The Gift of Choice… • God has given us the gift of free will • We are where we are today because of the choices we’ve made • Throughout the bible God recommends that we choose life by making wise decisions – listening to and obeying His guidance • We are now in a time of new beginnings and God is calling us to choose between the old and the new
•We have been in a time of transition over the past 5 years •During this time God has been transforming us and preparing us to walk in the fullness of our inheritance •We each have an eternal destiny from, and with, God – if we choose to embrace it
Fatherhood, Sonship, Royal Identity A CALL TO INTIMACY Habitation of God Song Solomon 8:6
Matt 13 GATHERING & REMOVING STUMBLING BLOCKS Releasing Joshua Generation
1 Peter 4:17 JUDGMENT OF GOD’S HOUSEHOLD
Gen 41 HARVEST OF LABOURERS
Heb 12:27 SHAKING OF WORLD SYSTEMS
FINAL HARVEST
ISA 2:2
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• We have heard from Mike’s teaching that God has already started to judge His church • Matt 21:43 “Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people, producing the fruit of it.” • What will He see when He looks at you and me individually? • Are we yet a true reflection of God?
• When God judges us it is not to bring death, but to bring life • To refine those parts of us that do not reflect Him • He wants the very best for us – for us to operate in the fullness of our destinies • To have an intimate relationship with Him because the more time we spend with Him, the more we will look like Him
• Our blueprint as a church is to equip a Joshua generation for the billion fold harvest • To equip, is to prepare or supply someone with the necessary tools or abilities for a particular task or purpose • Why? Because God wants to see people saved • 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow about His promise… not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. • It is not about us – it’s about God and His plans and purposes, so we can legislate and administer His kingdom on earth
• So what is this choice between the old and new? • Slavery or son-ship • Milk or solid food • Earthly pastoral ministry (we’ll hear God for you) or heavenly apostolic (we’ll teach you how to hear God and engage with heaven yourselves)
• Why do I have to choose? • The Moses generation has ended, we have entered the time of the Joshua generation • Joshua 1:1-3 Now it came about after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, that the LORD spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ servant, saying, 2 “Moses My servant is dead; now therefore arise, cross this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them, to the sons of Israel.
• We started a 3 year period of preparation in 2012 and now that time is up • Isa 40:3-5 A voice is calling, “Clear the way for the Lord in the wilderness; Make smooth in the desert a highway for our God. “Let every valley be lifted up, And every mountain and hill be made low; And let the rough ground become a plain, And the rugged terrain a broad valley; Then the glory of the Lord will be revealed, • The new, or the old. Life or death, there is no sitting on the fence, to not choose is a choice to stay in the old.
Deuteronomy 30:15 “See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and adversity… 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants,”
• As with Joshua, when they crossed the river Jordan, they were circumcised and given time to heal • For us there will also be a time of preparation before we move forward • There will be a time of consecration and refining • Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” So the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day.
• What is your soul or maybe familiar spirits telling you? • You’re not worthy? You can’t do this? You have nothing to add? I don’t know how to do this? I can’t be like they are? • This choice is not about how you feel, in the first chapter of Joshua, God told Joshua three times, “Only be strong and courageous” • We are all learning because this is a new beginning • God is looking for willing amateurs in the new
• Now what is your spirit telling you? • Deep inside, your spirit knows how God sees you • Psalm 139:16 Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me , When as yet there was not one of them • Are you willing to be the person God created you to be?
• Jeremiah 1:5 Before I shaped you in the womb, I knew all about you. Before you saw the light of day, I had holy plans for you • Next week we will asking you to make your choice • If you need more information, prayer or ministry – SEE evening on Wednesday
• You do not need to understand everything • Nor do you need to be doing everything • The choice you are making is, ‘Am I willing to be an amateur in the new?’ • Are you willing to learn and pass it on?
• Isa 60:1-3 “Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. “For behold, darkness will cover the earth and deep darkness the peoples; but the Lord will rise upon you and His glory will appear upon you. 3 “Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. • You are called for such as time as this
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