You are invited to step out of your comfort zone and embrace the supernatural power God has for you. This journey requires you to surrender your past, present, and future to His molding hand. Take the next step of obedience today and let Him transform you into a vessel He can use.
My best friend, 1 of my best friends, a dear, brother in Christ, and a spiritual father to many of you. Many men, he disciples men for a for a living. He's a full time. And he's he's him and his wife are pillars in their church, in our church, their elders here. And man, it's time for him to preach.
He's ready. He's just about to overflow Jesus all over all of you. So lean on in, sit on the edge of your seat proverbially, take notes. Because what he says today has the power to change your life because it's not gonna be him speaking, it's gonna be Jesus through him. Amen?
Amen. Jerry Hunter.
Check. Check. You know, as I'm sitting there thinking about this moment, Well, overwhelming emotions as his love pursues me and calls me to do what he's called me to do. Getting to hear about fathering men. It's overwhelming, this journey.
You know, first of all, I wanna thank each and every 1 of you for being here. My beautiful wife, Heidi. Amen. Partly because of her, I'm standing here today. She's 1 of my greatest fans.
This is gonna be very emotional. I can tell you right now. We are elders at Real Church. You know, some of you know me as papa pie. Some of you look at me like Santa Claus.
Others know me as uncle Jerry, as V. Rose says. But a lot of you know me as the guy that tracks you down in the parking lot and and makes you take this up. Welcome to Real Church. We're glad you're here.
This is a message that's gonna be like no other because it's personal to you. Before we get started, I wanna call my brother Bart up here to pray us in. Love you, my friend. Check. Nope.
There you go.
*God*, we just thank you
for who you are.
We thank you for what you've done, and we thank you for what you
who who you made
us. Yes.
And, God, I just ask you to open our ears to hear, our mind to understand the invitation that you're going to give us today through your man of God. We're excited to hear, and we have an expectation of hearing from you, and let us respond. Not just hear, but respond. In Jesus' name. Amen.
Amen. Amen. Thank you, brother.
Alright. So how did I get right here? Well, heading back from Pakistan for the second time. I'm sitting in my seat, and I'm just overwhelmed with *supernatural* emotions of this love that compels me. Thinking about the *healings* and the 21,000 we spoke to the first time, the 47,000 this time.
And I get up and go to the bathroom, and I look in the mirror. And I hear, you're my beloved, and I'm well pleased. That same overwhelming emotions that I'm feeling right now is that same spirit that rose Jesus from the dead. He dwells in you and gives life to your mortal body. That same spirit did not spare his son, but freely gives us all things to be "salt and light", to be the "city on the hill", tells me to write this message.
The title of this message is a journey like no other, taking you from the natural to the supernatural. I'm gonna start off with a verse that's not on the board, but it's fitting. You know, we we think Revelations is is is man. This is drudgery. Well, God starts Revelation out in victory.
It says, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth, to him who loves us and released us from our sins by his blood. And he has made us to be a "kingdom priest" to his God and father. To him be the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. That word right there says you can't buy your way into his story.
His story has already bought you. Come on. See, *God* initiates the relationship and invites us into his story. Following God will bring you to a crisis of belief. What do I mean by that?
It's based on the decision what you believe about God, his word that will position you and guide you throughout this destination. It requires faith and action. What is faith and action? Well, my definition for faith is actively expressing your confidence in God, his word, that will properly position me for my destination with him. Without action, though, is dead.
Getting to this destination will require major changes in your life. I know this sounds like a lot. Sounds overwhelming. But the good news is it only costs all of you. Past, present, future.
Think about that. He takes the past to get you to the present, to launch you into the future. Praise the lord. Come on. In this process, you will receive *identity*, value, and position.
Yeah. *Identity*, proven truth of being who or what a person or thing is, created in the image of the father, the son, and the Holy Spirit. Value, the word of something compared to the price paid. You were purchased with the precious blood of Jesus Christ. Honor and glorify him with all of you.
Position, the state of being placed where 1 has an advantage. In Christ, we live. Come on. So we're gonna turn to a scripture. We're gonna get to see where God took 1 man out of his natural state to a supernatural state.
*Genesis-12:1* through 3. It says, now the Lord said to Abram, go forth from your country and your relatives and from your father's house to the land which I will show you. And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great. And so you shall be a blessing, and I will bless those who bless you. And the 1 who curses you, I will curse.
And in you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed. So you see right here, God invites Abraham into a supernatural relationship that challenges him to abandon the normal circumstances of life, his identity and his securities. He says, leave your family, get out of your land. Abandon all qualifications that you rely on and trust in me. The promised outcome is based on obedience.
So I wanna speak to you for a minute. In Galatians, it says that because of this faith of Abraham, if we're born again, we receive all these blessings. *God* invites you into a journey like no other. Yeah. Just not me staying up here.
I'm I've received something so special, each 1 sitting in this room. You're here for a reason. Why? Because he wants to tell you and show you who you are, *identity* in Christ Jesus. 2008, Holy Spirit called me to in a place of an intimate relationship with him, being a teacher equipping me for the next 7 months to be a start of a journey of radical faith only by Jesus I can comprehend.
How did I get there? Well, all throughout my life, I thought I was never enough. And I can hear him say, you're enough. I was always showing, I'm gonna show you 1 time. So I felt I had to get everything 1 time.
I felt like I could not ask anybody to show me again. So in church when I was young, vacation bible school, all the kids were called up, but I couldn't move. I couldn't leave that seat. And I thought, wow. I missed you, God.
I guess I didn't get it like they did. High school. Never really wanting to do the things that I did, but I did it because I wanted to fit in. I was a funny guy. I was a proper guy.
I love football. I love to play the game. But I always wanted to think, man, what if I mess up? People laugh at me. But then, man, I put this uniform on, And I I got to become who I wanted to be.
I put on a new identity without knowing that was an identity. So I can maneuver through that. But then in the business world, man, that same thing rose up again. You're not enough. You can't ask again.
So I became sufficient in myself. I can do all things through Jerry who strengthens Jerry. That was a dangerous dangerous place. Yeah. But how did I get there in an intimate place?
It was a pecan tree in South Georgia and a little orchard. I had to get to the end of myself knowing that, no, I can equip myself to be enough, but it's never gonna be enough. *God* placed me there for his reason, to bring to bring out what he'd already put in. I had to let go of the familiar territory. I had to stop leaning on my **natural abilities** because God was calling me into his *supernatural grace*.
So before you can leave 1 place to get to the next, there has to be a call to submission, a call to obedience. As we said, it's gonna cost you all of you, but God's what he counted that cost. Yeah. Even to the point of that submission in the process and a call to obedience. Scripture says that we come up under the obedience of Christ.
We get to punish all disobedience when our obedience is complete. And Christ is where our obedience becomes complete. So even in the call to the process and obedience, God has already supplied all that I need in that. So in Galatians, it says, it's for freedom you have been set free. You come from freedom to freedom.
It's not to get freedom. So think about this. Freedom is your choice to struggle with what you want. Freedom is your choice to struggle with what you want. There can be victory in the struggle, or you can struggle with your victory.
Good. Matthew-6:33 34. You'll turn with me. That wasn't a mic drop. *Matthew-6:33* and 34.
It says, but **"seek first his kingdom"** and his righteousness, and all things shall be added to you. Therefore, do not that sounds like a command to me. Be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble for us all.
Amen.
So the cure for worry is God is faithful. His love for you is the greatest. His love has no no limits. And the provision that he has for you is abundant. Says "cast all your cares" upon him for he cares for you.
Why does he care for you? Because he wants you to be dependent on him. He's called you into this relationship. *Luke-9:3*. I don't have that on the board, but I'm gonna say it.
It says, take nothing for the journey except a staff, no bread, no money in your belts. Wear sandals, and do not take 2 tunics. Why? He wants you to trust him to supply all your needs. See, *God* gets out of himself and offered all of himself as the ultimate *sacrifice* in his beloved son for me and you.
*God* chose you to move from a natural to a supernatural state. That *relationship* is closer than your skin. This may sound silly, and I've said it before, But if you pinch yourself, that's real. *Faith* and action, it requires major adjustments in your life. It brings you to that decision.
What do I really believe about God? When you read his word, it's truth. There's no denying that truth. In this, there's love, there's purpose, a plan that covers the cost for your journey, and it will prosper your life. Jeremiah-29:11 says that he has a purpose.
He has a purpose and plan for your life. It's to prosper you, not to destroy you. He says, when you get this love, when you get it, you will love me with all your heart. Well, I've heard that before. God, how how do I love you with all my heart?
He says, I want you to see yourself as I see you. When I can look in that mirror and "love myself" the way God sees me, not in a vain way, then I can love my neighbor. Then I can knock on some doors. Yeah. He takes you on a journey that is beyond what you can imagine or think, and this has been a process for me in this journey.
I under that pecan tree, you think, wow. You just did that and got here. No. Man, we moved from 1 place to the next to the next. And to be obedient in the next step, not knowing where that was gonna take me or what it was gonna look like.
I mean, under that pecan tree, I was a fool for Christ. I let him have it all. I mean, was too appointed. Man, it could have been my wife and I. But I was willing because I tasted something that was so good, and I was willing to let him take me to the end.
There was doubting, questioning. *God*, why why why are you gonna take me at 44 years old and set me on a tree and stripped me down when I've just I I I ran to you and then said, thank you. Bye. And here you are putting me under this tree, a guy that don't know nothing about you except *John-3:16*, and I didn't even get that. 1 day, I'm standing walking back and forth.
Walking back and forth, the dude was on the ground. It was early morning because most of the time, would get there in that 7 months early in the morning, late at night, late in the afternoon. My wife would pull up and say, oh my goodness. He has flipped out. But I'm walking back and forth.
The dude's on the ground. You can see my path walking back and forth. And I am talking to God about, I don't get it. I don't understand. And I said, how is this even possible, Lord?
And I walk 1 way, and I feel this hand touch my back. And I feel my hair stand up on my arms. I said, woah. Turn around and start walking back, and he says, through me, all things are possible. I get to a point, I look down, now my path is worn down.
I look down and here's 4 butterfly wings, nobody, gently placed on the grass on that path. And I started laughing hysterically. Yeah. You know, some people get gold dust, some people get gems, some people get gold teeth. Well, he made it real personal.
He gave me a van gogh painting on his creation. I picked I bent down and picked it up, and I'm like, wow. This is so powerful, Lord. You know, it says, faith is the assurance of things hoped for, but the evidence of things not seen. These are those same butterfly wings that he painted for me that day.
*God* gets you when you don't get yourself. He's really saying get out of yourself. He's calling you out. He's calling out what he has already put in you. Yeah.
Another story was Hebrews-11:8. 1 morning, I get out of bed and I hear *Hebrews-11:8*. Of course, I just started reading the bible. Didn't know where that was at. Looked behind me like, wow.
I just heard that. So I went to the verse, and it says, have faith like Abraham, not knowing where you're gonna go or what you're gonna do. Just be ready when I call. Remember, it was faith by Jesus that I could only comprehend. Or scripture says, by faith, you will understand.
So it took an active response of confidence in God and his word that was positioning me to be ready for what the next step would be. At first, I wanted to see the streetlight, but as I already know now, that the streetlight would've overwhelmed me, and I would've really abandoned the whole mission. So when you take that step that he's positioned you in to be ready, that action lines up with that proven character of Jesus Christ. Remember, we come up under that obedience. That's how my obedience is made complete.
My responsibility was to respond to his abilities. Without submission, there's no bill ability to respond to his proven character. *Salvation is the redemption* of sin and the penalty of sin. I don't miss the mark. I'm in awe and inspiration of his lordship.
That's the beginning of the journey you're called into. Salvation is not your just your ticket to heaven. You know, when I was baptized the first time, they didn't meet me where I was at. They I got baptized. They came to my house.
I did it. Next morning, get up. Well, god, I guess I'm good. I got my get out of jail free card. If you show up, I got my credentials.
But it's the beginning of a journey from the natural to the supernatural. A journey like no other. And he invites each and every 1 of you into that personal, precise journey.
Yeah. Come on.
*John-3:30*. I don't have that on the board, but "he must increase", but I must decrease. You think about that. I must receive the increase. We just said it's salvation.
Everything that God is, his deity, in him, I have to receive the increase to be able to let go of myself. He must be the most prominent fact of truth in my life. He wants me to claim stake, claim stake of the territory. He says, I've given you dominion to possess the land. Receiving the increase allows me to see the *victory* of the cross as victory, not drudgery.
What do I mean by that? Well, I hear a lot of people say, you know, you gotta pick up your cross. You gotta die daily. Well, you think about it. A dead man can't die again.
That's right. Woah. So
I'm not I'm not putting my junk down and God's saying, okay. You gotta pick your junk back up. Carry it again today. No. It's a victory to carry that cross in Christ Jesus, what I've been given.
Yeah. That's right. We've all been given a sword. It's to hold it high. The joy is a weapon of mass destruction.
It changes any atmosphere. I'm just not dragging my sword to make it from 1 destination to the next. How many people do you ask? How's your day? Well, I'm just making Let's look at godly perspective on that.
*Colossians-3*. It says, if then you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. See, from God in Christ, you have received every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm.
What a value. And the victory of the cross is your life hidden with Christ and God. In him, you have been made complete. You get to walk in the newness of life of newness of life of his illuminating light. In those 3 verses, identity, value, and position.
It is now Christ who is your life. Think about that. When God tells you to get out of yourself, and he's calling to into a God journey, it's not a me size journey. So when I get out of myself and try to get into him, that's when he says, I'm I'm hiding you in there because I'm so big. What happens is we try to hold on to ourself, and he's already stretched you out of you.
It ain't a cookie cutter relationship. I mean, think about it. He's big. If you try to get in, oh, I wanna get into this, but I'm a no. I don't quite.
You know? It's like dough. When I put too much in, it squirts all out. But that's his love for you. He says, *grace through faith* that you are his workmanship created in Christ *Jesus* beforehand?
Yeah. He says, you are to walk in it. It's a command. You have to walk in it. *Grace supplies so my faith* can receive.
Probably a lot of you said, what is that? Think about it. *God* divinely influences you to have confidence in him and what his word states about you. *Faith* comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. God says to you, you're enough for him.
And then he asks you he looks into your eyes, and he's asking each and every 1 of you, but am I enough for you? But remember the statement I just said, he is the 1 that gives you confidence in him for all things, in Christ. So if you flip that around, he says he already goes goes goes ahead and tells you, "I am enough for you".
He gives you the answer.
That's right. He gives you the answer, as my wife said. It's like his spirit is a witness to your spirit, confirming to you all the time, you're my child. You're my child. You're my child.
Are we listening? Remember, without receiving the more, I can never be the less. If I'm holding on to myself, I'm being hostile toward God. That flesh is hostile. See, when God did this, he didn't have your opinion and mine or
mine. Come on.
He didn't cut corners when he got on the cross with his son full of power and authority Right. To have a question. *John-15:3* 4. Turn there with me, if you will. It says, you are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
Abide in me, and I in you. As a branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in me. Wow. So what I hear in that is and some some like the amplified says, the word has already washed you clean. So I look at that and say, wow.
Because the word, Jesus, the blood that washes me clean, it's actually unclean for me, for you, to think of ourselves as unclean. Yeah. That'll hit. And it says, abide in this truth. Right?
*Abide in the word, the truth*. So I live in the truth, and the truth lives in me.
I
in that truth, I get to be vitally connected to the source. And all this comes from God, a "gift from heaven". There's no other source. I have to be content with the gift from heaven. *John-15:16* and 17 says, no longer do I call you oh, sorry.
Says, you did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, that your fruit fruit should remain, and whatever you ask of the father in my name, he may give it to you. This I command you that you love 1 another. So what I get out of that is the source has connected you to himself and planted you to bear fruit of his kind that will last. It's consistent in his quality. So you're producing fruit and consistent in quality of the I am.
And when the father is looking at that consistent quality of the I am, He says, ask and it's yours. Because of this fruit that is quality and consistent with the I am, that command says, now go love the world. Letting go of what you're holding on to so it's his presence that establishes you. In Christ, you have been clothed in righteousness. We heard that message last week by Bart.
Powerful. Remember, when I put on that football uniform, I took on a whole new identity. But now I don't have to hide because I'm clothed in his righteousness. Amen. Yep.
That's good. So if being insignificant is in your vocals or thoughts, it's not the word that washes you.
Yeah. Good. Good.
His word says you will become all he says you will do, and his word says you will become all that he says you are, and you will do all that he says you will do. Amen. In Christ, you've been strengthened to do all of what he's called you to do. He is the greatness and the plan for your life. So as I hear that, it says now go.
Taking the next step requires *obedience* in this perfection. His plan and His purpose. He gives each a measure of faith. Well, you know, when I first heard that, I thought, wow, I just have a small portion. No.
That that faith is how much do you want? Putting your confidence in God and what his word states. He will position you for your destination. Remember, it requires you to make adjustments in your life. Can't keep holding on to me because I don't fit into the "God sized equation".
He's inviting us into what he's already doing. That's right. As I was obedient to answer the call, not knowing where or what that yes would bring, There was a cause. It was all of me. And my precious little wife was willing to follow.
To this day, he continues to work out what he's worked in. You know, since 2008, I have been a good steward of what he called me to do, to disciple men. I didn't lean on my own understanding. I didn't know. I stepped out in faith.
But at 55, I kinda now this is something that's been pulling me too for a long time. At 55, I said, okay. I guess I'll just disciple men. But I was being disobedient. *God says you're faithful* in the little.
I wanna give you the more. But, God, I don't want that more. I'll just do what you call me to do. I preach every day. No.
You need to you need to give the message out of identity, value, and position, what I've given you to say to the body of the church. You're an evangelist. Help equip the body. Lord, I just, you know, I I I don't wanna do that. It's like he said, why?
Because I removed myself from his presence in those in that area. Started basing that back on not being enough. Started watching men preach, and I didn't go to cemetery I mean, seminary school to follow. I didn't I don't have those qualifications. I mean, I'm not a man a man with I got a tongue that I like to get tangled and I fall over it.
But he had to take me back to that tree, that intimate spot where he found me. He says, I love you where I found you, and you didn't know anything. Yeah. All you knew was the love that I had for you, and you was willing to give everything to me. He reminded me that moment when I sold the candy company.
There was a guy that came down from Minnesota. Didn't know God, but all I could do was babble. How much he loved me, what he was gonna do. Dude, you act like he's sitting right here. He is.
He's right here. So you're gonna go to do ministry? And I spoke, no. Yeah. I'm gonna be in ministry, but I'm not gonna preach.
I don't know what it's gonna look like. I'm not gonna preach. Be be careful what you say no to. Right? *God* says you gotta come under what I put over you so before you can move forward.
So 2 years later, that same guy that I babbled to, all I could tell him was how much God loved me. Calls me up and says, hey, man. This is Pat. Just wanna let you know, partly because of you, I'm now a Christ follower. And then he says, I'm gonna close down the business.
I hang up the phone and get off. I said, God, you mean you had this guy come spend almost $400,000 to just come follow you? You used a little babbler like myself, like a child. He said, yeah. I did.
He said, I purchased that company, and that was undervalued because I'd already paid a price for you. He said, that worldly stuff that was making you all self self sufficient, I wanted to show you how valuable you truly were. Your identity, value, and position in me, I will take you on a journey that is from natural to supernatural, something you never will be able to comprehend or understand. But like I said, at 55, I was resisting. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna disciple.
So here I am, putting boundaries on his workmanship. Man, how did it work out, Dixie? That don't work out. No. It was it was like I said, I took myself from the *presence* of God in that, and I found myself naked.
It was just like in the garden. Who told you that? Well, the lies. I used to know who I was, but then in that aspect, so I start doubting, tossing, turning, you know, wondering, well, God, did I miss you? Am I supposed to be here?
I could hear Jeremiah-12:5. It says, if you have run with footmen and have tire and they have tired you out, then how can you compete with horses? If you fall down in a land of peace, how will you do in the thicket of the Jordan? See, Jeremiah was impatient, and the Lord rebuked him. He didn't wanna come up under what God was putting over him at that moment.
So disobedience removes us from that altar. What happens is we don't stay in that continuous presence of the Lord. We start denying the power of his perfection, forgetting and not trusting in his equipping and responding to his abilities. We are found like in the garden, not clothed. If you are the son of God, then it's he that approves you.
It's not like the enemy says, well, if you are the son of God, know I am from the I am. *1 Corinthians-1:30* and 31. 1 30 and 31. That's Colossians. It says, but by his doing, you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God and righteousness and sanctification and redemption.
That just as it is written, let him who boast boast in the Lord. Think about that. But it is from him that you have your life in Christ Jesus. But God, on this very stage, may have last year I don't remember if we were going getting ready to go to Pakistan for the first time. I remember gave Mullins spoke a message about that same Jeremiah-12:5, and then he says, I wanna "run with horses".
And, man, it just instilled in me. Yeah. On that very stage, I stayed up here. I wanna run with horses and battle in the thickets of the Jordan. Amen.
And I can hear I can see God then. Oh, that lined up with my word. That was a desire I have for you. You just said yes again without even knowing, and you don't even comprehend what I'm about to do. Yeah.
He says, yes, Lord, has taken me to places I've never could imagine or think of. At times, I felt overwhelmed, humbled, and in inadequate. What I mean by that? Well, let me tell you about the second time in Pakistan. Before we ever left, I was asking pastor Dave, hey.
What's my part? So I can so I can prepare. He looked at me and smiled. I don't know, man. Alright.
But Lord, you know, let's don't do what you did the first time. Because the first time, we pulled up at the event and we're sitting there talking. We're about to get out. And David leans over and he says, you're up first. But I'd overheard, and so the Holy Spirit had already equipped me.
So here we are again on the flight. What am I I don't know yet. So we get on the trip. The whole I'm kinda asking him the whole time. So we're going to the venue.
It's 4 or 5 hours away, and I'm leaning back in the seat, and I look over it. Hey. What's my part? You know, we're getting close. I don't know, man.
I said, okay. Holy Spirit, you know, I'm getting a little anxious, a little nervous. So here we are, 30 minutes before going live, about to speak to 47000 Muslims and nonbelievers sitting in a KFC in Pakistan. And I'm sitting there, and I'm listening to Aaron and Chris and David talk about this and that. And so we're gonna preach on the gospel, Holy Spirit, *healing*, and baptism.
I said, well, I'm probably gonna be the beginning or the end. But I said, baptism? I don't I don't so Chris and Aaron sitting there talking back and forth. Nope. Nope.
*Healing* needs to be third, and it's Jerry. And they look at David and they said, it's Jerry. And David looks at me and says, are you good with that? And I smile and I said, yeah. But have you ever seen Scooby Doo rut row moment?
And in that moment, I said, I need to go to the bathroom. I went to the bathroom, looked in the mirror. I said, God, what are you doing? And it's almost like hearing him with excitement. You spoke it.
I wrote it down. You said you wanted to run with horses and bow in the thickest of the Jordan. So this is part of that process. Amen. Whoo.
And at that moment, I don't know why this came to me, but when I was 8 years old in Sunday school, Sunday school teacher, she said, does anybody know who Jeremiah is? And, man, with all confidence, I threw my hand up and I said, Jeremiah was a bullfrog. And then I thought about, no. Now you're the bullfrog. You're no longer a tadpole.
Now you're a Jeremiah. You know? So I'm gonna share a little bit about that supernatural experience of the Jesus crusade. There again, it's only by him that I'm standing here today. A journey like no other that he invites you into is supernatural.
So here we get up, it's my turn. Man, he is he is over me. I can feel it. I'm given the microphone and I go up and pray over the crowd and speak healing and you're watching "hands fly up" and I'm I'm walking. I wanna see 2 people, and I wanna call to the stage closely.
And all of a sudden, I hear, I'm working over here, and I turn. This man's laying on a blanket, and he's moving his leg back and forth. And it's like in the midst of this, 47,000 people getting to hear God and have a conversation at the same time, not that it's I'm so special, but he says, but you are so special. Culture mine. Yeah.
Yes. And when he said that, it's like that fathering moment of, yeah, I see you, daddy. Let's go. I quickly darted off. I don't remember.
I darted off to the stage, call this man just in the name of Jesus, "get up and walk". They picked him up. I bent down on the stage. This guy walked to me. Carried him in on a mat.
They carried him in on a mat. That's correct. I didn't know that until through that week. There was something going on inside of me, but there was pictures taken of him brought in by a chair. His demeanor was hurting and painful.
As he's standing at the stage, was smiling and full of life. Come on. Come on. So I want you to remember, it's not about you. His anointing establishes you.
He is the 1 that calls you into a supernatural journey like no other, but you gotta let go of yourself. He is the the source and the supply of all things possible, and he makes it all possible. *2 Corinthians-5:14* and 16, I don't have that up there, but this is what I get out of that. But the heart of God's love breaks down all challenges. His perfect love casts out fear.
Standing in the faith of God, I no longer look at men as challenges. I'm looking into the end result, wishing no man to perish. Without confidence in God, his word, stating perfect love cast out all fear, you can't stand. You gotta come up under his umbrella. Thereby the fruit of the spirit we endure, there's no inbound no boundaries.
So it's time to rise to our feet and accept God's invitation that is real and personal. To take you on to take you on a personal journey that is like no other. Takes you from natural to the supernatural, and I'm a witness of that. And if you've been born again, you are too. Because he rose you from the dead, he kicked out the demons, and he healed you when you were sick.
So every time you look in the mirror, you get to see his miracle working in you. So I wanna challenge you to receive all that God has given you today. Let go of what you're holding on to. God is inviting you into that real life journey, a journey like no other. So we're gonna close right now.
If you wanna go on a journey like no other, from natural to supernatural, God is inviting you in. He's given you an invitation for Jesus Christ to be your lord and savior. Is there anybody out there that would like to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior today? Because he is willing. Well, if you're born again, then I invite you, God invites you into a journey like no other, moving you from supernatural to natural.
We have *relationships* in these rooms where men and women are they are wanting to "run like horses", and they're inviting you into this relationship too, to run with them. Have you ever seen horses run together? A team of horses, 4 across, 4 across, they're all running in unison, and then there's 1, just 1 man "holding the reins". And that's God the father. He'll teach us.
He'll mold us. We heard that too, like clay. You don't wanna be a brittle cup. Let him water you where you can be moldable. I'd like to pray pray us out if we're ready for that.
Actually, would you guys would you guys just stand and give a big old hand clap to honor God and honor what God has done in Jerry? And honor what God just did through Jerry? Jerry Maya. I wanna ask all of our elders and leaders and everybody, if you come to the front for prayer. Yes.
And then, Jonathan, if you'd come play the keys as well. There are people in here that do need to be born again.
Yes.
There are also people in here that need healing. There are people in here that need restoration, in your marriages, friendships, other areas of your life. And we wanna give the opportunity for you to be ministered to. So if you're taught you're here in this relationship with God and you've never been born again, don't leave today just saying that was a good message. Take a step of *faith* and get out of yourself.
Come talk to 1 of these guys. Amen. They will lead you into a relationship with Jesus. But if you were born again a long time ago, but you left the altar, you haven't been spending time with him, you never been walking with him, you need to *repent* and run back to him. Don't just say, I'll do that myself today, but take a step of faith.
Come forward as we dismiss, and pray with these guys, and let them minister to you. I'll be down here praying too. If you need healing in your body, God has been doing amazing miracles and healing in this church, especially over the last month. Couple weeks ago, we saw 15 people miraculously healed during the message and then more healed afterwards upfront and then even listening to the podcast over the next week. Jesus wants to heal your body.
So we wanna pray for you. We wanna minister to you. We thank you for that. Courtney's gonna dismiss us. And after she does, she's got some important stuff you need to hear.
But after she does, if you need to do business with God, come do it. Amen? Amen.
Man, that was that was challenging and so encouraging. You know, the the supernatural things of the Lord are on the other side of obedience. God, what's next? My obedience is directly tied to to what the Lord is leading me to. Does that make sense?
Lord, what's next for me? Yes, sir. Yes, Lord. Man, I want to bring up just 1 quick announcement. Every month, we hold a dinner.
You know, he he shared the mission of real church, and it's to equip engage the culture with the love of Jesus, but then the next step is once you're engaged is to establish you in the local body of believers. We wanna invite you if you are thinking maybe my next step of obedience is to find a home church. It's time. Well, we are holding an established dinner, 1 tonight, but slots are completely full. Praise God.
Church is growing. There are more people taking those steps of obedience, but our next 1 is on July 2, and you can sign up for that either on our website or you can scan the QR code that you'll see all over the church. So I wanna encourage you that if if that is your next step, then take that next step. Also, if it's time for you, if you have made the decision to follow Jesus and you have not
been
**water baptized**, it's time, and we will make that available for you whenever you are ready. So just let us know. Let someone on the team know so that we can get ready to baptize you. We're gonna go ahead and dismiss, and if you need prayer, please come forward. We love you guys.
Have a great week.