Praise the Lord. Welcome to God's Place Party for Jesus' Ministry. It's an honor to be here once again in the presence of God. We're two, three, together in His name, we have been the mist.
I'm here with my beautiful wife, Shannon, and I'm going to let her introduce herself and just show her what God has done in her life. Yes, it is honored to be in the presence of God, and the Bible tells us to sanctify the Lord that God in her heart, that we may be ready to give a reason of hope that is in us with maintenance and fear. And we come in the presence of God in the fear of God. And, you know, before that I was in Christ, I was lost, and I was on drugs.
I was in my addiction for several years, and after it just took everything that was good in my life. The Bible says that the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God has turned it off. And, you know, I was being destroyed from lack of knowledge. I was seeking the worldly things, the wrong things.
I was seeking, you know, drugs to deal with my inner being, your heart, you know, just to numb the pain of your emotions, because, you know, I had grew up and been very bullied and physically abused and lost my kids through my drug addiction. So I just started to try to cover up and hide for myself, you know. And so you think that helps, but it don't deal with anything. All it does is build strong codes.
So eventually I had a strong code, and it took everything. And I was hopeless and homeless, living under a bridge, was in the streets, lost and been rejected from my family. But I thank God for His grace and thank God for salvation, because I was sick and tired of being sick and tired. And I always say that because those words are powerful.
Because once you come to being sick and tired of yourself and sick and tired of doing things that yourself does, you know, that's when you'll surrender. And he's got a break us to remake us and surrender to the Lord and gave it all to him, and now I seek God. And, you know, with all this pandemic and, you know, all these disasters and all this addiction, the strong code of addiction, that's going around, you know, the devil, he's running rapid. And, you know, he's got strong codes in our nations and other nations.
You know, and God keeps telling us in 2 Chronicles 7, 14, if my people, which are called by my name, would humble themselves and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways. And he would hear from heaven, forgive their sins, and heal their land. See, you know, once we're the people that he's talking to, he's talking to the church people, you know, and all people, just to return to the Lord and, you know, humble ourselves, humble ourselves from the pride and seek Him. I'm going to read some B.
Reading some scriptures about seeking God. You know, we should seek God continually, not just one day of the week. You know, a lot of people, they don't seek God until they go to church. They don't never, you know, read their Bible until they go to church.
And that's the only Bible that they get heard, you know, that gets read. You know, that gets read. Yeah. And faith comes by hearing by the Word.
And so we're supposed to continue to seek God. You know, he tells us in, Mark 1230, he says, the greatest commitment, he says to seek me with all your heart, your mind, your soul and your strength. You know, we're supposed to seek Him with all that we have. You know, in 1 Chronicles 1611, he says, seek the Lord, in His strength, seek His face continually.
You know, that's continually. And he tells us in Psalms 105, 4, he says, seek the Lord and His strength, His face forevermore. You know, seeking His face is His presence. You know, when we seek God, we seek the things of the Spirit.
The Bible says that we worship Him in the truth. And that's what we got to pray for. We got to pray for more Spirit and more power. And that's whenever we're seeking the presence of God.
In Jeremiah 2913, he said, and you shall seek me and find me when you start with me with all of your heart. Again, that goes with that greatest commandment. You know, if we love Him with all of our heart or modern soul and strength, then we shall find Him. Amen.
You know, we're seeking healing in our land. We're seeking change. You know, we're seeking equality and love in our nation and mercy upon our nation. But, you know, we seek, we shall find if we seek with all of our heart guys.
And Matthew 7, 7, he says, ask, it shall be given to you. Seek and you shall find knock and it shall be opened to you. Again, he just tells us to ask. You know, he says we have not because we ask not.
He says, if you ask, believe Him in a prayer, you shall receive it. So we've got to ask Him and we've got to believe God for it, you know. And so in Matthew 5, 8, so here's where it starts, church. You know, you might be asking, you might be praying, you might be seeking, but you're not getting no answers.
Which, you know, a lot of times we got to wait up on the Lord. But also, you know, the Bible says that John 931, that God not here, pray for sinner. But those who does this will worship Him, he hears. So in Matthew 5, 8, he says, bless are the pure and heart for they shall see God.
So if you're not pure and heart, you're not even going to hear from God. You're not going to see God. Anything coming to you is going to be demonic. It's not going to be not of God, you know, unless you're pure and heart to God.
And he tells us in Hebrews 12, 14, follow peace with all men in holiness without no man shall see the Lord. He tells us there without holiness, no man shall see the Lord. So even King David, I'm going to go to King David for a minute, you know, the whole book of Psalms, he wrote, you know, and through the Psalms, you know, he had repentance through it. And he was a man after God's own heart, but God used Him.
And in David, King David recognized there was sin, and he humbled himself with prayer and fasting and repentance. And that's what we need to do today. We recognize the sin as great in our nation. The Bible says, bless is a nation that our God is, you know, if the Lord is our God, bless is a nation.
But our nation is turned into ruins, you know, because we are a nation that have forgotten God, that have left God. And we need to humble ourselves with fasting and with prayer and repentance. And you know, this was Godly sorrow that King David failed because he had sinned against God, and he had the conviction of God. You know, he knew that he had done wrong, and he was repenting through Psalms.
And that's what we need to do. We need to humble ourselves with fasting, prayer, and repentance. And Hebrews 12-9, he says, furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence. Reverance means honor.
Shall we not much rather be in subjection into the Father of spirits and live? And it says, for they very few days are chastened after their own pleasure, but he for our prophet that we might be partakers of his holiness. Again, holiness. God is holy.
And in the Greek, the chasm, the word chasm means to learn or instruct or teach or to train a child. See, God has got to correct us. He's got to bring forth and expose the darkness to lot. The Bible tells us in Proverbs 16-6, he says, by truth, iniquity is purged, but by the fear of the Lord, mean the part from evil.
So, you know, it's God's truth that takes away the iniquity when we ask God to cleanse us, but it's, you know, the fear of God that keeps us from evil. And when he corrects us or chastens us, he's teaching us like we do our children. You know, if we give respect to our mother and father, which that is a commandment, you know, we're definitely supposed to give honor to God. You know, and Ephesians 4-24, and that you put on the new man, which is after God and created in righteousness and true holiness.
The Bible said, he that's in cross, the new creation, old things pass away, behold, all things become new. Your mind has got to become new. That is an important member that you got to yield to God and submit to God so you can resist the devil. Because if you're the form to the world, you're not being transformed by the renewing of your mind, which the Bible tells us to do that.
We've got to, you know, we've got to practice holiness. You know, anything that you look into, erase a marathon or whatever it might be, you know, you practice that. You know, you practice to endure, and that's what we need to do. We need to practice holiness.
The Bible tells us in 2 Corinthians 7, 1, having therefore these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and the spirit, perfect, and holiness in the fear of God. Alright, I want to go to the word perfecting. That means to accomplish, to execute. You know, and this is in the great coordinates.
You can look it up yourself. He's talking about, you know, perfecting holiness. So we've got to look at it to accomplish something. That means we've got to put every effort that we have into it.
Amen. And to accomplish and to execute it. You know, just like the football teams, I always hear them talking about, we just trying to execute. I just wanted to execute.
He wanted them to accomplish, you know, the excellence. And so he's telling us here to cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh, which is the carnal mind and the spirit, perfect, and holiness in the fear of God. So I looked at holiness. It's different in the, I mean, it's same, but it's different in the coordinates, the great coordinates.
It means sacredness or sacredness. I'm sorry. And that means the quality of being considered holy and deserving respect because of your connection with God, because connected with God is powerful. He tells us in Romans 12, 1, I beset you, therefore, by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable into God.
Which is your reasonable service. You know, in the Old Testament, they had animal sacrifices. And when I sacrificed the animal, it couldn't have a blemish and it had to be pure. And see, that was the sacrifice.
But then Jesus, you know, he was the ultimate sacrifice and he gave us, you know, he gave us laughter, his death, of the cross. But now that we're supposed to give Jesus our living sacrifice. We're living sacrifice. And it was supposed to be holy and acceptable into God, which is your reasonable service.
Now, this word holy keeps coming out. The only way to be holy is seeking God. That's the only way that, you know, our righteousness is filthy ever at His rags. But God, He perfects holiness in our life.
Yes, you got to be born of the Spirit. Amen. Then He tells us Romans 11, 16, 4th of the first fruit be holy, that's Jesus. The lump is also holy.
And if the root be holy, so are the branches. The root is the vine. The Bible says that He's the vine and we're the branch. Without Him, we can do nothing.
So without the vine, we can't do anything without Jesus. But, you know, Philippians 4, 13, we can do all things to cross which strengthens us. A little 11 leaves the whole lump in Galatians 5 and 9. And it talks about the 11 works through the whole batch.
You know, a little sin can leave everything. The wages of sin is death. Okay, 1st, Tesalini, 4, 7. For God have not called us to unclean us, but to holiness.
Okay, here the holiness is used in the Greek for purifier or sanctification. See, this is part of our sanctification in Christ Jesus. And, you know, there's a process of sanctification that, you know, we're not gods not caught us to unclean us. So what is it in Timothy where he says, if you take the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, depart from all, yeah, depart from all iniquity.
And see in 2 Timothy 2, 21, he says that we're vessels sanctified and used for and honored and sanctified and used for the master's use. So it went towards parts from these things. You know, once we've been cleansed and we've been made new in Christ, we're used and we're made for the master's use. But we've got to be sanctified through the Holy Spirit.
Romans 6, 22, but now being made free from sin, we become servants to God that you have your fruit unto holiness and the end is everlasting love. Your fruit is holiness. You produce fruit into holiness, you know, before it was sinned into unrighteousness. But now it's sinned that is into holiness.
I mean, not sinned, fruit into holiness. Okay, let's see. Now this is really, really powerful too. 2nd, Tessa, line is 2, 13.
But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren. Be loved of the Lord because God had from the beginning, chose you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. Mm-mm. Chose you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit Church and belief of the truth.
Amen. There's a strong delusion going around saying that, you know, once saved, you're always saved. You know, you don't have to, you know, you don't have to keep the relationship and you don't have to abide with God. You know, the Bible says to seek Him first in His kingdom and all these other things will be added.
You know, and He tells us that He, that is born of God. He cannot sin because He still remains in Him and He is born of God. So He won't continue to live a sinful life. You know, before Christ, I was seeking a sinful life.
But now, you know, I'm seeking a fruitful life and to cross and fruit that brings holiness and not for sin that works into death. But God that gives the life and life more abundantly. You know, the Bible says, whatever we yield our members to is what we obey. You know, that's what we're servants to.
And, you know, our members, you know, you used to, I was an addict. I would yield my members my hands, you know, for the devil. And, you know, I would use, I used to shoot up and I OD'd time after time on life support and, you know, all those things. But now I'm going to yield my hands to give to those that are in need or to be in praise and worship to God and give honor and reverence to Him.
And so God is so good. But He does want us to be sanctified. You know, He wants us to be made new. The Bible says to put on the new man, which is after God, true holiness and righteousness.
And also He wants us to be fruitful. Amen. Colossians 1-10, that you might walk worthy of the Lord into all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. And the word work is doing labor and fruitful is fertile.
Amen. That's fertile. We're supposed to produce. You know, we're supposed to multiply and produce, you know, the fruits of the Spirit.
You know, we're supposed to be fertile to the Word of God because that Holy Spirit makes the Word of God fertile. And He tells us an increase in the knowledge of God. We're supposed to grow in the knowledge of God. And knowledge in the great means full discernment.
I pray for the spiritual discernment, you know, the Bible talks about the gifts of discernment, you know. But also that Holy Spirit, it directs us and guides us in all truth. It discerns good and evil. You know, that's right.
And the Bible says that, you know, those that eat of the meat, they've had their good and evil exercised, you know, they're eating on the meat. And so that's what we've got to start doing is exercising good and evil. The Bible tells us in 2 Timothy 3.5, having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof from such turn away. I don't want just a form of godliness just appear to be holy and not.
You know, the Bible says for you be holy for I'm holy, you know, your Father in Heaven. He tells us to be perfect, you know, and perfect is to be complete. You know, we're supposed to be to be complete and crossed. And there's nothing that should be lacking.
If there's lacking faith, you know, the Bible says to pray and ask. If a man wants wisdom, ask for it. You know, if we want more faith, we've got to ask God for, you know, our unbelief to believe. And he says what he says we have not because we ask not.
He tells us in Mark 7, 6, many honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Again, that's having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. It starts here charging the heart. He doesn't look on the outer appearance, but on the heart.
Amen. And Luke 6, 47, he says, Lord, Lord, why do you say Lord, Lord, do not the things I say? There's so many people think just because they call him Lord, and that he's a savior, you know, they've got it right there. That's everything.
Well, he says to me, I threw 7, 21, he says, you know, not everyone that says Lord Lord, so I'm here to King of God, just those who does it with him, my Father. And they go on to say, but Lord, if I not cast out devils, if I don't know many wonderful works, in your name, you should depart from me, your workers of in the equity. That means that their heart wasn't pure. They had an equity, they had sin in their hearts.
He said, I never knew you. And so that's, you know, God comes and he sanctifies us. See, when we confess our sins, he forgives us and cleanses us. All of our sins is gone, but then we have to start building a relationship with God to use that power.
We have that power over sin, sin has no more dominion over us. And so Romans 10, 13, who shall call up in the Lord, shall be saved. Lord, help me in my temptation when the lust is conceived, it brings forth sin, when sin is finished, it brings forth death, but I'm glad you finished up there. Yes, we got to seek holiness.
We got to exercise it. We got to get sick and God's face. He tells us in Psalms 9, 10, and they that know the name will put their trust in for the Lord, had not forsaken them, that's it, Kim. God's not con forsaken you.
If you're sick of him, he's not going to leave the, he tells us that he will never leave us, or he'll never forsake us. But you're sick of him, he's definitely not going to forsake you. And he tells us in Hebrews 11, 6 that he is a rewarder to those who diligently seek him. We will get that accomplishment through cross Jesus when we continue in seeking God, continuing his word, continuing in prayer.
The Bible says that, you know, pray without seizing in 1st Testament 1, he's 5, 17. You know, we also got to humble our souls to fasting in prayer, because through fasting it's a cleansing. And through prayer, that cleanses us, that gives us the access to the Father, and access for God to speak to us, and opens that door. And during fasting, you know, it's teaching to be controlled by the Spirit and not the flesh, because we deny the flesh through fasting.
And you know, he's a rewarder if you continue. And you know, that's how we're supposed to love God, you know, with our heart again, I wrote that down, and be faithful for little, and he'll make your rulers over much. Because one day every tongue will confess and every knee will bow that he is the Lord. You know, it might not be today.
If you don't, if you don't seek God today, there's going to be a day where you know, you will bow and you will confess that Jesus is Lord. You know, he says in Revelation 9, 5, and 6, those that have not the seal of God will be tormented 5 months, tormented like scorpion, in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it. And shall desire to die and death, shall flee from them. So it's best to seek you now, because one day, you know, if you don't, you don't have the seal of God, you don't have the Holy Spirit.
If you've not been born again, and if you don't allow God, the Bible says in Philippians 1, 6, he says what he starts in you, he will perform it to the day of Christ, so that Holy Spirit, work in you, he will perform it to the day of Christ. But you've got to separate yourself from uncleanness. You know, you've got to separate yourself, said the Lord and touched on an unclean thing, and then he will receive you. And then he will be your Lord, and then we will be your sons and daughters to the Lord Almighty.
So, you know, we've got to separate ourselves. He's calling a church that has supposed to be separate without a blemse. She's coming back for a broad. He's not coming back for a widow or an adulterer.
He's coming back for a broad, a married church that's married to Christ. See, he's not looking for the widow that's dead, you know, from sin or that's dead to the old law. Amen, he's looking for the ones that are abroad and ready for his coming. And he says, if they will seek death, God, it's going to be a fearful thing to fall in the hands of a living God.
You know, there's a living hell. It's called the Lake of Fire that, you know, yes, he loves this. And he's not willing for any of us to perish, but that all should come to repentance. And see through repentance, there's holiness.
That's the only way to reach holiness is through the Holy Spirit. And through the Holy Bible, his word is Spirit, the Bible says, and John 6, 63. And so, you know, we've got to return into the Lord. And, you know, we're wanting healing in our land, you know, just like the 12 spies that Moses sent out.
He sent out 12 spies of each tribe and the tribes of Israel. And, you know, there were only two that come back with good report. And that was Caleb and Joshua. You know, the other 10, they said, oh, no, you know, they, they, they come to go and spy out the land of Canaan.
And they come back. They said, oh, no, these, these are huge giants in that land. They're like grasshoppers compared to us. They're huge.
And see, and they come back with the words of defeat. But Caleb and Joshua, they come back with the words of encouragement, the words of victory. And that's what we need to take, take the land. We need to take this land back in Jesus name.
Greater is he that's in us than he that's in the world. You know, what are you diligently seeking today? You know, what, you know, do you digitally seek the things of the Spirit or do you seek the things of the flesh? You know, because he's a good father.
He'll give to those at ask. And Revelation's 22, 12. I'll go and give it to you. He says what?
He comes quickly. He comes quickly. He comes to be whole. Got completely.
My reward is with me to give to every man according to his works. Amen. He said, I'm out. I'm a mag.
I'm beginning the end. And blessed. I was who keeps my commandments again being pure and holy. Blessed.
That's the Holy Spirit. He said that you'll have the right to live life and that you'll enter into the city without sculptures or reminders that I was allowed to make a life. See, the thing about it is Jesus Christ himself, he came. He came to, to leave us the Spirit that will do all the work for us.
You know, all we got to do is, is when the Bible says in Matthew 1038, he did not take up the cross without him daily. Because if we don't follow Jesus, if we're not walking in the Spirit, if I say Romans 8 to 8 to walk in flesh, you cannot please God. And so if the only way we can be holy is walking the Lord, you know, God has left us a perfect spirit of Jesus Christ. And we can freely receive that by asking God to come in our heart and forgive us for sins.
And that's why when we get saved, we feel like 150 pounds of water because all of our sins is washed away. People said there's nobody can ever be perfect. But the moment that you've truly repented from your heart, and that's God to forgive you for sins, you are a perfect person. The, and I don't care what preacher tells you that nobody can ever be perfect right then.
But then what you've got to do is about in God, the Bible says in the book of Amos 3, 3, he says, you know, he said, and let's two walk together. They cannot agree. Let's do it. And let's do it.
And let's say agree. That's right. Praise God. How can two walk together and let's say agree, Lord, thank you for your help.
Two can't walk together. God's not going to walk with you unless you're agreeing with him. You don't have to be in agreement with God because he's always right. You know, we have to be in agreement with God.
God don't have to be in agreement with you. But, you know, in Jude 1, 24, unto him that is able to keep you from following. So we can do all things to the cross with strength of us. And sin has no more to mean over us.
And we can walk, you know, the Bible says in 1 Peter 1, 16, be holy for him, holy. You know, if we grab a hold of God's hand, we follow a perfect spirit and do everything. Our Lord and our Savior is leading us to do for walking spirit. And we won't fall short.
Amen. We don't have to. There's no sin. Nobody's life.
You know, the Bible says in 1 John 5 17, that all sin is unrighteous. And he says also 1 Corinthians 6 9, no, you're not the unrighteous. I'm not here to keep him God. So anything that you do, Christians are comfortable today and they think, well, I'm going to church.
I'm trying. I'm trying. Well, praise God. Jesus offered too much for you to halfway get there.
Amen. He says, because you're not covered in hot blue corn, my wish for you, you got in my mouth. So the Bible said, Jesus said, I'll fight all these battles for you. If I before you could be against your, you are more than a conqueror who him that loves you.
But our biggest, our biggest goal is to, is love in God the whole heart or mind or show in strength. Because if you love God, you don't want to sin against him. I love my wife. You know, I mean, God knows how much I love my wife.
I don't want to displease her. I want to make her happy. I want to, you know, I don't want to hurt her. No way.
Fashion to form. And so that's, that's what, that's, it's a love walk with Jesus. If you truly love him, you'll want to serve him. He says, if you say, you know me, not by my commitment to your liar and the church, not even if you say you have fellowship with me, walk into our life.
But listen, I know this is not popular preaching. Price God, we're not proper preachers. Amen. But this is the truth.
You should know the truth and the truth will make you free. And so that's why the Bible said very few people will make it because very few people wants to give up everything. But come and visit us at God's place. You'll feel the spirit of God there.
That's why it's called God's place. It's not my ministry. It's not our ministry. It's God's ministry.
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God bless you. Have a good night. Remember, the Bible says in the book of John chapter 3 verse 3 that you must be born again. And being born again means that you ask God to come in your heart and save you from your sins.
The Bible says if you confess your sins, he is faithful and just forgive you and clean you from all in righteousness. And now it means your life don't belong to you no more. It belongs to him. And the Bible says trust God be a whole heart.
Not that we know your own understanding. Know the human always and he's so we can guide your past. Now it's time to get a relationship with God by reading and praying, seeking God be a whole heart each and every day of your life. The Bible says the number one greatest commandment is to love God with your whole heart and your mind and your soul and your strength.
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