Wednesday, May 29, 2013

"It's Time"



5/26/13


Intro.   In the message this morning I want to share with you a word God has given me concerning His people, the church, the message is "It's Time".  

It's Time For....The next move of God! It's Time For....a fresh outpouring of His Spirit. It's Time For....Revival. It's Time For.... Blessings. It's Time For....Peace in our families. It's Time For....Prosperity in our whole man. It's Time For....Hope in what seems like a time of hopelessness.  It's Time for us to rise up and shout, “ It Is my Time NOW!”

There Are Two Steps We Must Take To Possess What It'sTime for us to possess:  #1-Realize That God Will Do What He Said He Will Do….#2-Know The Promises of Things To Come….


Step # 1- Realize That God Will Do What He Said He Will Do “ The moment God says something to you it becomes fact.  You and I are at that time given a choice; we can accept and began walking “ as if  “ or reject it by putting it on hold. “

The Set Time has come!  Ps. 102:13  “Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion:  
                                           for the time to Favour (an attitude of approval: preferential  
                                                treatment shown to somebody) her,  yea, the set time, is    
                                            come.   (Set = ready, prepared, primed)

Due season has arrived!  Gal. 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due    
                                            season we shall reap, if we faint not.  (Due = rightful, 
                                            deserved, owed) What you are owed is determined by 
                                            what you have sowed! 

Ga.6: 7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man  soweth, that shall he also reap.
                                                 
2Co.9: 6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly (sparinging=2. Deficient or limited in quantity, fullness, or extent.);  and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.   (Bountifully = 1. Giving freely and generously; liberal. 2. Marked by abundance; plentiful.)


Step #2- The Promise of Things To Come:  Amos 9:13-15,  “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper,  him who sows the seed and the mountains shall drop sweet wine , and all the hills shall melt   And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel , and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof  they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. 15And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.”


In these verses we see where God is promising a supernatural restoration...a manifestation of the uncommon among the common.... of all that has been taken from His people.  Note with me those events....

“Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that..........
#1-the plowman shall overtake the reaper, (an uncommon harvest is released)  and 
#2-the treader of grapes (an uncommon prosperity is released) him who sows the seed and 
#3-the mountains shall drop sweet wine (an uncommon flow of the Spirit of God), #4-and all the hills shall melt  (the hills were the places of idol worship. God will break the powers of them off of the nations. Psalm 121:1; 97:5; 18:7; Isaiah 65:7;.)   
#5 -And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel (a strong deliverance released), and 
#6-they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof (Spiritual, mental, and financial productivity released; look at Obededom’s household how they where blessed – 2 Samuel 6:11 & 1Chron. 13:14.  Restoration - Jeremiah 27:22 & 30:17)
#7-they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. 15And I will plant them (spiritual land and realms are released ,2 Samuel 7:10; Ps.1:3; 80:15; 92:10; 104:16; Jer.12:2; 17:8) upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.”



Conc. To each person here today who has ever had a rhema Word from God...."It's Time!!!"

Thursday, May 16, 2013

The Journey To Pentecost II

Part II - The Process

Nothing just happens.....God demands a process.  Though we all love the promises God want to jump right to the Product of the Promise but we must go through the process.

There are two important words that arise in attaining God's promises of the Spirit...they are hunger anc continue.  Without either we will miss out on what He has for us.


a. Matt. 5:6, Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
           For they shall be filled. hunger: Gk. ‘peinao’  to famish, to crave,   starving.
           1. Ps. 42:1, “As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants for You, O God.” 
                Panteth (yearneth): to long for.   “ The hart is fond of feeding near the waters.  When hunted he will take to the river, stay submerged as long as his breath permits, then swim down stream in the middle so as not to touch the branches of trees on either side. He thus prevents the hounds from finding his scent.  Sometimes he will stay in the water submerged with only his nose out, until he is routed.  In a chase he becomes faint and longs for the water intensely. “
     
 b. Acts 1:14, These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and   
          Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

           1. They continued.  Continuity is a necessity if we are to receive all that God desires for His 
                church.  Never ever give up!   If God said it will come, it will come. Note Deut. 7:9,    
                “Understand, therefore, that the LORD your God is indeed God. He is the faithful God who  
                keeps his covenant for a thousand generations and lavishes his unfailing love on those who 
                love him and obey his commands.”NLT
           
          2. With one accord.  A divided house is a house that is living beneath the fullness of God’s 
               promise.  

Agreement is a necessity if we are to see God do what He has promised to do.  When even two come in agreement it changes the direction of things...from sickness to health...from sorrow to joy...from poverty to prosperity.  Always look for someone to come in agreement with you.  Matt. 18:19, Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.
           
         3.  In prayer.  His house is a house of prayer. Matt. 21:13, And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’  

                Note II Chron. 7:14 “If my people which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways;  then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. “
           
         4. In supplication (petition).

Part III. The Product:
        
        a. Acts 2:1-4
            1. Sound of a mighty rushing wind, it filled all the house.  “No one was left      
                 out!!”

  1. Cloven (divided) tongues, like as of fire and it sat upon each of them. “Purity” 
      
     Matthew 3:11-12 “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and [with] fire:”


     In Matthew 21:12-16 we find Jesus stepping into His Father’s house.  Upon entering, the first thing He noticed was the disorder that was present.  Men everywhere was busy, but busy doing the wrong things.  Instead of using His house to bring glory to His Father by sharing good news with other men, they were using it for selfish gain.  Gone were the days in which His house was a place of sacredness and respect.  It had become a den of thieves.  Jesus immediately began the task at hand.  “ He threw out the money changers and those that sold doves. “  He purified His house!!  Therein begins the process of becoming empowered For Purpose.  God’s house must be a purified house!

Purity has become a lost word in the vocabulary of many in the church.  We, in our search for what God is saying to His church and our on going goals for successful ministries, have ceased to consider important the message of a pure holy life; a life free from sin and worldly entanglements.  Is it just possible in our search for faith to move mountains and our longing for prosperity-proof spirituality that we have taken on the spirit of the world?  A spirit that refuses to accept “ don’t “ or “ you can’t “ as a part of the Christian life.  All we want to hear is “ do “ or “ you can “.  If this is the case, then may God help us to realize we’re on a journey into mechanical Christianity.  A Christianity that does no more than appease the desires of the self, without concern of what pleases God. 
            
            3. They were all filled with the Holy Ghost and begin to speak with tongues as   
                 the Spirit gave them utterance. Surrendered Control

                This experience as can be noted here was all inclusive.  All were filled; each  
                 of them received the experience.   The same experience is available for all     
                 today.  The only barriers that keep anyone from receiving this great 
                 experience are self constructed barriers.  

        b. Acts. 2: 11: They spoke the wonderful works of God.  
        c. Acts. 2:14-35  Peter preached the Word  (Jesus).
        d. Acts. 2:37  Conviction fell upon them.
        e. Acts 2:38  Repentance
        f. They gladly received the word and 3000 were saved.
        g. Miracles  Acts 3:1-8  The cripple man at the Gate Beautiful was healed.

Conc.  A church was born..........a church that was nothing compared to the formal, ritualistic church before Pentecost.   Signs and wonders begin to be the order of the day.  Thousands begin to turn to Christ.  The message of the minister ceased to draw attention to himself and begin to preach Jesus and Him crucified.  Throughout this great move the devil didn’t lie down and die.   The church suffered persecution.  It had a different affect than what was intended.  It made men stronger not weaker!  The persecuted became the preserved!!

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