good morning my friends this is pastor
stephen brooks coming to you on
wednesday morning our morning glory
midweek bible study i'm so happy that
you're here today
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the gospel through praise the lord now
today i want to talk about what it takes
for prophecies to come to pass
what it takes for prophecies to come to
pass and i'm not just talking about a
prophet ministering to you
which is good or even getting a word
from the lord
from your devotional time i i want to
focus more today on what you need to do
to bring it to pass in your life now let
me start off by saying this
faith
is not believing that god will do
something
faith is doing what god says you must do
in order for him to do something
i want to say it again let it go into
your spirit
faith
is not believing that god will do
something
faith is doing what god says you must do
in order for him to do something woo
praise the lord now
it's very important that you do what you
are supposed to do not just believing
not just being in faith but you also
have to do
what you are supposed to do and as you
obey and walk these things out that's
when god's power is released
i over the years have seen
those who've stayed
i would call it maybe stuck in a certain
mode of believing and believing
and they see the next step
but there's there is that element of
faith where you sense
you sense risk uh maybe that's why
sometimes people they don't want to move
forward so they just stay in that church
mode of believing and believing but when
you are
really walking this out with the lord
there will be
uh eventually it oftentimes it doesn't
take that long but you'll get to a place
where he shows you the next step
that you have to take and that is really
something that is a vital
necessary
requirement that we do that
and that we step into it when we see
what it is now
god's power is certainly
able to fulfill any prophetic word
that's been delivered
but faith is a requirement to see that
our prophecies come to pass faith is a
requirement you're not going to get it
done without walking in the faith that
god has given to you
and without the moving of god's hand
your prophecy also is just not going to
be realized it's going to take god now
we we understand that
and
god's miracle power is going to have to
come on the scene and it will as you
continue to believe him and move forward
in obedience now look at this in luke
chapter 1 verse 45
blessed is she
who believed for there will be a
fulfillment of those things which were
told her from the lord
so when you hear
the word of the lord
and you believe it and take a hold of it
my friends you're hitting towards
fulfillment
of what god's prophetic word has spoken
into your life praise god we also see
the same
principle applied in isaiah 53
chapter 53 verse 1. who has believed our
report
see it's more than just getting the
report and rejoicing over it you have to
believe the report
who has believed i report and to whom
has the arm of the lord been revealed
now the arm of the lord is the power of
god moving in your life so first you
have to believe it
and when you believe it you release
faith you exercise faith
that's when the power of god will begin
to move and will begin to help you go
forward until
that word that prophecy is completely
fulfilled in your life praise god but my
friends you you can't just hear the
report
and then not respond
you know somebody can hear the gospel
and you can share the gospel with them
and they can say you know what
i really believe that what you're saying
is the truth
good are you ready to repent from your
sins and give your life to god no i
don't really want to do that well
they're still left out of the blessing
and unless they release their faith and
choose to receive christ they're lost in
their sins so my friends faith can't
just be
uh
passive or stuck in neutral you have to
use your faith to receive what god has
for you take hold of the promise of god
and believe it and that's when the hand
of god
the arm of god will be stretched forth
in your life stop and think for a moment
about the 12 spies
in the book of numbers how they went
into
the canaan land and they spied out the
land and they saw the valley of eshkol
and these beautiful grape clusters one
cluster of grapes so big
and so
abundant that two men had to carry it on
a pole so everything about the land that
flows with milk and honey was true uh
actually it was it was even better than
what they had heard the rumors of they
saw it with their own eyes but out of
the twelve
only two actually believed that god
could do what he said he would do and so
when the twelve went back to the camp
and they reported to everybody what they
had seen they said oh yes it's all true
all the good stuff is there but 10
said it's impossible for us to go in and
actually take it because there there are
just too many circumstances that we
cannot overcome
and the other two they were completely
different they said no we can go and
caleb said not only can we do it let's
go up right now let's not have a debate
let's not have a committee vote let's go
do this right now but it says that the
tin
gave a bad report i like what the king
james version calls it calls it an evil
report
and that report
of unbelief and doubt and pessimism uh
basically what is identified in
scripture as a grasshopper way of
thinking a grasshopper mentality
it caused
doubt and unbelief to go through the
whole camp and then you had a whole
bunch of people
doubting and pouting and crying and
bemoaning their situation
and my friends uh these are things we
have to be aware of and be very very
careful about this because god
god knows that you're going to have your
challenges but beware of these negative
circumstances that they don't
freeze you from moving forward from what
you know the next step is so
it's more than just hearing the word and
rejoicing over the word and even
believing the word you must obey you
must go up and possess and when you know
that you get to that next step
yes
yes
you may think in your heart it is true i
have never gone this way before that's
what they were feeling they were like
we've never i mean we've been in bondage
for
hundreds of years and now now we're free
although we're out in the out in the
desert uh you know we're still now we've
crossed the river and now we're moving
into the land so to speak but
this is all new for them this is a whole
new generation that hasn't known what it
is to conquer to taste uh victory and to
win
uh things by exercising and using your
faith so
can we say it's a little bit scary it
can be but god's with you as you go
through it and you can you can sense
those circumstances you can you can see
the giants like they did
but my friends you've got to go you
cannot just uh say well i i do believe
it well if we believe that now we must
go we must take the next step and that
is where some
uh they will not go into that and if you
if if you find yourself doing that
you'll get stuck and you'll realize the
prophecy is not getting fulfilled so
it's more than just believing believing
it's also believing and being obedient
to go forward when it's time to go
forward and god's with you praise god
amen praise the lord
now
last year with the
covet lockdown
we had our best year ever in ministry
in over 22 years of ministry we've we
had the best financial year we've ever
had and this year
we have been stretching forth even into
new outreaches of the ministry going
further because we are believing to win
1 million
souls to the lord jesus christ so my
friends we're all in we're all in so we
must use our faith
even if there's circumstances and we've
seen that we've seen covet and then
we've seen other variants of coven the
delta variant
and
you know i've been told that there's
really not enough uh letters in the
alphabet to list all the other variants
that are already starting to float
around in various nations of the world
you know you have the d variant of the
delta variant but they say there's
there's an e and an f and and so forth
so we'll we'll always have challenges
and i'm not saying
that the covet's going to get worse i
want to see this thing die
as
many of us in the body of christ
corporately we curse this dirty filthy
covet and send it back to hell where it
came from and that we can get past this
and move on
into what god has for us which is being
busy about the kingdom but even my
friends with circumstances you can't say
well this causes me to shut down no
you can go forward and you can even
increase even in the most unusual
circumstances when you have faith in god
and also when you take those obedient
steps to continue to move forward in
faith praise the lord thank you jesus
hallelujah now
faith is not just believing god
again faith is obeying
god whoo praise the lord
hallelujah these are things that we're
learning to exercise and walk in
faith is obeying god to prove
that we believe him
see you could say well i have faith i
have faith but when
we obey we actually prove that we really
do believe him it's not just lip service
it has actions put with it
believing can never
be used solely as a substitute
uh
for doing you're eventually going to
have to do the part of doing and i i
know what that's like um
i wouldn't be hard on anybody when you
actually step up to the place
where you and you know god's in it but
it's now time to do it and perhaps
you've never done it before you're like
wow
lord
this is what i've heard about others do
it uh how they do it when they have
faith yes and you'll come into new
things and and eventually because you
step into it you'll acclimate and let me
say this so often
with the lord as as he's taken you from
faith to faith glory to glory and
strength the strength
so often if with with god's help if you
just get your foot in the door
you'll never go back again you'll you're
through you just get your foot in there
and then the next thing your legs in
there and then you're all the way in and
the next thing you're doing it and
before you know it you've been doing it
for six months
for a year or a couple of years and then
you're ready what you're ready to keep
going forward into the next phase
that god has for you but i see you
breaking into new territory i see the
lord being glorified through
not just your believing but also your
old vein and that's proof that's proof
that you really do believe praise the
lord
in order for your prophecies to come to
pass
you must believe the word of god and
obey by moving forward and completing
the next step in the process and
sometimes you bump up to a big step in
the process maybe it requires a
signature and you know what's going
through your mind you're thinking wow if
i sign this i'm in this this is real yep
it sure is and that's where your faith
can bring you to it can bring you into
amazing things that god will do for your
life when you believe when you believe
hallelujah so of course also this is why
you pray everything out
before just pursuing something you don't
want to pursue anything that's not on
god's trajectory or agenda for your life
look look if it's not on your menu
you've got enough to do without getting
sidetracked doing something god never
spoke to you to do and this is very very
important but we've covered that type of
a subject before but now we're talking
about when you're actually walking it
out and when you're actually doing it
now like i've said many times before
when you really do live the life of
faith
it's not like you're always maybe
on the edge or something like that
because god's god's always with you
but it certainly it certainly uh
does help you to understand that you you
have enough excitement walking with the
lord you don't have to go out and uh
look for something exciting like those
who don't know the lord so they're out
there doing maybe uh things where
they're risking their life and some kind
of uh uh you know wild sport you know
like jumping off the top of a building
and pulling the parachute just before
they hit the ground or something like
that well you can forget all of that
when you know when you start walking
with the lord
faith is a very very
exciting
walk praise the lord glory to god all
right
think just for a moment about abraham i
want us to look at this i was meditating
on this
last night
this is genesis chapter 22. you know the
story but think again about the reality
where it's actually time for him to walk
it out and what must have been going
through
his mind
see uh
your
biblical faith the faith that comes from
god is in your heart it's not in your
head it's not something that's
intellectual it's something that's
spiritual so god's faith is in your
heart but while that faith is working in
your heart
your head
can just be getting when i'm talking
about your head i'm talking about your
your mind can just be uh getting
bombarded by the enemy or by the
circumstances that are saying it's not
going to work it's not going to
and usually it'll say it won't work for
you and it'll let others off the hook
who've already done it because they've
proved that god is faithful but when you
actually start to do it the
circumstances will scream and shout it
won't work for you it won't work for you
but here is what i have found that
is so true and uh prophet kenneth hagin
said this many years ago he said that he
found that faith will work in your heart
even if there's doubt in your head
because your your head your intellect
can uh you know our our mind or what we
would call the soul shrimp of man is not
yet fully redeemed now one day it will
be and that's going to be a wonderful
moment when we have our full redemption
in our minds which is our
our soul or our mind will and emotion
now our spirit has been completely
reborn again regenerated
and our spirit is always ready to go
with god
but our minds they can they can uh
that's where the enemy hits us it's like
a it's a battle it's a it's a thought
life battle
and so
you what i'm trying to say is that when
you're when you're walking it out you
can sense all that stuff hitting you
hitting you're trying to hit your mind
but my friends that's what the shield of
faith is for just keep the shield up and
keep on going and you can keep on going
and that faith will work in your heart
even if that stuff's flying around up
there trying to trying to bug you or
bother you and here's something
fascinating i want i want to share
there is a point
when
when
the enemy realizes you're not quitting
and you're not stopping and you're
you're going all the way there's a point
he just gives up
and uh i can always identify where that
is at because it's different sometimes
but if you keep pushing even when all
that stuff is hitting you there will
come a point you just you walk through
it and he's just like i've lost
he or she's won this one and he'll let
you go on because he has to because he
can't do anything about it
and that is the power of the holy spirit
to work with you and just to keep you
going
and stay the course until you break
through praise god amen
verse 1 now it came the past after these
things that god tested abraham and said
to him abraham and he said here i am
then he said take now your son your only
son isaac whom you love and go to the
land of moriah and offer him there is a
burnt offering on one of the mountains
of which i shall tell you so abraham
rose early in the morning i mean
see he believed the word
he's not he's not trying to like lie to
himself and say well maybe i had too
much pizza i don't know if that was god
that really spoke to me or not to uh go
out and you know offer my son as a
sacrifice maybe maybe i had a bad dream
no no he knew that was the voice of god
he he knows and look so do you you know
the true leading of the holy spirit you
know what's real and you know what's
also out there in the soulish realm
so
look how he not only believes but the
next morning boom he's on it he's
already up he's already like it's god
just count it down because i'm going to
do it he's getting the firewood together
he gets a couple of his servants to go
with him he gets his son come on isaac
we're going on a trip
that's going to be an unforgettable trip
now look when we get to heaven
we're all going to want to sit down and
hear isaac's version uh from his
perspective uh like how did this
actually go down i mean did your dad say
hey lay down i'm gonna tie you up i
brought you up here because really
you're the you're the sacrifice um
or did his dad sneak up behind him and
uh tie him up real quick and you know
that way he wouldn't have to struggle or
you know
you know so only only abraham and isaac
knew in the sense of what it was really
like and we'll be able to talk about
that one day in heaven but my friends
don't you know that
that stuff was trying to go through
abraham's mind you've lost your mind
you've gone crazy you know this you're
going to kill your son you know what
will happen when you go back what's your
wife going to say where's he at
you know so the enemy tries to hit you
with all of that but obedience
you you can never find another
substitute for obedience you have to do
what the lord said to do and i think
it's fascinating because
uh we see here that uh in verse six
abraham took the wood of the burnt
offering and laid it on isaac his son
and he took the fire in his hand and the
knife and the two of them
went together but isaac spoke to abraham
his father said my father and he said
here i am my son then he said look for
the fire and the wood but where is the
lamb for a burnt offering and abraham
said my son god will provide for himself
the lamb for a burnt offering so the two
of them went together
now let's go directly to
verse 10 and abraham stretched out his
hand and took the knight to slay his son
but the angel of the lord called him
from heaven and said abraham abraham so
he said here i am and he said do not lay
your hand on the lad or do anything to
him
i believe that abraham took that knife
and was bringing it back you know you
get a little momentum it's like a golf
swing you kind of bring it back and then
you you have that little catch then you
release all of that well same thing here
he just had that knife up brought it
back and that's right at that moment
right when he was about to release all
that energy and bring it down that is
when
the heavenly voice spoke to him and
basically said don't do it this has been
a test
my friends
you have to obey you have to hear the
word and walk that out in obedience and
thank god we don't have to do anything
like this this was a
warm-up uh perhaps as we could call it a
what theologians call a type or a shadow
that became in the new testament
a substance
a reality when god the father
allowed his son to lay his life down
as a willing
sinless
sacrifice
to redeem lost mankind
back to god
and this time the father didn't stop it
from going through he didn't pull back
and say hey this is just a test no
no his son
died on the cross
and my friends it's a very very
beautiful thing but obedience is a
requirement praise the lord
so prophetic scriptures they speak to
our life
while a prophet speaks to a moment in
our life you're always going to need the
prophetic word be coming into you on a
regular basis you're going to need your
rhema word your daily bread because
there are things that you'll check off
on your on your prophetic list and
you'll move on and you're going to need
another word that keeps sustaining you
and give you the strength that you need
and the direction that you need
so the prophetic word that you need is
coming from god and how he's going to
bring it to you it could be through his
word could be through a prophet it could
it could be through someone who's
prophetic who's picked up on it and they
share that with you
and i've had that happen many times you
don't always have to have a prophet
share something with you
any
any believer potentially who's filled
with the spirit
can get over into the area of prophecy
the gift of prophecy which in its
simplest form
is for three things edification
exhortation and comfort that's something
that any believer can move into and
sometimes you can pick things up for
people and you can share that with
others and it brings a building up a
strengthening it it edifies them and it
comforts them it encourages them to keep
on going praise the lord now let's go a
little bit further today we're talking
about what it takes to bring your
prophecies the past it takes believing
but it takes obedience you're going to
have to be obedient praise the lord
now along with faith in obedience
there is this other area
that is a requirement
i would say that this one is
more overlooked i think most of us as
you begin to walk with the lord you
realize yes you have to be in faith you
need to be obedient but this other one
can escape us
and it can hold us back let's dig into
it
this one is something that i would
identify as a kingdom mystery
the reason i say a kingdom mystery is
because
on the surface it may not seem to be
that that important but when you start
to look at it
you realize how powerful it is and it
very quickly would begin to make sense
that oh you now i see that if that were
not there
uh it would be probably pretty much
impossible for the prophecy to come to
pass and this is what i want to talk
about now
i want to talk about dedication
genuine
dedication to god
and the interest of his kingdom is a
divine mystery behind the miracle
fulfillment prophecy so many of our
prophecies and the things that god has
spoken we're never going to be able to
do it in our own ability our own
ingenuity or our own strength it will
take the hand of god to move and we see
that that hand moves with believing
faith that is obedient
but we're also going to have to really
be aware of this area of dedication
again genuine dedication to god and the
interest of his kingdom
is a divine mystery behind the miracle
fulfillment of prophecy i want you to
see something very interesting
very similar to your life in
psalm 92
and psalm 92
let's go to verse 12.
the righteous shall flourish like a palm
tree he shall grow like a cedar
in lebanon
verse 13 those who are planted
in the house of the lord shall flourish
in the courts of our god they shall
still bear fruit in old age they shall
be fresh and flourishing
i want to talk just for a moment about
the kokoa tree
and this tree of course
grows a lot in south america and it's
where we get chocolate from but really
it's a fruit that grows on the tree
and when it's cut open and split open
there are these beans on the inside of
it and they're they're eventually dried
out and so forth and then they are
certain things are done with them
and it goes through a process from which
chocolate is made praise god
but the cocoa tree can live to be 100
years old
and i
i think the lord would be thrilled for
so many of you to
go forward with long life because you
can do more for the lord and you can
enjoy life and then when you're finally
done let's say you cross a hundred then
you can be uh
uh
in a place where you've completed
everything just like the cocoa tree and
you can call it a wrap but the cocoa
tree
it takes it a while for it to reach
maturity but when it reaches maturity
it can produce
these
amazing beans
from where we get our chocolate for 50
years sometimes 60 years non-stop just
non-stop 60 years of producing producing
producing producing producing producing
what's going on here
they shall they shall bear fruit in old
age
they shall bear fruit they shall be
fresh and flourishing this is this is uh
in a sense
the consistent fulfillment of prophecy
and you're getting you're getting them
fulfilled over and over and over again
but so often like trees particularly
particularly the cocoa tree
it has a very long tap root that goes
very deep
into the ground and if you ever
move a cocoa tree you're probably going
to kill it
and
it it just shocks it it's very hard for
it to ever recover and if you uproot it
and it's not
planted it's not going to produce
my friends you have to be dedicated to
the lord yeah
and the secret is in the consistency
it's not like well pastor stephen i was
on fire for god and it lasted for about
14 days
then after that
i just got caught back up in life again
and not really into god very much like i
used to see that is a lack of dedication
and if you're not dedicated if your tap
root is not in
you're not going to be producing
the the potential fruit that god has
made available for you to push out
and you can keep doing this until you're
you're old
i mean that tree can live to be a
hundred
you can live to be a hundred too you
could have
60 plus years of just non-stop
production prophecies being fulfilled
but if you ever
if you ever get out of the soil if you
ever get out of dedication
it's finished
it's finished the tree can't produce my
friends neither can you and i we have
got the state rooted we have got to stay
dedicated to the lord in the midst of a
western culture
where the walk with the lord is
considered to be something that
almost like a go church punch a time
card good that's all god requires
pay your tithe good and you're good to
go live your life however you want
but
god requires
dedication
he requires that you give him your very
best in your walk with him in your
pursuit of him in your reverence of him
your respect for him oh praise the lord
this is very important more important
than we've ever really understood praise
god so i want to say be dedicated
and stay dedicated and you're going to
see
prophecies come to pass and look when
this level of dedication is there
this is not like you're struggling to
get these prophecies fulfilled oh god oh
god do it oh god have you forgotten no
god hasn't forgotten but when you're
dialed in you know god's working on it
you even know the sequential steps that
he's helping you to accomplish and walk
out and before you know it you're there
there's another one accomplished to the
glory of god another prophecy brought to
pass by the power of god but you must be
dedicated praise the lord one time
i was ministering my wife and i we were
in calgary alberta canada very very
beautiful place one of the cleanest
cities in in the world
and
we were ministering at a particular
church and
and when i was ministering the holy
spirit began to move in a very unusual
way very very strong
the
gentleman that was playing the keyboard
was playing some beautiful worship music
it was pretty much
just the keyboard everybody else was
listening because the glory and
everybody else just kind of
like real alert because the glory of the
lord was there
and suddenly
on top of the keyboard the whole
keyboard
was instantly covered with ashes and i'm
not talking about dust maybe you'll well
pastor steven maybe that was dust no you
could scoop it off you could slide it
off you you could uh you could pick it
up and look at it it was ashes it was
burnt it was something burnt up
now whenever you see ashes or or smell
ashes in the spirit that is a
representation that your sins are
forgiven and they are forgotten and in
the eyes of god they are gone and if
they're gone in the eyes of god they're
gone completely praise the lord
well when the keyboard player saw all of
these ashes
all over the top of the keyboard and he
and he knew what that meant he he knew
it meant he's forgiven
well he felt he fell out
um he somehow and this is what's so
amazing about the holy spirit he somehow
fell backwards
but it was not like real dramatic or
like a distracting thing where maybe he
could have hurt himself he just kind of
fell back and kind of sloped and fell
down somehow and just almost like he
just melted
like chocolate
and the next thing you know he's on the
floor
well he stayed on the floor
maybe for 30 minutes
and
i kept ministering to other people and
things like that but eventually
the service begins to close
and then eventually the service is over
and
he was still
trying to pull himself together so that
he could you know
you know go home drive get in the car
and drive home and so forth but i wanted
to talk to him
before he left and uh i stopped him and
he and i sat down for a moment and the
pastor was there too
uh because we wanted to find out what
was going on what really happened and
in other words i said
what was going on with you while you
were laying on the floor and what's the
takeaway from this experience see it's
it's not about falling out or jumping or
screaming or shouting it's about
did god change
something in you so that you can move
forward
in a way that honors the lord uh
so
that's fine if you fall that's fine if
you scream uh scream or shout or holler
or roll on the floor
but the most important thing is is that
when you get up
has god done a work that's real that
will produce
the results that god is looking for so i
said what's the takeaway
from your experience of having uh you
know fallen out
what's your take away from this
oh he said it's quite simple
he said the words just came to me so
clearly
i can do better
i can do better
and he just knew
i have not been devoted to the lord the
way i should be
i'm enjoying my christian life and oh
i'm going to heaven and i know
everything's kind of like you know how
can i say good between me and god it's
not like he's out doing something awful
or bad
but in the area of commitment
and dedication he could do so much more
he could bear so much fruit
and you know when you get to heaven it's
not like you get a second goal at this
well now that i know there's rewards now
that i know there's eternal glory let me
go back oh god and do it again well you
can't it it's it's all said and done and
the way that you live your life here
determines
how
your eternity will be in
in in the work of the lord and things
going forward uh here's a mistaken
thought a lot of evangelical christians
and i i'm evangelical uh they like to
say that when christ comes back and
reigns for a thousand years we'll reign
with him not necessarily
only select people will be allowed to
rule and reign
with the lord during his 1000 year
millennial reign well pastor stephen i
want to reign over a nation well you've
only got so many nations
even if you have 200 what is that just
you've only got 200 people one per one
one person per nation so you can see
that if you have billions and billions
of christians
throughout the collective uh history of
the church it's not like you can plug
everybody in and have them all rule over
a nation there's not enough nations to
go around
so how you live your life now
determines your setting for all eternity
and a lot of that a big chunk of that
has to do with your dedication
to the lord and i thought his words
his take away from his experience
were very very beautiful
i can do
better
him taking personal responsibility
for his life and his outcome and
realizing there's room for improvement
and my friends i think we can have those
times with the lord when we realize
just like the cocoa tree
lord i think i'm limiting myself i think
i'm not utilizing my time to the best of
my ability and lord i feel like i i can
do more for your kingdom
my friends now is when we make those
adjustments and when you're all in
and you're really pushing
to the best of your ability
to be involved in your walk with the
lord and to move forward
god's kingdom and what's on his heart
within the kingdom
then
the fulfillment of prophecies
it's never a struggle
it's never a struggle you're going to be
producing fruit
well into your latter years praise god
those who are planted see the deep
taproot
the deep devotion those who are planted
in the house of the lord shall flourish
in the courts of our god they shall
still bear fruit in old age they shall
be fresh and
flourishing praise god
so stay dedicated
and the fruit
that god intends for you to produce
will be
that of a high quality
and also of a high
volume praise the lord
glory to god thank you jesus now
we know
i want to share one more verse we know
that jesus
he stayed dedicated
and because he stayed dedicated
to the calling to the assignment
because of that purpose
every single
prophecy
that pertained to his earthly ministry
was fulfilled
and even when he went to the cross he
had a few more a few more prophecies
that had to be fulfilled but all said
and done he got every single thing
accomplished every prophecy was checked
off
everything was done why his deep
dedication to god we see one example of
that
in the gospel of john
chapter 4
and in verse
31. in the meantime his disciples urged
him saying
rabbi
eat
but he said to them i have food to eat
of which you do not know
therefore the disciples said to one
another has anyone brought him anything
to eat jesus said to them
my food is to do the will of him who
sent me and to finish
his
work
do you see the dedication
now that doesn't mean that he didn't
have time for recreation
uh husbands that doesn't mean that you
don't have time to take your wife out to
a nice dinner and uh spend time and uh
you know vice versa wives to uh honor
your your husband and to treat your
husband nice and do those nice things
that makes him happy but my friends our
our dedication to the lord is the thing
that we anchor our lives and build our
lives around
hallelujah
we do live in a culture where we have so
many options of so many things that
would try to pull our dedication away
that is very easy to drift
before you realize it the next thing you
know you're quite a ways away from where
you uh
had previously been but keep your
dedication strong to the lord
and you're gonna see you're gonna see
prophecies start just they're gonna
start to happen they're gonna start to
happen start to happen and this this
does demand
very very
strong dedication praise the lord but my
friends the the fruit coming out of this
it's just um it's incredible so this is
what it takes
strong dedication
and believing
and obeying what god told you to do
praise the lord sounded like my siri
just heard me on my phone he said i
couldn't hear what you said so i'll say
it again for
everybody when we put these things
together of obedience
from what it is that we believe what we
know we're supposed to do
and also
when we
fully
dedicate ourselves
um
god sees to it
that even the most
difficult prophecies
the ones that you're believing that
perhaps others heard about that they
scoffed
and laughed and said that will never
happen for that person
those are the ones that god's going to
do because it will greatly glorify him
it's going to move you forward and his
plan
for your life praise the lord
glory glory to god now as i'm sharing
this i sense in my heart
that there are some of you
that you're saying the same thing as
that gentleman that
was laying on the floor that previously
sat on the keyboard was playing the
keyboard
he said i can do better
and that is something that's stirring in
you and you realize that instead of
pushing at a hundred percent maybe
you've only been at 30 your your
dedication to the lord maybe has only
been at 70.
but it's time
it's time to give god your very very
best and that's that's only something
that that you and god know
it's just like food
you know what your favorite food is and
if i were to serve it to you
you can't act like you're not happy you
know you're happy i could see it in your
hand i can see the way you're getting
that fork ready
that's the food you like
and so in this area of dedication
it's not like well you don't really know
no you know you know what you like and
you know what your level is at and
that's something that only you and god
can clearly identify so identify that
with the lord and if you realize god i
haven't been giving you my best make
that adjustment today and get ready to
see prophecies fulfilled swiftly praise
god
heavenly father i pray for those that
are watching right now that their
prophecies be fulfilled
and that they realize that they're going
to be in a much happier place
of joy and contentment by being fully
dedicated
thank you father we give you praise in
jesus name
amen
praise the lord now i'm also sensing
that there are some that previously were
very dedicated and perhaps you were hurt
or something uh went a wrong direction
and i'm not talking about with the lord
of course i'm talking about perhaps
maybe serving in the house of god or
being involved in in the work of the
lord and
maybe something left a bad taste in your
mouth because it wasn't done the right
way and it caused you to pull back well
uh you may not be able to get re-plugged
back in into that init that
that previous thing the way that you
were but you need to find some way that
you are plugged in into
uh your dedication to god praise the
lord it could be something that is
hands-on like what i'm talking about
right now it could be dedication in the
area of supporting the work of the lord
financially it could be dedication in
the area
of not being
ashamed to tell people about christ you
have to be dedicated to the lord
so the holy spirit he's
he's doing but all you can do right now
he's scanning hearts
and he's helping us to
step up and give
god who is fully deserving our very very
best praise the lord now if you're
watching today's program and you've
never made christ your lord and savior
salvation
is available right now
if you want to receive forgiveness of
your sins and receive eternal life
then pray this prayer
after me
say lord jesus
i'm a sinner
but you died to save sinners just like
me
jesus
i repent of my sins
and i give my life to you
jesus come into my heart
wash all of my sins away
write my name in your book of life and i
take you as my lord and savior now
jesus thank you for saving me in your
name i pray
amen
and amen those of you that have prayed
that for the first time welcome to the
family of god praise the lord now before
we go today let's all take holy
communion together
if you're a christian
you belong to jesus
and uh
even if this is not your online church
home you can still take communion with
us we are believers together
and we can proclaim the lord's death
until he comes because it's through his
death
that we now have
victory and complete forgiveness of sins
praise the lord
praise the lord glory to god
glory to god hallelujah all right so
let's grab some unleavened bread and
grape juice i use these little
portable communion cups
and
let's pray over it heavenly father we
thank you for the bread and the juice
we bless it
we set it apart as being holy through
this prayer and we thank you that this
is the body
and the blood of jesus and father as we
receive
the body the flesh of jesus
we just thank you father god for
sold out dedication
and whatever capacity that we could
dedicate our lives to you we do it fully
so that we're quick to respond and we're
quick to believe
just like mary was when the messenger
angel gabriel brought the good news
we believe
and we obey also just like abraham
we give you praise oh god so father we
thank you for the body of jesus
we receive it now in his name we pray
amen let's protect together
pastor stephen what happens when i
become fully dedicated
i'll tell you this right now
your dedication
will end your frustration
see dedication ends frustration
when you're dedicated to the lord you're
on the right track
you're on the what you're on the right
track you're in the good stuff you're in
there with god you're abiding in the
vine
you're producing
continually
continually
praise the lord i'm telling you
dedication
is a kingdom mystery
it's it's overlooked a lot of times
christians think they're dedicated
and god realizes they're they're they're
half committed you must be fully
dedicated for prophecies to be fulfilled
father we thank you for the blood of
jesus
father if there has been
a lack of dedication in a way that would
be
sinful
in your eyes just a a blatant disregard
for
your heart
and for your kingdom purpose
we ask oh god that your blood would flow
and cleanse us from all sin and all
unrighteousness
we turn from all sin
father god we
we choose to give you our very best
thank you
thank you father god
in jesus name
amen
now some of you uh there's a few of you
that uh in this area of obedience
there are some things you've known what
the
uh there are there's something that
you've known what it is you're supposed
to do and you haven't done it because
you're afraid
and we're not gonna put you in the
category with the ten spies
but uh you've been in a place of
unbelief and that has kept prophecies
from being fulfilled
well today rise up in faith and do what
god has already told you to do and then
you're gonna see the lord bless you and
you're gonna be able to move forward so
father we thank you for the blood of
jesus and complete forgiveness of all
sins in his name
amen let's receive
praise the lord
glory
glory
glory
glory to god
hallelujah this is a new day for you
this is a fresh start for you god's
going to work quick in your life he's
going to work quick on your behalf
and you're going to begin to see now
prophecy after prophecy be fulfilled
well pastor stephen what happens when
they're all complete you're going to get
some more
praise the lord you'll get some more
father bless your people in jesus name
amen my friends thanks for watching
today look forward to seeing you back
next time till then stay blessed bye