When God Puts You On Hold | Jentezen Franklin

thanks for joining us on Kingdom connection I'm Jensen Franklin and I'm excited about this program I believe today that you are going to hear some amazing testimonies an old-fashioned baptism service we we're going to take you into for a few minutes but first i'm going to preach a message that I think is a word that is in season for your life I really believe many of you feel like you've been put on hold and it seems like nothing's happening and everything that that you thought would happen it just feels like Lord have you forgotten about

me that's why I want you to hear this message this message is going to speak to you and it's going to let you know that you may feel stuck in the same place in life but God has a breakthrough coming your way and God has a plan that where you are right now he's using it really to fulfill his promise and his Blessing in your life life God always has a plan his timing is always perfect and if you will hold on a midnight Miracle is coming to your life listen to this message and let

it speak to you today together we're inspiring people to live for Jesus if you're looking for more in life to live with purpose and peace to make a difference for your family and those in need around the world Jesus is the answer and our mission is to Simply point you to to him you're watching Kingdom connection with Jensen Franklin acts chap 16 and I want to read verse 25 but at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God and the prisoners were listening to them suddenly there came a great earthquake so that

the foundations of the prison were shaken and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone chains were loosed suddenly there came a great earthquake and it was happening according to verse 25 at midnight I want to preach to you I really felt the Lord uh lead me in this and I felt like it was confirmed in the first service I want to talk to you about what to do when God puts you on hold in the midst of Prayer in the midst of Praise in the midst of singing God suddenly invaded that prison house and

every door that was closed opened and every chain that bound was loosed suddenly tension is good when it's used on the violin it's the bow and the tension of the string that that causes the Beautiful music but the tension that I'm preaching on is the kind that if they press too hard on the bow it will break the string and the tension of where you are and where you want to be sometimes is that in between place where God puts you on hold and you know that midnight is God's invasion of your problem but there's

11:59 at 11:59 Paul and Silas had no idea when they were praising in pain when their backs were bleeding when it was so dark it was midnight they had no idea at 11:59 that everything suddenly was about to change and that's what I'm preaching on when God has you on hold between the one minute away from a breakthrough one minute there's always a timing to God's Miracles at midnight the earthquake came and the doors open and the chains fell and many of you right now are at that unrecorded 1159 and you have to make it

to midnight before the earthquake comes and I want you to understand this morning that Paul was at a place in his life where he was feeling forbidden and he was feeling like he did not understand everything that was going on but he praised anyhow I want you to look with me for just a moment at this familiar story and if you're living in an 1159 and nothing's happening I want to encourage you when nothing's happening keep moving in the right Direction when nothing's happening keep praying keep praising great Apostles live through the 11:59 to the

12 Paul tried to go to Asia in Acts 16-6 and the Bible said the Holy Ghost forbid him have you ever tried your best to make something happen and all God gives you is a stop sign but what God did with Paul was every stop sign and it's important to understand that when the door is closed by God it's working for your good if it hasn't happened yet it's working for your good Paul backed into the will of God instead of walking forward into the will of God he was forbidden from going where he thought

he was supposed to go by now and God said no it's not time you see a closed door is as much God's will will when he gives you one as an Open Door is if the door's been closed and it has not happened and you keep saying I can't wait till I get in the will of God a closed door is as much the will of God as an open door and don't ever forget that it's important if God has closed the door it's just a matter of timing and you're in 11:59 but midnight is

coming midnight I'm preaching this morning on midnight Miracles are on the way come on and if you're in the holding place you got to keep praying and praising and moving in the right direction don't get discouraged little did he know that four verses later God would give him a vision and he would see a man in Macedonia saying come here we need help and when he got there this is where this story is centered that I just read out of the Bible when when he got there there were women praying by the river and the

power of God began to move he even went to the elders and said is this the will of God cuz the last time I tried it didn't happen the Elder said the Lord's in this go and he went and when he got there he was encountered with a demon-possessed woman and he cast The Devil out of her now I want you to think about what I'm saying Paul had a vision he had a word from God God told him what to do the elders confirmed it and all of a sudden he's fighting Devils I want

to preach to you that sometimes we have the wrong assumption that everything in God's will is going to fall in our lap and sometimes you're right in the middle of God's will and you don't even feel like it and nothing seems to be working real easy and real fun nothing happened like he saw it in the vision he saw a man but when he got there there were women praying by the river no man and then he prays he gets to preaching and a woman starts following him full of devils and she was a fortune

teller and you better leave that stuff alone you better leave that stuff you better leave those little fortune tellers alone you better leave that Ouija board alone you better leave that psychic alone especially a California Psychic my Lord I'd rather know the holy spirit is leading me not some evil Spirit not some witch I don't need that I've got the Holy Ghost Hallelujah and he knows how to lead me and guide me into his will and if he says I close the door I say I'll Stand Here In Praise in my 1159 cuz the door

is going to open at 12:00 right on time somebody praise him it's God's [Applause] timing you say well Pastor it just feels like God God's put me on hold I felt somebody this week I don't know who but you got in my heart and you feel so Lely and you feel so Forsaken and you feel like it's just not happening and the enemy's made you feel like that God has forgotten about you and I just feel like that I'm on hold but when God puts you on hold make sure you don't hang up if you

won't hang up in 11:59 his voice oh I know it's been a long time but his voice will come booming in the Midnight Hour with a midnight miracle that will open the door and loose you from the chains and you'll walk in a new thing that God is doing in your life give him a great praise if you believe it let me show you something real quick I want you to understand that midnight is God's favorite time which means 11 59 is Satan's favorite time to double down on his discouragement in your life right before

your Miracle comes through the Bible said in Exodus 11 in verse 4 that at 11:59 they were slaves at 11:59 they were in generational bondage at 11:59 they were broke and they were poor and they were devastated but at Exodus 11 and4 said at midnight at Mid midnight they were set free by the blood of the lamb and I'm simply telling you that God was inactive for days and months and years and they were put on hold but you never know when you're standing in your 1159 moment and you're one moment away from a miracle

in the middle of your midnight and I believe I'm sent to preach to somebody today to say just when the enemy me thought and by the way the story that I read in Acts chapter 16 after God opened the prison doors and set the captives free from the prison with an earthquake at midnight the next verse says that the Apostle Paul stopped a man from committing suicide and taking his life and I believe that somebody is in such a dark season that the enemies whisper to you there's no hope and no future and you know

that's a devil when you hear that voice Exodus said the miracle happened at midnight do you know that judges or the Book of Judges chapter 16 and verse three it was at midnight the power of God Came Upon Samson and he tore up the gates of Gaza off of the off of the hinges the power of God I believe that the power of God is coming on the church in this hour and if we'll hold on on through the 1159 we're going to and I'm praying for the nation of Israel to tear up the gates

of Gaza amen and God would move mightily I believe it's time for the spirit of Samson to come on this church and every church and the body of Christ not be a bunch of victims but we tear the the Gates of Hell shall not Prevail somebody say praise the lord it's midnight he's a Vietnam evangelist by the name and I'm sure I'm slaughtering his name new Jen and he was in Vietnam as an evangelist a Christian evangelist preaching during the Vietnam war and when the Communists took over the Viet Kong took over they invaded the

village where he was found out he was a pastor and imprison him and put him in what they called a rehabilitation Camp he was not allowed to read anything he was isolated for two and a half years and every day he did the same thing two times a day he cleaned the latrine he cleaned the toilets the filthy toilets he had to get down and dig with bucket and shovel and clean out the toilets of the Viet Kong soldiers and he hit a point after not having any Christian support any hearing a sermon hearing a

song hearing an encouraging word he got so low that he said God if you're there if you're there you're going to have to speak to me and while he was there with his boots and His Bucket and his shovel hell laughing at him it's 11:59 he starts cleaning and he notices something he has never seen in that latrine he sees pages of paper not just any paper but he recognizes that paper one of those generals had decided when he found a Bible to turn it into toilet paper and he was using the Bible as toil

paper and somewhere when he said Lord if you're there I need to hear from you he reached down and you say I wouldn't touch it if you hadn't seen the word in two and a half years you don't know what you'd go through to get to that word and he got him a rag and he cleaned it off the best he could and he had found one page called Romans chapter 8 and this is what he said he read in verse 35 who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall tribulation or distress or

persecution or famine or nakedness or Pearl or sword as it is written for your sake wipe some off I can't see it it's blurred as it is written for your sakes it's 11:59 we're counted as sheep for the slaughter oh but yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us for I am persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor death nor any other created thing shall be able to separate us from the love of God

which is in Jesus Christ I Lord I don't know who I'm preaching to but I feel like telling you that you need to hold on because you're at 11:59 and you're one moment away from your breakthrough and when it comes it's going to be suddenly and you'll see God open the door and loose the chain and perform his prophecy in your life give him a great praise give him a great praise in this room oh yes I know he's real I know he's real God bless you sir what is your name Bobby AES Bobby how

long you been coming to the church I've been coming here since uh June this year wonderful and why are you getting baptized because May of this year I was in jail and it's about about 12:00 at night and I was sitting there watching a movie on the tablet called The Gospel of Jesus and my feet were hurting because I hadn't Ry in my feet and uh I asked the so you were in jail now we didn't talk and it was around midnight yes sir yes sir yeah it was it's crazy and and so you dropped

to your to you I dropped to my knees and I asked Jesus I said please take the pain away from my feet so I can get some sleep tonight and he did and the next morning I woke up and I got bed down on my knees and I just asked him to come in my life and take over and so here you are at Free Chapel how'd you end up at Free Chapel I'm at Jericho house in salty fantastic Jericho house you support that every month and anything else you want to say that I love

God and I love my family and I'm hope I'm doing them proud you most certainly are are they out there today your family out there to God be the glory god bless you I see that hand back there they there several hands they're waving at you I baptized you in the name of the Father the Son Jesus Christ the Holy Spirit oh you know Paul and Silas were in jail [Applause] too you must be from you must be from New Beginnings sir yes so how long have you been in the program I graduated in April

why are you in the you graduated congratulations wonderful why are you doing this now well in the program um I had really lost my voice did not know how to speak up for myself but Jesus has given me that back and so I was finally verbal about wanting to get baptized and now was just the time and it was all in the Lord's timing um I am currently on staff I'm a d mom and a case manager so [Applause] powerful I gave my life to the Lord last April um April 24th and he's delivered me

from witchcraft from depression and from addiction really so so did you actually practice witchcraft yes sir and and um and why did you go into that area well I was raised in church and I went to Christian School too my mom made sure of that and um it was just someone who was very close to me when I was about 10 and they started showing that to me and I I chose to go down that path instead and what would you say to young people some kids that are just going to have fun and stuff

but then there's always it seems the occult stirred up the the the the wickedness the evil the dark arts I don't give the devil a day out of the year you don't give him any day of the year no every day is a day the Lord has made and we will rejoice and be glad in it isin't that right wonderful i b a formerly into witchcraft now totally surrendered and in Ministry setting captives free only Jesus I baptize you in the name of the Father the Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit oh to God

be the glory give us your name please Ricky Brown and uh somebody knows you out there God knows you and these people know you and what why how long you've been coming to the church last Sunday was my first Sunday last Sunday why did you come last Sunday I've been practing Islam all my life and you know the message was about this guy he seen this lady man um and he wanted her to be his wife or something he um and God I found out that iniquities means um sin and stuff so God God delivered

me from my iniquities cuz I had some real bad good land about the ath man I had some real bad thoughts on some people I'm talking about the whole houseo I was going to do some real bad harm to him and and then do some harm to myself but God delivered me because Jesus what a miracle I never prayed with my wife before right and this is no Li man last night about about um last night probably about 11:53 54 she called my uh she called my brother JB and um we were just talking about

me getting baptized all week and you know for the first time ever man me and C sprayed last night PE around midnight yeah it was yes sir yes sir oh somebody shout the angels are shouting hell lost another one praise be unto Jesus king of kings and Lord of lords my Lord have mercy what a testimony I'm talking about I'm talking about Jesus Christ and the blood of Jesus yes up I'm talking about Jesus Christ man yeah and real life neither is there given any other name this is a Bible verse neither is there given

any other name whereby we can be saved but the name of Jesus I don't believe that stuff no more nothing but Jesus Bo it's all about Jesus Bo it's it's all in him I baptize you in the name of the Father the son Jesus Christ the Holy Ghost Hallelujah take a praise break everybody that's a sign that's a Wonder that's a miracle I know these testimonies have touched your heart and the message today I believe was for you that you can have a midnight miracle that you've been living in 11 59 but midnight is coming

when the Breakthrough comes when the blessing of God that you've longed to see for your family or for your life or for someone you love it really breaks through I believe prisoners are about to be set free I believe even many of you whose Hearts today have been broken God had you watch this and hear these testimonies to know that he's real and it can happen for you pray this prayer Right Where You Are say Jesus forgive me cleanse me I invite you into my home I invite heaven to invade my life and my home

take control and heal and save and deliver I believe you and I stand on your cross and your blood that you shed on that cross to know that I am forgiven I have peace with God and that my midnight Miracle is on the away in Jesus mighty name I want to welcome you to the family of God and if you prayed that prayer with me I believe that it would be just an amazing thing if you would call the number on the screen or visit our website we have free resources that we want to sew

into your life we want to give to you we want to sew into you and while you check that out you also might want to check out our fasting resources is because every year annually we go on at the beginning of the year a 21-day Daniel Fast I've been teaching on it for 40 years and I have written some books that have touched many many lives and I'd love for you to get all of this material I'll be your fasting coach some of you been saying I need some breakthroughs I need some midnight miracles in

2025 well let's fast about it let's fast together before we end today's pray program I want to thank everyone who has responded and given to our latest initiative in Israel light over Darkness we have committed the single largest amount of funding in our history to partner with the Jewish National Fund to rebuild and renew the esal region together we can make a real difference and bring restoration to so many hurting families tensions are at an all-time high right now in Israel and I believe God has called this ministry to be a blessing to Israel to

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