A Reason to Praise in Every Storm

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[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] praise god brothers and sisters welcome to this service we're going to start with worship and before we start i just wanted to share a verse from psalm 34 1 and it says i will bless the lord at all times and his praise will always be on my lips and that's a really powerful promise to make to god that we're always going to be praising to him praising him even if things are hard even if there's war even if people are sick to always praise god but it's so powerful and the song that we're going to sing and it says your praise will ever be on my lips always so can we stand up so that we can praise god and remember that in every situation to praise the lord and worship him for he is good [Music] [Music] [Music] your love is devoted like a ring of solid gold like a vow that is tested like a covenant through the winter rain and beyond the horizon [Music] yourself to me and that's why [Music] [Applause] [Music] lips your praise will never be on my lips [Music] [Music] your kindness makes us [Music] [Music] again [Music] and that's why [Music] foreign [Music] you will be praised are you [Music] ever be on my [Music] will ever be on my lips [Music] [Music] thank you lord jesus for the service thank you for bringing us to this place every person who is here god thank you for your presence thank you for your glory god we will come here to worship you jesus and praise your name for you are good thank you for being a father to the orphans lord jesus thank you for protecting us everywhere we go thank you for your perfect glory and plan and will that is orchestrating everything lord jesus we pray over the rest of this service god so that your word may flow through the pure people lord god so that people's hearts may be touched and people may look to you and see you in every situation god so that they may have a reason to praise you in everything we pray for every heart and every person in every situation god we thank you for everything amen there is power in the name of jesus [Music] there is power in the name of jesus there is power in the name of jesus [Music] to break every chain break every chain break every chest break every chain break every name of jesus [Music] there is power in the name of jesus there is power in the name of jesus [Music] [Music] to break every chain break every tree break every chance [Music] [Music] [Music] break and reach to break every chain break every nation [Music] rising up [Music] break every [Music] [Music] [Music] break every chain break every chance is [Music] i hear the changed [Music] is [Music] in the name of jesus to break every child break everything [Music] lord god i ask you to bless this service allow your spirit to come down onto this place bless all those who are able to make it here today i ask you to allow the word to be blessed and allow the testimonies from wonders of your your works and people's life lord god i said they may be plentiful um because we know that you were always working with us we ask that you would no matter what struggles that we would always be able to look at you and know that you are with us and helping us through everything amen [Music] is [Music] with you forever [Music] [Music] [Applause] is [Music] taking me over [Music] with you forever [Music] so call me a little closer take me a little deeper i wanna know your heart i wanna know your heart cause your love is so much sweeter than anything i tasted [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] how great your love is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh take me a little deeper [Music] [Music] glorify his name in this place let us ask ask him to come in his love and his presence and his glory to join us in this evening so we can together as one people glorify him and listen to what he has in store for us today father god we thank you lord jesus for your glory for your love for your presence for your almighty power that is with us always through the presence of your holy spirit god and we glorify you in this place tonight god we reached we send all of our praises into your name lord unto your name because your name is worthy to be praised god and tonight we dedicate this service god we dedicate everything we do and everything that we say father god let it be done unto your name lord jesus we ask that in your mighty love god towards each other towards you lord we let us let us work and operate in who you are lord jesus let your presence be in us and speak through us father god tonight let us be united as one lord jesus so that we can glorify your name in this place god we thank you so much for your holy spirit that you have given us god and we ask that you just pull us closer let us let us under have a deeper understanding of who you are father god and who you are in us god we want to know who what you have in store for us what you have planned for us jesus and we ask that you speak to our hearts speak to our minds let us not leave this place transformed father god but let us be transformed into your image into the image of christ lord jesus and i ask you through your precious holy spirit father be with us speak to us work in us and through us lord jesus we pray in jesus name amen amen you may take your seats actually you know i'm seeing like we're kind of scattered throughout the room and being that our pastor this morning speaks about love and you know and being loving towards one another i'm thinking it might it might be a good idea let's just you know let's get a little closer let's let's try to bring it closer maybe and keep it in these two rows you know we're we're a family in christ jesus right and and his love for us and our love towards him and most importantly like was preached this morning our love towards one another is what shows you know who we are in him so let's you know let's have this like family-like atmosphere and just you know through the love for one another and speak into each other's lives through to the testimony and the word that has been prepared for us today so i thank you all for being here and we're gonna start off with brother peter he has a word for us uh to share something with us and then i know we have uh the children they wanna wanted to serve as well so they'll be serving right after brother peter thank you thank you so nice can we have this um uh invitation on the screen i would like to just in a few minutes just remind us why we're here tonight i'm glad to be here i see all the children is in place and we're so excited tonight is a special night if we call the praise in the worship night so invitation is this come get together we will be one with one reason to praise and worship his holy name can we get on the screen the praise and worship let's just keep it on all the time if the screen is off let's just remind us there is a night when we separate separate and set aside just was one reason we would like to come together in one more time the focus praise and worship his holy name yeah we get ready almost all right but while the just for the future i would like to invite rafaela and we're going to read a couple of verses and i would like to invite us to a special prayer you can put on the screen can you put on the screen second chronicles 20 8 no 2020 okay you can read it while they're still there okay early in the morning they left for the desert of toccoa as they set out jehoshaphat stood and said listen to me judah and people of jerusalem have faith in the lord your god and you will be upheld have faith in his prophets and you'll be successful after consulting the people jehovah jehoshaphat appointed appointed men to sing to the lord and to praise him for the splendor of his holiness as they went out at the head of the army saying give thanks to the lord for his love and jews forever thank you you stay with me because we're going to pray right now as you see this story there was a time when israel when is the war broke down just like maybe today it was no joke joseph thought he understood he cannot go against that the power was so strong he don't have much as he early in the morning he said let's have something different today we don't have maybe enough weapons but he understood the spiritual weapon praise and worship god that's what he did right here right he he consulted with the people he asked can we have that night like tonight praise and worship people say yes what can we offer tonight when we're praying today at the service and people praying around the world we don't know what's going to happen today in ukraine on the both sides of the conflict you know how many people today they just don't know what to do we so blessed we just observe we watch and we pray but some people on the ground the man and woman the children and that is the only thing could help them that time probably the biggest army but joseph he understood we can praise and worship his holy name i don't know what are you going through but we know this whole world is almost like chaos but tonight we're here i invite you to have in focus to praise and worship his holy name maybe you have a personal situation you're going through it's not maybe easy but god invite us why in the light of everything you have why don't you find a reason in front of the all the troops from the all the ammunition from all the tanks whatever the people preparing for a war they say let's just put the people he said he appointed he's not just asking oh is anybody would have feelings or no it's almost like command he said you you and you today you go right front of the army and you're going to praise and worship his name is what we're going to say and he read rafaela just read it give thanks to the lord for his love endures forever i invite you to stand up and just find inside of you find a reason to say lord thank you for today's service at the church thank you for my friends thank you for all the situations in my life it doesn't matter what it is maybe i don't have the answers young people all who can hear me today maybe we don't have a full answers but we do have this his name is the glorified glo glorious name of jesus are you agree with me on that yeah why don't you stand up and we pray father we thank you we thank you for tonight we thank you for this evening when we set apart this day yes we've been waiting for maybe a couple of months that when we again tonight and tonight is a special night praise and worship that's what we like to do today yes we're point one we appoint maybe some people who will be come to this station gonna say i have something to share i say something to i would like to have a testimony what god did for me but maybe we don't have yet one maybe one testimony will will waiting for us after tonight after this time but we just want to make magnified your name we just want to say you're the bigger god you're the lord of the lord you can help me you can help my brothers you can help our church you can help our people we can help and we praise and worship your name because we don't have any much to offer maybe we don't have it we can we maybe we don't know how to fix the situation but we know you father and we want to praise this night with this night in this evening we would like to praise and worship you thank you for this word my my words today in my uh my encouragement today to myself to my brothers to this evening let's just be boldly stand up and say thank you father because you're the big yeah the problem maybe this is bigger but not bigger than you maybe bigger than us but they're not bigger than you father we praise and worship your holy name this night this evening lord jesus blessed us so we can do that accordingly to your will so we can do that help us that will be blessed to do doing this blessed this evening i ask you that every every person who's going to come to this microphone to the platform who's going to speak the lord jesus that you anointing will be here everybody who is going to be participating praying in in the lineup and stay online with us whatever who is going to be watching us whatever who is going to be just supporting us in the spirit father touch them right there let us to have this unity in you to praise and worship your name let the angels from the heaven will see the unity it doesn't matter what state doesn't matter what house we're in right now but we agree to just praise and worship your holy name and right here right now this is for you the time and moment thank you again we praising you you're the boards praise and worship father son and holy spirit can we say amen amen brother taras god bless you i just encourage you just don't be don't be afraid you know what i remember the couple times when i was a younger i still go to school middle school when it's my time to come and share i always i always kind of worry about even right now sometimes i feel like a little bit uh a little bit like uh uncomfortable sometimes you just want to say you know somebody say best and make sure you don't forget anything it's normal but you know what's important imagine this there is a people with a instrument guitar microphones they don't have a microphone at the time and it was right front of that the people was all this you know ammunition with all the was all these knives was all this everything being prepared for a war and they was just walking around i don't think so they even have a helmet they were so vulnerable and it was right the front of the between two armies and they praised and worship god sometimes we feel like we we cut ourselves between the two armies right what we can do praise and worship god bless you thank you peter thank you for the word and prayer um yeah we um you know a lot of times praise and worship we undervalue it because you know the we think that with weapons and you know with might and and strength we're gonna overcome something and it's because we live in the world you know and it's fit everything's physical we oftentimes lean that way naturally but we must remember you know that there are many battles and the main battles in our lives as christians are spiritual ones and they are won and overcome spiritually in praise and worship and and when we praise god certain things shift in the supernatural that allow us to have breakthrough as believers and we can find freedom in many places of our lives which leads me to um the next thing which i was told that the children from uh sunday school in our church so they're gonna be leading us in some some praise some worship and i was i'm overjoyed to hear that because you know i i serve the youth majority of the times and for me you know they they have their worship and and it's nice to see that you guys also have a desire in your heart to put uh get songs together and and whether it's with instruments or not you know to praise him together so whenever you guys are ready the stage is yours however much time you need you know lead us into praise and worship so that we can we can truly you know praise god like you guys do because i know i hear some stories of how you guys you know praise god so it's all you [Music] [Music] [Music] come from the heaven live on the earth [Music] i will be forever singing [Music] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] i'll share with you [Music] [Music] is [Music] his life is [Music] sunshine sunshine sunshine i'm a little sunshine sunshine sunshine sunshine sunshine sunshine i'm a little sunshine i'm a little sunshine oh god i'm [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Applause] thank you guys let me ask you actually real quick something stay up here so what what made you guys choose that song you could tell everybody why why what what put it on your heart to sing that song today because it shows that like god's son is always in us and we like are trying to make it shine into other people wow look at that that's a great answer you guys agree is that is that what you guys would say thank you so much for sharing it you guys have more songs you know are you planning on you know make putting together more songs for us and serving more yes well i have it in my heart and i'm sure you guys as well if you guys stay here we i have it on my heart to pray for them so that god would continue to give them the desire to you know serve with their talents and to sing for church and for others so let's let's just stand to our feet and just pray for them give a short prayer so i would god would continue to use the talent he would bless them in it father god i i thank you so much for these three girls lord that they have this desire god to to pray to praise your name god to sing and worship you lord and they want to be this light that they have in in themselves through you lord jesus and they want to sing and glorify your name god i pray that you take this talent and you bless them and you give them even even more of a desire to serve you lord as they grow older into the youth and into the church father god so that they would continue to to be fruitful in your kingdom god and by using their gifts and talents god that each one of them god would help help bring a fruit into your kingdom on this earth in jesus name we pray amen amen thank you so is that is that it for the the kids program or we do we have more or we will be expecting more next time probably right okay next time alrighty so that leads us into our our testimony time uh so and those of you that don't know we we like to dedicate a short amount of time to or however much time really is needed because it's important for us to know and see what god is doing in the lives of each other so that we can give things to him for that and to encourage each other to edify each other and to use it as an opportunity to truly experimentally like to see exactly what god is doing in the lives of our brothers and sisters and to be in it with him and uphold him and uphold him and encourage and build each other up so uh this time from here on forward i want to give the opportunity it's going to be open mike whoever you know maybe went through certain trials in their life and god pulled him out of it maybe it's just you know something some revelation that you know god put on your heart and you would just want to share oth with others to encourage us uh with it whatever it may be um this is the time that uh we have for this specifically so if you if you want to share you can raise your hand and um we'll we'll get we'll get the ball rolling because usually a lot of times as many of you know it can be hard to get the ball rolling but once one person comes up and then you know somebody will be like oh yeah i've went through that before and and so like who wants to be the bold and courageous joshua uh in this room anybody okay peter my dad he's gonna he's gonna start us off i was gonna say i it might have to be me and i don't know if i have the boldness in me but my dad will start us uh praise the lord it doesn't mean that i am so like joshua because nobody else wanted to come and speak please excuse my english but with god's help i believe he'll help me to share what is on my heart as a testimony i never would come and i'm not the mic guy you know or stage i'm a shame shy person i just want to just listen maybe i speak in other places you know too much but but uh of course i wouldn't feel good if i leave from here now having opportunity come and share the testimony and just go back home because i really have a testimony as many of you know or heard but more than a month ago one morning it was on a march 19. i woke up it was 4 28 i was trying to get up from my bed and i fallen on the floor and see our life is today everything fine we went to bed and never know if in the morning we wake up and be healthy and continue to live our lives and as we found later it was stroke many people never recover from that some people get better some people but many of them even that's what happened to me and a few first few days i really was even one time i was in my bed they take me to trinity hospital they went trying to transport me with the helicopter to a medical center special place where they and i was in the surgical room for two days they were anytime ready to come and do some things some procedure and i remember when they just transferred me to largo medical center i was in my bed i was in pain my head was i could not even explain you know it's something in my life that i hope will never happen again i remember i couldn't even breathe it was in the middle of the night they gave me morphine and all this it didn't help and all i all i remember i'm trying to give you some kind of message that i had to live through and i'm trying to never forget that and always remember and help me to guide me through the rest of my life to help me to make right decisions because our life is really short i remember i was i couldn't sleep i was in pain and i remember i just breathed out all my air and inside in my mind i said i don't want to come back really through that pain and i i passed out i don't remember anything else sometime in the morning north came and i remember i opened my eyes they started giving some other medication and i got better i'm trying to say and even the first few days i couldn't walk i couldn't move we could anything my left side was paralyzed and if if they told me i'm never going to walk because all my fourth of my brain was dead and dry that's mean i never gonna walk anymore move you know when you hear something like that it makes you think and i really couldn't go to the bathroom anything and it was like no hope i i was i'm trying to send a message today if it's no hope that's the worst case worst time you can even you know if it happened you will understand what i'm talking about after two days i could breathe they said the crisis first 72 hours i passed that it might be better but i may never walk again you know all that and after two days no hope i remember it was the worst time and after physical teleport come to me and i try to sit a little bit and then stay and then make some steps you know what i because they said usually it doesn't happen that fast because i'm a healthy man with the muscles and not the signals doesn't come from my mind but it comes because from my muscles my muscles get used to work and i started to walk and so hope came i came back and i understand little by little day by day i might be able to walk again that's that's really something change my hope i see light i'm willing to walk you know because i want to walk we as a believers we have a hope not just in this earth in this life short life our hope is eternal life with our lord jesus christ that's a very big believe me so many people they reach billionaires when they get older they have everything they don't need anything they have money and everything maybe for next 10 lives and for their all their relatives but they empty many of them they're suicide they kill themselves they don't see any other they scared to live this life i was not the very good believers but i had that peace when i was actually in my mind talking in my spirit i believe okay because we not get saved because we are good people because our hope and we believe in our jesus christ we accept him as a our savior that's how we get to the heaven and forgiven okay of course we have a fruits when we uh born again believers our life change we're trying to please our lord jesus christ but one more thing it will take me i will not take much of your time that's one thing very important when we have hope another thing i said thing i thank god that i have this opportunity this chance to actually come back to church i don't usually don't appreciate that when we go come every sunday believe me after one more than one month not coming here i always was watching on the tv i cannot ex explain how it is but you really it's different it's completely different it's like that stuff you come here you see people that's different we start to appreciate and understand that after we had you know uh we we were out and we come back we see the difference and one more thing when i'm saying i thank god that i'm back to life i actually was praying i i'll be open i was praying and said like ezra he was praying remember he was dying in here ask another 15 years he was maybe i don't know under all these medications i don't know but i was saying lord one moment twice i was not even talking i was just in my mind lord he could say he was a great man he had done so many things i've done nothing even if i did something that's because of you there's something through me i cannot even i don't have encouraged to ask something like that and in my few words that's it twice i said lord give me another minimum 15 years i don't know why i said minimum but i said minimum 15 years twice like i twice said that twice and i believe i will take any time that god will give me but i'm see i'm healthy no deficits i see i have a memory i can walk everything getting back you know like nothing happened that's one thing i am thanking god but i do want to miss another very important point what i'm trying to say last some years i was praying even fasting lord i'm not satisfied with who i am what i'm doing i want to do something i don't do i don't want to do something that i always do like apostle paul in romans and i was not happy about myself i said lord i hate it i don't want and i cannot live like this anymore please help me i need to change i need change remember five months ago i had a kidney stones i was in the hospital and i had a big testimony meeting with lord you know listening sermons and then praying repenting and all that i thought when i come back to life it's going to be completely changed really i did believe that and first maybe two three weeks everything was really different and i started noticing who was who remember i was giving testimony i said i want to keep that i do i don't want in a week to lose all that and come back to my life but you know what after two months everything went back to the same point when i was my before that i got to the hospital and after that i was i was praying many times say lord that must something be wrong i did not want to come back to my life you know like i want to commit more time spending with you talking with you serving to you i know the difference because it was time in my life years when i really had a time that i i could say i was much closer with god and now my life is pulling me out you know all this my character my things that i get used to it but i know it's not normal it must change and i was praying lord i hate that life i mean not that life living but living like i'm living my life i don't want to do this it must change please help me you know what i may say but god how much he loves us how much he loves me he loves every one of us what he did because kidney surgery did not help me did not stress me so much much enough he put me almo almost on a bed of death that i was close to actually die to stress me good enough or well enough that i may take it serious enough to make some changes in my life you know now when i come back at least for now all i want to be obedient to my lord i came back to serve my family my my children my grandchildren as much i can church be make sure i'm being in the god's will not being everywhere and nowhere i want to be in a place where and do what he wants me to do that's my job to find out and do it but be faithful to him that any time if it happened again i want to tell you in two weeks i had another stroke same thing in the morning 4 47 another stroke but it was mini stroke that i could lay down one hour and then trying to sit and walk first point who remember what i was saying no hope but we have hope yes sir you're very smart may god bless you see i was talking already for god i'm honest but you remember when it's no hope it's bad yes but we have a hope second point what was it i thank god that i come he gave me opportunity and chance to come back to my normal life yes after being always recovery and all that what is the third point i would tell you i don't want you to tell you to do the same thing sometimes maybe people saw like why did i pray that what was i crazy was praying for actually bad things happened to me yes but i really thank god that he did let that happen but it was all under his control he controlled to the last moment and now i believe he gave me so much much enough stress that it will affect and bring some changes in my life i'm not interested to live my life and say i'm happy i'm rich and i have everything and know that i empty inside or not in his will you know you understand what i'm saying yes i i want more just being in his will because it's all temporary and we're on this test and our hope eternal hope will come and it's all depends on us where we're going to spend our eternity okay we have to be thank god for all of us we have family of christ through our parents we some people get saved on the street you know all different ways but we in a church yes we know jesus christ our savior please appreciate that and take it very serious today don't wait until moment come that god loves us so much he will some moments in our life bring you know comes that will help us to change better if we just healthy glorifying worshipping our lord jesus christ serving him all glory to god thank you praise god and me personally being his son i'm very thankful that he is here with us and can share his wisdom and experience and to help us as a family and a church grow together uh a verse came to mind as he as he was sharing his testimony it's written in romans chapter five verses three to five says not only so but we also glory in our sufferings because we know that suffering produces perseverance perseverance character and character hope and hope does not put us to shame because god's love has been poured into our hearts through the holy spirit who has been given to us and his testimony sounded very you know similar to to what is speaking about here you know in our sufferings and the hard times that we go through it says that it produces perseverance and when we persevere through those hard times and we go through those challenges and god allows what does he say next character it says and through perseverance perseverance character and he through these types of experiences he allows our character to be molded and for us to become and be prepared for maybe the next season of life maybe the next you know task that he has for us in our purpose that he has called us to and so it gives us hope like that said a hope that whatever it is that comes my way next i will be able to stand firm in the foundation that he has put me into and i will be able to get through so that was just me sharing what you know with dad but i still want to keep this going so if anybody has it on their heart you know don't let it go by that if god look at that a bold bold david just like from the bible wants to wants to share something with us today so david for um today right when i heard this repeat to the sermon i just thought of someone that could say that for us i think we should think and praise god more because um uh my parents always bite up look at this that some children are not born in christians families some people are poor all the war in ukraine and right after that right when i think about it i realize on how bad that could be on how thankful we should be on how lucky we are because other people are in just bad shape like in ukraine the war right now people can be thankful just even to be alive just even to have one leg he that we should just thank god because we don't some like all the time that we don't think god we there's never too much thinking in it that we don't think him enough like when we pray and when i pray i ask god too much stuff but i think that if you don't ask him too much you can praise him and thank him more and praising god can just if you're in tough spots it just helps you a lot and also it makes you just feels great and just just better to think and praise god for everything that we have thank you for sharing that with us that was awesome that was like you know i remember even myself i was just like you david oh you know god give me this you know this dirt bike this this this that you know i really want all of these things and and you're you're 100 right i came to a point in my life where i just started to instead praise god and give thanksgiving and like you said it just feels different you're like whoa like you know like i almost feel like more like his love and his his like you know and you start to flip you know your your your mind in that you start to think no first i have to praise and thank him for everything i already do have and then you know he will give me what i need and even what i want if if necessary right so thank you david that was really awesome that was touched my heart you know gave me a reminder and that's why we're here today is to praise and worship him and to thank him for who he is to us anyone else anybody else alrighty i guess we will go into our uh sermon and actually jacob christianity will actually be sharing uh the word with us today so um i believe that god put on to his heart you know a subject that we can all receive and i thank god for because you know we were having a worship prayer night one night and you know he showed the desire to share god's word and and i really you know it made me as a leader it made me very happy you know to see that he has that desire and i'm so happy you know to see him go up and deliver this word to us so it's all it's all it's all your time jacob god bless all right praise god brothers and sisters i have a short word um i guess i have the closing sermon and uh before i start i would like to you know thank god that we live in america we have the freedom we have you know peaceful times we can actually go out and evangelize to people you know no bombs no nothing to be scared of really it's you're more scared of yourself to go out and evangelize to people on the streets and also i would like to keep ukraining our prayers because um they're at war and a lot of innocent blood is getting shed um and you know god has mercy and and free and even can forgive you know countries like that that are or even if they didn't do anything wrong sometimes it just happens like that that you get bullied you can even say by you know stronger countries um so you know pray for ukraine and uh so that god can help ukraine amen all right um you know god is a merciful god he uh he's always there to help us he's always there with open arms to you know help us when we're falling and when we're at our lowest even if we're wrong you know god is still there he loves us uh compassionately and he loves us endlessly and he had this endless love that is you know like again he's always there to pick you up when you're falling because you the healed you know they don't need to be healed it's always the ones who are hurt or sick that need god's healing um so there's actually a parable in the bible that i would like to read that kind of shows god's mercy and forgiveness if we could open to luke 15 11 the parable of the lost son all right a certain man had two sons the younger of them said his father father give me the portion of goods that falls to me so he divided to them his livelihood and not many days after the younger son gathered all together and journeyed to a far country and there he wasted his possessions with prodigal living and when he had spent all there rose a severe famine in the land and he began to be in want and when he joined himself a citizen of that country he was sent him into the fields to feed swine and he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate and no one gave him anything but when he came to himself he said how many of my father's hired servants have bred enough and enough to spare and i am here perishing with hunger i will arise and go to my father and i will say to him father i have sinned against heaven and before you i am no longer worthy to be called your son make me like one of your hired servants and he arose and came to him but when he was still a great ways off his father saw him and had compassion and he ran and fell on his neck and kissed him and the son said his father father i've sinned against heaven and in your sight i'm no longer worthy to be called your son but when the father but when the fathers and then the father said to his servant bring out the best robe and put it on him and put a ring on his hand and stand those on his feet and bring the fattest calf and kill it and let us eat and be merry for my son was dead and now is alive you know this this parable really touched me and i i found out that there's you know about three points for forgiveness first you must realize your sin like it says in verse 15 or verse 17 it says but when he came to himself he said how many of my father's higher servants have bred enough to spare this is him actually realizing that he has sinned and step number two is to actually go and repent uh verse right after that 18 i will arise and go to my father and i will say to him father i have sinned against heaven and before you that is him actually repenting and step three and the most important step i feel like is you must turn 180 degrees away from sin and you know walk that straight and narrow path to god um because if you do a 360 you kind of just go right back and do the same mess and you will have to do it all over again okay um and then after those three steps you know god will show his mercy and forgiveness to you and he will actually bring you back and um you know you will be part of his family again my closing word of encouragement uh will be matthew 11 28. all right um 28 come to me all you who labor and are heavy laden and i will give you rest um you know god calls god helps the ones who are in big needs you know he doesn't help the ones who you know have everything even though we cannot have everything we all still need god's help so if you call out to god he will help you because he is the the doctor for the sinners the doctor for the sick um the heal did not need to be healed like i said before and to receive mercy and forgiveness you must call out to god and god is always there with open arms and he will you know forgive you and you'll actually feel his love in your life and you'll see blessings that is my my word i hope that it will touch you guys and maybe you even see you know some changes amen thank you jacob very encouraging word and reminder for us about the loving father that we have that is in heaven and you know how much how much in need of him that we are you know it's like it's like my dad said you know sometimes two weeks later and you look at yourself and you're like man am i the prodigal son now you know and you start to wonder like you know why is that or like apostle paul said you know i i hate to do this you know i do but what i will not to do i do and so on so it's kind of like you know at the end of the day what we can come to as a conclusion is that we all need god and we always need god it's like there is nobody that can say oh yeah you know i finally got there i finally got to a place where you know i'm at the father's house and i don't even you know i i have everything i need and i don't and i don't you know because what tends to happen is if we find ourselves in that place we will be like the older son that was in the father's house because if you look at the story when that sun came back like jacob said the one that was in the father's house that arrived that's already always been there and he sees himself as if he's already you know good enough and he deserves all the blessing we will find ourselves you know at that place where we're going to look at those people that are in need of god's grace and mercy and we're going to start to belittle and put them down so it's a it's a reminder for all of us as a whole that we need god regardless of where we find ourself whether we're the older son or the younger son and uh i know jacob didn't close to pray but i would like to you know take that thought what jacob said that god wants to extend mercy to all of us and and i believe we are all in need of his mercy every day and in the bible it says his mercy renews every day and we're in need of it and we need his cleansing and his grace and his love towards us regardless of what stage we are in our life and uh actually i was reading in judges just a thought and you you see it in the life of israel even where you know they it was there was the judges and then all of a sudden you know it says and the in israel has sinned against the lord and so you know they were punished for seven years or ten years or whatever it was and it's like and then everything gets better and then it says israel sinned against the lord and then you know and it just goes on for chapters on end so it's in it's it's as if it's in our nature um to just you know go against sometimes what god desires for us or has planned for us and to close into prayer i would like to read from joel chapter two it's actually the verse of the day is verse 12 but i would like to read that whole thought it's a call to repentance it says now therefore says the lord turn to me with all your heart with fasting with weeping and with mourning so rend your heart and not your garments return to the lord your god for he is gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and he relents from doing harm who who knows if he will turn and relent and leave a blessing behind him this is a call to repentance interestingly enough it's in the old testament we hear a lot about grace and mercy in the new testament but god has always been about grace and mercy god has always been willing to bless a repentant heart but that's the key as jacob said we have to be repentant in our heart we have to have the desire for him we have to have the desire for him to show this grace and mercy over us jesus says two times in the new testament i desire mercy right he desires to be merciful over us he says he desires mercy not sacrifice so we can do like it says in this verse it says so rend your heart and not your garment you can do all that you want he does not want you to you know rend your garment meaning rip your clothes you know you can do whatever you want it won't help you he wants your heart he wants you to truly from the bottom of your heart decide hey my life is not pleasing to him i want to be pleasing to him i want to do his will i want him to wrap me up in his love the way he the father did the prodigal son so my call to prayer and i would like to actually ask the since today is a praise praise and worship night i would like to ask our worship group the song that are you guys saying the third song closer right the song pull me a little closer take me a little deeper i want to know your heart that's my desire for all of us today as we close our service you know to establish a lifestyle of praise and worship and a desire to get closer to the father a desire to not even be like the prodigal son and leave to develop a lifestyle where we can be in the father's house and we can welcome all the other prodigals with open arms just like jesus does just like the father does that that is you know my heart's desire for myself and i believe we all as believers need to be in a place of just constant praise worship you know and just abiding in his grace and mercy and love for us and to just have a desire of a repentant heart at all times and a desire to just get closer and deeper and more wrapped in his love so we can also show as our uh pastors preached in the morning service so we can also show that same love that wraps us with grace and mercy and we can be gracious and merciful and loving to people around us whether brothers or sisters or sinners in the world so before we pray i just want us to stand to our feet let's just sing and from the bottom of our hearts you know not just the you know words that come out of our mouths or just you know our act or just our singing but to truly in our heart connect with god and say god i want to be a little closer i want to go a little deeper i really want to know your heart i really want to know your love for me [Music] taking me over [Music] with you forever [Music] a little closer take me a little deeper [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] taking me over [Music] with you forever [Music] so pull me a little closer take me a little deeper i wanna know your heart i wanna know your heart cause your love is so much sweeter than anything i've tasted [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] oh is [Laughter] [Applause] [Applause] how great your love is for me [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] jesus precious [Music] we thank you father god so much for your precious love for us lord your love that you that you value us that you adore us that you treasure us god [Music] [Applause] [Music] i want to know [Music] let us just exalt his holy name in this place for he is glorious he is worthy of all of our praise father god we thank you lord jesus for your almighty love that you have that you have lavished over us god we are not deserving of your love of your glory of your great great love for us jesus that you welcome us with open arms you say that our righteousness is a filthy rags lord but it is your righteousness and through your what you have done on the cross god we can boldly receive the gift that has been given to us through your grace and mercy father god so we stand in this place god and we glorify your name we magnify you lord jesus in this place father god because you are worthy you are glorious you are worthy of our praise god we receive the love that you have for us god we open our hearts we want to know how much we mean to you we want to know how much you truly love us god we come to you with our repentant hearts god we don't want to live the way we live god we want to live for you we want to be used by you father god therefore let your love just show us and guide us into all truth so that we know why you did what you did for us so that we know who we are to you how precious we are in your sight that we are not just some just some random thing to you god but we are your chosen people every single one of us has value to you god you desire each and every heart in this room to glorify your name on this earth [Music] you have a plan and a destiny for each one of us god we love you jesus and we just need to know for those of us that are here that don't know how much you love us god i pray through the power of your holy spirit god let your love just pour into the hearts of each person that it is in need of knowing how precious they are in your sight father god we don't need routine god we need true praise in praising your holy name we need true worship before you god with repentant hearts in a dire need of a savior father god and it is through only of revelation of your love of your grace of your mercy that we can truly receive what you have in store for us father god and i pray that each one of us here in this place truly open our hearts god not rend our garments god but rend our hearts break our heart in two pieces father god and just do your work touch us move us let us not be dry and dead christians god but let us be awake and alive moving your kingdom in glory father god have a desire to come to church god to be filled with your presence not for just religious practice god but for a true and glorious movement of your kingdom with purpose with identity with transformation and the expansion of your kingdom on this earth father god i thank you for your presence tonight your precious holy spirit your love keep us in your glory as we go from here in jesus name we pray amen amen you may take your seats lord is truly glorious and he is worthy to be praised and all you know we didn't have that many testimonies today but the ones that we did have we truly see that that god is at work and he is moving and he is willing to use vessels that are that have the desire to be used by him so i want to thank you all for coming tonight for being present with us for glorifying and praising and worshiping god's name in this place and everyone that participated the you know youth worship group and the and the sunday school group that's saying for us i want to thank you from the bottom of my heart jacob for preparing your award that was awesome i thank you and everybody else that together in prayer and worship that we truly praised god's name and i want to you know do more of this and i know we haven't done our english service in a while a couple months i believe two months or so but i we do plan on continuing to do them on a monthly basis again and we will be updating you know through our morning church services when and and when we will be doing it so uh i just want to say thank you and let's just stand to our feet one more time just a short quick prayer give god thanks for what he has done for touching our hearts in this place and we will be free to go and uh don't forget to have fellowship after of course father god we want to thank you here in this place for your glory for your presence for your for your love for your the touch of your holy spirit god that we as your people god can gather together in one place and experience your precious love for us your presence at work in our lives god so that we you can we can truly experience you being alive in us god let us take this experience let us take this everything that we that we experience here in our church services god and let us move this into the world and into the places the dark places that need light god and the places that need the salt lord let us be the vessels that will truly carry your gospel your love your kingdom into the places that need it let us be vessels available and willing to be used by you and open up our hearts to be used with the talents you have given us and the gifts you have put into us and the purpose that you have destined us for god let each person be committed and dedicated to that in jesus name we pray amen be blessed free to go [Music] [Music] you