WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.480 --> 00:00:09.800 Praise the Lord. Amen, it wasn't worshiped just like it's just I don't 2 00:00:09.839 --> 00:00:16.800 know. I don't know. Spirit of God's moving in this place, Amen, 3 00:00:19.239 --> 00:00:23.519 Spirit of God's moving. I hope he's moving in your homes too, 4 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:34.079 not just not just this house, but your house. And I just want 5 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:38.399 to tell you first of all our pastors they greet you this morning there in 6 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:45.359 Italy, and they're they're running around in Italy and an RV and just having 7 00:00:45.359 --> 00:00:50.240 a great time. They will be back with us next week and refreshed and 8 00:00:50.439 --> 00:00:55.759 well and ready. Amen, And we just speak blessing over them and their 9 00:00:55.799 --> 00:00:59.320 travels. Would you just stand back up with me for a moment. I 10 00:00:59.359 --> 00:01:07.680 just want to to who want us just to invite the spirit of God to 11 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:12.760 hover over us right now as we begin to reach deep into His word. 12 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:21.480 We're saying that all we need is you. But I'm telling you that all 13 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:30.120 he needs is you. His desire is you, his desire, his relationship 14 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:40.439 with you. Don't forget that. So Father, this morning, we say, 15 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:48.120 Presence of God fill this place, speak deeply your word into our lives. 16 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:53.959 God Lord, we just speak Spirit of God into every heart that is 17 00:01:55.000 --> 00:02:00.239 in this place. Who thank your Lord for what you're about to do in 18 00:02:00.280 --> 00:02:07.400 our lives. In Jesus name, Amen, you can be seated. We're 19 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:15.960 going to continue this morning on our Receiving series with Receiving Nourishment. Last week 20 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:22.599 we invited you to join our thirty day Communion Challenge, and if you didn't 21 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:24.759 get a chance to do that, the ushers have these cards for you. 22 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:29.080 We'd love to have you joined it. We had a lot of people sign 23 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:37.919 up and and and they will be getting you'll be getting a devotional in your 24 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:44.039 inbox every day for the next thirty days. And and then there's a chance 25 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:46.919 you can go on to Facebook and like our our Facebook page as well, 26 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:52.759 and there there's devotions, there's all kinds of stuff. We're putting things on 27 00:02:53.199 --> 00:03:00.280 to encourage you in receiving communion in your home every day. I believe and 28 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:02.439 well I know for sure that if you'll do it for thirty days, you're 29 00:03:02.439 --> 00:03:07.280 not gonna want to stop. And it will change your family, it will 30 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:12.280 change your marriage, and it will change your life for the good. Amen. 31 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:16.759 And another resource we've got if you, if you'd like, you can 32 00:03:16.759 --> 00:03:20.520 grab this. We have this communion book that we wrote. It's back in 33 00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:24.719 the back and available, and we'd love to get this into as many hands 34 00:03:24.759 --> 00:03:28.719 as we can. I talk to a pastor the other day that's using this 35 00:03:28.919 --> 00:03:32.240 for once a month communion in their church and they're just going through the book. 36 00:03:32.319 --> 00:03:36.599 And he's a local guy here in Tacoma, and he said, he's 37 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:40.280 just it's blowing up their church with with what God's doing. So we're excited 38 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:44.599 about that. Amen. Does somebody not have this? Anybody? Anybody not 39 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:47.039 have it? Anybody want it? Oh? Okay, good right here, 40 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:51.680 come back up here. You hand that to her right behind you. Yeah, 41 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:55.520 nicely, nicely done. Way to go, Roman. We love Roman. 42 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:01.599 Amen. Well, this morning, I want to talk with you about 43 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:10.120 the importance of daily nutrition and then, and if you live around my house 44 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:14.400 at all, you would have heard a lot about daily nutrition from my wife 45 00:04:14.919 --> 00:04:18.600 as our kids were growing up about daily nutrition. And our middle daughter, 46 00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:23.519 Megan, if she's watching this, I'm reminding you eat your fruit because that 47 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:27.079 was her thing that she hated and we were always dealing with that and I 48 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:29.639 was like, honey, you got to eat your fruit. And the poor 49 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:31.639 child would constantly catch colds and stuff, and then she'd eat her fruit and 50 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:34.759 she'd get well. Mom would be like, you need to eat your fruit, 51 00:04:35.560 --> 00:04:42.279 you know, but there is a daily nutrition that we all need that 52 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:47.240 can only come from our Father in heaven, and as a communion. We 53 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:54.800 need communion every day. We need that interaction with the Lord every day, 54 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:59.839 and it is so important, you know. It's interesting. And Exodus sixt 55 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:05.639 it says this. In the Passion translation, it says, it says sixteen 56 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:12.199 four says then Yahweh said to Moses, behold, I will rain down bread 57 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:16.240 from Heaven for you. Each day, the people must go out and gather 58 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:20.639 their daily portion, and I will test them in this way to see if 59 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:27.920 they will follow my instructions. Now, what's interesting is that that manna was 60 00:05:27.959 --> 00:05:34.920 a foreshadow of that manner, the communion table. Each day we should be 61 00:05:34.959 --> 00:05:44.279 going out and gathering our portion. Each day, we should be grabbing our 62 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:51.319 portion of that manner, because that is life's daily bread. I don't know 63 00:05:51.319 --> 00:05:55.279 about you, but I grew up in a home where we had the little 64 00:05:55.519 --> 00:06:00.399 card deck in the little ceramic loaf of bread, and on the side of 65 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:04.120 it has said our daily bread and weak we'd take the lid off and grab 66 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:09.240 a card and read the Bible. You'd write anybody here with that. Yeah, 67 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:12.560 seen that they still sell them. I think they probably they probably make 68 00:06:12.600 --> 00:06:15.600 them, and you probably can't even get one in an antique store or something 69 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:20.600 if you really want to be authentic and read the King James so but but 70 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:27.800 that's what it is. It's our daily bread. Consume that every day and 71 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:34.040 you will stay healthy and strong. Amen. This morning, I want to 72 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:41.360 talk to you about the importance of this nutrition, because see in Psalm twenty 73 00:06:41.399 --> 00:06:46.959 three it says this. It's kind of an interesting thing. I want to 74 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:50.240 read Psalm twenty three, verses four and five to you in the In the 75 00:06:50.279 --> 00:06:54.600 new King James version, they'll they'll throw that up in a moment, but 76 00:06:54.639 --> 00:06:59.480 it says, yea, though I walk through the valley of death, I 77 00:06:59.519 --> 00:07:04.279 will fear no evil. Guess heard this? For you are with me, 78 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:11.959 your rod and your staff. They comfort me. You prepare a table in 79 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:19.319 the midst or in the presence of my enemies, and you anoint my head 80 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:31.240 with oil, and my cup runs over. When you receive communion, not 81 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:36.360 only are you feeding on his word, feeding on what he has for you, 82 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:44.040 but you are being anointed to live it out. At the same time. 83 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:55.879 With communion comes anointing so important to walk in the anointing of God after 84 00:07:55.920 --> 00:08:03.800 we've received communion with Him. That'll change your day. It'll change your steps. 85 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:09.279 It'll make you to recognize that I can do what I've been called to 86 00:08:09.319 --> 00:08:16.120 do. I can do what I'm purposed to do. That Psalm goes on 87 00:08:16.199 --> 00:08:20.160 to say this, and the Passionnes says, you become my delicious feast. 88 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:28.240 Come on, he's inviting us to consume him. You become my delicious feast. 89 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:31.600 Come on, come on, he becomes your delicious feet. When my 90 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:37.159 enemies dare to fight, you annoint me with the fragrance of your Holy Spirit. 91 00:08:37.159 --> 00:08:39.200 I'm telling you, when you walk in a room the anointing of the 92 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:43.919 Holy Spirit is on you, you will change the atmosphere. They say that 93 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:50.159 when Catherine Coolman died that she had she had one request, and that was 94 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:54.120 that they bring roses to her funeral when she passed away, and she prophetically 95 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:58.679 told them when she would die, the time and the hour everything, and 96 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:05.960 when she passed away, the station nurse who was on duty in the ICU 97 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:11.039 they actually were upset with her. They thought that she had allowed someone to 98 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:18.200 bring roses into the ICU unit. And that wasn't allowed. But they say 99 00:09:18.279 --> 00:09:20.440 that there was so much of a fragrance of roses when she died, that 100 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:24.279 it not only filled the icy room, icyu room she was in, it 101 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:28.759 filled the floor, It filled the hospital, and it filled the adjacent buildings. 102 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:33.519 Come on, when you walk into a room, the fragrance of the 103 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:39.320 Holy Spirit is upon you, and it will change the atmosphere. Come on, 104 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:41.279 that's what I want to be. I want I want to be a 105 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:46.480 thermostat, not just a thermometer. I want to be one that changes the 106 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:58.840 atmosphere when I walk in to a room. Come on, when you come 107 00:09:58.879 --> 00:10:03.240 to his table, and remember it is his table. He's invited us to 108 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:11.679 it. There are different portions in this table. I love this scripture. 109 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:16.679 I want to read this to you. In Lamentations three, verses twenty two 110 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:22.799 through twenty four says this says, through the Lord's mercies, we are not 111 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:31.200 consumed. Come on, his mercies protect you because his compassions fail not they 112 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:37.679 are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. The Lord is my portion, 113 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:43.799 says my soul. Therefore I hope in him. Come on, he 114 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:50.360 is your portion. He's your portion. If you come to the table hungry 115 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:56.399 for salvation, he's your portion. If you come to the table hungry for 116 00:10:56.519 --> 00:11:01.039 healing, he's your portion. If you come to the table hungry because you're 117 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:03.720 out of you don't have love in your life, he's your portion. Come 118 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:09.799 on, if you come to the Day of Oh, hungry for deliverance, 119 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:16.080 he's your deliverer. He's your portion. Well, that's the God that we 120 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:26.559 serve. He's your portion. He is your portion. Come hungry and come 121 00:11:26.600 --> 00:11:31.159 to the table. There are a lot of times that we walk through difficulties 122 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:39.519 in our lives, and we begin to pull back from things, and we 123 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:46.000 begin to not do the things that we once did because of whatever reason that 124 00:11:46.039 --> 00:11:58.879 we might have. But Jesus showed us at the Last Supper how to handle 125 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:07.480 your enemies when they're sitting at your table. And I remember last week we 126 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:13.000 read through Matthew, and there was a couple of parts that I actually skipped 127 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:16.480 over because I wanted to come back to him this week. But this one 128 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:24.320 part I want to read now. Matthew twenty six twenty through twenty three says, 129 00:12:24.360 --> 00:12:28.919 this is when evening had come, he sat down with the twelve and 130 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:35.919 now as they were eating, he said assuredly, I say to you, 131 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:46.200 one of you will betray me. And they were exceedingly sorrowful. I can 132 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:58.360 only imagine the atmosphere of that room changing upon those words. We've gone from 133 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:07.159 celebration of the passover to acknowledging that somebody in our midst is not really with 134 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:16.320 us. And it goes on, and it says that each of them were 135 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:24.840 exceedingly sorrowful, and each began to say to him, Lord, is it 136 00:13:24.919 --> 00:13:30.840 I? Am I? The one? Am I? The one that's going 137 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:39.000 to betray you? And verse twenty five says then Judas, who was betraying 138 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:46.600 him so he'd already started, answered and said, Rabbi, is it I? 139 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:54.320 And Jesus said to him, you have said it. I want you 140 00:13:54.360 --> 00:14:05.360 to notice a couple of things here. One is that Jesus stayed on course 141 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:13.200 even amongst his enemies. And see here's what happened with Judas. You know, 142 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:18.519 if you remember back to the story of Gideon Gideon, the Bible teaches 143 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:24.039 us that when Gideon went to battle, that it says that the Lord basically 144 00:14:24.159 --> 00:14:31.200 entered Gideon and wore him like a glove, put him on like a glove. 145 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:39.039 And in this reference, the same thing as said of what Satan did 146 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:46.039 with Judas, that he entered him like a glove and he began to use 147 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:54.639 him. And what's interesting to notice is that there were twelve disciples, and 148 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:58.279 eleven of them said, Lord, is that I? And one of them 149 00:14:58.279 --> 00:15:03.720 said, bye, is it I? You see, when he's your lord, 150 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:07.320 you won't betray him. When he's your lord. You may fall away, 151 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:11.480 you may make some mistakes, but you're not going to betray him. 152 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:16.559 There are many people in and out of the church who see Jesus as a 153 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:20.320 good teacher, but they do not see him as their lord, and so 154 00:15:20.399 --> 00:15:24.960 they will betray him because they do not see him as anything more than a 155 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:30.159 good teacher. But I'm telling you, when you see him as your lord, 156 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:33.279 we see him as you savior, you see him as the one that 157 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:37.720 wants to commune with you. You will not betray him. Thank you, 158 00:15:37.879 --> 00:15:46.399 Jesus. We'll go back just for a moment and talk to you for a 159 00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:54.639 second, because when things get difficult, a lot of times we'll pull back 160 00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:58.399 and we'll do things, or we'll stop doing things that we once did. 161 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:03.840 How many of you have been around somebody who goes through a traumatic event and 162 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:06.879 all of a sudden, you're like, Hey, would you like to eat 163 00:16:06.960 --> 00:16:10.360 something? And you're like, no, I'm okay, prefer not to. 164 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:14.720 Would you like something to drink? No, I'm okay, I prefer not 165 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:21.440 to. And they begin to pull back from the very things that will preserve 166 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:26.799 their life and make them better as they fall deeper and deeper and deeper into 167 00:16:26.840 --> 00:16:37.120 their situation. It's interesting, But what I want to tell you is we 168 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:44.320 can't starve ourselves during difficult situations. We can't pull back from his word, 169 00:16:45.080 --> 00:16:48.559 from communion, from prayer, from all the things that will preserve our lives. 170 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:57.600 In Acts twenty seven we read the account of Paul as he's going to 171 00:16:57.679 --> 00:17:03.000 go on a ship and be tried before Caesar. And this is an interesting 172 00:17:03.319 --> 00:17:07.920 account. We're gonna walk through this together. But it's an interesting account because 173 00:17:08.519 --> 00:17:15.759 of how it demonstrates what I'm talking about right now. But says this that 174 00:17:17.480 --> 00:17:25.279 in Acts twenty seven says that after they had began to sail, a storm 175 00:17:25.319 --> 00:17:30.119 came in and settled over them. Wow. Ever felt like you've had a 176 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:34.960 storm come in and just settle over your life? Well, we've all had 177 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:41.440 it happened. And in Acts twenty seven fifteen, it says, says the 178 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:45.880 sailors weren't able to turn the ship into the wind, so they gave up 179 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:53.119 and let it be driven by the gale winds. The Aramaic actually says that 180 00:17:53.240 --> 00:18:00.759 this way, It says, we surrendered possession to its power. How many 181 00:18:00.759 --> 00:18:04.519 you have ever been going through something and you just kind of take your hands 182 00:18:04.519 --> 00:18:07.720 off the wheel, so to speak. You're like, I'm just gonna let 183 00:18:07.759 --> 00:18:15.720 it whatever happens happens, Okay, Sarah, Sarah. Right. You know, 184 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:18.880 well, if it doesn't happen, must not have been God's will. 185 00:18:21.200 --> 00:18:25.440 If I didn't get that job, all right, went through that difficult situation, 186 00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:32.480 must have been God's will. How about what if we are supposed to 187 00:18:32.519 --> 00:18:41.359 stay strong through the storm and not let go of the wheel. Sometimes we 188 00:18:41.440 --> 00:18:45.839 can arrently think that it's part of his plan when it has nothing to do 189 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:51.200 with his plan. This passage goes on to say this, It says, 190 00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:57.079 the next day, because of being battered severely by the storm, the sailors 191 00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:03.400 jettisoned the argo, and by the third day they even through the ship's tackle 192 00:19:03.519 --> 00:19:15.640 and rigging overboard. That's interesting because see the very things that they needed they 193 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:18.240 got rid of to lighten their load, thinking that was going to help them 194 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:25.880 through the storm. We've all been guilty of that. Well, maybe I'll 195 00:19:25.920 --> 00:19:30.319 stop leading that small group because it's a time killer and I need to lighten 196 00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:38.079 my load. Or maybe maybe i'll I'll just I just won't go to that 197 00:19:38.200 --> 00:19:42.400 small group because that's two or three hours a week and I need to lighten 198 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:48.160 my load. Or maybe we don't get up extra early for prayer because we 199 00:19:48.279 --> 00:19:56.799 need to lighten our load. Or maybe we don't continue to give when our 200 00:19:56.839 --> 00:20:00.680 income has dropped a little bit because we need to light in our load. 201 00:20:00.759 --> 00:20:07.279 I'm telling you God is saying this morning, don't jettison the things that you 202 00:20:07.400 --> 00:20:12.319 need. Don't jettison the things that you need. It's interesting that word jettison. 203 00:20:12.359 --> 00:20:17.880 I want to read this is as a powerful definition that says to get 204 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:25.519 rid of as super flus or encumbering omit, or forego as part of a 205 00:20:25.559 --> 00:20:30.240 plan or as the result of some other decision to lighten the load in the 206 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:33.640 time of distress. See, I'm telling you you can't lighten your load in 207 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:37.640 a time of distress. My buddy Craig, when we go fishing, the 208 00:20:37.720 --> 00:20:41.200 last thing we would ever do is lighten the load with the things that we 209 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:47.519 need. Don't get rid of the bait. It's how you're gonna catch the 210 00:20:47.519 --> 00:20:51.160 fish. Don't get rid of the net, because how you're gonna get the 211 00:20:51.160 --> 00:20:55.960 fish in the boat. Come on, don't get rid of the very things 212 00:20:56.000 --> 00:21:03.319 that got you to where you are. Don't lighten the So many times when 213 00:21:03.319 --> 00:21:08.359 we're battered, we're beaten, we think, if we could just lighten the 214 00:21:08.400 --> 00:21:12.720 load, things would be better, If we could just get out from underneath 215 00:21:12.759 --> 00:21:19.799 the pressure, things would be better. Not necessarily, don't lighten the load. 216 00:21:19.799 --> 00:21:26.240 Don't get rid of the things that you need. Amen. It goes 217 00:21:26.279 --> 00:21:30.599 on and says, after many days of seeing neither the sun nor the stars, 218 00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:38.000 that's a big storm. And with the violent storm continuing to rage against 219 00:21:38.079 --> 00:21:47.759 us, all hope of ever getting through it alive was abandoned. When we 220 00:21:47.880 --> 00:21:56.559 abandon hope, trouble is sitting in. Your hope is in the Lord, 221 00:21:56.480 --> 00:22:02.000 Your hope is in communion, Your hope is in the things of God. 222 00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:08.519 It might feel like your darkest season, But when God shows up, the 223 00:22:08.640 --> 00:22:11.839 lights are coming back on. Come on, when God shows up, the 224 00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:15.440 storm is gonna calm. When God shows up, the clouds are gonna part 225 00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:18.640 when God shows up. The winds are gonna calm, and there's going to 226 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:29.960 be clear sailing. Stay in faith, Stay in faith. Amen. I 227 00:22:30.119 --> 00:22:33.759 love this because then Paul is in the middle of this. Now, remember 228 00:22:33.799 --> 00:22:40.640 Paul was a prisoner. And it goes on and it says that Paul, 229 00:22:40.720 --> 00:22:45.440 the Lord of the world over these guys was this. Then Paul says to 230 00:22:45.480 --> 00:22:51.039 them, he says, now listen to me, don't be depressed. They 231 00:22:51.119 --> 00:22:57.400 probably are about ready to throw him overboard, for no one will perish, 232 00:22:57.599 --> 00:23:03.319 only the ship will be lost. For God's Angel visited me last night. 233 00:23:04.000 --> 00:23:08.240 And the Angel of my God, the God I passionately serve. I love 234 00:23:08.319 --> 00:23:14.519 that line. Come on, I love that the God that I passionately serve. 235 00:23:14.759 --> 00:23:18.079 If you passionately serve him, he's got angels coming after you. Come 236 00:23:18.119 --> 00:23:22.279 on, if you passionately serve you to serve him, he's gonna protect you. 237 00:23:26.440 --> 00:23:29.960 He says that he came and he stood in front of me and said, 238 00:23:30.039 --> 00:23:34.839 don't be afraid, Paul. You are destined to stand and stand trial 239 00:23:34.920 --> 00:23:40.240 before Caesar. And because of God's favor on you, he has given you 240 00:23:40.440 --> 00:23:44.880 and the lives of everyone who is sailing with you. Wow, come on, 241 00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:48.400 and the lives of everyone who is sailing with you. See, here's 242 00:23:48.400 --> 00:23:52.279 what happened. Paul was their prisoner. They're sailing, he's you know, 243 00:23:52.720 --> 00:23:56.119 this whole thing looks like they're not gonna make it. They're all gonna die. 244 00:23:56.839 --> 00:24:00.440 And they begin to do all of these different things. And then God 245 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:03.319 shows up and he flips the script and he says, you know what, 246 00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:07.440 Paul, You're not their prisoner. They're settling with you because you have a 247 00:24:07.519 --> 00:24:11.880 destiny. You have a place to be. You've got an appointment with Caesar 248 00:24:12.039 --> 00:24:15.240 that you're gonna keep. You see, when when you have a destiny, 249 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:21.240 the enemy cannot stop you from hitting your goal if you're in faith with God. 250 00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:33.079 I love this. In the acts twenty seven thirty three through thirty seven, 251 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:37.000 it says, if I can get the band to come back up, 252 00:24:40.680 --> 00:24:45.359 says just before daybreak, come on, there's something about just before daybreak. 253 00:24:48.839 --> 00:24:52.240 How many of you wake up sometimes you just have that dream right before daybreak, 254 00:24:53.839 --> 00:24:59.359 you have that thought come to you just before daybreak, you have that 255 00:24:59.599 --> 00:25:06.039 sit wastioned, Will the solution come to you just before daybreak? It's because 256 00:25:06.079 --> 00:25:10.839 we finally cleared all the cobwebs, and God can speak to us sometimes, 257 00:25:12.759 --> 00:25:18.480 but says, just before daybreak, Paul urged everyone to eat. One translation 258 00:25:18.799 --> 00:25:26.920 in the footnote says he served them communion. He said, today makes two 259 00:25:26.079 --> 00:25:33.559 full weeks that you've been in fearful, peril and hunger, unable to eat 260 00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:42.599 a thing. That's a that's a tough thing to describe. You've been in 261 00:25:42.720 --> 00:25:47.680 fear, you've been peril, and you haven't eaten anything for two weeks. 262 00:25:52.119 --> 00:25:57.279 He says, Now eat and be nourished, for all of you will come 263 00:25:57.400 --> 00:26:07.839 through this ordeal without a scratch. Eat and be nourished. Then Paul took 264 00:26:07.960 --> 00:26:11.519 bread and gave thanks to God in front of them, and he broke it 265 00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:15.759 and he began to eat. And there were two hundred and seventy six people 266 00:26:17.000 --> 00:26:22.559 who ate until they were filled and were strengthened and encouraged. But I'm telling 267 00:26:22.599 --> 00:26:26.799 you, when you eat the communion that you've been invited to, you will 268 00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:33.799 be strengthened, you will be encouraged, and you will be fulfilled. The 269 00:26:33.960 --> 00:26:38.319 new King James says it this way. It says, therefore, I urge 270 00:26:38.359 --> 00:26:45.279 you to take nourishment, for this is for your survival. Since not a 271 00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:49.279 hair will fall from your head for anyone. Come on, I urge you 272 00:26:49.400 --> 00:26:59.680 to take nourishment. Remember when the Angel Lord visited Elijah under the broom tree, 273 00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:07.920 and the Angel brought Elijah food, and the Angel said to him, 274 00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:19.480 So the journey ahead of you is too long without this nourishment. Can I 275 00:27:19.640 --> 00:27:26.279 just tell you today that the journey ahead of all of us is too long 276 00:27:27.079 --> 00:27:34.640 without the communion table a part of your life every day. I can't survive 277 00:27:37.240 --> 00:27:44.279 in the real world of the situations I deal with every day if I haven't 278 00:27:44.359 --> 00:27:53.119 partaken of the Lord's table. I'm convinced that the act of communion, the 279 00:27:53.279 --> 00:28:04.079 receiving of the Lord's body and of his blood, is why a lot of 280 00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:11.640 really good things have happened in my life, because the Angel of the Lord 281 00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:26.079 protects me. Make sure that I'm thinking clearly. Who want to urge you 282 00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:37.079 today that as you received communion, that maybe we ask God to forgive us 283 00:28:37.160 --> 00:28:41.559 for some of the tackle that we've jettisoned. As the Lord. I'd like 284 00:28:41.680 --> 00:28:45.920 to take some of that back. I want to walk in your favor. 285 00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:53.920 I want to do the things that that I know I should be doing because 286 00:28:55.079 --> 00:28:59.720 God, I need your nourishment. I don't need to reduce my load, 287 00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:06.480 need to increase my relationship with him. I don't need to reduce my load. 288 00:29:06.519 --> 00:29:11.200 I need to increase my communion with him. I need more of Him, 289 00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:15.039 not less of him. I need more of Jesus, not less. 290 00:29:15.119 --> 00:29:18.440 I need more of his word, not less. I need more worship, 291 00:29:18.599 --> 00:29:23.079 not less. I need more of all that He has for me, not 292 00:29:23.319 --> 00:29:30.640 less of him. When would you stand with me this morning if you didn't 293 00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:33.079 receive your communion elements when you walked in this morning. We have those at 294 00:29:33.119 --> 00:29:45.599 the front. They're going to walk through as well with some And this morning, 295 00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:55.359 as you receive communion, my prayer is that you will be strengthened and 296 00:29:55.680 --> 00:30:04.400 encouraged and filled, because without this communion, the journey ahead of you is 297 00:30:04.440 --> 00:30:19.359 too long. So today as we receive it, we're gonna receive it to 298 00:30:19.480 --> 00:30:33.400 be full, completely filled with His presence, filled with His anointing. As 299 00:30:33.480 --> 00:30:41.640 we receive the body of Jesus, be filled with healing, be filled with 300 00:30:42.599 --> 00:30:52.799 deliverance, be filled with purpose. He won't be filled with all that Jesus 301 00:30:52.880 --> 00:30:57.880 has for you. Lord, we thank you for your body, hold it 302 00:30:57.960 --> 00:31:03.079 up high. We thank you for your body. We thank you for what 303 00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:08.000 you did for us. Jesus. We thank you for your call on our 304 00:31:08.039 --> 00:31:15.079 lives. We thank you for this broken body, and because of your broken 305 00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:21.000 body, our bodies our whole, and we praise you for that. Let's 306 00:31:21.039 --> 00:31:30.559 receive it this morning. Would you take the cup and lifted a pie. 307 00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:40.720 We acknowledge the blood of Jesus to be the highest authority on the earth. 308 00:31:42.839 --> 00:31:49.160 The Bible says that the government shall be upon his shoulders. He is the 309 00:31:49.279 --> 00:31:56.039 highest authority. It doesn't matter what you're going through. Let him be your 310 00:31:56.119 --> 00:32:05.720 high authority. It doesn't matter what things have come against you. I'm here 311 00:32:05.759 --> 00:32:10.279 to tell you he's your highest authority. He cancels out every negative thought that 312 00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:15.119 you have. He cancels out every negative word that people have said over you. 313 00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:21.599 He cancels out everything that has been in your past that was abuse. 314 00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:25.599 Jesus says you are loved. He says you'll fulfilled. Come on. He 315 00:32:25.720 --> 00:32:30.000 doesn't call you an attic. He says you are free. He doesn't call 316 00:32:30.119 --> 00:32:32.000 you a sinner. He says you're saved. Come on. He doesn't say 317 00:32:32.079 --> 00:32:39.119 you're sick. You are healed. Thank you Jesus, as you receive this 318 00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:44.880 cup today, allow the DNA of the Holy Spirit to change your life. 319 00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:50.319 His blood will change you forever. And as you receive it, dream deeply, 320 00:32:50.839 --> 00:32:54.680 eat well, be fulfilled. Father. We thank you for the blood 321 00:32:54.720 --> 00:33:00.599 of Jesus. We thank you Lord, and we all age you as the 322 00:33:00.759 --> 00:33:07.480 highest authority over our lives over this world. Can we give you praise for 323 00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:16.200 it today in Jesus name. Come on, receive it this morning. Come 324 00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:21.359 on, just begin to praise him right where you're at. Thank him for 325 00:33:21.440 --> 00:33:24.720 what he's done for you this morning. Thank him for reminding you of some 326 00:33:24.920 --> 00:33:29.480 things that maybe you've you've put aside, and you said, Lord, I 327 00:33:29.559 --> 00:33:31.480 want that back. I want to do that thing. I want to be 328 00:33:31.599 --> 00:33:35.319 in your annointee. I want to be in the things that you've called me 329 00:33:35.440 --> 00:33:43.920 to duca. Thank you Jesus for all that you're doing for us. Thank 330 00:33:43.960 --> 00:33:46.119 you Jesus for your word. Thank you Lord for your blood. Thank you 331 00:33:46.319 --> 00:33:52.680 Jesus for your body. Thank you Jesus for an invitation to the table of 332 00:33:52.799 --> 00:34:01.240 communion. Thank you Lord, Thank you Jesus for having authority over all of 333 00:34:01.319 --> 00:34:09.880 our homes. We spear the blood post with your blood, and we say, 334 00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:14.719 Satan, you cannot enter our homes. You cannot touch our families. 335 00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:22.159 You cannot. We take authority over every attack of the enemy, over our 336 00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:28.559 homes, over our lives, over our offices, over every situation. Hey, 337 00:34:28.599 --> 00:34:31.280 Lord, today we declare who we are, a marked people walking with 338 00:34:31.400 --> 00:34:37.639 the mark of the blood of your son Jesus on us. Thank you Lord, 339 00:34:39.519 --> 00:34:45.800 Thank you Jesus. Can you can you just give him a shout of 340 00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:49.840 praise us when he's so worthy? Oh, we give you praise Lord. 341 00:34:50.760 --> 00:34:54.039 If we thank you Jesus for what you've done for us, We thank you 342 00:34:54.320 --> 00:35:00.960 Jesus. You alone are worthy. You alone are worthy of our worship. 343 00:35:01.079 --> 00:35:06.679 You alone are worthy. God. Oh we praise you this morning. God, 344 00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:10.639 Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus, Thank you Jesus. 345 00:35:13.760 --> 00:35:15.920 Just before we close, I just want to give an opportunity. If you 346 00:35:16.039 --> 00:35:21.719 came in here this morning and you don't know him, or maybe you've not 347 00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:24.719 been walking with him as close as you should have, if you'll just slip 348 00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:28.199 your hand up, we want to pray with you. I don't want you 349 00:35:28.280 --> 00:35:32.239 to leave here the same as you came in. Come on, church. 350 00:35:32.360 --> 00:35:39.119 People are raising their hands across this building. He's here to touch us this 351 00:35:39.320 --> 00:35:50.480 morning. We came here to worship him. Some of us may have come 352 00:35:50.559 --> 00:35:52.360 here because it's just what we do on Sunday. But I'm telling you, 353 00:35:53.000 --> 00:36:01.000 don't let this be an ordinary day in your life. Jesus, We thank 354 00:36:01.039 --> 00:36:10.199 you. We thank you for your touch God, thank you for your forgiveness. 355 00:36:14.239 --> 00:36:16.880 Come on, just pray with me this morning. Let's repeat after me. 356 00:36:19.599 --> 00:36:24.079 Father, I thank you for the blood of Jesus. Thank you for 357 00:36:24.159 --> 00:36:31.000 the body of Jesus. I thank you for your healing. I thank you 358 00:36:31.079 --> 00:36:37.079 for your wholeness, and thank you for your salvation. I thank you Father 359 00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:45.480 that today I am made whole, that today I don't leave this place the 360 00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:50.480 same as I came in. I thank you for that in Jesus name. 361 00:36:51.559 --> 00:36:53.960 Come on, let's give me one more shout of praise this morning. Lord 362 00:36:54.039 --> 00:37:00.239 You're worthy, Lord, You're worthy. Lord You're worthy. Lord, You're 363 00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:05.480 worthy. Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus.