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What Does Jesus Need to do to Breakthrough to You?

In the Word of God, we say we understand, but we still do what we do. When people look at you, what do they see? Do they see the real you or a mirror image of what’s in you or on you? A lot of times spirits see spirits. If people look at you and see a spirit on you, they aren’t looking at you but the spirit that is controlling you. When you look in the mirror what do you see? Not what you’re wearing. What do you see when you look at you? Think about Michael Jackson’s song, Man in the Mirror. “I’m looking at the man in mirror. I’m asking him to change his ways.” He took a good clear look at himself. Have you ever taken a good clear look at yourself? What we usually see is what we’ve done in the past or what we’re going through. Maybe what people say about us. We tend to take that upon ourselves that they say “I’m this or that,” and you look in the mirror and say “is that who I really am?” After that we begin to do a self evaluation of our worth, tearing down the real us and say that couldn’t be me.

Snow white. The wicked queen sent her troops out to find the mirror. Mirror, mirror on the wall who’s the most beautiful woman of them all? You aren’t the most. There is one more beautiful. Snow White. The wicked queen sent someone out to kill her niece, but Snow White survived. The wicked queen in actuality was the ugliest one of all.

When we look in the mirror it will show us who we are. It can’t show your inside but will only reflect the outside. We stand before a mirror so we can be presentable before others because we’re concerned about what others think about how we look. During the 1970s and 1980s there was an opening of hearts and minds of people, dressing how they want, looking how they want. When I was growing up you had to look neat and dress properly. They didn’t believe in sagging, we only knew that was something that came from prison, because you only sagged to let another man know you were a woman. Why are young men sagging now? Its a style now to let other people see your underwear. Men need the companionship and intimacy of a woman, and when you lock and cage them up, they begin to revert to being dogs, mating with anything they can mate with. He tends to change the weakest man in there and converts him to be a woman in his eyes. He expects that man to be a woman to him, not to anyone else, just to him. If you can’t defend yourself against a bunch of men, they will try to kill you to convert you. Once you have become docile as a man, if you know anything about male dogs/wolves, they will turn their hind section to a dominate male, letting them know that they’re submissive. This happens in prison. You are no longer who you are. If young men out here are sagging, if you walk like a duck, talk like a duck, what are you? A duck. If you do what the world does, if your lifestyle is like the world then how are the people in the world going to perceive you?

But pastor I only do a little bit of it. What is that saying? Pastor I drink a little alcohol, but that doesn’t make me an alcoholic. I only go to the bar because they have good pretzels and chips. If you go into the bar drink a little beer and another saint comes by and sees you coming out the bar, what will they say? Nothing to you. The Bible says don’t let your good be evil spoken of. If you are not a crackhead, why do you have a spoon in your hand with a lighter?

What does Jesus need to do to break through to you, because its you who is doing what you are doing. If you look like the world, act like the world, talk like the world…the what are you? Of the world. We have to be excited about mimicking after Jesus not this world. Does this world have a heaven for you, or a place you can go not to worry about pain and anguish? The Bible says, mark yourself after the perfect One. Mark yourself after your Lord and Savior. A lot of the modern day people have people they like in sports, but when they begin to become idols then there is a problem.

All of a sudden you start living you life according to the broken bits and pieces of how others and you feel. Sometimes you’ll do things without ever really noticing, living your life according to what someone said about you or talked about you. When you live your life according to the world’s word, and not according to the Word of God, then you take on the responsibilities of the world. The Word becomes 2nd place in your life. The Bible tells us that by their fruits they will know them. What does a Christian really look like? Are you a Christian? Are you living the life of a Child of the most High God? The Bible says there is no name under heaven given where by men must, no probably, must be saved, except the name of Jesus Christ because He’s the One who died for our sins. How long halt you between 2 opinions? Either you’ll be a Child of God or child of the world.

What does God need to do to breakthrough to you? What does He need to do? What does He need to do to get you to do what you’re suppose to do and live for Him? Does He have to beat you up in every trial and every test, every time you turn around your going through? How many remember the song I Surrender All? “I surrender all, all to thee my blessed saviour.” When we say surrender all we don’t really understand what that means. A lot of times we surrender all or bits or pieces. We’re suppose to say all but we do some of the time. All means everything. All. That means your problems, your finances, your emotional situation, it means all. Because He can fix it all.

Ecclesiastes 7:10-25

Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun. For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it. Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked? In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him. All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness. Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself ? Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time? It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all. Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city. For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee: For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others. All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me. That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out? I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

1 Samuel 16:1 And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.”How long will you mourn Saul?” Is someone caught in the past?

1 Samuel 16:2-3 And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the Lord said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the Lord. And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee what thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name unto thee.

Israel needs a replacement king. Most were thinking it would fall underneath the lineage, staying all in the family of Saul. But the Lord said it would come out of one of Jesse’s sons. When you’re going through something and God is trying to promote you, He will take you from among everyone else. It could be family friends…He will take you out of them because you’re not like…them. So He pulls you out. I’m not saying that they are not believing in God, but He pulls you out because you’re not like them.

1 Samuel 16:4-7 And Samuel did that which the Lord spake, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably? And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the Lord: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice. And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the Lord‘s anointed is before him. But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

When God gets ready to promote you to something, He’ll push them all away from around you. Because its you that He wants, because you are going to take care of the mission. He saw something in you that He didn’t see in them. God will wait for your time to be who you are in Him, and He will push everybody else aside. No matter how much you may fight it. When there is a great call on your life, God is going to direct you.

1 Samuel 16:13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward.

Romans 8:30-39

Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 

Shall your headache, health, problems, circumstances? What shall separate you from His love?

36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

What does Jesus need to do to get through to you? Nothing. He doesn’t have to do anything to break through to you. Who can open the door to a building if you have the key? You need to unlock the door to your heart and let God come in freely. If you can’t unlock the door, He will never get in. So you need to take you out of the equation. Amen.

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The Sower

Matthew 13:1-9

The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them: But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

 

When God gives you the ability to understand who He is and what He’s all about, where do you go from there? Do you take what you’ve learned and go cast it to the wayside? Have you even tried to cast any seeds? Have you even bothered to think about it? The Word of God is very clear. Some of the things you’re going to say are going to fall on good ground, some not on good ground. Some of the words that you start out spreading, everyone is not going to receive or understand. But, you will never know unless you sow the seed. Has that seed been sown in you, has it fallen on good ground in you? Has it even begun to materialize in you? We who are called the people of God, who are looking after our Lord and Savior haven’t begun to witness. Witnessing is not where you go out and go door to door or you go out and you begin to proclaim Christ to every person in the neighborhood…but it is when God gives you the opportunity to present the Word of God to that good seed, to that good soil. A lot of people just want to throw the Word of God out there and throw the cards wherever they lie, but that isn’t what it’s really all about. It’s about sowing the seeds in the correct place, making sure the seed 1st falls upon good ground in you. If the word didn’t fall upon good ground in your heart and mind, then you would be encompassed by the weeds or people who flood your mind with things of the world. You hear it but it isn’t rooted in you and the elements around you, the world type atmosphere around you begins to show you a new way of how to live, and you die. The word is very clear:

 

Matthew 13:7

And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:

 

In other words, you minister and witness to someone and they go back to the same environment where there is no help. Or, the word grows up amongst the mess that is in you, and as it does the mess in you chokes it up and you loose the word and go right back into the world. The understanding is that, when God speaks to our heart, we should say “Lord fill me up, because I know I won’t last and I don’t want the word to leave me, but to stay with me.”

 

Matthew 13:9

Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

 

Let him understand that this word is so true. When you look at the understanding that God is trying to root Himself inside you so that you will not forget you will not fall to the wayside, but grow and produce fruit. In other words, people like you. It is very bad when you say you are a child of God and you haven’t witnessed to anyone during your whole life. The 1st day when you come to salvation, God will open up opportunities for you to speak concerning Him. Not everyone, because the Word of God says everyone will not be saved, but you are not to focus on that, but on the opportunities God gives you to witness to someone. It won’t always come out the way you want to witness to someone.

 

Matthew 13:10-32

10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them. Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower. When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side. But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended. He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful. But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.

 

As we have seen and understood that the word is a seed. Your heart is the soil. If you are more in tune to this world, you will have no connection with God. That is the biggest problem we see today with people. People do not understand that it is not about you, but its about God. It is about what you will do as a Child of God in the world. If the very little things that go on in this life cause you to flinch, doubt, or have second thoughts about whom you serve, then you need to “check yourself, before you wreck yourself.” There is a way that seem right unto a man but the end thereof is the way of death. The way of death is everything that leads to your damnation and not your salvation. If you allow this world to become a part of your life, then Christ will not be in you. You can’t serve two masters, you will either hate the one or love the other, or hate them both. You have to make a choice. If you choose God, you have to let go of all the mess in your life, of all the indecision in your life, all the people in your life, family in your life. People will not understand when you say let people go, because you are connected to this world and not to God. As long as you stay connected to this world, God can not connect to you. The Bible says how long halt you between two opinions? If God be God serve Him. You must let go of this world. If you can’t let go of this world then you will never understand who He is. You can’t live half way in the world, and half way out of it. You can’t do the things in this world and go to Church. That is society today. Most people go to Church, they live in the world, doing worldly things, drinking, smoking, cursing, making their own rules, and justify it calling themselves Children of God. That is not true, you aren’t a child of God, you are a child of this world, posing as a Child of God. You’re a tare amongst the wheat, you’re a goat amongst the sheep. You are who you serve. If you walk like a duck, look like a duck, and act like a duck, what are you? A duck. Everything about you is a duck. If you are in the world, dress like the world, talk like the world, look like the world, acat like the world, then you are in the world. You are not in Christ, you are just in a building, in a Church; an edifice. All you are doing is occupying a seat that could be utilized for someone else who really wants to know who God is. God is not calling you to do what you want to do,He is calling you to do what He wants you to do. As long as you’re flesh is involved with you decision making of your growth and walk in Christ, you will never ever be rooted and rounded in God. The words that you speak will be mingled with the words of your own wisdom and this world, and as you mingle, it causes people to sin, fall, and stray away and never come to the full understanding of who God is and His son who has died for our sins.

As you understand, that when seed is sown in you, let it take root in you. If the seed is going to grow, you’ve got to feed it the right nourishment. As a farmer, you feed it water, nutrients, air and sunshine, and the plant will grow. Same with a saint, if you are a new believer, feed them the word, teach them how to pray, keep their surroundings (soil) clean in nature, keep them away from the world, and teach them how to love, they will grow and be a powerful seed rooted and grounded in Him. How long halt you between two opinions? If you’re going to serve God, serve Him. Serving Him does not mean with your mouth, but with your life, heart and mind. You have to pursue God, the one who has created you, whose given you the ability to be alive today. How long will you live in sin, not even noticing you’re walking in your flesh? Sometimes we think we do things thinking are walking in God, when in actuality we are walking in our flesh. (If you FEEL, then its your will and not Gods.) Sometimes we walk through dry places in God, where we can’t feel the spirit of God, and that is that whole spirit thing where as you are not aware, because you are more concerned about feeling God instead of operating. When you can’t feel, continuously do the will of God. We falter in that state and say “I don’t feel the presence of God, I don’t know where I’m going or where I’m at.” Well, when you don’t feel Him, maybe its just that test to see what you can do without having his presence around. Can you still continuously talk about Me, or live holy, or treat everyone with love? Can you still represent? There are many dry places in your life, and you tend to feel them with the word and with the mindset and concept of your flesh hoping that that will sustain you to the next level until you reach and feel God again. It is not like this. The Word says in Matthew 12:44 “Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.”

 

When you allow yourself to be pulled away, you start doing demonic things. That is because the demons that were in your house, when God came through and wiped them out, say its clean in this place, lets make our home here onece more. He will bring in more demons worse than himself to maintain that territory in you.

 

Matthew 12:45

While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.

 

God came to you and dealt with you. As a seed you started to grow, your house became clean, ready for the Holy Ghost to dwell. Then you go back on what God has shown you, in any aspect of your walk. The seed gets choked out and has no root. That evil spirit that was thrown out comes back to make a mess, and says to maintain that person, it will bring seven demons worse than itself, so it will never hear the word of God again. These are the things we have to be careful of. When the seed, which is the Word of God, is sown in the individual, make sure the seed is rooted, keep it nourished, under prayer, around people who walk in the spirit. You are what you hang around. If you are an alcoholic you will hang around alcoholics. Be around people who are true Children of God. Not people who claim to be children of God with a bottle in one hand and a cigarette in the other. The word of God tells us not to defile our bodies. It is all up to you to live and be holy. The roots of a dandelion, as said before in other sermons, are deep, so very deep, so that no matter what you do to it on the surface, it will still grow back and be robust. As a Child of God, you should be so rooted in Him, that no matter what people say or do, you will still be able to preach, teach, live and converse in totality of a spiritual nature. How long halt you between two opinions? Its easy to talk Christ, but how many people can live it? Can you live for Christ if it concerns your Children? Can you live for Christ if its concerning your parents? Can you live for Christ if it concerns your friends, or job, or neighborhood, bad news, good news? Can you still live for Him, and let your roots sprout out? Can you let yourself be strong and grown in Him, so you can do His will? Do you know what His will is? Search and find out what His will is. Let your roots grown in God, let your surroundings be of a good nature, and around those who are like-minded. Maintain who you are; rooted and grounded in the word of God. He will not withhold any good thing to those who love Him.

Lord I’m Available for You.

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Be Encouraged

This Sabbath, we had a special beloved guest, in the person of Bishop James Hailey to bring forth a Word from God, on how we need to be encouraged in the times we live in.

 

John 14,  John 16, Colossians 2:7

Encourage one another. We can’t get wisdom from each other, we can get knowledge from one another, but wisdom comes from God.

In John 14 and 16, the disciples are preparing for Jesus to be leave. What will it be like when He leaves? How can we apply that to today?

1) What you see is not always what you get
2) We are encouraged by the Word of God

As we grow and move from dimension to dimension in Christ, then we are confronted with things that we have to deal with, and we have to use the Word of God to do so.

So here we have Jesus having an assignment to go back to God. That was His purpose. We too have a purpose. Never will it come to pass that when we come into knowledge of truth, then set things up the way we want to. No. Jesus purpose was to seek and to save those who were lost, so that is His will for all man kind. This is our purpose too, and we can only do it through Him.

Not all the disciples understood what we have to do in serving Him. Just as today we don’t know. But we must be encouraged by the Word of God.

As long as Christ was on earth, He was our comforter. But when He was on his way to go, he said another Comforter was to come. He sends us peace by a Comforter. When we come to trials and tribulation of life, He sends us peace.

Now we come to a conflict with this political world we live in. People say “why do you serve God, yet you lack?” Because Jesus said we would have tribulation in this world. It all comes along with it. It comes with a lot of baggage. That is what we call it until will finally understand His purpose for us; it is no longer baggage.

We have to build on what God’s given purpose for us while living, so that when we die, we can leave. If we do those things that the Word of God tells us to do, then we will stay in peace. But if we keep our minds on things of the world, we will not have peace.

We have to stay in the Word of God, under anointed teachers, saturating our mind and thoughts so we can reason with the help of the Holy Ghost, to rebuke those thoughts contrary to the Word of God.

Let not your hearts be troubled. He knew the lust of the eyes, flesh, and pride of life would come. What we’re going through, what we see through the eyes; He is much more than we see.

We must always remember that when we stay in the Word we will be encouraged. Don’t look with natural eyes, but listen to the Spirit of God that is within.

Whatever were going through, what ever happens. We know when God is speaking to us, let us be encouraged. Things are moving up. We can’t see it, but it’s coming because He said it. We must stay encouraged.

We all have a part of us that wants to make a decision ourselves, but God is saying, no you don’t have much knowledge to do this. We have to back down and say that you God give me the worlds to speak, accessing the thing according to the Word of God.

We all have a purpose that God has, we should seek it.