6/17/26 | Words Of Life Church | Bill Frederick

[00:03:54]Mhm.

[00:09:34]>> It's not just a story.

[00:09:37]It's a living, breathing, walking testimony.

[00:09:44]Love of God so good, he leaves his home in glory.

[00:11:34]Amen.

[00:15:42]>> You know, I welcome those in the house tonight and and those are watching online. Thank you. Thank you for joining us tonight.

[00:15:51]You know, um We we always say one saying because we believe that saying. What is that saying? We believe for you to be blessed before you leave this place tonight. Hallelujah and we also have a Pastor Jerry is is is watching online. So let's all say good evening Pastor Jerry. Good evening Pastor Jerry. We love you and we're looking forward to seeing you soon.

[00:16:20]Hallelujah and Pastor Pastor Richard asked me to share tonight and he also wanted me to tell you that you win in life by speaking words of life. Okay.

[00:16:31]And it's it's a great saying and it's truth.

[00:16:36]You know, you do win in life by speaking words of life cuz you can speak words of life or words of death. Which which which you want to say? I want to say words of life.

[00:16:46]You know, hallelujah.

[00:16:48]I always considered an honor to to share here on Wednesdays and Sundays. You know, I was also teaching at the at the Bible Institute. It's a it's an honor to do that. Before we begin tonight's service message, let's do the anointed announcements.

[00:17:09]Um If there's any first-time guests here either I in line, in house or online will have a QR code up there that you can you can you can use and we will we just need to know that you're there and we'll we want to pray for you and contact you and tell you of any events that are coming up. Also, if anybody has any prayer requests prayer request um use the QR code on the screen and go to wordsoflife.com for prayer and we'll get back with you in the office Tuesdays through Fridays. Friday morning prayer with Pastor Richard is again this Friday 7:30 a.m. on the Words of Life YouTube channel. So, get on there and let's pray against any storms that would try to do during the summer season. And we're we're we're going to stop them again. There's one that's actually moved inland before it even developed very much, but tropical storm Arthur in Texas >> [snorts] >> and anyway, none are coming our way. We've had what a number of years, 20 years, 19 years since one came here and we're going to make it 30 years and we don't we don't invite them. We don't welcome them to this place, you know. Soul winning is this Saturday June 20th at 10:30 a.m.

[00:18:53]Soul winners, we're all soul winners.

[00:18:55]You know, we're all called to be soul winners.

[00:18:59]But the the team goes out Saturday mornings every twice a month meet in the in the youth building at 10:30 a.m. and go out and and win souls this Saturday.

[00:19:14]Um and uh faith camp starts Sunday uh at regular time.

[00:19:20]So, uh you know, make sure your your children are over there uh ready to go that are with faith camp.

[00:19:29]Um also, um the the uh Words of Life Bible Institute we are um on less than 2 months away. It actually starts the starting date is August the 10th.

[00:19:44]So, um um looking forward to that.

[00:19:48]I I I'm looking forward to what God has for us this year.

[00:19:53]Um and uh the greatest testimony I can tell you about it is that the students from last year are coming back this year.

[00:20:02]You know, and and uh they're they're uh and and I meet them in the when I meet them in the lobby, they all say, "Man, I'm looking forward to this year."

[00:20:11]Hallelujah. We're getting because the Holy Spirit moves over there. If you've never gone to the Bible school, I admonish you sign up and come.

[00:20:21]I said, "You will You You will You will learn and go to another level in your in your walk with God." Um There's a We got the QR code up on the screen. You can scan that if you're in here. And online, go to wordsoflife.com, follow the word w o l b i link, and you can register. It's $30 to register, and then each month $85, uh which covers the cost of the the building, the maintenance, the books, the materials. Um and and anyway, or if you're in house, you I'll be at the table after service.

[00:21:06]And on Sundays, Ryan and I will be out there Um to give you more information.

[00:21:12]So, tonight's message is entitled God in you, God and you, the divine partnership.

[00:21:22]You know, last week we spoke about living in your God-given destiny.

[00:21:28]I was I was blessed about with that and I I enjoyed that time and I've I've put that into practice again. I I was I spoke on that 10 times when I was up in Vicksburg here the few weeks ago. And it's something we all all need to hear.

[00:21:49]We when when Kurt Owen was here for the commencement exercise or service for the Words of Life Bible Institute, he made this statement, are you running the race for the t-shirt or you're running the race to win?

[00:22:07]And and and I I I spoke some on that last week, but that's such a powerful statement. Uh And and uh are you running your race to win or you just hoping for the best?

[00:22:23]You're going to have to go out and do some things different if you want something different in your life. You know, when it when it came time to when I was a kid, when it came time to either go out in the yard and play a sport, you know, baseball, football, whatever, or watch a sport on TV, I was out in the yard.

[00:22:44]Cuz I always wanted to do what was, you know, play the game rather than watch it.

[00:22:50]You know, and and uh that's the way it is with life. You want to just play and watch other people live their dreams or you want to live yours?

[00:23:00]You know, I want to live my dream, you know. I've challenged myself though and and thoughts are the actions that I'm taking and the thoughts that I'm thinking today are they they're going to are they going to get me to where I want to be, God wants me to be and in my God given destiny.

[00:23:21]Um I don't want to just hope for the best.

[00:23:24]I want to win the race. I know about you. How about you? You want to win the race?

[00:23:29]You know, and uh So, God created you for a specific purpose. He created you for greatness.

[00:23:39]God created you to be the best you that you can be. You have a purpose.

[00:23:45]I have a purpose. We all have a purpose for being here and God called you to be you.

[00:23:51]He didn't call you to be me. He didn't call me to be you.

[00:23:54]He called you to be the best you that you can be.

[00:23:58]God trusts you.

[00:24:00]God values you.

[00:24:05]God cannot do what he wants to do on the earth without you. Think about that.

[00:24:11]God has placed you where he has you to be light in a darkness in the world around you. He's got you there. I've heard people say, "It's so dark at work." That's why you're there.

[00:24:22]To bring light into that place.

[00:24:24]To bring light into the into the world.

[00:24:26]Well, tonight's message I'm going to give you a foundational scripture. Uh and then we're going to work walk through scriptures about divine partnership with God. So, let's turn to uh Genesis chapter 1.

[00:24:40]That's an easy one to find. Genesis chapter 1 and verse 26.

[00:24:46]>> [snorts] >> Genesis 1:26.

[00:24:53]And God said, "Let us make man in our image according to our likeness.

[00:25:01]God made you to reflect him to the world.

[00:25:06]You are an exact reflection of God to the world. The world will only see Jesus through you.

[00:25:14]Therefore, you he created you in his image and after his likeness. His likeness again is do it the way he does it. You know, when when when a when a when a child you have your little son there or daughter, whatever, and they act like you. And they they they they speak like you. They say, "Man, he's created in the in the likeness of his dad or his mom or she is."

[00:25:42]Um we're supposed to talk like God, think like God, and act like God.

[00:25:50]That's being in his likeness. And he said then then he said, "Let them have dominion over the fish in the sea, the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over the earth, and everything that creeps upon the earth." Did you notice that that most of Jesus' miracles when he provided stuff were over the fish.

[00:26:08]You know, he the fish came in got in the boat. The fish came in and couple times the fish came in. He multiplied the fish. He was having dominion over the fish.

[00:26:21]Then it goes on to verse 27. So God created man in his image and his likeness. He created him male and female.

[00:26:31]So God created man as male and female he created them. So women, you're created in the image and likeness of God just as much as man is. And they just used the word man uh there.

[00:26:46]Um human it'd be or person would be probably better. Then verse 28 he says, "Then God blessed them, and God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it.'"

[00:27:00]The first things man heard was the blessing of God.

[00:27:05]He empowered him to prosper, empowered him to to to function on this earth with ultimate success. You're you're you are designed to win every time.

[00:27:18]And I want to say that if you're not winning right now, and you're doing what God's called you to do, keep playing. The game ain't over until you stop. Okay? It's not a nine-inning game or four quarters when it's over with. No, you decide when it's done, and when you prayed and you believe you received, if you haven't seen the full thing yet, keep on going.

[00:27:42]Keep on thanking. Don't just stop and settle for something. Go for it all the way.

[00:27:48]Go all the way for it. And then, he goes, God says, "Let them have dominion over the fish in the sea, the fowl of the air, and over every thing living thing that moves on the earth." When God did that, um he he he gave man dominion over the earth, and he turned over everything on earth to run it according to his design and his word word. It's like taking the keys to your car and handing them to your teenager.

[00:28:22]And they go out there, and they can drive that car any way they want, right?

[00:28:26]You hope they drive it safe. You still own the car.

[00:28:32]But you give them the opportunity to run that car and drive that car. Well, God gave man that same thing to to run and operate this earth.

[00:28:44]Um unfortunately, man turned his keys over to Satan.

[00:28:52]And then, for the rest of the Old Testament, we see stealing, killing, and destroying.

[00:29:01]Uh and that was the norm on the earth.

[00:29:05]But, God still owned the earth.

[00:29:10]And he could still partner with a man to bring about his goal. He just had to find that man.

[00:29:17]Just cuz Adam and Eve messed up, he could still find men on the earth that would that would do it.

[00:29:25]Uh and and help him and partner with him.

[00:29:29]Uh Genesis chapter 6 and verses 5 through 8. Genesis 6:5-8.

[00:29:40]Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth. That every intent of their heart was on evil continually.

[00:29:52]Man had gotten really bad. Next verse.

[00:29:56]And the Lord was sorry that he made man on the earth and it grieved his heart.

[00:30:00]To me, that's the saddest book That's the saddest verse in the Bible. That it grieved God that he even made us.

[00:30:10]But then, he said, "I'll destroy man whom I've created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping things and birds, for I'm sorry I even made them."

[00:30:21]Next verse says, "But Noah found grace in the eyes of God."

[00:30:27]God found one man, the last man standing. He's the last man that was doing what God wanted him to do.

[00:30:36]Talk about God's, uh you know, long-suffering. He waited till the last guy before he had to do something about it and and deal with his his plan of redemption cuz if if Noah fell God wouldn't have anybody to carry out his redemption plan.

[00:30:56]So, God God uh uh found Noah and through Noah he had brought Noah into the world for the time like this.

[00:31:09]He brought Noah to help him do it. Now, Bob Dr. Randy uh he said one time a long ago, "When God needed someone to to build an ark, he needed Noah to build an ark. He did not give Noah a hammer.

[00:31:26]He gave him a plan."

[00:31:29]And that's what God will do in in your life, too. He'll give you a plan.

[00:31:34]But it you need to carry out that plan, not your way, but his way.

[00:31:39]And we want to see we we can look in the Bible and we can see Abraham. God needed a family to bring Isaac through to continue on the seed that he promised would would redeem the earth. So, he needed two people to bring that. He So, he had Abraham and Sarah. Now, Abraham and Sarah were charged to produce a a child when they were 86 years old.

[00:32:05]Actually, they were 76 when they went.

[00:32:08]But they messed up at 86 and they they produced an Ishmael.

[00:32:14]Folks, you don't want an Ishmael in your in your life, okay? You want what God wants, not what you want and the way you did it. They they tried to take matters into their own hands and but then God meets them again. They're 99 Abraham's 99 years old in Genesis chapter 17 verses 1 and 2.

[00:32:39]Says when Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said, "I am the Lord God Almighty. Walk walk before me and be blameless."

[00:32:51]In verse 2, it says, "I will make my covenant between you and me and multiply you exceedingly."

[00:32:57]God said, "I'm going to make my covenant with you.

[00:33:00]I'm going to partner with you to bring my plan to pass."

[00:33:07]God always is looking for a partner here on this earth.

[00:33:11]And um we have to just find out what he's not only what he tells you his plan, don't just run off and do it. Sit there and find out how he wants you to do it.

[00:33:25]Sit there and find out how he wants you to to uh take the first step in your plan and and keep going. God will tell you that. Cuz if you go and just go do it yourself, you're going to end up messing it up.

[00:33:41]Unfortunately, that's that's the way it is. Last week we dealt with Moses. You remember when we dealt with Moses last week? Uh yeah, I mean God needed someone on the earth to partner with him to deliver the Israelites out of the bondage of Egypt.

[00:33:57]And so he found Moses, a man who was born to be a leader, yet he was existing on the backside of a mountain.

[00:34:08]Thinking he had re- messed his life up. He was just running his race for the t-shirt.

[00:34:16]He was running his race so that he would just uh finish it out there and be gone.

[00:34:24]He had given up on his dream, but God hadn't given up on him.

[00:34:31]If you've given up on your dream, God hasn't given up on it.

[00:34:36]If it's God's given dream for your life, and I'll tell you that quick testimony there, I'd given up on my dream of being a meteorologist that I had prayed and God had had miraculously gotten from 5 years old I wanted to be a meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center and I I didn't uh you know, I went through college, I graduated, and there were no jobs available.

[00:35:03]So, I went out there and I worked I worked in the uh in the grocery field for 17 more years until I got I got saved 12 years and I got saved and then 5 years after that.

[00:35:16]Um but I had given up on my dream.

[00:35:21]God hadn't.

[00:35:23]And when I was in 1994, after I I you know, I could tell you the whole testimony, we don't have time tonight. I will say in 1994, God put steps in the way uh in place for me, and as I walked through those steps, he opened the door for me to work at the National Hurricane Center as a meteorologist.

[00:35:48]My dream, I had given up on it, but he hadn't. And if you had dre- a dream, God-given dream from when you were young, he hasn't given up on you.

[00:35:59]Seek him. Go for it.

[00:36:02]He'll He'll He'll bring it He'll bring you there. Okay, let's look at Moses now. Exodus chapter 3, and we're going to read verses 9 through 12. Last week we read verses 1 through 10.

[00:36:13]Uh let's read uh verses uh 9 through 12.

[00:36:20]God says said, "Now therefore, the cry Behold, the cry of Israel has come to me. I have also seen the oppression which the Egyptians oppressed them.

[00:36:33]Come now therefore and I'll send you.

[00:36:36]Says, I'll send you to Pharaoh and you'll bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.

[00:36:43]But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?"

[00:36:53]And so God said, "I will certainly be with you.

[00:37:00]And this sign shall be a sign that I have sent you. When you brought the people out of Egypt, you're going to serve God on this very mountain."

[00:37:08]>> [clears throat] >> The mountain that he was wandering around in the wilderness of life at 80 years old, God said, "I'm going to send you right to this very point and I'm going to you're going to have done what I called you to do from from the foundation of the world." Imagine that, God needed someone. Why? Because he'd given man dominion. He needed someone to work and deliver them. He found Moses.

[00:37:43]Always remember that when God sends you to fulfill his God-given plan and purpose for your life, he will always be right there with you to help you succeed.

[00:37:55]And uh side note on that testimony, my testimony. I got to the hurricane center. I was 17 years out of college and anybody that's ever done anything in in the computer field back in the 80s, 90s and the 90s and afterwards, they know that the transition that occurred. When I was in college, the the um the the computer was about the size of this room here, this sanctuary. That was the computer.

[00:38:28]And it had about as much power as as this phone that we have right here.

[00:38:33]Okay, a lot had changed. So, I didn't know a lot a lot had changed in meteorology.

[00:38:39]But God taught me every day. I sat there and God taught me every day cuz he was with me. And I would confess, Lord, you're the best meteorologist there ever is.

[00:38:49]So.

[00:38:52]Whatever field you're in, God is the best computer programmer or singer or what whatever it is you're in, God is the best at it.

[00:39:01]So, call on him. He'll show you how to take those steps.

[00:39:06]He'll show you how to get into the promised land, your promised land for your life, cuz he's got one just for you.

[00:39:17]Now, um God needed someone to bring them into their their promised land. So, he called Joshua. Joshua chapter 1, we're going to read verses 1 and 2 and verse 5. Joshua chapter 1, and we're going to read verses 1 and 2 and verse 5.

[00:39:42]After the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, it came to pass that the Lord spoke to Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses' assistant, saying, "Moses, my servant is dead.

[00:39:54]Now therefore, arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people to the land I'm giving you to them, the children of Israel."

[00:40:03]He said, "Now Moses is gone.

[00:40:06]>> [snorts] >> Now you go.

[00:40:08]The baton is now passed into your hands.

[00:40:12]I'm sending you to bring them to the promised land. I need them in the promised land, and you're it.

[00:40:19]Uh he partnered with Joshua to get them in there. Verse five though, how did he do it? He said no man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, I will be with you.

[00:40:36]I will not leave you nor forsake you.

[00:40:42]Think about that.

[00:40:44]Every one of these we're seeing, the reason why they were able to be successful is cuz God was with them. God was with them every step of the way.

[00:40:56]Uh we'll get into you in a little bit.

[00:40:58]But think about this. You may have thought you messed up your life. You may have thought I I just spoke to, you know, 10 messages in in in Mississippi on two groups of people, a group of people that were ex-drug addicts, ex- alcoholics, ex- people that had just ruined their lives, in and out of prison.

[00:41:19]And they thought their life was over until they saw the word of God. And the word of God showed it in the word of God says he he didn't he he hasn't given up on them. And they they're they can start right now with what what they had. So, look at this person.

[00:41:37]When God needed someone to protect the spies, who did he call to protect the spies?

[00:41:48]Our a prostitute named Rahab.

[00:41:52]They thought that they had ruined their life. He called Rahab the prostitute.

[00:41:57]Rahab hid them.

[00:42:00]And Rahab uh then look at Matthew chapter one and verses five and six. We'll put it up there on the screen.

[00:42:12]This is the genealogy of Jesus Christ, his earthly genealogy. It said, "Salmon begat Boaz by who?"

[00:42:23]Rahab.

[00:42:25]"Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse."

[00:42:29]Verse six.

[00:42:30]"And Jesse begat David the king."

[00:42:35]David's great great grandmother was Rahab, the prostitute.

[00:42:42]Imagine that.

[00:42:44]God used this one that was totally rebelled against him and put her right smack-dab in the middle of Jesus' genealogy.

[00:42:56]It doesn't matter what you've done in your past, God wants to start with you right now. Whatever it was before, God uh will start with you right now, where you are, and bring you on to greatness.

[00:43:13]Hallelujah.

[00:43:16]When God needed a man to possess the promised land and take the mountain [clears throat] of God, he chose an 85-year-old man, Caleb. Joshua uh Joshua chapter 14.

[00:43:29]An 85-year-old man uh to take a mountain.

[00:43:37]What was Caleb's driving force? So, we're going to read that. He had What was Caleb's driving Let's read this. "Behold, the Lord has kept me alive these 45 years ever since the Lord spoke this word to Moses while Israel wandered in the wilderness."

[00:43:54]See, Israel wandered in the wilderness, he didn't. He wanted He walked with God.

[00:43:58]You know, everybody else out there can be wandering in their wilderness, but you can walk with God and walk in victory and still stay strong until your opportunity arises. And he says, "Now I am this day 85 years old.

[00:44:14]And yet I'm as strong today as on that day that Moses sent me. Just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, both for going out and for coming in.

[00:44:28]Now therefore give me this mountain of which the Lord spoke in that day.

[00:44:34]And and for you heard in that day how the Anakims were there. There's the giants were there.

[00:44:40]Said and that cities were great and fortified. It may be that the Lord is with me and I shall be able to drive them out as the Lord has said." What was his driving force? The Lord was with him to put him over.

[00:44:57]Hallelujah.

[00:45:01]And also one other thing, >> [clears throat] >> he had a promise.

[00:45:06]How many of you have a promise from God?

[00:45:08]You have over 7,000 promises from God in the scripture.

[00:45:12]He had a promise and and God was going to bring it to pass. As as Dr. Randy said on Sunday that if God said so in the word and you followed what he said to do, he has to bring it to pass cuz he's God. He's watching over his word to perform it.

[00:45:35]See, you have a promise and God is with you as well.

[00:45:41]It doesn't matter how old you are.

[00:45:43]Go and take your mountain.

[00:45:51]Let's look at another one.

[00:45:53]Judges chapter 6 verses 11 and 12. The Midianites were stealing, killing, and destroying from the Israelites.

[00:46:06]And um God needed someone to partner with him to deliver them.

[00:46:14]He found Gideon hiding in a wine press crunching wheat.

[00:46:23]He's hiding from the Midianites.

[00:46:25]What does God say? He said the angel of the Lord came to him and said which was in that you know, he belonged to Joseph, all those things.

[00:46:34]In order he was threshing wheat in the wine press in order to hide it from the Midianites. Verse 12, the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, "The Lord is with you."

[00:46:45]There you are again, "The Lord is with you, you mighty man of valor." Did Gideon look like a mighty man of valor?

[00:46:55]No, he looked like uh somebody who was scared.

[00:47:00]Um God chose this fearful man who was the least of the least in all of Israel.

[00:47:08]And what did he call him?

[00:47:10]A mighty man of valor.

[00:47:14]See, God's always going to see you as he sees as as your destiny. He's always going to see you as walking and living in your destiny. Start looking at yourself like God sees you. And go defeat the Midianites that come up against you.

[00:47:32]Okay, you can go beat the mountain like like Caleb did, go take it, and go beat the Midianites when they come up against you. Notice that once again, the strength and confidence came from the truth that the Lord was with him.

[00:47:49]Hallelujah. Now, let's go to David, 1 Samuel chapter 17.

[00:47:53]I'm just trying to show you here the the joy of having God using men to bring about his plan and purpose on the earth.

[00:48:09]So, um When God needed a giant, he sent a shepherd boy who had spent his time in the fields praising God and tending sheep.

[00:48:22]What was David's key to success? Let's look at 1 Samuel 17:45-47.

[00:48:29]45-47.

[00:48:31]Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin, but I come out to you in the name of the Lord of hosts.

[00:48:40]God is backing me."

[00:48:43]Okay? And he said, "The God of armies of Israel whom you have defied.

[00:48:49]This day the Lord will deliver you into my hands." This is after after Goliath had told him that he was going to you know, take him down. You coming after me with sticks, you know? But no, he said, "The Lord's going to give you into my hands." He said, "And I will strike you and take your hand head off, and this day I will give the carcasses of the rest of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth that all the world earth may know that there is a God in Israel." See, the world out there needs to know that there's a God still alive today. We don't have a dead religion out there. We have a living Christ.

[00:49:30]Christ came out of the tomb. He's not in there. These other guys, Buddha and and Confucius, Muhammad, you go go visit their tombs.

[00:49:39]Jesus is alive. He's in heaven right now seated at the right hand of Father making intercession for you and me.

[00:49:45]Hallelujah. He's doing it right now just for you and me. And the next verse says verse 40 seven. Yeah, verse 47. Then all the assembly shall know that the Lord God does not save with sword and spear, for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into my hands.

[00:50:05]God was with him, and he [clears throat] knew it, and that's where he got his victory from. Okay?

[00:50:15]Throughout history, God needed people to bring about his plan for the earth.

[00:50:20]One by one, these people fulfilled their God-given destiny and partnered with God to bring about God's redemption plan to to for man.

[00:50:32]One day, in the manger, in Bethlehem, a small city, a baby was born from a virgin.

[00:50:43]That virgin had said, "Be it unto me according to your word, Lord."

[00:50:52]And she partnered with God to bring Jesus to the earth.

[00:51:01]Jesus comes to the earth, and he wreaks havoc on Satan's kingdom while he while he's here. But what was Jesus' secret to success? Last week we we did he he only said what God said to do cuz he was created in the image and likeness of God. He only said what God said to do, and he only did what God he saw God doing. Okay?

[00:51:23]So, whatever you see in the word, that's what you need to do, and whatever you you say what he says about you and about what's in the word.

[00:51:32]Um but let's look at John 17. This is Jesus's prayer here for us and everyone who's ever lived on the earth. John 17, we'll just go verses 18 through 21.

[00:51:49]As you sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.

[00:51:54]And for their sakes, I sanctify myself that they also may be sanctified by the truth. The word of God is truth.

[00:52:03]Says, "I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in their word." So, he's praying for you.

[00:52:09]He's praying for me right now.

[00:52:11]Said, "That they may be one, as you Father are in me and I in you, that they also may be one in us, that the world may know that you have sent me." He was one with the Father.

[00:52:27]Okay, now let's look at you 2 Corinthians 6:16.

[00:52:31]2 Corinthians 6:16 says, 2 Corinthians 6:16 says, "What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are Who Who's Who's the temple of living God? You. You are. I am.

[00:52:48]As God has said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them." Said, "I'll be their God and they could be my people."

[00:52:54]So, God is with you to fulfill His plan and purpose on the earth through your life.

[00:53:01]He is with you right now to do it.

[00:53:05]Now, I'm going to go into some other people beyond what we read about in this Bible just to prove this point that God uses people to bring about His plan.

[00:53:20]God needed someone um God needed someone to stand against a church that had turned uh really bad and and wicked and and it basically turned into government and it was he was um They were controlling the people.

[00:53:39]And it so he rose up, he found Martin Luther, who went up and he stood against the in the church. Then, God needed the Bible printed. The Bible could not be printed because there was nothing. So, what did he do? He gave a man named Gutenberg the idea for the printing press.

[00:54:04]And why did he give that idea? To print Bibles. And the first Bibles ever printed, they were used to be just written, handwritten.

[00:54:12]Now, we could mass produce Bibles and everybody could have a Everybody could have a a a Bible now. Now, Gutenberg proves that God's currency is witty inventions.

[00:54:28]Um we'll look at at Proverbs 8:12 in the King James Version. Proverbs 8:12 in the King James Version says, "I wisdom dwell with prudence and find out knowledge of witty inventions." Think about it. There has been so many things invented in this world that we use today, right?

[00:54:49]Somebody had to invent the light switch and the light bulbs here. Edison. Do you know how many times Edison failed? Oh, thousands of times he failed before he came up with the idea of tungsten to be used as the filament to create the light bulb.

[00:55:04]Thousands of times he failed. Hey, just because you failed doesn't mean you got to quit. See, champions are not people that never fail. They're people that never quit.

[00:55:15]So, keep going. Keep going. Keep trying.

[00:55:17]He and and Edison said He said that the only uh uh He says, "I I found ex- thousands of ways that it didn't work.

[00:55:28]All I need is one way for it to work."

[00:55:31]And that's what it is in your life. You keep going with what God has called you to do.

[00:55:37]Witty inventions. See, God he could give you a fish today and you'd eat today, right?

[00:55:48]But he's going to teach you how to fish so that you can eat every day.

[00:55:54]Just let him teach you how to fish. Let him teach you how to do this word. Let him give you the witty inventions. Some of it We We have ideas. Let's follow them. Let's follow those ideas. Follow them through. You know, I mean, somebody had the idea to put dirt in a bag and sell it. Dirt.

[00:56:15]And guess what? People go to the store and buy dirt in a bag by the by the bushel, you know.

[00:56:22]Or [snorts] or here.

[00:56:26]Somebody had to come up with this idea, right? Putting water in a bottle.

[00:56:31]>> [snorts] >> A lot of ideas out there.

[00:56:40]God'll give you one.

[00:56:42]God'll give you one, but you got to act on it then.

[00:56:45]When God needed his physical laws quantified, he partnered with Sir Isaac Newton and showed him the laws of gravity and motion.

[00:56:58]And few people know that Sir Isaac Newton also wrote a end-times book.

[00:57:05]And he predicted that the rapture, mathematically and scientifically, that the rapture would occur sometime around 2015.

[00:57:16]So, mathematically, he figured somewhere, you know, I mean, that was a few years ago, uh but still mathematically, he figured that out. He wrote a He wrote a a book on that.

[00:57:28]When God needed someone to solve a problem about the people were dying because the milk was spoiling.

[00:57:40]He found uh a uh a scientist, Louis Pasteur.

[00:57:46]And Louis Pasteur, God gave him the the the idea of pasteurization.

[00:57:53]And pasteurization has saved the lives of many, many people around the world today, right?

[00:58:01]God gave him that idea.

[00:58:03]When God needed um uh someone to save the agriculture of of the uh South after the Civil War, he found George Washington Carver. Now, George Washington Carver was a former slave.

[00:58:20]And he went into the field one day and he said, "Lord, tell me how the universe was made."

[00:58:27]And the God told him, "That's too big for you, young man."

[00:58:31]So, he said, "Okay, tell me how this world was made." He said, "That's too big for you, young man." And he said, "How about this peanut, Lord?

[00:58:42]How did you make that?"

[00:58:45]And God gave him the idea over 300 ideas and uses for the peanut.

[00:58:52]And that saved the agriculture, not only the peanut, but he also used sweet potatoes and and and and uh and soybeans. You know, God gave him those ideas. God-given ideas to help at the time they're needed.

[00:59:10]When God needed air travel so this gospel could be preached throughout the world cuz it was getting near the end. We need to get the gospel around the world.

[00:59:18]He rose up two guys, right? Orville and Wilbur Wright.

[00:59:23]Do you know the story about Orville and Wilbur Wright?

[00:59:26]Their dad was a minister. And their dad um was arguing with uh someone back in the late 1800s and said that um Jesus is coming now.

[00:59:40]Everything that needs to be invented has already been invented.

[00:59:45]He argued that, but his sons proved him wrong when they went to the uh when they invented the the uh you know, the airplane. And you know, he his dad was one of the first people that actually got on it. After Wilbur and Orville got on there, his dad their dad wrote it wrote it, too. So, um God needs people to get creative ideas to change things. There's things in your life that you see out there that are that need to be done.

[01:00:14]Do them.

[01:00:16]Do them.

[01:00:19]God's got you. He's with you the whole step of the way. I I tell you a story uh couple more stories here.

[01:00:28]Um Joyce, my wife, she in 1991 was was uh was diagnosed Well, she had had a incurable disease called myasthenia gravis in in 1991. There's no cure for the myasthenia gravis and there still is no cure for myasthenia gravis. It's a neuromuscular disease just like MS and and those things. Um but she was given 6 months to live.

[01:00:55]6 months to live and and uh by the top specialist in the world.

[01:01:01]6 months.

[01:01:02]6 months to live. Um but God had other plans.

[01:01:10]God healed her, but he said, "I'm going to it's going to He told her, "It's going to cost you something." And what it did was he showed her the inroad where the devil was getting in, and it was diet.

[01:01:24]So, when he uh she changed her diet, I changed her diet. Joyce never tested positive again for myasthenia gravis the rest of her life. Her doctor used to call her all the time and say to see if she was still alive.

[01:01:39]She was still kicking and >> [clears throat] >> still going going strong.

[01:01:44]But, whenever you're given something by God, God wants you to share it with others.

[01:01:50]So, God had given a uh a she he'd given her a book called um The Yeast Connection.

[01:01:59]And and so Joyce followed it, and the doctor in that book, William Crook, who wrote that book, he he became our a good friend, and and he let Joyce uh he kept talking and working with Joyce, and and you know, she got better and better over time. Well, Joyce's testimony was used in a in a book.

[01:02:21]One of in several of his books, but one of them was in particular was The Yeast Connection in Women.

[01:02:26]So, her testimony was written in there.

[01:02:27]Well, one day a young lady who was very very sick, saw her name in a book, and realized it said in the book that she lived in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which is where we lived. And that lady lived in Vicksburg.

[01:02:43]She looked up in the phone book.

[01:02:45]Remember when we had phone books?

[01:02:48]She looked up in the phone book, and found our name in the phone book, and she called up Joyce, and she said she said um are you Joyce Frederick that's in the book? And Joyce said, "Yeah." She said, "I need help." She had She was a hairdresser, and all the the the the um dyes and all that had leached into her skin. She was really sick.

[01:03:11]She came over.

[01:03:12]She was not a a godly person at that time. She came over, and and uh you know Joyce uh ministered to her and showed her God's plan for healing and then showed her how to change her diet. And that lady got totally well. Of course, she got saved.

[01:03:29]See, that lady that got saved now runs a ministry that's gotten over 6,000 people off of drugs and alcohol in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

[01:03:46]God needed someone to reach them.

[01:03:50]And so, she did. So, that's that's uh God's always partnering with people.

[01:03:59]And the last one I'm going to go with partnership is two other people that are near and dear to my heart.

[01:04:07]And uh a school teacher and coach who was the end of his who was at the end of his career and uh and a housewife who was raising four boys.

[01:04:18]Said, God needed a church in South Florida to bring to teach people how to how to preach the word, teach the word, sing the word, pray the word so they could say the word.

[01:04:33]And Pastor Stan and Jerry Moore, they answered that call.

[01:04:39]They partnered with God and because of that, we're here tonight.

[01:04:44][clears throat] How many people has this church reached over the years? That was back in 1982, I think.

[01:04:54]How many people has this church reached over the years?

[01:04:57]All because those two individuals decided they were going to partner with God and bring about this, which it started in their living room with two people.

[01:05:08]And then God kept adding to the to the bunch. God birthed Words of Life out of partnership with him to meet the needs of the South Florida community.

[01:05:23]Hebrews 11:3 in the Amplified Classic Hebrews 11:3 in the Amplified Classic says, "By faith we understand that the worlds during the successive generations were framed fashioned, put together, and equipped for their intended purpose by the word of God so that what we see was not made out of things which are visible.

[01:05:45]The word everything you see they they they changed the destiny. They changed the world by in their successive generations by God partnering with them and them acting with God. Now, we get to you.

[01:06:03]You're destined for greatness. God needs you to partner with him to bring about change in this world.

[01:06:10]Many people are running around trying to get rich with God's word with these worlds goods and fail to realize the 100% sure path 100% sure path of attaining both spiritual riches and wealth is this. What is the key to riches?

[01:06:30]Find a need and meet it.

[01:06:32]Find a hurt and heal it.

[01:06:34]Find a desire and fill it.

[01:06:37]And find a problem and solve it.

[01:06:40]If you do that, you'll be not only rich financially, but you'll you'll you'll live a full and productive [clears throat] God has a solution to everything that the world faces and that solution begins with you and me.

[01:06:57]You and me partnering with God. See, God values you and God values people. We need to value people like God values people and when you value people, you heal them rather than bruise them. You lift them rather than put them down. You esteem them rather than demean them. You forgive them rather than judge them.

[01:07:20]You help them rather than leave them helpless.

[01:07:25]God has no other hands to lay on the sick but your hands.

[01:07:31]He has no other feet to carry the gospel to the world but your feet.

[01:07:36]He has no other arms to comfort those who need comforted but your arms.

[01:07:44]He has no other lips to preach the gospel but yours.

[01:07:50]Greater is he that's in you than he is in the world. And what does it says?

[01:07:56]Christ is in you, the hope of glory, the hope of him manifesting his presence.

[01:08:02]You are the solution to someone's problem.

[01:08:06]Jesus lives in you.

[01:08:08]Jesus sent you.

[01:08:10]The Father planned for you to be on earth at this time, right now.

[01:08:15]Think about that one. Before the foundation of the world, he planned this message to be spoken to you us tonight.

[01:08:25]Partner with God.

[01:08:26]Change the destiny of your family, your community, and your workplace.

[01:08:32]God trusts you with his message. So, go.

[01:08:37]Hallelujah. That's what God had for us for tonight.

[01:08:40]Hallelujah.

[01:08:41]Glory be to God.

[01:08:44]So, >> [applause] >> God God God is good. He He's always knows where we where we're at. And he wants us to bring us to another level. So, now um if we can pass out the offering envelopes, we'll take the offering, and then we will we will um you know get out of here tonight.

[01:09:09]God is always working with you to bring it. I I like the uh the this statement. Find a need and meet it. Find a hurt and heal it. Find a desire and fill it.

[01:09:24]And find a problem and solve it.

[01:09:28]Glory be to God. That's your way to victory in in life.

[01:09:35]I want a life worth living. I don't want to just exist.

[01:09:39]I know you want a life worth living or you wouldn't be here tonight.

[01:09:44]So praise God for that.

[01:09:46]Lord, thank you for your word that came forth tonight. Lord, we're doers of the word, not just hearers only. Thank you, Lord, that you have a plan and purpose for all of us in this earth to partner with you. And Lord, we're going to partner with you in the offerings and tithes tonight as well. And you say when we do that, you're going to open the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing that we won't have room enough to receive, and you'll keep passing the vine and our crops and our vines will not cast their fruit before their time. And ours is a delightful land, says the Lord of hosts.

[01:10:21]So we thank you, Lord, for that in Jesus' name.

[01:10:25]Amen. Amen. So have a great night. Plead the blood of Jesus over you as you travel home.

[01:10:33]Have a night worth living and remember you win in life by speaking words of life. Goodnight.

[01:10:40]>> Hallelujah.

[01:10:41]Amen.

[01:10:45]>> Amen.

[01:10:48]Amen.

[01:10:50]AMEN.

[01:10:54]AMEN.

[01:10:57]AMEN.

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