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praise the lord can we say it once again praise the lord everybody praise the lord we are so happy to be gathered here today if you happen to be worshiping and fellowshipping together can you just shout glory with us can you just give god glory can you just give him praise for keeping you another week for bringing you through for providing for you for blessing you for healing you for keeping you can you just go ahead and give god glory can you just take a moment now to give god praise if you know he's a mighty god if you know he's a wonderful savior go ahead and give him praise we're going to lift up the name of jesus we're going to wait for it because he deserves our praise he deserves our worship he deserves our islam can you give him glory just go ahead and give your praise to the father i don't care what it is go ahead and give your praise to the father this is your time this is your moment to give god listen i'm happy that we're here together as we enter god's presence i want to ask my good friend mr niece to lead us in prayer if you take a moment just to bow your heads with us as she leads us in a moment of prayer dear heavenly father i thank you for this day lord there is nothing that i would like to say more than just thank you father i just thank you for you being you not for anything that i have but for you just being our lord and savior jesus christ lord in the midst of everything that's going on right now the word you're still showing us who you are you're still blessing us and you're still giving us the things that we need not what we want but what we need lord i just thank you for everything that you're doing in our lives nothing materialistic but again just you being who you are father god today that you just be with the preacher as she brings the word let it touch somebody that you know it might bring them closer to you father lord i love you i'm grateful and we're just so thankful for what you're doing in this world today it's in your son's name i do pray amen amen amen just lift that up with this amen amen and it is done listen i grew up in an old country church and my mother would often sing and she was singing one word songs and i didn't understand them then but i understand they've been growing to understand them now and sometimes it's just one simple word that simply says yes yes oh yes sell them yes tell the lord yes yes oh yes he's all right he's all right he's all alright oh lord he's all right he saved my soul soul he said my soul he said my song he saved my soul so i'll tell him how say yes lord yes to your will and to your way i say yes i will trust you and obey when your spirit speaks to me with my whole heart i agree and my answer will be yes lord yes can we say that together i'll say yes i will trust you yes one more time yes yes it will be yes yes so i'll say yes to my lord yeah i'll see yes lord to my love so he's some great things so he's done great things yes yes is great he's if you say yes nothing he shall not see us because he's celebrating his son is can you praise him like he's not gracie shall he's not gracie my testimony is he started raving so i can't help it i gotta tell him yes i gotta tell him yes so yay god bless you said he's our great things said he's under acting shout he's some great things hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah oh i just believe he's done great things in somebody's life somewhere he's done some great things in spite of he's done some great things hallelujah yes god yes god yes god yes god yes god my soul says yes yes god to your will and to your way yes god hallelujah thank you father just an opportunity to be in your presence thank you god for the visitation of the holy spirit in this place thank you god for being the alpha and the omega thank you god for being the beginning and the end thank you god thank you god thank you god for watching over us thank you god for protecting us thank you god for delivering us thank you god for looking beyond our faults and seeing our needs thank you god thank you god for giving a shelter in the time of the storm thank you god hallelujah thank you god glory to your name thank you god hallelujah hallelujah and my soul says yes hallelujah not god we pray that the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart would be acceptable in thy sight lord you are my strength and you are my redeemer and all of god's people would say amen yes god yes god yes god i want you to turn with me to acts the eighth chapter and it's a story in there that often time is overlooked beginning at the 26th verse acts the 8th chapter beginning at the 26th verse and i'm going to read and we're going to skip over and and read the rest amen but this is what it says and the angel of the lord spoken to philip saying arise and go toward the south and to the way that goes down from jerusalem unto gaza which is a desert and he arose and went and behold a man of ethiopian and eunuch of great authority under kansas queen of the ethiopians who had the charge of all her treasure and had come to jerusalem for to worship was returning and sitting in his chariot read isaiah the prophet then the spirit said unto philip go near and join yourself to this chariot and philip ran thitter thither to him and heard him read the prophet isaiah and said do you understand what you are reading i want you to go down to the 35th verse and it says then philip opened his mouth and began at the same scripture and preached unto him and as they went on their their way they came into a certain water and the eunuch said see here is water what does hinder me to be baptized and philip said if you believe with all your heart you may and he answered and said i believe that jesus christ is the son of god and he commanded the chariot to stand still and they went down both into the water but philip and the eunuch and he baptized him and when they were coming up out of the water the spirit of the lord caught away philip that the eunuch saw him no more and he on his way rejoicing but philip was found at zolas and passing through he preached in all the cities till he came to caesarea we're going to use for a subject today you have a divine assignment let me say it one more time you have a divine assignment i don't care wherever you are in the airways on tv i'll be able to hear you say amen and i need you to say to yourself make this thing very personal say i have a divine assignment it's funny that our praise team sang songs tonight about saying yes to the lord because more and more in my devotional time i have been led to meditate on one simple word and that word is yes maybe it is the the season of that we happen to be in but that simple word is so important now but because it speaks to our agreement with the lord about whatever his will is for our lives yes lord before we get any direction or think seriously about any part of our destiny we have to be open to tell god yes when god calls this story about philip's connection with god he is always ready to respond and as i read it i could hear philip saying yes god i'll go where you tell me to go i'll be who you tell me to be i'll do what you tell me to do yes god now i need us to understand something this is not philip the apostle who walked with jesus but this philip is one of the seven faithful servants chosen by god and appointed by the apostles to serve the widows to overlook their daily needs their feeding within the community of faith so the bible says that he was uniquely qualified to serve a man of good reputation a man full of the spirit and of wisdom these first seven deacons not title come on somebody but function were servants but they were also evangelists so as i began to study about philip the first thing that i found out that he was an evangelist come on somebody so he was appointed and he was available to share the good news of jesus christ in the midst of get this his daily responsibilities he still had the responsibility of the widows but in the midst of the responsibility that he had he still had time to preach the gospel of jesus christ so because of how the lord chose to work in their lives they were ready for their divine assignment because they believed god and they believed in kingdom work that god requires so the lord has major plans for those who belong to him see i've got a feeling that you and i are being set up set up for a life-changing encounter in the midst of the pandemic has anybody had a life-changing encounter or have we been so busy complaining talking about woe is me that we can't even see him in the midst of what's going on i want to have a life-changing encounter with my lord and savior jesus christ i don't know about you i understand the pandemic is here but in the midst of the pandemic i see jesus so what is it are set up for it's a set up for the very power of god to work in and through us because god is in fact ordering our footsteps and guiding our pathways let me let me tell us something about divine assignment we see we can expect that god is going to set us up on assignments that demands our attention and our anointing when you have the right attitude you have to know that there's no coincidence no chance encounters nothing just happens when you are in god's service god will put you in the presence of people that you need to meet because ultimately there's somebody who needs your anointing come on god y'all god wants to work with work us while he is working it out for us oh i think i need to say that again god wants to work us let me say it again god wants to work us while he's working it out for us you all know the scripture in the book of isaiah that says they that wait upon the lord shall renew their strength if you look in the hebrew at the word wait it's not uh uh it's not passive sitting down it's active anticipation so while i am waiting on god i am working for y'all better help me up in here i am working for god so while god wants to work us he's also working it out for us so my word for us this morning is to let it happen and just say yes see on the other side of your yes to god is a life of impact and promise see even the stuff even the encounters that we would prefer not to have every moment with god is meaningful and for some reason as christians we don't think that we're supposed to go through anything the trouble is that we don't always know where it will lead us so sometimes it leads us into situations we don't think we are ready for and to places we would rather not be but wherever and however god leads we can handle it if we would just say yes so this is the question how do we create space for god to work in our lives and ask yourself that question how do i create space for god to work in my life number one obedience releases opportunity obedience releases let me put in parentheses opportunity but obedience also releases blessings come on somebody i don't care how much we praise him and i know the the we are good at saying when the praises go up blessings come down but i say when obedience goes up blessings shall not come down come on obedience releases opportunities see the first thing we can do to create space for god to work is remember that obedience always releases opportunity so the angel of the lord told phillip to go south listen at this philip didn't need a navigation system he had one his name is jesus christ so he told him to go south down a desert road away from jerusalem come on somebody you see what y'all do y'all see what's going on here listening to god for philip was a habit phillip was used to following god's lead that he he didn't even second guess where he was going he just went there was no effort there was no argument there was no hesitation there was no five-year plan help me holy ghost there was no vision board there was no excuses when he said go philip got up and he went and he ends up where god wants him to be why because of obedience so i am convinced that that is the answer to much of the issues today because first samuel 15 22 22 tells us that obedience is better than sacrifice so one of the tragedies in the church today is that we don't want to obey god come on y'all it's much easier to do our own thing how many times have we known that we should do something but we let everything and everybody else keep us from doing it how often have we not even bothered to ask god what he wants for our lives oh i see you raising your hand amen some of us just go ahead and do it we never seek god for direction in our lives and he is supposed to be our daddy our father our lead our director come on somebody but yet and still the one who created us the one who's in charge of us we will not go to him for direction and that's why we end up in situations that we are in then we have to go back to him to get us out of what we got ourselves into so i'm reminded of a principal that gives me a reality check for ministry people only do what they choose to do nobody nobody can make us do what we are supposed to do come on we have to have faith to move as the lord leads and let me tell you something that's what it means to be grown up come on i don't care how old you are amen you can be 88 89 and 90. amen but if we are not being led by the holy spirit we are still drinking milk so obedience is better than sacrifice better than superficial shows better than getting my way i'll go wherever you send me do whatever you're calling me to do i will be your disciple i will be your follower i will be your wife i will be your husband i'll be your son i will be your daughter i will be your friend i will be your student i will be your co-worker i will be your servant i have an assignment this is the next thing always be prepared to preach if you want to see god move always be prepared to preach so the ethiopian asked phillip tell me who the prophet was talking about when he said the prophet he was talking about isaiah so philip tells him the good news about jesus so philip is not only available but he doesn't come to the task in empty-handed handed phillips got a word y'all better hear me see when i looked at this text i see that phillip he didn't have no master's degree he didn't have any seminaries training no ordination certificate he just knew how to tell the good news all he knew was to tell was just jesus in that psalm writers say just jesus just jesus imagine if we if philip had said i don't have anything to share but philip was prepared to preach amen and we need to understand something i i can hear in my spirit now people say well i'm not a preacher all of us are preachers ordained preachers are called to lead but every believer amen has to be able to preach and if you look the word up in the dictionary all it talks about is telling the good news amen you must have some word in you to condition the word coming out of you amen no matter what else you may do you may sing well you may shout well you may dance well you may praise well you may serve well you may administer well you may usher well you may welcome well but you better have some word in the inside of you so the world world needs some believers with a testimony of who god is what god has done and what he's able to do see we've got to be able to tell the story of why god created the heaven and the earth we've got to be able to tell the story how he created humanity in god's image and in his likeness we got to tell somebody how how how faithful noah was in his family how he rescued them from the flood we got to tell them how god delivered the people out of slavery into the promised land we got to tell them how god remained faithful to those people through the wilderness even through their disobedience he still got him there you don't know anything else you ought to be able to tell them about shadrach meshach and abednego in the fiery furnace and how god was able to deliver them but if you don't know every detail of the bible you ought to be able to tell them how at the right time a virgin by the name of mary gave birth to the living savior who walked the earth healing and teaching and delivering and saving we ought to be able to tell somebody how he hung how he bled and how he died on that old rugged cross if we can't tell him nothing else we ought to be able to tell him how he got up on easter sunday morning with all power in his hand tell them how sin has been forgiven and believers have been set free tell them the truth that jesus is still alive and his spirit is in you and in me tell them that the kingdom of god is real and that he reigns forever and ever and ever so if you want to give them some good news that we all have to give we are to be able to give an answer for the hope that's within us tell somebody that god is love that god is able that god is holy that god is merciful that god is gracious that god is good now let me tell you you can't preach what you don't know come on somebody you can't talk about what you don't feel come on somebody you can't testify about what you don't believe but let me tell you something every now and then it's like fire shut up in my bones and i've got to tell somebody about how good he is this is the last thing let your life be a way for god to do wonderful things by number one realizing that obedience releases opportunity always be prepared to preach and finally get out of the way in the last part of this encounter with philip and the ethiopian the ethiopian asks philip what is stopping me from being baptized come on somebody now if he wasn't ethiopian it tells me he was an african brother come on somebody and he and and he not only needed word but he also needed water come on the question was really is there room for me in this gospel we have been talking about they had water they had the word the only hold up would have been phillip come on somebody but philip got out of god's way because baptism is inclusion come on it's not just an empty religious exercise but it's a faith act that confirms that we are in the family of grace so what we do we make room for jesus when we make room for somebody else somebody probably saying pastor you still haven't told me my assignment yes i have oh i've told you your divine assignment your assignment your divine assignment and divine means godly your godly task is to tell somebody about jesus christ so philip didn't say listen this this is us philip didn't say i can't baptize you because you're a eunuch which meant that he was unclean he said i didn't i can't baptize you because you don't dress like we dress come on somebody you don't look like we look you're not around from where we are around philip got out of god's way and didn't let any of his personal feelings or issues close this brother out come on somebody have you ever been in church and the wrong person walked in the church and everybody turn around and look turn the noses up as if that person is not supposed to be there come on somebody oh i've been there before i don't know why it is that we think that we are so good come on that we can turn our noses up at anybody so what we're doing one piece of dirt is turning their nose up at another piece of dirt don't let christianity get in the way of christ oh i wish i had time to tell you that we aren't holy unless we're helping somebody your anointing means nothing if your attitude is alienating people you are not the church if god's other children don't have room next to us even listen at this even our worship is worthless if the spotlight is always on us it's not even about us getting something out of it but it's what we have to give that sets the real followers of christ apart from the frauds so let's get real nobody deserves god's grace but god made a way for us anyway and that's when we ought to say hallelujah for favor hallelujah for forgiveness hallelujah for deliverance hallelujah for freedom i think i'll leave right here and tell you again that you have a divine assignment when god saved us he was setting us up to see somebody else say don't shout about how good he's been to you shout on how good he can be through you so my question is are you ready for your divine assignment and this is where i'm almost done because when you have an assignment god will break out every angel army on heaven and earth and he will say not because you're so good but because what i've given you is so important he will lead you to the place he has prepared for you and you have to touch somebody and say god's got my back he has given us a special assignment so he knows that we need special assistant come on somebody let me say it again he has given us a special assignment so he knows that we need special assistance so what you're talking about pastor so i went over to matthews 28 19 through 20. where it said therefore go and make disciples of all nations baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy ghost he said teaching them to obey everything i have commanded you and this is what i like digger marcus he said and lo another translation says surely i am with you to the very ends of the earth i like what he said and i'll be with you so i just said if you're on an assignment he has given you special assistance so he told us in matthew's no matter where you go he said i'll be with you no matter what obstacles you come against he said i'll be with you he said mountains make it high valleys may be low but he said i'll be with you friends might forsake you but he said i'll be with you the word says surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life that's where the the 23rd psalm gets personal where he says the lord is my shepherd i shall not want he maketh me to lie down in green pastures he leadeth me beside the still waters he restored my soul he leadeth me in the path of righteousness for his name's sake yea yea though i walk though i walk through the valley and the shadow of damn i i will feel no evil but thou art with me that's my special assistant then it says shirley shirley shirley shirley shirley shirley goodness and mercy goodness and mercy he gives me what i don't even deserve surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and i i you will dwell in the house of the lord for how long forever and ever and ever eva and eva and elma and emma and emma and eva and eva and somebody else to say amen when i say yes to his will and to his way i get some special assistance that special assistance is not necessarily what i deserve but when he looks beyond my faults and he sees my knees he tells me that i will be with you in the midst of a pandemic i'll be with you with people dying i'll be with you no jobs i'll be with you no money i'll be with you friends have left you i'll be with you how long will he be with us he said even until the end of the ages until the end of the ages he said he will be with us so come what may from day to day my god we'll take it take care of us we have to be available and we have to avail ourselves to the assignment the divine assignment that god has for each and every one of us we thank god for his goodness we thank god for his mercy we thank god for the visitation of the holy spirit in this place and i believe that there's someone out there that's been struggling and you've been running for a long time if you've gotten to the crossroads of not knowing which way to go you have this voice over here that's saying he can't do anything for you you have this one over here that says accept me as lord and savior i would rather die knowing him and have accepted him and die and then find out it wasn't him then die then not accepting him and find out there was a savior so we asked you today to accept him as your personal savior just open your mouth wherever you are say god forgive me of my sin that's it say god i believe that your son died but i also know that you raised him from the dead god i want to be saved that's that's all you have to say i want to be in your family i want to be in a relationship with you just say yes to it say yes god i receive you yes god i believe you yes god i'm tired of running yes god i'm tired of doing things my own way yes god tell them say my storage is empty but i'm available to you won't you accept him today as lord and savior why don't you pray with me father god i'm coming to you today empty wanting to be filled by you just say to him forgive me of my sins tell them god i know you sent your son to die to be buried but i also know you raised him up just for me save me god that's all you have to do just tell him save you save me god in jesus name amen if you have made that decision we would love to talk to you about the decision that you have made if you will call our church at 706-682-2089 we'll be happy to discuss with you the decision that you have made and let me be very clear as as much as we would like for you to be a part of revelation a member of our family we're not asking you to join revelation we're asking you to join jesus that's your first step and then god will lead you to the church of his choice we thank god for you for sharing with us on today again if you have made that decision just give us a call and we'd be more than happy to talk with you god bless you god keep you is my prayer my brothers and my sisters let us remember that we are still in the midst of a pandemic i heard this morning that the numbers are higher right now than they have ever been since this pandemic started so we need to continue to mask up we need to continue to social distance we need to continue to wash our hands and we also if at all possible need to stay in we love you here at rmbc we do want us and i'm going to say this we want especially the members of revelation i want us to get ready i want us to get ready for what god is about to do to restore us and to bring us back so go and get you some elderberry go and purchase you some vitamin d some vitamin c and some zinc and begin to work on yourself self health begin to get your body in such a way that you're healthy when god releases us to return we will be ready amen amen amen amen as always i want to say to us let us not forget that our house of a vision is not physically open but we are still being a blessing to this community if you would give us a call we will be glad to help you and to assist you also let us not forget about our monday manner amen join us every monday night at 7 00 p.m at the end of our service you will see the sign on a zoom sign in and our password we'd be happy for you to come and share the word of our lord and savior jesus christ again thank you so much for sharing with us we want to say thank you to our musicians to our praise team thank you to reverend reggie for recording tonight god bless you god keep you is our prayer until we meet again i'll do what you say to to say my story and i am available yes it is rules