The One Thing That Changes Everything!

JESUS DEMANDS ALL
And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God. Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother. And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth. Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me. And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions. (Mark 10:7-22)


Pioneers are people with arrows in their backs.
I rather be criticised for what I do do, than live with shame because I neglected the one thing that was most important.
The rich young ruler was told to do one thing, that was sell all he had
He could not do this one thing.
As I heard a preacher say last week. We are like this rich young ruler who had kept and observed the commandments all his life. We too like him often focus on what we don't do. We don't smoke, we don't drink we don't sleep around. So we think that our good nothings will get us to heaven. However, Christianity is not what we "don't do" Christianity is about doing the one thing thing that matters most.

Many folks who don't do anything bad don't do anything good either!

This rich young ruler could have been one of the twelve is he had given up the one thing that was his. to get the one big thing that was God's.

There is one thing that God demands of you that he would demand of anyone else. No other apostle was asked to sell all. All had to be saved and baptized but this one man had to do one big thing that he alone had to master. That's where greatness lies. The one big thing in your life is either a one big downfall or can be your one big key to greatness in the kingdom

My question is therefore this. What one thing should you do to achieve a remarkable destiny in God that God demands only of you?

35 Souls Baptised in Jesus name at Birmingham

35 souls baptized into Jesus name in Birmingham last weekend. Many came out of the water, drunk, slain in the Spirit and speaking in the tongues. The chruch tookover the Leisure Centre and danced, praised God for the entire event. Revival is Here! CAA Holy Ghost and Power Conference

Where are the prophets, teachers, evangelists..

The church without the evangelist, has no mission
The church without the prophet has no direction
The church without the teacher, has no revelation
The church without the apostle has no foundation
The church without the pastor has no compassion

There are many, millions of gifted preachers, prophets teachers who have yet to enter the pulpit. Pastors must give evangelist,prophets and teachers the pulpit. Otherwise selfishness, haughtiness sand barrenness is coming to those who promote themselves, their ego, their want to and their own kingdom. We function on 25% capacity when we use only the pastoral office in a church. Today's Now church has all five gifts serving full-time. This is the challenge for us all at this hour.God needs an army. His call right now is for an army.  If you are a general start recruiting staff, prophetesses, prophets, evangelists, other pastors in the making, use them. Pastor, God wont allow you to loose your pulpit in fact as you give others your pulpit, he make yours bigger. I believe God with you. This is your day to rise and shine, preach and wage a warfare (Ephesians 4:11,12). why do Pastors exist for the perfecting of the church in order that they too may enter the ministry.

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Breaking Limits by being You!

Jesus said, "verily I say unto you. Wheresover this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her" ( Mark 15:9)

Jesus commends what the apostles questioned. Her act brought her recognition. Judas knew the value of the ointment but he did not know the significance of it. Mary was charged with being extravagant, but that is what the Lord wants, extravagant worshipers. The disciples take the road familiar and so do those today who are men pleaser's but not God chasers.

Mary done the incredible thing, before anyone could stop her.

Friend of you are going to do anything for the Lord then do not consult flesh and blood. When God sent you into this earth he send a fresh man, a man who never existed before a man with a unique character to give a unique message to preach it with a unique anointing. You are not a copy of anything. There is nothing that can resemble you. So why preach like me if you are better, why copy me I you can do more, why take what's mine if yours is greater.  why sing my song if God has given his to you.


Today's church has too may copyists and not enough originals. Break your own box, sing your own revival. Preach your own style, be you! There's a prophesy only you can give forth there's a shout only you can resound, there's a song only you can sing. So don't get me to have church around your program. I may not fit in and neither will you. You just have to be you and in being you, then you can break forth that box, that limitation that custom, that program. Break it! That's where the anointing is its in the breaking forth.

So many churches are so organized and professional that God has no place to break anything. including he hardness of mans heart. Lets be careful, it may not be the preacher that leaves a memorial but the quiet Mary  who makes the break from whats traditional, careful and customary.
 

How Should I Study The Bible?

Q How Should I study the Bible?

A. The first priority of all believers should be to know God in person. Let us use 1Timothy 3:16 as a basis for this. “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.”

With this as our objective, we should then proceed to read the bible with the goal of discovering and knowing God. Its not a book where you should read from beginning to end rather its a revelation of Jesus the God man. The Old Testament reveals him in the lives of the prophets and what he said to them. The New Testament reveals God in the flesh and his name Jesus. The Old Testament reveals him coming or appearing to the prophets and others. In the New Testament he is revealed in the flesh as the SAVIOR. Where in Genesis he is revealed as Creator. Its in the understanding of the God/man that the bible becomes most interesting.

Will the bible show us how to become Christians? My answer No! It will show us God and how to be a follower of Jesus. Don’t confuse Christianity with those who followed Jesus. Today’s Christianity is totally unlike the Jesus or the Bible. You don’t want religion, you want truth and truth is a person called Jesus!

To discover the church read Acts
To discover The God who became man read John
To discover why we should be saved read The Gospels. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
To discover How to be saved read ACTS
To discover how to stay saved read the Epistles. Paul’s letters to the New Testament church
To discover how God is “one” read Isaiah chapters 44-47.
To discover JESUS read the law and the prophets yes the law and the prophets

Here's why..

You may know Jesus as a Son but do you know him as your GOD?... the disciples didn't recognize him when he appeared to them after the resurrection. yet they had spend years with him prior to this... How come?

And they said one to another, didn’t our Hearts burn within us while he talked to us by the way…   and beginning with Moses and all the prophets he explained to them what was said in all the scriptures concerning himself (Read Luke 24:13-43).


The disciples walking to Emmaeus, Jesus drew near and walked with them. They took him to be a stranger and asked if he knew anything of the events that had taken place, the crucifixion of Jesus.  Friend, are you reading God's word and don't know Jesus as your God? Are you walking with Jesus yet don’t know who he is? Until we see him as the God of the Old and the Lord of the New we cannot really say we’ve “walked with him!” Do you desire to have a burning heart? Then take a walk through the old and new and see the one God of both.

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Death Bed Conversion

1. Is there such a thing as death bed conversion. by that I mean a man can say a prayer and ask Jesus into his heart and go to heaven.
   
2. A. There is no example of anyone being called “saved” through a death bed conversion in the bible. The thief on the cross was told by Jesus that he would be in paradise that day. The thief on the cross was the other side of Calvary and therefore under the Old Covenant where folks were saved or had a righteousness according to faith. Abraham you remember was made righteous because of his faith.

Paul tells us about this in Romans 10:4 where Christ is the end of the law of righteousness to every one that believeth. He then goes on to tell us of the righteousness that is given us by Christ by faith (v4). Baptism has an essential part in this, where even Jesus himself was baptized to “fulfill all righteousness” and told us that we had to too (Matt 3:15) “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved” (Mark16:16).

The new birth where a man has to be “born of water and Spirit” is for all this side of Calvary. (John 3:5) Salvation is through Jesus and his Way. The way of salvation as we know it first given by Jesus then taught by the apostles.

There can be no resurrection without the Spirit. How can the dead arise without the Holy Ghost? The Body without the Spirit can not live again neither can it be resurrected.

Man may be alive but he is dead in trespasses and sins and as a dead man (without God) it is impossible for him to rise again. Only those who have the spirit of life will be alive “in” Christ Jesus.
Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain.… (1 Cor 13:12-14).

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his (Romans 8:9).
And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. (v10)

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you (v11)
Could a man live like the devil and say a prayer of repentance and be born again at his deathbed? Really! Would not that make the words of Jesus of no avail!

Should we not stick to things that are written?

A man must be born of water and Spirit. (John 3:5 Acts 2:38 Acts 10:44-47). I wouldn’t want to take the chance with my eternity. Would you! I wouldn’t want to be live a lie. Would you?

There's a Light at the End of the Tunnel

For the upright there ariseth light in the darkness (Psalm 112:4)

The upright!
What kind of man is the upright man?
The kind of man who has authority over his feelings and control over his behavior.
He keeps his stand among the critics and keeps his convictions among the clerics.
He keeps his sanity while in adversity and keeps his mind while in obscurity.
He does not have fear while in the company of the great neither does he compromise while in the company of the educated.
He does whats right at the right time, all of the time.
He will neither be bullied or bribed for in trouble he finds a way out. In sorrow he finds a time to rejoice. In trouble he meets with God and in tiredness he finds his smile.

This man be surrounded by trouble, having lost everything and like Job siting down in his dilema, Those around him yelling at him, "give up this God stuff, get yourself a life!" But this man knows he who is his life. He unlike others, gets up. He is not merely making a fresh start, but rather he makes a new commitment to serve God, again, yes again! knowing that because of God he went into the dilema and because of God he's coming out of it.

What am I saying! If a man is going to get up at all then he has to get up right, excuse my play on words but let me make the point.There is no point in getting up at at all unless you're going to get up right!

This means that God is my starting point and God is my finish point. God is my strength and Christ is my light. and although I'm down while serving him I'm getting up because of him,  for that reason, I shall be upright!

But he is not only strong, he is also graceful, for the text tells us "he is gracious and full of compassion." (v4b). He is couragious as well as courteous. kind as well as kingly. Gentleman-like as well as Godlike. Under pressure or going under, in celebration or controversy, in weakness or during times of strength he is gracious and full of compassion.  To that man, there arises light in the darkness.

What does this mean?

There's a light at the end of the tunnel for me!