Run and Tell That
Tim Rivers | July 16, 2023
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What's up everybody? Come on. Give Jesus some praise. If you're glad to be in the house today, man, I'm so excited to be here. There's a good feeling in the house. It's one of those feelings like anything can happen and anything can happen because the Lord is here and where the Lord is, there is liberty, there is freedom. We've been singing today about miracle signs and wonders, and while we were singing, I really felt impressed to say this. I believe that if you need a miracle from the Lord, today is the day. I'm going to say it again, amen. For those that didn't hear it, if you need a miracle from the Lord, today is the day. Today is the day. Don't delay it. Don't wait for it. Believe God, today is the day. I believe there's some folks in here that you are sick in your body and you've been praying God to heal you. Today is the day. There are some marriages that are on the fritz. Today is the day there are some children that haven't made it back home. Today is the day anybody believe that God is still a miracle worker.
We've tried to become too practical in modern Christianity and we've tried to remove the miraculous and the mystery of God, but great is the mystery of God. There's a mystery about him because I don't know how he heals cancer, but I know he does, and I don't know how he puts marriages back together, but I know that he does, and I don't know how he fixes issues that no one said could be fixed, but he does. That's the kind of God we serve. One more time. Come on, give Jesus some praise. All right, well, it's going to be another one of those. I think I need two or three people that are ready.
Grab your Bibles. Let's go to Luke chapter seven, the book of Luke, chapter seven. Now, I do have to tell you, I've been praying about this month and I've been asking God, all right, God, what are you doing in the life of our church, particularly in this month? Because July is considered in statistically the summer slumps. Right? But how many know that God is the same yesterday, today and forever? Yes. And the Bible says that he neither slumbers nor sleeps. And what I really felt impressed about this month is that this is a month of revival. And some of y'all are like, what's revival them? Churchy folks are like, yes, but revival literally just means to revive it. It means to bring back to a previous state. It means to resuscitate. It means to bring back. It means to bring back to a former status. And revival is all throughout your Bible because what ends up happening for many of us that have experienced God is we will experience moments in our life where our faith starts leaking out. Yes. How many know that your faith has to be revived every day, every because there are circumstances and situations that come in your life that will try to rob you of your faith, and you got to have a moment of revival. So I believe that this is a month of revival for many people, for your faith in particular, but this is a month of revival. So I'm going to preach, come on,
Like it's revival month. All right, Luke chapter seven, verse number 18. Let me give you some context here. Jesus has just done a ton of miracles and there are some disciples of John who have been watching Jesus do this, and this is where we find ourselves. Luke chapter seven, verse number 18, the disciples of John reported all these things to him, and John calling two of his disciples to him, sent them to the Lord saying, are you the one who is to come or shall we look for another? And when the men came had come to him, they said, John the Baptist, they wanted to be sure. It wasn't them asking the question, we just come as messengers. John the Baptist has sent us to you saying, are you the one who is to come or shall we look for another? This is how Jesus replied. In that hour, he healed many people of diseases and plagues and evil spirits and on many who were blind, he bestowed sight and he answered them. After he'd done all the things, he said, now I can talk to you. He said, now go and tell John what you have seen and heard that the blind received the sight, the lame walk. The leopards are cleansed, the death here, the dead are raised. The poor have the good news preached to them, and blessed is the one who is not offended by me.
Amen. Oh man, I feel like preaching a little bit today. Amen. So my topic is going to come from verse number 22, and he answered them. Go and tell John what you have seen and heard. Now, I want to read this in the Kjv because there are two instances of this story, and there's one in Luke chapter seven, and then there's one in Matthew chapter 11. So do we have Matthew chapter 11? I want to bring it up in the Kjv. Let's see if it's up there or not. If it's not, it's okay. I can quote it. Jesus says to them, and this is the King James version, he says, and when John, oh, here we go. And Jesus answered and said to them, here we go. Go and tell John the things which you hear and see. Go and tell John Again, this is the Neve King James version, but the King James version says, go and tell John again. That means that John had seen it before and Jesus has a remind him what you've seen before. I'm still doing. I know that your circumstance doesn't feel like it, but the God I was back then is the same God I am right now and it's the same God I will be tomorrow. Go and tell John again that I'm still a miracle worker, that I still heal the sick, that I still cause by in the eyes to see that I still cause lame legs to leave. So my sermon title for today is Run and Tell That. Run and Tell That.
God, we thank you so much for allowing us to be in your house. I pray that in the next few moments you would give us ears to hear, a heart to receive and a mind to understand what your word would say. Help us to walk out of here different than the way we walked in. Reignite our faith. Help us to have a revival in our hearts and minds. We thank you for what you're getting ready to do in Jesus' name. And everybody say Amen. Amen. Amen. Look at your neighbor and say, neighbor, neighbor, God's been good to me. God's been good to me all of my life, all of my life. And if he never does another thing, he's already done enough. Say, neighbor, God has been good to me. It may not look like it, but He sure has been good.
Run and tell that run. Now somebody give God praise for what he is done in your life thus far. Run and tell that there are many things in the Christian faith that we would say is damaging to faith, but perhaps one of the most damaging things within Christianity is a thing called doubt. Now, what's interesting is the most damaging thing about doubt is not that Christians doubt, but it's that there is very little open conversation around the notion and idea of doubt. Because here's the thing, for many of us who grew up in the church, we grew up with this notion that to doubt is to be carnally minded, to be sinful, to be backslidden. And because we don't want to be identified as any of these, we end up having a false sense of faith, which is both damaging and detrimental to true faith. You have to understand that everyone that is human will have moments of doubt in their life.
But in order for us to really understand what doubt is, we have to distinguish the difference between two words that are used synonymously but are not the same. And those two words are the word doubt and the word unbelief. Now, many use these interchangeably, but what you have to understand is unbelief and doubt are not the same thing. Now, they have similar expressions. They are cousins, but they're not the same thing. And there is a man by the name of Os, Guinness who said this, and I want to read it to you. He says, to believe is to be in one mind about accepting something as true to disbelief is to be in one mind about rejecting something. To be in doubt is to be waiver between the two. To doubt is to be in two minds.
To doubt literally means to be suspended between two opinions. It means to go back and forth. In other words, the best way I could describe it to you, it's like walking on one of those string draw bridges and you're walking across and you get middle way through to the other side, and you have a moment where you wonder, is it safe for me to go forward? But you're also afraid to go back. That is a moment of doubt because now you're suspended between where you came from and where you're going and you're paralyzed by doubt and fear. Doubt is also related very closely to the Greek word anxiousness because anxiousness and doubt are similar in that it is a suspense between two points. In other words, anxious. What anxiousness. When you experience anxiety, it means that you are worried about the future. You're standing in the present, but you're worried about the future. And when you have anxiety, you are suspended between now and then.
The reality is that many people have been dealing with doubt. In fact, there's a great example in the Bible in one Kings chapter 18, and this is the story of Elijah. There's been a famine in the land. Elijah's been gone doing, who knows what. He comes back and now he's speaking to Israel, and Israel has been going back and forth between serving God and serving Bell. And so Elijah says, we're about to have a showdown to find out God is really real if it's bell or if it's the one true God, Jehovah. And so he says, meet me on Mount Carmel, and when we get to Mount Carmo, we're going to have a showdown. But before the showdown happens, in one Kings 18 verse 21, Elijah begins to speak to the people of Israel and the scripture says, and Elijah came near to all the people and said, how long will you go limping between two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him. But if Bell, then follow him. Even a man of God is like, I would rather you pick a side, either go all in with the devil or go all in with God, but quit straddling the fence.
Oh Lord, that'll preach right there, wouldn't it? I'm not here to preach there, but I that'll preach right there. He, Elijah says, why are y'all going back and forth? In other words, you can read it this way. How long will you doubt? If God is God, then follow him. But if bail is God, then follow him. Check this out. And the people did not answer him a word because what doubt ends up doing to you, it paralyzes you by fear so that you don't have a response. And many people approach the topic of doubt from a negative connotation. They think of doubt as a negative thing. But here's what you have to understand about doubt. Doubt is really a transitional phase because doubt is you being suspended and moving either from unbelief to belief or from belief to unbelief. Doubt is the threshold of the door, whether you go in or out. Doubt is the moment that you get to sit there and be suspended between what and how you feel, what you've been preaching and what you're experiencing. And here's the thing about doubt. Doubt has been in existence in humanity since the very beginning. We can go all the way back. We know we love to pick on Thomas doubting Thomas.
That old doubt in Thomas. But think about Thomas in context. Thomas is a disciple of Jesus. He has watched Jesus do miracle signs and wonders. He has followed him all of his ministry, and then he gets to this point where he sees Jesus and the garden get arrested. Then he sees Jesus being falsely accused in the court. Then he watches as Jesus is beaten with a cat tails and they press a thorn on his brown and they see Jesus being accused before Pontius Pilate and Jesus not opening his mouth. Then he watches as they pierce his hands and his feet with nails on a cross and they suspend him between heaven and earth. Thomas is watching as his side is getting pierced. He's watching as he's, he's he's, he's bleeding as great drops of blood. He's sweating as great drops of blood. He's watching all of this. He watches them take the body of Jesus down from the cross and put 'em in a borrowed tomb. Thomas watches a stone get rolled in front of the tube and Roman soldiers standing guard in front of him and he's been sitting there mourning for days. And now somebody comes to him and says, Hey, listen, there was an angel that appeared to me and they said, the one that you seek, he has risen. Why would you not ask for some proof if I'm Thomas, I'm asking the same question. Let me see some proof that you are just not a doppelganger, that you're just not a person that's that's coming in and trying to pretend to be Jesus. I need some proof. Every one of us would've done that. If you're in this place and you wouldn't have asked for proof, you are an angel and you better start handing out prophecies.
But Thomas wasn't the first one to doubt. We can go all the way back to Adam and Eve in the garden. They doubted that what God had for 'em was good, so they ate of the fruit. We can talk about Abraham and Sarah. They doubted that God was going to provide. So they got together and came up with a scheme, and Abraham slept with Hagar trying to work the miracles of God. They had a moment of doubt. We can talk about Elijah having a moment of doubt that he didn't believe that God could protect him. So he went and hid in a cave we can talk about with Gideon. Gideon didn't believe he was the one, so he said, you better give me some proof with this fleece. We can talk about David and all the moments of doubt that he had when he felt like God wasn't with him. We could talk about all these greats in the Bible. They all had moments of doubt. Can I tell you that doubt is not an indictment of your faith. It's an indication of your humanity. Somebody ought to write that down.
Doubt is not an in indictment of your faith. It is proof that you are human. Everyone will deal with doubt. Doubt is a battle between the mind of the spirit and the will of the flesh. Doubt is when you are wrestling between what you heard God say and what you're experiencing right now. Doubt is when you're suspended between what the preacher is preaching and what you experience on Monday morning. Doubt is when you're suspended between two things, between the prayer and the answer it, it's between the promise and the fulfillment. It's between what you heard and what you see. It's between the start and the finish. It's between the vision and the action. It's between the faith and the works. It's between Egypt and the promised land. It's between the application and the callback. Can I get real with you?
It's between when you have questions and when you get answers. Doubt comes in. It creeps in when you're suspended between what God said he was going to do in your life and what you're experiencing right now. Can I tell you that everybody will deal with doubt because doubt happens when your expectations are not met. Doubt happens when you have expectations, but your reality doesn't seem the same. Doubt happens when you expect God to be a miracle worker, but you're still sick. And doubt comes in when you expect God to provide for you financially, but you still got more bills than you have money. Doubt comes when you believe that God is going to help you find a mate, but you're still single. Doubt happens when you believe that God is going to provide an opportunity for you to get a job, but you're still unemployed. Doubt happens when you're going through what you expect God to do and what's happening really in your life. Doubt comes when what you expect and what you're experiencing doesn't match. And too many people will. Well, too many preachers will get up and say, you are not supposed to doubt. Can I tell you? All of us will doubt.
And the man that's preaching it doubts that you're listening. I can tell you as a preacher, there are moments when I'm preaching in the back of my mind. I'm like a hope. Can I be honest with you? Yes. There are moments when your expectation and your reality don't match, and that's where doubt tries to creep in. Can I give you a biblical example? Yes. Can we talk about Peter? Yes. Peter is with the rest of the disciples. They're in a boat and the boat starts rocking and rolling and they're screaming and they're scared and they look out and they see somebody coming walking on the water and they look at each other and they say, it must be a spirit.
And they, they're scared because they think it's a ghost. But this one crazy man by the name of Peter looks out and says, I recognize him. I think that's Jesus. So he says, Jesus, if it be out, bid me to come work on the water. Now, let me tell you something is no biblical example in the canon of scripture of anybody walking on water. This is the first of its kind. Jesus is the only one who has ever been recorded walking on water. And Peter has no other examples, but he is so crazy with his faith that he believes that if Jesus did it, then maybe I can do it. So he says, Jesus, if it really is you, bid me come the walk on the water. And Jesus says, come. Now, I don't know about y'all, but I'll be like, all right, thank you. I got an answer to my prayer. I'm not sure if I'm going out there though. Jesus invited me. At least I got the invitation. How many people do that with what we ask for when God gives us an answer? We're like, thank you, God. I at least got the answer. I'm not sure if I'm going to do it,
But I got the answer that I wanted. So the Bible says that Peter in his wildness and in his faith steps out of the boat and begins to walk on water. And Peter, when you read throughout Peter, you know that Peter is a smart Alec. He's got no control over his tongue. He's arrogant, he thinks he's all that and a bag of chips. So as he's walking on water, he's starting to smile. Look back at the other guys and the boat. Y'all look at me. I'm walking on water.
And he is looking back and like, man, look at these suckers out. Yeah, they're just in the boat. They can't experience it. He's experiencing the miracle. But as he gets halfway to Jesus, somewhere between the boat and Jesus, somewhere between the word and the reality, he starts having a slip in his mind of doubt that what Jesus said is really true. Even though he's literally walking on water, he starts looking at the wind and the sea and the storm around him and his circumstances changed, his perception of what he know God said to him and what he's experiencing in the moment. I'm preaching at somebody right now, Peter has a moment of doubt, and when he does, he starts to sink into his circumstance. Instead of making his way to the promise and for the rest of his life, he's going to have to take the L for that. Yes, sir. Because everybody in the boat was like, that's why we didn't go. That's exactly why we didn't go. So he gets 30 starts to sick, and this is what the Bible says, that Jesus reached down his hand and saved him out of the circumstance. And this was Jesus' reply to you all you of little faith. Why did you doubt?
So you mean to tell me this miracle was mine? You are going to revoke what you said you're going to do. Come on. And the only reason why I'm not experiencing what you said belonged to me is because I am suspended between your word and my reality. Instead of putting my full confidence in you, I've allowed my doubt to sink me into the circumstance that I find myself in.
Peter experienced doubt because he allowed his circumstances to define what he know, what he knew was true about what Jesus said. This is where we find John in Luke chapter seven, because this is not just any John. This is John the Baptist. And in order to understand John the Baptist, you have to go all the way back to our very introduction to John because we're introduced to John before he was even born. Mary, the mother of Jesus is coming to Elizabeth, her cousin who is the mother of John. And Mary says to Elizabeth, I'm pregnant with the Holy Spirit, which by the way would've thrown anybody off, but Elizabeth's like Holy Ghost. Yeah. And the scripture says that at the mention of the fact that Jesus was in the womb of Mary, that the baby inside of Elizabeth who wasn't even born yet, who was John the Baptist Reed at the sound that before he was even born, he recognized who Jesus was. And then he's born. And then years later we hear about John the Baptist again. The next time we're introduced to John the Baptist. He's a man who's coming out of the wilderness with camel hairs, clothing, and he's eating locust and wild honey, and he's a wild man, but he's preaching repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand and the message that he's preaching is preparing the way for Jesus Christ to do the ministry that he came to do. And John the Baptist is preaching and he's baptizing, and as he's doing that, he's growing in fame and people are following and people are getting baptized and great things are happening and people are repenting and people are following this man by the name of John. And right in the midst of John doing all that he's doing, he's baptizing. Jesus comes walking up to him.
And when he sees Jesus, the Bible says that John looks up and he says, behold the lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the whole world. And Jesus said, baptize me. John said, I can't baptize you. I can't even take your sandals off. I know who you are. I know that what you came to do, I've been here doing this ministry work because I'm just trying to prepare the way for you because I baptize with water, but the one who comes after me shall baptize you with fire. I I'm just here as somebody who's preparing the way I know who you're Jesus and John the Baptists faith is on an all time high. Why? Because when you are working in the purpose and the calling that God has for you, your faith is an all time height. When you got fame, when you got recognition, you got people following you and people responding to you. Your faith is, it is easy to worship God when everything is right in your life. Of course, he's the lamb of God that takes away the sin of the whole world. Look at everybody that's followed me.
So John is at all time high with his faith because his circumstances are matching his calling until Herod Anus, who is a sub king in Galilee, divorces his wife and unlawfully marries his sister-in-law. And John the Baptist in his boldness of faith says, you ain't supposed to be doing that.
Because remember John the Baptist has been bold, his whole ministry, he's been telling people through their face, Hey, you are vipers. Y'all need to repent. Jesus is coming make wait for the Messiah. He thought he was bulletproof. So he comes to Harris like, you should not be sleeping with your sister-in-law unlawfully. Yeah, Harris said word. He said word. He said, you're in prison. John said, what? Have you ever been there? Well, you get so bold in your faith, you do something and the consequences are very different than what you thought they would be. Can you imagine John who's been preaching the Bible says that Jesus called John the greatest man to ever walk on the face of the earth. Jesus called John the greatest man to have ever walked on earth. The greatest man has now been arrested because he spoke against somebody who was doing something unlawful. So now we find John the Baptist imprisoned awaiting his trial. And here's the thing, he doesn't know what's going to happen. All he knows is my ministry, my calling, my purpose, my word doesn't match up with where I am. I'm in prison, but I've been preaching that he is a deliverer.
I'm facing opposition, but I've been preaching that he is the one who is going to give us victory. I I've been preaching that he is the one that that's going to take the way the sins of the whole world. But I am in a world of trouble. I am now in imprisoned. I have no way out. I'm shackled. My circumstances do not match my expectation of who I think Jesus is. Can you imagine what John was feeling in that moment while he was in prison in the darkness of prison? They didn't have lights, they didn't have good food. They didn't have three meals and have a little court courtyard have a basketball. He was in prison. He was shackled by his hands and his feet. And in this moment, he has a moment of doubt. He has a moment elapse in his faith. He has a moment where he's wondering, is Jesus really the one? In fact, he knows because he's heard about the miracles because his disciples are coming back and telling him, Hey, yo man, Jesus is legit. He's doing all this stuff and John's been hearing all this, but his circumstance doesn't changed. So John says, Hey, I need you to go ask him. Ask my cousin.
Go roll up to my cousin who hasn't even come visit me and I need you to ask him something. Are you the one that wants to come or shall we look for another? You talk about somebody who's had a lapse faith. You talk about somebody who's got some doubt right now. He says, are you the one that I've been preaching about or shall I keep looking? Are you the one who is the true living God? Are you the one who has the manifest the glory of God in bodily form? Are you the one or shall we look for another? And I love Jesus' response because Jesus doesn't respond with words. He doesn't give him a narrative of who he is. He doesn't start talking about the prophecies. He doesn't give him a sermon. He doesn't give him a passage. He doesn't give him a verbal defense.
He doesn't give him a dissertation. He doesn't give him a sermon on the mouth. He looks at him and he says, give one second. And he turns around. He begins to heal the blinded eyes. He begins to unstop deaf ears. He begins to make lame legs leap. He begins to heal those that are filled with leprosy. He begins to raise the dead. He preaches the good news to the poor. Then he looks at the disciples and he says, your doubt cannot be erased by conversation. But the thing that's going to get you back into faith is demonstrations of power, size, miracles, and wonders. Cannot preach and tell somebody God is still a miracle worker. Jesus said, run and tell them that the blind are still receiving their sight, that the lame legs are still leaping, that the deaf ears are still being unstop. You need to go run and tell them that I am who I said I am, and I will do what I said I will do. No matter your circumstance, it doesn't change who Jesus is. Somebody needs to revive your faith and recognize that if he did it before he'll do it again.
Man, I feel like preaching a little bit. I want to remind somebody that's dealing with some doubt right now. Maybe you are imprisoned by your own thoughts. Maybe you're imprisoned by your own circumstance. Maybe you're imprisoned by your own, but your own own feelings about things. And I'm here to preach and tell you that the way to erase doubt is not that it's going to change your circumstance, but you got to go back in your memory of things and think about all the times that God has come through for you. Is there anybody that could testify that you were sick but God healed your body? Come on. Is there anybody that knows what it's like for Jesus to have come through for you when you couldn't come through for yourself? There's somebody in this space that's dealing with doubt. They need some people to testify that God is still a miracle working God, that God will still do the impossible, that God will still exceed your expectation. I come to preach and tell you that Jesus will still do miracles, signs.
I know you came to hear three points in a point, but I'm here to preach and tell you somebody is in prison and somebody needs to get out of prison, and I'm going to run and tell what Jesus has done in my life when I couldn't get out. God got me out when I didn't have a way out. Jesus made a way when I didn't know I was going to get through. He moved stuff out of the way. I need somebody to testify here today that God is still working on my behalf. Do I have anybody that can testify to the goodness of God, to the glory of God, to the miracle working power of God? I need some testimonies in this place. Too many of us forget about what God's done in our life. Too many of us, we won't go back into minute. We can think about some negative stuff happening in our life, but too many people forget that when you couldn't do it, God d it for you. When you didn't have a way, God made a way and you ought to praise God right now for all the times that he came through.
So you may be wondering, okay, okay, okay, okay. What are you trying to preach? I'm trying to preach this. John had a moment of doubt.
And Jesus was not offended by it.
Jesus didn't tell the disciples, go back and tell him He made me mad. Jesus said, no. I want you to go back and remind him that what he saw before,
I'm still the same one. Some of us, when we go through moments of doubt, we start forgetting what God's done in our life because our circumstance doesn't match for our expectation. But can I tell you, regardless of your circumstance, Jesus still is who he said he is, and he will still do what he said he will do. I still believe, even though I have moments of doubt, I still believe that God is able to do it. Because I can tell you this, when you're in doubt, words won't do. Am I the only one? Oh, lemme testify. I remember one time I was preaching at a church and I was reading all this stuff in the Bible about miracle signs and wonders, and I asked the Lord, I said, Lord, I read all this stuff in the Bible and I'm preaching, but I ain't seeing it. So my question is, did it really happen?
Oh, y’all don't want honesty?
I keep it real. Now I've seen. Now here's the funny thing. I've seen God do it, but in that moment I was like, God, are you still doing it? So the Lord, I felt impressed when prayer said, you have not because you asked not.
So that night I got down and I said, Jesus, tomorrow I need to see a miracle. I want to see a miracle sign and wonder. That is obviously you. So the next day I go in and I go to preach and I'm sitting there in the middle of worship, and while I'm in the middle of worship, I look down the aisle and I see a guy, he just falls over, boom, into the aisle and he starts having a seizure. Now, my first reaction was somebody called a medic right now. And so they're picking up the phone, they're calling a medic. And then right in that moment, I felt the Holy Spirit say, you have not because you asked none. So I said, all right, we going old school. I said, y'all got any of that extra virgin olive oil? Anybody still believe in oil?
Some of y'all like, why you? What you about to cook up? I wasn't cooking nothing, but Jesus was getting ready to cook up a miracle. So I got that olive oil. I said, bam. And I went back there. I said, y'all keep calling the paramedics, but while we wait, I took that oil and I put it on his head and I said, Jesus, I believe right now that there's going to be a miracle that works for this man. And I'm telling you instantly I want that man. Get up, shake his head like nothing ever happened. And he walked straight down the aisle glorifying God. And when the paramedics showed up, they said, where's the man? We said, he's the one. They said, there is no sign that he has had a stroke, but we're going to take him. Anyway, they took him to the hospital. They ran every test, and what they found out was nothing because God worked a miracle. Cannot tell you that God still works. Miracle. I appreciate doctors, but I know the doctor who's above every doctor. I appreciate applications, but I know a God who get me in. Even if I'm not qualified. We serve a miracle working God and I'm going to run and tell that,
Oh, I wish I had three people that have testified. I wish somebody would take 30 seconds. If you ever seen God, do anything great in your life and give God praise according to what he's done in your life. If he's ever made a way, give him praise. If he ever open the door, give him praise. If he ever healed your father, give him praise. If he's ever healed your mind, give him praise. I still believe he will decimate cancer. I still believe that he'll take away diabetes. I still believe that he can unstop your deaf ears. I still believe that he can heal your eyes. I still believe that. Is there anybody else that believes? Is there anybody else that believes? Is there anybody else that believes Come on? Is there anybody else that believes that God still works? When miracle signs and wonders, if I want to just to go to a social club, I do it on Friday night, but this is the house of God where anything can happen. If you are sick in your body, you can walk away healed in the name of Jesus. If you are trouble in your mind, you can walk away with peace of mind in the name of Jesus.
I'm not here to play games, y'all. I believe God wants to give somebody a miracle. I believe God wants to give somebody a miracle. What you've been praying for, God's about to answer. I'm not trying to hype you up. I'm just trying to run and tell you and tell you again what God has done before He will do again. His power is not diminish. And does anybody need a miracle in this place? Yes. Let me see your hand. If you need a miracle in your life, I'm not talking about something that you can do by yourself. I'm talking about you've been praying and asking God, God, I've done everything I can do, but now I need you to do what you can do. Come on and say, anybody that needs a miracle in your life, worship your team. I want you to come. This is what we're going to do. We're going to have a moment of miracles. If you need a miracle in your life, I want you to come down. Whatever it is, you need healing in your body. You need God to come through you. You need your marriage put back together. You need your kids back home.
Can I tell you that there's nothing wrong with having moments of doubt. We find it throughout the scripture, but it's the will of God for you not to stay there because as long as you're suspended in doubt, the miracle can't get to you. Yeah. Here's what James one six says, but let him ask in faith with no doubting for the one who doubts, it's like a wave of sea that is driven and tossed by the wind for that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord. He is double-minded. He's a double-minded man, unstable in all of his ways. Here's what I love about God. God will allow you to have doubt and make up the difference. Remember, the young man who came to Jesus says, Jesus, can you heal my son? I'd already brought him to your disciples. They couldn't do it. Jesus says to him, do you believe? He says, I believe, but help my unbelief. Yeah. You're talking about one of the most honest men in the scriptures who will come asking Jesus to come through, and at the same time, Jesus, I'm not sure if you're going to come through, and Jesus recognized the faith that he had and said, I'll make up the difference. I just need you to have some faith.
Oh Lord, I don't know what it is that you need God to do in your life, but this is a moment of revival. This is a moment where God is going to answer. I truly believe that. So if you're in this place, you need something from the Lord, I just want you to raise your hand right now. Father, we come to you right now, but open hands, open hearts, and there are some of us, God that have a moment of doubt right now because our circumstance doesn't match our expectation, and we're coming vulnerable and honest before you, and we're saying, God, we need a miracle. We need you to come through and right in the midst of doubt. I pray, God, that you would remind your people of all the things that you've done thus far in their life and what you've started, you are going to finish. So right now, God, I pray for everyone that needs a healing in their body. I pray for everyone, God that needs a marriage restored. I pray for everyone, God who has a child that needs to come back home. I pray for the mind, God, anyone who's dealing with issues of the mind, whether it be mental stress or a mental disorder, I pray that you would heal their mind. I pray right now, God, for that child that you've been praying for, that they would come back home and right now, God, I pray for an unleashing of faith. Now, in your own words, begin to tell God what you need from him. Don't be shy about it. Tell him what you need from him right now.