June 1, 2025 • 48 mins
Have you ever experienced an unexpected small act of kindness, and you just knew that it was God showing you His love? God works in the small details to show you how much He is involved in your life. He wants you to know that He cares not only about the big things but that every small detail of your life is important to Him. You need to hear this uplifting message by Jentezen Franklin!
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Hello, I'm Jensen Franklin, and I'm so glad you were
watching Real America's Voice, and I want to encourage you
today to know that Normally, I know you're used to
seeing the news being broadcast twenty four hours a day
all over the world, but the founder of this network
wanted to take some time on this Sunday and bring
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some good news to all the other news. What you
do with the next few moments can affect the years
ahead of your life. Selena, in listen to this message,
I believe it's going to speak to you, and you're
going to encounter a God who loves you and cares
about you this very moment. Look with me today. In
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the Book of John, chapter nineteen, John chapter nineteen, Verse
twenty five, Now there stood by the cross of Jesus,
his mother and his mother's sister, Mary, the wife of Clophus,
and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus therefore saw his mother, the Disciple,
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whom he loves, standing by, he said to his mother, woman,
behold your son. Then he said to the Disciple, behold
your mother. And from that hour the Disciple took her
to his own home. I love this text. I love
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this story. And recently I saw it in a different light.
And I want to talk to you for a few
moments today on the subject of God's tiny details in
our life. Sometimes we really are good at praising Him
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for the big things that he does. I've had God
do be things in my life. I've had days that
were days that were huge breakthroughs and answers to prayer
and things that just blew my mind. The big things,
especially the day that He saved me. I mean, I
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got born again in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. That was
a night is actually in the evening that I will
never forget. It was amazing. But I also thank God,
and I think we ought to be mindful of the
tiny things, the details. Someone said the Devil's in the details,
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but really he's not. He's not in the details. He
sees you as a number. When the Antichrist comes on
the scene, He's gonna give you a number. That's all
he cares. You're just a number to him. But God
is in the details of our life. I've seen him
do big things, but sometimes it's the little things, the
detailed things, the the cater just for me, things that
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blow my mind. When I think of Calvary. It was
God reaching for us, and it was such a big thing.
This man, Jesus Christ, the expressed image of God, this
man Jesus Christ, who was one hundred percent human, except
he never committed a sin. He could have, he had
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the body to commit a sin, but he stayed fully
submitted to the Father, and he was sinless. He was
capable of sin, but he didn't do it, and he
continually moved in submission to the Father. And the writer
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Paul said that in him dwelleth all of the fullness
of God bidily. I love that verse. That is, in Jesus,
all of the fullness that God is was somehow compounded
and put in that flesh man, one human being named Jesus.
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All of the Godhead bodily was manifest in him, and
through him they took him to the cross. The brutality
of human hatred compiled with the brutality of demonic hatred.
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I believe there were hordes of demons that were swirling
around Mount Calvary. I believe they were whispering into people's ears,
into the soldiers and into the bystanders, whispering, slap him,
hit him, They ripped his beard, they beat his back.
I could almost see in my mind demons whisper. Hit
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him harder, spit on him, slap him, drive the nails
in his hand, stab him with the spear, drive it
deeper and harder, hurt him. And then we come to
the verse chapter nineteen, verse twenty five, and they're standing
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by the cross. Was his mother, and I don't know
what she was thinking. Let's put ourself in her shoes
for just a moment, and you're just gonna have to
stay with me. I'm going somewhere. We're gonna get there.
But let me tell you what's on my heart. I
saw it like this this week. I saw Mary standing
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there looking up at the cross, her son. I wonder
where her mind went. I wonder if her mind went
to the first day that he was born, and how
that on the eighth day she and his stepfather, Joseph
took him to the temple to be circumcised, as the
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law demanded, And there was an old prophet in the temple.
The Bible said that had been given a word from
God that you will not see death until your eyes
behold the Messiah of Israel. And think of it. When
Joseph and Mary walked across the threshold of that temple
and walked into that building. You have to understand, the
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glory of God had left the temple when they stole
the felsting, stole the ark of the Covenant, and it
was never returned, and for over six hundred years there
was no glory scene in the temple. But when they
brought that little baby across the threshold, the glory came
back to the temple. And I don't know where he was,
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I don't know what he was doing, but somewhere in
that stole. In this story, Semi turns. He feels the
glory of the presence of God is in this place.
What is going on? It's tingling with his presence. And
he walks over and he sees this young couple standing
there and the baby's wrapped up, and he takes the
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cloth and looks at the face of the baby, and
suddenly he knows that he knows that he knows my
eyes have seen the Messiah, and he says, now I
can die in peace. The Messiah has come to Israel.
Then he starts to leave, but he points his finger
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and he says, and a sword too. Mary, the mother
of Jesus, and a sword shall pierce your soul. I wonder,
as she was standing there at the cross at that moment,
could it have been that one of the soldiers stabbed
him in the side and pierced him, and the blood
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and the water poured forth. And I wonder if in
that moment she thought, is that what he was talking
about thirty three years ago? Had a sword would pierce
my soul? It feels like it. I wonder if her
mind went somewhere else. I wonder if it went to
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the first miracle Jesus ever performed, and how that he
was at the party. He was at the reception of
the wedding, but they had run out of wine, and
his mother said, they've run out of wine. I've watched you.
And I don't know how she knew he could do miracles.
He had never done a miracle. But I'm gonna preach
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his sermons my sermon, and preach it like I want to.
But in your imagination, in my imagination, I think he
might have practiced as a little kid. He might have
had a dead cat or something around the house. And
I can't prove it, but I've got a feeling he
touched a skint knee and it instantly he and and
then he just said, just be quiet about it. But
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somehow she knew this man's gotten this boy's got miracle power.
You'd never done anything publicly, but mothers just know. And
she looks at him and she says, do something. And
he says, woman, first of all, he's on dangerous ground. Woman,
what what does this have to do with me. Listen
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to it. My time has not come. And she totally
ignores him and turns and says, whatever he tells you
to do to the servants, do it, now do something,
and she triggered him. Look at this, she triggered him.
He's clearly said, my this is God. And this mother said,
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I'm taking my authority over you, little boy, and I've
done a lot for you, including changing your diapers, and
now that I want something out of you, get to it.
And Jesus step right up and turned the water and
into wine, and thus began the miracles that would change
the world. I wonder, I wonder if her mind went there.
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But when he was on that cross, this is the
part that I'm trying to get to. As he is
running out of air, as he is becoming weaker and
weaker from the loss of blood, and his body is
sagging on that cross, and he knows this is close
to the end. Pushes himself up and he looks down
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and he sees his mother in that moment. He says, mother,
behold your son. And he says to John's son, behold
your mother. I'm committing her now. I want you to
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think about what I'm trying to say. Is this. We
think the biggest thing is He's dying for billions and
billions and billions of souls. And it's true, how important
was this moment He's dying, he's bleeding, he's shedding his
blood so that we could have eternal life, so that
we could live forever, so that we could have healing,
so that we could have miracles, so that we could
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be blessed. But then he goes to the tiny details
before I leave this world. I'm stopping and putting everything
on Paul's Demons are watching, angels are watching, all of
heaven is watching. And he puts everything. Billions of souls
lie in at state and he freezes everything, and he says,
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I'm going to get into the details of this precious woman,
my mother. I want her taken care of when I leave,
take care of my mother, the God of the big stuff.
And what did that mean to her? Because on another
occasion when he started his ministry, he was doing mighty
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miracles and the place was filled, and they came to
him and said, Jesus, Jesus, you got to shut this
down because your mother and your half brothers are here
to see you. And Jesus said, who is my mother
and who are my brothers except you who hear the
word and do it. But this was almost like Jesus saying,
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I can't leave here without getting into the details of
this one person. I love her so much that I'll
interrupt everything I'm doing so that she will know I
care about the details of the rest of your life.
I want you taking care of That's the kind of
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God that we have, That's the kind of God that
we serve. He came as a man to let us
know how much he loves us. I tell you, that's
a big thing, the huge, amazing love of God. How
many of you are thankful that He saved you. Can
we just take a moment think about that, But can
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we go a little bit further and say, yeah, he
did a big amazing thing at Calvary. But it didn't
stop at Calvary. If we were all to tell the truth.
Psalm sixty eight and nineteen said this same God, blessed
be the Lord God, that daily loadeth us down with benefits.
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He daily, every day he looks down. Every day, he
looks at us every day. He takes care of us
every day. Daily he loads us down. He's into the detail.
Da Vinci is famous for his paintings, especially one of
an old man, because it is so detailed. According to
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the art critics, there is even a condition that is
known in science and in medicine, and they said that,
for example, one of the persons who have had this
condition that makes them be able to see in details
what other people cannot see. He was a great baseball
player by the name of Babe Ruth, and he had
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this condition and his ability to look at a baseball,
and when he would see the baseball, somehow he could
see the detail in such detail that they said he
could see the red threads on the baseball as it
was coming at him at ninety six miles an hour.
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And there's been a lot of books written about it.
You can check it out it's pretty amazing. He's pretty fascinating.
Da Vincia had that kind of eye for details. Babe
Ruth had that kind of eye for details. But I
want to tell you our God has an eye. He
can see in slow motion. He can slow things down.
He can see deeper than any nobody can see. Inside
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of your home, inside of your life, inside of your fears,
inside of your situations that you think he doesn't know about.
He's working things that you can't even imagine because he's
the God of details. Give him a praise if you
believe it. Hello, I'm Jensen Franklin, and I want to
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welcome you to Real America's Voice. There's something that's going
to happen, I believe as you watch this program, lean in, listen,
and let's see what God can do in your life
the details that he took care of. I thought about
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give you a couple more biblical illustrations, and I'm go'n
close with a story. I thought about Joseph, not of
the Old Testament, but of the New Testament, the step
father of Jesus. I mean, he is the throwaway cast
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member of the story. He he don't you just kind
of feel sorry for him. An angel shows up to
Mary and says, you're gonna get pregnant by God. The
Holy Spirit will bring brilliants and glory, and you will
be a virgin, and you'll be impregnated. You'll and he
just has to accept it. He kind of gets the
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raw deal of everything. He's just kind of a throwaway
kind of character in the story. But it's kind of
interesting how God gets into details, because no, he did.
He was not the father of the Messiah. He was
the step father. But when the angel comes to warn
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them to take the family to Egypt because Herod was
going to try to kill all the babies, the angel
did not show up like he did the first time
to Mary. The angel showed up to Joseph and said,
if I'm going to give direction to a family, I'm
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not going around you. I'm giving you the direction, the
details of where to go. And then that same angel
appeared and said, now bring your family out. But he
did not appear to Mary. He appeared to Joseph, the
person that we think God doesn't really see. He's supporting cast,
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he's not the star of the show. But God sees
in details. And by the way, after Mary had Jesus
and gave birth to him. Joseph and Mary had several
more children, including James the Apostle who wrote the Book
of James, and Jude the Apostle who wrote the Book
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of Jude. He was a pretty powerful father. God has
a way just because you feel like that you're not
doing what somebody else does. Don't you ever feel like
God doesn't see your part in what you Just do
what He's called you to do, and he will reward
you accordingly. I need somebody to praise him right now.
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He didn't get left out. When you sign contracts at work,
they'll say, now, look real good at the big writing,
but look even better at the little writing, because the
details matter. Nobody's in the details. Like God. He knows,
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according to Psalms one thirty eight, he knows you're down
sitting and your upright. He knows the number of hairs
that are on your head. He knows your address, He
knows your family, he knows your children, he knows your grandchildren,
he knows every detail of your family. You say, I
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know that I didn't come to church just to hear that. Well,
but you don't understand it like you need to understand it.
Let me give you one more biblical example, and then
I'm going to close with a story. Jesus took mud
and slapped them on the blind man's eyes and spit
and told him to go to the pool of Salom
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in washing. He goes and he washes the mud out,
and he gets so excited because while he's washing the
mud out in the pool of Salon, he looks down
and sees in the ripples in the water. For the
first time, he sees his own face. And he really
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starts washing and he gets excited and oh my god,
I could see, I can see, and he it's the Sunday,
it's the Sabbath. On the they were so strict that
you couldn't you couldn't exert energy on the Sabbath. But
he takes off running, the Bible said, running through the streets,
burst through the doors of the of the synagogue, ran
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down the aisles, leaping and jumping, saying, I can see.
I was born blind.
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I can see.
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He interrupted the dead boring service, And can we just
pause one minute? When I said that, I noticed you
sat real quiet, but you were blind. That's the amazing
big thing. That's the big deal. When your eyes God
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opened to who Jesus is. Nobody praised him for that
just a minute. I could be lost, I could be
left out, I could be somewhere out in the world somewhere,
but here I am in God's house. I was blind.
Now I see, and I can't be quiet about it.
I've got a praise and he means everything to me.
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And those mean pharisees. A guy's never seen and they
stop him. I don't know if their ushers tackled him.
I don't know if they had one of those stun guns.
I don't know what they did. But they pulled him
to the to a still stop. And suddenly the pharisees say,
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you are sinning. You should be quiet and calm down,
and how dare you exert such energy in the house
of God? And he said, I'm sorry. I believe he
was hyped. I'm sorry, but I was blind. I couldn't see.
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I was a packer all my life. But Jesus has
opened my eyes, and you want me to be quiet,
And she and they say, how did we know? This
is so funny, this is literally what they did in
front of everybody. How did we know you were blind?
Really blind from birth? And he said, my parents are here.
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And his parents were so weak they flew him under
the bus. Watch this, and he's called into his parents
and they said, what's he blind from birth? And they said, uh,
ask him. And they asked him and they said, we
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believe that Jesus of Nazareth did this by demonic empowerment,
and he's a devil. What do you say? And boy,
he had a brilliant answer. He said, I don't know
who he is. All I can tell you is I
was blind when I met him, and I can see
right now. So you call him whatever you want to
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call him. I call him healer, I call him deliver.
He Hello, I'm Jensen Franklin, and I want to welcome
you to Real America's voice. If you'll give me the
next few moments and listen, you're gonna have the opportunity,
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I believe, to have a moment that can change your life.
Now listen, all right, so down now listen. Okay, So
that's the big thing, right, but watch Jesus get into
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the details. This is the part we read and nobody
ever preaches about that story, but it's there. They forbid
him in the temple, they cast him out of the temple.
You broke our rules. Get out. They shamed him. And
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the man who had been blind, who ought to be
having the biggest, grandest day of his life, celebrating and
meeting more than voices, faces that he had been around
his whole life, Now he finds himself ostracized and all alone.
The Bible said, he was sitting alone. I don't know
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what he was doing. I don't know if he had
I don't know. I think he was just amazed. He
might have been looking at birds, looking at tree. I've
got a feeling. But all of a sudden approaching him
as a tall, lean Galilean. And he came to him
when the church threw him out, and he walked up
to him, and he said, would you believe on the
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Son of God? And suddenly I could see him in
my mind. He did not recognize his face, he had
never seen him, but he thought, oh my God, that's
that voice. And he whirled around and he said, Lord,
I believe, and he fell it his speak. Now, now,
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the big miracle was the opening of the blind eyes.
But the details is when God comes to you after
he saves you, and he finds you in brokenness all
along by yourself thinking why has this happened? Like it's happened,
but he walks into the details. He wanted that man
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to know I didn't just use you for a miracle.
I really do love you. And God's love is in
the details, honeylujah. And if I were to take this
microphone right here, right now, and I were to walk
around and I were to put it in people's face,
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and I would say, I want you to tell me
about a detail that God has done for you. I
know he's done big things, but there's little things that
he's done that have just because they're personal, because they're detailed,
because it's like this couldn't have happened any other way
unless God did it. And I want to tell you
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a story in closing. It's in one of my books.
I know it's in my book because I tore it
out of my book. But let me close with his story.
And I started to just read it because it's written perfectly,
and you know how I talk. But I'm gonna just
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sum it up real fast, talking about the God of details.
One Saturday night, many many years ago, when we were
in the old building. We'd just gotten in it. We
weren't in it that long. I think we were in it,
but barely in it. We only had one service. And
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I had a dream on a Saturday night in my bed,
and it was the most unusual dream I've ever had
in my life. It was in technicolor, just like I
see you, I mean, as clear as I see you
right now. I was aware that I was dreaming, but
also knew that I was there. And I was walking
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into a funeral home and I walked up to a
miniature casket. The lid was open, and I looked down
and I saw my three year old daughters face, Chrissa.
She was dead and she was in that coffin, and
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I felt like I don't even know how to describe
what I felt. I instantly woke up. I was devastated.
I reached over and I woke Cherisa up, and I
told her what had happened, and we began to cry,
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and we began to pray. The presence of God filled
that bedroom. I really never went back to sleep. I
came in early that morning into my office, still moved
deeply by what I saw, and I grabbed a pad
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and a piece of paper, and I had my sermon
prepared and the Lord gave me these words, just clear
as I can hear my own voice right now, cancel
the devil's assignment over your kids. Cancel the devil's And
I preached the sermon that morning. I'm so glad we
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did have video back. Good that somewhere we have that video.
Canceled the devil's assignment over your family. I walked into
that Sunday morning service and I admit I was, I was,
I was. God was messing with me. He gave me
that sermon. Within minutes, I knew exactly where to go,
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said go to Mark chapter five. Now do this, now
do this. It was. It was unbelievable. I wish he'd
do that every week. It doesn't work that way. And
I got up that Sunday morning and I preached that
simple message and the power of God wrecked the place
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and I invited the mother's, fathers and parents to come on,
behalf of your family and cancel the devil's assignment. And
it stands out to this day as one of the
most memorable services I have ever been in in my life.
There was the thing that stood out to me is
I remember there was a groaning, there was a it's
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almost like that verse where it says Rachel weeping for
her children. There was a deep intercession. Hundreds and even
hundreds and hundreds of people lingered. They were all the
way up the aisles and families praying, families holding one another,
pleading the blood of Jesus, canceling the devil's assignments after
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the service. It's hard to shake some services. I'll be honest.
Sometimes I walk out and it's hard for me to
go out to eat. It's hard. I still feel it
all over me. I don't know if that makes sense,
but it's just just the truth. You're not always there.
You're a little cloudy when you come out of service
like that, You're somewhere else. Honeylujah. How long has it
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been since you've been in a service where you went
somewhere else for a little while? You say, where's that?
In the Bible, John said, I was in the spirit
on the Lord's Day, and he took me. He took me. Hello,
I'm Jensen Franklin, and I want to welcome you to
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Real America's voice. Maybe you've been going through some things
and you've had moments that have discouraged you, or maybe
you just feel like you've messed up and you can't recover.
This message is for you. I believe it's going to
speak to you this very moment. Now we start to leave.
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I'm almost done, but we leave, and and Charise, it
was just glorious. God moved. We felt peace. I mean,
we had breakthrough. We felt peace, we felt victory, and
I felt relief. And Churis came up and she said, now, Jensen,
I want us to go on to Florida. We were
scheduled to go on a vacation with our family, Courtney
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and CHRISA. Do we have Caroline then? I don't think
she was born. It was just Courtney and Carissa, and
Carisa was the second child. She was three years old
and Courtney would have been five. I guess five or
six something like that. But just go with it. We
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were scheduled to go and leave on Monday to drive
down to Disney World with our kids. And Cherise was
so just intent. We've got to go. We've got to go.
I want us to leave today. I said, I've got
a service. Back then we had Sunday. Now I've got
a service. I can't just leave. She said, oh, And
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I said, I can't just leave my church. Oh oh,
it's your church. I thought it was God's church. I
hate that stuff. I tell you, I want to go.
If we go early, we can go to sea World.
If we'll go one day early, we can add one day.
I'll have the hotel for Monday night and we can go.
We can go to SeaWorld. And I said, okay, you know,
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I think she already had the car pack. She did,
so she knew the story. We get in the car
and we drive a day early, watch the details, and
we get to sea World and a storm comes make
a long story short. Lightning flash hits a building, sets
it on fire. We're standing up there and it feels
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like a tornade, us coming and five thousand people run
for shelter up under thing that covered people from the elements,
and we're grabbing our stuff, and she grabbed one of
the children, and Carissa starts going up the steps. She
got away from us, and boy, we're all just panicking
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and moving, but we're watching her and we're going to
get her. When we get up there, where's a little
more space. And as we're going up the steps, we
get up there and finally, I mean, it really breaks
out and there's lightning. It everywhere in booms and the
kids are hysterical, and we look and see Carissa and
she's going berserk. And Ersa gets down and says, come here, baby,
come here, baby, come here, and she runs right past her,
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and there was a young twenty six year old girl
standing that she had never met. We didn't know these people.
And she ran right to the girl, into her arms,
and the girl picked her up and held her, and
Carissa grabbed her by the neck, my three year old,
and just began to hold her so tight. Seri said,
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come on, baby, come on. She would not do it,
and she was real clingy to chericse she would not
do it. She would not do it. We're standing there,
the storm's going on. This girl's standing there and she
is not crying a tear. She is weeping, holding our baby,
and our baby is holding her. And as the storm
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starts calming down, we walk over and Seri said, to me,
get our baby. Something weird is going on. And I
walked over and I said, is everything okay? And the
mother starts weeping. There's a man, an older man, and
his wife, and I found out later that was the
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mother and father of the young twenty six year old,
and she said, you just don't understand, You just don't understand.
She lost her three year old child one month ago
of congestive heart failure in the middle of the night.
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We've been trying to get her out of the house
for three months and she has gone nowhere. This is
the first place we have been in three months. And
your daughter, how old is she? She's three. Well, she
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won't let her go. And the girls standing there weeping,
and suddenly we all come together, and then instantly the
Lord said, tell her about the dream. Tell this family
about the dream. So people were kind of moving and
things were calming down, but we got to ourselfs and
we start talking and I said, I've got to tell
you something. I said, I'm a preacher, and I said,
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this past Saturday night, I had a dream and I
saw my three year old in a coffin in the dream.
And I told my church about it. And I said, God,
let me feel your grief. And he wanted you to know.
And I said, we're not supposed to be here. We
were supposed to be driving here today. We did not
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intend to come to Sea World. But there's don't you
see what I'm saying, God in his love says I'll
rearrange things. Suddenly the girl begins to just weep and
cry and say this is amazing. She recognizes God's doing something.
Chrissa kind of calmed down, and we kept saying come on,
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come on, and she would not come to us. And
Chrissa starts playing with a pair of pearls that's around
a string necklace that the girl had, and she starts
playing with it in the girl and hooks it. Listen
to the details, and she says, this is the necklace
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that my child had in the coffin. I want her
to have it. It's meaningful to me because it means
that I'm releasing her to God. And I told her
the story of how that David lost a son, a
little baby, and he said, I can't bring that child back,
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but I'll go where he is. And she received the Lord,
and she got right with God, and she left with hope,
and we left with victory. What I'm trying to tell
you is God is a god of details, and he'll
reach anyone that you'll pray and believe for. If you
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know that I'm preaching the truth this morning, Raise your hands,
Raise your hands over your family, raise your hands over
your children, raise your hands over any and everything in
your life. And know that God is the god of
not just the big, massive blessing, but he's the god
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of tiny details in his love for you and me.
Just stand your feet all over the room, no one moving. Please.
I feel led this morning to close this service. And
if you know that this message is for you, I'm
gonna put a big broad one out there today. If
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you know this message is for you, and you would say,
Pastor Jensen, I need God's detailed love today. I need
it in my life. I need it in my home.
I need it in my family, I need it in
my business. I need it, he said to tell you
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he loves you in detail. He's got blessings that have
your face on them only, and if you seek him,
you'll find it. And if you know I'm preaching to you,
slip out of your seat and come stand down here.
This morning, God's gonna touch it. Come on, guys, hurry quick, quick,
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have your song ready. We're gonna sing this song. And
here's what we're gonna do now. If you, if you're
new to this church, we believe in having a minute
to take the word of God and let it marinate
in our soul. So here's what I want you to do.
How many of you would say, while I've been preaching,
the Holy Spirit has reminded you of detailed blessings that
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God has done in your life. Let me see your hand.
So can you thank Him for the big things and
the tiny details? Would you raise your hands? Would you
praise him? Lord? We love you, Lord, we praise you.
That God would find that good of all those thousands
of people, that God would have us sittings where we
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were sitting in a bass crowd like this well, one
person for one person.
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For one greasy mother.
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He houses, he sees, he can't, He understands.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
He won't leave.
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You where he finds you. Just worship him. He just
sing it over this building. Would you worship him these?
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He says, No, I don't be sir.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Still, let's worship it over the shrimp.
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Sing it again. Let's stop shot. Still shine to you.
It's he lops you. She may think you're insignificant. You
may if you're a fall you may still like that.
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He sees everybody, but to you're not that imported. But
God see me to tell you he sees you, he
knows you, He listens you.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Yes, said, he lets you an amazing.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
He taking it.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Well, why this worshipman talks to him?
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He said, hens like this.
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My need he still.
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So hider to it. I don't deserve him.
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It's amazing going.
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Then you can say, no, shadow he was by still Si,
he'll cry.
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He'll find w cap where you are.
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He's gone, he's searching for you.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
Still sick now coming out to let him cut you this.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
Morning he.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
Jass forget about pel extra chappell.
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He'll come the way you worship.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
He'll in heaven. If you want to serve.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
Time having SIPs.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
No, I don't desert. I couldn't. I could enter, I
couldn't do. I can't deserve still us yourself.
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The yeas.
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Every every head bound in every I floats. You're in
this room, if you're in the prison, if you're in
a hospital room, if you're in one of our campuses,
and you would say, Pastor, I need to get right
with God. I'm so far from him. I need him
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to get into the details. I need more than a
surface touch. I need him to go deep and heal
the broken pieces. I want him to be lord of
my life. Pray for me. I want to embarrass you.
I'm going to pray for you right where you're standing.
But if that's you, right where you are at every campus,
and you'd say, pastor, I need Jesus to be lord
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of my life. I want to surrender to him. If
that's you, raise your hand high, right where you're standing,
all over this room, all over this room. Amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing.
To God be the Glory. Sometimes I feel like the
weakest little sermon that I have is to thank God
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uses the best. I don't get it. But to God
be the glory. Look at that. That's beautiful. Can every
one of you that raise your hand, Will you get
out of your seat, come join me on this stage
as fast as you can get up here. I don't
normally do that, but I feel like you need to
do it because you're walking out of where you came
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and you're going into a brand new life. Just come
stand up here for God. Nobody's gonna make you. But hurry.
It'll take a lot of it'll take a lot of effort.
But move fast, move fast. If the Lord is speaking
to you, move fast. Do it at every campus The
pastors are coming at every campus and they're gonna take over.
We're almost done. We're almost done. We're not gonna pray long,
but I'm gonna tell you God's gonna do a mighty
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work here they come. Come on, come on, come on,
come on. Somebody clap your hands and crazy singing one
more time, singing one more time as they come here.
Never apt. If that were your son, if that's what
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your god, what would he mean?
Speaker 2 (47:02):
Do you see?
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If that were your teenager? What would a team do you.
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If that were your child struggling with drugs or.
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He's an addiction in their life. Jesus six, Captive Street,
Praise God.
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Pray, God, graves God, He learns.
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He knows SnO sack, he knows what your people, he's
own says, he knows.
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Your hurts, he knows you. Yes, all he's got Jesus,
he's coming, he's coming up.
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He lost, sir, you bet he's your details, coming in
details
Hello, I'm Jensen Franklin, and I'm so glad you were
watching Real America's Voice, and I want to encourage you
today to know that Normally, I know you're used to
seeing the news being broadcast twenty four hours a day
all over the world, but the founder of this network
wanted to take some time on this Sunday and bring
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some good news to all the other news. What you
do with the next few moments can affect the years
ahead of your life. Selena, in listen to this message,
I believe it's going to speak to you, and you're
going to encounter a God who loves you and cares
about you this very moment. Look with me today. In
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the Book of John, chapter nineteen, John chapter nineteen, Verse
twenty five, Now there stood by the cross of Jesus,
his mother and his mother's sister, Mary, the wife of Clophus,
and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus therefore saw his mother, the Disciple,
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whom he loves, standing by, he said to his mother, woman,
behold your son. Then he said to the Disciple, behold
your mother. And from that hour the Disciple took her
to his own home. I love this text. I love
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this story. And recently I saw it in a different light.
And I want to talk to you for a few
moments today on the subject of God's tiny details in
our life. Sometimes we really are good at praising Him
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for the big things that he does. I've had God
do be things in my life. I've had days that
were days that were huge breakthroughs and answers to prayer
and things that just blew my mind. The big things,
especially the day that He saved me. I mean, I
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got born again in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. That was
a night is actually in the evening that I will
never forget. It was amazing. But I also thank God,
and I think we ought to be mindful of the
tiny things, the details. Someone said the Devil's in the details,
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but really he's not. He's not in the details. He
sees you as a number. When the Antichrist comes on
the scene, He's gonna give you a number. That's all
he cares. You're just a number to him. But God
is in the details of our life. I've seen him
do big things, but sometimes it's the little things, the
detailed things, the the cater just for me, things that
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blow my mind. When I think of Calvary. It was
God reaching for us, and it was such a big thing.
This man, Jesus Christ, the expressed image of God, this
man Jesus Christ, who was one hundred percent human, except
he never committed a sin. He could have, he had
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the body to commit a sin, but he stayed fully
submitted to the Father, and he was sinless. He was
capable of sin, but he didn't do it, and he
continually moved in submission to the Father. And the writer
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Paul said that in him dwelleth all of the fullness
of God bidily. I love that verse. That is, in Jesus,
all of the fullness that God is was somehow compounded
and put in that flesh man, one human being named Jesus.
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All of the Godhead bodily was manifest in him, and
through him they took him to the cross. The brutality
of human hatred compiled with the brutality of demonic hatred.
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I believe there were hordes of demons that were swirling
around Mount Calvary. I believe they were whispering into people's ears,
into the soldiers and into the bystanders, whispering, slap him,
hit him, They ripped his beard, they beat his back.
I could almost see in my mind demons whisper. Hit
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him harder, spit on him, slap him, drive the nails
in his hand, stab him with the spear, drive it
deeper and harder, hurt him. And then we come to
the verse chapter nineteen, verse twenty five, and they're standing
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by the cross. Was his mother, and I don't know
what she was thinking. Let's put ourself in her shoes
for just a moment, and you're just gonna have to
stay with me. I'm going somewhere. We're gonna get there.
But let me tell you what's on my heart. I
saw it like this this week. I saw Mary standing
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there looking up at the cross, her son. I wonder
where her mind went. I wonder if her mind went
to the first day that he was born, and how
that on the eighth day she and his stepfather, Joseph
took him to the temple to be circumcised, as the
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law demanded, And there was an old prophet in the temple.
The Bible said that had been given a word from
God that you will not see death until your eyes
behold the Messiah of Israel. And think of it. When
Joseph and Mary walked across the threshold of that temple
and walked into that building. You have to understand, the
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glory of God had left the temple when they stole
the felsting, stole the ark of the Covenant, and it
was never returned, and for over six hundred years there
was no glory scene in the temple. But when they
brought that little baby across the threshold, the glory came
back to the temple. And I don't know where he was,
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I don't know what he was doing, but somewhere in
that stole. In this story, Semi turns. He feels the
glory of the presence of God is in this place.
What is going on? It's tingling with his presence. And
he walks over and he sees this young couple standing
there and the baby's wrapped up, and he takes the
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cloth and looks at the face of the baby, and
suddenly he knows that he knows that he knows my
eyes have seen the Messiah, and he says, now I
can die in peace. The Messiah has come to Israel.
Then he starts to leave, but he points his finger
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and he says, and a sword too. Mary, the mother
of Jesus, and a sword shall pierce your soul. I wonder,
as she was standing there at the cross at that moment,
could it have been that one of the soldiers stabbed
him in the side and pierced him, and the blood
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and the water poured forth. And I wonder if in
that moment she thought, is that what he was talking
about thirty three years ago? Had a sword would pierce
my soul? It feels like it. I wonder if her
mind went somewhere else. I wonder if it went to
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the first miracle Jesus ever performed, and how that he
was at the party. He was at the reception of
the wedding, but they had run out of wine, and
his mother said, they've run out of wine. I've watched you.
And I don't know how she knew he could do miracles.
He had never done a miracle. But I'm gonna preach
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his sermons my sermon, and preach it like I want to.
But in your imagination, in my imagination, I think he
might have practiced as a little kid. He might have
had a dead cat or something around the house. And
I can't prove it, but I've got a feeling he
touched a skint knee and it instantly he and and
then he just said, just be quiet about it. But
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somehow she knew this man's gotten this boy's got miracle power.
You'd never done anything publicly, but mothers just know. And
she looks at him and she says, do something. And
he says, woman, first of all, he's on dangerous ground. Woman,
what what does this have to do with me. Listen
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to it. My time has not come. And she totally
ignores him and turns and says, whatever he tells you
to do to the servants, do it, now do something,
and she triggered him. Look at this, she triggered him.
He's clearly said, my this is God. And this mother said,
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I'm taking my authority over you, little boy, and I've
done a lot for you, including changing your diapers, and
now that I want something out of you, get to it.
And Jesus step right up and turned the water and
into wine, and thus began the miracles that would change
the world. I wonder, I wonder if her mind went there.
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But when he was on that cross, this is the
part that I'm trying to get to. As he is
running out of air, as he is becoming weaker and
weaker from the loss of blood, and his body is
sagging on that cross, and he knows this is close
to the end. Pushes himself up and he looks down
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and he sees his mother in that moment. He says, mother,
behold your son. And he says to John's son, behold
your mother. I'm committing her now. I want you to
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think about what I'm trying to say. Is this. We
think the biggest thing is He's dying for billions and
billions and billions of souls. And it's true, how important
was this moment He's dying, he's bleeding, he's shedding his
blood so that we could have eternal life, so that
we could live forever, so that we could have healing,
so that we could have miracles, so that we could
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be blessed. But then he goes to the tiny details
before I leave this world. I'm stopping and putting everything
on Paul's Demons are watching, angels are watching, all of
heaven is watching. And he puts everything. Billions of souls
lie in at state and he freezes everything, and he says,
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I'm going to get into the details of this precious woman,
my mother. I want her taken care of when I leave,
take care of my mother, the God of the big stuff.
And what did that mean to her? Because on another
occasion when he started his ministry, he was doing mighty
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miracles and the place was filled, and they came to
him and said, Jesus, Jesus, you got to shut this
down because your mother and your half brothers are here
to see you. And Jesus said, who is my mother
and who are my brothers except you who hear the
word and do it. But this was almost like Jesus saying,
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I can't leave here without getting into the details of
this one person. I love her so much that I'll
interrupt everything I'm doing so that she will know I
care about the details of the rest of your life.
I want you taking care of That's the kind of
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God that we have, That's the kind of God that
we serve. He came as a man to let us
know how much he loves us. I tell you, that's
a big thing, the huge, amazing love of God. How
many of you are thankful that He saved you. Can
we just take a moment think about that, But can
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we go a little bit further and say, yeah, he
did a big amazing thing at Calvary. But it didn't
stop at Calvary. If we were all to tell the truth.
Psalm sixty eight and nineteen said this same God, blessed
be the Lord God, that daily loadeth us down with benefits.
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He daily, every day he looks down. Every day, he
looks at us every day. He takes care of us
every day. Daily he loads us down. He's into the detail.
Da Vinci is famous for his paintings, especially one of
an old man, because it is so detailed. According to
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the art critics, there is even a condition that is
known in science and in medicine, and they said that,
for example, one of the persons who have had this
condition that makes them be able to see in details
what other people cannot see. He was a great baseball
player by the name of Babe Ruth, and he had
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this condition and his ability to look at a baseball,
and when he would see the baseball, somehow he could
see the detail in such detail that they said he
could see the red threads on the baseball as it
was coming at him at ninety six miles an hour.
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And there's been a lot of books written about it.
You can check it out it's pretty amazing. He's pretty fascinating.
Da Vincia had that kind of eye for details. Babe
Ruth had that kind of eye for details. But I
want to tell you our God has an eye. He
can see in slow motion. He can slow things down.
He can see deeper than any nobody can see. Inside
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of your home, inside of your life, inside of your fears,
inside of your situations that you think he doesn't know about.
He's working things that you can't even imagine because he's
the God of details. Give him a praise if you
believe it. Hello, I'm Jensen Franklin, and I want to
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welcome you to Real America's Voice. There's something that's going
to happen, I believe as you watch this program, lean in, listen,
and let's see what God can do in your life
the details that he took care of. I thought about
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give you a couple more biblical illustrations, and I'm go'n
close with a story. I thought about Joseph, not of
the Old Testament, but of the New Testament, the step
father of Jesus. I mean, he is the throwaway cast
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member of the story. He he don't you just kind
of feel sorry for him. An angel shows up to
Mary and says, you're gonna get pregnant by God. The
Holy Spirit will bring brilliants and glory, and you will
be a virgin, and you'll be impregnated. You'll and he
just has to accept it. He kind of gets the
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raw deal of everything. He's just kind of a throwaway
kind of character in the story. But it's kind of
interesting how God gets into details, because no, he did.
He was not the father of the Messiah. He was
the step father. But when the angel comes to warn
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them to take the family to Egypt because Herod was
going to try to kill all the babies, the angel
did not show up like he did the first time
to Mary. The angel showed up to Joseph and said,
if I'm going to give direction to a family, I'm
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not going around you. I'm giving you the direction, the
details of where to go. And then that same angel
appeared and said, now bring your family out. But he
did not appear to Mary. He appeared to Joseph, the
person that we think God doesn't really see. He's supporting cast,
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he's not the star of the show. But God sees
in details. And by the way, after Mary had Jesus
and gave birth to him. Joseph and Mary had several
more children, including James the Apostle who wrote the Book
of James, and Jude the Apostle who wrote the Book
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of Jude. He was a pretty powerful father. God has
a way just because you feel like that you're not
doing what somebody else does. Don't you ever feel like
God doesn't see your part in what you Just do
what He's called you to do, and he will reward
you accordingly. I need somebody to praise him right now.
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He didn't get left out. When you sign contracts at work,
they'll say, now, look real good at the big writing,
but look even better at the little writing, because the
details matter. Nobody's in the details. Like God. He knows,
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according to Psalms one thirty eight, he knows you're down
sitting and your upright. He knows the number of hairs
that are on your head. He knows your address, He
knows your family, he knows your children, he knows your grandchildren,
he knows every detail of your family. You say, I
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know that I didn't come to church just to hear that. Well,
but you don't understand it like you need to understand it.
Let me give you one more biblical example, and then
I'm going to close with a story. Jesus took mud
and slapped them on the blind man's eyes and spit
and told him to go to the pool of Salom
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in washing. He goes and he washes the mud out,
and he gets so excited because while he's washing the
mud out in the pool of Salon, he looks down
and sees in the ripples in the water. For the
first time, he sees his own face. And he really
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starts washing and he gets excited and oh my god,
I could see, I can see, and he it's the Sunday,
it's the Sabbath. On the they were so strict that
you couldn't you couldn't exert energy on the Sabbath. But
he takes off running, the Bible said, running through the streets,
burst through the doors of the of the synagogue, ran
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down the aisles, leaping and jumping, saying, I can see.
I was born blind.
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I can see.
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He interrupted the dead boring service, And can we just
pause one minute? When I said that, I noticed you
sat real quiet, but you were blind. That's the amazing
big thing. That's the big deal. When your eyes God
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opened to who Jesus is. Nobody praised him for that
just a minute. I could be lost, I could be
left out, I could be somewhere out in the world somewhere,
but here I am in God's house. I was blind.
Now I see, and I can't be quiet about it.
I've got a praise and he means everything to me.
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And those mean pharisees. A guy's never seen and they
stop him. I don't know if their ushers tackled him.
I don't know if they had one of those stun guns.
I don't know what they did. But they pulled him
to the to a still stop. And suddenly the pharisees say,
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you are sinning. You should be quiet and calm down,
and how dare you exert such energy in the house
of God? And he said, I'm sorry. I believe he
was hyped. I'm sorry, but I was blind. I couldn't see.
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I was a packer all my life. But Jesus has
opened my eyes, and you want me to be quiet,
And she and they say, how did we know? This
is so funny, this is literally what they did in
front of everybody. How did we know you were blind?
Really blind from birth? And he said, my parents are here.
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And his parents were so weak they flew him under
the bus. Watch this, and he's called into his parents
and they said, what's he blind from birth? And they said, uh,
ask him. And they asked him and they said, we
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believe that Jesus of Nazareth did this by demonic empowerment,
and he's a devil. What do you say? And boy,
he had a brilliant answer. He said, I don't know
who he is. All I can tell you is I
was blind when I met him, and I can see
right now. So you call him whatever you want to
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call him. I call him healer, I call him deliver.
He Hello, I'm Jensen Franklin, and I want to welcome
you to Real America's voice. If you'll give me the
next few moments and listen, you're gonna have the opportunity,
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I believe, to have a moment that can change your life.
Now listen, all right, so down now listen. Okay, So
that's the big thing, right, but watch Jesus get into
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the details. This is the part we read and nobody
ever preaches about that story, but it's there. They forbid
him in the temple, they cast him out of the temple.
You broke our rules. Get out. They shamed him. And
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the man who had been blind, who ought to be
having the biggest, grandest day of his life, celebrating and
meeting more than voices, faces that he had been around
his whole life, Now he finds himself ostracized and all alone.
The Bible said, he was sitting alone. I don't know
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what he was doing. I don't know if he had
I don't know. I think he was just amazed. He
might have been looking at birds, looking at tree. I've
got a feeling. But all of a sudden approaching him
as a tall, lean Galilean. And he came to him
when the church threw him out, and he walked up
to him, and he said, would you believe on the
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Son of God? And suddenly I could see him in
my mind. He did not recognize his face, he had
never seen him, but he thought, oh my God, that's
that voice. And he whirled around and he said, Lord,
I believe, and he fell it his speak. Now, now,
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the big miracle was the opening of the blind eyes.
But the details is when God comes to you after
he saves you, and he finds you in brokenness all
along by yourself thinking why has this happened? Like it's happened,
but he walks into the details. He wanted that man
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to know I didn't just use you for a miracle.
I really do love you. And God's love is in
the details, honeylujah. And if I were to take this
microphone right here, right now, and I were to walk
around and I were to put it in people's face,
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and I would say, I want you to tell me
about a detail that God has done for you. I
know he's done big things, but there's little things that
he's done that have just because they're personal, because they're detailed,
because it's like this couldn't have happened any other way
unless God did it. And I want to tell you
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a story in closing. It's in one of my books.
I know it's in my book because I tore it
out of my book. But let me close with his story.
And I started to just read it because it's written perfectly,
and you know how I talk. But I'm gonna just
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sum it up real fast, talking about the God of details.
One Saturday night, many many years ago, when we were
in the old building. We'd just gotten in it. We
weren't in it that long. I think we were in it,
but barely in it. We only had one service. And
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I had a dream on a Saturday night in my bed,
and it was the most unusual dream I've ever had
in my life. It was in technicolor, just like I
see you, I mean, as clear as I see you
right now. I was aware that I was dreaming, but
also knew that I was there. And I was walking
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into a funeral home and I walked up to a
miniature casket. The lid was open, and I looked down
and I saw my three year old daughters face, Chrissa.
She was dead and she was in that coffin, and
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I felt like I don't even know how to describe
what I felt. I instantly woke up. I was devastated.
I reached over and I woke Cherisa up, and I
told her what had happened, and we began to cry,
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and we began to pray. The presence of God filled
that bedroom. I really never went back to sleep. I
came in early that morning into my office, still moved
deeply by what I saw, and I grabbed a pad
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and a piece of paper, and I had my sermon
prepared and the Lord gave me these words, just clear
as I can hear my own voice right now, cancel
the devil's assignment over your kids. Cancel the devil's And
I preached the sermon that morning. I'm so glad we
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did have video back. Good that somewhere we have that video.
Canceled the devil's assignment over your family. I walked into
that Sunday morning service and I admit I was, I was,
I was. God was messing with me. He gave me
that sermon. Within minutes, I knew exactly where to go,
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said go to Mark chapter five. Now do this, now
do this. It was. It was unbelievable. I wish he'd
do that every week. It doesn't work that way. And
I got up that Sunday morning and I preached that
simple message and the power of God wrecked the place
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and I invited the mother's, fathers and parents to come on,
behalf of your family and cancel the devil's assignment. And
it stands out to this day as one of the
most memorable services I have ever been in in my life.
There was the thing that stood out to me is
I remember there was a groaning, there was a it's
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almost like that verse where it says Rachel weeping for
her children. There was a deep intercession. Hundreds and even
hundreds and hundreds of people lingered. They were all the
way up the aisles and families praying, families holding one another,
pleading the blood of Jesus, canceling the devil's assignments after
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the service. It's hard to shake some services. I'll be honest.
Sometimes I walk out and it's hard for me to
go out to eat. It's hard. I still feel it
all over me. I don't know if that makes sense,
but it's just just the truth. You're not always there.
You're a little cloudy when you come out of service
like that, You're somewhere else. Honeylujah. How long has it
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been since you've been in a service where you went
somewhere else for a little while? You say, where's that?
In the Bible, John said, I was in the spirit
on the Lord's Day, and he took me. He took me. Hello,
I'm Jensen Franklin, and I want to welcome you to
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Real America's voice. Maybe you've been going through some things
and you've had moments that have discouraged you, or maybe
you just feel like you've messed up and you can't recover.
This message is for you. I believe it's going to
speak to you this very moment. Now we start to leave.
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I'm almost done, but we leave, and and Charise, it
was just glorious. God moved. We felt peace. I mean,
we had breakthrough. We felt peace, we felt victory, and
I felt relief. And Churis came up and she said, now, Jensen,
I want us to go on to Florida. We were
scheduled to go on a vacation with our family, Courtney
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and CHRISA. Do we have Caroline then? I don't think
she was born. It was just Courtney and Carissa, and
Carisa was the second child. She was three years old
and Courtney would have been five. I guess five or
six something like that. But just go with it. We
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were scheduled to go and leave on Monday to drive
down to Disney World with our kids. And Cherise was
so just intent. We've got to go. We've got to go.
I want us to leave today. I said, I've got
a service. Back then we had Sunday. Now I've got
a service. I can't just leave. She said, oh, And
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I said, I can't just leave my church. Oh oh,
it's your church. I thought it was God's church. I
hate that stuff. I tell you, I want to go.
If we go early, we can go to sea World.
If we'll go one day early, we can add one day.
I'll have the hotel for Monday night and we can go.
We can go to SeaWorld. And I said, okay, you know,
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I think she already had the car pack. She did,
so she knew the story. We get in the car
and we drive a day early, watch the details, and
we get to sea World and a storm comes make
a long story short. Lightning flash hits a building, sets
it on fire. We're standing up there and it feels
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like a tornade, us coming and five thousand people run
for shelter up under thing that covered people from the elements,
and we're grabbing our stuff, and she grabbed one of
the children, and Carissa starts going up the steps. She
got away from us, and boy, we're all just panicking
(34:13):
and moving, but we're watching her and we're going to
get her. When we get up there, where's a little
more space. And as we're going up the steps, we
get up there and finally, I mean, it really breaks
out and there's lightning. It everywhere in booms and the
kids are hysterical, and we look and see Carissa and
she's going berserk. And Ersa gets down and says, come here, baby,
come here, baby, come here, and she runs right past her,
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and there was a young twenty six year old girl
standing that she had never met. We didn't know these people.
And she ran right to the girl, into her arms,
and the girl picked her up and held her, and
Carissa grabbed her by the neck, my three year old,
and just began to hold her so tight. Seri said,
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come on, baby, come on. She would not do it,
and she was real clingy to chericse she would not
do it. She would not do it. We're standing there,
the storm's going on. This girl's standing there and she
is not crying a tear. She is weeping, holding our baby,
and our baby is holding her. And as the storm
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starts calming down, we walk over and Seri said, to me,
get our baby. Something weird is going on. And I
walked over and I said, is everything okay? And the
mother starts weeping. There's a man, an older man, and
his wife, and I found out later that was the
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mother and father of the young twenty six year old,
and she said, you just don't understand, You just don't understand.
She lost her three year old child one month ago
of congestive heart failure in the middle of the night.
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We've been trying to get her out of the house
for three months and she has gone nowhere. This is
the first place we have been in three months. And
your daughter, how old is she? She's three. Well, she
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won't let her go. And the girls standing there weeping,
and suddenly we all come together, and then instantly the
Lord said, tell her about the dream. Tell this family
about the dream. So people were kind of moving and
things were calming down, but we got to ourselfs and
we start talking and I said, I've got to tell
you something. I said, I'm a preacher, and I said,
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this past Saturday night, I had a dream and I
saw my three year old in a coffin in the dream.
And I told my church about it. And I said, God,
let me feel your grief. And he wanted you to know.
And I said, we're not supposed to be here. We
were supposed to be driving here today. We did not
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intend to come to Sea World. But there's don't you
see what I'm saying, God in his love says I'll
rearrange things. Suddenly the girl begins to just weep and
cry and say this is amazing. She recognizes God's doing something.
Chrissa kind of calmed down, and we kept saying come on,
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come on, and she would not come to us. And
Chrissa starts playing with a pair of pearls that's around
a string necklace that the girl had, and she starts
playing with it in the girl and hooks it. Listen
to the details, and she says, this is the necklace
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that my child had in the coffin. I want her
to have it. It's meaningful to me because it means
that I'm releasing her to God. And I told her
the story of how that David lost a son, a
little baby, and he said, I can't bring that child back,
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but I'll go where he is. And she received the Lord,
and she got right with God, and she left with hope,
and we left with victory. What I'm trying to tell
you is God is a god of details, and he'll
reach anyone that you'll pray and believe for. If you
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know that I'm preaching the truth this morning, Raise your hands,
Raise your hands over your family, raise your hands over
your children, raise your hands over any and everything in
your life. And know that God is the god of
not just the big, massive blessing, but he's the god
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of tiny details in his love for you and me.
Just stand your feet all over the room, no one moving. Please.
I feel led this morning to close this service. And
if you know that this message is for you, I'm
gonna put a big broad one out there today. If
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you know this message is for you, and you would say,
Pastor Jensen, I need God's detailed love today. I need
it in my life. I need it in my home.
I need it in my family, I need it in
my business. I need it, he said to tell you
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he loves you in detail. He's got blessings that have
your face on them only, and if you seek him,
you'll find it. And if you know I'm preaching to you,
slip out of your seat and come stand down here.
This morning, God's gonna touch it. Come on, guys, hurry quick, quick,
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have your song ready. We're gonna sing this song. And
here's what we're gonna do now. If you, if you're
new to this church, we believe in having a minute
to take the word of God and let it marinate
in our soul. So here's what I want you to do.
How many of you would say, while I've been preaching,
the Holy Spirit has reminded you of detailed blessings that
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God has done in your life. Let me see your hand.
So can you thank Him for the big things and
the tiny details? Would you raise your hands? Would you
praise him? Lord? We love you, Lord, we praise you.
That God would find that good of all those thousands
of people, that God would have us sittings where we
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were sitting in a bass crowd like this well, one
person for one person.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
For one greasy mother.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
He houses, he sees, he can't, He understands.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
He won't leave.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
You where he finds you. Just worship him. He just
sing it over this building. Would you worship him these?
Speaker 2 (41:30):
He says, No, I don't be sir.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Still, let's worship it over the shrimp.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
Sing it again. Let's stop shot. Still shine to you.
It's he lops you. She may think you're insignificant. You
may if you're a fall you may still like that.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
He sees everybody, but to you're not that imported. But
God see me to tell you he sees you, he
knows you, He listens you.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Yes, said, he lets you an amazing.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
He taking it.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Well, why this worshipman talks to him?
Speaker 1 (42:44):
He said, hens like this.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
My need he still.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
So hider to it. I don't deserve him.
Speaker 2 (42:57):
It's amazing going.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
Then you can say, no, shadow he was by still Si,
he'll cry.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
He'll find w cap where you are.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
He's gone, he's searching for you.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
Still sick now coming out to let him cut you this.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
Morning he.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
Jass forget about pel extra chappell.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
He'll come the way you worship.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
He'll in heaven. If you want to serve.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
Time having SIPs.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
No, I don't desert. I couldn't. I could enter, I
couldn't do. I can't deserve still us yourself.
Speaker 3 (44:37):
The yeas.
Speaker 1 (44:52):
Every every head bound in every I floats. You're in
this room, if you're in the prison, if you're in
a hospital room, if you're in one of our campuses,
and you would say, Pastor, I need to get right
with God. I'm so far from him. I need him
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to get into the details. I need more than a
surface touch. I need him to go deep and heal
the broken pieces. I want him to be lord of
my life. Pray for me. I want to embarrass you.
I'm going to pray for you right where you're standing.
But if that's you, right where you are at every campus,
and you'd say, pastor, I need Jesus to be lord
(45:37):
of my life. I want to surrender to him. If
that's you, raise your hand high, right where you're standing,
all over this room, all over this room. Amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing.
To God be the Glory. Sometimes I feel like the
weakest little sermon that I have is to thank God
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uses the best. I don't get it. But to God
be the glory. Look at that. That's beautiful. Can every
one of you that raise your hand, Will you get
out of your seat, come join me on this stage
as fast as you can get up here. I don't
normally do that, but I feel like you need to
do it because you're walking out of where you came
(46:19):
and you're going into a brand new life. Just come
stand up here for God. Nobody's gonna make you. But hurry.
It'll take a lot of it'll take a lot of effort.
But move fast, move fast. If the Lord is speaking
to you, move fast. Do it at every campus The
pastors are coming at every campus and they're gonna take over.
We're almost done. We're almost done. We're not gonna pray long,
but I'm gonna tell you God's gonna do a mighty
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work here they come. Come on, come on, come on,
come on. Somebody clap your hands and crazy singing one
more time, singing one more time as they come here.
Never apt. If that were your son, if that's what
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your god, what would he mean?
Speaker 2 (47:02):
Do you see?
Speaker 1 (47:04):
If that were your teenager? What would a team do you.
Speaker 3 (47:10):
If that were your child struggling with drugs or.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
He's an addiction in their life. Jesus six, Captive Street,
Praise God.
Speaker 3 (47:21):
Pray, God, graves God, He learns.
Speaker 1 (47:28):
He knows SnO sack, he knows what your people, he's
own says, he knows.
Speaker 2 (47:34):
Your hurts, he knows you. Yes, all he's got Jesus,
he's coming, he's coming up.
Speaker 3 (47:45):
He lost, sir, you bet he's your details, coming in
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