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April 20, 2020 8:00 am
God has an encouraging word for you and me today. The Bible-based reading of Dr. Don and some special guest on this addition of your courage and you just talk about will be introduced to Brett member of our church and who is been changed by Jesus Christ.
Some remarkable ways you'll hear about that in just a few minutes… Once you know that we're here to connect with you right now, right where you are, no matter how isolated may be physically we can connect telephonically right now it 866-899-WORD jot that number down stored in your cell 866-899-9673 email us at online@tewonline.org now more than ever we are seeing God use the power of prayer to help bring us together like never before. Ballots open God's word together with Dr. Don Wilton on this addition of The Encouraging Word brought this is been an incredible time.
I'm going to ask you to open your Bibles. You Matthew chapter 6 want everybody to open your Bibles were about to have a humdinger of a time together.
Open your Bibles to Matthew's gospel in chapter 6 in Matthew chapter 6 we find what you and I know is the Lord's prayer and I want to speak to you today we going to be entering into a time concerning the testimony of forgiveness in Matthew chapter 6 and verse 12 Jesus save this to his disciples. He said forgive us our sin. Forgive us our debts forgive us our trace bosses just the same way as we forgive those who have send against us.
Forgive us our sin. Just as we forgive those who have send against us. Everybody watch the snow.
How many of you unapologetically today would say unequivocably. I have send against God, raise your hand. My hand is up both my hands up, you and I every person ever born modern he needs to be forgiven abuse but you must be forgiven abuse and in order to go to heaven you will not go to heaven. If you have not been forgiven by the Lord Jesus, and the most amazing thing about knowing Jesus is that's exactly what he does for us. I guess the next question how many of you have had in your life.
Someone who has grieved your heart has hurt you has seen something about you done something to you has sinned against you has stood on your toes has upset you, has treated you unfairly listen carefully how many of you. How many of us somebody somewhere at some time has really offended you, has really got under your skin.
They somebody out there how many of you today in the presence of God would say yeah I've had someone might be more than someone is really hurt me in my life has upset me.
You raise your hand bonds going up. Watch this.
This is what Jesus said I didn't say this Jesus said in Matthew chapter 6, he was teaching his disciples. He said forgive us our trace bosses just black as we forgive those who have trace Fost have send against us jolly difficult. You know how to do that. I'd like to meet you. I'll tell you when someone gets under your skin and has really hurt you.
Some of you are carrying that today on. That your mother or father or brother.
I'll guarantee they somebody listening here today. You haven't spoken your own brother in years go to family members go to some door to you go to parent you got a friend that person or used to be your best friend and you got watch this is going to shock you got every reason to feel what you do they really hurt you. We got someone with us today that shouldn't be here. He should be dead.
I'm not speaking symbolically, the author of this incredible book miracle man.
This man's being on national television is one of our veterans been around the block. In his book miracle man which I'm hoping every one of you will get a copy and give to somebody else miracle man. A bullet that ignited a purpose filled life totally wrong, wrong. It is just wrong that this man took a bullet that everybody saved his life was over and I'm not speculating this was a dead man.
In the worst kind of way, and he's here today. They had it now national television in these all around the country and he's with us today. Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together and welcome break talks I want to thank you for being here with us today, and as we share together. We brought hundreds of thousands of people listening to us today through The Encouraging Word bold cost ministry and you know there's a lot of us who know you and we've kind of lived through this and you know I'll never forget I'll never forget when we receive news about the bullet that maybe took your life and and in the word that kept coming back to us was that it's over it's over it's over. He's not going to make it, but there are many many people who don't know your story so great. Bring us up today to bring us to where we need to be okay. First and foremost I want to thank everybody for being here, and thank you for letting him here in and just, and to share what what experiences I have had and what the miracles of Lord and showed me and my family, a family not okay. October 17, 2012 6:30 PM. My life is perfect.
I had everything everyone in my life. You have that checklist when you're young. I care one way I had it all at October 17, 2012 6:30 PM. Two minutes later my life was taken away from me. Everything I knew was snatched from my hands.
I was born raise my Florida I was a very athletic kid, I learned to swim for learn to walk.
I was football, baseball, basketball. I eventually went to Carson College on a football scholarship and it was great.
I played under coach Ken Sparks and change my life. I was a church kid I grew up in the church all the time. I knew the Lord was.
I gave my life to Christ when I was at when I was a child and I think I saw when my friends I think was in fifth or sixth grade as all of my friends walked in front you like the price I can do that so I just cannot help and I went to give my life and and I believe the Lord came into my life at that time the first time ever experienced.
The Lord was when I was a sophomore in college really felt down in the Florida Keys. There's a there's a styling on this key and a colonist key because is where the bald eagles migrate and they make so that I want to get into the mating habits of the American bald Eagle and now we think you need to know this but In re don't have a chart I would but anyway so I was there and they lay eggs and babies there and you permit get on their problem as rats have swam from the mainland to this island and when the mom and dad's wake and food they go up to the nest and eats baby eagles and eggs so my my mom who was a wildlife biologist at the time she charged my best friend Chris and I go to that island spend the night there with her BB guns and shoot as many rats as we can see she has been easy to find out excited about that because I was tired of my friend is always a paradox.
It was perfect. It was like so sons that whatever you you so we went there and my moms office office of town beach start a fire in the sun will start to go down side to side the way down to the water and he was the most beautiful thing of ever seen was one of the side seams where word water was his glass was flat and he didn't know where that the water and then the sky began and the sun was going down in the clouds. It was the most viewed sunset I've ever seen in my life. You want the sunsets for the oranges.
The purple sky.
It was perfect and that was the first time in my life that I was still I was still and I felt God was God's here now. In reality, God is always with us right he's always there was so busy with overstuff that would keep pushing him away, pushing away a cell phone at time had a fever usually is check my beeper and everything but I do not have anything there I was still and I felt God and that's when I knew okay this things real. My God is real, I would experience that again for another 15 or so years I was in the United States Navy veteran I was a flight engineer originally went in as a rescue swimmer later prostrated and I had a wife and a 17-month-old boy. My wife is somewhat pregnant with our little girl when there's two things see duty and noninsured comes in the Navy I see duties basically are being deployed your work in 27 hours a day to find his other house and I was sure duty is like a 9-to-5 job and go to work all the stuff and then after that you allows personal trainer at the time. So after my job at in the Navy to people's fitness centers around the around the city and I would train people will greatly just let me interrupt you know you giving us a picture here of of life. So a whole life. I mean, sounds to me like your life is going pretty it was going when you would you not agree. I mean using the maybe you know it's like a ship sailing and the water is calm and everything is beautiful. You had a beautiful wife, family serving your country mean you know you know when you and I wake up sometimes in the morning, we say man life is just so and then saw the something happens. Forgive me interrupt back with more of this interview with Dr. Don and Brett parked just a moment the dark about once we remind you we are here for you. We love to pray with you about your situation and your circumstance that number again is 866899673 online TW online.org and when you're online. I would challenge you sign up for the daily Encouraging Word email from Dr. Don Wilton every single day about 6 o'clock in the morning he sends out an email with the choice word of Scripture and encouragement around that and just jump starts my day in a powerful way and it's exciting to think that we are literally unified around the globe starting work together with the daily Encouraging Word.
There's also a hard copy if you're interested in the quarterly version. Just call us 866-899-WORD 9673 let us know. You want that copy will send it out to you absolutely free but you can also sign up now online TW online.org for the email. I think it will bless you. A great way back today's message and testimony with Dr. Don Wilton perfect life. Everything I wanted. I went outside fitness room October 17, 2012 630 have all my gear laid out and I hear someone scream here screen now here euros stuff is not like that much of a surprise, but this is never really heard that before. Never heard a man screen and the hairnet back my neck just there's a lady and she she saw was going on she yells out my car. Somebody help him.
Is he around so I drop all my gear and run around the center. I turned guy and he's Robin this little guy.
He's beaten up on so I start running that way. Robert sees me to run away away from it.
I thought it was funny because I was pretty quick arena for the art – so I could fly and you try to run away from his right next to me we going and he knows he knows he got caught slows down, he puts his hands in a sweater, pockets nonchalant, still moving pretty fast and think to myself, okay, I have to stop this guy just keep going on my walking was a no meaning or honesty you just helping someone you being a good Samaritan yes he is someone is in need and you just reacting the way you got a reaction rate is just saying you know what I'm going to go and help and I want to do something I want to stop at the roadside.
That means basically that you put no other motive you just helping someone is crying out for yes I was thing is is asking for like man I don't know if I can do that and I tell people if you asked me for this. If I would do that. I don't know if I can answer something you don't really know if you can enjoy. Unless it happened. So what happened so slow now is QuickTime myself I need to stop, so I grabbed his sweatshirt sweatshirt sleep over my shoulder said we going and he looks at me while still walking sis with dog.
I know you is over were still walking my okay I have to stop by get in front of other sweatshirts and I stop I said hey, where are you going and he says it again is going on.
I said now noise going anywhere until the police show up your finished. I had a perfect plan's perfect get his hands in his sweatshirt pockets so I thought to myself okay. One of these times he's gonna try to take a swing at and get away one of his hands, and it's what you're talking socialism with the second I see one of those shoulders lift up Leon until the cops get.
That was my perfect right so sweatshirt pockets looking at shoulders and all he hears two gunshots for shot him in the abdomen second shot I like to tell you that I am sort of the pollutant held onto him to the cops get there. I felt like a load of bricks and hours. Gordon happy to see him go in the first thought I had my mind, the very first thought was you kidding me. I can't believe I just got shot. It was kinda comedic for me is just like a movie until reality is, in my second thought was to die today so I didn't cry and scream at him. Yeah I just whispered to the Lord said the father come to see you today, see family, my head on much my my cheek on the concrete and I waited for death to come take what goes through your mind like that mean when you how you deal with something you knew you'd be shocked. Yes I know the shot. I knew I was shot at least once. I thought I was shot twice because my leg and when I fell face first.
I look back edition I thought you knew you about.
Yes, I knew that this was no joke. This is not a flesh time so you know they say your life flashes before your eyes. Something like this happens and I don't know the past and future. My future flash before my eyes. I thought my future.
I thought my I thought my son 17 months old. I thought will come and managed to be without his father.
I thought teach him right from wrong is a good man to teach them, I thought my little girl having scenery. I thought how upset I was. I will get the look her in the eyes. I was walking down the aisle on her wedding day dance with. I thought about my wife. She is being myself is so mad, so this should be okay but then something occurred to me is I can't die got too much going on I can't just sit here and lay here and just wait so I prayed again and all I said was father, help me I need you now need two more never, and then seen the Wizard of Oz seen it. Okay, those that haven't spoiler closures the Wizard of Oz at the beginning everything was black and white and then she opened the door and everything turns of color that was me.
I saw color for the first time in my life. I looked up at the sky and there was the exact same sunset that I saw years ago in ASCII the exact same same cloud formation same color annual being raised in the church. We know our Bible verses. Pretty much I allot I can tell you verses in chapter stuff I got this verse popped in my head ever remembers his first ever 9115 and Psalm says he will call on me and I will answer him.
I will be with him in trouble.
I will deliver him now on that verse. All the verses popped in my head kept playing over and over. You call me I'll answer Connie Ellingson. I call on him is him answering me see the sunset.
Feeling like and then I look over to the right and I see this young lady on her news with her head down in her hand down, praying, just pray and she was praying in a language I didn't understand being in the Navy and raised in Miami, Florida cultural was very diverse. We know languages, no military guy, you know, certain dialects in certain places, but I couldn't place this dialect back in place as language union and right when I looked over. She's praying she stopped and she looked right at and my body was shutting down.
At the time I couldn't. I couldn't speak.
I could just move my head I wanted her to know. Yes, yes I need that. Please keep praying. I just nodded my head yes and she saw that she went right back and started praying.
Here's a strange thing about this lady. There were six witnesses to this crime. Success. Three of the six said there was a lady there, praying the other three told the cops. There is no late stranger.
No, there's a groundskeeper there that day. That evening, stuff landscaping right when he heard the gunshot said gunshot. I turned around she is. I have finer known as non-recognized angel's only thing I can think and I don't know if I'll sear the site ahead, but I know I'll see on that side. Yes you know if I can just say something some of you. One of the questions that many of us lost. You know, we with our salvation. Another taste way to reveals himself. He does now we are in situations and circumstances were anxiety and fear, sometimes. But when the top just because of the environment that take place, afraid to open your heart something it's changed my life is change. Dr. Don's life and can change. Are you ready to give you a hawk in life to the Lord Jesus Christ. Why don't you pray this prayer with me right now. Dear God, I know that Iversen and I know that Jesus died for me on the cross.
Today I repainted my sin and by faith I receive you into my in Jesus night, my friend. I welcome you today into the family of God.
This is exciting news in your heart to Jesus Christ that you rededicate your life these last God's convicted you that there needs to be a change of action reaction. Let us pray with you the next steps I phone number 866-899-9673 will connect with one of us happy talk and listen. Pray maybe put some resources to help you grow. I get if you given your heart to Christ. Dr. Don has some unique pieces of material that he wants to put in your hands for sure. Just call us and let us know you given your heart to Christ to rededicate your life at 866-899-WORD word that's 866-899-9673 scores were online as well. Keyboard keyboard@tewonline.org is meant that when you go online right now you see great deal of information about a picture of end and if you're not aware of this. Dr. Don is literally known around the globe. For many, many things, his love for Scripture, but especially his understanding of Scripture relative to the end times you'll dig a little deeper. The information that's available online right now tewonline.org here all the specifics about how you can plug in this wonderful resource.
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