Trusting in the Power of Jesus' Name

1. "Sometimes when you follow Jesus, he's going to call you to make it. But I want to tell you something. The biggest leap of faith you'll ever make is giving your heart to Jesus Christ. When you if you can make that, if you can say yes to Jesus and trusting with your eternity, if you can say yes to Jesus and trusting with your soul, you can say yes to Jesus and trusting that his sacrifice on that cross. Was sufficient to pay for your salvation. If you can make that leap, it's not a leap in the dark. It's a leap on the word of God. It's a leap on the promises of God. It's not a leap on emotions or feel good. It's a leap on the certainty that God promised." [38:52] (41 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "Trust in the Lord and do good. Dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. Trust. When I was I brought you all the way to Sanibel for a reason, because at 22, I preached a forgettable message and I would go to the back door. There was only one way out. And you shook everybody's hand on the way out. Just back then. That's what you did. And you kiss the babies, which back then I did. But now I'd go take that snotty nose kid out of my face because I'm not going to kiss one lady, shoved her kid into my face. And he had literally green under his nose. Kiss the pastor. And I didn't know you could say no back then. I didn't know you could say stop it. That's creepy. Get him away from me. You shouldn't even have brought him to church. Now my kid will be sick. Stay home. Anyway, I didn't say any of that. But I kiss." [42:13] (50 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "If you trust him for your salvation. Why can't we trust him for our provision. If we can trust him for eternal life. Why can't we trust him in the midst of a hurricane. If we can trust him with our soul and our being the way in is the way on. When you come to Jesus, you come with trust or you don't get to Jesus. You don't get to Jesus without trust. Trust is what connects us. It's it's the glue of. The kingdom. It puts our heart into his hands and says I'm in your care. I trust you. I'm no longer trusting me. I'm no longer putting faith in me." [44:33] (38 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "Will God give you more than you can handle? Absolutely. If you don't trust him, but if you trust him, then you're letting him do the heavy lifting first word, trust second word, delight. Verse four, delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. Now, listen, one of the most misunderstood verses in the Bible. It doesn't mean this delight in the Lord and you'll get whatever you want. Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz? Oh, you're not going to. Yeah, I get it that none of my son, you know, as a pastor, Jason's preaching last week, he's saying stuff I never heard of. I'm like, dude, I've never heard of that. He said, what do you think I think about all your stories? I don't know. I've never I don't know any of those music groups." [53:03] (45 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "If you want to get the will of God right in your life, don't focus on the will of God. If you want to make wine. These decisions don't focus on the decision. What this verse means is that if you will learn to make your soul happy with Jesus, like what we just did, what you just did, if you were engaged and surrendered and speak in the name of Jesus and your mind was off of whatever it is that you've got to when you delight in the Lord, when you find joy with you and Jesus, God will shape your desires. It's not that God's going to give you what you want. He's going to give you what he wants you to want. He changes sanctity." [54:42] (45 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6. "If you love somebody, you'll love what they love. If you can't love what somebody else loves, you're a self-absorbed person that's not very fun to live with. That was me basically when I first got married because I felt like my wife should accommodate all of the things I like to do, and she really tried hard at that and went places that some men probably wouldn't have walked in and down slopes and waterfalls. And and she didn't know she could have told me no back then. And and now she's long since learned that that's more than her prerogative to say no. But she tried to accommodate me. But there are certain things that, you know, you're just not wired to do. But let me tell you this. When you love someone, I've learned to accommodate my wife. Why? Because I want to be with her. You have a choice." [56:35] (47 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7. "Basically, you can love God and do whatever you want, because if you truly love God, you're not going to ever do something that would hurt him, disgrace him. You're not going to ever do anything that would hurt him or to cause him any sense of heartbreak in this, you want to please him, you want to honor that delight in the Lord and he'll shape your heart, your heart will change. You got to shape your heart and leaps of faith. If you focus on the leap and not on the delight, you're going to be paralyzed with fear. When we came to Cape Coral, we came here. We gave up our job on on Sanibel. We gave up the church. We came over here knowing nothing. We rented a we were meeting in the life center at the hospital. And then we started on Sunday at Trafalgar Middle School. I preached at both churches for a while." [59:50] (52 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8. "If you want to be on time, which my dad taught me. If you're not early, it's sin and you didn't care about anything else. But be on time, son. Be on time. Fifteen minutes early. That's what he trained. I train my staff same way. Drives me insane when they walk up here on the stage and it's two seconds left to get him. It's like you should have been up there ten minutes earlier. This is my dad comes out of me. I'm sorry, but but but that didn't work well in marriage. And it was what's more important, being on church on time or honoring your wife? Let me help you. If you if you're trying to figure that out, you're already in trouble. You're you're if it's like I don't know which way to go there. I don't know. Stupid versus wisdom. I don't know. I'm going to feel good in everybody's eyes." [01:17:10] (49 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


9. "If God's worth waiting on, wait on him. Don't wait on him with dread and dread and despair. Radar, wait on him pregnant with the promise that he is coming. He will do it. He will break through. He will not leave you. He will not forsake you. He'll not let you drown. Trust never gets easier than that. Trust is always heavy lifting. Trust. Get your eyes off of you, off of others. Trust the light. That's that's a big that's that's just have fun with Jesus. When you start loving the things that he loves. I said I've had the Lord tell me things, places I love to go. And they're just I don't know why I love to go there. I just love to go there. And I was talking to the Lord about that because I don't know if I'm going to be able to get back there and he said, son, I love this place more than you do. I had nowhere to put that. He said, why do you think you're here? You're You're here because I love this. And I put that love in you to love this. You love it as much. No, I love it more than you. When you learn to love what he loves, you're delighting in him." [01:18:44] (82 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


10. "If you're here and you feel just like your faith has been shipwrecked, come get some prayer. These folks would love to pray for you. If you're a guest, I'd love to meet you. I'll be at the front. Lord, let me bless you. Father, would you help us this week to trust you in a greater way to delight in you? Lord, forgive us where we've made needing decisions wisdom. We made that more important. You getting answers. We've made it more. Help us delight to delight in you this week. Just to love you, Jesus, without asking you for things. I know you don't mind that, but sometimes it's good for us. Father, just to praise you, just to love you and not ask you for things. And then we just choose to roll our burdens on you because you can handle it. We can. And Lord, we're going to choose to wait on you. You're worth waiting on. But we're going to wait as an expectant mother that the birth is coming, that you're going to come through with what we're waiting you waiting on you for. So bless your people, Lord. Let them go in your protection and your blessing in Jesus name. And all God's people said, please feel." [01:36:39] (72 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)