Does God Have to Hide His Miracles from You

Carter Conlon from the historic Times Square Church in New York City. Jesus Christ calls the week and that through this and the despised and the marginalized and gives us strength gives us wisdom. It cleanses us, because this is all is us in a place where our lives bear witness to his glory is the kingdom of God. Thanks for joining us this week for a call to the nation with Carter Conlon. Carter's message today is titled does God have to hide his miracles from you. Taken from Mark chapter 5, Carter opens today with an amazing testimony he'd like to share with you.

Your score. What a wonderful thing it is in this generation to be in the presence of God and to have hearts that are just filled with faith.

With the knowledge that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and forever. Thank God the definitive victory, believe that you will reach out with all of your heart.

This is a moment that God can do something for you, through his son Jesus Christ that you never ever thought could be done in your lifetime is still a God of miracles.

I'd like you to hear testimony before I speak is that my wife is 28 years old and has chronic Lyme disease. She's not been able to walk for six months to stand up on legs that hadn't been used for 3 1/2 years and were literally atrophied.

It had a 90° angle without any muscle tone left in them and give her the ability to walk around her apartment, praising God. We just are so so thankful for what is done for Sarah and for what he's going to be able to do for you. I told Sarah, is that the day you walk. This is my promise to you the day you walk were going to do a Jericho march around the church now Jericho marches in honor of Joshua on the children of Israel when they came into the promised land. And there was a stronghold called Jericho.

The very first thing before they inherited place. God had prepared for them that had to be taken down was the stronghold. They didn't have the strength to defeat it but they had a battle plan. The battle plan was just for seven days. As Walker found him say nothing walker and just obey me just walk around and the worshipers went first, blowing the trumpets, and it must been quite a sight to the to the enemies that were inside. This said, the stronghold, but the Lord gave them an instruction. They said at the end of seven days. I want you to walk around seven times and when I tell you give a shout. The Scripture says when they gave us out. The walls came down as order to do that and ask you to do that in your home to his well you you might have just a little room here in in whatever it is that whatever walls are in that place of your promise. Whatever strongholds that are too difficult for you to defeat you simply walk around your kitchen and at the appropriate time you give goddess out in the Lord says I'm gonna bring your walls down and I'm going to give you victories that you can't win for yourself in your own strength that can only be one by the power and the goodness in the grace of Almighty God.

No more folks were living in the very last days were living in the days before Christ's return and I do believe that God is going to show himself powerful again on behalf of those whose hearts are turned towards him and Sarah by her own testimonies didn't have have a great amount of faith.

I love the fact that in your story you said if I fall down to get hurt. This is on you.I love that and the fact that the Lord is not looking for us to have mountains of faith, but mustards of mustard seed for just a little bit God, I'll do it, although in the natural. This is insane. If I stand up and end up on the floor for the rest of the day and that it's not going to be a bring honor to you and the courage to let go of the counter after just the miracle of even standing up the courage to let go and to begin to raise your hands and praise God I love I love I love I love I love the fact that the original title I had for this was does God have to hide his miracles from you so father, I just want to thank you thank you Lord for this wonderful testimony want to thank you for they degrade great privilege Lord of of returning to prayer Lord you started the church was birthed in prayer on this earth and you told your own people to Terry to wait to wait until I giving you the power to stand up and do what you're called to do so. Lord, thank you once again as we see the darkness coming in and encroaching literally on every every facet of our society seems to be this flood of evil. But once again you're speaking to your church and your telling us Terry and wait upon me until I give you the power to stand for when the enemy comes in like a flood the spirit of the Lord will raise up a standard against it. So God, here we are and we do according to your word yield our bodies as a living sacrifice for you for your purposes which you tell us is only a reasonable service.

God forgive us for trying to do this in our own strength. Forgive us Lord for thinking we were smart enough to build the kingdom.

We can even see, forgive us Lord for thinking that just by rationalization, an argument somehow we could advance the kingdom of God's farther than we already have in our own efforts, God Almighty forgive us for the pride of wanting to be accepted by society that rejected you, Lord, we just asking God for the courage in the humility to just let you be God inside of each one of our lives and as you raised us up recently.

Praise everyone in the sanctuary of those that are listed in God raise us up in this last generation to be a testimony that will bring honor and glory to your name. God Almighty. We put ourselves into your hands more than we trust Jesus Christ as you trusted your father would raise you from the dead on the third day your Lord tells us that the same spirit that raised him from the dead will also quicken our mortal bodies, and so God we need quickening we admitted. Lord we confess to God, we need the quickening of your Holy Spirit in order to be the people were called debates. You told us for a city set upon a hill that cannot be hidden until a similar lights that shine in the firmament of the heaven to give direction to those who sit in darkness. You told us more than where the lanterns that are to be filled with oil to point the way to the bridegroom in this last hour of time. So God give us the strength that we now need every last one of us, Lord, we bend our hearts before you God we will not steal ourselves in pride we will mock you will laugh at your power, God Almighty. We recognize the need of you and we ask you to do in us with only you can do all Jesus Christ son of God, and be glorified again before you return physically to this earth before you come and take your church on Lord Jesus be glorified. One more time one more time on the earth. So God let it be known that you are God and we ask it in your precious name. Amen. Now Jesus is traveling Mark chapter 5 in verse four in his journey.

In verse 22, it says, and behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue came gyrus by name and when he saw him, he fell at his feet and begged him earnestly saying my little daughter lies at the point of death.

Come and lay your hands on her that she may be healed and she will live. So Jesus went out, and a great multitude followed him in front of knowing between this and where am not going to in verse 35 there was another interaction that happened with the young lady that had a physical problem. Jesus met her and healed her. In verse 35 now it says while he was still speaking, son came from the ruler of the synagogue's house who said your daughter is dead. Why trouble. The teacher any further note there are voices coming to some tonight that are listening to the service. This first service online in his voice as a senior hope is dead near future. Is that your marriage is dead.

Your your your your hope of ever being free from addiction is dead. Your hope of ever escaping the imprint. Perhaps that pornography is broadened into your mind and into your character is dead and and that the list goes on and on.

Why trouble. The master any file why trouble. The teacher any farther and you always will have to break through those voices. If you're going to receive the miracle of God would have been so easy for Sarah just to lean on them.

The last doctors report the told her there's nothing more we can do for you.

Why trouble. Why trouble. The teacher any further in this thing now soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken. He said to the ruler of the synagogue.

Do not be afraid only believe that I can imagine you have just been told that that which you you love the most. Perhaps in life. That's what you had put your greatest expectations on your heart is set for his dead now. Suddenly the voice of God comes and overrides these other voices that say don't waste your time bothering the teacher any further in the voice of Jesus arises up and says do not be afraid only believe in.

This is what I feel the goats put on my heart for you good at listening online, do not be afraid of whatever report is coming your way or whoever has told you that there's no hope for your future.

Whether it's somebody close to you whether somebody far from you the voice of God rises above all these other voices. Remember he is the voice that rides above the storm. He has the power to cancel your strongest the power to lift you up above everything that would swallow you as Sarah said, and bring you into a place of despair and depression. Do not be afraid only believe a member that the first time I I met Sarah and Ross. They came to a fellowship that we had with the sabbatical students at that time and I remember that there was almost like he he throws in my spirit. I looked at this this precious young lady not knowing her full story and the thought came into my heart.

This girl does not belong in this wheelchair.

This is not her future. The I don't and I didn't know her medical prognosis.

I didn't know what the doctors it said about or it doesn't matter when God speaks what anybody else's said I remember looking at Sarah and I said you don't belong in this wheelchair you don't belong in this wheelchair and this year you're going to get out of this wheelchair and you know somebody said to me later on since you think you should've said that and I said of course if the Holy Spirit is moving upon you to say something say say it, God is still a God of miracles, and God moves upon what's not wishful thinking. When the Holy Spirit moves upon is you don't belong there.

Got it was it was the spirit of God, not just in me, but in others that looked at this young grocer you. This is not your future. You don't belong in this chair, God has something else for your life and I was bold enough to say that this year you're getting out of the chair and when you do were going to do Jericho march in the chapel here in our Bible school which were going to do at the end of the service going to walk around this age were not seven times the provinces do want to try.

Sarah is actually going to lead us in the Jericho Mark organ to finish our marks at the altar and then were going to give us out like they did as they enter the promised land.

Going to miss out for you tonight to give us out for you in your struggle you in your battle you will been led to believe that is something that has come and encroached on your freedom as is as got the right dear future climate say you like I said to Sarah, this is not your future. God has something for you that is beyond your addiction is beyond your self-loathing. It's far beyond any words that anybody at any time is ever spoken over your life. God's Word has the power to create a universe. God can raise you up. God can change you. We can set you free in Jesus Christ can use your life for his glory and he said to the ruler. Don't be afraid only believe any permitted no one to follow him, except Peter James and John the brother of James. They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue and saw tumults and those who wept and wailed loudly, and there's no shortage of souls in other people tonight listening to me online and there's is no shortage of people weeping and wailing over you.

Maybe it's your mother. This is all right, hope for so much more in my son or my daughter.

I told they hadn't turned out like this. Maybe it's a friend. Maybe it's a husband or wife, or a coworker who knows who it is with somebody along the line is is weeping over you and what you become an how it seems like your your future is lost in your urine doomed to be everything this thing that you are for the rest of your days and then suddenly into your situation comes Jesus to love it. The simplicity of it all. Jesus teases in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the word was God without him was not anything made that was made in the Word became flesh and we saw and we beheld his glory as of the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth. And suddenly suddenly the one who was with the father in the beginning, through whom all things were created as one is the power with the spoken word to create a universe comes walking in the door and you would think that everybody in the room would be on their faces.

God has come. Oh, thank you Lord God has come. Oh, thank you God.

The word has come to us that has the power to create and re-create and set free and give life where life is not any longer.

And when he said to them, why do you make this commotion. We, the child is not dead, but sleeping the original definition of the word sleeping means the child is just laying down to rest and innovate the people of that time should have known this scripture, it was not something that was strange to them or was hidden. For example, at the end of the book of Daniel, the Lord says to Daniel, go your way till the end for you shall rest and will rise to your inheritance at the end of the of days. John chapter 4 teases himself in verse 25 to 29 says, most assuredly, I say to you the hours coming in now is when the dead will hear the voice of the son of God and those who hear will live for the father has life in himself, and is granted the son to have life in himself, and is given him authority to execute judgment also is because he is the Son of Man. Do not marvel at this for the hours coming in which all who are in the graves will hear his voice, all a LL or in the graves will hear his voice, not dead, just sleeping, just set apart just waiting for the moment the voice of the son of God will call them back at it in into into life again and come forth, and those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of condemnation and John the beloved in the book of Revelation chapter 20 in verse 12 says I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and the books were opened.

And another book was open, which is the book of life and the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them and they were judged, each one according to their works, and so when Jesus walks into the room. He says this note because there's a sense in the hearts of these people that the death is final that this is that it's over. There's no future.

There's nothing else and Jesus is no she's just reserved to the day that she hears my voice is not that she's just sleeping.

We are eternal. Whether you like it or not tonight. You're an eternal being.

Everyone here, you will be raised up by the voice of God one day and you stand before God to be ushered into the kingdom of heaven for eternity, or the alternative is to be cast away from God.

If you've not received Christ as your Savior for all of eternity. And so he was showing the people in the room that I have the power of life in me.

His life and nothing is lost when I'm at the center of the situation and what did the people do when they heard these words verse 40 says they ridiculed him they left the school and how many of us are like that when God comes to us or as he did with Sarah so she could at last she could ridiculed the sale. God don't be right. Jesus don't be ridiculous. You know I can't walk. The doctors of said I can walk you know my legs are atrophied. You know that there there sees that a 90° angle you know that I don't have the power to get out of this chair she could elapse to get a ridiculed, but instead she made the choice to trust that the voice she was hearing was the voice of the son of God and grabbed hold of the kitchen counter and pulled a set itself up out of the wheelchair and just as the Scripture says immediately. Legs and I components were given strength. It's amazing when God does a miracle how he chooses to do it.

Sarah chose not to ridicule him, but to believe him, but they ridiculed and sorted to do you put them all outside amazing know the people who ridicule God in life. It is power find themselves outside of the miracle working power of God is really that simple. Relegated to arguments relegated to sorrow Reddick relegated to weeping relegated to all the reasons and excuses why things can happen and how everything is changed all that was for then. But this is for now.

And God did that then. But God doesn't do that now and the end of outside of the miracle working power of God. When you put them all outside.

He took the father and mother. The child and those who were with him and entered with the child was lying and he took the child by the hand and said to her delicate Kumi, which is translated little girl, I say to you arrives immediately. The girl arose and walked didn't is rise up and kind of get propped up in a 90° angle of the bed. There's 45° angle seat. She got up job.

Is it been very sick before she died. She obviously probably not had anything to eat or was couldn't drink or whatever the situation was and died now. Immediately, she rose and walked in. She, for she was 12 years of age and they were overcome with great amazement, but he commanded them strictly that no one should know it didn't just think about that for moment Jesus just raise the girl from the dead.

She's opt out a better deathbed and she's walking and he says now, I command you don't tell the people outside what you just saw what you think about that.

I want you to think about that the power or the penalty method that with those who choose to ridicule the power of God.

They ridiculed the presence of God the ridiculed if God chooses to act outside their thinking they can't receive it, and all I can do is ridicule it and so they end up outside so you can just see if I could just I wasn't there I visited my mind always works as I can see everybody's outside the house and outcomes to mopping the dad and the disciples and his little girl and she's walking and they say, how did that happen will happen in the goat can't tell you. Sorry we can't tell you were commanded not to tell you so they never know they never knew and then the last thing Jesus did. Is he commanded them strictly. No one should know it and said that something should be given her to eat. I just love the practicality of the son of God. Kids are always hungry. Now obviously on her deathbed she couldn't probably eat or drink. In the last part of her life.

But you see one when somebody's hungry. What's the first sign that your your well is your hunger returns as of the very first thing the hamster this girl is.

She's hungry because she's not just been raised up. She's been made completely whole, by the words of God, and she has a Jesus hungry faces give her something to eat. I thank God for with all my heart that I don't think we didn't have to be put outside the house tonight to hear about a miracle that we actually got to hear this. We actually got to hear that today Jesus Christ is still speaking to people in their pain, giving them the strength to rise up and praise him and still telling people that they can still walk and so tonight no matter what anybody has said about you it and if he has to put them all out if you have to put every voice that ridicules you out of of wherever you are at present, God will do that because only one voice matters. The ridiculing voices don't matter. All I can do is take away your heart of faith, but you put all those voices away from you and if you will let him. He will force those other voices to the side actually outside of your room outside of your heart outside of your house and only his voice no matter the details and you can walk, you can walk if he tells you you can be free. You can be free if he tells you that you're going to have a new life, you're going to have a new life if he tells you your marriage is going to be healed is going to be healed. If he says I'm gonna give you new mind that's exactly what you're going to get a new heart you're going to get a new heart and is fair to good Avenue Spirit Pkwy., God's going to give you a new pathway.

If he says I'm going to heal the wounds that are in your heart that led to feeling like you're never going to be able to love or trust or live against the will heal you. Just the way he said is going to heal you.

It gives you a new heart, a new mind and your spirit in your soul a new future that is the promise of God for you tonight so I'm challenging those that are listening to this first service tonight all over the world and over 200 countries.

Whatever your situation, I want you to hear the words of the Lord Jesus Christ to you tonight my son, my daughter, I want you to get up and walk.

I wanted to walk out of your captivity. I want you to walk away from your despair.

I want you to walk out of everything that would try to hunt you or hold you back or cause you to believe that you don't have a future and I want you to walk towards my voice. I have the power to give you life time to give you strength of the plan to give you a new journey for your enemies to bring down the walls of every student.

So please, and promised that I'd given to you all know is trust me. The move towards what I speak to your heart. Praise be to God. The kingdom of God has always been a supernatural kingdom. The real kingdom of God is a supernatural kingdom.

Jesus Christ calls the week and the and the foolish and the despised and the marginalized and gives us strength. He gives us wisdom.

It cleanses us, because this is all and sets us in a place where our lives bear witness to his glory. This is the kingdom of God. This is what God's going to do in this generation. I happen to believe in my heart that one last time. One last generation Lord Jesus is going to take the least of us: since nobody ever thought could be used for his glory, and by his grace, like he did with Sarah is going to suddenly face and start praising me glory stop singing the blues is singing the songs of Zion Psalms of victory, you watch what I will do for you in your life in the days ahead.

How the new Holland new when the enemy comes in like a flood the spirit of the Lord will raise up a standard against a wall of fighting force testimony, the light living water city set upon a hill that cannot be hidden you in the walking together believe the addicted deflected the blind struggling ones who the enemy tried to tell you don't have the future we are the ones there be others just as well. Many of us were the ones that God would choose to use in this generation.

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