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Come on, Red Rock Church. Let's give God some praise in this place. He is truly the only one who was worthy. He is faithful. He is kind. He is just. And I love the fact that God loves us too much to leave us in the place that we are. And so I don't know what you came in with today. I don't know if you're depressed or discouraged. I don't know today if you're standing in between a prayer and a promise and you're in the middle trying to figure out, how do I survive, right here. This is the place where you can trade in what's been heavy and hard to a God who's easy and light. In fact, this is what we bring to him. We bring our fears. We bring our doubts. We bring our sin. We bring all those things to God. Remember, we're just a bunch of imperfect people serving a perfect God. And I'm just so grateful that we could be here today to be together as family. Uncle Jimmy is in the building. Let's go. And I'm so grateful. If you're watching at one of our campuses, if you're watching online, God has not forgotten about you. Today is your day. And so if God is handing out miracles today. Come on, somebody. I'll take one. Anybody? Anybody want a miracle from God today? Amen. Y' all could go ahead and have your seats. It's so beautiful to be in the house of God. And always one of my favorite places. Not one of my favorite. My favorite place to preach on the planet. I always feel like I'm home here and just get an opportunity to come hang with y'. All. And also just to hug my. My best friend in the world, Sean Johnson. And. And Jill, can we give it up for your amazing pastors? And I get to see my nephew, you know, Ethan. See, nephew. And I got beard now. Nephew got a beard. He grown. Come on. But I'm so honored to be here. And this time, you know, y' all have been praying for my wife with Lyme disease, and she was five weeks in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and going through treatment, and it was so amazing. I was on an elevator in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and someone says, uncle Jimmy. And I was just like, man, God knows. And literally, I didn't even tell him. I literally was crying because we felt so alone and we felt so by ourselves and isolated. But God sent some Red Rocks family there and hugged on us and loved on us, and so we're grateful for you. And then my beautiful wife of 20 almost 27 years. Irene is here, and she is kicking Lyme disease butt. Come on, somebody. So thank you for your prayers, and we're so grateful for you. And I'm gonna jump right into this message. You guys have been in this series miracle mindset. I believe that that's a good mindset to have. And what I loved about this series and talking to Sean and Doug is that we're not just talking about the big things, right? We're not just talking about the supernatural miracles, but even the miracle how to navigate the middle. You know, sometimes the miracle is not the promise in your hand, but rather the peace in your heart while you're waiting. And what I love about this series is that all of us are standing. We need a miracle. We're standing in need of a miracle. And whether it's the big diagnosis of something like, you know, Parkinson's or cancer, or the little thing that you may have deemed as little because it's like, it's not a big deal, guess what? You are in or need to get in the mindset of a miracle. I believe that the Bible is not fiction. I believe that the Bible has actually given us truths that we are to walk out today. And I want to preach to you today from a very personal place, if that's okay. We're waiting for another miracle today. You know, Irene is on the other side of this Lyme disease. And, man, she came out of Lyme, Mexico, and, man, we were just so grateful to finally celebrate Christmas together because for the last three, four years, she hasn't even been able to engage in Christmas dinner because of this Lyme disease. And, man, we were just having a party, and she said to me, between Thanksgiving and Christmas, I feel something right here in my chest, in my left breast. And I said, oh, my God. And so she went and got a mammogram, and it showed a lump. And we went to the doctor, and two Fridays ago, we got a call from the doctor that says she has cancer. And so I'm gonna preach to you today out of that place of how to navigate the middle. When you feel like you're between a prayer and a promise, when you feel like God's forgotten about you, when you're on stages and people are sending you DMs of man, God touched me. And through your message, I have found hope. And God used you to bring joy back to my marriage. And it's a miracle. And sometimes, I'm gonna be honest. I wanna preach to you from a place that if God, if you can Use me to bless other people. Why does this keep happening so close to home? And so we're now in the position of needing another miracle. And so I've been asking God, how do we steward this season? And he's been like, well, you just give it away. You keep blessing other people. The miracle is not for you. And here's the deal. I believe that Irene and I are billionaires in the Kingdom, but the currency is pain. The currency has been pain. So oftentimes we have found that our purpose is by way of pain. And it's exactly this character here in First Samuel. And if you'll turn your Bibles or open up your Bibles, open up your phone apps to. To First Samuel, follow along on the screen. I'm going to read this long passage of Scripture, and then I want to preach to you this idea that I am in right now. Is that all right? Like, don't feel sorry for me, Right? I told Irene we hadn't. We hadn't said this publicly. And I told her, there's no better place to say it than a place that we call home. And so we're going to read this passage, Scripture in First Samuel, chapter one, and we're going to work through verses one through seven. It says this. There was a man named Elkada who lived in Ramah, in the region of Zuf, in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliahu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuf. That's a lot of names of Ephraim. And then verse two starts to give us an indication of a miracle mindset. Elkanah had two wives, Hannah and Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah did not. It goes on to say in verse three, each year Elkanah would travel to Shiloh, which was the place to worship and sacrifice to the Lord of Heaven's armies at the tabernacle. The priests of the Lord at that time were the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas. On the days Elkanah presented his sacrifice, he would give portions of meat to Peninnah and each of her children. And although he loved Hannah, he would only give her one choice portion because the Lord had given her no children. So Peninih would taunt Hannah and make fun of Hannah because the Lord had kept her from having children. Year after year, it was the same. Church service after church service, plane ride after plane ride, worship set after worship set, workday after work day, night after night, it was the same Peninnah would taunt Hannah as they went to the tabernacle. And each time, Hannah would be reduced to tears and would not even eat. You see, when you're looking at this story here, we can look at this story in hindsight bias and know that there is a greater end to this story. We can look at this and really see here that by reading scripture, that at the end of this middle, at the end, at the end of this pain, what we can see on the other side of the grief, on the other side of the cycle of the same disappointment after disappointment, we see that Hannah has a baby. We know that God comes through for Hannah. And typically, when I preach, I don't give the end in the beginning, but this is not about the beginning or the end. This is about how do I have a miracle mindset in the middle. How do I have a miracle mindset when I'm stuck between a prayer and a promise? How do I have a miracle mindset when I feel like God is blessing everybody but me? How do I have a miracle mindset? Pastor, when you come to church and you're praying and you're tithing and you're not sinning as much as you used to, how do I have a miracle mindset when I'm disappointed with God? How do I have a miracle mindset when I have more questions than I have answers? Well, I want you to know, Red Rocks Church, you're in good company today. Because if we're honest, this is where most of us are in our faith walk. Someone asked me a week ago, how do you feel? And I was like, you want the truth? I can't say those words on this phone. But I said, God is faithful. And then I said this. I think, What do we do with the I think moments? What do we do when I don't want a friend to give me a scripture verse? I just want them to listen to me complain. I want you to know that this is the title that God gave me for this message. Y' all can put it up on the screen. This is not a sentence. It's a season. I want to talk today from the idea that this is not a sentence, that cancer is not a sentence, that Lyme disease is not a sentence, that that wayward child that you've been praying for for a long time. It's not a sentence. I want you to know that. Why it's not a sentence? Because when Jesus was on the cross, everyone thought that that was a sentence. But we know that after three days, come on, somebody, he gives us Proof that it was just a season. And if you're like me, so many times when you are walking through pain, you feel like the pain is a sentence. It is tapping you on the shoulder. It keeps you up late at night. You start awfulizing and catastrophizing and saying, man, if I had done this. And you end up living in the shoulda, could have, coulda, woulda. And the Lord just reminded me of a construction zone. You know, when I pulled up to the church, I saw the construction zone and there were signs outside. And sometimes what feels like a sentence is not that at all. It's really a construction zone. The lanes are closed, the progress is slow, and it's frustrating. But the construction is not punishment, it's improvement. And God might be rebuilding something in us that needs to get stronger than it was before. I love the idea that these signs in the construction zone sometimes give an excuse for a bad day. It gives an excuse for a moment where you have more fear than you have faith. And the construction zone simply says this. Please excuse my mess. I'm a work in progress. So if I cry God, please excuse my mess. I'm a work in progress. If I want to cuss God, please excuse my mess. I'm a work in progress. It's hard God to be called to speak to God's people. And I feel like that sometimes. Do you see me? Please excuse my mess. When we're a work in progress, I want you to know that it's okay to feel a little messy in the middle. A miracle mindset is not a mindset of perfection. It's a mindset where we acknowledge our pain, when we acknowledge our fears, when we have and process conversations with the right people. And that's where we find Hannah. In the middle of this story, I want to give you some historical context that will help us understand the season that we're in right now. You see, Israel is living in the fallout of the Judges era. And the Judges were the people or the intermediaries between us and God. And Israel was spiritually unstable. They were morally confused. And the model of leadership in Israel at that time was fractured. The resilience that we see from Hannah is a hinge moment. God is preparing a new kind of leader to guide his people into a new chapter. You have to understand that in this era, to get to God, you had to go through and build a tabernacle a certain way and worship a certain way and sacrifice an animal a certain way in order to get into God's presence. And that way didn't work because the people of Israel kept falling back into sin. They kept falling back into bad character. They kept falling breaking promises that they said that they would upkeep. And because this was the condition of its leaders, this was the condition of its people. And so this story here in First Samuel is a setup for a transition of leadership, for a transition of error. God is saying that, listen, I know I told you Moses how to build the tabernacle, and Joshua's waiting on the outside of the tabernacle. And this is how you get to God. And I know that model did not work. And then the priest model, it didn't work because here we have Eli, who was a priest and a judge, and Hophni and Phineas are his sons, and they are corrupting worship. And so God, he's in the mix, and he's behind the scenes trying to orchestrate something to change the model so that we could be closer to God and we don't have to go through ritual religion that we can have God inside of us in our own relationship with God. You may say, well, what does that have to do with Hannah? Hannah's not in the genealogy of Jesus. I don't see Hannah's name there. When I'm reading the Begats, Hannah's name wasn't there, but Hannah's spirit was there. Pastor, what are you talking about? Because the end of this story, Hannah is going to birth a prophet. This prophet's name is Samuel. Samuel is going to declare God's goodness. Samuel is going to be in the old regime's house, Eli's house. And I don't have time to go all the way there, but I want to take you on a little bit of a theological journey. And God is speaking to Samuel, not to Eli in his house, because the regime is changing. And in that house, Eli ends up falling over, breaking his neck. I don't know, just throw that in just to make sure y' all are listening. But Samuel is representing a prophetic word from God. This prophetic word from God is the word that is going to transition God's people from distance from God to being destined by God. And it's going to come through Samuel anointing a king. So if Hannah doesn't get through this moment, Samuel might not be around to anoint the next king. Samuel anoints first. Samuel calls God's people back into relationship. Samuel is used to inspire the Israelites to overcome the Philistines. Samuel is a pivotal part of Jesus story. Why? Because when the Philistines are Roaring against Israel. Right? God taps his shoulder of Samuel and says, I need you to go to a guy named Jesse's house and anoint the eighth son. His name is David. David is in the lineage of Jesus. Are y' all hearing me? So I need to find the person to whisper a word to Jesse that he's got a guy in his house, not in his house, that he sent in the wilderness named David. Bring David in. Fill your horn with oil. The oil of God that says, this one is approved. Are y' all with me? I'm giving you some historical context here. I want you to understand this. So Hannah doesn't know any of this. We know it. She's just in the middle of her pain. She's just frustrated. She's just being taunted. She just feels like God has forgotten about her. But thank God we know the end of the story. What that should give us courage is when we're in the middle. If God can use Hannah's pain for a greater purpose, then God can use Irene's cancer for a greater purpose. God can use Shawn's Parkinson's disease for a greater purpose. I want you to understand this. No Hannah getting through this. Who's going to anoint Saul? Who's going to anoint David? Hannah, thank you for not being named, but the spirit of tenacity and perseverance walking through the middle, but going for a lifetime. Pastor Jimmy, why are you telling us all of this? Because I'm trying to encourage you and me that on the other side of this pain, that your pain is going to count for more than pain. It's going to count for a greater purpose. When you're in a miracle mindset, we can't have the mindset of. If we get it, then God came through. If it happens the way we want it to happen, then God came through. Could it be that God wants to use your pain and how you navigate pain and how you pray in the midst of wonder? What do you do when you're discouraged? What do you do when you're in fear? You see, Hannah's name is not named. But I want to walk like Hannah walked. And so I want to give you a couple thoughts. Before I give you a couple thoughts, I want you to know this. Never allow Jimmy Rollins, your current condition to become your final conclusion. Never allow your current condition to become your final conclusion. How do we have a miracle mindset? Number one, don't allow people to stop your pursuit. I'm not going to talk about the people around you. I'm not Going to talk about the voices that are physically around you. I want to talk about the figurative voices that are in your head. You see, there were people in Hannah's story that could have stopped her from pursuing God. Check this out. It says this in 1st Samuel 1:4:5. On the days Elkanah presented his sacrifice, he would give portions of meat to Peninnah and each of her children. And though he loved Hannah, he would only give her one portion because the Lord had given her no children. What? She's got this idea. If she falls victim to this voice, she's going to feel like that her provision is in something on a horizontal level, not on a vertical level. She's going to feel like man. If Elkanah blesses me, then maybe that's enough. I love the fact that she doesn't do that. That's one voice. And watch this. In 1st Samuel 1:6:7, it says, so Peninnah would taunt Hannah and make fun of her, and the Lord kept her from having children. Y' all missed it. This wasn't the enemy. Her prayer couldn't have been God. Can you deal with the devil? No. It says the Lord kept her. She's in this position because of the Lord. This is a part of her call. This is why she's not listed for anything in scripture but this. The Lord caused this to happen. In our situation right now, I have to have the mindset when I was looking at those words, who else is holy? There's no one other than Jesus. God, you must be in this. You must. Here's the deal. If he's in it, then he's given us the oil to get through it. You must be in this. The voices I've had to deal with the voice of Elkanah. And I'm not talking about a physical voice. I'm talking about a voice that is in my head. And here's what the voice says that's in our head. The voice is a thief of expectation. Hannah's sitting at the table knowing that she's not going to get as much because her womb is shut up and she's barren. And what it does is it could easily cause her to not have expectation. I will not allow Irene Rollins, the voice of Elkanah in my head to steal our expectation. We are going to have expectation that God is a healer. You need to have expectation that you're going to get through this. And I am not going to allow the voice to keep me up late at night. I'm going to hear it. I know I'M going to hear it because I'm human. But I got to learn how to take that thought captive and make it obedient to God. And then the voice of Peninnah, it says that the Peninnah taunted her year after year after day after day. You know what I hate? I hate when I'm in the midst of worship, trying to worship a holy God and I hear the taunting voice of disappointment. Is there anybody else but me? I just want to let you know, sometimes I feel like, am I really that saved? Because I feel like the voice talks to me in moments when God is trying to consume me, trying to talk me out of the lyrics to that song. Trying to get me to say, I got faith. I think I want to acknowledge the voice. There's a voice. It could be as simple as this. You know, you're not qualified for the job. You put the resume in, you feel like God is in it. And the voice starts to saying, you're not enough. Or maybe you're new to this Christian thing. And it's like, man, you love it. You're all in it. And you're like, you know, you don't have the appetite for the worldly things that you used to have. And then you need something from God that's not happening. And the voice will say, just try that again. You see, the voice will try to have you take part in counterfeit remedies. You know, I love my friend Sean. I'm glad that he helps me deal with the voices because we have such a good relationship. I can be completely honest with them and say, man, the voice is saying this, man, we gotta snatch you out of that. I don't know if I'm here to preach or I'm here because I needed to be around my friend's voice. I texted him on the plane and I said, hey, when I see you, I'm gonna give you a full frontal hug. I'm gonna hug you all the way. Like, not the arm in between. And I might cry. I just need to see your face. I just need you to tell me I'm still caught. I need you just to tell me that we don't deserve this. That my past. Watch this. The voice will tell you something you did in your past is why you're going through this. Can we cancel the assignment of the voices today? Come on. We can't allow people, the voices of people, the voices of culture, the voices of disappointment, the voices of discouragement, the voices of doubt to come against the voices of God. Come on. Y' all in Isaiah 55:11, it says, so the word goes out from my mouth, it shall not return unto me void. That means this. If God says, you're healed, you're healed in the middle, when you're not healed yet. If God says that his son Jesus sticks closer to us than a brother. I'm not going to allow discouragement and disappointment to stay closer to me than my God. I gotta deal with the voice. And so I just wrote this. I don't know if it's a sticky statement or something I need to write on the mirror or something you need to remember. I will not allow what's in my head to get to my heart. Man. This thing sometimes. This thing sometimes will have me looking at my wife can't sleep because every two hours I'm waking up, making sure she's breathing. That's not God. That's a voice that says I'm in control. That's a voice that says her healing is up to me. Her healing is not up to me. And so if you're dealing with that voice where you're in good company, I'm sleeping tonight, baby. You're sleeping tonight. We're gonna deal with the voice number two, having a miracle mindset. Make God's presence a priority. Jimmy, that's all you got? That's all I got. Make God's presence a priority. Look what it says here in 1st Samuel 1 7. Year after year, it was the same. She was barren. It was the same. She was discouraged. It was the same. She was disappointed. It was the same. But where was she found? In the house of God. I told the team, it's like, I'm just grateful to be in the house of God. I'm just grateful to be around other believers that believe in us that'll get on an elevator and be used by God in Mexico. Because maybe God saw our pain. Maybe God had that happen. Maybe God connected the dots that day because I was so discouraged. And I was trying to put on a smile, but I just wanted to fall on the floor. And just maybe God used you guys to let me know that he sees me. Let me tell you, you know where God sees you in the house of God? You know, where you don't have to dress it up. In the house of God, you know where to come, where other believers will have your back. In the house of God. That's why we encourage you to get in a group. Red rocks. Well, I don't really. Do people. Confess your sins to God that you may be forgiven. Confess your Sins to one another that you may be healed. We have too many God believing, God fearing Christians walking around forgiven and not healed because they are not in a small group, Man, I feel encouraged. I saw Jill, I felt encouraged. I saw Jordan, I felt encouraged. I saw the team. I felt encouraged. Man, I saw Whitney, I felt encouraged. I saw bz. I was like, what's up, homie? It took my mind off of me and put my mind, where does that happen in the presence of God? Where do you find joy in the presence of God? Where do you find strength in the presence of God, y', all, I'm preaching myself happy. Where do you find hope in the presence of God? I gotta get to the house of God. I love the fact that year after year, yes, year after year, Peninnah's there. Year after year, the voice. Year after year, I'm barren. But you know where I'm gonna be found year after year? In the house of worship. She made a path in the house of worship with her pain. I'm a walk with pain. I'm a go with pain. I told this story here a long time ago and many of you weren't here, so I'll tell it again. Years and years ago, 25 years ago, I had back surgery. And I had back surgery. It was the worst pain ever. I mean, literally, I couldn't get out of the bed. I would walk. I would crawl to the bathroom in the middle of the night, and I had two slipped discs. And I remember going to the doctor, said, you. You need surgery. I said, do whatever you have to do. And then he says, but I want you to know something. The pain of recovery sometimes is far worse than the pain of the injury. And so I remember waking up with that, from that anesthesia, that good anesthesia, you know what I'm talking about? That good morphine. Like, yeah, what's up, y'? All? I woke up and there was a nurse there. Her name was Betty. Nurse Betty. It's a real story. And I just wanted to lay there because it hurt so bad. I wanted to stay there because of the pain. It was so. And then I forgot that the pain of recovery can oftentimes be worse than the pain of the injury. And Nurse Betty said, you gotta get up and walk. I said, girl, you crazy. I'm not gonna get up and walk. And she says, no, if you stay there, other parts of you will atrophy. And they had us breathing that thing. I'm on the thing in the hospital, like, that little thing go up. I'm trying to breathe and that thing. Trying to get lung capacity because I've been laying there too long. And Nurse Betty grabbed me by the hand and said, you gotta get up. And she took me by the hand and she started walking with me. She says, you will be healed as you go. And I came to tell some of you, I know it's hard to get up from disappointment. I know it's hard to get up from pain. But Hannah gives us an indication that she has the kind of spirit and tenacity that says, I am going to be healed as I go. I'm not laying here. I'm not staying here. I'm not gonna have a pity party. Come on. Matter of fact, we're gonna have a going party. Come on, somebody. It's going to happen right after church. We're going to have people up here to pray for you, and you're going to come forward, and it's going to be old school church a little bit. And guess what? It's okay. The Bible teaches us that we need to come to the altar. And when we lay hands on people, we pray for people that God, they will begin to feel the presence of God in some way or manner. And so some of you are going to be like, I'm a little uncomfortable, but I came to let you know it's safe and you're going to be healed as you go. If this is the place where I get miracles, man, I'm going to keep walking. I'm going to understand this, that just because it still hurts doesn't mean that God is not in the process of healing it. The pain of recovery sometimes is greater than the pain of the injury. I want to be found in God's house, y'. All. When I was growing up, I was so good at hide and go seek, I ate my way out of being good. Some of y' all catch it. Too big to hide, y' all. Know what I'm saying? Like, nah, I see you. There you are. You're protruding. Like, it's like this, right? Like, come on, y'. All. Like, I know I'm probably out of the shot, but if I was trying to hide back here, y' all be like, I see you, Jimmy your butt. It's out. It's big. I was good at it. And we played hide and go seek, like, every day. And the game would end quick. Cause we were poor and didn't have no furniture. It's real. In one year, my mom and dad, I don't know what happened, they stole it. We got a brand New washer and dryer, and it was extra large capacity. You know where I hid in the dryer. Real story, I got in the dryer. My cousin Dwayne and my sister Tanya, you know, they're counting, you know, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Ready or not, here I come. You ever had a. Any of y' all were professional hide and go seekers? No. No. Where y' all at? Come on, let me see your hand. I know. Like, you ever hid so good. They're walking past you. Uh huh. And you grown, but you pee on yourself. Cause you're laughing so hard. That was me. Like I was a grown man. I tinkle. I know y' all don't want to say tinkle, right? I mean, ooh. Like, it was real. It was real. I'm all. I'm old man now, like, don't get it wrong, but I. I peed on myself a little bit back in the day. I laughed real hard. So my sister is going by the dryer. I'm in the dryer. They can't see me. They're saying, jimmy, Jimmy, come out, come out, wherever you are. And I hid so good, they stopped looking for me. I won, but didn't know it. Pastor, what are you talking about? Some of you are here today, but you've hidden so good, Joy can't find you. You've hidden so good, Peace can't find you. You've hidden so good, someone will come by you and say, man, how you doing? And you're like, I'm blessed, but you ain't blessed. Why not be real, man? Life is hard. I came to count down, count up. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Come out, come out, wherever you are. That's what happens in the presence of God. You don't have to hide. You can say, here's my pain, here's my fear, here's my doubt. Can y' all just say that with me? Say, come out, come out, wherever you are. Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. Just say it before you did. It's amazing. If you're in the chat, maybe you'll just say, come out, come out, wherever you are. It's in the presence of God. I love this passage of scripture because it was in the presence of God. Number three, where she got to a place of peace. I. This is where I am. I have preached myself to peace today. Right now. I didn't have much peace right now. I was sitting down there. I was hugging on Sean. I saw Ethan coming with his beard, you know, Just. I just didn't have peace. Where do I find it? In God's presence. Now, this is what's crazy. I love to study God's word, and a lot of times I don't give you, like, the meat because I'm not sure, like, it's so deep. But I want to read this. In 1st Samuel 1, chapter 1, verse 10 to 11, Hannah was in deep anguish, crying out bitterly as she prayed to the Lord in God's presence. And she made this vow. O Lord of heaven's army, if you will look upon my sorrow and answer my prayer and give me a son, then I will give him back to you. O my God. She says this. God, I have been going to the temple year after year for you to give me something, because Peninnah has the same thing. God, I've been going to the temple year after year, and I want you to give me a child so she stops making fun of me. So the voices start. Stop taunting me. I want you to give me a child so that Elkanah, my husband. Come on. Doesn't have to think that I get less portions. I want you to give me a child because I'm tired. I want you to give me a child because I'm embarrassed that I'm barren. You see, back in those days, it was like you being lower class if you could not produce children. But something changed, Shawn. In the presence of God, she changes her reason for asking. She says, God, if you give me a child, I'll give them back to you. And when I give them back to you, I don't know this. Now he's going to be an anointer of kings. My God, he's gonna have something on him that David needs. Now. I was preaching this, and I was like, oh, my God, you see, you know David. I'm talking about David who had the slingshot. David who rolled up on a fight. And Goliath was taunting Israel. Remember that? And David comes and says, who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he would come up against the armies of the living God? I know Hannah is not in the genealogy, but could it be that the anointing oil that Samuel poured on David was through Hannah, knowing how to deal with the taunting of Peninnah? And she had a taunting, conquering, anointing on her that when David showed up to the battle, he says, oh, no, there's a spirit on me that's been anointed by Samuel on me that came from Hannah. I don't always do this, but I believe that that same anointing is here tonight. I believe that we can deal with the voices that have been taunting with us tonight. I believe that in God's presence. Presence. Watch this. That when we change our reason for receiving it, God will change our season and going through it. I believe that. I don't want God to heal Parkinson's so that Sean can feel better. I want God to heal Parkinson's so that the world know that if it has a name. Come on, Somebody named Parkinson's, that it has to bow to the name of Jesus Christ. I don't want God to heal cancer so. So that we can feel better. I want him to heal cancer so that those who don't know Jesus knows that God is a healer. God doesn't want to give you a miracle for a better marriage. He wants you to give a miracle for your marriage to be a testimony in the city. He wants to. I'm telling you right now, if you change the reason of asking for it, you're praying the right prayers, but for the wrong reasons. That's how you get peace. I got peace because I know there's a bigger purpose. My wife starts chemotherapy on Tuesday, and guess what? They showed us the place that she's gonna have it. And there was all of these people on chemo. Hair gone. I felt like we were invading their privacy. And Irene says, no, we're not invading their privacy. I'mma bring Jesus to a place that Jesus might not be in. Y' all on the way here, we drove here. I didn't plan on telling. I said, honey, can I share with Red Rocks what we're going through right now? You know what she said to me? I trust you. Because it's not for us. It's for people that need the same tenacity and the same faith that Hannah had. We know already the end of the story. Hannah has Samuel. Samuel transitions the regime of leadership and becomes an anointer of kings and made way for the king of kings, Jesus. In the New Testament, we understand that. But, Pastor, can you help us in the middle? Yeah. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will feel no evil. I want you to know that peace is not the absence of pain, but peace is the presence of God in the pain. Can y' all stand with me? And here's what I'm believing. I'm believing that today as our. As our altar workers come, I'm believing that today is the day that you're gonna find peace. Today is the day that he's going to heal you as you go. And if you are watching online, I want you to just type in the chat peace. Because I have learned when I don't have the promise in my hand, as long as I got his peace in my heart, I'll keep walking, I'll keep getting up, I'll keep praying, I'll keep preaching. So I would love to pray over you. Can I pray over you, Father, in Jesus name, I pray for every single person under the sound of my voice that God, that they would understand that this of what they're going through. It's not a sentence, it's just a season. And because it's just a season and because we know that we're going to walk with integrity, we're going to walk with character, we're going to show up to church, we're going to get in a small group because we need other faith believing people around us. What I've learned from my friendship with my friend Sean is that when I ain't got the faith, he does. When he don't have the faith, I do. When Irene doesn't have the faith, Jill does. When Jill don't have the faith, Irene does. And lately it's been a lot on Jill. But we gonna get there together. So, Father, would you give us tenacity, Would you give us perseverance, Would you give us joy? And I want you to know, if there's somebody in this room right now under the sound of my voice at another campus, if you do not know Jesus, year after year, you've been trying to figure it out on your own. Year after year, you would say, pastor, there's distance in my relationship with Jesus. And if I, and if you had a big old fat recess reset button, I would run up there and hit that button right now because I need to reset my peace and reset my pain and reset my purpose. And if you're honest enough, it's in a moment like this. Remember, nobody in here is perfect, but we do serve a perfect God. And if you would be honest with me in a moment and you would say, pastor, with every head bow and every eye closed, that you know what? Today I want Jesus to step into my heart. Today, God, I, I, I, I came to church and I'm not sure sure about this whole church thing. But those goosebumps, they weren't goosebumps. That was the Holy Spirit saying, I see you, you haven't done too much for me to give up on you. And if that's you, on account of three, I just want you to slip your hand up. One, two, three, let me see. Hands are going up. My God, I want to pray for you. You can put your hands down. Everybody repeat after me. Say Jesus, today I give my life to you. Today I step out of your way as you step into my heart for a new purpose, for a new beginning and a new freedom that I've never experienced before. I confess with my mouth and believe in my heart that you are my Lord, that you are my Savior and you are my King. In Jesus name and everybody said a good Amen. Here's what I want you to do. Are you ready? You've been hiding too good. If you need a miracle, I want you to step outside of your seat and come get prayer. Come out, come out, wherever you are, while we sing this song of worship. I believe that people are going to find joy and people are going to find peace and people are going to find hope in the safety of other people. Don't worry about who's looking at you. I love the fact that Hannah kept going back year after year. Not worried about it. Can we sing? Can we believe God for a miracle in this place? I love you. Red Rock Church.