Transforming Tragedy: Hope, Obedience, and Following Jesus
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "The Lord will turn your tragedy into triumph. The thing of it is, and I don't preach a gospel of works or legalism or any such thing, but He wants you involved in that. Sometimes there's something that's clouding you, man. You've got to stand up there by faith and speak life over it. Sometimes nobody else will speak life over it. You've got to speak life over yourself. Amen? Come on now. Nobody else will speak healing over you. You've got to speak healing over yourself." [08:03]
2. "We don't grieve as though we have no hope. We don't grieve as though there's no future. So I pray for the story, the oil and the wine, and those that have been walking in this cloud of depression. We break it in Jesus. Amen." [04:47]
3. "Jesus said, Follow me. Amen. He said, Come and be my disciple. They called him Rabbi, which means teacher or master. I want you to understand something, ladies and gentlemen, and I've got a few minutes. But in Judaism, by the time you were about 13, you had memorized the first five books of the Bible." [31:17]
4. "Jesus, ladies and gentlemen, is still saying today if anybody is thirsty, if any man, in other words, if he wanted to know the God of the covenant that you're doing with all your ceremonial stuff, he's going to just come unto me. Follow me. Follow me, Jesus. We used to sing that old song. Take this whole world but give me Jesus." [39:32]
5. "He wasn't telling them, now change, change, change your way. He wasn't telling them, you need to go to synagogue every Saturday or you need to come to church every Saturday. No, no, no. He was going, if you really want what I've got, come with me. Because what a rabbi, what a teacher would say, is he would say that, come unto me, follow me." [35:20]
### Quotes for Members
1. "When you appropriate the word of God in your life, you begin to stand up on that word. You begin to speak the word of God over it and I'll tell you when you begin to speak the word of God over things it changes. I found out the hard way it doesn't necessarily usually change the circumstance anybody else but I found when I begin to speak the word over a situation the change that usually occurs is a change in me. I'm looking at it different. I'm interacting with it differently and accentuates what the Lord and activates what the Lord has already spoken." [09:36]
2. "Let me tell you what we need. A word from God. I'll tell you what my family needs. It's a word from God. Let me tell you what my church needs. It's a word from God. I'll tell you what my city needs. word from God. Amen. But I found through this little story of Jonah that the Lord had to get Jonah's heart right for the word that he had given Jonah to produce what he wanted it to produce. Let me tell you. The Lord did not want to destroy the city of Nineveh. I don't get that. Watch this. He's not that kind of person. wanted when he says repent. It's because he wants you to repent. Not because he wants to destroy you. However, the actions will mandate what the seed does." [19:14]
3. "Jesus was instituting. He was in the process of instituting a brand new way to interact with the Lord. find it unique and I fear that I have done it in the past and I regret that. And I hope to never do anything remotely like that again. But it's funny how we try to put Jesus and encapsulate him in an Old Testament kind of system. Because he came to, let me just tell you, he came to bust that system up. He came to bust that. He came to bust that system up. And we still, we love to talk about the Ten Commandments. And we love to talk about being good, doing it, staying clean, doing it. Okay, I get it, I get it, I get it. But if you're trying to do all those things without the Spirit of the Lord, you're just another religious echo chamber. Jesus came to bust that completely up." [25:23]
4. "He simply spoke with the anointing of the Holy Spirit to a city that was messed up to pagans and the Spirit of God pressed through them and turned their hearts and God saw their works that they turned from their evil way. And he repented of the evil that he had said would come. Excuse me. He had repented of the evil that he had said. He had said that he would do unto them and did it not." [18:04]
5. "He says, get up, daughter of Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I told you to. So daughter got up and went to Nineveh according to the word of the Lord. Do the thing, wherever you're going, make sure where you're at and what you're doing and where you're going is according to the word. If you're believing, because anything less than that's going to mess you up. Anything other than that's going to mess you up." [13:18]
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1. "The Lord will turn your tragedy into triumph. The thing of it is, and I don't preach a gospel of works or legalism or any such thing, but He wants you involved in that. Sometimes there's something that's clouding you, man. You've got to stand up there by faith and speak life over it. Sometimes nobody else will speak life over it. You've got to speak life over yourself. Amen? Come on now. Nobody else will speak healing over you. You've got to speak healing over yourself." [08:03]
2. "We don't grieve as though we have no hope. We don't grieve as though there's no future. So I pray for the story, the oil and the wine, and those that have been walking in this cloud of depression. We break it in Jesus. Amen." [04:47]
3. "Jesus said, Follow me. Amen. He said, Come and be my disciple. They called him Rabbi, which means teacher or master. I want you to understand something, ladies and gentlemen, and I've got a few minutes. But in Judaism, by the time you were about 13, you had memorized the first five books of the Bible." [31:17]
4. "Jesus, ladies and gentlemen, is still saying today if anybody is thirsty, if any man, in other words, if he wanted to know the God of the covenant that you're doing with all your ceremonial stuff, he's going to just come unto me. Follow me. Follow me, Jesus. We used to sing that old song. Take this whole world but give me Jesus." [39:32]
5. "He wasn't telling them, now change, change, change your way. He wasn't telling them, you need to go to synagogue every Saturday or you need to come to church every Saturday. No, no, no. He was going, if you really want what I've got, come with me. Because what a rabbi, what a teacher would say, is he would say that, come unto me, follow me." [35:20]
### Quotes for Members
1. "When you appropriate the word of God in your life, you begin to stand up on that word. You begin to speak the word of God over it and I'll tell you when you begin to speak the word of God over things it changes. I found out the hard way it doesn't necessarily usually change the circumstance anybody else but I found when I begin to speak the word over a situation the change that usually occurs is a change in me. I'm looking at it different. I'm interacting with it differently and accentuates what the Lord and activates what the Lord has already spoken." [09:36]
2. "Let me tell you what we need. A word from God. I'll tell you what my family needs. It's a word from God. Let me tell you what my church needs. It's a word from God. I'll tell you what my city needs. word from God. Amen. But I found through this little story of Jonah that the Lord had to get Jonah's heart right for the word that he had given Jonah to produce what he wanted it to produce. Let me tell you. The Lord did not want to destroy the city of Nineveh. I don't get that. Watch this. He's not that kind of person. wanted when he says repent. It's because he wants you to repent. Not because he wants to destroy you. However, the actions will mandate what the seed does." [19:14]
3. "Jesus was instituting. He was in the process of instituting a brand new way to interact with the Lord. find it unique and I fear that I have done it in the past and I regret that. And I hope to never do anything remotely like that again. But it's funny how we try to put Jesus and encapsulate him in an Old Testament kind of system. Because he came to, let me just tell you, he came to bust that system up. He came to bust that. He came to bust that system up. And we still, we love to talk about the Ten Commandments. And we love to talk about being good, doing it, staying clean, doing it. Okay, I get it, I get it, I get it. But if you're trying to do all those things without the Spirit of the Lord, you're just another religious echo chamber. Jesus came to bust that completely up." [25:23]
4. "He simply spoke with the anointing of the Holy Spirit to a city that was messed up to pagans and the Spirit of God pressed through them and turned their hearts and God saw their works that they turned from their evil way. And he repented of the evil that he had said would come. Excuse me. He had repented of the evil that he had said. He had said that he would do unto them and did it not." [18:04]
5. "He says, get up, daughter of Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I told you to. So daughter got up and went to Nineveh according to the word of the Lord. Do the thing, wherever you're going, make sure where you're at and what you're doing and where you're going is according to the word. If you're believing, because anything less than that's going to mess you up. Anything other than that's going to mess you up." [13:18]
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