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00:40 Hello and welcome to Behold the Lamb presents.
00:42 I'm Chris Shelton, your host, and I'm so thankful 00:46 that you have chosen to study with us today. 00:49 Today's topic is a special one. 00:51 It's one I think that many of us deal with. 00:54 In fact, if we deal with it too often, 00:56 it can bring about disease. 00:58 It can even bring about that. And that's stress management. 01:03 We're going to look past what the world says about it. 01:06 And we're going to look through many Bible passages 01:09 and see what God has, 01:11 what His prescription for our lives is. 01:14 And I pray that at the end of this message, 01:17 you will find peace, 01:19 a peace that passes all understanding, 01:22 no matter what storm you're going through, 01:24 no matter what valley you're walking through, 01:27 because God is the great physician. 01:29 We're going to go right into our message today 01:31 with Pastor Kenny, so stay tuned. 01:35 Welcome. 01:37 We're glad you joined us here today at Behold the Lamb. 01:39 You've heard all the information 01:40 we're gonna be talking about stress management today. 01:43 And at the end of the program we have Brother Richard Bland 01:46 and he's got some good information for you, 01:48 so you don't want to miss that. 01:49 So the message would be a little short today. 01:50 But Praise God, you know, when you keep our ears, 01:52 hearts and minds open, 01:54 that we may receive what God has for us. 01:56 Once again, before we begin the message we always do 01:59 what we do here, we pray again. 02:02 And so I'm going to kneel down here 02:03 and I'm going to pray, 02:04 those you'd like to pray with me please do so. 02:06 Let's pray. 02:09 Loving Father in heaven, again we thank You 02:11 for the privilege of serving You today, 02:13 we ask for Thy Holy Spirit, 02:14 we ask for power from on high that only You can give. 02:17 Lord, you know in my own heart and mind 02:19 I have nothing which good 02:21 which to give Thy people that through You, 02:23 through the Holy Spirit. 02:24 You'll be able to touch every heart and every life. 02:26 All those who view and those listening around the world 02:28 we pray richest blessing of heaven 02:30 upon each and every one. 02:32 Forgive me of my sins, my mistakes, anything 02:34 my heart and life that needs not be there. 02:36 Oh, Lord, I need to hear Your voice. 02:38 Bless us now, we pray to this in Jesus' name. 02:40 Amen. 02:45 We're doing something a little different, 02:46 we're doing some series on some subject 02:47 we think is very, very important, 02:49 you know, in the world today, 02:51 stress management, that may sound a little bit 02:53 you know like, we live in the hour, 02:55 last days of earth's history. 02:57 I believe with all my heart that Jesus is coming soon. 02:59 There's a lot of things we need to be learning, 03:01 we need to be going over. 03:02 But you know what? 03:04 We looking at a subject called stress, 03:06 stress management, it is like the blood pressure. 03:10 It's called what the silent killer. 03:13 Stress can kill you, it can break you down, 03:16 it can cause disease, 03:17 it can do everything you can think of imaginable 03:20 unless we're able by the grace of God 03:22 to manage the stress. 03:23 So if you're thinking today, well, I don't know 03:25 if I want to get into stress management or not. 03:27 Well, you'll spend about 35, 36 minutes 03:30 on stress management today based on the Word of God. 03:33 Now, you could go and do a lot of research 03:35 and you go and say, 03:36 "Man has said, this is the way you handle stress." 03:39 And many of those things are good. 03:41 But we're going to go to God's Word 03:43 because we know He doesn't make any mistakes. 03:45 And this is a way that we can really learn 03:47 to handle stress. 03:49 A little story here quickly I thought was interesting 03:51 'cause it just fit as I was reading it this week, 03:54 it says there's a churchgoer, anybody, churchgoer, 03:57 almost of us here we're here and so we're churchgoers. 04:01 They wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper, 04:04 they complained, it says it makes no sense. 04:08 Now some of you, no, none of here would do this. 04:10 It absolutely said it makes no sense 04:12 to go to church every week. 04:15 There's a lot of people who feel that way 04:16 but they go anyway just for show. 04:18 And there's no sense to go to church every week. 04:21 He said, here's why because I've gone for 30 years. 04:24 And they said, that's a long, long time. 04:28 I've heard at least 3,000 sermons 04:32 but for the life amazed 04:33 that I can't remember a single one. 04:36 So why should I be. Why should I be going? 04:38 I'm wasting my time and you preaching pastors, 04:41 you're wasting your time 04:43 because if I can't remember, then what good is it? 04:46 Well, this started 04:47 real controversy and a real problem, 04:49 you know, because other people want newspaper column, 04:51 nowadays we want to write back in, 04:53 we want to respond to that. 04:55 And so for weeks it went on with the editor 04:58 and people responding to it and until one man wrote one, 05:02 he wrote a list of little and response to this. 05:04 He said, you know what? 05:05 He said, I've been, 05:06 I've been married for 30 years now. 05:10 And then during that time 05:12 my wife has cooked at least 32,000 meals for me. 05:17 That's a lot of meals. Now, ain't that, ladies? 05:18 About 30 years, you take 32,000 meals, 05:22 he bet for the life of me. 05:24 He said, I cannot recall one single menu 05:31 but I just can't remember 05:32 what the menu was for those meals. 05:34 But you know what? 05:36 I found out that I needed that strength, 05:39 I needed that help, 05:40 I needed that nourishment that it gave to me. 05:45 If it had not been for my wife and those meals, 05:48 I would have starved to death. 05:50 Very interesting. 05:52 And you know what? 05:55 There was no more comments, 05:56 there was no more writing into the newspaper 05:58 because people got the point because it gave me what? 06:03 Nourishment and it gave me strength 06:05 when I went to church and when I heard the message 06:08 and that's what it should do for us today. 06:10 So even the message stress management, 06:13 we pray it would be a blessing. 06:15 We live in a world, do we not believe church, 06:17 we live in a world that is stressed out, 06:21 I mean, stretched to the max, everybody that you talk, 06:25 I haven't talked to anyone yet that says, 06:28 I'm not stressed, for something, for somehow, 06:31 some area of their life they're stressed, 06:33 they're not maybe highly stressed. 06:35 My mom used to say to me when I was young, kid, 06:37 you hear off a high strum. 06:39 Anybody ever hear that at home? 06:42 We're always wiggling, always going, always doing 06:44 but your high, high strum things 06:46 affect you differently. 06:48 And so we live in a world where things affect people 06:51 and they act those things out, things that they see, 06:55 things that they're around, they act them out in life. 06:57 So there's stress where? 06:59 There's stress in the home, 07:01 there's stressed in the marriage, 07:03 there is stressed about finances 07:04 or stress about world problems, 07:06 there is stress about money issue, 07:08 anything that goes on in this world 07:11 that confronts us there is stress about it. 07:14 There is stress when you go to build 07:16 something at the house. 07:17 There is stress if I'm going to pay for it. 07:18 Where's the lumber going to come from? 07:20 How am I going to do it? 07:21 I'm not sure how to do this thing. 07:23 There's stress about I want to make sure 07:25 I'm dressed like everybody else. 07:27 Well, that's always forget that business with me, 07:30 always been my own, you know. 07:32 But some people they want to be in the, 07:34 you know, they know, they want to be in the, 07:36 we look like the rest of the world, 07:38 we dress like them. 07:40 So I find there is stress in the very young, 07:43 there is stress in the old 07:44 and there is stress in those who are in between. 07:47 So maybe you are in between 07:49 but you have some areas of life that may be stressed you. 07:52 And every day there seems to be more pressure 07:55 that's put upon us. 07:56 If we're not careful, 07:58 blood pressure will take us all the way down. 08:01 And that strum we have every day, 08:03 we just need to be praying, 08:05 God help me just to make it through this day. 08:08 This has been a stressful day I've ever been. 08:10 It's been most stressful day of my life. 08:12 I just wanted to give up. 08:15 I didn't want to go on anymore. 08:16 Why go on if every day is going to be like this? 08:20 Surely, there's something better. 08:22 Surely, there's a plan. 08:24 If every day I have to wake up till I die 08:26 and go through this mess. 08:27 Is somebody with me today? 08:29 This is, if I have to go through this kind of stuff, 08:32 I just don't want to do it anymore. 08:34 And many people take their life 08:36 because they refused to go through it. 08:39 My question to you, is this God's plan? 08:42 Is this what God wants from us 08:45 or is the enemy may be doing his very, very best 08:49 to destroy everyone on this planet? 08:56 You know, the kids sometimes they go to daycare, 08:58 they do whatever, they go to school 08:59 and there is little stress because when they go home, 09:02 they either have to look out, 09:04 they have to have a little smiley face on their... 09:06 Printed on their hand here 09:08 or maybe a frown that means well, they've been good or bad. 09:11 That might determine where they get a little more 09:13 than stress when they get home. 09:16 But you see, that is stress. 09:18 See, we, I was stressed. 09:20 You know, we went to school many times 09:22 because in shop class, 09:23 I'll give you an example in shop class, 09:25 every Friday you watched a movie 09:27 on how to build something. 09:29 And then as soon as that film was over with, 09:32 you had a quiz and the shop teacher loved it 09:36 because he was a shop teacher. 09:37 And it was, 09:39 so he loved to have him a paddle just about this, 09:42 like this, it looked like to me, 09:43 but was bigger than him. 09:45 His name was Mr. Barton. 09:47 And so he loved it. 09:49 So if you missed or rather two or three, 09:50 everyone you missed. 09:52 10 questions there. One you missed. 09:54 You got a swat. 09:55 Well, that right there make you forget 09:57 what you just saw. 09:59 And there was some boy, one his name was S, 10:02 it ended with S like mine did 10:03 and so he was my buddy at my table, 10:05 he got so every Friday he got him paddling 10:08 because he was stressed as soon as he find 10:10 now it's Friday, oh, no, 10:13 he could not concentrate on what he was watching, 10:16 he could not listen because he was stressed, 10:18 because he knew he'd forget and he missed 10:20 more than he should and he was going to get this, 10:22 I want to say a four foot paddle, 10:25 I'm sure it wasn't the man it looked like it. 10:27 And I mean it just really who is to pop, 10:29 I was close by 10:31 because the teacher like to whip you 10:32 at your little shop desk. 10:34 So the boy was always beside me, 10:35 so I heard the wind of that thing. 10:38 I was thankful through the year 10:40 I never got one swat because you know what? 10:42 Stress for me was, you better pay attention boy, 10:45 you better listen here if you don't want this. 10:48 So get the things right. 10:49 So there's stress no one, 10:51 I'm sure no one here just denies it. 10:53 No one denies that the stress doesn't exist. 10:58 Everyone certainly says I know that it does, 11:01 and it's worldwide. 11:03 But does God have a plan to deal with it. 11:06 Again, we could look 11:07 at a lot of different areas of the world and say, 11:09 this is what the man of the world say about stress. 11:13 This is what we're supposed to do, 11:14 and some of them would be very good. 11:17 Well, remember when man says it, 11:18 it must harmonize with what God says in His Word 11:21 or throw it out. 11:22 Does it make sense? 11:25 Because man is not above the Word of God. 11:27 man is not, God made us and He knows what stresses is 11:31 and He also knows what can help us 11:33 in our daily life. 11:34 He knows what can help us. 11:36 So you know you, you may be surprised at some of the, 11:39 some of the answers that we get from God's Word. 11:41 I kind of doubt it, if you're a Bible believer 11:44 and a Bible reader, you'll understand this. 11:47 So notice this we know number one, 11:49 we know this for a fact. 11:51 Stress destroys the physical, 11:55 and the mental, and the spiritual. 11:59 Did you get it? 12:00 It destroys us even spiritually. 12:03 Stress can do that, the body. 12:06 So this is why the enemy, 12:07 I believe, is working very hard in this area. 12:11 Again, a lot of facts could be given 12:13 about the soul and the body, 12:15 and so on and so forth and mind. 12:17 But I believe that most of us understand this 12:19 and we need to, 12:20 I'm looking for answers not looking for a lot of hola 12:23 but you know, I'm looking for some answers 12:25 from God's Word to say, 12:27 this is how you deal with stress. 12:30 This is how. 12:31 See, there was a time in my life 12:33 when I first started in ministry, 12:35 that preaching a message was very stressful. 12:39 My knees would smoke one against the other, 12:42 I become tongue tied, 12:44 I'd begin to stutter and stammer, 12:45 I probably do all those things now, 12:47 I just don't realize I dance along. 12:50 But you see it caused stress and I always thought 12:52 it was supposed to be a blessing. 12:54 You know, when you bring a message or teach a class. 12:57 When the time comes as God you work along with God 13:00 and you're promised the Holy Spirit to help, 13:02 to lead and guide and direct that gives you some comfort, 13:06 not that you're, it's ever easy but there's comfort to know 13:09 in God's Word as you have done your part, 13:11 he says I will help you do your part, I'll help you. 13:14 We have to do our part. 13:16 So we have problems. 13:17 Where do we go first? 13:19 Do we go to, listen, church where do we go? 13:20 Do we go to man first or do we go to God? 13:24 Most everybody goes to man first and tries his way. 13:26 It doesn't work, then he comes back and says, 13:28 well, let's try God's way 13:30 that man all the disappointments 13:31 that he goes through, 13:33 all the heartache that he goes through 13:34 because this man is supposed to help you, 13:36 this counselor is supposed to help you 13:38 and maybe they can and maybe they do 13:40 and some of the stuff is good but listen closely, 13:43 God never makes mistakes, 13:45 every, and I want to put this way, every command 13:48 or piece of advice that He gives is excellent, 13:51 is absolutely excellent. 13:52 And if we will apply that, 13:54 we will find our life will change. 13:57 Hey, stress ages you. 14:00 Somebody is now with me? 14:02 I can't jump over the pew anymore like I used to, 14:04 I think there's some stress may there. 14:10 And I'm not going to try. 14:11 So don't anybody asked me to try. 14:14 So we seek God first, 14:15 we seek answers from the Word of God first 14:18 and then you know what, 14:19 then we'll put an end to this nightmare. 14:22 And it's almost like a disease called stress. 14:26 First of all, the word stress 14:28 if somebody finds it in the word, let me know, 14:31 I looked in the Word of God 14:33 and I looked and I looked and looked, 14:34 look in the concordance. 14:36 I never could find the word stress in the Bible. 14:38 Now, maybe some of you might, 14:40 if you do, let me know 14:41 because I mean, I want, I'm willing as truth comes in, 14:45 I'm willing to change and get up front and say, 14:46 you know what, I said this, but here's what the Word says, 14:48 God's given me better understanding. 14:50 There's nothing wrong with saying, 14:51 okay, now it's different than it used to be. 14:54 But I find the word distress, 14:57 it's in there a lot and I thought 14:59 what is the difference between the two? 15:01 Because we should define 15:03 and let's, let's make sure because we want stay, 15:05 you know, we want to stay on the same page together. 15:08 So, you know, you just go to the dictionary 15:10 aware of what you want to. 15:11 And you look, the word stress says this in the dictionary, 15:14 it says, it's a strain, 15:17 when you're strained every day activity 15:20 when you're strained or something 15:22 is not quite right. 15:23 There's, stress means 15:25 there's pressure, undue pressure, 15:28 you know, if you go to air up a tire 15:30 and you put the right amount of pressure in it, you're good, 15:33 but you put too much air, that tire becomes stressed, 15:37 does it not? 15:38 And you can blow that tire up. 15:40 And if it's under inflated, it will wear out quickly 15:42 and blow up and maybe come off the rim, 15:44 so you have an idea. 15:45 And also it means tension. 15:47 It's a force, it means urgency. 15:50 So people who are stressed feel an urgency, 15:53 they always feel urgency. 15:55 They want to... 15:56 It's kind of like 15:58 they're trying to work out everything for themselves 16:00 and they're not trying to. 16:01 But this is the way they're motivated 16:03 that they're going to work it all out rather than say, 16:05 God says, 16:06 I'll fight your battles for you. 16:08 I'm going to take care of you. 16:10 You are my child, love to give good gifts to you. 16:12 But you know, sometimes we forget that 16:15 we're trying to work it all out. 16:17 And so the word distress means this. 16:20 It means a suffering, it can mean a suffering. 16:23 Distress means anxiety. 16:26 Anything that distresses is what dictionary says, 16:31 I see something very similar in those words 16:35 because that has to do with pressure, 16:37 it has to do with suffering, it has to do with anxiety. 16:40 These are both words, do you get it? 16:41 Anything that caused a distress. 16:44 So if a person is going through any kind of a situation 16:48 that you're going through, 16:49 and I guarantee every person here is 16:51 or has went through these kind of conditions 16:54 that causes a strain on their life or relationship, 16:59 whatever it might be, even with God. 17:02 Anything that's causing tension, 17:05 anything that's causing anxiety, 17:07 anything that's causing pressure, 17:11 anything is causing stress, there needs to be an answer, 17:14 there needs to be a change take place. 17:17 Here's a good place to start. 17:19 It starts in the Word of God. 17:20 In the Book of Psalms, I love it. 17:22 Psalms 120:1. 17:25 Psalms 120:1, just simply says this, 17:29 "It's concise and it's to the point, 17:32 God just let you have it the right way." 17:34 Do you notice it? Notice what it says. 17:36 It says in life that David, 17:38 now you think David had any stress or distress. 17:41 Oh, wow, what a life. 17:44 King David, man the things 17:46 that he went through, the things 17:47 he created about himself and did and so on. 17:50 And the things that just beset him, 17:52 he had a stressful, very life, 17:54 many times he was very stressful, 17:56 but here's what he said, 17:58 "In my distress I cried unto the Lord." 18:02 Here is beautiful, wonderful advice, 18:05 when I become distressed, when the world seems like 18:09 they're against me, nothing's going my way. 18:12 Everything's fell apart, there is no hope, 18:15 there is nothing. 18:16 He said now when I went to that point, 18:18 I went rock bottom and I cried out, 18:21 when in my distress I cried out unto the Lord. 18:24 That's the first thing that you do 18:26 if you're stressed out as you cry what? 18:28 You cry unto the Lord. You know why? 18:30 Number one because He wants to help you. 18:32 He doesn't want to see you miserable. 18:34 He doesn't want to see you bite your nails to the quick. 18:37 Are you still with me? 18:38 He didn't want to see you to pulling your hair out 18:40 by the hands full. 18:41 He doesn't want to see you pacing up and down 18:43 and carrying on like, oh, boy, I tell you. 18:45 I don't know what I'm going to do. 18:47 That shows us maybe a lack of faith too 18:50 as we look at this thing called stress. 18:53 The Bible also says this, this is good. 18:55 And I put it right close 18:57 because the first thing I do in stress 18:58 is I call upon him 19:00 because I know he wants to help me. 19:02 Say, I'm not calling on somebody 19:03 that doesn't want to help me. 19:06 You know, my phone say they really don't care 19:09 whether I got up this morning or not, 19:11 but I'm calling on someone who really does care about me. 19:14 I'm calling for my Creator. 19:16 I'm calling upon my Redeemer, I'm calling upon my Sustainer, 19:19 I'm calling upon the one 19:21 who loves to give me good gifts, 19:22 the one who wants to take care of me, 19:24 one when I go down into the pit 19:26 He's there to help me out of that pit 19:27 and to clean me off 19:29 and set my feet on solid ground. 19:31 See that's what I'm looking for in my stressful situation. 19:34 And then I go back and I read the Bible, 19:36 it says this, 19:37 this goes back in the Book of Genesis 35:3. 19:42 Notice this, look what the Bible says here, 19:45 he said the question there was asked, 19:46 I think was Jacob was gone. 19:48 You think Jacob went through any kind of stress? 19:50 All kind of a mess, man running for his life, 19:52 all kind of stuff going on. 19:54 But interesting what he said in said, 19:56 "Who answered me in the day of my distress." 20:00 Jacob said in my day of distress, 20:02 God answered me. 20:05 In your day of distress or your stress, 20:08 God will answer you but you have to ask, 20:11 you have to know, you have to go to Him. 20:14 He wants to do this thing for you. 20:16 And certainly distressed, 20:18 in the Hebrew word distress means trouble. 20:23 Same thing we've been talking about here. 20:24 It means he said in my day of trouble 20:27 You were there. 20:28 In my day of adversity, You were there. 20:31 In my day of anguish, You were there. 20:33 Man, that's wonderful. 20:35 Think about that. 20:36 In my day of anguish 20:38 when I just think it's not going to work anymore. 20:42 And some of you have come maybe to that point 20:43 or been that way in your life. 20:45 It just not with tears flowing down your cheek. 20:48 With a heart that's broken, 20:50 it's just not going to work anymore. 20:53 But in that time, God says, I heard you. 20:56 God says I want to help you. 20:59 See we, I think all of us 21:00 since that we live in troublous times, do we not? 21:02 We live in troublous time. 21:04 So if you're looking for this little paradise, 21:06 I hear that's not going to be till Jesus comes. 21:09 Right now we are in a mess. 21:11 We're in a battle for our life. 21:13 There's no doubt about it. 21:16 We're going to be faced church, every individual, 21:20 whether you like it or they don't. 21:22 Whether you're Christian, I'm talking to you, 21:23 whether you're Christian, whether you're not, 21:24 this pertains to you. 21:26 This pertains to me, this pertains to everybody. 21:28 We're in troublous times, things are happening. 21:30 Different decisions have to be made. 21:32 But you know what? 21:33 When these decisions come and we're not sure 21:35 of what we need to do, we go to God in prayer. 21:37 Remember, He wants to help us. 21:40 But when these things happen and when I'm pressured 21:43 I have to remember, Kenny, don't get down 21:46 and don't bow down and don't shut down 21:49 and don't give up. 21:52 You see, we have to be reminded who's really in charge. 21:56 You think you're in charge, you're not. 21:59 There's a God in heaven, that's in charge. 22:01 And He wants to do and you know what? 22:03 I love it because He can do what He wants to do. 22:06 He can change anything He wants to change. 22:10 And here we are, we can't change anything. 22:12 We don't know the next second what's going to happen 22:14 and always rely on ourselves 22:15 and we learned that from years ago 22:18 the program called Father Knows Best. 22:21 You're not going to get it, some of the younger ones, 22:23 you're just not going to get it. 22:26 It's a pretty good title if you think about it, 22:28 and father should know what is best. 22:30 We know our heavenly Father knows what's best. 22:33 Many earthly fathers do not know what is best. 22:36 It has to be weighed with Scripture, 22:38 isn't that right? 22:39 So we're not to give up. 22:41 The Bible says good advice 22:43 in 2 Corinthians 4:8 tells us this. 22:47 And I think maybe I've been there, 22:48 maybe you have been there, 22:50 maybe you've been in this situation, 22:53 tells us that there's, 22:54 notice the Bible said there's trouble on what? 22:57 On every side. 22:58 2 Corinthians 4:8, we're moving quickly, 23:01 that's why pen and pencil, know papers is necessary, 23:04 so you can write them down and go study for yourself 23:06 because you know what? 23:08 This preacher won't mean to lie to you 23:09 or tell you an untruth but I check him out. 23:12 Every preacher say I'm telling you the truth. 23:14 Well, every preacher ain't telling you the truth. 23:16 Somebody's not 23:17 and they not maybe on purpose at all, 23:19 doesn't mean they're a bad person at all, 23:21 it simply mean they're not harmonizing with Scripture. 23:24 They're taking one verse 23:25 and trying to make a truth out of that, 23:27 you can't do that, you have to line upon line. 23:29 Here a little, there a little to find out what truth is. 23:31 But the Bible says in 2 Corinthians 4:8, 23:34 "There's trouble on every side, yet we're not," what? 23:38 "We're not distressed." 23:40 Trouble on every side, wars and rumors of wars every time 23:43 talking about nuclear explosion, 23:45 different things going on exchanging this. 23:47 And if you do this, 23:48 I guarantee you I'm going to do that. 23:50 That's troublous times. 23:52 They'll bring about an end rather quickly 23:54 if we're not careful. 23:55 I'm not distressed I looked at that word 23:57 I thought how interesting that is 23:59 that we're not distressed, it means I'm not cramped. 24:04 I don't like to be cramped. 24:06 I don't like to be cramped up in tight places either. 24:10 But the world sometime puts you in a tight place 24:14 that there's no wiggle room as well just seemed like 24:16 no way to get out of this mess, 24:18 I turned sideways and turn this way 24:20 and you get down, 24:22 you seem like you just can't get out. 24:23 Therefore we lose hope 24:26 but the Bible never says can you lose hope, 24:29 it always gives us hope 24:30 so it says you're not distressed, 24:33 you trouble on every side but you're not cramped. 24:37 Another word there it says you're not hemmed in. 24:40 You know, you don't like somebody to hem you in you, 24:42 you may be driving down the road, 24:43 you don't like to be hemmed in by two semi trucks 24:46 about this far from you. 24:48 You want to say, one of you guys go on. 24:51 I'm getting tight now. 24:53 I'm cramped up, I'm hemmed in. 24:57 But it says we know these things may happen. 25:00 We're not out, that verse goes on to say we are, 25:04 noticed this. 25:05 "We are perplexed, but not in despair." 25:10 Did you notice that? 25:11 This is talking stress. 25:15 Hemmed, distressed, cramped, but it says here, 25:19 we're perplexed. 25:20 I'm perplexed sometimes, I don't know about you 25:23 but I get perplexed sometime, concerned about things. 25:27 And a lot of times, things that I cannot change, 25:30 this helpless was stressed, 25:31 don't get stressed out on something you cannot change. 25:35 Then you know that you can pray and God can change anything 25:38 but don't you try to do it, 25:39 we don't know what is best but God does. 25:42 Notice it, when it says, we're not in despair 25:44 that means utterly at a loss. 25:47 We are not utterly at a loss 25:49 even though everything seems like 25:50 it's just, we don't know what's going on here. 25:54 Do you realize Paul when he wrote to us 25:56 in the Word of God 25:58 through the unction of the Holy Spirit? 26:00 He writes, he pens these beautiful, 26:01 powerful words 26:03 but he tells us, Look, don't get distressed. 26:07 Don't be stressed out because somebody lied on you. 26:11 Don't get discouraged 26:13 because someone tried to blow your character. 26:15 They tried to make you look bad, 26:17 don't you, don't get distress. 26:18 Why? 26:20 Because he said I know what it is to be lied on. 26:23 Some people say I'm stressed out 26:25 because I'm all alone. 26:26 I don't have any friends. 26:27 Paul says I know what it's like to be alone 26:30 and thrown in the dungeon. 26:32 See I know all this thing 26:33 'cause we look at we know that 26:34 Jesus understands all of those things too, 26:36 we understand that. 26:38 We look at Paul when we say right here. 26:41 Yeah, his character was destroyed 26:43 wherever he tried to go that enemy was there 26:46 trying to destroy his character. 26:48 He was perplexed many times, Paul was. 26:51 He was, he was persecuted and you know what? 26:55 One commentary I was reading said 26:56 and Paul was just about ready like I don't know, 27:01 it's almost like maybe I should give up. 27:05 As Christian sometime you thought about maybe what's, 27:08 what good is it? 27:11 I'm doing the best I know how to do. 27:13 I'm reading, I'm praying, I'm studying, 27:16 but everything is still falling apart every, 27:19 everything you go to do, 27:24 you have to fight on your knees, the enemy. 27:27 He will not give you one inch of the ground. 27:30 Everything you go to do, 27:32 he's monkeying around with the printers, 27:33 he's monkeying around with your computer. 27:35 He's monkeying around those things 27:37 you use in ministry. 27:39 He's trying to monkey with, 27:40 he will monkey with everything he could, 27:42 you see, if he was allowed in here, 27:44 but he's been thrown out 27:45 through the power of prayer today, 27:47 or through the power of the Holy Spirit, 27:48 he's not been allowed in here. 27:51 And you think, well, that's pretty bold. 27:52 You better believe 27:53 because the Word says you can be bold. 27:55 Through prayer the enemy has to go, he can't be in here. 27:58 If he's in here, I'm staying home. 27:59 I'm going somewhere else. 28:03 Stressful situation. 28:07 But when he came to this point 28:08 and this, this was for us today. 28:10 When you come to this point, don't give up, 28:13 when you come like there's no place to look. 28:15 What did Paul do? 28:17 It became very evident in Scripture, 28:19 when he became so stressed 28:20 because of all the liars and all the tails 28:23 and all the stuff that was going on, 28:25 he looked at Calvary. 28:27 Think about it. 28:29 Here's a key for those who are stressed, 28:31 look to Calvary 28:32 and look what Jesus went through. 28:34 Look, think of Jesus hanging there on the cross 28:37 that He experienced all of these things 28:40 when He said in the garden, 28:41 you know, in Gethsemane would there be somebody 28:44 that would pray with me? 28:46 Just somebody. 28:48 And He found them all asleep. 28:49 How depressing that could have been? 28:54 When you need somebody, 28:56 He just wanted somebody to pray. 28:58 Paul said I looked at Calvary 29:01 and then he thought about what Jesus went through. 29:05 And then you know what Paul did. 29:06 Here's some more for those 29:07 who are going through this thing called stress 29:09 or stress management. 29:12 Here's what he did. 29:13 Here's what we need to be doing. 29:14 Number one, take our mind off of self. 29:18 In stress management, 29:19 first thing is take your mind off of self 29:22 and all your difficult things 29:24 that you're the only one in the world going through. 29:27 We feel like it sometime, don't we? 29:28 Am I the only one? 29:30 But that this will be a blessing 29:33 when we begin to feel this way 29:35 is take our mind off of ourselves 29:37 and put it on Christ, put it on others. 29:40 We've said that for so long. 29:42 And then Paul 29:43 as he took his mind off of self, 29:45 the Holy Spirit he was filled with the Holy Spirit 29:48 and as the Holy Spirit came in, it gave him new hope, 29:51 and new strength, 29:52 and new courage to continue on 29:54 to fight that good fight of faith. 29:58 We think of stress management. 30:00 Well, the most comforting scriptures could be given, 30:03 and a lot of times it's giving when you really need comfort. 30:06 Lot of times you hear this read, 30:08 to say at funerals you hear it read, Psalms 23. 30:12 Because it gives what? Comfort when you're stressed. 30:15 When you've lost someone you love, 30:17 when you don't think I can go on anymore. 30:19 In Psalms 23, there's only six verses 30:22 but there seems like more, 30:24 it covers such as you know, such a vast amount of area, 30:29 we can't read it all right now. 30:30 Oh, I want you to read it. 30:31 Oh, our daytime is our worst enemy here. 30:33 There's no doubt about it. 30:36 So much to cover. 30:37 But let's just say this quickly. 30:39 Let's hit the high points of every verse 30:40 and you go back and read it 'cause you know Psalms 23. 30:44 It starts out what? 30:46 Yeah, the Lord is mine. 30:49 Is that the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want. 30:53 There's the answer right there. 30:55 The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. 30:59 That means I am here for you, Kenny, 31:01 and I'm going to take care of you. 31:03 I am your protector. 31:05 Isn't that wonderful? 31:06 You won't want 31:08 if you have me the way you're supposed to have me 31:10 rather than all just talk and say, 31:12 I've got Him and you really don't have Him. 31:14 You think that you have Him but you don't have Him 31:17 because if you do have Him, you're going to say, 31:19 "Yes, He is my protector 31:21 and He's going to take care of me" 31:22 This is a bad situation. 31:23 I don't know how I'm going to come out. 31:25 I'm going to just shed a bushel of tears. 31:26 I'm sure the loss of loved one. 31:28 I'm sure it's going to demand changes in my life 31:31 and changes in finances, 31:33 change in everything here but God said, 31:35 it's going to be all right. 31:36 I'm going to take care of you. 31:38 The verse goes on, verse 2 quickly, 31:40 pick one word is that He leads me. 31:43 Are you still with me, church? 31:44 He said, He leads me, verse 3. 31:48 It says He restores me. 31:50 This is what it's all about in stress management. 31:53 Think about it. He's my protector. 31:55 He leads me, He restores me. 31:57 Verse 4 says, fear, I fear no evil 32:01 because thou art with me. 32:03 I'm not worried about 32:04 what the crooks are doing in the world today. 32:06 I'm not worried about 32:07 what the thieves are doing in the world today. 32:09 I'm not worried about what Joe Blow is doing 32:11 next door over there. 32:12 I'm not worried about all these bank robbery. 32:14 I'm not worried because he said, 32:16 you're going to be with me. 32:17 Verse 5, you're going to be with me. 32:19 And he says 32:20 and I'll fight your battle for you. 32:22 I'm going to fight it. You don't need to fight it. 32:24 You don't need to try to get even with anybody. 32:25 That's not your job. 32:27 I'm going to take care of you. 32:29 And then in verse 6, it simply says 32:31 goodness and mercy is going to follow you 32:33 all the days of your life. 32:35 You're going to dwell in the house 32:36 of the Lord forever. 32:37 This is stress management at top level. 32:41 I'll be with you, he said to the end. 32:44 Think about that, Psalms 23, 32:46 it was something very interesting 32:47 as a young shepherd boy 32:50 that David out in the field taking care of his sheep. 32:54 Think about it. 32:56 He drew how sweet his experience as a shepherd, 33:00 now it reflected as he pin these words, 33:04 his experience. 33:06 See, our experience will reflect in our own life 33:09 and how we conduct ourselves. 33:12 Freedom we need my brothers and sisters from anxiety. 33:16 Stress can be found in verse 33:20 and these verses in Philippians 4, 33:22 just jot them down quickly, 4 through 7. 33:25 I had time to read them all, for he says, 33:28 it says rejoice in the Lord, Philippians, what? 33:30 4:4-7, 33:32 "Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say," what? 33:35 "I say, "rejoice" what? 33:37 Rejoice when the hammer's put down. 33:39 Rejoice when the devil's razor knocked all over your head. 33:42 Rejoice when things that is not right. 33:44 Rejoice when I don't have the house payment. 33:46 Rejoice when I don't have the car payment. 33:48 Rejoice, this is a challenge to us. 33:51 We have to have faith to know that God 33:53 and I feel ashamed sometime 33:54 after I've seen all these years of my life 33:56 that God has met every need of every situation. 34:00 He's never failed me one time 34:02 and I still once in a while wonder 34:03 how it's going to work out. 34:07 That's sad. 34:10 Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word. 34:12 Lord, have mercy on me. 34:16 I have nothing to fear, you are with me. 34:19 Rejoice. 34:20 "Let your moderation be known unto man." 34:21 Verse 5, 6, "Be careful for nothing." 34:25 But notice it, 34:26 "Be careful for nothing but in every thing," what? 34:28 "Through prayer and supplication." 34:30 You know, the Bible, what it said? 34:32 "With thanksgiving. 34:34 let your requests be known to God." 34:36 See we have not because we, 'cause we ask not. 34:39 Let your requests be known to God. 34:42 Take them there. 34:43 Don't say He knows. Yes, He does know. 34:45 You must go to Him. 34:47 You must empty yourself as it were to Him. 34:50 Talk to Him about it. 34:52 He wants you to talk to Him because you gain strength. 34:55 Stress management 34:56 is taking everything to Him in prayer and supplication. 35:00 Be careful is to help us rejoice 35:02 in the Lord always. 35:04 Christ has the ability to change the heart, 35:07 change the mind, regardless of circumstances, 35:11 regardless the way things seem. 35:13 Jesus can change those situations 35:16 and influences regarded, as long, 35:19 notice as long as we focused on Him 35:22 and not our problems. 35:24 Did you get it? 35:25 As long as we're focusing on Him, 35:29 then He can work. 35:30 Soon as we turn away from Him, what have we done? 35:32 We're focusing on ourselves and that selfishness. 35:35 He never had selfishness. 35:37 He was always focused on everybody else 35:39 and His Heavenly Father, and it worked out for Him. 35:41 It'll work out for you and me if we get our mind, 35:44 everybody that I've seen many, many we've counseled with 35:47 and talk over the years. 35:48 They can't talk about, oh, Lord, have mercy on me. 35:50 I'll get in trouble. 35:52 They can't talk about anything but self. 35:54 They can't talk about anything but their problems. 35:57 And we understand there's times you need 35:58 to maybe talk about it, have some prayer about it, 36:00 but I'm talking about nothing else. 36:02 They haven't thought about Joe down the road 36:03 and some Sarah and Mary over here 36:05 and all these things that are going on. 36:07 They have their own situation, mind off of self, 36:09 well, notice, this will help us, 36:12 this will help us to be gentle and kind 36:15 and loving to other people when we realize 36:18 they're going through 36:19 maybe a bigger mess than we are. 36:21 When Christ comes in and changes my life, 36:23 it helps me to be able to focus on other people 36:26 rather than on myself. 36:27 Be careful, the Bible says for nothing. 36:29 You want that carefully. 36:31 Don't be anxious, Kenny, about anything. 36:34 Don't be. Don't be stressed about it. 36:35 Don't be anxious about. 36:37 Now there it'd be wrong to be anxious. 36:40 Lord, help me not to be anxious, 36:42 but sometime I get anxious. 36:44 But it says don't be anxious about anything. 36:48 He didn't say, well, at 12 o'clock at night you can, 36:51 six in the morning you can, 36:53 from six to eight you can be anxious. 36:55 Then, oh, don't you, it says don't be for anything. 37:01 Paul says you know 37:02 it makes it clear in these verses here that is, 37:04 that if we depend on self, 37:07 notice this life becomes impossible to live, 37:11 somebody stay with me, if we depend upon our self, 37:14 life becomes impossible to live. 37:16 That's why many people take their life 37:19 because it's all about self. 37:20 Verse 6 tells us 37:21 we need to take everything to God, where? 37:23 In prayer with supplication. 37:24 Prayer here simply means in prayer. 37:28 And that in the widest sense, 37:30 supplication is a little bit different. 37:33 That means I takes a special, there's a special object, 37:36 there's something special I need to take to Him 37:38 and I talked about my needs and whatever, 37:41 the whatever I take to Him, I do with thanksgiving 37:43 because I know that He's going to take care. 37:46 When you pray you have to do, what? 37:48 When you get done praying about something 37:50 then you get up and you conduct your life 37:53 as though it's already been taken care of. 37:56 Somebody is not with me, I'm gonna float right off here 37:58 because I'm thinking how wonderful that is, 38:02 think how wonderful that is, that, you know what? 38:05 That's living faith, that's living out your prayer. 38:10 You people just pray, pray 38:11 and then don't get up and live out their prayer, 38:13 living out your prayer is I prayed about this, 38:15 now I get up and I live it out 38:17 because it's already taken, I don't know when, 38:19 I don't know how 38:21 but it's going to be taken care of 38:22 because he said he would. 38:24 That's wonderful. 38:25 That's answer to stress and the problems of stress 38:28 but thanksgiving. 38:30 Oh, I'm telling, the peace of God it says here, 38:34 the only thing that we know we need peace in the world, 38:37 we want peace, we want that. 38:39 The other choice is 38:40 there's one more passage our time is gone. 38:42 1 Peter 5:7, it says 38:43 notice this in stress management, 38:45 "Cast all your care upon Him because He cares for you." 38:51 Put it in perspective. 38:53 We know Jesus is soon to come. 38:55 And he says, "Kenny, 38:57 don't get anxious about anything. 38:58 I've got it under control." 39:00 There's nothing in this world you need to get anxious about 39:02 because it seemed to pass away. 39:05 But we need to be concerned about heaven. 39:07 We need to be concerned about being there 39:09 by the grace of God. 39:11 We need not get all torn up and stressed up 39:14 and broke apart here in this world 39:15 because it's passing away and everything, 39:18 nothing remains the same. 39:20 Jesus is coming and we know that He's coming 39:24 that helps me to forebear in this world, 39:27 that helps me to go on 39:29 because I know it's not going to be forever. 39:32 It's just for time 39:35 and during that time it's going to be testing time, stress. 39:39 God can take care of your stress, 39:42 He can take care of my stress, if I simply follow. 39:44 Wish we had more time to do, we don't, 30 seconds left. 39:46 I'm going to pray 39:48 for those who are making that decision right now. 39:49 They're going to cast their stress on Him 39:51 because He cares for us. 39:52 Let's pray. Shall we together? 39:54 Loving Father in heaven, 39:56 we thank You for Your precious Word. 39:57 Even though we just gotten into just a little bit 40:00 it's been an encouragement and strength 40:01 and I thank You for it. 40:02 There is an answer for stress management 40:05 and it's in Your Word. 40:06 And I thank You in Jesus' name. 40:07 Amen. 40:09 We thank you for joining us here 40:11 on Behold the Lamb for today. 40:12 God bless you and we'll see you next time. 42:54 Hello and welcome back, friends. 42:56 A wonderful prescription of good message 42:59 from Pastor Kenny on stress management. 43:02 And I have a special guest with me 43:04 that's going to tell you more about 43:06 how to get information on stress management 43:08 and so many other topics. 43:10 In fact, 25 topics, you know, 43:13 normally we offer our DVDs for a love gift, 43:15 a single one for a love gift of just $8 or more. 43:18 Today, if you order the DVD, 43:22 you're going to get 43:23 a 25 Bible studies in this wonderful booklet 43:27 that Brother Richard Bland is going to tell you about 43:30 for a love gift of just $8 or more. 43:33 Brother Richard Bland, how did this come about? 43:36 Well, it came about 43:37 because the Lord wanted the gospel 43:39 go to the whole world and people need to know 43:42 where did it come from. 43:44 So after 25, after 35 years of distributing 43:49 over 25 million Bible lessons in and out of the world, 43:54 we took 25 of the most asked questions. 43:57 Yes. 43:58 And said Lord, we're going to put it together for you. 44:02 I love it. 44:03 And everything out of the scriptures. 44:04 Now remember, 44:06 there are lot of questions people ask, 44:07 but we took, we added them up for year. 44:09 What are the most 25 thing that people want to know? 44:12 Well, I know when I look, in fact, 44:14 I, since I've met you with this just a couple weeks ago, 44:17 we were at ASI, we were in Texas 44:19 and he showed me this lesson, 44:21 I've been studying it and I love it 44:23 and I think it's an awesome, awesome addition. 44:26 In fact I'm hoping that 44:28 by the time we finish this series, 44:31 I'm hoping we'll have 25 DVDs to go along with that. 44:34 I prayed for it well too because its design 44:38 and the reason why was this, and remember the Lord did this. 44:40 In fact I well have to tell you this, 44:43 it took one time eight days of me 44:45 eating nothing but praying and studying, 44:48 So it can come out just right, what Lord, how do you want it? 44:51 Yes. And the Lord. 44:52 So everything you see there 44:54 I cannot take the credit for it. 44:55 After much prayer and fasting at our home, 44:58 Lord said, this is what to do. 44:59 Should we give them a little taste 45:00 of what's in there? 45:02 Go ahead. 45:03 Well, we've got defeat loneliness. 45:04 How many of you've ever lonely? 45:06 I know I have been in the past. 45:07 How can we defeat it? 45:09 Are there scriptures that address loneliness? 45:11 Listen, the Bible is the answer for everything. 45:13 Did you know there's no problem that you have 45:16 that Christ don't have the answer. 45:17 And He said, that's the answer book. 45:19 It's the answer book on hell, 45:21 answer book on anything you want to know. 45:23 And you know what? 45:24 We found out, the 66 books cover everything, it covers, 45:29 what does it cover? 45:30 It covers everything a person when he is stuck, 45:34 doctors' book, some medicine book, 45:36 it's everything, it tells you how to live now, 45:40 it tells you how to live in the future and tell you 45:43 how he's gonna live for eternity. 45:44 Did you know that number four chapters in the Bible, 45:47 they don't have sin in it? 45:49 No, I didn't realize that. 45:50 The first two and the last two, 45:53 the first two talks about creation. 45:54 Yes. Perfect. 45:56 The last two talk about heaven. 45:57 Yes. You see what I mean. 45:58 And so those four, 46:00 nobody can argue with you when it comes to the Scripture 46:02 because that's God's Word. 46:04 And guess what He did? 46:05 He wrote even the commandment with His own finger 46:08 and put in a stone. 46:09 Oh, I love that. Yes, I love that. 46:11 That's how much He loves us. Oh, yes. 46:13 You know, and that's one reason why it's so important 46:16 that we reverence those commandments, 46:18 that we put those commandments, 46:19 that we put those laws in our heart and in our mind, 46:22 just as He said. 46:23 And I like what you said 46:25 that there's something in the Bible for every... 46:27 Everybody, everything. 46:28 You know, years ago. 46:30 And this is kind of a little side issue, 46:31 but it kind of it, 46:32 it goes along with what you're saying, 46:34 I was sitting on a school board at another church 46:37 and it seemed like every time we had an issue, 46:39 they wanted to know 46:41 what the public school board was doing 46:43 or what this doctor had to say about it. 46:46 Just like when I introduced stress management today, 46:48 I said, we're not going to go to the world, 46:50 we're going to the Word, to the great physician. 46:53 We're going to see what He has for us. 46:56 And you know, it was a learning process 46:57 'cause I remember thinking that just isn't right to go see 47:00 what the world is doing. 47:01 That's right. 47:03 The world is enmity with our Lord and Savior. 47:05 And we need to be digging into the Word 47:08 for to how to defeat loneliness, 47:11 the healing of sorrow, living with loss, Oh, wow. 47:15 I can't wait till loss is done away with. 47:18 That's so true. 47:19 One of these days there will be no more sin, 47:21 no more death, no more sorrow, 47:23 no more need of physicians. 47:25 That's right. That's right. 47:27 Even the great physician will be in his healing power 47:29 all the time. 47:31 You know, how to improve your marriage? 47:33 That's a big one, Brother Richard. 47:34 Oh, yes. 47:36 You know, even with today's message 47:37 on stress management, 47:38 you realize that there are a lot of families 47:40 that are falling apart because of stress. 47:44 You know why there is stress because when you leave God 47:46 out of your life, you have done but stress. 47:48 That's right. 47:49 And this is why the Word of God so you hear, 47:53 you had the word in his heart, he said 47:55 then you would have peace, and joy, and love. 47:57 Only the Word of God does that. 47:59 Now I'm a person that always want to be right. 48:01 You know how I found out always to be right? 48:04 Stay in the Word of God. Stay in the Word of God. 48:05 You must stay in what God says. Absolutely. 48:07 In fact, I've told people 48:09 if you want your business to grow 48:11 and your church to grow what the Bible says is 48:14 the way to go. 48:15 That's right. Amen. 48:16 I love that. Did you get that? 48:18 What a motto. Say it again. Tell them again. 48:19 Okay, if you want your business to grow 48:22 and your church to grow, 48:24 what the Bible says is the way to go. 48:26 That's right. I love it. That's it. 48:28 Because you're a winner. 48:29 Do you know every book 48:31 that I've had in my lifetime has changed 48:34 but the Word of God? 48:35 Yes. 48:37 Every book that, you know, studied in school. 48:38 You know the saddest thing is you just touched on 48:40 an important point there, 48:42 you said everything is changed but the Word of God. 48:44 God says, I change not, I'm the same yesterday, 48:47 today and forever. 48:48 However, men have come in, 48:52 even church leaders have come in. 48:55 In fact, I saw a video online 48:57 where a church pastor 48:58 threw the Bible across the podium. 49:03 And said we don't need that anymore. 49:05 You see what they're doing 49:07 is they're taking lifestyle choices. 49:09 And since it doesn't fit with scripture, 49:12 they're changing scripture to fit the lifestyle 49:14 rather than God is. 49:18 He's wanting to recreate in us a new heart 49:21 to prepare us for the kingdom 49:23 and all we need to do is dig into the Word 49:25 and we need to be, we need to be submissive. 49:27 Oh, yeah. 49:29 And ask Him to come in and change us, 49:30 not us change God. 49:32 Who are we to think we can even change God? 49:33 Well, see that... 49:35 Well, see that's what the devil in heaven did. 49:37 He said I'm going to change. 49:38 We can't, see God is for real, He gives our breath, 49:43 He gives eyesight, He gives the hearing, feeling. 49:47 And so He wants us to be with Him for eternity. 49:50 And so how can we use this talent 49:52 He's given us to use for the devil. 49:54 So that's the reason why 49:55 what you have in your hand is dynamic. 49:57 And the beautiful part about 49:59 is that many of our Christian friend 50:01 want to share the love of God with other people 50:03 but they don't know how to do it. 50:05 All they got to do is hand them this here 50:07 and then give them the 25 bible study. 50:09 And guess what, over 500 Bible texts are in here. 50:13 Awesome. I love that. 50:14 Of answering their problem. 50:16 And like you said here. 50:17 And there's another one, take control and quit smoking. 50:19 Let me tell you. 50:20 There's a lot of people watching today. 50:22 And that's one thing. 50:23 In fact, we've had people come to our church 50:25 and for years that's one thing that they feel like 50:28 they can't get rid of is smoking. 50:30 Can I tell you something and they can't. 50:33 Now, let me tell you why. Tell me the prescription. 50:35 My post office... 50:37 Let me say, my post office lady 50:39 who said she's been smoking for 20 years. 50:43 And every time she can't smoke in the post office, 50:45 when I go by, she stand outside. 50:47 And so she said, "Oh, I know I shouldn't smoke. 50:51 The Bible says this and Bible says that you know." 50:55 But I gave her this very paper on a Thursday 50:59 and as she opened up 51:00 she saw just could you say take control of smoking. 51:03 And that Friday when I called, she said, 51:05 Mr. Bland, I'm gonna quit smoking. 51:06 I said, what happened? 51:08 She said, let me tell you what happened. 51:09 She said when I prayed 51:10 and they would, it says up here, 51:12 after the Holy Spirit and read those scripture 51:13 the Lord told me to quit on that day. 51:15 And he took it out just like that way. 51:17 God is the only way I can do it 'cause Miss Shelton. 51:20 You're giving me goosebumps, you know why, 51:22 because I know that there's power 51:24 in the Word of God. 51:25 That's right. 51:27 I was studying, I was having a Bible study 51:28 with my three year old grandson this morning, 51:30 he got up and he was crying and when he gets on nervous, 51:33 his tummy is hurting and I said were you scared. 51:36 And so we began to read scripture about 51:38 not fearing and not being afraid. 51:41 And I said, you know, 51:43 what we've got to claim these promises 51:44 even at his young age I had him repeat that promise with me 51:48 over and over and over 51:50 and how the Lord gives us peace. 51:52 He doesn't want us to be afraid and where fear comes from. 51:56 Here's another one that's timely 51:58 because we have so much of this life after death. 52:03 So much spiritualism, so much confusion, 52:06 life after death. 52:08 Does the Bible give us an answer? 52:10 Definitely. 52:12 There's nothing that can happen to you 52:13 that God does give the answer. 52:14 And what happened, I'm so glad the Lord allowed me 52:17 to get involved in prison ministry 52:18 because the prisoners, they want to know the truth. 52:22 Yes. 52:23 You can't fool with them again almost. 52:26 So when they saw in the Bible that that preacher lied to them 52:29 when the grandmother said, 52:31 when the preacher said my grandmother was in heaven. 52:33 They said, you know, 52:34 the Bible says my grandmother's in the ground. 52:37 When they saw in the Bible that God wrote down 52:41 the Ten Commandments on finger, they said that's it. 52:43 When they saw in the Bible 52:44 which day of the Lord day really was. 52:47 They said I don't care what nobody said, 52:48 my Bible said it. 52:50 I love it. Yes. 52:51 And that's what it's design because see, and they don't, 52:55 they're there you know the Bible says, 52:57 I as well be hot or cold but that's what prisoners are, 52:59 these are hot or they cold, there's no lukewarmness 53:02 that you see out in the community. 53:04 When people say, well you know I almost, 53:06 there's no almost. 53:08 Either you're right or you're wrong. 53:09 Either my phone number is correct or it's wrong. 53:11 You know, sometimes it takes people 53:13 to hit rock bottom 53:16 before you see there's hot or cold, 53:18 before they have no place else too good except up. 53:21 That's right. 53:23 So praise God for things like this 53:24 that you're taking it in. 53:26 Hope, here's another one, hope in times of trouble. 53:29 Oh, yeah. 53:30 And I love this, successful parenting. 53:32 Oh, yeah. 53:34 Train up a child in the way he should go 53:36 and when he is old he shall not depart. 53:38 You brought a guest or is he up here with us 53:40 but your grandson, I said I love grandchildren 53:43 that love to take care of their grandparents. 53:46 I love children 53:47 that have respect for their parents. 53:50 And yet we live in a society where it's like anything goes. 53:55 And the children are trying to teach the parents 53:56 how to be parents. 53:58 That's so true. 53:59 Because the fact that 54:00 but the Word of God tells you exactly. 54:02 In fact, I was talking to my grandson this morning, 54:05 he's a vegan, 54:06 he's never eaten an animal product 54:08 and I haven't eaten in my life. 54:10 Because and I said you know why? 54:13 Because the very first chapter of the Bible tell you 54:15 what to eat. 54:16 That's right. That's it. 54:18 In fact the first two chapters of the Bible 54:20 give you the foundation of the whole thing. 54:23 It tell you where you came from, 54:25 tell you what to eat, tell you who to marry 54:27 and tell you when to worship. 54:29 That God can't even change just like his date of birth. 54:32 So he was telling me, what's your date of birth, 54:34 which I remember. 54:35 He said September 17. I said, can you change it? 54:37 He said, no. 54:38 Neither can God change that, that's creation. 54:40 He changes not. 54:42 You know we offered one with our message today 54:46 but there may be somebody listening Brother Richard 54:48 and they say you know I like what I'm hearing, 54:52 I want more than one. 54:54 If they call Behold the Lamb ministries 54:57 how many can they get and for how much? 54:59 Well, if they call here to get them? 55:02 Yeah, they can probably get like 20 booklets for what? 55:06 Well, if they call the ministry number, 55:09 so shipping costs a lot of money, 55:12 so we don't want to ship to here, 55:14 so you can ship them. 55:15 If they get more than what you offering them, 55:18 they can just call this office number. 55:20 Area code 205-755-4744 and then they get a box of 100. 55:26 Listen to me, when they get a box of hundred 55:28 just $1 a piece. 55:29 Okay. You see what I mean? 55:31 Yeah, sure. 55:32 You see, that's what, so they can get that 55:33 but once they get your copy then they'll look at it 55:36 and then if they want thousand which a book should be 55:39 'cause everybody I've been in contact with 55:41 I give them one of these. 55:43 In fact just yesterday I got in your town, 55:44 the town that you live in right now, 55:47 and at this grocery store there, 55:49 lady looked at this. 55:51 So I like that, can I have that? 55:52 Yes. 55:54 I gave out four Bible study 55:56 which will include 100 Bible studies 55:59 and just seeing four people. 56:01 And they say I love it. 56:03 So they get it. So also... 56:04 I think these would be awesome to have. 56:06 They go to our website. 56:07 Maybe in a doctor's office, put it up in the store 56:11 if they let you anywhere. 56:12 That's what we're doing. Yes. 56:14 I took it, you hit it on the head. 56:16 I took it to a doctor's office 56:18 who's doesn't profess Christianity really. 56:21 And when he looked at this, 56:23 first he kind of put a rack out there and said, yeah, 56:25 almost everywhere I go by is almost empty. 56:27 People are taking it off to write, 56:29 the dentist looked at the same thing. 56:30 But the mechanic said I want them in my shop, 56:33 so I gave him a rack in his shop, 56:35 he was so impressed, 56:37 one of our worker's air condition 56:38 went out in last week. 56:40 Well, we can have a go. 56:42 He said, I'm not gonna even charge you, 56:43 he was so blessed 56:44 because God's Word is wonderful. 56:47 And I'm saying if you want to be blessed, 56:49 now the thing that really gets me 56:51 and I'm going to say that 56:52 that everybody read Ezekiel 3:17, 18 and 19. 56:57 It says we'll speak to one a wicked 56:58 and the blessed and they are lost, 57:00 the blest on our shoulder. 57:02 That's right. They need these lessons. 57:03 May God bless you. If the blessing is on the go. 57:06 Oh, yeah. 57:07 So you can, you can formulate, they can formulate, 57:09 anyone that orders these 57:10 can have their own little stand, 57:12 go to their own places in their own town. 57:14 And you can be a witness for Jesus 57:17 by having these Bible studies. 57:18 Again the number he gave you 57:20 if you want to order more 57:21 is 205-755-4744. 57:27 If you want to call, 57:28 we can do the same thing we'll just call them 57:30 and have them ship them to you, 57:32 you can call Behold the Lamb Ministries 57:34 at area code, 618-942-5044, 57:38 that's Central Time here in the United States. 57:41 You can also visit us on our website, 57:43 that's www. beholdthelambministries.com 57:47 or send us an email. 57:49 Ask for these lessons. 57:50 You want to know more about it ask, 57:52 and that is 57:54 beholdthelambministries @yahoo.com. 57:57 And you're always welcome to give us a call. 57:59 Again that number is 618-942-5044. 58:04 Until next time, friends may our precious Lord 58:07 continue to richly bless you and yours. 58:11 Amen. |
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