I Rest My Case

John Gray @ Lakewood Church

1. 1 John 2:1-2 KJV
1. My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:  And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. 
1. Propitiation:(from Latin propitiāre, "to appease;" from propitius, "gracious")[1] is the act of appeasing or making well-disposed a deity, thus incurring divine favor or avoiding divine retribution.
2. Advocate: a person who publicly supports or recommends a particular cause or policy. (To one's aid)
2. The Law Reminds You of Your Broken Places.
1. There's an enemy who's trying to stop you when you're on the way to your final destination.
1. Stopped by police when you know you’re in the wrong
1. Get caught in  vulnerable moment.
2. Sometimes You Get a Warning
3. Other times you get a ticket.
1. The enemy wants to cause you to pay repeatedly.
2. Man wants to hold you hostage to the worse version of yourself
4. When  you get a ticket, you have to go to court.
1. Judges appreciate truth and humility.
2. The opposing counsel will have ample evidence.
1. Revelation 12:10 NIV 
1. Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: "Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down. 
3. The Blood Covers Your Mistakes
1. Blood is an external change agent and an internal work.
2. When you’re on trial be thankful.
1. Psalm 100:4-5 NIV
1. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations. 
3. As you’re going through the trial rejoice
1. Psalm 100:4-5 NIV
1. In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 
4. 1 Peter 1:6 NIV
5. Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith even when we are going through bad situations.
1. John 19:30 KJV
1. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. 

The Real Jesus

John Gray @ Lakewood Church

• Jesus is calling me to present an accurate picture of His character. Jesus is not comfortable or Safe...l haVe the answer and I need to share it.  Sometimes God asks you to''go out of your way )
• John 4:3-11 KJV
• He left Judæa, and departed again into Galilee. And he must needs go through Samaria. Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour. There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

1. *Jesus went out of His way.
2. *Jesus was intentional and related to the woman at her point of need
3. *You have to be relational relatable and relevant
4. *Jesus didn't judge her

It's Not Over

John Gray @ Lakewood Church

There are times when you pray thinking you need it immediately, but God's timing doesn't lineup with your expectations. What makes it worse is that peopledown the street who don't seem to be living for God are doing great. Lazarus was in such a situation. JOHN 11

John 11:3 KJV

Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.

♥ Your right now is no match for the eternity that is within God.

♥ There is a promise in the midst of the process.

♥ You have creative power in your mouth.

♥ Your situation is not proof that God is not mad at you.

John 11:4 KJV

When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.

John 11:11 KJV

These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.

Hebrews 12:2 KJV

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

♥ If God made you a promise that's what's going to happen.

♥ But we never imagine that death will meet you in the middle.

John 11:20 KJV

Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.

♥ Mary had an attitude!

John 11:25-27 KJV

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.

John 11:35 KJV Jesus wept.

John 11:43 KJV

And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.

♥ he had to call Lazarus by name because if he said come forth everything dead woulda got up!

The seed of God's word is a deposit until the promise arrives.

Sent from the Elders.

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#hopeandlife12 {Night 3}

John Gray @ Lakewood Church

"Power of Potential: Strategic Tactics for A Remnant Seed"

Psalm 24:6 Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek your face, God of Jacob.

1. Jacob carried the stigma of his name everywhere he went: it means "trickster".

• He was raised in house that pushed him toward the definition or his name.

• He wanted to please God.

2. Your potential doesn't give you the victory.

• The youth today are in a microwave generation, thinking it doesn't take work.

• That refers to everything including your relationship with God.

3. Until you see yourself as a solution, you will be a part of the problem.

• Your obedience can be someone's ticket to heaven.

• There is no one else who can do what you do.

4. Israel was the action side.

•  When Jacob became Israel, he quit the life of half-hearted service to God. 

•  We usually don't recognize all our errors, but we also fail to realize when we have made a significant turn for the better but God does and gives us a new name. 

5. This is the Jacob generation: The tricky generation stuck in the middle.

BE A LEADER

***Never be afraid to embrace your replacement. Jesus never prepared the disciples for his prescence, He prepared His disciples for his absence!

CHOOSE TO USE TECHNOLOGY FOR HIS GLORY

***The enemy wants your attention, allegiance, and affection. We have all the tools and we have to choose how to use them.

MAKE JESUS POPULAR

***With 32 tweets you can trend, why not trend #Jesus.

-- Sent from JRochelle's Palm