MDWK Service 03.30.22

But tonight I want to preach just for a few minutes, if if we can. And let's just go ahead and bless this tonight and we'll just jump right into the word Heavenly Father. We thank you. We love you. We give you praise honor and all the glory tonight. We just thank you for this opportunity to be in your presence. We thank you that you've met us in this room. And we thank you for what we felt already. And God, we praise you and bless this work tonight. Y'all order to anoint my lips that I would say exactly what it is that you had me to say. I know, when our ears to hear what you would say into the church and God we forever. Give you all the praise, the honor, and the glory. In Jesus, precious name and everybody said, amen. Amen. If I could just for a few minutes tonight. I want to preach on the thought here, and now he has any of this, any better? Whenever I know some of you, it's been a long time since you've been in school, but this does anybody, remember those school days first thing in the morning, when your teacher would go around and say your name? And she would say, if you hear your name, say hear

You every morning, you would do roll call, and you would go through. And she would say, if you're here, say I'm here, I in, if I done that tonight and I ask you that very same question. If I said, how many of you would say that you're here tonight. Just raise your hand. Hopefully we get a hundred percent participation in that that would be really weird because but how many understand I'll just raise our hand that we're here tonight. Unfortunately, some of you won't be here long and I know you're like oh preacher. What are you preaching death now? I'm not talking about that. But what I am saying, you will be here physically, but how many knows your mind your attention? Mason be somewhere else. In this moment. You are here, you're taught were talking back and forth. You're my, I've got you at this moment, but in a few moments, in a few minutes, some of you were going to check out. This is a fact. Some of you are going to hear me talkin and not get a word that I'm saying. Some of you, some of you were going to be here physically, but your mind in your attention is going to be somewhere, totally different. How many knows you're here now, but here in a few minutes, you're going to get a text on your phone. Your phone's going to vibrate, you're going to pick it up and you're going to be gone for the rest of the service. How many know what I'm talkin about? Having else here in a minute. You're going to get this incredible urge because you haven't found out what's going on on Facebook and my 7 minutes and you're going to get the urge to swipe up and check your news feed in the middle of my sermon.

I ain't really preaching yet, but I mean, if it hits you whatever, but I bet he'll know what I'm talking about here in a minute that you're chasing. Something with your mind, all of a sudden like you're in a different place, some other Josh, you're thinking already tomorrow. I what am I going to do? When 7 drivers calling? You don't sound like you're, you're already pre-planning for what? Hasn't even taken place yet. You're like, I just got to be prepared, get out. I ain't selfish. So you're thinking about that, and it's some of your thinking about all that you have to do. Maybe some of you, you broke your neck to get to church tonight. You got a lot to do when you get home tonight, maybe some of you have a busy work day tomorrow, maybe or who knows. Maybe you're thinking about where you're going to eat? Maybe you're hungry tonight. Maybe you're worried about some test that you got to take. Maybe maybe you got some bills coming due. Maybe maybe you're just being distracted by the person next to you. That happens a lot. I'm praying for you, Josh. I understand and listen to hear something. In fact, all of you are a tenant at this moment, but within a 10 or 15 minutes fan, since there's going to be some things that hinder that connection. There's going to be some things that get in the way and I want to go on record right now and say that I'm glad you're here now, but some of you won't be for long and but I want to talk a little bit about the here and the now, and I want to go to John Chapter 2 and we won't read my scripture there. We're going to jump to around a little bit tonight, but John Chapter 2, we see in the text. That Jesus is performing his first miracle at the wedding of Cana and it's kind of embarrassing story for the host. Because how many knows it was a big deal to get the host, the wedding party, and you had friends and relatives coming. And if you wanted to put your best foot forward, and all of a sudden this wedding, the host of the Paw. Does the absolute worst thing ever is? He runs out of wine in the middle of the wedding? And so there's this huge issue, but fortunately for the the host of this wedding you have some incredible guests on board that are going to be able to help you really pull this off in a dramatic fashion knows that Mary had probably been wanting to pull this. My son is Jesus card for a long time. You know, I'm saying like like sleeping like in her back pocket. She been waiting on her time to shine, you know the saying like if she knew she had the Son of God, she knew he had a he was the savior of the world and all of a sudden this embarrassing moment for the whole state.

And Sophie Jesus tells us servants, and many of, you know, the story. And he feels 6, massive jars of water. And and when you look at these pots, they're 20 to 30, gallons a piece. These are not little pots. These are Big pots and probably stand about, yay, high. And he said that they get these six message are stealing up with water and saw the servants done that and they drew out what was in the jar. And I took it to the master of the banquet in. No doubt those servants. At that point. We're going, we are dead. Because I know what we just put in those jars and now we're taking stuff out of those jars and we're going to take it to the master of the banquet. That's what it takes to John. Chapter number 2, at the end of verse 8, going to burst in. It says and they did. So talking about the service. They did, as Jesus said they got the pot, they fill them with water. They took the water out and they took it to the master of the banquet and the master of the banquet verse 9. Tasted the water that had been turned into wine and he did, he did not realize we're headed come from. So the servants who had drawn the water new. It says then he called the bridegroom aside and said everyone brings out the choice one or the best one first. And then the cheaper one after the guests have had too much to drink already gotten drunk and it says there, but listen to way it ended here. It says, but you have saved the best till now. How many knows that it says, but you have saved the best till now, I need you to look at your neighbor and say, is your best days are now. I need you to tell him I can actually mean to tell him your best days are now. How many knows that we always think? How many knows we in the church are really really bad and for always prophesying something in the future and that's wonderful. And that's great. And I'm glad that God speaks to us and tells us that we keep on keeping on Victory is just on the other side that I have. Me knows we've all heard that and that's encouraging and I scraped but I want to encourage you right now. Is that your best days are now? Somebody needs to get excited about that. And listen, if, if we look at the way Jesus lived, and one of the most amazing qualities, I think that Jesus had is being able to be fully present in the moment with everybody. He dealt with you, don't like he was always just fixated on whoever it was it was in front of him at any given time. How many knows that he lived with an undivided attention in the moment. But how many knows that if we look at the Gospel of Luke, we see two stories that come back to back about a stent of Jesus. His ministry in Jericho, and we see that has Jesus walked into Jericho. They were large crowds. That surrounded, Jesus in it. How many knows how cool that would be to. Just I just think I just would love to just be that one of the disciples just on the tail Anthony. Just getting to walk into town with Jesus and it just know who that you, you had it and know that what he has done before it just excited to see what God, what he's going to do next. Tell me another. That would just be so excited. He just get to be the one of the band mates. One the crew. We don't want the pit crew that just somebody to walk next to Jesus to see the glory of God to see the Miracles have got have. And how many know she's walking in this town? And it was like a rock star. I mean, there was people floating from everywhere, He knows when you start doing Miracles that Jesus done it. I mean, it did not take long for people to start hearing about the goodness of how many josaphat church today. If you start seeing a church on the fire, forgot, it doesn't take long for the word to get out. How many of people start getting excited about what they hear because people want to see a move of God, knows that sounds wonders. And miracles, follow those, that believe wife because it draws attention of lost men and women that need Jesus. And so it was no different in this time. Jesus was walking in the Jericho, huge crowds begin to surround him. A sudden, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, he stood,

Ocean. He said, what is going on? And I said, Jesus of Nazareth is coming through and how many house at that moment. He heard all he needed to hear at that moment. He didn't care who he be going to stream to the problem is Jesus, the son of David have mercy on me. I mean Jose be going to look at it as they begin to say listen be quiet and that is undignified. That's not what you should do. And how many knows he did not care what they thought he did not care what they said. He was present then. And now and he knew, this may be, his only moment to get a hold of Jesus. And how many else he did not care if he did not think about it. And he just simply said, cheese biscuits son of David have mercy upon making. He didn't care what the crowd said in all of a sudden Jesus turned and began to look at this man. How many knows it Jesus, he stopped all that. He had do not listen at the disciples were even rebuking this man. You don't need, you don't need to bother with you right now. And if you don't need to deal with you, unless you need to be quiet and he's a holy man. He's a teacher. He said, he knows you don't need to do this to me. How many has he didn't care? Who he just simply needed to get a hold of God help, but, you know, the great thing about Jesus, stop everything. To give this one man, his undivided attention. He could have walked on past stated that he could have not even pay this man. No attention. But how many was Jesus talking? And he turned and looked at this man. He says this, what do you want me to do for you?

He said, he said, I've been blind. I want to see. He just simply says his, he says your faith has healed you. I mean I'll see you walked away. Completely changed completely different. How many as it can get excited about that has his eyes were open and he got a miracle that day, but you know what else? It was. Awesome about that story cuz that Jesus stop in for the one guy that nobody else had time for. How many knows we've been talking? We talk Sunday morning. I hope it's stuck with you all week about washing dirty feet. How many nose did that happened on the Last Supper? But how many knows? Jesus, watch, Dirty feed his whole Ministry coming up. That's what it was all about for him. How mean I was getting to the people that nobody else cared about doing the things that nobody else wanted to do this? Blind Bartimaeus and how many knows he's stopping? And he was present in that moment. He gave him his undivided attention. Jesus, and he looked at it in his eyes. How many knows? He said, he saw the need and he met the needs and he walked away for ever healed. Company knows that we see here in Luke chapter, 19 verses one. And two it says this is his Jesus enter Jericho and was just passing through. Pay attention to that. This is a man. Was there by the name of Zacchaeus. He is the chief tax collector and was wealthy. How many I was Jesus was on his way somewhere else. Let me know if they said that he was on his wife. He was passing through, he was just simply going through, he wasn't necessarily coming there for a reason, he was passing through plant. But how many knows that Jesus was on his way somewhere else? And how many nose? When you look at the situation, it is a stories are back-to-back. And I'm not sure if it happened in direct correlation, but it's the same city at the same Jesus, same story. And how many knows that hit it immediately after this story? It fell into this story and it said he was trying to pass through. If he had already been stopped by blind Bartimaeus. He had already been interrupted him, but he was heading out trying to get out of town, here comes a key. If he's here comes this is this tax collector, here comes this and listen. He stops for this Rich. Corrupt tax collector. Zacchaeus. I get excited here because this shows me automatically to different social. Places that Jesus stops for how many knows your social status does not matter how many hours you might be blind Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, and in the middle of the street that nobody wants to deal with him or you might be the rich guy. You make me the tax collector. Either way. Jesus still loves you and he cares for you and he wants to give you his undivided attention. Would you say a man? But listen, Zacchaeus was just a little short fell out and he climbed up into a sycamore tree to see just exactly what he could see. How many was Tax. Collectors are a lot. Like the tax collectors now. Not many people like taxes. Would you say you meant Hey, man, how many knows that not many people. Listen. It's like having a corrupt IRS agent. How many knows that is that Zacchaeus Was one of those guys. Why he told you what your mini added, his part and kind of skimpy his part off the top. He was crooked. Nobody liked them since they were thieves. And how many knows Jesus sees this, he sees this man in Jesus calls out this man, by name is his Zacchaeus come over for lunch. I'm going to come over to your house for lunch. I mean, I was, Jesus invites himself over. He says, listen, I want to come over to your house for lunch. And how many knows that that Zacchaeus Was having lunch with Jesus? And then I'ma head, I had a moment of repentance in the presence of Jesus and me knows, when you get in the presence of Jesus, it'll make you want to do, think it'll make you want to get your heart. Right. And it'll make, you want to get your things in order. And how many knows this is a key. Is this crooked Center has? This is this corrupt and tax collector Zacchaeus and how many knows that he was a wealthy man, but he was a sinful man. And how many knows he met Jesus and it had a moment of repentance and he said, look, I'll give half of whatever I possess back to the poor and everybody that I brought and I want to pay him back four times as much that I cheated on him. And how many was Jesus said this today and salvation has come to your house.

How many hours Jesus was always present in the moment? How many, how many, how many want to be like that? How many medals did not just leaving for the happy moments but fully present in all the moments of Our Lives? Even the annoying moments. Tell me how many I got this lady. That comes to the coffee shop every single day. And every day we will come in and she comes in on Monday, and she be like, it's Monday. And I'm like, yeah, we are here again. And then Wednesday, she's like, what we're we're halfway through and then on Friday, she's like, we made it. And I'm like, yeah, if you don't, we go back and forth every week, but you know, what's sad. Is this Monday? Tuesday? Wednesday. Thursday is all opportunities for us.

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are not always fully present in all of our moments. How many? No sweet. We want to live for the happy moments. We're excited to get to Saturday and Sunday and then it's a dread for Monday and Friday cuz he knows we miss out on a lot of blessings in our lot, because we wish you a call. We pray away most of our Lives. How many knows that our kids are the same way some music. Kids. You're the same way. You tell me what? I cannot wait till my kids get out of diapers. I just cannot wait. And then when I get out of here like man, I cannot wait till you can cook your own food and then when they cook food you like a man. I cannot wait until it gets time for. You can drive yourself and then it's like, man, I can't wait to move out and then you get your own place and then all of a sudden to hear when your husband are sitting there, empty master, and you're doing man, what I'd give for one snotty nose diaper wearing baby again. How many medals has Rico complaining today about moments will miss tomorrow? How many notes we do that all the time we complain today. And tomorrow, we'll miss those very things that we have to understand that that, that that time flies the most of most of it. We totally missed because we look over. What is now for, what will be in the future, knows we all do that, No statistical odds are that. I've lost some of you during my message already. Some of you remember what? I said at the beginning, but you have totally tuned out since then. How many knows? This is the Harvard study that said, 47% of the time, mind isn't where our feet are. I've almost 50% of the time that you said here and your mind is somewhere else. How many notes does? How many can agree with me? That our minds? Sometimes we'll go with the stupid places. How many summer are my sometimes can think about some crazy things and how many dollars I meant perfect in my head, I can think about anything at any given moment. I mean, I got a TV real bad and I jump from one thing the other and y'all just have to pray for him. But how many Noah's are honest to goodness? I mean, it is, it's no offense against anybody but I really have struck. I struggle to stay in the moment because I'm always thinking about what's next. I mean, I was like, I'm always trying to be here. I'm trying to repress. I'm trying to do this. I'm trying to do something and then I got to go here and I got to go there. And then what I got to do tomorrow and then all the sudden I'm thinking of doing this right now. But, I mean, knows many of us are not present in the moment and we missed out on what it's now because we're looking for, what is Yet to Come. And how many understands and I listen. This is the thing. Check out this number the average cell. Phone user. Listen. Touches their phone 2617 times a day. The average cell phone user 2617 times a day. How many oz is one thing that I have to be conscious of it? You and I all do it. How many knows this right here. Can be a little devil. How many knows how many have done this before? You're in a moment. With somebody you're having conversation. There's no break in the conversation. You're just simply talking with it and all of a sudden, your phone didn't ring. It didn't vibrate. You just simply take it out. Just look at it and you're sitting here trying to have a conversation with somebody. If I ever done that before, I mean, you're sitting at how many families we do this. We're having supper. We look around. And all four of us are right here. Just looking at our phones. How many how many ever been to a restaurant? You ordered your food? I ain't nobody saying a word. We just sitting here looking at our phones, everybody. Nobody nobody even talkin to you. How many knows we miss out on the blessings and favor of God in the moment? Because we're too distracted with everything else going on. I love it. That Jesus was always in the moment, all the time. How many nose, no matter how busy he was coming? Cuz when it come time for somebody that had a need to tell me knows. He never once said, I don't have time for you. Let me know. He never said, I'm too busy. I'm just trying to make my way through and I'm not healing you today. I'm not delivering you today, and I'm not setting you free today. And how many knows he never had an agenda outside of building the kingdom of God. He always was a 10. If an in-the-moment say everybody, he come in contact with Lisa is Extreme users of cell phones at the top. 10% touch their phones. 5400 times a day. I'm just using cell phones cuz I said that touches all of us, but how many know that we have a lot of distractions in our world? How many hours that we're not wasting time on our phones were playing games and our mind, He knows that how many separate played the win and then game in your mind. How many knows when that when I get out of that, we done this all through school and how many others went have went, when I turn sixteen. I'm going to get my life and when I get out of high school and going to go to college, when I get done with college and we'll get me a job and then I'm going to get me a real job and then I'm going to try to pay off my student. That then I'm going to get married. Then I'm going to when I get kids, then I'll get them out of diapers, then we'll get a better house and then we get a better house. We're going to better vacations, and then we're not so busy with our kids didn't want our kids are going to when we do this and then we'll do this. And if I could make it, how many eyes do this all day, all the time. It will never present in the moment. Here, knows that we have to understand. If we go through life, wishing away the current moment and we can, if we don't, we don't miss what we have now. Because we pursue what we want later. Listen, we're missing. What we have right now is because we're pursuing what we want later, how he's ever done that before. You're missing the blessings of God in this season because you're waiting on the next You're pushing away everything God's trying to do in this season because you're just simply looking at the next sank. Listen to Ministry all the time. We look at the big Services. We look at that. We look at the Revival's. The Easter's, the Christmas is done at the big Services. We look at that. And how many knows this Wednesday night service. At least, we're not careful. We'll miss what God is trying to do in this midweek service right now because we're too concerned about 2 weeks from now when we're all going to gather together for Easter. I mean those that we do this all the time, if we missed out on what is now because we're pursuing, what is later. How many knows we all? We, we play that game. That was a water. If game. What if I don't do this. What if God don't do that. What if I don't get that job. What if I were worried about the economy? Where where it can I afford this? We're worried about how many medals did Mark 6:34 says, therefore, do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will worry about itself. How many else don't worry about that stuff? And how many noses live for today live in the mall? Ask God. What are you trying to do now? We're always praying for the future. Always worried about what is not yet. But how many times God is trying to do something in our lives now? The here-and-now, how many was Jesus didn't, listen. Jesus didn't didn't tell us not to plan for the future. But he did say not to worry about it. Listen, you need to make plans, but you don't need to worry about. Listen to the only way you can be present in the moment. Is this surrender the past, you can't change and trust God with a future that you can't control. That's the only way that you and I can truly live in the moment. Now, is if we say, God, I Surrender my past and I can't change that and I trust you with my future because I can't control it anyway. Coming up. Since the only way that you can have peace in your current moment is you say, God. My life to this point has been a mess. I can't change it, but I'm trusting you with my future and I'm going to live in the now because you're trying to do something now. In this very moment. I mean those James for 13 through 14 says come now. Everybody. Say now you who say today or tomorrow. We will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and and trade and make a profit. And yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring what he's your life or it's just a Mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. How many miles did our life? Is nothing but a vapor, he's here just for a moment and it's gone. How many hours I need to tell somebody? Serve God in the Here and Now. Don't worry so much about tomorrow. Don't listen. I'm glad you're excited about what is to come, but what is now that God is trying to do in your life that you're looking over because it's not what you had in mind yet. But I've done that before. I have I have been so consumed with my destination. Then I forgot that God is trying to show me a lot of things on the journey. How mean I was? A lot of times that the journey is the, the best part about how me know, sometimes the journey is the best parking at the destination is just the icing on the cake. How many else we have to understand this? When we look at an hourglass three things that we have to understand about an hourglass, is none of us have any idea how much is in the top part? How many understand that we have? No idea how much time we have left to either one of us with any of us could go out to make. Here's the second thing about an hour glass. You can't stop the same from flowing. You can't stop time. It's going to take away in the first thing about an hourglass. Is it once and makes it to the bottom? You can't never get it back to the top. How many knows we are missing out on a large portion of our life and because we're not willing to live in the here and now, God, what are you trying to do now? What are you trying to do in this season? What are you trying to do in this service? What are you trying to do in me through me? I listen. I know some of us have already tuned out in this message because it statistically proven that 47% of us are somewhere else. But how many knows we need to learn how to be present? Now, that's the reason a lot of us, don't get nothing out of a service. It's because we're only present for about 15 minutes. And then after that we're somewhere else eating chicken or doing laundry. Running errands are doing whatever, we're taking the kids. Got we got to do this. We got to go here. We got to do that. And how many days you missed the missing? You say preacher? I don't understand but I'm just not getting fat at your church because you turned out way before the preacher never starts. It is a pretty sure I just understand that we have to get to the point here and now and say, God. What do you want to do? Now? What are you trying to do now? Let me know what the Bible says. Psalms 118:24. This is the day that the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it this day. I'm going to rejoice and be glad in it. I'm going to find what God wants in this station, this season, in this time, because listen, I'll tell you what you can't do. You can't be happy where you are not Listen, you can't serve Jesus where you are. Not you. Can't love people where you are. Not. Some of us need to understand that it's not just the big moments that we need to be fully present. It's the small moments of Our Lives. That make a huge difference. Don't miss what you have now for pursuing what you want. I was thinking just last night. We don't get near enough time together with our kids on the individual basis. And usually it's a rush and a Mad Dash. Can you send me know what I'm talking about? But guess what? I me and my boy, we have some time, you know, like we got a chance to really hang out and I was just laying there, you know, he was laying in the bed next to me and we were just kind of like having conversation like real conversation and we were just talking back and forth and and and I just thought about how cool it was that we were having a moment and I'm saying like that, you like the world wasn't crazy. Everything wasn't jumbled up. Everything wasn't just, but I didn't care about what was going anywhere else at that moment. I was just in that moment and I was just thinking about my boy thinking about how big he is thinking about, how crazy the question. Just I told AJ, one of the things he come to me and said that, he said, he said this to me and if your figure, he's 9 years old, but he come up to me. He says, it's that he says that you think stars are really Stars. I think they're just holes in the box so that we can breathe.

I was like, what?

He's like it, like it really sours. You think we're just in a big box and I just poked holes in the top, so we can breathe and I'm like, I don't think we're in a box, but you know, whatever, you know, it is just a crazy. But it, but it's still a little moments like those little stories that that they matter and how many knows that those little things that you look over every day coming up. So he's bored account at all. Joy, we got to count it all. All those little moments. All those troubles in the aggravating and annoying in the family, knows, the reason why our lives are not. You feel like you don't have nothing to praise God for his because you're skipping too much of a small stuff and thinking that you need to get to the big things to be happy.

I mean about love that. Jesus was always just in the moment. I love that. He was always. So we saved the best till now like this moment. I'm doing something now. I got all day. What, what can I do for you? Look exactly. As I say, I'm going to have lunch with you. I was just on my way through and I I really don't have time. But hey. I'm going to go eat lunch with you, and I will change your life and he didn't care. He slow the world down and he goes, you know what, I'm going to be here. And now I'm going to minister to you. Like, you're the only one here, who is? We have to get that mindset. That we've got to slow down and live in the here, in the now. And ask God. What are you going to do on this random Tuesday?

Yeah, I know. We don't have church on Tuesdays. We have church on Wednesdays and Sundays. I understand that. But that's the point we skip over every other day that because we think God moves on Sundays and Wednesday people. What if God wants to move on a Thursday afternoon while you're mowing the yard. What if God wants to move in on you and while you're frying, eggs on a Saturday morning for your kids? Because what if God is you? What if you, what, if you're skipping over the good parts because you're waiting on the big stuff. You got to be present in the here in the now listen, the reason sometimes work were unhappy, I think now, because we look over the goodness in our current situations because we're looking ahead to the next thing. We have to understand we got to slow down and we got to see the goodness of God. How many as I think a lot of us will be more grateful that I think a lot of us would be more thankful if we were present in the here and now she's watching God move in our everyday life. Tell me knows. When I woke up this morning. I was I was able to close myself. I was in my right mind. I was able to go and I was able to work and I was able to do and I was able to hang those. Those little things that we take for granted coming up, that's enough to shout about. That Daddy is the goodness of God. You say pretty sure that when I want a big deal, you know, everybody does that yet, but it's awesome. And we need to start counting our blessings every single day just because how many say he is faithful in every aspect of my life. Listen. I understand to be fairly sure. I understand. It's easy to get distracted. I get it. It's easy to preoccupy yourself. It's easier to do that. That that that anytime Jesus, say if Jesus could have been self-consumed it would have been on the cross. Yeah, I'm saying like, this is his moment. He's having to down this cross. You know, I'm saying like he's having to give all this. He's having to be punished and whipped and Bruce and he was having a if it was any moment that we could have said, it's okay for you to be a little bit selfish in this moment and be about you. And how many knows that for him? That moment of Jesus right here. He's hanging naked on the cross. Beat it beat, he was beaten senseless and barely recognizable as a man. And all the sudden there was this man died next to Jesus.

In this moment where it was just all I mean, this was the moment that he was done. This is the moment that he was given His Life For All Mankind and all of a sudden there's a there's this guy on the side of it and she's asking all the sudden in his pain in his Agony and his frustration, no down here. But how many knows he begins to look over him in spite of all that it and give this thief on the cross his undivided.

He stopped caring about a selfie stuff. He stops in that very moment. He stops and he looks over and he looks at this man and they having a conversation and only just a little bit of a trick or two, but who knows what they say about him. And this man that he's sorry for what he's done. He realizes that he deserves death. He deserves his punishment, but he simply says, if you remember me, oh, Lord, when you enter into your kingdom, how many knows what? Jesus said? He said today. Now. The now who the here in the now today you will be with me in Paradise. How many? Those Jesus fully present? How many knows we cannot serve Jesus. Where we are not. We have to be fully present in this moment. We have we cannot halfway through this. We cannot be present with our feet and absent with our mind. We have to be here. And now how many knows we can't love people where we are. Not? How many else we can't be happy? Where we are? Not, let me know. So we cannot be a great friend where we are. Not. You cannot be happy and successful spouse if you are not How many knows that you cannot be a successful pairing? You cannot have good influence if you are not there. How many hours this is the day, today is the day where you start living every single day. Like it was your very last. Stop missing the now waiting on tomorrow. Be present now. How many was that? That God save the best for now? Save the best for now.

How many knows his grace is available now? His Mercy is available. Now. Forgiveness. Now Freedom Now power purpose. Now it's available. Now, stop waiting tomorrow in missing what God has for you. Yeah, you say it's not going to listen. You may not even understand or be able to Fathom what God is trying to do now. If you just surrender and say, God whatever it is, I'm down. I mean, I was in this moment right now, God Is With Us. Listen, your best days are not ahead. Your best days are now you just got to start looking.

Don't miss what is today to waiting on tomorrow start living and enjoying your life in Christ. Jesus has don't miss what God is doing in your life. Now is because you are wondering what or if he will move or what he will do on tomorrow. He wants to do something new in your life today. Would you say a man to that? How many knows so many of us can do a lot better about being present? In our homes. In our families. In our churches and our relationship with Jesus. How many ounces how many you need to get present in your relationship with Jesus with more than just your feet? There's a lot better than you. Let on there, it was went over. Coming up. Some of us are present with our feet and I have seen with our heart and our mind. I mean, I was the only way our relationship works if your present in every way physically, emotionally spiritually, we got to get connected have a relationship with Jesus. We have to understand it's time that we are here now. We are here. Now. Listen, if I were to ask you again, how many of you are here? Half of you, probably really wouldn't be able to raise your hand. But I need you. To get on board and be here now because God's trying to do something now, he's not listen to do something. Victory breakthrough is coming. All that is true. Revivals on the horizon, all that stuff. We talked about, I get it, but what about now?

Cuz if you don't watch it, you'll get stuck in that Loop. And allow the enemy to keep you in that mode of just waiting on, what is not yet and you'll miss. What is now.

You have to understand. I just want to do something now. Don't want to feel you with the Holy Spirit. Now. It's 12 annoying. Now. I just want to use you now.

And it's time that we stand up and we said, God, I'm here, not just my feet. But with my heart and my mind completely 100% stand with me if you would right now. Listen, if you're here tonight, you are not present. You cannot raise your hand. Save preacher. I am not all here. They said, I want you tonight. I want you understand, you can make, you can make a vow before the Lord tonight and say, God help me to be present in every way, got in my heart. And my mind physically emotionally spiritually. Every aspect of a God, lord. I want to be all that. You want me to be because God wants to do something in your life, now, not just tomorrow. Yeah, tomorrow is going to be great. It's going to be even better. But today is the day, you're here, your loss. The Bible says, today is the day of salvation. Now is the accepted time. Right now. Not tomorrow. Listen, I know, I don't know everything yet. But pretty sure. I'm just not ready. When I'm ready. I'll get, I'll get it together. They said people are going out to meet God's right and left two two two young ladies. I think it was two young ladies in our community overdose with it with drugs. How many those the devil's not playing games in the time that we're living in? The devil is not tiptoeing around. How many knows that that he is trying to steal kill and destroy you. And listen, it's time that you get present in this current circumstances and understand that God has a move is that he's want you to be a part of now.

How many hours God? What how many? How many pray this tonight to take God? Whatever you're doing in this season. Don't do it without me. I want to be a part of it right now. I want to do it right now. How many says, God I want Revival in my life right now. I want to move in my life right now. I want a double portion of everything that you have for me right now, He knows that it is available for you. If you'll just be willing to be present and say God give it to me. How many knows those that seek will find his nose? That knock it is open. It's time that we seek and how many knows if you're hearing your loss tonight. I want to give you the opportunity to receive Christ as your lord and savior. If you're hearing, you've been struggling with being here in there. There's a million things pulling in a million different direction and it's some of you can listen, you might not be in prison for most of my message, but I need you to come back to me just for just a second. I need you to understand and listen to it, that God wants to do something in your life right now. You watching with me live on Facebook. I need you to know. God has a plan and a purpose for your life. Now. Will you walk in it? That's a question. This Alters open tonight. Do I have anybody that says God? Do a work in my life? Now if that's you I need you to come and I need you to get on your face, and I said, I need you to seek the face of God tonight. If you're seeking the baptism of the Holy Spirit, got fixed. Come up here and say God. I want to be baptized. I want to be feel right now, but you say preacher. I I just want to know what God has for me. Once you come up here and say God. I want to know right now what you want to do in my life right now, as they come, as you need to come while I'm up at my brothers, getting ready to see. Why don't we pray tonight in Jesus name and Jesus name?