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Come have your way among us. 9:26 We welcome you here, O Jesus. Hear the sound of us returning to you. We turn to you. 9:46 In your kingdom, broken lives are renewed. You make us new. You make us new. When we see you, we find strength to face the day. 10:10 In your presence, all our fears are washed away, washed away. In your presence, all our fears are washed away, washed away. Hosanna, Hosanna. Hosanna, Hosanna. 10:32 You are the God who saves us. You're worthy of all our praises. Hosanna, Hosanna. Hosanna, Hosanna. Come have your way among us. 10:53 We welcome you, young Lord Jesus Worthy is the Lamb Seated on the throne 11:14 We crown you now with many crowns You reign victorious High and lifted up 11:37 Jesus' Son will come The Father's beloved crucified Worthy is the Lamb 11:57 Worthy is the Lamb Thank you for the cross, Lord Thank you for the cross you gave 12:19 Bearing all my sin and shame In love you came And gave amazing grace Thank you for this love, Lord Thank you for your neighbor's hand 12:46 Watch me in your penting flow Now all I know Your forgiveness and embrace Worthy is the Lamb 13:07 Seated on the throne We crown you now with many crowns You reign victorious 13:28 I am lifted up Jesus' Son of God The Father's beloved The Father's beloved Crucified 13:48 Worthy is the Lamb Worthy is the Lamb Worthy is the Lamb Worthy is the Lamb 14:15 From the ends of the earth From the depths of the sea Your name will be praised Throughout the endless ages You will be crowned with praises Lord Most High You are exalted in every nation You are the sovereign of all creation 14:30 Be magnified From the ends of the earth From the ends of the earth From the depths of the sea From the depths of the sea From the heights of the heavens 14:51 Your name be praised From the hearts of the heavens From the hearts of the heavens From the shouts of the strong From the shouts of the strong From the lips of all people 15:11 From the lips of all people This song we raise Lord Throughout the endless ages You will be crowned with praises Lord Most High 15:33 Exalted in every nation Sovereign of all creation Lord Most High Be magnified Be magnified Be magnified 15:54 The ends of the earth The ends of the earth From the depths of the sea From the depths of the sea From the depths of the sea From the heights of the heavens From the heights of the heavens Your name be praised From the hearts of the heavens 16:16 From the shouts of the strong From the shouts of the strong From the shouts of the strong From the shouts of the strong From the lips of all people From the lips of all people From the lips of all people This song we raise Lord 16:33 Throughout the endless ages You will be crowned with praises Lord Most High Exalted in every nation Sovereign of all creation 16:57 Lord Most High Be magnified Jesus Christ I think of all your sacrifice 17:19 You became nothing Mowed out to death Many times I've wondered at your gift Of life And I'm in that place Once again 17:39 And I'm in that place Once again Once again I look upon the cross Where you die I'm humbled by your mercy 17:59 I'm broken inside Once again I thank you Once again I pour out my life Now you are Exalted to the highest place 18:22 King of the heavens Where one day Where one day I'll bow But for now I marvel at this saving grace And I'm full of praise Once again I'm full of praise 18:46 I'm full of praise Once again Once again I look upon the cross Where you die Humbled by your mercy And I'm broken inside Once again 19:06 Once again I thank you Once again Once again I pour out my life Once again Once again I pour out my life Thank you Thank you for the cross Thank you for the cross 19:27 Thank you for the cross My friend Thank you for the cross Thank you for the cross Thank you for the cross My friend 19:47 Once again Look upon the cross Look upon the cross Where you die I'm humbled by your mercy And I'm broken inside Once again I thank you Once again 20:09 I pour out my life Stand up and sing Be lifted up The heavens rejoice And the nations be glad Be lifted up 20:30 Be lifted up As we bow down Be lifted up 20:54 Be lifted up As we bow down As we bow down 21:16 Be lifted up Let the heavens rejoice Let the nations be glad Let the whole earth tremble 21:37 For you are God Come worship the Lord In the beauty of holiness Let the whole earth tremble For you are God 22:09 Come worship the Lord In the beauty of holiness As we bow down As we bow down As we bow down Be lifted up 22:31 As we bow down As we bow down Be lifted up Let's remain standing brothers and sisters 23:10 Really want to encourage All of us To bring Our complete Minds 23:32 Our attention Our whole selves And sit quietly Into the In the presence Of the Lord It's Possible that we're just 23:52 Going through the motions Let's Let's Let's not do that Come into the presence Of the Lord 24:12 The presence of a holy God There is There is no one like him There is no one to begin To compare with him There is no one else who deserves 24:38 Our praise Our worship Our honor And our attention Once again I look upon the cross 24:58 Where you died Let's just make a choice Brothers Brothers Sisters We see dimly But The Holy Spirit Has Opened our eyes Given us 25:21 A glimpse Of what What happened On that cross Where Jesus became nothing Was poured out to death And now you are exalted To the highest 25:41 Place King of the heavens Where one day I'll bow But for now I want the spirit of heaven I want to bow down In my heart And marvel at This saving grace Because I am in that place Once again 26:01 A place of wonder A place Of surrender Let's have 26:22 Dealings with the Lord Who longs to have Dealings with us Who sought us When we were lost And bought us And drew us Near to him The psalmist David In Psalm 63 26:43 Says Oh God You are my God I shall seek you Earnestly My soul Thirsts for you And my flesh 27:03 Yearns for you Longs for you In a dry And weary land Where there is no water There is nothing else That can begin To satisfy us Thus I have seen you In the sanctuary To see your power And your glory And your glory Because your loving kindness 27:25 Is better than life There is nothing in life That begins to compare With the loving kindness Of God Which he wants To pour out on us On the thirsty souls On those who seek him Earnestly And so My lips will praise you And I will bless you 27:45 As long as I live I will lift up my hands In surrender In your name And my soul Is satisfied As with marrow And fatness My mouth offers Praises with joyful lips When I remember you On my bed I meditate on you 28:05 In the night watches For you have been my help And in the shadow Of your wings I sing for joy My soul clings to you And your right hand Upholds me Those who seek my life To destroy it Will go into the depths Of the earth 28:23 They will be delivered Over to the power Of the sword They will be a prey For foxes But the king Will rejoice in God And everyone Who swears by him Will glory For the mouth Of those who speak lies Will be stopped Brothers and sisters 28:40 Let's As As the psalm says Offer praises With joyful lips To the one Who poured out His life for us And let's cry out To him With hungry hearts With thirsty hearts That we might be satisfied In his presence Let's pour out 28:59 Our praises to him Brothers and sisters Lift up your voice In thanks and praise Loving father lord We praise you And thank you lord For all your goodness We thank you lord That once again We have the opportunity To come to you 29:11 And talk to you And listen to you lord Your voice Spoke light Into the darkness lord We praise you And thank you You're worthy of praise And glory and honor lord And thanksgiving And power And might And blessing It belongs to you lord 29:25 Great great are you lord Holy are you lord There is no one like you There is no other name In heaven or on earth By which we can be saved lord You alone lord Deserve the glory Worthy Worthy is the lamb Worthy is the lamb 29:39 That was slain We praise you lord Lord let heaven and earth Resound with this cry lord That you alone Deserve all of the glory And all of the praise And all of the love And devotion lord That we can pour out Thank you and praise you 29:53 For your great compassion lord Thank you for your love That sought us out And bought us And cleansed us And clothed us In your righteousness lord We praise you We thank you We thank you For this time Lord be exalted Be exalted in our midst 30:06 Be exalted on the praises Of your people lord Sit on the throne lord That you might administer Your kingdom lord In our midst That you might Give us the words of life Because you alone Have the words of eternal life We want to come to you 30:22 We thank you We praise you Pray in your mighty name Jesus Please be seated Brothers and sisters Let's go over Our memory verses Last week 30:46 We had a promise Let's take this to heart As we repeat the words 1 Corinthians 15-49 Just as we have borne 31:10 The image of the earthly We will also bear The image of the heavenly Amen Let it be so Let's Say this week's verse 31:31 This is a command From Colossians 4 verse 5 Conduct yourself with wisdom Toward outsiders Making the most of the opportunity Say that again 31:52 Colossians 4 verse 5 Conduct yourself with wisdom Toward outsiders Making the most of the opportunity Amen So 32:13 Brothers and sisters Today is October 4th Which I think many of us At least some of us Will remember Was Brother Ian's Birthday And It's 32:34 Very good for us As a church To go back And think about Brother Ian And his life And what he did And the path That he went Before us The Bible The Bible Talks about 32:54 A cloud Of witnesses Urging us To run this race Looking unto Jesus The author And finisher Of our faith We want to listen To a message That brother Ian Spoke That has helped many And is very pertinent 33:15 To our time It's called Overcoming Distraction Addiction Even this morning As we gather Together I just Recognize Satan wants 33:36 To Stop us From talking To the Lord And listening To the Lord He does Everything He can Let's trust That the Lord Will speak To us In our need Yeah This church Was founded When In 1974 33:58 The Lord Led brother Zach And brother Ian To a place Of desperate need And the Lord Filled them With the Holy Spirit And they started Preaching about The baptism Of the Holy Spirit And they were Turned out Of the church 34:13 That they were They were a part of At that time That didn't believe In this And brother Ian Was a paid pastor That was You know His source of living And he decided To take a stand With brother Zach They both Suffered outside 34:28 The camp They went To Jesus Bearing his reproach And we hear That call today Also brothers And sisters To hear the voice Of the Lord And to take A stand For him And to go 34:48 Outside the camp Bearing his reproach And brother Zach And brother Ian Were willing To pay a price It's easy To go along With the crowds But we trust That even today As the Holy Spirit 35:08 Speaks to us We will be those Who are willing To pay The price That's how CFC was born And that is How we want To continue Can the Lord Save us From a distracted Mind I trust 35:32 Many of us Will recognize That there is A great need In our hearts In our lives To be saved From distraction To learn How to sit At Jesus' feet Like Mary did Not to be Bothered About so many things Yeah 35:53 Satan and his forces Want to distract us There is There was a man That the Bible Talks about In Mark 5 15 Who was a demon Possessed man He was Persecuted Besieged By a legion Of demons Distracting voices Pulling him 36:14 In different Directions And he would Cut himself And torment Himself And nobody Could control Him And then He came To Jesus And those Around saw him Sitting at Jesus' feet Listening to Jesus He was clothed And he was 36:34 In his right Mind And they Became Very Frightened This is What the Lord Wants To do For us Also Brothers And sisters Let's have Years to Hear May the Lord Speak To us I want 37:10 To share Something With you Some Thoughts That has Come to My own Heart In this Past Wing And That is About An addiction Now get 37:30 Your minds Working there I hope You Are paying Attention The addiction Of Distraction Somebody has Called it The Distraction Addiction Even Get my Thoughts Together There have Been so Many 37:50 Things Happened For the Last few Days And Particularly Yesterday To Distract Me From what God is Primarily Saying to Me So what I am Sharing Sharing With you Is what God has Been Speaking To me About Distraction And somebody 38:07 Has said In Magazine Christianity Today That the Issue Of Ministering To an Over Filmed And Distracted Culture Is one Of the Greatest Challenges Of Today's Christian Church You got That the Issue Of Ministering And that's 38:28 Not just Speaking From the Pulpit But even In our Personal Relationship With one Another To an Overwhelmed And distracted Cultures One of the Greatest Challenges For today's Church I would add To that Therefore What Peter 38:43 Says We need The prophetic Word Made more Sure As a Lamp Shining In a Dark Place Until the Day Dawns And the Morning Star Rises In your Hearts Where The Morning Star Where Christ Takes Over Completely My Mind My Attention 39:03 That I Have The Mind Of Christ And The Message Bible Puts That Word Very Nice Very Well Second Peter Chapter One Verse Nineteen The Prophetic Word Was Confirmed To Us You'll Do Well To Keep Focusing On It It's The One Light 39:20 You Have In A Dark Time I Like That It's The One Light You Have In A Dark Time As You Wait For Daybreak And The Rising Of The Morning Star In Your Hearts Christ In You The Hope Of Glory That Is The Morning Star So Therefore 39:38 What Has Come To Me We Have To Take Up This Fight Against Addiction It's Worse Than Drugs Worse Than Alcohol Worse Than Pornography When You Really Think About It Distraction We Get So Easily Distracted 39:59 And The Bible Is Literally Full Of Incidents Where God Could Not Accomplish His Purpose Because His People Or His Servants Allow The Devil To Distract Them And I Think That Even As I Am Speaking Now Some Of You Are Distracted 40:17 You Are Thinking Of Things That Have Happened Yesterday Last Week And Things That May Happen In The Future And That Is Why When We Hear The Word In The Church It Doesn't Bear Fruit In Our Lives Or If It Does It's Probably 40:34 Very Less Even Less Than 30% But I Hope That The Holy Spirit Will Get Your Attention This Morning Because It's Spoken To My Heart And I Want To Work On It I Look At It As Weeds That Come Up In The Garden That We Don't Pluck 40:50 Them Out By The Root In The Beginning They Begin To Spread Until Until Until Until The Whole Garden Gets Taken Over By Weeds And That's Our Mind That's Exactly What Can Happen To Us We Don't Deal With This Addiction The 41:04 Addiction Of Distraction And Like I Said The Bible Is Full Of Incidents Where God Could Not Accomplish His Purpose Because His People Or His Servants Chose Or Allowed Themselves To Be Distracted That's Why Jesus Spoke About 41:23 Mary To Martha Only One Thing Is Necessary And Mary Has Chosen It Martha You Are Distracted About Many Things I Wonder Whether The Lord Has To Say That To You And Me This Morning Put 41:43 Your Name There I Know You Said That To Me You Are Distracted About Many Things Only One Thing Is Necessary Mary Has Chosen It It's A Choice My Brothers And Sisters It's Not 42:03 Positive Thinking It's A Choice And It's A Daily Choice It's A Moment By Moment Choice I Choose Not To Allow The Devil To Distract Me To Shift My Focus Off What God Has For Me In This One Life On Earth And 42:24 Paul Was So Burdened That You Know He Wrote 1 Corinthians 7 Many Things There About Marriage And Even If You're Married And He Says There In 1 Corinthians 7 Verse 35 I Want You To Look At That Word It's A Good Word That 42:41 We Can Always Keep Before Us 1 Corinthians 7 35 He Speaks About Marriage And Those Who Want To Get Married And Those Who Want To Remain Unmarried And Many Things Like That But He Says Here In 1 Corinthians 7 Verse 35 He 42:58 Says I Say This For Your Own Benefit Not To Put A Restraint Upon You But To Promote What Is Appropriate And To Secure Undistracted Devotion To The Lord You See That Paul Was Gripped With That Paul Himself Knew But I Tell 43:17 You That We Have Two Wonderful Examples In Jesus And Paul They Refuse Not To Let Themselves Get Distracted From What God Had For Their Life On Earth And I Want That We Really Take It Seriously My Brothers And Sisters To 43:34 Deal First Of All Acknowledge It's An Addiction I Have Acknowledged Before God Lord I Am Addicted Like I Said Worse Than Any Other Addiction And We Need To Be Cured Otherwise We Be Destroyed We Will Miss God's Purpose That 43:52 God Has For Us In This One Life In Verse 32 Of That 1 Corinthians 7 You Know He Says I Want You To Be Free From Concern I Want You To Be Free From Concern I Want To Secure Undistracted Devotion To The Lord And He Was Afraid 44:12 You Know What Would Happen To The Church In Corinth He Says In 2 Corinthians You Can Turn To That Word 2 Corinthians In Chapter 11 A Word That We Have He Very Often Here He Says There In Verse 2 He Says I 44:49 Your Minds Will Be Led Led Stray You Know When You Led Stray It's Gradual You Don't Notice It That's What Distraction Is It's Gradual It Slowly Moves Us Away And Shifts Our Focus To Other Things 45:09 And Usually It's Things Of The Earth And We Lose Out On What God Wants To Do In Our Lives So He Says Here He Says I'm Afraid As A Serpent Deceived Eve By His Craftiness Your Minds Will Be Led Astray Eve Was Led Astray She 45:26 Allowed The Devil To Distract Her And Deceive Her By His Craftiness Did God Say He Aimed For Her Mind Did God Really Say You Should Not Eat From Every Tree Of The Garden And That's Where She Began To Go Stray She Entered 45:45 Into A Conversation With Satan And That's How It Is My Brothers And Sisters And That's How The Devil Can Distract You And Me And Shift Our Focus Every Day And We Don't Notice It The Children Of Israel They Got Distracted 46:03 When They Saw The Giants Two Men Who Were Focused Joshua And Caleb The Rest The Majority Allowed Themselves To Be Distracted And Literally Blind Them They Miss God's Purpose For Their Life They Perished They Died In The 46:21 Wilderness Only Joshua And Caleb Made It Through It's Always A Minority The The Devil The Devil Used Peter To Try And Distract Jesus From Going The Way Of The Cross Because His Mind Was Set On Man's Interest And Not On God's 46:38 Interest And So Jesus Had To Say To Him Get Behind Me Satan Because You Your Mind Is Set On Man's Interest Not On God's Interest Remember That My Brothers And Sisters If My Mind Is Set On God's Interest Then The Devil Has 46:57 A Hold And He Can Easily Move Me Away And Steer Me Away From The Purpose And Path That God Has For Your Life And Mine When We Set Our Mind On Man's Interest We Have To Do Our Jobs We Go To Work We 47:18 You Sisters Have To Do Work In The Home Send Your Children To School And Many Things Keep Keep Home And Look After Your Husband Your Children And Many Things All Of Us Have To Do But Like We Heard Brother Zach Say Should 47:32 Be Like A Rubber Band You Know We Do It We Back Again In Focus But I'm Sorry To Say That That Rubber Band Becomes Slack You Know Like Rubber Bands After Period Of Time They Become Slack So They Don't Go Back And That's What 47:50 Happens With Most Of Us And The Devil Succeeds In Distracting Us From Whatever It Is It's Daily Things You Know You Can Decide No I Must Write That Email And So Many Other Things You Open The Internet And Your Attention 48:09 Is Taken Up Here Taken Up There Something Interesting Comes Up You Got All These Things Popping Up You Decide To Go And Maybe Help Somebody Who's Discouraged But You Put It Off There Are Other Things That Occupy Attention 48:25 All The Time Every Day 24 By 7 This Is The Battle We Fight It's An Addiction If I Acknowledge It's An Addiction And I Have To Deal With It And I Have To Be Cured Of This Addiction Then There Is Home Demas He Was Distracted 48:44 He Loved The Present World Paul Says And He Deserted Paul He Missed God's Purpose All Together Somebody Has Written A Book On Distraction Addiction He Says One Of The Devil's Greatest Tools Is Distraction It's A Devastating 49:03 Weapon The Devil May Smile Every Time We Disobey God Blatantly But He's Just as Pleased When He Lures Us Into Meaningless Distraction Distraction And He Says Distraction Is The Enemy Of Focus And Clarity Two Components Necessary 49:23 To Lead A Spiritual Life Or To Lead A Godly Life Distraction Is The Enemy Of Focus And Clarity Clarity Means You See Things Clearly To Be Focused Distraction Is 49:44 Godly Life And He Goes On To Say Is There I Wonder Any Great Thing That Can Be Done When You Are Constantly Distracted Can Distracted People Change The World Write The Great American Novel Solve Big Problems Deepen Their 50:00 Faith I Think Not Which Is One Reason I Wrote The Book Distraction Addiction The Battle Is For Our Minds My Brothers And Sisters Let's Recognize That The Devil Is Not So Much Interested In Leading You Into Some 50:20 Gross Sin Like Adultery Or Pornography If You're Not Indulging In It He's Not All The Time Trying To Get You There Even Though You May Go To The Internet The Devil's Greatest Tool Which He Uses Very Successfully Is Distraction 50:35 I Have Come To Recognize It But Like I Said I Begun To See It As Weeds Which Have To Be Plucked Out Root By Root Otherwise They Grow Again And I Were Crying Out To God Lord Help Me David In Psalm 50:55 50 Says I Am Solely Distracted Because He Faced A Problem With His Enemies There And Is That The Case With Some Of Us We Are Solely Distracted Things That Have Happened Things That We Think Are Going To Happen We Think About 51:09 Our Children We Think About You Know What The Future Is Going To Be And So Many things We Worry About And We Don't Take Worry And Anxiety Seriously And So We Get Distracted This Man Wrote This Book You Know Alex Bang Says 51:30 Connection Is Inevitable Distraction Is A Choice Connection Is Inevitable Apply It To Anything Not Only To The Internet Connection Is Inevitable But Distraction Is A Choice And In Every Day Everything We Connect With People 51:50 We Connect Different Things It's Inevitable We Get Connected But Distraction Is A Choice I I Make That Choice And I Have To Choose That I'm Not Going To Allow The Devil To Distract Me What We The Memory Verse That We Had 52:09 God Has Began A Good Work In You And Me And He Will Complete It But I Can Be God Can Be Hindered Because I'm Distracted Do you Know That I Can't Just Hold On To That Word And Say That God Has Begun A Good Work In Me And 52:25 And And He Perfected He Will Not Leave It In Complete God Will Say To Me On That Day I Wanted To Complete The Work In You But You Were So Distracted You Were So Distracted About Many Things I Couldn't Complete What I Started 52:41 In You Do You Recognize That My Brothers And Sisters Let's Not Deceive Ourselves You Know We Can Have Virtual Reality We Can Heaven We Are In Illusion No God Has Promised He Has Begun A Good Work In Me He Will Complete It 52:58 He Will Not Let Me Drown He Will Not Leave It Unfinished But The Lord Will Say To Me On That Day I Wanted To Complete That Work Ian But You Were So Distracted May Not Me My Brothers And Sisters We Have The Scriptures To 53:15 Guide Us To Get Us Focused And Jesus Is The Best Example I Want You To Look At This I Want You To Think Of Two Scriptures Isaiah 50 Jesus Is An Example Of Focus Not Getting Distracted And Philippians 3 Paul Two Excellent 53:33 Examples And Here's What The Holy Spirit Says About Jesus In Isaiah 50 Listen To It We Have Heard It Many Times This Word But Now Think Of It In Time In In Context Of What We Are Talking About Of 53:54 Being Distracted You'll See It Here Says Verse 4 Isaiah 50 Verse 4 The Lord God Has Given Me The Tongue Of Disciples That I May Know How To Sustain The Weary One With A Word He Awakens Me Morning By Morning He Awakens My 54:11 Ear To Listen As A God Has Opened My Ear And I Was Not Disobedient Nor Did I Turn Back I Gave My Back To Those Who Strike Me And My Cheeks To Those Who Pluck Out The Beard This This This This Is Jesus I Did Not Cover My 54:28 Face From Humiliation And Spitting For The Lord God Helps Me Therefore I Am Not Disgraced Therefore And This Is The Word I Want To Underline For Us Therefore I Have Set My Face Like Flint And I Know I Will Not Be Ashamed 54:48 He Who Vindicates Me Is Near Who Will Contend With Me Let Us Who Has A Case Against Me And Isaiah Is Prophesying About Jesus I Have Set My Face As A Flint We Read In The Gospels I Can't 55:09 Remember The Reference That The Disciples Were So Scared When They Saw Jesus So Focused Set To Go To Jerusalem He Set His Face Steadfastly To Go To Jerusalem And That Is What Isaiah Prophesied About Him I Set My Face Like 55:27 A Flint Flint Is A Stone A Sharp Stone So Sharp You Can Cut They Made Knives In The Stone Age With Flint Stone I I I Set I Set I Know I Will Not Be Ashamed That's 55:47 How It Must Be With You And Me I Will Not Be Ashamed I Will Be Focused I I Set I Set I I I Said Is Another Excellent Example You Look at Philippians Three When You Get Time I Would Encourage You To Meditate On These Two 56:07 Passages Of Scripture I Really Believe It Will Help Us To Pluck Out The Weeds To Get Focused Philippians Three Verses Seven To Fourteen Paul Says There Whatever Things Were Gained To Me Those Things I Have Counted 56:28 As Lost For The Sake Of Christ More Than That I Count All Things To Be Lost In View Of The Surpassing Value Of Knowing Christ Jesus My Lord For Whom I Have Suffered The Loss Of All Things Notice That There All Things As 56:47 Loss And Not Just In His Mind He Counted Everything As Loss He Said I Suffered The Loss Of All Things You Know It's One Thing To Think About These Things And To Preach About It But It's Another Thing When We Face The Reality 57:02 To Suffer The Loss Of All Things And He Says Count Them But Rubbish But Dog's Dung So That I May Gain Christ May Be Found In Him Not Having A Righteousness Of My Own Derived From The Law But But That Is Through Faith In 57:17 Christ The Righteousness Which Comes From God On The Basis Of Faith That I May Know Him And The Power Of His Resurrection And The Fellowship Of His Sufferings Being Conformed To His Death In Order That I May Attain To The 57:33 Resurrection From The Dead Not That I Have Already Obtained It Or Have Already Become Perfect But I Press On You Know Is Focused I Press On So That I May Lay Hold Of That Which Also I Was Laid Hold Of By Christ Not An Illusion 57:52 It's Not A Mirage It's Real I Press On Because Christ Has Laid Hold Of Me For Something So I Press On He Says Brethren I Don't Regret Myself As Having Laid Hold Of It Yet But One Thing I Do Forgetting What Lies Behind And 58:12 Reaching Forward To What Lies Ahead I Press On Toward The Goal For The Prize Of The Upward Call Of God In Christ Jesus What A Man I Hope We Are Challenged For What We Read In Isaiah 50 58:33 And What We Read In Philippians 3 About Jesus And About Paul Men Who Were Focused Never Allowed The Devil To Distract Them Paul Was Willing To Lose All His Co-workers And I Thank God That We Have A Brother Now Mitch As An 58:52 Example Not Just Jesus And Paul But Brother Zach I Have Seen It Focused Not Easy To Find Men Like That My Brothers And Sisters And We Don't Value Them When They Live Among Us Men Who Are Focused 59:13 Who Are Willing To Suffer The Loss Of All Things And Not Just Willing But We've Seen It And And And And And Like Paul Paul Paul Was Willing To Lose Even If He Had To Stand Alone Says The Lord Stood By Me And Strengthened 59:26 Me That's How Focused We Must Be And It's Not Just Jesus And Paul And Brother Zach It's You And Me Do We Think It's Only For Such Ones God Wants To Raise Up Many More Among Us For This Next Generation Young Men And Young 59:44 Women Who Are Focused Will Not Allow The Devil To Distract Them Who Are So Full Of The Holy Spirit God Has Spoken Powerfully To My Heart And I Tell You It Was A Challenge Putting My Thoughts Together I Was So Distracted 1:00:02 I Cried To The Lord Lord I Am Distracted I Know You Are Saying Something To Me And I Want To Share It With My Brothers And Sisters So Many Things Are Distracting Me Please Help Me And I Believe He Will Help Me And He Will 1:00:22 Help You A Lot Of Things That Distract You My Brothers Sisters A Lot Of Things That Happened In Your Home In Your Life Things With Your Family With Your Wife With Your Children And You Are Distracted Like Jesus Said You 1:00:39 Are So Distracted About Many Things One Thing Only One Thing Is Necessary Mary Has Chosen It Will You Make That Choice My Brothers And Sisters I Made Mine And God Helping Me I Want To Keep It To Listen That's 1:01:01 What He Said To Martha You Are Distracted About Many Things Only One Thing Is Necessary Can We Put That Before Us All The Time Only One Thing Is Necessary Mary Has Chosen It So How Do We Fight Distraction Here 1:01:22 We Have Examples And Thank God We Have Some Examples In Our Mids Let's Follow Them Let's Pray And Ask The Lord To Give Us The Holy Spirit In All His Fullness Like In The Beginning It Drives Me To Tears To Say Lord 1:01:42 We Are Drifting It's Not Like It Was In The Beginning It Really Breaks My Heart When I See Lord How Where Are We Heading As A Church We 1:02:03 Just Gathering People Who Are Distracted About Many Things Who Are Not Gripped Like It Was In The Beginning With A Few Of May May May May The Lord Bring A Revival My Brothers And Sisters May God Touch Your Heart And Touch 1:02:22 Your Spirit And Mind Revive Us We Are Drifting The Devil The devil Is Leading Us Astray From Simplicity And Purity Of Devotion To Christ Recognize It Our Minds Are Being Led Astray He Is Not Leading Us Into Some Gross Sins 1:02:42 I Tell You It Is Something That He Wants To Do In CFC Is To Lead Our Minds Astray From Simple Pure Devotion To Christ Getting Us Occupied With Many Other Things So Firstly It Has To Do With Our Minds 1:03:03 The Four Things I Want To Share With You Quickly It Has To Do With Our Minds We Have To Set Our Minds On God's Interests And Not Man's We Have To Do What The Holy Spirit Tells Us To Do Not Be Conformed 1:03:23 To This World But Be Transformed By The Renewing Of Our Minds That's The Only Way It's Not Positive Thinking It's Not Hearing A Message And Hearing Things Like This And I Going To Decide I Going To Set My Mind On God's Interest 1:03:39 I Tell You My Brothers And Sisters You Walk Out Of The Door You Will Fail I Recognize That The Only Way Is To Let The Holy Spirit Come Upon Me Like He Did In The Beginning And Continue Changing Me Like He Did In The Beginning 1:03:55 Changing My Mind Renewing My Mind Helping Me Formed To The World But To Be Transformed By The Renewing Of My Mind That I May Like It Says In Romans 12 2 That's What I'm Quoting Prove 1:04:15 What The Acceptable Will Of God Is That Which Is Good And Perfect Acceptable Good And Perfect Only The Holy Spirit Can Do That And If I Let The Lord Begin Today I Will I 1:04:36 Will Get Focused Again I Will Be Gripped Again Like It Was In The Beginning And I Want To Do That At Least In My Life I Don't Know How Much Time I Have Left But Lord I Said I Want To Come Back Come Back To That First Love 1:04:52 Come Back To That Place Where Nothing Else Matter We Just Serve Your Purpose Jesus At 12 Years Says I Must Be About My Father's Business He Told His Parents At 12 Years I Must Be About My Father's Business See How Early 1:05:10 He Got Focused You Young People Some Of You I Think They Gone To Sunday School Maybe They Still There Sunday School Children Are Here You 12 Year Olds You Can Get Focused Jesus At Your Age If You 12 Said I Must Be About 1:05:25 My Father's Business Do You Not Know That I Must Be About My Father's Business It Challenges Me That's How He Grew Up You Teenagers Will You Let The Holy Spirit Take Hold Of Your Mind Don't Just Wait To Get Into That Tank 1:05:40 But Before You Get In The Tank Say Lord Jesus Baptize Me In The Holy Spirit And Fire Change Me I Don't Need To Get Into That Tank You Can Do It Before I Get Into That Tank And Be Baptized It's Good To Obey The Lord In The 1:05:54 Waters Of Baptism But Lord I Need The Baptism Of The Holy Spirit Desperately I Want To Say To You Those Of You Are Planning To Be Baptized Otherwise You Going Just Add To This Number You Add To The Whole Not A Number Of 1:06:08 People Who Are Distracted I Want To Tell You I Really Believe That Most Of Us Very Few Among Us Are Really Taken It Seriously To Fight Distraction To Fight This Addiction And If You Have Seen It As Addiction I Hope You See 1:06:26 It This Morning An Addiction That You Need To Overcome That You Need To Be Free From Worse Than Any Other Addiction That You Can Think About I Have No Doubt About It Since I Got Light On This And Since God Has Been Speaking 1:06:39 To Me It's The Devil's Greatest Tool That He Is Using Very Successfully Among God's People I'm Not Talking About All The Nominal Christians I'm Talking About God's People God's Family Who Was Jesus Speaking To A Family To 1:06:56 Martha Who Are Disciples You Are Distracted About Many Things Only One Thing Is Necessary And That's The Second Thing Choose The Only One Thing Necessary It's A Choice It's Not Something That I 1:07:16 Decide Yes I Think That I Will Do That I Have To Make A Choice And I Tell You My Brothers And Sisters And It's Not Just In This Meeting When You Walk Out Through That Door There Are Choices That You Have To Make To Choose 1:07:33 The One Thing Necessary You Cannot Do Anything About Yesterday You Made Wrong Choices You Cannot Do Anything About Last Year You Failed You Messed Up You Can Do Something But Today You Can't Do Anything About Tomorrow But 1:07:47 Today Is The Day Of Salvation Today If You Hear My Voice God Says That Is Not Necessary You Can Do That Some Other Time I Want You To Listen To Me I 1:08:07 Tell You My Brothers And Sisters If We Really Take That Seriously God Can Do Work In A Very Short Time In Your Life And Mine We Can Contribute We Can Stem If I Would Use The Word Stem The Decay And 1:08:27 Corruption That Is Entering CFC We Can Stem It If We Are Willing To Choose The One Thing Necessary In Our Use Of The Internet These 1:08:50 Social Websites You Hear God Speak To You Messaging Whatsapp Messages Back And For Back And For And Good Morning You Get A Message And Something Nice Some Verse Of Scripture I Had To Tell One Sister Please I Don't Have Time 1:09:07 To Read Those Stop Sending To Me And Wakes Me Up At Two Clock In The Morning Because She Is In Some Other Country And We Think We Are Serving God We Are Fulfilling God's Purpose Sending Sending Sending Sending These Messages 1:09:23 These Text Wasting Time Meaningless You Know This Is What This Man Said In Christianity Today He Says He Discusses Another Problem Minor Distractions Constant Tweeting Text Messages Calendar Reminders Anxiety Laced News 1:09:42 Take Us Away From The Stillness Needed To Seek God You Realize That You Think Yeah I'm Sending Something Scriptural I'm Sending A Promise And God Says I Want To Speak To You Will You Choose The One Thing Necessary You Can 1:10:00 You Can Send That Afterwards I Have Something To Say To You Hello Jesus Said To Simon I Have Something To Say To You You Quick To Judge That Woman Simon I Have Something To Say To You And God Says To You And Me I Have Something 1:10:18 To Say To You Just Stop For A Moment Don't Get Distracted Choose The One Thing Necessary My Brothers And Sisters To Listen Listen As A Disciple That Word We Read In Isaiah 50 Says The Lord God God Has Opened My Ear 1:10:38 In Psalm That's That's From Psalm 40 The Lord Has Pierced My Ear To Listen And You Go Back To An Incident In The Old Testament Where A Slave After He Served Seven Years And He Could Be Free So No I Don't Want 1:10:58 To Go I Love My Master I Love My Wife And My Children I Want To Stay And It Was The Law In That Time He Was Taken To The Doorpost Of His Master's House And His Ear Was Pierced With An All You Know What The Shoemaker Uses 1:11:15 To Stitch With An All His Ear Was Pierced Now They Do It With A Gun And Ladies As Well As Men Want To Wear These Things For Whatever Reason I Don't Know It It Okay For Ladies But I Don't Know Why Men Have To Have It It Really 1:11:32 Perplexes Me I Don't Left Here Right Here There's Some Left Here Something Right Here Something Oh I Tell You All Kinds Of Things Let's Get Our Ears Pierced By The Holy Spirit My Brothers And Sisters I Want Mine Pierced 1:11:46 So I Can Listen As A Disciple And Be Focused And That's The Third Thing Stay Focused Paul Says One Thing I Do Forget 1:12:07 What Lies Behind Reach Forward Press Forward To What Is Before Like I Said You Cannot Do Anything About Yesterday Don't Worry About Tomorrow Worry And Anxiety Are Sins That You And I Have To Constantly Confess And Repent 1:12:23 Of That's The Only Way I Get Victory From Worry And Anxiety You Can't Do Anything About Tomorrow By Worrying About Next Year About Your Children's Future Marriage All These Things Why Do You Worry Like That Song Says When 1:12:37 You Can Pray One Thing Forget What Lies Behind Be Free From Concern Press On Paul Says Toward The Goal For The Upward Call Of God In Christ Jesus And The Last Thing We 1:12:58 Must Have Clarity I Told You Distraction Robs Us Of Focus And Clarity In Fulfilling The Purpose Of God For Our Lives To Have Clear Vision To See All Things Clearly Not Men As Trees Walking Lord I Want To See Clearly Touch 1:13:18 Me A Second Time If Need Me I Want To See Clearly To Have Clear Goals And Clear Priorities And Clear Values Know Who You Are And Where You Are Who You Are I'm A Son And A Daughter Of The Living God Lord God Of Heaven And 1:13:36 Earth We Heard Father I Can Call Him But He's Lord God Of Heaven And Earth I Know Who I Am And To Have Clarity And To Be Like What It Says Of Jesus I Am Not Disgraced I Have Set My Face Like A Flint 1:13:56 I Know I Will Not Be Ashamed May God Really Help Us My Brothers And Sisters I Have Shared With You What God Has Been Speaking To My Heart Because I Like I Said We Contribute To The Direction This Church Takes We Have A Whole 1:14:16 Lot Of Distracted People We Will Be A Distracted Church Like We See Around Us Many Other Things Have Taken The Place Our Jesus Wants For Church And I Would Leave With You Finally 1 Peter 1 13 A Word That You Can Think Of 1:14:35 I Read It To You From The Message Bible It Says So Roll Up Your Sleeves Got It You're Getting Into Action Put Your Mind In Gear Be Totally Ready To Receive The Gift That's Coming When Jesus Arrives Don't Lazily Slip Back 1:14:55 Into Those Old Grooves Of Evil Doing Just What You Like Doing You Didn't Know Any Better Than You Do Now As Obedient Children Let Yourselves Be Pulled Into A Way Of Life Shaped By God's Life A Life Energetic And Blazing 1:15:12 With Holiness As God Said I Am Holy You Be Holy That Is God's Purpose For Your Life And Mine Let's Really Seek God To Be Cured Of This Addiction Distraction 1:15:33 Lord Begin This Morning I Yield My Life To You Baptize Me Afresh With The Holy Spirit So That I Can Get Focused I Can Be Like You Lord Jesus I Set My Face Like A Flint So That You Can Fulfill Complete 1:15:53 The Work That You Have Begun In My Life That I Will Not Have To Say To Hear At The End Of My Days I Want It But You Didn't Let Me You Were Distracted About Many Things You Didn't Choose The One Thing Necessary Will We Make 1:16:11 That Choice Now Maybe We Can Bow Hits For A Moment And If God Has Spoken To Your Heart Say Lord I Want To Be Cured Of This Addiction I Been Solely Distracted Distracted About 1:16:31 Many Things But I Want To Get Focus From Today I Cannot Do It In My Own Strength Give Me The Holy Spirit Lord Pour Out Your Holy Spirit Upon Us As a Church We Need We Need 1:16:52 A Renewal We Need A Baptism Of Fire I Pray That You Will Meet With Us Meet With Me Because We Have A Needy World Around Us Help Us To Be Like You Help Us To Be Like The Examples Of 1:17:12 Those Who Have Accomplished Your Purpose We Ask In Jesus Name Amen Amen 1:17:46 Brothers 1:18:09 And Sisters Let's Trust That The Lord Will Take These Words And Plant Them Deeply In Our Hearts The Lord Has Spoken To Us According To Our Need We Can Trust Him Didn't Speak To Us To Condem 1:18:29 Us But To Save Us There's A Glorious Salvation That We Can That We Can Receive Let's Hold Tightly To The Lord For That Let's Sing This Song As A Prayer Song Is Sung To 1:18:50 The Lord Let's Each Of Us Sing It To Be Thou Supreme O Jesus Christ Thy 1:19:11 Love Has Conquered Conquered Me Beneath Thy Cross I Die To Sell And Live Alone To Me Be 1:19:31 Thou Supreme O Jesus Christ Nor Creed Not Form Nor Nor World Nor Holy Church Nor Human Love 1:19:53 Come There With Me My Lord Be Thou Supreme O Jesus Christ My In Horse Be Filled So 1:20:17 Shall I Think As Thou Dost Think And Will As Thou Dost Ye Be Thou Supreme O Jesus Christ Christ 1:20:37 Not Weed No Fall No One No Holy Church No Human Love No There With Thee I Know 1:20:57 God Be Thou Supreme O Jesus Christ Thy Life Friends Bigger Mine And Through This May 1:21:17 Thee Of Mortal Faire Lord let thy splendor shine Be thou supreme, O Jesus Christ Nor greed, nor fraud, nor murder 1:21:41 Nor holy church, nor human love Look there with thee, my Lord Be thou supreme, O Jesus Christ 1:22:05 My soul exalts in thee To be thy slave and to thy will Is my felicity 1:22:25 Be thou supreme, O Jesus Christ Nor greed, nor fraud, nor word Nor holy church, nor human love 1:22:49 Come there with thee, my Lord Amen Yeah, no, the word felicity means my greatest joy 1:23:17 To do thy will is my greatest joy May the Lord fulfill this Amen We'll have the announcements. 1:23:54 We'll have the announcements. 1:24:24 We'll have the announcements.
