Participants: Hal Steenson
Series Code: FC
Program Code: FC000396
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00:31 Hello, I'm Pastor Hal Steenson
00:33 and I would like to welcome you 00:34 to Faith Chapel today. We're gonna take a look 00:37 at God's words, so I encourage you to get 00:38 your Bibles and join us as we do look at His word, 00:41 but before we go to God's word let's go 00:43 to God in prayer, okay. 00:45 Father, we thank you for this day 00:46 and the opportunity to break the bread of life 00:49 and to share it with one another. 00:50 Lord I don't ask you to anoint, 00:52 Your word it's already anointed, 00:53 I just ask that you allow me to speak Your word 00:56 and speak it as truth because 00:58 it is truth in Jesus name, amen. 01:03 Moline and I've watched through the years 01:04 as we've pastor for the last 30 years 01:06 we've watched people that have moved into 01:08 what God wants for them, what God has for them, 01:11 while other seems to be the theme song going 01:14 around the mountains, they go around and around 01:16 and He never find their real destiny. 01:18 And the reason why is what I want to share 01:20 with you today is I never found the doorway 01:22 to their destiny, and that doorway to your destiny 01:26 is someone that God puts in yours path 01:28 as you're mentor and you as a student to learn 01:31 form that. If you will go to the Book of Ruth, 01:33 if you can't find Ruth, find judges and hang 01:35 it right and you'll be okay, 01:37 but before we go to that scripture I want to share 01:39 this with you out of Second Timothy 2:2, 01:42 it is used to be on our stationary, 01:44 on our letterhead it says: And the things that 01:46 thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, 01:48 the same commit thou to faithful men, 01:52 who shall be able to teach others also. 01:55 Now, Paul was speaking to Timothy, 01:57 but Paul was speaking to Timothy as his mentor 02:01 and Timothy was his student. 02:03 Now, a mentor is a washed and trusted leader, 02:07 and there are things that you need to recognize 02:10 and know in order to find that doorway 02:12 into your destiny. You connect with 02:15 your mentor in order to connect with your destiny. 02:19 Now, the first thing you want to you know, 02:21 if you found a Book of Ruth yet, 02:22 the first thing you want to know is connecting 02:24 with your mentor initially as ordained by God 02:27 and continually maintained by you, 02:29 ordained by God, maintained by you. 02:31 Ruth 1:1 says: Now it came to pass in the days 02:35 when the judges ruled, that there was a famine 02:37 in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah 02:40 went to sojourn in the land of Moab 02:42 and Moab means, the land of East; 02:45 it came about by an incestual affair between 02:48 Lot and one of his daughters. 02:50 He and his wife, and his two sons went with him, 02:53 and the name of the man was Elimelech, 02:54 now Elimelech means, My God is King. 02:56 When our God is king we only do what He says to do, 02:59 however this wasn't the case. 03:01 In the name of his name of his wife was Naomi, 03:03 Naomi means "Pleasant." in the name of the, 03:06 where his wife was Naomi, and the name 03:08 of his two sons was Mahlon and Chilion, 03:10 I love this. Mahlon means "Sickly," 03:11 Chilion means "Pining." And they were Ephrathites, 03:14 Ephrathites means doubly blessed of 03:16 Bethlehem Judah. The Bethlehem Judah means, 03:19 the house of bread and the house of praise. 03:21 And they came into the country of Moab 03:23 and they continued there. They came into the land 03:26 of East and got at East and stayed there. 03:29 And Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died; 03:31 we calls the wages of the sin or dead. 03:34 And she was left and her two sons 03:35 and they took them wives of the women of Moab; 03:38 the name of the one was Orpah, 03:40 now I'll get this is not Oprah, 03:41 it's Orpah. Orpah means to turned a back 03:44 and you're gonna see that later on in this, 03:46 when Orpah does turned a back you never hear 03:49 of her anymore in the word of God; 03:51 however the other one's name was Ruth. 03:53 Ruth means, the friend of God 03:55 and they dwelled there about ten years. 03:57 And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; 04:01 and the woman was left of her, or the woman 04:03 was left of her two sons and her husband. 04:05 Then she arose with her daughters-in-law 04:07 that she might return from the country of Moab: 04:09 for she had heard in the country of Moab 04:11 how the Lord had visited his people in giving 04:14 them bread. Bread comes from the formal 04:16 in latter rain follow me with this, okay. 04:18 Because we're about to enter into an outpouring 04:21 of the formal in latter rain and a great 04:23 deal of bread, which is word of God is gonna be 04:26 brought forth. Now, the second thing I want you 04:28 to hear is connecting with your destiny means 04:31 being a cleaver not a leaver, a cleaver, 04:35 not a leaver. Wherefore in verse 7, 04:38 it says: Wherefore she went forth out of the 04:39 place where she was, and her two 04:41 daughters-in-law with her; and they went 04:43 on the way to return to the land of Judah. 04:45 And Naomi said unto her two daughter-in-laws, 04:48 both of them two, both of them. 04:50 Go; return each to her mother's house: 04:52 the Lord deal with you kindly, 04:54 as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me. 04:56 She did not encourage them to go, 04:58 she encourage them to stay. 05:00 The Lord grant you that you may find rest, 05:02 each of you in the house of her husband. 05:04 Then she kissed them. Now, I like to say 05:06 she kissed them away or she them off, 05:08 she was gonna go back to Bethlehem Judah 05:11 she told them to stay. And they lifted up their 05:13 voices and they wept, why they weep because 05:15 they were said, they love Naomi. 05:17 And they said unto her, Surely we will return 05:19 with thee unto thy people. Now, get this 05:22 they said both of them said this to her. 05:25 And Naomi said; Turn again my daughters; 05:28 why will you go with me? Are there yet any more 05:30 sons in my womb that they may become your husbands? 05:33 Turn again, my daughters, go your way; 05:34 for I am too old to have a husband. 05:36 If I should say, I have hope, 05:37 if I should have a husband also tonight, 05:39 and should bear also bear sons. 05:42 Now, what they says is, this was Jewish custom 05:45 that if you had a daughter-in-law 05:47 and married to your son and you lost the 05:48 son another son in the family could marry her 05:51 and take her of his wife, 05:52 she had no sons and she would saying 05:54 this is a going to worth. In verse 13 it says: 05:57 Would you tarry for them till they were grown? 06:00 She answer in the form, no. Would you stay 06:03 for them from having husbands? 06:04 The answer is for them no. 06:07 No, she says my daughters; for it grieves me much 06:11 for your sakes that the hand of the Lord 06:12 is gone out against me. 06:15 Now, that is a true statement, but it's not 06:18 a statement of truth. God's handed 06:20 and glad again, same they went to Sojourn 06:22 and wonder in the land of East and left the house 06:24 of bread and house of praise. 06:26 When your destiny is said in order, 06:29 your destiny is ordained by God and 06:31 maintained by you. You don't go where you want 06:34 to go and do what you want to do; 06:35 you only do what God want you to do. 06:38 In verse 14 it says: And they lifted up their voice 06:42 and wept and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, 06:46 but Ruth clave to her. What he is saying? 06:48 Orpah said, so long I'm going back. 06:51 Ruth said, no way I'm going with you. 06:54 And she said, Behold, thy sister-in-law 06:56 is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: 06:59 return thou after thy sister-in-law. 07:01 She still discouraging her from going on 07:04 and Naomi is a mentor to Ruth. 07:07 So, that means that all the time that your 07:09 mentor is not gonna dispatch you on the back 07:11 until you have wonderful things there are have 07:13 great it is and everything, 07:14 they're going to called you to be like 07:17 Elijah and Elisha, they're going to challenge 07:21 you to follow them, no matter what? 07:24 And she said unto her and Ruth said, 07:25 Intreat me not to leave thee. 07:28 You want some powerful scripture I used this, 07:30 I've written my own wedding vows 07:32 and I use this in wedding vows, 07:33 these are powerful statements. 07:35 And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, 07:37 or to return from following after thee. 07:40 This is a vow of that the bread makes. 07:43 And after thee for whither thou goest, 07:45 I will go; and where thou lodgest, 07:46 I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, 07:50 and thy God my God: Where thou diest, 07:53 will I die, and there will I be buried: 07:55 the Lord do so to me, and more also, 07:58 if ought, but death part thee and me. 08:04 Verse 18 says: When she saw that 08:06 she was steadfastly minded to go with her, 08:09 then she left speaking unto her. Listen to this, 08:15 if Ruth had not been connected with Naomi 08:19 she wouldn't never met her Boaz, 08:21 in other words, if she had not follow to her 08:23 mentor she would have missed her destiny totally. 08:27 And I've seen people missed it, 08:29 but I've seen others that held on to their mentor 08:31 followed after them humble themselves 08:34 in the side of God and listen to what the 08:36 Lord was saying? There is a difference between 08:38 faith and destiny. Most people do not realize 08:41 this, faith is what you're dealt like 08:44 you're dealing out cards, faith is what 08:45 you're dealt, destiny is how you play your hands? 08:49 Now, Moline and I originally from Alabama 08:51 and just a short waves from the Qatar Alabama, 08:53 the town called Tuscumbia. 08:55 Tuscumbia is famous for a leady name Helen Keller 08:58 who at the age of 18 months had her sight, 09:02 had her hearing something tragic happen 09:05 and she lost her sight and she lost her hearing. 09:08 In 1880, she graduated the first death 09:12 and dumb blind women to ever graduate 09:15 from college. And she moved into such 09:19 an arena that everybody all over the world 09:22 knew who she was? Now, this is the difference 09:24 between faith and destiny. Faith was what 09:27 Helen Keller was dealt. 09:28 Destiny is how Heller Keller handled 09:31 that faith. So, well you can't sit back and say, 09:34 well I'm death and dumb or I'm not a smartest 09:37 somebody else or I'm not tall, dark and handsome, 09:39 or I'm not beautiful. 09:41 Faith is what you're deal; 09:42 destiny is how you play the hand, 09:43 stay with me here, okay. 09:45 The third thing you need to know about 09:47 defining your destiny is when you connect 09:50 with your mentor to fulfill your destiny 09:53 your loyalty will be tested. 09:57 And if your pastor out there you need to be 09:58 taking notes on this and if you're layman, 10:01 lay person you need to be really listening 10:03 to this because your destiny and your loyalty 10:06 will be tested and will be evaluated. 10:09 You never know how loyal and individual 10:11 is until they've been put to the test. 10:14 Reason, why? It's because today's test 10:17 is tomorrow's testimony. See, I found out you can't 10:21 chose leadership based on someone's gifting 10:23 or someone's anointing, you can be anointed 10:26 and gifted and still be in sin, what? 10:29 Yeah, well let me say, what about Samson? 10:32 He was anointed, but he was in sin, 10:35 and sin will cause this loyalty in your life 10:37 and in your congregation and in your Church. 10:40 This loyalty is not something they just 10:42 suddenly happens, it doesn't just overnight, 10:45 Oh! I d didn't know it was there, 10:46 this loyalty is an attitude to develops in stages, 10:50 if we used to sermon we'll be able to 10:52 uproot seeds and not have to take down 10:55 mighty oaks of disloyalty. 10:59 The next thing I want you to see, 11:02 when you connect with your mentor to fulfill 11:04 your destiny there are several basic stages 11:07 that I'm gonna share with you of loyalty 11:09 on which you'll be evaluated and tested. 11:13 Now, the first test of loyalty is does he 11:16 or she have an independent Spirit, 11:20 does he or she view their service as a stepping 11:23 stone for personal aspiration? 11:26 Now, listen to this scripture, 11:27 read it with me if you can Philippines 3:14, 11:31 it says: I press on toward goal to wind 11:35 the supreme and heavenly prize to which 11:38 God Christ Jesus is calling us upward. 11:42 Does he or she the next thing have serve 11:46 for primarily for recognition 11:48 or they wanting to be recognized 11:50 or they wanting to be noticed 11:51 or they wanting to be big our king me. 11:54 That we had a man in our Church that never ties, 11:58 never gave any offerings, never anything at all, 12:01 he wouldn't put opinion and the anything unto 12:02 one day we need to raise $50,000 a special 12:05 offering I believe it was. We need to raise $50,000 12:08 and so we had an operant, open offering 12:10 in the congregation and I was shocked because 12:13 I said what we wanted to do, 12:14 try to it's just raise and people that like to give 12:16 a thousand dollars and then we'll go on, 12:18 I want everybody have an opportunity to yield. 12:21 And this guy was the first man that stood up 12:22 and raised his hand I said, 12:23 pastor I'd like to give a thousand dollars, 12:25 so why did he do it? 12:26 Because he was recognized, 12:28 he wanted to everybody to see that he had given up 12:31 a thousand dollars. Now, see this loyal 12:33 independence Spirit will do that, 12:35 a loyal and the Spirit is depended upon the Church 12:39 and their family is one that doesn't 12:41 need recognition, it's the one's that's praying 12:44 in their prayer closet. Next thing I ask is, 12:47 are they building a personal portfolio? 12:50 Through the years here at 3ABN 12:52 and also in our ministry and our pastor ministry 12:55 Moline I have seen them come, 12:56 we've seen them go when he's only the ones 12:59 that are committed the once that are submitted 13:02 to God and His word, the one that's part 13:03 of the family they ends up actually finishing 13:07 the goals that God has given for them. 13:09 I have seen people with great, great talent 13:12 and give things totally miss God. 13:16 And here at 3ABN through the years 13:18 of I've seen them come, you've seen some among 13:20 television here and then whatever you don't ever 13:22 see him any more, nobody is ever been 13:24 run off from here, people just realize that 13:26 this was not my own thing ministry, 13:29 it is a God thing ministry. 13:32 The next thing that we tested on his loyalty 13:35 can be tested by one's willingness to change 13:38 his agenda to serve his mentor. 13:42 Now, this is not discipleship, 13:43 is not a matter you're going to Taco Bell 13:47 and calling your mentor and ask him whether 13:49 you should get this sandwich or this taco 13:51 or whatever the case maybe, that's not 13:53 what I'm talking about, is truly being led 13:57 by the Spirit and submitting yourself 13:59 to someone that is a vast in a trusted leader. 14:01 Now, let me give you scripture for this, 14:03 this is awesome, I want you to turn to it, 14:05 it is a Second Timothy the 4th chapter 14:08 13 and 21 verse. "The cloke that I left at Troas 14:13 with Carpus, when thou comest, 14:15 bring with thee, and the books, 14:17 but especially the parchments". 14:19 And verse 21 says: Do thy diligence to come 14:22 before winter. Enbulus greeteth thee, 14:25 and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, 14:28 and all the brethren. Now, what I want you 14:31 to see here is that Paul is saying to them 14:33 or to Timothy to come before winter. 14:36 And now what Paul is saying hey, 14:37 you might have a big conference going on, 14:39 you might have a worships Emposium going on, 14:42 you might have a camp meeting going on, 14:44 but what I would like or you to do Timothy, 14:46 is I'd like to, for you to drop everything 14:48 that you're doing to breeze these things 14:49 to me because they're very precious, 14:51 I need my cloke for my health, 14:53 I need my books for my Holiness 14:57 and I need my parchments that 14:59 I've personally written for my happiness 15:01 and what would happen if, what would happen 15:03 if Timothy said, man I just can't do it, 15:05 I got too much going on you know, 15:07 I've got to go, do some visitation everything 15:09 and then when Timothy got there 15:11 and he walked up to a centurion and said, 15:13 here I've got these things for the Apostle Paul 15:15 and I would like to give him these things 15:18 and the centurions that I'm sorry, 15:22 but he had his head cut off yesterday. 15:24 This is what we're tested. 15:26 We're tested on the acid test is if 15:28 we're willing to do whatever needs to be 15:30 done for us to continue through 15:32 the doorway of our destiny. 15:35 The next thing, the next text is that 15:38 he or she desire personal recognition 15:41 from the people what do they do when 15:43 they're given a microphone 15:45 and it's put in their hands. 15:46 I've seen people when somebody gives, 15:48 somebody microphone put in their hands 15:49 they were in control to that service 15:51 and if you see somebody that does this, 15:52 then that means they're looking for personal 15:55 attention and then they're not out to do 15:56 the will of the Father, but they do their 15:58 own things. Now, let me share something else 16:00 with you too. A mentor is not always necessarily 16:03 nice to you some, many of us remember 16:06 the movie the Karate Kid were, 16:08 the Karate Kid goes to the, 16:09 the older man that's teaching him Karate 16:12 and he said I want to learn Karate 16:13 and the guy said, Oh! You want to learn Karate? 16:15 He said, yes I do. What do I need to do? 16:17 He said, here wax cars, wax this way, 16:20 wax this way. And after you got though waxing 16:24 all the cars he came back and said, 16:26 okay I'm ready I want to learn Karate, 16:28 I want to learn Karate. And he said, 16:29 Oh! Well, learn Karate, here paint faints, 16:31 paint this way, paint this way. 16:34 And the reason why I seen in, 16:36 in the Karate Kid didn't realized it at the time, 16:39 but the reason why was because 16:41 he had a building up and strengthening 16:43 his wrist in order to do this type of Karate. 16:48 So, what appeared to be him doing something 16:50 that was not good for him in actuality was, 16:54 so a lot of times when you run into your 16:55 mentor your mentor will test you with things. 16:59 Now, what I used to do as a pastor 17:00 and this is phenomenal because some of you 17:03 pastors that are listing or a leadership 17:05 this listing try this. What I would do 17:07 and somebody had a potential for leadership 17:09 I had a small book any book I had found 17:11 maybe 48 pages likes some of the, 17:13 the books here that we put out, 17:15 some of the small books 48 pages, 17:16 now it say, here brother and sister, 17:18 would you read this book for me 17:19 and let me know what you thin about it? 17:21 Yeah, sure pastor and then about a week later 17:23 I'd ask him, hey did you get a chance to read 17:26 that book? Oh! I haven't yet, 17:27 but I've got it at home and I've got it laying 17:29 next to, to my bed and, and I'm going to get 17:31 to it before long. And then about two weeks 17:33 later I ask him again, if they hadn't read it 17:35 I never ask him again and I never consider 17:37 for a leadership position because 17:40 if we're not faithful, the leader will not 17:41 faithful in Lord. Do not have somebody 17:43 that I give it to them it was consider 17:44 for leadership. Wow! The next day 17:46 they'd come and say, pastor I read that book 17:48 and this there and this there and everything 17:49 I'm not ever read it, but they were being tested. 17:53 Now, as he or she desire personal recognition 17:56 from the people what do I do when you give them 17:59 our microphone? That is a test. 18:02 What do they do? A person who is not 18:04 focused on God's approval will usually 18:06 strive for man's approval. 18:09 Here this if you don't hearing the things I say, 18:11 a person who is not focused on God's approval 18:14 will usually strive for man's approval. 18:18 I can't really give you a formula for success, 18:21 but I can give you the formula for failure, 18:25 it's this. Try to please everybody 18:29 you can't do it. Well, we need to do is please 18:31 no one else other than our God. 18:35 Samuel lost the Kingdom; 18:38 he lost the kingdom because he clack tried 18:40 to please the people. Fall along with many 18:43 of your Bible with the scripture, 18:44 if you'll turn to it. One Samuel 15:24 it says: 18:48 And Saul said unto Samuel, 18:50 I have sinned: for I have transgressed 18:51 the commandment of the Lord and thy words: 18:55 because I feared the people, and obeyed 18:57 their voice. How sad? The English evangelist 19:02 George Whitefield learned that it was more 19:04 important to please God than to please men, 19:07 knowing that he was doing what was honoring 19:10 the Lord kept him from discouragement 19:12 when he was falsely accused by his enemy, 19:14 does this sound familiar? 19:16 At one point in his ministry with, 19:18 with they received a vicious letter accusing 19:21 him of wrong doing his replay was brief 19:24 and it was courteous. 19:26 He says, I thank you hardly for your letter 19:30 as for what you and my other enemies 19:32 are saying against me I know worst things 19:35 about myself then you will ever be able 19:38 to say about me and he send it with love 19:42 and Christ George Whitefield. 19:45 He didn't try to defend himself, 19:48 he was much more concerned about 19:50 pleasing God. So, when we try to defend God 19:54 we affined God, God doesn't need us 19:56 to defend Him. The next thing is when we seek 20:00 men's approval of God's approval 20:02 and God's illumination we become candidates 20:06 for legalism. This is something that can be 20:09 so damaging especially to our domination. 20:12 I have found more grace in the 20:14 Seventh-day Adventist Church and I ever found 20:15 anywhere else and yet I here from so many 20:17 people they do not knows about the legalism 20:19 that is entrenched in our domination. 20:22 Let's don't add to it, let's don't prove it. 20:25 When Samuel went to anoint the king over 20:28 Israel who was David he found him tending 20:31 the ship, he was faithful in the little 20:34 he killed the loin and he killed bear 20:36 and ended up being king not Saul. 20:40 The test number three, does he or she exalt 20:42 their ideas above his mentor or above 20:44 his leadership there, there maybe be a burden 20:47 for them for only one aspect of the ministry 20:50 while their mentor cares the entire burden 20:52 for that particular ministry. 20:54 I remember back several years ago there was 20:56 a man in our ministry came to me 20:57 and said Oh! Pastor Hal, Pastor Hal, 20:59 Pastor Hal I had a dream that that we should be 21:02 feeding the poor we, we, we should be feeding 21:04 the poor this dream was so, so detail 21:07 and, and I just want you know we need to be 21:09 feeding the poor and I said, great brother, 21:11 give me a plane purpose and projection 21:13 and how you're gonna do it? 21:14 He said, what do you mean how I'm going do it? 21:18 He said, you need to be doing. 21:19 I said, yeah didn't give me the dream, 21:21 God gave you the dream. 21:23 And see this happens all the time, 21:25 God will give us a dream for something 21:27 or give us a heart for something 21:28 and we try to put that dream or that vision 21:30 often somebody else, if God gave it to you 21:33 then what you need to do? 21:34 Is you need to present it to the pastor 21:36 and the leadership of your Church 21:38 and let them say, yes brother or sister 21:41 I believe this is good, why don't you go for 21:43 and put it together and let's see how it works 21:45 instead of expecting them to do it? 21:48 The next thing is does he or she feel 21:50 they're caring the blueprint for the 21:51 entire ministry, the entire house a lot of 21:54 people that are not following their mentors 21:57 and doing their own things in our tested. 22:00 Sometimes they have-to-have 22:01 some attitude adjustments made 22:05 you know, sad part about it is, 22:07 correction may calls him to become bitter, 22:09 disloyalty often begins with plans that have 22:12 rejected which have been taken as a 22:15 personal rejection. I want you to see this 22:18 as I read this I want you to see this statement 22:21 that I've got right here and hope 22:23 that it changes your life. 22:25 When or if your mentor rejects your plans 22:30 or proposals, it does not mean they are 22:34 rejecting you. Let me read that to you again. 22:37 When or if your mentor rejects your plans 22:40 or proposals, it does not mean 22:43 they are rejecting you. 22:46 It is sad to say, but someone that is insecure 22:48 or sometimes cannot separate their self worth 22:52 from their plans hat they have, 22:53 it might not be the time or might not be 22:56 the season. Now, let me give you an example 22:57 of this back several years ago 15 years ago, 23:01 a couple that had pastured in this area 23:04 came to our Church wounded, 23:06 bleeding they had been heard so bad 23:08 and they came in and, and they just, 23:10 I mean every time you try to talk to him, 23:13 and minister to him, they just break down 23:14 in tears and start crying. 23:16 They set into our ministry for year and there was 23:18 with healing the, the all in the warms poured in, 23:21 the Balm of Gilead and, and we ministered 23:23 to them every chance we get all of our 23:25 leadership reached out to them, had them in their, 23:28 in their homes and they began to get stronger. 23:31 And he had heart for ministry, she had a heart 23:33 for ministry, so then he came to us about a year 23:37 or later said, this is what I want to do 23:38 I want to go such and such town in this area 23:40 which is hard town anyway I want to go 23:42 such and such town and I want to start a ministry 23:44 in that town and what I want to do is I don't go, 23:46 get me a crawls that got a roller skate on 23:47 end of it and put it on my shoulder and 23:50 I wanna walk around the entire town and believe 23:52 God for that town wonderful, 23:54 wonderful I think that's great, this town needs 23:57 a truth pure Church. However, we told him 24:01 we don't believe that now it's a time, 24:03 it's not that you can't do it; it's not that 24:05 you're not the man for it, but is the timing 24:09 right on it. And so, many times people come 24:14 to us pastors out there I know what 24:16 I'm talking about, so many times people come 24:17 to a pastor not for their counsel, 24:20 but for their approval and when they don't get 24:23 the approval then they go away doing 24:25 their own thing. And the sad thing 24:27 is this couple left he walked around the town, 24:29 he claimed it for Jesus and I'll still claim it 24:32 for Jesus with you. However, right now that 24:34 first couple is not in the ministry 24:36 or not in the ministry and or not even serving 24:39 the purpose of God from what I understand. 24:42 You see, God only gives one vision to one 24:45 leader and that is the vision of the house 24:47 where there is more than one vision 24:48 there is the vision and that vision God doesn't 24:51 want that that's why for years 3ABN 24:54 has prospered and the reason why it's because 24:56 the Danny Shelton has been given the vision 24:58 for the house. Now, the visions in the head 25:00 which is Jesus Christ, but Danny is continually 25:03 catch that vision all the programs that he does, 25:06 he talks about the original dreams that God 25:08 gave him that would reached the world 25:11 with The Three Angles Message undiluted 25:13 message, one that would counter at the 25:14 counterfeit, he cast that vision. 25:16 So, what we must do is we must catch the vision 25:20 of the house and the vision of the leader. 25:23 Now, the last test is that a person with this 25:25 loyal or rebellious Spirit develops a critical 25:28 attitude toward their leadership and toward 25:30 their mentor it always happens, 25:32 I move from the front road the middle of the 25:33 Church to the back road and finally 25:34 they're gone, went to the Church here 25:36 exemplifies integrity and respect in the face 25:40 of opposition during his last year in office 25:42 he attended an official ceremony several rows 25:46 behind him two gentlemen beyond whispering 25:49 that's Winston Church Hill, they say 25:51 he's getting see now, they say he should step 25:53 aside and leave the running of the nation 25:55 to more dynamic and capable man, 25:58 when the ceremony was over Church healed turn 26:01 to the man and said, gentlemen they also say 26:05 he's going death, but he wasn't. 26:08 See, there is a leader and one with integrity. 26:10 This is the next thing I want to ask you, 26:12 does he or she refuse to submit themselves to God? 26:15 Does he or she develop murmurings 26:17 and contentious words? Critical Spirits, 26:21 love define flaws and leadership it's like the, 26:25 the Miriam saying to, to Moses, 26:27 does God only speak to you, 26:29 He speaks to me too. But God speaks to the 26:33 head of the ministry that has the vision, 26:36 the visions in the head it's not in the trunk 26:39 and we must submit ourselves once again 26:41 not to just anybody or everything, 26:43 but our vast and a trusted leader. 26:46 People that don't will develop 26:47 and Absalom Spirit, God told Moses I love this, 26:52 nobody can touched the mountain just you have 26:54 Joshua touched the mountain. He went up into 26:57 the mountain reason, why? Was because Jewish 27:00 was one Spirit with him which produced 27:03 one God ordained ministry; 27:04 one Spirit will allow you to fit with all the 27:07 other parts. Moline and I've had to saying 27:10 and our ministry for years that which 27:12 I'm a part of, is more important than that 27:14 part which I apply? That which I'm a part of, 27:17 is more important than that part which I apply? 27:20 So, if you're in the Local Church, 27:21 if you're in the Local Ministry find your mentor, 27:23 give yourself to that man or woman that 27:25 they might teach you and show you the 27:27 good things, the Godly things that you might 27:29 move to the doorway that God has for you. 27:33 In order to fulfill your destiny and not be go 27:37 around and around the mountain 27:38 over-and-over again. My prayer is that God will 27:41 speak to your heart, if anything is not right 27:43 there that God will speak to your heart 27:45 and allow you to turn your heart toward him 27:48 and say, God show me, mode me, 27:50 make me into what You want me to be. |
Revised 2014-12-17