How many of us have been called to go out!!!!! It happens in the life of any believer destined to do great things in life!!! Enjoy July 15th's notes!!
A Call OUT
Genesis 12:1 “ Leave your country, your people, and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you.”
Your journey with God and your new surrender to Him will always call you out. Anytime God wants to promote you and take you higher He will always call you out. It’s not necessarily a geographical shift or call but a shift & move in the Spirit.
God calls you out of familiar settings, out of old mindsets, out of old habits, out of old traditions and out of old patterns.
Coming out is always uncomfortable. Do you believe in God enough to allow yourself to be willingly uncomfortable?
Could you imagine Abrams conversation with his wife??? It would have gone something like this:
Abram: Wife, we are going!!
Sarai: where?
Abram: I don’t know!
Sarai: How will we know when we get their??
Abram: I don’t know!
Sarai: Who told you to leave?
Abram: This God I just met!!
Sarai: How long will it take??
Abram: I don’t know!!
When Abram heard the message he was not only convinced but thoroughly convicted that the author of the message would not steer him wrong. Abram did not believe in God up to a certain point; he gave in a surrendered to God and the call 100%
Lot represents all those people in your life that out of sympathy they have come along in the journey but do not belong!! Lot was not part of the call and he ended up being a detour and a hindrance in Abrams life. Do you have any Lots in your life??
A call out from God guarantees that He is calling you INTO something better than where you were!! God is constantly calling us from “glory to glory, mountaintop to mountaintop, and from one level to another higher one.
The call is point “A.” Where He is taking you is point “Z.” So that will automatically tell you that there is a lot of trusting and unknown trials in the middle. God has orchestrated: wilderness time, cleansing time, stretching time, crushing time, battle time, to ultimately take you to victory time!!! Romans 8: 17b says “ if we are to share His glory we are to share his suffering.” Remember …..please remember that in ALL things God works for the good of those who love Him!! I don’t know where you are in your call but take heart!!!!!! If God called you He will also give you the GRACE to lead you, strengthen you and be your endless supply!!!! It’s time to GO!
Friday, July 17, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
3 cosas!!! 3 Things!!!
Thursday night at Next Level was as my wife says, "off the gancho" (off the hook.) God had been speaking to me about intimacy and how the church today will be entering, and has entered into a time where God is calling His people to His breast to hear His heartbeat. God spoke to me of three things, and we find these three things in the book of Isaiah chapter 6:1-9
Willingness, Formation, and Surrender
Isaiah 6:1-9 (New Living Translation)
1 It was in the year King Uzziah died[a] that I saw the Lord. He was sitting on a lofty throne, and the train of his robe filled the Temple. 2 Attending him were mighty seraphim, each having six wings. With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew. 3 They were calling out to each other, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies! The whole earth is filled with his glory!”
4 Their voices shook the Temple to its foundations, and the entire building was filled with smoke.
5 Then I said, “It’s all over! I am doomed, for I am a sinful man. I have filthy lips, and I live among a people with filthy lips. Yet I have seen the King, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.”
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal he had taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. 7 He touched my lips with it and said, “See, this coal has touched your lips. Now your guilt is removed, and your sins are forgiven.” 8 Then I heard the Lord asking, “Whom should I send as a messenger to this people? Who will go for us?”
I said, “Here I am. Send me.”
9 And he said, “Yes, go, and say to this people,
intimacy is WILLINGNESS: Willingness speaks to us not of emotions but of commitment. It speaks to us about an act of the will. Following Christ can be an emotion filled roller coaster; sometimes your up and sometimes your down but at all times our hope and strength and commitment is strong for the Lord. The principal surrounding this point is this: You follow Christ based on the fact that He is Lord and God and that He died on the Cross for your sins. You follow God because He is worthy of of praise, honor, glory, and worship. It's not a feeling thing, it's an act of the will, devoid of feelings. Now saying that let me state that the Joy of the Lord is our driving force on a day to day basis, but this joy only comes when we are committed to His word and His way.
intimacy is FORMATION: Isaiah went through a formation process. Remember, God is the potter, we are the clay, we are on the anvil and God is the one forming and molding us. It may not be pleasant at times but endure, endure, endure!!! All Christians must go through a formation process, we all must go through a time where what does not belong must be removed from us. God's fire is a purging fire, burning up everything that stand between Him, you and His perfect will for your life. The best thing to do is allow God to form you!!! Say yes and Amen to His molding hand!!! Remember that ALL things are working together for Good!!!!
intimacy is SURRENDER: Isaiah said " Here I am, send me" He did not hear the plan and decide if he wanted to do it or not. He just surrendered to God completely!!! He surrendered to God in every area of His life. As true believers our life must be completely consecrated to Him, not just parts of our life but ALL of our life!!! Just like their is no such thing as being a "little" pregnant, their is no such thing as being a little bit surrendered to God, you either are or aren't!!!
God is seeking intimacy with His people, but we must first declare with our heart, actions, will, mind, and strength that we are His and He is ours. He is our everything; our life, breath, reason for being. God shares His most secret thoughts with those that He is intimate with. Let's pursue God!!!!!
Willingness, Formation, and Surrender
Isaiah 6:1-9 (New Living Translation)
1 It was in the year King Uzziah died[a] that I saw the Lord. He was sitting on a lofty throne, and the train of his robe filled the Temple. 2 Attending him were mighty seraphim, each having six wings. With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew. 3 They were calling out to each other, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies! The whole earth is filled with his glory!”
4 Their voices shook the Temple to its foundations, and the entire building was filled with smoke.
5 Then I said, “It’s all over! I am doomed, for I am a sinful man. I have filthy lips, and I live among a people with filthy lips. Yet I have seen the King, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.”
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal he had taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. 7 He touched my lips with it and said, “See, this coal has touched your lips. Now your guilt is removed, and your sins are forgiven.” 8 Then I heard the Lord asking, “Whom should I send as a messenger to this people? Who will go for us?”
I said, “Here I am. Send me.”
9 And he said, “Yes, go, and say to this people,
intimacy is WILLINGNESS: Willingness speaks to us not of emotions but of commitment. It speaks to us about an act of the will. Following Christ can be an emotion filled roller coaster; sometimes your up and sometimes your down but at all times our hope and strength and commitment is strong for the Lord. The principal surrounding this point is this: You follow Christ based on the fact that He is Lord and God and that He died on the Cross for your sins. You follow God because He is worthy of of praise, honor, glory, and worship. It's not a feeling thing, it's an act of the will, devoid of feelings. Now saying that let me state that the Joy of the Lord is our driving force on a day to day basis, but this joy only comes when we are committed to His word and His way.
intimacy is FORMATION: Isaiah went through a formation process. Remember, God is the potter, we are the clay, we are on the anvil and God is the one forming and molding us. It may not be pleasant at times but endure, endure, endure!!! All Christians must go through a formation process, we all must go through a time where what does not belong must be removed from us. God's fire is a purging fire, burning up everything that stand between Him, you and His perfect will for your life. The best thing to do is allow God to form you!!! Say yes and Amen to His molding hand!!! Remember that ALL things are working together for Good!!!!
intimacy is SURRENDER: Isaiah said " Here I am, send me" He did not hear the plan and decide if he wanted to do it or not. He just surrendered to God completely!!! He surrendered to God in every area of His life. As true believers our life must be completely consecrated to Him, not just parts of our life but ALL of our life!!! Just like their is no such thing as being a "little" pregnant, their is no such thing as being a little bit surrendered to God, you either are or aren't!!!
God is seeking intimacy with His people, but we must first declare with our heart, actions, will, mind, and strength that we are His and He is ours. He is our everything; our life, breath, reason for being. God shares His most secret thoughts with those that He is intimate with. Let's pursue God!!!!!
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Helping your friends get their!!
Throughout history mankind has pursued the hope of defining eternity and wondered at the idea of having a relationship with a supernatural God. I hope this helps you as you reach out to the people around you.
"Why would He want to have a relationship with me?"
One simple word: love
God loved you so much that He created you so that you might have a relationship with Him. John 3:16 tells us "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life."
"Okay, so God wants to have a relationship with me… if that's the case why do I feel so alone and distance from Him?"
One three letter word: sin
Sin is what separates us from God. It isolates us and puts a wall between us and God. Sin is really rebellion against God. It's something in our very nature that causes us to choose to do our own thing rather than choosing to do things God's way.
The fact is nobody is perfect. Romans 3:23 tells us that, "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." In fact sin is responsible for both our physical and spiritual death. Romans 6:23 says, "the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord."
"If sin separates me from God how do I get reconnected?"
It's all about forgiveness
If sin separates, forgiveness reconnects. The reality is that there's not one of us that could do enough good things to reconnect with God. Remember sin is something that changed the essence of who we are. So in order to reconnect with God it would take something or someone who hasn't sinned to help us reconnect. And that's exactly what Jesus, God's Son, did.
1 Peter 3:18 tells us "Christ also suffered when he died for our sins once for all time. He never sinned, but he died for sinners that he might bring us safely home to God. He suffered physical death, but he was raised to life in the Spirit."
So how do you reconnect with God? Simple, recognize that Jesus died on a cross so that you could be forgiven for all your sins - past, present and future. There's just one thing you have to do. Ask Jesus to forgive you.
Pray this simple prayer and begin a relationship with God…
"God, I admit that I'm a sinner. I believe that You sent Jesus, who died on the cross and rose from the dead paying the penalty for my sins. I am asking that You forgive me of my sin and I receive Your gift of eternal life. It is in Jesus' name that I ask for this gift. Amen!"
"So I've asked Jesus to forgive me, now what?"
That one simple step is the beginning of a real relationship with God. Now that you've started talking with Him don't stop… tell Him how you're feeling, ask Him for His help, tell Him how you want to get to know Him more.
Asking Jesus to forgive you isn't just a question about avoiding Hell and getting into heaven… it's all about the relationship. Remember where we started, "why would God want to have a relationship with me?" Because He loves you, He wants you to get to know Him; He's got a lot of great things in store. I'll see you on Thursday night!!!
"Why would He want to have a relationship with me?"
One simple word: love
God loved you so much that He created you so that you might have a relationship with Him. John 3:16 tells us "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life."
"Okay, so God wants to have a relationship with me… if that's the case why do I feel so alone and distance from Him?"
One three letter word: sin
Sin is what separates us from God. It isolates us and puts a wall between us and God. Sin is really rebellion against God. It's something in our very nature that causes us to choose to do our own thing rather than choosing to do things God's way.
The fact is nobody is perfect. Romans 3:23 tells us that, "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." In fact sin is responsible for both our physical and spiritual death. Romans 6:23 says, "the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord."
"If sin separates me from God how do I get reconnected?"
It's all about forgiveness
If sin separates, forgiveness reconnects. The reality is that there's not one of us that could do enough good things to reconnect with God. Remember sin is something that changed the essence of who we are. So in order to reconnect with God it would take something or someone who hasn't sinned to help us reconnect. And that's exactly what Jesus, God's Son, did.
1 Peter 3:18 tells us "Christ also suffered when he died for our sins once for all time. He never sinned, but he died for sinners that he might bring us safely home to God. He suffered physical death, but he was raised to life in the Spirit."
So how do you reconnect with God? Simple, recognize that Jesus died on a cross so that you could be forgiven for all your sins - past, present and future. There's just one thing you have to do. Ask Jesus to forgive you.
Pray this simple prayer and begin a relationship with God…
"God, I admit that I'm a sinner. I believe that You sent Jesus, who died on the cross and rose from the dead paying the penalty for my sins. I am asking that You forgive me of my sin and I receive Your gift of eternal life. It is in Jesus' name that I ask for this gift. Amen!"
"So I've asked Jesus to forgive me, now what?"
That one simple step is the beginning of a real relationship with God. Now that you've started talking with Him don't stop… tell Him how you're feeling, ask Him for His help, tell Him how you want to get to know Him more.
Asking Jesus to forgive you isn't just a question about avoiding Hell and getting into heaven… it's all about the relationship. Remember where we started, "why would God want to have a relationship with me?" Because He loves you, He wants you to get to know Him; He's got a lot of great things in store. I'll see you on Thursday night!!!
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