December 21, 2011 at 1:21pm
Norita Williams
HAVING PASSION SAYS ALOT ABOUT OUR CHARACTER AND WHO WE ARE. NOT ONLY WHO WE ARE AS A PERSON BUT WHO WE ARE IN CHRIST. WE CAN HAVE NO PASSION AND LOSE THE VISION THAT WAS BIRTHED IN US AND WE BECOME STAGNATE IN OUR WALK WITH GOD--AND JUST "EXISIT". OR WE CAN HAVE THE FIRE CONSUMING HOLY SPIRIT PASSION AND GO FORWARD INTO WHAT GOD HAS CALLED US TO DO FOR HIM. TAKING DOWN STRONG HOLDS AND TAKING BACK WHAT THE ENEMY HAS TAKEN FROM US BY FORCE!!!
WHEN I WAS PREPARING FOR THIS SERMON I WAS PRAYING FOR THE LORD TO SHOW ME WHAT HE WANTED FOR ME TO SAY. HE TOLD ME IT IS IN STEPS THAT WE LEARN THINGS. WE CAN NOT JUST DO THINGS WE HAVE TO PREPARE AND THAT IS HOW WE LEARN.
THESE ARE THE STEPS THAT LEADS UP TO PASSION:
1. CALLING- THERE HAS TO BE A CALLING OF THE LORD THERE--NO MATTER WHAT IT MIGHT BE. GOD HAS TO CALL US, WE CAN'T JUST GO OUT AND DECIDE TO DO SOMETHING. IF WE DID THEN WE WOULD BE GOING BY WHAT MAN DOES AND IT WILL SURELY FALL TO THE GROUND. BUT WHEN GOD IS IN IT..IT WILL BE BLESSED AND ANOINTED. WE JUST HAVE TO WAIT ON HIM TO TELL US TO GO AND DO. THERE ARE MANY THINGS THAT THE LORD CAN CALL US INTO ANYTHING FROM PREACHING TO BEING KITCHEN HELP, TO ENCOURAGER AND BEING THERE FOR SOMEONE TO SINGING. NO MATTER WHAT IT MIGHT BE THE LORD WILL BLESS IT AND TOUCH LIVES. 2. THE NEXT STEP IS A BURNIND DESIRE AND WILLING TO BE TAUGHT BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.
WHEN GOD PLACES THE SEED INTO YOUR HEART TO DO SOMETHING HE WATERS IT WITH HIS HOLY SPIRIT. NOW IT NOT ONLY IS A CALLING BUT IT BECOMES A DESIRE. A DESIRE TO DO WHAT HE WANTS YOU TO DO FOR HIM. DESIRE IS TO WANT. HOW YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO DO ALL THINGS. HOW YOU WANT TO HELP OTHERS. THE DESIRE BURNS WITHIN YOU BUT YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO THE HOLY SPIRIT AND BE LEAD TO DO IT. YOU HAVE TO HAVE A TEACHABLE SPIRIT OTHERWISE THE DESIRE WILL SEEM LIKE IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO BE ABLE TO DO. AND IT WOULD BE WITHOUT THE LEADING AND GUIDANCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. YOUR HEART AND MIND HAS TO BE OPENED TO THE THINGS OF GOD. YOU CAN NOT HAVE A CLOSED MIND AND THINK YOU CAN DO IT. TO HAVE AN OPEN HEART TO FEEL THE THINGS OF GOD. WHEN WE BECOME TEACHABLE GOD CAN SHOW US THINGS AND TAKE US INTO DEEPER REVELAIONS OF HIM. THIS STARTS THE PROCESS OF FASTING, INTERCEDING PRAYER AND DYING TO ONE'S SELF. TAKING OUT DESIRE AND PUTTING IT ON WHEELS SO TO SPEAK. NOT ONLY FASTING, PRAYING BUT WE HAVE TO HAVE FAITH ALSO THAT GOD IS ABLE TO WHAT HE SAYS HE IS GOING TO DO. THIS TAKES US INTO ANOTHER LEVEL WITH GOD. READING HIS WORD GIVES US POWER, HOPE AND A WEAPON THAT WE ARE TO USE IN WAR FARE. NOT ONLY IN THE NATURAL BUT ESP IN THE SPIRITUAL AS WELL. THIS IS ALSO WHEN THE SPIRITUAL WAR FARE WILL GET INTENSE. THE DEVIL DOES NOT WANT FOR YOU TO MOVE CLOSER TO GOD. HIS INTENTIONS ARE LIKE IN WHAT JOHN 10:10 SAYS “ THE THEIF COMETH NOT, BUT FOR TO STEAL, AND TO KILL, AND TO DESTROY”. HE DOESN'T WANT FOR YOU LEARN AND GROW IN THE THINGS OF GOD BECAUSE HE KNOWS WHEN YOU DO YOU BECOME A WARRIOR IN CHRIST AND TAKE BACK AND TAKE DOWN WHAT HE HAS PLACED INTO YOUR WAY SO YOU CAN NOT STAY FOCUSED ONTO THE THINGS OF GOD. SO HE TRIES TO DECIEVE YOU THROW STUMBLING BLOCKS IN YOUR WAY CAUSING YOU TO FALL. BUT YOU HAVE THE
AUTHORITY TO BE MORE THAN OVERCOMER THROUGH CHRIST JESUS!!! THE LORD IS ON OUR SIDE AT ALL TIMES!!! WE HAVE THAT PROMISE!!!
3. THE NEXT THING WE NEED IT COMPASISON TOWARDS OTHERS. WE TO BE CHRIST LIKE IN ALL MANNERS. EVEN LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS CHRIST LOVES THE CHURCH ,WE ARE TO PUT WHEELS ON THE W.W.J.D. SHOW OTHERS . COMPASISON—LOOKING AT THEM THROUGHT THE EYES OF JESUS AND NOT THROUGH MAN'S EYES.
IN MATTHEW 22:37-40—THE GREATEST COMMANMENTS-
FOR EXAMPLE: IF YOU SEE A HOMELESS PERSON OR SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T LOOK LIKE OR EVEN TALK LIKE OTHERS..WHAT GOES THROUGH YOUR MIND? DO YOU SEE A HOPELESS CASE? A PERSON WHOM YOU DON'T WANT TO ASSOCIATE YOURSELF WITH? A PERSON WHO IS AN OUTCAST? OR DO YOU SEEM THEM THROUGH GOD'S EYES? DO YOU SEE A BEAUTIFUL SPIRIT? A PERSON WHO HAS HOPE? A PERSON WHO CHRIST DIED FOR? THESE PRECIOUS ONES ARE THE ONES WHO CHRIST CAME TO SAVE AS WELL!!! THE OUTCAST AND DOWN TROD. THE SINNERS!!! REMEMBER? WE ALL HAVE BEEN THERE UNTIL WE CAME TO KNOW JESUS AS LORD. WE ALL CAME FROM WHERE THE OUTCAST CAME FROM. WE WERE ONCE OUTCAST OURSELVES...HAVE YA EVER THOUGHT ON THAT ONE? CHRIST LOVES EVERYONE THE SAME AND HE SHOWS NO FAVORTISM TO ANYONE. WE ARE TO SHOW THEM THE LOVE OF GOD NO MATTER WHAT!!! WE ARE CALLED TO LOVE AND NOT JUDGE! WE ARE TO TAKE CARE OF THEM NOT CAST THEM ASIDE!!! SHOWING COMPASISON AND PUTTING OUR ARMS AROUND THEM AND SHOWING THEM GOD!! IT REALLY BREAKS MY HEART BUT THERE ARE MANY CHRISTIANS LIKE THIS. DID NOT GOD'S WORD TELL US THAT CHARITY (LOVE) IS THE GREATEST OF ALL??? IF ANY LACK THIS GET ON YOUR KNEES AND ASK GOD TO FORGIVE YOU AND LET GOD SHOW YOU HOW TO LOVE LIKE HE DOES.
4. THE NEXT STEP IS THE ANOINTING.- IN 1ST JOHN 2:27 “BUT THE ANOINTING WHICH YE HAVE received OF HIM ABIDETH IN YOU, AND YE NEED NOT THAT ANY MANY TEACH YOU: BUT AS THE SAME ANOINTING TEACHETH YOU OF ALL THINGS, AND IS TRUTH, AND IS NO LIE, AND EVEN AS IT HATH TAUGHT YOU, YE SHALL ABIDE IN HIM.” WITHOUT IT WE ARE NOTHING!!! THE ANOINTING IS VERY PRECIOUS BECAUSE IT IS THE VERY PRESENCE OF GOD BEING POURED INTO US. IT'S MORE PRECIOUS THAN ANY GOLD OR SILVER!!! WHEN WE ARE CALLED THE SPIRIT WATERS THAT AND IT BECOMES THE DESIRE AND AS WE GET MORE OF GOD HE BLESSES US WITH HIS COMPASSION AND LOVE FOR OTHERS. IT'S A LEARNING PROCESS THAT TAKES TIME. THE ANOINTING IS VERY POWERFUL AND IT CAN MAKE THE IMPOSSIBLE..POSSIBLE!!! PEOPLE RAISED FROM THE DEAD, PEOPLE HEALED OF DISEASES, PEOPLE CAN WALK THAT COULDN'T!!! THE DUMB CAN TALK AND THE DEAF CAN HEAR!!!THE LORD MOVES WHEN WE ALLOW HIM OUT OF HIS BOX!!! OUR CLOSED MINDS ARE CLOSED TO THE POSSIBLITIES OF THE LORD...IT IS A SAD THING BECAUSE WHAT ALL THE DICIPLES DONE IN BIBICAL TIMES WE CAN DO TODAY!!! IT DIDN'T DIE OUT WITH THEM AND IT NEVER WILL!!! WE HAVE AUTHORITY OVER THE DEVIL HIMSELF AND WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN POWER TO DEFEAT HIM!!!! WE LIMIT GOD SO MANY TIMES, WE DON'T LET THE ANOINTING MOVE LIKE IT SHOULD. WE DON'T ALLOW THE LORD TO DO WHAT HE DESIRES, INSTEAD SELF TAKES OVER AND HINDERS THE THINGS OF GOD AND THIS GRIEVES THE HOLY SPIRIT.
THESE ARE THE STEPS THAT LEADS UP TO PASSION:
1. CALLING- THERE HAS TO BE A CALLING OF THE LORD THERE--NO MATTER WHAT IT MIGHT BE. GOD HAS TO CALL US, WE CAN'T JUST GO OUT AND DECIDE TO DO SOMETHING. IF WE DID THEN WE WOULD BE GOING BY WHAT MAN DOES AND IT WILL SURELY FALL TO THE GROUND. BUT WHEN GOD IS IN IT..IT WILL BE BLESSED AND ANOINTED. WE JUST HAVE TO WAIT ON HIM TO TELL US TO GO AND DO. THERE ARE MANY THINGS THAT THE LORD CAN CALL US INTO ANYTHING FROM PREACHING TO BEING KITCHEN HELP, TO ENCOURAGER AND BEING THERE FOR SOMEONE TO SINGING. NO MATTER WHAT IT MIGHT BE THE LORD WILL BLESS IT AND TOUCH LIVES. 2. THE NEXT STEP IS A BURNIND DESIRE AND WILLING TO BE TAUGHT BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.
WHEN GOD PLACES THE SEED INTO YOUR HEART TO DO SOMETHING HE WATERS IT WITH HIS HOLY SPIRIT. NOW IT NOT ONLY IS A CALLING BUT IT BECOMES A DESIRE. A DESIRE TO DO WHAT HE WANTS YOU TO DO FOR HIM. DESIRE IS TO WANT. HOW YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO DO ALL THINGS. HOW YOU WANT TO HELP OTHERS. THE DESIRE BURNS WITHIN YOU BUT YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO THE HOLY SPIRIT AND BE LEAD TO DO IT. YOU HAVE TO HAVE A TEACHABLE SPIRIT OTHERWISE THE DESIRE WILL SEEM LIKE IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO BE ABLE TO DO. AND IT WOULD BE WITHOUT THE LEADING AND GUIDANCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. YOUR HEART AND MIND HAS TO BE OPENED TO THE THINGS OF GOD. YOU CAN NOT HAVE A CLOSED MIND AND THINK YOU CAN DO IT. TO HAVE AN OPEN HEART TO FEEL THE THINGS OF GOD. WHEN WE BECOME TEACHABLE GOD CAN SHOW US THINGS AND TAKE US INTO DEEPER REVELAIONS OF HIM. THIS STARTS THE PROCESS OF FASTING, INTERCEDING PRAYER AND DYING TO ONE'S SELF. TAKING OUT DESIRE AND PUTTING IT ON WHEELS SO TO SPEAK. NOT ONLY FASTING, PRAYING BUT WE HAVE TO HAVE FAITH ALSO THAT GOD IS ABLE TO WHAT HE SAYS HE IS GOING TO DO. THIS TAKES US INTO ANOTHER LEVEL WITH GOD. READING HIS WORD GIVES US POWER, HOPE AND A WEAPON THAT WE ARE TO USE IN WAR FARE. NOT ONLY IN THE NATURAL BUT ESP IN THE SPIRITUAL AS WELL. THIS IS ALSO WHEN THE SPIRITUAL WAR FARE WILL GET INTENSE. THE DEVIL DOES NOT WANT FOR YOU TO MOVE CLOSER TO GOD. HIS INTENTIONS ARE LIKE IN WHAT JOHN 10:10 SAYS “ THE THEIF COMETH NOT, BUT FOR TO STEAL, AND TO KILL, AND TO DESTROY”. HE DOESN'T WANT FOR YOU LEARN AND GROW IN THE THINGS OF GOD BECAUSE HE KNOWS WHEN YOU DO YOU BECOME A WARRIOR IN CHRIST AND TAKE BACK AND TAKE DOWN WHAT HE HAS PLACED INTO YOUR WAY SO YOU CAN NOT STAY FOCUSED ONTO THE THINGS OF GOD. SO HE TRIES TO DECIEVE YOU THROW STUMBLING BLOCKS IN YOUR WAY CAUSING YOU TO FALL. BUT YOU HAVE THE
AUTHORITY TO BE MORE THAN OVERCOMER THROUGH CHRIST JESUS!!! THE LORD IS ON OUR SIDE AT ALL TIMES!!! WE HAVE THAT PROMISE!!!
3. THE NEXT THING WE NEED IT COMPASISON TOWARDS OTHERS. WE TO BE CHRIST LIKE IN ALL MANNERS. EVEN LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS CHRIST LOVES THE CHURCH ,WE ARE TO PUT WHEELS ON THE W.W.J.D. SHOW OTHERS . COMPASISON—LOOKING AT THEM THROUGHT THE EYES OF JESUS AND NOT THROUGH MAN'S EYES.
IN MATTHEW 22:37-40—THE GREATEST COMMANMENTS-
- 37. “ JESUS SAID UNTO HIM, THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD THEY GOD WITH ALL THY HEART, AND WITH ALL THY SOUL, AND WITH ALL THEY MIND.
38 . THIS IS THE FIRST AND GREAT COMMANMENT.
39. AND THE SECOND IS LIKE UNTO IT, THOU SHALT LOVE THEY NEIGHBOR AS THY SELF.
40. ON THERE TWO COMMANMENTS HANG ALL THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS.”
FOR EXAMPLE: IF YOU SEE A HOMELESS PERSON OR SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T LOOK LIKE OR EVEN TALK LIKE OTHERS..WHAT GOES THROUGH YOUR MIND? DO YOU SEE A HOPELESS CASE? A PERSON WHOM YOU DON'T WANT TO ASSOCIATE YOURSELF WITH? A PERSON WHO IS AN OUTCAST? OR DO YOU SEEM THEM THROUGH GOD'S EYES? DO YOU SEE A BEAUTIFUL SPIRIT? A PERSON WHO HAS HOPE? A PERSON WHO CHRIST DIED FOR? THESE PRECIOUS ONES ARE THE ONES WHO CHRIST CAME TO SAVE AS WELL!!! THE OUTCAST AND DOWN TROD. THE SINNERS!!! REMEMBER? WE ALL HAVE BEEN THERE UNTIL WE CAME TO KNOW JESUS AS LORD. WE ALL CAME FROM WHERE THE OUTCAST CAME FROM. WE WERE ONCE OUTCAST OURSELVES...HAVE YA EVER THOUGHT ON THAT ONE? CHRIST LOVES EVERYONE THE SAME AND HE SHOWS NO FAVORTISM TO ANYONE. WE ARE TO SHOW THEM THE LOVE OF GOD NO MATTER WHAT!!! WE ARE CALLED TO LOVE AND NOT JUDGE! WE ARE TO TAKE CARE OF THEM NOT CAST THEM ASIDE!!! SHOWING COMPASISON AND PUTTING OUR ARMS AROUND THEM AND SHOWING THEM GOD!! IT REALLY BREAKS MY HEART BUT THERE ARE MANY CHRISTIANS LIKE THIS. DID NOT GOD'S WORD TELL US THAT CHARITY (LOVE) IS THE GREATEST OF ALL??? IF ANY LACK THIS GET ON YOUR KNEES AND ASK GOD TO FORGIVE YOU AND LET GOD SHOW YOU HOW TO LOVE LIKE HE DOES.
4. THE NEXT STEP IS THE ANOINTING.- IN 1ST JOHN 2:27 “BUT THE ANOINTING WHICH YE HAVE received OF HIM ABIDETH IN YOU, AND YE NEED NOT THAT ANY MANY TEACH YOU: BUT AS THE SAME ANOINTING TEACHETH YOU OF ALL THINGS, AND IS TRUTH, AND IS NO LIE, AND EVEN AS IT HATH TAUGHT YOU, YE SHALL ABIDE IN HIM.” WITHOUT IT WE ARE NOTHING!!! THE ANOINTING IS VERY PRECIOUS BECAUSE IT IS THE VERY PRESENCE OF GOD BEING POURED INTO US. IT'S MORE PRECIOUS THAN ANY GOLD OR SILVER!!! WHEN WE ARE CALLED THE SPIRIT WATERS THAT AND IT BECOMES THE DESIRE AND AS WE GET MORE OF GOD HE BLESSES US WITH HIS COMPASSION AND LOVE FOR OTHERS. IT'S A LEARNING PROCESS THAT TAKES TIME. THE ANOINTING IS VERY POWERFUL AND IT CAN MAKE THE IMPOSSIBLE..POSSIBLE!!! PEOPLE RAISED FROM THE DEAD, PEOPLE HEALED OF DISEASES, PEOPLE CAN WALK THAT COULDN'T!!! THE DUMB CAN TALK AND THE DEAF CAN HEAR!!!THE LORD MOVES WHEN WE ALLOW HIM OUT OF HIS BOX!!! OUR CLOSED MINDS ARE CLOSED TO THE POSSIBLITIES OF THE LORD...IT IS A SAD THING BECAUSE WHAT ALL THE DICIPLES DONE IN BIBICAL TIMES WE CAN DO TODAY!!! IT DIDN'T DIE OUT WITH THEM AND IT NEVER WILL!!! WE HAVE AUTHORITY OVER THE DEVIL HIMSELF AND WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN POWER TO DEFEAT HIM!!!! WE LIMIT GOD SO MANY TIMES, WE DON'T LET THE ANOINTING MOVE LIKE IT SHOULD. WE DON'T ALLOW THE LORD TO DO WHAT HE DESIRES, INSTEAD SELF TAKES OVER AND HINDERS THE THINGS OF GOD AND THIS GRIEVES THE HOLY SPIRIT.
- IT IS SEEN SO MANY TIMES IN CHURCHES I HAVE BEEN TO SOME AND YOU CAN FEEL THE ANOINTING SO THICK BUT IT'S HINDERED BY MAN. AND YOU CAN FEEL THE HOLY SPIRIT BEING SAD AND GRIEVED. THAT' S SAD!!!IF WE LET THE HOLY SPIRIT MOVE LIKE HE WANTS WE WOULD SEE MORE REVIVALS, YOU WOULD SEE MORE OUT BREAKS OF ANOINTING. MORE HEALING SERVICES AND MORE OF GOD INSTEAD OF WHAT MAN HAS TO OFFER.
- AND FINALLY THERE IS PASSION—MEANING TO STOP AT NOTHING AND HAVE THE MINDSET “ FOR GOD I'LL LIVE AND FOR GOD I'LL DIE”. OUR ATTITUDES CHANGE COMPLETELY. ONLY DOING WHAT GOD WANTS AND DESIRES FOR US!!! TO GO THE DISTANCE NO MATTER THE COST!!! EVEN IF IT MEANS LOSING OUR VERY LIVES FOR OUR FAITH!!! PASSION IS WHAT DRIVES US AND MAKES TO COME TO PASS GOD'S PLANS AND VISIONS FOR OUR VERY LIVES!!! PASSION IS WHAT THE LORD PLACES INTO US TO PUT OUR FAITH AND WORKD INTO ACTUAL REALITY.
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