Obedience That Keeps Us in His Presence

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let me drink again I don't remember [Music] me [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] love me [Music] thank you [Music] materials we were just singing I just wanna thank you you are my Jesus what else do we need we have Jesus if we believe in him our sins are forgiveness our eternity is prepared for us if we believe in Jesus like our Lord in our life he is Lord over our life and so all our worries are on him because he cares about us and we're again in the house of the Lord to praise His name together [Music] and in my heart I just had one Psalm I wanted to read is Psalm chapter 33 I just want to read a few of the verses is [Music] brothers and sisters this word is to me and I think it's to all of us it says Rejoice with joy foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] knowledge young people elderly what are we listening to um are we praising Jesus through all of our lives from Monday through Saturday and Sunday when we come with a joyful heart the Praises go up to him Islam because he is worthy of the praise your heart today isn't in contact with God today we've come to this place to say father forgive us with our lives with our hearts we're not praising we're far away from you and today when we came back to the house of the Lord is [Applause] cleanliness we will raise our hands to him because it says we will raise our Clean Hands to him whose hands are clean today you can raise your hands and praise him he wants to see this praise that is worthy to him let's together Just Praise Him um [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] International [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] I mean you may greet one another in the name we greet everyone that's listening and watching you to be blessed in the name and shine through all of your life I mean amen [Music] thank you [Music] let all the Earth rejoice [Music] in darkness tries to hide [Music] his horse [Music] always [Music] foreign foreign [Music] he wraps his family [Music] of Grace [Music] please [Music] my friends [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] my heart is [Music] come back is our God [Music] guys [Music] [Applause] [Music] is our God sing with me how great is our God always [Music] [Laughter] [Music] please [Music] [Music] foreign foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] as soon [Music] time today [Music] please [Music] I'll put it together [Music] my cheers [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you for today under these days [Music] Sports foreign [Music] foreign again [Music] foreign let's say all praise the Lord Jesus Christ hallelujah hallelujah today at the beginning we have a special service uh uh it's going to be a prayer for one little girl we have a prayer over children one of our families brother Paul and Margarita God gave him one more girl and they called her Lydia at the grace and this middle name is Grace praise the Lord are we going to talk about it and before we start prayer for Lydia Grace to dedicate her to Jesus Christ I want to say about importance of the service to the to the children is let's read Matthew chapter 19 verses 13 to 15. foreign as I said we have to know the importance of the ministry to the children christot Jesus understood it and uh and he taught his disciples so they could also understand and teach his church about importance of this ministry only three verses but we see the Heart of Jesus Christ here Lord and God is and I want to ask you a question who brought the children to him who mostly parents of course maybe grandparents maybe other relatives sometimes but I think 90 it's parents who brought children to Christ is and the main motivation in the hearts of of the parents bringing them to church or Sunday school Christianity college sometimes in Christian College that does no which the previously [Music] it says should be to bring children to Christ sometimes parents think oh I gave them to Sunday school that said my mission is forward but their motivation was different they brought him to Jesus [Music] and the main thing for children to understand the main the main reason they are in church it's to know Jesus personally and have relations in personal relationship relationship with him and here the parents did did not bring children to Jesus in order for him to heal heal them or deliver them from um otherwise they would be in different kind of line uh with with the adults who were expecting healing universe and of course the disciples that instance would not prohibit them to come of course the sick child yeah yeah come come to Jesus as this disciples still the children are healthy different kind of age age group why do you bring to Jesus [Music] but the parents brought their children foreign things that parents could not give their own children it's a God's blessing for their future lives and the most important in this blessing it's a spiritual blessing um because a person can receive blessing and then live this life whatever and and then he will go to the Eternal fire what's the point yeah because very often the parents want for their children first of all I'm talking about Christians right now adjustable watches of course the first of all it has to be like music education musical education or sport achievements in sports education it's a good career and success in personal life What did the um and this for some parents it's it's it's in the first place and everything else which is most important somewhere behind all all this is all good no my point is all this is good but it's not supposed to be the first of your desires about Jesus's blessing and his touch for him for them the first place is supposed to be their faith and their personal relationship with the Lord and I'm talking to parents right now Paul and Margarita of Mississippi do you agree to pray with the church for your daughter Lydia first of all today whatever I told talked about do you agree and the second is and do you agree after this prayer to continue to pray for her your spirit name and raise her up in the teaching of the Bible teaching of the Lord grow up and receive the bless and receive the eternal life some people think oh I brought them to church they prayed for her and whatever happens happens no we don't teach like that the word of God does not teach like that and I call not only you but everyone who listens to this word to examine themselves and put your priorities into the right place everything has to be prioritized so we would not become hindrance to our children so Jesus says let the little children come to me and then not hinder them Jesus Christ Jesus Christ calls everyone to come to him including children including children come to me all he wants to bless everyone one pressure is he came to the littlest one and the oldest ones he came for everyone and regrettably in this text we read it was a hindrance for the children and regrettably the children receive not enough spiritual counsel at home and a church another prisoner and we have to agree that Osama is the weakest area in churches and we as parents think oh they're still too small and too young for for the serious upbringing in in the way of Christ is let them grow up first and then we'll we'll talk with them about the spiritual uh things how terrible mistake it is remember yourselves remember yourself when you're five years old even three years old one sister told me she remembered then she was two years old yes I remember what parents told me when I was like about four or five years old but it was the most bright memory for from for myself Ephesians 6 4 Apostle Paul says bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord Apostle Paul doesn't say from which age if you have to uh bring your children up in in the teaching but what do you think even future parents what do you think is one more example Deuteronomy 6 verses four to seven East to him foreign tell me please from which age you have to speak to children and teach them to love the Lord [Music] from what age we have to start talking to our children to love the Lord maybe mother of Moses was ahead of Egyptians with all the wisdom of Egypt and their sorceries which Moses was later would later see and experience when she fed his Moses breast milk and she raised him up and she taught him and he was very very little yeah I think she was praying and she knew it was her chance and she saw the seed of the word of God and she taught she taught the Moses to love the god of Moses of the to Jacob Abraham Isa and Jacob yes and this is a seed that Moses god with the milk of the breast milk of her of his mother in this boy president and did a great job in his heart and he became the leader of Israel and whatever he experienced later on in those Egypt colleges it was it was later but the most thing the main thing he received was the milk of his mother when he was young and the years passed by and he is 40 years old but the word that his mom taught him they grew up and they brought the fruit dear parents from which age she just right now hallelujah hallelujah Premiere one more example we know the also Timothy he was a co-worker as apostle Paul foreign and he from his childhood he received the word not from his father because he who was Gentile but for from his mother and grandmother he learned how to love the Lord of Israel maybe they even had a Bible study they gathered together like three of them and they studied the Lord the word of God they prayed and the faith that was in his grandmother and his mother is and came into the heart of Timothy too and when he uh he heard the word of the Gospel don't bring them he received it and followed the Lord problem to the problem is not to start too early the problem is uh in Reverse we can we can be late Iraq was born [Music] and the enemy will use this time and to to uh make the souls of our children to perish through unbelief because the parents think oh it's too early I'll do it later no bring them to Jesus Jesus is waiting for them he wants to be with our children for five years three years two years from two months old to be with our children if you agree with it let's say Amen yeah today is a lot of false teachings [Music] let's wake up Church let's pray for ourselves and our children in to teach them to love the Lord Jesus Christ more than everything in this earth parents we have to love Jesus God more than everything else in the in this world [Music] the holy spirit will not never agree to be on the back seat he of the first seed belongs to him that's why he he told to love their Lord with all your heart with all your mind with all your strengths who created the Heaven and the Earth you can experience a lot of things in this life but the Most Blessed which God gave to the church it's to get to know the Lord and the when we get to know the Lord loving him the grace is in abundance The Joy abundance and we have to we understand why do we live why did I wake up this morning why did I come to church I want to love the Lord that's why Jesus asked only one question the future Apostle Peter do you allow me and today he he asked this question asked also more than everything else in the earth Hallelujah let's examine our values and we will pray especially for Lydia yeah um I tell you like it's not a secret but Lydia was born May 13th two months ago and the birthday of her grandmother who also named Lydia and because of that he she received the name Lydia and the grandmother is so happy oh that's so much a gift is sure and one more thing is like we used to call to name them in Islamic culture she is named supposed to be Lydia Pablo now and her grandmother is also Lydia praise the lord it's a great joy and we want to share this Joy with you and pray for you so God can bless you and he will give his grace come up in the stage washu it was yeah let's stand up foreign Grace foreign [Music] hallelujah hallelujah [Music] I mean I mean Sports foreign [Music] please please congratulate her flowerable the slower yes I'll do some announcements as we announced we have we're going to have two collections now uh bullish as much as Jackson William and the second collection we're gonna go to the Jacksonville to the building projects or the Jacksonville Church video they started to build we're gonna see the video first collection is going to be for our own church and the choir is going to sing I'm gonna sing the first song and then the second song and during the singing we're gonna take part in the collections and today at two o'clock 2 p.m it's going to be the service in the nursing home 6 PM is going to be your service here um on Monday we're going to have a prayer at 7 30 especially we pray for Ukraine yes other churches also got the idea to have three-day uh prayer and fasting for Ukraine of course we are in fasting and praying for our church but those three days Monday Tuesday and Wednesday we're going to pray and fast for Ukraine Wednesday we have a service at 7 30 we're going to have a dig deep into the word of God [Music] this Saturday at 10 10 a.m we're going to have a Brother's breakfast at 10 A.M and we're gonna have uh service the the Brothers meetings or after right after breakfast about the uh election of the pastor and the board of directors in in our church also the bishop uh will be presents so all the brothers members of our church please be present and if you're not a member of our church you're welcome for the brothers breakfast but then you will have to leave but whoever's members of this church all the brothers are going to have a meeting and the members meetings is going to be August 20th on Sundays August 6 and 10 30 we're going to have a washing of the feet who takes part in this service please come on time and 11 o'clock if it's going to be communion service video the Jacksonville please show the video about Jacksonville church you can turn off the lights and we're going to have two collections first one is going to be for our church and second to help at Jacksonville we have people from Jacksonville here today from the beginning with the sound please time is foreign foreign [Music] foreign foreign foreign foreign [Music] [Music] song for me [Music] yes [Applause] [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] song I'll be the spoken of them [Music] will cross together [Music] [Music] [Applause] of God [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] God baby inside [Music] [Music] our summer changes [Music] me so slow in the air yeah [Music] [Music] this is [Music] [Music] [Applause] we will reduce [Applause] [Music] [Music] don't be the same [Music] follow us [Music] [Applause] [Music] before you do [Music] [Applause] [Music] my Jesus [Applause] [Music] praise godbrothers and sisters it's so good to be here in church today to be in all of your presence today but it's even better to be in the presence of the Lord today amen you know I wanted to ask you a question have you ever had that moment in your life where you felt the presence of God like have you had that moment maybe you were at a conference maybe at a church service maybe you're at home by yourself and you really felt just the presence of God come down on the earth you felt that it was so close that you can almost reach out your hand and touch God himself you feel God so close that you don't you never want to leave that place you never want to leave that presence have you experienced that before I can tell you I've experienced that in my life and in that moment you never want to leave that place but for some reason and I do not know why Always after that experience it feels like you always have to come back to earth for some reason it feels like always after that experience the next day you must continue with your everyday life and it feels like that presence slowly lifts away and it feels like that presence leaves you until it comes back and the next time and we begin to think is that us leaving God's presence or is that God leaving us we think why does that happen can we not just live in that moment live in that present presence all of our lives you know I want to tell you I would love to live in that moment in that presence of God foreign and I believe that's what heaven is living in that moment of that presence of God is but for some reason in our lives we don't live like that but we leave the presence of God sometimes in our lives we step away from God sometimes now I'm not saying that we reject Jesus as our savior I'm not saying we reject God but sometimes we get a little far from his presence I am a hospital and that's what I want to talk why is it that we leave the presence of God or what causes us to get further away from God you know I want to read one scripture and this is what I want to best base my message off of yeah it's going to be in the Book of Jonah and I'm sure you all know the story of Jonah yes before I read this scripture though I want to tell the story one more time in case somebody doesn't know yeah Jonah was a prophet who got received a word from God and God told him to go to a land of Nineveh and go and tell the people that what they're doing is wrong and they need to repents but Jonah did not want to go there because it was such an evil and corrupt place and Jonah already knew if he would were to go there and he would preach all those things that they would repent and God would forgive them because God is a merciful god and God would not punish them how he said he would say so for that reason Jonah didn't go where God was telling him but instead he decided to run away as Jonah no way Terrible Things began to happen to him and God came for Jonah and Jonah was swallowed up by a fish and as we all know he was brought back to Nineveh is Jonah ended up going and preaching what God told him to preach [Music] and just like Jonah already knew the people repented and God forgave them now today I want to talk about Jonah not about the people of Nineveh I just want to read three verses from chapter one special especially I want to read verses one two and three now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the sum son of amatai saying arise go to Nineveh the great City and cry out against it for their wickedness has come up before me but Jonah arose to flee from tarshish from the presence of the Lord to this place is where I want to stop reading and I want to focus here on verse 3 where it says Jonah arose to flee to tarshish from the presence of the Lord you know Jonah was disobeying God sometimes we have that moment in our life where God tells us to do something so crazy something so out of the ordinary that we don't even want to listen um and sometimes we disobey God is a hospital but what we think is we can disobey God but stay close to him we think we can stay close to God and we'll just reject the one thing that he has told us but no that's not true I want to tell you a story about one preacher yeah he lives in Orlando and he decided to take his family to Disney World Disney World safe Park and he went to Disney World with his whole family and there was a parade going on and there was many floats going by many Disney characters and I don't know if you've been to Disney World before but there's a lot a lot of people today and it's very easy to get lost there so this preacher told his whole family he said stay next to me or your mother at all times we want to always see you yeah that was the one rule all the children had to follow and as they're watching this parade go by yeah they're all having a great time laughing enjoying this time with their family and all of a sudden this preacher looks and one of his sons is gone he doesn't see him and he starts looking around he asks his wife do you know where he is they both don't know where the sun is not a day of sin so they're walking around running through the crowds of people yelling his name they're yelling for him to come back to them and then all of a sudden they get to the end of the parade [Music] and there is Mickey Mouse standing in the back and the Sun is standing right next to Mickey Mouse and he's just standing there smiling having a good time with Mickey Mouse and he doesn't even know what's wrong he didn't even know he was lost or in dangerous he just knew he was having a good time and you know this is sometimes like us [Music] when we disobey our father or our heavenly father we think it's all okay we think we're enjoying other things in life but in reality what we do when we disobey is we further ourselves from him we get farther away from his presence we get so far away that we are even in danger and we do not recognize it when we disobey God that is not just us disobeying his command or disobeying his word so furthering ourselves from his presence just like Jonah when he disobeyed goddess says that he flee he fled from the presence of the Lord you know I was reading a book recently yeah I'm sure many of you know it or read it before it's called God's generals and in God's generals the author he writes a quote he says when we directly disobey God our actions open the door to the works of the devil when we did we discard and further ourselves from his presence that gives an open door for the devil to come into our lives when we disobey God's commands for us yes when we don't listen to the word of God that means we're listening to another word we're listening to somebody else's voice and we already know that God's word is the best word for us in our lives another type of Disobedience we might have in our life sometimes we have we obey God but we don't do it on his time sometimes we do delayed obedience but I want to tell you that that's still Disobedience if we don't do what we're supposed to do in the right time then that means we're doing it wrong yes there's a story about one child it was a it was a young man he was already you know growing up a little older helping his parents a lot around the house and you know as a young man it was his job to mow the lawn outside the house you know his dad already entrusted him with the lawn mowers all the tools to take care of the lawn if you foreign but of course the father would provide instructions on how to do this and one day the lawnmower finally was running out like it was breaking down and the young boy thinks it's time to throw it away and buy a new one but the father comes to look at it and he sees that it's just the blades on the bottom are very dull and they need to be sharpened I mean [Music] so the father tells the young boy he says what you need to do is to take off the blades on the bottom and I will come home later and I will sharpen them but the father gave him very specific instructions on how to take it off but the man the young boy he was thinking I'll do it later I know how to do it I don't need to listen to him foreign he takes the perfect wrench that will fit and he starts trying to twist it off is trying to twist it off but for some reason the nut is not it's not twisting [Music] and he's pushing as hard as he can but it's not coming off and he's thinking what's wrong maybe he's just not strong enough [Music] so he takes a bigger wrench and puts it on and now with two hands he's pushing as hard as he can to try to turn it [Music] so he takes a pipe puts it on top of the wrench and now he gets with all his body and he tries to push instruments but it's still not even moving not even a little bit he takes a rock and he starts to hit the pipe maybe it'll start turning a little bit but no it's still not churning finally the father comes home and he comes to his son and he asks if he took the blade off [Music] the sun's already angry he tried for so long everything he did nothing worked he was telling his father that that thing's broken they need to throw it away it doesn't work but the father was asking if he listened to his instructions the father said I know that lawnmower he said I'm the one that bought it I know how it's made yeah he said if you were listening to my instructions earlier you would have heard me say yes you would have heard that I said that whoever made this lawnmower they the nut is Twisted on the wrong way so the sun comes up he takes off moves the Rock Away takes the pipe and just twists the wrench the other way and very easily with one hand it began to untwiston and you know the sun could have saved himself a headache and just listened to the father since babies he wouldn't just listened to the father he would have known the instructions and he wouldn't have had to go through all this pain through all this suffering is but you know when we don't listen when we delay what we have mustard it just brings us more and more problems just like Jonah's life he didn't want to go where God wanted him to go and all of a sudden this storm came on the boat he ended up in the belly of a big fish I mean all these problems came because he disobeyed City problems and eventually it got to the point where he had to do whatever God told him anyway it ended up happening that he still went to the place where God told him and he did what God told him to do that Jonah tried to run away from the presence of God tried to disobey he tried to delay it for as long as possible but in the end he still did what God told him [Music] and I want to talk about one more thing that can get us farther from the presence of God it's one more type of Disobedience children and this is written in Matthew chapter 21. chapter 21 verses 28 to 31. it's a parable of two sons Matthew chapter 1 21 verse 28 to 31 says but what do you think a man had two sons and he came to the first and said Son go work today in my Vineyard he answered and said I will not but afterward he regretted it and went and then he came to the second and said likewise and he answered and said I go sir but he did not go which of the two did the will of his father they said to him the first and Jesus said to them assuredly I say to you that tax collectors and harlots enter the kingdom of God before you this is a parable of two sons and one of the sons his words are not right but his actions are right but the second son knew all the right things to say but he could never back it up with his actions so that's another type of disobedience is like the second son it's a hypocritical type of disobedience where you say all the right things you say that you'll obey you say that you'll do but you do not end up doing it you know many times people like this there's these kinds of people in church where people have expressed experienced the presence of God and they know what it's like to be with God to be close to him and they want to be close to God and they tell God God we will do whatever you want us to do it God we are living for your will and not our own will it God use our lives For Your Glory because you know I will go wherever you want me to go I will do what you want me to do yes I will say whatever you want me to say just let me be in your presence and then when God tells them to go somewhere and when God tells them to say something and do something all they end up doing is sitting at home they don't go where God wants them to go they don't do what God tells them to do they're afraid they disobey you know Jesus says that it would be better to be like the first son to be like like one that says I won't do it but ends up doing it Roberto so here Jesus is telling us it is more important for us to do than for us to say is that the will of the father is not for us to say all of the right things it's not for us to say the right Christian terms the right Christian language Christians but the will of God the father is for us to do the work of God the father and that's what we need in our life we need to be obedient not only in our words but in our actions as well for us to do the will of God some people think that every time they're obedient to God they need to have a reward from God you know some people think oh I listen to God now God show me your amazing plan I want to see all of your glory because you know God I was faithful to you now show me your faithfulness here they say God you know I wasn't just faithful with my words but with my actions I showed it I proved it to you now it's time God for you to prove it to me with your actions you know show me your blessings now God you know God give me what I want because I gave you what you want what sports but no that's not how it works you know Jesus already proved his obedience and his love to us on the cross Jesus Christi Jesus already proved everything he needed to in his action when he died on the cross when he died on the cross he forgave all of our sins that was enough action enough obedience for the whole world that means there's nothing else he needs to prove to us that means that we should be satisfied obeying God for the rest of our life even receiving no reward here on Earth and the way Jesus was able to be obedient was because of his love foreign obedience is to love Jesus loved us so much that's why he was able to be obedient to his father and you know we need to love him so much that it takes us to the point of obedience as well for us to be obedient for us to do it right away and not to delay us sometime for us to be obedient with our words and not just our words but also our actions that means we need to love the Lord and love his presence you know before I finish I want to tell One More Story you know many times we pray for God let Heaven come down on Earth we want heaven to be here on Earth and because we see that many people in this world they're living such terrible lives it's like they're living hell on Earth foreign and one time it got so bad that he was taken to prison and they decided to rture him as much as they could even this was in a place where it gets very cold during the winter it's amazing so what they decided to do is they would leave him Outdoors during the whole winter so they dug him a very deep hole that he would not get out of only available they put him in that hole [Music] and they would just feed him one slice of bread a week it was just enough to keep him alive but slowly his body was decomposing and destroying itself and you know after many many months he was finally released and finally they were asking him about his experience [Music] they were asking him in that those few months that you were there did it feel like hell for you but this man answered and he said oh the situation you could prove you he said no because hell is where the presence of God is not there he said when I was there for those months it felt like heaven for me because the whole time I was able to spend in the presence of God I was just able to enjoy his presence is and he says hell is those people that are going to hell the people that are experiencing hell on Earth is those that are right now walking around this Earth without God foreign for us to spend all the days of our life in his presence glorifying him so that those moments when we experience his presence they would not go away so that when he's so close that we could touch him we would grab onto him and we would never let him go please so that we could live in his presence and I want to tell you today Joe that Jonah knew about God he knew that God was so merciful he would even forgive the people of Nineveh is that even they got so far away from the presence of God God would come back to them that they would just need to repent and turn to him and God's presence would come back to the People episodes and the same for us if we've been disobedient if we've gotten far from the presence you know maybe we experience the presence here on Sunday but on Monday Tuesday Wednesday we go far from him God gives us Mercy to come back to him you know maybe we've been disobedient with something God's been telling us because it's something we don't understand with our human mind maybe God's telling us to change the job our career maybe God's telling us to move somewhere far away you know maybe God's telling you to go and start something new but you're afraid so you think God I'm not going to do that I'll just stay here in church I'll work in my old job and you think you're going to stay close to God just not listen to The One commands but no our Disobedience leads us to get farther from the presence but God's grace and mercy is there for you God just wants you to listen to him and to love him with all of our hearts for us to live in his presence every day of Our Lives so that we would experience God as much on Tuesday night as we do here on Sunday morning so that we would obey God the same amount on Friday night as we do here on Sunday morning so that when we come here on Sunday and we say God I would do anything for you and then God tells us to do something on Friday that we would listen to him that we would love him so much that out of this love would flow obedience to him and through this obedience we would stay close to him and in his presence so I want us to pray right now and I want us just to ask God maybe for forgiveness if we've been disobedient if we've maybe gotten far from his presence just to ask him to forgive us and to come back close to him goodness so that we would experience heaven today we would experience his presence today so that we would experience the love of Jesus on the cross for us and this love would lead to obedience in our lives Hospital so let's stand to our feet let's bow our heads and let's just pray and ask God to forgive us as God for his presence in this place for his presence in your life let us pray tomorrow wherever we've been getting far from you God wherever we've been a little disobedient Lord maybe we've been waiting too long maybe we're running from your command from your word Jesus we ask you to forgive us we ask you Lord Let Your Presence would come back into our lives Jesus more and more every single day Lord Heaven would come here to Earth that your presence would come here into our lives Jesus Lord that we would obey you with all of your lives that we would obey you with all that we are Jesus that we would listen to you in every word that you have for us and that we would do your commands out of love for you God that your love would flow in our hearts God that your love would flow in our lives God that people would see how we are obedient to you that people would experience your presence in us God because you are with us holy spirit you work through us God and whatever you tell us to do we would do it and we would not be afraid we would not look at this world but we would only look to you in your presence because it's so sweet it's so wonderful your presence that's the only place we want to be is in your presence Jesus we just asked for your presence in our life Jesus that there would be nothing that would hinder us from coming into your presence that we would not do anything to hinder you from coming to us that we would not do anything to hinder your presence that we would obey you and we would not give room for the devil to come into our lives all these evil works but we would do your works here on this Earth while we're here with you God hallelujah we just ask for your presence to flow through us your presence to flow through every person in this church Lord we ask for your presence to flow through this church to this people on the streets these people that are walking in hell today God that your presence would flow through us and to them God that they would experience heaven on Earth Lord they would experience heaven in this place because your presence is in this place and in our lives Jesus now as we obey you the Lord you would take us from glory to glory you would take us to great places and you would use us for your name to be spread in this earth God that even though we may go through trials even though we may go through difficulties and persecution here on this Earth God and people may not understand us Lord wherever you lead us that we would be in heaven because we are with you God and we would always be with you for the rest of our lives we just ask you Lord that this love this presence would not lead us as we leave this place that tomorrow morning when we're in work foreign a me praise be to Jesus our service has come to an end [Music] and right now we will be praying Allah and I want to say a few things listening to the sermon yesterday I was sitting and I was thinking from where does David know all of these things such a young man but think so deeply how does he know what is the presence of God how does he know who leaves who does God leave us or do we leave God is you know I was thinking about my young years when I was younger and I believe him what he says I believe that he's experienced God and he knows what it is to be in the presence of God he knows what it is to step away from God and how you experience that yeah I want for all of us brothers and sisters so that we would search and seek God in all our ways of life from our very young ages I remember when I was very young I still went to school class maybe seventh or eighth grade may I show the yeah school bus stop I was going to the school bus stop where I would be picked up and I was going by myself and I remember I was praying to God and uniting with God even though I was such a young man and you know it's for every age of our life if we seek for the Lord we will find him we must blow us to wait he will bless us then we will know what is the presence we will know what is the kingdom of God here on Earth inside of us but if we only live through what others pass to us we don't know God and we don't know what is God's presence let's be obedient to our god like David already said about being obedient sometimes we don't even think that disobedience is the same sin so that disobedience is the same sin as sorcery or witchcraft you know when King Saul was disobedient to the word of God if you moved and he was punished for the fact that he was disobedient and sometimes obedient we think oh I just didn't listen to that one thing but truly this Disobedience takes us far away from God and deep into something may God bless us so that we would be blessed is and right now we'll have a prayer for Thanksgiving and for needs and while you're thinking right now I want to start with a big Thanksgiving um they shared a very big need about their daughter foreign [Music] and we were praying and we were fasting and today they have a big Thanksgiving to God and to the church can you please put this and after a very short time yeah foreign and they said praise be to God she's already at their home and the doctor was even asking about their faith because he said in all his years of practice he's never seen somebody recover from this virus so quickly praise be to God she was only in the hospital for about one or maybe two weeks maximum that was how long she was there recovery God really healed her remember and we're going to truly thank God and we'll Rejoice together we're going to continue to pray for our missionaries that are in Dominican Republic [Music] that God would bless them because they're there every day they're there they're working the whole day doing God's words and on Wednesday they'll be coming back may God protect them as they come home nursing home and the group that's going to nursing home can you please come to the front we'll pray for them as well and who remembers there was a brother that came to our church and he received the Lord and he received water baptism recently praise God let's continue further so that he would be encouraged and would grow strong in his faith yeah Pastor Paul and Sister Irene today are celebrating their 35th year anniversary may we thank God and continue for God to bless their lives is and another sister has a Thanksgiving that they did a certain procedure and they saved her life we believe that God has everything understands he knows when to do everything is let's thank the Lord foreign brother wants to thank the Lord for his many procedures and operations that went smoothly and he has a a grandchild in San Francisco yesterday he was five he's five years old they had open heart surgery on him and today he's already at home praise be to God brother has a Thanksgiving brother Peter's in Washington right now safe travels for him as he comes returns home brother has a need before God she has a Thanksgiving and asked to pray for her children as they come back from vacation yeah and pray for me and my family we're also going to Washington um me and my brother are leaving tomorrow brother's also going to Vacation bless them and their trip praise God that we have Thanksgiving of course and we're also able to come to him with our needs and he receives us come with faith to God because you can't receive anything from God without faith you can't come to God without faith and you can't receive anything from him lets us stand to our feet and bring 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