Welcome to the podcast of the White Church in Adelaide, South
Australia. I just felt to share this even
just out of what Eliza had shared with us this morning.
If you don't know that you need something from God, then there's
no expectation for you to, you know, for him to do it in you.
Like, does that make sense? Like if I come here thinking
that of I have everything that I need, then where is the
opportunity for God to give us something that when that is
needed? And I think Eliza sort of
touched on that. It's like sometimes you just
don't know. Often times I would say that we
come in here or we live our lives just oblivious to our
needs, the things that God's wanting to do in US and through
US. And so I say all that just to
lift our expectation this morning that God is going to
speak, that God is going to highlight things that he wants
to deal with us in our hearts mainly.
Well, pretty much in our hearts. The way that you live comes out
of what's in your heart, right? So there's some heart surgery
that God needs to do in all of us and he's going to do that
this morning. Should you be willing?
I hope we are willing. And I was just reminded of this
scripture here. Paul writes in in Acts, Acts 20.
He says, so now brethren, I commend you to God and to the
word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you
an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
And so as Justin brings the Word of God, God's Word, what God
says, the truth as the Word is sown into our hearts, let's be
expected that God is going to do a work in here and lead us, lead
us as individuals, but as the church into the inheritance that
he has for us with all the Saints.
Amen. Excellent.
Come, Justin, I'm just going to pray, Lord, we just lift up this
man. Lord, we thank you that he's
spent time preparing. God, we thank you that your Holy
Spirit dwells in him, Lord. And we just pray, Lord, that
even right now, Lord, that you would lead him in his words, in
direction, in whatever it is that you're wanting to do.
Lord, we thank you that you've prepared him to stand here and
share your word, Lord. But I pray that wherever you
want to lead him, I pray that I know that he will follow you.
I just pray that you would lead in the direction that you would
have him go. And Lord, I pray for us as
people in this place, good, good soil in our hearts.
Lord, I pray you prepare us even right now in this moment, Lord,
that we would be able to take on so, so much seed from your word
and it would bring forth a huge harvest, hundredfold harvest in
US and through US in Jesus mighty name, Amen.
Amen. Good day, guys.
OK, so this morning is kind of Week 3.
Of and A and a. Recap of our time in South
Africa and it was actually it was a really good time and I
went back and listened if you remember the week before we
left, we got some of the guys that were going we got them up
here and we said, what do you believe God could do?
And I went back and I, I don't know if you've had the
opportunity to go back and listen to those words and then
listen to what people. Preached afterwards and to hear
how God did actually do what we prayed that he would do.
And one of the one of the strong themes that people prayed for.
In that time, was it? Just we would get a.
Sense of God at work in our togetherness around the.
Globe and I want to kick off this morning just by giving some
updates of what God is doing around the globe.
And so we spent six weeks praying into different
continents around the world. At our prayer meetings, we
prayed over each continent, and I had the privilege of meeting
people from every continent except for Asia, which is kind
of surprising because Asia has, like, you know, 2/3 of the
world's population. But I want to just give you some
some. Feedback from what God is.
Actually doing because I think when we pray and we say God show
us what you're doing around the world, and then we meet people
and we hear stories of what God is doing, it encourages us that
God is at work, right? So there was this couple that I
met called Dennis and Vanessa. They relocated from South Africa
into Spain in our togetherness as new Covenant ministries.
It's the first church to be planted into Spain.
Europe is very, they would say, very liberal in some of its its
kind of ways, particularly around things like gender
ideology and stuff like that. And so they're planting in a
hard land. In.
Spain and they were saying stories that they were weeping
at the airport, knowing it was God's.
Purpose, but knowing the challenge.
Ahead and they gave stories as I was chatting with them.
Of just God really at work. They said that there was one guy
who came to their church who came to be baptized and said
awesome, we'll go down to the beach in the public.
And we're going to. Baptize you and Dennis just felt
the call of God just to say hey, is there anyone else that wants
to give your life to Christ and. Get baptized here and the entire
gentleman's family gets saved and baptized that night on the
beach. God is at work in Europe.
Hey, we heard from guys in. France, how they've just.
God has provided a building for this church that has been
meeting at like kind of nomadic for a while, and God is at.
Work in Europe. I met a couple called Mike and
Julia. They are part of a church in
Charlotte in North Carolina in the US.
Just had the privilege just pick them up for a Sunday morning
church meeting and we drove there and so we got chatting.
They had a 2 year old daughter, very similar age to my kids.
So I just asked them like where are you from?
What's the church like and stuff now?
Part of a church that didn't relate or partner with New
Covenant Ministries International.
And in their words, things weren't going great.
The church was really unhealthy. There was a lot of kind of
division in the church and stuff like that.
And through a leadership change, the church started partnering
with New Covenant. Ministries started.
Partnering with an Apostolic team and team guys started
coming in and rebuilding foundations and they reflecting
on they've been along for this whole journey.
And they said, man, the church is in such a healthier place
because of what has. Happened and.
What God has been doing in our church and in our togetherness.
And do you believe? God is at.
Work in the United States. God is at work in North America.
He's he's doing something with the churches.
He's strengthening churches all throughout the world.
We obviously we went over there and we met Bruce and Myra who
have ministered here and lead Lighthouse to the nation's
church and they have two campuses in South Africa.
And we got to talk with some of their leaders who are just
feeling the call of God to go into other nations and to
relocate to places like Zimbabwe, to relocate to places
like Sudan. To go right.
Through to Zambia. God is a work in Africa.
Do you believe that? Like we're praying for Africa,
and here are stories of real people on the ground doing
things for God, making things. Count for God and so.
I also got to chat with guys from South America, actually got
to minister alongside a young guy called Daniel who leads a
church in Columbia, which is north of South America.
And the the short story is his father led the church and his
father passed away suddenly. And so the leadership team went,
well, we don't know who's going to lead.
We pray about it. And they pointed to him and
said, we think you're the guy you lead.
He's got. I've not been on the.
Pastoral team before I. Don't know what I'm doing and
yet God has appointed. Him to lead the church and I
just say man, God does mighty. Things with inexperienced people
like he just raises people up and says OK you're going to lead
my people like he called reminded of the Daniel the
David, the shepherd boy right. Inexperience had never LED a
Kingdom and God said I'm anointing you at a young.
Age to lead. My people and lead.
This great nation of Israel. And he he had been through
training grounds. And then God said I point you.
To to do this. And I just, I reflected on that
Daniel, this young guy is about my age being thrown to church
and said here, lead us please, because we see the call of God.
And God is at work in him, and God is at work throughout the
churches in Columbia. And we caught up.
It's funny, we travelled halfway around the world.
And caught up with a whole bunch of Aussies, surely?
There's a better way that we could do it, like in shopping
centres. I'm like, hey, you're an Aussie.
This is why can't we catch up in our own country.
But it gave us an opportunity outside of our.
Context to say, hey, what is God doing?
And we caught up with guys who are over in Sydney Glorious
Gospel Church. They are celebrating 35 years
today, 35 years as a base church.
In Sydney. And over the past three years,
they've planted three other. Churches.
God really stirred their heart. And said we need to.
Get back to what God has called us to do, which is.
To plant churches. And they're opening up and
breaking ground in Sydney. They're seeing these churches
thrive, like people are coming to know Christ in the north, in
the West, in their central campus and the new church plant,
Eden Church. Which is turning 1 today.
God is at. Work God is at.
Work in our nation do you believe that right we we shared
a scripture just before we left in Ephesians 310 that just said
that God's intent was the now through the.
Church, the manifold wisdom of God would be made known.
Do you believe that around the world God is busy planting,
strengthening, enlarging churches so that he can reveal
his manifold wisdom to the world?
Like, I know that we can pray and we say, you know,
governments need to change and these things need.
To change, but ultimately. God's plan is through.
The church. And one of the things that we
prayed for as we go, that we would get a.
Picture of what? God.
Was doing through. His church around the world and
man, I want you to be encouraged that God is at work in his
church throughout the world he's.
Breaking open nations. He's seeing people saved.
He's he's establishing base. Churches that can actually reach
other parts of the nations. Of the world, isn't that.
Cool, isn't that amazing? This.
Is why we go to. These things it's not, not.
Just, you know, teaching is great, but it's actually that we
can see and we can hear and we can get alongside people and say
what is God doing in the nations?
Of the world. And that in US we can carry.
Something and be enlarged in what God wants to do.
Is that cool? So let's just quickly pray.
Father, we thank you for what you're doing around the world.
We thank you for what the opportunity to travel to South
Africa to meet with people from different nations and to hear of
how you are establishing lampstands in every nation of
this world. You are planting lampstands in
every continent that shine light in a in a dark and broken world
and that you are busy building your church.
And we thank you God that you are a global God as much as you
are a personal God here this morning.
You are a global God at work through countless lamp stands,
bringing glory to your son, bringing glory to your name.
And we thank you for the work you're.
Doing in Jesus name, everybody said Amen, Amen, Amen, right.
I want to bring us back to another.
Word that was shared just. Before just before we left and
kind of it brings a bit of a kind of the broad strokes that I
think were shared through the global equip and just some of
the stuff I've felt in God for us as a people on the back of
that word. You know, you guys believe that
God speaks prophetically, right? He speaks through His words, and
the prophetic words will always back this up, and this will
always back up what God says. But God also speaks through
people. Around our seasons and around.
What he wants to do? In and through US.
And so we need to have ears to listen to what God is saying.
That's first thing. Second thing, we know that God.
Speaks in our hearts, right? The God isn't so much.
Concerned with information up. Here as he is.
Concerned with revelation in here.
Yeah, and that's what brings. About our transformation and
what God really wants to do. You get that, Cool.
And so I want to. I've got.
This.
And I know it's not very big I. Had hoped that I could.
Have something a little bit bigger?
It's a toy cylinder. Foam thing for the recording.
That Dan, just before we left, you kind of stood up and we
asked him what did you feel God wants to do for our church?
And he said, I feel like it's a baton relay.
He said. I feel like we're standing there
and God has got a baton for us waiting.
To actually take hold of what he wants to do.
Through. Us as a people and.
Maybe this happened for you, maybe it didn't, but in my
spirit I went. I feel like that's a word.
For us, I feel like. God is wanting to say something
through that. And Dan went on and he said more
than the baton relay, more than that God is giving.
Something into our hand. For us to run to, he says we've
got to get in position, he said. There's no point if God is
wanting to hand us a baton. Just standing there looking at
the sky, Dan was like, we've got to be in position to actually.
Carry what he's passing on to US.
And what he? Wants us to carry.
And I want to talk this morning just a little bit about position
yourself is kind of my title, Position yourself.
As we say, it's no point in me standing staring at the sky if
God is trying to give me something to carry.
And advance his Kingdom. I have to actually get in
position. If you watch the baton relay in
the Olympics, you won't find them all standing there and just
kind of glancing up and having a good.
Chat to the guy next to them as that baton is coming closer.
They're getting ready. To take hold of it and run with
what God is called and in Habakkuk.
Two, I think it's Habakkuk. Two, it says, you know.
Write down this vision that he who.
Picks it up, may run with it right?
And so there's a. There's a context there that
when we. Catch God's vision.
Catch. What God wants to do, He's
expecting us to run. He's not.
Expecting us to kind of take a slow pace or anything like that.
He's saying, man, I've called you to run with what I've called
what I've called you to do I. Haven't called you to stroll?
I haven't. Called you to meander.
I've called you to run hard after the things of the Kingdom.
So God has called us to run hard.
Amen. And so I've got 6 things that I
feel the things that we must. Kind of catch.
Or take hold of or things that we must that help us position
ourselves. To carry what God wants to do.
Right. As I mentioned before, God
speaks through revelation more than He does information so that
we can actually carry what He wants to do.
And I want to just give you 6 things, six kind of areas of
revelation that we need to carry.
In our hearts. In order to run with what God
has for you as an individual. In order to run with what God
has for us as a people here, in order for us to run with what
God has in our togetherness across the city and across the
globe, there are things we need. To catch in here.
There are things we need to. Hold deep within us.
And be utterly convinced of, because if we're not convinced
of them and God goes to give us that baton, it's likely we're
going to fumble with it or we're not going to be in position.
We're going to have a slow start.
Like, I'm sure you've seen it in the Olympics when somebody's not
quite ready for that baton. And it just, it sets them behind
a little bit. But I feel like God is saying,
hey, position yourself, position yourself and I will give you
something to carry and to run into all that I've called you to
carry. And so there's six things that I
feel we need to carry. Inside of us and to position our
hearts for what He is. Doing and for what he.
Wants to do into our. Future and the first one is this
and these were kind of broad strokes from the global
equipment as well. The first one is that we need to
carry. In In Our Hearts, a revelation
of the Person of God. We need to know Him.
That's the slogan of New Covenant.
Ministries International is to know.
Christ. And to make him known.
And last week, Hillary shared from John 17.
Three. The word it says.
This is eternal. Life that you may know him and
the one whom he has sent. We must catch a revelation of
who God is and what He is like in our hearts because that that
is where everything stems from, like our revelation of Jesus is.
We'll determine how we. Respond to what he wants to do.
And so we need to. Catch in US a revelation of the
Person of God. We need to know Him.
Know what he's like. Know.
What he likes know what he doesn't like?
So we need to catch. In here a revelation of the
person. Of God, the second thing I feel
we need to. Catch a revelation of in our
hearts. Is we need to know.
The plan of God. The plan of God on the earth.
As we already spoke out of Ephesians and in.
Hebrews 1 and in Colossians. Chapter 2 it talks about the
plan of God and it says this says Jesus is the plan like.
Effectively in Hebrews chapter 1 it says you know in the past God
spoke through his prophets. But now he's.
Spoken to us through his. Son and in.
Colossians, chapter one or two. It says.
That he is the first. Born.
He is the head. He is the.
Ultimate He is the 1, and in Ephesians 19 to 10 it says that
this was God's purpose that He would reveal.
We'll actually put that Scripture up if we can be
Ephesians. Chapter One, Nine to 10.
I think it's really cool. Or if you've got your Bibles
too, I'd encourage you to open those up.
So He made known to us the mystery of His will, His plan.
Remember, we're talking about catching the revelation of His
plan in our. Hearts.
He made known to us the mystery of His will according to His
good pleasure which He purposed. In Christ.
Next verse to put into effect when the times will have reached
the fulfilment to bring all things in heaven and on earth
together under one head even. Christ.
God's plan was Jesus. God's plan from right from the
beginning when man. Fell God.
Promised. Hey, there's a chosen.
Seed that's going to come and he's going to crush Satan.
And then he promised Abraham, through your seed the nations
will be blessed. And then we see the Passover
lamb, and we see these revelations of Christ right up
into the cross. And then here we are on the
other side of the cross and we're just pointing back and
say, look. At what Jesus has done.
And look at what he is doing in the earth.
God's. Plan is Jesus, God's plan is the
extension of. The King and his Kingdom
throughout the earth. We need to catch that.
That this, this isn't about his plan is not good preaching.
His plan is not good music as much as those stuff is.
Great. His plan is that Jesus would be
proclaimed in the nations. His plan is that Jesus would be
revealed, that Jesus is the ultimate reconciler.
When we were in South Africa, I got.
Asked at a lunchtime. To go preach at a church that.
Evening we had. Sessions all afternoon.
I had no idea when I would prep. But as I was.
Walking. I was chatting with Dan.
He's like, what are you going to preach on?
And I'm like. I have no clue man.
Like I've got like this 15 minute.
Walk back to the meeting. To figure out.
What I'm going to preach on and I.
Felt just as we were walking I felt God say man there's.
Like just preach Jesus. And I was like.
Really. That's so cliche.
That's cliche, right? We're like everyone's talking
about Jesus. Why can't can't I speak
something like really cool around leadership and he's like
just speak Jesus. And just for me personally, it
was a revelation. That actually Jesus is enough.
Why? Because Jesus is God's.
Plan right and we. Need good teaching on
leadership, and we need good teaching on godliness, and we
need good teaching on all of those kinds of things.
But ultimately, we need to preach Jesus.
We need to show Jesus God is in the business of promoting his
Son, of lifting up his Son, because as the Bible says.
As I am lifted up, Jesus said, as I am lifted up, so I will
draw all men unto myself. And so that's why we praise,
that's why we preach, that's why we gather is so that ultimately
we can lift him up and say, look at him.
Don't look at us, look at him. We need to catch in our hearts
the plan of God is that Jesus would be lifted up.
Is that cool? So that we need to catch in our
hearts. The person of.
God, the plan of God, Dudley shared with us a couple of weeks
ago. Just around God.
'S heart for the Church is to be a prophetic Apostolic Church,
and so I just. Kind of phrase it a little bit
differently. Hope you don't mind that we need
to catch the. Prophetic Apostolic mandate of
God. That we need to understand the
prophetic that God. Is a speaking God and the
Apostolic that God is a sending God.
We need to understand and catch in our hearts that God.
Wants to speak to us. God wants to speak to you as an
individual. He is a communicating God.
He is a speaking God. He wants to direct us through
his Word, through the. Prophetic.
He wants to speak into us, He wants to speak through us to
encourage other people, but God. Also wants to send us.
He wants to send us not just to the nations, but he does want to
send us to. The nations.
He wants to send us to our next door neighbor.
He wants to send. Us to our workplace God.
Has called us. On mission with him and we need
to. Catch in our hearts the this
mandate from God is that He is both a speaking God and He is a.
Sending God, and he has sent us, and he has sent you.
Very reason we are here is because.
He is a sending God. And we see that even in Jesus,
for God to love the world that he.
Gave or he sent his. Only son, right?
Right. God is a sending God.
And then Jesus comes. He says now you go and make
disciples of all nations. God is a sending God.
And so we need to know first of all the Person of God.
We need to know the plan of God. We need to catch in our.
Hearts his. His.
Mandate the prophetic. Apostolic mandate of God.
Right, we need to also. Understand and catch in our
hearts the eternal purpose of God.
We need to know His purpose and. So the difference between the
plan and the purpose are just two words that simply mean very
similar. But we need to know God's plan
on the earth, but we also need to know his purpose for
eternity. And one of the guys at the
Global Equip, he said this and I love the phrase He's going.
We need to remember that this thing doesn't end with a war.
The last chapter of the Bible is not ending with a war.
It's ending with a wedding. We need to remember that.
Everything that God is doing. Here is targeted at one day the
wedding feast of the Lamb, and when I catch in my heart what
God's eternal purpose is, I look at this and I go.
God is preparing a bride for himself.
God is ultimately he's preparing me.
Not just for here and now, but he's preparing me for that day
and so when he's working. On me, when he's working through
me, I keep my eyes. On eternity and I've caught His
eternal plan and purpose is that He is preparing a bride for
himself When you look at the person next to you.
You realize that God? Is working in them for that day.
He's working in them, yes, to have an impact.
Here and now, but He's also working in them for the eternal
purpose of God, which is that He is preparing a people for
Himself. So we need to.
Understand and catch in our hearts as we as we position
ourself, we position ourself with the eternal purpose of God
in our hearts that this is all coming towards a wedding day.
And when I, as I say, when I catch that, I understand
everything that he is doing, the seasons, the the work that he
is. Doing in me the work that.
He's doing through me is ultimately preparing me for that
day because in in Ephesians chapter 6, I think it says it's
talks about that he is preparing a radiant and spotless bride, a
radiant and spotless bride. Every work he's doing is to make
us radiant and spotless for that day.
And I need to catch in my heart the eternal purpose of God.
So we've got the Person of God, the plan of God, the prophetic
Apostolic mandate of God, the purpose of God in preparing a
bride. Two more.
We need to. Catch in our hearts the pattern
of God. We need to catch, we need to
carry in here to position ourselves for what God wants to.
God wants to do in and through me.
I need to know his. Pattern and what I.
In simplicity I mean. His his word, but it's.
Bigger than that, we need to know the pattern of God for my
life. As a dad, I need to know the.
Pattern of. God for raising my children.
As a husband, I need to know the pattern of God.
Of how a husband treats his wife.
As a church leader, I need to know and carry in my heart God.
What is your pattern for your church?
How do you want this thing to work?
It's not a formula. It's not like I can do 2 songs
and you know, have a Holy Spirit keyboard underneath and people
are going to raise their hand to give their life.
It's it's not a formula. It's a.
Pattern. It's a way that God has designed
it to work, and it doesn't make a lot of sense.
We were chatting as an eldership team on Thursday, trying to
unpack the scriptures, and they're like, but in this case
it's true. And in that case it's true.
And we're like. But it's a.
Pattern of God, not a formula of God.
But we need to have it in here. We need to understand first of
all that. God has a pattern.
God has a pattern for our. Life Did you know that God has a
pattern for. How we are to conduct our life,
every area of our life. The Word of God talks about
every area it talks. About our money.
It talks about the way we. Treat each other.
It talks about my words. It talks.
About the way I treat other people and my wife.
It talks about how I raise my kids the word of God.
Has a pattern for every area of my life and I need to carry in
my heart his pattern. Not my ideas, not my thinking,
not. Not.
What I just think is best but his way and as I do.
That I'm positioning myself ready to carry.
Everything that what God wants to do.
So we need to carry. In us the pattern of God for
every area of our life. Finally, number six, we need to
carry in us the power of God. We can.
Do all of this, but we must understand that God is a
powerful working God. In Acts chapter 1, when Jesus
was about to be ascended, he said, wait in Jerusalem, the
Holy Spirit will come upon you and you'll be powered to be
witnesses, right? To a cloth with power.
From on high we understand that God.
We need to understand the power of God.
The reason that's so important is because we can, we can pray.
We've spoke in our prayer meeting this morning around.
Just even the power of prayer, right when I catch in here, and
I understand that, the power of prayer.
That it's not about my words. It's not.
About the way I pray, it's actually about his power.
And we see throughout the early church that it was both.
The word of God came. But it also came with power, and
it was the power of God to save it.
Was the power of God to heal. It was the power of God that set
people free. It was the power of God to open
prison doors that wasn't man's elaborate plans or efforts.
This was the. Power of God at work.
And Romans 116 Paul says I'm not ashamed of the gospel.
For it is the very power of God unto salvation, right?
We need to understand that this gospel carries power.
When we preach, when we speak. When we live our lives in such a
way, we rest on the power of God.
Paul again. He writes in one.
Corinthians and says I didn't. Come.
With eloquent words or wise tales.
But I came rest. That your.
Faith might rest on the power of Christ, not on my eloquent
preaching. We need to catch in our hearts
that we need to rest on the power of God in our life.
And so we we have 6 things that I believe we can help us be
positioned to. Carry what God wants to do.
And that's what God wants to do. Here in this.
Place, but also what God wants to do through you.
And so the first one again is the person of God.
We have to carry a revelation of who?
God is in our hearts what he is like, what he likes, what he
doesn't like, that we need to know who He is personally, that
that word know is not just head knowledge, it's a.
Revelation. We need to.
Know the Person of God. We need to know His plan.
His ultimate plan is Jesus. Reconciling everything under
Jesus. Jesus is His is his plan.
We need to know. The prophetic Apostolic mandate
of God that he is. Both wanting to speak through us
and to us. But he's also wanting to send us
that we are on. Mission with him.
Co labourers with what he wants to do in the earth.
We. Need to understand his eternal
purpose that. Everything we do here.
Isn't just for here and now, it's ultimately preparing a
bride for Christ. We need to understand that He
has a pattern for every area. We need to carry in our hearts
the pattern of God. Study the scriptures.
Find his pattern, find his ways. How we?
Meant to administrate our lives. God has a pattern and we carry
in here. And lastly, we rest on the power
of God. We understand in here that God
is a powerful God and that he brings liberation, he brings
freedom, that he's the one that saves, that this gospel, this
message that we carry is a powerful gospel.
And that's what we shared. Right at the beginning where
people are going into different nations and planning churches,
not because it's. They're great, but because they
understand that God's powerful and that God can change a
nation. And so can I encourage you this
morning, My encouragement is position yourself position.
Yourself look at these. 6 areas and say God, what do I need a
greater revelation of? What area do I need a greater
revelation of because I want. To be one of those people that
win that as you give me what you want to, what you want me to.
Do I'm able to run? That I'm able to run with
everything we want to be as a church.
We want to be a people that as God gives us what he does, and
as he continues to move in our midst, we want to be a.
People that run with everything that he's called us to carry, is
that true? Amen.
Father, we thank you for what you're wanting to do in and
through us as a people. And so we pray, Lord, you will
give us greater revelation, stir our hearts in Jesus name for a
greater revelation that we would position ourselves for
everything you want to do, you through US, in US and beyond us,
we thank you. For this in Jesus name, Amen.
Awesome. Thank you, Justin for that word.
Sitting there there was just this feeling.
The goal was just like these six points.
We've heard them over and over and over again if we've been in
the church for a while, but we need to hear it again.
There are something in those six points each and of us are going
Yep, God, I need more of that. I need more revelation of that.
And as I was sitting there, I just felt this passage where we
it's a well known passage at Matthew 77 says ask and you
shall have seek and you shall find.
Knock and the door will open, right.
That's what we're doing here. If we don't have the purpose in
our in our vision, we don't have the plan in our vision, we don't
have the understanding of the power in our vision.
Ask, seek, knock on that door, which is always Jesus.
It always comes back to having a revelation of Jesus coming back
to the word. It's Jesus, it's his word.
He is revealing things that we don't understand.
Jesus can only reveal it. We can't reveal it, right?
So I don't know if you wanted to stand with me right now.
There's an opportunity to respond to him.
There's six points, but one might be more highlighted to you
or a couple. But let's just take this moment
to seek God and ask in our hearts.
Lord reveal. We knock on the door again.
Lord, He says, when you seek you with our whole heart, we will
find what we ask and we find you.
So Jesus today, why don't you do that real those things that we
need to hear again, those things that be stirred up again, your
prophetic Apostolic mandate, your plan, your purpose, your
power, the person what you like and don't like.
Come and do that work now. And Lord, as we go from this
place, keep us reminded, keep in the forefront of our mind these
things, the power of the gospel, these things that we can walk
out, that we can continue to this week to ask and seek for
fresh revelation so that we can walk in all that you've called
us to do. That we we'll be able to be
ready and positioned for the batten, that you're ready for
our lives, the pattern for our lives that would reveal you to
those that are seeking and hurting and lost.
Lord, let's position ourselves, Lord, this week for the purpose
You have the plan that you were set in motion for us to reveal
You to the world. We pray these things in your
Son's name, Amen. Thank you for joining us for
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AU. Have a blessed day.