Embracing Your Divine Purpose in Challenging Times

Accept it you are the last day plan of God accept it now there's a difference between knowing it or hearing about it and accepting it. I gave the illustration earlier today that the children of Israel they knew that they were being brought out of captivity by the hand of God when they were brought out of uh Egypt and they knew that they were destined as as had been spoken to their ancestor Abraham to be a people supernaturally given abilities to go into places that only God could take them to become a people in the earth that would bring the name of God to reputation not by by their might not by their power but by the spirit of God by the promises of God by the presence of God they were to be a people that brought his name to reputation. [00:04:18]

I want to encourage you today don't settle for a good thing if God's called you to do a great thing in the earth now he's not called you to do it he's going to do it through you all we have to do is accept it you see the people came out of Egypt they never they knew it but they didn't accept it therefore when they got to the border of this place of incredible promise and 10 spies brought back what the Bible calls an evil report they embraced it because they'd already been thinking it these evil spies as it is or these spies with the evil report they just confirm what the people had been thinking all along. [00:07:44]

It's not about you it's about the presence of God in you that's what makes the difference it's not about you you are not called to do the supernatural you're called to accept the fact that God has chosen you to do something supernaturally that will bring his own name to Glory it's not us who do it it's God who gives the giftings it's God who strengthens us it's God who does from from the beginning to the end he's the author and the finisher of our Salvation. [00:08:40]

God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of Our Lord now it was it was not a favorable time to be a disciple of Jesus Christ much of the known world of that time was somewhat scornful of the testimony of God and and resistant to that testimony but Paul says no don't be ashamed of the testimony nor of me his prisoner but share with me in the sufferings of the Gospel according to the power of God. [00:15:59]

He knew we would be the last day plan of God he knew we would be frail as Paul knew Timothy was he knew we would be struggling he knew we would have trials he knew we'd have to fight Giants he knew we'd be born as in a society that's it's losing its mind spiritually morally every other way it seems to be losing your mind in this Society he knew you would be here and still planned that you would be his last day plan to glorify his name on the earth praise be to God he knew. [00:19:51]

We are a supernatural people we're never meant to be natural as the Church of Jesus Christ we we were never meant to be an argument about the existence of God we were meant to be a living testimony about the reality of God we were a people that were destined to be taken into places that only those who live with God can go given abilities to do things that only God can do to bring his name to reputation do you understand that's how the name of God is brought to reputation not by arguing with people but being a living demonstration of who God is to them. [00:20:04]

Christianity is not a spectator sport unfortunately in America it became such in many place not every but in many places it became a spectator sport a spectator sport is where you you buy a ticket okay you buy a ticket that's your tithe I suppose in the church you come in you get your you get your jersey in the lobby or you take it out of the closet and you wear it and you come in and the and you wear a it's either a football jersey or a hockey sweater in this case and you come in and the Jersey always has somebody else's name on it. [00:23:38]

The point being accept the calling of God that is on your life I believe that we need to come back and so do I'm speaking for pastor Tim because I know he shares the same heart as I do we need to come back to where the church began in Acts chapter 2 The Church of Jesus Christ began in a prayer meeting hallelujah hallelujah it began in a prayer meeting with 120 people who knew their frailties 120 people there's nobody boasting there there's no Peter boasting of his love and loyalty to Jesus Christ he was a a man probably thoroughly ashamed of what he had done and what had come out of his mouth. [00:36:48]

You are the last day plan of God do you understand you are God's plan it's time to get your own Jersey it's time to put your own name on the back nobody May ever know your name but I tell you heaven will record it heaven will record you may not play a lot but you were in the game and I'm promising you God will give you abilities that you can only dream about give you abilities to do things to say things to go places he'll fill your heart with love for the Lost he'll give you words to speak as he did to Peter on the day of Pentecost. [00:40:24]

God if this is real this is true i' never preached a sermon didn't like people for real had a really bad temper lousy husband not much of a father I remember coming to an altar one day and I knelt down and it was a service similar to this where the the preacher is saying give your all to Jesus give your all for the purposes of God I'm in I'm sitting in the back I'm in the center section in the back right where you are over there and I'm I'm not churched I I don't get church yet I'm not into the culture I'm a cop right at this point in my life and my life is different than these people. [00:46:01]

You got to get through all the reasons why you feel like you don't belong in the game like you just some somehow can't participate in this thing all all the all the excuses all the reasons why God can't use it you got to put all that down and just come forward like I did and say here I am you know Isaiah in chapter 6 before God could use him he he had to see his unworthiness when he saw his unworthiness he was now ready to be used of God when he when he recognized it was only Mercy that could take him into the place where he was being called to go. [00:50:14]

I just love it not many mighty not many noble not many Royal birth but God has chosen God has chosen God has chosen he's chosen me in my weakness he's chosen me in my nothingness he's chosen me in my struggles he's chosen me in my failures he's chosing me even though I don't I wouldn't want anybody else to be like me he still has chosen me hallelujah oh how good God is he's chosen me to empower me to be more than I could ever hope to be and take me where I could never go and make me into what I could never hope to be by this Spirit of almighty God. [00:54:12]