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To Pace Assembly Ministries, my name is Ryan Harrison and I am the media director excited that you joined us today and for service. I'd like to take a moment to share a little information while technology is an amazing tool, none of it would be possible without the help and dedication of people just like you. Whether you have prior knowledge and experience or just a willingness to learn, we have a purpose for everyone. Some of the jobs include production assistance, online communications and in-service roles like operating this beautiful LED wall, sound, cameras and on-screen graphics that you see every single week in service. You are required to complete the starting point membership class prior to serving, so make sure you sign up so you too can help spread the gospel message throughout the world. If you're watching online, we are so glad that you joined us today. Let us know where you're watching from in the comments and if you have a prayer request, we have a team ready to pray for you. I'm so excited what God is doing at Pace Assembly Ministries and I'm glad that you are here with us. Service is about to begin. Welcome to Pace Assembly Live. We're glad that you've joined us today. In just a moment, we're going to go into the sanctuary where we're worshiping the Lord in every portion of the service from giving, the lifting of our hands, singing and the word of God that's going to come your way today. We hope that you will engage the service right there where you are and that the presence of God will be made real no matter where you are around the globe. We know that we're reaching so many people around the world right now and our effort and every part that we do is about reaching one more soul, the gospel of Jesus Christ. Thank you for helping us accomplish that through your giving and your prayerful support. May God bless you now. As we enter into the service, let's go live into the presence of God. If he's brought you through something, if he's touched your finances, if he's touched your marriage, if he's touched this and touched that, he's been Jehovah Jire, your provider. Am I talking to anybody in this room tonight this morning? So if he's a great God, I'm not talking about a mediocre God. I'm not talking about a God who's dead or a God who doesn't answer my name when I call. I'm talking about a great God. How good has he been to you that you say, you know what? He's so great. I got to give him a great praise. I don't give God my leftovers. I don't give God the crumbs. I give him my best. What's right off the top. Great God, great praise. So we're going to sing this chorus again. I don't want you to God your leftover. I don't give you that. Climb your hands, jump, sing it, whatever. I don't care. But if God has been good to you, like he's been to me, I want to get God my best. So let's raise the roof off this building this morning and give our God who's listening some great praise this morning. Come on. Come on. Here we go. This morning, but I feel God's wanting to do something and shake the atmosphere. When you praise the atmosphere changes, things can happen. You don't need another sermon, another altar call. Come on. Open your mouth right now. I love this building right now. Come on. You need no words to a song. You make your own song to God all by yourself, right where you are. Jesus, Jesus, Holy Spirit, we invite you in this room. Come and abide with us. Hover over us this morning. This is not some form of religion. Dear God, this is our greatest praise. It's about a relationship between you and us. Let heaven kiss earth this morning right here at Pace Assembly. Oh my God. Come on. You have a need in this building right now. Why don't you just open up your mouth and say, God, this is what I need. This is what I need right here. Do not miss as the waters are stirring this morning. You've got to step in and get over and get the waters. Get over here where you have no control, where you say, God, are you going to do anything you want in my life? God, for every need that is in this house right now, God asked you to meet that need right now. God heal those who need to be healed. Deliver those that need to be delivered. Touch the people that need to be touched or God. Marriages, finances, homes, families, whatever it is. Do what man says is impossible. God, with you nothing is impossible. There's no one that deserves great praise but you alone. For you alone, our God, and there's no one like you. For you alone, our worthy. For you alone, our worthy. Come on. Everyone, let your hands shut up in this building right now and close your eyes right now. Forget about everything else. Forget about what you're doing this afternoon. Forget about what's happening this week right now. Put your mind and your focus right on Christ and what He's done for you. Open your mouth this morning. The people of God praise Him. He inhabits the praises of His people. We were demaid and designed to worship Him. God, for what you've done in my life, I would not be where I'm at unless it was for you that has stepped in as intervened. God, when I was at the edge of my robe and I was about to ready to step on God, you intervened. You stepped in. My faith has been tried and tested to God but I held on because you were there. When it had nothing else to say in the middle of the night, all I had to say was Jesus and you were there. You were there. Hallelujah to Jesus. Hallelujah to Jesus. Hallelujah to God. The water stir, the water stir you've got to step in. The Bible says that there's a man that laid by the pool and every time one year out of the year the waters would stir, I mean the angel was there to get in and your knee would be healed. And it says that Jesus walked by and asked the man, he said, I have no one to help me in the pool when the water stir. I am crippled. I have no one. And Jesus said, he raised that saying, do you want to be healed? The man said yes. He lifted up the man and immediately he was healed. When the water stir in an atmosphere like this, God is asking, do you want to be healed? Do you want to be delivered? Do you want to be set free? When the water, do you want what you desperately need? If you say yes, it means you're willing to save God with a water stir. Let me step in this morning. Immediately, God will meet you at the point of your need right where you are with a water stir. When the water is stirring, God, I want to get in all the way in. God is saying, do you want to be healed? Do you want to be saved? Do you want? Because a lot of times we'll make up a bunch of excuses of why we can't do what we need. God says, I'm not looking for an excuse. I'm looking for a yes or a no. And you can say no all day long, but if you say yes to God, God will say, rise up, take your bed and walk. Amen. Come on, ever let your hands all over this place right now. One more time. Come on, open your mouth right now and say, God, yes. Yes, I want this. I want that. You fill in the blank, God, I want. And then you fill it in. Come on, this should be your prayer. If you need something in your body right now, healing, physical, mental, whatever it is, I'd come to this altar right now. This altar is wide open right now. The waters are stirring. Do not miss. You need God to touch your life. This altar is wide open right now. Come, the altars are open, the altars are open right now. Over this room right now, close your eyes. God's doing something right now. You should give you honor. You're our healer, you're our portion. You're more than enough for me to fill this room with this praise. Come on. Come on. God's moving, God's moving. Step in. Step in this morning. Come on, people of God. Come on, people of God. You go to war right now in the middle of this atmosphere. We go to war right now. Your praise is your, your prayer is your weapon this morning. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, heal, save, deliver. You're here. You're more than enough. Come on. Let him touch your life right where you're at. Right where you're standing as the Holy Spirit is moving. Don't let him pass you by. Don't let him pass you by no matter where you're at in the middle of your life. Come on. Your prayer this morning with one voice. Say, Jesus, one more time. Say, I believe You're needing this week. Tomorrow the next day. Say it again. Thank you to Jesus. How many of you know that God is more than enough? How many of you grateful for what he's done already this morning without anything else happening? Come on. Give Jesus one more great ovation of the morning. Amen. Come on. Thank you that he's a great God. Give me praise on her and glory to Jesus. Amen. You may be seated in God's house this morning if you're able to. Just very quickly before we go, I don't want to disrupt the atmosphere of the Holy Spirit that's already hovering this room. But again, if it is your first time here, if it's with or with you or with your family at the end of service today, if you'll step out into the four year over to the left hand side, we have a place called guest central. If you'll step foot right in there, whether again, it's you or with your family, we want to get some information about you. Let you know how you stay connected with Pace Assembly and then Pastor Miss Rita have a special gift just for you. Again, another way we worship again is by our giving this morning. You have your tithe and offering you can there are ways that you can give you can do by mail or if you're watching online, there's a place there that you can press that is giving or you can give on the app. Or if you can grab an envelope today as you leave, you can drop it in one of the black buckets as you leave this morning. And I know God will bless you for by by you giving this morning. I'm so grateful that I can come into a house like this. And I know you are too out of going through everything you've gone through this week. When you come in an atmosphere like this, you can let everything go in the middle of something whether you don't need another sermon or their altar call and no one to lay hands on you. Jesus Christ can meet you right here. Are you grateful for that this morning? Amen. Amen. You know, this whole month, this whole year that we're doing is back to the Bible having a physical Bible in your hand. You just keep playing that type of music right there. But I want to give a Bible away this morning to someone. So if you just look right into your seat this morning, I want to give a Bible away this morning because someone needs it this morning. If you've got that, right there, right there. Amen. Amen. Amen. What I want to do while you're just sitting there, I want you to close your eyes for me all across this building. Lord, we thank you, dear Jesus. We thank you for your presence that's in this room this morning. God, let us not miss as the waters are stirring this morning. Touch us in a supernatural way. In Jesus' name. Amen. I'm here as good. Have you experienced the blessing of the Lord this week? I think somebody in here has. I feel a, I feel a praise stirring in this house. Wasn't manufactured. It came up organically. Somebody walked in today and they said, devil, I've had enough. I'm shaking off that heaviness and I'm putting on that garment of praise, that sparkling robe of worship. I'll tell you, friend, if you'll change clothes and get in that garment of praise, you're going to be walking with a spring in your step today. You're going to leave this house and that heaviness that hung over you like a dark cloud. It's going to be gone. The light of God's glory is going to shine in. Lord, you are worthy today. Join me right now. I'm going to raise my hands to the Lord and worship today. Lord, I've come to this house. I do need you, Lord, but I need to worship you. It's not just about what I need from you. It's God about what I can give unto you. And Lord, you have been so good to me. I just want to praise you. I just want to tell you, you deserve all the glory. You deserve it. You deserve the glory, but Jesus is your hope. You deserve the glory and the honor as we lift your holy name. And I feel his presence in this place. Just play that will. The psalmist said, you put a new song in my mouth, even a song of praise unto my God. I want you to lift a new song to the Lord. Music didn't start this. This is spirit to spirit, heart to heart. Amen, Jesus. How many of you know beyond the shadow of any doubt that the Lord has done something in your life just this past week? He's preserved you. Just stop right now and praise him for that, right there. Just praise him for that. Call it out. Call it by name. Lord, you healed my body. You did this. You did this. Call it out. Call it out. Call it out. Praising God for you're sending your seed ahead of you. You're casting your bread upon the water. If you don't put any praise into your future, there's nothing going to be there when you get there. But I'm just telling you, when you sow seeds of praise, it speaks to your future. Faith, praise. So that you're expecting God to do. Lord, I believe you're going to save my children. I believe you're going to do this. I believe you're going to do that. I don't know what it is, but have you got enough faith to put your praise out there even though you don't see what it is? But you trust that God is able to do exceedingly. Come on, open your way, exalting. You feel some moving in this building, don't you? Lord, we thank you this morning. Maybe this describes somebody. And many tears and sorrow. Questions for a situation. God gave blessing, consolation. Have you ever had that before? That the trials I face were only to make me strong. Is that the way you feel? Is that the way you feel? Let's say it like this. Through it a blessing to be in the house presence in here, don't you? I'm so glad you're here. Those of you that are first-time guests, make sure that you stop by guest central. We want to welcome you. I see a number of different faces that are here this morning, and we're so glad that you've made Pace assembly your choice, both here and online. We were calculating just this past week our in-house attendance and online attendance, and our online attendance is continuing to grow, and we give God the glory for that as people are watching all around the world. Would you give the Lord praise for that, amen? As a matter of fact, they're so excited that they wanted to be in attendance right here this morning, and so Miss Lisa is a watcher and a joiner from all the way from Ohio in attendance this morning. Miss Lisa, would you stand up, Lisa? And all of those that are with you, is there anybody with you? There you go. Amen. So glad to have y'all with us, and we're so glad to be able to have, what is it, five, one, two, three, four, five? Yeah, five sisters, their family, and they all are in Indiana, and they're watching service every week. Five sisters of Gerald King, they grew up together, so they're like sister and brother. So Sylvia, Peggy, Donna, Melba, and Carolyn, stand up. Would you do that this morning? All the way from Indiana, we're so glad to have you all with us. God bless you. I like it when people are excited to come to church. Amen. We're thrilled that you're here and all of you that are first time guests with us. God bless you for joining us. We are delighted that you're in attendance. More than that, we're delighted to entertain the presence of the Lord that's in this room this morning. I feel him. I don't know about you. I said, I feel him. Feel him in this place. I want you to take your Bibles. Can I give you some word this morning? I know you've been standing up, but we're as close to a Catholic church as you can get, so stand up. They stand up kneel down all at all the time. This may be a little extensive, but I was sharing a little bit with some of the staff in the back in the green room before service about this message this morning. And when I started reading this passage again, and I've read it a number of times and you can find it in 2 Timothy chapter 4. 2 Timothy chapter 4. Boy, somebody's leaving here with something more than what they came with today. I don't know who you are, but I can tell you if you'll reach out and touch the Lord as he's passing by, your life is never going to be the same. I promise you, not based upon what I say or what I do, what this church does or doesn't do, but based upon the Lord's presence here this morning. He's mighty to save. He's mighty to deliver. 2 Timothy chapter 4. And I don't know, I was reading it again last night and this morning, and I couldn't hardly make it through the chapter. This is the second installment of the message series, Faith That Stands. Last week, we talked to you about the three Hebrew boys that went into the fiery furnace and in the hour that we're in, it is critical for us to position ourselves at the cross with our faith and remain steadfast in the hour that we're in. There's any number of things that are pushing against our faith and mocking our faith. And one writer this past week wrote an article, an op-ed, that said that the persecution of Christians is coming closer and closer to the West. As I speak this morning, a Christian man, he wasn't as far as I know a pastor or whatever, but several weeks ago as he stood on one side of the street, on the other side was a pride parade. He was simply standing there reading his Bible in Ohio. As I understand the article and story, the police came to him and because he was reading the Bible in public, handcuffed him and took him to jail, arrested him. Just this past week, after his release, they sued the state and the city and they had to award $300,000 for him because of the violation of his rights of free speech. As I stand here today, there are over three million believers worldwide that are under constant persecution, as I speak, for their faith. Last night there were six individuals, Christians, in Nigeria that were killed for their faith. In a uproar of events in the Indian location called Manipur, it has been chaos and civil war. And right in the middle of it is the attack upon Christians, burning down of churches, killing Christians. And this past week it reached a new fevered pitch. Three weeks ago, the President of India was standing in the White House, along with President Biden, talking about whatever they were talking about, but nothing was mentioned concerning the persecution of Christians. And there's been nothing said from the government for the past two months as the country has been in an uproar. This past week, the videos that finally emerged after they had shut down the internet in India because of this event, they would not allow any videos to get out, but they have made it out. Of two Christian women who were disrobed, marched and paraded through the streets of the city, raped violently, and are now trying to recover from their attackers in a safe place. Christians, because they were Christians. Pastor, why are you telling us this? This is not what I came. I mean, let me just tell you something. The presence of the Lord that you sense in this building this morning, the sweet presence of God, needs to become more important to you than life itself. Because the day is coming, and I saw your post where you can't even watch a movie, you're going to have to make a decision in the days we're in. No, I know it says Barbie, but we're not going to watch this as it propagates propaganda upon our children. Are you hearing what I'm saying? Yeah, but Pastor, this, Pastor, you make all the excuses you want to, but this is an hour for believers. Better draw a line in the sand and say this is, this is the, why is that important? Because the article from the Gallup poll came out this past week that some 62% of Americans now by the Gallup polls say they don't even believe in God. What a tragedy because he believes in them. What a tragedy because one day they will stand before him whether you believe in him or not. But that wasn't the greatest thing that for me that came out of this article. The greatest, most vivid thing that came out of it that hit me in the face was that now even Christians will base upon whether or not they go to church or not based upon the weather conditions. If it's storming or not, I'll go or not go. If somebody, even in the article in the poll, if somebody is coming to visit my home, I'll just stay home. If there's another outdoor activity or some other activity, the likelihood percentage wise, according to Gallup poll is that they will choose that overcoming to worship God at church. You know, the problem is you don't appreciate something until it's gone. And after we've been through a pandemic where everything was shut down, you would think that the hearts and lives of people would be more attracted to being able to be in fellowship one with another in church than ever before. That's the reason why your faith has got to be the preeminent because it needs to be the preeminent choice above everything else. Out of the heart flows the issues of life, the Bible says. And whenever, watch this, whenever you see persecution taking place, you can guarantee it, before it got to Christians, before it gets to Christians, it goes to the Jewish people. This past week in Pensacola has seen anti-Semitic activity bricks thrown through the cultural center here in Pensacola with Swastika and other anti-Jewish paraphernalia on the brick. What's the point? I'm saying to you that you better make sure the Bible says it like this, Paul said it like this. Make sure that your calling and your election is sure. In other words, know what you believe. And Paul was saying essentially, draw a line in the sand that you won't cross because the time is coming when every one of us are going to have to say either yes or no. And you're going to have to stand up on it. And you're going to have to convince your children. No, we're not going to participate. Yeah, but I want it. No, yes to Jesus Christ. That's the reason why this chapter four of the Book of Second Timothy is so important. And I want you to follow. I may not, I'm sure I won't read all of it, but here's what Paul said in his last words. I pray God, I can get through this. I charge thee therefore before God, Paul's last letter, last words, and the Lord Jesus Christ who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing in his kingdom. Preach the word. Be instant in season out of season. Reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine. But after their own lust, shall they heep to themselves teachers having itching ears and they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned into fables. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry for I am now ready, Paul says, to be offered. And the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course. I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous judge shall give me on that at that day and not to me only, but unto all them also that love is appearing. Do thy diligence to come shortly to me? For Demas have forsaken me, having loved this present world. He's departed unto Thessalonica and Christus to Galatia and Titus under Dalmatia. Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, bring him with you. For he is profitable for me for ministry. Look down in verse 16. At my first answer, no man stood with me, but all men forsook me. I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge. Here's the text. Not withstanding, the Lord stood with me and strengthened me that by me the preaching might be fully known and that all the Gentiles might hear. And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. I want to take this message up this morning in the second part, and I want you to turn to your neighbor and tell him, keep the faith. Whatever you do, keep the faith. Father, in the name of Jesus, let the words of my mouth, the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight. I pray God that you'd open the ears of every hearer and that the very, the very swirling presence of God that is in this place, both to heal, deliver and save and set free, will do your mighty work. I pray, strengthen the hearts of your people and we give you the glory, the honor, and the praise for it in Jesus' mighty name. Everybody believes it? Say a good amen. God bless you. You may be seated in the presence of the Lord. There is one source that has never been wrong about tomorrow. That source is the Bible. 100% accurate in all that it says, both past, present, and future. There is one person that shall be and is the source of my faith and confidence is none other than Jesus Christ. And there is one object of my faith and that is the cross, the finished work of Christ upon the cross. Therefore, I declare to you today and others along with the Apostle Paul that God has never failed me. When all else fails, Jesus never fails. Will you look at your neighbor and tell them Jesus never fails? That's why placing your faith in him and the finished work of the cross for your life and lifestyle is not some futile exercise of some invisible act, but it is an act of faith on your part. Because every Christian says that they trust God, but the truth is many of God's children are not ready to face what is coming, the testing, the trying of their faith. I was shocked and have been since the days of COVID and shut down of church and pandemics, how that many people after the pandemic has supposedly concluded have simply dropped their faith in God and left it to do whatever they wanted to do. I want you to know that unless we place our total faith in the unshakable power of the cross, there is no other hope. There is no other Savior. There is no other deliverer other than Jesus Christ. This is important for you to know because Christians all over the world, that's the reason why I shared with you what I did about what's happening because many times we get in our cocoon in the western culture and we don't understand that there are brothers and sisters around the world that are suffering for the cause of Christ dying for the cause of Christ and it's as long as we can turn it on the TV or turn it off of the video then we're fine. We don't see it and we're not affected, but I want you to know these are our brothers and sisters in Christ and it matters to us because we're not one body in America and another body in Nigeria or another body in India. We are one body in Christ made up of all kindred tribes, tongues, nation. So that's the real question for every person here and those of you watching. Do I have faith? Is it strong enough to endure what is coming upon this land? Now watch what I'm telling you because this past Friday many of you did not know that the government of the United States, the Biden administration has decided to outlaw your gas water heater. Coming will be the outlawing of your dishwasher, your gas stove and other products inside of your house that will make it more expensive for you to be able to live life as if it isn't already more expensive to go. Just when I thought Panera bread was off the chain dollar wise they went to a whole new level. I don't know if you've got a mortgage your house to be able to get a salad there anymore but I think I may have to get me a two dollar head of lettuce and make my own. Come on somebody you know what I'm talking about. What was the point? The point is this is that life is getting very very tight and when that takes place just just googling articles over the past week to see what kind of persecution is happening in our world and in the United States. It is amazing to me and sometimes we get busy with life and we don't see things going on and we think we have faith but then when we're put in the press too many times people fold under the pressure. Jesus said he that endured to the end the same shall be saved. Say that with me. He that endured to the end the same shall be saved. Now get the context of that scripture. When Jesus spoke this he had just described the fearful trials that would come upon his disciples in the last days. That's all of us who call ourselves Christians the disciples of Jesus Christ. What did he say was going to be happening in the last days prior to his coming and by the way late breaking news Jesus is coming back ready or not. Jesus said there would be wars well we've always had wars well we're in one right now and it could be ratcheted up in the days that are ahead as they've just called up the reserves to go to Europe in the United States. Rumors of wars and famine and nation against nation there is that ethnicity the struggle he said it's dividing the country in India it's dividing many countries for that matter he said there would be earthquakes and pestilence and persecution economic collapse many coming in my name he said the real issue is going to be that because iniquity the hearts the evilness inside of the heart will abound the love of many will wax cold in other words the love for god will chill for those who know how to draw near to god fear will not overtake you for god has not given you the spirit of fear but power and love and a sound mind thank god for that you should write it down but for those who fall away or drift away or walk away the opposite is true fear will come there's another one behind covid trust me fear the bible says it will come in abundant supply in the last days and here's what it brings the bible said fear brings torment with it jesus spoke to simon peter and said i want you to know satan hath desire to have you peter but i prayed for you what did he pray he didn't pray that he would keep him from the trials he didn't pray that he wasn't going to deny him jesus could have done that but he didn't do that he said i prayed for you that your faith fail not he said whatever you do make sure that your faith in me doesn't waver doesn't struggle doesn't drift away the bible says that abraham it was counted to him for righteousness simply because he believed god and here's what the book of hebru says of abraham he staggered not in his faith believing god friends i want you to understand something today and into the days that are ahead there's going to be trying days when you're going to be faced with the decisions when you take your children back to school when you go on your job we've even had people in this congregation in recent months and even years that have lost their job because of their faith some that are not getting contracts because they're christians we are now only beginning to see the tip of the spear of what our brothers and sisters have been suffering through now overseas for a long long time i want you to understand it comes to the point where you've got to say i've got to hold fast to the faith that it was once delivered to the saints to be ready to give a defense for the gospel and if our brothers and sisters died for the faith the least we can do is stand in this hour and trust god no matter what comes our way faith that faces the future with boldness won't stop believing in spite of the circumstances but i'm going to tell you the key for that is close communion with god in prayer have you got a prayer life how's your prayer life i didn't ask you how you love life was i asked you how your prayer life is because if you don't have a prayer life of your own if you only pray on sundays and maybe wednesdays if you arrive i just want to let you know that's not going to be enough to be able to get you through i didn't say you weren't safe i'm talking about the close communion you need to be able to recognize the voice of the lord close communion in prayer and just exactly what you've been sensing in this building the close presence of god the presence of god i remember reading an article from now the late and i would call him the late great david wilkerson i believe he never called himself a prophet but he wrote in his latter days before he left this earth about the close presence of god and how important that believers would be to the presence of god how near we needed to draw and have communion on a daily basis where we are communing with god in prayer and seeking the presence of god to fill our life that's what will keep you from misplacing your faith secret sins and weights of the cares of life must be dealt with daily i want to say that again it's important that we deal with that stuff daily because it gets on us from day to day for all of you that think you can be untouched from something recognize uh first of all i would ask you if you took a bath but i'm not going to ask that question hopefully you do at least one time a day and depending on how dirty you get it may require more than one time a day come on somebody i'm saying that you gotta you gotta daily excise from your life the stuff that the bible calls the weight of sin it may not be a sin now but the weight of sin that's so easily beset us because when that takes place if we allow it to stay from day to day it will leave our hearts vulnerable to unbelief and and the deceitfulness the bible says of sin and fear no strength to move nothing that was causing us to put our foot in front of the other one to keep moving forward because our heart is paralyzed with unbelief unbelief causes us to lean on our own understanding and reasonings it causes us to trust our five senses instead of christ's power to deliver and to provide that's when sin creeps into our heart and we make excuses reasons why we doubt god some pray but because your timeline and deadline has passed for an answer to your prayers that's when the seeds of unbelief will try to find their way into your heart somehow god has failed me affections turn towards the world at that moment and things of the world and faith in the world there are some people right now that know that they should be in the house of god know that they should be walking with god but they literally are walking in the opposite direction if you ask them how's your relationship with god they would tell you i'm fine leave me alone but i'm going to tell you if paul the apostle paul needed the close communion of god's presence how much more do we need that in the hour that we're in right now if you're not careful the trials of life and the outside pressure will cause you to very to question the very faithfulness of god it's amazing to me how that we can be unfaithful but then we blame god for being unfaithful i want to let you know god is always faithful i'm gonna put that in the air again god is always faithful god will always be there i don't care here's the good part how bad it is god will always be faithful that's the reason why abiding in his presence abiding in his word abiding in prayer is what causes you to build faith for tomorrow this is the reason why paul warns us and he warns timothy as his last outgoing lines in second timothy four to endure hardness like a good soldier and endure afflictions we don't endure anything today do we endure afflictions when it hits your house can you endure the inflict can you put up with we don't put up with anything i'm amazed how those that cry out for tolerance are the least tolerant among us a christian school right now is under great persecution because they simply are abiding by the doctrines of the word of god and the and the leaders in our nation have said no you will not get the funding that you've had before because you're abiding by this book this is where the dividing line is that's the reason why paul wrote this letter to timothy and that's the reason why he wrote it to us second timothy four sixteen what took place it had become extremely dangerous to be christians and have faith in the time that paul is writing this from rom he had been arrested traveling on a ship finally makes it to rom he's there incarcerated he is being attacked and persecuted as well as other believers when he arrived by the time that paul arrives in rom at this particular writing is second timothy four here what i'm telling you nero is already burning christians with wrapped oily rags on sticks to light the gardens he's throwing the christians for sport into the coliseum so that lions and wild animals can rip them to shreds he's burning christians at stakes for the entertainment of those in the coliseum and because people didn't care for the souls of other people they called for more and nero gave them more and more it was dangerous to be a christian in rom during this time as a matter of fact when they saw the persecution some christians saw the persecution are you with me when they saw the persecution they decided it's too tough for me to keep on going in this direction so they said i'll renounce my faith but i won't tell anybody i'll just slip out that's what happened they left walking with god they left working obviously with the apostle paul because of the pressure you better hear me it was a sacrifice to be a christian during the time that paul is writing this letter and i submit to you in the days ahead it's going to be a sacrifice for you to call yourself a christian it's going to be a sacrifice when you feel like on a sunny day i don't want to go to church today but you say i'm going to make a choice and i'm going to fellowship and to worship god and give him the first are you hearing what i'm saying this is important for us to get a hold of because nero is burning christians he's killing christians and it's all sport and all game and paul rises to the occasion to speak a word to us even in this year paul told timothy whatever you do timothy preach the word he said you be ready to preach the word when it's popular and you be ready to preach the word when it's not popular you be consistent and you be stable with this word right here because why because there's going to come a time in the last days when people will not tolerate sound doctrine anymore they will not tolerate telling you that jesus christ is the only way to get to god they won't tolerate that jesus was born of a virgin they won't tolerate jesus now they'll say well you can have jesus but you got to have this too you're going to have to be steadfast and your doctrine you're going to have to know that the efficacious blood of jesus christ is enough to cleanse me from all of my sins you're going to have to have that embedded in your heart he said you're going to have to know that only christ can forgive men of sins only christ jesus can get you into the throne room only jesus is the savior only jesus is the delivery he said because they're not going to endure sound doctrine in the last day in fact they're not going to believe that i'm coming back again but whatever you do timothy preach the word and paul says a statement here and you can see it in the scripture he said i am now ready to be offered that word there means that that line means i've been poured out like a drink offering what do you mean by that there's nothing left in me to do i have been poured out every part of me into the kingdom of god and he follows it by saying i am now ready to be offered ladies and gentlemen whatever you do do all that you can for the kingdom of god while you're still breathing on this earth because there will come a day when you'll not be able to speak into your lives of your children and your family and your friends so whether they receive it or whether they don't you give it to him in love you give it to him with truth and you let him know that jesus is the only way and when they when you leave this earth they're going to have that ringing in the back of their head that person told me jesus christ was the only way to god it may be during the tribulation that they finally believe it but can i tell you people will be saved in the tribulation they'll give their life for christ but it could be that your testimony causes them to cross over by faith i'm poured out like a drink offering i'm now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand i fully believe that the lord gives insight to his to his to his faithful as to when they're getting ready to step off of the scene on this earth and he makes a statement and says i've fought a good fight are you kidding me paul you fought a good fight it was a good fight you're in prison writing this letter right now you are you have just escaped the possibility of being thrown into the coliseum with all the other believers and being shredded by lions and you're saying that you're fighting a good fight what is it that paul had on the inside of him i fought a good fight i have finished my course i finished my course i finished my leg of the race if you've ever seen this take place you've seen the runners that are running that pass the baton off to the next one because they have ran their leg of the race and it is true that in marathon run that takes place they save the fastest runners for last ladies and gentlemen i am looking at the generation and those of you online who are the last leg of the race and the apostle paul is speaking to us from a city far beyond this place to tell us i finished my run you better run your case you better run your race you better run your course i finished my course i've kept the faith there's laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the lord the righteous judge will give to me on that day and not to me only but all those who love is appearing it is the most ignored doctrine in the church right now the second coming of jesus christ can you imagine the hope of the church is the most ignored doctrine of the church and i know you hear me speak of prophecy files here we've got a conference that's coming up and all that kind of thing that's going on and i want to let you know 98 percent of pulpit's are silent concerning the second coming of jesus christ what is it that keeps this church moving in the direction what is it that keeps my heart in your heart moving in the direction of the of a heavenly kingdom and doing the work of the king it's not because there's nothing out there in the future it's because jesus christ himself said i'm going to come back and get my church off of this earth and that hope says it purifies our lives so we get down to verse 10 and this is this is every time i've read this it penetrates my heart are you are you open your bibles and look at verse 10 paul says demas has left me he has forsaken me he's not just left me physically he has forsaken me which means he has forsaken the faith he was paul's armor bearer he was the apostle paul's companion traveling he saw the miracles that took place and the and the struggles that paul went through and all of the things that happened and the miracles of god that took place under the apostle paul and when it came down to the end i this this ladies and gentlemen i want you to there is only a a group of people a handful of people in this building that this part of this message is directed to and if i don't get anything else this is it here is the closest confidant of the apostle paul and now the one that i depended on the one that was my prayer partner the one that was right alongside me my best friend has now left me in my hour of greatest need when i am looking at execution and i don't i don't mind telling you this morning the commentaries tell us in so many words very clearly his departure cut paul to the core demas has left me he has forsaken me what did he do he loved this present world now this word world is not just is not just the cosmos of stars and sun but it literally means the world system the culture and the philosophy hear me ladies and gentlemen he went ahead knowing that it was evil and demas took his little girls to see barbie come on somebody that can i make it real here this morning he knew that it was evil he knew what was going on and he went ahead and did it anyway because his heart what did it what was happening some of the commentators tell us that perhaps demas left paul because they saw demas who had not been arrested look at the apostle paul in prison and see what he was dealing with paul is waiting around in human sewage up to his hips with carcasses of dead people floating around and rats and everything else and he's riding this pastor please don't make i'm telling you ladies and gentlemen this is not for the faint of heart in the hour that we're in i'm trying to prepare this church and every person that will hear me that the days ahead are not going to be easy but if you'll be faithful in this life and faithful unto death there is laid up for you a crown of righteousness that god gave to the apostle paul and he's going to give to you and me too if we're just faithful demas love this present world here's what john said love not the world neither the things that are in the world for if any man loved the world the love of the father is not in him here's a pointed passage of scripture from proverbs 14 14 the backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways isn't that true isn't it true that whenever you speak to someone who one time was was had a relationship with the lord and one time we're faithful in the house of god and one time we're faithful in the work of god and now they have convinced their own self how is that happening because long before you see a physical departure the heart and the mind of an individual has already said the pressure is too much it's too much for me to call myself a christian let me say something to your friends i'm not putting a list on you of how to live that bible tells us how to live right there and if the pressure gets too hard then there's only one place to go who lifts the heavy burden and when i stand flat-footed at the cross and keep my faith there he promised this that my yoke is easy and my burden is light so if it's too heavy and too much anxiety and too much pressure you've got your faith in the wrong place get your faith back in the cross of jesus who did all the heavy lifting and took it all upon himself at first he said at first paul said nobody stood with me i hear a ring that means i another have another half hour 45 two hours because you know people that weren't going to come ain't going to come now for sure but the people that are already here don't want to get wet so you're going to stay with me for a i'm trying to help you get prepared because demas was a quitter let's make it plain he was a sellout he was a quitter he said this is too hard for me i don't want to be in there waiting around in that sewer water i'm just gonna slip away demas has forsaken me he don't want to have anything to do with me or with the lord because his love for the world was too great and listen to the apostle paul don't let it be held to their charge i'm reminded of the words of jesus who hung on the cross who looked at the same people that had put nails into his hands and beat him unmercifully and he said father forgive them for they know not what they do in reading the article about these two christian women that have been drugged through the streets humiliated abused i thought to myself jesus bore all of their shame all of their pain all of their heartache already i don't know how except for the lord that they can make it when i read one line in there that they're now in a safe house trying to get over the article says what they've been through i pray today that from little old pace florida and a preacher that maybe don't get far enough on on on on facebook for 200 people to view i pray somehow the lord of heaven will send grace and mercy to these two christian women and let them know that their testimony is going to cause others to rise up behind them and say if they made it through it then surely i can make it through my trial here's what paul said he's left me i don't have anybody here i don't have anybody here but uh notwithstanding you better watch out for words in the bible they mean something notwithstanding the word means in spite of it all in spite of the pressure in spite of the pain in spite of the rejection whatever may be up ahead for me lost my faith i fought a good fight i've kept the faith i've finished my course notwithstanding when i looked around beside me the lord stood by me oh my god i don't know if you're getting this this morning or not but i hope you will paul wasn't weakened by those who had decided to turn those that went back those that lost their faith those that heard him hear me now pastor you have no idea somebody hurt me all that all the more reason to stay with the lord ladies and gentlemen he will never fail you all the wounds and all the trials all the tough places that paul had been through let me give you just a quick synopsis of it here's what it looks like in 2nd Corinthians 11 paul gives his resume here's his resume how'd you like i tell you most preachers would not keep up with this resume right here he said in labors more abundantly he worked for a living in stripes above measure in prisons more frequent in death often of the jews five times i received 40 stripes saved one i'm telling you at that point most people would have thrown their hands up and said i'm not going through this no more but the bible said in verse 25 thrice was i beaten with rods once i was stoned thrice i suffered shipwreck a night in the day in the deep in journeys often in fears and water in fears of robbers and fears of my own countrymen in fears of the heathen and fears in the city sounds like new york city in fears in the wilderness and fears in the sea and fears and false brethren he said i was weary i was painful i was watching often trying to make sure everything was okay and hungering and thirsting and fasting and in cold and in nakedness and he said beside all of that i still had the care of all the churches that i had started so what does he say he said notwithstanding the lord stood with me in other words i've got all i need standing with me here's what hebrus 13 says let your conversation be without covetousness and be content with such things as you have for he said i will never leave he nor forsake thee that's jesus christ now why does he say listen carefully that's verse five because jesus said i'll never leave you and i'll never forsake you verse six says this so that we may boldly say the lord is my helper and i will not fear what man shall do unto me did you get that right there get that in your spirit that's that's hebrus 13 verse number six after the lord has told you i'll never leave you and i'll never forsake you then it's your turn to rise to the occasion and boldly say that means the lord's my helper i will not fear what anybody will do to me because the lord is standing by my side he concludes that passage of scripture by saying in verse number eight jesus christ the same yesterday today and forever thank god for brother george and louise atchison who have allowed they put up a billboard sign on hamilton bridge road and i don't know if you've seen it they put up a sign uh uh the whole infrastructure of the billboard and they had not anything on it they were trying to get some things on it so they called me up one day he said pastor the billboard is yours whatever you want to put on there this past week we put jesus like all these other signs coming across the causeway around the roads all that plays jesus today uh yesterday today and forever on both sides of it lit up at night when you turn the curve and hamilton bridge you know what they say jesus to yesterday today and forever ladies and gentlemen i want to let you know the lord has not forsaken you the lord will not let you down if you get in trouble if you get in prison if you get in a hard place if you'll keep your faith in christ ladies and gentlemen the reason why jesus stood by paul was because paul in the middle of his trouble stood by jesus at the same time notwithstanding the lord stood with me isaac 41 and 10 says fear not there are people in this building and people that are watching right now who are going through a lonely time right now things have rocked your world turned everything over upside down you don't know what to do and which direction to go i got a word for you from isaac 41 10 fear not for i am with thee be not dismayed for i am thy god yay i will help thee yay i will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness ladies and gentlemen everything's riding on jesus christ but guess what he's never let the world down because his word holds the world up i'm in the right place at the right time with the right savior the right cross the right blood come on somebody he has never failed me notwithstanding the lord stood with me when i started thinking about that i it's easy to read over some of this stuff but in the scripture and you miss some things but i had to i had to believe paul was down there in that prison in that lower dungeon and god gave him a flashback now he said everybody's left me but but the lord is standing down here in waist deep sewer water with me come on if the lord got in the fiery furnace with the three hebrew children he'll go underground with you come on somebody i got the lord standing right here with me but i have to believe that paul's memory that was so clear probably flashed back where you read in the book of ax where before he was paul he was saw and he held watch this he held the cloak of those who stoned steven i don't know i know that other people didn't see what steven saw but i'm not so sure that steven didn't utter it out of his mouth to say i see the lord and for the one time in all of the time of history before during after we see jesus get up off of his throne and stand i have to believe that paul was thinking about steven and what took place with him and now here he is in prison and now that same lord that steven saw standing with him is now standing with me you know what that tells me i'm talking i'm talking about saul who was a killer of christians who was a persecutor of christians who was hated by christians not trusted when he said i've come to the same saving knowledge of christ that you have let me in your church they said i'm not sure last time you were here you killed some of our friends and then he turned around to the synagogue and said well i'm one of you he said you're not one of us you've deserted us you mean after all of that the lord still loves me enough that he would let me know i don't know how paul had it i don't know how he saw it but with great confidence he opens his mouth and said everybody left me but the lord is standing with me right now i don't know where you are in your situation but i came to tell you the lord is standing with you pastor you have no idea i've had five husbands and a thing of magic i want you to know the lord is still standing by you pastor you don't know i've been a criminal and a drug addict i want you to know the lord is standing by you how you don't know how many times i've fallen to the ground and i had to get back up that's all right the lord is standing there to pick you back up again pastor you don't understand i've done this and i've done that the lord said it's all gone i don't know what you're talking about i'm here to let you know i will stand with you in the hard times in the good times i was visiting with somebody the other no i wasn't i was talking with will his grandmother went in for open heart surgery this past week he had to be in north carolina he called me on the phone i was going to try to pray with her before she went in he said she's already gone back and all that so we'll let him know we're praying and and all and he said pastor we're having to leave the hospital because the covid restrictions up here won't allow more than two of our family members inside of the hospital so they demanded we couldn't even wait in other waiting areas they demanded we leave the hospital completely whenever he said that to me whenever he said that to me i thought about the times that i've watched my wife have to be wheeled back or myself or other people that i've been through and there they were with an unknown caretaker pushing them back and you gotta say i'll see you when you come out and i had to say lord they wheeled them back with a with a stranger yeah but rogers you forgot i can go where no man can go i will stand over that operating table with my outstretched arms and make sure everything's going if you trust the lord you can say don't worry whether he's here he's not in the waiting room he's over there standing next to my loved one that's the god we serve i said that's the god we serve i challenge you to do that with buddha with christian with any of the other gods ladies and gentlemen because they never tell you we're a present help in time of trouble but the lord stood with paul stood with him not withstanding what else listen it's one thing for somebody to stand by i've had people come and stand beside me you know what to say but paul said the lord stood beside me and he strengthened me did you hear what i i don't know how many people in this building are are at a place where you need the lord to strengthen you i've heard all the words out there pastor i've heard everybody's conversation everybody's counsel what i need is what the bible says here the word strengthen means to infuse with power in the presence of god you know the lord is standing there but his presence emanates out from him are you hearing what i'm saying like an atom bomb he is the atom bomb his presence emanates his presence radiates into the life of the apostle paul and suddenly in the hour of paul's greatest distress i'm talking to you about standing by faith ladies and gentlemen in the hour of paul's greatest test and trial he suddenly receives an infusion into his body into his spirit into his mind of the revelated presence of god almighty in the person of jesus christ paul said i know where my strength comes from we have a word that we use and many people don't know because we got like christianese stuff going on right and the world don't know what it's talking about but when we say the anointing that's what paul was saying he's saying i have been infused with the anointing oh wait a minute the anointing will never just infuse you for you in order for the anointing to be alive it will come through you he will come through you but out of you look what paul says he said the lord has given me strength down here to preach the gospel how many times have i wheeled back for surgery and someone was wheeling back in there with 150 other patients out there with everybody got their split robe on oh you've been there okay i just wanted to make sure i was among friends that is not the time you're ready to carry on a conversation especially if after they give you the little thing that causes you to go kind of loopy loopy and i demand that stuff straight up because you understand what i'm saying if you're gonna do something i had a little work done on my foot the other day i said you're gonna numb it oh yeah we're gonna numb it that was worse than the actual cut police paul said i got strength to preach the gospel while i was down here in prison i asked you a question have you got faith to give the gospel to somebody while you're going through your own trial can you tell another person god will supply the need according to his riches and glory by christ jesus while you're in a place where you're trying to rub two nickels together don't make any sense but i just want to reflect you back to the woman who was there who had nothing but just a little bit of meal and just a smidgen of oil and the lord the lord according to the prophet said go borrow some vessels you want me in debt to go borrow some vessels have you lost your mind no i got the mind of christ because if my trust is in him whatever he tells me to do there is an answer there is a solution there is a reason a purpose i got a hurry come on will there you are thank you apparently he was listening to the holy ghost more than i was i got a hurry just play play it put me in g we my key he said i'm preaching the gospel so the gentiles can hear are you serious at that time don't you know you're thinking about yourself he said i'll i'll in my own pain in my own deal in my own faith i'm still ready to give the message to people who are the outcast the aliens out of the commonwealth of israel that's the reason why paul wrote it down for us i can do all things through christ who strengthens me notwithstanding this is faith talk right here notwithstanding the lord stood with me verse number 18 and the lord shall deliver me from every evil work and will preserve me until the heavenly kingdom to him be glory and honor forever this is faith talk in this hour you need to learn how to talk faith talk come on some i'm not talking about your arms broke and you're standing over the top of it going marmy broke marmy broke marmy broke that's nonsense paul says here because i know the lord that i serve because i know him to be a keeper he will preserve me until his heavenly king you know what that means and and i'm sitting here thinking about this and it hit me last night within hours of this writing paul will be led to a chopping block and the executioner is going to take the head of paul for the cause of christ you get me the physical head of paul is about to roll and paul said the lord is going to preserve me the word preserve there means keep me intact i won't be a mess it means when i arrive into the heavenly kingdom and i thought are you kidding me he's gonna have his head taken off and then it hit me his physical head would be taken but he said i see the lord and he kept his head even though he lost his head he shall deliver me he will preserve me he's gonna deliver me from every evil work and he will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom ladies and gentlemen paul was not guilty yet he was being condemned to death by false charges because of the civil and state religious leaders were determined to stamp out christianity so they had to kill everybody that they came in contact with and in the eyes of the world paul was doomed to death but in paul's eyes you know he called it a coronation see that's the reason why people when we have funerals and i've seen it more and more in recent years when we have funerals of a saint of god somebody who knows the lord and we start singing songs like some glad morning we shall see jesus in the air or when we all get to heaven and we'll have everybody stand and sing a congregational style let me tell you something when my day comes y'all better be hanging streamers up in here and blowing horns and hats come on somebody and let me just say this to you your faith better not be contingent upon somebody else sitting beside you or your pastor if i quit you better keep on going come on if your favorite preacher quit you better keep on going we have seen more preachers fall in recent years than ever before but i got news for you you look at your neighbor and tell them i'm not going to quit that's exactly right i am not going to quit you know why because there's laid up for me a crown of righteousness with the righteous judge will give me on that day if i'll be faithful it's a coronation paul said don't you worry about me in fact he gives the doxology on his own life i'd be glory anybody can praise him when everything's going right can you praise him when stuff's going wrong i conclude this message this morning by telling you this old man sat on this platform many many years ago sat right here in that service i was sitting right about there the old man sat in a chair because he had just had surgery and he still had an open wound in his belly and i started listening to the old man who was the one of the very first missionaries of the assemblies of god and he established more than 35 000 churches in his ministry he and his wife over 17 bible schools if i remember correctly different parts of the country and world i should say most of his ministry you wouldn't see it or hear it here in the united states it was overseas but there are souls that are in the kingdom and churches that are still alive today because he because he gave because he gave himself charles and mary greenaway were some of the very first missionaries that this church ever in its history started supporting with mission funds and they were the first some of the first to go up the amazon in a bore out canoe to carry the gospel to the tribes up the amazon so he had stories he had stories of god's miraculous power and grace and it was a marvelous story but it didn't start that way it started when he had a call to go on the mission field and his wife did and the assemblies of god in that particular time would not allow missionaries who had children they had one an infant baby to go on the mission field it was too dangerous their hearts were breaking they did what they could they preached they did everything they could but the mission field was in their mind and in their heart they didn't know how they were going to get there what was going to take place but one day the little baby got sick the hospital was miles and miles away the old car was held together almost with bailing wire and he put his wife mary in the back seat holding the baby while he jumped in the front seat and did everything he could to rush to the hospital he got down the road and all of a sudden one of the tires went flat he had to get out and fix it in the back seat nowhere nothing like that in that time mary is holding the baby and little by little the baby's drifting away as he stood there and was doing everything he could to get the tire changed as quickly as possible members of the church and others drove past without any help in a little while he hears a scream come from the back seat his wife mary is screaming because the baby had died he goes to the back seat of the car and tries to comfort his wife mary their hometown was enterprise alabama they helped start what is now the southeastern university in south florida small town while his wife cried and she held that dead baby in her hands he went to the front hood of that car as the story is told and laid across the hood of that car cried out to god and prayed did everything he could and then he lifted his head up off of that car hood and made a statement i want to leave with you now he said i won't go to hell over a mystery in other words there are some things in life that i can't explain and some things in life i don't understand and some things in life that's going to cause me great distress and i won't have any answers for it but i won't go to hell over a mystery that has been something that has rung in my spirit for years he kept being faithful you know what that did pastor it's horrible the child died yes the child died but the child went to be in the presence of god when they called the authorities and hit quarters and said our baby is gone they said now we'll open the doors up since it's just the two of you and 35 000 churches and 17 bible schools later and probably millions of people that have come into the kingdom pastor i don't understand that pain i don't understand that i know you don't but you've got your own personal stories you've got your own personal hurts and there are things that you're dealing with right now that you don't understand at all and some of you prayed and prayed but you still don't have the answer i submit to you get your focus up and faith in the cross because there are so listen to me church there are some questions that will not be answered here on this earth and paul said i understand damas has left me and he goes down the list this one's gone and this one's gone and this one's gone and this is what he says here's paul the one we get more than two-thirds of the gospel two-thirds of the writings of the new testament comes here's what paul said he said bring me i'm down here in this roman dungeon god's man of faith and power bring me my cloak because it's cold down here he said i left it over a troas could you could could you go by there and get it and bring it to me because it's cold down here why didn't he ask for a bar of gold he said i just need my just need my coat and and give me the books give me the books the books were the gospels he said i want to read the gospels again this is my daddy's bible he's got notes in here that i've never preached and never read he said i'm gonna get strength from that and he said oh yeah bring me those parchments too that was the old testament Hebrew parchments he said bring that to me because i'm down here in this prison but god is still speaking to me god has not forsaken me god has not left me alone i love his word bring me his word i want to read it i want to strengthen my faith because faith comes by hearing paul said and hearing by the word of god and in fact i can't even please god without faith so i need something to strengthen and when you get here try to hurry my last day maybe i don't know who's in this building or who's watching who may be feeling right now like the apostle paul no man is standing with me i feel alone pastor i feel like i'm fighting this fight by myself i came to bring this word to you this morning somebody watching online right now you're not in this by yourself look at your neighbor and tell them you're not in this by yourself there's someone standing beside you i've had many tears and sorrow i've had questions for tomorrow there have been times when i've felt so all alone but in my lonely hours yes those precious lonely hours jesus let me know i was his own so through it all and jesus i've learned christ and god through it all through i've learned to depend upon his word i know what time it is but i need some people who need prayer this morning to strengthen your faith in the trial of your life to come and stand right here right now the anointing of god is in this room to bring you strength get up from where you are and come right now right from where you are come on come on come on i've learned to trust in god you better come while the waters are stirred i've learned to depend upon his word through it all come on they're coming from all over the building there's still time come on through it all to depend now i need some faithful prayer warriors men and women to come and pray through it come stand behind them and gently lay your hands on them in your own prison come and lay your hands on them right now begin to pray for them to trust in jesus the trust in god another the lord is here i've learned of the chance through this by myself standing the lord stood by me right now by myself you're standing with me right now you're standing beside me to strengthen me to help me live in my soul thank you for worshiping with us today and we pray that god has touched your life in a powerful way if you've given your life to jesus christ or you're feeling the tug in your heart to do so why don't you surrender to the lord today ask him to come into your heart forgive you of your sins he'll do exactly that when you place your faith in what he's done at the cross and then we want to hear from you but you send an email and let us know what jesus christ has done in your life let us know where you're watching from we'd love to connect with you and i believe that god is going to touch your life and bless you in the days that are ahead if you count pace assembly as your regular church of worship then we certainly want to be able to hear from you there's information on the screen that you can send your email to and we look forward for you being a part of every service right here at pace assembly every sunday and every wednesday and special services throughout the god bless you for joining us today father i pray that you would touch the life of my friend that today they would never be the same that your presence would surround their life and peace would be their highest blessing we give you praise for it today in jesus name amen god bless you friends and until we get together again remember jesus christ is coming soon