The Word of God is essential to every believer. Bill Johnson walks us through the Parable of the Seed and the Sower to further explain our role in cultivating good soil for His promises to thrive in our lives. Let’s come together to see every promise fulfilled that He would be revealed for who He is.
happy father’s day
come on happy father’s day
yes indeed
while the offering bags are being passed
i’m gonna read an oldie but a goodie
anybody ready for an oldie but a goodie
a lawyer and an elderly gentleman are
sitting next to each other on a long
flight
the lawyers thinking he is so much more
intelligent that he could get one over
on this
older man quite easily so the lawyer
asked if the man would like to play a
fun game
the senior’s tired he just wants to take
a nap so he politely declines
tries to go to sleep but the lawyer
persists
he says the game’s a lot of fun i ask
you a question
if you don’t know the answer you pay me
only five dollars
then you ask me one if i don’t know the
answer i pay you 500 dollars
this catches the senior’s attention and
to keep the lawyer quiet he agrees to
play the game
the lawyer asked the first question
what’s the distance from the earth to
the moon the older gentleman doesn’t say
a word
reaches into his pocket pulls out a five
dollar bill hands it to the lawyer
now it’s the senior’s turn he asked the
lawyer
what goes up a hill with three legs and
comes down with four
the lawyer uses his laptop to search all
references he can find
he sends emails to his smart friends to
no avail
after an hour of searching he finally
gives up he wakes up the senior
hands him 500 the senior puts the 500
in his pocket goes right back to sleep
the lawyer’s going nuts not knowing the
answer he wakes up the senior and he
asks well so
what goes up a hill with three legs and
comes down with four
the senior reaches into his pocket and
his lawyer five dollars
[Applause]
and goes right back to sleep
i think i’ve met this guy he’s a hundred
she’s young
it’s awesome i want all the dads in the
room to stand up
if you would yep
thank you thank you guys stay standing
thank you i really believe the anointing
of the lord is on
fathers to help to recalibrate what a
father
is that a father is not one who abuses
who robs who steals but instead
gives and imparts life sets a standard
for sacrificial love
so i pray and declare that over every
one of you i want you to extend your
hand towards one of these
lay your hand on them and here’s what i
want you to do i want you to pray it
in every way you can think of but i want
you to pray for prosperity of soul
because if they get prosperous on the
inside it’ll affect
everything around them including you so
pray for it lift your voices on no quiet
prayers
pray for right now just pray prosperity
of soul
great bounty great increase increase
increase
prosperity of soul prosperity of soul
ask the lord to restore anything that’s
been stolen from them
that this would be the season of
restoration
thank you lord yeah we pray this
abundance
this blessing this increase and every
father and that the role of fatherhood
would be even more profound in its
effect
on culture for this day we ask this for
the honor of the name jesus
everybody said amen just declare over
them we bless you in the name of the
lord
we bless you in the name of the lord
beautiful wow wow
all right let’s have every single mom
stand
with children at home single mom if you
weren’t hearing the last service
sing a mom with children still at home
all right
beautiful all right
stay standing though stay standing
all the single moms not trying to
embarrass you but just stay standing
uh you can pray for them if you want but
i’d rather you give them cash
so bethel family you know what to do
let’s take care of these single moms
let’s go out of our way just a blessing
just
open the wallets walk up to them hand
them cash stay standing though
it’s the only way you’ll be recognized
yep
we’ve got them standing around the room
yep there they are up here
back over there yep
just just give until they’re
uncomfortable
just just give till they’re embarrassed
or something you know
yeah for those who are watching online
sorry we can’t do this for you
but i pray someone does someone does
yeah bless them good bless them good
yeah excellent
go out of your way just prophesy
increase in blessing over their life now
we declare that over you in jesus name
that this would be a season of rich
fulfillment he would make up for
everything that’s been lost
that he’d be the great restorer for you
in this season
amen amen thank you bethel family you
did good as always
good
eric and ken to send their love by the
way they are on vacation
and uh benny and i were on vacation the
last two weeks it was so good we’re
going to take some more coming up
it was we did what people call a
staycation
where you just stay at home oh jesus
i didn’t have to drive anywhere i didn’t
have to fly anywhere
it was heaven on earth it was
it was everything i like about life
at my house swim in a pool that nobody
else swims in
you know what i mean that that that
murky water
none of that at my house no sir this is
we had we had honestly a wonderful
wonderful time we’re gonna do it again
in a couple of weeks so
i want to talk to you today about the
the parable of the seed and the sower
i’ve not talked about it in several
years
that i recall i’m going to take a little
different angle today anyway
um in the gospel of mark
jesus says if you don’t understand this
parable
how will you understand any parable
he’s identifying something that this
parable
is actually key to unlocking all the
others
in this parable is the illustration of
the nature
and the purpose for the word of god
i value the voice of god just more than
anything in life
but my value for the voice of god has to
be represented
in my value for scripture
if i value the voice above scripture
then i’m very open to deception the
voice will never contradict the word
in a day when it’s so easy to have the
bible imprint in various translations
there’s no excuse for biblical
illiteracy
so we give ourselves to the study of
scripture but it is a voice
that brings causes things to come alive
the scripture excuse me the word of god
is the seed the heart
is the soil tender soil
receives a word deeply
and the life of god then brings about
the change
that god intended in thessalonians
paul uses this phrase he says that the
word of god
actually carries in it the the greek
word
actually represents the energy of god
that that the word of god
has the energy of god in it so when god
speaks to you it comes in seed form
to produce in us through the energy of
god functioning in us
bringing about the fruitfulness that he
intended
so the the heart is
the soil the seed is the word of god
jesus gives us an illustration now a
parable if you will
in mark four it’s also in matthew 13.
and this parable is to help us to
understand the process
and purpose for the word of god being
deposited in our life
i want you to look at two passages
before we go to mark four
so if you would open your bibles with me
to hebrews chapter five
and then we’re also going to read out of
james chapter one
i need to set the stage here for a few
minutes so just
be patient with me as we uh try to lay
the groundwork for this
by the way i found a quote this week
that i love so much
it’s from martin luther he says we need
to hear the gospel every day
because we forget it every day
we need to hear the gospel every day
because we forget it every day
and hearing the gospel is what
recalibrates the compass of the heart so
to speak
as to where is true north why we’re
alive
what we’re on the earth to do what is
important in god’s
eyes what is to become important in ours
and all of that stuff becomes defined
in hearing the simplicity the purity the
power of the gospel every day
hebrews chapter 5
verse 12. how many of you have your
bibles
let me see them say this with me i love
my bible oh i do i love my bible
all right verse 12
for though by this time you ought to be
teachers
you need someone to teach you again the
first principles of the oracles of god
and you have come to need milk and not
solid food
for everyone who partakes only of milk
is unskilled
in the word of righteousness for his
obey all right this tells us two things
the word of god comes to us in several
forms or
the word carries several different roles
or assignments
one is the milk of the word the milk of
the word is that which comforts
and encourages the meat
of the word he identifies here as the
word of righteousness
the meat of the word is that which
provokes and brings about change
it’s the transformational word of god it
provokes us
to recognize what god is saying needs to
happen
and it brings us into a place where we
yield to that which god has purpose
so there’s the milk that which comforts
that which
gives encouragement and then there’s the
meat that which confronts
exhorts and provokes us to change but
the third
area that is going to be especially
important for this morning
is the area of promise there are over
7 700 promises of god in the scriptures
in the word of god and what happens
is the lord with his word deposits
promise
in us to describe our hope-filled future
what is possible for us should we
embrace what god has said over our life
and we’re gonna we’re gonna go over that
process in a moment here
so we’ve got the word of god comes uh it
may come in dozens of forms but
there’s three that i understand clearly
one is the comfort of the words the milk
it’s that which soothes gives peace
gives comfort
encourages me the word of righteousness
that which exposes
what’s in me that needs to change and it
gives me the motivation if you will
to pursue the transformation that is the
result of the word of god
and third is that which gives hope it’s
a promise
for a hope-filled future all right three
things
now i want you to look at james chapter
1.
we’ve got one verse to read here and
then we’re going to end up in mark 4 and
read that parable
all right
james chapter 1 verse 21 therefore lay
aside all filthiness and overflow of
wickedness
and receive with meekness the implanted
word
which is able to save your soul
receive with meekness the implanted word
okay so it’s a wonderful picture that
james is giving us here
um new american standard puts it this
way in humility now that’s
that’s uh condition of heart in humility
receive the word implanted which
is able to save your soul the ability
is in the word of god
the life is in the word not the soil
the soil creates the condition the
atmosphere
but the energy of god is in what he said
the energy of god takes root in a person
to illustrate who god is it’s always to
reveal him
so he says in humility so that’s heart
condition
receive the word implanted and here’s
the phrase which is
able to save your souls you say well
bill i was already saved i’ve saved 20
years ago at a camp meeting
that’s awesome you were saved
but you’re also being saved and someday
you’re going to be
saved there’s those three realities all
through scripture
i was saved the moment i received christ
but paul
exhorts his the disciples of jesus he
exhorts them
to work out their salvation daily
with fear and trembling trembling daily
work out your salvation
so that’s that’s the right now process
so there was
yesterday when i received christ there
is today
and then there’s the future when jesus
returns or i die
and i go to meet the lord then i will be
saved salvation will be complete for me
past present future this word
in humility receive the word implanted
which is able to save your souls
is present tense it is the
transformation that takes place in a
person’s life
because of our yes to whatever god
says it’s our ability our willingness
our desire
to hear and to receive what god says and
his very
life and power come into the heart of a
person to bring about the transformation
they could not bring about for
themselves all right
yes bill now oh you know what i didn’t
do in hebrews 5
is i didn’t read verse 14.
are you guys still alive i need you to
hang hang in a few more minutes
and then we’ll get to mark uh four and
hopefully this all makes sense
in chapter five of hebrews verse 14 says
solid food belongs to those who are of
full age
that is those who by reason of use have
their senses
exercised to discern both good and evil
that’s a favorite verse for me for a lot
of reasons one it’s just because it’s so
strange
it’s so is it so violates
western culture it’d be a lot easier in
an eastern culture to adapt to this
particular word
he says he basically says this
your maturity as a believer
is going to be measured by your ability
to train your own senses to recognize
the difference between good and evil
your senses sight hearing smell
taste touch senses
look at it this way everything about you
was perfectly designed to recognize
and fellowship with god everything about
you every sense
every uh personality trait everything in
you that god put in you
was designed so that you can recognize
him
and commune in fellowship with him
i remember standing down here years ago
um just during worship and a young lady
came
you know it’s always crowded down here
so
it’s always crowded down here we now
have barriers
we did have a guy running through here
with a sword once
a wooden sword half face painted half
blue he was doing braveheart
that week he ran through so we now have
protection
a gal started just just a real
cute nice young lady standing right here
in front of benny and me and
she started doing some strange things
but we’re used to strange things so it
didn’t
i didn’t but what i noticed was the
temperature around me
probably dropped 10 degrees and i
thought well that’s weird
so i walked over here and it was warm i
walked back there it’s freezing
and i went okay i remember a specific
encounter that my brother had had
where something like that happened and
so i had uh
summer uh our head dancer at the time
it’s a summer i need you to get upstage
and dance i need you to break some
she raced across the platform and as
soon as she did it was
like it was like this young lady was on
puppet strings
and as soon as summer began to dance
across the front somebody cut the string
she collapsed into a ball
benny leaned forward just let her
through deliverance because there was
there was a demonic thing going on she
was being
heavily heavily tormented to the enemy
senses trained
now i’d like to say the heat outside is
the devil
but but i i’m not allowed to say that
i’m not allowed to say that so i’ll i’ll
let you do without what you want all
right let’s get back
let’s get back to this i want you to go
now to mark chapter 4.
i have
for those who are watching online it’s
hot in redding
and we haven’t gotten to the hot part
yet so we’re we’re praying in tongues
all of us right now
constantly praying jesus have mercy on
our souls
how many of you love the heat
what’s the matter with you
actually i admire you bless your hearts
okay
mark chapter four
verse three listen behold a sower went
out to
sow it happened as he sowed some seed
fell by the wayside
birds of the air came devoured it some
fell on stony ground
where it didn’t have much earth
immediately it sprang up because it had
no depth of earth
when the sun was up it was scorched
because it had no root it withered away
some seed fell among thorns thorns grew
up and choked
it yielded no crop other seed fell on
good ground
yielded a crop that sprang up increased
and produced some 30 fold some 60 some
hundred fold
verse 11. to you it has been given
to know the mystery of the kingdom of
god say this with me
to me it has been given
to know the mystery of the kingdom of
god
say it together to me it has been given
to know the mystery of the kingdom of
god
he has already given us a key
to perceive unseen realities
all right verse 13. and he said to them
do you
understand do you not understand this
parable how then will you understand
all the parables the implication is this
is key to the rest
the sower sows the word and these who
uh and these are the ones by the wayside
where the word is sown
when they hear satan comes immediately
and takes away the word
that was sown in their hearts likewise
are the ones sown on stony ground
who when they hear the word immediately
receive it with gladness
and they have no root in themselves and
so endure only for a time
afterward when tribulation or
persecution arises for the word’s sake
immediately they stumble now these are
the ones sown among
thorns they are the ones who hear the
word of god
and the cares of this world and the
deceitfulness of riches
and the desire for other things entering
in
choke the word and it becomes unfruitful
and then he goes on to talk about
the seed that’s planted in good soil i
want just real briefly
the seed throne on the wayside it should
be an obvious picture
it’s on trampled ground it’s very hard
surface
it doesn’t receive seed that seed sits
there on the surface
and it’s easy for the birds of the air
to come and steal that seed
when there’s hardness of heart you may
hear all the right things
but if there’s not a breaking in a sense
of the soil of our own hearts to receive
that which is god is saying
then that seed is planted in such a way
that it’s very easy for the enemy to
come and take
to take take away the second one is the
rocky soil
rocky soil should be fairly easy to
understand
it’s the places in the heart of a person
rocks it’s uh regret
it’s resentment it’s bitterness it’s all
the issues of heart
that just never get dealt with season
after season
and those things actually become the
very parts of our
life and personality that reject and
resist
the word that tickled our ears that made
us encouraged to hear when we first
heard it
and yet because there was no depth in us
to receive what god was saying
it couldn’t be any fruitfulness but the
one i want to talk to you about
is the thorny one
verse 18. these are the ones sown among
thorns
they are the ones who hear the word and
the cares of this world
the deceitfulness of riches and the
desires for other things
enter in and choke the word listen to me
carefully
you and i with our thoughts
our attitudes
our appetites have the capacity
to put a stranglehold on the promise
that god has given he talks here about
giving ourselves
for weeds to grow anybody anybody a
gardener in here
i’m not my wife is although we just are
in the process of
doing a wonderful garden and i’m
cheering
i’m cheering her on go penny
go and as soon as my hot peppers
are in full bloom i will help her
harvest
that’s that’s my responsibility
and we have a little orchard of about 30
trees and i’m going to pick the apples
too
that’s my gardening part
that’s my part go benny give me an apple
fill it in
why do weeds grow bigger faster stronger
than the plant you want to grow it’s a
weird thing
it happened because of the fall
here he says weeds
grow and choke the word of the lord the
promise of your life
can actually be choked strangled
by the deceitfulness of riches the cares
of this world
and the desire for other things let me
break down those three things for you
the cares of this world that word for
cares
actually comes from two word number one
is divided
and number two is mind divided mind
cares of this world
is the divided mind
a lot of people experience not you it’s
them other folks
a lot of people experience anxiety
confusion and stress because their mind
is divided
too many options jesus and
all these other options years ago i
remember
hearing a story read a story actually in
a book
about this uh this gentleman was a it
was a great athlete
and uh loved competition loved sports of
all kinds and
he ended up in a horrible accident lost
in arm
and uh and he spent considerable time
after that
trying to find some kind of a sport that
he could be involved in
with only one arm and he ended up for
some reason picking up the sport called
handball
anybody ever played handball man that’s
painful it’s
give me a racket i’d rather hit the ball
with a racquet it’s this hard little
ball almost as hard as a golf ball that
you hit off your hand
that has a thin layer of leather over
each hand you hit it off the wall
as in racquetball and it’s a very
intense and competitive sport
so he picked up this particular sport
called hannibal
and he became so good over time he
became the club champion
and then his club entered him in the
state championship
and he competed on a statewide level and
he ended up taking
first place in his state for handball
following his championship match a
newspaper writer
wanted to interview him so he
interviewed him and one of his questions
he says how is it that a man with only
one hand
can defeat all your opponents
that play with two hands and he said oh
it’s easy
he said options and the newspaper guy
said what do you mean options
he said when the ball comes off the wall
my opponent
has to decide what hand to use
only had one option the decision had
been made
too many christians have too many
options
and we invite confusion when you invite
confusion
you actually create the atmosphere for
anxiety
worry all of those things it doesn’t
mean we would never face it otherwise
it’s just we always have the upper hand
when we only have one option
when our only option is i am hungry for
the will of god
i don’t care what it tastes like in the
moment it’s what i’m hungry for
it’s what i want jesus said my food is
to do the will of him who sent me
and i the will of god
sometimes is very sour or bitter to the
taste
but it’s always pleasant to the stomach
the will of man is always sweet to the
taste
but it turns sour in the stomach
and there’s something about the will of
god that nourishes and strengthens so
here we have
this issue of the cares of life so think
about it this week
every moment that you and i spend in
worry
and anxiety we are actually feeding
the beast that strangles the promise
over our destiny
every moment that i spend in worry and
anxiety i’m actually
fueling i’m feeding the beast that is
working to put a stranglehold
over my destiny over the promises over
my life
the devil cannot read our thoughts
anybody say amen to that
he cannot read your thoughts but he can
read the thoughts he suggests
and i think he can sometimes tell when
one of his suggestions called fiery
darts
has made it past the shield of faith
because it affects our countenance
and whenever that has happened there is
a an agreement
and the enemy is always empowered by our
agreement
agreeing with the enemy
empowers him to kill steel destroy i
don’t want to over exaggerate the
devil’s role
but i do want to make us alert in the
assignment because i believe
so much i’ve talked about this subject
from different angles a lot in the last
year
i feel like we’re coming into a season
of unusual
unusual breakthrough but it requires the
fulfillment of promise
how many of you have a whole bunch of
promises of your life that are not yet
fulfilled
amen
all right so here we have the cares of
this world the divided
mind the second one is the deceitfulness
of riches
notice it doesn’t say riches
it doesn’t say riches it says there’s a
deceitfulness
that can come be included with
riches now riches let’s just take his
money resource
uh income uh what you own your
possessions
but it also riches can be can overlap
into areas of
position title uh accomplishments
it’s the abundance that we have in life
there’s a deceitfulness that comes with
riches
it it makes it it cause rich
it’s easy for rich people to think they
have power
that you and me know there’s an illusion
of power and personal significance that
increases with greater possessions and
more money
and neither are true
eight minutes you’re kidding how did i
do this
i’m stealing five from the next service
i’m just gonna do it i’m just gonna you
can you can do it between the third and
fourth all right
riches neither riches nor poverty
create heart they reveal hurt
neither riches nor poverty create heart
they reveal heart
people ask the question how much is too
much money
it depends it’s whatever amount
so whatever amount causes you to not
trust anymore
see for one person 10 000 in the bank
they no longer trust god because they
only trust him
because they’re in constant need and
constant prayer or constant dependency
but as soon as they get a little pad in
their income
then suddenly it replaces trust how much
is too much
it’s whatever amount replaces trust for
another person
it literally could be 100 million
dollars
because their life is designed around
the trust component true spirituality
is the relationship of trust it’s not
what i own or don’t own
so much of wealth is used to create
image what is image
is the soulish attempt to create
identity
it’s the soulless attempt to create
identity
it’s it’s the it’s the counterfeit role
of creating identity in the life of a
believer
my identity is not in what i own it’s
not in my
title it’s not in how god uses me
none of those things i
i am a son
that was adopted by the most gracious
father
in existence my identity is
in the one who called me to himself
that’s it entirely
everything else is bonus everything else
is extra
and the deceitfulness of riches is it
creates
a sense of entitlement and a sense of
identity that is deceiving
what i’m hoping for is that
you and i would grow profoundly
in the area of trust to where he can
entrust
to us greater resource to actually have
impact on the course of world history
that’s what i want to see happen but he
won’t kill me
to do it he he he won’t give me more
than my heart can handle
deceitfulness of riches the last phrase
here
says deceitfulness of riches and the
desires for other things
it’s interesting the original language
here this
this actually means in all the rest it’s
like whatever’s left he didn’t even
bother creating a list
because the list isn’t important that
what’s important
is that is that in this person there is
an
appetite for things outside of that
which god would provide
here’s here’s one of my main goals for
today
is that everybody in this room could
come to a place where we would say
i only want what comes from his hand
i will not pursue anything in life that
is not
his heart his plan his idea for me
i i had a there was a season in in our
life
where i could take you through my house
and i could show you
you know this couch and this table and
this and
everything seemed to represent a season
and it’s that way again today but it’s
it’s uh it’s a different uh time in our
life
but i remember back um when benny and i
were first married probably married a
year or two
i was uh wanting to buy a hunting rifle
and if you’re
against hunting pretend it’s a camera
i’m going to shoot
i’m going to shoot photographs of
wildlife
and then for some strange reason eat the
photograph but anyway we’ll just leave
so i had saved up i had saved up money
and
i was going to buy i was going to buy a
hunting rifle
and uh we had some bills come up and i
mean i’d even say birthday money and all
this you know
how you do and we were we just yeah we
we just needed help so
i saved enough to buy a nice little
hunting rifle and
and these bills came up and i thought
yeah i mean who wants to be responsible
when you can have fun
that’s kind of like my my approach is
why be responsible when you can have fun
but jesus got the best of me and i i
just sucked it up and
paid the bills and and tried to be happy
in the fact that we no longer had those
debts
i don’t know if it was that week it was
two weeks later but it’s right in that
immediate period of time one sunday
night here at bethlehem goodness 1974
probably uh one of the older guys in the
church he was a
wonderful wonderful man he had become a
real good friend of ours
after after the service came up to me or
during this before the service
he came up to me says bill you need a
rifle
[Laughter]
yes yes
thus saith the lord yes
and uh and he said come to my house
after after church tonight so i went by
his house and
he brought out this pre-64
winchester oh yeah pistol grip
30 30 peep sight it was just it’s a
classic old gun
and he gave it to me
and that gun
means a lot more than
a gun because it actually came from the
father’s hand
through one of his special chosen ones
and it was very interesting some years
later i was in weaverville somebody
got into our house we were gone for a
few days and they stole i had three or
four guns there and
they stole them and that gun was with
the others but they didn’t take it
and it was it was i mean it was
literally they were all together in one
bunch
and it was like the lord
just said no you’re not touching that
one that is a prophetic
emblem this is a monument to prophesies
we had fellowship here we had agreement
here we had covenant here and this is
where i met with my son and
see what i want for my life is i want
that i want the will of god because it’s
so much more fun
when you stay in your lane so many
of you would be more than happy if you
had your
present condition and you were put in
some broken and impoverished part of the
world
because you would be doing so well as
compared to everybody else
let’s be honest but because of your
relatives that have more
or your neighbor or the person you work
with
the issue of comparison is the problem
here
the desire for other things it’s put
anything else on the list you want
it’s pursuing things outside of the
dominion of god
is if i could just have this position if
i could just have this marriage if i
could just have
this title if i could just have this
education if i could drive this car i
know i would be happy
amen if i could just have this or have
that if i could buy that house
and what happens is the appetite
for other things to satisfy we we pray
for it
because we want it to be in god’s will
but the appetite has pulled us
out of our lane and the appetite itself
fuels the beast that chokes the promise
of god over our life
that sometimes actually has the very
fulfillment of the thing we ate for
but because the appetite has taken us
out of our lane
does that make sense to anybody the
appetite pulls us out of our assignment
out of our lane out of the sense of
god’s timing then
suddenly the very hunger that i have
that could be fulfilled by the hand of
god
is now the very thing that works to
choke the promise of god over my life
years ago i had uh a a friend of ours
in waverville i’ve i’ve shared the story
i feel like i think i shared it recently
um he had a
a friend his wife’s
i’ve been on vacation my mouth is not
yet ready to talk
let’s let’s just be honest i’m still in
vacation mode and i just all i want to
do is talk about
sure is hot out there
you know anything beyond that’s just
challenging to me at the moment
so just just give me a break
my friend received a phone call from his
friend’s wife
who one day called and said hey if i
could schedule it
would you take my husband fishing they
love to fish
and so without her husband knowing it
she scheduled for him
to have several days off with his boss
everything
and send him to weaverville and he’d
spend several days with our friend tom
and tom would take him fishing for
several days
and but the guy didn’t know it the wife
scheduled talked to the boss
packed the gear packed his clothes went
and picked him up at work
and said you’re going to have to see tom
in weaverville and you’re going fishing
for the next several days
he said wait i’m supposed to go to work
nope you’ve got tomorrow off what about
the
you’ve got next day off she arranged
everything
so every every what if
was answered now
how much more fun is it to go up there
her sponsoring the trip than him
demanding his right as a husband
to be able to go fishing which is more
fun
which is more fun you having that
promotion
at work from god’s hand or because
you’re manipulated and whined
and complained until you go the point is
is the desire for other things actually
chokes
the actual destiny of god over our life
it has to do with appetite it has to do
with stewardship
it has to do with the divided mind these
are the areas
that monitored well keep us in our lane
so that by the end of our life we can
say with solomon
and everything that came into his heart
came to pass that’s what i want to see
i’ve been praying that over my own life
this week god everything that you have
promised i want to see come to pass
not just for for my sake i want
as as clearly as i know how to say this
i want to see
every word he has promised fulfilled
that he would be revealed for who he is
that he would be revealed i pray that
over you i pray that the lord would help
us
as stewards of the word i hear so many
people say it i don’t know why i’ve got
all these promises over my life and they
just don’t come to pass
not you it’s them other folks it’s when
i travel
i’ll be honest that’s when i travel
those are the people
the problem is never on his end of the
equate equation
and it’s not a time for guilt and shame
but it is a time to be able to say
god my appetite is for your dominion to
be fully realized over me
i hunger for your will i’ll make any
adjustment necessary
because i want to see you exalted and
revealed for who you are in the earth
so i pray that over us as a church
family right now
and i want to just ask i know somebody’s
already come to christ earlier
but if there’s anybody in the room that
would say i need to get my life
right with god and i don’t want to leave
until it’s done if that’s you put a hand
up real quick
because i want to make sure that we take
a moment
right over here wonderful wonderful
anybody else
anybody else if i miss it wave it at me
all right let’s go ahead and stand i
want to ask
i want to ask ministry team come quickly
to the front
this gentleman right here that put your
hand up if you’d come right down over
here we’ve got a team of people
and any others that would like to join
come down they will talk with you pray
with you
and and just help you in this beginning
of your life with christ church why
don’t you bless this gentleman
and others that will come forward right
now