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  FINDING YOUR VOICE IN THE STORM
  by Carter Conlon
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Summary: This sermon focuses on the triumphal entry of Jesus into
Jerusalem, highlighting the significance of Jesus coming in on a donkey
as a sign of peace and the people's expectation of a conquering king.
The message emphasizes the need to rediscover our voices in the midst of
the storms we face, to listen to the voice of God, and to find hope and
victory through Jesus Christ, especially in times of societal turmoil
and personal struggles.

Topics: "Triumphal Entry", "Finding Hope in Turmoil"
Scripture References: Matthew 21:6, Psalm 139:23, 1 Thessalonians 5:1, Romans 3:23, John 10:27, Acts 2:1, Romans 8:37, Revelation 3:20

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This sermon focuses on the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem,
highlighting the significance of Jesus coming in on a donkey as a sign
of peace and the people's expectation of a conquering king. The message
emphasizes the need to rediscover our voices in the midst of the storms
we face, to listen to the voice of God, and to find hope and victory
through Jesus Christ, especially in times of societal turmoil and
personal struggles.

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This is a day where Jesus made his triumphal entry into Jerusalem and
thank God that he did. And of course, the scripture tells us that he
came in on a donkey, which was the sign of an embassage of peace as it
was. If a king was coming in to conquer, if a king was coming in to
overthrow his enemies, he would generally come in on a horse and a
chariot.

But the fact that the king of all the universe came in on a donkey is
telling us that he desired to make peace with you and with me, and thank
God he did. I want you to turn with me in your Bibles, please, if you
will, to Matthew chapter 21, and we're going to begin to read at verse
6, if you will. Father, thank you, God, with all my heart for the touch
of heaven that's on your word.

Help us, Lord Jesus Christ, as your people, to find our voices in the
storm, this present storm that we are going through in this country and
in this world. Lord, you have a people and you have given us a voice, so
help us, Lord, to rediscover our voice or perhaps discover it for the
first time for many who would be part of this today. And Lord, we thank
you, God, that you're going to give that great grace and we give you the
praise and the glory.

Touch this physical body and give me the ability, Lord, to speak this
word this morning. Let every heart be gladdened. Let the challenge of
God go out across the Internet waves.

And Lord Jesus Christ, help us in our hearts to respond. And we thank
you for it in your precious name. Amen.

Matthew 21, beginning at verse 6. So the disciples went and did as Jesus
commanded them. They brought the donkey and the colt, laid their clothes
on them and set him on them. And a very great multitude spread their
clothes on the road.

Others cut down branches from the trees and spread them on the road.
This is where we get the concept of Palm Sunday. Then the multitudes who
went before and those who followed cried out, saying, Hosanna to the son
of David.

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.
And when he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who
is this? So the multitude said, This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth
of Galilee.

What an incredible day of victory it was for so many. This is the people
of Israel. This is what they had looked forward to for thousands of
years.

This was the fulfillment of every promise that the Old Testament
scriptures gave them, that one day there would be a Messiah who would be
a son of David, in a sense, and sit upon the throne of Israel and rule
and reign forever. And they would be delivered from all of their
enemies, everything that was ever against them. Of course, the present
reality was that they were being oppressed by the nation of Rome at the
time.

And yet here was the dream actually had come true. The king had come. He
was coming in on a donkey.

The people were shouting out. Hosanna to the son of David. Now that they
knew what that meant.

That meant that their Messiah had come. They were going to be set free.
Their future was going to be secure.

And all the promises in the Old Testament, they'd be brought to a place
where there's no more tears, no more sorrow, no more sighing, no more
sickness. I mean, all these promises were in the scripture, and they
knew these promises. Can you just imagine? Like, we will experience this
one day when we're delivered from this present world as it is and
brought into the kingdom of heaven for eternity.

But in their minds, it was happening now. This was the hope of every
heart, the hope of all their dreams. And they were worshiping and
singing Hosanna in the highest.

And they were just days away, though, from what would be for many, if
not all of them, the darkest days of their lives. They had no idea what
was coming just a few days down the road. They would ask themselves, how
is it possible that what started out so smoothly, it was the fulfillment
of our dreams, had in a few short days gone so wrong? And we think about
America today, you know, the land of opportunity, the land of freedom,
the land of where we can freely worship God, the land where every person
can pursue life, liberty, and happiness, and the land where the stock
market seemed to be just forever and ever and ever going up, the land
where retirement plans were gaining money for those that were putting
their investments into it.

And we think of a lot of people felt like perhaps their dreams had been
realized. The future was secure, only to have it go south in such a
short time. As a matter of fact, there was a wealthy person in the news
this morning that said, we are about to experience America 2.0. And this
is what he meant when he said this, that America is about to land in an
unfamiliar place.

It's about to become a country that it has never been. We're about to go
through things that we've never possibly had to go through to such a
depth before. And he's calling it America 2.0. In a short just moment,
hopes were dashed for these people in this opening scripture.

Their dreams were gone. Their confidence was shaken as everything seemed
to go south, as I said earlier, in just a moment of time. You know, the
scripture tells us, the apostle Paul says in 1 Thessalonians 5, verses 1
to 5, he says, concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have
no need that I should write to you.

For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a
thief in the night. For when they say peace and safety, then sudden
destruction comes upon them as labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and
they shall not escape. But you brethren are not in darkness so that this
day should overtake you as a thief.

You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night
nor of darkness. No doubt, voices were being raised everywhere.

Voices of caution, voices of concern, voices of panic. As the son of
David, the promise that they felt life and the future held for them
suddenly was being taken captive. And it seemed like everything that
they had hoped for was now being destroyed right before their eyes.

The king that they'd waited for for so long, the security it all offered
was suddenly dissipating, just seemingly falling like sand through
everybody's fingers. And I don't think that you or I can possibly
understand the shock of that moment. You imagine waiting for something
all of your life.

You imagine talking about it with your parents and your grandparents and
your great-grandparents and passed down from house to house and table to
table and talking about this moment that was going to come. And it
finally came. And when it came, it just suddenly all just fell through
everybody's fingers.

I don't think we can fully understand the shock of that moment. If we
did fully understand it, we would be less quick to condemn the disciples
when they failed to understand the moment that they were living in just
before the cross. And in their confusion, began to even deny as Peter
did that they'd ever even known the Lord Jesus Christ.

All these voices raised. In our society today, there's voices
everywhere. I don't know about you, but I'm getting really tired of all
these voices.

All these voices that don't seem to know where we're going. All these
voices with looking to point the finger and blame somebody else for
what's going on. Lying voices, exaggerating voices, voices of gloom and
doom, voices of optimism not based in any reality.

I'm so tired of these voices. Thank God. That's all I can say.

There's a voice that rises above every other voice in every storm. You
remember the disciples in the boat going across that sea. And you can
just picture that the wind is howling and the waves are roaring and the
disciples are, they're saying, wake him up or do something.

Somebody, we're starting to perish. All these voices. Then suddenly the
son of God rises up in that boat and his voice has power over every
storm.

His voice has the power over the elements. His voice can bring those who
trust in him to safety. His voice rises above every voice.

You see, there was a voice being raised up only a few days from Palm
Sunday. It was a voice that had the power to calm the destructive power
of this storm. You see, but it was on a cross and because it was on a
cross, most everybody thought this voice had been defeated.

But had they been listening, they would have understood. It was the same
voice that had once been raised in the boat in the storm. It was the
same voice that at the beginning of all things in Genesis 1, where the
scripture says, and God said, and things were created and things were
given boundaries and things were given life and things were given
borders.

It was that same voice that was on the cross. And this voice, even
though it looked like it had been defeated. You know, we're living in a
generation where I'm sure there are some people that are given to
darkness that believe that the voice of God in our generation has been
defeated.

I want to challenge anyone who holds to that opinion. People have made
that mistake in the past. You cannot defeat the voice of God.

You cannot defeat the God of eternity. The God of all power, the God of
all authority, the God who created the universe by the words of his
mouth. The God who brought his son out of the grave after three days.

You can't defeat that voice. There's no way that you can defeat that
voice. And may I remind you, that voice can never be silenced.

Now we can cease to hear it because we are shouting too loud. We can
cease to hear it because we are listening to the crowd with all of their
opinions and all their woes and all of their blame and everything else.
We can cease to hear it, but that voice still is above every other
voice.

And I find it interesting from the perspective of a picture that that
voice was up on a hill on a cross and it was above. That voice actually
was above the other voices if people could still hear it. And this voice
of Christ on the cross was speaking of victory in spite of what
everybody around it looked like.

There was just nothing but defeat. But that voice was speaking of
victory. I think of some of the words of Jesus on the cross and in
particular when he said, it is finished.

In other words, the power of sin to destroy you, the power of the
present storms of this world to take away your eternal hope, the power
of rebellion that separates men and women and children from God is
finished. There was a victory happening on that cross. But to the
natural, it didn't look like victory.

But there was a great, great victory that was happening. And I thank
God. I wish I had been there to hear this voice.

I can hear it in my spirit, obviously, but I wish I'd been there to hear
this voice when he called out, it is finished. The separation between
men and God, the veil that separates men from God is being torn from the
top to the bottom and a way is being made for every person who wants to
to come back into relationship with God and a way is being made for the
heart of God who wants to come back into relationship with his creation.
You know, the scripture tells us when that veil, when Jesus said it is
finished and he finally gave up the spirit, the veil that separated man
from God was torn in two from the top to the bottom.

That shows me the hands of God were at the top and just ripped that
veil. The scripture also tells us that suddenly rocks were split in two,
graves were opened and the dead began to rise. As God, in my mind, I see
God coming out and say, I have waited for this moment to defeat
everything that has been sent to defeat those that are created in my
image.

It was a moment of incredible victory even though in the natural, it was
dark in the world. There was an eclipse of the sun more or less. We
don't fully understand all that happened in the heavenlies, we just know
it was dark on the earth.

But there was a victory even in the midst of that darkness, a victory
beyond a victory that's ever been won in any battle anywhere, any time,
any country, any place, any heart, any home. A victory that there will
never be another one quite like it. It was an amazing victory.

The voice that was raised above the storm was also speaking about
forgiveness. Father, forgive them. They don't know what they're doing.

You see, if you can hear in the midst of your storm, that voice of the
son of God is still speaking today. Speaking about a victory that he won
for you. A victory that is yours if you will turn to Jesus Christ as
your Lord and Savior.

A victory that you don't win by being a better person. You don't win it
by trying to do right things in your own strength as good as they might
be. The Bible tells us that sin separates from God and the wages of sin
is still death.

But the second half of that verse says, but the gift of God is eternal
life through Jesus Christ our Lord. And so if you can hear it in the
midst of your storm today, the voice of God coming to you is about
victory. It's about an eternal, a secure hope, forgiveness for your
future.

A life and strength that can only come from God. This is the voice that
rises still even today above the voice of every other voice in our
present day storm. Because you and I are no longer separated from God,
that same voice has now been entrusted to us.

Do you remember Jesus said to his disciples, as the father has sent me,
even so now I send you. You remember in the book of John, after he was
raised from the dead, he came into that first upper room and it says, he
breathed upon them and said to them, receive the Holy Spirit. You
remember in the book of Acts chapter two, when those early disciples
went into that upper room and prayed and the spirit of God came upon
them.

The first thing that happened is they went out of that room into the
marketplace and they were doing the very thing in a sense that had been
done on the cross. Now they were not bringing about any form of
redemption that already had been accomplished through Jesus Christ. But
they were now being given the voice of God.

The scripture says they were speaking about things to come. It was
amazing. It was so stunning that people who were just simply religious
knew that they didn't have this kind of a voice or this kind of a power
flowing through them.

And see the point that I'm trying to make today is that it's now
imperative that you and I find our God-given voices in this present
storm. He entrusted this voice of victory and this voice of forgiveness
to you and to me. Now, in order to find this voice again, in order to
walk in the power of the voice of God speaking through us, we need to
become a people of prayer again.

We need to shut ourselves away from all the voices that are all around
us trying to lead us into anger or division or bitterness or resentment
or all these other things in this generation. And we need to one more
time begin to pray and hear the voice of God. And when you hear the
voice of God, the scripture will bear witness that you will come out of
that place of hearing his voice, declaring what God is speaking.

And not only will you be given confidence, but you and I will take a lot
of people into the kingdom of God with us. In the book of Acts chapter
27, the Bible speaks of a journey that the society of that time decided
to take. They wouldn't listen.

They were warned. The apostle Paul told them in verse 10, men, I
perceive that this voyage will end with disaster and much loss, not only
of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives. They wouldn't listen.

They were warned. In America, we undertook a journey, a soft journey a
few decades ago. And the voices of God that were raised up, nobody would
listen to these voices.

We decided as a society that we knew better than God. We knew how to
undertake this journey. We knew where we wanted to get to, only to find
ourselves today in a storm, just like they found themselves in a storm.

Verse 13 says, when the wind blew softly, supposing they had obtained
their desire, putting out to sea, they sailed by Crete, but not long
after a tempestuous headwind arose called Eurocliden. And when the ship
was caught, we could not head into the wind, but we let her drive. And
that's exactly where we're at today.

As a matter of fact, for years, the Lord's been using this passage of
scripture from Acts 27 to speak to my heart about the future of America,
what it was going to look like. That we have not listened to the word of
God. And because we've not listened, and in our arrogance undertook our
own journey to do things our own way.

And when the wind blew softly, we thought we were going to obtain our
objectives. But now, by the mercy of God, just as the people were in our
opening text, just as the people were in Acts 27, we find ourselves in a
storm of unprecedented proportion. I would garner a guess today that
we've never seen a storm like this, next to maybe the civil war in
America.

But I think the storm is deeper. I think just as in the days of the
apostle Paul, the scripture says in verse 20, when neither sun nor stars
appeared for many days, and no small tempest beat on us, all hope that
we would be saved was finally given up. Where we're heading there in the
not too distant future.

We're going to America 2.0. We're going to land in a place that we've
never been before. We're gonna find ourselves in a society that's very
foreign to what we thought this nation was going to be in our present
time and in the days ahead of us. But what would make a difference in a
time like this? And so this is my question to you.

What could make a difference when all these voices are rising, when all
the confusion is swirling all around us? There was one man, one person.
This is why I'm calling the young to get back into the word of God and
to be set apart for God and for the kingdom of God. There was one man in
the belly of that ship who was spending time with God.

And in spending time with God in prayer, he discovered his voice in the
midst of the storm. And when all hope seemed to be lost, suddenly the
apostle Paul appears on the deck of that ship. And he stood in the midst
of them and said, men, you should have listened to me and not sailed
from Crete and incurred this disaster and loss.

You should have listened. It's your stubbornness as a nation. It's your
rebellion.

It's your unwillingness to hear the word of God that has brought this
incredible hardship into your midst. And you should have listened. But
thank God, the voice of God does not leave people there because people
can be so discouraged and so cast down.

If our only message is simply just repent, then the people are going to
be discouraged. But having the voice of God, Paul now goes beyond just
saying, I warned you, I told you, you should have listened. And it's
fairly obvious that America is in the trouble we're in because we
embraced a light gospel journey.

We went our own way. We did our own thing. We started calling evil good
and good evil.

We started redefining things like marriage and family and such like. And
because of it, we're now in the storm that we're in. And we should have
listened to the word of God, but we didn't.

And now we're in a storm of epic proportions. We're heading to a foreign
place in a sense that we've never been to before. But Paul doesn't stay
there.

He warns the people and says, you should have listened. So in other
words, now start listening. That's what he said, basically.

You didn't listen. It brought about the storm. So now I'm telling you to
start listening.

If anybody is out there today and you're listening across the nation or
across the world, here's the simplicity of my message. Start listening
to the word of God. Start listening to the voice of God.

Start listening to the calling of God. Start listening to the direction
of God. For there is no hope for the future unless the voice of God
comes and brings us now to that place of safety.

Brings us into that victory and brings us into this incredible mercy
that is now available and always has been available to us through the
cross of Jesus Christ. Now in verse 22, Paul now moves to where our
voices have to move to. He says, now I urge you to take heart for there
shall be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

In other words, everything physically around you is going to change. But
I have a word from God and I know where my life is going. And I know
what God has called me to do.

And I have been in prayer. And because God has shown me his voice and
shown me his heart, he's also shown me the depth of his victory and his
mercy. And I'm telling you, this storm doesn't have the power to take
away your life if you will listen to what God has given me to say.

You remember Paul said to the centurions, the soldiers, he said, unless
you stay with the ship, you cannot be saved. Don't try to get out of
this storm your own way. There's only one voice that's going to get you
and I to safety now.

One voice that's going to get us to a place where God wants us to go.
And that is the voice of God. I know that voice in my own heart.

I know where I'm going. I know that I'm going to Plymouth on October the
6th to lead a prayer meeting of repentance for the nation and asking God
to rededicate this nation back to him again and to ask him to forgive us
for what we have done with the grace that he showed us as a nation. I
know I have to be there.

So I'm not worried about the present storm. And if you will listen, if
you will start moving with God, if you will start listening to the voice
of God, God promises that he will keep you through the storm. Paul told
them, he said, we're all going to be cast upon a certain island and
everyone, the ship is going to break apart.

But everyone, if you'll grab hold of a piece of wood, whether or not you
can swim, just start kicking your feet and you're going to make it to
shore. Now, if you understood, if you've ever seen an ocean storm of
this magnitude, I have, where waves are so big that they're actually
breaking the back of a ship apart, the odds of getting to shore are
almost zero. The undertow would be so strong, even hanging onto wood,
you couldn't make it.

But because God is more powerful than any storm you'll ever face or any
opposition that will ever come against you. Everyone grabbed a hold of a
piece of wood and the scripture says the whole 276 on that boat with
Paul made it to the shore. Thank God.

And when they got to shore, they now began to see the power of God in
operation. Oh yes, the devil tried to bite the hand of Paul and stop him
from what God had called him to do. And the devil will try to bite your
hand.

Cause you to withdraw and say, I'm just going to preserve myself. I'm
not going to be given any more for any of these people. But Paul didn't
do it.

He shook off that thing that bit him into the fire. And from that same
hand, healing began to flow. And this is the cry of my heart that
through my life and through yours, that the words of God would start to
be spoken and the healing of God would begin to flow through our hands,
to our friends, to our families, to our neighbors, to our communities.

You see, we were born as a people of power in the book of Acts and we
drew back and we settled by being self-focused. We settled for being
self-focused in the people of just theological argument, but that's not
what the church is supposed to be. We're supposed to speak for God.

We're supposed to bring people to safety. There should be power in our
words over the storm, over everything that threatens not just us, but
threatens our neighbors, our friends, and even our enemies. There were
enemies of Paul on that ship, but the kindness of God that was once
extended through the cross to those who had crucified Christ is now
through Paul being extended to even those who had caused him incredible
suffering and pain in his physical body.

This is the voice of God. This is the power of God. This is the grace of
God.

This is the victory of God. This is the forgiveness of God. And thank
God that once again in our generation, you and I have been given the
incredible opportunity to speak for him one more time.

Get a word from God in your home and tell your family where you are
going and tell them that they will follow. They will be safe. Get a word
from God.

Speak it to your neighbors. Talk about the mercy of God. Talk about the
victory of Christ.

Yes, warn them of the penalty of sin, but talk more about the gift of
God, eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Praise be to God. This
whole society is open because of the storm.

In the days of the apostle Paul, they never would have listened had
everything continued to go smoothly. It was because of the storm that
God sent. It was because of the storm that God sent that they were able
to enter into the safety of God and have an opportunity to receive
Christ as savior.

I want you to remember this morning that mercy still triumphs over
judgment. Mercy means, you see judgment is when you and I die and we are
destined then to spend our eternity in hell apart from God. And our
minds can't even comprehend how awful that really is.

That's judgment. But mercy triumphs in the sense that even if we should
die in whatever days are ahead of us, that heaven becomes our eternal
home and we live and rule and reign with Christ forever. That's mercy
triumphing over judgment.

You asked me today, pastor, well, how can I get out of my storm? How can
I learn to hear the voice of God? How can my life be used to make a
difference? I'm gonna give it as simply as I can to you. Firstly, admit
that you have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, that means of
what God intended your life to be. Admit that your ways are not God's
ways, that the way you live, the way you think, the things you've done,
the lies you've told, whatever it is that you've been involved in has
separated you from a holy God and admit that you can't save yourself.

And secondly, believe that God so loved you. God so loved you. That's
why he sent his son into Jerusalem to die on the cross, to pay the
penalty, the price for all the wrong things that you have done, to
declare both victory and forgiveness to you from the cross.

Believe that Jesus took your place. Believe it with all your heart.
Believe that it's as simple as saying, God, I open my heart to you and I
accept your offer.

When you stretched out your hands on that cross, your hands were
stretched out to me. And when you spoke about victory and forgiveness,
you were speaking about me. And so Lord, I have no plea but your mercy.

So I come to you today and I open my heart and I invite you to come into
my life and to be my Lord and my savior. And thirdly, confess with your
mouth that Jesus Christ is your Lord and savior. Even if you're only
doing that, if you're all alone today and you're doing that in the
confines of your own bedroom or your own apartment, you just vocally and
verbally and out loud say, Jesus Christ, you are now Lord of my life.

You are now my savior. You are my God. You are the voice that rises
above the storms of my heart and my mind.

You are the one who invited me to be a partaker of this incredible
victory that was won on the cross. And you are the one who promised to
give me not just eternal life, but a full and abundant life here on this
side of eternity. And you promised that my voice would now be in line
with yours and that you would give me power in my speech.

You would explain to me my future and give me the ability to take others
with me into this harbor of safety that you provided for us because of
your cross. You see, that's as simple as it is. So now I'm going to lead
you in a prayer.

Everyone who's online today, I know we got families all over the place.
Some of you even go to church and that's a good thing. But there's also
many people, many young people too, that you've never ever prayed that
prayer.

You've never ever fully yielded your life to Jesus Christ. You've never
just gone all the way, may I put it that way, and gotten into the game
yourself. But today that's all going to change.

Today you're going to open your heart and let the voice of the son of
God speak to you. And then you're going to open your mouth and let the
son of God speak through you. And you watch what God is going to do in
your life and through your life.

So I'm going to ask you, I'm going to lead you in a prayer and I'm going
to say it very slowly. And I'm going to ask you to pray it with me, pray
it out loud if you want to, or pray it quietly in your heart if you can.
But in any event, please just pray with me in the midst of your storm
and open your heart to this incredible salvation through Jesus Christ.

Now I'm going to say the words and I'm going to ask you to repeat them
after me. Lord Jesus Christ, I thank you for loving me so much that you
came into this world, you went to a cross, and you paid the price for
the wrong that I have done. I thank you that on that cross you spoke to
me about victory and about forgiveness.

And you invited me to be saved from this present storm I'm in and from
the penalty and the power of sin. Jesus Christ, today I open my heart to
you and I invite you to come into my life to be my Lord, my Savior, and
my God. Forgive me for the things I've done and for trying to live this
life my own way.

From now on, I will follow you. I will confess you as my Lord and my
Savior and I will be with you forever all the days of my life. Thank
you.

You will give me a voice in the midst of the storm to lead many others
around me to that place of safety that you offer them as well. I love
you, Jesus. Thank you for loving me and speaking to my heart today.

You are my Savior, my God, and the Lord of my life. Lead me, teach me,
guide me for the rest of my days. Thank you for loving me in Jesus'
name.

Amen. Now, if you're listening online today and you prayed that prayer,
we want an opportunity to get in touch with you just to encourage you.
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That's 88202 on your cell phone and just text the word DECIDED. And we
would like to get back to you, to encourage you, maybe to help direct
you to some Bible studies and things like that online that we would
recommend that can help you in your new walk with God. What looks to be
a disaster in our society has just become your victory.

It caused you to begin to think. It caused you to turn. And for all the
Christian people out there, let me remind you, it's time for you and I
to pray.

It's time for you and I to find our voice in the storm and speak for
God. God bless you. Greg's gonna lead us in a song before we close out
today.

Let's take a moment just to worship. And for those who are already
believers, would you thank God with me and with us here for those that
have received Christ as Lord and Savior today. God bless you in Jesus'
name.

♪ You let them hang you on a tree ♪ ♪ You died for sinners just like me
♪ ♪ I raised my voice up with a cry ♪ ♪ You's caught hands and dried my
eyes ♪ ♪ I love you, love you, love you Jesus ♪ ♪ And I praise your holy
name ♪ ♪ You are the alpha and the omega ♪ ♪ You're the first, the last,
the same ♪ ♪ You let them hang you on a tree ♪ ♪ You died for sinners
just like me ♪ ♪ I raised my voice up with a cry ♪ ♪ You's caught hands
and dried my eyes ♪ ♪ You let them hang you on a tree ♪ ♪ You died for
sinners just like me ♪ ♪ I raised my voice up with a cry ♪ Remember, if
you prayed that prayer, you can go to 88202, that's 88202, and text the
word DECIDED. And also, if you are interested in going to our Bible
school to be trained in the ways of God, to find your voice in this
generation, I gave you the wrong information, unfortunately, so I'm
going to correct it now. You go to SUMMIT to 484848.

SUMMIT to 484848. So we look forward to hearing from you. God bless you.

Thank you, Greg, for leading us in such wonderful worship today. I thank
God for that. I felt like I was right back in New York City again, all
over again.

You're just such a proficient worshiper. I hope you're thankful for Greg
Thomas and also for Raphael and his daughter and the team that's been
with us the previous two weeks. We're going to be mixing it up a little
bit in the future, and there'll be different things that we're going to
be doing worship-wise.

We're even going to try to maybe bring you a couple of high points from
the past at Times Square Church in New York City if God gives us the
ability to do that. So we just want you to know we love you, and I'm
just so thankful because I really feel in my heart that there are people
out there, you've received Christ as your Savior. There's children out
there that have received Christ today.

I feel that there's some kids, maybe a young boy, about eight years old,
that just opened his heart today. It's just something I feel inside. Let
us know that you're out there.

Let us know that you really opened your heart to Jesus today and give us
the opportunity to contact you and pray for you. God bless you.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/cHrPrs9pGws.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/carter-conlon/finding-your-voice-in-the-storm/
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