Welcome to the podcast of the White Church in Adelaide, South
Australia. Well, we have two amazing people
that are going to be sharing with us today out of their time
away, so I'm just going to stop talking.
We're going to invite Chantelle to come, and Hilary's going to
pray for Chantelle and for the rest of us.
So there we go. I'm not surprised because I was,
I was thinking about you, this world as we were worshipping.
And I'm just like I can remember during COVID, we went for a walk
because that was the only way we were allowed to catch up.
And it was early in our friendship.
And I can remember you said something to me in that time
that's always stuck with me. And it actually came up at our
time at the Global Equip. Someone else preached a message.
It was basically, I think he had it titled Our Only option.
And it always makes me think of you because you know, the stuff
that you had walked through up until that point and you know,
whatever had gone on around you and whatever you had done and
everything else you said to me, following God is my only option.
And I was just like, that's just incredible.
It's always stuck with me. Just a young girl who just loves
God and she knows what life's throwing at her and all the rest
of it. But following God's the only
option. So Lord, we just sorry, set you
up with that. So Lord, we just thank you for
this precious, precious woman. We thank you that from the
youngest age that she has given her life to you and followed you
every step of the way. Lord, we thank you, God, that
you redeem every moment and that you carry us further into more
and more of what you have for for us.
Lord, we thank you, God, that you continue to speak to her and
grow her and shape her and use her.
We thank you for the legacy that her life will set for her family
to follow her, Lord, and that and the legacy of the revelation
that you've given her that we get to walk into.
Lord, we pray your anointing over her as she shares what
you've revealed to her over this time.
Lord, we pray for for our own hearts, Lord, that you would
soften us, that you would just prepare us to hear your voice
for our lives. Lord, that you would prepare us
to make changes, Lord, in accordance with that which she
reveals to us through your through your spirit.
Lord, we pray your peace upon her.
We pray your confidence upon her, not a confidence of her own
ability, Lord, but a confidence that comes from knowing you and
walking with you. Lord, we thank you that you hold
every step in your hand and we just pray your anointing over
her right now. Lord, Amen.
Thank. You Well, good morning.
Hello, everyone. So, yeah, I'm just going to
share a little bit about what God kind of spoke to me at the
equip, which in itself was a incredible opportunity,
testimony, all the good things that, you know, we even got
there and got to go and got to experience just the bigness of
God and everything that he's done in and through people.
Yeah, it was amazing. Bit overwhelming with the amount
of people, wouldn't necessarily recommend doing it pregnant, but
that all aside, it was really cool.
So if you ever get the opportunity to go, I encourage
you to go step out of little old Adelaide and experience the
vastness of our Kingdom. But yeah, I am also at the part
of pregnancy where if I talk too much I get out of breath.
So you have to bear with me just a little bit.
So yeah, OK, anyway, as I was saying, it was a cool experience
just seeing the different testimonies of what God is doing
from around the world and just seeing the reality and the cost
of what it means to lay down your life for God
wholeheartedly. There was a lot shared.
They packed a lot in to a small amount of time.
So yeah, they're only like really two things that stuck out
to me. Two sentences, phrases that were
said at totally two different times by two different people,
two different circumstances, two different environments and one
of them was. So it just doesn't sound
encouraging, but one of them was.
Your circumstances back home have not changed.
And the other one was don't forsake your birthright in
weariness. So before we went, I was like, I
was so encouraged to go and experience change and just all
the goodness of God has for us. And they're the two things that
stuck with me, which aren't necessarily encouraging in, you
know, the shallow aspect. And they aren't necessarily
comforting when you leave being like, God's going to change
everything. And then you hear nothing has
changed back home. So yeah, which was fun, but I
wanted to come home and feel like everything has shifted that
like, we're going to go for gold, like.
But nothing had changed. So things won't necessarily be
easy when we get back home, but my yeah, I wanted to come home
and feel like everything had shifted or changed, that things
would be easy but and that I wouldn't have to change that.
Just my situation would. But truth is, God doesn't bypass
our process. He invites us into it, which
that is encouraging for anyone who has kids, pregnant family,
that's encouraging that, you know, God's in it with us.
And he doesn't just change everything around us, but he
invites us into it and walks us through it.
So walking in God's plans and purposes doesn't just happen,
but it takes a response. It takes deliberate choices.
It takes repentance, faith, and obedience, and often course
correction, which out of those two statements is, I think what
God was trying to show me that just through life circumstances,
maybe my course hadn't quite been on God wholeheartedly or
I'd let things get in the way, but that through those two
statements, He was bringing me back to His heart and bringing
me back to what He has for me. So these two statements had made
me look at my heart and look at where I truly was in my walk,
where I actually was in my parenting and being a wife,
being a mother, being a friend. Yeah.
So I had a question that had popped up in my mind just
pondering upon this. It's have I been responding to
God out of faith and obedience or out of weariness and
frustration? Because the truth is, in life it
makes us weary. We've had health problems that
have made us weary. We've had work that makes us
weary. Family relationships have made
us weary. Parenting has made us weary.
Even like preparing for this baby like makes us weary.
So for me, I found myself responding from a place of
weariness and not necessarily out of a place of faith and
obedience. So that led me to my next
question. Have I been looking for a way
out of my weariness over contending for the inheritance
that God has for me? Which you know, you can all
answer that in your own hearts and that's between you and God.
But I know for me, some circumstances probably haven't
been contending for the inheritance that God has for me
in the way that I know that He has called me to do it as well.
So which brings us to the story that one of the ladies shared,
which is Esau's story out of Genesis 27 verse, sorry, Genesis
25, verse 29 to 34, which is an example of Esau choosing
temporary relief over the lasting reward.
So just going to read out just a few bursts to remind us.
So Esau came in from the field, exhausted and hungry.
He saw that Jacob had made some Stew and in his desperation he
said, let me have some of that red Stew, I'm famished, Jacob
replied first sell me your birthright.
And Esau agreed. Esau said, Look, I'm about to
die. What good is this birthright to
me? So this little snippet of
Scripture reveals his short sightedness, that he was focused
on his present discomfort so much that he devalued his future
inheritance, a legacy that was both material and spiritual.
Which sort of links to my question Have I been looking for
a way out of my weariness? Have you been looking for a way
out, looking for temporary relief instead of holding on and
pushing in and contending for the things that God has for you?
So Esau shows us that spiritual weariness or disappointment in
the work that God has called us to can lead us to make poor
decisions. So Esau was out hunting and he
was doing what God had made him to do.
It was his God-given role, but he had came up empty and the
lack of results made him feel that what was promised no longer
had the value. And he let his momentary hunger
and discoverment discouragement outweigh the significance of his
God ordained future. Which is a big, a big thing for
a bowl of soup. Like, you know, like I don't
think I've ever been so hungry that I've gone.
Lord, you're actually not what I want.
I'm going to have a soup. So, but we can get to this place
of weariness and discouragement where we feel that we actually
can't go on. So, yeah.
And so just tying that in over the last few months, just what
I've personally felt in and for this church, listening to what
everyone has preached, what everyone has brought over the
last well, since we've been here, you know, they've talked
about God's intention for us, what it truly means to build his
house while we gather in this place.
And my questions to you guys today is have you let, have you
gone weary in trying to put these things into place because
it hasn't gone the way you expected?
You know, we've talked about opening up our homes and
connecting with each other. And sometimes that doesn't
always go the way we plan. Sometimes having someone over is
hard work. Cleaning your house for someone
to come over is not necessarily fun.
It's not necessarily what you want to be doing.
And trying to keep it clean with children in the house doesn't
necessarily go to plan. And it can make you go weary and
frustrated And but do you still expect fruit to come from it?
Or are you just focusing on temporary relief that maybe you
don't need to invite anyone over, so you don't need to clean
your house and you don't need to worry about what it looks like?
Have you stepped back, maybe even tried to hand away your
birthright, the very inheritance that Jesus paid on the cross
because it felt too hard, too slow or too uncomfortable?
You know, we've talked about worship and what that looks like
sometimes, you know, clapping your hands can feel awkward.
Sometimes holding your hands up can feel awkward, or singing
with someone stand next year is just a bit uncomfortable.
But you know, as we heard this morning, it's our very right and
privilege and our inheritance to praise Jesus with everything
inside of us. So, you know, the cost of it
feeling too uncomfortable doesn't come close to, you know,
the privilege that we have to worship him.
So the truth is that following God's call and building his
house isn't about comfort. It's about commitment.
It's about choosing faith over frustration, obedience over
weariness, and trusting that what God has spoken, he'll bring
to pass. So I have a verse that I've
personally stuck to since the equip because circumstances back
home didn't change. It's Galatians 6, verse 9.
It's let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper
time we'll reap a harvest if we do not go give up.
And for me, this isn't just a nice verse, but it's a lifeline.
It reminds me that even in the middle of exhaustion, there is a
harvest coming. That I can't give up.
That I can't let weariness dictate my choices or derail my
obedience. I can't trade my birthright, the
coding identity and inheritance that God has given me just
because I am tired. So now my circumstances haven't
changed because I went to the Global Equip.
I still have to parent 2 very passionate boys.
There's still a house to clean and a baby to prepare for and an
endless list to sort out. But I no longer feel that I need
these situations to change for my life to get easier because
God is changing me and that God, what God is doing in me is far
more important than what's happening around me.
And if I stay the course, weary or not, frustrated or not, I
will see the fruit that he has promised.
So I just encourage you guys in this season that we're walking
in as a church, that when it gets hard and when you feel
weary and when you feel exhausted and tired and
everything else, that to keep contending for what God has for
us, to keep contending what God has for you personally and to
not give up because we'll reap a harvest and it's coming because
God said it. And that's.
The don't don't run away. Chantel was going to pray for us
in a minute. She just learned that, but you
know, like it is, it's easy to fall into weariness and you
know, serving the Lord's not easy, right?
Like it's not the easiest choice, like, but it's, it's
obviously the most rewarding choice.
It's where you, you know, it's where God's made us to be.
It's, it's what we're designed for to follow the Lord to serve
his plan and purpose. So I just, we need to respond to
that. If we're tired, if we're weary,
whatever, if we just need just to be rewinded, you know, we're
going to keep moving forward. Can we just stand and just, you
know, as a, as a response to the Lord and, and Chantel's just
going to pray for us. So thank you.
Lord, we just thank you for who you are, Lord Jesus, and all
that you have for us. Lord, we open up ourselves to
you, Lord God, in these moments of weariness and these moments
of frustration and tiredness. Lord God, when we can easily
step back and take ourselves out of the game.
Lord Jesus, to sit back and let someone else do it.
Lord Jesus, but we just speak and declare that we'll be a
people that contend for your Kingdom, Lord God, that contend
for your will, Lord Jesus. That will work, Lord, until we
see the harvest, until we see the fruit, Lord Jesus, that we
won't give up, Lord Jesus, but we will continue to press on and
press into all that you have for us as individuals and as a
church, Lord Jesus. So we just thank you that we
look forward and we look onwards, Lord Jesus, to the
harvest that you had for us, Lord the fruit, Lord God, that
we will see. It may be slow in our eyes, Lord
Jesus. It may not happen the way we
want it, Lord Jesus, but we just thank you for your goodness and
your kindness, Lord Jesus, that when you say something will come
to pass, Lord God, Jesus. So we choose to believe you over
our circumstances. We choose to believe you over
our emotions, Lord Jesus, because you are King and you are
Lord over all, and we praise you.
Amen. Thank you so much.
Good job. Hey, well done.
I'm going to ask Daniel to come. Dudley, would you please come as
well before you sit down? You sort of halfway down.
Would you come and pray for Daniel for us, please?
Thank you, man. Sorry to make you walk all the
way out here. Cool.
Yeah. Come.
Thanks. Let's all stretch our hands out
towards Dan. Father, we thank you.
This man loves you. We thank you that we see how
every opportunity he gets, he talks about you, serves you, is
available with a servant heart. You've raised him up.
I remember the day I met him when he walked into that
meeting, the things you said to me about him.
And I want to just say, Lord, I believe them to this day.
We've seen some of it and there's so much more coming.
We ask that you'd bless him now his family.
You'd lift up wherever there is weariness.
Give them strength. You've said and you promised,
and it is true as your days, so shall your strength be that you
also said, they that wait upon the Lord, they shall renew their
strength, that they shall walk and not grow weary.
They shall run and they shall rise up with wings like eagles.
And so we pray that for them as a family, their children growing
up. But I pray now that whatever
he's going to share, that it'll come in the power of the Holy
Spirit. Release him from any
intimidation, awkwardness, even lack lots of words or lack of
understanding or words that you'll speak truth with boldness
and release that comes only from the One who brings freedom in
Jesus name, Amen. Amen.
The global equip. Why say that at the beginning we
weren't going to go because financials.
And then we said, you know what, we're going to buy a ticket to
this the equip, not even a plane ticket, nothing like that.
And I remember that day we were on the beach.
We were just like, you know what, let's just do it.
However we're going to do, we're just going to do it.
And we just kept going. All right, let's try and work
out our work schedule. As men, we like to fix things
and try and get it all online. So I was like, all right, I'll
pick up some extra garden jobs, I'll do overtime, I'll do
whatever I have to do. And God saw that heart and he
opened up a door to bring the blessing that he played, paid
for flights for us to get there. The door got opened that we
could be a part of the bigger things of NCMI, but the bigger
things of God's doing over this world.
Do you connect with people that we thought we would never get
connected with? Guys from Canada, guys from
Spain, from Brazil, South Africa, now we've got doors
open, homes and places people like come, come.
So that's my first encouragement.
The next time that happens, put your faith out there step and
say I don't, I don't have it and try work it out because God
wants to see your faith in action.
And when your faith is in action and you're beating just that
small little thing on the side of you, God's guarantee you're
going to pack the bill and he did.
That's my encouragement when you do that step out, he will supply
three things. One of the big things was
obedience that run through the entire conference.
Most of the the speakers spoke about obedience being our only
option. Obedience is now, the time is
now. And the next one they talked
about fruitfulness and multiplication.
And something that really struck me is when we're talking about
weariness, there was still fruit in weariness.
And this lady shared on faith. Well, her name was Faith as
well. Faith shared on faith in
unshakeable situations or in shakeable situations.
She was in her house. She planted a garden and then
the gods like she's like, I'm looking off this garden and like
actually going to move out of this house.
Now she's like, oh, I'm not going to water the garden
anymore. But then God spoke to her heart
and said, hey, you're watering for the next generation for that
garden. So there was fruit in her
shaking. There was fruit and weariness.
There was fruit and lack. There's fruit and abundance.
There's fruit and sowing. There's fruit and harvest.
If we join with what God is revealing us, if we can see what
He's doing, we will see the fruit.
If we're submitted to Him, we'll see the fruit no matter what
season we're in. Then from fruitfulness becomes
multiplication because something that Leo shared was a fruit has
seeds in it. We ate an apple, Seeds come out,
there are multiple seeds in an apple, and then you plant it
again, and then more trees and apples come up with more seeds
inside of them, and then again and again and again and again.
That is the principle. But the beginning point starts
with obedience. If we can't be obedient, we
won't see fruit, we won't see a harvest, we won't see a
multiplication come. So I'm going to speak around
obedience this morning. Everyone likes this word
obedience. It's a word we never ever
graduate from. That's something that I really
felt strongly at the equip. No matter where you're at in
your walk with God, obedience is a word that you can never
graduate from. You continue to be obedient to
his voice. Before I get to the obedience
part, I'm going to talk about disobedience first.
Some of the David said he's like, you might want to contrast
to this. I was like, actually a smart
idea. Hey.
So when I thought of disobedience, I thought of two
people in the Bible that there's significance of their
disobedience brought to generations.
We got Adam. Adam gave up his God-given
authority as Satan. As soon as Adam ate of the
apple, he had this awareness that he was naked and he was
ashamed and then the presence of God.
He was afraid of the presence of God.
He then was taken out of their garden, so he had his peace
taken away from him. The presence of God was hard and
I had to work to get to the presence of God.
And the next thing is his relationship was fractured, not
just with God, but with Eve. He said this is the woman that
you gave me God. She she right instantly there
was a relational fracture happening here from
disobedience. There was three things that
really stuck out to me was that he lost his authority.
He lost his peace in the presence of God.
And then his relationships are all fractured around that.
And we see that throughout all of the Bible, every relationship
from there had been fractured and broken.
Sin had tainted it. The second one is Saul.
Saul was anointed king by Samuel.
He was more afraid of people than afraid of God.
And in the end there was this last battle where I'm going to
read it in Samuel one. Yeah, one Samuel 15 one to
three. One day Samuel said to Saul, it
was the Lord who told me to anoint you as king of of his
people, Israel. Now listen to the message from
the Lord. This is what the Lord of heavens
armies has declared. I have decided to set accounts
for the the nation of Amalek for opposing Israel when they came
from Egypt. Now go and completely.
The word here is completely destroy the entire like nation,
men, women, children, babies, cuddles, sheep, goats, camels
and donkeys. We skip further down to verse 20
and 22. This is what Saul was saying, he
said, but I obeyed the Lord. Saul insisted.
I carried out the mission that he gave me.
I brought back King Agag, but I destroyed everyone else.
Then my troops brought in the best of the sheep, The cattle
and the goats are plundered. The sacrifice to the Lord
regarding Gilgal. But Samuel replied, What is more
pleasing to the Lord, your burnt offerings or sacrifice or your
obedience to his voice? Listen, obedience is better than
sacrifice. Submission is better.
Saul was afraid and he wanted to kind of quote that, hey, these
are good animals, I'm sacrificing to God, but God
never said that to sacrifice them.
God said destroy them completely.
Saul didn't completely obey God. And from that very moment we see
further on in that story, the presence that was on Seoul was
taken away. And and the sad thing is it
wasn't just Saul that had to have the ramifications of the
disobedience. His entire lion, God said, I'm
going to bless your lion to have the Kingdom of Israel.
When Saul did that, the entire family, the entire line of soul
was taken away from Israel as reigning king and God raised up
David. See, 1 little disobedience may
will not feel like it affects us now, but it's going to affect
generations and people that haven't even been born yet.
I want to talk about obedience now.
So we know, we know what disobedience is, right?
It is hearing the word of God and going Nah, or God knowing
something that God's told you to do or you stirred in and you go,
Nah, too odd. That's what Australians do,
right? We just go, ah, that's a bit too
odd. Put that in that basket over
here. I shared this at Community group
and this, this verse has hit me again.
And I kept it in here because I was like, this has to happen.
So Acts 96 to 19 was a bit of a lengthy one, but we'll get
through it. Now get up and go into the city.
This is Saul and Paul at the moment.
We're just going to give us a paraphrase.
Actually, my apologies. Saul was going and hunting down
the Christians. But in this moment Saul had been
encountered with Christ, knocked off his horse, and he was
blinded. Now God was speaking to him.
And we'll start here. Now get up and go into the city
where I've told you what must must be do, must be done.
The men of souls stood speechless, for they heard the
sound of someone's voice, but they saw no one.
Saul picked himself off the ground, but when he opened up
his eyes he was blind. So his companions led him by the
hand out of Damascus. He remained there blind for
three days and did not eat or drink.
Now there's a believer in Damascus named Ananias.
The Lord spoke to him in a vision, calling Ananias.
Yes, Lord, he replied. The Lord said, go over to
Straight St. to the House of Judas.
When you get there, ask for a man of Tarsus named Saul.
He is praying to me right now. I have shown him a vision of a
man named Ananias coming in, laying hands on him so he can
see again. But Lord, exclaimed Ananias,
I've heard many people talk about this terrible things this
man has done to the believers in Jerusalem, and he is authorized
by the leading priest to arrest anyone who calls and calls upon
your name. But the Lord said, go, for Saul
is my chosen instrument to take my message to the Gentiles and
to kings, as well as to the people of Israel, and I will
show him how much he will suffer for my name's sakes.
So Ananias went and found Saul. He laid his hands on him and
said, Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the
road has sent me, that you may regain your sight and be filled
with the Holy Spirit. Instantly, like scales full of
Saul's eyes, he regained his sight.
Then he got up and was baptized. Afterwards he ate some food and
regained his strength. Still sight there in the
believers Damascus for a few days.
See, Ananias had a little moment where he went.
He's actually got authority to do this.
Lord, Are you sure I'm hearing you correctly?
And the Lord says I've already shown him that it's you.
And so. And I says, all right, well, if
you've said you've said it, Lord, I'm going to do it.
And even that he gave him explicit instructions go down
straight, straight. If we listen carefully enough,
God will give us the right direction and instructions to us
to be obedient to what he's saying.
And from that, we're standing here because of what Ananias was
obedient to the word of God because Paul then later on we
see he's been changed to Paul and he writes the New Testament,
most of the New Testament, and we're standing here teaching the
New Testament today. And that revelation that he had,
generations were impacted by his obedience.
Many people came to know Jesus because of his obedience, but it
started with the man that was being prayed to, being asked for
a vision. Go and pray for this man.
So Ananias heard God and obeyed and it brought fruit for
generations and for generations to come that are unborn.
The next example I felt was Abraham.
We know Abraham was named Abram before he got a name change to
Abraham. And God called him out of his
own hometown and said, now leave and go to this town that I'm
going to show you. Canaan didn't tell him much more
about that, did he? He didn't say pack this much, go
this way. He just said go.
Abraham had barely any details, but he went, he obeyed God.
So this is another scripture. We may not have all the details,
but God's telling us through this, just do it because there's
an there's fruit from that obedience because then we see
that later on. He says, if you leave your
country, your relatives and your fathers, I will show you and
I'll make you into a great nation.
I will bless you and make you famous and a blessing to others.
As you become obedient, God will make you a blessing to others
around you and other generations to come will reap the harvest of
your obedience. Matthew 2818 and 20.
We all know this one, right? Jesus came and told his
disciples, I have given you all authority in heaven and earth.
Teach these new disciples to obey all my commands I've given
you and be sure of this, that I am with you to the end of the
age. Jesus said teach them to obey
all my commands. Now I've just lifted a few
commands here. Love God, love your neighbor,
forgive, turn your other cheek. Do not judge.
Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out
demons, freely give as you freely receive.
Preach to the Kingdom is at hand.
Go and make disciples. They're just a few things that
God has commanded us as the church to be doing each and
every day. Jesus says he's coming back for
a ready bride that also includes obedient pride to his commands
because he says there teach the new disciples to obey all my
commands. That's a hard fun sometimes
because sometimes I don't want to turn my cheek.
Sometimes I'm learning how to obey when he says turn your
cheek. I haven't seen many demons cast
out, but I'm obeying that. That's that's what the word of
God says. I'm I'm doing it healing the
sick. We just got to put our hands on
someone and pray for them in his name.
We'll see these things because it says when you preach the
gospel, these things will come. We just got to be obedient to
the simple things and God's going to do what he wants to do
in that. So if Jesus is coming back for a
ready bride, he's coming back for a bride that listens and
loves and obeys his commandments.
Why do we need to obey? It keeps our hearts soft before
the Lord. It keeps us able to hear his
voice and sensitive to what God's going to do in our lives,
through our lives around those around us.
If we're in a workplace, in a shopping center again, he said
go and make disciples. Go and share my good news.
These are things we have to be obedient to in the moments.
Be sensitive. And if we're in disobedience,
we're starting to nullify the voice of God.
We're starting to harden our hearts to what He said.
Then we won't hear clearly what He's trying to say.
See, obedience isn't a heavy thing.
Obedience is actually a freeing thing.
Obedience gives us a dependence on God like no other.
Obedience brings us in a deeper relationship with God.
That intimacy grows. Obedience reflects who He is to
others that need to see who He is.
A great example is Jesus as I as I land here.
Jesus is a great example of true obedience.
He heard the Father, He did. I know what the Father did to
say and do. He even was that obedient.
He went to the cross. He's not calling us to go to a
cross, but He showed us the true way of living an obedient life
to the voice of God. She's going to end on this
scripture verse. So far I didn't write it in
there, so bear with me. I'm so sorry.
We are made alone, Christ. Once you were dead because of
your disobedience here, many sins, you used to live in sin
just like the rest of the world, obeying the devil, the
commander, the powers of the unseen world.
So Ephesians 21 to 8, He is a spirit at work in the hearts of
those to refuse to obey God. All of us, all of us used to
live that way, following the Passion as eyes, the inklings of
our spiritual nature. But by our very nature we are
subject to God's anger just like everyone else.
But God is so rich in mercy, and He loved us so much, that even
though we were dead because of our sins, He gave us life when
He raised Christ from the dead. It is only by God's grace that
we have been saved, for He raised us from the dead along
with Christ and seated us in the heavenly realms because we are
knighted with Christ. So God can point to us in all
future examples of the incredible wealth of His grace
and kindness towards us as shown all He has done for us who are
united in Christ. God save us by His grace when we
believed, and you cannot take credit for this.
It is a gift from God, salvation in the reward of things we have
done. So we cannot boast about it, for
God has. We are God's masterpiece.
He created us a new in Christ Jesus so we can do the good
things that He had planned for us long ago.
He has good things, precious things, treasures for us, but it
all starts with obedience to Him and His Word and His commands.
And as we be obedient, we start to walk in the purposes and
plans. And I can only start with a
small thing. And He'll continue to strengthen
you and build you as you go and take that next step of faith in
the obedience. You'll get to open up the doors
of destiny for yourself, but also people that are standing
behind you. We started off with
disobedience. Generations and generations to
come. Obedience and generations,
generations to come. Each and every one of us have an
obedience that people from behind us will step into the
inheritance of that. Yeah.
Lord, we want to be a a Church of people that is obedient to
your voice, whether it's a small thing or a big thing.
Lord, obedience is obedience. And as we do that, as we step
out, Lord, we, we thank you that you would show us what you're
doing. So help us through this day and
through the week ahead to keep our ear attuned to you, to keep
our hearts soft and sensitive to us.
Holy Spirit, is there anything that you're trying to show us
right now that we can be obedient to even right now?
You're probably staring at some things, Lord, even show us how
we can do that. You gave direction.
You gave specific details sometimes.
Sometimes you don't. But Lord, we want to be that
bride that's ready for you, pure, ready and getting yourself
for the day of your coming. Lord, So help us again.
Remind us again of your commands to teach them to those that have
come through, to obey all of them so that generations to
come, that nations around us would see who you are, who you
truly are. The lost would see the reflector
of the Father in us. Your face would shine out of
ours. Lord Jesus, we we thank you that
you are our greatest example of obedience.
Show us in your word again afresh grip our hearts on how
you were the true example of obedience.
We pray these things in your name, Amen.
Thank you, man. I was just like, I was thinking
like while while Daniel was speaking about, you know, God's
leading for us and in our lives and stuff like that, you know,
God's got a, a very specific plan for us.
You know, even with soul as as Daniel shared, it's just like
soul didn't get on board with God's plan.
God didn't change his mind about the plan.
God just used someone else. And so it's the same with us,
like we don't live in a different place than these guys
lived. It's the same with us.
We could get on board with God's plan for our lives, for what
he's wanting to do, where we live, where He's got us.
We could get on board. We could be used by God or we
could not. And but God will have his way.
God's plan is God's plan. So he will use whoever is
willing, you know, and he will move from one person to the next
if need be. And I don't want us to be a
people that misses the opportunities that God has for
us. You know, I was thinking about
Agps that you know, when you say when you put in a destination
and it goes all right, go down there and turn left or turn left
on this street or whatever, so that then you turn left.
When you turn left, then it gives you the next direction,
right? So it's like obedience opens the
way for the for more direction. Now, if I turn right, what does
it do? It redirects you, right?
So you could miss where God's leading you in your life.
And it doesn't mean that God rides you off that OK, forget
about it. I'm not going to bother with
this person anymore. God doesn't do that.
But God might have to redirect a new path for you might miss
something, right? You could blow it.
You could miss it. If God was telling you how you
just marry this woman and you didn't and she married someone
else, you might have blown it. I don't think anyone in this
room, I don't think anyone in this room is like, OK, but do
you see my point? You could miss what God was
calling you to do and that might be done now.
So that has to be OK. You have to put the past, let
the past stay in the past and get on with what's in front
because God does have another path for you and I if we blow it
so. And we thank you, Lord for that,
Lord, we thank you, Lord, that that you don't turn your back on
us and throw us away like we've we've been disobedient.
That's it. You always, Lord, have a plan
and a purpose for us. You are always drawing you
sorry, drawing us to yourself. And so we thank you for that
today, Lord. And I just pray for all of us in
this room, Lord, whatever the things that because the enemy
remind us of all our messing up and all of those things.
Lord, I pray freedom in this place.
I pray that you would free us in our thinking to know that the
past is in the past and the future is ahead of us.
Lord, I pray that you would call us into your glorious future.
You are the God of of life. You are the God of future of
inheritance God, and we thank you that you're leading us into
those things and we praise you. Lord, even as we started, we
just continue our day just giving you praise and glory.
You're a wonderful God and we love you in this place.
Jesus name Amen. Thank you for joining us for
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