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November 23, 2020
MADE FOR UPGRADE
My love, My patience, My wisdom, My creativity, My attention – it is all limitless. I have given you the mind of Christ, which is also limitless. So what does that make you?
MADE FOR UPGRADE
You know I’m all about upgrade and Isaiah 9:7 is the great upgrade Scripture. It’s an amazing prophecy of the Lord Jesus Christ and it says this:
“Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end, Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, To order it and establish it with judgment and justice From that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.” – Isaiah 9:7
There’s no such thing as the “end” of His government and His peace. However much of the Kingdom you have, you still haven’t tapped out yet. By the way, peace is Jesus ruling and reigning in your life. That’s why the majestic side of Him is called “the Prince of Peace.”
That’s also why when you don’t have peace in your life, it’s because you know Him as your friend or “homeboy,” not as your King. You have to upgrade. You have to go after something more than what you had in Him when you first got saved.
My friends, you were made to improve, progress and upgrade. How do I know? Nobody dreams of living in a ditch or aspires to a worse life tomorrow than they had today – nobody!
Does upgrade in your relationship with Jesus appeal to you? It should. He should no longer be your friend, but your King. He should no longer be your Savior, but your Destiny. Go after more Jesus. There is no end to Him or the good things He has in store for those who love Him. You were made for upgrade.
FROM MY SERMON SERIES UPGRADE
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November 21, 2020
BORDER PATROL
I know what I created you for. Your purpose was set by My hand before you were born. Stake out your territory – the place where you have influence – and carry out that purpose. Love Me and others, and serve them selflessly.
BORDER PATROL
If you’re going to have true milk and honey in your life, a lot of things have to go right. I’m talking a whole bunch of things. Now listen, those things are taken care of by the Spirit in your Promised Land journey.
In the Promised Land, you don’t fight the wrong battles, which is all about survival. You fight the right battles. It’s very important you learn not to fight every battle. Fight the right battles because the Promised Land is an assigned territory and it’s very possible to get on the wrong battlefield – one you have no grace to win on.
Territory is a big deal in the land of milk and honey. In the wilderness, you wander around. You wander, wander, wander. You don’t do that in the Promised Land because there are borders.
“Pastor Troy, what’s that all about? I thought the Promised Land was about pursuit and freedom?”
It is about pursuit and freedom, but in the context of understanding the assignment the Lord Jesus Christ has for you – borders. That means you can’t get involved in the wrong assignments.
There are a lot of people who don’t have any effect in the Body of Christ. They don’t make a tremendous difference. They don’t help anybody. And it’s not because they’re back slidden. It’s because they are involved in the wrong assignments – one of them being feeding themselves at every Bible study and potluck.
In the Promised Land, you bring heaven to earth. You help people and show them what Jesus is like. That is your assignment. Your territory is where God has put you to carry out that assignment. Wherever your territory is, it’s worth fighting for. Stay within your borders to see sure victory for yourself and those God has called you to serve there.
Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee. – Genesis 13:17
FROM MY SERMON SERIES MILK AND HONEY
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November 20, 2020
YOUR SOUL PURPOSE
I have given you the right to be a son or a daughter to Me. My Name, the Name Above All Names, is yours. Let it define and guide you as you expand My Kingdom and My family.
YOUR SOUL PURPOSE
Identity is a big deal to God. Because of that, it should be a big deal to us as well. Much of who you are is established by your family and your family name. God is the one who organized this and it’s wonderful to have a name. It’s also terrible not to have a name. People who do not have a name can easily be exploited.
Look at the orphans we rescue from the streets of Africa, India, Mexico, Nepal and South America. They don’t have names. Look at the girls we rescue out of sexual slavery. Most have a first name, but they’ve never known their family name. They’ve been exploited, enslaved, marginalized and forgotten because nobody will claim them.
Well, I do! I’ve given the name “Brewer” to countless orphans across the world. I would love to say it was my big idea, but it wasn’t. It was Father God’s.
Remember when I told you the fear of the Lord is to love what God loves and hate what He hates? Well, He hates it when someone is lost. When they have no family and no identity. He doesn’t want anyone to be an orphan.
That ’s why God’s agenda is to adopt people into His family – first the Jews, then the Gentiles – that’s you and me. When we’re part of God’s family, we line up with His identity. We start to look and act like Him. We bring heaven to earth to build His Kingdom so His will, which is always good, can be done.
The best part? Not only do you and I get our identity from Jesus, we can extend that offer of adoption to others. Your sole – or soul – purpose is to bring the lost into the family. That’s it. There are as many ways to do that as their are Jesus freaks on the planet.
Find your identity – your unique place or way to tell people about Jesus – and start inviting people to the party. The reunion is coming soon and you don’t want anyone to be left out! Step into your territory!
A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land. – Psalms 68:5-6
FROM MY SERMON SERIES NEXT OF KIN
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November 18, 2020
YOU’RE SUCH A ROCK STAR!
Choosing to see yourself as I see you gives others the opportunity to see Me in you. Choosing to see others how I see them gives you the opportunity to represent Me. Become the Jesus people need to see today and receive your blessing!
YOU’RE SUCH A ROCK STAR!
As things spin more and more out of control on this earth, know that this is why: what is celebrated in Heaven is not celebrated on earth because the King of Heaven is not celebrated on this earth. Jesus is the ruler of things in heaven and, my friend, He is good!
And Jesus said unto him, “Why call me good? None is good, except one, that is, God.” – Luke 18:19
The One who is good is coming back soon. Know that there will be more and more opposition to His appearance and, because of this, a greater hostility to His goodness and yours.
Despite this growing hostility toward good and celebration of evil, your calling as a Christ follower who understands that God is a good God, is to continue going around doing good! Not only that, you are to do good things in His name!
When the world calls you a hypocrite for calling people to repentance, call them to repentance anyway! When the world calls you a fake for feeding and clothing the poor or visiting the prisoner, do it anyway!
When the world tells you that your efforts to save the lost are futile, continue to extend a hand to the drowning. Testify to the love of Jesus and His saving grace anyway!
When the world hates you because you’re a Christian, know that the world first hated Jesus (John 15:18) for bringing light into the darkness and exposing sin. Continue shining His light anyway!
You’re not called to a life of fear even when things get tough. You are called to be a Holy Ghost rock star who stands in front of the band and shouts into the microphone that Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life – no man comes to the Father except through Him.
You see, the results don’t belong to you, but to Him! Your job is to be obedient.
So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. – Isaiah 55:11
From my book: Good Overcomes Evil
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November 17, 2020
UNITY IN THE COMMUNITY
The Father and I are One. The Spirit and I are One. We are three, but One God – the perfect picture of unity. The Spirit is being poured out to bring the Church together. I desire unity in My children. It starts with you.
UNITY IN THE COMMUNITY
I’ll give you a good reason why Americans need the Church: because America needs a conscience. Without the Church, there is no selflessness. There is only the consumption and destruction of the mob.
But here’s the problem with the Church: it’s full of limp-wristed pansies who are so offended at how everybody else worships that we turn our battles against the other tribes.
We’re not all the same. There are black churches, white churches, and Asian churches. We have women leaders and men leaders. We’re denominational, non-denominational, and we all have different traditions, rites of passage, methods, and expressions.
Here’s what I say to all that: we are different tribes, but we all have the same King! It’s time for the body of Christ to quit fighting other churches and other Christians. Our nation is going to hell because the Church is fighting the wrong battle!
When Jesus comes back in the book of Revelation, He lists the twelve tribes and all have the exact same number in them – 12,000. 12×12,000=144,000. That number means God loves them all equally.
The number 12 is the number for perfect government. It means God governs them all equally. And while God recognizes the diversity within those tribes, He does not recognize any difference in His love toward those tribes. So we shouldn’t either.
“For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light.” – Ephesians 5:8
Remember, the church down the street is not the competition. Our enemy is the devil, and that’s a fact Jack!
FROM MY SERMON SERIES: I LOVE MY TRIBE
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November 16, 2020
THE DEVIL HATES THAT!
Let My redeemed people say so. Let them tell the story of their transformation to the broken living in darkness. You are My redeemed, restored child. Defeat the enemy with your testimony of how you were lost, but I now call you “found”!
THE DEVIL HATES THAT!
The power of redemption is just such a big deal. In the very places I have been shamed, I am honored now because redemption belongs to me.
There are people whose marriage has gone through hell. She went and did this terrible thing. He got mad and did that worse thing, and it would’ve killed everybody else, but not them. Why? Because of the power of redemption.
Redemption means they end up blessing everybody else’s marriage just because their marriage was made strong by the Spirit working in them to restore what would have broken others. Amen. That is the power of redemption.
The very river that kills everybody else blesses you. That is the power of redemption. I just love redemption.
Redemption says because Jesus Christ has paid a price for you, you can claim the power of redemption over everything. The Bible says that you have been moved from being an orphan, into being part of the family.
Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God… – John 1:12
This means the Spirit has given believers – you and I – power to be called the “sons of God” when you ought to be called an orphan. But the power of redemption calls you something completely different.
We have been moved from orphans into family. We are accepted, united in Him, and most amazing, we are no longer slaves to sin. Do you need redemption over a part of your life? Look at your marriage, your children, relationships, finances, job, and ministry. Find what’s broken and bring the Spirit of Redemption into it.
That’s snatching victory out of defeat. The devil hates that!
FROM MY SERMON SERIES: EXODUS
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November 15, 2020
PUT THE SHOVEL DOWN!
I Am God Almighty. While I fear nothing and run from no one, I have a father’s heart. I will run to you in your wanderings and bring you back home.
PUT THE SHOVEL DOWN!
There are times I’ve been attacked and was completely innocent until I began to defend myself. The way I handled myself was worse than the way I was being attacked.
Jesus warned us, “In this world you will have trouble.” We shouldn’t be surprised when attacks occur, even from friendly fire.
Here’s what’s real about the Christian life: You have to develop all types of skill sets you don’t have yet. The first thing you need to develop is the knowledge that you do not run away from Jesus no matter what.
And when you do runaway from God and try to handle things on your own – when you “make your bed in hell” as King David said – there He is with you. He’ll take your shame and give you His honor and righteousness.
This is Jesus bearing your burdens and guiding you back home to Him. If you don’t know Jesus as the face of an ox, as your burden-bearer, you’re not going to make it.
Without knowing this side of Jesus, the stuff you’re going to reach for is going to cause some serious collateral damage because of the anxiety that your life. Without Jesus – more specifically the burden-bearing side of Him – you’re going to be fighting the wrong battles instead of fighting the right battles.
It’s this side of Him that sees you digging a trench to hell and He doesn’t say, “You’re going to get what you deserve and I wash My hands of you.” No, sir! You can count on Jesus to say, “Put the shovel down.”
He not only takes that shovel, He pulls you out of your hole and helps you fill it in with honor. He’s strong as an ox when it comes to your mistakes. Count on it.
“But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.” – Luke 15:20
FROM MY SERMON SERIES JESUS UNVEILED
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November 13, 2020
A SLAP IN THE FACE
I’m My beloved’s and she is Mine. My beloved is the Church. Build her up with words of affirmation. Pray for her and make sure you – My beloved – are found in her.
A SLAP IN THE FACE
I love my tribe. I love how unique we are. I love the way we deal with things. I love the things we do. I love how crazy we are. I love how fun we are. I love our attitude.
I think we’re the coolest church I’ve ever been a part of. But I’m also gonna tell you this: I’m not at war with churches that are not as cool as us and I’m not competing against the pastor down the street to see who has the most cars in the parking lot.
Why not? There’s too much at stake. Lives – real lives – hang in the eternal balance.
In this county, my friends, we have 131 churches to serve 180,000 souls. If every single church was filled to capacity, we can only serve 26,500 of those people because that’s how many chairs are inside the churches.
Are you doing the math? There’s not enough room for 150,000 people! That number ought to be a big deal to us. It ought to wake us up. This church is not in competition with the steeple down the street. We need those churches and we need the seats in them to be full. Amen!
I love my tribe, but I’m not at war with any of the other tribes because I know this is about Jesus. I can slap Jesus in the face and He’ll turn the other cheek to me, but if I slap His Bride in the face? I’ll bring His wrath down upon me.
I’m going to be respectful of His Bride – the Church. I’m going to be respectful of the body of Christ.
The church down the street has its own brand of weirdness and its own tribal traditions. It reaches people we can’t. Pray for the church. Speak life over the pastors and people under those other steeples. Demonstrate unity and build the body.
So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith… – Ephesians 4:11-12
FROM MY SERMON SERIES I LOVE MY TRIBE
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Episode 62 – An URGENT word concerning the elections.
Listen this is Urgent! What should the body of Christ be doing right now? I answer that question.
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November 12, 2020
EMBRACE YOUR DESTINY
I Am the Christ – the Anointed King. When you know Me as your King of Kings, the name “Christ-ian” takes on a whole new meaning. Wear My name with honor and testify to My goodness.
EMBRACE YOUR DESTINY
Listen, you are not the loser that your history says you are. You are the winner your destiny says are.
There’s another book besides that book of Matthew that tells us all about the majesty of King Jesus. The book of Revelation is all about Jesus as the King. Revelation is a book about, “This is what it looks like when Jesus is the King.”
Do you know Jesus as your King? If you don’t, you need to. You see, if He’s your buddy or homey, you don’t have the proper perspective. You’ve limited who He is to you and when you do that, you limit what He can do in and for you. When Jesus is your bud, you need lots of grace to get through each day.
The word “grace” is only found in the book of Revelation two times. It’s in the first and last chapters. Why is there no grace in the book of Revelation? Because when you are fully in the presence of Jesus, you don’t need grace. Why? Because you’re both holy and you’re righteous.
Grace is really good as long as you’re messed up. But the day is going to come and you’re going to get an upgrade from grace and walk in the reflection of the Lord Jesus Christ. You’re going to walk in holiness, and righteousness, and there’s no need for grace anymore.
When you know the King, when you’re part of the King’s family and a joint heir to the Kingdom, you don’t need grace because you’re Holy (set apart) and righteous. Get to know Jesus as your King of Kings and embrace your destiny.
May the grace of the Lord Jesus be with God’s holy people. Amen. – Revelation 22:21
FROM MY SERMON SERIES JESUS UNVEILED
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