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Now, enjoy this message Bible is about a king.
His kingdom and his Royal Offspring, to make it real
simple. What is the Bible about a king,
his kingdom and his Royal Offspring?
I'll say it again. The Bible is about a king, his
kingdom, and his Royal offspring.
In Matthew, chapter 4, verse number 17, when Jesus comes onto
the scene at 30 years old to start his ministry.
The first words out of his mouth publicly spoken is this, we find
this in Matthew chapter 4. Verse number 17.
It says, from that time. So this was the start, but this
was his message. Jesus began to preach and say,
repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
Then in Matthew chapter 24. Verse number 14.
The word says this. This Gospel of, the Kingdom will
be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations and
then the end will come. So it's this gospel.
This gospel, it's just not any gospel, gospel means, good news,
good news of Deliverance, good news of Freedom, good news of
redemption, but it's the good news of the kingdom of God.
What is a kingdom? The very Greek word because the
New Testament was written in Greek, the Old Testament Hebrew,
the Greek word for Kingdom, has boss Alia.
That means a realm or a territory work.
A king is in charge. So, let me put it this way.
God is not killing you or waiting for you to expire to
die, to get you into the kingdom of God.
The kingdom of God is anywhere where you permit him to be king.
And Luke chapter 17, Jesus addresses this to really thank
God for Jesus because he always brings truth to bring Clarity
and religion will bring a confusion.
That's why. I said the Bible is a book about
a king, his kingdom and his Royal offspring.
Luke chapter 17 verses 20 through 21.
The word says this when he was asked Jesus was asked by the
Pharisees, when the kingdom of God will come Jesus answered
them. And said, the kingdom of God
does not come with observation nor will they say, see hear or
see? Therefore, indeed.
The kingdom of God is within you.
Remember, I said, God for us, God with us, but we need to know
that God is in us. The kingdom of God, is in us.
It's not coming with observation wherever you permit Jesus to be
Lord. There is the kingdom being lived
out and being manifested. So once you give your life to
God and you start this New Journey, I read a book years ago
called a the ride of a lifetime. It was by the CEO of Disney.
Praise the lord. We should all stop and pray now.
Glory to God. But he at that time, titled that
book. But I thought man being with God
being in his kingdom, let us Kingdom manifest through us is
the ride of a lifetime. Because when you are born again,
that's just the start. Not the end.
Just like when you get married. Yes, what you don't say, honey,
we did our vows, that was awesome.
See you down the road sometime. I hope you didn't do that.
No, what you want to enjoy the relationship.
Ship the Covenant that you entered into right?
And that was that supposed to be a lifetime.
Commitment. Right?
How much more God the Father, when you're in a relationship
with him through Jesus? Does that become a lifetime
commitments? I'm not impressed with today.
I'm looking for where you at in a year from now where you at
five years from now where you at ten years from now if the Lord
tarries, where are you at 20 years from now?
Are you still participating in that living?
Covenant with God, Almighty growing and thriving in the
things of God. This brings me to five, six
questions. I want to ask you today, six
questions, I want to give you today, six questions.
I want to have you Ponder, not just today.
But throughout this week, the weeks to come and really the
years and the decades to come because I want you to stay on
point. God wants you to stay on point.
God wants you to stay committed. You realize the devil wants to
derail you off of God's plan for your life.
Number one, the first question is this and everybody's asking
these questions to themselves? Where did I come from?
That's a question of heritage. Listen. if you limit, where you
came from to ancestry.com, That's a question of source.
Thank God for ancestry can give you some genealogy records of
where you came from and the Earth but you got to realize,
where did I come from? The Bible says, I've been born
of God really. My DNA, my jeans?
Right? Is of the lineage of God.
If we could just see ourselves of that, boy, you dries up like
a thoroughbred. And say man I have God's DNA on
the inside of me. I didn't come from the wrong
side of the tracks. I didn't come out of poverty.
I don't come out of riches. I came out of God.
And I really get the fullness of what God wants to do in a
lifetime commitment, you with him, you got to realize and
meditate on man. I came from God, I'm of God, I'm
in God. Secondly, who am I?
You know, the world's asking this and coming up with all
kinds of crazy and ungodly. Answers that.
Who am I? Well, you know where you're
going to find yourself at because this is the answer that
is it's a question of identity. You find yourself in the word of
God. You find who you really are in
this word. The third thing is, what can I
do? People ask what can I do?
And that's a question of potential and I guarantee that
most people in this room have not even tapped into Scratch the
surface of what God has put on the inside of you.
I pray that it awakens today and it stays awake for the week's,
the months and the years to come.
Amen. Potential is everything you
could do. But haven't done potentials,
unused strength untapped ability, it's your capacity.
It's what God put on the inside of you.
And said this is this is my plan in my purpose for you.
I put the potential on the inside of you but listen
potential will not grow unless you develop it.
And give yourself to it. The fourth question is, why am I
here? That's a question of purpose.
Purpose. It's the why not the what?
And the why Always motivates the what, some people know what to
do, but they don't know why they're doing it.
Purpose answers. A question of I exist for this
reason. I exist for this plan and let me
say this. God has a plan for you.
Every Born Again. Child of God.
God said this is a, this is the plan or this is the purpose that
I have for you and there's different seasons and different
stages within that purpose. The fifth thing is, where am I
going? That's a question of Destiny.
And the sixth thing is what will I leave in the Earth?
What will I leave in the Earth? And that's a question of legacy.
The Bible says a good man, leaves an inheritance to his
children's children, and inheritance is what you leave.
But a legacy is, who you leave, Jesus left truth in the earth.
So our Legacy is Believers is always to maximize the gift that
got put on the inside of us so that we pour it out.
Paul said this way, I fought the good, right?
A fight, I finished. My course, I'm being poured out.
Was it the legacy of my assignment is being poured out?
And guess what? We Still partaking of what the
Apostle Paul did, right? He wrote a majority of the New
Testament Epistles and we are still feeding on that inspired
word by the Holy Ghost delivered.
By the Apostle. Paul, what are you going to
leave? What assignment is God put in
you that you're going to say at the end of your life?
I've poured it out. We poured it out.
The title of today's message is this Kingdom mandate a life of
purpose. Kingdom mandate a life of
purpose. Now mandate is this as defined?
It's an authoritative command of formal order.
I say this way. It's a Divine assignment.
It comes from the throne to the heart of a child of God.
One of his Royal offsprings and said this is what I want you to
do. And that creates a life of
purpose. Look at Jesus, he was filled
with purpose on the earth. He had a mandate, a Divine
assignment from the father. In John, chapter 18 verse number
37, the word says, this pilot said to Jesus, are you a king
then? Jesus answered, you say, rightly
that, I'm a king for this, cause I was born for this, cause I
have come into the world that I should bear witness to the
truth, everyone who is of the truth, hears my voice.
So Jesus knew that his purpose was to bring truth.
To the Earth. And first John chapter 3 verse
number 8. The Bible says, for this
purpose, the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy
the works of the devil. So the purpose of Jesus was to
destroy loosen, obliterate release the shackles of what the
devil is doing in the Earth. First John chapter 4 verse.
Number 17 says, as he is, Jesus is so, are we in this?
World. If Jesus lived a life on
purpose, we should live a life on purpose.
We should have a kingdom mandate and be Philip bit of be
fulfilling the intention, the design and the aim that God has
for us, the Apostle Paul demonstrated.
This as I said, the Apostle, Paul wrote, the book many books,
but to the Corinthian Church and my key text today is going to be
found in 1st Corinthians. Verses 24 through 27.
I read it in a minute. First Corinthians 9:24-27, now,
Paul on his first missionary journey, he went to the city at
Corinth, koretz Was a Roman colony.
And basically it was the Hub of their Commerce, one of the
greatest hubs of Commerce further.
Roman Colony, they were a port city, primarily filled of
Gentiles people. That had no clue about God.
Never heard about God. It was filled with Greeks, it
was filled with Rome is it was filled with orientals and
obviously, because it was a, it was a huge metropolitan area.
Some Scholars say between 100,000 to 700,000 people in
this city, But also, there was a lot of money flowing into it
because shipping was one of their primary Industries.
So they were able to make a lot of money.
So there was Sailors, there there was businessman but you
can imagine the moral fabric of this society which I'll tell you
there was a lot of money flowing into it.
And guess what? When you don't know, God, or
know the things of God, guess what money does?
It becomes everything you're living for?
So I'm sure there was greed. I'm sure there was bribery.
I'm sure there was a lust for money.
Not only that, but it was heavily Greek influenced.
Reminds me of America secularly. You know, many of our University
started off with a sacred purpose, a Christian foundation
and they have been derailed and start of just teaching secular
philosophy. But that's how the city was they
were huge on philosophy and intellectualism.
Matter of fact the Greeks out of he had great oratory skills that
set you apart. Not only that.
But it was a huge fornicating popularity of population.
I mean to say that you become Christian, I just meant that you
were one that committed fornication, the Temple of
Aphrodite, this was there where they actually had prostitution
at that Temple. So Paul comes in the great news
is God, has a purpose for Paul. Paul comes into the city of
Corinth with the gospel of the Kingdom.
In fifty a d-- he preaches the message, people listen to the
message and they respond and a church is started.
But five years later is guess what?
There's problems. In that church. 16 chapters in
First Corinthians 1 and there's a second book 2 Corinthians.
But Paul in the first chapter, first, nine verses to correct
some of these things that were gone on.
After five years of hearing the truth, he leaves to continue
missionary journey such leadership in the church.
But gets word that the church isn't going well.
So guess what? Leadership is going to good
leadership is going to bring correction Good leadership is
going to being truth. Listen, if you're going the
wrong way, on a one-way Road. You want somebody to say, stop
turn around when I used to work and coming out of Bible school,
this is amazing. I told you signs wonders and
miracles, follow the preaching. The word I was actually a car
salesman. After I got out of Bible school,
spirit filled selling cars, worked out good because I walked
in Integrity. I wasn't a line sleazy grease
here. Slick salesman not treated
people the right way and thank God.
We had a Spirit-filled owner whose whole reason purpose.
Lifetime commitment was to he knew what God had called him.
Do he knew why God had called him and mr.
Bobby Nelson, the whole reason, he had that business was to fund
the gospel. He was set.
Financially. But he continued open up more
dealerships because he knew that was his fit in the body of
Christ. Not everybody?
That gets born again, is going to be preaching behind a Pulpit
and I know, personally, he blessed my wife and I when we
left Florida, gave us a cheque said, you know, just be blessed.
We're coming to Florida to help Pastor.
Oh Marcy, start this church. I know that he's solely
supported missionaries over in China.
But that's the purpose. I'm trying to get ingrained and
you, what is God called you to do?
But I remember there, it was right off the highway.
There's an on-ramp in an off ramp, then unwrap is close to
the dealership. You have to go over the overpass
to get to the, the ramp coming onto the egg, onto the highway
that way. But I remember I was, I was one
Saturday morning, I was there. I was kind of looking out the
window getting prepared for my day.
Saturday's were a very long day in the car industry.
My wife had called me many times at 6:00 when you coming home,
Don't know was my consistent answer.
Because if you're in the middle of selling a car, you're a
hundred percent commission. You got to just can't say, hey,
I'm checking out. I mean, there's sometimes I work
from 9:00 to midnight selling cars, it's just the way it was,
but I'm getting ready. And all sudden I heard this huge
crash and what happened, an elderly person, actually, when
they were coming up to get onto the highway, they went down the
wrong way. So, instead of getting onto the
on-ramp correctly, they didn't go over the overpass.
They came coming, you know, for the other direction for the
people coming off the going, one way coming up that ramp, you
know. So they're coming.
On way another car, hit them head-on.
But that's what Paul was doing was saying, listen this, he was
correcting the church. There were things that were off.
So the first nine verses, the First Corinthians 1, he really
does a salutation but then he reestablishes the lordship of
Jesus Christ, he mentions it several times, that Jesus is
Lord, he's just not savior, thank God.
He saves us. He delivers us.
But lordship is a kingdom mindset where I'm saying you
have the final say, not my way, not my will, but whatever the
word of God says, that's what I want to live by.
That is my filter that My strength that is my source that
I draw from right, but then after the ninth verse, he gets
into the 10th. Verse of the first chapter, he
starts dealing with things like strife and division.
So in this church from the time they started 25 years later,
guess what their strife, and there's division in the Church
of Paul's bringing correction to the church.
The second chapter he goes over because this is a heavy, heavy
Heavenly intellectual Society, right?
He says, listen to things of God are just not grabbed
intellectually, you only know the things of the The Spirit by
the spirit, don't forget that. Don't don't start in the spirit
and then getting to the Flesh and just try to comprehend god
with your mind. It's by the holy ghost that you
get Revelation, knowledge, the 3rd and the 4th chapter
basically said your babies. It's been five years, you're
spiritually, immature. There's quarreling there's,
there's jealousy and he said, it's time to grow up.
He said and at the end of the fourth chapter he said this
listen, there's there's ten thousand instructors but there's
not many fathers. It's time to grow up touch your
neighbor and tell him. It's time to grow up.
The Fitch after he deals with sexual immorality. so there's
fornication known publicly going on and he addresses it and he
says, don't even eat with that person if they're not repenting
and he says, listen the world does that And that's one thing
but when a Believer is doing that and if they're not
repentant don't even talk to him.
Hallelujah. so, the sixth chapter deals with Really civil
litigation. And social sins and he saying
you guys can't even work it out between yourself.
You're taking your problems to a secular judge to figure out what
you should really be in resolving between yourself.
Right? The 7th chapter deals with
marriage and singleness the eighth chapter deals with
idolatry and then bam in the Night, chapter Paul
re-establishes, his purpose to the church.
He said I'm an apostle. The 10 chapter deals with the
Old Testament examples that they were written for our admonition,
our example. And what is he saying?
The Christian church has those Old Testament.
Say started off good but then they got off and he gives he
gave his reasons why they got off get off.
They gave him five reasons and he's saying there's a Maximized
Life. There's a John 10:10 life that
God came to give you life and to give it to you more abundantly.
Don't let the devil steal that life by doing things like you're
doing. he gets in the 11th chapter, it talks about the
Lord's table, the 12th chapter talks about spiritual gifts, the
13 chapters of the great love chapter The 14 chapter talks
about prophecy and praying in tongues the 15th chapter.
I like this because he builds to a big view.
He says, Jesus is coming back. The story of redemption.
He says one day this mortality will put on immortality you're
going to get a glorified body and the 16th chapter he gets
some admonitions but really to me it's like when the credits
roll at the end of the movie he starts naming people that have
been a help to the gospel. When you get to the end of your
life we need to see our names Rollin on the credits and saying
hey Pastor Brandon did his fit as a husband as a father and and
worship ministry as an electrician?
Chin and everything that God has called you to do.
First Corinthians chapter 9. There are key verse verses, 24
through, 27 says this, do you not know that those who run in a
race they all run but one receives the prize run in such a
way that you may obtain it. And everyone who competes for
the prize is temperate in all things.
Now they do it to obtain a perishable Crown but we an
imperishable Crown therefore I run the snot with uncertainty
thus I fight not as one who beats.
The air, but I discipline my body and bring it into
subjection lest when I preached to others.
I myself should become disqualified.
The Message Bible reads. It like this, you've all been to
the stadium and you've seen the athletes race.
Everyone runs one wins, run to win all good.
Athletes train hard, they do it for a gold medal that tarnishes
and Fades. You're after the one that's gold
eternally. I don't know.
About you. But I'm running hard for the
Finish Line, I'm giving it everything.
I've got no lazy living for me. I'm staying alert.
And in top condition, I'm not going to get caught napping,
telling everyone else about it and then missing out myself.
Hallelujah. Now, these Corinthians knew
exactly what Paul was talking about.
Because every two years they had these big games, they were like
the Olympics that they did in the city of Corinth.
So he's using a naturalist raishin, but giving a spiritual
point. And what is he saying?
Member hecqs? First Corinthians 9 is when he
States his purpose, but he's encouraging them to fulfill
their Kingdom mandate and their life, a purpose.
He's saying I'm in my Lane, I'm in my role.
You are what you are because of why you are, I want to insert
right now. Don't try to be somebody else.
God is too creative to make two people exactly the same.
That would be boring. Everybody's fingerprint.
This room is different. Why?
Because the Creator made you different, Psalms 139 verses 13
through. 14 says, this thou has possessed my reins.
That was covered me in my mother's room.
I will praise you for. I am fearfully and wonderfully.
Made marvelous are thy works and my soul knows, right?
Well, David was saying, man, I'm fearfully and wonderfully made.
I'm unique, God has destined me as king.
What does God Destin you for? What is your purpose?
Don't try to be somebody else and Galatians 5, it works at
list before the fruit of the spirit.
It lists the works of the flesh. One of those works is a thing
called emulation. Which means I'm trying to be
someone else. And you don't need to be anybody
else that comes to the question of identity.
Who am I right? God has made you fearfully and
wonderfully. There's not a pert.
Another person like you on the planet.
Thank God for all the different personalities we have.
We got same flag, Matic people that are just laid back and
their personality, we would say chilled, right?
You realize they help balance out the caloric person.
That's a type and driven. We're gonna do this till we
drop. It's gonna get done.
Thank God, we need those people. To write the saying, winds Peter
was a sanguine personality. Jesus is saying one time that if
I don't wash your feet, he's talking about washing the feet
of his disciples. Peter said I'm not going to let
the Lord wash my feet. And Jesus said, if you don't let
me wash your feet, I'm going to have no part with you.
And Jesus said, Peter said, wash my whole body then I mean the
extreme sanguine personality, right?
The life of the party. Hallelujah.
They come in the room boisterous.
Excited. Thank God, we need those people
to write The Melancholy people glory to God.
All the i's are dotted. All the t's are crossed.
They are administrative through and through, we need them.
So Melancholy doesn't need to try to fit themselves in a
saying when personality I will say this the best personalities
under constant checks and balances through truth.
But don't try to be anybody else.
Second Corinthians chapter 10 verse number. 12 says this
second Corinthians 10:12. We do not dare classify or
compare ourselves with some who commend themselves.
Listen to this. When they measure themselves by
themselves and comparing themselves with themselves, they
are not wise. Paul saying, when you measure
yourself against somebody else, or you compare yourself with
somebody else, you're not wise, you're never going to win the
comparison game. You're never going to win the
measurement game. You got to realize that man God
has created me in a certain way for my purpose.
And I need to do that purpose or the body of Christ is going to
miss out. 2nd Timothy chapter 1 verse.
Number 9 says this, Who has saved us and called us with a
holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his
own purpose and Grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus
Before Time began. He saved us, but he also called
us he saved us that's when the work of Salvation began but he
also called us to a mandate to a Divine assignment So thank God
for salvation, but he said, I'm calling you Jesus said in the
gospel that many are called but few are chosen.
So how do you go from being called to chosen?
It's because you understand, I have a mandate and I have a
purpose and I go to First Corinthians chapter 9.
And if I'm going to fulfill that mandate in that purpose, I need
to listen. What the Apostle Paul was saying
by the Holy Spirit. I need to run to win.
No lazy living, I need
discipline. I need accountability.
I need Focus. I need to learn how to put my
body under. I don't want to preach to
somebody else. One translation says, you'll be
a Castaway if you don't live up to what you're ministering, when
your call and your character lineup, you have a thing called
credibility, And God is looking for a set of people in the
earth. His children, his raw spring to
have the calling of God and the character line up and then we
got a voice in the earth to minister his life.
And a minister is liberty and Hebrews chapter 12.
Verse number one, the word says, therefore we also since we are
surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside
every weight and the sin, which so easily ensnares us.
Let us run with endurance, the race that is set before us.
See this author saying the same thing.
Paul said, there's a race before us.
We need to take care of every sin and every weight in order to
run that race with endurance, we're not in this for just a
good time wearing this for a long time.
It's a lifetime commitment in the Covenant and he said, you
got to take off the sin and the weight.
Not everybody's living in flat-out sin but there's weights
in our life that need to be relate release in order to run
the race. Things that weigh you down.
You realize that anxiety and worry and can put a weight on
you and keep you when your mind is just processing, feeding
considering Anxious thoughts, right?
Circumstances situations and you're just thinking about all
the negative, all the fearful things, right?
And you're just, what are you doing?
You're really just meditating over your revolving, it in your
mind. You realize that that really
distracts you from what God is trying to fill in your life.
There's an antidote to that which is to cast all your cares
on the Lord. Psalm 55:22 says to roll your
burdens on the Lord and leave them there.
Philippians chapter 4. Verse number six says, be
anxious about nothing, but all things to prayer and
supplication with Thanksgiving, let your request be not.
Be made known to God. And then he said that the peace
that passes understanding will guard your heart and your mind.
He's giving a scripture to cast these weights off and anxiety,
is just one of those things anxiousness.
I mean, if you're feeding more on the news, And all the
negative than you are in the word of God, you're going to be
in a constant state, a constant position.
Of whirring. It's going to weigh you down.
So you may not be in pornography.
You may not be addicted to drugs but you still have this weight
of worry on you and God said, get it off.
It's going to hinder you from fulfilling the purpose of God.
And how do you get it off? You go before his throne?
And when the devil says, all, what are you going to do about
that? You say, listen, I've given it
to God. Hallelujah.
He's got the answer. He's got the provision 10
minutes later devil says, oh, what are you going to do about
it? I've given it to God.
It's before him, he'll give me wisdom.
He'll give me guidance on it. An hour later.
Hey, it's like Captain America. I could do this all day.
Keep coming. You keep on saying it, right?
And confessing it when he comes with those thoughts, you gotta
respond with the word of God. So keen and mandate a life of
purpose, you got to understand sin will definitely stop
progress and weights will slow you down.
So you gotta identifying the purpose that God has called me
to, is there things that I'm doing?
God will always fulfill his word and his plan, the questioner is,
are you going to have the joy of fulfilling your part in that
plan? Because if you choose, and it
comes down to choice, if you choose to be in sin, if you
choose to be Down you're going to miss out on the benefit and
the pleasure of doing God's Will and the Earth, but he will find
somebody else to do it. Catherine Coleman and her
Ministry. Healing Ministry.
She said really, I believe that God gave a man this mandate but
he of this healing Grace upon me but they skipped over it chose
not to do it and it passed to me.
So God our use men and women doesn't matter.
The question is, are you going to choose to be used?
Now, you're a purpose is really found in life, where your your
passion and your pain intersect people say how do I know what my
purpose is your passion, and your pain intersect.
I have a passion. To work out to stay fit but some
of the times it pains me. To see people in the gym
thinking. What are they doing?
That's very interesting. Never seen that motion or
movement before. Standing on.
What's That? Bouncy Ball with one leg?
Like a flamingo. I think about the karate kid,
you know, not saying some of those things are good, but I'm
thinking sometimes we focus on the minor so much we don't get
to the major. I remember at Publix one time,
I'm walking down the aisle with my shopping cart and in front of
me, there's a lady with think it was her son.
First of all, he looked too big to be in the buggy that pain me.
What came next? Pay me even more.
Was little Johnny, I don't know his name, they're in the water,
I'll he reaches up and grabs a water jug and knocks it off.
Mom reaches down, picks it up, puts it back on Little Johnny.
Knocks it off again I'm done. I mean like, I'm fuming.
I'm like alright is this seriously happening?
Little Johnny's then starts whining, and flaying.
And she's like moving quick. I'm in the shopping cart.
I don't know. She's trying to get out of the
store. What I'm like?
Oh that pain me why? Cuz there's a passion And there
was a pain to say, come on, there's a better way to parent
and it's according to the word of God.
And you don't have to let your kids rule the roost, right?
It reminds me of the, the salesman has anybody show of
hands. Had a vacuum salesman.
Come to your house before. Praise the Lord.
Did that pain? You know, I'm kidding.
And he knocks on the door and he eight-year-old son opens the
door and he said, I need to talk to who's in charge in the house.
Thus the little boy says, I'll be right back.
He comes and brings his little three-year-old brother to the
door. that ought not be so Come on now.
I'll stay on the soapbox one example longer at.
I've been at restaurants before where I've seen families have to
vacate. Because they couldn't control
their kids. You know, the Bible says you
spare the rod you spoil, the child Little Johnny's, got some
cushion on that back side for a reason.
You know, God always said, hit him on the glutes, right?
Little bit of pain is going to get their attention.
And it pay me because I'm thought I think knowledge.
Should they be able to sit down for a meal but they should the
kids should be well enough behaved.
That you can enjoy the meal and there can be discussion.
But why do I say that? Because there's a passion for
the family, in my heart, there's a passion to see men rise up and
be the man that God created them to be.
I truly believe that our society would not be where it's at
today. If men are taking their place, I
know the world says if mama ain't happy then nobody is Happy
by believes. God saying, if the man's not in
place, nobody's happy and women have their role.
Thank God for There are awesome and they have their assignment.
But if a man would be what the Bible says to be, like Jesus
said, the greatest in the kingdom is serving of all, if he
would learn how to do servant leadership in his home, Do some
laundry. Praise the Lord.
Vacuum a rug pick up your underwear.
Glory to God. Be engaged.
It's one thing. To come home.
But are you there? I don't want just a house.
I want a home. So are they active in their
confession? Are they speaking to their wife?
Are they speaking to their kids? Are they active and they're
their prayer life for their family?
And we wonder why the world is a mess because Malachi chapter 4,
says this. I'll turn the hearts of the
father towards the children. And then I'll turn the
children's heart towards the fathers lest.
Remember, I told you all the promises of God have
qualifications. He said if this doesn't happen,
there's going to be a curse on the earth friends.
We're seeing a curse society today because divorce is rampant
and even in the church just like Paul had to address the
Corinthian Church because everything was going on, you
know, divisions, Coral, Strife, division, immaturity sexual
lust, and immorality idolatry. You know, he's going over all
these things, there was a curse, their, how much more today, you
know, are we addressing the same things in our society, to Y, to
get people back in position because God wants the best for
you. And when you get on the wrong,
going the wrong way, it's going to cause a catastrophe.
But the church is experienced some of the same, divorce rates
is the world and that ought not be.
So, they should have some of the most thriving, flourishing,
marriages that it attracts, you know, Jesus was attractive.
Not just physically. But I mean, people were drawn to
him because if there was sickness, he brought healing.
If there was doubt, he brought hope, right?
If there was bondage, he brought Deliverance, if there was lies,
he brought truth. If there was confusion, he
brought purpose. And people were drawn to him,
people chase after him. People will left the city to go
out into the country because they were so hungry for him.
But as he is, so should we be People should be coming and
saying, man, I see your marriage.
I see your life. I want it.
What's going on? And that opens up a platform I
believe in evangelism going out and winning the Lost vocally.
The Bible says that we are Salt and Light salt has to have
contact in order to work. Salt is what we call vocal
evangelism. Where you going out, man, how's
your journey go spiritual journey going, whatever phrase
you use to open up a conversation to win somebody to
Christ great. But also believe in silent
evangelism which is light. You don't, this isn't making any
sounds. He's light above us but it can
be seen. And being seeing can open up
salt or a voice to speak into somebody's life.
So when it comes to your purpose at God's calling you to, I want
to classify two different purposes.
There's a general purpose. And there's a specific purpose.
And if you've been with anchor, Faith Church for any time, you
know that Pastor arose told us that and taught us that over the
years. There's a general purpose and
there is a specific purpose. And what I mean by that there's
just things you generally need to be doing every day in purpose
to actually get to specific purposes.
Here's a general purpose, being a man or woman of God.
People want to go in. You know, hundreds of thousands
of people like, say a Billy Graham.
Which could be a specific calling as an evangelist, but
yet in their general purpose, they can't even do it.
First Timothy 5:8 says, if anyone does not provide for his
own house and especially for those in his household, he has
denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.
Before you win the world. When your house is what I'm
saying? And before your, when your
house, when your self, You can't conquer the world without
conquering yourself first. That's a general-purpose Genesis
Chapter 18, verses 17 through 19.
The Lord said, shall I hide from Abraham, what I'm doing since
Abraham? So surely become a great and
mighty nation, and all the nations of the Earth shall be
blessed in him for, I have known him in order that he may command
his children and his household after him that, they keep the
way the Lord to do righteousness and Justice that the Lord may
bring to Abraham. What he has spoken to him, man.
God gave Abraham a big vision of Plan a big mandate to start a
nation. but the reason that God chose Abraham because the
general purpose of just being a father and a husband was noticed
by God He said I know him that he will command the
qualification for you to get to the specific purpose.
At I know him, he was intimately acquainted, he had watched his
life, he had observed him over the years seeing the
faithfulness of this man of God and he said, I'm gonna drop this
specific purpose in you to start a nation.
But it's because for years and decades, you have been an
example, you have been a pillar, you have been steady and Caden,
and living out the things of God to your family.
And where did that come from? That came through him a Devotion
to God a relationship with God. Those are general purposes and
you're never going to get to the specific purpose.
If you don't do the general purpose, you know, Paul said to
run your race. Right, he said to win it.
Your lane your assignment. God wants you to win.
Turn to your neighbor. Say, God wants you to win.
Turn the one the other side. Say God wants you to win.
But you realize, there's things you're going to have to do in
order to fulfill what God has called you to do.
That general-purpose will always help get you to your specific
purpose, but it's just like an athlete.
You know, before Christ. when I was in the great state of Ohio,
Praise the Lord. My brother from Dayton is in a,
is in the building and we have conversation, Four Seasons.
Praise the Lord. Although I told my girls, I
think it was this morning. I am getting weak.
I mean, when it's 60 outside, I'm kind of getting cold now,
whereas in Ohio, I'd be swimming in that weather.
Because my body was more built up for the temperature.
But I, I've always had a passion for lifting.
But now it's become a platform. But when I was lifting there, I
was at a pretty renowned Jim, and the owner of that Jim always
taught us that there's General physical preparedness and then
their Sports specific preparedness.
And I thought what a correlation between just like Paul.
Use the Athletics at the church at Corinth.
To what I've experienced in my life.
And he said if you want to go somewhere, you need a big bass
is what he taught us. So you got to be generally
prepared, physically. So there are certain things that
you just do fundamentally all the time just like in football,
guess what? There's always a
general-purpose. I don't care if you're in Pop
Warner to the NFL, guess what those coaches are always working
with blocking. Tackling.
Catching the ball. Right, that never stops.
Those are general purposes from the time your little through a
professional career. Right now, there are specific
things that happen. You know, there's specific
things for the quarterback or for the running back or four
defensive linemen offensive lineman so on.
And so on that, they need specific training for, right?
But the general purposes are always there, right?
Same thing with God, you know what, our general purposes with
God, forgiveness. Confession.
Right. Renewing Your Mind.
Meditation. Walking In Love, right?
And the list can go on and on for those general purposes.
But if you're not doing the general thing, you're never
going to get to the sports specific or the specific plan
that God has for you. And it takes knowledge.
Paul said this, he said, do you not know all that run in a race?
Run to win. But that word.
Do you not know that word? No, not only means to see and to
perceive but it says you need knowledge of some things.
You know, my journey and weight training started, when I was 13
years old and my basement in Ohio was sold sand weights, you
drop them, right? And it would crack the plastic
in the Santa the concrete with some of the men in here.
Maybe women are understand. I'm talking about and it
actually make the weight on balance, but I started that
process at 13. And just like anything in life,
consistency is the key. I never have stopped.
But along the way I've gained some more knowledge Hosea said
my people perish because of a lack of knowledge for a long
time. I'd say 20 plus years, I trained
really hard, but ate like junk. Hallelujah.
You know, there was a long time, I have to admit it you know
where I do some McDonald's. I got a mad.
I did. Taco Bell.
I used to enjoy Tang on vanilla ice cream.
Praise the Lord. Now, I've said this before, some
of them don't have the Revelation to stay Comes.
Is it real meat? I don't know.
But I'm putting all this stuff in me.
Training really hard. But I have no knowledge base
about nutrition. So guess what?
The results aren't as forthcoming.
As they should be. And I thinking about this really
all equate, this Because I won't give you some points.
Three points if you're taking notes.
To grow in your purpose. I'll label and just a second,
but I thought about this, what? How I was living in.
That example, is, like, some Christians today that are
reading their Bible and praying working out really hard, but
they don't go to church. And guess what.
The results aren't as forthcoming as they should be.
That was me for many years in the sense that I was training
really hard. But not, where do you get fed a
good meal on a Sunday in a Wednesday, where do you get some
nutritional content, some sustenance, God's Place, some in
the body and I'll get to in a minute to equip you to feed you
and and they're, so in tune with God.
In this position, they know the word in due season that you
need. Defeat on so that you can
fulfill the Mandate in your life.
Side to learn nutrition. You know, I had to learn if I
eat ice cream all the time or Twinkies, all the time, guess
what? I'm going to be a Twinkie what
you sow, is what you read. For a long time.
I played, I played football back when I was in 8th grade and a
high school, and I didn't like running, But then I learned
straight training wasn't just enough because the comprehensive
program needs number one nutrition.
Number to rest. Number three, an aerobics, which
is strength or resistance training number for aerobics.
Cardiovascular training a number 5.
A needs flexibility. But I learned that
cardiovascular training was important because of the ticker,
right? I'm not just doing this.
I just started cardio my journey on that probably about three or
four years ago. But why am I doing that?
Because I realize the purpose, this body's got to carry me
around if the Lord tarries And so if I want to have a healthy
body, there's things I can do for the purpose of God's call me
too, but spiritually the same thing, you may be strong in one
area, but do you have endurance? Well then let God build a
spiritual endurance in you. A lot of people in pressure
comes our resistance. Come they pray for the pressure
to be removed. Go with me to Second
Corinthians. Real quick, this is most
Believers prayer, prayer or prayers.
Amen. 2nd Corinthians chapter 12.
So, we covered the first book of Corinthians.
This is the second letter that Paul is written to this church.
And he says this. In verse number one, it's
doubtless not profitable for me to boast.
I will come to visions and Revelations of the Lord.
I Know a Man in Christ who fourteen years ago, whether in
the body, I do not know whether out of the body.
I do not know, God knows such a one was caught up to the third
heaven. I know such a man, whether in
the body or out of the body, I do not know.
God knows how I was caught up into paradise and heard
inexpressible Words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
Such a one. I will boast yet for myself.
I will not boast. Except in my infirmities for
though. I might desire to boast, I will
not be a fool for. I will speak the truth, but I
refrain lest anyone should think of me above.
What he sees me to be or hears from me verse 7 and lest I
should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the
revelations. A thorn.
In the flesh was given to me a messenger of Satan to Buffet me.
Lest I be exalted above measure concerning this?
Thing. I pleaded, I begged with the
Lord, three times that it might depart from me.
And he said, to me, my grace is sufficient for you.
My strength is made, perfect. In weakness, Paul said,
therefore, I most gladly will rather boast in my infirmities.
That the power of Christ May rest upon me.
Now, I read that verse because verse 8 is most Believers
prayers concerning this. Lord, get it off me.
Remove it from me. Now you notice if you go back it
said the infirmities. Now, we need to know the Bible
Church. We need to rightly divide the
word of Truth. Some people say that Paul's
infirmity was an eye disease. And they get this through things
like this and hermeneutics Bible interpretation.
You need to know who's speaking who's being spoken to?
What's the subject under discussion and Bible
interpretation you, if you don't understand the verse you got to
read the verse before it and the verse after it if that doesn't
make sense, you need to read the whole chapter.
If that doesn't make sense, you need to read the whole book that
the verse is contained in, if that doesn't make sense, you
need to read the whole Testament that that verse Contained in.
If that doesn't make sense, you need to read the whole Bible.
You said that's a lot of work. The Bible says, study to show
yourself approved. So in Galatians, Paul makes a
statement, he says see how large a letter I've written to you.
Now, do you think Paul use 82 font?
It's a figure of speech. The heart of the letter.
The importance of what he was saying, but yet people read that
and they say all you wrote a large letter said not disease.
Then he made another comment. He said you said, you'd pluck
out your eyes and give them to me.
I'll see he had an eye disease. So he was saying other people
say, not help you out, I'll give you my eyes.
No was a figure of speech. The things he was seeing happen,
what was happening is he was going into places like Corinth
preaching truth, and then judaizers Jewish people are
coming beside. I belong, behind him and messing
up everything he was saying and it was painting him, he was
tired of seeing it. Everything that he was trying to
establish as getting unraveled because of Lies.
We can see 2 and verse 7. It says a thorn in the flesh.
Now, Paulo new. The Old Testament.
Well, I'm skimming, you some Bible interpretation.
So, when you're reading your correctly, dividing the word and
Thorn In the Flesh, is Mission the Old Testament.
God said, if you don't drive out the inhabitants, the people
they're going to be thorns in your side.
That was God saying, literally that people are going to be
sticking out of your side. Another going to be a pain to
you. And so Paul was saying these
things pain me when I see people come in and unravel truth,
right? But back to this, he said he
pleaded for Lord, three times that it would depart.
I'm bringing us all this all this up because if you have
sickness in your body, God's not asking you to put up with the
Sickness. If you have depression in your
mind, God's not asking you just to go through depression, he's
saying no take authority now, take your stance now, take your
position now. But there are some things called
infirmities. Where there's pressure, there's
resistance there could be pain, there could be turmoil, right?
And most the times are saying, Lord, get it off me.
And those situations God saying, listen, my grace is sufficient
for you because my strength is made perfect in your weakness.
Your learning, not how to depend upon anything in the flesh.
You're learning how to lean on the spirit and you're gaining
confidence that I will get you through.
And how do you get stronger? Resistance.
Pressure. Now, it's not always fun.
Praise the Lord. Sometimes when I'm in the gym,
I'm thinking about spiritual things.
I'm thinking, just 5 more reps. Why cause I want to dig a little
bit deeper. There's been times I've stopped
short and I thought, man, I should have pressed Paul said,
press into the high calling, right?
So resistance always isn't the enemy's.
What I'm saying? Resistance can be an opportunity
where God is saying, this is an opportunity for you to increase
your spiritual capacity, I heard Pastor, I'll just say the other
day. There was a prophecy that went
over him some time ago. He said, I'm walking that out
right now and I'm glad the prophecy came because this is
strengthening my love walk. God was so good.
That a couple years ago he sent a prophetic word to me about
some events that we're going to happen and now I get a feast on
that word and apply love and not anger.
Right? So God said, I'm not getting
that off you. I'm taking you through that
situation. So you understand the difference
are some things you cast off and cast out.
There's some things you say God your grace is gonna get me
through this. And on the other side I'm going
to be a little bit bigger. I'd rather be a thousand times
bigger on the inside than the outside, but it's going to take
some resistance. It's going to take some
training, it's going to take some pressure, right?
So, three things. To develop your prayer life.
Number one is your daily discipline.
I'm sorry. Did you develop your purpose,
your kingdom mandate. What has God called you to do
your daily disciplines? You know, we're called
Disciples, which means we're disciplined ones.
I believe we should have a plan in place.
I should. I believe we should live life on
purpose. I believe.
In when you even when you rest, you rest on purpose.
House meeting. And with an individual.
One time he said I'm just going to kill some time.
I said don't ever kill time, rest on purpose.
Be purposeful even in your rest. Maximize your hours, maximize
your ministers. 168 hours in a week.
What are you doing with all your time?
But be disciplined. How's your devotional life
going? The church provides Bible
reading plans. For the year.
Are you keeping up with that? Are you checking off the box and
just being obedient? But you're not really willing is
your heart connected to the reading?
Are you saying father this is my time with you if I'm going to be
fueled and if I'm going to be strong, then I need your word
today. I need a fresh word from Heaven.
I need the bread of life today. I don't want stale Mana, I don't
want crusty bread. I want something warm out of the
oven, right? Praise the Lord.
That smells good. That tastes good, you know.
Red enlarges the ministry. That's really funny to me, but
nobody's laughing. Like physical bread in large as
your physical body. Okay?
All those carbs. Praise the Lord.
But I need a fresh word from Heaven.
I need a Word of Life today so we should just open up this.
This book this Bible and rush into it.
You should pray. God speak, you know exactly
what's going on this day this week and I'm just going to be
listening. This is my time with you.
And then on another daily devotion is this just don't have
a place of devotion or daily daily discipline, but leave
something from that moment or that time, right?
Meaning meditation, what can you take away from the time you?
With God, reading the word. Say Lord, I need I need
something for this day that I can just chew on process.
Think on, you know, that thoughts are going to come at
you all day long. So what can I go back to?
As my rock, Jesus said Upon This Rock, I will build my church.
And the moments of it, the tension of the day, the
decisions of a day. I need the word of God.
Listen, you know, if you miss days without meals, guess what?
You start to get a little bit wary.
A little bit, run down and a little bit cranky.
How are you spiritually? If you're going days without
reading the word of God, My good, my good friend, Steve
Miller. Actually he passed away back in
1998, 99, but he was really instrumental my life.
I went to high school with him. He was actually from Florida
moved Ohio, his dad was a Quaker, State sales rep.
So they came up there. I ran with him hard.
We were both love football. We both love to lift weights.
We partied all the time. I'm I wasn't for God, then he
got born again, and I thought the guy went wacko, because he
was always calling me trying to get me.
Out to get into the things that God invited me to church.
Finally you did, I gave my life to the Lord.
Praise God, he didn't give up on me.
But one thing he told me that always sticks with me said
reading the word is one thing, it's like having a dirty pot or
dirty pan, whatever you cook that morning and you run water
on it, right? And you're trying to rinse it
off. Do you realize that?
Here's a little tip for men? Little insertion here.
Make sure that you wash the dishes off before you put them
in the dishwasher. Did you know peanut butter on a
plate? Not rinsed off going.
In the dishwasher just makes crusty peanut butter on a plate
coming out of the dishwasher. So it's one thing to run little
water over it. Because you know, peanut butter,
if you put in the sink right down, come off.
I have to get some to agitate that thing like my scrubbing,
brush to get it off. But what he said reading the
word is like getting some stuff off you, but meditating on the
word is like that SOS or that Brillo pad, that rubs a lot of
things off. So in your daily discipline man,
you got to say Lord, I'm leaving this place of devotion with you
reading the word but I want to come away with a meditation.
God would not call you or You to do something that you weren't
capable of doing. There's multiple verses that
talk about. Meditating upon the word you
want to become a I'll say this like a pro Christian
professional athlete type like Christian.
The difference is meditation, What do you thinking on
throughout the day? Man, let the word be real to
you. Think on it, ponder?
It speak it. Moderate confess.
It Joshua 1:8 says this book of the law shall not depart from
your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, to
observe to do all, that's written there and then you will
make your way prosperous and then you will have good success.
Paul told Timothy to meditate upon the prophecy, give himself,
wholly to it, who LLY? Give his entire self to that
prophecy. Think on it, chew on it.
The Mama said I'm going to meditate upon your word day and
night, so God will not put something in the Bible that we
weren't capable of doing. But how many people make that
choice that, man? I'm really going to just not
read the word, but I'm gonna think on the word, I'm gonna
speak the word. And I'll tell you that the
litmus test to know that you're really a doer of that is when
something hits you. And the first thing that comes
out of your mouth is the word and not the problem.
It could be but God, he may hit you with some he say.
But my God. He will bring me through this.
The second thing you need to develop your prayer life or your
purpose is your as a prayer life.
You're never going to know. Why you're created, if you don't
ask the Creator. You're never going to know the
why and last unless you ask him. Prayer precedes production, but
production is the evidence of Prayer.
Only the Creator can tell you why you were created.
In prayer, you need to come with an attitude, not just to talk
but to listen. So many times were coming asking
for things which is fine. We have, we have prayer of faith
and we can ask God for things and should ask God for things
but not a lot of us come with Psalms 46:10 which says be still
and know that he is God. If you're doing all the Talking
how can you do any listening? Hallelujah.
So be still and know that he is. God, psalms 37:4 says this
delight yourself also in the Lord and He Shall give you the
desires of your heart. In that prayer time that were
Delight means to be soft and to be pliable, you're coming and
saying father I'm seeking it a day with everything I got.
I'll be want to walk out your purpose.
I want to walk out your plan sir, just mold me and shape me.
The prophet Isaiah said he is the Potter and we are the clay.
And how can a Potter form clay if it's hard?
So, it takes time. This is not American
Christianity where it's a microwave Christianity.
You know, we want it and we want it now.
It can takes months and years praying out the seasons in the
stages of the plan that God has for you.
I know the founder of our Bible School, Kenneth E Hagin.
He went through three different, I'd say major seasons of his
life from a pastoring to field Ministry to start a bible school
but that was over decades but he was a man of prayer.
He spent time at the Throne of God seeking God and asking what
is it that you want me to do? You realize that the Bible does
not say hey Mike you need to move to st.
Augustine Florida in 2004. There's I'm not going to find
scripture in verse that came time.
Took time praying with Angie and I say in Lord.
Is that what you want us to do and after we got the
confirmation that piece, guess what?
We're following that plan and God works, everything else out.
Those General steps created the specific step.
I never thought I'm looking for a title as an associate pastor.
I just worked out that General and the specific manifested in
2009. I was getting my Nation for
Enterprise Rent-A-Car. Praise the lord, we will pick
you up. What a season?
And I get a phone call from Pastor.
Earle my daughter. Chloe had just been born.
I think it was the week before I actually was on Parental leave
and I was at the restaurant with my manager and he's he wanted
just to do the evaluation then get it done with so, but then
pasture land called me and said, hey do you want to come on to
the church? I'm like I need to pray about
that. That's the whole reason I'm
here. So yes, but I went back and told
the manager. Hey, I'm giving my two weeks
notice, I'll fulfill that boy that kind of shook his feathers
a little bit, he got up and went made a phone call but that
happened five years from the point of 2004 to 2009.
I graduated Bible School in 2000 and I kept doing a general
purpose of God, my daily devotion, my prayer life and
then nine years later. Is when God said, okay you're
coming on full-time in the church but I never asked for
that. I just kept on doing why am I
telling you that just keep on doing what you know to do?
Amen. Hebrews chapter 4.
Verse number 16 says this. So let us come boldly before the
throne of grace of our gracious God, there we will receive his
Mercy will find Grace to help when we need it most.
So at his throne, we need to take time, we need to spend
time, we need to find out what he wants us to do, what he Wills
us to do. We need to go take time, there's
to go on, love on him, and thank him.
Thank him that you're redeemed. Thank him that he paid for you.
Thank him that you're delivered. Thank him that he poured out the
Holy Spirit and you're not a weak barely getting by
Christian. But you got the power of the
Holy Ghost on the inside of you? Time to pray in the spirit.
Take time to sing in the spirit right.
Take time to meditate on the word, right?
But we come before. His throne to hang out with him
to fellowship with him, to sup with him, to learn of him.
John chapter 15 verses 5 through 8.
Says this. Yes I am the vine.
You are the branches, those who rate remain in me and I in them
will produce much fruit for apart.
From me, you can do nothing, anyone who does not remain in
me, he is thrown away like a useless, branch and Withers,
such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned, but if you
remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything
you want and it will be granted. When you produce much fruit, you
are my true disciples. This brings Great glory to my
father. This is an awesome picture of a
prayer position where I'm continually seeking the face of
God. I'm remaining in him.
And his word is remaining in me and that environment.
God is going to work everything out.
The Bible says the steps of a righteous man or a good man.
So the qualification when I'm in right standing with God, comes
through the word of God, through meditation and through a prayer
life, my steps are going to be ordered third and last Thing, I
want to cover to find your purpose is church attendance.
Ephesians chapter 4. Verses 11 through 12 says this.
He gave himself some to be Apostles, some prophets, some
evangelists and some pastors and teachers for the equipping of
the Saints for the work of Ministry.
For the edifying of the body of Christ.
God has called some in his church into these five roles
Apostles, prophets evangelists pastors and teachers.
But why are they there for the equipping of the Saints?
Why is church attendance so necessary?
Because every Sunday, every Wednesday, every men's event you
come to Women's event, you come to, there's an equipping, that
happens, the 11 definition of equipment is a Furnishing or a
supply. So it's one thing to have a
great devotional life and a great prayer life, but you're
never going to be fulfilled or fully in your purpose without
being in church because God gave gifts to the church.
These five gifts and they're going to help equip.
They're going to supply, they're going to feed, they're going to
give you a good meal. Amen.
We're talking you know, filet mignon.
I'm ending soon. Someone talk about food as not
as to upset your stomach over your minds to listen.
Loaded baked potato with sour cream.
Chives? Don't forget the Brussels spouts
because you brussel sprouts. You get that at church or
broccoli. Pastor is not always going to
skip to. Dessert.
A warm cookie with vanilla on it where the vanilla just kind of
running down from the heat of the cookie.
You're not always going to get that at church.
Why? Cuz you can't live off that.
It's good. It'll get you a quick as we call
simple sugar. A quick pickup but we need some
complex carbohydrates for some longevity too.
All you eat sugar? You going to be a yo-yo
Christian. for all, use it, drink those energy drinks with
all the sugar But what they're going to feed you.
Amen we're in. You need to come ready to
receive. Do you realize I want to say
this when you come to church, you have a part to play if you
come hungry. To hear the word of God, you're
going to pool. Sometimes pastors could be
limited in the delivery. Not not based upon their
preparation but based upon the receiving of those that are
coming. So if we can make that
correction, when you come, are you coming expecting?
Are you coming? Like Lord, I am so ready to
worship. I'm so ready to receive your
word. Just fill me up today.
Overflow me so that I could pour out to somebody else.
Hebrews chapter 10. Verse number 25 says don't
forsake the assembling of ourselves together as the manner
of some but exhorting, one another and so much more as you
see the day approaching Church. Attendance is important, man.
You do not want to forsake coming to church.
Since 1997, when I gave my life to the Lord.
I've attended three different churches, and I've only moved
when God told me to move, I started my journey in Columbus,
Ohio, with Apostle Lafayette scales at Rhema Christian
Center. Which some, you know, because
that's come full circle, he's been here for our kingdom rise
conferences, in the past. Then in 1998, when God told me
to move after praying, he told me to go to Bible school.
So I moved from Ohio to Oklahoma tenere.
Bible Church there, Faithfully And then got married in 2001.
Stay in touch with Pastor. Oh, Marcy.
They launched the vision of my wife.
And I three years about three years later in 2004 and prayed
about coming tanker Faith. So my journey with God since
1997 to 2022. I've always been faithful to
attend church. But why am I saying that?
Because to fulfill the purpose of God, I would never be where
I'm supposed to be. If I hadn't had that mixture of
the daily devotion, the prayer life and church attendance, and
it's been few and far between and twenty.
What four years that I've ever missed a service.
Ever. I mean, there's been some times
the vacation, maybe, if one of our girls wasn't feeling well,
but we're talking 99% of the time 99.9%, the time here.
Psalms 92, I close with this chapter and I'm going to read
the whole thing and this is just in relation to church
attendance. I gave you a fusion 4:11-12
Hebrews 10:25 and now I want to read psalms 92 as a last
scripture for church. Attendance first number one
says, it's good to give thanks to the Lord and the sing praises
to your name. O most high to declare your
loving. Kindness in the morning, your
faithfulness every night on an instrument of ten strings on the
loot on the ARP with harm and harmonious sound for you.
Lord has made me glad through your work.
I will Triumph in the works of your hands O Lord.
How great are your Works? Your thoughts are very deep.
A census man does not know nor does a fool understand this,
when the wicked spring up like grass.
And when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that
they may be destroyed forever. But you Lord are on high for
Evermore. For behold, your enemy is a
lord. Behold your enemies Shall
Perish. All the workers of iniquity
shall be scattered but my horn you have exalted like a wild ox.
I have been Anointed with fresh oil my eyes also have seen my
desire on my enemies my ears hear my desire on the wicked.
Who rise up against me verse 12. The righteous shall flourish
like a palm tree. He shall grow like a cedar in
Lebanon, those who are planted in the house of the Lord, shall
flourish in the courts of our God, they shall still bear fruit
and old age, they shall be fresh and flourishing to declare that
the Lord is upright. He is my rock and there is no
unrighteousness in him. Let me read verse 12 and 13.
Just think about this in your ear.
Read day or every Sunday your every Wednesday Church
attendance. Their righteous shall flourish
like a palm tree. You shall grow like a cedar and
Lebanon if you are planted in the house of the Lord. if you
are planted in the house of the Lord, if you are planted in the
house Lord the promise of God says if you keep coming to
church You're going to flourish and even in old age, you still
bringing forth fruit. The promise is not there for
those who get out of, it's the banana that gets away from the
bunch of gets peeled. Selah keep coming to church keep
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