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  A DEAD MAN, FOUR LEPERS, BARREN WOMEN, AND YOU
  by Carter Conlon
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of surrendering to God
and being open to His voice. It encourages communion with God through
prayer and seeking His will. The message highlights the power of God's
voice to bring transformation, miracles, and fulfillment of His promises
in our lives, urging listeners to respond with faith and obedience.

Topics: "Surrender to God", "Listening to His Voice"
Scripture References: 1 Corinthians 11:23, Hebrews 3:15, 1 Samuel 3:9, John 16:13, Psalm 29:3, Genesis 18:14, Hebrews 13:8, 1 Samuel 1:17, John 11:43, 2 Kings 7:3

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This sermon emphasizes the importance of surrendering to God and being
open to His voice. It encourages communion with God through prayer and
seeking His will. The message highlights the power of God's voice to
bring transformation, miracles, and fulfillment of His promises in our
lives, urging listeners to respond with faith and obedience.

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Praise God. Thank you. You may be seated in the house.

And for those that are with us online tonight, we're going to be having
a time of communion after the short sharing of God's word this evening.
And if you can get some bread or crackers and some juice of any sort,
and you can celebrate with us the victory of Jesus Christ on the cross
that gave you the power not only to be forgiven, but to live a new life,
the life that God has for you on this side of eternity. It's a
supernatural life.

And I encourage you as we do every Wednesday night to stay and pray. If
there's a few of you gathering or even if you're alone, stay in your
home and after we go offline, we go off the air, take a moment just to
pray. We're going to do that here tonight.

We do that quite often on Wednesday night here at our Bible School
Summit International School of Ministry. And we encourage you to do the
same. I want to encourage you this year to get some people to come and
join you in this prayer meeting.

And we're going to continue to pray for you that you would experience,
now you might or might not know what this means, but you would
experience what the early church did on the day of Pentecost. They
gathered together in weakness, but suddenly God came into the room. And
when he came into the room, he infused those people with his own life.

He intertwined his own life in theirs. And their weakness, in a sense,
yielded to his strength, their confusion to his clarity of thinking,
their powerlessness to an ability to stand before their generation with
an anointing of God, a presence of God upon them that even the religious
or even the anti-God people of that generation had to bend their knee
because they saw something that can't be produced by any amount of human
effort in this world. And when they saw it, they said in effect, the
Lord is God, the Lord is God, what must we do to have a relationship
with God like you do? So I want to encourage you to invite people into
your home and they don't have to be victorious people.

Matter of fact, sometimes it's better to have people who are, who know
their native God. And bring them in and let's pray together and we're
going to continue to pray for you this year. We've got some, all our
brand new Bible college students, can you give us a shout in the
sanctuary so they know you're here.

And the Wednesday night services are not for us, they're for you, for
those that are with us from all over the country, the area and all over
the world. People coming in from various and numerous countries
throughout the world and we're going to continue this year to pray for
you and we're going to believe that this is going to be a year of the
miraculous for you. Would you agree with me that we need a supernatural
visitation of God again in this generation? Now would you agree with me
that God is willing to do that? Now we know we need it, but sometimes
we, that's where we stop.

We say we need it, but we feel in our hearts like perhaps we don't
deserve it. We never have and we never will. But God so loved the world,
He gave His only begotten Son.

And may I say it this way, God so loved the world, loves the world today
that He will actually empower you to be a living witness of the fact
that He is still God. Psalm 29, if you have a moment to turn in your
Bibles or on your phone or whatever it is. I know the students don't
have any phones to turn to.

You won't die. As a matter of fact, you'll live once you get away from
all the exterior stimuli that's all around you. And all of your phony
friends on Facebook will still be there when this is all over at the end
of the year.

Psalm 29, Father God in Jesus' name, oh God, oh God, oh God, Lord, we
ask you for a spiritual awakening in our generation. We ask you to come
with power, come with glory, come in the way that only you can. Lord, we
have no boast before you.

I have no boast before you tonight. I can't present to you a single
thing that would cause you to, or cause anyone to believe that I deserve
your mercy, but you've given it anyway, God, in your power and your
grace. Oh God, we ask you tonight to do what only you can do.

Send your Holy Spirit one more time before you come back into this earth
again. Send your Holy Spirit one more time and God, let a great, great
harvest be gathered in for your namesake and for your glory. Bless this
word tonight and the sharing of your word and may it find a resting
place in each of our hearts.

We ask it in Jesus' name, amen. Psalm 29, a psalm of King David who knew
the power of God. He knew that when God speaks and you move in the
direction of his voice that miracles begin to happen.

Things that can't be done by any amount of natural human effort come
into view. And people are encouraged. He would have known that the day
that he stood in the valley and fought against a giant that not one
single man in the army of Israel had the courage to fight.

But God sent a teenage boy who was able to hear his voice and being
stirred by the leading of God and for the glory of God went in to face
what's humanly an impossible battle. But when we learn to cooperate with
the voice of God, God begins to do something through us that only God
himself can do. David says, give to the Lord, oh you mighty ones.

Give to the Lord glory and strength. Give to the Lord the glory due to
his name. Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.

The voice of the Lord is over the waters. That means every trial we'll
ever face, all confusion of this world and there's no shortage of
confusion in this world right now. As a matter of fact the world is
insanely confused in my opinion.

But his voice is over all of these things, all of these waters. The God
of glory thunders. The Lord is over many waters.

The voice of the Lord is powerful. The voice of the Lord is full of
majesty. In other words he speaks not as people who don't know God
speak, but he speaks as one with authority, as a king would.

The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars. The voice, yes the Lord
splinters the cedars of Lebanon. He makes them skip like a calf, Lebanon
and Syrian like a young wild ox.

The voice of the Lord divides the flames of fire. The voice of the Lord
shakes the wilderness. The Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

The voice of the Lord makes the deer give birth and strips the forests
bare. And in his temple everyone says glory. In his temple where he
dwells among the people that belong to him everyone says glory.

And my promise to you online tonight, my promise to the students in this
church that gathers here on Wednesday night is that before the year's
out you're going to shout glory. You're going to shout glory and
nobody's going to tell you to shout it. You're going to shout it.

As a matter of fact you're going to shout it before the prayer meeting
starts. You're going to walk in here and words are going to fail you.
And when they fail you all you can say is glory and I'll explain that in
just a moment.

Everyone says glory. The Lord sat enthroned at the flood. The Lord sits
king as king forever.

The Lord will give strength to his people. The Lord will bless his
people with peace. I want to talk to you tonight about a dead man, four
lepers, barren women, and you.

Let me say that again. A dead man, four lepers, barren women, and you.
You say like how do I fit into all of this? Well you'll see in just a
moment.

As a matter of fact some of you are saying yeah that's me. That's my
company. Those are the people I hang out with.

Dead lepers, barren, and me. Now in his temple the script says everyone
shouts glory and the word glory in the original text essentially means
the weightiness of God that was infused in me when he spoke and I
believed him. In other words God's, the weight of God.

That which only God can do. He spoke, I believed, and God did something
in me and through me that only God can do. When that starts to happen in
your life nobody has to tell you to shout glory.

The band doesn't have to crank up and hit the right note for you to
start singing. You walk in and you just say glory to God. Only God could
have done this in my life.

Only God. I remember we were in Burundi many years ago and it was a
tribe of actually Pygmy people called the Twa and we brought them a
truckload of goats in from Tanzania and another truckload of chickens.
Now these people had no means to make a living whatsoever and when they
saw us arrive and when we started to carry the goats up the mountainside
and give them to them and they brought them into their homes.

They had huts made and they brought the goats and chickens actually into
their homes and then they got together and they sang a song to us and it
was in their own language so I asked somebody there, what are they
singing? And their song was only God could have done this. Only God
could have done this. We prayed for help and help has come.

Only God could have done this. Now they were giving God glory for two
goats and five chickens, do you understand me? In every home. It was
impossible for them but they prayed, they turned to God and suddenly
truckloads of provision from God arrived and they knew that although God
put it on our hearts to do this, we were responding to His response to
their prayer, to their cry.

Only God could have done this and these people are going to praise God
for two goats and five chickens. I'm going to praise God for what He's
done in my life. I'm going to praise God for the victories He's given
me.

I'm going to praise God for the changing of my heart. I'm going to
praise God for the things that I've seen over the years and I'm going to
praise God for the things I'm believing for as well in the future.
Hebrews 13, 8 tells us that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today
and forever.

He doesn't change. Now we either believe that or we don't. We have to
get to the point in this generation where we believe that the God of
Acts chapter 2 is still the God of Acts 20, 23.

Nothing has changed. He's still the same and He will still respond when
we cry out to Him and He will still bring us out of the natural and into
the supernatural. The voice of the Lord, David says, David knew this
voice.

I know this voice. I know and measure what it's like when God speaks and
you move with God and miracles start to happen. I could tell you all
kinds of stories tonight of what God has done over the course of years
and I feel that the mandate that God's given myself and others like me
who have come before many of you is to take the baton and pass it to the
next generation and say it's great that I can tell you my stories but
it's time for you to get yours.

You've got to get your story so if the Lord tarries and you get to be
70, you can pass the baton on to the next generation and say I have
heard His voice and when I walked with Him, He did in me and through me
what is humanly impossible to do. The weight of God came into my life.
My thinking was cleared up.

My timidity was replaced by the courage to believe and my reluctance to
move forward was replaced with a boldness to take on the enemies that
are trying to destroy this generation and so many of our families and
our testimonies. John chapter 11, the voice of God spoke audibly to a
dead man. Now that's quite a distance.

I mean the man, it was Lazarus, the man was dead in John chapter 11. He
was dead for four days but the voice of God is not limited to us having
anything left in a sense to give to His kingdom. You know sometimes when
you're dead, you're better off than when you think you're strong.

You know he knew he was dead. There's no doubt about that. I don't know
where he was but he would have known he was dead and suddenly he hears
God calling his name.

I don't know where somebody is tonight that's online. Maybe you say
pastor that's me. The only difference between me and Lazarus is I'm
still breathing but I'm just as dead.

I'm in a dark place. People who know me have put a stone in front of me.
They say he stinks and there's no hope for me.

But you see their voices have a lot of things to say but one voice has
the power to bring you back to life again. One voice has the ability to
call you out of wherever you are and into the place where God has
destined you to be. The only thing that Lazarus could do is the very
thing that you need to do today is just simply get up and move towards
the sound of his voice.

There's nothing else you can't do. When you hear him calling you, in
this case it was an audible call, simply get up and start moving towards
the voice of God. And you watch what God will begin to do.

The first thing that happened to Lazarus is that they unwrapped him. He
was all bound up with death clothes really. That means when we get into
behaviors that we shouldn't be into our minds get wrapped up in death
and our feet are tied.

We don't have the ability to go forward and our hands are not reaching
out the way that God destined them to be. But when we start moving
towards his voice, the very first thing that happens is that we begin to
find ourselves, the bonds that held us start to be loosed. Then he said
to Martha, Lazarus' sister, did I not say if you would believe you would
see the glory of God.

I find this interesting because there's no evidence in the Bible that
Martha actually believed, ever believed. When Lazarus was raised from
the dead, she believed. I was looking at it today and I was wondering,
is it possible that he was speaking about Martha in this verse of
Scripture.

Obviously the Son of God speaks on a multiplicity of levels. But he said
to her, did I not say that if you would believe you would see the glory
of God. In other words, she's about to witness the raising of her
brother from the dead.

But she's a person that just, she's limited in a sense to doing what she
can naturally do, which is pots and pans and buns and cooking and all
the stuff that she's doing and serving. She's never known the
supernatural. And is it, I just started to think about it.

Is it possible that God was saying to her, as he's saying to somebody
tonight, did I not tell you that if you would believe you would see the
glory of God. You Martha, you're going to witness it with your eyes, but
if you would believe that I have the power when I speak to change every
situation, that if you would believe that you too would see the glory of
God. I cannot but wonder, was he speaking to Martha about her own
future? Was he trying to draw her out of, it was a good thing she was
doing, but it was short of what God had for her lives.

And that's the case for many of us. We're not doing bad things, we're
actually doing good things, but the things we're doing are short of what
God has for our lives. Second King Seven, he spoke to four leprous men
internally.

Now to Lazarus it was audibly, but to the leprous men outside the city
gate he spoke to them internally. They were sitting outside a city that
was starving, the city was surrounded by enemies and suddenly a thought
comes into their heart, like if we're going to the city we're going to
starve, if we stay here we're going to die, let's just get up and go
into the camp of the enemy. And as they got up, because they were in the
plan of God, and as they got up and moved into the enemy's camp, the
scripture tells us that God turned up heaven's stereo, may I call it
that way? Does anybody know what a stereo is? I guess the kids do, is
that a word that doesn't exist anymore? They turned up the, what do you
call it now? The who? The ballroom? Oh the volume, no I was thinking
like, what's music on today? What is, earpods, airpods, earpods, ok
alright, anyways, he turned it up, whatever it was, and caused the
enemies, the Syrian army to hear these four lepers as if they were a
whole army of horses and chariots, and they were so terrified by what
they heard that they fled, they were just four lepers that God spoke to,
but he spoke to them internally, and sometimes the voice of God comes
audibly, but sometimes the voice of God just comes internally, he just
begins to move us in a direction, that is as much the voice of God as if
Christ himself is standing at a grave and saying Lazarus come forth, we
need to learn to hear that voice, and move with that voice, and it was
really an impossibility, four lepers walking into the camp of an entire
enemy army that had surrounded the city and were trying to starve the
city out, amazing, isn't it amazing what God will do? Jesus Christ is
what? What is Jesus? The same, today, and forever, right, do you believe
that? Do you believe that in your diseased condition he can use you? Do
you believe that in your deficiency, you know lepers, they're just
sitting there watching each other fall apart, and that's what Bible
school can feel like after six months, you know, you're just like,
everybody's sitting there staring at each other, saying oh God, I
thought I was so holy when I came here, and now I'm falling apart, you
know, what have I done with my life, you know, well okay, I might as
well get up and move towards what God has for my life, not realizing
he's turning up heaven's sound system, and making you a sound of your
feet like a marching army into the camp of darkness, he's the same, and
when it gets in our hearts, and we're not looking to our own intellect,
we're not looking to our own ability, we're not looking to our own
strength anymore, but we're hearing something from God, and we're
starting to move in unison with God, because the voice of the Lord is
above all the waters, the voice of the Lord strips the forest bare, the
voice of the Lord is the final word, it's the final word on what happens
in your life, it's the final word on the end of a society, it's the
final word on what's going to happen to the heavens and the earth in the
future, the voice of the Lord is above every voice, and when you learn
to hear the voice of God, and this is important for people that are
online tonight, move towards that longing in your heart, that thought
that God has planted there, get up and go down into the camp of the
enemy, it's not by your might nor power, your intellect, it's by the
spirit of God that the victory will be won in your life.

In 1 Samuel chapter 1 verse 17, God now, there was a woman who came into
prayer, and she was just so tired of being barren, she was empty, she so
wanted life to be born in her womb, it was the chief desire of her
heart, and she was so used to being disappointed that her prayer, she
couldn't speak it anymore, only her lips could move, have you ever been
there, have you ever been so disappointed, even in God, that you can't
utter the words anymore unless you be disappointed one more time, she
couldn't speak, she was so grieved, she could move her lips but nothing
would come out, I've been there one time, I know what that feels like,
you just can't get the words out of your mouth anymore, because you just
don't want to be disappointed, and she was there, and it was Eli the
priest that spoke to her, and told her, the Lord grant you the request
that you have placed before him, and the scripture says she put away her
grieving as it is, and got up and went home, and started to enjoy life,
it was the spiritual leader that spoke to her, and tonight, maybe you
can't hear the voice of God, I don't know online, maybe it's such a
foreign concept to you, maybe the negativity of your heart is so strong
that you can't hear the positivity of God wanting to move you in the
direction of victory, but you can hear my voice tonight, I am a
spiritual leader, I am in your living room right now, or your car, I
know there's somebody that texted in and said I always go up into my car
to listen to the prayer meeting, because I like it better, so I'm
speaking to you tonight, in your car, I am a spiritual leader, as this
guy was to Hannah, and I'm telling you, God will be faithful to you, God
will meet the desires of your heart, God will give you a victory that
you could never have in your own strength, and it's amazing, I wish I
could have heard Hannah's prayer when she found out she was going to
have a child, and this voiceless prayer, birthed a voice that guided the
nation for 40 years, Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today and
forever, a lady so discouraged and so empty, that she couldn't speak her
prayer, gives birth to a voice that guides the nation, Samuel the
prophet, for 40 years, lastly, in Genesis 18, God spoke in person,
within the range of a lady called Sarah's hearing, and she was too old
to bear a child, and she had long suffered disappointment, she had a
promise that you're going to have descendants, her husband had it, of
course the promise was to come through her life, and she had a promise
that you're going to have descendants as numerous as the sky, as the
stars in the sky, and yet it's been years and years and years, and the
promise is not fulfilled, there is no real heir that's come through her
life, and suddenly she gets a visitation from God, God is now speaking,
the Lord God is speaking to her husband Abraham, and she's in the tent
and she can hear his voice, it's an audible voice she's hearing, and the
Lord says your wife Sarah is going to have a child, now she's way too
old to have a child, and the scripture says she laughed, and the Lord
said why did you laugh, and my question to you tonight is listening
online, if I'm telling you tonight that God's going to use your life for
his glory and do something supernatural in your life, why did you laugh,
why do you smirk in your heart, why is this chuckle in your heart that
says oh no, not me, I'm too old, it's too long, it's too far, it's too
gone, in verse 14 the Lord says to Abraham, he says is anything too hard
for the Lord, so this is my question to you tonight, is anything too
hard for God, are you the one person in the realm of all of history that
God can't do anything through, are you unique, he took a dead man and
brought him out of the grave by the power of his voice, he took four
lepers and defeated an enemy army, he took two barren women and with one
he birthed a voice that guided the nation with others, he birthed what
became the church, oh God, oh God, do you understand that you're here
tonight because of that promise being fulfilled in Sarah's life, do you
get it, do you understand that through her lineage came the patriarchs
of Israel, through the patriarchs came the Savior Jesus Christ, through
Christ came the early church, through the church passing on the baton
came you, and so it's as if you were also in that tent and now we're
given the opportunity to respond to the voice of God, as the voice of
God comes to us, you know some people sad to say they, some people stay
in the grave and don't, they just say put the stone back, it's too late,
I'm too far gone and others say well we're just lepers, what can we do,
let's just stay here and die, some just walk away from the house of God
disappointed, somehow believing that God is not the same as he always
has been and can't answer their prayer any longer, and some laugh and
how sad that is to God, they laugh and walk away, what will you do
tonight, will you laugh, will you laugh before you turn this, this
meeting off tonight on your, on your computer, your laptop, whatever you
have, your cell phone, or will you say God be it done to me according to
your word, according to your word Lord, be it done to me, according to
your word Lord, let the weightiness of, of your life become mine, let,
according to your word take me out of death, according to your word take
me out of weakness, according to your word lift me out of barrenness,
according to your word use my life for your glory, according to your
word may I live to come into the house of God, or maybe I live just to
come online in this prayer meeting and shout glory, glory to God, only
God could have done this, I prayed and he's come, only God could have
done this, I asked for victory and victory has come, only God could have
done this, I, I prayed that God would use my life in a way that I knew
it was him and he did and only God could have done this, glory to God,
glory to God for the words that you gave me to speak to that person on
the street corner, glory to God for the healing you brought into my
marriage and home and my family and my mind, glory to God for the
freedom from addiction you brought into my life, glory to God for
breaking all the barriers that kept me in isolation, glory to God for,
for bringing me into the place where I know that he lives, I'm no longer
an argument about the reality of God, I know that he lives, I know what
he can do, I know his power, I know his grace, I know his glory, oh
hallelujah, oh hallelujah, oh hallelujah, glory to God, glory to God,
glory to God, glory that the God of the universe would intertwine his
life in mine, that the God of the universe would give me his strength,
his cleansing, his freedom, his abilities, his voice, his compassion,
his song, everything belongs to him, that he would take this empty
vessel and he would infuse it with the weight of God, oh hallelujah,
glory, that's right, glory to God, glory to the Lamb of God, so tonight
you have a choice, if you can hear, the scripture says in the book of
Hebrews, today if you can hear his voice, don't harden your heart, it's
what the children of Israel once did in the wilderness and because of it
they died in the wilderness, when he was giving them this incredible
promise and they turned back because of unbelief, the scripture says,
will you get up tonight, will you go forward into the plan that God has
for your life, will you believe that even in your emptiness that he can
produce something of himself that brings his own name to reputation,
that's what the kavod of God means actually, the glory that he does
something so powerful in you that his name, not yours, comes to
reputation through it, praise God, praise God, I want to challenge you
online, I want to challenge the new students that have come into this
Bible school to believe, I was where you are years ago, I was in a
church hearing something like this and I leaned forward in my seat and I
remember saying, God could that be true, could you use this life for
your glory, could you change me, could you give me a heart for people,
could you take me out of the frailty of my mind and my thinking and my
background and the walls I've built around myself and could you actually
do something through my life that brings your name to glory, I can't
tell you the day it happened but I do know I went towards the sound of
his voice, that's all I can tell you, I just moved to the sound of his
voice and said God I want it all, I want everything you have for me, I
want the fullness of it, now some people just want knowledge, some just
want personal freedom but I wanted everything that God had for my life,
I still do today, there's more, there's always more with God, how can we
ever get to the place of saying I've got all of God that I need, I mean
come on, there's always more and so I want to challenge you tonight as I
challenge those that are online, begin this way, admit you need a
Savior, you can't save yourself, believe that God loved you so much that
he sent his son to die on the cross to pay the price for the wrong
things you have done, the Bible calls that sin, that separated you from
God, from the life of God, the plan of God, the purpose of God, the
heaven of God, it separated you completely from God for eternity but God
so loved you that he came to get you, that's why Christ went to a cross
and then start confessing with your mouth, the Bible tells us that if
you believe in your heart and you confess with your mouth you'll be
saved, you start to confess what you believe, that's basically what it's
saying, whatever is in the heart is going to come out of your mouth,
Jesus is the Lord of my life, you start just to confess it, Jesus you
have the right to govern my thinking, you have the right to determine my
future, you have the right to tell me what my life, your life plan is
going to be for me, you have the right, I give you the rights to my life
and you start declaring him to be Savior and Lord and his promise is
that he cleanses you from all sin, brings you home again to himself
forever and gives you a reason to live while you live on the earth and
the reason that we live is to glorify him, thank God, to bring glory to
his name, so those online I'm going to ask you to pray this simple
prayer with me and mean it in your heart and then again I'm going to
tell you next week and the week after and the week after, get your
friends, get some strangers even, bring them, say you got to come, we're
praying God's going to change your life, just tell them what God's going
to do, you don't have to make it happen, you just tell them what God is
going to do, pray this simple prayer, let's all pray it here tonight for
the sake of those listening online now, Lord Jesus Christ, thank you for
loving me, thank you for dying to pay the price for my sin, I open my
heart to you tonight, I invite you into my life to be my Lord, my Savior
and my God, thank you for loving me, for giving me the promise that you
will show me the reason and the purpose and plan that you have for my
life, I give myself fully to you Lord, speak to me, I will listen, in
Jesus name, amen and amen, if you prayed that tonight and you really
meant it online, text the word decided to 51,000, decided to 51,000,
you'll get a video from Times Square Church helping you to get started
on your new walk with God, praise God, we're going to go to communion in
just a moment, we're going to sing one song and then get some bread, get
some juice and you and I and all these young people and older people
that are here tonight, we're going to celebrate the victory of Jesus
Christ on the cross for your sin. What can wash away my sin? Nothing but
the blood of Jesus. What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood
of Jesus.

Oh, precious is the flow that makes me white as snow. No other fount I
know, nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh, what can, what can wash away
my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh,
precious is the flow that makes me white as snow. No other fount I know,
nothing but the blood of Jesus.

Oh, precious is the flow that makes me white as snow. No other fount I
know, nothing but the blood of Jesus. Hallelujah.

For I received from the Lord which, that which I also delivered to you,
that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which he was betrayed took
bread. And when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, Take, eat,
this is my body which is broken for you. Do this in remembrance of me.

In the same manner, he also took the cup after supper, saying, This cup
is the new covenant in my blood. This do as often as you drink it in
remembrance of me. For as often as you eat this bread and drink this
cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

Hallelujah. Jesus, thank you. God, thank you.

God, thank you. God, thank you for giving us the redemption that we
have. God, thank you for the promise of new life.

God, thank you for the plan that you will unfold for each of us in the
days ahead. Thank you, Lord, for taking us out of the confines of small
thinking and bringing us into that place where we have the mind of
Christ. Thank you, Lord, for taking us to a place where all things
become possible.

You know, in the Old Testament, when God would call somebody, as in the
days of Samuel, the advice given to them when they started to hear the
voice of God is to say, Speak, Lord, your servant is listening. Amazing,
isn't that? Speak, Lord. And I'd like us to do that here in the
sanctuary tonight and do that online as well, where maybe you just go to
your knees at home and just say, Speak, Lord, your servant is listening.

Speak to me, God, because your voice is the one that determines my
future. Your voice determines the boundaries, in a sense, of what you
determine to accomplish through my life. God, help me to put away the
small thinking of my own mind and my own heart.

Speak, Lord. Speak to me, God. I'm listening.

My advice to you is don't ever say no to God. Don't laugh. Don't laugh
when He speaks.

Just get up and go forward. All through history, people who heard Him
speak got up and moved forward and miracles started to happen. It's time
now for the church to rise again.

It's time for us to hear what God is speaking and move in unison with
Him. So we're going to do that online this evening. Pastor Pavel is
going to come and close this meeting in just a moment.

But I want to give an altar call here in this sanctuary tonight because
there's a lot of new people here. Some are students. Some are members of
the Summit Community Church.

I would like to just... You've heard something in your heart tonight,
and you want to do what Samuel once did when he was only 8 years old.
Speak, Lord. Speak because I'm willing to hear you.

I'm listening, Lord. Speak to me. Speak to me, God.

Whether it's audibly, whether it's in my heart, a moving in my heart,
whatever way you choose, whether it's through a spiritual leader or
maybe you're speaking to somebody else and my ear is just on the tent
wall and I can hear you. Whichever way you choose to speak to me, God, I
want to hear you. And when I hear you, I know the promise that you give
me is that I will live.

And so I just want to give an altar call. If you want to slip out of
your seat, wherever you are, just come. You can stand.

You can sit. You can kneel. You can lay on the floor.

You do whatever you want to do. But just say, God, speak to me. God,
speak to me.

I'm listening. Isn't it wonderful, folks online and those that are
listening, that we have this whole generation of young people now? All
these Samuels and Esthers are coming forward and saying, God, speak to
me. This is where the miracles are going to happen.

But older folks, don't leave yourself out as well. God speaks to the old
as well as the young. Spoke to Moses when he was 80.

Spoke to Lazarus when he was dead. So you're without excuse, I'm afraid.
Speak, Lord God.

I'm listening. I will listen to you. I will hear you.

And I will move with you. Pastor Pavel, come lead us in prayer. And then
the worship team, if you could lead us in a song when Pastor Pavel tells
you to.

But just start talking to God. And let God talk to you. Don't do all the
speaking.

Let him speak to you as well. You'd be amazed what he begins to say.
He's going to show you what he's going to do.

All the young students that are here, he's going to show you what he's
going to do in your life this year. Jesus himself said when the Holy
Spirit comes, he will take what is mine and he will show you things to
come. That's what he does.

He will show you. He will show you things that God is intending to do in
your life and through your life if you will let him speak. Your servant
is listening.

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