Skyfall 2024: Friday Evening Service
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In “Skyfall 2024 - Friday Evening Service,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about prayer, healing and faith, demons and deliverance. Drawing especially from James 4:8, the teaching emphasizes that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that the message connects prayer for healing with faith in Christ, pastoral care, and submission to God.
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Odle focuses on marriage and covenant. The message argues that marriage is treated as a covenant requiring faithfulness, sacrifice, truth, and biblical order. It connects this with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on family discipleship while working through James 4:8. The message argues that faithfulness in the home requires instruction, loving correction, protection, and a consistent Christian example. It connects this with the conviction that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on Bible prophecy. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on eternal judgment. The message argues that the reality of final judgment gives urgency to repentance, salvation, and faithful witness. It connects this with the conviction that God’s grace forgives and also trains believers to leave sin and live in obedience. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on marriage and covenant. The message argues that marriage is treated as a covenant requiring faithfulness, sacrifice, truth, and biblical order. It connects this with the conviction that faithfulness in the home requires instruction, loving correction, protection, and a consistent Christian example. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on prayer. The message argues that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. It connects this with the conviction that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on demons and deliverance. The message argues that demonic influence must be answered through Christ’s authority and the freedom He provides. It connects this with the conviction that the message connects prayer for healing with faith in Christ, pastoral care, and submission to God. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on healing and faith. The message argues that the message connects prayer for healing with faith in Christ, pastoral care, and submission to God. It connects this with the conviction that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on Satanic opposition. The message argues that Satan’s work is described through deception, accusation, temptation, and opposition to God’s purposes. It connects this with the conviction that the message connects prayer for healing with faith in Christ, pastoral care, and submission to God. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on holiness. The message argues that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. It connects this with the conviction that the inner life must be healed, guarded, and brought under the truth of God’s word. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
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then they told me this story and I you know I'd hear different parts in different times and I was like I know it's a miracle that you two stayed married for sure but see that's the key I think a lot of marriages don't understand if both husband and wife will truly surrender to Jesus and truly be born again and truly say Lord I want to do your will you know what take it takes a little bit of the stress off if you put Jesus first instead of trying to make your spouse Live Like Jesus right and then you can focus as we say the 11th commandment fire and Grace Church worry about yourself right and if you get focused on Jesus because look your spouse cannot be everything to you they can't fulfill everything that you need fulfilled and then when Things Fall Apart or things get difficult and you're wanting them to be everything to hold you up and help you and everything and they can't do everything and then they get blamed and really it's because you need Jesus they can't be Jesus for you amen so somebody needed to hear that tonight and I promise you they gave you the G version of that and they gave you the cliff notes version and maybe one day we'll have we'll do uh prophecy Quake again and we'll have them on for a a little bit longer to talk about that if they want to but I I wanted them to share share because just how important it is you know how if you listen to my sermons on a regular basis you know how often I talk about the need and to be born again to have that moment that you truly surrender to Jesus and you know that he comes in and transforms you that you know your sins are forgiven and you know that he's real and you feel the witness and peace of his presence and when you get up from that whether it's from your from your knees or from a church altar or you know beside your bed and you get up and you know Jesus is Lord of my life I know him he's forgiven me he's washed me clean he's real he is god um and you know it no one can talk you out of it after that and and like Brie said Jeffrey said you're going to have struggles you're going to have struggles as a Christian but like I said I I've met him I know him you can't talk me out of it you can't talk me out of walking with the Lord and loving him and knowing him I don't care what argument comes my way I'm like if what is it no nobody can convince a man that truly knows Jesus and has an experience of Walking With Jesus for years there is no argument that can take you away if you have it and I just want you to know you
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can have it now I know some people I've had some people contact me and they've said pastor Dean you know I've prayed and prayed and prayed and and I just can't I just I've never felt the witness of the Holy Spirit I've never felt this Born Again encounter that you talk about and this is what I believe I'm going to tell you what I believe I believe why that is is because there's sometimes for some people it just happens like that and some times for some people it doesn't and I believe it's because the Lord knows you're still holding back there's something deep down you're holding on to you you you're kind of coming to him because you want relief from your problems but you don't really want to surrender your sins and your life to him and this is where people want him to be savior but not Lord and remember he said you have to confess with your mouth Jesus is what Lord and then he said to Luke through Luke said you know wrote it down that Jesus said why do you call me Lord Lord and you don't do the things that I say so if you call him Lord you call upon him and this is where most of our American church and world has got it wrong they they they call on the name of Jesus but they don't ever intend on really making him Lord they are still Lord Lord of their own lives and they're calling the shots and they're doing it their way and I just think a lot of times the Lord just sits back and goes if you want me if you want to be saved if you want to be truly born again if you want the witness of the holy spirit in your life you have to give it all you have to say I'm done with sin I'm going to hate sin like God hates sin I'm going to give up everything I don't care what I have to change that's what you have to do and you know it's amazing I mean really I was thinking I was praying and I during praise and worship and I just felt like I don't even know that I'm going to finish what I started this morning we'll we'll finish that at some point but you know what my wife spoke about today surrender are you surrendered fully or is it just halfway there a lot of people want to be baptized in the Holy Spirit the evidence of speaking in other tongues they want the gifts of the Holy Spirit to work in their life they see there but see a lot of people Simon the Sorcerer wanted the power of God in his life he wanted to speak in tongues and he wanted to lay hands on people but he want he wanted the power but he didn't want to surrender and we think about it you think about Judas Judas loved Jesus do y'all know that so how do I know that you're not
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going to leave everything and follow a man for three years if you don't really believe and if you don't really love that person the problem with Judas was he had his own agenda he wanted Jesus but he wanted Jesus to do what he wanted him to do the betraying Jesus it wasn't about the 30 pieces of silver had it been about the 30 pieces of silver he would have stuck those in his little pouch and gone his way but when he saw Jesus would not fight the Roman armies and the Jews and he allowed himself when he saw Jesus surrender and let them beat him and take him Judas was like that's not what I wanted to happen I didn't want that to happen Judas was trying to force Jesus's hand to become the king and it wasn't time for Jesus to become the king of the political human world how many of us serve Jesus just like that oh we'll we'll walk with him we'll talk with him but we have our own agenda we want him to do what we want him to do we want him you know remember when the Pharisees came to him Lord do a miracle right now the Lord's like I'm not giving you a sign and then the Lord would walk to another city and do all kind kind of signs and wonders why do you think he did he would do things like that cuz he wasn't going to be he he he's not a it's not a circus show it's not I'm just going to give you something just CU you want to see it or you want to have it that's why I love that verse in fact if y'all y'all can put it up James 4:8 cuz this is what this is about but what is does it say anybody know it by heart now you do now you know it draw nigh to God and He will draw nigh to you cleanse your hands ye Sinners and purify your hearts you double minded draw nigh to God and He will draw nigh to you think about that when you want God more than you want anything else you'll find him and if you want God more than you want anything else you will do what is necessary to seek him and to find him there's some of you right now you know your wife or your husband's trying to drag you into this and you know you should go but you're hanging on to something
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you got some Idol there that you're hanging on to and you see their life changing and their life's better than yours but you want to hang on to that thing and what's going to happen if you keep hanging on to that thing and you won't surrender is you're not just going to destroy your life you're going to destroy and hurt them as well in the process and your children and your family what did I say earlier today if I could get anything across to Christians it's surrender y'all want to know why I've seen the power of God move in my life over these years because when I was 19 I said Lord my life is yours I don't make the decisions anymore I was okay if you I was never to be married I was okay if I was never to have children I was okay if I was never to be rich or poor or own a house or working this job or that job or I all of that just all of that just died and it's like Jesus what do you want and you know what's cool when you fully surrender when you really do it it really gets fun after that because you just really you don't know what's next that's why it says everyone that's born of the spirit he say it's like the wind you never know where God's going to blow you this way that way I remember I drove my parents crazy those first few years cuz oh the Lord told me to go to Texas oh the Lord told me to go to Israel oh the Lord told me to go to Africa they were like what is he doing following Jesus is what I'm doing and while I look back on it you know I've told people yeah I mean I've had I had some struggles and I didn't live perfect I sinned and struggled at times I tripped up and Fa a few times not turning back or going back but I knew that I was going to get up ask the Lord to wash me clean and we were going to get on with business you know when Jesus was 12 years old they found him right he went missing and what did he say when they found him CU he was in the temple I love it answering questions and asking questions he was answering questions and they were marveling at him and he said I must be about my father's business and when they came to him one time remember the disciples came to him one time and they said Master did do you have something to eat do you want
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