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>> Psalms 50:15 says, "Call on me when you are in trouble, and
I will rescue you, and you will give me glory." Matthew 11:28,
"Are you tired? Are you worn out? Burned out in religion.
Come to me. Get away with me and you'll recover your life." James
5:15, "The prayer of faith will save the sick person, and the
Lord will restore him to health." God will rescue,
recover, and restore.
>>BRIAN: Hello and welcome to another amazing episode of the
FAITH ALIVE SHOW. My name is Brian and I'll be your host.
We're so glad you can join us on today's show. Did you know that
even before you were born God had a specific plan for your
life? So many people feel like maybe they were born by mistake
or maybe they've been rejected by so many people over the
course of their life, while others they may feel like their
life is worthless. But we know that God has a plan for your
life and He's chosen you to live a life full of destiny in Him.
On today's episode we're gonna hear an encouraging message from
Mike Wilson. We'll also hear some testimonies of the great
things God has been doing in people's lives. Let's go now and
hear the uplifting message from our Youth leader, Mike Wilson.
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>>MIKE WILSON: But God does not make mistakes, right? He made
you the way you are and He created and formed you and He
has a plan for your life. And we should not be confused about
this because He knows us better than we even know ourselves. And
now I'm gonna read Psalms 139, so just bear with me. I'm gonna
do a, it's kind of lengthy. I'm reading out in the NIV tonight.
I got this Bible. It's my grandpa's Bible. I had a grandpa
who just passed away. And so when I was, my grandma,
grandpa's house I said, "Grandma, you know, I think that
would be cool if I could have his Bible." He's got his little
notes in here and his highlighted things. So my
grandma gave it to me and like that's so neat. It's so neat so
I'm reading out of this Bible. It's NIV. "O Lord, You have
searched me, and You know me. You know when I sit and when I
rise. You perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going
out and my lying down. You are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue, You know it completely. O Lord,
You hem me in behind and before. You have laid your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to
attain. Where can I go from Your Spirit? Where can I flee from
Your presence? If I go up to the heavens, You are there. If I
make my bed in the depths, You are there. If I rise on the
wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even
there Your hand will guide me. Your right hand will hold me
fast. If I say, 'Surely the darkness will hide me and the
light become night around me,' even the darkness will not be
dark to You. The night will shine like the day, for darkness
is as light to You. For You created my inmost being. You
knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise You because I am
fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful, I know
that full well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made
in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of
the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body all the days
ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them
came to be. How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, How
vast is the sum of them. Were I to count them, they would
outnumber the grains of sand when I awake, I am still with
You." And we're gonna stop there. And like verse 13 says,
"He created me. He knit me together in my mother's womb."
Can you say, "We're not mistakes." Yeah, we're not
mistakes. He knit us together before time begin. He sees us
and He knows us. And whether you are conceived through a
one-night stand or your parents abandon you or maybe you are an
accident or you weren't plan. You're not put on this earth by
mistake. God loves you and has a purpose for each and every one
of us. And He's planned it before you were even born,
before we even step foot on this earth. He planned your future.
He planned your steps. Verse 16, "All my days were ordained
before me written in your book of life before one of them came
to pass." God knows our future. That's pretty cool. God knows
our future. He knows our beginning. He knows our end. He
knows our present. And that's something to be excited about.
We can see our present. We cannot really see our future,
you know. We live in the now moment. We live in the present.
But I believed God give us glimpses into the future. He
gives us the vision. He gives us dreams and goals, in who we are
to be and who we are to come and that can progress us. He keeps
us pressing forward. That we might reach the mark that what
He's called us to be.
>>JACK ZIMMERMAN: Shalom, everyone! This is Rabbi Jack
Zimmerman from Jewish Voice Ministries International. Who am
I? You know the Hebrew word for that, of course, there's a
Hebrew word for every wonderful expression we have. The Hebrew
word for that is really called, "Hineni." It means "Here I am."
And I think it really answers the question of, "Who am I?"
Yes, I am fearfully and wonderfully made. But what is
that mean? It means that for you God, here I am. I am to offer
myself up to you. The book of Romans says as a living
sacrifice. Let me tell you why this means so much to me.
Recently, I spent time in Israel and touring the land of Israel.
It's just so diverse. You can go from the deserts to the
mountains, to lush and beautiful waterfalls and plants and trees
and greenery. That latter category reminds me of a place
where I went to called, Banias. It's in the northern part of
Israel, flowing streams, etcetera. Now, back in Jesus'
day they referred to it as Caesarea-Philippi. And it was
there that an important Biblical event took place. It's where
Jesus asked His disciples, He said, "Who do you say I am?" You
remember the story. His disciple said, "Well, some say you are
this one. Some say you are this prophet. Some say you are
Elijah." And then Jesus said, "Well, I'm not asking you who
some said." He said, "Who do you say I am?" And of course, Peter
came up with the right answer and he said, "You are the
Christ. You are the Son of God." Peter is a great representation
for who we are supposed to be. Who am I? I am someone, and we
are someone's if you will, who should know who Jesus is. Our
whole life and our whole focus should be on what I call
consecration. The idea that from the top of our head to the tips
of our toes. We should be totally one hundred percent
focused and sold out on glorifying Christ. Indeed, apart
from Jesus we are nothing. Everything that we are and who
we are comes from everything and all that Jesus is.
>>MIKE: And I often pray, often asking God, you know. Help me
become the man that You've called me to be. Help me become
the person that You see me in my future. You know, that I won't
be too hard or too resistant to You. That You would make me and
form me and shape me and mold me into the man of God that You
have called me and destined me to be. You see my future and now
You need to lead me and guide me into that place, into that
person that You've called me to be. That prayer I often pray all
the time. You know, help me to be a better husband. Help me to
be a better father. Help me to be a better leader. Help me to
be the person You called me to be. Because I wanna grow. I
wanna grow. I wanna be, you know, more mature, more, you
know, stronger, more whatever. Mighty powerful men of God.
That's what I wanna be and that should be your prayer, too. You
know, we cannot stop the process. And God sees the
greatness in each and every one of us. He sees greatness in me.
He sees potential in me. He sees potential in you and greatness
in you. And we need to strive for that perfection. We need to
strive for that greatness. And I remember there was a banner that
was hung on the wall of the church kind of like these
banners. It was hung on the wall of the church when I first
went to, when I first got saved. There was small little church.
And I can remember the banner and it says, "Do nothing
ordinary." Do nothing ordinary. And I can remember one of my
first, you know, I can remember this moment when I was, before I
went to sleep and I was in my room. I was in the basement. I
was in the bed and tears were coming down my eyes. It was my
first, almost one of my first real connections with God as I
pray and I communicate with Him. I was opened with Him. I was
honest with Him. And I said, "God, I don't wanna do ordinary
life. I don't wanna do ordinary Christianity. I don't wanna do
normal. I don't wanna be normal. I don't wanna do normal. I don't
wanna go church normal. I just want Your life for me. I want
that. I want it. I wanna reach what You've ordained for me. I
wanna reach the steps that You've placed before me. I wanna
reach my full potential." And tears were coming down my cheeks
and I thought, "Wow, this is God. This is what God wants." He
wants me to progress. He wants me to reach forward. He wants me
to step forward. This is what God wants. That was confirmation
with me like, "Oh, man. This is awesome." And so I know that God
wants us to keep moving forward. I know He wants us to keep
pressing on. But you know what I found? That we don't become
people God calls us to be and that He wants us to be by doing
nothing. It takes work, right? We can't just sit by and watch
life go by. You know, say, "Sera, sera. Whatever will be,
will be." You know, people say, "Oh, God has a plan. God has a
plan. He'll work it all out." Yeah, He does. But you're a part
of the plan. You have to do something about it, right? You
know, whatever happens, happens. We can't have that mentality.
Whatever happens, happens. It will all workout, you know. So
we are who we are today because of the decisions that we have
made in the past, right? The good, the bad, the ugly. You
know certain situations that have come up that have shaped us
and made us and formed us who we are today. And whether we like
who you are or not is not really the question. But the question
is, does God like who you are? Does God like who you become?
♪ [Segment Music] ♪
>>JAROD: This is facts with Jarod. Today, we're gonna be
talking about running. It can be a fun thing, but most of the
time it's a hard thing. In 1 Corinthians 9 the Word of God
tells us that we should be runners that run with the goal
to win, not just runners that run for running sake. We are
called not to be Sunday morning joggers but competitive racers.
A nine-time winner of the New York Marathon once said,
"Everyone sees the finish line. Everyone sees you breaking the
ribbon. There are hundreds of cameras there all flashing. But
what no one sees is the hard, long hours. The lonely hours of
work. There are two facts that are absolutely necessary for you
to be a competitive racer. The first fact is exercise. In
Matthew 17 when the disciples fail to cast out a demon, they
come to Jesus and to ask Him why it didn't happen. And Jesus
response is that of a humbling one when He speaks to their lack
of preparation. He says that these things only come out
through fasting and praying. The truth is we need to exercise
both those things in order to be competitive racers, to be
spiritual competitive racers. We have to lay down our flesh in
fasting and we have to exercise our faith with the gift of faith
in praying. By doing these two things, we become strong. People
of endurance that can run the race. The second fact that we
have to take into consideration when being competitive racers is
our diet. Daily we feed ourselves with both physical
food and spiritual food. Do we want to feed ourselves with good
complex proteins? Or do we wanna fill ourselves with fatty
sugars, just simple sugars. When it comes time to race, if you
have not fed yourself with the proper foods, if you have not
put in good sustenance. It does not matter how many hours you
put into preparation, you will gas out. The truth is we need to
fill ourselves with the Word of God. That is why Matthew calls
it our daily bread. And by doing this we put ourselves into
position to win. Running requires many things. It
requires dedication, endurance, discipline, and most importantly
courage. That is why the hardest part of running is putting on
the shoes. This has been facts with Jarod.
♪ [Segment Music] ♪
>>MIKE: We have to let God examine us and the only way to
do that is to have communication with Him, to spend time with
Him. You also your spouse will tell you. Shape up, right? Have
you ever heard people say, "Well, I am the way I am.
Because, you know, my mom or I am the way I am because of my
dad or, you know, my husband or my wife. You made me this
person. You made me into this person. You made me, you know,
or it's all your fault." You know, has anybody ever heard or
said, " You know, you're just like your father." You know, is
that a good thing or a bad thing? Like, I don't know. But
yeah, I don't understand. I don't understand you, how you
are, how you are. I don't really understand. I don't really know
because I don't know your past, you know. But we can't play the
blame game on our past. You know, there's no excuses that we
have. We have to take control over our own lives. Our past
experiences, or hurtful things that have happened to us, our
childhood, our upbringing. Those things that have probably shaped
you but it's not an excuse or a crutch to leave you where you're
at, right? We need to get rid of those things so that we can
become the people God's called us to be. We can't settle for
this life as you know it. There's more to God. We are
called to be ordinary people doing extraordinary things. And
our identity is not found in our past experiences. It's not found
in our childhood. It's not found in our past. It's found in here.
It's found in the Word of God. It's found in the prayer room.
It's found who God's called us to be. Yeah, we gotta let the
Word of God shape us and mold us and form us into who God's
called us to be. Like Pastor Brent said, everything is right
here. You know, we get into a place of worship. We get into a
place of prayer. We get into a place with the Word is
dominating in our lives. That stuff is gonna shape us. That
stuff is gonna make us into who we're supposed to be. So let's
go to Ephesians 2:10, "For we are God's workmanship, created
in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in
advance for us to do." So we are His workmanship. Some
translation say we're His masterpiece. We are His
masterpiece. Can you say masterpiece? Okay. The word
means literally like a piece of artwork and He is the artist.
Tell your neighbor, "You're a real piece of work." So remember
we are fearfully and wonderfully made, right? And just like a
piece of artwork, there is no painting the scene. Every piece
of art is different and unique in its own way just as God has
made you and I.
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>> So I had a situation in my life that kind of triggered the
anxiety and I always had the feeling of anxiousness at the
beginning. But it was never like a constant thing and everyday
thing. So this was, I kind of saw it as a normal thing anxiety
just because it's so out there in the world. And, you know,
everybody has and everybody takes medication for it in all
these things. And so Friday night when they had called up
and started talking about bad thoughts coming in and you have
the strength to say no. That's mostly what it was. It was
always something that if I was on the road or something
triggered in my life that I feel like I didn't have control over.
I had bad thoughts going into my mind constantly. And I just feel
like when they said that there's a power in no and there's a
power in trusting God and what He's plan is for you. I just
felt like it kind of, was for me? Like, really for me and my
anxiety. And so when I came up for prayer Pastor Barb came and
she's like, you know how she prays. She's really strong and
she's kind of like hit me in the stomach. And usually when I get
up, the presence of the Lord, it's more like a fire. But this
was kind of different. This was more of a tingling on, like kind
of on my head and in my head. All of a sudden, I just feel my
ears pop. I didn't even know I wasn't hearing right, but I must
have cleared up and I could hear totally like clear. And so
after, I think it was Reverend Rene said that there was a power
of no, so I started doing it this weekend. And even just was
saying no and right away or lipping it or not even saying it
loud, just no God. Like, no that's not right. Anything that
is of the devil is not of you. Anything that is negative. I'm
just gonna say no to. And all this weekend I have absolutely
done that and I feel like a total different person. I feel
peace in my mind. I feel no worries and I feel that I trust
in God and I feel like, Pastor Brent also says that, you know,
you have to work for it, too. It's not just Him. It's not
just, so I feel like I was doing that. I keep coming out for
prayer and I keep saying heal my anxiety but I never trust in God
fully. And trusting in the Lord is the power. That's, right when
you trust in God. That's the power in your hand and you have
it. And you know He's there, and you know He's watching you, and
you know He won't let you fail, and you know He won't let you
fall. So when you have that, that is the power and that's
when you can get healed totally. And also, the other thing was
that like I got healed of my back just a few Sundays ago and
any kind of sickness or any kind of pain or anything you think is
so small or so little or incurable to the world is
possible to God. So don't doubt when you come up here. If you
have something, come up here because you will get healed when
you have faith.
>> I breathe out, confusion. And I breathe in, Your truth. And I
breathe out, all my fear. And I breathe in, Your peace. I
breathe out, confusion. I breathe in, Your truth. I
breathe out, all my fear. I breathe in, Your peace. 'Cause
I, I'm coming back to life. I'm feeling hope arise. Because of
You, only You Jesus. So I, I'm leaving the rest behind. My
heart is satisfied. Because of You, only You Jesus. I lay down,
my weakness. I take on, Your strength. I lay down, my
defenses. I step in to Your victory. Oh I, I'm coming back
to life. I'm feeling hope arise. Because of You, only You Jesus.
Oh I, I'm leaving the rest behind. My heart is satisfied.
Because of You, only You Jesus. Oh yeah. I'm coming back to
life. Resentment, depression, and all anxieties. They have no
power over me. Addictions and strongholds and every disease.
They have no power over me. No, no. Resentment, depression, and
all anxieties. They have no power over me. No, no.
Addictions and strongholds and every disease. They have no
power over me. And I, I'm coming back to life. I'm feeling hope
arise. Because of You, only You Jesus. I, I'm leaving the rest
behind. My heart is satisfied. Because of You, only You Jesus.
Oh I, I'm coming back to life. And I'm feeling hope arise.
Because of You, only You Jesus. Oh I, I'm leaving the rest
behind. 'Cause my heart is satisfied. Because of You, only
You Jesus. Yeah. It's only you Lord. Only You, my Jesus, my
Lord. Oh I, I'm coming back to life. And I'm feeling hope
arise. Because of You, only You Jesus.
>>ANNOUNCER: Have you ever found yourself feeling lost, trying to
figure out who you are, and what your purpose is? Well, I believe
that if you put your trust in Jesus, you will find the answers
to those questions. Say this prayer with me, "Today Lord, I
put my trust in You. I accept You into my heart as my Lord and
my Savior. I believe that You have found me and You have
called me as Your own. And I know that my identity and my
purpose are found in You. Amen.
>>BRIAN: So we can see that we need God's strength
to help us become the men and women God has
called us to be. In God's eyes He sees us as a valuable people,
a people who can fulfill the destiny He has for us. We must
continually strive to walk in the paths that He has for us.
Let's pray together. Father, we thank You that we can called
your sons and daughters. We ask that You'd open our eyes to see
the great plans that You have for us. Please give us the
strength it takes to walk in Your paths. In Jesus' name we
pray. Amen. We wanna thank you for joining us on today's show.
If you'd like to hear more testimonies or see more
episodes. You can find us online @faithalive.tv We hope to see
you next time on the FAITH ALIVE SHOW. God bless.
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>> God will rescue, recover, and restore.
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