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I want to talk to you about greater.
Say greater say greater. Look at your numbers, are your
neighbor, say greater. Look at the one.
On the other side, say greater. That should include everybody.
Including the walls. Greater, I like it greater.
Greater We serve our great. God who's got great things in
store for as great people. And if you've been with anchor,
Faith Church for any period of time, you know, that salvation
is just the beginning of God's plan for you.
Thank God for the reality of heaven, but listen, there is a
relationship now, and there's a plan now.
Where you have a connection with God, and there's a definitive
call and purpose just in your bobber.
And, you know, when you read the stories, about the great men and
the great women used of God. Yeah, they had an experience
where they had it gotten a covenant with God, but God used
them while they were on the Earth.
And so we need to be awake in this time.
This word that we got during Kingdom rise that.
I just keep in front of you. Pastor oh Marcy keeping front of
you one of Revival and Awakening quickening life signs wonders
Miracles passion fire purpose. We need to keep this in front of
us. Do not let the world a doll you
or a desensitize. You to what the plan of God is
for you? He that began a good work in.
You his desire and his goal is to complete it.
The question is, are you going to line up with and stay
connected? I want to talk about greater the
call, the confession, the commitment, and the connection.
So if you're taking notes, I want to talk about greater The
call, the confession, the commitment, and the connection.
Now the word greater say greater it's used over 150 times in the
New Testament. So godox a puts an emphasis on
it, right? Matter of fact in John Chapter
14 verse number 12, you can jot this down, John Chapter 14.
Verse number 12, it says most assuredly.
This is the words of Jesus, as we were worshipping.
I want you to get this picture in this Vision, your mind.
I was thinking of what the disciples what it must have been
like for the disciples to be around the Messiah.
The king. And man, I was just picturing
while worshiping, and this is how I want us as a church.
To think today is man, they must have just been drawing in all
and astonishment. I mean, they were hanging on
every word, could you imagine? I mean, if Jesus was here right
now, you would give great attention.
To what was coming out of his mouth?
I mean you would be like a sponge absorbing what is the
king saying? But you know, he's still
speaking today. He's placed the fivefold
ministry as gifts to the body for the equipping of the Saints.
So the words that I'm speaking to your just not words a man,
their words of the king through inspiration and the anointing of
the spirit of God and the purpose is that God wants to
give you a download give you a good spiritual meal today to
equip and Quicken you. For the work that he's called
you to, as I've been studying the life of Jesus this year
because that's what I had in my spirit.
I've been researching the signs, the wonders of America was the
healings of Jesus, the 28th that I've researched just far. 24
took place in the what we call the Marketplace or outside a
church for only took place in the church walls in the
synagogue. I say that to you because
there's a call. There's a confession, there's a
commitment. There's a connection to reach
this community with Revival. With Awakening, and I would say
that some of the greatest miracles signs wonders
proclamations. And publishing's of the Gospel
are going to be through you as you kick a stay committed to the
call right as you can continue your confession, your commitment
and your connection is going to happen.
Outside these walls you'll be a bridge that'll bring others in
so that we can reproduce more disciples in st.
Augustine Florida, this state this nation in this world.
Are you excited this morning? Hallelujah.
So, grater grater, grater over 150 times in the New Testament,
the Bible talks about great, joy, a great calm, a great
faith, a great prophet, a great king.
And also Jesus said there's going to be some that are great
among you. so God never Is nervous or scared about your
ambition in him? And there's plenty of room in
the forest. Say there's plenty of room,
you're in your own lane, you have your own call.
This is not a competition. The Bible says he that would be
great among you let him be the servant of all men, so God
doesn't make mind. You Aiming High in him.
God does have a problem when you're aiming high in yourself.
When it yourself ambition but when it's a god ambition, he's
all for you. Say God's.
All for me say God's all for me, say has a call on my life.
Greater the word. Great means large.
More. How many of you just feel like
more during corporate prayer, man?
It was a powerful time. Thank God for the leading of the
Holy Ghost. We would have pray for two
different people, which I believe will have testimonies
from that. One got filled with the Holy
Ghost and corporate prayer, we didn't have a altar call.
Just said, I want to be filled. I want more.
That was his exact words. Greater more large, greater
means more space or spaciousness and abundance.
There's more in you than what you think.
There's more in you than what you think greater greater.
Jesus said, most assuredly I say to you, he who believes in me.
The Works that I do. 28 signs one occur wonders Miracles
healings. Three years of intensive
discipleship investing in 12 men, which turned into 70 men,
which turned into 3,000. The books Act was turning to
5000 and multiple others. As you look at the pattern of
God, listen, it's a fact, the most introverted person on the
planet will influence 10,000 people during their lifetime.
Introverted. Say greater.
He said the works that I do Greater Works.
Will these do? Because I go to my father Now,
let's go to the book of Isaiah. And use Isaiah's just are key
person in the study. Isaiah is an interesting book,
there's 66 chapters in Isaiah there. 66 books in the Bible
from Genesis to revelation And it seems in the book of Isaiah,
the first thirty nine chapters, in the first thirty nine,
chapters of the Bible from Genesis to Malachi deal,
primarily with the Old Testament, the last 27, chapters
in Isaiah give, wonderful one Vivid, Messianic prophecies that
relate to the 27 chapters we have in the New Testament,
Isaiah which names means Jehovah's helper salvation.
He was a Statesman. Which was it.
He was in the political Arena. He was a reformer, a preacher of
righteousness in the midst of idolatry.
And on Wednesday night, I talked about some things I can't get in
all the review, but man, there's light in there, salt in the
earth. Matthew 5 talks about that
light. I call silence and evangelism.
He said, you are the light of the world.
He said, you are the salt of the earth when we go out into the
community, man, we should Shine for Jesus, light, doesn't always
say something, but always displays something.
It's what I call. Silent evangelism salt is active
evangelism where I'm making contact by the spirit of God,
and we need to make contact by the spirit of God.
I had a An incident this week where I was dealing with an
individual who want me to pray for them and it was an
opportunity to be salt, but the spirit of God said don't pray
for them. And the verse I got was that a
first Timmy says lay hands suddenly on no man less you
become partakers of their sin. That's love.
Now at the Holy Ghost with a loud.
Me. I would have prayed for that
individual, but I told him Point Blank, if I pray for you,
nothing's going to change and you're going to be offended at
God. So we need the.
Holy Ghost. Galatians 5, in the New Living
Translation, says the holy spirit will help you in every
part of your life. God cares.
About all the intricate details every day.
Whether you're a mother father in your business, he cares about
your financial well-being about your mental well-being, about
your spiritual well-being. Romans 8:14 says, as many as are
led by the spirit. These are the sons of God, we
won't allow him. Now, he's the lead were to
follow him. And things will go well.
So Isaiah was a States many Reserve, former reason I bring
up light is because we want to maintain a righteous life.
I brought this up in prayer or from a prayer from Paul on
Wednesday night. But I mean, Amplified over and
it's Colossians chapter 1, verse number 9, about 2 verse 13.
It said that you'd actually lead lives, that would lead live
lives that we lead. Others away from sin.
So when I say that Isaiah was a Statesman, he was a reformer, he
lived out. The word of God.
Do not be a hypocrite. Hallelujah.
And what I mean by that, this is out of love.
You want to Measure or get to the standard of living out of
Christ's life. Like, does that mean you're not
going to have frustration setbacks failures?
No, but a faithful man. Will repent the faith.
Meant faithful man. Just a sensitive.
David blew it, King. David broke the sixth and the
seventh commandment Murder and adultery.
But yet, God gave him a place of reconciliation.
And God gave eventually gave me a place of restoration.
And in Acts 13:22, the Bible says that David was a man after
God's Own Heart. Now, he never fell back into
those sins again. But when the prophet confronted
him, he repented. That's the difference between
King Saul and King David. And that's the difference
between what God has in store for your life.
In somebody else, are you going to be soft towards the thing of
God? God had a plan for Saul Saul
failed to keep a soft heart towards it.
He was more moved by the people than he was by God.
David was more moved by the prophet than he was by the
people. so Isaiah was a reformer, he was a prophet, he
was a teacher, he was a theologian in Isaiah chapter 6,
we see the call happen in his life, Isaiah chapter 6,
Starting, I'm going to look at the first. nine versus and just
kind of break these down verse by verse.
So stay connected and believe with me for the Holy Spirit.
To say, whatever. Needs to be said, and insert,
whatever needs to be inserted as we read this, all right?
The coal, the confession, the commitment, and the connection,
Revival an Awakening. In the year that King Uzziah
died, I saw the Lord. Sitting on a throne.
High and lifted up. And the train of his robe filled
the temple. So Isaiah gets a prophetic
vision of heaven and my prayer tonight for everybody or today,
for everybody in this Sanctuary is of vision of vision.
I'm not talking about being weird or fruity, I'm talking
about a genuine authentic understanding.
That there's a plan God has for us.
And that one I want to connect with his vision or you can say
his mission for my life. Now listen, I just want to
insert this real quick. There's a general Mission and
there's a specific Mission because so many people are
looking for what is God's plan for me?
Well, just do the general and the specific will come.
What I mean by that. If he's created you as a man.
Bob Earth. Or a woman, then you want to be
the best man of God or the best woman of God.
You can't, that's a general purpose.
You met looking? Am I supposed to be in the
mission field? Am I supposed to go into
business? Am I supposed to be a pastoral?
Listen, do the general first, and the specific will come So
many times, we get the cart before the horse.
If you're, if you're a husband or a wife, guess what?
General purpose. There is a qualification in
Timothy. It says, if you don't know how
to rule your own house, how can you take care of the Church of
God? So he's saying, you got to do
the general-purpose first. If you wanted, and you got to
stay in the general. Just because I have obtained is
something, maybe I'm thriving in business, I still need to be the
best man or the best woman of God.
There's a high premium that God puts on parenting.
Matter of fact God would have never called Abraham.
If he didn't parent correctly, Genesis 18 talks about that at
Sodom and Gomorrah said I'm going to show a Abraham what I'm
going to do but he he will command his children after me
and righteousness and judgment. So these are general purposes.
Listen my life in Christ is an example.
In 1997, when I got born again, thank God for Laborers across my
path, Steve Miller, my friend that I used to run around with
in high school used to party with them used to drink with
them. We were jocks, you know, we're a
CDC, heavy metal Rock in talking people, right?
But he got born again. I thought man.
This guy is really weird. I'm distancing myself him.
But he had a tenacity like a pitbull.
I'm sure he prayed for me. But he also would call me.
I mean I quit answering his phone calls because all he won
talk about was Jesus. Thank God.
I didn't get he didn't give up on me though and he stayed
tenacious. When I was in Columbus, Ohio,
and God put some other people in my path and started preaching me
and I gave my life to the Lord 1997.
I just knew at that time, I need to get connected to a church so
I found Rhema Christian Center in Columbus Ohio.
I grew up in a Catholic Church people.
Hallelujah. Matter of fact, one of the
ushers is saying, you know, if we put a little white thing in
our special shirts will look like priests.
I said I grew up like that so when I went to a charismatic
church for the first time I wasn't used to, they didn't have
door greeters, they had door huggers This is predominately
black church, so you get a big hug when you came in.
But, man, I remember sitting there the first time and
subsequent times after that, just taking notes in.
Oh, I got so mad. When I heard Apostle scales
preaching I said, where has this been my whole life?
Because the truth, I was listening to.
In those days, there was such a hunger, such a passion.
We talk about the call, you got to be passionate for the things
of God. I would get his cassette tapes.
Put them in there. Until they would eat some of
them, right? You know how they used to get
stuck and you pull them out. You try to reel them back
together every month while they pop, and be frustrating because
you just lost a good message today.
How much easier do we have it with all the technology?
Thank God. You don't have to carry a
Walkman around anywhere. Right?
But I was hungry, man, wrote down sickie notes, you know,
scriptures on sticky notes. Put them on my wind, my Mary,
you know, put them on the dashboard.
My car. Where are we still doing that
today? But I just knew I needed to be
at church because there was a connection.
I've been been there since 1997 but I was just I was going to
church all of a sudden I just it wasn't I didn't have a vision.
When I talk about Vision I want to set the context because I
don't want you thinking or seeking a vision where not to
seek the vision where to seek the word of God, if a vision
actually comes great, but there is a vision he'll plant one way
or the other in your heart. So I'm just going to church
loving Lord and about you know, six eight months later, I just
on the inside. No, visitation from an angel, no
dream. I just knew there's more.
There's Greater Works. And I just knew I remember my
mom used to get the word of faith Magazine from Kenneth
Hagin Ministries. And I just remember looking that
one day and something on the inside said, you need to go
there. That was the vision.
That guy gave me, but for that time I was at Rhema Christian
Center, just doing the general-purpose read, my Bible
every day, praying going to church.
And then a massive diets, a massive of the word of God, you
know, whether as apostle scales or listening to it, because that
was my pastor at the time or reading the word of God.
I was just into it still into it today.
But then God, you know, took me to Bible school and this is how
things work out. I'm at bible school, you know,
from 1998 to 2000. Just learning absorbing, right?
I don't even know if I'm called into full-time Ministry or not.
I just knew, but as I went through those couple years, you
know, things start to work at, is you're doing the general
purpose. It gets to get more specific and
God will bring the right connections, the right resources
at the right time, as you're staying, committed and connected
to the general purpose of God. And then obviously met my wife
at bible school. I was believing for that praise
the Lord. He who finds a wife.
Finds a good thing. For those of you that are
single, Matthew 6:33, says seek first, the kingdom of God, and
his righteousness, and all things, and a wife is a good
thing. So keep on seeking the kingdom
and not a spouse in the spouse will be added.
Hey, man. So, you know, I just knew that.
Okay, we're getting married and Ang and I, you know, at that
time we had, you know, after we got married started to, We Got
Married 2001, start talking about Ministry, kind of felt
that, that leading that unction, right?
And start to get more Direction, why?
I'm just doing the general purpose of God and what he said
and doing it Faithfully, you're never going to get much
accomplished for God if you're not faithful.
Matter of fact, faith. When it's, you're not going to
get much done of anything if you're not faithful.
Faithfulness is really a huge key in the kingdom of God.
Faith, when this shows up, Sunday, after Sunday,
faithfulness takes notes faithfulness, reads my Bible
faithful meditates on the right things.
Faithful watches the right things, faithfulness guards, my
heart face with his guards. My mouth faithfulness, guys, my
eyes. And who are?
We faithful to our faithful to God Almighty.
All when you get a vision of Heaven, it'll change you.
It'll change you. And so, we pray though, and the
lord gave us this word. Don't do anything.
We had a couple different opportunities.
One of them was take over a youth, pastor job, and in
Oklahoma. And then Pastor, I told us about
anchor fate church, because he graduated with us in 2000.
And so we prayed about both those things and you know what I
got enjoy your marriage for a year and then we found the Old
Testament that when you get married, It says, enjoy your
spouse for not just a year. I don't want you to think.
I just need a year to enjoy my spouse, but the first year, they
actually, the family would actually provide the resources
for a year-long honeymoon. And so, how many of, you know,
when you get married, there's a merge Hallelujah.
When you get married at, there's a merge When you get married,
thank you. There is a merge Which way do
you put the toilet paper up or down?
Do you squeeze from the bottom of the toothpaste or from the
top? There's a thing in typically,
everybody's room is called a hamper basket.
Either you're really bad shot or you just decide to leave your
clothes on the floor. There is a merge Right?
So God said, just enjoy your marriage covenant for the first
year. So we heated to that.
And because we're just doing the general-purpose, guess what?
After that. God said, now I want you to go
get connect with pastor of Marcy and we've been running with them
ever since in 2004. Hallelujah.
What does God have? In store for you?
But the general purpose of qualify you for this specific
purpose, you doing the general-purpose, keeps you
qualified for the specific, purpose greater more spacious.
And abundant is the call in the plan of God for you.
Isaiah said, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne high and
lifted up, right? He saw the vision of God.
The vision. I'll give you this one scripture
in Matthew Chapter 5, The Sermon on the Mount.
Jesus said, blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see the
Lord. You want to sharpen the vision
that God has for your life. Learn him as Jehovah me Kiddush.
Jehovah me Kiddush is a word for sanctifying.
And the old Covenant, when God had a plan for Moses, he built
the Tabernacle. He was very specific in the
dimensions. The material.
I mean elaborate from the way that the priest dressed to the
the length, the height of the actual Tabernacle to how you
approach the holies of holies And after the Brazen altar,
there was a thing called the Brazen Laver were, the priests
would wash their hands and their feet.
And the parallel we carry through the cross is today, we
still experience that labor in our life when we meet him as
Jehovah, Emma Kiddush at the altars, where you're Justified
from sin at the laborers, where you're Justified from self.
The Brazen altar is where I meet Jesus Christ.
My Lord as Redeemer and that's where they had 25 offerings for
trespasses sins, trust guilt, peace offerings.
But when they got to the Laver, the priesthood wash their hands
and their feet today, we can still experience him as Jehovah
me. Kiddush, Ephesians, 5, put it
this way. When it's talking about husbands
wives washer with the washing of the Water by the word.
And so at the labor is where we sharpen, our discernment, we
sharpen our vision because we choose to receive him and let
him cut those things off. John 15.
John chapter 15 talks about pruning.
And that's Jehovah meketa. She has a right to say, oh, you
need to do this. You need to do that.
Why? Cuz he's trying to make you
better, you know, a coach, when it comes to Athletics.
So, try to shape tents of a time off swimmers shave.
Just not because they're trying to show off their body.
But the hair gets more resistance in the water.
How much more is God? The Father say, I could shave
this off of you, you're not going to waste time or effort
like maybe other people do. I'm going to get you to where
you're supposed to be quicker. We don't want to take delays in
God's Journey For Us, verse 2 above it, stood the seraphim, so
backed Isaiah's Vision above it stood the seraphim.
This is an angel. Right.
It's a fire angel. A minister of God, this angel
had six wings with two. He covered his face.
As a token of humility. With two, he covered his feet as
a token of respect and has two. He flew And verse 3 says and
these seraphim's cried to one another and they said we sang
the song. Holy Holy, Holy these angels
just cried. Holy holy holy is the Lord of
hosts holy holy holy is the Lord of hosts.
Verse 4 says, in the post of the door were shaken.
By the voices of the voice of him who cried out and the house
was filled with smoke. Now, verse number 5 is real, I
want to zero in and in this vision and it says this, so
Isaiah seeing all this, he sees the glory of God, he sees the
temple of God. He sees the seraphim, he hears
the cry. Holy could you imagine yourself
in that position? And so when he sees his picture
he says in verse 5, woe is me. For, I am undone.
Whoa, when we see that word, you didn't understand that's a
passionate cry. Of grief or despair.
It's a lamentation really. It's like a big exclamation
point. Whoa.
I'm undone, which means I'm silent.
I don't even know what to say right now seeing this vision. 11
definitions means I'm cut off. And when you see the Lord,
you're going to cut some things off, that are unnecessary that
are weighty or that'll be a hindrance in your life.
He said my eyes have seen the king, the Lord of hosts and man
that was the call. We're talking about the call.
We see the confession, we're going to get to the commitment
and the connection, but this is the call and the confession and
he said, well, I'm undone, you know, repentance doesn't happen
to the altar every Sunday morning or Wednesday night.
Repentance can happen on a Monday morning.
Just when God makes a little adjustment repentance, is the
first word that Jesus preached in Matthew 4:17.
He said, repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
Repentance is a change in the way you think.
And the way that you live and the way that you act, he said
woe unto me. I'm a man that's on done.
What was he doing? He's repenting saying O, Lord
shave some things off of me as David cried out, in Isaiah and
Psalms 26, to examine me, test me, is there anything in me that
displeases you father and Isaiah's having the same thing?
He's saying, man, Lord I'm undone.
Cleanse me verse 6 says, one of the seraphim flew to me having
in his hands a live coal which he had taken with tongs from the
altar. So from the altar of God the
seraphim comes, he hears Isaiah's call, he hears Isaiah's
confession. And the great thing about God is
he said, he's in a repentant state, I'm going to purify him
and he takes us live coal, you know, fire purifies Fire Burns
off, unnecessary things. But it also purifies and the
seraphim took the the coal and touched Isaiah's lips, and his
speech was cleansed. It was a hot stone, a glowing
Stone. Matthew chapter 3 verses never
11 says, you're going to receive the baptism of not this the Holy
Ghost but fire say fire fire. We talk about Revival.
We're talking about fire, right? Well today, I'm personally
talking about you, Revival in your personal, walk with God,
Awakening to your in your personal, walk with God because
I believe if you awaken to what God has for you, if you revived
in your personal life, God's going to use you in great
capacity and potential in the plan that he has corporate.
Ooh, Frank Rafi Church. The question is, how bad do you
want it? How far do you want to go with
God? Do you want to be a great honor
to his name? Or do you want to be a great
disappointment? The choice is yours.
God has a plan for you. You just need to connect with
it. Verse number 7 is a touch my
mouth with it. Now listen, he said, behold this
has touched my lips. The fire of God has touched my
lips. A fire say, fire say greater.
So this fires touched my lips. Now, listen to this.
Your iniquity is taken away. And your sin is purged.
Now, Isaiah 66 books, to discover this man of God, this
is early on in his walk, but God deals with him personally.
So there could be a manifestation of a nationwide
Revival and prophetic word to go forth.
And he says, some powerful says, your iniquity is taken away the
word iniquity, and the Bible means this perversity, write
this down. If you're taking notes, iniquity
means perversity. It means a bent.
It means the Distortion or it means twisted.
Iniquity means there's a perversity in your life.
There's a bit or a way that you've been doing things,
something's distorted or twisted. now over in Exodus, it
talks about, I'll visit the iniquity of the father's upon
the children to the third and the fourth generation.
So obviously there was something that was being passed on from
generation to generation. That was perverse, that was a
bent or that was twisted or distorted, just a little bit.
And God saying, I'm taking this coal of fire.
I'm touching your lips. I'm taking away your iniquity.
Now, being in Ministry, we've learned and still continuing to
grow a lot of what we experience.
As adults, the root issue stems from something.
You experience as a child So, the question I'm asking you
today, is there any unresolved issues?
Disappointments. Abuse.
Thank God for the anointing. Of the Holy Ghost, some of you
won't deal with it. Some of you will don't check out
on me. And be real.
Receive it. You may be thinking, well, I'm
I'm doing all right, but there's could be something.
From way back decades ago, that God said I want to touch that.
He said your iniquity is taken away.
In counseling. Let me give you a real case
scenario. Angie and I've, you know, done
counseling for the ministry for years and it's interesting as
I'm growing in this thing and we'll continue to grow.
I've noticed that as we get back stories Even in premarital
counseling, you know we asked about background how was it
growing up with your family? Mom and dad were together, okay,
where they functioning together? There's a difference between
even though mom and dad are together, it could be a
functional family or dysfunctional, but it's
interesting. You know, I was going through a
marital counseling. A lot of the struggles that I've
seen the same thing. Their parents went through not
always, I'm not giving a Hundred percent.
But it there's a there's a pattern there that I've been
seeing for years and I believe it's this iniquity.
This perversity, this bent this Distortion.
So in these counseling sessions, we have to deal with them.
And today, I'm just having you Search Your Heart by the Holy
Spirit and really open it up. You'll miss this moment.
If you really don't allow, God wants to heal.
Why does he heal? Because he wants to use you.
And if there's a wound, if you're bleeding out, you're not
as functioning as God wants you to be.
Right, what do you got to do? If there's a woman, you gotta
put pressure on. You got to get the bleeding to
stop, right? The Hemorrhage to stop.
You got to let that thing heal up.
And then what you can run at full capacity So this iniquity
is distort, this bent God wants to touch that day.
He said it's cut off, or it's taken away.
The word. Take away means it's going to be
put aside, it's going to be turned off.
And what I see from that today and what I believe the spirit of
God is saying right now to those that are going to take hold of
it, those are going to receive it.
Those are going to act on it. Is that thing that's been
plaguing you is time to turn it off when you turn off the water
valve what happens? The flow stops.
And by the power of the word of God, through the blood of Jesus,
by the anointing of the spirit of God, he's saying turn off
that thing today. Be real open up, confess it
acknowledge it, forgive it and let the flow stop.
So I can use you to a greater capacity.
He also tells Isaiah this He said, your sins are purged.
The, the word sin. Just means it's an offense.
So anything currently or that, you've done where you've
offended God, you know, that you haven't hit the mark, you
haven't lived up to it. So God's dealing with the past
and the present. To get to the Future.
On an offense can be this. It means you're in, in either in
the condition of sin or you're in the guilt of the sin, Oh, but
there is a remedy to sin. It's called the blood of Jesus.
It's called confession to the word of God.
As I said before, if you confess your sins, he's faithful.
And just to forgive you, and to heal you from her to forgive you
and cleanse you from all unrighteousness.
So, sin is taken care of because of the name of Jesus and it's
Purge, that means he makes atonement for you.
Psalms 103 says, he'll remove your sin as far as the East is
from the West in the name of Jesus.
See yourself as God sees you. If God doesn't hold it against
you, you don't hold it against yourself.
Say Let It Go, say I'm letting it go say, I'm dealing with
iniquity. I'm dealing with sin so I can go
on to Greater Works. Now, verse 8 says, after all
this happens, verse 8 says, I also the voice of the Lord
saying whom shall I send? So see the position that Isaiah
gets in he deals with the private thing first and then God
can use you publicly, he deals with the general truth of Life
first and God gets him over into specific plan.
And David had to deal it. This is the pattern in the
Bible. Everything that God does he does
on according to a pattern base from a principal in his word.
And David had to deal with the private Predators first before
we get to the public performance, Isaiah had to deal
with the private things of life. Before God used him publicly and
you to be used of God, made a deal with the private things
first to really get into this River of Awakening and Revival
verse 8 says, for, uh, sir, I heard the voice of the Lord
saying, Whom Shall I sin? Who will go for us?
That's God's cry today. There's two great Commissions in
the Bible in Matthew 28, Mark, 16.
And they both have the word, go and Isaiah 6.
You see the same word who will go for us?
Isaiah was so moved. Are you so moved by God?
Are you so passionate about God that you'll say like Isaiah
Here. I Am Lord, send me Here.
I Am, Lord, use me. I'm a vessel that wants to do
Greater Works and greater things.
So we see the call with the vision, we see the confession of
Isaiah talking about how he's undone.
How God deals with iniquity. How God deals with sin.
We hear the commitment with Isaiah that says this Lord, I
will go. That's a commitment, I'll do
whatever you want me to do. I'll go wherever you want me to
go. I'll say whatever you want me to
say and worship today. I thought Lord, I don't care if
I'm in the white house or in the Outhouse.
I'm not intimidated by any man. I got the greater one on the
inside. Wherever, whatever platform you
want to put me on. I'll minister to So that's the
commitment I semi, here's the thing, Isaiah state connected to
the commitment. Where were your life be in
Christ a year from now? Thank God for the testimonies.
Thank God for the testimony. That East Coast Camp.
Thank God for the testimony is that we get on a son.
There was a God has been moving Church mightily.
And at the The Best Is Yet To Come, but I believe corporately
listen to Sin of Aiken affected the community.
If you're familiar with that story, God gave a commandment
not to take anything out of this one town.
No. Spoils.
A can one man out of greed and Covenants, took.
And it affected the whole community.
So your private walk. Has a corporate effect.
And God loves you so much. He's giving you the grace to
overcome anything in life. So he was connected.
He began a good work, he's committed, but he stay connected
and just like the you just like testimonies is great to have a
testimony of day but look beyond that, where you at in five
years, where you at and 10 years, where you at 20 years,
The impressive thing with God, is staying connected.
And that's what I liked about. Daniel, he went in as a teenager
in a captivity He started right during captivity stayed, right
and around 80 years old. He kept right finished, right?
So connection means I'm going to start right?
Stay right and finish, right? But here's my key thing for you
today is in order for you to keep this commitment.
You need to have a plan in place if you want to be greater.
If you want to be used of God, you got understand the call, you
got to keep your confession, you have to stay committed and you
have to stay connected. And really, this is a thing of
consecration. Lots of seeds today. for those
of you taking out just trying to get something for you to stay in
your mind, Second Timothy Chapter 2.
Verses 20 through 21. Second Timothy Chapter 2 verses
20 through 21. But in a great house.
What are we talking about? Greater Greater and a great
house. They're not only vessels of gold
and silver. Listen to this church.
This is a letter written to the church.
But there's also wooden clay some for Honor some for
dishonor. Now listen this.
Therefore if anyone say if anyone, who's anyone That's us,
right? Cleanses, if God cleanses him.
If the Holy Spirit cleanses him. if his wife reminds them, it
says, if anyone cleanses himself Well, I'm born again.
Well, yeah, but this is written to the church.
This is the Holy Ghost talking to the church.
If anyone cleanse himself from the ladder, which is wood and
Clay, he will be a, what a vessel of Honor Sanctified and
useful for the master. Prepared for every good work in
a great house. There's good works.
But the choice is yours to sanctify.
What does sanctify mean? It means to set apart.
You know, it's interesting us talking to somebody recently in
there watching the Olympic trials.
You know, you got teenagers in. There may be some in the early
20s, and these athletes have a vision Of what they want to
accomplish, right? They have a goal, whether it's a
high jump, whether it's printing whether you know, it could be
there the Summer Olympics or the winner could be skiing but they
have a passion they're pursuing. Right?
And you know what? That's a great definition of
sanctification because they set themselves apart, right?
Why? They're trying to receive a
medal. So you know what?
They just don't eat anything. Listen, I like to Emil cream
pies when I was growing up. I'm gonna give you another blast
from the past Tang. I'll throw in steak comes real
quick. Yeah, these were you know I used
to take Tang. And sprinkled on top of vanilla
ice cream, sweet. You know what, I'm not doing
today. Tang on vanilla ice cream.
You see Hosea, chapter 4 verse 46 says, my people perish for
what a lack of knowledge has said.
Since you've rejected knowledge, I'm going to reject you.
You can say hallelujah or oh me! Amen!
Or oh me? So you're getting your being
exposed through anchor, Faith Church, the great truths and
wonderful importations every Sunday and Wednesday.
Great times of corporate prayer on, you know, Tuesday, Morning,
Thursday, morning, Sunday morning, but you're being
exposed to a lot and gods going to hold you accountable for
what, you know. Man.
And so Tang. With vanilla ice cream.
I know better. Oh brother, you're under the
law. No, I'm under knowledge.
Hallelujah. Oatmeal cream pies.
Have a shelf life. Of sometime, I haven't
researched by her Twinkies or 20 years.
And it's bad Doctrine to think. If I put that in my body it
preserves me longer, right? So these Olympic athletes, they
just don't eat anything as a man or woman of God.
Let's go to First Corinthians chapter 9.
First Corinthians chapter 9, verses 24 through 27.
There's great parallels in parables in the Bible and I love
the way that the Holy Spirit just speaks in everyday plain
English. My prayer, those that you'd have
ears to hear, you know, it's interesting.
Isaiah got it. He said, send me and God someone
will send you, but not everybody's going to hear what
you're saying. Cuz there there are is in their
hearts are dull to what. And then you know what?
Jesus gives the parable of the sower and quotes, Isaiah In the
parable of the sower about good seed and bad ground and he said
some are going to hear not understand some are going to see
and they're not going to have the vision for, right?
But there's it's a simple truths that God tries to relate.
So we can understand First Corinthians 9:24-27, you can
write these down if you're taking notes.
First Timothy chapter 4 verse number 8, I will give you four
scriptures. I'm going to read them.
Okay. First Timothy chapter 4 verse
number 8, Hebrews chapter 12, verse number 1 and Philippians
chapter 2 verse number 12. I'll repeat them all again
because my desires for you to actually go home and read these
First Corinthians 9:24-27. I'm reading this from the New
Living Translation. It says, don't you realize that
in a race? Everyone runs member.
I said, man, when you're in your own lane, you're on your own
race with God. The general always leads to the
specific, right? You got to continue the genuine
general purpose, to do the specific purpose, but
everybody's in a race. God's not measuring you by what
your wife's doing or by what your your husband's doing, by
what your kids are doing, what the community doing.
God is viewing, you above according to the plan and the
purpose that he has for you. You he said don't you realize
don't you realize don't you understand that in a race
everyone runs but only one gets a person gets the prize member I
said when it's a god ambition it's a good thing.
The Bible says so run to win somebody say when say when say
greater. So God say for you today as an
individual run to win. I don't know about you but I
hate losing. Honestly, I think something is
wrong with you, if you like to lose.
I don't mean that mean. But there should be something on
the inside that says, I don't want to ever let.
This conquer me again. Has anybody had that thought
before? That's called Dominion.
The Kings mandate he's saying, run to win.
Goes on to verse 25. All athletes are disciplined say
discipline. They're what you're called to
disciple in a disciple is discipline in their training,
they do it to win the prize that will fade away, but we do it.
For an eternal prize. So I run with purpose, I run
with purpose. I run with purpose.
In every step. I am not just Shadow Boxing.
I discipline my body, like an athlete.
Training it to do. What it should. you know, if you
take your hands off the steering wheel of your flesh, Now, shared
on Wednesday, I just had at the gym the other day in order, God,
look kind of rough. And I was, I try to be real
aware of walking love people, using machines.
Matter of fact, I talked to my wife about this and there's this
other person that Jim I try to stay clear of to, but they heard
this individual screaming from across the gym.
Hey, that's my machine. The lady was going to get ready,
use it. And this other person, you
something else and she's screaming.
I said, Lord Jesus. You need it that bad.
Go ahead. But this guy comes up.
And I mean, there's, it's not a big crowd.
Not a big crowd. And so I'm thinking, okay it's
not gonna hurt me to take two benches.
I'm trying to superset and really exhaust it because I'm
thinking about verses like this man.
I want to take myself to capacity.
I was struggling one time and went to the gym.
Help us like okay this is just a for strep, this is a - I feel
like I'm gonna puke but I know there's something greater on the
other side of this. And so he comes up, he's like
using that bench. I'm like, you know your minds
like thinking? No. you just watch me do stuff
on it, you know, and you got a bench right there, but I saw the
problem real quick was his bench was an adjustable, anyone do
something on a Smith machine, so about 20 seconds, you know, he
got a smug look on his face and I could feel the attitude all
over him and I said, you got a problem.
I felt my flesh. Come I said, oh man, I'll knock
you out. You don't even know what you're
doing. Anyways, in here, you know how
the pride comes. I'll watch you work out doing
the same boring monotonous. Routine ain't see, no changes in
your body for 10 years. So why don't you go home and
have some tea? and ice cream because that's
about all the Go eat your oatmeal cream pie cause you
ain't doing jack in here anyway. 20 seconds.
I felt it but I trained my body. Do what it should.
I said, you know what, I had one more set, it's amazing how it
goes in your mind real quick. I'm giving you a glimpse into
what I thought when this guy approached me but here's what
came out my lips. You know if you want the bench
that bad, you can have it. I'll just do it.
I'll find another set, you know, do another session.
Let me I carried it over there for him.
I said, hey you want me to wipe this down?
No, it's okay. I said Victory.
I ran with purpose and every step.
I discipline my body like an athlete trained to do.
What should otherwise I fear that after preaching to others,
I might be disqualified. First Timothy 4:8 says her
bodily exercise profiteth little But godliness is profitable for
all things, having promise for the life that now is and the
life, which is to come. Another parallel between Bali
exercise and spiritual disciplines.
Hebrews chapter 12. Verse number 1 says, this is
from the New Living Translation therefore since we are
surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of
Faith, let us strip off every way member that iniquity.
That's a weight you carry around baggage from the past.
That can slow you down, shave it off.
Turn it off. That slows us down and then it
talks about Sin that easily trips us up.
Let us run with endurance the race that God has set before us.
There's a race. There's a discipline that we
need to be in, there's and sanctification being set apart.
There's a commitment in a connection.
We need to be him. Philippians chapter 2 verse
number 12 says this. Therefore my beloved as you have
always obeyed, not as in my presence only but now much more
in my absence. Workout.
Say workout, say workout. Your own salvation with fear and
trembling. so, when it comes to discipline, when it comes to
being greater, when it comes to commitment and then when it
comes to connection, you need a plan in place to be a part of
The bigger picture. So just like the parallels, that
the Apostle Paul gave the writer of Hebrews, it doesn't take
rocket scientist. Or degree to understand what you
need to do to grow in God. Listen in the natural and the
natural when it comes to physical training.
You should always be internally motivated.
Why do I do what I do? Why do I do what I do?
Colossians 3:23, says whatever you do, do it heartily as unto
the Lord. But there's a passion that rises
up maybe after Thanksgiving definitely after Christmas, when
you don't eat all the junk food. That January 1, guess what?
I want to, I need to do something about this.
It's getting out of control, right?
So what happens you start to formulate?
A plan, some people actually get a gym membership, right?
I love the January crowd. My question is, will I see them
in February? But they get a plan in place and
there's great parallels. Like I said between the natural
and the spiritual spiritual, you need to get a plan in place.
That God can utilize and use. You, are you with me Church?
And so in the natural, guess what?
The one of the biggest factors in seeing results in your
physical bodies, a thing called nutrition.
We have macronutrients, which is your carbohydrates.
Your proteins and your fats. Right.
We have micronutrients which should be your vitamins and your
minerals will guess what? Spiritually.
You have micronutrients and macronutrients.
Thank God for great men and women of the Bible and all the
resources right through books. Study materials that they that
they have but nothing can replace the meat.
And potatoes of the word of God, nothing can replace Church
attendance. Amen, there's something about
reading the word or something about developing your prayer
life or something to be about being at church every Sunday and
Wednesday that feeds you at a macro level, spiritually. my
nephew, if you're a high-output person, And you got a lot of
productivity. And you don't get the
nutritional requirements. You start to break down.
You become an estate what you call catabolic or a breaking
down of the body. Michael Phelps when he was
training for the Olympics, the guy, eat 10,000 calories a day,
Why? Because he puts such a demand on
his physical body, how much more spiritually are you feeling
discouraged? Are you feeling in doubt?
Are you feeling weak? Well, my question is, are you
getting enough nutrients from the word of God?
Are you getting it in, essence, enough, spiritual calories?
Or you even spiritual tang and ice cream, and even spiritual
meal, cookies, you know, when you take in simple sugars on a
natural man, your pancreas shoots up, an insulin.
Glucagon is released and you're like, Bam, Bam.
Let me get some more sugar. Bam.
Bam, Are you taking it off? Simple sugar spiritually?
That looks like a yo-yo Christian.
You got to get the right diet in place, right?
That's 80% of your success right there.
Then there's also training, right?
We have aerobics and an aerobics and any good training program.
Both, physically and spiritually is going to include all these
Now, Robux means with oxygen. You know, it's interesting.
I think about the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost
three-in-one, there's three metabolic pathways.
You have three different types of body types.
You have three different types of muscle fibers, I give glory
to God when I think about all that, for the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Ghost, but aerobic training is important.
Why? Because the Bible talks about
thing called endurance, I love the story, Pastor Denise,
although I would never do it. Pastor Denise came for our
Living Faith, Crusade back. Was that January and on a
Sunday? I love just the grid that you
determination on a Sunday. She decides to run a 5k on a
Saturday. I think it was a 5k, no training
so she gives the testimony, she's running.
Hey man, she's like, I'm gonna finish this thing.
I'm gonna finish it. I'm not going to quit and she
she gracefully said there's a person that was much larger than
her that Pastor. During this during this 5K, she
said the next day on Sunday though, when she went to get out
of bed, she had to go like this. The reason I bring that up is
because there's an endurance that we have to develop.
The Bible says faith and patience.
The JB Phillips says patients is passing the breaking point but
not breaking. Passing the breaking point but
not breaking. So you need to incorporate some
endurance training. You know, and you know, when
you're doing it even, there's a formula in the natural that lets
you know, what your, what percentage of your VO2 oxygen
uptake, you're doing at 60% 70% 80%.
How do you know that? God and training knows if you're
actually hitting that or not, And you want to line up your
plan with his plan, right? Are y'all with me?
So there's there's an aerobic training and wrote means without
oxygen, right? And but it's resistance
training, it's straight training.
And when you go in there, guess what?
It's resistance. That means, there's pressure.
In Proverbs 24. 10 it says, if you faint the David event and
adversity your strength is small.
So when it comes to this walk with God, guess what?
There's going to be things that come your way Church, they're
just an opportunity to get you stronger.
A lot of Believers and paulien prayed this prayer in 2nd
Corinthians 12. Said Griffin has 12.
Yes, God to remove something from him.
Let me read it to you real quick.
We're wrapping this up. Second Corinthians chapter 12
and this is a prayer. I think that, you know, I've
prayed obviously and I feel like probably other believers had
prayed because we want the pressure off.
Now, listen too much pressure will break you.
So, you need to know when to cast your cares, on the Lord,
because in any good training program, there's a thing called
rest. Spiritually to the Bible says,
come unto me all that labor, heavy laden, I'll give you rest
unto your souls for my yoke is easy.
My burden is light, even the Old Testament, every seven years
they let the field rest. Why would replenish the field?
If I train my legs every single day, for 365 days, guess what?
There's going to be no results because I'm just pushing too
hard. However, I can't just go to the
gym and On a machine and say, interesting ice machine.
Second Corinthians 12 says this. Verse number 8.
Concerning this thing. I pleaded with the Lord three
times that it might depart. So Paul is asking God to get it
off of them. You know what?
God's answer was. He said my grace is sufficient
for you. For my strength is made perfect
in your weakness. And those moments, I will call
anaerobic spiritual training when you feel like you can't go
on anymore. Then you say, okay, God, your
grace is sufficient, you're taking me to another level, and
this is why we need each other. There's the thing in the gym
called a workout partner, training partner that can give
you a spot. and sometimes, when you get stuck, Just like on a
bench press where I get stuck. Just a little bit sometimes.
All you need is two fingers to tap that bar to get you past the
sticking point. That's what Churchill do for
you. Get your past sticking points.
That's what reading the word will do for you.
Get you past sticky. Thanks again, so much for
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