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June 11, 2020
WICKED IS GOOD?
Welcome my presence and watch the atmosphere change around you. Bring the increase of Heaven into all you do and watch hearts be changed.
WICKED IS GOOD?
The prophet Isaiah foretold the very day we are living in.
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil. – Isaiah 5:20
On an airplane from Dubai, I heard something that sent a chill down my spine. The movie, The Maze Runner, was playing and the words hissed through the headphones: wicked is good.
Because we live in a day where there’s love for the devil and a hatred for Jesus,
when you represent the name of Jesus, you will be called a hater and bad. There are people coming after me and you with intense persecution, and it will only increase in the days to come.
If you stand with Jesus and the truth, you will be hated among men – Jesus Christ Himself declared that in Matthew 10:22-24.
Because we live in a day where evil is called good, the demonic organization called Black Lives Matter is being called historical heroes. Because we live in a day where there is sympathy for the devil and hatred for Jesus, the monster who murdered our police officers in Dallas is called a hero by that same organization.
Bruce is called Caitlyn. Law abiding gun owners are called a threat. Israel has been called the children of monkeys and Palestinians are given the Nobel Peace Prize. Illegal aliens waving foreign flags and destroying American property are called responsible American citizens. Islam is called a religion of peace.
Alarmed? Just know this: The sky is not falling. The Kingdom is coming. In order for Jesus to come back on His white horse leading the armies of heaven, this moral decline has to happen. So what do we do?
Rush into the flames and pull out POWs trapped in sin and bondage to Satan! Take them to meet our Fearless Leader Jesus. He is mighty to save. Don’t sit on your blessed assurance and watch this world burn. Put out the flames with the goodness of God and the love of Jesus. It’s good to be hated for loving Jesus.
From my sermon series I LOVE MY TRIBE
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June 10, 2020
I’VE GOT YOUR BACK!
You are created in My image and I Am a warrior King. I Am also a Man of War. Arm yourself with My armor and join Me on the battlefield of your mind. We will not be overcome! Victory is ours!
I’VE GOT YOUR BACK
There are many lessons to learn in the Wilderness, but the main theme our Father God weaves through them all is this: God blesses pursuit.
In the Wilderness, we learn to stick with God no matter what. We are His people – His camp. Whatever the problem is, it’s not Him. It’s either the enemy or the in-a-me, and both are brutal masters. Not Father God. His yoke, the Word tells us, is not heavy.
In the Wilderness, you follow the Lord to survive. In the Promised Land, you follow vision and the Lord backs you up. In the Wilderness, He says, “Follow me and I’ll make a way.” In the Promised Land, He says, “You make a way. I’ve got your back.”
In the Wilderness, the miracle was you were fed manna from heaven and water from rocks. In the Promised Land, provision is never an issue. The miracle happens in pursuit of conquest.
So the question is, what are you pursuing? What are you trying to conquer? Addiction, mental stability, financial freedom, right relationships, a better job, a blessed and effective ministry – all these things are fair game in the Promised Land.
Joshua and the children of Israel, through God-given strategy and courage, took down walled cities, 31 ungodly kingdoms and killed evil warrior giants. You can do the same.
What are your strongholds? Anger, alcohol, porn or gossip? What giants are threatening your upgrade? Debt, depression, divorce? Pursue the Lord and His wisdom. Go after the thing that is hunting you and kill it with the blood of Jesus. Step into your Promised Land and don’t look back. Like Joshua and Caleb, victory is yours!
Then Joshua came at that time and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab and from all the hill country of Judah and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities. – Joshua 11:21
TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO STEP INTO YOUR PROMISED LAND. TAKE ON THE GIANTS THREATENING YOU BECAUSE GOD’S GOT YOUR BACK!
From my sermon series MILK AND HONEY
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June 9, 2020
THE GOOD STEWARD
What a great day to say “Amen”, as in “Yes, Lord!” Be ready to be in alignment with who I created you to be. Be ready for the wonder of My majesty to awe you and others as I work through you. Don’t look for the obvious as much as the simply profound.
THE GOOD STEWARD
Ever thought about the sovereignty of God? I have. A lot. What I’ve found is His sovereignty is so real. There is no doubt He is in control. But get this: He’s given the dominion of this world to us.
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” – Genesis 1:28
Being a good steward means living a life that glorifies Him. Until Jesus Christ comes back on a white horse, He’s leaving it up to us as to how much Heaven invades this earth in our family, church, work and our world.
That should blow you away. You see, you decide how much you brag on God and to whom. You decide how many hungry people get fed and how many poor folks have their needs met in Jesus’ name. It’s up to you and me to decide who hears a testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ and His saving grace.
Humbling isn’t it? And a bit frightening too. Being a steward over God’s territory means your job is never done. There is always more and better to be done. If that feels like pressure, it is – and it isn’t.
See, you can partner with the Holy Spirit to make the most of your efforts. So the question is, are you going to turn it over to Him or what?
I am. I’m going to turn my life and my efforts to find the lost over to Him. The life God has entrusted me with is my Promised Land. It is no longer an external thing. It is now an internal thing because the Kingdom of God is within me. It’s within you as well, so get to stewarding some things!
From my sermon series MILK AND HONEY
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June 8, 2020
THE PROMISE OF MILK AND HONEY
Step into the land I have promised to you and find victory. When you are walking with Me, I will hide you under My wings. That is where the enemy cannot find you.
THE PROMISE OF MILK AND HONEY
When you learn to hang on to the promises of God, you take God’s commitment to you seriously. You learn He’s that good!
Doesn’t it make you want to find out what those promises are and start living by them? Those things are gifts from a loving Daddy for your edification. He’s teaching you where to stand – on His promises.
Yes, standing on the promises of God glorifies Him. There is no better place to be than firmly planted on His goodness, His commitment to you and His plan for your life. What? Those promises are all to bring you to your purpose – your Promised Land.
In the Promised Land, the battles you fight are for vision and purpose, not survival. The Promised Land is way past survival. There are too many Christians living in survival mode right now. They don’t know, or have forgotten, the promises of God.
Jesus tells us not to worry about what we’re going to eat or wear. He’s not saying to not be responsible for what you eat and wear, but He’s telling you to not live your life as a survivor. Without a knowledge of God’s promises for your life, that’s all you are – a survivor.
Not me. I have studied the scriptures and go after each and every upgrade by standing on the rock solid promises of my Abba Father. I remind Him of them and He smiles every time I do because that’s when He can truly use me for His purposes.
How about you? Do you know the promises of God and how to activate them for your Promised Land? Don’t just survive, thrive by accepting these gifts with a grateful heart. The promise of milk and honey is for you, today.
And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites – a land flowing with milk and honey. – Exodus 3:17
From my sermon series MILK AND HONEY
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June 7, 2020
REDEMPTION AND PASSOVER
When you’ve watched and prayed, waited and listened, sought and not found, lay it all down and follow Me to what’s meant for you.
REDEMPTION AND PASSOVER
The Hebrew word for season means “prophetic appointed time.”
There are three specific seasons where God said, “If you stop what you’re doing and seek My face – if you make this a time of consecration, there will be a heightened elevation of how you can hear Me speak. There will be an open window of heaven.”
You and I as Gentiles, or westerners, have dismissed those things. We think, “Those crazy Jews! They are the only ones God Almighty instituted those things for.” You would be wrong. There are three times God said we all can find Him in a much more accelerated time than others: Passover, Pentecost, and The Feast of Tabernacles.
Today, let’s look at Passover. We all know what the feast of Passover remembers the blood of the lamb over the doorposts in Egypt. Ruth tells us the Feast of the Passover, which is in April, is at the time of the barley harvest.
So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest was beginning. – Ruth 1:22
Passover represents redemption. Redemption is harvest. Where the blood is applied to shame, now there is honor. Where there was once loneliness, there is oneness with Him.
Where there used to be poverty, there is abundance. Where there once was history, now there is destiny. Orphans now have family and the lost have a home. All of that is redemption. If you need any of that in your life, you need a harvest.
Harvest doesn’t just happen. You have to work toward it by breaking up the dead, dry ground in your life. You have to plant seeds and water them so the Lord of the Harvest can say, “Your dead marriage is now bearing fruit. Your lost children are found, and your forgotten purpose is now being fulfilled.”
He wants that for you and from you – a Passover harvest in your life where dead, useless, lost things are redeemed and made new. Do you want that too? Apply the blood of the lamb to break up the fallow ground of your life, and watch God show up in that season!
TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO CLAIM A PASSOVER HARVEST IN YOUR LIFE. LET THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB REDEEM HIS LAND SO YOU CAN PRODUCE FRUIT.
From my sermon series LORD OF THE HARVEST
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June 6, 2020
FULLY MAN
You are made in My image. You are eternal. I am so glad you have chosen to spend it in My presence. I enjoy being with you even today, especially today as you spend time with Me.
FULLY MAN
I’ve told you about two of the four faces of Jesus – the Lion, which is seeing Him as King. He’s a passionate, powerful warrior, and the Ox. The ox is all about Him being your burden bearer. He’s a servant – faithful, hardworking and practical.
The third face is that of a man. That means He’s human. So many people forget this! Yes, He was 100 percent God, but make no mistake, Jesus was also fully, 100 percent a man.
As a man, He’s not only your friend, He’s your brother – your family. He’s personal. He has a personality and He’s emotional. There’s no pain you’ve suffered or happiness you’ve enjoyed that He hasn’t also experienced. He’s been there!
While these things blow my mind, it’s my opinion that the best part about Jesus being God with skin is this: He does not hate your humanity, He’s okay with you being a human being, and that you’re sometimes a knucklehead.
His humanity is what spoke deepest to Luke. A physician and scholar, Luke talked with eye-witnesses, heard their testimonies first-hand and was blown away with the humanity of the Savior.
This face of Jesus was hinted at through Ezekiel. The name Ezekiel means God is my strength. Jesus is that, and then some. How do you know Him? Do you embrace His humanity as much as you believe in His divinity?
And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. – 1 John 1:14
From my sermon series JESUS UNVEILED
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June 5, 2020
GLOW IN THE DARK
Come away with me. The secret place is calling. I know you have responsibilities, appointments and a full life to live, but know this: time in My Presence prepares you for success in these matters. Your time is a sacrifice I will return with interest.
GLOW IN THE DARK
Guys, can I just tell you this? Fire falls upon sacrifice.
In the book of Genesis, Cain and Abel both brought an offering to the Lord. Abel brought an offering that was pleasing to the Lord, but Cain’s offering was not. How did everybody know?
When they made their sacrifice, supernatural fire fell upon it. God responded to what pleased Him with supernatural fire. If you need the fire of God or the power of God in your life, know this: fire falls on selflessness. It falls on sacrifice. Moses not only knew that, He was born with it already on him.
“…she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child , she hid him for three months.” – Exodus 2:1-2
The word for “fine” here means “he looked like God loved him.” The New Testament puts it like this:
“At this time Moses was born, and was well pleasing to God ; and he was brought up in his father’s house for three months.” – Acts 7:20
The supernatural fire seen on baby Moses represents the manifest presence of God. The brother didn’t look normal. The supernatural presence of God was somehow on him, and people could see it, even when Moses was an old man.
“Now it was so, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the Testimony were in Moses’ hand when he came down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him.” – Exodus 34:29
His face glowed in the dark! And here’s the deal, Moses never saw it on himself, but everybody else saw it. All through his life, God’s approval and favor upon Moses as His friend, would show up on his skin. That’s Marvel-comic cool to me, man.
Can I tell you something? Just like Moses, how you live in private manifests in public. You don’t think people can see it because you don’t see it, but people can see it. When you’ve spent time in the presence of Jesus, people know. When you’re not just indwelled by the Holy Spirit, but filled with it, people see it.
Be a living sacrifice. Let the fire of God fall on your selflessness and light you up for the world to see. It’s getting dark out there so GLOW!
From my sermon series EXODUS
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June 4, 2020
THE FAMILY BUSINESS
I am taking you into new places where even those you might not like will hear how good I am from your own lips. I am putting a burning fire within you to tell others of My goodness. It’s time to go!
THE FAMILY BUSINESS
I refuse to be the prophet of hell, bringing bad news to the unsaved. The church is not in the angel of death business. We’re in the blood of the Lamb business because that’s the family business, and business is good!
And He said to them, “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?” – Luke 2:49
God is not indifferent. God loves people. He is not mad at anybody. Nobody.
“Well, I’m mad at everybody, so God has to be mad at everybody.”
God is not created in your image! The Bible says Jesus Christ reconciled the world unto the Father at the cross. The word “reconciliation” means the removal of all hostility. At the cross of Jesus, God put everything He’s mad at us about on Jesus.
Does this mean the world is saved? No. It means the world can now approach the Father for redemption. The upgrade of reconciliation is redemption.
How can you say, “Run to the Father because, by the way, He’s going to squash you and bring judgment because He’s so mad He might run over you with a tornado”?
You don’t! The message should be clear. Because of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, nobody has to be afraid to run to the Father for redemption. Don’t get in the way of that because you dislike or disagree with someone. God loves them as much as He loves you. He’s infinite. You have all of Him, and they need all of Him!
Today is a good day to be in the family business. Spread the Good News to the lost – even to your enemies – and watch reconciliation in action.
From my sermon series LORD OF THE HARVEST
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WITHOUT A VISION?
Come under His Cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night. Follow the Spirit who is full of all wisdom, power and truth. Focus on Him. Let go of the old and receive the new.
WITHOUT A VISION?
Progression is a Kingdom thing. Since I don’t like to mess things up, I look ahead 20 steps to see what’s coming so I can meet the challenge.
That’s a good way to live your life. Take each aspect of your life. Ask yourself, “If I keep doing what I’m doing now, where will I end up in 10 steps? Fifteen steps? Thirty steps? If you don’t like what you see, stop!
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. – Proverbs 29:18
The Bible is very clear: without a vision, the people perish. Without looking ahead, you end up in really bad places and wonder, “How did I get here?”
I can tell you. You neglected to look ahead. As you move forward through life, you will always have crossroads. If you don’t see those crossroads coming, if you don’t plan for that intersection, you’ll be forced left or right by circumstances. That’s not a good thing.
While life, especially life in the Kingdom, is a forward progression, it’s not a predestined straight line. Your Father God gave you free will to make decisions. He let’s you and I choose the life we want to live.
That begs the question, “Can I go backward?” The answer is a clear, “Yes!” and that’s not a good thing.
Many people are out of timing. They go backward or stubbornly stay put, not wanting to change. Ever meet an old high school friend stuck in the past and can’t enjoy life or find their purpose? They’ve never put away childish things.
Pain and loss can also cause you to stop progressing. While it’s OK to stay put for a season to process your heartache, there is a time to get out of the rut.
Just as you like experiencing every new milestone your kids reach and every stage of their growing up, your Father God enjoys watching you progress. He has good things for you at each stage, but you have to move forward to find them.
Stuck? Looking backward? Call out to Jesus and take that first step forward. If you’ve never purposefully looked ahead to see where you’re going, do that today. Map it out. You can change direction as long as you’re still going forward into better things!
TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO LOOK UP. TAKE STOCK OF WHERE YOU’RE GOING AND CHANGE COURSE IF YOU NEED TO FOLLOW JESUS CLOSER.
From my sermon series: EXODUS
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June 2, 2020
TRADING PLACES
I Am enough for you. When you feel alone, look to Me. I Am your Maker and Redeemer. I will trade your loneliness for exclusiveness and make you whole.
TRADING PLACES
I want to tell you that Christmas is not always a jolly time of year. There are many people dealing with loss in some way or another that find Christmas downright painful.
For those with a job loss, they may not be able to afford gifts. Those going through a divorce may not get to see their kids. Those who’ve lost a loved one find Christmas especially lonely. Grief is a reality no matter what time of year.
Take Mary and Martha for example. The sisters of Lazarus, who has been dead four days, sent for Jesus to heal their brother, but Jesus waited until His friend was rotting in a tomb before He made His entrance.
And many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother. Now Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met Him, but Mary was sitting in the house. – John 11:18-20
For Martha and Mary, this is unusual. They act differently in John 11 than they do anywhere else in the Bible.
Mary is always the first one there chasing after Jesus, basking in His presence and this time she is paralyzed. She doesn’t want to move. She is so broken-hearted, she just can’t run to Jesus. I tell you what, I’ve been there. I’ve been in that place where I’ve been so broken, I didn’t want to move.
Then, there is Martha, who jumps up and goes to meet Jesus while Mary stays home. There is something stirring in Martha’s spirit that I don’t know has ever stirred before – something really, really cool. She runs out and the first thing she does is tell Jesus what she’s thinking.
Martha then said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died…” – John 11:21
Now, I’ve heard preachers say Martha was chastising Jesus and blaming Him. This would be classic Martha, but I don’t think so. The second thing she says tells me this is her big revelation moment – her breakthrough.
Even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You.” – John 11:22
Martha, who is known for being more functional than relational, is basking in His power and promise. Martha’s faith takes a giant leap here and so should yours! What are the wind and waves compared to the one who calms them? What is death compared to the one who crushed it under His heel?
Like Martha, you know Jesus. You know your loss is only temporary. Run to Jesus. Don’t let your grief and pain paralyze you. Let your relationship with the Redeemer encourage you.
From my sermon series EXODUS
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