Okay, 24 years look at that.
Can you believe I used to wear a tie. I used to wear tie every Sunday. I'm crazy.
Cosby sweater.
2000, look at that.
Your mom and my dad. Were both went to be with the Lord, but they
were there when we moved in Ruffin. All the fires.
Yeah, man, I remember those old people yeah, I was like
the first three months we were in the building. Fires 2007.
We had 56 of the elderly people that slept in our building.
Thrift store. Oh wow.
Lot of people have been helped by the generosity of
the clothes and furniture people have been getting.
North County. I think that was our first campus.
Do something. I tell you if there's one thing that we
Legacy, we're gonna leave and establishes service to the community.
Well, yeah good Friday at Petco Park.
That was an awesome day to be able to preach out and
back of Petco Park and see the people on the balconies.
Now the buildings around bring the gospel to the world, which
is what we got to do. Miles A Minute. Look at what you're wearing
The baggy pants look in the 60s. I tell you people still come to me in the in
Airports and said they listen to Miles A Minute. We gotta bring that back. Yeah
Philip Rivers, Drew Brees, Russell Wilson all the athletes and celebrities we've had.
City Heights could have Micah's head.
I tell you the campuses and the ministry they have to the community is is
Exactly what we plan for and you know that if we were
all one campus, we would have this much impact.
Now we have this much impact and Toys for Joy is a perfect
example of that. One of blessing to see the haircuts and the
clothes and the food and the toys and the and the groceries and and
The face painting and all the stuff that happens on Toys for Joy.
Floodgate. We gotta bring back Floodgate. And a flood church with
worship. Awesome. Yeah, Third Option.
Yep, George Floyd, which is also part of that.
Third Option. March. That was another difficult time.
Oahu. By the way, I need to come to Oahu and do some training or something.
They are they are killing it out there. They're having
the biggest Sundays lately and so it isa blessing. Faith and Family Night
Yep
And that was the beginning, the Faith and
Family Night of us doing big evangelistic events.
We're having another one coming up in June that's gonna happen.
And so that was I can't I remember standing on that stage
with Petco going man. I'm feeling it. I'm feeling it.
I'm feeling it and we're gonna ask for your prayers
24 years has been amazing. Did it go by quick? It really
did. It's amazing. That's been 24 years seems like
Ten, five? Ten at the most.
And and we want to ask you all to continue to pray for what
God is doing in our church What God is doing in your life?
Because the gospel is here to stay we're gonna
all pass away and a new crew is gonna come in
But the gospel is forever. It's the power of God unto salvation.
So I want to encourage all of you.
Put your stake in the ground and go with us on this journey for
another 24 years to reach San Diego and beyond with the gospel.
Thank you very much for everybody who has given and served and and
Invested in the pictures in this book and the pictures that are not in this book.
So God bless you. Happy. Happy anniversary. God bless you
Amen, amen, amen Let's say happy birthday birthday Happy birthday dear Rock Church
Happy birthday to you.
Hey, man, let's give the Lord a big hand, Church
Amen. Hey, let's praise God for 24 years. Come on, Church.
Happy birthday for all y'all who've been 24 years or today's your first day.
Thank you for being part of our story.
Amen Amen, and it has gone by really fast
So excited about what God has done. All the lessons, all the ups and downs
But also what He's gonna do. And today we're gonna talk about vision
It's Vision Sunday. We're gonna talk about what's going to happen.
We want to welcome all the campuses from
City Heights to El Cajon, Chula Vista, San Marcos
Oahu is their first anniversary today. Let's give them a big hand
Everybody online we want to say happy birthday to everybody.
Thank you for everything you've done
I also want to give a special shout out
This is a kind of an off topic a little bit.
Our Rock Academy girls' basketball team won CIF last week. Come on, Church.
Come on, Church. What's Up! Lady Ballers, lady ballers.
So anyway, let's pray.
Lord, thank You so much for today. Thank You so much for
Your faithfulness. Thank You so much to my wife for
Just being my partner in crime.
Been through a lot.
I love you.
Bad boys for life.
We ride together; we die together.
And Lord, thank You so much for being faithful. All of us have our own stories.
And just we just take a moment to say thank You God for our life up to this point.
We all have our ups and downs, our pains our
victories
Our struggles, but You've never left our side.
I thank You for that. I pray You encourage us today. Pray You give us clarity today.
Why are we here?
Thank You, in Jesus name, amen. Give someone a big high-five and a hug. Amen.
Turn to Acts, chapter 2
Acts chapter 2
Love you, Honey
Yeah
About a month ago, five, six weeks ago.
I had an opportunity to go visit a owner of a multi-billion dollar company.
I had met him a few years back.
He's a Christian man, secular company and
He has these meetings with business people, ministry leaders to talk
about his story, his family, his generosity, his philosophy and
It was about two days. We were there.
I think it was a full day, half day on two different days and
Told a lot of stories about his family.
He's 82 now. And he runs his whole company eight billion
dollars a year or so with no iPhone, no computer.
He has a little book in the back of his pocket.
He's my hero and
He was telling all these stories about his family. Then he told one story about
What he was gonna do after he died and what what how
he was planning to pass his company on and he had
Designated certain stock to his kids
But he felt like it was the wrong thing to do.
A lot of money will have a higher chance of ruining your life than blessing your life.
And he was saying I was gonna make multi-millionaires
of great-grandkids that weren't even born.
They were gonna be born into being millionaires and
I didn't want to ruin that and ruin their relationship
with God and distract it. And he was literally
on the floor praying and God said to him
What if this company was owned by the Jones
family? His last name is not Jone, is it's Green and
he said well if if I didn't own it and I wouldn't
have a decision to make because it's not mine and
God told him, I own it. It's not yours
And he and he had to go to his sons and say hey, here's
what God told me. You need to give me back my stock.
They did. They signed the company over to God.
Seven people run it. No one owns anything. They simply get a salary and
They they give away half their profits, which
is in the billions every year to ministry.
50% this is the Hobby Lobby organization and
David Green is the owner. All of this is written in books that he
Has written, told everything I just said.
But when I was there, I was there a month ago. I was there like five years ago
My faith was
Increased. My vision was increased and and God said
You don't own anything.
Of course I don't own, this as a nonprofit anyway,
but you don't own this. You don't own your
family. You don't own anything. It's all mine and
The devil has a way of deceiving us to think that we own something.
There's something's yours. Your hair is not yours. You're gonna lose it.
Your young body is not yours. You're gonna lose all
you 20-somethings is gone. It's gone.
It's gone. Better enjoy it now. Look in the mirror every day because it's gone.
So God has entrusted all of us with what He calls the Rock Church.
He has trusted us with a vision that He gives us. It's not my church.
I had a plumber over my house, and I said hey,
man. You know I was talking to him, and I said hey and I
In the conversation he says oh you don't you own the Rock Church?
I said no.
Because that's the kind of the conception is you
know if you're leaders, but understand our prophets
It's a non-profit. It's owned by the people and
And even if it was a for-profit. I wouldn't own it either it belongs to God
Today I want to talk about why we're here. What is this all about?
Because we're all here for a finite period of time for a very
specific reason that God has bestowed on us. A lot of times
We miss it, and I don't mean only in this church, but it's
your family your business, and why you're on this earth.
And so I want to share with you on our 24th anniversary
Why we are here. Because the reason that we started
The church is the exact same reason that we exist today.
It's going to be the same reason 24 years from now.
And I just want to help you understand that so
you can opt in because the only way we can fulfill
What God has called us to do. God calls us to do His
vision. God calls us to fulfill His vision. Can I get an amen?
and but it requires our
generosity of our time, talent, and treasure.
To make it happen and so we may set the vision,
but the people set the pace of the vision.
You fuel it with your talent, your time, and your treasure.
You're volunteering. You're being on our team. You're giving money.
You're giving your prayers and saying, I'm in.
Or you can just be a consumer and watch and
From the sidelines and criticize when it goes the way you
want and doesn't go the way you want. Or you can say no
I'm going to be part of the solution. And so I want to lay
this out as clearly as possible simply as possible
Why we're here and I'm gonna challenge you throughout
the message to say, I'm in. I'm in with my time,
I'm in with my talent. I'm in with my treasure.
I know when I'm a doer kind of person
I hate to sit around just you know, not do anything.
I can't sit still even on my days off
I'm I'm walking around the house like, you know, wait for this.
I really can't not do anything and and God
Has not made us to do nothing. Matter of fact, I heard a quote
the other day that aging is the desperate pursuit of comfort.
I'm gonna say it again. I want to sink in for you.
You age the more you sit around and relax and the more you
Feed your desire to just vacation, the faster you will age.
But the more you stress your body
The more you stress your cardiovascular system, your respiratory system.
The stronger your body will be. That's called, working out.
And you see some people work out like this. They ain't in shape.
I promise you, they're overweight. If you want to get in shape,
You have to stress your body. If you want to learn you have to stress your mind.
And so what we want to do is say, "Lord, what do You want us to do?" You put us on this
earth for a certain period of time and you
Created work and work is good.
So what do You want us to work at and my plea to
you all in all the campuses is that: 1) You would one
understand we're trying to make it as simple as
possible why we're here and then you would say, "I'm in."
Because it doesn't belong to you.
You're going to die and leave everything behind. There was no
you've never seen a hearse with a u-haul behind it. It don't happen
You're going by yourself and by the time the hearse is by
the time you see the hearse, you're going already and so
There's a verse in the Bible says without vision the people perish,
but I'm gonna read the the message translation in Proverbs 29:18
It says if people can't see what God is doing, they stumble all over themselves
But when they attend to what He reveals they are most blessed.
So I'm gonna hopefully give you as simple as possible the
clarity of what God has called us to do and it's in three very
Simple words say, "Know God."
Say, "Grown in Community." Say, "Make a Difference."
Our vision statement is Establish Pervasive Hope.
Everyone say, pervasive. Say everyone say, pervasive.
Have you ever seen a picture of?
People at a concert and as soon as the artist walks
out onto the stage all these cell phones go up
Anybody ever see that kind of picture? I think we have a picture like that.
Here we go. Where we go. Here we go. All these cell phones go up.
Imagine if you at a concert with a bunch of people and
someone said how many of y'all have been positively
Impacted by the gospel and all these hands went up
That's pervasive. Matter of fact in this crowd and all the campuses if
you've been positively impacted by the presence of Jesus Christ in your life
Raise your hand. Amen. Amen. Amen. Keep your hand and
look around the room. That's pervasive.
That's great Now, how do we translate that to outside the church?
That's the vision. A vision is a picture of your preferred
future. When you think of your life five years from now
Ten years from now, 20 years from now.
What does that look like in your ideal world?
That's a vision. Here's Jesus's vision, Acts 1:8
It says you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come
upon you and you shall be my witnesses to me in Jerusalem
immediate city Judea. Samaria and the ends of the earth.
What Jesus was saying is I want you to be witnesses to
Me of my supernatural power, love, and forgiveness in
the city you're in, the state you're in, the country in, and globally.
That's all all Jerusalem Judea Samaria and the ends of the earth.
All that means is everywhere. Everyone say, everywhere
That's called pervasive. So our vision is that the gospel impact will be pervasive
primarily here in in the cities were in here in: San Diego and Oahu.
How can we get the gospel to everybody? That's
it. Now does that require people doing something?
Absolutely, if you say nothing, you are not contributing.
Or do I don't say say nothing, do nothing, serve
nothing, give nothing. You're not contributing to that.
So, how do we collectively get the gospel?
I want you to be thinking about I Easter's like in
six weeks from now something like that March 30, 31st.
Easter weekend is the 29th is the Friday, Good Friday. March
30th is a Saturday which happens in my birthday,
by the way just just a little kind of know and then
March 31st is the Sunday is Easter weekend. They're gonna be millions
of people in San Diego thinking where am I gonna go to church?
You need to be talking to them and praying for them
right now, can I get amen? Start planting that seed.
Hey, March 31st, March 30th weekend. I'm gonna invite you to Easter.
Can you put it on your calendar?
We need to be participating in that. So God's vision is know God. Everyone say, know God.
Say, Grow in Community. Say, Make a Difference.
and His vision is that there will be pervasive hope,
that no matter where anyone was in San Diego or
around around the world, but for us San Diego, Oahu
The people who know how to get the gospel That's it.
It's not complicated. So when you go to work tomorrow, when you go to school, this
week that you look at how do they do they know the gospel?
Do they know the gospel? Do they know the gospel? I don't mean
that they just get saved. That's it. They're living the gospel.
They receive it. They're walking in it. They're being
transformed by it. I was in the airport last week.
I don't remember what day. In Dallas and I'm talking to a guy who was on my plane.
We were talking and this girl walks by me. She was so cute. She was like 35 years old
She was about itty bitty B. And she's walking by all and she said, "Pastor Miles, Pastor Miles
I got saved at the Rock." And I was like stop, stop. Come here. Tell me about it. Tell me about it.
She's I was sitting in the back and you called me out.
You said I had a white ribbon in my hair bow and I got saved.
I said how's God been? She says it's been awesome.
My life is so different. I was like you just made my day and she went to her plane.
Oh, here's what I said to her. I said I'll probably
never see you again, but God bless you. That's the gospel
It's that simple. It's that simple
So, how do we do it? Make disciples. This is the mission.
Know God. Everyone say, Know God. Say, Know God. Grow in Community.
Say, Make a Difference. The only way that happens if we are open-handedly generous
with our entire life.
You may say you guys ask a lot. No, we ask for everything. And it's not we. It's God.
When Jesus was on the cross, he wasn't he wasn't on
the cross like just kind of like this with his hands. He was like,
I give you everything.
God wants everything.
God wants to bless everything.
But He can't bless what you don't give Him and when I
say give Him, I don't mean give it to the Rock Church.
I mean say Lord, what is it that You want with my life?
Everyone say, Know God.
Grow in Community. Say, Make a Difference. Matthew 28:18.
Here's the mission that Jesus gave the church.
If a church has any other mission than this that basically
doesn't fit in this, they miss Jesus's own words.
It says, "All authority has been given to me in heaven and earth
and go therefore and make disciples of all nations
baptizing them in the name of the Father. the Son and the espíritu Santo.
Hey, Cinco de Mayo is coming. It's on a Sunday. I'm gonna be
preaching a sermon in Spanish. And we're gonna to have a translator .Come on now, come on now.
We're gonna have a translator English and in
Spanish and you can say, why would you do that?
Because there's people speaking in Spanish and
I just want to do it. Hey, man, come on now.
Voy a practicar [speaking in Spanish].
So we're gonna get it. Come on now.
What I said is, I'm gonna preach a sermon about the Holy
Spirit and that the Holy Spirit is moving mysterious
Mysteriously through this place right now. He's gonna speak to your heart.
Amen baptize them in the name of the Father the Son the
Holy Spirit teaching them to obey all things that I've
Commanded and lo I am with you to the end of the
age. This is what Jesus said right before he left
He said, "Here's what I want you to do. Go make disciples."
What is a disciple? Someone who gets saved. Say, Know God
Someone who grows in the community. Say, Grow in Community.
And then someone who takes what God is doing in their life and
goes and shares with somebody else and builds
the kingdom of God. Say, Make a Difference.
That's it.
If you're doing something else, you're missing it
Now, there's probably other things you're
doing that fits in that. You just don't know it.
But at the end of the day first step is people need to accept Christ. Know God,
So I'm gonna read to you a passage from the book of Acts when the church started and
This is exactly what happened when the church started. Jesus
died, rose from the dead. Told his disciples go make disciples and then
I'm out and then he left supernaturally right in front of them. Which was awesome.
I wasn't there but it was awesome.
Then he told them don't do anything. Do nothing. Everyone say, do nothing.
Don't move from your house
until the Spirit of God comes on you and
Look what it says. I'm a read we're gonna read together Acts
chapter 2 verse 39. The Holy Spirit comes Pentecost happens the
Disciples start speaking in tongues and the got the Gospels going out
to all the different languages and the Jews are like what's going on?
These guys are drunk. Peter's preaches a sermon and here's what he says
Verse 36 therefore that all the house of Israel know that
God has made Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ
Now when they heard this, they were cut to their heart and
said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, men and brethren
What shall we do? When people hear the gospel and the Spirit of God speaks to them
They're like what do I do? And Peter said repent and that everyone
be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sin.
You shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Everyone say, Holy Spirit
We acknowledge that the Holy Spirit is here.
That the Holy Spirit lives in you, not Jesus
Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He sent the Holy Spirit to do the work of salvation in your life.
And it's the Holy Spirit that's moving through this room.
It's the Holy Spirit that you receive in your heart.
It's the Holy Spirit that transforms your life.
Then it says for the promises to you and your children
To all who are far off as many as the Lord God will call
point number one. Let's go to point number one, know God.
Evangelism, know God and make God known. The first step of
us in our journey of fulfilling the mission of Jesus Christ.
It's to preach the gospel and that people would get saved.
I was in the back.
I was gonna tell you, I was crying so I'm gonna cry. Please don't miss this.
Sharing your faith is probably the scariest thing people Christians claim to do.
You can pray by yourself. You can come to church
Sit in the back. Don't bring a Bible. Whatever it is.
But when it comes to actually sharing your faith with somebody
It seems to be very difficult. I'm an evangelist so it's easy for me.
We are developing training called Just One training where you get a
little bit every Sunday when we talk about the the
the gospel nine and the R's relationship, rebel, ruin
please
Take ownership. Everyone say, ownership. Take ownership of
your responsibility to share your faith with somebody else.
I want to challenge and encourage all of you that
you would start praying for two or three people
That you want to be saved and that Easter is your
mark. That they will come to Easter or between now
And then you will share your faith with them.
We are all responsible to pray.
Yes We are all responsible to read our Bibles. Yes. We're all responsible to serve.
Yes We're all responsible to be generous with our finances.
Yes, and we are all responsible to share our
faith That's probably the most important thing
The there's no greater love that a man can have for another
man, or a woman can have another woman than to
die for their friends. That's what Jesus did.
The most loving thing he did was to die for us.
The most loving thing we could do is tell people that he did it.
Therefore the most hateful thing we could do was not tell him.
Oh That we were watching them ruin their lives.
And we don't trust the Holy Spirit enough to do the
work of salvation in them that we would say nothing.
Even even to say something like can I invite you to church? I was at the airport
sometime recently. It's my jam, right?
I go to the airport. I'm like the mayor.
I'm like, hey, what's up TSA? Hey, how you doing? I'm a TSA.
It's like yeah, we know you just go ahead and take my ID anymore. No, they do.
They do. He goes, "Pastor Miles, how you doing? Can I have your ID?"
This guy walks up to me at the airport.
He says hey, are you Pastor Miles on the right? He said yeah
Yeah, I he said oh my friend goes to your church.
I said, is that right? Yeah. Oh cool. I said, what do you do?
He said I work in tech. I said how long you
been working in tech? Oh for just five years
I said, okay, do you go to church? He says?
Oh, no, I haven't I wasn't religious growing up
Watch this. I said, so let me back up. Were you in tech when you were growing up?
Here's what he did. He went, oh, that's a good one. That's a good one.
I said sure enough, bro. I said nine o'clock Sunday. Well, I'll see you there.
Listen no, no confrontation. Just a little cut just a little Q&A just question.
I was I was at the restaurant the other day and and
me and my wife at the restaurant that me and my wife
That's our thing. We go to restaurant. That's that's our big splurge.
And a lady I say hey to the to the waitress. Hey you go to church?
She said oh, no, I wasn't religious growing up.
Same thing. I said, you know religion is man's failed attempt to get to God.
All the religions in the world of people trying to get to God,
get to God, get to God because God made us for relationship.
But we broke that relationship without sin.
So it was trying to get to God and all religions fail.
So it doesn't matter that you're religious because we you couldn't get to God anyway.
But Jesus came down to us, which is Christianity. That's the difference.
So I'm not religious either. I'm a Christian in a relationship.
That lady was standing right there at the altar a couple weeks ago. Amen, come on now.
We are gonna put a full-court press on getting the gospel to young people.
I'm gonna read some stats to you: 55% of teenagers
were emotionally abused by a parent or caregiver
11% were physically abused. From 2007 to 2001, suicide rates
From 10 to 24 rose 62%. Nearly half of teens have been bullied or harassed online.
94% of adult Christians made the decision before 18 years old.
94% of people who got saved did so when they were 18 years old.
70% will leave their faith when they go to college.
Whoo. Years ago, I used to do Miles Ahead Crusades.
We have a picture of one of them, here in San Diego and there were youth crusades.
We did them at the Sports Arena. This is that
Open-air theater in Chula Vista. That's what was called back then.
We had the Sports Arena, Canada Africa Caribbean.
And all throughout the United States and then we
started the church and kind of got away from it.
Well, June 26th is coming back and we're gonna be amen. Come on. Come on.
Come on. We Have a different name for it.
But it's gonna be at SDSU at the open-air theater and
we'll tell you who the bands are and the worship team.
We're just about to sign that contract. But once we do
that, we'll let you know. But our goal is share the gospel
That's it.
These kids are gonna get saved. We're gonna train Christian kids before, youth leaders
before go out and share the gospel because the
One thing that's gonna save people's souls is Jesus Christ.
And so what are we gonna need volunteers?
We're gonna need money. If you got a sound light company
because we got a rent sound light video equipment.
It's gonna cost a lot of money. You can help us
out. But if we come together This is just step one
We got to get the gospel and my challenge to all of you
whether you're involved in that or not.
It's in June Well, you'll hear plenty of information about it.
Is that the people in your life, the people that God has put in your life.
You're in this church to hear the gospel and to be
challenged to share it and the people God put in
your life Is that you are the conduit to them now?
You can bring them here and they get saved
fine, but don't let the opportunity pass you by. To get the gospel to them.
I am standing here because two strangers in a department store cold-called me and
Shared the gospel with me. Two strangers. Two Charles Manson hippie looking dudes
Bummy, beards, beat-up Bibles just said I'm gonna go talk to
that guy and they came up to me and in five ten minutes
They were reading Bible to me and I remember looking down
at the Bible and just the Spirit of God just there BAM.
That's why I'm standing here in front of you.
So don't overthink it. The gospel does the power.
It's the power of God unto salvation for the everybody who
believes. The gospel does the power you just need to speak the words.
Share the Bible. Number one is know God. Next two
is grow in community. Say grown community
Acts chapter 2 verse 42 it says after these 3,000 people got saved
They continued steadfastly in the apostles
doctrine and the breaking of bread and prayers. Get in a
Small group. If you can take out your phone real quick.
Please take out your phone real quick if you can. If I can ask you to do that politely
as I can while I'm my adrenaline's flowing.
Will you mind taking out your phone? I
I think we have a QR code is going up on
the screen. If not, next steps. Text, next steps,
Can you put that on the screen to 52525
52525 and join a group.
We want to get as many of you in a group as possible
because in August we are going to take all the groups in the church through
Evangelism training. Through a Just One training.
I promise you when you go through that training
You're gonna be like I can do this. You will be able to do it.
Amen and number three,
Make a Difference. Everyone say, Make a Difference.
Identify and leverage your spiritual gifts. It says in verse chapter 2 Acts 2:43
It says then fear came upon every soul and many
wonders and signs were done through the apostles.
If you text "next steps" to 52525 and serve on a team. Get on a team.
We need another thousand or so and that
number may be exaggerated. I believe it's pretty close.
Team members to serve in all the campuses because when
people come here, we want to be able to serve them. On Easter
We're gonna have thousands of more people who come
here for that day. We need to serve them and that's you.
So if you're sitting there if you're in church and saying
I'm not really doing anything. Okay, now's your
opportunity. Get in the group. Learn to lead a group.
Just start sharing your faith.
Come to an encounter a meeting to have an experience
with the Holy Spirit. Do something. Don't this is just hello Sunday hello.
How you doing? What's up? How you doing? Get the word be encouraged
Hopefully get taught something but then say now I gotta go use it. Can I get amen?
Now one of my one of my things I love to do is
pray for healing and I only got a few minutes
I just want to do it really quick. How many y'all got an
ailment? Anybody got an ailment? Raise your hand really high Really high.
Oh, very good. I'm not very good.
That's your ailment, but raise your hand really high
Let me see your elbow above your ear, all the campuses very good.
Very good And so you can put your hands down. The Bible says, look what the Bible says
It says they fear came upon every soul and wonder
Because there were signs and wonders were done, signs
and wonders. When the Holy Spirit comes in your life and
Changes you that's a wonder. I used to do cocaine.
I don't anymore. I stopped in one day. That's a wonder
That's a miracle. Can I get an amen? I used to smoke
weed and I don't smoke weed anymore. Ain't that amazing?
Can I get an amen. I said, you know chase the honeys now.
I got one wife for 40 something years. Can I get an amen? Amen. Amen. Come on now.
Come on now. And it's a wonder my wife didn't kill me in
that process. That's a wonder. Can I get an amen, amen.
So when you think about sign and wonders, all these known miracles.
The fact that you can be forgiven of your sin is a miracle.
So don't trip out that God can heal your knee.
Real quick, let's pray for healing, real quick.
Close your eyes and bow your head. This is what I just it's
not it's if you have something in your body that is ailing you
Eyes closed, heads bowed in all the campuses. If you
have something your body that you can feel right now. It's like a knee or ankle a hip
Your back and and you can feel it. Just raise your hand right
now. Just raise your hand right now. Wave your hand.
Okay, okay Okay, good. Okay. Good. Okay, put your hands down now.
Well, I'm gonna pray in a minute and then I want you to notice if God healed it.
Because we believe He can heal it right now.
Do you believe? Say, amen, if you believe it. Very good.
Okay, so I'm just gonna wait for 15 seconds
I haven't prayed yet with you, but I prayed for you and you prayed. I
Always want you to notice did God heal it?
Just feel it. Move your shoulder. Move your leg. Say man
I think He healed it. If you feel like He healed it already, just raise your hand
really high. Raise your hand if you feel it. Oh, look at all the hands.
Now why is that? It wasn't because it's not the magic of my prayer.
There's no magic. It's the Spirit of God
Lord, I prefer You touch people's bodies right
now. I pray You heal them. I pray You comfort them.
I pray You encourage them. I pray You do what You do, Holy Spirit. in
Jesus name Amen.
Now if you feel like hey, wait a minute. I think I feel something better.
Just raise your hand up really high and we can see you. Matter of fact
I'm gonna ask you cuz I believe God does this. Just stand
up so the rest of us can really see. Stand up if you feel
Like God's done something in your life. Very good.
God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you God bless you.
God bless you. God bless you.
God bless you. God bless you. You can stay it down
You can sit down. Now, let me tell you something. These aren't paid actors.
I don't know these people and you're like, how could that be? God is so much.
I was talking to someone yesterday
They were in Hawaii watching the whales jump and this
lady said I felt like my life was so insignificant
Seeing how big the world is. And I said imagine how
insignificant your problems are to God. Don't put God in a box.
So here's what we're gonna do now. We're gonna
take our offering because we've challenged you.
To say we're gonna help people know God all over the world.
Specifically here in San Diego and I'm asked everybody not to leave yet.
We still have a few things to do. We want to
want to make sure we get everything executed.
We want people to know God. Everyone say, know God.
We want all y'all to get in community. Get in a small group
so we can get to know each other and invest in each other.
And then we want to go make a difference. Get on a team and serve and if we do that
We will establish pervasive hope in San Diego and beyond. That's what we're here for.
Part of that is you being generous with your time, your talent,
and your treasure. We need your time. We need
your connections. We need your wisdom. We need it.
We can't do it without it. There's no else place to get it.
We're not selling cookies. We're not selling hot dogs. It comes from you saying, here.
I told you the story in the beginning of Hobby Lobby, Dave
Green is the owner and he's the guy who's 82 year old
patriarch, said we are gonna give our company to God
and 50% of everything we make is gonna go to ministry.
And if when I die,
They sell the company. 90% goes to ministry. No one gets it.
That's a step of faith. Am I askinh you to do that?
No, I'm asking you to do whatever God tells you. I have
been challenged to get to the point where I could do 50%.
That's personally me.
And I'm trying to figure that out. Cuz Lord I said, "Lord,
I just want to I want to be empty."
The more God empties you the more He could fill you back up.
And I want all the God has for me. How many of y'all want all the God has for you?
Amen, and so we're gonna pray for our offering and some of y'all
You've been here for a while. You don't give it's
time to start giving. Let God bless your finances.
Because if you holding on to it, the Bible says you're stealing because it's not yours.
But He says that if you give
Of your tithes, He says watch me open up the windows of heaven
and pour our blessing on you that you can't even handle it.
How many of you want blessing of God candy that
you can't handle? Amen. Amen. So we're gonna pray
Bow your heads and pray and pray with me.
Lord, I thank You so much for Your faithfulness.
I thank You so much for Your goodness.
24 years, God, is not even a half a blink to You.
But to us it's
Half a lifetime.
We want to be faithful with today. We want to be faithful with our life.
Our time, our talent, our treasure. We want to be faithful and generous.
Generous is not doing You a favor. It's giving You
back what it is Yours so we can secure Your favor.
So I pray Your favor on everybody here and everybody
in all our campuses who are gonna give today. Lord,
There's some people who are gonna give for the first time.
There's some people who are gonna commit to giving now for the first
time and then there are some people who've been
giving but they're hearing You say, You want more.
Make that clear to them. So they do it because
they feel the Lord telling them and no one else.
Thank You for Your faithfulness.
Bless the offering and the tithes in Jesus name
Amen