In 2011 the overall theme for our church community is VICTORY.
There are three steps to VICTORY for our church this year:
Step 1: AWAKEN
Step 2: MOVE ON
Step 3: ENTER IN
Let's have a look at the first step - AWAKEN.
In Matthew 28: 18-20 it says and Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, "teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.
This year God is sounding a wake-up call to the body of Christ! There has been a lull and a spirit of slumber that has spread over much of the church in the last couple of years. We have become satisfied with "life as usual."
Unfortunately, many people have settled into a place of comfort and complacency—but God is shaking and waking this sleeping giant once again!
I hear the Lord say, "Some of you keep trying to snuggle in and get comfortable. I will not allow you to get comfortable. I did not create you for comfort; I created you to be a weapon of warfare. To take ground, territory and be victorious – going from strength to strength and level to level!"
God has created you to be on the cutting edge.
When it is time for eaglets to learn to fly, the mother eagle begins to remove the soft down feathers in her nest. As she does this, the nest becomes more uncomfortable, and soon the eaglets begin to feel the sting of the sharp sticks beneath. In order to seek more comfortable living quarters, they are forced to fly. In this same fashion, God is removing your place of comfort because it is time for you to fly.
Frustration, agitation and uncomfortableness is a good thing! Something in you in 2011 will refuse to be comforted in your present condition this year. There will be a hunger in you to change and grow spiritually!
We must believe God can do anything and that we can do anything through Jesus Christ.
Peter and John became bold in Jesus Christ via the Holy Ghost. It would have been easy for Peter and John to allow the enemy to steal their boldness between the upper room and the temple gate if they had allowed their thinking to be controlled by carnal or inferior thoughts.
Acts 4:13-14 says "Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus. And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it."
Notice that phrase in verse 13 “ that they had been with Jesus” and the people could tell and when they could tell the people could say nothing against them at that moment.
I want to tell you today that what will determine 2011 for you and I is the amount of time we spend with Jesus to awaken our spirit with the empowering and life giving anointing of our amazing God.
Be Blessed!
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