Well, good morning. Today I want to talk to you
about what is the catch, All right.
We're talking about Kingdom partnership today, Amen.
Turn over to Psalms 115 versus 15 to 16115 versus 15 to 16.
It says this, May you be blessed of the Lord, Maker of heaven and
earth. The heavens are the heavens of
the Lord, but the earth he has given to the sons of men.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah. He is the Maker of heaven and
earth. The heavens are the Lords, but
the earth He has given to the sons of men.
Psalms chapter 8, verses 4 through 9 says it this way.
What is man that you take fault of him?
The Son of man that you care for him, yet you have made him a
little lower than God. And that is the correct
translation, because that word in the original Hebrew is
Elohim, which is not angels, is actually God.
So you made him a little lower than God, and you crowned him
with glory and majesty. You make him to rule over the
works of your hands. You have put all things under
his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the
field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea.
Whatever passes through the paths of the sea.
Oh Lord our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah. So the heavens are the heavens
of the Lord, but the earth he has given, He has entrusted, He
is allowed to rule to the sons of men.
Amen. Who is man that you consider
him? He's a little lower than God.
In essence, God said, I'm creating a partner.
I've created by the words of my mouth.
I've created the heavens and the earth and the realm of earth.
I am wanting a partner, someone who will come alongside me and
rule as I rule in the realm of the earth.
Hallelujah. I'm going to create a man in my
image according to our my likeness according to Genesis
chapter 1, verses 26 to 28. He said.
God said, let us make man in our image according to our likeness,
and let them have rule over the fish of the sea, over the birds
of the sky, over the cattle, over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
God created man in his own image, in the image of God.
He created him, male and female, He created them.
God bless them. And God said to them, be
fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and
rule over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, over
every living thing that moves on the earth.
Hallelujah. So we see in these three
passages of Scripture that when God created the heavens and the
earth, He had us in mind. He intentionally decided that
I'm not going to do everything alone.
I am going to have those who partner with me and I'll give
them a task. I'll give them an assignment.
I'll give them a purpose, a reason for living.
And he defined our boundaries because the psalmist said in
chapter 8 and then Genesis 1 is that what is man that you care
for him? Now, obviously the psalmist is
saying that because he is taking this from a perspective that he
has fallen out of his position at the time of the psalmist
writing. Man has sinned.
Man has fallen from dominion, Man has been pulled out of their
original intent. Yet God is saying all along, I
always intended when I spoke creation into existence, both
the heaven and the earth. I wanted my man to be able to
rule over the earth. He would rule in his realm as I
rule in my realm, and together we would partner over creation.
Hallelujah, that's why the beginning of first Corinthians
chapter 3 verse 9 says for we are God's fellow workers.
We are God's fellow workers. Another translation the the good
News Bible says it this way. We are part we are partners
working together for God. Amen.
You could also say with God, we're working together now.
He's the one who holds the authority ultimately, but He has
delegated authority to his man. And when I say man, I'm not
talking males only. We're talking males and females.
He has delegated to the spirit of man, OK, the ability to rule
as God rules in his realm, we can rule in this realm.
God always intended to have a partnership, not to be doing it
alone, not to be doing it alone. And he never created Adam out of
the dust of the earth when he breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life for him to do it alone, because he said it's not
good for man to be. Now man's not alone.
God was with him. So God's sufficiency is still
not enough. God's sufficiency is still not
enough. We can't take this.
All I need is God. Well, God didn't make man to be
only with him. He created man to not only be
with him, but we be with others like him.
So fellowship and community and partnership across humanity is
God's ordained will. Hallelujah.
Now in humanity today, there's two types, those that are of the
devil and of their father who is the father of lies.
And then there there are those who are of our Father who is in
heaven, hallowed be your name, Amen.
And man, we want to be around those that are in the Kingdom of
God with us. Now, let me just say this.
Not everyone knows Dad like equally because it depends on
when we came out. It depends on what we've set
under to hear. It depends on our own personal
seeking and studying. But I would say the more you
have revelation of your Father, the more patient you can be with
those who do not, the more you can rally to reveal Him to them
and be patient as they're learning.
Because there was a day I didn't know what I know today.
But I love God with all my heart, with all my soul, with
all my mind, and with all my strength.
It's just that my mind didn't know a whole lot yet.
I knew I was saved. I knew that if I died, I would
go and be with Him who's presently in heaven.
But I did not know that I could be baptized in the Spirit, that
I could have this expression of God's power come upon me.
Didn't know that. And I'll never forget.
You know, obviously I met another pastor who brought me
into that truth. And man, I was thankful that he
was patient with me, that he met with me every morning before I
went to work. I'm glad he didn't say I can't
believe you don't know that and was offended of my lack of
knowledge. No, he was patient with me.
He was like man, let me help you out and I said just show me in
the word and man lie about. But ultimately, even though he
was showing me scripturally, I had to get the personal
revelation and faith to receive and man in October of 1995, I
received the baptism of the Holy Ghost man and spoke in the
language of the Kingdom and my life's never been the same.
Yet a few two years later, three years later, I find myself on
the campus of Rhema Bible in college and sit in a class on
the ABC's of Faith. And it was just that, ABC's.
But for me that was even foreign.
I had never heard the stuff they were saying.
And I'm looking at my wife and I'm like, I don't even know the
Bible. But up to that point, I am
loving the Lord my God with all my heart, all my soul, all my
mind and all my strength. I remember being so upset after
the first month of Rhema. Then I'm like, why in the world
did the pastors that I said under as I was growing up never
teach me this stuff? I'm using my childhood Bible.
It was in there the whole time and I'll never forget these
words from the Lord. He said, Son, you can't.
If you get upset with them, then you're going to be in
unforgiveness and I, I cannot train you any further, he said.
But besides, you didn't seek me on your own anyway.
That's why out of that I coined this phrase that I communicate
every time I in any place that I've ministered, and I've said
it here multiple times, do not believe what I'm saying because
I believe it because I'm saying it.
You believe it because you search the Scripture out for
yourself to determine that it's so.
Amen. Don't ever believe because I
believe because the best you'll be is a seventh son of Skiba,
and you'll get yourself in trouble.
You're going to have to have your own personal revelation and
understanding of the things we're talking about.
See it yourself, God reveal it to you, and boom, the lights
come on in the Spirit, renew your mind, and now you can walk
in that truth. But I know this man, I'm not
going backwards. I am not going backwards.
I have gone from faith to faith to faith to faith to glory and I
am not going back. So I'll be patient with those
that may not be where I'm at. And I'm always looking for those
who are beyond me in revelation beyond me and an application of
the knowledge of God. Because if there's something I
don't know, please give me the instructions.
Show me in the word. I just want to be the best that
I can be for the King while I'm in the earth.
Amen. So we are fellow workers with
God. We are partners.
God never intended for us to do this alone.
He didn't want to do it alone, and He doesn't want us to do it
only with him, but with Him and others that are part of his
family. Again, if God only wanted to
have a relationship singularly, he would have made Adam.
But he said, let's make man in our image.
Then he said, here's your purpose, you're going to have to
multiply, which means I want more of you.
I've put it within you that when Adam and Eve, if they had never
sinned, would begin to always produce a seed that would have
constantly been godly, not in sin, not sinful, and it would
have been a generation of only holy godly offspring, that would
have been it. And ultimately, that's all we're
going to have in the end anyway, that when those who have
rejected Jesus as Lord and they're cast into the lake of
fire, which is the prison system of the Kingdom, hell is not the
devil's, OK? The hell is not the devil's
domain. The devil is not in hell.
He's actually in the air, OK? He's one of the principalities
of the air. Hell is a prison place for the
Lord that ultimately would turn over into a lake of fire.
And that's where all the eternal that have rejected him are
judged according to their will of not wanting to be with the
Lord. And he'll give them what they
want. But for us who've called on the
name of the Lord, for us that want to be in his Kingdom, for
us that want to serve him and be with life man, we're going to be
together. And it's not like I'm going to
go up there and, you know, be with the Lord and monopolize his
eternal time. No, we're going to be together
and I'm going to love to be. I love to be around those that
love God like I love God passionate.
I mean, it's the easiest relationship.
I mean, it's so much joy to be around those who are like
minded. Second Corinthians 61 says it
this way, another scripture and working together with him.
We're working together with him. The new Living Translation says
it this way. As God's partners as God's
partners, so we are are always having to rework our minds
because of the of a of a spirit that is in our nation and that
is the spirit of independence. And the spirit of independence
is, is where we kind of want to do our personal thing, our own
thing. Nobody's going to tell me what
to do mentality. However I need the Lord to tell
me what to do and I need the Lord to lead me and guide me by
a spirit because He's life and so I'm fully dependent upon him
and I have to pull. And then I also have to
understand that I'm not in this thing alone and it's not just
about me. That God always envisioned
something larger than us. Never once He did not come for
just one at all. Again, you've heard it said, you
know, well if, if only one would have received the Lord God,
Jesus would have came. And we know that Jesus is
coming, period. Whether any of us would have
accepted him, because God is going to have a pathway back to
dominion so that he can rightly judge all of humanity, no one
will ever be able to say to him, well, you didn't even give us a
chance. You knew we weren't none of us
going to come, so you didn't even try.
That won't happen. He will have.
He would have paid the price anyway.
But he did not come for just one.
He's not thinking about just one.
He's thinking about all of us, even the ones that he'll have to
say depart from me for I never knew you.
He's even thinking about them. Amen.
Because God will fulfill His word.
So partnership is really important, Say partnership.
Partnership is really important. And as the church, if we are
going to become the church mature in the last days, then we
have to know our dependency for each other and our partnership
is necessary. Anyone who owns a business and
has employees are thankful for the partnership because the
reality is even though they're employees, employees can quit,
employees can can transfer to another place, employees can
call out and not show up. Hey, man.
And a lot of times, you know, if you're just the employee side
or, or you think that of only what you're technically doing,
you think that when you don't fulfill part of your partnership
responsibility, it doesn't really matter.
It matters all the time. It always matters because here's
the thing, you're needed. The enemy wants you to think
that you're not and that you're taking off or not being here or
not coming doesn't matter. It does matter because the enemy
always wants to isolate the sheep.
Because if the wolf can isolate the sheep, then the sheep, you
understand a shepherd can leave sheep alone and the sheep have
power to overcome the wolf. You say, how's that?
The 99 shepherd has sheep, one strays off, he leaves, he leaves
the 99 and goes after the one. Which means that pack staying
jointed and fitted together is too intimidating for a wolf.
The wolf is not coming to the to the flock not coming in.
He can leave the 99 and take the time to go search for the one
that is at the most risk. So there's power when you come
to the church, there's power when you connect with the
church, there's power when you stay with the church, because
again, when you're unified and in partnership in his church,
listen, the devil doesn't really want to come around, but he'll
talk, try to talk you out of it. Come over here.
Don't go today, stay here. You're not always trying to get
you to pull out. Come out of partnership, get you
isolated, Amen. The Lord doesn't want you
isolated. The Lord wants you in community,
Amen. Which brings me to Luke chapter
5. Because there's power in
partnership. There's power in partnership,
all right? And so I'm going to read these
first 11 verses and then we're going to break them down.
And so it was as the multitude pressed around him to hear the
word of God, that he stood by the lake.
Now this is the Sea of Galilee. This lake is the same as the Sea
of Galilee. And saw two boats standing by
the lake. That means they were anchored on
shore by the fishermen who had gone from them and were washing
their Nets. Then he got into one of the
boats, which was Simons, and asked him to put out a little
from the land. And he sat down and taught the
multitude from the boat. And when he had stopped
speaking, he said to Simon, Launch out into the deep, let
down your Nets for a catch. But Simon answered and said to
him, Master, we have told all night and called nothing.
Nevertheless, at your word I will let down the net, or one
translator said, I'll let down the Nets.
OK. And when they had done this,
they caught a great number of fish, and their Nets were
breaking. So they signaled to their
partners in the other boat to come and help them.
And they began and came and filled both the boats so that
they began to sink. When Simon Peter saw it, he fell
down at Jesus's knees saying, Depart from me, for I am a
sinful man, oh Lord. And he and all who are with him
were astonished at the catch of fish that they had taken.
And so also were James and John, the sons of 70 who were partners
with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, do not
be afraid. From now on you will catch men.
One translation said you'll become fishers of men.
And when they had brought their boats to land, they forsake all
and followed him. Amen.
So again the new American standard says that he let down
his Nets. He let down his Nets, unlike the
King James. And if you actually.
Look at in its original context, that's what we're talking about.
We're talking about not just one, but multiple Nets.
In fact, the boats would have not just had one, they would
have had a string of Nets that they would have could have been
connected together so that they could gather in more fish.
So when in one sense, when it says net, it's a string of Nets
together. OK, so with that being said
here, I want to bring up my net because I need you to visually
see that God wants to do something powerful in us as a
church. Because God always intended for
partnership. Are you hearing me?
He never intended us to do things alone, so these words
should have never come out of our mouth.
My ministry, are you hearing me? My ministry?
These should have never come out of our mouth because any
ministry we have, it requires others.
Amen. And Jesus came back for our
Jesus established the church. So anything in ministry must
have a connection to the church. If it does not have a connection
to the church, that can become a problem.
OK, Now, I only say that because, again, Paul referenced
that there were some challenges with those at times that would
seek their own interest. We're not here to cover that.
We're staying with partnership because partnership is where
power exists. Are you hearing me?
So with that being said, let's look at a few things here that
we can learn from this passage of Scripture.
There was a time of Labor that went with Peter, James, John,
and Andrew where there were no results, meaning they labored
with the intent to catch. However, they caught nothing.
Now let me tell you something, if you do not labor you have no
chance of catching again. I Passover the Matanzas Bridge
every day and when I do there are a lot of times people
fishing. They either have rods or some
have Nets and they're casting those Nets.
Not this big though, casting their Nets off the side of the
Matanzas Bridge. All right, why they have to
many, I've never, I've only seen maybe 2 where somebody's pulling
something up. I'm like, do these people catch
anything? Because it's not like I'm always
seeing people reel and stuff in. But again, you have no hope of
catching unless you go labor. So laboring, even when you don't
catch, doesn't mean it's in vain.
I'm going to say that again, laboring, although you may not
catch, doesn't mean it's in vain because you must put forth the
opportunity to labor. Hallelujah.
All right, all the Nets, we're being cleaned at this time when
Jesus shows up in preparation for the next scheduled time for
labor. So in essence, we've done,
obviously it's outside the window of catching.
These are professional fishermen.
Now, again, they're not. They've already done a time
period. They're exhausted, they have
grown weary in their, well doing, so to speak, and have
caught nothing. So they're going to clean up and
we're going to come back at the next appointed time.
We're going to get some rest and go after again.
Just because they didn't catch didn't mean they quit.
It just means they prepare for the next time.
Amen. So everything is clean.
Both the boats are on the shore both of them because here's the
thing, there can be a time of Labor that can be routine.
There's schedule to a particular time of of of Labor.
So Jesus says, Simon, can I use your boat?
I need to do some teaching. And so he launched him out.
Now the the other Gospels account this particular
communicate this particular account would simply Jesus
coming by find us. Some disciples say follow me and
I'll make you fishers or men that said they immediately
dropped their Nets and came and that's all it gives you.
It didn't give you the back story that Jesus came and taught
and that then Jesus was a part of a fishing trip.
You just get he's walking by. He says come and be fishers or
men. They dropped everything.
Now you're going to know why they dropped everything.
Now you're going to know why because it wasn't him just
walking by and like, he's this guy.
So he is speaking to the multitude.
Now imagine Jesus is seated in the boat.
You're the multitude. I'm a little bit out in the
water. Jesus is seated and then he's
finished and he says, Peter, let's go launch out in the deep
and cast your Nets. Now the Nets are not in the
boat, they're on the shore. They're cleaned in preparation
for the next day. So everything he just did, the
Lord saying put it back in the boat.
Jesus doesn't get out of the boat.
Jesus is in the boat as they launch out.
OK, Jesus was a part of the expedition.
He said launch out into the deep and let down your neck.
And so Peter explains as he's loading the Nets.
Now Lord Master, we have labored all night and didn't catch
anything, but at your word we going to do it.
So he's seated in and Peter and Andrew launch out.
Now they only have the Nets assigned to Peter's boat.
They only have the Nets assigned to Peter's boat.
And so they let down the Nets and guess what happens?
Well, we just read it because Jesus operating in the dominion,
the first Adam had, which is dominion over the fish has
communicated through his words. Go put down your net for catch.
The fish now are going to obey the king and they for the last
maybe 12 hours avoided not only Peter's Nets, but their partners
Nets while they went around dragging those Nets all night
long, was able to evade them. But he could put those Nets down
now. And the Lord sent add a word
filled up that boat's Nets. Now here's the thing.
When he begins to pull this bad boy in, it is so heavy with the
number of fish that it begins to reach its capacity.
They begin, they, they break, they start breaking.
As you know, I understand when, when you start to pull the stuff
out of the water, all of a sudden gravity kicks in.
You know, you pick up some things heavy underwater, but the
minute starts getting to air, then the weight shows up.
I was watching an excavation, or it's probably not the right
term, that they were salvaging a, a tugboat that had sunk.
And so, you know, they got these air bladders in there and
they're going to pull it to the surface.
Now what they were having to do is they had to determine what
its weight was because they said the closer we get to the once it
starts getting out, all of a sudden its weight will kick in.
And if the crane cannot hold the IT a break.
This happened with another sailboat that went down in a
hurricane. Same issue.
They brought brought it in, had floated it to the surface.
They had a crane that was rated for £8000 to pull it out onto
the shore, but it was still full of water and when it went to
grab it, it was 12,000 lbs. The crane could not pull it so
they had to run down to a store, get pumps, get all the water
pumped out of it to reduce that weight.
Yet when it was down it was. And so you understand when
they're pulling the fish seems but then once they got it to
here, the Nets cannot support the weight.
At this point, they have to yell back to the shore and what do
they do? James and John, get your boat
out here. They had to call their partner
in. I said they had to call their
partner in. Now a partner doesn't say I'm
already cleaned up, not coming. Are you hearing me?
I mean, you understand partnership is in this
particular business of fishing. We're partnering.
We have more than one boat, which allows us to get more fish
so that we can sell more and provide for our family and our
community. And that's why they had the
boats. When one gets out, the other one
is going to partner and come. Why?
Because this is the purpose. The purpose is not when it's
convenient. The purpose is to accomplish the
task. And so he calls out to the other
boat and says, come on, we have so many we we can't pull them
in. So they have to take the time to
come in and get beside. And then they start unloading
the fish in both boats. Now notice all night they had
their own sets of Nets. Now all of a sudden Peter's Nets
has enough fish in it that not only does it fill his boat, but
it fills their boat. They had less equipment but
caught more fish. God was able to multiply the
amount within the Nets that all the Nets they had were required
to be able to do the same thing in the one.
And they've developed so many fish that it put a strain on
their own boats that they couldn't handle the weight.
It says they began to sink, which means they were taking on
water, which means now we have so many fish in here, if we do
not get to land, we're going to sink and lose what we have.
Are you hearing me? So you can sit that down now,
gentlemen, Thank you. So what do we learn from this?
Let me give you the word of the Lord for real quick.
When I was new, I was going to minister on this today as I was
driving. I don't remember where I was
coming from yesterday, but it came up in my spirit and I heard
the Lord say this. He says what you have done so
far will seem like your work has had no results compared to the
catch you will pull in together in these final days.
I heard this fair Lord say that. He said what you have done so
far will seem like your work has had no results compared to the
catch you will pull in together in these final days.
Hallelujah. Do you understand when you want
God's involvement in the catch? It doesn't matter how much we
plan, we're never going to be able to handle the capacity.
Does God know how much weight the boats can handle?
Does God know how much the Nets can handle?
Yet He still let Nets break, and he still let the boat begin to
sink. Now, it didn't immediately sink.
I understand that he knew enough that you know what, this is
really beyond what you have prepared for.
So that tells me this, with as much preparation as we do, when
God shows up, it's always exceeds our preparation.
Amen. And you understand it'd just get
a little crowded. So let me help everyone that is
my age or older. I want you to get a new
confession of our community, a new confession.
And that I understand we have congestion.
I understand a lot of people have moved in, but the catch is
big. Do you understand what's so
awesome is that their territory, their seas there, they have to
go out and they have to do something.
Notice God did not say, well, I'm going to bring the fish come
and they just started flying out of the water and jumping on the
shore. That didn't happen.
Could it have happened? Sure.
All things are possible with God.
Could he command the fish to come?
Sure, He could have done that and they could have come and
just jumped on the shore. Absolutely.
However, what is God showing? He says it's not about me doing
it. We have such this mindset of God
only when the Lord's like. I love your participation.
God gets pleasure at his children being involved with in
the family business. He gets great joy when he can
give you credit for your part. How do we know this?
Because when Gideon is going to overcome a nation with 300 men,
he sends him down to the camp and he says, hear what they
saying. He could have if it's only about
him. He could have heard them say the
Lord has taken the camp a lot and they never would have known
Gideon's name, but he let them know the name of Gideon.
Because God rejoices to say your name when you are only wanting
to do what He says. Amen.
He rejoices that you represent him clearly.
He's proud to call you his partner.
He loves to be able to put on the front of the building your
name with his in Lord. He wants people to know that you
are a part of the process, although it's not you doing it
yourself, but it's your partnership with him that caused
it to come to pass. He had no problem with them
knowing about a man named Moses. He had no problem with them
knowing about a woman named Esther.
He had no problem with them knowing about a man named King
David. Why?
Because all those people would always tell them about their
father Hallelujah, about his rule, his reign.
He loves the partnerships, he says.
Now listen, I'm going to use you, which will put you in a
vulnerable position sometime and even a sometimes seemingly life
threatening position. Because in this case the
blessing had a life threatening position, meaning they could
have lost it all. Now I'm assuming these guys
weren't so far out that they could have swam back to shore,
but I can't tell you that either.
The point is though is that their ships about to sink
because of the blessing of God, the partnership of God.
Because when we really partner at the word of our King, then
he's always going to bring it to more.
So again, we don't have to wait to build a sanctuary to get
more. We just need people to be
passionate like Brazil and be willing to sit on the floor.
That's it. Instead of saying it's too
crowded, our community is getting so crowded, so many
people. Well, let's turn that confession
to thank you, Lord. That was the partnership of
Anchor Faith Church with you. We're going to reap these
people. I mean, these people that are
cutting you off, these people that definitely need to have
their license revoked. I understand there was one from
Michigan yesterday. I'm like, Jesus, help poor, not
Pure Michigan, poor Michigan. I mean, we were coming back from
the airport from Brazil and, and in Miami, Ernie, you know, this
is true that there's four lanes of traffic and then you have two
lanes that are the express lanes.
And so they were in the lane next to the express lane, the
4th lane to the left, and there's an exit they decided
they wanted to get to. Now, we weren't technically
running 6570 miles an hour. You know, it was, you know,
traffic was pretty backed up, but this person basically did
this. No.
Yeah, they were actually. You're right.
Thank you for correcting that. Pastor Mars.
They were in the express lane, so all the pylons are there.
They drove in a little bitty, like, you know, small car.
I mean, a little one that came. Yeah.
Some kind of like a camera ran over the cones.
You're like, where's police officer when you need them cut
into the foreland and cut off and had to cut back in order to
get into the exit. I'm not going to lie, I had a
thought. I'm not going to lie.
I said, man, if I had a vehicle that had a bumper, the
temptation is really motivating me right now to help move them
along because you're like, what are you thinking?
That is the most self-centered move I've ever seen in my life.
That cares nothing for the safety of anyone else, nothing
for the safe. You miss an exit, Go on.
Please don't be the one that's going to pull over it and back
all the way. Don't do that.
Because if I find out it's you, we're going to have words.
We've trained you better here. God will bless.
There's a reason. Just go ahead and use that that
little you know Christianese well, the Lord had a reason for
me to miss it then and just go on to the next exit, turn around
and come back. Same in anyway all right.
So I believe the Lord wants to do more in these last days it
with us and our partnership together.
Look what it says in Luke 1620 and they went out and preached
everywhere and the Lord working with them and confirming the
word through the accompany signs.
Amen. Jesus Christ who sits on the
throne is not doing this alone. He's not doing this alone.
He has his church. Jesus needs us.
Look to your name and say Jesus needs you.
Never take the thought that you're not needed.
You're needed. You're needed.
Your partnership is needed. And I'm always amazed at the
caliber of of children that God has and their individual skill
sets that can bring such resource to the Kingdom of God.
It's amazing to me that there are those that are able to be at
a get into a trauma situation. Blood can be everywhere.
And they are the calm in the storm.
They're not the ones who's passing out, throwing up knees,
drive on. We need partners like that.
There are others, you know, not afraid of heights, can scale a
tree, cut off a limb, swing out, you know, with a rope, cut that
thing off and come back crazy. It can happen.
I mean, there's there's things that people, everyone who works
with the children, praise the Lord, Amen.
There's a skill set to be able to minister into their little
lives. Some of you, you're not there
and that's why you have no skill set, Amen.
The reason why we don't have men change the diapers is because
most of you gag, Hallelujah. And those are the funniest
videos. But He's working with us.
Matthew 937 to 38. Then he said to his disciples,
the harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are therefore
prayed, the Lord of the harvest, to send out laborers into the
harvest. Hallelujah.
You know what God wants to send us.
But here's the thing, you don't go out by yourself.
You're not alone. Meaning even if you're in a
workplace or you're in a store, you're by yourself.
You know that the work you're doing is not alone.
That you have a place to bring them back to.
A place they can connect. A place they can get decipher
the place they'll be loved. A place that they can receive
the word rightly divided. A place where they can be
nurtured and cared for, but ultimately have their gifts
released and the ability for them to thrive in the Kingdom of
God. We're not alone where miracles,
signs and wonders where you can be diagnosed with scoliosis, but
at the word of the King, your spine is made straight
Hallelujah. And miracle after miracle and
testimony after testimony takes place.
And how much more should we be the church that is passionate
about the things of God. Amen.
So I'm going to leave us with this verse here because it
helped me kind of go into next week what I really want to be
able to minister for the next few Sundays.
And it says this in First Thessalonians 512 to 13.
He says we beseech you brethren to know them, which labor among
you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you.
We need to know those who labor among us.
We are to recognize those, which means I should not know you and
I shouldn't. I should know what it is that
you are bringing to the table in the partnership because in the
church you're not an employee, you're a partner.
To have membership is partnership, which means you
have a stake in this thing and God needs you to bring your
gift. It is necessary.
It is necessary and you know, we're adding to the team all the
time and you understand people that are being added to the
team, you're having to renew their minds to this team to how
we're doing things. You know what, we may not be
like that team over there or that team there.
I mean, God's called those teams to do their work.
We're called to do ours. I'm not here to assimilate to a
different style. I'm here to do what God's asked
us to do. And you know what he's going to
send people that can be released in their gifts and do some
amazing things. So you want to know those who
labor among you. You don't want to be the, the,
the partner of anchor faith that comes in, goes out and no one
knows anything about you. That's good.
Good. Because the reality is we are
in. We are victors that are having
to occupy in an earth where an enemy is still trying to kill,
steal and destroy. And I want to know you well
enough that if a scheme of the devil shows up, I know you've
got my back and you'll know I have yours.
Because as an ex soldier, I do not want to be in a foxhole with
someone who's going to abandon their post when the when the
fire comes down range. I want to know that you are
going to stay in the fight. And here's the thing.
At risk of seeming like we're going to die, Yeah, though we
walk through the valley of the shadow of death, we're going to
fear no evil. We going to ultimately win this
fight anyway because Christ has already won.
We're just defending the ground he has already given us.
In fact, we are the ones who'll continue to take more territory.
We're not in a defensive posture.
We're the one on the offensive. We're the one who's going into
the enemy's territory and we're taking the prisoners of war that
he has and and releasing the captives and getting them over
into the Kingdom and they're going to fight on our side.
Hallelujah. So we want to know those who
labor among us and those that are over you in the Lord.
You want to admonish verse 13 and to esteem them very highly
in love for their work's sake and for the P and be at peace
among yourselves. So you understand, in any
partnership, there are those that are going to manage certain
aspects so that the whole organization can move forward.
And they've been given that opportunity because God has put
them in those positions of responsibility.
And for those that are laboring well among you, you want to
steam and say, you know what? Look how they're laboring.
Look how they're staying with it.
Look how they're staying in faith.
Look how their life is modeling that.
Look how they're doing it. Not let me find a crack in their
stuff and see if I can't figure. No thankful Lord, look how they
overcome. Look how they have, because
again, if if a round gets through and they fall, I'm going
to go in there and to gird them. And then among ourselves, we're
at peace with each other. Why?
Because we're in one goal, 1 spirit, 1 faith, one God, one
purpose, one thing. We're moving towards the upward
call of God for all of our lives in this vision called Anchor
Faith Church. And it's not just in this
community. It is gone globally now.
And all of those congregations are united in one purpose, to
pull in a catch that this end time has not yet seen.