devil is sending us these lies these thoughts that are not true we would come back to you Jesus we would bring it all to you we would not try to struggle we would not try to fight on our own but we know that in the fight of Our Lives we come to you because in you there is Victory in the fight of Our Lives we bring everything to you Holy Spirit we invite you we invite you into our lives to move in our lives to move to speak into our lives to speak into us into our spirits so that we would not worry so much about this world about our bodies here we would not worry what's on the outside but we would worry about our Inner Man about our relationship with you God and so that there would be no weakness there would be no problem that would take us away from you God but so that through all our trials through all Temptations through all difficulties through every problem and every weakness we would just get stronger because we were with you let your answer your power that is showed it would just make us stronger that it would never take us down but it would make us grow in faith it would make us grow in our strength strength in our spiritual lives we would just grow every day in you every day that we spend with you God we would grow more and more with every answer that you give into our lives we would grow more and more God we would get closer and closer to you because we just want to be with you so that there would be nothing in this life nothing that the devil will send our way no problems no weaknesses that would separate us from you and your love God Jesus so that this love would flow into US it would fill us so much that it would flow through to through us to other people of this world that not only us would experience your mercy your grace your blessings but the people of this world would experience it through us God they would experience your mercy and your grace that we would be a living testimony of what you can do in our lives we would be a living testimony of how we are Overcomers we would be Overcomers by your name Jesus we thank you for your Victory on the cross we thank you for your Victory today here in this place we thank you for your victory in every life here and everyone that came to the front we thank you for the victory Jesus that you are preparing for them the answer that you are giving them for their problems right now and those that did not come to the front those that just raised their hands we thank you for answering their problems right now Jesus we ask that you continue to strengthen them continue to speak with them holy spirit that your presence would not leave them as they leave this place that your presence would stay with them God as they live this place and tonight that their lives would change tomorrow their lives would change it would not be the same God because you're not just changing them on the outside but you're changing them on the inside you are giving them an answer God that they have been seeking for you are giving them an answer that they have been praying for God that this answer would be an answer from you this answer would be your word today we just ask you Lord that this word that you speak to us today we would take it by faith we would stand firm on this word by faith that our faith would not be shaken that we would stand in faith on your word and as we stand in faith on your word and it comes to pass Lord that our faith would be strengthened it would be a testimony to those around us it'll be a testimony to our friends and our family of what you are capable of and what is possible with you Jesus that everything is possible with you it'll be a testimony of how good you are your goodness and your mercy in our lives God those that might have not seen your move in a long time those that might not have felt your presence in a long time that today you would remind them of your love for them today you would remind them God that you still care for them and all they need to do is come back to you we ask you God as we leave this place at any moment we would begin to step away from you churn from you God that you would remind us what happened here today you would remind us by Your Word Holy Spirit you would remind us of what you're capable of and what you want to do in our lives we thank you Holy Spirit for every person in this place we thank you for the calling that you have on every person in this place we think you have the work that you want to do through every person in here Holy Spirit and we ask that you would move God let your power would flow through us to this world let your power would flow us through us to these people of this world that they would know who you are and they would know your goodness God we thank you Lord and we glorify your holy mighty name We Praise You Jesus we praise you Jesus We Praise You Jesus thank you God Amen [Music] you may take your seeds our services we really want to thank the guests that have come to visit our church also the translators that were translating the sound members that were doing may God bless you Allah we'll have one more prayer foreign [Music] if you have any personal needs you can share them right now and we'll pray together foreign she wants to thank everyone that helped in the baby shower that God would continue to bless that family that happened yesterday let's pray for Tatiana they did one operation on one of her legs praise God and they will be doing it on the other legs so that we would pray that God would have that in his hands lives he said the Pastors in Ukraine gave him a message they said there's more than 50 000 Russians right now in Ukraine that are held captive they don't have arms they don't have legs they can't go anywhere and they don't have enough people to go to preach to them in Russian so if anyone has the desire if anyone knows how to preach in Russian they will help you get there just so you can go preach to those Russian people sister says just to pray for her sister asked to pray for her daughter and her grandson let's stand in praise God foreign [Music] Army [Music] you may greet one another and bless one another in the name of Jesus