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don’t let your cross become a cross of
rebellion don’t let something that
happened in life because it rains on the
just and the unjust tragedies happen
things happen in life and it will either
make you or break you
it will either become a cross of
rebellion or a cross of repentance and
if you will say Lord I don’t understand
everything but I just give you my life
completely I’m not my own so if if this
is the cross I am the bear in life that
I will bear it and I will let it draw me
closer to you hi I’m sherry Burnette
right here in the country of Haiti I
want to come to you today with something
that is so dear from my heart and that
is the Haitian people
pastor Jenson you and your partners your
church your Kingdom connection people
your hearts are touched right now with
the cry the poor for those people here
in Haiti and thank you so much there are
great needs right now after this
hurricane pastors have been coming down
through the mountains people have been
coming to the gates and people have been
calling us and saying their homes have
been washed away their cows their their
goats they’re chickens they’ve lost in
every single thing that they have they
lost their Gardens just when the gardens
were about to harvest they’ve lost
everything and now hunger is coming into
these villages here in Haiti and they’re
all asking for one main thing and that
is food please send food please send
food so listen if you’re listening today
and you’re watching this please let your
heart be touched with the cry the poor
this is an emergency and I also want to
say pastor Jensen I thank you Bobby
thanks you for those two trucks that you
bought for us you and your partners
bought for us right after the earthquake
we’ve been taking food
the mountains every single day those
Chuck’s were working from sunup to
sundown but now they’re breaking down
every day and breaking down in the
middle of nowhere because they’ve been
used so much so this is another urgent
need to replace those two trucks that we
used all the way back in the earthquake
they need to retire and we need to get
some good trucks to get this food into
the mountains so it won’t break down on
the way anymore
but whatever your gift is large small
Widow’s mite whatever God has blessed
you with I just pray that your heart
will be touched with the cry of the poor
and you will respond today this is a
crisis thank you from the country of
Haiti
and we want to welcome you to a very
special edition of Kingdom connection
and I’m here with a live group from all
over the nation we’re experiencing the
Holy Land in an amazing way
and I’m going to share today what God
has laid upon my heart I want you while
you’re watching this telecast to know
that we’re in Jerusalem and we are on a
tour and I thought it would be powerful
if we could just take a little time to
minister to you from this powerful place
behind me is where the temple was in
Christ time where he overturned the
tables cross from that is the Mount of
Olives there where he preached Matthew
chapter 24 so many prophecies and
messages about the second coming and of
course this is the city where Jesus bled
and died this is where they put his body
in the tomb and this is where on the
third day he rose again and so I believe
today that God is going to speak to you
in a powerful way open up your heart and
let him do it if there’s a need in your
life while I’m preaching if you want us
to pray for you and we’re going to pray
before we end this program if you’d like
to know somebody’s praying for you today
somebody cares wherever you’re watching
this telecast around the world I want
you to call the number that’s on the
screen and we’re going to agree and pray
with you I was thinking about Matthew
the 27th chapter and it tells the story
of one that’s always moved me it says
that there were three crosses there were
three men hanging on those crosses those
crosses were on a hill called Calvary
and I want to talk to you for just a few
moments about those crosses it wasn’t
one that was crucified we often only
talk about the one and rightfully so
Jesus is Lord and worthy of our praise
but let’s not forget that there were
three who were crucified that day maybe
the Roman soldiers just
didn’t want to have to do be out there
for hours
one crucifixion after another so they
probably just grouped them together and
they were really saying that you know
you’re known by the company that you
keep and just throw Jesus in with these
two thieves because he’s a criminal too
in our minds and so they crucified the
three there were three bodies that were
sagging on those pierced hands the shame
of the nakedness all three of them
suffered the shame and the pain of the
dust in the heat and the morbid
curiosity of the crowd looking on as
they were being crucified the crosses
the shame the way of execution was the
same but their deaths were totally
different
I see three crosses there was a man on
the left of Jesus there was a man on the
right of Jesus on a cross and there was
the man in the center of course who was
the savior the Lamb of God that takes
away the sins of the world and I thought
about how that that man on the left of
Jesus has intrigued me for a long time
just reading scriptures I don’t know
what made him so hardened I don’t know
what made him so calloused that he could
actually be ten feet away from the
Savior God in the flesh bleeding dying
hear the groans the blood spurting out
of Jesus body and he was calloused he
was hardened enough that the Bible said
that whatever life had done to him made
him so bitter so upset that he cursed
Jesus and cursed God and he mocked him
and made fun of him and said if you are
God then come down off of the cross if
you are Messiah come off of the cross he
didn’t understand Jesus hate coming down
off of
cross would not have proved he was
Messiah it’s staying on the cross and
dying and taking our sins but he was
bitter and the Bible said that the last
thing that he did as that man was dying
was he cursed and lifted his voice and
rejected Jesus it’s the cross of
rebellion and sometimes it’s amazing
that people can go through things and
I’ve seen it as a pastor and I don’t
know what you’re going through but don’t
let your cross become a cross of
rebellion don’t let something that
happened in life because it rains on the
just and the unjust tragedies happen
things happen in life and it doesn’t
matter if you’re living for God or not
living for God but what I’ve learned is
everything’s better with Jesus including
trouble because when you go through it
you go through it alone if you don’t
have Jesus but when you have Jesus he
said I’ll never leave you and I’ll never
forsake you I’m never alone but I’ve
seen people who go through things and
instead of instead of softening their
heart instead of causing them to draw
closer to God through the pain that
they’ve been through there comes a
rebellion in their spirit in their heart
and this man on the left of Jesus he was
he was dying on the cross of rebellion
now what’s interesting is there was a
man on the right side of the cross that
Jesus was hanging on and I love this man
because he was going through the same
thing the man on the left side of Jesus
was going through in it amazing how we
can go through the same thing and the
same son that hardens clay softens
butter the same gospel that saves one
condemns another to eternity inhale the
same gospel that can break some and
cause them to fall to their knees can
cause others to become to resist the
Holy Spirit all
over and over until they no longer feel
a conscience in a and and anything for
God they’re going through the same thing
they’re within a few feet of the Savior
this man on the right of Jesus is
hanging on the cross and he he he
listens he watches as they lay Jesus on
the cross and they drive the nails
through his hands he watches the the
blood as it flows he watches this man as
they raise him and the thud of the Cross
drops into the ground and his body tears
and twists in pain and in agony he’s
expecting this man on the middle cross
at any moment to curse he’s expecting
him to say something foul to those who
are crucifying him but instead he hears
him lift up his voice and with blood
cake lips he cries Father forgive them
they know not what they do and this man
on the other side of the cross of Jesus
on the right side of the cross cries out
with mercy and he says oh Jesus
I’m asking you remember me when you come
into your kingdom and Jesus turned to
him and said this day you will be with
me in paradise I’m talking to people
right now all over the world and you’re
going through things that you never
dreamed you would go through you’re
carrying your cross and the cross will
come to your house and to your family
the cross will come you will suffer you
will go through painful experiences you
will experience things that happen in
life and you’re either gonna have a
cross of rebellion or you’re gonna let
what happens to you like the man on the
right of Jesus he had the cross of
repentance because it melted his heart
you see if you will allow it
whatever
enemy has done will cause you to even
draw closer to Jesus that we can see the
power of God manifests through our
suffering and through our pain and
through a hurt and someone is listening
me today and you’re going through
something and I’m telling you that the
cross that God has allowed you to be on
and to carry in this life it will either
make you or break you
it will either become a rebel cross of
rebellion or a cross of repentance and
if you will say lord I don’t understand
everything but I just give you my life
completely I’m not my own so if if this
is the cross I am the bear in life then
I will bear it and I will let it draw me
closer to you three crosses the cross of
rebellion the cross of repentance and
the cross of Redemption that middle
cross that Jesus hung on he was bleeding
and he was dying for the whole world for
God so loved the world that He gave His
only begotten Son that whosoever would
believe on him should not perish but
have everlasting life and I believe
today that Jesus Christ has already
taken to the cross your addiction he has
taken to the cross your suffering and
your disease and Isaiah said he was
wounded for your transgressions and
bruised for your iniquities the
chastisement of your peace was upon him
and by His stripes you are healed and so
I tell you that that middle cross the
cross of redemption redeems us from the
curse of the law it redeems our family
it redeems our children it redeems our
house it redeems us from a pass the
shame the guilt it redeems us even from
the things of life that are supposed to
make us bitter and make us rebel even
more against God that cross of
redemption can take
what the enemy meant fire evil and
actually turn it for good and so I’ve
come today with a simple message on
Kingdom connection someone is watching
me today and you’ve been through
something and you don’t understand why
and you’ve been allowing that thing to
cause rebellion to come in your heart
and the Holy Spirit has sent me today
all the way from Jerusalem for you to
tell you that you don’t have to get
bitter at God you don’t have to get to a
place where you are filled with offence
and angry but if you will allow the
message of redemption to reach you today
he would love for you to repent of your
sins and turn to Jesus with all of your
heart and I’ll tell you what he’ll do
he’ll give you grace he’ll either take
you through it or he’ll give you grace
enough that you will bear it and one day
you will hear him say well done thou
good and faithful servant and I’m
praying for you today that you’ll turn
that cross of rebellion into a cross of
repentance and experience the cross of
redemption it can happen for you today
how many of you believe that that are in
the studio audience how many of you how
many of you know right now that the
grace of God is flowing now I’m going to
ask the studio audience to join hands
and we’re going to pray for you now
father in the name of Jesus I thank you
that you are the healer and I speak
healing over every sick person from
Jerusalem today I speak it where you
suffered and died that they could be
healed I curse every sickness every
disease Lord I ask you for miracles of
healing miracles that people would
experience the grace of God in their
physical body and be healed cancer I
curse you in the name
of Jesus heart disease I curse you in
the name of Jesus
get out of their body lord I pray for
blood diseases and healing to flow that
people would experience your power today
your love I thank you for victory over
every addiction come on pray right now
in this studio audience we just claim
victory through the cross of redemption
you can be redeemed from that addiction
redeemed from alcoholism drug addiction
anything the enemy is using to destroy
you or your loved ones Lord I pray for
families right now come on we’re praying
in Jerusalem we’re praying for your
family and right now Lord I just speak
peace into homes where there’s
contention and strife lord I pray that
you would bring that repentance in that
home in that husband in that wife I pray
for children that are lost I pray for
grandchildren that needs your grace and
I pray for miracles right now in the
name of Jesus I believe you Lord for
household salvation that if we call upon
the name of the Lord we shall be saved
in our house and I just claim your house
I love Jeremiah 31 it says and your
children shall return from the land of
the enemy the enemy has held them long
enough Satan and addiction and lies and
deception has held them long enough
atheism has held them long enough we
bind the enemy and we loose the grace of
God hallelujah and the blood of
Redemption will reach them we thank you
Father that those who are under attack
right now under the sound now feel God’s
anointing flowing through this telecast
and somebody it’s like a flood has to
come against you and I hear the Lord
saying speak it and I’ll back it up that
when the enemy comes in like a flood the
Spirit of the Lord will raise up a
standard against them and no weapon
formed against you shall prosper and
every tongue that rises up you shall
condemn come on we gonna keep praying
Lord I pray for
America right now I pray for our nation
I pray for this upcoming election I pray
that the church would be awakened and
that we would proclaim Jesus is the
answer to America into the nations of
the world god I pray for a move of your
spirit as we fast and as we pray
November the 6th the 7th and the 8th
I pray O God for your will to be done on
earth in this election for your kingdom
to come and your will to be done come on
church spray right now we’re having a
prayer meeting from Jerusalem for
America if ever we needed righteousness
exalts a nation but sin is a reproach to
people and it brings curses upon the
land so father we repent today and we
turn to you with all of our heart and O
God may America always stand with Israel
make may America always have a
leadership that stands boldly with
Israel father for you said through your
servant Abraham that you will bless
those that bless Israel and you will
curse those that curse it so father we
pray for the Peace of Jerusalem
we pray O God for the Peace of Jerusalem
we pray in this holy place of God and we
ask you for that peace that Shalom to
flow into every home into every storm
somebody’s going through a storm but I
speak peace to you I speak peace from
Jerusalem into your storm peace be still
right now and father we thank you for it
we believe you for revival in our
nation’s we believe you for the pouring
out the Joel chapter 2 in the last days
I will pour out my spirit on all flesh
and I want everybody in the studio
audience to lift your hands high and I
want you to ask God to feel with the
Holy Spirit baptize the next generation
and the power of the Holy Spirit you
know it was in this city that the Upper
Room that on the day of Pentecost the
Holy Spirit fail and the hundred and
twenty believers were filled with the
Holy Spirit let’s ask God to feel that
Church with the power of the Holy Spirit
again every Baptist Church every
Methodist Church every Pentecostal
church every church that preaches Jesus
we pray against this unity we pray that
we would come together under one name
and be filled with the spirit and
proclaim with a new boldness the mighty
name of Jesus
make us one Lord Father we repent and we
turn to you and we cry out for our
nation we cry out for America we cry out
O God that you would give us leadership
that would not displease you and that
would follow your word in Jesus name
hallelujah now I want to do this because
I feel an urgency in closing if you
don’t know Jesus Christ as your Lord and
Savior just pray this prayer say Lord
Jesus I give you my life I surrender to
you I’m not gonna let what I’ve gone
through become a cross of rebellion it’s
gonna become a cross of repentance and I
receive your Redemption Jesus Christ you
are my Savior hallelujah hallelujah
praising for that today praising for
that today if you prayed that prayer go
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and in closing I want to encourage you
to join us how many of you gonna join us
on this on this fast November the sixth
the seventh and eighth were calling the
nation I’m even calling those of you
around the world fast and pray for
America because as America goes the
world goes we need God’s help one of
these two candidates is going to be
President in just a few days if my
people which are called by my name will
humble themselves and pray God can use
things that we don’t think he can use
because he uses somebody
me and you he can use anything
hallelujah let’s rejoice in Jerusalem
thank you for joining us we’ll see you
next time on Kingdom connection god
bless you now the Lord bless you and
keep you make his face shine on you be
gracious under you lift up his
countenance upon you and give you peace
all the way from Jerusalem god bless you
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three four seven three four God has
highly exalted him and given him a name
that is above every name that at the
name of Jesus every knee should bow and
every tongue should confess that he is
Lord
there’s a need in your life we’re coming
to you from Jerusalem there’s power in
the name of Jesus sing it right where
you are everybody with us Jesus Jesus
Jesus there’s just something about
that name the mighty name of Jesus he’s
master whatever you going through
save him all Jesus like the fragrance
after the rain
I love you Jesus I praise you Jesus for
Jesus let all heaven and
good rule clay
gee
kings and kingdoms they will
all pass away but there’s something
in about that name
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