leadership Gold, john maxwell speaker, john maxwell leadership game
it's so good to be with you at miles so it's so good to be in the prepared
conference Jeff my goodness friend I am delighted delighted to be able to be
here with you this evening I I just the only thing I would want to change about
Jeff is his name Jeff little just assisted it's just I just would call you
Jeff big you know what I mean just just just big and I'll tell you what he is
big not only in stature he is big in heart he loves you and he loves this
church whoa he got he kept talking about how wonderful you where I had to tell
him to shut up after a while so dear God come on give me a break they they can't
be that good and then I came in here and I see you the place is packed out
there's no place like this place anywhere near this place so this must be
the place huh and I'm just thrilled to be able to be
with you so let's let's just get it quite in my wife Margot I've been
married for 48 years we have two children we have five grandchildren do I
have some grandparents here oh yeah oh yeah okay well you know you know
something the rest of the people in this building don't know grandparents are
God's gift to you grandchildren are God's gift to you for not killing your
children
you understand that don't you you hold that first grandbaby you look
at that baby and it's just amazing smart beautiful no one has to take it's the
most incredible baby ever born and then you ask yourself a question I mean you
look at this grandchild and you ask yourself why did intelligence skip a
generation telling that story in a large convention and I forgot that my son Joel
was in the audience oh yeah he was there he met me at the
greenroom he was waiting he was waiting for me I looked I said now Joel honey
you know what I saw about intelligence giving the generation eye I was just
kidding haven't having fun so it's okay daddy said he said it's okay said I
think you're right
he said just last week he said grandpa and I had that very same discussion I I
have news for you some of its many of you are so young you
I just want you to know that when you turn 65 you get wisdom
okay just I'm so sorry for some of you got a long wait long way to wait you
just going to be a while okay I mean God's has such a sense of humor when
you're young it gives you energy and know wisdom when you're home he gives
you wisdom and no energy he just crack it up you know what I'm
saying hi it really is and and when you get what happens is all of a sudden at
about sixty five you understand life you really do it you just you have questions
about life your whole life and and then about 65 it all comes together and I
brought this with me because I just love this and I'm gonna read this to you that
I'm going to teach this is so good that I laminated it okay so you have to
understand when something's good I laminated if I have been Moses going up
on Mount Sinai Ida laminated the Ten Commandments either I have done that I I
sure wouldn't put them on stone those babies break you don't want to talk okay
so I'm gonna I'm gonna just read that you're gonna understand life like you've
never understood before in about two minutes so look at the person your
senior beside and say you're about to understand life go ahead and tell me
you're just about to understand life
yeah look right back and say what why do you think I brought you here tonight
why do you think you're here okay here we go on the first day God created the
dog and he said sit all day with the door of your house barked at anyone who
walks by I'm gonna give you a life span of 20 years dog said that's too long to
be barking give me 10 years I'll give you back the other ten and God agreed on
the second day God created the monkey god said entertain people do monkey
tricks make them laugh I'll give you a 20-year lifespan too much you said how
boring monkey tricks for 20 years I don't think so the dog gave you back 10
so that's what I'll do - ok God agreed so on the third day God
created the cow God said you must go out in the field with the farmer all day
long suffer under the Sun have gaps give up to support the farmer I'm going to
give you a lifespan of 60 years the kalsa that's kind of a tough life you
want me to live for 60 years let me have 20 I'll give you back the other 40 got
it grieved so on the fourth day God created man does it eat sleep play merry
enjoy your life I'll give you 20 years that's said what whole day 20 years I'll
tell you what I'll take my 20 at the 40 the cow gave you back the 10 the monkey
gave you back the 10 the dog gave you back that makes 80 ok ok God said you've
got a deal so that is why the first 20 years of our lives we eat sleep
I see the tray to come and for the next 40 years we slave in the
Sun to support our family for the next 10 years we do monkey tricks to
entertain the grandchildren and for the last ten years we sit on the front porch
and we bark at everybody that goes by there you got it
you've just had life explained to you they told me they have my book developed
the leader within you 2.0 it's back somewhere and I would encourage you to
get it this is a revised edition I wrote this book 25 years ago developing the
leader within you in the publisher asked me if I would revise it I said of course
I will so this is the 25th edition and I went
back and I revised eighty-nine percent of the book just shows you how bad I was
25 years ago you see here's what happens you see when I wrote the book 25 years
ago we were all on the same page but in the last 25 years guess what I've been
doing I'm growing I'm learning more I'm developing so 25 years later I'm here in
the books down here I had to go back and get the book and catch it up 89 but
that's why they call it 2.0 it millions of people have read this book and it's
just a book that helps you develop yourself as a leader it's the best
mentoring leadership book that I've written so it's back there and then I
also they brought I guess they brought the Maxwell Leadership Bible so that's
back there everything I know about leadership I learned from the Bible okay
and so this has 500 lessons on leadership in it so every page you're in
the Bible I'm teaching your leadership if you love the Bible you even love
leadership I would encourage you get this in the world that I live now I'm in
the secular word corporate world all the time literally had a guy bring this up
to me the other day and and he just looked at me and he he
had us and he said did you write the Bible
and I said now I said that I said I just wrote the leadership lessons inside of
it and he said well he said I've never read the Bible only and have a Bible but
if you've got leadership lessons in there I'm going to read it and he did
and he came back to see me later and he'd received Christ and that beautiful
huh so anyway it's all back there it's all back there for you and it's this is
Jeff you've got a great crowd here by God look at this is packed out and
there's a football game on tonight this is so beautiful
fact I have some friends at the football game
I'm gonna send him a picture would just say this is what godly people do on
Monday night oh yeah oh yeah I'm sending that to him
I feel so spiritual I love your theme prepare so let's talk about it the last
week of every year I spend that week preparing for the next year I literally
take my calendar and I go through every day every hour of the year and and I ask
myself questions of of who I met and and what I learned and and and what I need
to change and it's a it's a week of introspection it's a week of Prayer I
write down a lot of things I'll go through the things that Margaret and I
did together and special things throughout the year and then I'll take
her out to dinner and and and and I'll go through the year I'll say let
remember we did this on that date and we did this on that date and we just have a
very wonderful lovely romantic evening and then we go home and the rest of it's
none of your business hey and it's just it's just an
incredible way to get my heart ready and one of the things I do is I ask God for
a word every year asking for a word and he gives me one and if someone asked me
why I had only asked for word it's about all I can handle
that's about to my limit but I asked him to I asked him to give me a word and
then I asked him to give me a prayer and I over the next first couple months of
the new year I start script surely find a prayer that that goes with the word
that he gave me and I would like to because I love the theme prepared you're
looking this year you're praying you're fasting about having God to work your
life I would like to give you my prayer okay
and it's just it's just that my prayer and I I think it will I hope it'll work
for you and it's found in Paul's letter to the church at Ephesus in Chapter
three and he prayed for three things and this
is my prayer for me and this is my prayer for you in 2018 as you prepare
for this year so let's look at the scripture on the on the screen and let's
let's just get ready to let our hearts be prepared to speak to us okay father
your word is beautiful that it speaks and it's alive and I just ask now that
for the next you know 30 minutes God you'll help us to take your word and
apply it to our lives and may Father there be a work done within all of us
tonight that will really help us as we go into this year to have our
spiritually greatest year ever I pray that in your name so take your word take
me Lord as your vessel now and Holy Spirit just help me to teach what you've
laid on my heart and may the the hearts just really grab hold of these
principles and these truths and apply them to their lives I pray in your name
and everybody said amen let's go here's what Paul said my response is to get
down on my knees be the before the Father this magnificent father who
parcels out all heaven and earth and I ask him to strengthen you by his spirit
not a brute strength but a glorious inner spirit in industry now here's
here's the phrase here's the prayer Paul that Christ may live in you as you open
the door and invite him in the first thing that I pray for you and pray for
everyone is that you will know God more than anything else for you to know God
as you go into 2018 is the most important thing and it's my greatest joy
to introduce people to God I do that all the time I I live in a world that is
secular and that doesn't know God and has never really seen a true picture of
God and so therefore I live to share my faith and it's it's it's what gives me
my joy it's it's it's Who I am more than anything else and I I think I was robbed
I don't know maybe even born with the gift of evangelism because my father was
a pastor and and we used to have Sunday night services and I can still remember
on Sunday night at the end of his message he had asked people that wanted
to know God to raise their hand and I was I can remember being in the third
grade and while everybody else closed her eyes and bowed their heads and and
you know and he's asking for B would raise their hands if they wanted to know
God I I would I would peek I would look then I'd look around and I would see
hands raised and then I would go back over to our little par stage right
across the street from the church and I go into my bedroom and I close the door
and I I would lay down on my bed and I'd pray for people and as a very young age
I had a incredible heart for people to to know God and I can remember when I
knew I was going to be called in the ministry I began to to learn plans of
salvation and how I could lead people to Christ and and I made it a personal goal
as a pastor I made a personal goal every year to lead 200 people to Christ
outside of the church I'm not talking about inside the church and so I'm
always building relationships with with lost people and and and and spending a
lot of time connecting with them and and because I want to I want to do my best
to introduce them to Christ and get the opportunity if you don't know God this
evening there's nothing greater for me to do than that help you know him
because the moment that you know him everything begins it begins to change
and when I crossed over what happened is literally my publisher one day and a
publishing meeting said John I want you to know that 2/3 yearbooks are being
read by the business community the secular community and I'm writing them
I'm writing them for Christians I'm I'm right in to help pastors learn how to
lead because you know I mean pastors alot of bastards they're just good
people but they don't know how to lead I mean they're just you know they're good
people okay and so I'm riding today and I didn't
know that secular people were picking up my but had no idea and when the
publisher said John secular people are picking up your book immediately I knew
that for the rest of my life I needed to now go into the secular community and
teach leadership and and gain respect in that community and help bring them to
Christ and I can remember my very first experience with that after I crossed
over I was I was speaking to the largest lumber broker company in the world and
it was just senior executive so it was a small group maybe 60 70 people but a
worldwide organization and so I taught leadership all day and at the end of the
day one of the senior vice-president raised hands said Johnny said we've been
listening taking notes on leadership all day and he said I gotta tell you your
stuff is your stuff's different than what we usually hear he said it's just
it's just kind of fresh and different he said could do my work where did you get
your leadership material and I smiled I said you don't want to know and and of
course you know when you tell them they don't want to know do they want to know
and I said you're gonna know he said no no I said I really do want to know and I
said you're gonna have to trust me on this you don't want to know and now
they're all raising their hands to know we want and I said well if I tell you
you're going to be disappointed so don't know where did you have I said
okay okay you're pressing me you're pressing me I said everything I know
about leadership I learned from the Bible and I mean there was an honorable
and I said I said I told you I told you you didn't want to know I said I I know
you I've got a cocktail hour at seven o'clock I'll be there and I'll just be
over the corner and if you've ever had a question about God just come on over I'm
safe I will just have a quiet conversation you and me about God I went
down to the cocktail hour and I stood in the corner and for 45 minutes the line
never stopped and I walked out that evening and I said to myself people
don't know God not because they don't want to know God they just don't have a
real picture of who he is and that just literally changed my life and when I go
to heaven my great desire obviously like yours is to see Jesus and abortion him
and bow before him and and just proclaim him in his greatness did that's of
course my my passion but but outside of that what I really want to see more than
anything else are the people that I helped bring to heaven you understand I
mean it's it's such a wonderful thing I think you ought to take somebody with
you what do you think about that huh I I mean I I don't want to sure I don't want
to show up to God all alone are you okay out there huh and and I love that I love
the poem that says when you enter that beautiful city and the saved all around
you appear what joy when someone will say to you it was you who invited me
here I want to hear that more than anything else I I could tell you more
than hang else I want to hear that more than anything else I want to help people
know God that that is my highest ambition I have nothing else except if I
could just help you to know God because I know what happens with when people
know him and have a relationship with the mother of the passage in Jeremiah it
says don't don't let the wise brag on the wisdom and don't let the heroes brag
on their exploits and don't let the rich brag on the riches he said if you brag
brag on this and brag on this only that you understand
and know me some other thing to brag about the only thing to brag out to
tonight is the fact that that I know Jesus and that Jesus knows me and I
would hope more than anything else in 2018 did every one of you here everyone
even though we're flowing on our own satellites etc I would hope more than
anything else is that you would really have a relationship with God that's not
the main thing that's everything my friend and that's what Paul prayed for
us and that's what I pray for you today that you'll know God the second thing
that that I pray for in 2018 is that you'll experience God's love and in this
passage of Scripture is there's just not a more rich passage in the word about
the love of God so let's look at it together Paul said and I asked him there
with both feet planted firmly on love here's what Paul's praying for us that
you and I'll be able to take in with all the followers of Jesus the extravagant
dimensions of Christ's love and now he's going to tell us how to do it reach out
and experience the breath tested slink plummets deaths rise to its heights live
full lives full in the fullness of God you see there's a relationship between
you and I experiencing the love of God and and being immersed in his love and
living a full life there's that there's a direct connection between how much you
know God loves you and how fulfilled you are in life jesus said I am come that
you might have life and have it more abundantly if you look at that passage
in John chapter 10 verse 10 there's a commentary I am calm that you might have
life , and have it more abundantly the question I have for you and me tonight
is which side of the comma do you live on do you have life or do you have
abundant life in the Apostle Paul said there's a relationship between
experiencing the extravagant love of and having this incredible fulfilled
life and what I love about this and you know this is so good
don't miss this do not miss this when I come to an important point I don't let
you miss this because I say do not miss this and I say it until you say I I
don't want to miss this so don't miss this and in fact look at
your neighbor I'm first of all I'm not worried about you you got it I can tell
I'm watching you you are there you're taking notes you have got it but I'm
deeply concerned about the person on your left I don't think they're as sharp
as you I don't think they got it like you got it you know what I'm saying
they're just I just don't think they're quite with it like you're with it and
leadership Gold, john maxwell speaker, john maxwell leadership game
and as I talk to you I can see I'm looking at you you feel the very same
way don't you it's okay look at the person beside you
to say it's okay I'll help you I'll help you I'll help you it's no problem
because here's what I don't want you to miss I don't want you to miss the fact
that Paul says we can experience as much for the love of God as we want in other
words you and I determine how much of God's love and you say how do you know
that John will look what he said look at these verbs reach out and
experience the breath he wouldn't tell you to reach out if you couldn't get it
test its length plumb its deaf rise to its sights these are all verbs these are
all action verbs that basically say you can have as much of his breath as you
want you can have as much this is your length he can have as much of the depth
and you can have noted the heights of God's love you can have as much of God
as you want in 2018 as you prepare this year understand you can have as much of
God's love as you want you determine how much of it you get it's your choice
and they breaks it down and I'm gonna break it now he said first of all I want
you to experience the breath of God's love now what does it mean when you and
I experience the breath of God's love here's what that means that means God's
love includes everyone that's the breath of his love no one is left out it
includes everyone remember when you were used to you right here to make your
children how much do you love the end that you know they do this number you
know what and I love you this much and you're trying to be a contortionist to
show people how you know how much I really love you and and no bigger you
know what we're trying we're trying to be expressive with the fact that I love
you just more more than I can even demonstrate to you and when Paul said I
want you to experience the breath of God's law understand his love the breath
of it includes Everett for God so loved the absolutely he so loved the world
no one's excluded you you are not excluded from God's love you
you're not only outside of God's love in fact let's do this exercise I just love
doing this exercise so let's do it together
aloud I'll say it then repeat after me okay God loves me oh I like that it good
okay God loves you oh let's say that one
again and look at somebody would say that okay in fact in fact let's really
get good at it just kind of you know okay let's practice that let's practice
that before we do okay God loves okay okay I like okay okay
okay God loves you come on oh that's so good
you do so good and then I will just say aloud God loves people
I don't know God loves people I don't know yes he does has a safe to say it
now God loves people I don't like
got you ya-ya-ya-ya-ya heat yes that is disgusting isn't it isn't it disgusting
I mean don't you have a list of lesser people hmm
yeah yeah you got yes yes God loves God loves people you don't like the church
is going to have revival when we start connecting with people and stop
correcting them if you go in the Gospels and you just see that the life of Jesus
and read the words of Jesus when you're done with the four Gospels the thing
that will be more apparent than anything else is how much Jesus values people I
mean he really values people and when people come and say John what I want to
do is boy 2018 I tell what I'd like to do I'd like to I'd like to be
christ-like if you want to be christ-like I can tell you exactly how
to do just start valuing every person every person the ones you don't like the
ones you don't agree with the ones you don't understand doesn't matter
Jesus loves them died for him God so loved the world let's get with it value
people and the reason post I don't want you to experience this breath is because
he understands that you cannot give what you do not have and so if you and I
haven't experienced the breath of God if we have an experience the fact that God
loves one everyone and he values everyone then we can't pass it on to
others we teach what we know but we reproduce who we are and so this is just
so important for us to understand that that God values everyone CS Lewis said
God loves us not because we are lovable but be
he is love God is love so God's love is for everyone that's the breath of his
love then Paul said I want you to experience the the length of God's love
test its length what is the length of God's love me it means that God's love
lasts forever forever it knows no end and and the length of God's love doesn't
depend upon me it doesn't even depend upon my behavior as a parent don't you
remember when you were you would look at your children say you know I to be
honest with you I'm running out of patience I just I just want you to know
who the doors about to the the bells about to ring here you know I'm second
hey hey hello God God's love has no end and what I want you to know is God loves
you he got loves me just as we are not what we want to be or what we'd like to
be or what we do appear to be he just loves us period now listen to me
carefully we many times when we look at God and we look at ourselves and we look
at our shortcomings and our sins and our failures and we project God and give him
the perspective that we have the classic example is that that is the prodigal son
the prodigal son left dad would you know the story spent only had without a party
ended up at a pigpen came to reason father said you know I'm going to go
back to Dad's house I've just messed my life up but look at his reasoning I'm
going to go back to Dad's house but is he going to come back to Dad's house as
a son no he says I'm going to come back as a servant and he goes back to dad and
he said daddy you know could I have a could I have a bunk in the barn you see
the prodigal because he knew he had done wrong looked at God and thought that God
saw him as he saw himself and I want you to know that's not true that you say
I've my life up I've sinned you have no idea
where I'm am and you have no idea what I have done I don't I don't I know that my
friend but what I want you to understand is this don't dumb down God's love for
you and I want you to understand that he has a a coat ready for you at a ring
ready for you in the bands about to play and they're gonna have a dance for you
and he's just excited about he's just excited about you coming home period and
the length of God's love it goes on and on it and it never lets us go
no one can pluck you out of the hands of God I mean I I like country like a
little country music and I sometimes I kind of think I could write a little bit
I mean I do I really do in fact I've got one I've kind of been working on right
now because when I think of the length of God's love and how he holds on to us
everlasting that's forever and it never stops IIIi would like to write a country
song entitled God's grip don't slip what do you think don't you think that's got
some promise huh that's got some promise and that Paul said I want I want you to
know the breadth of God's love it includes everyone the length of God
swath it lasts forever number three he said I want you to experience the depth
of God's love he said plumb the debts and hours go test the depths of how deep
God's love is for you and what that means is God's love is forgiving then no
matter what you have done and no matter how deep you are in messed up life no
matter how low you have gone God's capacity to forgive you is greater than
your capacity to sin oh that was so good I'll repeat it for the person on your
left God's capacity to forgive you is greater than your capacity to sin so you
say what John you have no idea I got you got to understand I am a big
sinner well whoop-dee-do you may be a big city but my Jesus is a bigger Savior
fact Jeremiah said I will talking about guys that I will forgive they're wrong
I'll forgive it and I'll remember it no more God forgives and forgets so I could
take Moses a murderer and make him a deliverer that's how I can take David an
adulterer and call him a man after God's own heart that's how I could take Peter
a Christ forsake her and make him a Christ preacher it's how I can take Paul
a murderer and make him a church planter Wow I wish I could express to you the
unconditional love of God when I was when I was in school you have to
understand when I was when I was in school I was not at the top of my class
I was I was I went to school for sports and friends and academics were just a
side deal okay I'm sorry I know I just disappointed you but fact that I was I
practiced leadership I had four girls do all my homework in high school but
that's another story and you wouldn't believe that what if I told
it to you but I I never took a book home I have us I was a leader at a very young
age thank you very very much very very young age so I would come out of those
tests sometimes I come out at dump did you ever do this you probably did you
probably were all brilliantly I would come sometimes I would take a test and
and when I finished it I knew I was in trouble did you a name you relate to
this and my favorite phrase after a test was I hope that prof. for the teacher
grades on the curve oh you sinners you you sinners out there
I just smell you sinners out there oh I just say oh he'll be great on the curve
and I mean when I say curve I meant I like a real curve not not like a little
occurred like a circle curve though that would include me you understand that
would that would circle me in somehow that that dumb would dumb would somehow
pass you know what end it and I and I would pray that yo if they get why a
hard test oh man I hope that they go great on the curve it's a hard test
because if they great on a curve I knew only a few would fail and maybe I would
get in the circle let me tell you something about God God
grades on the cross because you see it's impossible for you and I to ever get out
of our mass or save ourselves as so beautifully shared earlier in communion
today and I just I just want you to know that that it's totally impossible but
but but you've got to understand no one no one has to fail the test with God
because the cross covers every one of us
and then Paul said I want you to experience the height of God's love I
want you to I want you to experience how high God's love rise to the heights what
that means is God's love is uplifting my first uplifting experience with God was
two days after I received Christ when I read second Corinthians 5:17 therefore
if any person be in Christ he becomes a new creature old things
passed away behold all things become new and I can still remember being in my
bedroom before I went to school that morning and all of a sudden I realized
all things have become new in my life and I felt that Redemption lift it
impulse had the love of Christ it's it's it's it's broad it's for everyone it's
long it it never ceases it never fails it never it never it never ends it's
deep it's it's totally committed to your forgiveness and then and then he says I
just want you to know it it lifts you it it gives you what what we call
redemption lifts and for all the negative things that we can say about
ourselves God has something positive to say and so when people go into self-talk
I tell them they need to go into God talk because sometimes we say to
ourselves I'm too tired and God said well I'll give you rest
well it's impossible and God says well with me all things are possible and we
said well yeah I don't think anybody really loves me and God says well I love
you and and you say well I can't go on and and what does he say he says I want
you to know my grace is sufficient for you he said well I'm not able God says
well I'm able and I can't forgive myself God says well I forgive you
well I can't manage and God says well I'll supply all your needs
well I'm afraid and he said I'm not giving you the spirit of fear well I'm
not smart enough well then I'm gonna give you wisdom well I feel alone he
said well I'll never leave you I'll never forsake you well I can't figure
things out within I'll direct your steps
we were kids we used to go out and take a baseball bat and we used to see who
could get to the top of the bat you how many of you did that you know what I'm
saying it and you get up the top do you know you get to the top and you win let
me taste up when it comes to life you just may go in there God's God's always
going to get to the top and let me tell you something right now no matter what
you have to say about yourself that puts you down he has something that will pick
you up I want to remind you Jesus not norman vincent peale said all things are
possible to he who believes let me just tell you something right now
God's crazy about you if he had a refrigerator your picture would be on it
so Paul said I want you to experience the guts level what you experience the
breath the wind the link the depth don't want you to miss it and you can have as
much of it as you want but he has a third prayer here I got to give this to
you here because this one's this one's just of this one's just gonna blow your
mind this is going to take 2018 and put it over the top how many of you want
2018 to be over the top how many of you the person you're sitting beside you
desperately want them to have a good 2018 oh yeah I love but some guy got his
both hands up in astre trying to get his foot up there as much as he possibly can
so Paul said I want you to I pray first of all that you'll know God and then
you'll that you'll just absolutely understand and grab hold of the
extravagance of God's love and thirdly he said here's what I want he said I
want I want you to allow God to do great things in your life
this is powerful fasten your seat belt Ephesians 3:20 God can do anything you
know far more than you could ever imagined or guests or requests in your
wildest dreams he does it not by pushing us around but by working within us his
spirit deeply and gently within us I
want to take two minutes and teach you about God room
God room is the space between what I can do and what God can do in other words
when I have done my very best when you have done your very best I mean we have
just given it our very best there's a ceiling we can only go so high we can
only do so much we can only be so good there's no there's a limit to us and
what I want to do is gods room God's room wherever our ceiling is where this
is Maxwell's maxed out best gods room my ceiling is his floor this is good the
person on your left go to catch on here in a moment and Paul said I want you to
understand that this is unlimited he could do anything is staggering
far more he does this work within you he does this work within me I was I was
telling pastor Jeff uh earlier that a couple years ago I changed my prayer
time in my prayer life and and now I just do basically a listening type of
prayer I basically I just listened and when I started doing this listening
prayer and just sitting in and waiting on God to really talk to me and minister
to me one of the first questions he asked me was this John how much room are
you going to give me in your life how much room are you going to give me I
mean are you going to are you going to give me a closet you got to give me them
are you going to give me the family how much room because I want you to
understand I'll take as much room as you'll give me and let me tell you just
like you can have as much of God's love as you want Paul says that this
exceeding abundantly God that we have this God room you can go as big and as
high as you want it to go you see it's at God's room where miracles happen and
you say well Johnny is wow you know gosh I've got a lot of problems in my
life oh that's wonderful because let me tell you something about
miracles there's only one thing that every miracle in the Bible has in common
old a new testament of like only one thing it's not prayer somebody said well
if you pray guy I could say I could show you miracles of the Bible nobody prayed
at all you say well I know what it is faith gotta have faith I can show you
people that were surprised at the miracle there's only one thing that all
miracles have in common
thank you ready every miracle begins with a problem everyone you show me a
time when God does something in a person's life and it always begins with
the problem a need or hurt a question every miracle begins with a problem I
don't know what that does to you but that really encourages me because I have
some problems
I'm just getting acquainted with you this is my first of many trips to master
sister bridges we're just we're just kiddin
can I ask you a question how many of you would have at least one problem in your
life how many of you are sitting beside oh don't go there don't you just got
another problem you just got it of course
now listen let's catch this how what I don't want you to miss this for 2018
every miracle begins with the problem so if you have a small problem for this
year you're a candidate for a small miracle you don't get big miracles for
small problems if you have a medium-sized problem you better get a
medium-sized if you have a huge problem you're going to get a huge absolutely
you got to understand the size of the problem determines the size of the
miracle baby maybe at the end of the service of maybe we'll have a maybe
we'll have an invitation like we've never had here maybe maybe what I'll do
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is I'll ask people to come forward that have a problem or ask people to come
forward that don't have a problem wouldn't it be fine
and you just come forward and I'll lay hands on you and I'll say God give them
a problem give a prop you are you with me give a product because you see you
can't have a miracle if you don't have a problem so as you go into 2018 more than
anything else no God let him become the savior of your
life go after with gusto the extravagant dimensions of God's love and then allow
him to have God room in your life and allow him to do for you and in you and
with you and through you what you could never do
or self I was talking to God and here's what he said to me the other day said
John don't ask me to cram my plan into your puny little mind because then I
will be limited to your understanding
the word exceeding abundantly means Hooper Ecch Paris owes pear sauce means
to be fool put AK in front of it it means to be full and go out of you put
Hooper in front of it it means to flood so if a little river or a creek when
it's regular it's pear sauce is full but in the spring rains sometimes it gets
over the banks that's experimental the fields and and that's Hooper Eck Parrish
and Paul said my God wants to Hooper at Petra so's you you try that one tomorrow
you just go up to somebody says God wants a Hooper Egg Parris oh shoot you
will get an attentive audience immediately but that's exactly what he
wants to do in your life and that's what he wants to do in my life and we have
not because we ask not so in prepare 2018 let's ask big of God
what do you say blessings Anya thank you very much
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