Skyfall 2024: Surrendered by Pastor Nancy Odle
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In “Skyfall 2024 - Surrendered by Pastor Nancy Odle,” Pastor Nancy Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about sacrifice and surrender, biblical love, family discipleship. Drawing especially from Ephesians 3:1, Genesis 22, Matthew 10, 1 Kings 18:2, the teaching emphasizes that worship and discipleship require surrendering personal comfort, control, and self-interest to God. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others.
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Odle focuses on biblical love while working through Ephesians 3:1, Genesis 22. The message argues that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. It connects this with the conviction that material stewardship reveals priorities and should be governed by generosity, integrity, and obedience to God. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on revival. The message argues that revival begins with repentance, renewed hunger for God, and practical obedience among His people. It connects this with the conviction that worship and discipleship require surrendering personal comfort, control, and self-interest to God. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on family discipleship while working through Matthew 10. 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 marriage is treated as a covenant requiring faithfulness, sacrifice, truth, and biblical order. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on sacrifice and surrender. The message argues that worship and discipleship require surrendering personal comfort, control, and self-interest to God. It connects this with the conviction that spiritual pride blinds people to correction, while humility receives truth and depends on God. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on the prophetic sign. The message argues that the biblical narrative is used to show God’s power to recover what has been lost and restore usefulness. It connects this with the conviction that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on sacrifice and surrender while working through Matthew 10, Deuteronomy 8:2, Matthew 10:28. The message argues that worship and discipleship require surrendering personal comfort, control, and self-interest to God. It connects this with the conviction that faithful endurance is necessary when obedience brings testing, opposition, or suffering. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
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 stewardship and giving. The message argues that material stewardship reveals priorities and should be governed by generosity, integrity, and obedience to God. It connects this with the conviction that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
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folks I'm just going to tell you right now skyfalls would not happen if it were not for this lady right here all right it's a fact um she is amazing her gifts are amazing she truly does have a gift of administration I mean she knows how things need to go and they they need to get done and so uh I I love that and I can just and one thing about her is I can just say just tell me later just do what you got to do and don't tell you or don't tell me it gets done but uh I just appreciate my wife and I thank you for all that you go through because she does so much for our church and for everything we do it's just uh I couldn't even imagine trying to do what we've done for the past 16 years without her it just couldn't have happened so thank you oh that's sweet that's so sweet do it for the Lord and I love my church family and my husband all y'all so I'm Pastor Nancy Odell and what the Lord has put on my heart for you today is called surrender s surrendered definition of surrender is the action of yield in one's person or giving up the possession of something especially into the power of another um it the verb surrender is to give oneself up into the power of another especially as a prisoner doesn't that sound Pleasant does it sound familiar Paul Ephesians 3:1 I mean and it goes on and on for this cause I Paul the prisoner of Jesus Christ the prisoner of the Lord right um it just goes on Paul a prisoner of Jesus Christ he was he was referring to himself as a prisoner quite often so I recently listen I don't listen to a lot of things because I just I just don't I don't care to spend a lot of time on YouTube I just don't but I was listening to a podcast uh the other day by I don't know if any of you know Rita Springer she's been around she's a worshipper she's been around for a long time I love some of her stuff so I was listening to her podcast with another worship artist because I wanted to check out that other worship artist because I was had kind of suspicions about him so it was really research that's what it was anyway and she said this this quote right here and it really threw me for a loop because this woman has been you know living for
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the Lord and worshiping the Lord and in churches for many years and she said I think that's religious nature talking about you know what they were talking about we just have to hunker down and do whatever God says he's probably going to make us go to Africa and make us do something we don't want then she says I've never encountered a God that would make you do something that you didn't love to do I'm not sure who she's talking about I wonder if she's read the Bible I don't know but a lot of stories came to mind and a lot of my own stories came to mind but we'll use this one as an example Genesis 22 and it came to pass after these things that God did tempt Abraham and said unto him Abraham and he said behold here I am and he said take now thy son th only son Isaac whom thou lovest and get thee into the land of Mariah and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the the mountains which I tell thee of that sounds like something that he wouldn't love to do right and Abraham rose up he's immediately he's o obedient he said Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his ass and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son and clav the wood so he goes on we'll skip on down here it says and Isaac spake unto Abraham his father and said my father and he said here am I my son and he said behold the fire and the wood but where is the Lamb for a burnt offering and Abraham said my son God will provide a lamb for a burnt offering is't that prophetic and he said so they went uh both of them and they came to the place where God told them and Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar upon the wood just one one little example here of things that God has told people to do that may not make sense to us and may not be pleasant Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slay his son and the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven and said Abraham Abraham and he said here am I and he said lay not thine hand upon the lad neither do thou anything unto him for now I know that thou fearest God seeing thou Hast not withheld thy son thine only son from me and Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked and behold behind him a ram caught in a Thicket by his horns and Abraham went and took the RAM and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stad of his son and Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah Gyra as it is said to this day in the Mount of
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the of the Lord it shall be seen and the angel of the Lord called un Abraham Out of Heaven the second time and said by myself I have sworn sayith the Lord for because thou Hast done this thing and Hast not withheld thy son thine only son that in that in blessing I Will Bless thee and in the multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is upon the Seashore and thy seed shall possess the Gate of his enemy and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed because thou Hast obeyed my voice because he obeyed but he was not he was willing to give his all to the Lord he was willing to do the thing that he didn't love the thing that was not comfortable he was willing to sacrifice his son you know we think about sacrifice and and giving up things it's usually bad things we think about oh I'm going to give up that habit I'm going to give up smoking I'm going to give up whatever uh but there was nothing wrong with him having a son but the Lord called him to sacrifice that this is a really good book there's some things I agree with U Mario Millo on and some things I don't but the seven stages to critical mass he says so then what is the Lord really looking for and he's talking about Revival and critical mass being you know with nuclear fusion nuclear EXP explosions how the critical masses when things straighten down to almost nothing right before the big boom right and so he's comparing it to Revival and what it takes to get Revival he says so then what is the Lord really looking for a servant who knows that the cup cannot pass take heart if you wish that it would pass even Jesus asked if it was necessary to drink but he did not ask to escape because of fear or of pain pain or selfishness he asked because For the First Time in eternity he would be separated from his father he knew that the the plan to save man would have to break his father's heart only Abraham and Isaac on Mount Mariah could begin to understand the grief here in lies the truth that releases the glory in repenting of sin we rid ourselves of evil but in the Dark Night of the Soul which is when everything looks like it's going in the opposite way that you want it to In The Dark Night of the Soul we surrender the things we dearly love things we can't readily identify as being in conflict with God just like with Abraham and Isaac him having a son that was part of the promise you know God had promised that so that wasn't a bad thing that he was having to to sacrifice and give up here the issue is not right and wrong but high and low purposes of living Spiritual Awakening is not simply
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getting rid of sin it is giving God what he wants again and again I've tried to stress that we must conclude with iron resolve that there is no substitute for Revival is that how y'all feel you know is that is that what you wake up thinking about I want the Lord to pour out his spirit is that what consumes you there's no substitute for Revival and it begins with each one of us not a huge group it is the higher ground we must reach because the flood is rising no point of return can exist no alternative can be considered for fire to fall and consume the sacrifice it must be innocent and without blemish but most of all it must be on the altar to stay so now we'll get into to my own personal Abraham Isaac story before Pastor Dean and I ever met I had lots of friends I had I had so many people that just love me now and then Dean came along blew up my world when the Lord put us together he called me to lay my whole life on the altar everything that I that I felt made me who I was but it wasn't it was all you know who I was was God what God wanted me to be but I had a family over in Georgia I had never lived in another state um I had my my two older children you see on the right I had a a good job at a Ministry and I had all these all these friends and and people that just you know we would have Bible studies and it was just a really active you know good life but when we met the Lord basically said that's over that's you're done and for the first time in my life he picked me up he had me move well first he had me move into Washington DC so I praise God that that didn't happen but he had me moving out of Georgia for the first time well along with that now my daughter my oldest daughter cuz I we have from 35 down to 14 but my oldest daughter was already she was getting married so she had her own life going on but at that point my son lived with me I had custody of him um you know I had been through just a crazy divorce with his dad who had been on on meth and had had adulterous Affairs and and things like that so I you know had I had done a
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