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August 19, 2020
GRACE THE GAME-CHANGER
When I say My grace is sufficient for you, that means I’m going to help you overcome. You can overcome your past, your fear, your pride – whatever is holding you back. Move forward to better things.
GRACE THE GAME-CHANGER
The grace of God enables you to come out of things. You and I can go to the Lord and say, “Lord, I need grace for this. I need a supernatural God-given ability, Sir, to overcome this thing.”
There’s a way I can think about this thing and the Holy Spirit can tweak it, and all of a sudden I can think differently. There’s sometimes, guys, something yucky will happen and I will just be like, “Ohhh man, that is just so bad” and I will pray, “Lord, just tweak my head just a little bit, and give me a heavenly perspective.”
And a tiny tweak will cause all of my emotions to change, that’s grace! That’s grace, that’s the grace of God. And you know what, you don’t have to wait until you die to tap into that.
Jesus is alive right now and you can come out of anything. Anything. There ain’t nothing that can hold you back if you want to go after freedom. Nothing.
There’s a game-changing verse in the book of Matthew that is so far out there, translators don’t even know if it’s talking about time or distance to translate it to English. This is the game-changing verse. In it, He says this:
“Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world” – Matthew 28:20 KJV
“Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of your age.” – Matthew 28:20 NIV
He’s saying, “I’m with you until the end of your rope, the end of what makes sense, the end of your clock, and the end of your map.” Now that’s grace. That’s Jesus enabling you to come out of things because He’s with you.
So, grace is a game-changer. Let Jesus change things all the way to the end of your rope.
From my sermon series EXODUS
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August 18, 2020
THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS
The days are not only short, they are speeding up. Will you come into My Kingdom alone or will you bring many with you? It is your choice to focus on yourself or on the lost. I desire a great harvest.
THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS
I want to tell you, the shift that has happened within our nation in the past twelve years has been this: We have replaced truth with drama because we have replaced our society with a mob.
In our fallen, chaotic society today, it doesn’t matter who’s right or who’s wrong. What matters is who has the biggest mob and the loudest voices behind them – who has the biggest mouth piece in the media.
I need you, as the body of Christ, to understand what has happened so you know what to participate in and what not to participate in.
The “mob” must be entertained. And there’s no reasoning with the mob. Like a swarm of locusts, mobs will destroy and consume all at their pleasure, and they’re either going to be wiped out or played out until there is nothing left to destroy.
In a society, we do things for the sake of something bigger and there has to be selflessness in a society for the society to work. That’s why we wait in lines without screaming about it, stop at red light without creating problems, and walk our kids to school.
That’s why we stay faithful to our families, comply with the police, celebrate the military and stand for allegiance and our own National Anthem. Selflessness.
There has to be a “big picture” mentality, but if there’s only me, my idea, my way, my opinion, free stuff, I want mine, free stuff, give me, then it turns into a mob. Like I always say, Jesus is isn’t in the mob and you shouldn’t be either.
Gun control, racism, animal rights, abortion, politics, illegal aliens, environmentalism – all of these arguments are going on in our society right now and I can tell you one thing I know for certain – there is a mob on either side of the issue waiting to blind you from what’s really important.
Saving the lost from eternity in hell. Boom! The time is short. We know these are the last days and while I have strong feelings and crazy cool arguments on each of these worldly issues, my time is best spent loving people into eternity. So is yours.
What mob has you ensnared? Let it go and focus on the only thing that matters.
So let’s keep focused on that goal, those of us who want everything God has for us. If any of you have something else in mind, something less than total commitment, God will clear your blurred vision – you’ll see it yet! Now that we’re on the right track, let’s stay on it. Stick with me, friends. Keep track of those you see running this same course, headed for this same goal. – Philippians 3:15-17 MSG
From my sermon series I LOVE MY TRIBE
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August 17, 2020
RISK AND REWARD
It’s time to step out of your comfort zone and into the battle for the lost souls that surround you. I am working behind the scenes to prepare the hearts of those I Am bringing to you. Are you ready?
RISK AND REWARD
Face it, we are a mess. Yes, you and I are major malfunctions and we will be until we get home to glory.
As messed up as we are, God calls us His people and sends us into the darkest places of this crazy world with a mandate and a mission to surround evil and change things for good. We are to save people from an eternity in hell. First, He surrounds us with goodness to lead us.
Teach me to do your will; for you are my God; your spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness. – Psalms 143:10
After He leads us by His goodness, we are followed by His goodness.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. – Psalms 23:6
Not only is He in the midst of us with His goodness, He is before us and behind us as well!
Then your light will break forth like dawn and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard. – Isaiah 58:8
The battle is for the eternal souls of men and women. The risks and the rewards are worth it.
From my book: LORD OF THE HARVEST
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August 16, 2020
BARGAINING TABLE
What I did for you on the cross requires a reasonable service from you – a life dedicated to serving Me and My Kingdom. I am always at your side to help you serve Me and others.
BARGAINING TABLE
God doesn’t own a just part of your life. He owns it all. He made you. You are His child, so you belong to Him.
Do your children belong to me? Heck no! Same thing with my other possessions.
If I allowed you to drive my car and you complained because I asked for the back seat and all you wanted to give me, the owner, was a little trunk space, I would look at you like you were nuts. It is your privilege to drive my car, which is really nice by the way, but I have the pink slip.
If at the end of the day, you want to complain and bargain with me, and finally give me the entire trunk, you insult me. It’s my car so I tell you, “Hey, this is your reasonable service.”
That’s what God calls your life given in service to Him – “reasonable” service.
Now, what’s real is that all of us bargain with God from time to time. It’s not just you, it is all of us, but God helps us to have a right mind on this issue. The cure to the destructive pattern of thinking that “God wants too much out of me,” is to do a proper assessment of whom owns your life.
For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. – 1 Corinthians 6:20
Boo-yah! Jesus purchased you from the devil, a terrible tyrant, with His own blood. You are now a slave to Christ! But don’t worry, He has assured you His “yoke is not heavy” and His “burden is light.”
So stop bargaining with God and start serving Him and others. It will free you from bondage to the “in-a-me” and the lost from slavery to the enemy.
From my book: Soul Invasion
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August 14, 2020
IT’S UP TO YOU
While I Am your provider, I Am also your equipper. I have given you everything you need to do My will and fulfill your purpose. Only you can make it come to pass. It’s time to move forward.
IT’S UP TO YOU
A land flowing with milk and with honey. What does that mean?
Well, one of those things is a word of empowerment. Our generation thinks that empowerment is, “You give me free stuff.” No, that’s called “slavery,” where you give over your rights as a human being for free stuff. Just ask the Hebrews who refused to go into the Promised Land because the wilderness was familiar.
For the sons of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, that is, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished because they did not listen to the voice of the LORD, to whom the LORD had sworn that He would not let them see the land which the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey. – Joshua 5:6
Also, the mindset that, “I’m willing to be a slave as long as I have a good pharaoh,” is demonic. That’s not for you. Freedom is for you.
Empowerment says this: “You will live in a country where it doesn’t matter if you’re black, white, rich, or poor; you can find a way to go to better your circumstances.” That’s empowerment. It means you will get up off of your blessed assurance and find a way because you are free to do that.
Let’s say I empower you to go to college, I can’t make you get up and go to class or pass your test. I can’t make you stay in school. That’s on you.
The principle of empowerment is this: I will remove the obstacles for you to go as far as you want. That’s the Promised Land, and how far you go in the Promised Land is up to you.
See, you can’t blame your failure to live in this blessed place on the sovereignty of God – “It just wasn’t His will for me, or His plan for my life.” Why not? Because we’re under grace and the New Testament promise of Jesus. He says, “Yes” to us. It’s our job to follow that up with an, “Amen!”
Are you experiencing milk and honey in your life? If not, take responsibility. Go after your Kingdom purpose and dream big. You already know your Heavenly Father says, “Yes.”
From my sermon series MILK AND HONEY
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Episode 51 – An Interview with Jenny Donnelly
“After I spoke in that arena and feeling like a failure, I walked back behind the stage and made a vow that I would never speak again. On my way to the bathroom behind the stage to cry my eyes out, one of the executives of the event stepped in front of me and said ‘Jenny Donnelly, that was amazing! I can see you talking in front of thousands of people!’ So confused, I went into the bathroom and looked in the mirror trembling. I hear the Lord say ‘You hear two voices. Pick one, and the one you choose is the one you will live with. Never speak again or speak in arenas. Choose.” Hear more of this story and the amazing revelation God gave to Jenny for all of us in that experience by listening to this interview!
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August 13, 2020
I RECOGNIZE YOU!
Even without seeing My face, you know Me. You know My character and My thoughts toward you, which are always good. Always. Show that goodness to others and continue to bring the lost into our family.
I RECOGNIZE YOU…
Some folks think it would be great to know what Jesus looks like. They would like to have a holy mug shot so they can “relate” to Him. Not me. I like the myriad descriptions and the wonder of focusing on His heart instead of His head.
Just like the surprise of seeing my babies for the first time in the delivery room, I’m anxiously awaiting the joy of our first face to face encounter where I can look Him in the eye (after falling on my face in amazement to worship Him) and say, “I recognize you! I saw you in….”
Yes, we’ve seen Him and experienced Him. We will know Him. Prophetically, when Isaiah wrote about Jesus’ features, he said,
“…He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him.” – Isaiah 53:2
That’s as close to Jesus’ mug shot as we’ll get here on planet Earth. You won’t find scriptures like this in the Bible:
“And He stoodeth at six foot two with blue eyes and jet blackish hair. Yea, his countenance was muscular and his skin complexion was olive as iseth common among the Jews.” – Pastor Troy Translation
Out of 31,000 scriptures testifying to the Lord Jesus Christ, there are no descriptions of how Jesus actually looked in human form. I am convinced that God did this on purpose. Do you know why? Because those testimonies tell us exactly what Jesus looks like. Are you ready? Jesus looks like
GOODNESS!
Today is a good day to look Jesus in the face then share His goodness with someone who needs Him. Give the the opportunity to say, “I recognize you…”
From my sermon series JESUS UNVEILED
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August 12, 2020
VAIN IMAGINATIONS
You have My mind – the mind of Christ. As you cast down evil imaginations, you make Me proud. I Am filling your head and your heart with eternal things, so have ears to hear My voice and My voice only.
VAIN IMAGINATIONS
While it’s good to learn from your past and prepare for your future, today is the only day you can control. Today is where you fight for greatness and go after blessing.
Unfortunately, if you’re like me – and you are – you’ve found focusing on today is hard. Especially when you consider the conversations you have in your head.
Let’s be real. Thoughts of past hurts, offenses and slights pop into your head on a daily basis. Sometimes on an hourly basis. You obsess saying, “I should have said this,” “I should have done that,” or “What if…” You start to construct conversations in your head that transport you back to the anger and hurt.
From their callous hearts comes iniquity; their evil imaginations have no limits. – Psalms 73:7
Then there are the imaginations of the future. You know, preparing for battle by practicing for fights that may never come. But they do, and mostly because you were locked and loaded from a false conversation or an imagined slight.
All day long I have held out my hands to an obstinate people, who walk in ways not good, pursuing their own imaginations … – Isaiah 65:2
Like Adam and Eve in the garden, you are talking to snakes! These conversations in your head are deadly fruit the serpent uses to keep you wrapped up in your past or undermining your future. You’ll never move forward so you will never be a threat to his dark work.
If the devil can keep you fighting imaginary battles over imagined offenses with real opponents, he can push you into a costly war on a battlefield you have no grace to win. Yes, he’s out to kill your testimony and bring your upgrade to a screeching halt.
Wake up! When you find yourself reliving conversations from the past or preparing for a future fight, cast out that thought and the serpent with it. Call on the name of Jesus. Declare you have the mind of Christ, because you do.
Confront the voices in your head. Cast out the voice of the enemy and the “in-a-me.” Hear Jesus call you to deeper things?
From my book Living Life /Forward
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August 11, 2020
STONY, THORNY OR UNPREPARED?
I long to work in your life. Will you allow it? Will you prepare for change and welcome the word I speak into you for your benefit? A great harvest is yours if only you prepare your soul. The work and the glory are both mine.
STONY, THORNY OR UNPREPARED?
When God begins to encourage you to break up the fallow ground – aka partner with Him in new areas of your life – God is sending a word that will change everything.
Whether you welcome it or not, the word is still coming, so you might as well prepare for it. If you don’t, just like in the Parable of the Sower, the Word is going to fall by the wayside because there’s no place for it to grow within you.
Then there’s the rocky ground. What is rocky ground? Neglect and rebellion, where you just harden your heart. Because the soil is shallow, the seed sprang up prematurely but its roots didn’t take hold.
In rocky ground, God speaks a word into your life, and if you don’t remove the rocks of past attitudes or you have a hard heart, you step into something before you’re ready and it kills you. Then, you spend the next couple of years dealing with the collateral damage. There’s a developmental process you don’t allow if you’re rebellious.
The third soil is full of thorns. Thorns are when you make a big deal out of painful things in your life instead of the things God Almighty is trying to change in you. If you have forgiveness issues, anger, addictions, pride or trust issues, and refuse to partner with God to get a harvest, your issues choke out the Word.
The thorns become bigger than the word God Almighty is speaking within your life. They attack the word because you’re partnering with thorns.
Then, Jesus says sometimes the word of God falls on good ground. That’s the kind of thinking that can produce real change, real progress and upgrade in your life. So let me ask you this: can God expect a harvest from you? Check out the soil of your heart. If it’s stony, thorny or unprepared, break it up!
Behold, a sower went out to sow. And it happened, as he sowed, that some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds of the air came and devoured it. Some fell on stony ground where it didn’t have much earth; and immediately it spring up because it has no depth of earth. But when the sun was up, it was scorched, and because it had no root, it withered away. Some seed fell among thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no crop. – Mark 4:3-7
From my sermon series LORD OF THE HARVEST
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August 10, 2020
VICTIM TO OVERCOMER
Fantasies of revenge for past wrongs or hurts have no place in your thinking. I want to battle for you, bringing redemption into your wounds and leaving you with justice. Vengeance is mine!
VICTIM TO OVERCOMER
If you’re talking to snakes, stop it! Why? Because those voices in your head telling you to say this, do that, or turning you paranoid against people who love you are the voice of the enemy himself.
You know what I’m talking about. Those times when you relive past hurts by practicing a conversation you really shouldn’t have. Why am I telling you not to get some of your own back – a little revenge to get even for wrongs committed against you?
Because they don’t belong to you! They belong to God. You see, your Father is in charge of handling the people and situations that lay you low, not you. Vengeance belongs to the Lord and He will do battle for you.
Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord. – Romans 12:19
The Father is uniquely equipped to bring redemption onto the battlefield. When redemption is applied to the situation, revenge becomes justice! Isn’t that awesome?
Justice is when the poor have opportunity and the widow security. Justice is when the orphan has a name. When past hurts become ministries and outreaches to lift others out of their misery.
When Jesus rules, His majesty causes us to become overcomers in places we were once victims. Oh, I like that!
Now, the Bible tells us the devil is a liar and a thief. He loves to steal your job, your security, your relationships, your opportunities, your reputation and your territory for the Lord. If he can take your ministry, your friends or your family, he’s got you on the ropes.
Cry out to your Father, the righteous judge for justice. He can return what the thief stole and bring truth where lies once ruled the day. Let Him fight for you because the reward is justice: restoration – getting back what was taken – and restitution – getting compensation above and beyond the offense!
Call on a just God today and keep calling until He renders judgment in your favor. Call out the devil on his schemes and declare justice for what the enemy has taken.
From my sermon series MILK AND HONEY
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