Sunday Morning 1st Service | I Am #2 | Pastor Rob Thomas

``Jehovah Rapha, he sees your wounds and he heals them. And then Jehovah Sidkanu takes your guilt and he makes you right with god. Guys, together, these two names together declare something powerful over your life. They declare something beautiful. You don't have to hide your brokenness and your pain for another day. You don't have to muster up the strength to carry it on into tomorrow into another another day, another Monday, or you're trying to hold yourself together because of all of the brokenness and the pain and the wounds and the shame within you. [01:20:48] (44 seconds)  #HealedAndMadeRight

God heals what no one else can reach. Guys, listen. How many of you are thankful for doctors? You know they're a gift from god? Absolutely. We wouldn't have doctors without God. God is our healer, and sometimes he uses doctors, and we're thankful for them. But, guys, there are places in your body, there are places in your mind, there are places in your heart that only Jehovah Rapha can touch and heal. Yeah. Yeah. No man can come close. [00:53:59] (32 seconds)  #BeyondMedicineGodHeals

The voice in you that whispers in your ear and says, you will never change. You're too far gone. God can't possibly love somebody like you. Guys, that voice is silenced when you put your trust in Jehovah Sidkanu. Your identity is now righteousness in Christ. The Bible says, as a follower of Jesus, you are a new creation. We talked about that a few weeks ago. That old dude that felt all the shame and guilt is dead, crucified with Christ. [01:17:53] (39 seconds)  #RighteousInChrist

So many of us were raised with certain ideals and thoughts, and we think we have or at least we feel this constant pressure to be good enough, to do good enough, to to fix ourselves enough so that we can truly be loved by god. What a lie. It's a lie to burn us out so that we can't fulfill god's purposes and plans for our lives. Jehovah Sidkanu says, stop performing and stop pretending. I know who you are from the inside out. I see it all. [01:14:53] (38 seconds)  #StopPerformingStartResting

So, you don't have to spend your whole life trying to be righteous enough and trying to measure up because the lord is your righteousness. Doesn't mean we go live however we want to. We love the lord. We wanna serve him. We wanna honor him with our lives. Right? However, how have you know? We're gonna jack it up sometimes. We don't have to live in condemnation. We come and we repent. We make things right, and we move on because the lord is our righteousness. [01:09:04] (33 seconds)  #FreedomFromCondemnation

God loves to take the bitter parts of your journey, the bitter parts of your story. Maybe it's that diagnosis that you got. Or maybe it's the divorce that you went through. Or maybe it's rejection. Or maybe it's a failure. Whatever it may be. And he loves to turn them into places where even others can come and drink and find hope. How do you know that God doesn't waste anything? [00:55:53] (36 seconds)  #TurningBitternessToHope

You can sit there all day long and intercede. God, I just pray. I just declare healing over my body. By Jesus' stripes, I am healed. From the top of my head to the tip of my toes, I think, hold on a second. And you're taking a big drink of your supersized Mountain Dew. I just come against diabetes in Jesus' name. Krispy Kreme. I rebuke it in Jesus' name. Doctors untold you, you better watch your blood sugar. Let me tell you, you can pray all day long, but you're responsible for what you know. [01:00:19] (35 seconds)  #PrayAndActResponsibly

What if you're obedient to what you knew in God's word, and what if you actually released forgiveness? Do you know you might actually find your healing? Healing often begins with obedience. Obedience opens the door for Jehovah Rapha to move. And what are we obedient to? We're obedient to what the Bible says that we are responsible for what we know. Right? For what God has revealed to us. [00:59:29] (31 seconds)  #ObedienceOpensHealing

I am such a victim. I have been so wounded. I've been so hurt. You don't understand my story. You don't know what they did to me, whoever they is. Maybe it's one person, maybe it's 50 people. You just don't understand. you're the one who's keeping that wound open. You're the wound well, you're the one keeping that thing festering. You may be praying every day. God, heal this wound in my heart. I just feel so broken. Like I it's five, ten years later. Lord, heal me. [00:58:29] (38 seconds)  #StopKeepingWoundsOpen

Guys, your journeys through despair can become your biggest testimonies. And oftentimes, it's up to us. God already promised he will work all things together for your good if you love him and called according to his purpose. How have you in here love the Lord and you're called according to his purpose? Lift your hand up. Well, then you got nothing to worry about. He's already there. He's already turning today's mess into tomorrow's testimony. Amen. [00:56:29] (32 seconds)  #FromMessToTestimony

There are places that only he can heal. Guys, he can heal the cancer you've been diagnosed with. You've gotten this terrible statement from the doctor on, and he says there's not much hope. He's the god who heals. He can touch that. He can calm anxiety that no pill can calm. He can he can bring healing to the trauma that no counselor can walk you through. [00:54:31] (35 seconds)  #HeHealsTheImpossible

Do you understand what Jesus did? Blameless and holy, he became every terrible thing you've ever done. Every shameful word you've ever spoken. Every wound that you would ever carry every sickness that would ever inflict you. He willingly became all that so that you could become the righteousness of god in him. Yes. Yes. So, why do we keep carrying it? Sometimes, we want to. I have right to be angry. I've been done wrong. That's not the way of the kingdom. [01:19:02] (45 seconds)  #ExchangeForRighteousness

The voice of shame loses its power. And for the first time you realize, my standing with god is not based on how well I've lived. It's based on Jesus and what he did for me And that, guys, changes everything. And that may sound a lot like your story. Maybe you are saved, you're a follower of Jesus, but down deep, you feel unworthy. The shame from your past, your shame, your guilt seems to be speaking louder than god's grace in your life. [01:13:42] (39 seconds)  #IdentityInJesusNotShame

Guys, you're defined by what Jesus has done in you. You can stand clean and confident and accepted before the father. Will you close your eyes with me? Bow your heads across this place. Guys, you have been declared fully healed and fully righteous. Not because of anything you've done, but because of who he is. So let me ask. What place in your life do you need to bring before Jehovah Rapha today? What guilt or shame do you need to release to Jehovah's Sytkanu right now? [01:24:23] (62 seconds)  #DeclareHealedAndRighteous

I imagine they're emotionally exhausted for three days. They've been waiting for a miracle. They're spiritually discouraged. They're desperate, and they need a healer. But right there in their bitterness, god comes and meets them. If you go down to verse 25, here's what it says. Then Moses cried out to the lord, and the lord showed him a piece of wood, and he threw it into the water, and the water became fit to drink. [00:52:00] (33 seconds)  #GodMeetsYouInBitterness

Moses didn't get to choose the method by which god would work. He simply had to obey. God showed him a piece of wood and prompted him to throw it in the water, and he did. And the bitterness was gone just like that. Guys, sometimes your healing starts with simple obedience. This is where I was thinking this morning. We love to hold on sometimes to bitterness. Sometimes, we'd like to hold on to our victim mentality. [00:57:27] (52 seconds)  #SimpleObedienceMiracles

Now here's the funny thing. We're sitting here talking about this like they're some kind of idiots, but we probably would have done the same darn thing. How many of you have done the same thing before? You've seen God move in miraculous ways in your life, and then three days later, but I'm thirsty. Am I gonna die, Lord? He just saved your life three days before. [00:50:19] (25 seconds)  #RememberGodsMiracles

So if you can feel it, this moment, they shifted from this from this mindset, god is with us to this mindset of god has abandoned us. We're all alone, and we're about to die. And this is the moment where suddenly a miracle begins to feel like a distant memory. How soon we forget. Right? And the present need becomes overwhelming. And that's the way we can get sometimes. Right? [00:50:53] (35 seconds)  #FromPresenceToPanic

So in that moment, the same people who had just three days earlier been dancing and celebrating God's victory, all of a sudden, the Bible says they began to complain bitterly against Moses. They began to say, what are we supposed to drink? Why did you bring us out here to die? Their joy turned into grumbling. Anybody in there ever been there? Their celebration turned into despair. [00:49:36] (40 seconds)  #ChoosePraiseNotGrumbling

Guys, on the cross, Jesus took every sin, every failure, every wound, every sickness, everything that you would ever carry, he took it. Every shameful thing you ever did or said. And what did he do? He gave you his perfect record in exchange. Guys, without Jesus, you've gotten an f in this life. Right. Right. And he just gave you his GPA. And it's not four point o. It's 10 o. He exchanged with you. [01:15:46] (40 seconds)  #GraceExchange