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when the disciples come to him tired he
does not say
go away from me and get yourself
together
come back and then i can use you
he says
come away
with me
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the day is coming and you don’t know the
day or the hour
neither do i when we’re gonna have to
stand before him and give an account for
how we handled what he had entrusted to
us i’m asking you tonight how are you
handling your assignment
because young women if you think that
you’re young because of your age listen
to me if you’re 20 but you only have
until 30 you’re pretty old
if you’re 50 and you’re gonna live until
100 then you’re pretty young
age is just a number my friend and you
and i cannot qualify young or old base
births based on our birth date
it’s based on our death date and since
we don’t know when that day is
that i implore you sisters by the
mercies of god to walk in a manner
worthy of the calling by which you have
been called
because listen i don’t know about y’all
but when i see him face to face i’m
looking for a well done
i’m looking for well done
when i see him he will not ask me how
many instagram followers i had
he will not wonder whether or not folks
liked my post he will not be interested
in whether or not my selfies were
perfectly lit he will ask me
did i know his son
and then i will give an account
so the disciples they come and they give
an account to jesus i wondered if there
was a recipe for effective ministry
because if these guys were willing to
come and look jesus in his face and give
an account i figured there might be a
recipe for us for effective ministry i’m
interested anybody interested
there are three ingredients to the
recipe
luke chapter nine verse one it says he
called them
he called them
and his calling superseded any personal
ambition that they had
they laid down whatever they were going
to do because they heard the call of god
beckoning them to do something else the
beautiful thing about that entire
picture is that all of the glory of god
the father
all of the glory of heaven was packaged
in human flesh jesus wanted so much god
the father wanted so much to make sure
that he could speak and so that humanity
could hear that he left his throne in
glory
put on flesh so that the disciples could
hear his call and in the same way he has
given us the holy spirit so that each
and every one of us have the privilege
to hear the calling of god on our lives
the conviction the unction the pressing
the fire that is shut up in your bones
sending you in a particular direction
heed the call of god on your lives
then they were not just called i love so
much that before he skips to the third
ingredient in the recipe sending them i
love that before we get to the third one
there’s that second one he did not just
call but then he gave them power and
authority it means that what he was
calling them to do he was simultaneously
equipping them with supernatural power
to be able to pull it off so it’s good
news for anybody in the room that you
feel like you’ve got a dream that is way
over your head you’ve been called to do
something you don’t have the money for
you don’t have the time for you don’t
have the patience for you don’t have the
gifting for you don’t have the talent
for you don’t have the connections for
the good thing and the great thing about
our god is that he does not call people
who are already equipped he calls you
and then for the people that say yes he
equips them with what they need for the
calling
he entrusted them with power and
authority and can i tell you why this is
important this is important because in
order to accompl and accomplish
supernatural tasks
you have to have supernatural capacity
in other words you can be the most
talented person in the world but if you
go in your own strength and power
you still won’t be able to accomplish
the god calling on your life it requires
what it is that only god himself can
give to you to accomplish the task oh
the enemy hopes you will go in your own
power
he hopes you will think you are flashy
enough and savvy enough and talented
enough and impressive enough so that you
will no longer lean on god instead of
leaning to your own understanding
but it is not by power and it is not by
might it is by the spirit of god
and some trust in horses other folks
trust in chariots but not us we trust in
the name of the lord our god
so he called them and then he entrusted
them he gave them some treasure and then
he
sent them
he’s the one who did the sending
resist the urge to send yourself
to do something that it is not yet time
for
because just as important as our calling
is that is equally as important as the
timing is
in which that calling is outworked in
our lives and if you go too soon you
might if you if you give birth too soon
to that which god is trying to produce
through you you might abort
what it is that he’s trying to
accomplish in you
the spiritual backbone the fortification
that he was trying to establish in you
so that you could handle the spotlight
when it hit you because listen that
spotlight that you may be craving if it
hits you and you have no character it
will burn you to a crisp
so he called them
he entrusted them he sent them out and
they returned to him and gave an account
they were tired
the disciples had been given it
everything they had
and i know there are some of you in the
room and you would admit that you
haven’t done it perfectly but man you’ve
sure been purposeful
you’ve been intentional about this
marriage you’ve been given it everything
you’ve got
you’ve been intentional about that
teenager you’ve been giving that kid
everything you’ve got this toddler that
has this specific vent or this specific
issue that you’ve been doing everything
you can going to see every expert that
you can reading everything that you can
to be the best that you can as a mother
single mother you’ve been giving it
everything that you’ve got working the
jobs that you’ve got to work to keep
food on the table you’ve been giving
that business that ministry that
endeavor everything that you have and
you the disciples are
tired
the good news about jesus is that when
the disciples come to him tired he does
not say
go away from me and get yourself
together
come back and then i can use you
he says
come away
with
me
in other words
listen
the cure for your exhaustion
is intimacy with jesus
that’s the cure y’all
i’m saying i agree take the holiday take
the vacation tell them you need a little
sabbatical you got to step back for just
a little bit you need a little margin in
your life take the holiday but don’t
take a holiday from jesus
don’t take the sabbatical from your
relationship with the lord prayer
shouldn’t exit your schedule because
these are your rest days you still need
to be the deer that pants after the
water your soul has still got to be
replenished and can only be replenished
when you have intimacy with him
and you’re trying to figure out lord
you told me that i was gonna be
replenished you told me that i was gonna
refresh you told me that you had
something that you wanted to give to me
why would you take me here to this place
where i’m being pressed down by a
multitude of issues and concerns and
frustrations there’s something
overwhelming me that is bigger than what
i feel like i have the capacity to
handle why would you bring me here this
tells us that the story of the feeding
of the five thousand is not just about
the five thousand
it’s also about the disciples it’s not
just about the multitude getting fed
it’s about the disciples being fed
physically spiritually emotionally and
it tells us that the five loaves and the
two fish are the gift to the multitude
but it’s the multitude
that’s the gift to the disciples
because the multitude
is what’s going to make them
have to finally open up their drawer
pull out the treasure that they would
have otherwise ignored
place it in the hands of a multiplying
master who’s gonna show them what it
looks like when he takes their little
bit and makes it a lot
there is no replenishing
like watching god multiply your loaves
and fish