Pain With A Purpose - Tim Timberlake

What if the pain you’re experiencing isn’t pointless—but purposeful? In this powerful message, we explore the life and martyrdom of Stephen and discover how God uses pressure, persecution, and hardship to propel His purpose forward. What looked like defeat was actually divine strategy—spreading the gospel further than ever before.

This sermon challenges us to rethink pain, respond with faith, and trust that God is working even in our hardest seasons. When pressure pushes you to your knees in devotion, it positions you for purpose.

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Hey, I'm Tim Timberlake, and I want to thank you so much for listening to the Celebration Church podcast. I hope this message encouraged you, strengthened your faith, and gave you something you can carry into your week. If you'd like to stay connected, I encourage you to join us live every Sunday at 9 a.m. or 11 a.m. on YouTube. We would love to have you there. And if you're ever in the Jacksonville, Florida area, come see us in person. We have a seat safe for you. Thanks again for being with us. We're so grateful for you. And see you next time. Acts chapter 7, verse number 60. It says, then falling on his knees, he cried out with a loud voice, Lord, do not hold this sin against them. And having said this, he fell asleep. Acts chapter 8, verse 1 says, Saul was in hearty agreement with putting him to death. And on that day, a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem. And they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria except the apostles. And Saul was in hearty agreement with putting him to death. And on that great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria except for the Apostles. And I want to utilize these two verses for our subject matter today entitled Pain with a Purpose. Pain with a Purpose. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you for your word. We ask that you would bring this word to life in us so that we would be changed and transformed. May this word renew our minds. May we reflect you. May we reflect your grace and your mercy. May we speak like you, may we walk like you. May we live the rest of our lives dedicated to following you and being discipled by your word. In the name of Jesus we pray. And everybody that's glad he's still alive and well, one time we're loud. Can you shout amen? And take your seats in Jesus' name. And we see not only is he being persecuted, but he's being killed for who he believes in and what he stands for. In Acts chapter 7, verse 60, it begins by saying, Then falling on his knees, he cried out with a loud voice, Lord, do not hold this sin against them. And the enemy thought that he was ending a man, but God was launching a movement to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ further and wider than it ever could have spread without persecution. And what looked like death in chapter 7 began to be the great disruption that the children of God needed to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ to the areas beyond Jerusalem and into Judea and into Samaria and into the uttermost parts of the world. And the devil he struck a witness. But what he did not know is that he was actually fulfilling prophecy. And so what I like to do is go verse by verse, word by word, break it down, so that we can all benefit from the words of God. Verse number 60, Acts chapter 7, the first statement, it says, Then falling on his knees. And this is not just any statement, this is revelation. Because it shows us that in the midst of pain, in the midst of turmoil, in the midst of persecution, he falls to his knees not in defeat, he falls to his knees in devotion to Jesus Christ. I'll say it again, he does not fall in defeat, he falls in devotion. Look at me for a second. If you will bow your knees in devotion to Jesus Christ, you will never be on your knees in defeat. I'll say it again, if you will bow your knees in devotion to Jesus Christ, you will never experience defeat in this life. How can I say that? How can I make such a bold statement? Because the posture of prayer is the posture that pain births purpose. And when you find yourself being pressed and pressured by life and you run back to the feet of Jesus, he takes that pain and he does what Romans teaches us. He works it together for the good of those that love the Lord. So whether you're in a good season or a painful season, if you find yourself running back to the feet of Jesus, it'll take the good and he'll take the bad and he'll make it work together for the good of those that love the Lord. Some people collapse when life gets hard. And Stefan bowed when life got hard. Which brings us to point number one. If pressure makes you bow to God, it can never break you. If pressure brings you closer to Jesus Christ, it can never break you. If pressure makes you more like Jesus and it refines who He is making you into being, then it can never break you. Pain, it may knock you down, but prayer will always pick you back up and put you back on your feet, back on the path of righteousness. Lift your head, point your eyes towards the hill from which cometh your help, and remind you that your help does not come from men, your help does not come from women, your help comes from the Lord. Your help doesn't come from your family, your help doesn't even come from your friends, your help surely doesn't come from your job, your help comes from the Lord. So when pain knocks you down, it is prayer that picks you back up, it is worship that propels you, and it is praise that puts a dance in your feet on the path of righteousness that reminds you it's not happening for your sake, it's not happening for your family's name's sake, it's happening for the sake of the Lord. And as some people fall apart, the righteous fall to their knees. And what crushes others becomes communion for you when you turn back to the heart of the Father. And if hardship drives you lower before God, it cannot destroy you. If hardship drives you closer to the feet of Jesus, it cannot deter you. If hardship drives you closer to the heart of God, it cannot stop you. And the devil pushed him down. But heaven saw him kneeling. And then scripture says he cried out with a loud voice. His final breaths were not spent in silence, his final breaths were spent in intercession. And the enemy would want nothing more but you to remain silent in your pain. But there's something that happens in the life of a believer when the enemy throws his best shot and you still praise. When the enemy throws every weapon in your direction and you still worship, when you still remain hopeful and prayerful and faithful, something happens in the life of a believer where you now become unstoppable to the plans and the tactics and the weapons of the enemy because no matter what he's done, no matter what he is doing, it has not deterred you from believing that Jesus is still the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. And so stones hit his body, but they cannot touch his voice. They could wound his flesh, but they cannot mute his spirit. And your loudest testimony, hear me, may be from your hardest season. Your loudest hallelujah, your loudest amen, may be from the depths of your pain. It may be from the depths of chaos and calamity, it may be from the depths of pressure and pain presented to you by life. What we have to understand is that hell loves quiet pain. But heaven, heaven honors loud faith that will stand flat footed in the face of the devil and say, I ain't afraid of you. Who are you to me? See the problem with some of us, we're too scared of the devil. Too afraid of him. We have forgotten that the enemy is a defeated foe. We've completely forgotten that the enemy is a created being. He has no authority, he has no power. The only thing that he has is what you give him when he screams at you and you start believing the lie of the enemy. But I'm wondering about talking to anybody right now. I'm in a frame of no demon. I'm not afraid of no him as a matter of fact. If I see you, you got to flee. Every demon can give it. We raised no spiritual self-believers. No spiritual brothers. What the hell is that the devil? What what can he do? Panzer have been I've been diagnosed to number three. Even that name bows to the name of Jesus. Cancer will bow to the name of Jesus. Diabetes will bow to the name Jesus. High cholesterol will bow to the name Jesus. Every knee will bow, and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Ain't no sickness, disease, infirmary more powerful than the name of Jesus. So whenever you're presented with diagnoses and with things that don't align with what God has told you in his word, just speak the name Jesus. Hell loves quiet pain. But heaven honors loud faith. One of the greatest revelations about the life of Stephen is what hurt him did not hush him. Did you hear what I said? What hurt him did not hush him. Nothing could stop him from talking about the goodness of God. Not even boulders hitting his skull. What hurt him did not hush him. Here's my question for you. What has presented you with an opportunity to remain silent? And I know you may be in pain right now, and I know it seems like life and every aspect of life is pressuring you and is presenting pain to you, but what hurt you does not have to hush you unless you agree with what hurt you. I refuse to remain silent in the face of my enemy and my adversary and my pain and my persecution. The scripture teaches us that many are the afflictions of the righteous. Talk that talk. It doesn't say he delivers you from some, it doesn't say he delivers you from a few. It says he delivers you from them all. And pain may raise pressure in your life, but faith should raise the volume of your praise in your life. And then Scripture says, Lord, do not hold this sin against them. He sounds like Jesus. He echoes the voice of Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit. You can tell exactly who you follow by what you're speaking. Stephen did not die bitter. He died clean. When Christ kills you deeply, wounds stop producing vengeance in your heart. We like to clap back. We read vengeance is mine, says the Lord, but we want to hold on to a little bit of the vengeance so we can deliver it ourselves. When Christ fills you deeply, wounds start producing vengeance in your heart. Anyone can bleed. But very few bless God while they're bleeding. He's being stoned, yet and still he's interceding for those stoning him. He says, Father, forgive them. But they know not what they do. What is maturity? Once I read this, I'm reminded that maturity is being hurt without becoming hateful. How many have you ever had somebody talk bad about you? Wave at me. People come up to me all the time. Have you seen such and such on YouTube talking about you? Nah. My response is always the same. Just pray for them. Clearly they know me, but I don't know them. But what you can't do is respond to hate with hate. What you can't do is respond to hurt with hurt. But what you can respond to hate with is prayer and happiness. Because only you can decide who changes how you feel. And if you let them change how you feel, you've given them power over you. And ain't that ain't nobody that powerful in my life except for Jesus. He said, New mercies I give to you every single morning. I only smile at the mercies of God. I ain't frowning over no person talking about me. That's too much power to give somebody. If pain makes you cruel, pain still owns you. Pain didn't make him cruel. Pain turned his gaze towards heaven. He said he saw the heavens open, he saw God on the throne, he saw the glory of God, and he saw the Son of Man standing at the right hand of the Father. What we have to understand about Stephen's life is that as they threw stones, grace lifted him higher. And having said this, Scripture says he fell asleep. The reason Scripture utilizes his language is because believers believe the resurrection is coming. And what terrifies the world is just temporary for the saint. Death is not final. Are you listening to me? What are you afraid of dying for? See, we think this life is the pinnacle of life. We think this is our final resting place. This is not your final resting place. This is where you work, you dwell there, you live there, you're from there. And the goal of this life is to get back to where you came from. Not to stay here. And so what terrifies the world is just temporary for the saints. Stefan did not lose, he rested. And the grave is the bed for those that are found in Christ. And it is possible that what the world calls ending, heaven calls rest. Why would heaven call it rest? Because you're just blinking. And the next time you open your eyes, you will be more alive than you ever were in this life. You will see more vividly, you will hear more clearly. You will experience a peace and a grace that you have never known. The reason it says that they fell asleep is because sleep only matters when an awakening is coming. And so how can he hold this perspective? How can he hold this resolve in his soul that no matter what's happening to me, Jesus is still good. I tell you why. Because he feared God. 2026, we don't fear God, we fear the devil. We don't fear God, we fear the devil. And we completely forget that the devil is created. And God is the creator. Now let me help you, because sometimes we forget that God created the heavens and the earth with his words. Okay, think about that. Think about how significant, how seismic, how supernatural, how powerful that is. He spoke the world into existence. And here we are fearing the devil who can't create anything with his words. And so Stephan has no fear of men and women. He has no fear of the enemy because he fears God. How do we know that he fears God? Well, Scripture teaches us that he does, because Scripture teaches us in Acts chapter 6, verse 10, that he was full of the Holy Spirit and he was full of wisdom. Well, wait a minute, Pastor, didn't you just say the scripture teaches us that he feared God? Yes, I'll say it again. He was full of the Holy Spirit and he was full of wisdom. Why is that important? Because Scripture did not say he was full of the Holy Spirit and he was full of power. The Bible is very intentional with its wording. It is very strategic with where it places words. So if the Bible does not say he was full of the Holy Spirit and was full of power, but yet instead say he was full of wisdom, then there must be something to that word wisdom. He's described as being full of the Holy Spirit and full of wisdom. Well, what does it have to do with fear? Proverbs chapter 9, verse 10 teaches us that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. So if he's full of wisdom, how much fear and reverence does he have for God to know that regardless of what's happening to me, my eyes are fixed on you because I fear you more than I fear these little fools. We don't reverence God anymore. We come when we want to, we leave when we want to, we we approach scripture as if it's for us and not to edify the spirit of God on the inside of us. We enter into moments of praise and worship and we make it about us and how we look and how we feel, and because we don't have reverence anymore. And so when we get a call and the call is bad news, we fear the bad news more than the person that has given us the good news of the word of God. He fears God more than he fears any man or any woman that's persecuting him, that's stoning him. So if Stephan had wisdom, then Stefan feared God more than he did men. This explains why stones could not intimidate him. This explains why threats could not silence him. This explains why death could not master him because he feared God more than he feared men and women. He feared God more than he feared the enemy. Do you fear God more than you fear the devil? Point number two is this when you fear God rightly, you stop fearing people wrongly. Lesser fears die in the presence of greater reverence. When you get a revelation of who Jesus actually is, you're not afraid of nothing. How can the enemy tempt you with fear when you know who Jesus is to you? All fear is related to death. Every single one of them. No matter what the fear is. You're afraid of flying. The reason you're afraid of flying is because you think the plane's gonna crash and you're gonna die. You're afraid of driving. The reason you're afraid of driving is because you think you're gonna get in a car accident and die. You're afraid of spiders because you believe a spider's gonna bite you and you're gonna die. All fear is connected to death. How can you be fearful when you know that you have eternal life? They buried a body, but they did not bury the promise. Saul approves this murder. But God already sees a missionary in Saul. And the man endorsing darkness is one encounter away from carrying light. Hear me. And the reality of this, what this teaches us, is that God can save the person currently clapping for what broke you. Now, here's a here's a deeper question. Will you celebrate that? Because we all like to celebrate the downfall of our haters. But what if God grabs a hold of their heart and turns them back to them? And they become one of the loudest voices for the gospel of Jesus Christ that humanity has ever seen. Will you celebrate that? Or will you say, why God using them? Don't he know what they did to me? Don't he know how they talk about me? Don't he know how they treat me? So we don't mind celebrating. Oh, they failed. Good enough for them. I knew it. I predicted it. Didn't I predict it, Jesus? I told you it was gonna happen. Then it happened. It happened, didn't it? We don't mind celebrating that. But the moment they repent and they turn back to Jesus Christ and God starts using them, we don't like that. Because we like to promote our name higher than the name of Jesus. And it's not until you can surrender your identity, your influence, your will, your wants, and allow God to do what God does, even if it's in the life of your enemy, and use them in a great way when they return back to Jesus Christ, that you understand that you're actually maturing in Christ. And so never assume that an enemy is beyond an encounter with Jesus. And the loudest critic, it may become the boldest preacher. He watched him stone Stephan. Stefan gazed, he's fixed on heaven, he saw the glory of God, he saw the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God. And I believe this haunted Saul until he turned his heart over to Jesus. Look at how God sees us. Think about this. Where men and women see attackers, God sees apostles. Did you hear what I said? Where we see attackers in this passage, God sees beyond that and he sees an apostle that will write a great majority of the New Testament. This does not happen if Stephan does not live out his final breaths with the integrity and character that only the Holy Spirit can give. And on that day, a great persecution began, and the enemy thought pressure would stop the church. Instead, pressure spread the church. Your greatest witness, your greatest tenacity, your greatest faithfulness won't be found in great seasons. They will be found in seasons of pain and seasons of confusion and seasons of persecution and seasons of chaos because those things are utilized as tools to push you back to the feet of Jesus. And what attacks the church is often what advances the church. Instead, spread pressure spread the gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the world. Helping us understand that fire does not ruin gold, fire reveals it. The church has never needed comfort to grow. As a matter of fact, our church did not grow in comfort. Some of you found out about the church because it was on the news every single day for a year. Wonder what's going on over there? Well, we might as well go check it out. See. And you came and you was like, wait a minute. Everything that's being said ain't what I experienced. Thank God for discernment. But if people never talked about what wasn't, you would not know what was. If we look at the life of Stephan, we see something so profound as it models true grace and mercy and faithfulness and longevity, even as he is dying to the life of Saul. It says they were all scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. Now I want you to underline this because this again is very intentional by Luke. Luke does not say that they were just going to certain cities. He gives specific cities that they are going to, and we have seen these cities before. Acts chapter 8, verse 1, it says they were all scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. They were in Jerusalem. Where have we seen this before? Acts chapter 1, verse 8. Acts chapter 1, verse 8 says, You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and as far as the remotest parts of the earth. So Acts chapter 1, verse 8 is the promise. Acts chapter 8, verse 1 is the push. Did you hear me? Acts chapter 1, verse 8 is the promise, the promise given from Jesus. These are Jesus' last words here on earth to the disciples. You will receive power after the Holy Spirit has come upon you. This power is given to you, not for you to roll around on the floor, not for you to cry, not for you to sweat, not for you to shout, not for you to sing. It's given to you for you to be a witness. And look at what they do, they stay stuck for seven chapters. Why did they stay stuck for seven chapters? They remained in the place that they experienced revival and they wanted to stay there. And scripture doesn't say that Jesus commanded them, you stay where you receive. No, he says, My spirit is going to fall on you, and when my spirit falls on you, it is falling on you to become a witness. That is the promise that Jesus made to them. But look at the push. The push was not breakthrough, the push was not blessing, the push was not heaven opening up and money falling from the sky, the push was not prosperity gospel, the push was not you're gonna be blessed in your ingoing and blessed in your outgoing. The push was persecution. Because nothing pushes you like persecution. And have you ever noticed the only people that are being persecuted are those that have a promise? So in Acts chapter 1, verse 8, you shall receive power after that the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be witnesses in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria and into the uttermost parts of the earth. And Acts chapter 8, verse 1 says that you were scattered. You have to leave Jerusalem, and the regions that I'm sending you is Judea and Samaria. What happens? Jesus gave the map in chapter 1. Persecution moved them into becoming the people that God had already predestined for them to become. So Jesus didn't lay hands on them and say, Now go. Jesus gave them a promise, and persecution pushed them into the promise that Jesus had gave them. Seven chapters. Until it reaches people, your flesh would never reach. Stephan is martyred. Persecution breaks out. Believers scatter into the exact locations that Jesus named. The stones of Acts chapter 7 became the scattering seeds for Acts chapter 8. Are you listening to me? And so what you think is the devil may be in fact God ordering your steps. What you keep blaming the enemy for maybe in fact God answering the prayers you've been praying. God, I'm ready for increase. Well, can you handle a little bit of affliction? God, I'm ready for promotion, but can you handle a little bit of pushing? And it is possible the very place you desire to run from is the very place that Jesus desires to do the miracle that you've been asking him to do. According to scripture, the assignment was never to stay where revival begins. And oftentimes in my own life, God allows discomfort where I have become stagnant to push me into destiny. And when my obedience delays, pressure arrives. God used persecution to accomplish what comfort was postponing. Here we are praying for protection. While God is planning expansion. Jerusalem was the birthplace of revival. It wasn't the boundary. Jesus did not say to the disciples in Acts chapter 1, verse 8, when you receive this power, I want you to stay here, talk amongst yourselves, talk about the glory days, talk about what you've seen, talk about what you've heard, talk about what's happened in this room, and y'all just keep talking about it. You've seen what I've done, you've heard what I've done, you've experienced what I've done. Now go tell other people about it. And I want you to go into Judea and I want you to go into Samaria. Why are these cities important? Because these cities represented opposition against Jews who were the primary audience that Jesus was talking to. So he's telling them, I'm going to send you into persecution. We forget that it was the Spirit of God that led Jesus into the wilderness. Not the devil, not the enemy, not demons. It was the spirit of God that led him into the wilderness. And here we are, running away from the wilderness that Jesus is leading us into, so that we can actually hear his voice and experience his presence like never before. And Stefan, he models the life of Jesus so well for us, and he gives us such a vivid image of what can happen to a man just like you and me if we remain faithful to the things that Jesus desires for us, because it's easy for us to say, we're not Jesus, we're not perfect. Jesus was without spot or blemish, he didn't sin, he knew no wrong. We could easily say that, but we can't say that about Stephan. He was a man. And yet, and still his perspective was at the end of his life, if he stole me, I will praise him. If you kill me, my bones will speak of his faithfulness. The scripture teaches us he knew the word. We know that he knew the word because Acts chapter 7 is the longest recorded message, the longest recorded sermon in the Acts of the Apostles, and it is all him taking them back through a journey of what the patriarchs and the matriarchs did in this cycle of getting from God and then rebelling against God. And so I believe that as he's receiving these boulders against his head and as he's taking his final breaths, he's remembering the word of God. And if you're gonna make it in this life, you're gonna have to remember the word of God as you are being pressured and as you are experiencing pain, you're gonna have to remember the word of God. And I just want to encourage you with the word of God. Psalm chapter 27, verse 1 says, The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? And this passage it depicts for us the life of Stephen in the Old Testament, unlike anything else we see. The Lord is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid? When the icket wicked wicked, even my enemies and my foes came upon me to eat up my flesh. They stumbled and they fell, and though a host shall encamp against me, my heart shall not fear, though war should rise against me. In this I will be confident. One thing, not many things, one thing, not multiple things, one thing have I desired of the Lord that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. To behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. Psalms 34, verse 19 says, Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers them out of them all. 1 Peter chapter 5, verse 10 says, After you have suffered for a little while, it won't always be like this. After you have suffered yet for a little while. I know it seems like it's been years and years and years, but in the scheme of eternity, it's just been a little while, and after you have suffered for a little while, he himself will restore, he himself will confirm, strengthen, and establish you. So who is he? Who is he? Who is he? He is the Alpha and the Omega. He is the beginning and the end. He is the first and the last. He is the ancient of days, he is the I am that I am, he is Yahweh, he is Adonai, he is Elohim, he is father, he is Abba Father, he is the King of glory, he is the King of Kings, He is the Lord of Lords, He is He. Hold on, because I want them to hear me talk about who He is. He is the Lord of Lords, He is the sovereign ruler, he is the Holy One, He is the Redeemer, He is the Savior, He is the Deliverer, He is my great defender, He is a shield and a buckle, He is my fortune. Oh, I feel my help coming at home. He is my strong tower, he is my refugee, it's my hiding place. Somebody asked who he is. Let me tell you who he is. He is my rock, he is my cornerstone, he is my foundation, he is my mighty God, my everlasting father, my prince of peace. He is my wonderful counselor. He is the Lion of Judah, the Lamb of God, the good shepherd, the chief shepherd, the great shepherd, he is the door, he is the gate, he is a laymaker, he is a miracle worker, he is the promise keeping God. He is the light of the world, he is my bright and morning storm, he is the son of righteousness, he is the bread of life, living Lord, a fountain of life, true and living vine, he is the resurrection and the life, he is the way, the truth, and the life. He is my mediator, my advocate, my intercessor, my high priest. He is the judge of all the earth, he is the righteousness, he is the consuming fire, he is the powder and the creator, he is the maker of heaven and earth, he is a sustainer, he is a keeper, he is a restorer, he is a repairer of the breach, he is a burden-bearer, a chain breaker, a prison shaker, he is a heartbender, man regulator, man is fulfilling, he is a company keeping up. You may not know him as all of these things, but you know him as one of those things. He's a stormcomer. He is peace in the middle of chaos. He is my bridge over troubled water. He is my anchor in the storm, he is my shelter in the rain, he is my shelter in heat, he is my song in the night, he is my joy and sorrow, he is my strength and weakness, he is the hope of glory, he is the lifter of my head, he is the lifter of my burdens, he is a friend that sticks closer than the brother, he is my companion in the middle of the fire, he is the fourth man in the fortress, he is the captain of my salvation, he is the commander of the angel armies, he is the defender of the weak, he is the father to the fatherless, he is the husband to the window, he is the heel of the broken heart, he is the binder of wombs, he is the giver of wisdom, he is the reward of those who diligently seek him. He is the God of all comfort, God of all hope, God of all peace, God of all grace, God of mercy, justice, truth, he is the God that sees me. I just want to remind you who he is. He is a guy who goes before me. He is a God who fights for me. He is a God who finishes what he started. He is a God that can't fail. He won't fail. He is faithful and true. He is a God who is the same yesterday. He is a God that is the same today. He is a God that is the same forevermore. He is near to the brokenhearted. He is slow to anger. He is always abounding in love. He is rich in mercy. He is the full of compassion. He is holy, holy, holy. That's who he is. Now if you're glad that he is still alive and will, lift up your hands.

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Open up your mouth. And give God some glory in this place.

SPEAKER_00 45:16

So if you're in pain, if you're being pressured, if you're being persecuted, they're talking about you. Let them talk. Because you know who he is. Who is this king of glory? The Lord strong and mighty. Who is this king of glory? The Lord mighty in battle? Who is this king of glory? The one who has never been defeated and never will? Who is this king of glory? The one who has never lost the battle? Who is this king of glory? The one who remains undefeated? Who is this king of glory? The same one that made you more than a conqueror? Who is this king of glory? The one has declared that you are triumphant in Jesus' name? Who is this king of glory? The one that declared you are the head and not the tail. You are above and not beneath.

SPEAKER_01 46:26

Who is this king of glory?

SPEAKER_00 46:43

How can we talk like this? Because the weapons of our warfare are mighty through God for the pulling down of strongholds. So right now, I encourage you, I challenge you, I urge you, I push you. If you're in pain right now, if you're feeling the pressure of life right now, if you're being persecuted right now, I dare you to lift your hands and open up your mouth and begin to pray, begin to praise, begin to worship and watch how he shows up on your behalf.

SPEAKER_01 47:26

Come on, lift it up. Lift it up. Release it, release it, release it, release it, mimic, wonder, release it, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, we got to get it, but go for the inside Hell loves a silent believer.

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I said hell loves a silent believer. Hell loves a silent believer. I wondered do I got any noisy, any loud, any crazy, undignified sons and daughters of the most high God.

SPEAKER_01 49:06

Open up your mouth, summer your head, and live the glory of God, we believe, we believe, every time, you still ever give it to us what you say every time you say Now listen to me.

SPEAKER_00 50:01

You under the sound of my voice, whether you're in this room, whether you're in our overflow, whether you're watching online. You've been running, but you haven't been running with Jesus. You've been trying to deal with it by yourself. You cannot deal with it by yourself. You need the key of life to save you and to free you. If you desire to follow Jesus, I want you to stretch forth hands towards him. I want everybody to repeat this prayer to me, Lord Jesus. I repent. Turn away from my sin. And I ask you to forgive me. Cleanse me from my unrighteousness. Redeem me. Make me new again. I accept you as my Lord, as my master, my Savior. So I confess it. And I believe within my heart of hearts that you were raised from the dead for me. And so I will follow you. I will be disciple by you all the days of my life. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen. Now if you're glad that his grace found you, that his love kept you, and his mercy covered you, I want you to take the next 30 seconds and give him the praise that he's so deserved.

SPEAKER_01 52:15

We ain't come to pray church today. I said give him the praise that he's so deserved.