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you know why God doesn’t tell us a lot
of stuff because to be
honest mystery is what makes life
exciting Now Dave and I kind of have a
thing we’re a little turned around
backwards he watches Hallmark movies all
the
time and I I
just God bless them but
I I don’t do well with something that
five minutes after it starts I know how
it’s going to
end I I don’t do good with
that and with Hallmark I don’t know if
you notice or not but the kiss always
comes at the last
scene you wait the whole thing to see
this one kiss at the last
minute I like Mysteries I like something
that’s going to keep me kind of on the
edge of my seat
and I was thinking about that the other
day I think that’s part of the reason
why God doesn’t tell us all this stuff
we’d like to know because there are
Mysteries the mystery of the ages is
Christ in me the hope of
glory how many of you agree God’s a
little mysterious he doesn’t you know I
mean you can ask him anything you want
to but a lot of stuff he’s not going to
answer you and some of the stuff you ask
you probably better be happy he’s not
answering you because you might not like
what you find
out well God why did this
happen well because you blah blah blah
blah believe you have received
it and you will get
it can’t tell you exactly when that’s
where the test of faith comes in at
But Here Comes really the most important
part of this that we haven’t dealt with
much this weekend verse 25
and see we get all excited about praying
you’re going to get it yeah wo
Glory tell the mountain to move and it
has to move woo
Jesus I feel the Holy
Ghost
and when you stand and praying if you
hold anything against anyone forgive
them well where’s the noise at
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now man it got deathly quiet in
here I didn’t hear one
amen not one
Hallelujah
not one person even quietly agreed with
me this is one of the most important
scriptures in the
Bible and when you stand praying if you
have anything against
anyone anything against anyone you don’t
even get to be mad at the post
office
forgive
them yeah now you’re getting
it forgive them so that your father in
Heaven May forgive you your
sins well now
look what are we going to make out of
that other than what it says if I don’t
forgive you God’s not going to forgive
me whoa that’s
scary isn’t that what it says do you do
you know how many Christians there are
that are
mad if I would ask and I won’t I won’t
bother because I’ve done it enough that
I already
know if I would ask how many of you are
mad at somebody the there’s a good 60 to
80% of the people in this room right now
that are mad at
somebody and then you’re going to want
to take the part of my message about
this praying and getting
everything and being powerful and in
prayer and defeating the devil we like
that stuff man it’s right the devil’s
not going to walk all over me
but then when it comes to forgiving that
person that hurt you you’re going to say
well that’s not that’s not right they
don’t they don’t deserve my
forgiveness well you know what even if
they don’t you deserve
peace did you hear
me let me ask which one of you in here
deserves God’s
forgiveness no you don’t
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have you not learned anything there’s
not half the people in here Charles put
their hand
up we don’t deserve anything that God
gives
us what we deserve to do is die and go
to
hell
we don’t deserve God’s forgiveness but
he’s gracious and he’s kind and he’s
loving and he forgives
us and he expects
us to forgive other
people and he says if we don’t won’t
forgive
us well I could just say amen and go
home and leave you with that and see
what you do with
it well you just don’t know what they
did to
me well I know what my dad did to me and
I know that my life was going nowhere
till I forgave
him
and I’ll tell you something that’ll help
you do
that remember this this helped me when
God told me this hurting people hurt
people my dad had something all messed
up in his
life he grew up in an incestuous
situation and to be honest I think he
was demon-possessed
he told me when he was 80 when he
finally apologized to me he was
80
80 and he carried that burden around
with him his whole
life and this is what he told me he said
there’s no
way when you were
young and I was young that I could have
there’s no way I could have prevented
myself from doing what I did to you
you he was
controlled now that
doesn’t make it
okay it doesn’t make it
right
but we can be
merciful I mean would you rather be
merciful or be mad merciful
and here again this is where we get in
trouble you say I’ve tried to forgive
them but this is where the we get all
mixed up with the feelings thing again
you can pray God in Jesus name I forgive
them Lord I forgive them I want to
forgive them help me to forgive them I
forgive them and then the next time you
see them you want to punch them in the
face so now listen to me because when
you see them you don’t Fe feel any
differently about them you assume that
you didn’t forgive
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them I’m not leaving till you get
this but if you make a
decision and you do what God tells you
to you pray to forgive
them and then you pray for them
to be
blessed oh my
god well I’ll be honest with you I told
God I don’t want them to be
blessed but see here’s the thing when
you pray for God to bless somebody
that’s hurt you that doesn’t mean he’s
going to give them a new car and a new
house the first thing he may bless them
with is some
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truth and then I’m about to tell you how
to add some real power to your
life you want me to tell
you that person who hurt you who treated
you
unjustly that you’re now praying for and
you’re blessing them even though it’s
hard and you may be still don’t feel any
differently about them
but you keep saying I did my part I did
what God told me to do see our part is
obedience God’s part is the
feelings but no
wait now if you want to add some real
power to your life
then
if they need help you help
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them let’s just say Charles you Pastor
of this church here for all these years
and you’ve worked so hard and let’s say
somebody on your staff and this is not
going to happen I’m just making stuff up
I’m
not somebody on your staff that you
trusted and loved and
mentored goes behind your back and they
stir up strife and so they leave and
take about 60 70 people with them and
start a church down the
street well man that’s going to hurt
hurt hurt and the first temptation is
going to be to get mad mad
mad but I tell you what you could do you
could buy him a sound
system you’re not smiling
yet I’m talking about do you want to
know how to break the devil’s power over
your
life you buy them a sound system and you
pray for God to bless them just as much
as he wants
to and don’t think for one minute that
anybody can mistreat you and
succeed now come on you got me going in
a different direction than what I’m
supposed to be going in
here God says if we obey him he will be
an enemy to our enemy
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when God taught me
this I felt like I had found a secret
bomb bless your enemies the Bible says
Be Good to those who have used you and
abused you that’s what it says Luke 6
be good to them bless
them if your enemy is thirsty give them
something to drink if he’s hungry give
him something to
eat meet his need help
him if you work with somebody that’s
just been a jerk to
you and let’s just say you hear the
engine in their car blew
up
their car is going to be in the shop for
a month
and they don’t know how they’re going to
get to work they’re going to have to
take public
transportation well what if what if you
offer to go out of your way and pick
them up every morning and take them home
every
night I love these patty cake things I
get
these
W oh that would
hurt that would be so
hard but every time you do the right
thing when it feels
wrong you’re
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growing you’re
growing and I am not joking one bit I
have done this and I want to tell you
what the minute that you do it you are
set
free you said I just can’t do that yes
you
can because the Bible wouldn’t tell us
to do it if we couldn’t do it there’s
nothing that God tells us to do that we
can’t do and everything that God tells
us to do is for our
benefit
but now remember what I said about the
feelings cuz that’s the thing that mixes
people up about this forgiveness stuff
you think because you don’t feel any
different that you didn’t forgive them
so you keep going to the altar one more
time get in prayer to be able to forgive
somebody you need to say I did forgive
them God I sincerely prayed to forgive
them I’m praying for them I’m praying
for you to bless them if they need help
you show me and I’ll help them and I
will tell you what it won’t take very
long and your feelings will catch up
with your
decision oh that was worth you coming
today and I could give you examples from
my own life but I really want to go on
here
so yeah that’s a great scripture in Mark
11 whatever you ask
for believe that you have received it
and you will get it
yay
woo God is so good
and whenever you’re
praying if you have
anything anything against
anyone forgive them leave it and let it
go so that you’re having father May
forgive you your sins and
trespasses I want to tell you
what this thing I’m talking you about
right now this is why the church is so
weak I’ve been reading the book of
Acts and I know this because I’ve read
it before but the reason why they had
such Miracles and such power was because
they were in
unity
they weren’t all mad at each other and
hating each other they all sold all
their stuff and they had everything in
common and they made sure that nobody
had needs they were taking care of each
other they were sacrificing for each
other I mean back in those days if you
lied to the Holy Ghost you fell over
dead well we could probably use a little
bit of that today you know why and I’m
not joking because you know what’s
missing the fear of
God I’ll tell you something and I’m
telling you the honest of God’s truth I
would be where I’m at in my life right
now and what God is letting me do I am
well aware the devil hates
me and I can’t play games and even stay
alive and I would be afraid to stay mad
at somebody
you know why because I know
better and I would open a door for the
enemy to do me harm now you may not
agree with that but I’m telling you
that’s I that’s what I believe I believe
that we are responsible for what we
know we are responsible for what we
know to know what is right to do and to
do it not it is
sin and you know I talk to you like this
because I care about
you oh I hope and pray before I die I
can see the church in
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power I wish that people were afraid to
disobey
God in a right way not afraid that God
will hurt you but just having that
reverential respect and
a that God is so awesome and mighty and
so powerful
I was reading this morning yesterday
morning something about
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when when God was on the mountain giv
the Commandments to Moses that nobody
could even touch the
mountain if an animal even went near the
mountain they would
die because God’s
holiness was there and when God appeared
in that burning bush to Moses he said
take the shoes off your feet because the
ground you stand on is Holy
Ground and we go to church and sit there
and while the pastor preach and text our
friends get up and walk out during the
altar call climb all over the people
that need to be
saved see I can say what I want to now I
got 10 minutes I’m leaving
town and by the time I come back you’ll
love me
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again it’s
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true I mean we even need to tell people
how to
dress you know if you’re a woman
everybody doesn’t need to see
up your skirt and down your
blouse well it’s
fashion I remember trying on
a dress or something in a store and
there was a slit that came up to about
right
here and I said no that won’t work for
me and the lady said oh honey that looks
great on you that’s fashion I said it’s
not fashion I
work the Bible says Come Ye out from
among them and be separate it doesn’t
say go out there and be like
them and it is my personal opinion that
pastors need to tell people this
stuff because
honestly sometimes people just don’t
know their parents didn’t teach them
nobody’s taught them and we need to be
practical in the church and teach people
things that will keep them going in the
right
direction before you go out of your
house in the morning go look at yourself
in the
mirror
and say do I look like a Godly woman and
that doesn’t mean you I I dress
nice but I
don’t but you can be pretty and be
holy being holy doesn’t mean
you can’t wear any color and you can’t
wear any makeup and you can’t fix your
hair
that’s all legalism and dead
religion Lord help me where am I at what
am I
do I don’t guess it matters now I got
seven minutes I might as well do what I
want
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to
you know what you got
it I’m going to pray for you I’m going
to close
there’s no point in me saying anything
else you
got what God wanted you
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to man if
some if if you just go out of here and
you just live a little bit of a better
life thank you it’s worth all the work
and
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all that it’s worth
everything we serve such an awesome
God and we need to respect
him fear is everywhere and affects
everyone including me but with God’s
help I’ve learned how to move forward in
the presence of fear and do it afraid I
wrote this book because I want you to
experience the peace that Jesus died to
give you in these Pages you’ll learn how
to understand and confront fear and
change your mindset for lasting Freedom
if you open your heart to God he’ll help
you Embrace courage in the face of fear
find your strength and walk in Freedom
From Fear today when you order Joyce’s
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let me give you a great example of how
project girl works you see God’s love
represented here has totally changed my
life now all I need to do is share it
with another woman or
girl Al walk Al walk
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Al we will never walk
alone Walk Alone Walk Alone
Walk
Alone we will never walk
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