Ray is the Lord. Welcome to God's Place Park for Jesus. She's such an honor to be here again, serve the Lord. There's nothing like serving Lord Jesus Christ.
I got my beautiful wife here, Shannon with me. And we just want to share some of my burdens that God has laid on her heart. And just, you know, it's one start out today with a Bible scripture. It's Hosea chapter four verse six.
And it says, my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. Because they have rejected knowledge. I will also reject thee. And thou has been no priest to me.
Seeing that thou has forgotten the law of thy God. I will also forget thy children. And I will never increase. So there are sins against me.
Therefore I will change their glory into shame. Father, we just thank you for this word. We ask you to send it forth here today to touch everybody's heart. That's watching God in Jesus name, amen.
You know, it's, Shannon, I both came from a, you know, it's amazing that God has done what he's done in their lives. I came from a family of murders and drug addicts and, you know, just the story from lack of knowledge. And, you know, in that life there's no happiness or no peace. You know, we're all born with a void.
And we try to fill this void with the things of the world. And it's a God shaped void. And it's only meant to be filled by the Lord, by the Holy Spirit. And so that's what's, you know, people goes on through life.
They're trying to, they're trying to, they're looking for happiness and peace and joy. And so they're trying to, everything in the world, not realizing that everything that you do that's in against God, there's consequences to it. The Bible said that he does wrong, we'll receive wrong, the wrong that he does. Relations chapter 6 verse 7 says, be not deceived for God is not Mark.
What am I in? So if he shall also reap it. And so, you know, it talks about, you know, cause we have rejected him and rejected his word. He will reject us.
And also that because we have forgotten his law that he will forget our children. And, you know, Shana, both as we've been through the experience of losing our children because of our walk of the Lord. And, you know, I kind of look at it like this, you know, the Lord, the way that we feel about our children is the way God feels about us. And so when we walk away from God, it won't come to God, then we kind of report we so thing.
He shows us what it feels like to miss our children. And so there's so many, I mean, literally it's unbelievable how many people cause us, you know, throughout the years and asking us to take custody of our children because they're about to lose them to the state. And we praise the Lord in her home. We were able to help a lot of children come in and we're broken homes and stuff.
And so, but, you know, my heart is just really bugging. I don't feel like, you know, I just feel like just, I don't feel like much of a preacher, just a messenger today. You know, how God wants everybody just to grow in Him and to get to know Him in a better way that He wants to help His people. That's, you know, like to tell people the life, if you're not living for Lord, you have no happiness.
You have no peace. That's not God's plan for you. You, Joshua chapter 1 verse 8, he said, a lot of the books, Shana, he said, a lot of the books are not the part of your mouth. He said, you should meditate day and not observe everything that's written.
And then you should have good success in your way, should we prosper? Well, the only way that we're going to prosper in life is through the Word of God and seeking God that Bob says in Matthew 6, 33, the sickest first of the kingdom of God in His righteousness and all these other things will be added. And that happened to me when I gave my life for Lord God restored my children. I had one that lost to the state when he was probably five or six years old.
And, you know, I got him back when he was seven and raised him. Now he's 21 now and Proverbs 22, six, the train of the child, the way they should go. And when they're older, they're not the part from it. You know, he's 21 years old.
He's married. He lives with the Lord. Don't do drugs. He don't curse.
He doesn't smoke. He runs a roof and crew and every morning when he gets a shopping praise over these guys. When he gets to the job, he prays with him. They come down for lunch.
He prays with him. He's been taught the fair of the Lord and the trusted God, and not to lean on our own understanding, knowledge him in all ways. But the way that we do this is through the Word of God. You know, the Bible says in the Bible says in 2, 2, 3, 16, all scripture is given by inspiration of God is proper for doctrine, for for correction, for instructions in righteousness that the man, that God, that of God may be perfect, freely furnished into all good works.
And so all these scriptures in the Bible, see in the beginning was the Word, and Word was with God, the Word was God. These scriptures are for us. It's kind of like a map to heaven. I tell people it's a GPS.
It's God's perfect spirit to have eternal life. But in Word do so. You must be, first John, I'm sorry, John chapter 3 verse 3, he says, very rarely I say unto you that you must be born again. In order to understand the Word of God, you have to be born again.
The Bible says a natural man cannot understand the things of the Spirit. There are foolishness to him because he's not spiritually discerned. And I tell you what the world is doing today. They're trying to change the Bible.
They are changing the Bible's where a carnal man can understand it. But reality is not meant for a carnal man to understand it. It's supposed to be understood through the Holy Spirit. The Bible says the Holy Spirit was sent to the Comforter, in which is His Holy Spirit, and His Holy Spirit will teach us all things.
And I'm a perfect example of that because when God called me to preach, I never had looked at my life. I didn't have a good memory. I lived at my home for almost eight months before I memorized my address. But God, you know, there's nothing He can't do, and His Holy Spirit will teach us.
I would say to the Bible in front of me for hours at a time, and God would speak to me and just put something in my heart. And later on I learned to read what He didn't spoke to me and gave me confirmation. So, you know, when He says my people are stored from my knowledge, literally what He's saying is the lack of relationship with God. And that's the sad thing.
Most people go through this world, never knowing God, never truly having no happiness in peace. And to live out there all their years of not knowing the Lord, never truly knowing what a true happiness and peace and joy is. And then, you know, at the end of the day, they don't surrender and get off the Lord. They end up spending eternity in hell.
And, you know, it comes back to that scripture when it says it's better not to be born than the portrayed son of God. And the Lord helped me speak here today. But, you know, I wrote down some more scriptures about, you know, about, you know, Father in Jesus. And the Bible says in Matthew 10, 38, He did not deny Himself and take up the cross and follow Him daily.
It's not worthy of Him. In order to follow the Lord, it's following the Spirit in which you know, we're saved by faith and saved by grace. But faith comes by here and here by the Word of God. So, this is how this is what we have to have is the Word of God.
And this is a Spirit that leads us in God. Once we hear it, He writes us a lullup on the table of our heart. In the book of Romans 8, verse 14, He said, for many are led by the Spirit of God, they are sons of God. And so, the Bible said, if we walk in the flesh, we cannot please God.
But if we walk in the Spirit, then we are sons of God. And so, English 3, 3 said, how can two walk together? I said, agree. Well, we got to be in agreement with God.
You don't have to be in agreement with you, amen. And God is always right. And it's just taking up the non-yourself and taking up the cross and following daily. And, you know, if we follow God, if we've got a perfect Spirit, leadness in Godness, and we follow that Spirit, then it will lead us on the path of righteousness, amen.
The Bible says in Matthew 7, 13, straight as the gate, narrows away. The broad way we lead is destruction, many go there at. But straight as the gate, narrows away that leads to life. And very few people will find it.
In John chapter 10, verse 30, He says, I am the Father, or as one. And once we give our life to the Lord, then we become one with Him. The Bible says in verse John 2, 6, if you abide in me, then I will abide in you. And you will walk as I walk.
Again, Psalms 1, 19 verse 105, He said, the Word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. And in verse 10, he says, put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge. He said, after the image of him that created him. So the Bible said, he does Christ as a new creation.
Oh, things pass away. Behold, all things become new. The reason that is because once we receive the Holy Spirit, once we're born again, then there's a Holy Spirit that lives inside of us. And if we follow that Spirit, then we are new creatures, amen.
We have a choice though. God is a general God. He's not going to force you to follow Him. But He does know, I mean, Heaven is above Earth.
You know, His ways and not our ways. You know, He does know best for our lives in Proverbs 3, 5, and 6. Trust the Lord, your whole heart and not the lean on your own understanding, knowledge, Him and all ways. And He shall lead God your past.
But so many people, even after they get saved, they're lazy. I mean, they're spiritual lazy. They don't want to really take the effort to put into God in learning His Word. Because it's a wrestle.
You spare it against the flesh to contrary. So it's constantly wrestling. You feel like you're constantly wrestling the flesh. Because you are.
But you know, the Bible tells us that they're contrary to one another. But if we walk in the Spirit, we should not fill the flesh. But you know, He tells us that the Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. So watch and pray.
And that's what we've got to continue to do, is watch and pray and speak the Word of God. You know, the Bible tells us that we speak life and death is in the power of our tongues. You know, that's how we battle is in the Word of God, with the Word of God. This is our weapon.
You know, this makes a way for us. Jesus is the way and the life and the truth and the no man can come to Father but by Him. This is Jesus's way. The Bible tells us in Proverbs 833, He says, here instructions.
And be wise and refuse it, not. Don't refuse the Word of God. He wants us to take heed to the Word of God. This is how we get to know Him.
This is how we get to know His commandments and what He expects from us. The Bible tells us in Mark 1230 to love thy Lord thy God with all of our heart, our mind, our soul and our strength. And the next one is the love of our neighbor. You can't know that unless you're getting His Word.
And He teaches you that. Like He said, the Spirit will teach us all things. But He also says that it will God us in all truth. You know, because, you know, the Satan, once you get that seed of salvation, Satan, he wants to come and snatch it, you know, through doubt and unbelief.
And he'll try to pull you and deceive you. But that's why that Holy Spirit will guide you in the true Word of God. And that's the only way to know that, you know, the Bible says that, you know, it's the truth that will make you free. And once the Son sets you free, you're free indeed.
And that's how you know that you're actually living God's word out and that you are a body and in the truth, the doctrine of Jesus Christ. You know, the Bible says, if any man preached any other doctrine and cross be crucified, you know, he's a cursed. That's everything right there. What Jesus did on the cross, Him being crucified.
That's everything that we need to know. You know, and the Bible says that it's foolish into some people that preach to the cross, but it's the power of God into all that believe. You know, because we know that His Spirit lives and that it abides. And what He did on that cross, He, you know, He was crucified in weakness, but He was raised in power.
And that's what we've got to do. We've got to crucify this week flesh and be raised in God's Spirit and raised in power. He tells us in Romans 18, He says, if the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is alive because of righteousness. You know, He tells us that His Word, John 63, He says, this old flesh will profit nothing, but His words, they are Spirit and they are life.
And they're everything. And that's what He's saying, that His Word's here. You know, I love how you always talk about like the Word. When I first started reading it, that's where my addiction started.
Like, I would just read it and I could just feel God like coming and making, you know, abiding in me, making a home inside of me. You know, I feel the Spirit and it would raise my faith. It would give me hope. You know, it would give me promises.
You know, and most of all, that's your armor. It's your sword of the Lord. The Bible tells us in Ephesians 6, 10, 11 to put on the whole armor of God that we can stand against the walls of the devil. The only way to stand against the walls of the devil is putting our armor of God on.
You know, we've got to know Satan's devices. We've got to give Him no place. We've got to resist Him and submit ourself to God. And He will flee.
He teaches us everything in here. But also through prayer, you know, that's where we're supposed to grow is in our prayer life. We'll read, but you might not have that understanding yet. But something in faith is being manifested.
You just can't see it yet. You know, the Bible says that faith is a substance of things whole for it and the evidence of things not seen. You're manifesting something in the Spirit of God. The Bible says, being not weary and well-dewing, you'll reap if you faint not.
You keep reading that word of God. It'll come out when that spirit's ready to release. And it comes out, the Bible says, he that bleeds on the scripture out his belly with flow of rivers of living water. And that's how that's what we drink of.
You know, we thirst for that living word of God. And he will satisfy the soul. The Bible says that his word is like hunting to the soul. But also, you know, you can cut down strongholds.
The Bible says that, you know, for we wrestle again, our warfare is not against flesh and blood, but it's against principalities and powers. But also that it's not in the carnal, you know, but it's God. He'll pull down strongholds with the Spirit of God, you know, with the Word of God and knowing what God can do, you know. And that's, the Word is exciting.
It is exciting. And you know, there's so much power in the Word. Again, my people just spoke from my knowledge. You know, when Jesus took Jesus upon the mountain, he said, I'll give you all this glory.
You know, he fought the devil with the Word. I mean, you know, the devil knew the Word and he was trying to use the Word to receive Jesus, but Jesus was the Word. Amen. So he couldn't receive him.
And that's how, you know, we can overcome anything that comes in our life through the Word. You know, Romans 831, that we are more than the conquerors through him that loves us. Amen. And through him, which he is the Word again, people don't realize that, you know, Luke 931, Luke 931, praise God, Luke 911, praise God.
I know the Scripture. He says that God gave us power in authority over all devils and to carry out Luke 9 1. He gave us power in authority over all devils and to carry out diseases. I mean, we got to know who Christ Jesus is in us.
Amen. And the power that's available to us, amen. Because we are, if we walk into Spirit, we are sons of dollars of God. And there's nothing through God, all things as possible.
You know, even, you know, you said it earlier for the Bible says, if he's a 16, finally my brother be strong Lord. All of his might put on the whole of my God. That we make stand against the walls of devil. We not rest against flesh and blood.
Prince of T the powers of darkness, world. Spirit's a weakness in high places. So what's the spiritual warfare? It's a battle.
And, you know, the devil, he's trying to come in, you know, all marriages and relationships. He'll try to come in and hinders. But literally we can grab, grab all of each other's hand and pray and say, we were smitten ourselves to the Lord. We were butte, we could meet you in the lead right now.
And that's Spirit automatically leaves. You know how many people, the voices would be saved if they knew the power of God, that if they were seeking God. And his righteousness and everything would be added. The biggest thing that's added is the knowledge and the power of the Holy Spirit.
It's the best counselor. You know, the Bible says, the Bible says, the Bible isn't the blind. They're both found in the ditch. And so this is, this is the word of God.
It's your counselor. It's your lawyer. It's your physician. It's your doctor.
It's everything. And, you know, not only that, but if you reject it, God said, if you reject me, I'll reject you. And then, and he also says in Proverbs 13, 18, he said, poverty and shame shall be up on him that refuses instructions. But he that, that regarded, reproof shall be honored.
And then, God honors the fact that we spend time in our word with God. The Bible says in Hebrews 11, 6, he has a reward to those who diligently seek him. And Psalms 91, he says, go ahead, quote it. Those that dwell in the secret place the most high shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
So, I mean, that's, that's so powerful. I mean, just to know that, you know, through the word of God that we know that God is with us and you'll never leave us and you'll never forsake us. And no matter what we go through, that he's going to take care of all, all situations that we ever go through, you know, he says you can go through fires and not be burned. And 1 Corinthians 15, 34, he says, awake into righteousness and sin not.
Some, you know, have the knowledge you've got and I speak to in shame. Because, you know, the knowledge is available to devil, to devil, to tell you, you know, I meet people that's been through college and say, well, you know, man, I just really can't read the Bible. I don't really understand it. Well, again, you must be born again, amen.
Because, you know, you've got to put your heart into it. You've got to study. And so, you know, it's, it's whatever you practice. I mean, it's, it's like I said, the Bible says in Mark chapter 12, we're starting the greatest command of the whole book.
It's not a suggestion. It's the love God, we hold heart, you're mind, you're so on the strength. And this is how we, we grow and are loved with him. This is our relationship.
See, we pray to talk to God, but we read for him to talk to us. People say, well, I pray all the time. Well, you're doing all the talking. You know, you, that relationship, when we're doing all the talking, most of the time, but we're counting.
And that's how you, and that's how you help one another, you know, when you see a brother, you know, going into the way of the error, you know, in the fall short, that's the only way that can help turn us back on that straight and arrow path is this, you know. That's her, that's her map. You know, Bible be, I'll be able to be at basic construction before leaving earth. And you know, the Bible says in John 539, he says, you think you have eternal life with search of scriptures.
And you know, most people, they know a half of a scripture, and that's John 3 16. The God's a love the word, he gave his only God's son, who's ever believing him, should not perish, but have everlasting life. But people don't realize believing in God is just more than believing that there's a God. It's true believing knowing God, knowing he is, knowing everything about him.
You know, just when Shannon and I, when God put us together, I want to know everything about her. I want to know what she would like to eat, what she would like to do, what her hobbies is. And I would want to try to place her in all those areas. And, but you know, God, he tells us, if we love her son or daughter, mother, father, mother, mother, mother, mother, mother, mother, mother, mother, mother, mother, mother, mother.
And I'm not worthy of him. So if you truly had a fellowship relationship with God, you'd want to know, you got to think about this man. He gave his only begotten son for each one of us. Amen.
And, you know, like myself, you know, he loved me when I was unlovable. I mean, he, I had family members come to look at me on my death, they said, you ought to die. That's what you deserve. And I was, I was no good.
I was a crack head, a junky, a liar, a thief, a brawler. I mean, in jail, I was a junky. And you know what? God loved me right where I was at.
You got to choose this because we're special, we're special because we're chosen by him. That's exactly right. And you know what? That's what he does.
He takes the foolish things the world can firm the words, confirm the wives. And you know, look 747, that he had been forgiving much for love much. And so, you know, that's, that's what God is calling. You know, he's calling people you've made the devil.
You still be first in the first of the last thing. You know, the devil would say you've done too much wrong. You know, God don't want you. But, you know, God created us.
He knew us even before he was in a mother's womb. And he created us. You know, a lot of these people are extreme. They've been extremely bad for the devil.
But once God gets a hold of you, he made you who you are. He made your personality. Amen. He don't change your personality.
People tell me all the time, you want to praise your pictures, I know. That's what I've always been crazy. You still have to say. Amen.
I still have the same personality. It's just, now I'm sorry, Jesus. And so, now I want to be crazy for him. And so, you know, it just breaks my heart to see people going through everything they're going through.
If they only knew God, if they only had a personal relationship with God, they wouldn't have to go through all the, I mean, the Bible says in Romans 2 verse 9, he said, Anguish and tribulation would come up on every person that does evil. What glory, honor and peace would come but those are good. You know, before I gave my life to Lord, I was in hospitals and jails. And I was looking over my shoulder and rear view.
I was always wanting to have one of those people. I was always wanting to have one so many here and there. And, you know, people trying to kill me and threaten to kill me. And, but now, you know, it's just so amazing.
I've been serving the Lord for almost 15 years now. And literally, I can't remember having a bad day. I mean, I've had harder days than others. But, you know, if you've got God Almighty on your side and knowing that if he before you, the new could be against you, it's not a bad day.
Knowing that no matter what you go through, that all things do work together to be good to those who love the Lord in people. So, people try to do this on their own. You know, Romans chapter, 2, being ignorant of God's righteousness. People go about stabbing strong righteousness because they've never submitted their self to the righteous of God.
And that's what I like to pray with you today is please, you know, give your whole life to the Lord. Truly get born again. And, you know, people don't teach about being born again. You know, when you ask God to save you, he comes to save you from your sins.
And so, when God saves you, his Holy Spirit moves in to tell you not to sin and to give you power over sin. In Romans 814, sin has no more dominion. 614, sin has no more dominion over us. So, when we walk into Spirit, God places up on a path of righteousness.
And on that path, it's joy, it's love, it's happiness, it's peace. It's long suffered. It's love for your neighbor. It's love for your brothers, people that you don't even know because it's his man.
It's his spirit that lives in you. Amen. And, you know, Jeremiah 525, he says that your sins is without any good things from you. The biggest thing that's how he is keeping back the Holy Spirit.
God won't truly manifest yourself in an unclean temple. John 1421 says, he had my commandments and keeping my commandments. He just sees the love of me and he loves me. He will be like my Father.
I will love him and manifest myself to him. That's what I'm saying. And just like the biggest, a good scripture right now for today with all the rights and all the hate crime and stuff, the Bible tells us to live our neighbor as ourselves. You know, and you might have been hurt but you're not going to be hurt.
You might have been hurt because a family member might have been murdered or killed. And it is. It's hard sometimes to let go of things. But Jesus, the Bible tells us that if we can't forgive others or our brothers, then how can our Heavenly Father forgive us?
So until we do forgive, we're not going to truly be forgiven by the Father. And that will hinder us. And that will leave us into a bondage where of unforgiveness and bitterness and hate. And it will just build and build and give place for Satan to come and take over.
But today, that's my scripture for whoever that's going through that. And I know today there's so many people that are and it's all over TV. It's manifested, you know. But he tells us to love our neighbor as ourselves.
And that's what we need to do as a second greatest commitment of God. Amen. We like to encourage you to, you know, just a lot of people come to our order and truly don't give their whole life to the Lord. Everybody wants to hang on with something.
And most people have not been taught in order for God to say that you've got to give your life. That's why he says he did not take it up the cross, they're not himself. And following him daily is not worth the other. So take a 30 day challenge and truly give God your whole life.
Spend all everyday reading and praying and seeking God. Get a relationship with God. Get to know God in a way that you never had before. And I promise you that you won't be sorry.
It's just, it's so amazing. It breaks my heart to see people walk around church folks, walk around no happiness, no peace, head down butt drag and you know, no purpose. And so, you know, God's got a purpose for each one of us. And our purpose is to walk around his life in us, you know, in our body and spirit that we glorify him.
And all that we do, you know, God wants to put his life in you that when people see you, they see not you, but God in you. And you know, God wants us to walk around his spirit so people say, Hey, I want what they got. We ask you to continue praying for God's place ministries. This is his ministry.
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And the Bible says, Trust God to your whole heart and not to lean on your own understanding. And all the time and all ways and He said, we can God your past. Now it's time to get a relationship with God by reading and praying and seeking God to your whole heart each and every day of your life. The Bible says, Number one greatest commitment is to love God with your whole heart, your mind, your soul and your strength.
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