June 25, 2025 • 52 mins
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Rev. Breyland delivers a transformative message on finding evidence of God's power in our lives to help us overcome challenges and move beyond our problems.
• Faith is not wishful thinking but absolute truth – it's like a title deed showing ownership and authority
• People may have the power to hurt us, but they don't have the power to keep us down
• We must stop playing the "blame game" and take responsibility for moving forward
• Like a newborn struggling to breathe, sometimes we need to "declare ourselves" and fight through challenges
• Evidence of God's power can be found in others' testimonies and our own past experiences
• We must actively search for evidence of God's work rather than waiting passively
• Remembering what God has already done helps build faith for current challenges
• Denying the evidence of God's power can prevent both us and the next generation from experiencing breakthroughs
• No pain, person, or problem should keep us paralyzed when God has given us evidence of His power
If you're facing challenges today, search for the evidence of God's work in your life and the lives of others. Remember what He's done before - He'll do it again.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hello, this is Austin Griffiths, the pastor of Open
Praise Fellowship HolinessChurch in Easley, South Carolina
.
Thank you for listening toHoliness Preaching Online.
Let's take these truths ofGod's Word with us and apply
these biblical doctrines to ourlives.
I know you'll enjoy this sermonfrom a holiness preacher.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
There, brother Marshall, amen, no matter the
cares of life, amen, amen, aslong as I'm in the shadow of the
cross, amen, the blood stillcovers, amen, he still reaches,
amen, and I'm thankful for thatAmen.
I don't ever want to get amen,desensitized, amen, from the
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cross man, we.
We live in a world where, amen,uh, they're desensitized to a
lot of things, but, frankie, man, they're desensitized to life,
man, we, uh, thank god for thesupreme court decision last year
or the year before, whicheverone.
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It was Amen, but it didn't gofar enough, did it?
Amen, and we're desensitized,amen, to life.
We're desensitized to liberty,amen.
And we're also desensitized toGod in America, amen, and that's
a sad and a scary place to be.
Amen, I don't want to be on thewrong side of God man, I don't
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want to be on that left hand man, but if I can keep myself near
the cross and the shadow of it,amen, I believe we'll be all
right.
Amen, I feel good in my soultonight.
Amen, I know, um, we, we, uh,we've got a lot of sickness and
and I'm sure, amen, that you'restill, we're still weary, amen,
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and uh and uh.
But I believe God's here tohelp us, amen, and I believe
that, uh, he's here to meet withus, amen, and if we'll do our
part, amen, I guarantee youhe'll do his Amen.
And we want God's will for thisservice to be manifested.
Amen, and he's faithful andjust to do what we need him to
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do.
Amen, no matter where we're atAmen, he's faithful and just to
help us.
Amen, in our needs, amen, amen.
I want to say it's an honor anda privilege, amen, to be able
to preach here tonight.
Amen, and I tell you you'vealready heard a ton of good
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preaching this week.
Amen, but if the Lord will helpus, amen, I want to follow him.
I don't want to get off course.
Amen, if I get off course, weget in the weeds.
Amen, amen.
Hey, you know, in the south theweeds ain't a good place to be.
Amen, there's some creepycrawlies.
Amen, there's some bucktoothrattle moccasins in there.
Amen, you might even stumble ona gator.
Amen, I want to stay out of theweeds.
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Praise God, amen.
Appreciate everybody pushingthrough.
Like the pastor said thismorning in our worship, I felt
the Lord, I felt the witness ofthe Spirit, I felt the witness
of the Holy Ghost in thepreaching.
Appreciate Brother Casey.
Known him forever and a day.
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We're from the same part of thecountry, so a lot of the
references he was making toBrother Roper this morning, I
know him well.
Amen, and what an impact thatman of God was in our life.
Amen, going on to glory now.
Amen, we want to try to preachto you tonight for the Lord to
help us.
Amen, we want to follow him andwe're going to read in a couple
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of places here Hebrews, chapter11.
Amen, first verse there.
First verses 1 and 2.
And then we'll go to 2Corinthians or some famous man
once said 2 Corinthians, 2Corinthians, amen, 2 Corinthians
.
There, and we'll read a coupleverses there out of chapter 13.
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All right, amen.
Hebrews, chapter 11, versenumber 1 and 2 there, and a very
familiar scripture.
I love this chapter, amen, andI love amen that the Bible has a
hall of fame.
Amen, I love reading it.
Amen, hebrews, chapter 11,.
We'll start in verses one andtwo.
It says now faith is thesubstance of things hoped for,
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the evidence of things not seenfor by it.
The elders obtained a goodreport.
Amen, by faith.
Amen.
Flip over with us to 2Corinthians, there, and we'll
read there in chapter 13.
, and we'll go down verses 1through 4.
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Just a couple chapters over andI'll give you a minute to get
there.
Amen.
2 Corinthians, chapter number13.
And we'll begin reading inverse number 1.
And Paul's writing here.
He said this is the third timeI'm coming to you in the mouth
of two or three witnesses.
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Shall every word be established.
I told you before and foretellyou as if I were present the
second time and being absent.
Now I write to them whichheretofore have sinned, and to
all other, that if I come again,I will not spare, since you
seek a proof of Christ speakingin me, which, to you, word is
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not weak but mighty in you, forthrough him.
He was crucified throughweakness, yet he liveth by the
power of God.
Aren't you glad of that?
Amen, hallelujah.
For we also are weak in him,but we live with him by the
power of God toward you.
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Amen.
I'm going to read verse 4 againFor though he was crucified
through weakness, yet he livethby the power of God.
For we also are weak in him,but we shall live with him by
the power of God, for we alsoare weak in Him, but we shall
live with Him by the power ofGod toward you.
Aren't you thankful tonight forthe power of God?
Amen.
Aren't you thankful for theability amen.
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To change a man so completelythat you can't even recognize
the person, that he's become.
Amen, that's the power of theblood in your life.
Amen, and I'm become Amen.
That's the power of the bloodin your life.
Amen, and I'm thankful.
Amen.
We sung this morning if he hasto reach way down, he'll pick me
up.
Amen, I'm glad of the power ofGod.
Let's pray over the Word.
Father, we thank you today foryour mercy.
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We thank you today, god, forwhat You've done for us.
We're thankful, god.
We're thankful, god, for thespirit that we feel, for the
presence of God that's manifesthere in our service.
God, we pray that you wouldmove through the preaching of
the word God, anoint our earsand heart to hear and receive.
Meet us in the altar at theconclusion of this word and
we'll thank you and praise youin the precious name of Jesus.
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Amen and the church say amen,amen, amen.
I know we understand today amenin our scripture.
Amen.
We've read Hebrews many times.
Amen, this chapter 11 there,and we know that.
Amen of the mighty works thatwas wrought in this book.
Amen, especially in thischapter.
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We can read down through theverses of faith here in the Hall
of Fame and we can read of thepatriarchs of the faith and men
who were used mightily by thepower of God.
Amen.
But I'm thankful tonight, amen,that you and I have a few
things that we can say aboutthis hall of faith.
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Amen In our life.
Amen.
We have experienced some thingsin our life, amen, that are
worthy of mention.
Amen, especially around ourchurch.
Amen.
Just here recently, we've seenmiracles performed in our midst.
Amen.
I don't know about you, but thatmakes my faith rise.
Amen.
It makes it bubble up in me,brother Marshall, amen, and it
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makes me proud to be, amen, achild of God, amen.
No matter what the world says,I'm proud to serve God.
Amen.
And not a worldly pride, amen,but a pride that says I know
what I was, amen, and Godchanged me to what he wants me
to be and I'm no longer a childof hell, but I'm a child of God.
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Amen.
And I'm thankful tonight thatif he can do it for the lowest
of the low, like me, he can doit for you and he can do it for
anyone.
Amen.
That takes Him by faith, amen.
And comes repenting andbelieving on the blood of Jesus.
Amen.
Aren't you thankful today forthe power of God that changes us
?
Amen.
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I'm thankful today to be saved.
I'm thankful today to beblood-bought.
I'm thankful today, amen, tohave seen miracles.
I'm thankful today to havefaith.
Amen, the substance of thingshoped for.
Not only have we hoped for it,but we've seen it.
Church, amen In our lives.
Amen, manifested Amen Beforeour very eyes.
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Amen.
And before I get too far in it,today, amen.
I believe that God today, amen.
Even in our lives, even thoughwe've seen things, amen, happen.
We've been through things,trials, and whatever the case
may be.
It's not always a mountaintop.
It's not always flowery streets, it's not always amen,
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mountaintops and ribbons andbows.
But sometimes we go throughsome things.
Sometimes it's on our own doing, sometimes it's an attack of
the enemy, sometimes it's atesting from God.
Amen that allows us.
Amen's a testing from God.
Amen that allows us to gothrough things.
Amen.
Job was chosen by God.
Have you considered Amen, myservant.
Amen, but no matter the past,no matter the problem that we
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find ourselves in, amen.
I also believe that it's thewill of God, that he does not
want us to stay in a perpetualstate of defeat, that he does
not want us to stay in aconstant state of depression,
that he does not want us to lackAmen On this earth.
He wants us to get past theproblem.
He wants us to get past thepast Amen.
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Too many times we're paralyzedby the problems that we face,
amen, and we feel like that wecan't get over them and there's
nothing we can do.
And the devil comes to us andtalks to us and we should brush
him off.
But oftentimes we listen to him, amen, and he tells us that you
can't get through, you're notgoing to overcome, you can't get
past Amen, you might as wellnot try.
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Amen, you might as well not putany effort in, but I'm telling
us today that God, amen, wantsus to get past that.
Amen, from the problem.
Amen to a solution in Him.
Amen, I believe it's the will ofGod today.
Amen, that we have the victoryin our life.
Amen, now you know when you'reheaded off on a trip, amen, the
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best way to get from point A topoint B is to ask your wife Amen
, I'm just joking there.
Amen, I'm going to stop beforeI get in trouble here.
Amen, but buy a map.
Amen, or open the Google Maps.
Amen, or Safari Map, whateverthe case, whatever phone you
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have, that's the easiest way toget from A to Maps.
Amen, or Safari Map, whateverthe case, whatever phone you
have, that's the easiest way toget from A to B.
Amen, it's to use a map.
Amen, oh, don't you know thismorning or tonight.
Rather, the map for our lifetelling us how to get from A to
B has already been given to us.
Amen, brother Caleb's overthere patting it.
Amen, holding up whereeverybody can see it.
Brother, it's already beengiven to us.
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Amen, it's already been given.
Amen, we already have it.
Amen, there are probably morecopies of this map Amen that I'm
talking about on shelves todaythan any other book.
It's still the best seller inthe world, but it's also
probably the least read book inAmerica and across the world.
Amen, probably the least readbook in America and across the
world.
Amen, friend, we've got thebook, amen.
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We've got the map Amen.
And it tells us, amen, thatwe're headed, amen to a place
called heaven and it also tellsus how to avoid a place called
hell, amen.
Oh, I want some map readingtonight.
Amen, I want the devil to know,amen, that I'm not willing to
stay down, that I'm not willingto stay in the past, that I'm
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not willing to be part of aproblem, but I'm willing tonight
to accept God's hand andovercome for the victory of the
Holy Ghost.
Amen.
I want to preach to us tonight.
Amen on evidences, amen,evidences in our life, amen.
On evidences, amen, evidencesin our life, amen.
And I believe that's what Godwants us to do is to get past
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the problem.
Amen.
We read in our text thismorning the classic statement of
faith Amen.
You ask anybody what faith isand they can read this text.
They'll quote this text.
Amen, it's everywhere.
Amen, we know it.
We can spout it off Amen, justas quickly as we can snap our
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fingers Amen, faith, amen, thesubstance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen,amen.
We find that we believe thatAmen.
But I'd like to start outtonight by telling us what faith
is not.
Amen.
Faith is not some kind ofmagical formula Amen, amen.
Faith is not some kind of amen,denial Amen.
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And what I mean by that is wegot a fever of 103, but, praise
God, I ain't got no fever.
Amen, it's not a denial Amen.
It's not amen.
Faith in faith, faith in howmuch faith I say I've got.
It's faith in God, amen To dowhat he says he's going to do,
amen.
It's not instant gratification,amen and answers Amen.
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It's not always now faith, amen, but often times, and many
times, it's through faith.
Amen.
We've got to go through Amenand faith gives us that strength
to go through Amen.
Faith the definition is faith.
It's the substance of thingshoped for, the evidence of
things not seen.
Amen.
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Now I've got to tell us tonightthat that word hope, amen, it
doesn't mean wish Amen, itdoesn't mean maybe.
It doesn't mean wish Amen, itdoesn't mean maybe.
It doesn't mean you know, maybeI'll get through it.
Amen, maybe God will deliver,maybe God will help me get past
the past.
Amen, but it's absolute, amen.
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It's absolute.
There is an absolute with God.
Amen, he is absolute.
Amen.
He is absolute faith andabsolute truth.
Amen, he is absolute.
Amen.
He is absolute faith andabsolute truth, amen.
The Bible tells us here Amen.
When it speaks of the rapturein the church Amen.
It calls it the blessed hope.
Amen.
I'm so glad tonight it doesn'tcall it the blessed maybe, amen,
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the blessed maybe one day, theblessed hope.
So Amen.
But I'm glad tonight weunderstand Amen.
But I'm glad tonight weunderstand Amen.
What the definition is saying?
It's really saying that faithis the title deed.
Amen To victory, amen.
Now we all know what a deed ischurch.
If you own any kind of piece ofproperty, you know what a deed
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is.
Amen.
It shows ownership, likebrother Josh just said.
Amen.
It shows ownership, likeBrother Josh just said.
It describes the honor to havefull proof of possession and it
gives you legal authority toback it up.
Amen, a deed is sure.
Evidence of what belongs to usis legally ours, amen.
So what I'm talking to youtonight about getting past the
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problems, amen.
So what I'm talking to youtonight about getting past the
problems, amen.
Whatever that is in your life,if it's sin or sickness, amen.
Or disease, or debt, ordiscontent, unemployment, put
the whatever word that you wantin right there Anxiety, fear or
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failure, whatever it is.
One thing, church, that'simportant is we've got to have
some evidences.
Amen that says anxiety, fear orfailure, whatever it is.
One thing just as important iswe've got to have some evidences
, even that says God's done itbefore and He'll do it again.
It don't matter what the enemysays.
Even God moves and overcomes inour life.
Amen.
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He is the answer to my need, heis the answer to your need.
Amen.
You need a title deed tonight.
Amen In your life, amen.
And I'd like to share somethingwith us tonight how to find some
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evidences.
Amen, but you must understandAmen.
The only way we're going tofind it is if we search for it.
Amen, because, over and over inthe Word of God, there is a
principle that is clear to usAmen.
And that principle is that ifyou want to change, amen.
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If you want a breakthrough, ifyou want change, amen.
If you want a breakthrough, ifyou want success, amen.
If you want to get past yourproblem, amen, it won't be
handed to you.
Amen, but in other words,you've got to search for it.
Amen, jeremiah 29.
Amen.
And verse 13 tells us and youseek me and find me when you
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shall search for me With allyour heart.
And verse 14 says and I will befound of you, saith the Lord,
amen.
Now understand, here tonightI'm not talking about salvation,
amen.
We don't have to search forthat.
It comes, amen, through theblood of Jesus.
Jesus was seeking me, amen.
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But after salvation, friend,everything else that I've got
with God, I had to search for it, I had to desire it.
Amen, to get what I needed fromGod.
Amen, amen, amen, amen.
I was thinking today about somegames that we play in our youth.
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Amen, and how that applies toour lives.
Amen, amen.
We've had the game Jeopardy,amen, and I love to play it, but
I only like to answer thehistory questions.
I don't know any of the rest ofthem.
Amen, if you get outside ofthat, I'm pretty lost.
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Amen, but Jeopardy.
You got the answer, but they'restill asking questions.
Amen, battleship how many everplayed Battleship?
Oh, I love Battleship.
Amen, pew Success Amen, carrierhow many ever played Battleship
.
Oh, I love Battleship.
Amen, pew, pew, success.
Amen, carrier sunk, hallelujah,amen.
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A raging bull in a china shop,amen, always shooting at
somebody, amen, hallelujah.
But there's a game of life thata lot of people play, amen.
It's called the blame game.
Amen, hallelujah, hallelujah,amen.
We're always in America blamingsomething on somebody else.
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It's always somebody else'sfault, brother Josh, amen, it's
either.
If we're children, we'reblaming our parents.
Amen.
If we're parents, I hope wedon't blame our children, but
sometimes we do Amen In societyand government.
If you're a Democrat, you blamethe Republicans, amen.
If you're a Republican, aconservative, you blame the
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Democrats, and rightly so.
Amen.
But we blame somebody else.
Amen.
Somebody else hurt me, somebodyelse talked about me, pastor.
Somebody done me wrong.
Amen, somebody else hurt me.
Somebody else talked about me,pastor.
Somebody done me wrong, amen.
Somebody else, something else?
Amen.
That's what's called the blamegame.
Amen.
And I want us to know tonightthat in troubles, one of the
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sources of life's troubles mostof the time is other people.
Amen, it is, it is, it's justfact.
Amen, I don't hurt myself.
What kind of person will I be?
Amen, sometimes I do, butthat's another story.
Amen, hallelujah, amen, amen.
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But that may be a reason for ourproblems.
Amen, and oftentimes it is.
But, pastor, there ain't nobodyelse Can stop me from getting
past my problems.
Huh, ain't.
Nobody else Can stop me Fromgetting past what's hurt me.
Ain't nothing else can stop youFrom getting past what somebody
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else said about you and done toyou and hurt you.
Amen.
See, we have that power.
You and I have that power.
They don't have that power.
They might have had the powerto hurt you, amen.
But they don't have the powerto make you stay hurt, amen.
They don't have the power tomake you stay down.
They ain't got the power tomake you stay in the past.
Amen, friend, down.
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I ain't got the power to makeyou stay in the past.
Amen, friend, amen.
There's a power that God gives,the blessed grace of God that
helps us get over the past.
Amen, amen.
We find that in 2 Timothy andPaul's writings Amen.
This is what he said.
2 Timothy.
He said Alexander thecoppersmith didn't mean much
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evil.
Amen, the Lord.
I'd hate to be in Alexander'sshoes right here.
Amen, amen.
Paul said the Lord reward himaccording to his works.
Amen, of whom be thou awarealso, for he hath greatly
withstood our words.
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At my first answer, no manstood with me, but all men
forsook me.
Oh, I like this last part,though.
Amen.
He said, notwithstanding, theLord stood with me.
Hallelujah, hallelujah,hallelujah.
Everybody else left.
You ever felt alone.
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You ever felt like ain't nobodywith me, everybody else is gone
.
Amen, paul did.
But he said notwithstanding,the Lord stood with me.
And the Lord shall deliver mefrom every evil work and will
preserve me unto his heavenlykingdom, to whom be the glory.
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Amen Of God, forever, amen, amen.
Sometimes we're hurt by otherpeople, sometimes we're done
wrong, friends, amen.
But God is greater than thehurt.
God is greater than the hurt,god is greater than the past,
and God gives us grace where wedon't stay in the hurt.
Amen, amen.
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Jesus spoke in the parable ofthe wheat and the tares and in
that parable he made thisstatement Now there was an enemy
coming in and that's a prettysorry individual, amen.
That sows tares in a goodlooking field.
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Amen.
But this man did.
The enemy came in and he sowedtares in the wheat.
Amen.
I'm here to tell you tonight.
Sometimes, no matter how muchyou try to do right, somebody's
always going to be on the wrongside and do you wrong.
Amen.
It don't matter.
But you know what the Lord saidAmen.
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The Lord said let them bothgrow together.
Hallelujah, amen, amen.
I want to tell us tonight nopain, I'm not.
I'm not denigrating your pain.
I promise I've been in themidst of some hurt, okay, amen.
But no pain, amen.
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No person and no problem, amen.
You may have been victimized,amen.
You may have been hurt, you mayhave been wronged, but, friend,
let me tell you tonight Amen.
God wants you to get past theproblem.
Amen, and one of the firstthings we've got to do, pastor,
one of the first things I had todo in my life was quit playing
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the blame game.
Amen, because when it waseverybody else's fault, I was in
a perpetual state of hurt.
Amen, but by the grace of God,amen, amen.
Let them blow together.
Let the tears in the wheat grow.
Friend, you may not get past itright now, but that's coming a
day.
By the grace of God, he'llseparate it out and the wheat
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will grow in your life.
Amen, amen, amen.
I read a story and it's a littlelengthy, so bear with me.
Amen.
I read a story and it's alittle lengthy, so bear with me,
amen.
I read this account of a manwho had a newborn baby, and this
was his account of it.
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He said only a few hours aftermy wife and I arrived at the
hospital, we were holding handsand steadily breathing together.
Her contractions had escalatedin a matter of hours and before
we knew it, she was almost readyto begin pushing to deliver the
baby.
He said as I held her hand andcounted to ten, with each
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agonizing contraction shemustered up what little energy
she had left to pass our fourthchild into the world.
She said the baby.
The baby came so quickly.
The nursing staff didn't havetime to prep Amen the room for
delivery.
It seemed like it was overbefore it began.
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As I was cutting the cord, Inoticed something was wrong with
the baby.
She wasn't breathing normally.
She was gasping, with herentire body aiming to get air
into her tiny lungs.
When I pointed it out to thedoctor, he acknowledged that
there was indeed a problem.
A nurse came over and tried tosuction her mouth, amen, and her
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nose to clear the air passages,but it didn't seem to help.
He said they gave her a petitelittle oxygen mask and put her
under a heat lamp to warm her,but she continued to struggle,
he said.
As I kept one eye upon my babydaughter and one eye upon the
doctor, I began to seriouslyworry for her safety.
I was worried because it seemedhe showed very little concern
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for what was happening.
He said I suppose I knew, or heknew watching his response, and
he was using me as a worrycompass.
But his lack of concerntroubled me all the more.
Hey man.
And in the next 20 minutes hesaid my daughter was taken from
us and put in a hospital nurseryto be kept under close
supervision.
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He said this was particularlyhard on my wife because she had
not even had a chance to holdour child.
The head nurse came into ourroom several minutes later and
explained that because the babywas born so fast that she was
not able to get all theembryonic fluid out of her lungs
.
The nurse told her this wasvery common with children who
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came out so quickly, but theywanted to keep an eye on her for
the next several hours to makesure she was okay.
He said for the next severalhours I stood outside the
nursery and I watched mydaughter fight for her life.
Watching her body seize atevery breath was almost more
than I could take.
Amen, the resident nurse wouldoften look up from her desk,
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look at my daughter and then goback to what she was doing.
He said this began to eat at mebecause she didn't appear.
Amen that this person wasgiving my daughter the attention
that she needed.
Truthfully, it didn't seem likeshe cared.
After about five hours of thisabsurdity, he said, I forced my
way into the nursery anddirectly confronted the nurse.
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He said I was sick and tired ofseeing my baby suffer and I
wanted something to be doneabout it now.
Why couldn't they just extractthe fluid from her lungs?
Why couldn't they call in aspecialist?
Why weren't they just extractthe fluid from her lungs?
Why couldn't they call in aspecialist?
Why weren't they doing anythingbut watching?
Something needed to be doneimmediately.
The head nurse was called in tospeak with me about my concerns
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and to answer my questions andmy impatience.
He said I only had one questionwhat could be done now to help
this baby?
He said her answer was verydeliberate and premeditated and
I will never forget it as longas I lived.
She looked amen squarely in myeyes and she said these words
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there's a lot we can do now tohelp your daughter.
However, we are not choosing todo anything.
We are giving this child timeTo declare herself Before we
step in and help.
She explained to me thathelping her now Could actually
be hurting her in the long run.
She said this baby needs tofight for her life, so she will
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become a strong adult, he said.
I appreciated that answer somuch that I ran to the room To
write it down.
He said when I came back to thenursery.
I stood over my strugglingdaughter, bent over her and
whispered into her ear Over andover and over Breathe, baby,
breathe, baby, breathe, baby,breathe.
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He said.
In the next few hours mydaughter won her battle and she
was lovingly returned To hermother.
Amen, friends, sometimes To getpast the problem, we've got to
declare ourselves, amen, a childof God, and find some evidences
.
We've got to search and say,amen, here's my evidence, here's
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my evidence, here's my title.
Deed Jesus said Ask and itshall be given, seek and he
shall find Amen.
Knock and it shall be opened.
Amen For everyone that asketh,receiveth.
He that seeketh findeth.
He that knocketh it shall beopened.
You know what that implies tofindeth he that knocketh, it
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shall be open.
You know what that implies tome.
Amen.
That implies to me, amen, thatif you don't seek for it and if
you don't look for it, you won'tfind it.
Oh, hallelujah, amen.
And when you've got a problemhow many has got problems in
their life?
I'll raise my hand.
Amen.
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And when you've got a problemhow many has got problems in
their life?
I'll raise my hand.
Amen, I've got a problem.
Amen.
I've got to find the evidence,amen, of the answer that God has
promised for my need Amen, amen, you've got to search for it,
you've got to press for it.
Amen, amen, the devil is justgot to press for it.
Amen, the devil's just notgoing to give ground.
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Amen, he ain't just going tostep out of the way willingly.
Amen, he's already defeated.
We know that, but I wonder,sometimes we say that with our
mouth, but do we know that he'salready defeated?
Amen, and he is a defeated foe.
Amen, the power of God atCalvary.
He's already defeated.
Amen, he is the defeated foe.
Amen, the power of God atCalvary.
Amen, defeated him.
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Amen, but I want to find amen,my source.
Amen, our text said in 2ndCorinthians our pastors quoted
it many times amen, that out ofthe mouth of two or three
witnesses Shall every word Bewhat Established.
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Amen.
That means if I agree and youagree and somebody else agrees,
man, we've got a majority.
Hallelujah, hallelujah,hallelujah, amen, amen, sources,
preacher.
Where can I find my evidence?
Amen, amen, sources, preacher.
Where can I find my evidence?
Amen, amen, one, as you look inthe testimony of others.
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And that's when I beganthinking of all the miracles
that's happened in our church.
Amen, did you know?
Amen, did you know that otherpeople have gone through things?
Amen, just like us.
Amen.
Did you know that?
Amen, that other people havegone through things?
Amen, just like us?
Amen.
Did you know that we're not theonly one?
Amen, amen.
And so many times when we'vegot problems, I think I'm the
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only one, amen.
I think that nobody elseunderstands, amen, what I'm
going through?
Amen, amen.
And one thing we can do to helpus get our answer Amen, is to
hear.
Amen, how somebody else made itthrough.
Amen, how somebody whytestimony service is so good?
Amen, so we can see and hearhow God Moved for somebody else.
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Amen, amen, amen, amen.
We can read the story Amen of JCPenney Went bankrupt twice and
then still managed to build Oneof the largest clothing
retailers Amen, it gives youevidence.
Amen.
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And even when we fall, we gotto get up.
Amen.
We read of missionary familiesAmen that sat down with nothing
to eat, prayed prayer and saidthe blessing and a knock came on
the door and then they had foodto eat.
Amen, when we're here.
There was a young lady in NewYork.
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I read her story today.
She was on the subway and shemissed her station and by the
time she realized that she hadmissed her station.
She didn't know what to do.
The story says she prayed for asign of God's presence.
This was no hour or place for ayoung lady passing through a
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rough neighborhood alone.
And the story says at thatmoment, brother Josh, the subway
doors opened and on stepped ahomeless, disheveled, disheveled
, dirty man on that amen subwayand he plopped right down beside
her.
Amen, she was scared to death.
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Amen.
She began to pray silently God,amen, I know you see me.
Amen.
She began to pray silently.
God, amen, I know you see me.
God, are you near God, are youthere?
Amen.
The answer came in a song.
The story says that thathomeless man pulled out a
harmonica, brother Josh, andbegan to play that old song,
that old hymn, be Thou my Vision, which happened to be her
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mama's favorite song.
Amen.
When you hear how somebody elseovercame drug addiction,
overcame, amen, alcoholism,poverty, it gives us evidence,
brother Frankie, that I can getpast what I'm facing in my life.
Amen.
And he'll do the same thing,for you.
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Amen.
Evidences of God's power.
Amen, amen, amen.
If he did it, then He'll do itnow.
Amen.
Because God is no respecter ofperson, no matter what we go
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through, no matter what we face.
If he did it for one, he'll doit for all, amen, amen.
Another evidence is given inthe Word of God.
Amen.
It's what God has done in thepast, amen.
We find one evidence in Psalms106.
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A major problem of the childrenof Israel is they forgot God and
then, when they got in trouble,they had to remember God.
Amen.
Psalms 106 says they soonforgot His Word, his works.
They waited not for His counsel.
Amen.
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The disciples also had the issue.
Matthew, chapter 16.
Christ, amen, took them to taskfor their faith.
Oh, ye of little faith, whyreason ye among yourselves
Because ye have brought no bread?
Do ye not understand?
Neither remember the fiveloaves of the five thousand and
how many baskets ye took up,neither the seven loaves of the
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four thousand and how manybaskets ye took up.
Amen.
Sometimes we quickly forget whatGod has done for us.
Amen.
And that's why David said inPsalm 42, oh my God, my soul is
cast down within me.
Therefore, hallelujah, will Iremember Thee Church?
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We've got some evidences.
We've heard story after story,evidence after evidence.
Amen.
Brother Frankie tells, evidenceafter evidence.
Amen.
Brother Frankie tells us oftenof an evidence and thank God for
it.
It builds my faith, amen.
I remember evidences, church.
I remember when he saved meEvidences.
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I remember when he sanctifiedme Evidences, evidences.
I remember when he filled mewith the Holy Ghost Evidences.
I remember when he sanctifiedme Evidences.
I remember when he filled mewith the Holy Ghost Evidences.
I remember when I was at mylowest and he picked me up
Evidences, hallelujah.
I remember when he helped me getpast the past Evidences.
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Even the point I'm makingtonight Is we don't have to
remain paralyzed by the problemsof this life, because one thing
we need to understand Is thatGod will do it again.
Amen, hallelujah, amen didn'the save you, amen.
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Didn't he sanctify you?
Didn't he deliver you?
Hadn't he healed you?
Hadn't he blessed you?
Hadn't he sanctify you?
Didn't he deliver you?
Hadn't he healed you?
Hadn't he blessed you?
Hadn't he brought you through?
Hadn't he been away?
When there ain't no way he willdo it again.
Amen, raise your hands and lovethe Lord.
Oh, hallelujah, hallelujah,hallelujah, amen.
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Find the evidence, church, amen, where God has done it Before
you again Already, amen.
And if you can't possibly findany, which I highly doubt, amen,
then don't worry, because theLord said in Isaiah, oh, chapter
43 Behold, I'll do a new thingIf you ain't got no evidence,
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just hang on Because God's goingto do a new thing.
Amen, amen, amen, amen.
Now it shall spring forth.
Shall you not Know it, I willmake a way in the wilderness and
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rivers, in the desert.
Amen.
I don't know about you, but Icouldn't wait to get to church.
I felt my faith building allevening.
Amen, amen.
I felt hope begin to rise in me.
Amen, behold.
Isaiah said behold, that meansto look upon with wonder.
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Amen, how many of you need Godto do wonders in your life
tonight?
How many of you need God to dowonders?
Amen, evidences, I will make away in the wilderness, rivers,
in the desert.
Amen.
I don't know about you, friend,amen, but my doubt is headed to
the exit.
Amen, I feel God helping us.
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Amen, hebrews, chapter 1.
Or chapter 11.
Faith is the substance of thingshoped for, the evidence of
things not seen.
I may not have seen it with myeyes just yet, but my Bible
tells me, brother Frankie, thatit's coming.
He said I'll do a new thing Inyour life.
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Amen, evidences, amen, amen,Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen.
We feel it every time we kneelto pray.
Evidences, amen, I feel it.
We feel it, amen, burning whenwe're studying and reading the
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Bible.
Amen, in our devotion timeEvidences Hallelujah, hallelujah
.
We feel it when we're outside.
Hey man mowing the lawn, heyman with good gospel music in
our ear and the Lord begins tocome down On the lawnmower.
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Brother Charles, and it lookslike you're a drunk man out
there Just weaving everywhere.
Hey man, I don't know, how thegrass ever gets cut.
Hey man, it's happened to me.
Amen.
I don't know how the grass evergets cut.
Amen, it's happened to mebefore.
Amen.
Brother Charles, you felt itDriving back from Lowe's
Evidences.
Hallelujah, amen, hallelujah,hallelujah.
Oh, there ought to be enoughfaith in here.
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Amen, there ain't.
Amen.
No past can keep us down.
Amen, no past can keep us down.
Amen.
Friend, I'm telling you tonightwe can be part of that vision.
Amen, amen, amen Of God movingin our life.
Behold, I will do a new thingNow.
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It shall spring forth.
Shall you not know it?
Amen, you believe that tonight.
Amen, I believe that with allmy heart, hallelujah.
I believe that with all myheart.
Amen, that we have evidences.
Amen, of God moving, hallelujah.
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I'm not going to stay up heremuch longer.
I'm finna close.
Amen.
But if there's anything I faceand anything I need in my life,
there's evidence that God willmove.
Amen, hallelujah.
I look at His face every time Iopen my Bible.
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That's a miracle right there.
Amen.
I know you might not can seethat, amen, but October of 23
was a year, amen, that God did amiracle.
Amen, amen, that God reacheddown in a hospital room in
Tuscaloosa, alabama, amen andpicked me up by my shirt front,
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amen, and gave me faith again,not that I'd lost it, but I
needed to see it.
Amen In action.
Amen.
You may know the story but forthose that don't, my granddaddy
had been in the hospital.
He'd already had amen apacemaker.
He'd had heart problems foryears but already had amen a
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pacemaker.
He'd had heart problems foryears but he got to wear his
pacemaker, amen.
Even with the pacemaker, hisheart rhythm, his heartbeat was
just real low, his pressure wasreal low.
So they put him in the hospitalthere running some tests,
different things, and I neverwill forget it, amen.
It was on a night in October.
I got a text from my mother.
They said we're on the way tothe ER.
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Your granddaddy just went incardiac arrest.
He got up out of his hospitalbed, went into the bathroom
there, retched over, pulled theemergency cord and his heart
stopped and he hit the floorAmen.
Oh, the emergency cord waspulled.
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They ran in there, brother Mark, amen, and they, for a team of
four nurses, began to.
They got him back up in the bedor I can't remember.
It was on the floor, I don'tremember Amen, but they began.
A team of four nurses tookturns doing CPR and chest
compressions, trying to restarthis heart.
Amen.
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20 minutes into that ordeal,amen, they were swapping out
Amen, have you ever done CPR?
Took CPR training?
Amen, that's tough, amen, thatwill tire you out.
Amen.
But they began to do that CPRfor 20 minutes.
Brother Josh, amen, still noheartbeat.
25 minutes, still no heartbeat.
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25 minutes, no heartbeat.
Amen, amen, they're still justdoing it.
Amen, getting their thing on,thank God for them.
They looked over at minute 25,and my precious granny sat there
praying Amen, getting theirthing on, thank God for them.
They looked over at minute 25and my precious granny sitting
there praying Amen, asking Godto intervene.
Amen.
They said ma'am, we don't thinkthere's no hope.
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We've been doing this 25minutes and do you want us to
stop?
Can we call it?
She said oh no, keep it going,keep it going.
So they went back at it.
Brother Rusty knows the story,y'all know the story.
Amen.
But at minute 30, amen, god,let a heartbeat come back into
that body.
Amen.
They rushed him down to ICU,amen.
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The family gathered in Amen theneurologic, the doctor of
neurology, amen, met with mymother and all the brothers and
said we just want to warn you,he's on a breathing tube, on the
vent Amen, if he does Survivecoming off that vent, he'll be
brain dead.
He didn't have a heartbeat for30 minutes, amen.
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So they began to wean him out.
Brother Josh, amen.
The first time they tried towean him out, amen, it started.
His oxygen started dropping,amen.
So they put it back in a littlelonger and they met with mom
and them again, amen.
And they asked him what do youwant us to do?
Amen, we'll try again.
But what do you want us to doif this happens again?
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And at that point they made thedecision amen.
That if it happened again, justdon't resuscitate him because
it's so hard.
Amen, no matter, no tellingwhat damage was done from 30
minutes of CPR.
Amen, amen.
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But what my mama and herbrothers didn't know is that our
great physician was on thescene.
Amen.
But what my mama and herbrothers didn't know is there's
a great physician was on thescene.
Hallelujah, hallelujah.
And even though they said, donot resuscitate Brother Caleb,
the Holy Ghost was moving,hallelujah.
So they done it again.
They began to wean him off thatvent, amen.
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And miraculously his body beganto respond and he began to
breathe and he come off the vent, 100%, breathing on his own.
Amen, and then they began torun tests on his brain activity
to see just how much he had lost.
Amen, brother Gerald, did youknow?
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Amen, he came through.
100%, no damage, noneurological damage.
Amen, with all of his faculties, able to talk and speak.
I'm telling you, friend,evidences Of what God Can do,
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amen, evidences of what God cando.
Amen, friend.
I'm telling you tonight, if Ifaced anything in my life, if I
needed anything in my life, amen, there ain't no devil in hell
that could convince me that he'snot on my throne.
Evidences Of what God Can do,woo Evidences.
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Amen, amen.
That was October, october,december, rolled around, and he
was sitting in October, december, rolled around, and he was
sitting in my mama's living roomhaving Christmas.
Hallelujah, hallelujah, amen.
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And I got an uncle, amen, twouncles, two uncles, uncle, amen,
two uncles.
And through that ordeal I'veseen change.
Amen, amen, hallelujah.
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This was October.
We had Christmas in December ofthat year and then middle of
January the next year, god tookhim.
I don't know why, brother Josh,amen that God worked it the way
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he did.
But when I look back, I want tosee now, amen, there was a
grandson that needed someevidence.
Well, caleb, we don't know whyGod moves the way he does.
Amen, amen.
But there's some evidences ofwhat God can do.
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Hallelujah, I helped preach hisfuneral.
Amen, when we laid him in theground.
Hallelujah, I preached, helpedpreach his funeral.
Amen, when we laid him in theground.
Amen, and I preached it fromrunning in this state to back
home, of some evidences.
Amen, I felt like God laid itin my heart this evening.
Amen To remind Lighthouse ofHope.
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Amen Of some evidences in yourlife.
Amen, all is not lost.
Amen, no matter what he saysand I know we've had camp
meeting and I know this ain'tgreat preaching Friend, but I'm
speaking to you from my heartAmen.
There's enough evidences.
Around here.
Amen, we can get past what we'regoing through.
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Amen, amen, praise God, getpast what we're going through.
Amen, amen, pastor, praise God,praise God, praise God,
hallelujah.
Speaker 4 (50:17):
Praise God.
Why don't you stand heretonight and let's thank God for
all that he has done?
Would you lift your hands,thank Him for all that he has
done, what you have seen Him do,how you have seen Him work, how
you have seen Him operate.
Praise God.
Oh, the preacher is remindingus and God is reminding us
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through the message, that weneed to remember all that the
Lord has done.
Praise God.
Do you need a miracle?
Do you have a situation thatyou need God to move on, when
the Lord is trying to say well,look what I've done here, look
what I've done here, look whatI've done here, look how I've
moved there.
Praise God, and if I've done itin the past, I will surely do
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it again.
Praise God.
Oh, church, listen to me,lighthouse, amen.
You heard Brother Brandon saytonight.
He said that God has given thischurch more miracles than any
church he's been a part of.
Amen.
That's something we ought to bethankful for.
Hallelujah.
Brother Mark told me this weekand he's traveled around
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evangelizing and he said Pastor,I'm going to tell you that
there are churches around thiscountry that would like to have
one service that Lighthouse hasin a year, and every service we
come.
The presence of God is movingand the Holy Ghost is helping
and the Spirit of God is working.
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Glory to God.
We ought to be thankful.
I said we ought to be thankfulthat God is working and giving
us miracles.
Hallelujah, oh, glory be to God, amen.
We just came through one of thebest camp meetings.
I cannot remember a time whenwe had a meeting that was any
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better than what God gave us in2024.
During a time where most placeshave compromised and churches
are closing down and they'redying, but God gave us a
glorious outpouring of the HolyGhost.
I said you need to get past it.
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You need to get beyond what'sbothering you.
You need to get past it.
You need to get beyond what'sbothering you.
You need to get over it.
Amen, and remember all that Godhas done.
Hallelujah, hallelujah, oh.
Would you love the Lord here,worship the Lord here, praise
the Lord here in this house.
Glory be to God, glory be toGod.
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We love you, lord, we worshipyou to God.
We love you, lord, we worshipyou, lord, we praise you right
now.
Oh, thanks be to God, thanks beto God.
Thanks be to God, thanks be toGod.
Holy, holy, holy, holy, amen.
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What's hindering you?
What's keeping you from lettinggod work in your life?
You got something in your crawl.
Look at me.
I said you got something inyour crawl.
I didn't do something right,somebody else didn't do
something right and you'reletting miracles pass you by and
you're letting healing pass youby and you're letting
deliverance pass you by Becauseyou don't have a position or you
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didn't get asked to dosomething.
And you got your feelings onyour shoulders and God said look
at the miracles that I'm doingright in your midst.
Amen.
You know, there were people thatsaw the miracles of Jesus and
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they got so crossed with the Sonof God that they crucified Him
After three and a half years ofHim performing miracles.
You can look at me.
You can let the devil get youcrossed with God Himself.
Amen.
There's people in hell today.
They're in hell because theyblamed God.
Can let the devil get you crosswith God himself.
Amen.
There's people in hell today.
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They're in hell because theyblamed God.
I said the devil will make youget cross with God himself.
Amen, amen.
Praise God.
If you're not happy tonight andworshiping God tonight, just
coming through a glorious moveof God and seeing God help and
work.
Amen, not only of the preaching, not only the altar services,
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not only the people that gothelped, the offering for Brother
Tim Brim, everything that Goddone this week.
And you're not happy about yourchurch and you're sideways over
something, amen, and you can'trejoice.
You need to remember everythingthat God has done.
You need to remember, sisterJoyful, what God done for your
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daddy this past year.
Amen.
If it wasn't for this churchand if it wasn't for the people
of God, your daddy would be inhell today.
And thank God for a church.
I said thank God for a church.
I said thank God for a churchwhere God is moving and God is
performing miracles, amen.
Oh, I tell you what I would doif I had a lost child, robert
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Miller, I'd get in this churchand I'd seek after God so God
could save my lost children.
I'll tell you what I'd do nochurch and I'd seek after God so
God could save my lost children.
I'll tell you what I'd do nomatter who you are, I'd get in
this church and worship God.
I'd get in this church and seekthe Lord.
I wouldn't let anything, Iwouldn't let anybody get me
crossways so that I would missthe miracles of God.
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Amen, amen, glory to God, gloryof God, amen, amen, glory to
God, glory to God.
I said miracles are happeningand you're going to miss the
miracles in your life when Godis doing his best to help.
Amen, go somewhere else, get aposition somewhere else.
I don't want to be somewherewhere there's no miracles.
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I don't want to be somewherewhere there's no miracles.
I don't want to be somewherewhere there's no move of God.
I don't want to be somewherewhere God can't help and touch
my family.
Can you say amen.
Oh, praise God, Amen, I'll do alittle pastoring right here
tonight.
I got Mixler off so that I cando a little pastoring.
Amen, praise God, you are thepastor sometime, because you
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think you can do better than thepastor does and you can make
better decisions than what theman of God does.
Amen, you are the pastorsometime.
Amen.
Go ask Brother Chucky thepressure that's been put on him
since he started pastoring, amen.
You ask Brother Brandon what itis to be a pastor, amen, amen.
Brother chuckie, the pressurethat's been put on him since he
started pastoring.
Amen.
You ask brother brandon what itis to be a pastor, amen, amen.
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You got to navigate and workthrough every family and you got
to try to help everybody.
Amen.
You got everybody doingdifferent things, amen.
You ought to try to pastorsometime and then when the
pastor does something a littlebit different than what you
think it ought to be done, youget mad and sideways.
When God is honoring the churchwith miracles and God is giving
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the church a move of God and Godis a blessing and God is
helping, we need to rememberwhat God has done and God is
doing.
Praise God, amen.
And God is doing.
Praise God, amen.
That's what I got from the Wordof God tonight.
We better remember what God'sdoing.
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We better remember how God ishelping, amen.
I tell you what in Numbers 11,god brought them out of Egypt
with a high hand and they forgotwhat God done for them.
And the Bible said theycomplained and they murmured and
God got angry.
And God sent fiery serpentsamong them when they would
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complain and they would getangry, amen.
And many of them died, amen.
And they forgot about what Godhad done for them.
They forgot where God hadbrought them from.
Praise God, amen.
Sister Joy, my brother Frankie,do you remember when you was in
divorce court?
Do you remember when you almostdidn't have a family?
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Don't forget what God has done.
Don't forget that it was alittle tent right out here,
somewhere in this proximity.
Brother Frankie, amen that yougot saved on a rainy November
night.
Don't ever forget that.
Amen.
I said don't forget where theLord brought you from.
Don't forget, sister Joffa, yougot three children that are
serving God and then, because ofthis church, because somebody
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picked them up on a church vanand brought them to the house of
God, it's easy to get sideways,it's easy to get disturbed.
Amen.
But what did God do throughthis preacher?
What did God do through thischurch?
What did God do through thesepeople praying Amen To bring you
to where you are?
Amen, amen.
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We need to remember what God hasdone Murmur, complain, bicker,
amen, point, fault, find, amen.
Do everything you can To giveyourself a reason why you
shouldn't be praying and giveyourself a reason why you
shouldn't seek God and giveyourself an excuse Not to get in
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and not to glorify God.
God's gave us too much evidence.
God's gave us too.
That's what the preacherpreached.
God's gave this church too muchevidence.
And you're overlooking theevidence, amen, evidence.
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And you're over looking theevidence of what God has done
and what God will do.
I'm going to tell you something.
Look at, look at me, listen.
You're not in the shape you'rein because of me.
You're not in the shape you'rein because of somebody else in
this church.
You're in the shape you're inbecause you're overlooking
everything that God has done andGod is trying to do.
And until you open your eyes,until you say God, you have been
good to me, you have been goodto my family, you have been good
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to my church, and I'm going torise up above this, amen.
It's time we get over somethings.
It's time we get past somethings.
Amen, heaven is too close.
Eternity is too close.
Hell is too close.
Amen For us to harbor a feeling, for us to go to hell.
Amen Over getting hurt orsomebody saying something or
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somebody doing something.
I said hell is too close.
Heaven is too close and we needto not overlook what God has
done.
Hallelujah, you may not like me, you may not like my wife, amen
.
You may not like my children,but you can't deny the evidence
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that God has put his hand uponme.
You know the reason why therewas $120,000 come in when Emily
got sick, because I've got agood name around the country.
That ought to be enoughevidence that there's enough
people in this country that feellike Rusty Johnson is true blue
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and he's serving God and he'sdoing right that we going to
help him.
I've never heard of it.
I've never heard of for anyother preacher, amen.
That kind of a outpouring inthat short of a time.
I said I've never heard of.
There's too much evidence, amen.
I said there's too muchevidence, amen.
When a wreck happened and shefound out she had a tumor, I
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said there's too much evidenceFrom the fireman in the hospital
.
There's too much evidence.
Amen, amen.
That young girl is playing thepiano and singing.
Today Brother Casey's wife, hissister, died with cancer and
singing.
Today Brother Casey's wife, hissister, died with cancer.
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They tried to bring her toAnderson Hospital in Houston,
texas, and they wouldn't accepther.
They wouldn't accept her, butthey accepted Emily.
I ain't saying nothing badabout her, I'm just telling you
there's evidence that it was God.
Amen, no insurance, amen, nomoney, but they accepted her in.
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That's evidence.
That's evidence, amen.
When Mr Alexander died amen.
A few weeks after he hadsurgery amen, and Emily's still
doing good and went back to workand worked two full days Amen,
week before last.
That's evidence that there's aGod in heaven.
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I said that's evidence.
When I fell 30 feet on my headand God brought me back to life
and I said I'd never use my armsagain, I said how much evidence
do you need?
How much evidence do you needthat the power of God, the power
of God, the power of God, thepower of God is real, amen, amen
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.
But because it don't go like Ithink, it don't happen like I
want it don't come out like Ithink it ought to, I deny the
power of God?
That ain't right, because Idon't think so.
Well, what about the power ofGod?
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I don't think it ought to behandled that way.
Well, what about the power ofGod?
The power of God is evidence.
That's what he read.
Handled that way, well, whatabout the power of God?
The power of God is evidence.
That's what he read in thatbook, two times in that
scripture the power of God, thepower of God.
You felt it, you know it,you've experienced it.
Amen.
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But when we get stubborn andhardheaded and self-willed and
full of pride, then it doesn'tmatter how much evidence we have
, we deny the reality of whatGod is doing.
Amen, oh God.
The Holy Ghost sent thismessage to tell us we need to
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remember what God has done.
Hallelujah, we come to churchnonchalant.
We come to church uncaring.
We come to church.
It doesn't matter if we havechurch or not.
Amen, after God has doneeverything that he has done.
Oh, hallelujah.
That attitude will bleed overinto our children and to our
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grandchildren.
Amen, They'll come to churchand they won't care.
They'll come to church and theywon't care.
They'll come to church andit'll be no big deal to them.
Amen, they're going to come tochurch late.
They're going to come to churchand sit.
They're going to come to churchand not pray.
They're going to come to churchand not worship because it
really doesn't mean anything, itreally doesn't matter.
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All the evidence that God hasgiven and God has proven.
Oh God, brother Gerald, yourgirl needs a miracle.
But there's a power of God.
If we'll live right, if we'lldo right, we can get a hold of
God.
Brother Gerald, amen.
You've got the ability, ifyou'll live right and do right,
to pray a miracle down on thatbaby girl.
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Amen, that's in another state,if you and I will not deny the
evidence that's all around us.
Glory to God that God is atwork.
Amen, praise God.
It is the power of God.
It's not the ability of man,it's not because we have good
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musicians or singers.
It's not the ability of man.
It's not because we have goodmusicians or singers, it's not
because I'm a good preacher.
It's only by the power Of God,amen.
Listen In Hebrews, chapter 2.
How God bore them witness Withsigns, wonders, divers, miracles
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and gifts of the Holy Ghostaccording to His own will.
God gives evidence and bearswitness by the power of God,
amen.
Last year your daddy got savedand is in heaven today because
of the power of God that ismoving in this church.
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What he saw through the years.
When I walked in you've heardSister Joyful testify and it's
not me but when I walked in,amen, she said, let him
recognize it.
When I walked in and startedtalking, tears started coming
out of his eyes because he hadseen the power of God.
My brother there's two peoplein heaven today that died last
year at least two Of his eyesBecause he had seen the power of
God.
When my brother there's twopeople in heaven today that died
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last year, at least two Becauseof this church and the power of
God that was exhibited, amen,in the prayers of the people of
this church.
When my brother on his deathbedand God had mercy on Lulu
Johnson, as wicked of a life ashe lived, it was by the power of
God.
Brother Brandon, it could beexpected.
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Your grandpa was a good, godlyman.
He had served God for manyyears.
Amen.
You would expect such a miraclein somebody like that, but my
brother was a crack addict.
My brother was a wicked man,but the power of God intervened
in his life.
You can't deny that.
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That was God.
You can't deny that it was themercy of God that put him in
that place.
And why do you not see theevidence?
Why can't you see the hand ofGod?
Why can't you see what God isdoing?
Amen, miracles, miracles,hallelujah that God is, as
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evidence of the power of God.
Amen.
I'll tell you what.
I don't care what you do.
I'm not getting sideways withyou.
I'm not going to have a problemin my heart.
If you talk about me, lie aboutme, it don't matter.
Cheat me, it doesn't matter.
Amen.
I cannot afford to let anythingget in my life and overlook the
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power of god.
I know there's people in thischurch that are hypocrites.
I know there's people in thischurch that's not right with god
.
I know some of you got atelevision and I preached
against it for years.
I know some of you has got atelevision and I've preached
against it for years.
I know some of you are doingthings that I've preached
against for years, but I'm notgoing to let what you do keep me
from seeing the evidence of thepower of God.
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I'm not going to let what youdo or what you don't do keep me
from being where I need to bewith God.
There's too much evidence.
There's too much evidence.
There's too much witness.
Can you say amen, that thisyoung generation needs to see
the power, the power, the powerof God, the power of God that
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they have felt?
Amen.
When Sister Haley come down thataisle the other night shouting
under the power of God, amen,falling out on the floor in the
power of God, how can you denythat?
You think she was playing orwas that the power of God?
Amen, was it God or not?
You think she's a hypocrite?
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I don't think she's a hypocrite.
I think the power of God cameon her life.
Amen.
I've known her since she was alittle girl and I've never known
her to be one that wants toshow off in front of people.
Amen.
And if you've got a big crowd,like we had the other night and
she'd run down that aisleshouting under the power of God,
I don't think she was trying toshow off.
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I believe it was the power ofGod.
Can you say amen?
I believe it was the power ofGod.
Glory to God.
And I'm not going to deny thepower of God.
But that is what Paul said,that in the last days, perilous
times would come.
And he gives that list, andthen he said that they would
have a form of godliness, butdeny the power thereof.
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I am not going to deny what Godis doing.
I'm not going to deny the handof God.
I may not agree, amen.
You may not agree witheverything I preach, but don't
deny the power, don't deny theevidence that God is in our
midst and God is among us.
Amen, I said don't deny thetruth of God.
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Amen, amen, praise God, amen.
I'll tell you what that will do.
Amen, that will turn the powerof God against us.
Blasphemy of the Holy Ghost isdenying the power of God.
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He casteth out devils byBaalzebub.
That ain't God.
That ain't God.
That's the devil.
That ain't God.
That's something else.
It ain't God.
That's the devil.
That ain't God.
That's something else.
It ain't God.
They were denying the power ofGod that was working through
Christ.
Blaspheming the Holy Ghost isnot just making fun of somebody
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shouting it's whenever we denythe power of the Holy Ghost.
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And that's dangerous ground.
This is Pastor Philip Steelefrom Pentecostal Lighthouse in
Pekin, illinois, and one of thecontributing members of the HPO
team.
We're so glad that you joinedus today.
We pray that you've beenblessed, encouraged and uplifted
through this message.
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May you continue to walkvictoriously in the hope of His
calling.
God bless.
Hello, this is Austin Griffiths, the pastor of Open
Praise Fellowship HolinessChurch in Easley, South Carolina
.
Thank you for listening toHoliness Preaching Online.
Let's take these truths ofGod's Word with us and apply
these biblical doctrines to ourlives.
I know you'll enjoy this sermonfrom a holiness preacher.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
There, brother Marshall, amen, no matter the
cares of life, amen, amen, aslong as I'm in the shadow of the
cross, amen, the blood stillcovers, amen, he still reaches,
amen, and I'm thankful for thatAmen.
I don't ever want to get amen,desensitized, amen, from the
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cross man, we.
We live in a world where, amen,uh, they're desensitized to a
lot of things, but, frankie, man, they're desensitized to life,
man, we, uh, thank god for thesupreme court decision last year
or the year before, whicheverone.
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It was Amen, but it didn't gofar enough, did it?
Amen, and we're desensitized,amen, to life.
We're desensitized to liberty,amen.
And we're also desensitized toGod in America, amen, and that's
a sad and a scary place to be.
Amen, I don't want to be on thewrong side of God man, I don't
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want to be on that left hand man, but if I can keep myself near
the cross and the shadow of it,amen, I believe we'll be all
right.
Amen, I feel good in my soultonight.
Amen, I know, um, we, we, uh,we've got a lot of sickness and
and I'm sure, amen, that you'restill, we're still weary, amen,
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and uh and uh.
But I believe God's here tohelp us, amen, and I believe
that, uh, he's here to meet withus, amen, and if we'll do our
part, amen, I guarantee youhe'll do his Amen.
And we want God's will for thisservice to be manifested.
Amen, and he's faithful andjust to do what we need him to
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do.
Amen, no matter where we're atAmen, he's faithful and just to
help us.
Amen, in our needs, amen, amen.
I want to say it's an honor anda privilege, amen, to be able
to preach here tonight.
Amen, and I tell you you'vealready heard a ton of good
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preaching this week.
Amen, but if the Lord will helpus, amen, I want to follow him.
I don't want to get off course.
Amen, if I get off course, weget in the weeds.
Amen, amen.
Hey, you know, in the south theweeds ain't a good place to be.
Amen, there's some creepycrawlies.
Amen, there's some bucktoothrattle moccasins in there.
Amen, you might even stumble ona gator.
Amen, I want to stay out of theweeds.
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Praise God, amen.
Appreciate everybody pushingthrough.
Like the pastor said thismorning in our worship, I felt
the Lord, I felt the witness ofthe Spirit, I felt the witness
of the Holy Ghost in thepreaching.
Appreciate Brother Casey.
Known him forever and a day.
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We're from the same part of thecountry, so a lot of the
references he was making toBrother Roper this morning, I
know him well.
Amen, and what an impact thatman of God was in our life.
Amen, going on to glory now.
Amen, we want to try to preachto you tonight for the Lord to
help us.
Amen, we want to follow him andwe're going to read in a couple
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of places here Hebrews, chapter11.
Amen, first verse there.
First verses 1 and 2.
And then we'll go to 2Corinthians or some famous man
once said 2 Corinthians, 2Corinthians, amen, 2 Corinthians
.
There, and we'll read a coupleverses there out of chapter 13.
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All right, amen.
Hebrews, chapter 11, versenumber 1 and 2 there, and a very
familiar scripture.
I love this chapter, amen, andI love amen that the Bible has a
hall of fame.
Amen, I love reading it.
Amen, hebrews, chapter 11,.
We'll start in verses one andtwo.
It says now faith is thesubstance of things hoped for,
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the evidence of things not seenfor by it.
The elders obtained a goodreport.
Amen, by faith.
Amen.
Flip over with us to 2Corinthians, there, and we'll
read there in chapter 13.
, and we'll go down verses 1through 4.
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Just a couple chapters over andI'll give you a minute to get
there.
Amen.
2 Corinthians, chapter number13.
And we'll begin reading inverse number 1.
And Paul's writing here.
He said this is the third timeI'm coming to you in the mouth
of two or three witnesses.
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Shall every word be established.
I told you before and foretellyou as if I were present the
second time and being absent.
Now I write to them whichheretofore have sinned, and to
all other, that if I come again,I will not spare, since you
seek a proof of Christ speakingin me, which, to you, word is
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not weak but mighty in you, forthrough him.
He was crucified throughweakness, yet he liveth by the
power of God.
Aren't you glad of that?
Amen, hallelujah.
For we also are weak in him,but we live with him by the
power of God toward you.
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Amen.
I'm going to read verse 4 againFor though he was crucified
through weakness, yet he livethby the power of God.
For we also are weak in him,but we shall live with him by
the power of God, for we alsoare weak in Him, but we shall
live with Him by the power ofGod toward you.
Aren't you thankful tonight forthe power of God?
Amen.
Aren't you thankful for theability amen.
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To change a man so completelythat you can't even recognize
the person, that he's become.
Amen, that's the power of theblood in your life.
Amen, and I'm become Amen.
That's the power of the bloodin your life.
Amen, and I'm thankful.
Amen.
We sung this morning if he hasto reach way down, he'll pick me
up.
Amen, I'm glad of the power ofGod.
Let's pray over the Word.
Father, we thank you today foryour mercy.
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We thank you today, god, forwhat You've done for us.
We're thankful, god.
We're thankful, god, for thespirit that we feel, for the
presence of God that's manifesthere in our service.
God, we pray that you wouldmove through the preaching of
the word God, anoint our earsand heart to hear and receive.
Meet us in the altar at theconclusion of this word and
we'll thank you and praise youin the precious name of Jesus.
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Amen and the church say amen,amen, amen.
I know we understand today amenin our scripture.
Amen.
We've read Hebrews many times.
Amen, this chapter 11 there,and we know that.
Amen of the mighty works thatwas wrought in this book.
Amen, especially in thischapter.
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We can read down through theverses of faith here in the Hall
of Fame and we can read of thepatriarchs of the faith and men
who were used mightily by thepower of God.
Amen.
But I'm thankful tonight, amen,that you and I have a few
things that we can say aboutthis hall of faith.
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Amen In our life.
Amen.
We have experienced some thingsin our life, amen, that are
worthy of mention.
Amen, especially around ourchurch.
Amen.
Just here recently, we've seenmiracles performed in our midst.
Amen.
I don't know about you, but thatmakes my faith rise.
Amen.
It makes it bubble up in me,brother Marshall, amen, and it
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makes me proud to be, amen, achild of God, amen.
No matter what the world says,I'm proud to serve God.
Amen.
And not a worldly pride, amen,but a pride that says I know
what I was, amen, and Godchanged me to what he wants me
to be and I'm no longer a childof hell, but I'm a child of God.
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Amen.
And I'm thankful tonight thatif he can do it for the lowest
of the low, like me, he can doit for you and he can do it for
anyone.
Amen.
That takes Him by faith, amen.
And comes repenting andbelieving on the blood of Jesus.
Amen.
Aren't you thankful today forthe power of God that changes us
?
Amen.
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I'm thankful today to be saved.
I'm thankful today to beblood-bought.
I'm thankful today, amen, tohave seen miracles.
I'm thankful today to havefaith.
Amen, the substance of thingshoped for.
Not only have we hoped for it,but we've seen it.
Church, amen In our lives.
Amen, manifested Amen Beforeour very eyes.
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Amen.
And before I get too far in it,today, amen.
I believe that God today, amen.
Even in our lives, even thoughwe've seen things, amen, happen.
We've been through things,trials, and whatever the case
may be.
It's not always a mountaintop.
It's not always flowery streets, it's not always amen,
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mountaintops and ribbons andbows.
But sometimes we go throughsome things.
Sometimes it's on our own doing, sometimes it's an attack of
the enemy, sometimes it's atesting from God.
Amen that allows us.
Amen's a testing from God.
Amen that allows us to gothrough things.
Amen.
Job was chosen by God.
Have you considered Amen, myservant.
Amen, but no matter the past,no matter the problem that we
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find ourselves in, amen.
I also believe that it's thewill of God, that he does not
want us to stay in a perpetualstate of defeat, that he does
not want us to stay in aconstant state of depression,
that he does not want us to lackAmen On this earth.
He wants us to get past theproblem.
He wants us to get past thepast Amen.
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Too many times we're paralyzedby the problems that we face,
amen, and we feel like that wecan't get over them and there's
nothing we can do.
And the devil comes to us andtalks to us and we should brush
him off.
But oftentimes we listen to him, amen, and he tells us that you
can't get through, you're notgoing to overcome, you can't get
past Amen, you might as wellnot try.
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Amen, you might as well not putany effort in, but I'm telling
us today that God, amen, wantsus to get past that.
Amen, from the problem.
Amen to a solution in Him.
Amen, I believe it's the will ofGod today.
Amen, that we have the victoryin our life.
Amen, now you know when you'reheaded off on a trip, amen, the
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best way to get from point A topoint B is to ask your wife Amen
, I'm just joking there.
Amen, I'm going to stop beforeI get in trouble here.
Amen, but buy a map.
Amen, or open the Google Maps.
Amen, or Safari Map, whateverthe case, whatever phone you
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have, that's the easiest way toget from A to Maps.
Amen, or Safari Map, whateverthe case, whatever phone you
have, that's the easiest way toget from A to B.
Amen, it's to use a map.
Amen, oh, don't you know thismorning or tonight.
Rather, the map for our lifetelling us how to get from A to
B has already been given to us.
Amen, brother Caleb's overthere patting it.
Amen, holding up whereeverybody can see it.
Brother, it's already beengiven to us.
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Amen, it's already been given.
Amen, we already have it.
Amen, there are probably morecopies of this map Amen that I'm
talking about on shelves todaythan any other book.
It's still the best seller inthe world, but it's also
probably the least read book inAmerica and across the world.
Amen, probably the least readbook in America and across the
world.
Amen, friend, we've got thebook, amen.
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We've got the map Amen.
And it tells us, amen, thatwe're headed, amen to a place
called heaven and it also tellsus how to avoid a place called
hell, amen.
Oh, I want some map readingtonight.
Amen, I want the devil to know,amen, that I'm not willing to
stay down, that I'm not willingto stay in the past, that I'm
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not willing to be part of aproblem, but I'm willing tonight
to accept God's hand andovercome for the victory of the
Holy Ghost.
Amen.
I want to preach to us tonight.
Amen on evidences, amen,evidences in our life, amen.
On evidences, amen, evidencesin our life, amen.
And I believe that's what Godwants us to do is to get past
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the problem.
Amen.
We read in our text thismorning the classic statement of
faith Amen.
You ask anybody what faith isand they can read this text.
They'll quote this text.
Amen, it's everywhere.
Amen, we know it.
We can spout it off Amen, justas quickly as we can snap our
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fingers Amen, faith, amen, thesubstance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen,amen.
We find that we believe thatAmen.
But I'd like to start outtonight by telling us what faith
is not.
Amen.
Faith is not some kind ofmagical formula Amen, amen.
Faith is not some kind of amen,denial Amen.
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And what I mean by that is wegot a fever of 103, but, praise
God, I ain't got no fever.
Amen, it's not a denial Amen.
It's not amen.
Faith in faith, faith in howmuch faith I say I've got.
It's faith in God, amen To dowhat he says he's going to do,
amen.
It's not instant gratification,amen and answers Amen.
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It's not always now faith, amen, but often times, and many
times, it's through faith.
Amen.
We've got to go through Amenand faith gives us that strength
to go through Amen.
Faith the definition is faith.
It's the substance of thingshoped for, the evidence of
things not seen.
Amen.
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Now I've got to tell us tonightthat that word hope, amen, it
doesn't mean wish Amen, itdoesn't mean maybe.
It doesn't mean wish Amen, itdoesn't mean maybe.
It doesn't mean you know, maybeI'll get through it.
Amen, maybe God will deliver,maybe God will help me get past
the past.
Amen, but it's absolute, amen.
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It's absolute.
There is an absolute with God.
Amen, he is absolute.
Amen.
He is absolute faith andabsolute truth.
Amen, he is absolute.
Amen.
He is absolute faith andabsolute truth, amen.
The Bible tells us here Amen.
When it speaks of the rapturein the church Amen.
It calls it the blessed hope.
Amen.
I'm so glad tonight it doesn'tcall it the blessed maybe, amen,
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the blessed maybe one day, theblessed hope.
So Amen.
But I'm glad tonight weunderstand Amen.
But I'm glad tonight weunderstand Amen.
What the definition is saying?
It's really saying that faithis the title deed.
Amen To victory, amen.
Now we all know what a deed ischurch.
If you own any kind of piece ofproperty, you know what a deed
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is.
Amen.
It shows ownership, likebrother Josh just said.
Amen.
It shows ownership, likeBrother Josh just said.
It describes the honor to havefull proof of possession and it
gives you legal authority toback it up.
Amen, a deed is sure.
Evidence of what belongs to usis legally ours, amen.
So what I'm talking to youtonight about getting past the
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problems, amen.
So what I'm talking to youtonight about getting past the
problems, amen.
Whatever that is in your life,if it's sin or sickness, amen.
Or disease, or debt, ordiscontent, unemployment, put
the whatever word that you wantin right there Anxiety, fear or
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failure, whatever it is.
One thing, church, that'simportant is we've got to have
some evidences.
Amen that says anxiety, fear orfailure, whatever it is.
One thing just as important iswe've got to have some evidences
, even that says God's done itbefore and He'll do it again.
It don't matter what the enemysays.
Even God moves and overcomes inour life.
Amen.
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He is the answer to my need, heis the answer to your need.
Amen.
You need a title deed tonight.
Amen In your life, amen.
And I'd like to share somethingwith us tonight how to find some
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evidences.
Amen, but you must understandAmen.
The only way we're going tofind it is if we search for it.
Amen, because, over and over inthe Word of God, there is a
principle that is clear to usAmen.
And that principle is that ifyou want to change, amen.
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If you want a breakthrough, ifyou want change, amen.
If you want a breakthrough, ifyou want success, amen.
If you want to get past yourproblem, amen, it won't be
handed to you.
Amen, but in other words,you've got to search for it.
Amen, jeremiah 29.
Amen.
And verse 13 tells us and youseek me and find me when you
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shall search for me With allyour heart.
And verse 14 says and I will befound of you, saith the Lord,
amen.
Now understand, here tonightI'm not talking about salvation,
amen.
We don't have to search forthat.
It comes, amen, through theblood of Jesus.
Jesus was seeking me, amen.
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But after salvation, friend,everything else that I've got
with God, I had to search for it, I had to desire it.
Amen, to get what I needed fromGod.
Amen, amen, amen, amen.
I was thinking today about somegames that we play in our youth.
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Amen, and how that applies toour lives.
Amen, amen.
We've had the game Jeopardy,amen, and I love to play it, but
I only like to answer thehistory questions.
I don't know any of the rest ofthem.
Amen, if you get outside ofthat, I'm pretty lost.
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Amen, but Jeopardy.
You got the answer, but they'restill asking questions.
Amen, battleship how many everplayed Battleship?
Oh, I love Battleship.
Amen, pew Success Amen, carrierhow many ever played Battleship
.
Oh, I love Battleship.
Amen, pew, pew, success.
Amen, carrier sunk, hallelujah,amen.
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A raging bull in a china shop,amen, always shooting at
somebody, amen, hallelujah.
But there's a game of life thata lot of people play, amen.
It's called the blame game.
Amen, hallelujah, hallelujah,amen.
We're always in America blamingsomething on somebody else.
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It's always somebody else'sfault, brother Josh, amen, it's
either.
If we're children, we'reblaming our parents.
Amen.
If we're parents, I hope wedon't blame our children, but
sometimes we do Amen In societyand government.
If you're a Democrat, you blamethe Republicans, amen.
If you're a Republican, aconservative, you blame the
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Democrats, and rightly so.
Amen.
But we blame somebody else.
Amen.
Somebody else hurt me, somebodyelse talked about me, pastor.
Somebody done me wrong.
Amen, somebody else hurt me.
Somebody else talked about me,pastor.
Somebody done me wrong, amen.
Somebody else, something else?
Amen.
That's what's called the blamegame.
Amen.
And I want us to know tonightthat in troubles, one of the
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sources of life's troubles mostof the time is other people.
Amen, it is, it is, it's justfact.
Amen, I don't hurt myself.
What kind of person will I be?
Amen, sometimes I do, butthat's another story.
Amen, hallelujah, amen, amen.
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But that may be a reason for ourproblems.
Amen, and oftentimes it is.
But, pastor, there ain't nobodyelse Can stop me from getting
past my problems.
Huh, ain't.
Nobody else Can stop me Fromgetting past what's hurt me.
Ain't nothing else can stop youFrom getting past what somebody
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else said about you and done toyou and hurt you.
Amen.
See, we have that power.
You and I have that power.
They don't have that power.
They might have had the powerto hurt you, amen.
But they don't have the powerto make you stay hurt, amen.
They don't have the power tomake you stay down.
They ain't got the power tomake you stay in the past.
Amen, friend, down.
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I ain't got the power to makeyou stay in the past.
Amen, friend, amen.
There's a power that God gives,the blessed grace of God that
helps us get over the past.
Amen, amen.
We find that in 2 Timothy andPaul's writings Amen.
This is what he said.
2 Timothy.
He said Alexander thecoppersmith didn't mean much
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evil.
Amen, the Lord.
I'd hate to be in Alexander'sshoes right here.
Amen, amen.
Paul said the Lord reward himaccording to his works.
Amen, of whom be thou awarealso, for he hath greatly
withstood our words.
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At my first answer, no manstood with me, but all men
forsook me.
Oh, I like this last part,though.
Amen.
He said, notwithstanding, theLord stood with me.
Hallelujah, hallelujah,hallelujah.
Everybody else left.
You ever felt alone.
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You ever felt like ain't nobodywith me, everybody else is gone
.
Amen, paul did.
But he said notwithstanding,the Lord stood with me.
And the Lord shall deliver mefrom every evil work and will
preserve me unto his heavenlykingdom, to whom be the glory.
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Amen Of God, forever, amen, amen.
Sometimes we're hurt by otherpeople, sometimes we're done
wrong, friends, amen.
But God is greater than thehurt.
God is greater than the hurt,god is greater than the past,
and God gives us grace where wedon't stay in the hurt.
Amen, amen.
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Jesus spoke in the parable ofthe wheat and the tares and in
that parable he made thisstatement Now there was an enemy
coming in and that's a prettysorry individual, amen.
That sows tares in a goodlooking field.
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Amen.
But this man did.
The enemy came in and he sowedtares in the wheat.
Amen.
I'm here to tell you tonight.
Sometimes, no matter how muchyou try to do right, somebody's
always going to be on the wrongside and do you wrong.
Amen.
It don't matter.
But you know what the Lord saidAmen.
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The Lord said let them bothgrow together.
Hallelujah, amen, amen.
I want to tell us tonight nopain, I'm not.
I'm not denigrating your pain.
I promise I've been in themidst of some hurt, okay, amen.
But no pain, amen.
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No person and no problem, amen.
You may have been victimized,amen.
You may have been hurt, you mayhave been wronged, but, friend,
let me tell you tonight Amen.
God wants you to get past theproblem.
Amen, and one of the firstthings we've got to do, pastor,
one of the first things I had todo in my life was quit playing
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the blame game.
Amen, because when it waseverybody else's fault, I was in
a perpetual state of hurt.
Amen, but by the grace of God,amen, amen.
Let them blow together.
Let the tears in the wheat grow.
Friend, you may not get past itright now, but that's coming a
day.
By the grace of God, he'llseparate it out and the wheat
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will grow in your life.
Amen, amen, amen.
I read a story and it's a littlelengthy, so bear with me.
Amen.
I read a story and it's alittle lengthy, so bear with me,
amen.
I read this account of a manwho had a newborn baby, and this
was his account of it.
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He said only a few hours aftermy wife and I arrived at the
hospital, we were holding handsand steadily breathing together.
Her contractions had escalatedin a matter of hours and before
we knew it, she was almost readyto begin pushing to deliver the
baby.
He said as I held her hand andcounted to ten, with each
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agonizing contraction shemustered up what little energy
she had left to pass our fourthchild into the world.
She said the baby.
The baby came so quickly.
The nursing staff didn't havetime to prep Amen the room for
delivery.
It seemed like it was overbefore it began.
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As I was cutting the cord, Inoticed something was wrong with
the baby.
She wasn't breathing normally.
She was gasping, with herentire body aiming to get air
into her tiny lungs.
When I pointed it out to thedoctor, he acknowledged that
there was indeed a problem.
A nurse came over and tried tosuction her mouth, amen, and her
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nose to clear the air passages,but it didn't seem to help.
He said they gave her a petitelittle oxygen mask and put her
under a heat lamp to warm her,but she continued to struggle,
he said.
As I kept one eye upon my babydaughter and one eye upon the
doctor, I began to seriouslyworry for her safety.
I was worried because it seemedhe showed very little concern
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for what was happening.
He said I suppose I knew, or heknew watching his response, and
he was using me as a worrycompass.
But his lack of concerntroubled me all the more.
Hey man.
And in the next 20 minutes hesaid my daughter was taken from
us and put in a hospital nurseryto be kept under close
supervision.
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He said this was particularlyhard on my wife because she had
not even had a chance to holdour child.
The head nurse came into ourroom several minutes later and
explained that because the babywas born so fast that she was
not able to get all theembryonic fluid out of her lungs
.
The nurse told her this wasvery common with children who
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came out so quickly, but theywanted to keep an eye on her for
the next several hours to makesure she was okay.
He said for the next severalhours I stood outside the
nursery and I watched mydaughter fight for her life.
Watching her body seize atevery breath was almost more
than I could take.
Amen, the resident nurse wouldoften look up from her desk,
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look at my daughter and then goback to what she was doing.
He said this began to eat at mebecause she didn't appear.
Amen that this person wasgiving my daughter the attention
that she needed.
Truthfully, it didn't seem likeshe cared.
After about five hours of thisabsurdity, he said, I forced my
way into the nursery anddirectly confronted the nurse.
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He said I was sick and tired ofseeing my baby suffer and I
wanted something to be doneabout it now.
Why couldn't they just extractthe fluid from her lungs?
Why couldn't they call in aspecialist?
Why weren't they just extractthe fluid from her lungs?
Why couldn't they call in aspecialist?
Why weren't they doing anythingbut watching?
Something needed to be doneimmediately.
The head nurse was called in tospeak with me about my concerns
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and to answer my questions andmy impatience.
He said I only had one questionwhat could be done now to help
this baby?
He said her answer was verydeliberate and premeditated and
I will never forget it as longas I lived.
She looked amen squarely in myeyes and she said these words
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there's a lot we can do now tohelp your daughter.
However, we are not choosing todo anything.
We are giving this child timeTo declare herself Before we
step in and help.
She explained to me thathelping her now Could actually
be hurting her in the long run.
She said this baby needs tofight for her life, so she will
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become a strong adult, he said.
I appreciated that answer somuch that I ran to the room To
write it down.
He said when I came back to thenursery.
I stood over my strugglingdaughter, bent over her and
whispered into her ear Over andover and over Breathe, baby,
breathe, baby, breathe, baby,breathe.
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He said.
In the next few hours mydaughter won her battle and she
was lovingly returned To hermother.
Amen, friends, sometimes To getpast the problem, we've got to
declare ourselves, amen, a childof God, and find some evidences
.
We've got to search and say,amen, here's my evidence, here's
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my evidence, here's my title.
Deed Jesus said Ask and itshall be given, seek and he
shall find Amen.
Knock and it shall be opened.
Amen For everyone that asketh,receiveth.
He that seeketh findeth.
He that knocketh it shall beopened.
You know what that implies tofindeth he that knocketh, it
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shall be open.
You know what that implies tome.
Amen.
That implies to me, amen, thatif you don't seek for it and if
you don't look for it, you won'tfind it.
Oh, hallelujah, amen.
And when you've got a problemhow many has got problems in
their life?
I'll raise my hand.
Amen.
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And when you've got a problemhow many has got problems in
their life?
I'll raise my hand.
Amen, I've got a problem.
Amen.
I've got to find the evidence,amen, of the answer that God has
promised for my need Amen, amen, you've got to search for it,
you've got to press for it.
Amen, amen, the devil is justgot to press for it.
Amen, the devil's just notgoing to give ground.
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Amen, he ain't just going tostep out of the way willingly.
Amen, he's already defeated.
We know that, but I wonder,sometimes we say that with our
mouth, but do we know that he'salready defeated?
Amen, and he is a defeated foe.
Amen, the power of God atCalvary.
He's already defeated.
Amen, he is the defeated foe.
Amen, the power of God atCalvary.
Amen, defeated him.
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Amen, but I want to find amen,my source.
Amen, our text said in 2ndCorinthians our pastors quoted
it many times amen, that out ofthe mouth of two or three
witnesses Shall every word Bewhat Established.
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Amen.
That means if I agree and youagree and somebody else agrees,
man, we've got a majority.
Hallelujah, hallelujah,hallelujah, amen, amen, sources,
preacher.
Where can I find my evidence?
Amen, amen, sources, preacher.
Where can I find my evidence?
Amen, amen, one, as you look inthe testimony of others.
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And that's when I beganthinking of all the miracles
that's happened in our church.
Amen, did you know?
Amen, did you know that otherpeople have gone through things?
Amen, just like us.
Amen.
Did you know that?
Amen, that other people havegone through things?
Amen, just like us?
Amen.
Did you know that we're not theonly one?
Amen, amen.
And so many times when we'vegot problems, I think I'm the
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only one, amen.
I think that nobody elseunderstands, amen, what I'm
going through?
Amen, amen.
And one thing we can do to helpus get our answer Amen, is to
hear.
Amen, how somebody else made itthrough.
Amen, how somebody whytestimony service is so good?
Amen, so we can see and hearhow God Moved for somebody else.
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Amen, amen, amen, amen.
We can read the story Amen of JCPenney Went bankrupt twice and
then still managed to build Oneof the largest clothing
retailers Amen, it gives youevidence.
Amen.
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And even when we fall, we gotto get up.
Amen.
We read of missionary familiesAmen that sat down with nothing
to eat, prayed prayer and saidthe blessing and a knock came on
the door and then they had foodto eat.
Amen, when we're here.
There was a young lady in NewYork.
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I read her story today.
She was on the subway and shemissed her station and by the
time she realized that she hadmissed her station.
She didn't know what to do.
The story says she prayed for asign of God's presence.
This was no hour or place for ayoung lady passing through a
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rough neighborhood alone.
And the story says at thatmoment, brother Josh, the subway
doors opened and on stepped ahomeless, disheveled, disheveled
, dirty man on that amen subwayand he plopped right down beside
her.
Amen, she was scared to death.
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Amen.
She began to pray silently God,amen, I know you see me.
Amen.
She began to pray silently.
God, amen, I know you see me.
God, are you near God, are youthere?
Amen.
The answer came in a song.
The story says that thathomeless man pulled out a
harmonica, brother Josh, andbegan to play that old song,
that old hymn, be Thou my Vision, which happened to be her
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mama's favorite song.
Amen.
When you hear how somebody elseovercame drug addiction,
overcame, amen, alcoholism,poverty, it gives us evidence,
brother Frankie, that I can getpast what I'm facing in my life.
Amen.
And he'll do the same thing,for you.
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Amen.
Evidences of God's power.
Amen, amen, amen.
If he did it, then He'll do itnow.
Amen.
Because God is no respecter ofperson, no matter what we go
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through, no matter what we face.
If he did it for one, he'll doit for all, amen, amen.
Another evidence is given inthe Word of God.
Amen.
It's what God has done in thepast, amen.
We find one evidence in Psalms106.
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A major problem of the childrenof Israel is they forgot God and
then, when they got in trouble,they had to remember God.
Amen.
Psalms 106 says they soonforgot His Word, his works.
They waited not for His counsel.
Amen.
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The disciples also had the issue.
Matthew, chapter 16.
Christ, amen, took them to taskfor their faith.
Oh, ye of little faith, whyreason ye among yourselves
Because ye have brought no bread?
Do ye not understand?
Neither remember the fiveloaves of the five thousand and
how many baskets ye took up,neither the seven loaves of the
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four thousand and how manybaskets ye took up.
Amen.
Sometimes we quickly forget whatGod has done for us.
Amen.
And that's why David said inPsalm 42, oh my God, my soul is
cast down within me.
Therefore, hallelujah, will Iremember Thee Church?
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We've got some evidences.
We've heard story after story,evidence after evidence.
Amen.
Brother Frankie tells, evidenceafter evidence.
Amen.
Brother Frankie tells us oftenof an evidence and thank God for
it.
It builds my faith, amen.
I remember evidences, church.
I remember when he saved meEvidences.
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I remember when he sanctifiedme Evidences, evidences.
I remember when he filled mewith the Holy Ghost Evidences.
I remember when he sanctifiedme Evidences.
I remember when he filled mewith the Holy Ghost Evidences.
I remember when I was at mylowest and he picked me up
Evidences, hallelujah.
I remember when he helped me getpast the past Evidences.
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Even the point I'm makingtonight Is we don't have to
remain paralyzed by the problemsof this life, because one thing
we need to understand Is thatGod will do it again.
Amen, hallelujah, amen didn'the save you, amen.
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Didn't he sanctify you?
Didn't he deliver you?
Hadn't he healed you?
Hadn't he blessed you?
Hadn't he sanctify you?
Didn't he deliver you?
Hadn't he healed you?
Hadn't he blessed you?
Hadn't he brought you through?
Hadn't he been away?
When there ain't no way he willdo it again.
Amen, raise your hands and lovethe Lord.
Oh, hallelujah, hallelujah,hallelujah, amen.
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Find the evidence, church, amen, where God has done it Before
you again Already, amen.
And if you can't possibly findany, which I highly doubt, amen,
then don't worry, because theLord said in Isaiah, oh, chapter
43 Behold, I'll do a new thingIf you ain't got no evidence,
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just hang on Because God's goingto do a new thing.
Amen, amen, amen, amen.
Now it shall spring forth.
Shall you not Know it, I willmake a way in the wilderness and
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rivers, in the desert.
Amen.
I don't know about you, but Icouldn't wait to get to church.
I felt my faith building allevening.
Amen, amen.
I felt hope begin to rise in me.
Amen, behold.
Isaiah said behold, that meansto look upon with wonder.
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Amen, how many of you need Godto do wonders in your life
tonight?
How many of you need God to dowonders?
Amen, evidences, I will make away in the wilderness, rivers,
in the desert.
Amen.
I don't know about you, friend,amen, but my doubt is headed to
the exit.
Amen, I feel God helping us.
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Amen, hebrews, chapter 1.
Or chapter 11.
Faith is the substance of thingshoped for, the evidence of
things not seen.
I may not have seen it with myeyes just yet, but my Bible
tells me, brother Frankie, thatit's coming.
He said I'll do a new thing Inyour life.
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Amen, evidences, amen, amen,Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen.
We feel it every time we kneelto pray.
Evidences, amen, I feel it.
We feel it, amen, burning whenwe're studying and reading the
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Bible.
Amen, in our devotion timeEvidences Hallelujah, hallelujah
.
We feel it when we're outside.
Hey man mowing the lawn, heyman with good gospel music in
our ear and the Lord begins tocome down On the lawnmower.
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Brother Charles, and it lookslike you're a drunk man out
there Just weaving everywhere.
Hey man, I don't know, how thegrass ever gets cut.
Hey man, it's happened to me.
Amen.
I don't know how the grass evergets cut.
Amen, it's happened to mebefore.
Amen.
Brother Charles, you felt itDriving back from Lowe's
Evidences.
Hallelujah, amen, hallelujah,hallelujah.
Oh, there ought to be enoughfaith in here.
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Amen, there ain't.
Amen.
No past can keep us down.
Amen, no past can keep us down.
Amen.
Friend, I'm telling you tonightwe can be part of that vision.
Amen, amen, amen Of God movingin our life.
Behold, I will do a new thingNow.
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It shall spring forth.
Shall you not know it?
Amen, you believe that tonight.
Amen, I believe that with allmy heart, hallelujah.
I believe that with all myheart.
Amen, that we have evidences.
Amen, of God moving, hallelujah.
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I'm not going to stay up heremuch longer.
I'm finna close.
Amen.
But if there's anything I faceand anything I need in my life,
there's evidence that God willmove.
Amen, hallelujah.
I look at His face every time Iopen my Bible.
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That's a miracle right there.
Amen.
I know you might not can seethat, amen, but October of 23
was a year, amen, that God did amiracle.
Amen, amen, that God reacheddown in a hospital room in
Tuscaloosa, alabama, amen andpicked me up by my shirt front,
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amen, and gave me faith again,not that I'd lost it, but I
needed to see it.
Amen In action.
Amen.
You may know the story but forthose that don't, my granddaddy
had been in the hospital.
He'd already had amen apacemaker.
He'd had heart problems foryears but already had amen a
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pacemaker.
He'd had heart problems foryears but he got to wear his
pacemaker, amen.
Even with the pacemaker, hisheart rhythm, his heartbeat was
just real low, his pressure wasreal low.
So they put him in the hospitalthere running some tests,
different things, and I neverwill forget it, amen.
It was on a night in October.
I got a text from my mother.
They said we're on the way tothe ER.
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Your granddaddy just went incardiac arrest.
He got up out of his hospitalbed, went into the bathroom
there, retched over, pulled theemergency cord and his heart
stopped and he hit the floorAmen.
Oh, the emergency cord waspulled.
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They ran in there, brother Mark, amen, and they, for a team of
four nurses, began to.
They got him back up in the bedor I can't remember.
It was on the floor, I don'tremember Amen, but they began.
A team of four nurses tookturns doing CPR and chest
compressions, trying to restarthis heart.
Amen.
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20 minutes into that ordeal,amen, they were swapping out
Amen, have you ever done CPR?
Took CPR training?
Amen, that's tough, amen, thatwill tire you out.
Amen.
But they began to do that CPRfor 20 minutes.
Brother Josh, amen, still noheartbeat.
25 minutes, still no heartbeat.
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25 minutes, no heartbeat.
Amen, amen, they're still justdoing it.
Amen, getting their thing on,thank God for them.
They looked over at minute 25,and my precious granny sat there
praying Amen, getting theirthing on, thank God for them.
They looked over at minute 25and my precious granny sitting
there praying Amen, asking Godto intervene.
Amen.
They said ma'am, we don't thinkthere's no hope.
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We've been doing this 25minutes and do you want us to
stop?
Can we call it?
She said oh no, keep it going,keep it going.
So they went back at it.
Brother Rusty knows the story,y'all know the story.
Amen.
But at minute 30, amen, god,let a heartbeat come back into
that body.
Amen.
They rushed him down to ICU,amen.
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The family gathered in Amen theneurologic, the doctor of
neurology, amen, met with mymother and all the brothers and
said we just want to warn you,he's on a breathing tube, on the
vent Amen, if he does Survivecoming off that vent, he'll be
brain dead.
He didn't have a heartbeat for30 minutes, amen.
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So they began to wean him out.
Brother Josh, amen.
The first time they tried towean him out, amen, it started.
His oxygen started dropping,amen.
So they put it back in a littlelonger and they met with mom
and them again, amen.
And they asked him what do youwant us to do?
Amen, we'll try again.
But what do you want us to doif this happens again?
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And at that point they made thedecision amen.
That if it happened again, justdon't resuscitate him because
it's so hard.
Amen, no matter, no tellingwhat damage was done from 30
minutes of CPR.
Amen, amen.
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But what my mama and herbrothers didn't know is that our
great physician was on thescene.
Amen.
But what my mama and herbrothers didn't know is there's
a great physician was on thescene.
Hallelujah, hallelujah.
And even though they said, donot resuscitate Brother Caleb,
the Holy Ghost was moving,hallelujah.
So they done it again.
They began to wean him off thatvent, amen.
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And miraculously his body beganto respond and he began to
breathe and he come off the vent, 100%, breathing on his own.
Amen, and then they began torun tests on his brain activity
to see just how much he had lost.
Amen, brother Gerald, did youknow?
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Amen, he came through.
100%, no damage, noneurological damage.
Amen, with all of his faculties, able to talk and speak.
I'm telling you, friend,evidences Of what God Can do,
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amen, evidences of what God cando.
Amen, friend.
I'm telling you tonight, if Ifaced anything in my life, if I
needed anything in my life, amen, there ain't no devil in hell
that could convince me that he'snot on my throne.
Evidences Of what God Can do,woo Evidences.
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Amen, amen.
That was October, october,december, rolled around, and he
was sitting in October, december, rolled around, and he was
sitting in my mama's living roomhaving Christmas.
Hallelujah, hallelujah, amen.
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And I got an uncle, amen, twouncles, two uncles, uncle, amen,
two uncles.
And through that ordeal I'veseen change.
Amen, amen, hallelujah.
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This was October.
We had Christmas in December ofthat year and then middle of
January the next year, god tookhim.
I don't know why, brother Josh,amen that God worked it the way
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he did.
But when I look back, I want tosee now, amen, there was a
grandson that needed someevidence.
Well, caleb, we don't know whyGod moves the way he does.
Amen, amen.
But there's some evidences ofwhat God can do.
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Hallelujah, I helped preach hisfuneral.
Amen, when we laid him in theground.
Hallelujah, I preached, helpedpreach his funeral.
Amen, when we laid him in theground.
Amen, and I preached it fromrunning in this state to back
home, of some evidences.
Amen, I felt like God laid itin my heart this evening.
Amen To remind Lighthouse ofHope.
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Amen Of some evidences in yourlife.
Amen, all is not lost.
Amen, no matter what he saysand I know we've had camp
meeting and I know this ain'tgreat preaching Friend, but I'm
speaking to you from my heartAmen.
There's enough evidences.
Around here.
Amen, we can get past what we'regoing through.
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Amen, amen, praise God, getpast what we're going through.
Amen, amen, pastor, praise God,praise God, praise God,
hallelujah.
Speaker 4 (50:17):
Praise God.
Why don't you stand heretonight and let's thank God for
all that he has done?
Would you lift your hands,thank Him for all that he has
done, what you have seen Him do,how you have seen Him work, how
you have seen Him operate.
Praise God.
Oh, the preacher is remindingus and God is reminding us
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through the message, that weneed to remember all that the
Lord has done.
Praise God.
Do you need a miracle?
Do you have a situation thatyou need God to move on, when
the Lord is trying to say well,look what I've done here, look
what I've done here, look whatI've done here, look how I've
moved there.
Praise God, and if I've done itin the past, I will surely do
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it again.
Praise God.
Oh, church, listen to me,lighthouse, amen.
You heard Brother Brandon saytonight.
He said that God has given thischurch more miracles than any
church he's been a part of.
Amen.
That's something we ought to bethankful for.
Hallelujah.
Brother Mark told me this weekand he's traveled around
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evangelizing and he said Pastor,I'm going to tell you that
there are churches around thiscountry that would like to have
one service that Lighthouse hasin a year, and every service we
come.
The presence of God is movingand the Holy Ghost is helping
and the Spirit of God is working.
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Glory to God.
We ought to be thankful.
I said we ought to be thankfulthat God is working and giving
us miracles.
Hallelujah, oh, glory be to God, amen.
We just came through one of thebest camp meetings.
I cannot remember a time whenwe had a meeting that was any
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better than what God gave us in2024.
During a time where most placeshave compromised and churches
are closing down and they'redying, but God gave us a
glorious outpouring of the HolyGhost.
I said you need to get past it.
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You need to get beyond what'sbothering you.
You need to get past it.
You need to get beyond what'sbothering you.
You need to get over it.
Amen, and remember all that Godhas done.
Hallelujah, hallelujah, oh.
Would you love the Lord here,worship the Lord here, praise
the Lord here in this house.
Glory be to God, glory be toGod.
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We love you, lord, we worshipyou to God.
We love you, lord, we worshipyou, lord, we praise you right
now.
Oh, thanks be to God, thanks beto God.
Thanks be to God, thanks be toGod.
Holy, holy, holy, holy, amen.
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What's hindering you?
What's keeping you from lettinggod work in your life?
You got something in your crawl.
Look at me.
I said you got something inyour crawl.
I didn't do something right,somebody else didn't do
something right and you'reletting miracles pass you by and
you're letting healing pass youby and you're letting
deliverance pass you by Becauseyou don't have a position or you
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didn't get asked to dosomething.
And you got your feelings onyour shoulders and God said look
at the miracles that I'm doingright in your midst.
Amen.
You know, there were people thatsaw the miracles of Jesus and
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they got so crossed with the Sonof God that they crucified Him
After three and a half years ofHim performing miracles.
You can look at me.
You can let the devil get youcrossed with God Himself.
Amen.
There's people in hell today.
They're in hell because theyblamed God.
Can let the devil get you crosswith God himself.
Amen.
There's people in hell today.
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They're in hell because theyblamed God.
I said the devil will make youget cross with God himself.
Amen, amen.
Praise God.
If you're not happy tonight andworshiping God tonight, just
coming through a glorious moveof God and seeing God help and
work.
Amen, not only of the preaching, not only the altar services,
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not only the people that gothelped, the offering for Brother
Tim Brim, everything that Goddone this week.
And you're not happy about yourchurch and you're sideways over
something, amen, and you can'trejoice.
You need to remember everythingthat God has done.
You need to remember, sisterJoyful, what God done for your
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daddy this past year.
Amen.
If it wasn't for this churchand if it wasn't for the people
of God, your daddy would be inhell today.
And thank God for a church.
I said thank God for a church.
I said thank God for a churchwhere God is moving and God is
performing miracles, amen.
Oh, I tell you what I would doif I had a lost child, robert
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Miller, I'd get in this churchand I'd seek after God so God
could save my lost children.
I'll tell you what I'd do nochurch and I'd seek after God so
God could save my lost children.
I'll tell you what I'd do nomatter who you are, I'd get in
this church and worship God.
I'd get in this church and seekthe Lord.
I wouldn't let anything, Iwouldn't let anybody get me
crossways so that I would missthe miracles of God.
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Amen, amen, glory to God, gloryof God, amen, amen, glory to
God, glory to God.
I said miracles are happeningand you're going to miss the
miracles in your life when Godis doing his best to help.
Amen, go somewhere else, get aposition somewhere else.
I don't want to be somewherewhere there's no miracles.
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I don't want to be somewherewhere there's no miracles.
I don't want to be somewherewhere there's no move of God.
I don't want to be somewherewhere God can't help and touch
my family.
Can you say amen.
Oh, praise God, Amen, I'll do alittle pastoring right here
tonight.
I got Mixler off so that I cando a little pastoring.
Amen, praise God, you are thepastor sometime, because you
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think you can do better than thepastor does and you can make
better decisions than what theman of God does.
Amen, you are the pastorsometime.
Amen.
Go ask Brother Chucky thepressure that's been put on him
since he started pastoring, amen.
You ask Brother Brandon what itis to be a pastor, amen, amen.
Brother chuckie, the pressurethat's been put on him since he
started pastoring.
Amen.
You ask brother brandon what itis to be a pastor, amen, amen.
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You got to navigate and workthrough every family and you got
to try to help everybody.
Amen.
You got everybody doingdifferent things, amen.
You ought to try to pastorsometime and then when the
pastor does something a littlebit different than what you
think it ought to be done, youget mad and sideways.
When God is honoring the churchwith miracles and God is giving
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the church a move of God and Godis a blessing and God is
helping, we need to rememberwhat God has done and God is
doing.
Praise God, amen.
And God is doing.
Praise God, amen.
That's what I got from the Wordof God tonight.
We better remember what God'sdoing.
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We better remember how God ishelping, amen.
I tell you what in Numbers 11,god brought them out of Egypt
with a high hand and they forgotwhat God done for them.
And the Bible said theycomplained and they murmured and
God got angry.
And God sent fiery serpentsamong them when they would
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complain and they would getangry, amen.
And many of them died, amen.
And they forgot about what Godhad done for them.
They forgot where God hadbrought them from.
Praise God, amen.
Sister Joy, my brother Frankie,do you remember when you was in
divorce court?
Do you remember when you almostdidn't have a family?
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Don't forget what God has done.
Don't forget that it was alittle tent right out here,
somewhere in this proximity.
Brother Frankie, amen that yougot saved on a rainy November
night.
Don't ever forget that.
Amen.
I said don't forget where theLord brought you from.
Don't forget, sister Joffa, yougot three children that are
serving God and then, because ofthis church, because somebody
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picked them up on a church vanand brought them to the house of
God, it's easy to get sideways,it's easy to get disturbed.
Amen.
But what did God do throughthis preacher?
What did God do through thischurch?
What did God do through thesepeople praying Amen To bring you
to where you are?
Amen, amen.
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We need to remember what God hasdone Murmur, complain, bicker,
amen, point, fault, find, amen.
Do everything you can To giveyourself a reason why you
shouldn't be praying and giveyourself a reason why you
shouldn't seek God and giveyourself an excuse Not to get in
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and not to glorify God.
God's gave us too much evidence.
God's gave us too.
That's what the preacherpreached.
God's gave this church too muchevidence.
And you're overlooking theevidence, amen, evidence.
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And you're over looking theevidence of what God has done
and what God will do.
I'm going to tell you something.
Look at, look at me, listen.
You're not in the shape you'rein because of me.
You're not in the shape you'rein because of somebody else in
this church.
You're in the shape you're inbecause you're overlooking
everything that God has done andGod is trying to do.
And until you open your eyes,until you say God, you have been
good to me, you have been goodto my family, you have been good
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to my church, and I'm going torise up above this, amen.
It's time we get over somethings.
It's time we get past somethings.
Amen, heaven is too close.
Eternity is too close.
Hell is too close.
Amen For us to harbor a feeling, for us to go to hell.
Amen Over getting hurt orsomebody saying something or
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somebody doing something.
I said hell is too close.
Heaven is too close and we needto not overlook what God has
done.
Hallelujah, you may not like me, you may not like my wife, amen
.
You may not like my children,but you can't deny the evidence
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that God has put his hand uponme.
You know the reason why therewas $120,000 come in when Emily
got sick, because I've got agood name around the country.
That ought to be enoughevidence that there's enough
people in this country that feellike Rusty Johnson is true blue
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and he's serving God and he'sdoing right that we going to
help him.
I've never heard of it.
I've never heard of for anyother preacher, amen.
That kind of a outpouring inthat short of a time.
I said I've never heard of.
There's too much evidence, amen.
I said there's too muchevidence, amen.
When a wreck happened and shefound out she had a tumor, I
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said there's too much evidenceFrom the fireman in the hospital
.
There's too much evidence.
Amen, amen.
That young girl is playing thepiano and singing.
Today Brother Casey's wife, hissister, died with cancer and
singing.
Today Brother Casey's wife, hissister, died with cancer.
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They tried to bring her toAnderson Hospital in Houston,
texas, and they wouldn't accepther.
They wouldn't accept her, butthey accepted Emily.
I ain't saying nothing badabout her, I'm just telling you
there's evidence that it was God.
Amen, no insurance, amen, nomoney, but they accepted her in.
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That's evidence.
That's evidence, amen.
When Mr Alexander died amen.
A few weeks after he hadsurgery amen, and Emily's still
doing good and went back to workand worked two full days Amen,
week before last.
That's evidence that there's aGod in heaven.
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I said that's evidence.
When I fell 30 feet on my headand God brought me back to life
and I said I'd never use my armsagain, I said how much evidence
do you need?
How much evidence do you needthat the power of God, the power
of God, the power of God, thepower of God is real, amen, amen
(01:03:25):
.
But because it don't go like Ithink, it don't happen like I
want it don't come out like Ithink it ought to, I deny the
power of God?
That ain't right, because Idon't think so.
Well, what about the power ofGod?
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I don't think it ought to behandled that way.
Well, what about the power ofGod?
The power of God is evidence.
That's what he read.
Handled that way, well, whatabout the power of God?
The power of God is evidence.
That's what he read in thatbook, two times in that
scripture the power of God, thepower of God.
You felt it, you know it,you've experienced it.
Amen.
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But when we get stubborn andhardheaded and self-willed and
full of pride, then it doesn'tmatter how much evidence we have
, we deny the reality of whatGod is doing.
Amen, oh God.
The Holy Ghost sent thismessage to tell us we need to
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remember what God has done.
Hallelujah, we come to churchnonchalant.
We come to church uncaring.
We come to church.
It doesn't matter if we havechurch or not.
Amen, after God has doneeverything that he has done.
Oh, hallelujah.
That attitude will bleed overinto our children and to our
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grandchildren.
Amen, They'll come to churchand they won't care.
They'll come to church and theywon't care.
They'll come to church andit'll be no big deal to them.
Amen, they're going to come tochurch late.
They're going to come to churchand sit.
They're going to come to churchand not pray.
They're going to come to churchand not worship because it
really doesn't mean anything, itreally doesn't matter.
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All the evidence that God hasgiven and God has proven.
Oh God, brother Gerald, yourgirl needs a miracle.
But there's a power of God.
If we'll live right, if we'lldo right, we can get a hold of
God.
Brother Gerald, amen.
You've got the ability, ifyou'll live right and do right,
to pray a miracle down on thatbaby girl.
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Amen, that's in another state,if you and I will not deny the
evidence that's all around us.
Glory to God that God is atwork.
Amen, praise God.
It is the power of God.
It's not the ability of man,it's not because we have good
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musicians or singers.
It's not the ability of man.
It's not because we have goodmusicians or singers, it's not
because I'm a good preacher.
It's only by the power Of God,amen.
Listen In Hebrews, chapter 2.
How God bore them witness Withsigns, wonders, divers, miracles
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and gifts of the Holy Ghostaccording to His own will.
God gives evidence and bearswitness by the power of God,
amen.
Last year your daddy got savedand is in heaven today because
of the power of God that ismoving in this church.
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What he saw through the years.
When I walked in you've heardSister Joyful testify and it's
not me but when I walked in,amen, she said, let him
recognize it.
When I walked in and startedtalking, tears started coming
out of his eyes because he hadseen the power of God.
My brother there's two peoplein heaven today that died last
year at least two Of his eyesBecause he had seen the power of
God.
When my brother there's twopeople in heaven today that died
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last year, at least two Becauseof this church and the power of
God that was exhibited, amen,in the prayers of the people of
this church.
When my brother on his deathbedand God had mercy on Lulu
Johnson, as wicked of a life ashe lived, it was by the power of
God.
Brother Brandon, it could beexpected.
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Your grandpa was a good, godlyman.
He had served God for manyyears.
Amen.
You would expect such a miraclein somebody like that, but my
brother was a crack addict.
My brother was a wicked man,but the power of God intervened
in his life.
You can't deny that.
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That was God.
You can't deny that it was themercy of God that put him in
that place.
And why do you not see theevidence?
Why can't you see the hand ofGod?
Why can't you see what God isdoing?
Amen, miracles, miracles,hallelujah that God is, as
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evidence of the power of God.
Amen.
I'll tell you what.
I don't care what you do.
I'm not getting sideways withyou.
I'm not going to have a problemin my heart.
If you talk about me, lie aboutme, it don't matter.
Cheat me, it doesn't matter.
Amen.
I cannot afford to let anythingget in my life and overlook the
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power of god.
I know there's people in thischurch that are hypocrites.
I know there's people in thischurch that's not right with god
.
I know some of you got atelevision and I preached
against it for years.
I know some of you has got atelevision and I've preached
against it for years.
I know some of you are doingthings that I've preached
against for years, but I'm notgoing to let what you do keep me
from seeing the evidence of thepower of God.
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I'm not going to let what youdo or what you don't do keep me
from being where I need to bewith God.
There's too much evidence.
There's too much evidence.
There's too much witness.
Can you say amen, that thisyoung generation needs to see
the power, the power, the powerof God, the power of God that
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they have felt?
Amen.
When Sister Haley come down thataisle the other night shouting
under the power of God, amen,falling out on the floor in the
power of God, how can you denythat?
You think she was playing orwas that the power of God?
Amen, was it God or not?
You think she's a hypocrite?
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I don't think she's a hypocrite.
I think the power of God cameon her life.
Amen.
I've known her since she was alittle girl and I've never known
her to be one that wants toshow off in front of people.
Amen.
And if you've got a big crowd,like we had the other night and
she'd run down that aisleshouting under the power of God,
I don't think she was trying toshow off.
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I believe it was the power ofGod.
Can you say amen?
I believe it was the power ofGod.
Glory to God.
And I'm not going to deny thepower of God.
But that is what Paul said,that in the last days, perilous
times would come.
And he gives that list, andthen he said that they would
have a form of godliness, butdeny the power thereof.
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I am not going to deny what Godis doing.
I'm not going to deny the handof God.
I may not agree, amen.
You may not agree witheverything I preach, but don't
deny the power, don't deny theevidence that God is in our
midst and God is among us.
Amen, I said don't deny thetruth of God.
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Amen, amen, praise God, amen.
I'll tell you what that will do.
Amen, that will turn the powerof God against us.
Blasphemy of the Holy Ghost isdenying the power of God.
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He casteth out devils byBaalzebub.
That ain't God.
That ain't God.
That's the devil.
That ain't God.
That's something else.
It ain't God.
That's the devil.
That ain't God.
That's something else.
It ain't God.
They were denying the power ofGod that was working through
Christ.
Blaspheming the Holy Ghost isnot just making fun of somebody
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shouting it's whenever we denythe power of the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 3 (01:11:46):
And that's dangerous ground.
This is Pastor Philip Steelefrom Pentecostal Lighthouse in
Pekin, illinois, and one of thecontributing members of the HPO
team.
We're so glad that you joinedus today.
We pray that you've beenblessed, encouraged and uplifted
through this message.
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May you continue to walkvictoriously in the hope of His
calling.
God bless.
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