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September 26, 2018
WHAT ARE YOU CHASING AFTER?
I have more for you. Trust My plan and climb higher. Come up here where I Am. Listen to My heart for you. i will tell you great and mighty things which you do not know.
GOD CHASERS
Do you know there are things that, if you knew them, it’d change everything for you? There’s one thing you could learn that could take you from good to great in your life, but you have no clue what it is.
The Kingdom has to be sought after and pursued. If you want to know the secrets God has set aside for your life, you have to be in relationship with Him.
The book “The God Chasers” by Tommy Tenney had a profound effect on me. It is all about the relentless pursuit of going deeper and higher in relationship with Jesus to that thing yet undiscovered. Relationship qualifies you for intimacy. You qualify for higher revelation and deeper experience as you conform your life to the image of God’s plan.
When you look up “intimacy” in the dictionary, you find this definition: a close, familiar and usually affectionate or loving personal relationship; a close association with or detailed knowledge or deep understanding of a person.
Even though brother Webster’s definition is true, I don’t think it quite covers the depth and breadth of what intimacy is. Kingdom intimacy is all about the private, privileged, and exclusive disclosure of secret things based upon covenant and trust.
Intimacy qualifies you for the secrets to upgrade, identity, purpose, and destiny. The kryptonite to this is complacency. Know this: you have never “arrived” at the best God has for you. There’s always more. Your destiny isn’t on this side of heaven so don’t get comfortable and stop pursuing Jesus.
Go after the private, privileged, and exclusive heart of Jesus for your life. You’ll never be the same.
“All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.” – Matthew 11:27
FROM MY SERMON SERIES PRAY FOR RAIN – INTIMACY
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September 25, 2018
TRUST ME?
Partner with Me this day. Align your heart and your mind with the purposes I have for you. Follow Me and watch Me do great and mighty things you could never imagine.
TRUST ME?
Trust is a big deal to God. The Jews know that because one of their repentance prayers during Rosh Hashanah is “forgive us for breach of trust.” Breach means “broken” or “failure” and it’s a serious offense.
You need to know Proverbs 3 and you need to meditate and pray about it. You need to have encounters with God and visit with Him through every single line, especially this one.
“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.” – Proverbs 3:5
This verse is crazy because this isn’t how the world lives. We are called to live by faith not according to our understanding. Our understanding is only according to our history. Trusting is knowing that what God Almighty is doing within your heart is considered your destiny.
Consider Abraham, a rock star of faith. He did not lean on his own understanding, even though his body and Sarah, his wife, were well past the years of childbearing. But God promised Abraham a son through whom all the nations for the world would be blessed and Abraham had to have a lot of trust.
“He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthen in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.” – Romans 4:20-21
God has a destiny for each one of us. We need to find it and walk it out because legacy is the upgrade of destiny. King Jesus wants you to find your destiny so the legacy you leave will not be greatly diminished.
It’s not about you. It’s about how you glorify the Lord. You’re supposed to be a fountain, right? You’re supposed to be a well springing up. It’s all about how you splash the Kingdom onto everything else.
We will all leave a legacy and hopefully one built of faith. A trust in God and in His word that says, “I know Him.” A faith like Abraham’s that glorifies God with all our heart. Faith that trusts in the goodness of God above everything else – a faith that has encountered God.
FROM MY SERMON SERIES SERVOLUTION
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September 24, 2018
WHAT IS YOUR ANSWER?
You heard Me as I called your name – as I brought you out of darkness into the light of My love. As I call you into new territory, trust Me. To breach that trust with doubt is to cut off your own destiny. Remember, I never fail.
LET IT BE
When the angel Gabriel called Mary “highly favored one,” she didn’t think he was actually talking to her. Isn’t that the way it always is? The Lord shows up, tells you something amazing, and you always think, “He can’t be talking to me.”
When God is first calling you and me into greatness, we tend to think He’s mistaken us for somebody else when, in fact, we are mistaking ourselves for somebody less. That’s what Mary thought too.
Gabriel quickly sees what Mary is confused about, then He calls her by name. Now, they’re both on the same page for about five seconds before he tells her the great news: she’s going to get pregnant. She points out the issue that she’s never known a man and it’s impossible for a virgin to become pregnant. Gabriel responds that the Holy Spirit is going to take care of the details and that’s how she’ll know the child is a supernatural child.
Before he leaves, Gabriel tells Mary how blessed and awesome she is, and that God has chosen her. In fact, she’s the most highly favored woman the world has ever seen.
I don’t know about you, but I would not be feeling blessed and highly favored about now. I would be thinking, “I’m going to lose my awesome finance, my parents are going to be shamed and ostracized, and I’m going to be stoned by the religious devils who say I’ve stepped out on my hubby to be. No thanks!” I might even head for the hills.
But Mary doesn’t. Maybe she has no place else to go. Still, she says this amazing thing – “I am the maidservant of the Lord. Let it be as the Lord has spoken unto me.” She may not have understood all of what God was doing, but she was definitely ready to get with His program.
You and I need to be able to say that too. When He tells you to adopt a baby, start a new business, create a new ministry, or go way out on some limb, that’s your response.
When Jesus gives you any kind of word about your identity, purpose, or destiny, you know the answer should be just as Mary said: “Let it be as the Lord has spoken unto me.” Start practicing that right now. It’s not only a way of saying, “Yes,” it’s saying, “I trust you with my life – all my life – no matter what.”
And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God…For with God nothing will be impossible.” Then Mary said, “Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.” – Luke 1:35, 37-38
FROM MY SERMON SERIES THE INDESCRIBABLE GIFT
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September 23, 2018
NO GIANT CAN STAND AGAINST
I Am your Father and I Am good. Jesus is your Brother. He sacrificed it all for you so He could share His inheritance with you. The Spirit your comforter and counselor. We are your family and we speak like and destiny into you. Do you hear it?
NO GIANT CAN STAND AGAINST
You have to get good at slaying your giants because you can’t live with them. You can’t live with that constant fear and intimidation in your life. You have to go to war against Goliath and it’s scary.
I’m going to show you how to defeat the giants in your life. There is a step by step playbook on how to deal with the giants of your life in 1 Samuel 17.
“Then David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, ‘What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”’ – 1 Samuel 17:26
I just love David. When he found out there was a giant, there was no doubt in his mind that he was going to kill it. He just wanted to know, “What’s my upgrade?” The size of your upgrade is determined by the size of your giant. David said, “That’s a big ‘un. What shall I get for that?” He never considered failure.
They told him, “You get to marry the king’s daughter and you never have to pay taxes again.” For David, it’s game on, but a second giant shows up on the scene. Look at verse 28:
“Now Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger was aroused against David, and he said, ‘Why did you come down here? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the insolence of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.’ And David said, ‘What have I done now? Is there not a cause?’ Then he turned from him toward another and said the same thing; and these people answered him as the first ones did.” – 1 Samuel 17:28-30
His family’s mouth lined up with the mouth of the giant! Do you know that sometimes your family’s mouth will line up with the mouth of your Goliath? They’ll say you’re not smart enough, pretty enough, skinny enough, experienced enough. Heck, they’ll just say you’re not enough and you’ll never win.
I’ve seen it time and time again. Because of loyalty issues with your family, you will walk out of your assignment, and live and die in the wilderness. Do you want to know how to deal with that trash? You love Jesus more than you love your family.
If your family refuses to see you as an awesome man or woman of God, you have to choose Jesus over your family. David turned away from his brother and continued going after God’s heart by defeating Goliath. You can too. Be after God’s own heart. No giant can stand against that.
FROM MY SERMON SERIES MILK AND HONEY
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September 22, 2018
DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT CONFESSION IS?
Your forgiveness was complete at the cross. You don’t have to re-earn it after every human failure. Instead, remind yourself that I love you and sacrificed all for you. Remind Me of your love and devotion toward Me, your Savior.
TRUE CONFESSION
Do you understand what confession is? It is not a ritual of listing your sins to a priest or even to God. Confession is when you verbalize your heart to Him.
What that looks like before you’re saved, is you confess your sins to the Lord and you say, “Lord this is my heart, the good and the bad. I’m giving it to You.” After you’re saved, what you confess over and over again is your love toward the Father and the Father’s love toward you.
Hear me say this: by continuing in confession to the Lord, you’re not trying to get re-saved over, and over again. You’re building intimacy with Him by being transparent with all of your heart – not just the ugly parts that need forgiving, which He already has – you’re confessing your hopes and dreams too.
Jesus loves transparency. While He walked this earth, He was so transparent with those around Him as well as the Father. Just think about the Garden of Gethsemane on the night of His arrest.
Here, Jesus knows exactly what the next 24 hours will bring. Knowing His purpose for leaving Heaven is to be brutally murdered in our stead He tells the disciples “My heart is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death.” How’s that for confession?
Then He cries out to the Father and confesses exactly what is in His breaking heart:
Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.” – Matthew 36-29
Being fully man, Jesus was confessing His fear. Twice He asked the Father if there was any other way. Then He confessed His love for us by saying He would drink the cup of our suffering because it was the Father’s heart to rescue us.
Amazing! Jesus just lays His heart out there and confesses what’s in it – no shame or embarrassment, no hidden agenda or manipulation. That’s confession. That’s moving closer not only to the Father but to His brothers on earth.
If you’re still confessing your list of sins like your eternal life depends on it, it doesn’t. Confess your heart – your whole heart to the Only One who is worthy to hear it.
FROM MY SERMON SERIES FIRST THINGS
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WATCH THE FIRE FALL
My ways are higher than your ways. Even when you don’t understand, trust Me. Be obedient to My word. Your selflessness will be blessed in ways you cannot imagine.
WATCH THE FIRE FALL
The first man Adam had a couple of boys, Cain and Abel. These two were completely different. One was a rancher, the other a farmer. Though it sounds like they had a lot in common, and they probably did, there was one big difference between Cain the farmer and Abel the rancher.
Cain was a prideful individual. He was so prideful, he invented his own religion – just like so many of us have.
Now God Almighty had specifically explained that once each year they’d come before Him and make a blood sacrifice. This is how it worked: take the blood of an innocent lamb and spill its blood. Do this saying you don’t have to be killed because the innocent lamb took your place, therefore innocence would be applied to you by faith for a year.
In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. – Hebrews 9:22
Though it seems easy, each and every Jew would have to repeat this process over and over until Jesus showed up. He is the Lamb Who takes away the sins of the world.
You see, from the time of the very first family, God was implementing the idea of redemption. He was showing them there is a terrible price to pay, and the most valuable thing anybody has is their life and life is their blood. Amen.
But in Cain’s religion, instead of going by the Word of God or the heart of the Father, Cain decided to say, “This is what I can do. This is how I can perform. I will bring the best of my crop to God and say, ‘Bless that and call me righteous, it is some of my best work that I can produce.’”
What a knucklehead! Unfortunately, it sounds like most of Christianity today which is works-based with no faith involved.
God was not pleased with Cain’s sacrifice and everybody knew it. How can that be? It was out of his best crop. This is how it worked: you didn’t apply fire to the altar. You applied the sacrifice and then you stood back and God applied the fire.
The principal God was trying to teach Cain, and us, was that fire – supernatural fire – falls on sacrifice. It falls on selflessness and obedience. If you want the power of God in your life in a whole new way, lay down your life in a whole new way. Be obedient to Him and watch the fire fall.
FROM MY SERMON SERIES BEGAT
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September 20, 2018
DOES JESUS HAVE ALL OF YOUR LIFE?
You think you are fooling Me, but I know your thoughts, actions, doubts, and fears. I’m not angry at your humanity. I Am compassionate toward your faults. Openly bring them to Me and will give you peace.
HOLDING OUT?
The book of Matthew is all about Jesus as your King. When Jesus is your King, you begin to really love Him as your King and you begin to really pursue the kingdom.
The King, the Kingdom, the domain of the Kingdom, and the dominion of the King are all the same thing. Whenever you fall in love with Jesus or serve Him anyway, you begin to fall in love with the kingdom and to serve in it.
There’s no such thing as a king without a kingdom, and there’s no such thing as a kingdom without real estate. Here’s what’s real, my friends: Jesus is after real estate. What real estate is that? You. You are the real estate that Jesus is after.
He wants dominion in your heart, mind, and actions. He wants to rule and reign in your words, your relationships, and your job. In short, Jesus wants it all. He wants all of you to be sold out and in love with all of Him.
Really, is that too much to ask for the God who planned you and your purpose before time began and the voice that spoke you into existence?
For You formed my inward parts; you covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. – Psalm 139:13-14
Not only that, Jesus saved you and He loved you enough to give you free will to choose to love Him back. That right there should have you turning over your life to Him right now. The question is, does Jesus have all of your life?
What parts are you holding out? What things are you hiding? Just give your secrets up to Him. Let Him have dominion in your life. When the King has dominion, the result is always peace.
FROM MY SERMON SERIES JESUS UNVEILED
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September 19, 2018
WHO ARE YOU ACKNOWLEDGING?
I love you. My thoughts towards you are more than the sands of the sea. Seek Me each day and see what good things I have in store for you. Know that My ways are not your ways but I will make known to you all that I have for you as you look to Me.
WHO ARE YOU ACKNOWLEDGING?
We know God has a plan for us. He tells us that in Jeremiah 29:11. But most of us don’t know how to find that plan, so here’s a bread crumb for you to follow. The way to finding His paths can be found right here:
“In all your ways, acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.” – Proverbs 3:6
God’s calls us to acknowledge Him in all our ways. This means in every single part of your life you are to be God conscious and Spirit of God conscious. Jesus is our living example of this kind of lifestyle. Jesus walked no other path than the one the Father directed for Him.
“Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.” – John 5:19
Not so with religious people. They go around seeing a devil in everybody and everything. They are more devil conscious. That’s not you! You can walk each day with your eyes on Him discerning all He would have you do. You can enjoy His presence in you even in the midst of the world spinning out of control.
The Bible says God “prepares a table for us in the presence of our enemies.” What does that mean? It’s an opportunity for us to be more God-conscious than we are of the attacks coming against us. Right in the middle of all hell breaking loose, Jesus and you are having a party and nobody else in the world knows about it. You need to learn how to be Spirit conscious where you’re just aware of how the Spirit of God is moving within your life.
People who are God conscious and Spirit conscious like Jesus are aware they can do nothing apart from Him. They are in desperate need of Him in all their ways. They understand that His ways are better than their own. Are you one of them? If you are, you know this is the end result:
“No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.”—John 15:15
FROM MY SERMON SERIES SERVOLUTION
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September 18, 2018
WHERE ARE YOU?
I cannot stand the thought of you being lost. Not for a day or an hour. You are found in Me. I Am the shelter you’ve been searching for. Let Me set your feet on the path to your destiny,
WHERE ARE YOU?
At the beginning of every year, I seek God for a word for that year. I look at the Gregorian calendar, the Jewish calendar and the seasonal calendar in Ecclesiastes 3 because I think God wants you and I to know where we are. He doesn’t like it when you don’t know where you are:
But the Lord called to the man, “Where are you?” – Genesis 3:9
God doesn’t ask that question because He doesn’t know where Adam is. He asks because Adam doesn’t know where Adam is, or how deep of trouble he’s gotten himself into.
Logistically speaking, God wants you to know where you’re at. Especially when it comes to seasons. He doesn’t hide the seasons of life from us. He wants us to know what season we’re in. That way, we can predict what season is next.
If it’s summer, we know what comes after that. We know that if its fall, winter follows. Why? Because we’re supposed to gear up for the next season because there’s a timing to every purpose under heaven.
A time to be born, And a time to die;
A time to plant, And a time to pluck what is planted;
A time to kill, And a time to heal;
A time to break down, And a time to build up… – Ecclesiastes 3:2-3
When you look at the seasons of life Solomon noted, you should know what season you’re in and what to expect next. God wants you to be prepared, but what if you’re not? What if you’re living your life out of synch with His plan and purpose?
Well, that’s when life is tough and you know it’s tough because you’ll want to be single when you’re married. You’ll want kids when you don’t have any. You’ll be going to school when you should have a job and your relationships, finances and stress level will all show you’re out of timing.
Get into alignment for your Kingdom assignment. Go after Jesus in a way that puts Him in the center of your life. He will guide your steps and set you on the path home. Your Father is there. Where are you?
FROM MY SERMON SERIES PRAY FOR RAIN – ALIGNMENT
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September 17, 2018
THE TITLE TO YOUR TERRITORY
Never be content with “just enough” of Me. Why settle for a little of My presence, promise and prosperity when I sacrificed all to share My territory with you? Cry out to Me. I will increase you.
THE TITLE TO YOUR TERRITORY
There’s always spiritual warfare over assignment. Your map is all about your assignment – your finances, spouse, kids, church, job, and ministry. Sometimes, your map looks like Jesus Christ rules and reigns over it. Sometimes, there are huge holes where the enemy is ruling and reigning.
I have news for you. That’s the way it’s going to be until Jesus Christ comes back on His white horse. Amen. Until then, God will be happy to increase your territory just like He increased Jabez’s territory. That brother cried out that he wanted more blessing and more responsibility and God said, “Yes!”
Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted his request. – 1 Chronicles 4:10
How can God give you more room in the Kingdom? There is always more land because there are always more tribes who fail to occupy it. Always. There’s always somebody who went to sleep and let the Philistines take over again. They failed their assignment They didn’t take it seriously or made a truce with the enemy instead of going to war.
For the reasons above, Israel would sometimes fail to occupy major geographical locations in the Promised Land. After that, the people would redefine their territory. They would grow up in this little bitty sliver of land not knowing God had meant for them to have so much more.
They didn’t grow up in the truth. They grew up in the failure of what had been passed down to them. But that’s not you and that’s not me. As the people of the Most High God, we need to get serious about leaving a legacy and legacy is all about territory. You can’t leave a legacy if there’s no ground to pass down.
You have to hand something better down to the people behind you instead of handing down more problems. Like Jabez, cry out for more blessing and responsibility in the Kingdom. Get in alignment for your assignment by taking territory for Jesus. Give Him the deed and title to all you do.
FROM MY SERMON SERIES I LOVE MY TRIBE
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