Praise the Lord. Welcome to God's Place, part of Jesus's ministry. It's such an honor and privilege to be here today to just be a servant of God. You know, I'd like to apologize.
You know, we hadn't been here in quite some time. I know some of you guys have been watching reruns. Of course, the virus and all that's going on. It's slowed down a lot of process in many people's lives.
But we're glad to be here today and back and excited about what God is doing. I got my beautiful wife, Shannon, here with me today. And just, you know, God is amazing God. No matter what we go through, if we're walking with Him, He promised that He would be with us that He would never leave us for a sake.
And that's kind of what I want to speak about today. And we'll go ahead and introduce you to Shannon and let you go ahead and speak about what God's done in your life. Well, like you said, just apologizing for not being able to get new programs. And we're still rejoicing.
And we're still glad. God is the same God today, yesterday and forevermore. He's done so many miracles. And if you just get in the Word of God, you'll hear all the stories and all the miracles.
And all the prophets that God had led. And God, He's the same God, not changed. And we've got to believe that. And so we can receive that.
And myself, God has been, it's a miracle. That God has pulled me through what I've been through, but also that I submitted myself to God and received it. Because I just felt so dark and so hopeless. And when I was homeless and in addiction and all that, just being so separate from God, just feeling so empty and in a black pit.
And that's pretty much where I was. But the Bible says, for who's so ever, Sharkon, the Lord shall be saved. And that's where today too, with all the coronavirus and all the fear that's running through everybody's mind. And people left and right that's gone.
The Bible says, as I walk through the valley of shadow death, I fear no evil for thou or with me, thou raw. That's staff, they come for me. God, He's give us the Holy Spirit to comfort us. And He tells us in John 1633, He's in the world you'll have tribulation.
But to me, you shall have peace. He says, but be of good cheer because I've overcome the world. And so there's nothing that the Holy Ghost can't comfort us or deliver us through. And the Bible says that no weapon formed against us shall prosper.
That's His word. And we've got to believe that word of God. When viruses and when sicknesses, we just got to go back to God's word and remind ourselves. All the miracles that He did.
The Bible says that He healeth all diseases. He forgave us all iniquities. But we've got to ask Him. And we've got to believe in faith.
And we've got to walk it out in faith. That's what we need, the churches, businesses, the streets, that's what we need is the healing from God. But we've got to come in unity. The Bible says that my people, which are called on my name, would humble themselves, pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways.
Then I would hear from heaven for gives their sins and heal their lands. And that's what we need. We need true repentance today. And so that we can receive healing in these last days.
And that's what we're going through. The Bible tells us that we would. That times would get worse and worse. And it says that hearts, they would go coder and coder and more evil would rise.
And it would be more evil. And that's what we're doing. But we've got to know who's our comfort, who's our refuge, who's our very present help and a time of need. And that's the Lord Almighty in His presence to give us comforting and peace through this.
Amen. As you was talking about that, Isaiah 41, 10 says, fear not, fear thou not, for I am with thee, be not dismayed, I am by God. I will strengthen thee and I will help thee and I would uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. And so, but you know, you made a good point about asking.
And so through this coronavirus, we want to thank God for the church service that God's place, which has never been shut down, not one night, and I want service. And of course, enemy, he tried to shut it down many times. And some people might disagree with that and say, well, you should have done this, that, and the other. But we see more salvation during this time.
Actually, one Saturday that we was about to have service, one of the guys called, one of the deacons from the church called and said, well, peace officer, come over here and ask for the name of the pastor and the phone number. We want to know what time you're getting started. So the enemy's like, well, they're going to come and rest you. That's what's going to happen.
So we literally, we call and say, we don't make sense to really set yourself up for that. You know what's going to happen? So we talked about dismissing the service. I got down on my face.
I said, Lord, I need to work for you. I don't want to do this unless I know that this is what you want me to do in my phone beach. And it was a scripture in the Lord's trust in me. And so it was amazing.
I called everybody and said, hey, look, we're having church. So I said, we'll meet there at six o'clock. And at this particular night, we sing two of her nieces saved. And one of their friends saved.
And so we sing more people, more salvation during this time of coronavirus at church. And when most people were shut down, I know very few churches that were still open. And the Bible talks about the great following away of churches. But see, here's why I look at it.
And a lot of people might disagree with me, but that's OK. The Bible says, every man work out you on salvation will fear and trim. And so when the Bible says in Luke chapter, probably called Matthew chapter 21 verse 22, whatsoever you ask, believe me in prayer, you shall receive it. Then praise God, I believe that.
And so we pray before we go to church. And we pray, when I wake up and leave my family, when I go off to work, I lay my hands on my wife and pray with my whole family. And I just got to put a protection around them. So we pray for a hedge around the church, and all the people come to church.
And we ask, the Bible said, John 1414, ask anything in my name, and I will do it. So we ask, we believe it in prayer. First John, I think, 312, I'm sorry, 312. Whatsoever you ask, you shall receive of me, because you keep my commandments and do those things pleasing my side.
So when you ask God, we believe God that He's going to do that. If we don't, the Bible said, without faith, it isn't possible to please God. So literally, it's not pleasing to God if we don't believe Him. And what it's doing is showing a lack of trust in God.
Praise the Lord, I mean, and again, most people of the world would disagree with me, but I hadn't had a mask on this whole time, except for one time to get a haircut, because He made me put one on. And so, I feel like I was just literally about to suffocate. But anyways, guys, if my trust, my faith is in the Lord is real. And I know that when I ask Him to do something, He's going to do it.
The prayer of a righteous man will obey it much. Now, this coronavirus, it is real. And there's people dying everywhere, all over the world. And the Bible speaks about that.
These things will happen. Zachariah, chapter three, talks about, there's going to be a two thirds world, we're going to off, and who knows this could be part of it. But this is not for God's people that truly know God, and truly trust God, and believe in the Lord. Anybody can say they believe God.
We even the devil knows that there's a God, amen. But does that mean they're going to go to heaven? No. In order to John 3, 16, God's the love of the world that He gave His only begotten Son, who should ever believe in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
It's not the fact that you know there's a God. Most people in life should have been dead one time or 10. They've seen the miracles of God. They know God has revealed Himself to many people.
But just because you know there's a God in respect, God, they don't mean that you truly believe in Him. In order to believe in somebody, you have to know Him, amen. And so that's where God is talking about believing in Him. In order to know Him, you have to know the word, because in John 1, 1, in the beginning was the word.
The word is with God, and the word is with God, and the word is God. So He is the word. And people say they don't know God. That they know God.
Well, if you don't know the word, then you can't know God, because He is the word. And the word is, you know, He sent His word to heal us and to save us from destruction. You know, His word is it's quick and it's powerful and it's sharpened to it. It's short.
You know, we speak life and death with a power of tongue, weak from a fruit thereof. And so there's so much power in the word, and just ask Him God, and believe in the faith. You know, God, He honors the fact that we have faith. Again, without faith, it is impossible to please God.
He is a rewarder to those who do it when we seek Him. And when we do it when we seek Him, then we start learning. We get to know God in a better way than we trust God. And then we just, hey, we give it to God.
We don't worry about it. It's a sin to worry. Fear not is in the Bible 365 times. That's where one time each day, that's where one time a day, and then the 360, every day of the year.
And so I wrote down some scriptures about fear in first John 4 18, he says, there is no fear in love, but perfect love cast out all fear because fear hath torment. And he that fear is not perfect in love. Well, that makes a lot of sense because, you know, if we got perfect love in Christ, and we absolutely know God, and we trust God, and there's no fear. You know, the Bible says in Matthew 18 28, fear not the one who can destroy the body, but fear the one who can destroy the body and so in the hill.
And so once, you know, God gives us His word that He said, I'm with you. You know, don't be dismayed. I'll be with you even to the end of the world. Amen.
I'll never leave you. I'll never forsake you. And so He is a control. Everything that's going on.
People don't realize this, but you know, God created the coronavirus. The Bible said God created good and evil. So I mean, you know, He allowed this to happen. And you know, it's in the reason He's, but like I say, it's for folks, it's not harking to His voice, that people that's rebounding against Him.
It's people that's just not living right. This world has gotten so much, we've gotten so far away from the word of God. You know, it's kind of like the day of Sodom and Gomorrah, when God told Abraham, praise Lord, He was gonna go out and destroy the city of Sodom and Mora. And He's like, well, you're gonna destroy the righteous with unrighteous?
And He says, we'll go find me 50. You know, there's not many people that knows 50 true righteous people. I'm talking about people that you hang out with all day long and don't see any following them. And that's what God wants from us.
He tells us in 1 Peter 1 16 to be holy for His holy. Matthew 5, 48 to be perfect, which your Father in Heaven is perfect. See, when we receive Jesus Christ as a personal Savior, that's what it is, it's a Savior. It's a Savior, He comes to save us from our sin.
And you know, once grace will be a balance, we continue to see Him, God forbid it. I'm not gonna tell you we don't make mistakes, we do. But as far as living a sinful life every day, you know, we don't have to live that way anymore. He did in Christ as a new creation, old things walk away, old things pass away and be held out of things become new.
And so 1 John 3 8 seeing his other devil and the purpose that he was manifested in that he might just truly works the devil. But you know, the only thing we should fear is God. That's the only thing we should fear in this world. You know, he tells us in a word.
He says in Proverbs 1 7, he said, the fear of the Lord's beginning of knowledge, but fools, despised wisdom and instructions. Do it around in chapter 31 verse 6, he said, be strong and be of good courage, fear not nor be afraid of them. For the Lord thy God, he is that goes with thee and he will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Psalms 1 18 verse 6, he said, the Lord is on my side and I will not fear what man can do to me.
Romans 3 18, there is no fear of God before their eyes. Now he's talking about there in Romans, you know, even Romans 10, 3 10 it says, the Bible's picture about that he couldn't find any righteous, no one, all the righteous are filled with his rags. And a lot of people will use that to say, well, we're all gonna see in a situation where it is. But actually God's talking about the unsaved, he's talking about the lost people because in verse 11, he'll go on to say, but there's none seeking God.
And so, you know, people, and I'm talking to some leaders here today that, you know, so many people, they just, it's amazing to me, you know, first of all, the Bible says a natural man can't understand the things of the Spirit because their food is just taking him because he's not spiritually discerned. And so the devil, you know, he's got this doctrine going out that we're all gonna see in every day. And that's just the way it is, we're, we're bringing the sinful nature and nobody can help it, but we're gonna see him. That's not what the word of God says.
And seeing has, it's in Romans 614. Seeing has no more than meaning over us. The Holy Spirit, see Jesus, first Peter chapter two verse 21, it crossed the suffering and he died. To leave an example that we should follow him, a man with no sin or God on his mouth.
He said to example for the church, and the church is supposed to set the example for the world. And you know, that's sadly to say, that's not happening right now, you know, in most churches. And it really breaks my heart to see that, you know, churches has, a lot of churches become, they're like businesses. You know, a lot of people don't wanna offend nobody.
They don't wanna tell nobody the truth, the whole truth. The word of God says that you should know the truth and the truth will make you free. Literally it's the truth what sets us free, what makes us free, you know, and like I say, God says in the book of the Thessalonians in chapter verse one verse, no, I'm sorry. In verse thessalonians two forward, that he put us in the trust with the gospel that we not speak, please, and then, but please unto the Lord.
Paul said if I seek you, please, me and I should not be a servant of Christ. The word of God says in verse Peter four, 16 and 17, he says for judgment, it begins at the house of God. He says the righteous are scarcely saved. Where's the ungodling of the sinner period?
Well, the reason starts at the judgment begins at the house of God because we're held accountable for what we preach to God's people. You know, we're the shepherd and Psalms 23 says, whoa, and not Psalms, and Terry, my, I think 23. He says, well, unto the pastors that scatter my sheep. You know, listen, guys, we have got to be to tell people the truth and, you know, this blood is required on their hands, amen, to the Bible says in the sequel, chapter three verse 20, when the righteous men follows, God will put a stone ball before him and he should die in the sins and the righteous that he has done will be remembered no more.
But if you're not warned that righteous man, that blood will be required on the hands. So, you know, I don't want any blood on my hands, not only that, but because of Jesus it was in me, his Spirit, I love everybody. And I want everybody to know the truth. You know, we got to care more about our friends than we do our friendships.
We got to let people warn people and let them know, you know, you see people all the time claiming to be Christians. And literally it's when you claim to be a Christian and you live in a sinful life, you're a hypocrite. It is what it is. And I tell people that's the reason the churches are falling away because they don't want to go to church with all the hypocrites and I tell people, hey, I'd go to go to church with the hypocrite and go to hell with them when they're men.
And so, you know, guys, we really got to step it up and just like Shannon was saying, second chronicle 714, if my people, he's talking about his people, God's people, which are called by my neighbor, and they're calling themselves and seeking my face and pray, turned from the wicked ways. Then he will hear from heaven, forgive our sins and kill our lands. And that's what we need today, we need a healing, we need to praise God, we need a mental healing, we need a physical healing. This world is chaos right now.
I mean, God has shown us that he's coming back soon, the weather, I mean, it's amazing everything that's going on, everything that's going on with the praise of Lord, the Black Lives Matter and the killings of cops and the rights and it's in the scripture though guys. It's, you know, God warns us about these things. And it's, you know, he's warning us where we all come closer to him. And so again, talking about fear, it says in Psalms chapter two verse 11, he says, serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling.
Amen. You know, that's what we need to do. We need to serve him with fear. We got to need to realize in Luke chapter 12 verse five, he says, but I, he said, I will for one you who you shall fear fear him, that which after he killed, after he had killed, had the power to cast you into hell, I say unto you, fear him.
So, you know, in Job 1 8, Job was a God, fear and man. But he also said at this time, he was the only one, the Bible said that Job was a perfect man in this generation. And, and Genesis chapter six verse nine, know it was a God, fear and man. And so if we fear God, you know, listen, it also said that no one moved with fear.
Amen. And you know, when, when, you know, I started out, you know, I mostly know my testimony, but I had a death experience. I was in the coma for 37 days and they pretty much said, there's no hope. God can't bring you back going to pray for him.
And everybody had given the pope a win. That was the Lord Jesus Christ and he'd send a preacher Charles off from temple Bible. So we're ladies hand them instead of prayer. And he said, Lord, if you just walk by, let him test the human government, you'll come up from there.
And he did that, but it let me wake up at Hill's door. I saw the gate of the house, I saw the devil. It was real. He was like seven foot tall.
He'd be huge arms and, you know, Romans 10, 13 says, who should have a cop on their boards, I'd be safe. So I cried out to God and he pulled me from there. And you know, that put a fear in my life that I never want to go back there. Not only that, but I don't see anybody going there.
And so the fear of the Lord, that's what brought me to Christ, you know, is fearing and realizing every time the Bible says in Colossians chapter three, verse 23, he that does wrong, will receive wrong for the wrong. He does, Galatians chapter six verse seven, be not deceived for God is not mocked, what you saw, you saw, so read. And so realizing that, you know, every time I sin against God, there was consequences for it. And so I had a lot of fear for the Lord.
But then what happened is that caused me to get to know God. I knew that I need to read. I need to see God. I need to pray.
And so the fear, it turned into love. I was the scripture. Sorry. Right here.
The scripture goes right with it. He talks about in Proverbs non non. It says, give instruction to a wise man and he would yet be wiser. teach a just man and he will increase the learning.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. And that's when, you know, you're fear and God and you're asking me to help you keep the commandments of God. You know, there's understanding with that that he's holy and you've got to come to God, holy with the pure heart and to ask him to clean you from any sin. The Bible tells us in 1 John 1, not if we confess our sins that he is faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us from all in righteousness.
That's how we prepare the way for the Lord. We prepare the way for the Holy Spirit to work and abide in us. And you know, just as John the Baptist, he was preaching repent, you know, and prepare the way for the Lord. And that's what we've got to do.
We've got to ask God, you know, for forgiveness, but not go back to that sin. The Bible tells us, you know, who's the way of cover, his sin, you know, shall not prosper, but who's the way of confessive and forsake the sin. And here, you know, it is no, the fear of the Lord is the knowledge of his holy is understanding and it's understanding that God is a holy God. Amen.
Yes. And you know, it's a even during sickness and when you go to the doctor and the doctor will tell you, hey, you know, you've got cancer. But you know, God, again, God is the same God today, yesterday, forever more. Just in the last couple of months, we had one guy's name was Tony Fry.
He came to church and he'd been, I mean, his liver was gone. He'd been on a liver transplant for almost a year. And you can see his, you know, his color was changing. He was the aller and been on medications for a long time.
And he come and he, uh, Vanderbilt Hospital had caught him and said, we're ready. You know, you're next in line. We're about to, we need to go ahead and do your blood work and get you ready, prepare you for a liver transplant. The Lord spoke to me and told me to tell Tony that the Lord is healing his here, but his liver, that not.
And it was kind of hard to say him like him, say it from all these people, you know, and so I'm like, well, Tony, the Lord said that, uh, that he's healing your liver tonight, speaking, amen. And so when you get to Vanderbilt, you won't need a new liver. And so when I told him, he's like, yeah, okay, thank you. Yeah, sure.
Okay. So you could tell there's some unbelief there, but literally after, um, that was on Saturday night, so he drove to Vanderbilt on the next Thursday. And when they got there, they checked him and then they checked him again and they checked him again. And they said, we don't, we don't have any explanation.
We don't understand, but your liver is perfect. And so God healed him. He, uh, God literally gave him a liver transplant. So there's nothing God can do.
He's the same God that brought Lazarus back from the dead after four days. And that's what he says. The next scripture was Proverbs, not 11. For me, by the day, she'll be multiplied in the years of the life.
She'll be increased. You know, and he's talking about by the fear of the Lord and knowing God, this, your days will be, you know, lengthened. And that's what he did. You know, for Brother Tony, you know, that he, he increased and increased his life, you know.
And, you know, we're seeing these miracles in, uh, another, another, uh, situation. We was up on a roof, done a roof job and the guy that, that hired us to do the roof. Uh, he started telling us the story about, he went to the doctor for a checkup and, and they found states for cancers like all over his organs. It's like he said, he's like he opened up his body and just spraying cancer.
All over all of his organs. They only gave his man a couple months to live and he was talking about, you know, I want to get my roof done. I didn't want my wife to have her, you know, have that responsibility to burden on her. And I said, you know what?
I said, I know one bigger than cancer's name is Jesus Christ. I said, you mind if we pray really? And so we pray for him. And the same day we heard about the liver about God, he'll tell his liver.
We got a phone call and one of the guys on the crew had run into this guy. And he said he got the Holy Spirit had had inspired him to go back to the doctor 10 days later after we prayed with him and I went back to the doctor and they was no sign of cancer. So give God all the honor for him price, but God, he's, he's in the healing business. He's not changed none.
A lot of people don't believe in these miracles. They think it's for back in the Old Testament for the days of the apostles. Well, listen, God still, God has still, he still has apostles out here today. You know, the Bible says in the book of Romans chapter one verse five, I think he said, grace and a pauforship come through obedience.
X5 32, he says, I give my spirit to those of Amy, Psalms 25 four, he says, I will reveal my secrets to those who fear me. And so the closer we get to God and where did we start believing God? Faith come by hearing by the Word of God. Amen.
We start trusting God and we believe whatever we ask God that we will receive it by faith. Amen. And so God honors that he wants us to, you know, the Bible says in 19 7 11 being an evil parent, know how to give gifts to your children, how much more father in heaven know how to give those asking. And so does that's what we need to pray for.
We need to pray for a better relationship. And that good gift, the Holy Ghost. That's what the churches are lacking today is just a walking in the spirit. The Bible says, if we walk in the spirit, we should not fulfill the lesson of flesh.
You know, if we, if the man not have the spirit, then he's the body without spirit is dead. And he says, if we have the spirit, then we are sons of God. And so God, his power, his spirits out there, and he's looking for people that was to me that he can fill us up and that he can use us as willing vessels to go out and glorify God and all that we do. He's knocking at a door.
He says, I stand and I'm not, you know, we come to you and you will meet. So I like to encourage everybody, you know, in these last times, these last days, let's everybody just really, the Bible says, whatever you do, do it, how hardly, he's he puts your building to the Lord and not in the man. You know, we put our lives on our hearts and our families and our jobs, but anything you put before God, it's a sin. Amen.
It's a, let's, let's put our hearts in the God. Let's really see God's face for how hard we want to thank everybody for your prayers, for God's place ministry. We just want to reach more people. We love the Lord.
We love people because God loves us and lives in us. And, you know, we just want to see, we want, we want God to use us to make a difference in the, in our community and all over the world. And so we do pray for you. We do ask you to pray for us.
So they're actually got to build up for sale again. We've moved not 10 times in praise, Lord, in 12 years. God has a plan for us though. Please keep us in prayer.
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