As a reminder, the preparation time before any move of God is always tough, but that’s where we’re at. We’re going to get excited anyway, because we know what’s coming, don’t we? The greatest move the church has ever seen is well on its way. As I’ve mentioned before, our job is to get ready. Get prepared for this next move of God, amen?
Last month we talked about the three types of men, meaning mankind- this is not gender specific. The three types are natural, carnal, and spiritual. We talked about the motives and characteristics of each one. I really thought it was good when you lay hands on a person, they get touched by God, and they get up off of the floor healed. That’s what made the Pharisee’s mad about Jesus. It made them mad because they were losing some of their congregation to go hear Jesus. They got really mad because Jesus was saying things they didn’t believe. Jesus was doing things that they felt had been done away with. Hello. It upset their theology. There’s a lot of cessation theology that goes around. Theology that says that’s been done away with, that the gifts of the Spirit are done away with, and apostles and prophets are done away with. Those teachings are wrong. That’s not bible; that’s the doctrines of men and the doctrines of devils. Rejoice when you see people being healed and set free by God. Because that’s when you know you are in the center of the will of God. We ended last month on taking up our cross. Taking up your cross may be different than me because of what God has called you to do. That’s why you don’t want to try to do what someone else is doing. Like I said, we’re getting ready for more moves of God. When God begins to move, it’s worldwide, not just local. It hits in different places around the world. No matter where the move is, or what’s going on, and we need to be ready. It’s going to hit small towns, big towns. It’s going to hit nations, and islands. It’s going to hit all over the world. This is going to be one of the major moves of God before Jesus comes back. Amen? How many of you want to be a part of it? How many of you are tired of being spectators? Blessings will abound for those that have prepared and made themselves ready to be usable by the Lord. Whenever there’s a move by God there’s always fresh revelation that God brings to the church. I want to be ready. The word says there is nothing new under the heavens. That’s true. There is nothing new to God but we don’t know everything. There’s plenty that’s new to us. It was new when we got born again. People have been getting born again for centuries. It was new when we received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. This has been happening since the day of Pentecost. There’s been some revelation that has been lost in the church. It wasn’t lost to the early church, but it has been lost and God is restoring these things in the last days. So, anytime there’s a major move of God, there’s going to be a major revelation and it’s going to hit the whole world and spread. This doesn’t mean the whole world accepted it or will accept it. You want to be prepared to do your part when God moves and the revelations begin to hit your part of the world. We don’t want to miss out on the opportunity for someone to get saved. We don’t want to have to go to God and try to explain why we missed the opportunity to help someone get to Christ. Now, remember there’s the natural man, the carnal man, and the Spiritual man. Our goal as born again believers is become Spiritual men. Again, this is not gender specific so this is not leaving out the ladies. We’re talking about man-kind. And we’ve got to know who we are ministering to and how to minister to them. You are going to have to know by the Holy Spirit how to tailor make your ministry for that person. We’ve just got to be ready. Let’s look at 1st Corinthians 2:14. “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. We need to pray before we try to witness. You see, you can talk to someone until you are blue in the face and they will not hear you. They can’t. It takes the Holy Ghost; it takes the Spirit of God to be able to open their understanding just to get them to the place of salvation. If you go out and try to win people to the Lord without first going to God and getting the Holy Spirit involved in the situation, most of the time it will be a big waste of time. The best way to witness is to find out who the Holy Ghost wants you to witness to. It’ll be those He’s been working on. Before a person can get saved, there has to be a seed planted. And then it has to be watered many times. There has to be someone who plants the need for Jesus. Then there has to be someone who keeps speaking the word. Sometimes you might have to back off, don’t push them. God will surround them. If you’ll get involved, get the Holy Spirit involved and when the seed has been planted and properly watered, then it can be harvested. Amen? We’re to work with God. We seem to think we’re supposed to work for Him. You are not supposed to work for Him. You are supposed to work with Him. Don’t leave Him out of anything. Work in conjunction, in communion with God. That’s the only way a natural man is going to come to an understanding, because he can’t do this on his own. The things of God are spiritually discerned. Study the word; spend time with God so you’ll be ready to be used by God when He needs you. Doc
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