Hello and welcome to One on One. We are so pleased that you've chosen Christian programming to be in your homes and we are honored and blessed that you have chosen us, Buddy and Veronica McLaughlin, to come and to break the bread of life with you and bring the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to this awesome technology wherever you're hearing this from. We just thank you for carving out the time and how valuable time he is and we want you to know that we appreciate you when you see us and greet us and you call us, you write us, you send us emails, you support us. I mean, you've just been wonderful through 21 years to keep this program going around the world.
It's just still boggles our young minds. When you tell God you're available, he really takes it seriously. When we tell God we were available, we begin a journey, this journey and it's been such an adventure and it's been a journey of faith. Every single day, every single step, it's just wonderful how God just, I mean, your faith is stretched in every imaginable way but it's wonderful to know that when you hear the calling of God and you say, okay God, we're available, that he just takes you and just goes before you and he knows us.
He knows our talents, he knows our abilities. I was just talking to a friend of mine before we aired this program or came to take the program and we went to church together at the Big Rock Pentecostal Church and she said, I remember on Wednesday nights when you were just a teenager, when you would get up and teach Wednesday night service and she said it would just bless me. And I said, you know, I didn't realize that I was cutting my teeth in for what God has called me to do now. So he knows us, he knows all about us and that's what we're going to talk about today, that when he calls you to do something that he's already placed those gifts and those callings in your life and you say, well, Veronica, I don't know what that is.
Well, just tell God you're available and you'll start feeling that nudge in that direction and you'll know what to do because he's very aware of you and he knows you by name and that's what we're going to talk about today. In Jeremiah, he told Jeremiah who was just a young man and was going to be a prophet to Israel in a very tumultuous time. He said, in Jeremiah 1-5, I knew you before I formed you in your mother's womb. Isn't that awesome to know that God chose us to be here and to be his children?
You know, so many times, you know, I've heard people say, why am I here? You know, I didn't choose to be here. Why am I here? Because God chose you to be here.
He chose you to be his child. Just like he told Jeremiah, I formed you and I knew you when you were in your mother's womb. Before you were born, I set you apart. God knows us intimately.
He knows us better than we really know ourselves. Before Jeremiah was born, he said, you know, I knew everything about you and what a powerful promise that we have in Isaiah 43-1. It says, fear not, for I have redeemed you. I have summoned you by name.
You are mine and I am yours. So in that comforting to know that great promise that God knows us and calls us by name. You know, my name, Veronica, which I love and I'm glad that my mom and dad named me Veronica, but all my life, my name has been misspelled and it has been mispronounced. Like I remember when I was just a young girl, still in that Big Rock Pentecostal church, teaching a little two and three year old Sunday school and Sunday school lessons.
They could not pronounce Veronica. And I remember one little boy that my name to him, he would always call me Bronco. So that was my name and that's kind of a laugh to us today that sometimes I still get called Bronco, but isn't good to know that God knows us. He doesn't mispronounce our names.
He knows us by name. And there are times, you know, we do so many meetings and services and we meet so many people and I can remember people's faces, but sometimes people's names elude me and I'm standing there thinking and I know you guys have done the very same thing I have and you're thinking, what is this person's name? But what's so good to know is that Jesus knows us by name. He knows exactly what we're going through.
He knows the plan that he has for our lives. He has charted a course for our lives and a destiny, but God isn't good to know buddy that God knows us by name. And he called you by name, Mr. Buddy McLaughlin.
You know, I remember that voice. I remember that night only so well. I mean, it's like God was piercing from the heavens and I could feel his presence. I knew it was him.
So after two years of prayer by the way. And many years of living a borderless life, I'll leave it there. And I thought, what have I gotten myself into? And I remember when I was praying for Buddy, I said, God, what are you going to do with this man?
You know, we're married and you know, what are you going to do with this man? And I remember the Lord speaking to me in my spirit, I could take you to the place in my house and the Lord said, I've done all I need to do. What are you going to do with this man? And I knew what he was telling me.
I've already shed my blood. I've already given what I need to give. Now you do your part. So I just went through my house.
I began to pray. I began to anoint the house and symbolically with the Holy Spirit, anointing things with oil calling you by name, calling Buddy McLaughlin that he was called. He was chosen to do what God had called him to do. And then two weeks later, you got a visitation.
And it was awesome. I mean, Veronica said, you know, it's wonderful when you realize the Creator of the universe takes time to speak directly to you. And if you'll avail yourself to him, I'm telling you, he will speak to your spirit. You will hear his voice.
And I remember exactly what his voice said to me. And my mind was trying to think of every way in the world to get away from this convicting spirit that I felt. I knew I needed to change and had already admitted that to Veronica. I leaned over and said, let's go to your papal's church on Sunday.
And I don't ever volunteer to go to church. I mean, that was not my thing at that time. I said, well, I'll be out two or three o'clock in the morning, Sunday morning. And now I'm going to have to be feel really bad and drive all the way down there and go to church.
Why would you do something like that? And I knew there was an altar called going on. I knew that I needed to go to that altar, but I still refused to believe that it was me. And I looked at our young daughter, Elissa, and I said, well, I'm going to pick Elissa, but I'm going to carry her down there and go to pray for Elissa.
And when that went through my mind, the voice says, audible is what you're hearing now said, nobody, it's you. He pierced the heavens with his voice, called my name, and yeah, I knew it was me. And I did. I made that journey and I've never looked back.
I wish I'd made it so many years before, but you avail yourself to God. You trust in Him that He loves you. He gave His only begotten Son so that He could call your name one day and you would say, yes, Lord, yes, Lord. And you would be like Jeremiah when He told Jeremiah, He said, you shall go to all whom I send you and wherever I command you to speak, do not be afraid of their faces.
You know, I have never been afraid to speak the word of God to anyone, to let them know how special He is to me because I'm special to Him. I've always known that Veronica is special to Him. I mean, I think she has a chair somewhere that he just looks straight to. I mean, I have to run around the house and get him to look at me, but she just reaches her arms up and but he knows I'm saying that he's there to any of us who reach her arms up.
But Veronica has had a relationship with him so long in her life. I just wish I had made those choices in my young life. I did and I drifted away. But thank goodness I had that foundation.
Thank goodness I knew that love of God. I had the fear for God in my life and parents. I can't implore you enough to bring your children up in the fear and admonition of the Lord. It's so important.
This world is a tough place, a cruel place. And you can get out there on these crazy limbs and listen to these crazy voices and do these crazy things. You know, after all the craziness I went through when I came back, He still loved me with that undying unfethered love that His Son was given that He would call my name one night in a church just to remind me that He knew who I was. Yes.
And I'm going through the Lord too. And there's somebody out there listening to me right now. You feel this saying convicting power that I'm talking about. You've known this in your life for a long time.
You need to do exactly what I did. You need to put it all aside. You need to just make that journey to your knees. I'll say you'll never feel closer to anyone than you feel closer to God when you're on your knees.
And you say Lord forgive me of my sins for I know that I'm a sinner. I know you died on the cross for my sins. You were buried and you rose on the third day. Forgive me.
That's the key word. Forgive me Lord and make me I want to receive you into my heart. That's all you have to do. It's just called your name.
I don't know who that is but call us. Let us know who that is. Let us know who you are. We'll send you a resource that will help you in your walk with God in a new direction with Him.
He loves you that much. He wants to speak your name. I remember how beautiful my name was when he spoke to me. And again I remember in the Garden of Good Simeon we're waiting to go in.
He spoke to me again there and he called me son. And I'll tell you those are moments you will never forget. Those are moments you'll wish you had done like me years before. But wow.
To be loved by the creator of the universe. Enough to stop everything that's going on. I say welcome home. Welcome home.
I want to welcome you home first. Welcome into the kingdom of God. And we encourage you to get into God's Word. Get into good Bible based church we can learn about God.
His Word is just it will open so many doors for you. It will keep you from stumbling and falling and will help in God you. He loves you that much. He left this beautiful book that has never been refuted, has never been found in any way to be false.
And if you will you will just indulge yourself instead of with the things you used to do. You told yourself into his Word, oh my, the lives you will change, the places you will go, the faces you will not fear to see and the things that you will not fear to say because you know it's the truth. And it will set you free. It's beautiful.
And how comforting to know that Jesus does know us by name. And he loves us. You know, we can look back in the Old Testament and the New Testament that God's always known his people by name, that calling. We look in Exodus 2, 1 and 6.
God called Moses two times from the burning bush. Moses. Moses. Can you imagine that standing there?
He's not like a burning bush that doesn't, it just keeps burning isn't enough. But from that bush, the presence of God calls your name, life changing. His life was never the same. We see in 1 Samuel 3, 1 and 10, God called Samuel, the young boy that you know Hannah didn't think she could have any children but she had Samuel and then she dedicated him and he lived there in the temple with Eli.
And he was just a young boy probably 8, 10, 12 years old and God started calling him by name that night and he got up. And he's like, what, what do you want of me? And he lies like, I didn't call you by name. Lay back down and Samuel, God called him Samuel.
Knew him by name. Called that young man. Again, he went up and he lies like, no, I'm not, finally Eli figured it out. Said, God is speaking to you.
Ask him what he wants you to do. Knew him by name. Also we look in Luke 128 when Gabriel appears to Mary. He calls her by name and he says, Mary, don't be afraid.
You are highly favored. Oh, what a thing to say. You know, for God to call you by name and then to tell you that you are highly favored, that you are going to have the Son of God, the promise that the world has been waiting for, Mary, you have been chosen. And then we go to John 11 and I love the story in the New Testament that, you know, Mary and Martha so much they're like us.
You know, they had a trombone in their life. Chaos was going on Lazarus. Their brother was very sick unto death and so they had reached out to Jesus and saying, Jesus, you've got to be here. You've got to come and heal him.
Well, Jesus didn't get in a hurry. Have you ever noticed that Jesus never seems to get in a hurry? When we're going in the midst of a trial, you know, we're all torn up. We're ringing our hands and we're like, God, where are you?
That's where Mary and Martha were. Where is Jesus when we need him? Is he not understand what we're going through? He understood perfectly well because he was getting ready to do a great miracle.
Well, Lazarus died and then when Jesus got there, he had been in the tomb for four days. And then Martha goes to him and says, kind of chastises Jesus. Where have you been? If you had only been here, he would not have died.
Does that sound familiar? So many times we look up to heaven and we're like, God, I love you. I thought you knew me by name. I thought we were best friends.
If you had only been here, then this would not have happened. And Jesus just took his head and said, Oh, Martha, I am the resurrection. I am the life. I am the I am.
And I can just imagine her standing there and saying, Yes, Lord, I believe you. I believe that he'll raise again in the resurrection. I want him alive now. And Jesus wept because he saw what was going on, the turmoil that was going on around him.
But the good thing is, is that Jesus knew that man's name. He went over in John chapter 1144 and it says that he went to the grave and he said, Lazarus, come forth. And he who died came forth, bound, hand and foot and wrapped in grave clothes with a cloth. And Jesus said to them, loose him and let him go.
I believe that if Jesus had not have called him by name, if he would have just stood at that cemetery and said, come forth, that every dead person in that cemetery would have risen that day. He knew him by name, he targeted him and he said, Lazarus, come forth out of the grave and he came forth and he said, loose him and let him go. Isn't it good to know that when Jesus calls us by name that we are loosed, we are set free. We are no longer bound in those grave clothes.
When Jesus called Buddy by name that night and said, nobody, it's you. Buddy was loosed and set free so that he could fulfill the call and the destiny that he had in his life. You have a call and a destiny upon your life today. You would not be listening to us.
You would still not be alive. Now all you have to say, God, I'm available. You know me by name and I want to do what you have called me to do. I got a precious letter from Louise Scott just a couple of weeks ago, a 93-year-old precious saint of God who knew and went to church with my great grandmother in Bluefield, West Virginia and we called her Granny Ferguson.
And she wrote me the most precious letter and she said, I'm 93 years old. I love to watch your television program. Please pray that I will do what God needs me to do. Now Buddy, you would think at 93 years old that you would just be sitting somewhere in a corner needing so, well, my life is almost over, but she's ready to do what God is.
She's not ready to go home yet. She's ready to do what God has called her to do. And you know, he knows Louise by name. And yes, we have a call.
We have a purpose. Pamela and Joseph, he knows you by name. Rise up and do what God has called you to do. Precious friends of ours in Pennsylvania who have gone through horrendous loss and difficulty with their health, but I'm here to prophesy over you today.
Rise up and let your voice be heard. We don't have to know you by name, but God knows you by name. You answer that call just like Moses, just like Samuel, and just like Mary, I love what Mary said, let it be done as you have said it. Let him call us by name and say, God, let it be done as you have said it.
You know, it's just like you were talking about with Martha and Mary. They let, they got ahead of God. They got out in front of him because they were impatient. And you know, we get there, you know, we say, God, come on, catch up to me here.
I know where I'm going. Well, no, no, we don't. No, we don't. Oh, sometimes it just pays to be still, pays to be still and just pray and just remind God who's calling.
Say, God is somebody. You know, I remember you speaking with me and have a conversation. I mean, it's okay. It's, you're not losing your mind to speak to the Lord of the heavens.
He'll take time to hear you. He'll take time to listen to what you have to do. There's nothing too big. There's nothing too small that he doesn't want to handle.
He knows it anyway. It's just that sometimes he wants to hear from you. When's the last time you really sincerely got on your knees and just said, okay, God, this is me and you. I'm putting on my e-fod and I'm wrapping myself up in this cocoon and I'm going to be here just because I want to be here with you.
You know, we love to lay in our father's arms and our mother's arms where we know that love is. We feel that love and we can feel their heartbeat. We can feel their breath and their touch. You know, we have that opportunity to do that with our Lord each and every day.
And he longs for that from you. He wants you to be there with him. He's built a place for all of us to come, not because he just wants to have us all in one place. He wants us all to be there together.
He wants us to relish in this time this eternity that we have to look forward to simply because he does know our name. You know what's better? Well, he sees our name written in the Lamb's Book of Life, Buddy McLaughlin. Told me he loved me, received me in his heart on this day and it's there, recorded for eternity.
Veronica McLaughlin. Bronco. And in captions there. She gave her heart to me at a very young age and it served me so well.
Right there it is in Lamb's Book of Life. Joseph and Pamela, there you are, Lamb's Book of Life. It's wonderful to know that we have that promise that he knows you, loves you, wants to embrace you, wants to receive you. I don't care how dirty you are.
I don't care the mess you're in. I don't care the sin that you've been involved in. I don't care what the world says about your sin, how bad it is. There's no sin greater than another.
And if you will just call out to God, he will forgive you of that. He will make your day much better. I can tell you I've been there at that low, low, low point. And I've been there when all I had was to look up and he welcomed me and received me and called me by name.
And that's you today. Let him call you by name. Make yourself available to him. Just allow God to love on you the way he loved on Lazarus, the way he loved on Moses when he called him.
The way he loved on everyone in the Bible that wanted to serve God, that loved him. Yeah, there were challenges in their life. But boy, you know this life is made of vapor. It's nothing.
We think of it as everything. But in God's eyes, it's just a twinkle in his eye. It's all this time, spandy is, but man eternity is forever and ever and ever. That's why he knows your name because he wants you to have your name written in the language book of life and to be there rejoicing with all of us.
And I want to rejoice with everyone. All those who have gone before us, all those I've never known have heard these wonderful stories about. Oh man, what's going to be a great time, Veronica, because we have a father who knows us by name. And he loves us.
And when he calls us by name, we rise up and we go forward. But what's so beautiful is that we can call Jesus by name. And when we speak that name, Jesus, just speak his name, Jesus, all hail trimbals, all demons have to bow. All authority is given to him.
And we just declare his name, Jesus. When we call on his name, every dry, every dead area in our lives, it comes back to life. He knew us before we were even conceived in our mother's womb, isn't that beautiful? And now he wants us to call on his name so that we can have an intimate relationship with Jesus.
Jesus, the name above all names. And he is there for you and he is there for me today. All we have to do now is call upon him. That name brings us peace.
It says that Jesus is sweeter than honey. That name, it's like the rose of Sharon, Jesus, Jesus. Oh, there's something so special about that name. And when we call on that name, when we call on him, he doesn't act like he doesn't hear us like buddy, he doesn't have that selective hearing.
He says, what can I do for you today? I'm so glad that you came into my presence. I'm so glad that you called me by name. You know, when the enemy comes to you to tell you that you're not worthy to call on the name of Jesus, then you just say, that's a lie.
And I'm not buying into that lie. I know Jesus. I know him intimately. And I know he knows me.
And I know that he's got a purpose and a call for my life. That's a special thing to know, isn't it buddy? We hope you receive Christ in your life. We hope we just reminded you how much Jesus loves you if you've already received him into your life.
And we hope that you take the time this week to get on your knees and let him know, hey, God, I'm tugging on your, tugging on your throne this week. We love you and God loves you until we see you again next week. Remember that God is always faithful. Thank you.
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