Sunday Service

Now needs matter. I'm sure some of you have heard the adage that those who fail to plan. Must be planning to fail. And it suggests that there is some importance to being methodical and driven by information for fear of falling into the traps that come from emotion only driven decisions. How many of us have gotten into trouble because we made it made a decision In the Heat of emotion amen, but the obvious tension that this create in the mind of a Believer is you know, when we're fueled and sustained by faith in a god that is invisible is that there are times when God whose knowledge and wisdom and insight and planning are perfect and greater than our own he will ask us to act and faith our way through the circumstances that he's scripts without knowing the whole plan. So even though we're told that we should be looking to plan their times in our life when we are supposed to move by faith. And that's on I can't speak for anyone else back to safe for me that creates tension cuz I'm being told all these things that I need to think through but now God puts me in the middle of a space and no matter how much I think it doesn't make sense. And so now I've got to learn to Faith my way through trusting in God without knowledge of a plan. Maybe you all are different. But I must admit that this reality gives us clear evidence that faith is not feeling because just as the Bible says faith is the substance of the things we can see such that Faith then becomes the fuel that keeps us moving in God's Direction, even when the presence of God can't be detected. Does anybody have that as a testimony there were times in life where you could not detect the presence of God, but yet you felt motivated in your spirit to keep moving in God's Direction and when that happened that was Faith fueling your forward movement. So I just need somebody who has that as a testimony to find a neighbor and just tell him say neighbor trust God even if you can trace him

Hey, man, I need you to find one more neighbor and tell him trust God. Even if it doesn't make sense to you. And I believe in somebody got inspired and empowered by that right now because you're in the midst of something you don't understand and you can't seem to follow God in it, but God is saying just trust me.

And I believe that there are more than a few of us in this place who want who want to not only testify that back but they want to shout because they understand the power that comes from trusting God even when you can't seem to find him.

Now it in church dated because now there's so many churches there's lots of people that make it their business to try to help churches move forward and they seem to charge a lot of money for their for their expertise. But some of the research is valid in and some of the data suggests that 90% or more of organized churches in the United States and around the world have 75 active members or less. That's a manual a man but we are not in rare company. We are actually the rule and not the exception. So you see the mega churches on television, but they're only a handful of them. And if truth be told this is not even part of the sermon but if truth be told they have the same issues that the small churches have the difference is they're able to mask those issues because they've got more people. So they got 10000 members and only 5% of them are active. Well 5% of 10000 is almost you know a large number of working people. Now, if you have a church of 75 people and 5% are working then that's only what three people that are working and thanks be to God we have about 60 to 70 people and we got a whole lot more than 5% that are working in the Church Say Amen. That's why I think we should clap on that. I agree because we should give ourselves flowers every now and then as well. So 90% of organized churches have less than 75 members. The intensity of Kingdom impact and the reach of Kingdom footprint do not appear to correlate with the size of the church and other words a church with 30 members who are working has the capacity to reach more of God's people than a church of 3000 that have no workers. A man, they might have all the bells and whistles, but they have no impact and they leave no Footprints because they don't follow God's instruction. So with all of the information in the resources and the assistance that's available churches can literally use their entire budget simply planning and preparing and organizing to move but never move. A man that has anyone experienced that even in the workplace. You do a lot of planning your great company when it comes to meeting but in terms of producing that's where you find your deficit. But the Bible reminds us when I was hungry Bible says you fed me. Because when God ordained for our paths to cross when God spoke and ordained for Myspace to intersect with your space, it didn't help me if my now need had to wait until your church leadership had the meeting.

Hey, man. And it's a dilemma because we're told we have to be organized and we have to plan and we have to budget but in the reality in the in the for real for real and even all of us here can attest that there are times in the moment where you have a noun need and it can't wait.

Anybody who has a heart to share in the concerns of our brothers and sisters right here in in our community and all over the world who are living in poverty and surviving by less than human means and struggling to make it not day today, but sometimes just minute-to-minute, but the good news is that we are our brothers and our Sister's Keeper and we are connected to God and God is connected to them. Did y'all catch that if we are connected to God and God is connected to them then God will give us the discernment to allow us to remain in tune and sensitive to their now cries for now help.

When I was hungry now. You fed me now. When I was naked now you close me now when I was sick now you came and checked on me. Now when I was in prison now you came and visited me now and that level of connection gives us a level of insight that allows us to remain in tune and sensitive in the moment. The brother who's been without a job and needs to feed and sustain his family is asking us. How can you help me now? The sisters been hurt Time After Time After Time and is now at a moment of Crisis is asking can you help me now? That child who is praying that he's not going to repeat the same mistakes of his other family members and live out the generational curse and say, how can you help me break the cycle now? That young adult who's trying their best to live. Holy but is being challenged by the culture to settle for what the culture says needs to be done. Insane. Can you help me now the church member who who you think is thirsty for attention and is having all this drama but really is hungry for a fresh start at a new outlook is asking somebody can you give me some help right now? As a matter of fact the cry resounds day after day from the streets and the families in the schools and the communities and the church is pain the same cry is being Cried Out Time After Time Will somebody help me right now. Will the church be the church and help me now will the children of God be sensitive to my now needs and respond to them now will people who claim connection and allegiance to god stop simply talking a good game, but start walking the walk and step up and help somebody now and I've been sent on this assignment to this place in the history of this church and at the end and I understand that we've been inspired and we work hard for the Lord, but there are still some now tears and some now pain and some now crises that we need to respond to better. And what God is challenging us to do today is to examine this fact, and we have to understand if we want to have a Ministry that leaves an impact and a footprint we have got to be able to answer the Now call.

And this is not just a clearing call for this church, but I'm The Shepherd of this church. I can't speak for arid I can't speak for Central Baptist. I can't speak for Ministries that are bigger better stronger more well-connected have theologically more disciplined and trained for people in the Pulpit. All I can say is that we have been called in this place at this time to respond to the now needs of this community at doing it. Beyond the meetings in the dinners in the fundraisers in the team building exercises must be a commitment to answer the now cry for now help the church can't be the church at the church won't help people church can ascribe to the gospel proclaim the gospel and claimed to live by the gospel. If the church won't answer the call of the Gospel, which is freedom for the captive and site for the blind. We got to help people where they are now. Can't just Proclaim our Greatness by our membership roster. We got to help somebody the church can't simply rest on past accomplishments and celebrate the social status of the membership roll and gather in the sanctuary every week waiting for people to come to us. amen, God is saying it's time to stop being dry by Believers drive by the drunk drive by the homeless drive by the Teen Mom drive by the attic drive by all these folk on the way to the building when the church is not the building but the church are the people

And this is not an indictment of Emmanuel. This is simply saying that we've got to constantly daily check ourselves because one of the tricks that the enemy uses his he wants to make us feel comfortable and good about where we are now when the now needs never stop We have got to constantly be on point and in tune with God and ready to respond when he shows us a new now need it's great. We can clap our hands we did a great thing yesterday. We change lives. We shifted the atmosphere, but guess what? There's somebody out there that needs a coat now that hat can't get to Emmanuel.

Goddess is singing stop. It's time to stop being drive by Believers. We talked about drive-by shootings and all these other things but it's far more devastating for believers to dry by people that God has placed in their airspace and do nothing to make the space different.

Because it's not our mandate to offer conditional strings attached help, but that's our mandate to resist be light and help people where they are. God got a help that father who wants to be a better father, but he is so bruised and broken and dejected that he's hurting more than he can help his own family. We got to help that sister who's trying to forget the past hurts and relationship but can't seem to get herself together. And we wonder why she always coming in here with an attitude with the wrong clothes or whatever that is will really hits because she's hurt and her now needs are constantly not being met. We got to help that child who only knows what they've seen and all they've seen is chaos stress and dysfunction. We got to help that family. That's trying to stay together, but can't seem to get it together. Got to help that teenager who's struggling, you know how hard it is being a teenager in the 21st century dealing with peer pressure and instant access to a social network that doesn't care about you. But you feel that you have to do certain things to be accepted and liked and loved and friended. We've got to help that teenager understand that it was a man named Paul who is in the same situation as you but every time they try to do right and the right and the wrong they want to stop doing they can't stop doing we got to help some people now got to help that young brother who's trying to start over after years of anger and abused and bad decisions on a prison record. Got to help him now. He don't need help in a month. He needs help right now. If his release date from prison is January 28th, if we wait till February 28th, It might be too late. He needs help on February 28th, when he steps out the jail for the first time in three years and hasn't been free. He needs to understand that there's some brothers and sisters who are ready to help him now with a place to live help him now with a job help him now with food in the refrigerator help him now get a cell phone. And do you realize how hard and not have a house not have a job not have a cell phone and yet be told you better stay out of trouble. We got to help people right now where they are. So here it is text we see Jesus like he's always doing he's on the move. Being about his father's business doing the work of the kingdom and moving from City to city and broken person to Broken person. Hoping to help somebody as he moves along. How's my grandfather's favorite song if I can help somebody?

amen

Jesus isn't waiting for the perfect set of circumstances. He's not waiting for all of the resources to materialized. He's not waiting because of now limitations. But instead Jesus is working while he's waiting, which is his way of showing God that I'm trusting that you will make a way if I just start moving.

Breakfast this coming Sunday is work while waiting. amen working while we're waiting for God to work all the details out. But the tendency because that's how we've been taught since we were in grade school is we should work out the details to ensure the success of the plan and until the details get worked out. We should not move but God says my steps are ordering your steps and if I tell you to move now to meet her now need even if all the pieces are together as soon as you start moving, I'll start fixing the pieces.

I'm convinced that many small churches have minimize their potential impact because they're trying to be over Ultra organized.

What you need 15 committees in a church that has 50 people.

I'll tell you why because some of the people among the 50 need a title.

If they have a title, they won't work, but then when they get the title, but we got 15 people with titles that only leaves 35 workers. So then they complain that I can't nobody here to work. Well if we didn't have 15 committees with 15 title people, we would have 50 more work and we could all work together.

And again, it's not a malicious thing. It's just human nature. But the problem is our human nature Trump's God's plan and that's why churches can move. Now don't get me wrong. There are circumstances where you absolutely need to be able to plan. You can't go from where you are and say we want, you know, you want a million-dollar Building without a plan. But you can make breakfast for some kids in a week. Right, so there's levels to this this thing. But Jesus never seem to have an attitude that it was the people's job to seek him out.

He wasn't sitting and waiting within the walls of the synagogue where the church folk were but he was out there working in the street on the corner in the alley in the gutter on the hillsides wherever the people needed help. And isn't amazing that wherever people need Jesus that's where you found Jesus.

Whatever people needed a word that's where you found him. Wherever there was a need for healing. That's where you found me wherever people were hurting. That's where you found them. There were times when people had to push past crowds to get closer to him, but in general he was there because got it already placed it in his spirit that there's going to be a brother that the brothers are going to drop through the roof who need your help. Then you have to be in position until they win. They dropped the roof you are where you need to be so that you can meet the need that he has

Jesus wasn't just with the hill Folk. Cuz they were already hate them. Every time he heals somebody what did he say now you go and tell somebody about what just happened.

Despite his Fame as God In the Flesh. He has made himself available to meet people where the need was. Ministry is needed where there's dysfunction. Ministry is needed where there's hurting and pain Ministry is needed where there's doubt and confusion and if what we are doing and we are calling Ministry isn't reaching people where they are then it might be needed. It might even do a good thing, but we can't call it Ministry. And that's another area where churches are falling short. There's a lot of busy work that they call ministry. That's not Ministry because we're not meeting the needs of the people because we have not engaged where they are. We can have the best of intentions, but if we don't ask people what they need, then what we provide might be something that they already have.

The text says that Jesus is coming down from the mountain. Followed by large crowds with In This Crowd following Jesus. There's a man with Leprosy and as he's coming down the mountain the Bible says that this man bowels down before Jesus and he says Lord now that you come down from the mountain. If you are willing, you can make me clean call Jesus what he needed by telling him. I already know what you can do.

He said I've been in the synagogue. I just heard on the street that you are the man that can fix me.

in other words, I know that you couldn't do anything while you were on top of the mountain and I also know that because of where I am right now, there was no way I was going to be able to get to the Mountaintop where you were but I also knew that there was going to come a time when you had to come down from the mountain and I was going to position myself so that you can do what I already know you can do I mean what a powerful moment because it's not just about the miracle that's about to happen. But what's powerful is the fact that Jesus demonstrated the power that comes from being reachable. If he had stayed on the Mountaintop in church, cuz he was on the Mountaintop talking to God. If he had stayed on the Mountaintop, this man would have never encountered him, but he made himself accessible because he came down to the man's level where he was. He didn't ask for the man to come up to his level of Readiness in order to fix him. And how many times do we in the church have this conditional Christianity? Will you got to get yourself right before you can serve you got to get yourself right before you can do X Y or Z. If you come in the sanctuary now, you can't wear that to church you got to wear this to church you got to stand when we tell you to stand you got to sit when we tell you to sit. You better know some scripture what you don't know scripture. Well, I don't know the word of God, but I can read the word of God. So if you need me to read scripture, I can read it. Even if I can't understand it, but we have put conditions. In God's house that make God less accessible to the people that he put in our space.

Is suggested if you and I want to do ministry that has an impact and a footprint Ministry that is consistent with the word of God. We must be now accessible. Not later now accessible means churches should have a means or a sign on the door that says if you are experiencing an emergency call this number now.

But what do most churches have is a sign that says if you have an emergency call this number and leave a message?

Because we've been conditioned to operate the way the world operates and not the way God operates. Isn't it? Good to know that your God doesn't ask you to leave him a message.

I mean, come on y'all. I know I'm not the only one that had a now need that God meant now.

I mean when my wife was going through some cancer scares and we had a now need and I said to God you can call it whatever you want. But you just can't call a cancer. That was a spoke to the God that I knew could fix it and two days later when we went back to the doctor. They had to do two ultrasounds because they couldn't find the spot that they had found two days before because God can meet a noun e if God had put my need on hold.

Jesus is accessible and reachable and God wants his people to hear that today because if we want to do ministry that leaves an impact and a footprint then we've got to understand that would allow Jesus to be effective. What is the fact that the people didn't have to struggle to access him? Our job is to make access to God user-friendly. And when I say us I'm not just talkin about Emanuel Pittsburgh. I'm talking about the church Universal, but how hard have we made it?

And we make it that way and lots of ways how we organize service how we script the things that we do? How we lock the church doors every night. Amen.

The text says that Jesus was coming down from the mountain. And within this crowd was this man who hadn't now need. And perhaps the greatest obstacle to the church being the church is that the church has been so busy trying to get hers? That she's lost sight of the Great Commission, which is to reach out reach back and pull somebody back from the flames and the storms of life. Because if we're honest today, we can all point to somebody in our Christian walk who had the faith and obedience to come back to where we were and meet us at the point of our need and to remind us that we are children of God. They didn't wait for us to get right. They didn't wait for us to get sober didn't wait for us to get cleared of a of all charges didn't wait for us to get out of Western Psych and on all of our meds, but they met us where we were and they reminded us of who God says that we are.

As I look back over my life. I can think things over and I can say I've been blessed. I've been redeemed I've been rescued. I've been set free and I'm here standing today in the land of the living because somebody came to me and met me where I was at the moment of my need. They didn't attach any strings to it. They didn't tell me it will I'll see you next Sunday. They saw and sensed in their spirits that I had on Monday now need and if I wait until Sunday to get the need met I might not have made it has anybody been in that place where you can say I know church is coming up on Sunday, but to be truthful. I don't think I can make it till Sunday and I'm so glad God's going to put a Monday person in my life or a Tuesday person in my life for a Wednesday Thursday, Friday Saturday person in my life who will help lift me up and sustain me until that even if Sunday doesn't come. I'll get what I need now.

And the thing is is we don't need organized Church to be that way. You can do that today when you walk out of here because God may put in your spirit. Somebody has the Sunday after church needs and it won't wait until next Sunday.

I thank God that the people God placed in my life didn't wait until I got my act together.

I thank God that they didn't wait to approach me until my nasty attitude was adjusted.

Cuz if I was a Banda lising to myself at the time when I was at my lowest and the things that I was saying to myself and the way I kept people at a distance and the way I didn't want people knowing what was going on. If I was me I would have walked on and I want to use scripture and I would have said the Bible says that I should just shake the dust off my feet and just keep on stepping but God don't tell you to stop but he tells you to work then you got to keep working that thing out until God satisfies it in your spirit. I thank God that somebody was meeting my now neither because if nobody met my now needs when I came back from Afghanistan and I had this cough that nobody could diagnose for when I leave had not stopped in the middle of Pastor sermon and walk right in front of Pastor, which is considered in the black church. And if she hadn't walked over here to me and pick me up and we'll be over here and had the ministers come and pray for me right then. I don't know where I be.

When she came over here to grab me. I kind of pushed her hand away, but she was persistent because God told her to be persistent. God told her in her spirit just can't wait till next Sunday. Just can't wait till he's ready. I need you to fix him now.

The text says after he came down from the mountain. And hearing the Man story he reached out his hand and he touched the man in other words. He didn't keep what God had given them to himself. Oh my God.

see Jesus church And he could have said yeah, my brother peace be with you. I just had church. I'm going to eat with my boys. You could have said. All right, brother. I see you're in need. Talk to my man here make an appointment. I have regular Church office hours on Monday. Or you could have said nothing and just sidestepped the man cuz remember he's bowing and he could have kept on keeping on but instead the Bible says he's stopped and before he even spoke. He reached out his hand. And you touch them. That's a whole sermon there this man who understood what leprosy meant to that culture. Basically in what gesture was saying I don't care if you're contagious. I don't care if this is going to kill me. I don't care what people think I don't care what people going to say, but right now you have demonstrated that you believe that I have what you need now. So I'ma Reach Out My Hand by not going to just reach out my hand. I'm going to put my hand on you and teach people that meeting now needs means taking now wrist. Oh my God, I got to take a risk.

Because guess what leprosy is contagious it does not say he stopped. Went to the Physicians reference put on a gown and gloves and then examined him first it just as he reached out and touched him and said be clean.

So after we make sure we're in tune with God. After we make sure that were accessible and reachable to his people we've got to be willing to engage people who are disconnected from what we know they need. Did y'all catch that? Many who God places in our space don't even know that they need what we know that they need and that's Jesus. We got to be willing and just as Jesus did to touch those who are having difficulty. The text says Jesus came down from the mountain suggesting that we can stay in church.

We can't stay in the sanctuary and expect that Ministry is going to be as powerful as it is when we're out amongst the people. Because there are moments when you have got to come down from worship when after you've been filled up then what God has put in you needs to be shared.

Until the people come to you in order to share it.

someone for whom Just getting to the foot of the mountain has been a struggle doesn't need you to wait until they learn how to climb the mountain because if they had known how to climb the mountain and they knew you were on the Mountaintop. You would have encountered them somewhere on the mountain on the way back down. But the fact that this man was at the base of the mountain show that this man did not know how to get to where Jesus was, but he knew that Jesus was going to be in the space.

There are people that you might encounter in at work who know you go to Immanuel but will never come here.

But God knows that you work with them and I put them in your space every day.

You got to come down after you've been filled up and empty yourself of what God has placed in you. Jackson Ministry

Maybe that's why the Bible says to you and not in other words. I'm taking Church on the road.

He's anointed me to proclaim the good news. He sent me to bind up the Brokenhearted. He sent me to Proclaim Liberty. He sent me to give sight to the Blind and the open the prisons to all who are bound and other words you when you become accessible and available. And when you come down from where God has elevated you and you reach back and you reach down that's when you become a conduit through which the god relationship is grown. In other words people may never come to relationship with God if we wait for them to come to church. If you don't remember anything, you can write that down and let it fuel what you do and what you call Ministry because if we are waiting for them to come to us they may never make it.

This man had spots on him. He was a leper. He was wondering if life could ever change and because he encountered Jesus and he was focused on impact and footprint he made himself available to this man. He Reach Out And Touch This Man

He was given an opportunity to change and somebody here can relate to the fact that there was a time in your life when nobody would touch you.

There was a time when family would talk to you, but they wouldn't hug you.

and it would cast you aside like trash these people who were so-called friends, but God was always there and God is saying that if we start touching phone who no one else will touch That's when we have a footprint and an impact. Ministry that leaves a footprint is about helping others getting rid of their spots. But not waiting for them to come to us with their spots. Is there anybody here who can remember that moment when somebody else reach back or reach down to help you with your spots? Cuz I'm believing. There's some X lepers here.

I was Sinking Deep in sin with a whole bunch of spots far from a peaceful Shore. Nobody was going to touch me cuz they didn't want what I had to rub off on them. I'ma I'ma just going to be honest I used to be that way. I don't want I don't want none of that and like that's what the Bible says. But the Bible also says that Jesus touched the man instead be clean at a risk to himself.

I don't know about you, but I'm so glad that God came and met me in the gutter of my life.

And cleaned me of my spots.

I'm so glad he didn't leave me in the gutter. Or think that I wasn't worth touching.

which are two things that the church Universal has become very good at

Oh how he touched me? something happened and now I know Jesus text me. And he made me whole.

But he said that which I do. You may do also. So you have the power? to touch somebody and change them.

So Ministry that has an impact is in tune and obedient is accessible and approachable and it involves reaching back and reaching down. And finally ministry that's going to leave a footprint means that not only do you have words to speak but when you speak them you understand the power of the words that you speak. Remember the dynamic the man stopped him. Jesus touched him and then he spoke.

And he didn't say a lot.

What did he say? He said B clean? Because when God speaks he don't need a lot of words.

But when God speaks things move. Does anybody want to testify that way and God speaks and when things move things change?

Notice it when Jesus reaches out to the man. He released his power into the man's life by touching him and speaking to him. He says to the man after the man asks, are you willing he says of course, I'm willing be clean.

He-Man and now needs he could have said of course. I'm willing because the Bible says in such and such a scripture that it up. But that wasn't what was needed what was needed was, of course, I can be clean. Is there somebody here who's ready to get to the business of some Kingdom changing work and understand that you've been given the power to tell some folk in your space be clean? They may not even understand what it means yet. Somebody with boldness in The Rankin and Braddock in North Braddock and Swissvale and anywhere else that God sends Us in order to speak life into the lives of the people of God who he has strategically placed in our space don't think that anybody you encounter. Is there randomly

life and death are in the power of what we say and what we say matters. And so therefore we must be willing to be bold and confident and fearless when we are representing Our God and his work. You don't have to be eloquent to be effective. Somebody needs to hear that because right now you're thinking that the words that you speak don't have power because they're not eloquent. God is safe all I told Jesus to save his be clean. There is no eloquence in a two-word sentence. I just told the man what I can do for him.

Spirit to help somebody financially don't need a lecture to them about this data the other you don't need to ask. We'll make sure you use just say three little words. Here you go.

You have metal now need.

It's not how much. You say it's the power. That is packed in what you say. Jesus didn't speak a lot of words, but what he did say made a difference because the text says immediately and you imagine. Cuz remember the whole set-up was that this man is sitting here and I'd like to think that the way the crowd was position if Reverend Sam is the man and I'm Jesus. He's bowing down in front of me because he knows that I have what he needs. The crowd is following me, but they immediately see this infected potentially contagious person. So I'm believing that there at a distance from him because through what they learned in the culture that they can't get to clothes less they get sick. So they're all around watching to see how Jesus is going to handle this situation. Some of them were there because they're going to say yeah, I bet you he's a hypocrite that this person could make him sick and might kill him but instead what Jesus showed them was that all I have to do is speak a few words and things change and then the Bible Immediately. So now you have a crowd of people who instantly wash to me.

And within the crowd of people are people who would have never seen the miracle if the miracle required any of them to come to church. Oh my God.

We keep telling people coming to the house and be healed that can happen. But if this had happened in church half the people in the crowd would have missed it because they don't go to church.

But they walk that road every day. Jesus was there and all of a sudden they see a man. They had probably seen every single day instantly get healed and how do you know a leper becomes instantly healed because their spots disappear.

When you meet now needs now miracles happen.

And that's Ministry.

When the cries for help sound God is not looking for people who aren't sure whether they can fix it, but they know they can fix it. Some of the reason why we don't respond and just because we don't really believe that now needs can be mad. But what God is saying is that if I put you in the air space of somebody with a now need that is your indication that I have already pre equipped you with what they need to get there now need fixed. In other words, he's not going to put you in a space without preparing you ahead of time. And I'm sure somebody here can testify to that that God prepare you and then he placed you.

answering the call Means that you can change the now reality of anyone that God places in your space. And God is looking for people who are willing to boldly go and do what he says to do. That's what he said to Jeremiah. He said where I go. And then say what I tell you to say because on this day, I am making you my spokesperson when you go and encounter somebody with a now need you are going with the credentials of God himself.

Which means you can't be stopped? You can't be deterred. You can't be afraid to go where he tells you to go and to say what he tells you to say if he tells you to invite someone to a church invite him, but if he tells you not to invite him but to fix some pic some.

Don't attach fixing them to whether or not they come to the friends and family service that's coming up.

Got to say I don't care how broken you are how much you hurt. Now. I'm going to send people to where you are who have the power to fix you from the inside out. If we're going to be at church that makes an impact and leaves a footprint. This has to be our our mindset both when were in the house collectively, but when we're outside on our own we've got to be in tune and obedient to God we've got to be accessible to his people we've got to be willing to work to reach back and reach down and we've got to be willing to speak life into the lives of the people that he puts in our space and if we do those things we have no choice but to leave a faith footprint and that's what changes the space some God's prayer for you is that you received this today that you didn't put it in the practice starting today because I can guarantee you God's going to put somebody in your space today that has a today now need. And it's going to be your faith test to one recognize it and to then respond. And once you do watch what God will do in this case, he gave Jesus immediate feedback.

He instantly said you said it I'll do it. bee clean spots gone be healed cancer gone. Be set free addiction gone. Be delivered bad attitude gone.

Be confident new job now.

God can do it. And he can do it with us or without us. But he chooses to use us every single day. Because guess what all of us in this room. Have a crown. May not be as big as Jesus is Crown, but we all have a crowd following us. And even now we have an electronic crowd following us. And you don't think God knows about the internet.

He don't need your, you know, 2000 word dissertation if somebody has a now need and you just put it out there on blast be clean. And then their next testimony is like I'm clean and sober.

Because you spoke it. Never even met him. But the power that you had was the power of God which transcends the internet and they're clean. Amen. You receive that today, praise God.

You are a catalyst to change the life of somebody else somebody you don't even know somebody you don't even like.