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June 22, 2020
PROMISED LAND PARTNERSHIPS
I am counting on you to testify to My goodness. I have put people in your life who will only hear the truth from you. I have trusted you with influence. Use it to bring those you care about into My house.
PROMISED LAND PARTNERSHIPS
In the wilderness, you survive. You fight for victory. In the Promised Land, you are an overcomer and fight from victory. The big difference between the wilderness and the Promised Land is partnership.
A partnership between you and God is when heaven wants to invade earth and God Almighty makes Himself vulnerable to us. It’s an amazing thing.
In the wilderness, we make ourselves vulnerable to God. In the Promised Land God actually makes Himself vulnerable to us. He says, “Here’s the deal, cowboy. I’m going to empower you to walk in the promises and take it to the next level. This is My heart and I’m counting on you to fulfill your mission.”
Think of it as a marriage because you and I are the Bride of Christ. Amen.
This is covenant stuff here. This partnership isn’t just us counting on God. He’s counting on you and I. He really is. He has people He wants delivered from addiction and shame. He has people who need saved and His plan is for you and I to reach them with our testimony.
I think there’s been way too much of us breaking His heart when He’s given us opportunity to do incredible things and we fall out or lose focus.
Don’t do that! God is counting on your to partner with Him. That means this relationship is a two way street. He always keeps His end of the bargain. Can you do the same?
For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. – Philippians 2:13
From my sermon series MILK AND HONEY
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June 21, 2020
UNCONCERNED, IDLE OR INDIFFERENT?
Now is the time to feel what others feel. I am filling you with My Spirit of compassion. Receive My compassion and see My heart for others so you can act on their behalf.
UNCONCERNED, IDLE OR INDIFFERENT?
God expects a harvest from each and every one of us. He does. He expects to see us loving and serving people into the Kingdom.
Planting seeds, and watering them is a central theme of my life. I’m a very driven person, but it’s not the law that moves me, it’s the love that motivates me to witness, serve and love in a way that brings a harvest to God.
When it comes to the harvest, the thing that stops the harvest isn’t weather, seed or the ground – it’s the labor involved in the harvest. The workers, the Bible says, are few.
Laziness will cast a man into a deep sleep and an idle man will suffer hunger.”–Proverbs 19:15.
Laziness is inaction and idleness is all about indifference – not taking responsibility. Indifference is connected to evil. People who partner with indifference are partnering with an evil spirit. Indifferent people are generally unconcerned.
When you refuse to get excited about good, Godly things – when you refuse to be outraged by evil or injustice – you’re partnering with the same spirit the Nazis did when the exterminated Jews. The Nazis were very skilled at being unconcerned.
That’s not you. Let your heart break for the things that break the heart of God. Care about people and get involved in serving the hurting. Do not sit idle while the devil lures more people into the pit of hell. Do not be indifferent to the lost. Plant, water and let Jesus harvest!
TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO GET OUT INTO THE HARVEST FIELD. TESTIFY TO JESUS AND WATCH THE CROP COME IN!
From my sermon series LORD OF THE HARVEST
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THREE STEPS TO YOUR HARVEST
You are starting to understand Me more and more. You are beginning to love what I love and hate what I hate. As My priorities become yours, you will see yourself and those around you transformed to My likeness. Pursue My heart!
THREE STEPS TO YOUR HARVEST
The harvest only happens if you cooperate with God and work with His agenda. That means you have to be responsible enough to ask yourself, “What kingdom agendas do I have? What has the counsel of God brought into my life and wanted to get done?”
It’s very important for you to develop real skill sets to accomplish a kingdom agenda – not just your own. You can’t just sit around hoping it’s going to happen.
If you’re going to see a harvest, there are three different steps you need to cooperate with God on.
First, is Kingdom objectives. What is God’s will and His heart? You need to ask yourself “If Jesus was ruling and reigning in this situation what would it look like? What can I do to make that happen?”
Next, you need some Kingdom strategies – that means knowing His ways and values. What does God make a big deal out of? Those things should be part of your strategy.
Last, you need some Kingdom tactics, which are Godly actions and steps.
The steps of a godly man are ordered of the Lord… – Psalm 27:23
When you start to seek after these three steps and get intentional about bringing a harvest to Jesus, you’ll see these things falling into place. You’ll see a harvest in your marriage, your kids, your job, finances, ministry – whatever area of life you choose to get a Kingdom agenda about.
So what field are you going to plow and plant first? Get some Kingdom objectives for that area of your and get to work. God will back you up!
From my sermon series LORD OF THE HARVEST
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June 20, 2020
TODAY COULD BE YOUR “SOMEDAY”
What’s the one place where you feel defeated the most? That is where I am. I will give you strength in that area. I will make you an overcomer. Lay it down. The battle is Mine!
TODAY COULD BE YOUR “SOMEDAY”
You need to understand that while redemption is yours, redemption is not at work in every area of your life.
If you’re saved, your spirit is 100 percent redeemed, but your mind is in the process of being redeemed. Someday, your body is going to be redeemed.
Someday. You have the promise of someday and that day is up to you.
There are parts of your promised land – marriage, finances, wants, relationships – where there are still Philistines (enemies) in your land and they need to be dealt with. They are not going away. They’re not just going to pack up and say they don’t want this place anymore.
No, you’re going to have to kill them. You’re going to have to chase them down and cut the heads off of debt, infidelity, trust issues, selfishness, unbelief or whatever you’re thorns and thistles are.
You may not feel like a warrior, but if you’re tired of the thorns in your life, you’ve got to chop them down. You may look at the task ahead and say, “Lord, that field’s too big for me. I’m not smart enough. What if all I get from my efforts is a bunch more weeds?”
That’s where redemption will meet you. It shows up when you start hauling off the rocks and tearing out the thorns. It shows up when you get committed about an area of your life you want to put under the King’s dominion.
It takes action and effort to bring redemption to the strongholds of your life. Are you willing to go there? Can you do what it takes to plow dead things up so that Jesus can redeem them? Now that’s a harvest worth working for.
For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem. “Break up your fallow ground and do not sow among thorns.” – Jeremiah 4:3
From my sermon series LORD OF THE HARVEST
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June 18, 2020
Episode 43 – An Interview with my Pastor, Jim Maxwell
In this episode, we discuss how my Pastor, Jim Maxwell approaches the Word of God, how he studies it, and how he puts his words together
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THE IMPORTANCE OF EXODUS
You have been found. You are no longer lost. Follow me like a child leaping from one of daddy’s footprints to the next. I will never lead you astray, leave you nor forsake you.
THE IMPORTANCE OF EXODUS
Exodus is one of the most important books of the Bible because it defines the features of Israel’s identity. The structure, hierarchy and traditions of that nation are formed in this book. This blueprint is essential to understand how God dealt with the Jewish people then and us as Christians today.
It works something like this: God says, “I am your God. You are my people.” Period. The Lord had plans for the Jews as a people, just as He has plans for you and I individually. Then He says. “I have chosen you. Our new covenant is that I’m bringing you out. It’s how we’re going to live together.” That, my friend, is the promise of upgrade.
God let them know He not only brought them out of slavery in Egypt, but He would continue bringing them out of dark places, relationships, actions and mindsets, then put them on the path to trusting Him until they could fight for themselves.
This is defined in such an epic way, it’s the model for us today. It’s the story of those defining moments that change our lives. Moments when we realize:
I’m lost. This is not good,
I don’t know what’s going to happen.
I am living in the wrong world.
I am a man of unclean lips.
I HAVE TO BE DELIVERED.
Just as the Jews needed a deliverer to free them from the evil of Pharaoh, you and I today have slave masters of addiction, debt, depression, unhealthy relationships – heck, we’re just messed up. We need a deliverer just like they did.
Exodus shows God has a plan for you. He is in covenant with you. He is your provider and deliverer. Redemption requires a new identity. Let Him define yours today.
He predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will… – Ephesians 1:5
TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO BE DELIVERED FROM WHATEVER YOU ARE ENSNARED BY. GOD HAS PROMISED TO BRING YOU OUT. LET HIM.
From my sermon series EXODUS
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JESUS WEPT
I Am fully God and fully man. I have felt your pain and carried your shame. I despised the shame of the cross. Despise your shame enough to give it to me. I give you beauty for the ashes of shame.
JESUS WEPT
Known as the shortest verse in the Bible, John 11:35, is also one of the most debated. Why did Jesus weep?
Some say is was because He hates death and didn’t wish it upon His friend. Others that the broken hearts of Lazarus’ sister were too much for Him to bear. Still others have said He wept because He knew He was going to call His friend back from heaven to this life of pain and trouble.
Here’s my theory on one of the first questions I’ll ask Jesus when I’m breathing Heaven’s air. What if Jesus is heartbroken, not because of the death of Lazarus, or the sorrow of Mary and Martha? What if their unbelief broke His heart?
With Lazarus in the tomb four days, Martha ran out to meet Jesus, whom she acknowledges, is late.
Now Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You.” Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” Martha said to Him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?” – John 11:21-26
Jesus gets all revved up when Martha, who has a habit of missing the “right now,” actually gets it when she says, “God will give you whatever you ask.” She then blows it with, “I know he will rise again on the last day.” While she’s almost on the same page with Jesus, Martha defaults back to “some day you will be powerful. Some day you will be God.”
Crack! So he sends for Mary because Mary gets it. Mary always gets Jesus. However, this time she’s on the same page as her sister.
“Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.” – John 11:32
Crack! At this point, Jesus “groans in the spirit and was troubled.” He asks where Lazarus’ body is, then begins to weep. It’s my theory that Jesus is not crying because Lazarus is dead. I think He is heartbroken because He is the only person on the planet who believes He is God in the flesh. He is the only person who has faith that Lazarus will be raised from the dead RIGHT NOW!
He wanted so badly for them to get it – to share His power and identity with them, but they missed it. It’s my theory that it broke his heart.
What if Jesus wept because there was nobody who would partner with Him in the miracle He was about to perform? Don’t let that be you. Today is your someday. Partner with Jesus in the miracles He has for your life.
From my sermon series EXODUS
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June 16, 2020
THE GREATEST COMMAND
When you’re looking for your way, look for Me; we’re meant to be together.
THE GREATEST COMMAND
The Ten Commandments are more than just God’s rules for right living. They are the culture He set for His family and His house. When He carved those words with fire from His fingertip, He was saying, “This is what we make a big deal out of and who we are going to be.”
The first five commandments are all about how you relate to God. The last five are about how you relate to others. They are simple and direct rules. Easy to follow? No. Because of our sin nature, God knew there was no way to keep them.
To break a commandment meant eternal separation from Him, and He knew none were worthy. That’s why Father God promised a savior – someone who could keep the commands – Jesus.
I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. – John 10:10b
Jesus brought life where there was once only death through sin. He also gave us a new perspective on God’s culture. Listen closely to the answer Jesus gave a pharisee who asked Him the trick question, “What is the greatest command?”
Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ – Matthew 22:37-38
Notice Jesus openly said “love God and love people.” Why did Jesus use the word “love” while the triune God didn’t mention love in the Ten Commandments? Well, He did!
God is love. It’s His very nature, and He said in the first commandment “Don’t put anything before me.” You could also read that as “Don’t put anything before love.”
My friends, you can trust God because He is love. You can even be vulnerable in front of Him because love is the essence of who He is! It’s our heart, not our obedience, that brings us into a saving relationship with Him.
TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO FALL IN LOVE WITH JESUS BECAUSE HE IS GOD AND HE IS GOOD. ONCE YOU DO, LOVING PEOPLE WILL BECOME SECOND NATURE!
From my sermon series JESUS UNVEILED
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June 15, 2020
THE MARK OF MATURITY
I Am pouring out My spirit on all people in these last days. Listen to My voice and prophesy what you hear. Commit to My leading and you will have the wisdom to dream dreams and understand what I Am speaking to your heart.
THE MARK OF MATURITY
What makes you mature in the spirit? Let me tell you this: it is not the accumulation of the experiences you’ve have. A mature spirit has to do with your commitment to being mature, or grown-up, in the spirit.
You see, God marks you at the place of commitment. That’s why He counted Abraham as having sacrificed his son, Isaac, even though he didn’t go through with the act.
But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.” – Genesis 22:11-12
Abraham was completely committed to obeying God and God always pays attention to our heart.
See, God will test you to see if you’re on the same page. He wants to know you trust Him and will follow Him to your great big destiny. When that test comes, your level of commitment will determine how much Kingdom responsibility God can give you.
The more committed you are, the more gifts the Holy Spirit can unleash in you – like dreaming. God doesn’t speak to immature Christians through dreams because they don’t understand them. Heck, they don’t even recognize their dreams as messages from God. That’s why the Bible says in Acts 2:17 that “your old men shall dream dreams.” It’s talking about maturity.
But a mature Christian can be trusted to recognize the voice of the Lord and go after interpreting their dream or vision.
Feel like you’re not moving forward – that you’re stuck in the wilderness eating manna when you want meat? Take inventory of your commitment. If you’re not going after Jesus and prophetic revelation in a big way, you’ve got some growing up to do.
From my sermon series I LOVE MY TRIBE
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June 14, 2020
Session 9
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