i'm pastor stephen brooks welcome today
to our midweek bible study called
morning glory
today we're going to be in the gospel of
mark chapter 10
and we want to talk today about don't
spread your faith
too thin let's open up with prayer
heavenly father as we go into your word
we ask that your holy spirit would come
right now
and bring illumination into
these scriptures that we are going to
examine and we thank you that
the entrance of these scriptures into
our heart will bring light
and so father help us to make
application of what we learn
and help us to apply it in our daily
living we give you praise
thank you father in jesus name we pray
let's all agree and say amen
now we have the story of blind
bartimaeus i want to pull out
one nugget from just two scriptures but
it's very important to understand the
dynamic exchange that took place
between them because it could have gone
in many different directions
but it went in the right direction
now verse 46 now they came to jericho as
he went out of jericho with his
disciples at a great multitude
blind bartimaeus the son of temaeus set
by the road begging so bartimaeus
he is blind he's also financially
impoverished due to the
circumstances associated with his
primary condition of blindness
and he has many things stacked against
him but
thank god for what faith in god can do
now we know that he heard about jesus
and we know that faith comes by hearing
so obviously heard
reports about the great miracles signs
and wonders
happening in the ministry of jesus and
that were many
uh were even proclaiming that this man
is the messiah this man is the son of
david
that we've been waiting for for a long
long time
he's here and bartimaeus although he was
blind
he believed those reports and
it just so happens that jesus is going
right past him coming this direction is
going to go right past him
so the opportunity is there and you
always want to be ready for those
moments of divine
opportunity where the atmosphere
suddenly becomes ripe for miracles
praise the lord
glory to god now outside of that
miraculous atmosphere
we know as believers to live your normal
everyday living experience
in faith so you're walking by faith but
it is true there are special moments
when the glory can manifest when
uh there is a grace from god that's
released
and certainly you want to go through
that open door so we can work this from
both
avenues the daily living of faith and
walking in what we would call general
faith
and also when you have opportunity for
the
extraordinary now we know that
bartimaeus is going to be made aware
that jesus is passing by
you have the massive crowds everybody's
you know loud and worked up but he's
more worked up and he's calling out for
the lord
and eventually the lord stops and he
calls
bartimaeus who was completely blind to
come
to him verse 50 and throwing aside his
garment
he rose and came to jesus well throwing
aside the garment we know as a blind
person
means that you're never going to find it
if this doesn't work
he's not concerned about that because he
knows it is going to work
and he already knows he's never going to
need this thing again that is the
maturity of faith
and so often when there is a miracle
that is involved
there is often a stepping off point and
you go
you go on with the lord even before
the shift has actually happened and
that's what he's done he's thrown aside
his garment
the garment was a permit
a legal permission that gave him the
right to beg
because you couldn't beg unless you were
actually authorized to do that
and it was validated that you had
something wrong with you and thus you
were given the official
beggar's garment it's not just like an
old piece of clothing that was worthless
it was a beggar's garment
which meant you had permission to beg
praise the lord now he gets rid of that
verse 51
so jesus answered and said to him what
do you want me to do for you now
in life as a believer as a child of god
you operate in what i would call
general faith and we know
even from the old testament that when
you boiled it all down
as several of the prophets realized
it comes down to this the just shall
live
by faith and the apostle paul writing
with the inspiration of the holy spirit
he picks it back up also
and uh that's into the new covenant now
how do we operate well the just shall
live by faith that is your
general faith of operating in your daily
life
and your life is multi-compartment
compartmental you have facets of your
life so what you have to do
is you use your general faith your faith
in god your faith in this word the
promises of god
to move your life forward to move your
career field forward
to move your marriage forward to move
everything forward you know
relationships forward everything
whenever they move forward you want
everything
being conformed more into the image of
christ
and your life is a package deal so it's
not like you can just focus on one area
you have to focus on various areas and
so you want to move everything
pertaining to your life
forward into the wisdom of god into the
maturity of christ
and you do that through what we would
call basic general
faith praise the lord now
along the journey of life as i'm sure
you've noticed
you sometimes are made glaringly aware
that there's something missing from your
life that you would really like
praise god uh maybe something that you
need
now technically we could say that well
you know bartimaeus
you you're you're having a hard time but
technically
you're still making it you're still
alive you haven't starved to death
maybe you don't get a bath very often
and maybe you don't eat very good food
but you know what you're you're still
alive and kicking well
that is true but life as a believer
was never meant to be identified as
survival
god wants you blessed praise god so you
do have these times
where you think you know what there's
something in my life that i would like
and maybe it is a need
such as a very dire need for healing
something that should have happened it
would dramatically
alter your life for the better so
yes that that could be a a primary
request a primary desire and sometimes
you also have these other things
that just seem to be something that's in
the way god made you
uh i i believe the bible describes it
very beautifully in psalm
37 verse 4 where it speaks
about heart's desires and
those can be kind of hard to identify
the origin of why do i desire that
well it's because god made you like that
and i believe that heart's desires
in the context of that psalm are desires
that
god put it in you and you just you just
want that or you have a desire for that
and that would be pure it's from the
lord
nothing wrong with that praise god so
this would bring us from
a category of general faith over into
what we would now call specific
faith praise god thank you jesus
um let's take a look at what happens
here
so jesus answered and said to him what
do you want me to do for you
well it is true because i've read i've
read it before in
theological i wouldn't call them manuals
but theological
dissertations and things like that there
have been conferences
of theologians that have gathered
together
to discuss and to talk back and forth
with their
with their friends who are also highly
degreed which is good
uh concerning why would jesus have made
such a statement
when he knows the guy is blind i mean
why
why do you ask a blind man what do you
want me to do for you
and there have been uh
conventions literally held over that
question
i think we can briefly touch the answer
to that here in just a moment
but before we we do that because that's
not really the focus
before we do that let's let's stick on
something unique here that takes place
what do you want me to do for you the
blind man said to him
rabboni that i may receive
my sight okay are you ready for this
here's what most christians
do let's say if you could take the
average christian
who loves jesus and is saved
washed with the blood of christ they're
on their way to heaven
but let's say you could put them in a
time machine
send them back in time right around 2000
years
to the very day when jesus was passing
through this town
and uh instead of bartimaeus
you somehow got in for in line in front
of him so maybe he's behind you
and you're in front of him and you're
standing before jesus while he has his
real earthly ministry
anointed with power of the spirit
unlimited power
he was filled with the spirit without
measure
and let's say you stood there and he
said
to you what do you want me
to do for you and you know he's got the
anointing oh you know he's got the power
you may wonder about certain ministers
you may wonder about me
but i'll tell you what nobody in the
body of christ wonders about jesus
because they know he was filled with the
spirit without measure so you know if
there's any shortcoming
it's not on his behalf it would be it
would be on the behalf of the person
who's trying to you know work with the
lord on this situation
now this is very interesting again
he says rabboni that i may receive my
sight now
if you put the normal average christian
in the time machine again and send them
back and they're standing there in front
of the lord
you know what they do you know because
i've seen it i've seen it happen
over i can't even tell you how many
times i've seen it happen
um i don't know if i would say a
thousand times
but but uh it's up there it's a lot
this is what most christians would have
done they would have stand before the
lord
jesus would have said what do you want
me to do for you
and this is immediately what they start
doing lord
i have scoliosis lord
i have arthritis lord i have
migraine headaches lord i also have
financial problems lord i've got
marital problems and lord i also have
stomach issues
and lord also i can't sleep at night
and before you know it before you
realize it
they have presented to the lord a list
this long of all the things
they want the lord to do
wow fascinating isn't it
so jesus asked him what does he do
does bartimaeus pull out a list
kind of like what we would call the
santa claus list you know how it is
on christmas when young children maybe
young children who
still haven't come to the reality that
santa claus is just fictional
anyhow so they go to the mall or
somewhere somewhere and they
they make their presentation to santa
claus and they have a what
usually a list let me ask you a question
how many children have you ever
overheard
in their conversations with santa how
many of them have you
ever heard express to santa the desire
for one
thing very very few
usually there's a list and oftentimes
the list
i mean you're talking like th they've
they're prepared before they go
they've got like 31 different things
maybe 47 different things on that list
and they sit there and they read them
off the santa and uh
you know the santa character pretends
that he hears and he listens
and uh you know that's it you had your
visit with santa you presented your list
and how many of you know it just doesn't
work
like that now
let's shift away from santa claus
because he's fictional and get back into
reality
we know that god could answer every
single thing
let's say there's 57 different things
from a toe ache
to sinusitis to a backache
to you know uh financial problems
whatever
you and i both know god could just rope
flush that list
and answer every single thing on there
but how often have you ever seen that
happen not that it couldn't happen
because it has happened it has happened
but is that the normal way
in which the flow usually works
i would say no not from what i've seen
and in so many meetings
where i would ask for a prayer healing
line because i want to pray over
the people that are sick i i'll
have the line formed and i've been you
know i've been in prayer and i've
gotten prayed up and sought the lord for
his uh healing anointing
so i'm ready to go okay so now we have a
long line okay so i get to somebody
and i and i ask them what do you want
the lord jesus
to do for you very
very rarely is it ever one thing uh
often often i mean it's it's literally
like a santa claus list
here it comes pastor stephen i've got uh
i've got a back problem
uh i also had a horse kick me in the
head when i was a child i don't think
right
i fell off an atv i've my injured my
ribs
and i and it just goes on and on and i
i'm not critiquing that
but here's here's a question to the
person
do you actually think that if we ask god
to do that do you actually have faith to
believe
he's going to heal all of that right now
well
uh no no not really pastor stephen that
and that's
the truth they really don't have faith
that the lord's just gonna check off
everything on that list
michael archangel go do that one gabriel
go take care of that one and he starts
calling angels in
knock them out one two three four do it
all do it all
and sends like 87 angels and they just
fix everything
fix everything but
i have seen that when they're in the
line
they they don't believe that god's going
to do all of that
well pastor stephen um where do we go
what do we do how about this why don't
we start with one
how about we start with one thing
okay that makes sense how about that
right because think about it
if god can heal one and we can use our
faith
and trust in god's power and trust what
god said that
that by his stripes we were healed and
we can exercise
faith if god can heal it once could he
not do it again for the second need
yes okay so here's something i found out
many years
many years ago when i was working in the
plumbing field
and kelly's father
he was a master plumber now of course
he's not he's retired doesn't do that
anymore
but he was a master plumber for about 40
years
and he taught me what i knew about
plumbing when i worked with him out on
the plumbing field
but i i'll be honest when i worked with
him
we had a van full of tools uh actually
we had vans we had
tools and this van had all these tools
and this van had all these tools and
then we had
we had all kinds of specialty tools from
jet sweats to
uh heavy saws to cut through commercial
stuff the you know cast iron cutting
chains and all kinds of stuff like that
fun stuff but i couldn't believe
when i watched him work his name was
bill
when i watched him work i couldn't
believe how many things he fixed with a
screwdriver
what screwdriver i mean uh i'd think
well you know bring the whole two kit
and you know we'd bring some tools and
stuff like that but i
i mean just like over and over again i
just couldn't believe how many things he
would just fix
with the plain screwdriver oh we had
everything else under the sun we had
we had van loads of stuff we could bring
any kind of gear out to fix anything big
small whatever
you know residential or large commercial
stuff but i
getting back to it again i was just
stunned
how many things he could just fix with
the screwdriver
and then walk away from it and it's
fixed didn't need anything else
wow he's a master plumber really really
good now he could do all the technical
stuff too he could do plumbing brain
surgery type stuff
but um most of the jobs really didn't
need that
so i realized that faith is the same way
you can take it like a screwdriver if
the screwdriver can fix
this problem well you have another
problem over here and the same two will
work for it or you can come over here
and fix that
so if our faith will work once
would it not work twice
um let's ask a question was the only
need
that bartimaeus had was that only need
that he had
was it just to be healed from his eyes i
think he had a lot of other issues
i think he was financially in
destitution
i think he he had the the mental agony
of separation from family and friends
and
uh i just think you know he's missed out
on society he can't do what other people
do
he's he's been given the short end of
the deal as we would say
and so there's a problem there's
probably a lot of unfulfilled
areas of his heart that he sits there
and he just says well i can't i can't
satisfy these areas that i would like to
experience
but when he comes before the lord and
the lord says what is it you want me to
do
for you he doesn't pull out a santa
claus list
he goes right for the number one thing
okay so i've learned that so if i'm in a
prayer line
and i'm praying and ministering to
people and i ask them what is it that
you want the lord to do for you
and so many of them maybe they just got
off the time machine
so many of them uh yeah so that they
went and visited the lord two thousand
years ago in the time machine now
they're back
now they're they're in my line and
they're still doing it
pastor stephen i mean this this this
this they don't do it like that but they
start
saying the list it's not a written list
but it's a list written upon
uh their heart and they have all of
these things that they're wanting the
lord to do
so i said well let's start with one and
you know what some of them say
which one can you believe that as if
their life
is my life i'm like well hey it's your
life you
you have to make that choice
is that not a fascinating element
of the nature and the character of god
and
again let's go back to an unanswered
question about the theological
conventions
why would jesus ask a blind man
uh what is it that you would like for me
to do for you
knowing that the guy is blind i mean can
he tell well of course jesus can tell
the the root of that
context comes down to to this
god's not moved by your need i talk
about this a lot
he's compassionate he sees your need he
would love to meet your need but he's
not moved by your need even if you stand
before him
and your stone cold blind he sees that
he has power to heal don't doubt it for
a moment
but your need doesn't move god your
faith
moves god so depending on what
bartimaeus desires and has
faith to release for is what he's going
to get
and if bartimaeus as a blind man would
have stood there
and the lord said what is it you want me
to do for you and he said lord
i injured my toe i couldn't see where i
was going because i'm blind and i i
walked right into a wall
and when i did that i kind of stubbed my
foot into the wall really hard and i've
injured my toe
jesus i'm asking you right now please
heal my toe
i believe you're the son of david the
messiah of the world jesus heal my toe
do you know what have happened the lord
would have healed his toe
and bartimaeus would have walked away
blind oh i don't know about that pastor
stephen well then you don't know about
basic simple principles of what
moves god into action
see we can have all kinds of ideas and
all kinds of this is that and
but it's laid out in the word and it's
really quite plain praise the lord so
uh bartimaeus let's look at him just for
a moment
he did the right thing he didn't pull
out a list but trust me
i think you and i both know he probably
could have produced quite an
extensive list far beyond any kind of
list we could create i mean this guy's
blind
sitting on the ground begging i'm sure
he could
put out a quite long list but he didn't
do that
he went for that number one thing well
pastor stephen
if i stood before the lord and he asked
me that
what what am i supposed to bring up as
this number one thing
let me let me say something that
you need to really take this to heart
god
doesn't decide for you
what that is okay so for bartimaeus
he decided that he wanted jesus to heal
him
god didn't decide that for him and he
won't
decide it for you either
well pastor stephen that and that that
infers that i've got some thinking to do
yes a very dangerous thing for some
people who don't seem to do very much of
it on their own
woo glory to god hallelujah
you have to think you have to sit down
you have to talk it over with the lord
and you have to look at scripture and
meditate on it and you have to form
within your heart
what you want god's not going to do it
for you and he didn't do it for
bartimaeus
and if you're in the healing line coming
through the healing line i'm not going
to do it for you either
well i just don't know i just don't know
well then you
probably should just go and just
pull back for a moment sit down and try
to identify that
because if you don't know what are you
going to get
you're you can't receive
why because you don't even know what
you're receiving praise the lord
well pastor stephen just go for the
whole slew of things knock them all out
here's the list here's the santa list
but but we know
that it usually doesn't work like that
so start with that one thing
stay on that now again we're not talking
about general faith where you're moving
the whole
process of your life forward you're
moving the package of your life forward
no we're talking about special things i
would call them
specific targets something you really
want god
to do in your life could you live
without it yeah
i mean i can live without air
conditioning but i sure like air
conditioning
i could i could um i could live without
seafood but i like seafood i could live
without italian food but i like that too
i could actually live without shoes i
mean i could walk around
maybe i could become the barefoot
preacher but i'd rather have
shoes so if there's something that is
absent from your life but you feel like
this would add a lot of
value and happiness to my life if i
could have this thing
then by all means use specific faith to
target that and
pull it into your life and and bring it
into your life for the glory of god
praise the lord but you're going to have
to decide what that is
and when you do when you do you're going
to have to stay
on it praise god you're going to have to
stay on it
thank you jesus don't
spread your faith too thin with the list
of 87 things and you're you're scattered
one day you're on this one there and
you're that and
you just got this giant list and you you
don't know what's what
no you're going to have to be very
focused
and be careful that you don't spread
your faith too thin
bartimaeus didn't do that he was very
focused i would say
that his faith was like
making a peanut butter and jelly
sandwich for those of you that
enjoy that type of uh high quality food
praise god
and he just took some bread and he put
the jelly on and then he put the peanut
butter on
real thick real real thick
don't spread it on thin spread it on
real real thick
praise god because here's what will
happen
if if you spread your faith out
too thin then the quality
of your faith plummets i mean big time
it'll just it'll plummet let me give you
an example
many years ago the the wonderful
minister
prophet kenneth hagin he talked about
the time his wife aretha came to him
and said kenneth i want you to pray
and use your faith because he was a man
of faith praise god she said i want you
to pray and ask god use your faith
for drapes for the windows
because they didn't have any and he said
he said aretha he said i would love for
us to have some drapes
for the windows here in our home it
would certainly look a lot better
but he said my faith right now is like a
closed
line how many of you remember back in
the old days before
washers and dryers you would wash the
clothes by hand
and then you would hang it out on a
clothes line and on a nice sunny day
the sun would dry your clothes and you
know i kind of grew up
that in a rural area and i still
remember my grandmother putting
all the clothes uh even when they had
dryers she didn't want one she'd rather
just take it outside
hang stuff up on the clothes line and
let the sun dry it
which i thought was a lot of work but
whatever made her happy
but kenneth hagin said aretha
my faith is like a clothesline and if i
hang
one more thing on it the whole thing is
going to collapse
in other words the specific assignment
the faith project that god had for him
and the the school of ministry and the
focus of that
and everything else that would be
associated with the calling that god had
for him
was demanding 100
of his faith focus and he said
he said you know what he said i want you
to use your faith
and i want you to exercise faith and
trust god ask god and believe god for
the window drapes and she said okay and
you know what she did she trusted god
she asked god for window drapes and used
her faith and somehow
uh god blessed them with the provision
extra you know beyond their normal means
extra to go out and get the uh window
drapes isn't that nice
but see it's very dangerous to spread
your faith
too thin because you're going to end up
like the little kid with the huge list
in front of santa and then underneath
the tree on christmas morning
maybe there's going to be two or three
boxes maybe just one
what happened to the other 87 i don't
know
i don't know but i do know this if you
spread your faith too thin
the quality of it will be diminished
and it's not going to perform the way
that you want it to
i used to live in southern california i
lived there for ten years
met my wife there and uh you know had a
wonderful time
while we lived there before moving out
to north carolina
uh and as much as i love north carolina
and the unique blueness that we have to
our skies and
you know i've got the mountains about 30
minutes away we've got the beach
the atlantic ocean you know about four
and a half hours away
and we have nice weather not too hot not
too cold
and as much as i like it here i have to
admit
there is one thing i wish we had but we
don't have it and
and maybe never will now i can still i
can still get along it's okay it's not
it's not something that's a a necessity
but it is nice
that they're in that part of the of the
nation
on the western side of the country they
have what i'm sure
many of you are familiar with which is
called the in and out burger
raise your hand and say praise the lord
if you know what i'm talking about
it's really good and i know that
somebody might say well hey
isn't that just a hamburger restaurant
how could a hamburger be that good you'd
be surprised
you'd be surprised strangest thing in
the world my wife and i
the other day saw a vehicle here here in
our county
with an in-n-out burger sticker on it we
thought that's the most unusual thing in
the world
that must mean somebody knows about that
and uh
you usually don't see something like
that around here just like here in the
in the hill country of north carolina
you don't see you don't see surfer
people it's just
it would be extremely rare and so we
were going
uh into a store and came out of the
store the other day me and kelly
and there was that vehicle parked there
that had the in-n-out burger sticker on
it
and there was the owner standing next to
the vehicle
and we struck up a conversation and said
hey we noticed your sticker
uh did you you are you from california
he goes no i'm from here
but he said um i like going out to
california and i discovered in-n-out
burger i like it so much that i put the
sticker on my uh
back of my vehicle here in north
carolina
oh praise god hallelujah well pastor
stephen how come we can't have one here
surely
if we call corporate office and we begin
a letter writing campaign
they'll get them out here too no they
can't and there's a reason
for that is because there would be a
direct loss of quality if they ever
extended this far out now
the in-n-out burger chain can only be
experienced in california
nevada arizona
utah texas they did reach the texas
that's pretty cool
and oregon and if you don't live in
those what is that one two three four
five
six states then you would just have to
travel to one of those states
if you ever wanted to experience it
praise god thank you jesus
the reason why they have to keep
the store within the confines of those
states at least
for now and that's as far as they've
been able to expand for
having been in business for decades is
that because
there's nothing in the entire restaurant
that's frozen
there's nothing that's frozen
everything's made fresh everything's
you know cut and done on a daily basis
and put together on a daily basis and
they cannot extend
their supply chain all the way out to
north carolina
without it breaking policy
which is we're not going to have all
this frozen stuff so they can't
they can't get it out of here it's it's
too far away
and you know what they may never make it
out here
but that is a decision that they made
that we're not
going to sacrifice the high standard of
quality
that everybody knows everybody likes and
they've come to expect
we're not going to lower that just so
that we can
spread out and uh you know you know just
go all these different places
they could but they would lose the
quality and then they would lose that
uniqueness that makes people who know
what it is
talk about it all over the country
praise the lord
thank you jesus so the same thing could
happen to
your faith if you have this giant list
and i'm not saying you don't have needs
but if you have this giant list and
you're just you're all over the board i
want this specific thing i want that
target
i want this specific thing you got all
this stuff um
you're going to spread yourself too thin
and your faith quality will go down so i
bring it back again
if you're in the healing line what's the
number one thing that you need to be
healed from
let's start there and then you would
have to let me know what that is because
i don't know
that's not my responsibility neither is
it the lord's
if you have a certain desire something
that you're targeting
uh you're the one that has to make that
target and if you do
god will honor that but he's not going
to do that for you
so you have to be the one that says lord
my eyesight like bartimaeus i want my
eyes healed
okay all right very specific
very specific he said that i may receive
my sight you have to be like that and
then you
you can't spread yourself real thin all
you know so three days later well you
know i really did want my eyes to be
healed but you know what i you know
maybe that maybe i just need to go after
something else instead
no you need to be very very focused
why are certain targeted
prayer requests endlessly prolonged
because of a broken focus of faith
something's breaking that focus and so
you have to get really dialed in
and you have to stay on that and keep
that quality level
high high how do you do that stay on one
thing
until it's done push it push it push it
meditate the word day and night pray
push it push it well what about all
these other things hey look you get that
done
the same faith that pulls that in it'll
work on the on the other stuff too
praise god hallelujah oh pastor stephen
bartimaeus i mean that was his
opportunity he should have told the lord
look i need you to heal my eyes
uh i'm homeless i need a i need a house
oh by the way i don't have any money
after
after you pray for me then you go with
me to open a bank account and then after
that you know i
i i'm going to need a car and he didn't
do that
he didn't do that
now again use your general faith to move
the
whole life experience of your life
forward but if you want the special
things
and we we all have those areas where god
has put that in us
okay then you're going to have to really
uh
target it focus on it and stay on it
hallelujah hallelujah glory to god and
if you do that
if you do that you'll find jesus passing
by you just like you did bartimaeus it
just
it just works out it always does because
god orchestrates this
so stay stay dialed in
don't spread your faith too thin
thank you jesus glory glory
to god keep the quality high
whoo you're going to get it praise the
lord
father i thank you for your people let
them pull it in let them identify it let
them
identify it not you let them identify it
father we praise you we give you all the
glory
we thank you that you honor our faith
you honor what we choose
and what we focus on we thank you father
and we believe that you're going to do a
miracle in jesus name we pray
amen and amen
praise god maybe you want to get a
picture cut a picture of it out
and that doesn't mean you need to show
everybody but you yourself you need to
see it
stay on it lord you're going to do it
lord the miracle's happening
jesus i praise you hallelujah and you've
got scriptures
you've got scriptures to kind of you
know back it up and fuel that faith
praise the lord hallelujah i tell you
what you do that
it's a done deal before it even happens
and it will happen praise the lord glory
to god
if you're watching today's program and
you've never released your faith
in christ as lord and savior everything
every blessing begins at that point
if you would like to receive the lord as
your savior right now pray this prayer
pray it out loud
right now just pray after me say lord
jesus
i'm a sinner but jesus you died
to redeem sinners so jesus
i give you my life wash me
with your precious blood jesus
write my name in your book of life
come into my life and take control
from this day forward jesus i receive
you as my lord
and savior now thank you for saving me
in your name i pray amen
and amen praise god welcome to the
family of god
those of you that would uh maybe
you have backslidden from the lord you
used to have a beautiful walk with the
lord
but the war the world allured you back
out there and you went away
come back right now say this say jesus
forgive me
for having drifted away i'll never let
it happen
again jesus forgive me restore me to a
right relationship with you
in your name i pray amen
glory to god and the word of god is the
solid rock on which we stand
hallelujah glory god glory to god glory
to god
let's take holy communion together today
if you've never done this before
and you're a believer in christ grab
some unleavened bread
i like to use these little bitty wafers
these little crackers
and the reason is unleavened is because
leaven throughout scripture has been a
type of sin
so it's unleavened bread representing
the body of christ
and in the cup we have some grape juice
praise the lord hallelujah let's pray
father we thank you for the bread the
juice and
we pray over it and jesus said that when
we take it we are receiving his body
and we're receiving his blood and we
thank you father that
when we look at it it's the form the
body and blood
is in the form of bread and juice but we
thank you that we are receiving by faith
the body
and the blood of our savior so father as
we receive his
his flesh we thank you that we believe
your promises
lord let us be like bartimaeus specific
on point unwavering and very very
focused
on the primary thing we thank you you'll
take care of all the other stuff as well
but we've got to get the main thing done
and we thank you father god
that we will not spread our faith too
thin we give you praise
in jesus name amen
let us receive
thank you lord father thank you for the
blood of jesus
we thank you for the pure and holy blood
of jesus washing us clean
uh clean and free from all sin
hallelujah oh god we give you praise we
thank you
we thank you father god that we're on
our way to heaven
lord anoint us with your spirit let us
be full of faith full of your word
meditating on it day and night
we thank you father that you are the joy
of our life
we thank you we give you praise in the
name of your son jesus
we pray amen let's receive the blood of
christ
praise the lord hallelujah glory to god
all right you identify that thing
and stay on it praise the lord talk to
the lord about it you release your faith
on it
and you like bartimaeus the next thing
you'll know you'll be receiving your
miracle as well
until next time stay blessed god bless
you
bye bye