Mighty God | Pastor Daniel Floyd

((music playing)) Well, welcome to church everybody. We're so glad you're here. Come on, let's all put our hands together. Let's thank God for a great day, a great morning [applause and music] to be in church. I want to um before we get into the word, I want to remind you and make you aware of a couple things that I want everyone in some way to be a part of if at all physically possible for you.

The first is that on December the 20th and 21st are our Christmas candlelight services. It's going to be a special time. The team has put together an amazing amazing experience. And here's how you can be involved. Listen up everybody. Lean in. All right. is you all have somebody in your life, I hope, that is close to you, but may not be that close to God.

And did you know that God didn't just put you in their life for any reason? He put you there strategically. You thought you bought that house cuz you liked it and the deal worked out. But I would propose that God put you in that neighborhood so that you could shine the light of Jesus.

And that you thought you just got into that dorm room cuz that's the one you wanted to get into. But I would maybe maybe there's someone on your hall that God wants to speak to and he put you in their life. And one of the easiest ways is to extend an invitation to a Christmas service.

The last study I read put on by Barnett is that more than 80% of people said they would accept an invitation to church if someone would personally invite them. Not send them a Instagram story or not throw an invite card at them or not, you know, put a yard sign in their yard.

No, put that in your yard, everybody. Don't grab one and put it in your yard. But if someone would extend a if someone would say, "I'd love for you to join me and my family. I'll save you a seat. I'll go to the service that works for you, not the one that works for me."

They would come to church. And so, I just want to challenge everybody. And can I tell you something? Church is a whole lot more fun when you have a guest with you. All of a sudden, you care if the lyrics are up on time. All of a sudden, you care if someone was smiling at the door.

It'll make your church experience better. All of a sudden, you care if the to coffee tastes good. Are y'all Come on. Can I get a better amen? All right. So, that's on December 20 21st. And then January, we're doing something uh new in January. And it is January 5th through the 16th.

And listen closely. I want to give you we'll give you more details, but I just want to tell you, we're going to start the year with 12 days of prayer and fasting. We're going to enter the year with a lot of spiritual intensity because how many of you believe that 2026 just going to be our best year yet. >> I believe it for you personally.

I believe it for us as a church. And so here's how it's going to work. This may be shock to some of you that maybe aren't early risers, but Monday through Friday of that first week, we're going to be from 6:00 a.m. to 6:55 a.m. We will get you out on time and you will get to work and wherever you need to go.

And I know some of you got to get kids ready for school. So it will be online as well. That's not for those of you that just want to pray from your bed. All right? Messing with you. Uh but Monday through Friday, 6:00 a.m. And it we will come together and we're going to pray and we're going to intercede.

Short time of worship, short word, and then the majority of it, overwhelming majority will be prayer. And we're going to intercede for the needs of people and the needs of our church. And then the next week, Monday through Thursday, 6:00 a.m. to 6:55 at your campus. Um, same thing.

And then that Friday night, there'll be no Friday morning prayer. Friday night, we'll end with a night of worship and prayer. And, uh, we're going to pray and lay hands on the sick and believe for God to do the miraculous among us. And we will pray and we'll stay in the building till every last person has been prayed for.

And so, it's going to be a powerful night together. I believe that nothing of eternal significance happens apart from prayer. And uh that's that's a value of our church and we'll continue to be and we're going to lean into it an even heavier way. And so if you've never fasted, we're going to give you resources and there'll be all kinds of stuff to help get you ready for that.

So, uh just go ahead and mark that on your calendar. Go ahead and determine in your heart, God, I'm going to give you the first of my year in prayer and fasting and watch what God does in your life in 2026. All right, let's get into the word.

Isaiah chapter 9:6 is our theme verse for this whole series. His name shall be called. And it says this, "For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders." And this is the part you may be familiar with even if you're new to church.

And he will be called wonderful counselor, mighty God, everlasting father, prince of peace. We're going to look at that second name of Jesus today. Mighty God. Let's go to the Lord in prayer. Father, our hearts and minds are open to you. We ask that you would speak to us.

We haven't come just to have some religious exercise, but we've come to hear a word from you. So, Holy Spirit, have your way in our lives, and we ask this in Jesus' name. Everybody said, "Amen." >> Amen. So, uh you know, we have four kids and the number the second one, her name is Faith.

She's 16 now. Um, but whenever she was little, uh, she thought our name carried more weight than it actually carried. She thought she could get by with a whole lot more than she could get by with. Are y'all tracking with me? So, the church we were pastoring in Virginia, she was in kids ministry, and I don't remember how old she was.

She was she was pretty little, but she's always been um pretty driven and pretty um clear in what she wants. Let's say it that way. Anybody else got a child like Okay. very clear in what they want, what they expect. And so she's in kids ministry. And uh by the way, how many of you are thankful for our kids team at every campus?

Can we put our hands together? Hey parents, when you pick up your child today, just look at those serving and say, "We appreciate you so much." Just give them some extra love today. The they're not babysitting your children. We don't offer a babysitting service, everybody. We're discipling the next generation.

That's what we're doing. And we're pouring the word of God into them. But she was in kids ministry. And evidently the small group leader in kids ministry was not letting Faith do whatever she wanted to do that day. And um so she looked at her boldly and clearly and said, "If you don't let me, my daddy will fire you."

This was a volunteer everybody. So after service, our [snorts] lady over our kids came and said, "Pastor, a um just want to let you know a conversation Faith had today." And I was like, "Oh Lord, what she do?" And she tells me this story. And I'm like, "Okay, she will be apologizing to this wonderful small group leader that gives of their time and energy to serve the house of God and to advance the vision."

And and so after Faith and I had to come to Jesus meeting, um you all know what that is, right? An intense fellowship, you know, uh we after that she had a little apology tour to go on. And uh and then Britney and I uh had this agreement that every Sunday for a while, she just came after service and gave me a faith report.

I was like, I'm sorry this is part of your job now, but do you mind just come and let me know whatever my daughter did so that I can rectify that whenever we get home? But here's what Faith thought that our name in our church carried much more weight than it did.

Are y'all tracking with me? But when you have a right name in certain circumstances, that name can give you resources, can it not? It can give you access. How about this? If you're at Cowboy Stadium and your name's this Jerry Jones, [laughter] you can do whatever you want. You can go wherever you want.

There's not a door that is locked to you. Are y'all tracking with me? If you go to Cowboy Stadium and your name is Daniel Floyd, you're not even getting in the building if you don't have a ticket. Are y'all? Because there is a power in a name. And this is what the prophet Isaiah is telling us in Isaiah chapter 9:6.

He's giving us the names, the attributes, the characteristics because a name just doesn't give you access and it just doesn't have authority in certain settings. But a name also lets you know what you're getting in that person. You know this to be true. If someone says they're a Karen, okay, culturally we know.

Sorry to all the Karens out there that that's happened to you and social media memes have done that to. But whenever someone says your name, they know what they're getting, right? Because with you comes certain things. And Isaiah is saying this. He goes, "I wanting you to know there is a king that is coming that is unlike any other king that we've ever had.

And this king, his name shall be called." He didn't say his names will be. What he's trying to help us see is there's going to be some characteristics of this king. He's going to be a wonderful counselor. He's going to give counsel that will make you wonder at the awesomeness and the power of his intellect.

He will be a mighty God. He will have strength that is supernatural. He will Are y'all tracking with me? I want you to know what you're getting in this king. But before we get into that, the first part of the verse says, "For unto us a child is born.

Unto us a son is given." So there's a child born and there's a son given. This verse lets us know that this king will be unlike any other king because he will be fully man, but he will be fully God. That he will be born in the womb, come through the womb of Mary, a human like you and I, but he will be given by God Almighty.

Because Joseph didn't give us Jesus, God Almighty gave us Jesus. >> Y'all tracking with me? You know, the angel came upon Mary and she conceived and she Okay. So, he's fully God, but he's fully man. So, he is carrying the two natures within one human so that he can fellowship in our sufferings, but he can be the sacrifice and the atonement or or the way that our sins are forgiven or washed away.

He's wanting us to see this is unlike any other king that you're ever going to experience. And here's my heart for us in this Christmas season that we don't sanitize Jesus down to little five pound baby Jesus in the manger and we don't just go through the habit of it and we're supposed to do this and we'll get the gifts and we're going to go to the parties and we're going to go to the Christmas performances and then back for another Christmas performance at school and back at school for another Christmas performance and back at school for Come on.

Can I get a better amen from all the parents in the room? >> Amen. >> And in the midst of all that, we miss who Jesus is and that we just go through another Christmas and we kind of sanitize him down to fit within our manger and we just box him in to who we want him to be in this season.

Nice little baby Jesus. But I'm telling you, that's not the end of who he is. He is not onedimensional. For a moment, could I just make much of Jesus? That he's not multi- he's not onedimensional. He's multiaceted. That he is more complex. That just when you think you know him, you open the scriptures and you see another attribute.

You see another characteristic of him. You see another side of him that you didn't see before because he is God Almighty and he is great and he is wonderful and our minds can't comprehend the greatness of who he is. And just as we begin to scratch the surface, it's like an onion.

We peel back another layer and see another wonderful side of this great God that Isaiah foretold about. I I love in another part of Isaiah, he says this that he is the suffering servant. He in Revelation 1, it says he's a consuming fire. In John chapter 10, he's referred to as the shepherd.

In John 15, he's called the vine. In Acts 17, he's called the judge of all. But he's also paradoxical. He's the lion and the lamb. He's the servant and he's the king. He's human and he's divine. He's approachable yet he is holy. He's the suffering servant, but he's the coming king.

He's the angel of the Lord in the Old Testament and he's the fourth man in the fire. He's the commander of the Lord's army. He's greater than Moses and he's greater than David and he's greater than the temple. Oh, if you're going to clap for Jesus, why don't you do it well?

He is a great God and he's worthy of our praise. He's worthy of a shout. He's worthy of our adoration. He is the wonderful counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting father, AND THE PRINCE OF PEACE. THIS IS OUR GOD. HE'S NOT RICKY BOBBY'S little baby in the manger.

If you don't know that reference, you're more spiritual than all of us. And don't look it up. He is the incarnated God. It's this theological term that we put. It's really from a Latin word that means in fleshment meaning that God himself took on flesh that he became one of us.

Let that set in for a moment. The love of God that that he would leave all that heaven have to offer. That Philippians 2 tells us that he emptied himself. It says who being in very nature God did not consider equality with God something to be grasped but made himself nothing.

That one translation says it emptied himself taking the very nature of a servant being made in human likeness. Being made in human likeness coming through the womb of a virgin. He is not us. Y'all know that >> he is not our homeboy. >> He is not our good luck charm.

Are y'all tracking with me? He's altogether other than us. He don't think like us. His ways are not ours. His thoughts are not ours. He's not just something we pull out on a bad day. But at the same time, he is gracious and he is kind and he is loving.

This is the paradox of our great God that he is holy and sovereign over all things. Yet he emptied himself. Now he did not empty himself of his divinity. He did not empty himself of his divine nature. He did not empty himself, could I say, of his godness, but he emptied himself of all the rights, privileges that comes with that, that setting on the throne of all creation.

And he took on flesh and he experienced what you and I experienced yet had no sin so that he could pay for sin so that he could hang on a cross. This is Jesus. It's not just a little day that we celebrate. It's not a time for you to give gifts, though.

I hope you get everything that you want. It is time for us to exalt the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, the one who this season is about. I'm just wanting to get your eyes to see ((applause)) that we just don't look over him this season. But he's the wonderful counselor.

He's the mighty God. That's what we're going to park today. Next week, we're going to look at an everlasting father. Candlelight service. We're going to look at he's the prince of peace. See, the scriptures, they're not a textbook to be mastered. They're the unveiling revelation of Jesus, of this wonderful king, of this suffering servant, of this lamb of God slain for us.

He is great and that's why he's worthy of great praise. >> I'm just I'm wanting to get the picture you have of Jesus if I could a little bit bigger today because some of have have conditioned ourselves to get him down to what we can grasp and what we can handle.

But he's so much outside your box, everybody. And so in these few moments, I want us to look at him as mighty God. And I I thought, man, there's several places that we could go to look at this, the mount of transfiguration, right? Where Peter, James, and John get to go up on the mountain with him and he shines, he transforms, and his face is glowing, and Elijah and Moses come down and talk.

How cool would it be to be at that moment? Like to see that. That's pretty powerful, right? That's a pretty mighty act of God, right? I thought about the resurrection. Maybe, not maybe, the most powerful act of God. Would you agree? Okay. If not, I was going to be like, well, we're going to redvert this morning.

Open up to the resurrection. The most powerful act of God in the earthly ministry of Jesus, right? How about your soul being saved? Man, that's a mighty act of God. But I want us to go to one of the miracles in the gospels. There's about 34, depending on how you count them, miracles in the gospel.

They're categorized in four ways. Um the first category would be healings. Um second category would be uh freedom or deliverance if you're used to that term. Uh deliverance type miracles, casting out demons. Um, the third would be nature miracles. That would be calming of the sea. That would be bread, feeding of the 5,000, multiplication of bread.

Um, then you've got raising of the dead miracles. Um, but I want us to go to one of the one of the nature miracles or healing miracles, I'm sorry, with um a blind man that Jesus would meet on the side of the road, a man named Barardmus. And before we jump into this, I do want to address very quickly because I know there's some that are like, "Ah, pastor, I don't I hear about miracles.

I read about them. I see them in the Bible. I just don't know that that that happens for me today." And I just want to say if there has been a miracle since Jesus earthly ministry, the miracles are still for today. >> The other thing that I want to say is this is that if you're just like, "Yeah, that's great, but it doesn't happen in my life.

And I don't understand why some things don't happen." And I would say I agree. I don't understand why my dad wasn't healed of Alzheimer's and now has been in heaven 10 years. I don't understand that. But here's what I have determined is I'm not going to lower my faith to the level of my experience.

I'm going to elevate my faith to the level of what I believe God can do. And I'd rather live life full of faith and not understand some things along the way than live life with no faith and not see the activity of God at all in my life. >> Are y'all with me?

Say amen. >> All right, let's go to Mark chapter 10. I want to share a few brief observations about how Jesus works. This is kind of if you want to say the POV of Jesus, the the camera angle of what Jesus was doing in this moment. Mark chapter 10 verse 46 it says then they came to Jericho talking about Jesus and his disciples.

So Jesus and his disciples together with a large crowd were leaving the city and a blind man Barnameus which means son of Tmus was sitting by the roadside begging and he when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth he began to shout Jesus son of David have mercy on me.

First observation is this if you have the note taken top write it down. If not, go and write it down. Anyways, Jesus moves in your direction. I don't know about you, but when I read the scriptures, I not to do any disservice to them, but I kind of like to use my holy imagination a little bit.

Are y'all with me? Like, like there's more camera angles, so to speak, or there more perspectives than what you're actually seeing. Like in the text, if you think about it, you've got Barnameus, you've got the disciples, you've got Jesus, you've got the crowd that's around them, you got the people that are on the roadside begging, you've got Barardeameus in the middle of that crowd.

There's just so many there's just so much activity happening in the scriptures. And there's so many ways that you could look at it. And the scripture doesn't always give us the angle of all those perspectives. Are y'all tracking with me? And so you've got Barardameus's as the two main characters.

You got Barardeameus perspective. You got Jesus perspective. And so from Bararddameus's perspective, here he is begging on the roadside. And we don't have a lot of history about Bararddmus. So I don't know how long has he been begging? Was he born blind? Has he always been a beggar?

Did he have a job at one time and then blindness came over him? Did he have an injury on the job that caused blind? I just have all these questions that you don't know in the text. All you know is that Bararddameus is blind and his blindness has resulted in poverty because his blindness has caused him to not be able to work and to earn income.

And so now he finds himself in a place of poverty. And I would want to pause for a moment and just say that represents some of us today is that we can get blind in some areas of our life to what God wants to do. And we can get blind to some issues in the areas of our life, if I could say this, that cause poverty in some areas of our life that we get impoverished in spirit, that we can get impoverished in perspective or we can get impoverished in joy and we can find ourselves in some types of poverty in our life.

And here's the reality. No matter how much you put a church face on and no matter how much you smile and walk in and say things like brother and sister and God is good all the time and God is good, you know deep inside what's inside eventually comes out in the relationships around you.

And this is where Barardemus is is he finds himself impoverished because he's blind to some things in his life and it's a physical blindness but there's also can be a spiritual blindness that happens with us and it can leave us impoverished in some areas of our life and here Barnameus is on the side of the road and all of a sudden Jesus and his crew comes by because I don't think my personal opinion I don't think anything Jesus did in his earthly ministry was not intentional. >> He had three years of ministry.

I think he had to maximize every moment. There were no throwaway days. We see the intentionality of Jesus. I think about the woman by the well in John chapter 4. The scripture says this that he had to go through Samaria. Well, geographically, that's an incorrect statement. Matter of fact, the Jews and the Samaritans didn't like each other so much they created routes around Samaria.

Are y'all with me? There was a real racial tension between the two groups. And so he didn't have to go through geographically, but he had to go through because he had an intentional appointment with a woman by the well that needed the transforming power of Jesus. So I think that Jesus didn't do anything unintentionally.

And here's what I want to encourage you with today is that if you're in a place in your life, because I have no doubt in this Christmas season that there's some people here today or online or at a prison campus or a gathering that you need God to be mighty in your life. >> Amen. that you're at some point where you're at the end of the ta end of the rope and you can't see a light at the end of the tunnel and you don't know how God is going to work in this area and you don't know what to do.

You're at your wit's end and you need God to be mighty in your life. And maybe some of you if you would get honest enough, get the church face off and the Christianes out of your mouth and maybe be so bold and honest deep in your heart you're wondering where is God?

I've prayed. I've tried. I've pursued. Where is he in the middle of this? And here's what I want to encourage you with is that even if you can't see him, Jesus moves in your direction. That this is the compassion of our God. That this is the grace and the mercy of our God.

That he's not a God that is a far off. The Old Testament says his arm is not too short that it can't reach into your situation. Nor is his ear deaf that he can't hear your prayer. That our God moves in your direction. And if you find yourself in that place today where you go, God, I need you to be the mighty God.

I need that characteristic in your li in your life today, I want you to know that God moves in your direction. That he's not waiting for you to get it all together. He's not waiting for you to clean it all up. We don't know the status of Barnameus.

And I think it's wonderful the scripture doesn't tell us. We don't know if he was an upstanding religious man. We don't know what his standing was in the temple. We don't know anything about that. All we know is he was blind and he was begging and here comes Jesus.

And then he shouts out, "Jesus, have mercy." And it said he did that when he heard Jesus was coming. I don't know what he heard about him. He couldn't see him. I just am, this is part of my imagination. I just wonder, was the crowd around him going, did he overhear a conversation?

Was he easedropping? Like, that's, "Hey, you heard that guy from Nazareth? He's coming by? I hear he healed a blind man eyes. He's put mud on his eyes." And I wonder if he was like, "What?" I wonder if he heard that. Oh, he raises the dead. Remember, you know, Mary, Martha, and their mom and them, they live on the other side of Mount Si.

They're over in Bethany, you know. Yeah. He he was like dead for 4 days. I heard about that. Yeah. He got him up from the grave. Did you hear about that guy at the by the pool that and he was lame and he couldn't get in when the waters were stirred and Jesus said just get up and walk.

And the man started walking. I just wonder I don't know what was being said but there was enough that he heard about him that his faith began to rise. It began to rise enough that he would shout out in the middle of a crowd embarrass himself so that Jesus would come by and touch him.

And if I could do anything for you this weekend, because some of you, you have faith fatigue. And faith fatigue is when you've prayed and you've prayed and you've prayed and you've trusted God and you've trusted God and you've trusted God and you're not seeing any movement at all.

And if we could be honest, there get some faith fatigue. I'm not talking about the faith for salvation. I'm talking about your faith meter to believe God to do something great. And some of you, it is getting near the empty place in your life. And I just want to tell you, he is the wonderful counselor.

He is the mighty God. If I could just get that meter up a little bit to go, no, God does see you. And Jesus does move towards you and he is the God of the impossible. And he's still doing miracles today. And we believe that in this place.

And so he begins to cry out, "Have mercy on me." As Jesus moves in his direction. And the scripture goes on to say in verse 48, it said, "Many rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more,"Son of David, have mercy on me."

These had to be religious people. Need you to be quiet. >> Need you to not get too desperate. Need you to not get too out of hand. Can I tell you number two thought is this is that Jesus doesn't dismiss desperation. Jesus doesn't dismiss it. Can I just say that to you?

Like Barnameus was desperate. He was crying out to God. He was, let me say it this way, he was tired of being tired. I don't know how good that is on the English side, but how many of you know that expresses how you feel sometime? They're just exhausted of of seeing no movement and nothing moving in the right direction.

And can I tell you something? This wasn't this wasn't a curated cry. I mean, it was enough that the people around him like, can you can you get it together? This wasn't a like, you know, dear baby Jesus, if you have chance, would you sometime maybe if you could?

No, this was a Jesus. Can I tell you something? You'll never change the things in your life that are frustrating you and keeping you and holding you back as long as you tolerate them. And when you finally get to a point where you're willing to no longer tolerate it, you will cry out in desperation.

I'm talking about the kind of cry that that that rattles heaven. Are y'all tracking with me? I'm not talking about the like, well, if God wants to No, I'm talking about the cry that comes from I'm talking about I'm talking today to the mama that their child has walked away from God, but you raised them in the house of God and you have prayed and you have cried and you have begged God.

Can I just tell you? He doesn't dismiss your desperation. >> Jesus doesn't look at you and go, "Can you get it together? Can Can you stop all the tears? Can you stop all the calling on me all the time? Can you stop that every single morning you're praying?

I'm tired of hearing it. Can you No. No. He doesn't dismiss. Church people may dismiss desperation. Other people may look at you and be like, "Can you get it together? Can you calm down a little bit?" But can I tell you something? There's something in the heart of our God that goes, "No, I'll stop everything I'm doing."

You're going to see it in the text in a moment. I will stop the whole crowd. I will get my disciples to move out of the way. And I will come running to the cry of desperation. And can I tell you something? If you need God to be mighty in your life today, then you cry out to him cuz he's a God that hears.

He's a God that listens. And he's a God that comes running to desperation. This is our God. You don't have to have it all buttoned up and all PUT TOGETHER. WE ARE ALL a work in progress, by the way. Look at your neighbor and say, "You're a work in progress.

If it was your spouse, I apologize. How many even know we're all a work in progress? >> He doesn't dismiss desperation. Matter of fact, look what happens next in the text. Says Jesus stopped. I just love that thought that your cry can stop Jesus in his tracks. And they said, "Call him."

So they called to the man, "Cheer up on your feet." So the one that went from, "You need to keep your mouth shut." Now they're like good friends with him because Jesus wants to talk to him. It's what religious people do. Oh, you're in the in crowd now.

Okay. They said, "On your feet, he's calling you." And throwing his cloak aside, he jumped to his feet and came to Jesus. "What do you want me to do for you?" Jesus asked him. And the blind man said, "Rabbi, I want to see." Write this down. Third thought, Jesus helps you see.

You may be like, "Okay, thanks, pastor. That was deep." Now, I'm fascinated by the question. A blind man comes to Jesus. Jesus asked a blind man, "What do you want me to do for you?" So, let me give you a little Bible study tool. Anytime Jesus is asking a question, he's not needing information.

So, there's something deeper happening in the text. I think he was asking Barnameus the question to make sure Barnameus could identify the issue. What can I do for you is to make sure you see it the way Jesus sees it. And I've learned in life that if you want to see the power of Almighty God in your life, it doesn't work if all you do is bring the fake you to Jesus.

He does his best work when you bring the real you, the messed up you, the bad attitude you, the can't control your anger you, the I'm up in the middle of the night surfing the web looking at things I never should look at. you. The I had too many drinks you.

That's the you that he wants you to bring. In other words, can you get real enough to identify the real issue so the power of God can heal that, not the surface you. But some of you have been so trained to put on a Christian face, you think Jesus would strike you dead if you brought up the real thing.

Can I give you a secret? He already knows. You weren't hiding it from him anyways. He just wants you to He just wants to know. Do you know? And it's in that place that he opens ((music playing)) blinded eyes. It's in that place that he sets people free of addiction.

It's in that place that he restores relationships. It's in the place of let me show you Jesus the real me. Not the work me, not the church me, not the school me, not at the golf course me, not the neighborhood me. This is me. God, great. Now we can get to work. and my mighty power can be on display ((music playing)) in your life.

Here's what I want to encourage you to do today is whatever it is in your life, our mighty God is still at work. And no matter what the enemy is telling you, even in this moment, you're not enough. God couldn't do that for you. You're too far gone.

What if everybody knew? Let me just say this. God is greater. I want you to hear that in your soul. God is greater. I want that to pierce through the lies that have filled your mind. God is greater. God is greater. God is greater. God is greater. I want it to be ringing in your head.

I want you to go to lunch today hearing my voice, that anointing pastor. God is greater because he is the wonderful counselor. He is the mighty God. He is the everlasting father and he is our prince of peace. Do you believe it today? >> Will you pray with me?

Every head bowed, every eye closed. Barnameus cried out, "Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me." Powerful prayer that he prayed. You know, the most powerful prayer you'll ever pray, though, is the prayer of surrender. It's the prayer of letting go of control of your life and giving it to Jesus.

And maybe you're here today and you've never done that. Or maybe you're here and there was a time where you really were walking with the Lord, but you've walked away and it's today you need to come back home. So, in just a moment, we're going to pray. There's nothing special about the words I say.

It's just me helping you communicate to God your heart. What is special about your prayer is the faith that you pray it with. Maybe you're here today and you need to surrender. You need to say, "God, I'm I'm done doing life my way. I want to give my life to you.

I need a fresh start today." First Corinthians tells us that if anyone's in Christ, they're a new creation. All things pass away. All things become new. Today can be a day of new beginnings in your life. If that's you today, I just want to know who I'm praying with.

We're not going to come to you or point you out. We wouldn't do that for the world. We're not going to embarrass you. But between you and God, if you say, "Pastor, that's me. I need to I need a new beginning today, a fresh start. I want to surrender my life to Jesus."

Or maybe you're here and you'd say, "I' I've strayed away and I need to come back today. God is speaking to me." If that's you, when I count to three, you just shoot your hand up long enough for myself to see over the entire room. And then we're going to pray together.

So on three, you shoot your hand up. One, two, three. Just shoot it up. God bless you. God bless you. Keep it up. Wow. All over the room. Keep it up. Keep it up. Keep it up. Incredible. Incredible. I want to see every one of you. I don't want to miss a one.

Amazing. I see you. God bless you. Every section of this room. Hands are up. What a great God we serve. You can put it down. Church, will you play this out loud with me for the benefit of those who just lift up their hand? We don't want anybody praying alone.

Just say, "Jesus, I need you. I ask you to forgive me >> of all my sin. >> I believe you died for me. >> I believe you died. >> I believe God raised you from the dead. >> Today I make you my Lord and Savior. >> Thank you for a brand new beginning. >> Thank you for a brand new >> in Jesus name.

Everyone said amen. >> Amen. The Bible says they're rejoicing in heaven over one. There were dozens in this room. Come on, let's give God praise for that.