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Speaker: I AM THANKFUL FOR THE GOODNESS OF GOD. NO MATTER WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE WORLD, GOD IS GOOD. SO WELCOME TO MINISTERY MOMENT. WE'RE THANKFUL. YES. AND YOU KNOW, I'M AMAZED THAT, THAT, UH, HOW, HOW MANY COMPLAINERS THAT WE, WE HAVE TODAY.
Speaker: WELL, I THINK IT'S PART OF OUR, LIKE, SOCIETY. YOU KNOW, IT'S INGRAINED OUR SOCIETY. YEAH. YOU KNOW, THE GOOD NEWS THAT YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR ABOUT, A LOT OF GOOD NEWS. and we want to encourage you and you know if you are watching this I'm gonna encourage you to just go ahead and like the page invite your friends to be part of this and you're gonna your life will be touched and your friends life will be to be transformed by the grace of God or the things that you are about to hear you and you are about to experience through this program
Speaker: AND I BELIEVE THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS GOING TO TOUCH YOUR LIFE IN A SPECIAL WAY BECAUSE HE'S A GOOD FATHER. WE AGREE? ABSOLUTELY. GOD IS A GOOD FATHER. HE LOVES US. ALWAYS GOOD. HE LOVES ME MORE THAN EVERYONE ON THIS PLANET EARTH. APART FROM JESUS, I CAME SECOND.
Speaker: AND MAYBE YOU CAME THIRD OR WHOEVER IT IS. I MEAN, i think I CAME SECOND AFTER JESUS TOO.
Speaker: Yeah, you know, and you know... But wait, but you know... Yes, go ahead. But you think about this, though. God made us joint heirs with Christ, right? Like, equal heirs. Equal, yes. You know? You know, that statement is very hard for a religious person to believe. Well, I mean, it's... Even though we know the Bible says that, to grasp that concept of everything Jesus did, everything Jesus paid for,
Speaker: God says, I'm making you an equal heir. Equal, yeah. I mean, that's mind-boggling. I don't know if for you have any idea about when the Bible says we are joint heir. Okay, what does it mean to you?
Speaker: ah Joint heir means you do it together and equal. So it's not separate, like you get this and you get this. No, so are you saying that we all have 100%
Speaker: access to the account or whatever it is, right? Right, right. Okay. So, that means everything Jesus did, His position, we are in the same class, in the same position, you know what saying? With Jesus, that's what the Bible says. We are equal in that place of power, place of authority, because everything that Jesus did for us, did over 2,000 years ago, because of you.
Speaker: yeah You know, all our views. It's because of you. If you are listening to this, you are the reason why Jesus did all of that. But sadly, there's so many people are or still... It's difficult. It's very hard for them to believe. that all of that was done for them. And some of them are so programmed with a sin consciousness that it's difficult for me to believe the righteousness or to become righteous, what?
Speaker: Conscious. Righteousness, conscious. and And that's the reason why many people cannot, a lot of people cannot be effective when they pray. You know what I'm saying? You know, and I'm going to encourage you.
Speaker: Don't talk yourself out of God's best. Amen. Yeah, don't talk yourself out of it. And don't live your life based on someone else's experience of the Gospel.
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah, because if you you if you go back to the Scriptures, all the apostles, everyone have to everyone speaks accordingly how they understand the Gospel. Even pop Peter said, My Gospel. ah That means that, you know, he's not talking anything out of for the the scripture where he said his understanding of the gospel.
Speaker: Look, that's why we have lot of writers. Not everybody wrote the full gospel. You know what I'm saying? so You know, something that I think of is, you know, so you have like baseball, right? if you If you strike out, you're a professional baseball player, you strike out,
Speaker: you don't go, oh my goodness, I'm horrible. I should never play baseball again. but Or, you know, I'm not even going to bat next time. But as Christians, we do that. People make a mistake and they disqualify themselves. yeah No, you don't. I don't remember what it is. I'm not a sports person. But I know even a really good batter doesn't hit the ball like home runs very often. Like it's very a very small percentage of time, right? So it isn't it is that we are who we are because of Christ Jesus, not because of what we do. Now, we need to do our best to run after Christ and to be living for Him, but you can't give up on yourself and beat yourself up yeah because you made a mistake. You can't, that's what the enemy wants you to do. See, God doesn't disqualify us, we disqualify ourselves. And so, we have to be so careful not to fall into that trap of the enemy, right?
Speaker: yeah No, you remind yourself, no, I'm a joint heir with Christ. I am seated in heavenly places with Christ Jesus. I am more than a conqueror. You know, we have to remind ourselves, I am righteous not because of anything I did. I'm righteous because the blood of Jesus has washed me and cleansed me and made me whole. And I think we need to remember that because if we don't, then we're not able to push and fulfill what God has called us to do. amen And God needs us to do that. Amen, amen. Wow.
Speaker: Well said. Praise God that you know what you're talking about. No, again, you know... It's the only time that I've talked about sports right there. You know, the life of our the life in Christ, it is an easy life.
Speaker: You know, when I say this, be what are you talking about? I say it's very easy because you can only speak, you know, of what you know, your experience, Okay, are you trying to say something? Well, when you said that, it just reminded me. We were having dinner with some of our friends, and they said, I don't know how you do what you do. Like, you have to live faith all the time, constantly, because of the needs and the community. And I said, well, you know, the good news is it's not up to us. It's up to God. Like, we can't do it. It's not a problem. We can't do it. It has to be God, you know. Yes, you know.
Speaker: When you said that, yeah you wanted to give that thing. You know, the life, well being a victorious in the kingdom of God, it is a life of, it is an easy life. Now, this is what I mean by that.
Speaker: I'm not saying that you you do everything by yourself. Remember, all of us, we are depending on on the grace you know of Jesus, the grace of God upon your life. When Jesus asked this question, I say, the only answer that we have is is it is a special grace.
Speaker: You know what i'm saying? It is a special grace for all of us. Now, you know you know i thought about Scripture who says, Book of Galatians, I believe, somewhere in the Bible. We're going to find it. We're going to look for that verse. Verse Doji.
Speaker: Yeah, that's my own translation. Somewhere somewhere way in the Bible. Now, some people say how come you don't know the Scripture? Look, Paul said the same thing. Yeah. Yeah, Book of Hebrews. If you knew read the Book of Hebrews, Paul made a statement somewhere in there, you know. And here's the thing. Remember,
Speaker: People added the scriptures, the chapters and the verse. That's not how the Bible was written. The New Testament's mostly letters. They didn't have chapter and verse. That's for our convenience. So, yeah, I agree. So, somewhere in the Bible, it says something. Yeah. So, ah no, okay, Galatians 2, verse 21.
Speaker: that's what That's what we're going to read. You know, his his apostle Paul was speaking to the church. Galatians 2, 21? Yeah, 2, 21.
Speaker: I do not treat the grace of God as meaningless. For if keeping the law could make us right with God, then there was no need for Christ to die. Okay, do we have that scripture? so I'm going to james trans king james' translation. And else he is better. Yeah, it says, Paul was saying that I do not frustrate the grace of God.
Speaker: So, are you telling me that it is impossible for someone or anybody to frustrate the grace of God? it sounds like it. Right? Does that make sense? Because if that wasn't possible, he would never ask the church not to do that. Or he would never ask you and I not to do it. but So, that tells me that it is possible for you to frustrate the grace of God that is upon your life.
Speaker: Now, how can someone, you know, ah ah position himself um ah ah in a place so they don't frustrate the grace of God? Now, the reason why saying, I'm giving these Scriptures. It's not the only Scripture we're going to give to you today because we are in a time, especially in the USA, we are in a season of a Thanksgiving season. Yeah.
Speaker: Because, you know, the season has changed and God is doing so many good and awesome things. So you have to be you have to be but you have to be conscious of it. And you have to be yeah you have to open up your spiritual eye to see the goodness of God in your life.
Speaker: Yeah, you know, and I love that you're saying that because you can't be moved by your circumstances, right? The goodness of God doesn't change because of what is going on around you. Yeah, and you really have to you have to anchor your hope in Jesus. Amen. Not in the government, not in the economy, not in the political realm. um because you will be, like James says, you you will be tossed to and throw with every wind of doctrine if that's what your eyes are on.
Speaker: But when your eyes are on Jesus and He is your anchor, He is your rock, it doesn't matter when the storms come, you're going to be just fine because you've anchored yourself to the Word of God. Everything else changes. This doesn't change. doesn't change. doesn't You know, the Scripture says, everything will pass away. But my words, God, Jesus said, my words will never pass You know, um maybe you are you need healing your body. Maybe you need a financial blessing in your life. Maybe you are believing or standing in faith for your loved one. yeah Whatever may be your situation, let me encourage you. Now, you we need to understand what what takes place when we pray. Now, what what what you know ah what I believe, this this is I believe.
Speaker: What makes our lives successful? ah When we make a request, a God is not just looking for a way for you to have what you want.
Speaker: That's not his his His desire for us, okay? The greatest desire for God when we pray is for you to know His words.
Speaker: Because it's not, you know, he that it seems to me like it doesn't get excited if you you receive the answers to your prayer.
Speaker: Now, let me e explain this. it doesn't mean that God is not excited when God answers your prayer. No. God, you know, get excited. but He get more excited when you know His words, yeah okay? And because with His Word, that he the Word of God, or God's Word that He speaks to you,
Speaker: One Word from God can affect every area of your life. and So when you receive the Word, He wants you to know how to use that Word to perform the miracles that you want.
Speaker: Yeah. That's why a lot of parables from the Scriptures. There was a Satan comes, what, immediately to steal the Word. Yeah. All right? If the enemy can steal the words from out from your heart, you can be victorious.
Speaker: So, god God's greatest desire is to give you His words, or for you to study the Scriptures, for you to know what He has said to you.
Speaker: Because if you that's the only thing that can can can can can sustain you in this life, would every time you face an opposition. And that's why you go many times, the enemy knows how to play the game. If he can keep you busy, if he can keep you, you know, run over the but the, you know, all over the place, if he can do his best to make sure that you don't have time to pray, to read, to spend time with the words, you know what i'm saying? So you cannot pray effectively. So I'm going encourage you.
Speaker: No matter what you are going through, make sure that you receive rhema. Rhema is the Word of God that God speaks to you for the situation, for the now. And the miracles that Jesus performed, or the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit performed in the life of Jesus, you know, in His ministry on this earth, is because He spoke the word of the words that He have heard from the Father. He said it. say He said, I don't do anything, I don't say anything outside of God's words. So that means that He has spent he spent time with God to know His words, yeah i know His will. He said, I i only do do what I hear the Father tell me to do, what I see Him telling me to do, right? That means
Speaker: The other thing that I love about that is it means we can know the heart of God. Yeah, we can know. Because what did Jesus do? It says He went around doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil. Yeah. So that means the heart of the Father is to do good and to heal all oppressed by the devil, right? Yeah, yeah. I mean, I i love that Jesus, like you were saying, He was so close that He only did what He saw the Father doing. That was it. That's all He did.
Speaker: But that also lets us know what exactly is the heart of the Father. It's what Jesus did. Amen. so know way He was our example of what we're supposed to do. and You know, and that is one of the reasons why when someone says, oh, I don't know the will of God for my life, there's a proof passage that you have not, you never spend time to read your Bible. Yeah. Because there's no way for anybody to spend quality quality time Okay?
Speaker: And with the Word and not knowing what God has for you. And because the Word of God, you know what I'm saying, is God Himself. Well, it is. And even if you didn't hear the Spirit of God say, do A, B, C, D specifically, The Bible says that the Word of God is a lamp unto your feet, it's a light to your path, and everything in here is the will of God. So in other words, if you anchor your life on this, and you do, I remember hearing um our pastor, Pastor Brenda, saying once, and to me this was just profound, maybe it isn't to anyone else, but she said, when you don't know what to do, do what you do know to do.
Speaker: Well, you know to do this, right? So, if you just do this and you keep pressing into the things of God, you can have confidence that God is ordering your footsteps so that you're in the right place at the right time. You can have confidence that God is lighting up that next step for you. The Bible says you'll hear a voice behind you saying, this is the way, walk you in it. So, you know,
Speaker: if you're at a place where you're like, but I haven't heard God specifically say, do A, B, C, D. Well, you know the Word says that you're supposed to walk in love. You know the Word says you're supposed to tithe. You know that you know you know so much of what the Word says to you. It's to forgive. Yeah, and it also says that you need to work hard, yeah not be lazy. I mean, just do what the Word says, yeah and God will order your footsteps. Right? And you'll get to where you're supposed to be. I think so many times people want like an angel to appear in the sky and you know or prophets come from across the sea and say, thus saith the Lord, do A, B, C, D tomorrow. and
Speaker: that That happens, however. yeah i ah i have a breaking news. You're going to be waiting for another 25 years. and you no That's a fact of life. yeah so you know it is You see, the simplicity of the gospel empowers us to be victorious in life. So, that's that's the reason why i was saying that it is an easy life for us. yeah Because anyone that, if you disconnect yourself from this book, how can you succeed? There's no way for you to succeed or to be victorious in anything. So, I want to encourage you.
Speaker: You know what? We said, don't frustrate the grace of God. Now, one of the ways that people frustrate the grace of God is that when they don't know how to be thankful. Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. When people complain, the the it is the they couldn't recognize the grace of God. where You know, when you talk negative... Now, I know there is a... In this time of the year, Thanksgiving is coming up, and we have seen that a lot because we deal with a lot of people's needs. So, people have so many issues.
Speaker: And one thing I observed that sometimes you know people when they start talking to you about their situation. You know, because your the maturity in Christ is first found in your words. Because that's the only way somebody can look at you, can see what you believe.
Speaker: and Including the devil. yeah he can't He doesn't know what everything is going on in your mind. He can only see what you say and what you do, but your words. And you become the snare of your own words. yeah Because he he he when he hears you say something negative, contrary to the will of God in your life, he loves to take advantage of it.
Speaker: and to use that against you. And I can i can take you from Scripture. Job, from the Bible, that's what happened. His words put him in trouble.
Speaker: Period. And if we can... Even your salvation, I know you are saved today. If you are saved, you believe Jesus, you you you are saved not because you only believe Jesus. right you know what I'm saying?
Speaker: When you believe, your expression of your believing is faith. That means that you proclaim that Jesus is Lord of my life, and salvation was given to you immediately. It says, if you confess. is confess? Confess is speaking. What is confession? Confession means that speaking the same thing in constant of what God said.
Speaker: That means that you are in agreement with God. You are speaking the same thing. There's a lot of scripture about this. I love what I'm telling you right now. See, as I'm speaking to you, see my spirit is going to sow...
Speaker: thousands of scriptures. that You have to let it come out. But I have to calm down and be be be slow. I got to be slow so you can follow me. So, don't don't frustrate the grace of God in this time of Thanksgiving. Amen. You know? Yeah. Be careful what you say.
Speaker: i always say, shut your trouble. do you say that? Taithae. Hey, Cayete, that's a Spanish one. What is that? Cayete, what? What is that? a Well, it's... Whatever it is. Okay. Cayete is good. Okay. All right, so I just wanted, because we're talking about the will of God. Yeah.
Speaker: We're talking about being thankful. So, 1 Thessalonians 5, 18, it says, Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you who belong to Christ Jesus. So, no matter what's going on, God's will is for you to be thankful. Amen. Amen. You know, yeah, be be excited about your life. That's what it says. That's my own translation. If we break it down to our daily, you know, we break it down in our day. That means ah be thankful for God's grace. Be thankful for His love. Folks, He loves you.
Speaker: Okay, which is the highest blessing? ah You know, Jesus died for you. That the Lord is a big deal. yeah So you have to understand what is taking place. you know Don't allow those noises around you to talk you out God's best and to cause you to frustrate the grace of God. Number one way to we frustrate the grace of God is when we talk negative. i know it's the season of Thanksgiving.
Speaker: Find something in your life and and be excited about it. It caused over 3,000 Jews not to step into the Promised Land because they refused to recognize God's miracle-working power in their lives. Everything He supplied to every needs, every situation. Only one thing that... See, the enemy used that to talk them out of God's promise, their own Promised Land. And they... Yeah, so because they became professional complainers,
Speaker: and they insulted God, they do all the nasty stuff to vex the Spirit of God. And because as a result, they couldn't get into the Promised Land. So all of that was written for our learning.
Speaker: So if you want God to keep lavishing His blessings upon your life, especially when ah there's a government shutdown, you know, government is now a supplier. I've been telling people recently, I say, don't trust the government. right Don't trust anybody. Trust God for He's the your provider. He's the he's a supplier.
Speaker: Well, and I think that highlights why the church should be the answer four for poverty, right? The church should be the answer for families that are in need, right? We need to, as the body of Christ, we need to be the response, not the government, Not that we can't have some government programs to to help, but it's the church that should be the answer for those things, right? yeah that We have the compassion to love people and help them get back on their feet to where they need to be. And I think as the body of Christ, we need to rise up and say, no, we are going to be the answer. Amen. Working together. Yeah. So, so again, if you are...
Speaker: you believe poverty, you are broke, you can't help anybody. know At the end the day, you cannot. There's no way. So make sure you understand the Gospel. and Don't frustrate the grace of God upon your life in this holiday season. Be thankful. You may not have everything that you want to see for the now, but that means that you cannot get it.
Speaker: It is a process. Some some things is a process. It takes time. But whatever God has, whatever things that He has done in your life, he be excited about this and praise Him. You know what I'm saying? Make the devil sweat.
Speaker: All right? Make the devil mad by telling yourself or testify to do the holy angels, the you know, of the of God's greatness in your life. Most goodness and mercy shall follow you all the days of your life. This is what you should be confessing, declaring over your your daily life. So, if you need healing in your body, don't worry. Yes, I know you are feeling the, you know what i'm saying, the the pain is in your body.
Speaker: But it doesn't know it doesn't it doesn't mean that your prayer is not working for God is not taking care of you. Yeah, forget it. It's just only a noise. yeah Don't worry about it, but set your minds, okay?
Speaker: And set your time to praise Him, to thank Him. The Scripture says give thanks in every situation that this is the will of God for your life. yes It didn't say to thank God for the problem.
Speaker: What He's telling you that out of that mess, oh, thank you, Jesus, He can bring something beautiful out of it. That's why the you of a good book of, ah well I think, a Corinthians, it says, God who com commanded light to come out of the mess. I like that. yeah So that means that we can change any situation. And and I think, it too, it's it's being thankful that that we already have the victory and God already has the solution. Remember, when Moses went to the Red Sea with all of the Israelites and he cries out to God, God was like,
Speaker: Why are you cry crying? Because God already had the solution, right? already had it. Okay, you know, simply just say, oh, I don't want, we don't have and enough time. But you know you know, the answer for that problem, God already told him.
Speaker: He told you what to do. You know what i'm saying? That's why i say go ah wow, this is, you know, maybe you need to do part two about this. You know, life is so easy, very beautiful. yeah I'm not telling you, I'm not telling you, listen to me very carefully. I'm not telling you that you were yeah you are not you are exempt from trouble.
Speaker: No. you are qualified for trouble this is the opposite but in the midst of that problem see you problems gravitate toward the where there is a solution wow thank you jesus you be you are going through what you are going through because you are the only person who has the answer to fix that problem yeah so what you need to do is to go on your knees and ask the holy spirit what is the way out of this situation ah How can we fix this? Because He's a good father, He said to you that, I will never allow any situations to come in your way that He will leave you, what?
Speaker: Without help. He said, I will show you what to do. So, we need to go back to the source of our life, the source of our victory. It is the Word of God, spending time with... God's in ah praying to him, reading the Scriptures, and I'm telling you, your life will change. You will never suffer anything in this life again because it has made you to be victorious. yeah That's who you are, not a loser. that's right You are above every situation. And I speak to you right now in the name of Jesus, that every noise around you will stop it in Jesus' mighty name.
Speaker: And as we decree and speak blessings over your life, no weapon formed against you will prosper. In the name of Jesus, you are the head only. yeah You are above every situation in this time of season, and you are next in line to testify of the goodness of God in this land of the living. It's not when you go to heaven, I'm talking about about today, tomorrow, until you finish your course in this on this earth. So be encouraged. We pray for you.
Speaker: You are not a loser, but a victorious. So let that get into your spirit and believe the Word of God, because that's what God is looking for, to give you His words, so you can use His words to perform your own miracle. Be encouraged. Wipe your tear and stand up tall, square your shoulder, and be excited about His goodness in your life. So spend this whole week being thankful and we will see you next week.
Speaker: We believe this message has been a blessing to you. John 3.16 says, for God so loved the world, and that includes you. The miracle of Jesus's death brought salvation to your doorstep.
Speaker: If you're ready to receive it, let's pray together. Thank you, Heavenly Father, for loving me. Thank you for sending Jesus to die on the cross for my sins. I believe with my heart that God raised him from the dead for my justification, and I confess that Jesus is Lord over my life.
Speaker: I receive righteousness into my spirit. Thank you, Lord, for forgiving my sins. Jesus didn't wait for people to come to him. He went to them. thanks to you, our partners, so do we.
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