2 Corinthians 4:16-18 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient…
Never underestimate yourself, your abilities, your feelings, or your thoughts just to please someone else, but only to be pleasing to God almighty. Min. Ev
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“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” ~The bible ~Jeremiah 29:11
Numbers 23:19 (KJV) “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?”
” And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood..”
Roosevelt once said:
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Job 1:10 (KJV) “Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.”
Greeting everyone.. As most of us around the world prepare for our children to return back to school, I just wanted to take a few moment to ask blessings over each and every one of their lives..
“God we pray a hedge of protection all around them as they come to and from school.. God I pray you began to open up their horizons that they may began to see clearly the plans for their future and the plans for their lives.. Let them know on today that out of all the friend’s in the world.. There is NONE like you “JESUS”.. No one can their hearts like you do.. We pray that you develop a deeper relationship between you and God.. Lord, we worship you on today, and we magnify your most holy word in the mighty name of Jesus we pray” Amen. (Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas)
Psalm 28:7 King James Version (KJV) “The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.”
“Noah did everything just as God commanded him.” (Genesis 6:22).
Undertaking the work of the World Wild Life Fund single-handedly required considerable skills in animal husbandry as well as logistics and attention to detail. “Notice that Noah obeyed completely.” The New Living Translation says “Noah did everything exactly as God had commanded him.”
“Noah obeyed God wholeheartedly… without reservation or hesitation.” No wonder God smiled on Noah.
“God doesn’t owe you an explanation or reason for everything he asks you to do. Understanding can wait but obedience can’t. Instant obedience will teach you more about God than a lifetime of Bible discussions. In fact, you will never understand some commands until you obey them first. Obedience unlocks understanding.” Often we try and palm God off with partial obedience. We want to pick and choose which commands we obey. We make a mental list of the commands we like and of those we think were written for other people. Then we ignore “the ones we think are unreasonable, difficult, expensive, or unpopular. I’ll attend church but I won’t tithe. I’ll read my Bible but won’t forgive the person who hurt me.” Partial obedience is actually disobedience.
On the other hand, “an act of obedience is also an act of worship. Why is obedience so pleasing to God?” For the same reason it is pleasing to you when your child obeys joyfully and willingly. It proves they trust you. It shows they love you. It demonstrates they respect you. Jesus said, “If you love me, you will obey what I command.” (John 14:15). God smiles when we love him supremely, when we trust him completely, when we obey him wholeheartedly.
God smiles when we praise and thank him continually
“Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.” (Genesis 8:20)
“Noah’s first act after surviving the Flood was to express his thanks to God by offering a sacrifice… Because of Jesus’ sacrifice, we don’t offer animal sacrifices as Noah did.” Instead we are told“in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship.” (Romans 12:1)
Joanna is a great cook. When we have guests, one of the things I love to do, is thank her for her lovely cooking, before they do. Why? “Few things feel better than receiving heartfelt praise and appreciation from someone else.” God has put that feeling in our hearts because it reflects his character too. Like Noah, “we praise God for who he is and we thank God for what he has done.” “An amazing thing happens when we offer praise and thanksgiving to God. When we give God enjoyment, our own hearts are filled with joy.” Learning to praise and thank God continually makes God smile, and our we are warmed by the radiance of his glory. God smiles when we love him supremely, when we trust him completely, when we obey him wholeheartedly, when we thank him continually.
God smiles when we receive his gifts joyfully
“Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth… Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.” (Genesis 9:1,3)
Its easy to think God is only pleased “when you’re doing spiritual activities – like reading the Bible, attending church, praying, or sharing your faith… Actually, God enjoys watching every detail of your life, whether you are working, playing, resting or eating. He doesn’t miss a single move.” After the flood, God gave Noah and his family the same command he gave Adam and Eve. “Make love, have babies, enjoy one another.” We dress it up with expressions like “Be fruitful” but the bible shows, God delights and blesses us when we receive his gifts, including his physical gifts of our bodies, joyfully and reverently. The Bible says, “The steps of the godly are directed by the Lord. He delights in every detail of their lives.” (Psalm 37:23)
This means everything we do can be done for God’s pleasure if we do it with an attitude of praise. This includes washing the dishes, fixing the car, weeding the garden, raising a family. “Like a proud parent, God especially enjoys watching you use the talents and abilities he has given you.” Even the little things can bring a smile to God’s face.
“In the film Chariots of Fire, Olympic runner Eric Liddell says “I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast, and when I run, I feel God’s pleasure.” On another occasion he said, “To give up running would be to hold him in contempt.” As Rick Warren says, “There are no unspiritual abilities; just misused ones… use yours for God’s pleasure … God also gains pleasure in watching you enjoy his creation. He gave you eyes to enjoy beauty, ears to enjoy sounds, your nose and taste buds to enjoy smells and tastes, and the nerves under your skin to enjoy touch. Every act of enjoyment becomes an act of worship when you thank God for it.” Paul writes to Timothy “God… generously gives us everything for our enjoyment.” (1 Timothy 6:17 TEV). “God even enjoys watching you sleep.”
When our children were smaller, before going to bed myself, I would check on them. Sometimes I would just sit and watch them breathing, fast asleep. Its instinctive to feel protective if you are a parent but its also very satisfying. No matter what the day had been like, no matter what they had got up to, no matter what may have been said, or more usually, broken, I’d smile and thank God for them. “When you are sleeping, God gazes at you with love, because you were his idea. He loves you as if you were the only person on earth.” Parents do not expect their children to be perfect, or even mature to enjoy them. Parents derive enjoyment at every stage of a child’s development. “In the same way God doesn’t wait for you to reach maturity before he starts liking you. He loves and enjoys you at every stage of your spiritual development.”
As you were growing up, you may have had parents or teachers who were impossible to please. You may still do. “Please don’t assume God feels that way about you. He knows you are incapable of being perfect or sinless.” Noah certainly wasn’t. Psalm 103 reminds us, “for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.” (Psalm 103:14).
What God is looking for in you and I is an attitude. The attitude of your heart. Your motivation. So let me ask you this morning – “Is pleasing him your deepest desire?” – I mean your deepest desire? Paul put it this way in his second letter to the Corinthians, “So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it.” (2 Corinthians 5:9) Could you say that? “My goal is to please him.”
“When you live in light of eternity, your focus changes from “How much pleasure am I getting out of life?” to “How much pleasure is God getting out of my life? God is looking for people like Noah [today] people willing to live for the pleasure of God.” Willing to live to make God smile. Psalm 14 says, “The Lord looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who are wise, who want to please him.” (Psalm 14:2).
God smiles when we love him supremely.
God smiles when we trust him completely.
God smiles when we obey him wholeheartedly.
God smiles when we thank him continually.
God smiles when we receive his gifts joyfully.
“Will you make pleasing God the goal of [the rest] of your life? There is nothing [absolutely nothing] that God won’t do for the person totally absorbed” with the desire to make God smile. Lets pray.
Sermon Notes taken by Minister Evelyn from this clip.. Simply phenomenal and will surely help your life.. Print them out and study the notes if you want to become better at dealing with sin…
Turn to your neighbor and say: “It’s time to drink from the fountain.. To deal with sin and to deal with uncleanness.. I want you to put your seat belts on this morning, because I have the wonderful pleasure by the Holy Spirit to get all up in your business today.. That I will believe with the help of Holy Spirit to help to convince you today, that you must be finished with your sin.. That today, you must bring it to a conclusion.. That today, you must quit fooling yourself..That today, you got to look at yourself, look inside yourself and say, I am tired of the sin age… Especially, knowing today that there is a fountain, that you can drink from, and that fountain… Please listen to me… I know you’ve done all your efforts and all your will power, but the purpose of this fountain, the purpose of the blood and water that came out of his side, was to deal with your sins and to deal with the uncleanness…. The uncleanness, but you got to drink from the fountain.. Turn to your neighbor and say:”Drink from the fountain”
Now that’s God fountain of life.. It open at Emanuel’s side for the purpose of sin, and for uncleanness.. That is the fountain the entire race of mankind had been waiting for in order to be free from sin, and in order to be free from uncleanness.. That is God’s fountain of Grace.. That is God’s fountain of compassion.. That is God’s fountain of mercy…
Please ladies and gentleman, listen to me.. If it were not for the compassion and the mercy, and the grace of God, NONE of US would qualify for heaven.. Thank you Lord for the BLOOD.. Thank you Lord for the Blood…We wouldn’t even be in a race if it were not for the blood of JESUS!
I must remind you, it was only one sin in the garden that got Adam and Eve kicked out, and you know we aint did more than one…(hmm) . It was only one sin that got them kicked out.. I’m not gone count your sins nor ask you to count your sins this morning, but I’m gonna to tell you, it’s not for any of your good works of righteousness, that you sit here this morning in expectation of Jesus and in expectation of heaven.. It was a fountain that opened up that released mercy, and grace, and compassion, that says that no mater what you have done, there is a fountain that you can drink from and it will get you in a place that you need to be, even though you don’t deserve it, there is a fountain of blood and water…..
Now, you can be completely free from sin in all of it’s ramification, with one one drop of that precious blood, and your sins are gone forever…It does not really matter the magnitude of the sin or the extent of the damage that they have done to you, because “Sn” is damaging…Sin is damaging.. All you need to do is to come to the fountain and you are free forever…I know I am simplifying that , I know I got to show you how to do that.. I know in your mind you ask is it that simple? And yet I got to show you how to apply those simple words that I just said…
Well, this is how it going to start off.. Please listen to me.. “Holiness is imperative… Holiness is imperative…
As you must have discovered from the beginning of this series that sin in the life of a man is the major issue that man has to deal with… When man is free from sin, he is free… But, when man is NOT free from sin, he is not free at all….Listen to me now… When a man is free from sin, he is free indeed… But when a man is not yet free from sin, he is not free at all….. The devil wants you to think that real freedom and real liberty is doing what you want to do without boundaries and without a conscious…And the devil wants you to think that rebelling against God’s word and God’s commandments and God’s law, he want you to think that, that’s freedom, but that will bring bondage eventually…
You know, the bible talked about how Moses served sin for a season, but seasons will change.. Seasons come and seasons go, and it’s time for this season to be up.. I am coming to blow the trumpet this morning…It is time for the season of sin in your life to be over with!
Because where you think you are free.. Free to do what you want to do, Free to do it like you want to do it.. Free to do it as long as you want to do it… You think that’ freedom, No, you are not free at all….
It’s the enemies deception to make you think that the attitude of being liberal, and just doing whatever you want to do , however you want to do with no restraints has really deceived many into thinking that that’s freedom.. That’s not free at all.. Until you are free from sin, you are not free at all..
“Until you are free from sin, you are not fee at all!!”
You don’t have to sit too stiff here this morning, I know there’s a lot of sin up here under the dome…(lol)
Sermon Notes taken by Minister Evelyn from this clip.. Simply phenomenal and will surely help your life.. Print them out and study the notes if you want to become better at dealing with sin…
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“The fear of the Lord is his treasure.. Out of his treasure comes all of his power.. To sum it up, this treasure is where all of God’s power emanates from… Its’ where the sign and wonders comes from. It’s where the supernatural resides… Look at all of the things he created, and he said he got it out of his treasures… Glory be to God! The fear of the Lord is his treasure.. The fear of the Lord is the place where you are going to find God’s power.. You are gong to find signs and wonders, you are going to find supernatural power residing there, you are gong to find the glory of God residing there, you are going to find everything you have been trying to get.. Everything you have been trying to get a hold of… “Well, I’m gone pray for 10 hours”….It aint gone do no good if you are not walking in the fear of the Lord… “Well, I’m gone fast for 20 days” For what? You aint walking in the fear of the Lord… “Well, I’m gone study the word of God” Well, that’s good, that will help you out if you study the word of God, but eventually you are going to have to come down to the fear of the Lord.. The fear of the Lord is his treasure…The fear of the Lord says out of his treasure, all of his power emanates from his treasure, so everything, every powerful things, all the blessings, everything you are looking for is in his treasure and that treasure is the Fear of The Lord!!!
Now listen to this.. Walking in the fear of God will cause you to witness the GLORY of GOD on your life.. And I’m talking, when I say GLORY, I don’t mean no light on your face, I’m talking about manifestations.. Manifestation come.. When you walk in the fear of the Lord, you will witness manifestation on your life…
Now Haggai 2:9 says something that got my attention.. Turn there or go to your table of contents.. Haggai 2:9: Haggai 2:9 beginning at verse seven says: “And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts. The glory of this latter house.. (how many know that we are the latter house?) shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts..
I prophesy to you ladies and gentleman.. “Before there can be an outpouring of God’s glory…Before there can be an outpouring of the supernatural, and it will be because it has already been prophesied… Before there can be the manifestation of the wealth of the wicked, and all these other things, we must first of all understand that it’s not going to go past the FEAR OF THE LORD…It’s not going to happen!!!You can be on the outside where people who are getting revelation of the FEAR of the Lord, their going to walk in it… They’re going to walk in it.. and If you are so satisfied with just an emotional display in church and then you can tell yourself that that’s an out pouring, you go ahead and do that.. But the latter house, the glory of it is going to be greater than the former….You know why? I don’t know exactly how God is going to do it, but there is going to be such a fear of the Lord to invade the church, where people are not going to want to do anythings that will displease him! “I hope there don’t have to be a catastrophic event to happen to get your attention… I can promise you this: “The fear of the Lord is about to change the church!!!” ~ Creflo Dollar◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ ~ Verbatim notes Notes taken by: Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊
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