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March 15, 2021
IT ALL ADDS UP
I Am an all-knowing God. Don’t be frightened when you don’t understand what’s going on. Walk in My ways, partnering daily with the Holy Spirit and I’ll reveal mysteries to you.
IT ALL ADDS UPThe word “Kingdom” is in the Bible 28 times and, thanks to the book of Ecclesiastes, we know that 28 represents times and seasons. So, what does that mean? It means that the Kingdom is available to you no matter what season you’re going through. You can have dominion.
Just like that, the word “cross” is in the Bible 28 times. That means Jesus Christ has already guaranteed you victory no matter what transition you are coming out of or going into. You don’t need to be scared of any time or season.
A parable is a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson. The Gospels record 46 such stories told by Jesus. He would point to something clearly understood, like a mama teaching her baby to walk, and say, “The Kingdom of heaven is just like that!” The Gospels record 46 such storie
Now, 46 is associated with uniting things together. It’s a number associated with taking one thing and joining it to another. The number 46 is illustrated throughout the Bible. Let me show you something cool.
The Bible is written was written using Hebrew and Greek. There are 22 letters in Hebrew and 24 letters in Greek. Add them together and you get 46. A human being has 46 chromosomes. When the 23 chromosomes of a man’s DNA double helix is joined with the 23 chromosomes of the woman, it creates a human being. Like I said, 46 is about two things being united together.
The name “Levi” has a numerical value of 46. Levi literally means “to join together.” The 46th book in the Bible, 1 Corinthians, it says this:
“But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.” – 1 Corinthians 6:17
His word, nature, prophetic revelation, numbers – He’s talking to you through everything around you. He’s literally pointing and saying, “The Kingdom of heaven is just like that!” If you’re going after His voice, you’ll start to recognize when and how He is speaking to you.
God did not give us a spirit of fear. Walk in His ways and you won’t be disappointed whatever season you find yourself in and whatever voice He uses to speak to you in that season – even number
FROM MY SERMON SERIES LORD OF THE HARVEST
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PITCH A TENT, NOT A FIT
There will be a day when you and I will see each other face to face. Until then, be encouraged and empowered that you are made in My image. You look like Me in the way you love others and selflessly serve. I see you and am proud of the resemblance.
PITCH A TENT, NOT A FITYou and I need to be camped around His Presence. We need to be so aware of His Presence in our lives that folks know exactly where to find us – camped around Jesus.
As drop-dead, sold-out Jesus freaks, we should be the kind of people who know how to seek God and find Him – not just in having visitations from the Lord, which is cool, but to actually live with the Lord.
There’s a big upgrade from visitation to habitation. This has to do with your answer to this question: “Can you put God first?”
God Almighty is happy to move you out of the wilderness into the Promised Land if you will put Him first and be so aware of His Presence within your life. The first thing He said when the children of Israel crossed the Jordan and went over into the Promised Land in Joshua chapter 1 was, “Have courage.” Why? Because “I’m with you.”
When you have the One True God on your side, you don’t live in fear. You live a life of courageous deeds. You live a life of power where you take on hell with a water pistol. You cast down strongholds and slay giants. You know you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you.
That’s what being camped out in His presence will do for you. It’s like some supernatural Red Bull – His presence gives you wings. Presence doesn’t happen without pursuit and you know what I always say: God blesses pursuit!
“You will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.” – Jeremiah 29:13
That’s why you need to seek Him out. When you find Him, pitch a tent, not a fit.
FROM MY SERMON SERIES FIRST THINGS
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March 14, 2021
TRAIL BLAZERS – AWAKENING TO HIS VOICE
TRAIL BLAZERS – AWAKENING TO HIS VOICE
OpenDoor Church, Burleson, TX
Pastor Troy Brewer
Sunday, March 14, 2021
Amos 8:11
“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord GOD, “When I will
send a famine on the land, Not a famine for bread or a thirst for
water, But rather for hearing the words of the LORD.”
Earth is crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire
with God; But only he who sees Takes off his shoes. The rest
sit around it and pluck blackberries.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Hosea 10:12
Sow for yourselves righteousness; Reap in mercy; Break up
your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the LORD, Till He
comes and rains righteousness on you.
SOWING, REAPING AND BREAKING THE FALLOW
GROUND OR TRAIL BLAZING
PEOPLE WHO HEAR GOD SPEAK ARE SPIRITUAL PEOPLE
LED BY THE SPIRIT TO BECOME SPIRITUAL TRAIL
BLAZERS
Romans 8:14
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons
of God.
TO BE LED BY THE SPIRIT AND GO A NEW WAY.
TO SET A RIGHTEOUS PRECEDENT THAT BECOMES THE
NEW STANDARD FOR OTHERS TO FOLLOW.
WHAT USED TO BE SCARY FOR EVERYBODY BECOMES
THE NORM BECAUSE YOU DARED TO BELIEVE GOD AND
YOU WERE NOT AFRAID OF WHAT WAS FRIGHTENING.
The Calf-Path
Sam Foss
I. One day through the primeval wood
A calf walked home as good calves should;
But made a trail all bent askew,
A crooked trail as all calves do.
Since then three hundred years have fled,
And I infer the calf is dead.
II. But still he left behind his trail,
And thereby hangs my moral tale.
The trail was taken up next day,
By a lone dog that passed that way;
And then a wise bell-wether sheep
Pursued the trail o’er vale and steep,
And drew the flock behind him, too,
As good bell-wethers always do.
And from that day, o’er hill and glade.
Through those old woods a path was made.
III. And many men wound in and out,
And dodged, and turned, and bent about,
And uttered words of righteous wrath,
Because ’twas such a crooked path;
But still they followed—do not laugh—
The first migrations of that calf,
And through this winding wood-way stalked
Because he wobbled when he walked.
IV. This forest path became a lane,
that bent and turned and turned again;
This crooked lane became a road,
Where many a poor horse with his load
Toiled on beneath the burning sun,
And traveled some three miles in one.
And thus a century and a half
They trod the footsteps of that calf.
V. The years passed on in swiftness fleet,
The road became a village street;
And this, before men were aware,
A city’s crowded thoroughfare.
And soon the central street was this
Of a renowned metropolis;
And men two centuries and a half,
Trod in the footsteps of that calf.
VI. Each day a hundred thousand rout
Followed the zigzag calf about
And o’er his crooked journey went
The traffic of a continent.
A Hundred thousand men were led,
By one calf near three centuries dead.
They followed still his crooked way,
And lost one hundred years a day;
For thus such reverence is lent,
To well established precedent.
VII. A moral lesson this might teach
Were I ordained and called to preach;
For men are prone to go it blind
Along the calf-paths of the mind,
And work away from sun to sun,
To do what other men have done.
They follow in the beaten track,
And out and in, and forth and back,
And still their devious course pursue,
To keep the path that others do.
They keep the path a sacred groove,
Along which all their lives they move.
GOD GIVES US BRAVE SPIRITUAL PLACES TO WALK AND
TO STAND, AND THE DEVIL THINKS HE CAN GET YOU OUT
OF YOUR LANE
“The devil is playing spiritual chicken with every believer that we
will be the one who will not bail from our lane and that we will
not stand.”
– Kattina Adams
DO NOT FEAR WHAT IS FRIGHTENING
1 Peter 3
“Do not fear what they fear; do not be frightened.” keeping a
clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against
your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.”
Graveyards are straight, perfect and peaceful, but birthing
rooms are messy and loud with scary sounds.
Julian Adams Spoke of a vision he had seen where he had
seen the the floating of Jesus going around inside a church he
was at….
“I want my body back!”
Revelation 3:20
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my
voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with
him, and he with me.
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March 13, 2021
JUST GO!
Follow Me this day and discover the glory of My presence in you. With Me, all things are possible to those who believe. There is none like Me, able to do more than you could ever ask or dream.
JUST GO!When you start hanging around Jesus, something happens. You start believing you can take on hell with a water pistol. You start saying, “You know what, I’m not nearly as big of a failure as I thought I was.” This is because the Lord is speaking new identity into my life.
“So, Pastor Troy, are you saying that you think you’re supposed to be great?” Absolutely, you and I are supposed to be great. All of the disciples got into these constant knock-down, drag-outs over this one thing: “Which one of us is the greatest?” Jesus never did answer that question.
Instead, He said something amazing. “You guys will all do things greater than I’ve done.”
That’s the green light to go for it. That’s the difference in the wilderness journey and the Promised Land. It’s in following that we learn the goodness of God. In the wilderness you don’t move unless you see God move. In the Promised Land, He’s like, “Get ‘em, and I’ll just back up whatever you do! Whatever you put your foot on, I will give you. Just go, go, go!”
King David tapped into that kind of grace a thousand years before Jesus showed up, and what did he say? “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.” See man, in this new covenant with the Lord, you go and Jesus follows you.
Jesus in the book of Matthew sums up what He means by “go”:
“All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” – Matthew 28:18-20
Go! Go, in the power and authority of the Holy Spirit, accepted, loved and forgiven – knowing you are never alone. Do those greater things God has planned for you.
FROM MY SERMON SERIES UPGRADE
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March 12, 2021
WHO’S YOUR MAMA?
It was from My heart that family was formed. It is to mirror My family and you are a great big part of that. Family is about unity. It’s not about agreeing on everything, but agreeing We love each other. You are My beloved child in whom I Am so pleased!
WHO’S YOUR MAMA?God loves to include women in His promises. Have you noticed our culture today dismisses the notion that motherhood is a big deal, despite the fact God has been saying motherhood is a big deal for nearly 4,000 years?
When we think of family and kid-friendly, we usually think of Disney, right? Well, consider this: Name me a Disney Princess outside of Princess Aurora (who was raised by fairies) and Rapunzel (raised by an evil kidnapper) who has a mama.
Pinocchio has Geppetto. Ariel has Triton. Nemo has Marlin. Snow White, Peter Pan, Pocahontas, Mowgli, Lelo, Belle, Cinderella, Jasmine, Jane from Tarzan, the sisters in Frozen, Boo from Monsters, Inc. – they usually have a really cool dad or they’re straight up orphans. Mom is nowhere to be seen.
One story after another says, “This is what it’s like to be family,” and there’s never a mama in the picture. If there is, she’s an evil step-mama. My friends, it’s a sly way to reprogram our society so that family is whatever messed up design they tell us it is – and this morphs and changes constantly.
Let me tell you this: Hollywood does this on purpose. You can be mad at me if you want, but I will stick to my guns that women are left out by design and it’s demonic.
Think of how Christians are portrayed. If there’s a Christian character in a crime drama, they are the murderer – always. TV portrays most Christians as Catholics or plain crazy individuals. It’s the same thing in Stephen King’s books. The Christian is always the bad guy in anything Stephen King related – always.
Here’s what’s real: there’s actually an agenda and it’s anti-Jesus. The kingdom never, ever, leaves the mama out. The word talks about honoring your father and mother. Proverbs 31 is all about the importance of women in the family. What would Adam be without a helper? I can tell you this – it wouldn’t be good.
Mamas are supernaturally anointed to a make a powerful impact on the lives of their children. Don’t let the world tell you women aren’t important to God – that their kids don’t or won’t listen to them. Hogwash!
Know this: God listens to mamas. He loves and answers their prayers. Many of us were saved because of a praying mama. So pray on brave mamas and know that you are important to the Kingdom no matter what the world says!
“Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.” – Proverbs 1:8-9
FROM MY SERMON SERIES NEXT OF KIN
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Episode 74 – An Interview with my daughter in The Spirit Joanna Elshazly
Friends today joining me is one of my kids in The Spirit, Joanna, and I just love her so much. We talk about her, how she adopted her daughter Holly from China, and her book. She wrote a daily declaration book for her daughter that would enable her to re-write her own story, find her identity, and be confident and at peace in her life. Now she has published her book for any kids that have been in the foster system, adopted or that just need some special attention. Her book “Chosen” is illustrated by Jamie Lyn Wallnau, and it is available at my website troybrewer.com or lifeandlibertypress.com I hope y’all enjoy it!
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March 11, 2021
REDRAWING YOUR MAP
I have given you an expected end – a destination. It is more than just living in My Kingdom. It is an assignment on this earth to prepare you for an assignment in heaven. You are up to the task, so go. Be fruitful and multiply the blessing I bring you.
REDRAWING YOUR MAPOne thing you need to know about your territory in Jesus is this: the map is always changing. What I’m about to say might surprise you.
Religion has told you you’re never going to have ups and downs and that’s a lie. It has told you God wants you to be happy and that if you’re good, you’ll always be blessed. Religion has told you that you’ll always win and never lose if you have faith. That is baloney.
God Almighty has not called you to win all things or be happy all the time. God Almighty has called you to be fruitful in all things and have joy even in mourning. You are not going to win every battle.
And the reason why the map always changes is because sometimes you lose.
Sometimes you have bad weeks. Sometimes your mama dies or the doctor gives you a bad report. Sometimes you don’t know how to think about things. Sometimes you get attacked, sometimes there are devils from hell coming after you through gossip, lies or slander.
Sometimes the Muslims or the liberal socialists are losing their minds and they draw you into a Twitter war. There are days you don’t know what to do about your finances or your job. Sometimes you stand up to the plate, take a swing and get your hat handed to you.
Do you know what God does on those days? He cheers you on even in your loss. He says, “Did you see My kiddo get up there and swing for the fences? They missed, but they learned from this experience and they’ll get ‘em next time.”
Learning, growing, progressing – that’s fruit. That’ll change your borders. So go after more territory. Redraw those borders until your Father says you’ve arrived at your destination. It’s your destiny.
“You have increased the nation, O LORD, You have increased the nation; You are glorified; You have expanded all the borders of the land.” – Isaiah 26:15
FROM MY SERMON SERIES I LOVE MY TRIBE
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March 10, 2021
THEIR PEACE IS OUR PEACE
Oh, how I long to gather you into My arms when I see you struggle. Will you let Me? I have such peace to offer you. I will fight your battles, defeat your enemies and rule as your King. Will you invite me?
THEIR PEACE IS OUR PEACEJesus rules through peace. That’s why He’s called the Prince of Peace. And the majesty part of the Lord Jesus Christ is peace. A lot of times I don’t know anything except what I have peace about. I know that’s Jesus.
Now, my friends, peace is not the absence of chaos, trouble or war. Peace is when Jesus rules and reigns over something. It’s when He gets to have dominion over a situation, person or place. When that happens, all is right in that universe!
Here’s a real good indication of the heart of Jesus: Ask yourself, “What do I have peace about?” and see what comes to mind. It’s so important for us to be tuned into peace and to not be distracted by the things that disturb us. That’s an intentional kingdom skill set you and I need to develop.
Now, I promise you, the devil isn’t able to give you peace. He’s able to medicate you, sedate you, distract you and placate you, but he’s not capable of giving you peace. In fact, he’s called the “prince of the power of the air” – he uses the atmosphere to poison your heart and mind through what you see and hear every day on the radio, TV and social media.
If you’ve got anxiety, depression or fear in your life, you haven’t asked the Prince of Peace onto your battlefield. He’ll jump into the fight for your peace of mind, but you gotta go after that. If you don’t, the consequences are costly.
About 2,000 years ago, the Hebrew people refused to give Jesus dominion over their hearts and minds. After praising Him as King, they turned on Him. They missed their chosen messiah and it cost them dearly. Jesus says it best:
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones God’s messengers! How often I have wanted to gather your children together as a hen protects her chicks beneath her wings, but you wouldn’t let me.” – Matthew 23:37
He wanted them to recognize Him as King – to be their Prince of Peace. He wanted dominion over that holy city and the people in it, but they refused to accept Him. They’ve been battling for their survival ever since.
But that’s not you. You know where the devil has brought strife into your life. Give it to Jesus. Ask the Prince of Peace to fight your enemy. And while you’re at it, pray for the peace of Jerusalem – that Jesus would rule, reign and have dominion over His beloved people. Their peace is our peace.
FROM MY SERMON SERIES JESUS UNVEILED
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March 9, 2021
PUT THE MATCHES DOWN
I have made an investment in you and the fields we plow together. Be steadfast and patient. I have a plan and it’s a good one. Partner with the Holy Spirit and together we will have a wonderful harvest.
PUT THE MATCHES DOWNEvery time you burn a field, there’s terrible collateral damage. Burning a field is a broken relationship or a divorce. You don’t walk away from a divorce and just resume life. It takes years to recover from a divorce.
A lot of times, people never recover from a divorce. It changes the family dynamic so much, it’s never the same. Instead of caring for the field or fighting to pull the thorns and thistles out, they decide, “Well, there’s too many weeds in this field. I’ll torch it and I’ll just deal with the damage later.”
Later is usually a few decades away. A huge majority of the salvations we see in church is from people 40 and older.
People make such terrible decisions in their 20s. It takes the entire decade of their 30s for them to get past the decisions they made in their 20s. Then, they don’t even begin to have a right mind until their 40s. Meanwhile, they raised kids in their 20s and 30s and now they’re all kinds of messed up.
The collateral damage from all the fields we burn causes us to fight a lot of battles we don’t need to fight. How much easier is life when you’re committed to a harvest through selflessness.
When Peter denied that he even knew Jesus in Matthew 26:69-74, Jesus could have just burned that field, but He didn’t. In Mark 16:7, He tells the women to tell the disciples and Peter that He would meet them in Galilee. Jesus knew that God would bring a harvest out of that field and He did.
Not everything worth having is going to be easy. Sometimes a field needs to be burned so it can grow back healthy. Sometimes a bit of patience and a little forgiveness can save the field and bring in a crop for the Lord of the Harvest.
FROM MY SERMON SERIES LORD OF THE HARVEST
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March 8, 2021
TOO STRESSED TO BE BLESSED?
I know who you are, even when you forget. Call on Me when the enemy comes against your identity. Do not be fooled. He’s already lost the war. You may lose a battle, but will not be defeated by a defeated devil.
TOO STRESSED TO BE BLESSED?Anxiety is real. It’s a giant a lot of us fight and, my friends, it doesn’t make you a loser if anxiety stalks you. You all know I have a lot of plates in the air. Mission trips, rescuing girls, orphanages, TV shows, books, sermons series, food banks, family, being a husband – there are a lot of plates spinning in my life.
And all of a sudden anxiety will hit me. I’m talking about “crash the cart” kind of anxiety. I’m talking about when I’m at the top of my game, all of a sudden anxiety will hit me and I’ll go, “I’m not smart enough for this. I dang sure don’t have the money so how am I going to raise millions of dollars to help these people? Then everybody is going to think I’m after their money!”
I truly fear that people think that I’m after their money and what do you do with that? Sometimes, I’m just like, “I’ll just show up and preach then go home.”
What’s happened is a giant has entered into my assignment. A giant has stepped onto my battlefield. Now, here’s the deal: He ain’t going away. He has to be removed, because once you start giving in to that fear, it’s over.
Once you let fear onto your battlefield, you’re either going to walk out of your assignment or you’re going to confront that thing and say, “I know who I am and you don’t tell me what a failure I am. Jesus says, ‘I’m a man of God.’ Jesus says, ‘I’m successful.’ Jesus says, ‘I can do this.’”
Anxiety may be a giant, but you and I have the formula for putting giants on the ground. It only takes five smooth stones – five is God’s number for grace – and those stones are bold declarations.
Fear, you don’t own me. Jesus Christ bought and paid for my freedom with His blood.I am not afraid. Jesus says I’m more than a conqueror in Him.I have the mind of Christ. My thinking is next level.My God is my fortress and my strength. He is my high tower. I run into Him and am saved.Through Jesus, I am mighty for the pulling down of strongholds in my life, so I’m pulling you down.Those declarations are your identity. They are who God says you are and when you start speaking these words, giants don’t stand a chance. So, the next time the giant of anxiety calls you out, call Jehovah Nissi – God my Banner – onto your battlefield. He’ll remind you who you are and give you the stones you need to defeat anxiety.
“We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ…”
– 2 Corinthians 10:5
FROM MY SERMON SERIES MILK AND HONEY
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