050726 - Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above

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Good morning.

So I'm right thinking day, this a new month, a

new series. So the topic is that is gifts.

Well they spirit. I welcome you.

Please speak to each individual person in here, and the

people online and the people later.

Thank you. So this is sort of a foundational preach.

I titled it every good gift and every perfect gift

is from above, which.

Is Aims one seventeen.

The amplified version says, every good gift and every perfect, free,

large and full gift is from above. So every good

gift and every perfect, free, large and full. So let's

see where the scriptures go today. I know exactly where

it's where it's gonna end up. It's one of those

sort of preachers. But we're gonna look at some foundacial scriptures,

initially about gifts and about who gives those gifts, and

then we're going to talk about some fundamentals. Ephesians four,

seven and eight, Poor wrote, but to each one of us,

grace was given according to the measure of Christ's gift. Therefore,

he says, when He ascended on high, he let captivity captive.

And gave gifts to men.

Then it goes on thinks Verse eleven twelve thirteen talks

about apostles, prophetes, pastors, teachers, etcetera, etcetera, as those gifts.

Acts two thirty eight Peter said, repent, and let every

one of you be back tied to the name of

Jesus Christ for the remission. You can't translate that forgiveness

of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the

Holy Spirit. I guess the greatest gift of God that

we have.

Received is Jesus.

And sometimes you get those preachers at Christmas worse and

it becomes a big arm colorful red square box with

a nice gold driven around, and they talked about the gift.

Maybe you've been there Christmas. I've seen that before.

John three sixteen says, for God so loved the world

that he gave his only son, who ever believes in

him shall not perish but have eternal life. Jesus is

the greatest gift we're going to ever receive.

And if you.

Believe today you've all entered through that door. We all

come to a point in life where we enter through

a door. God brings us to a place in our

life where everything seems to disappear and there's a stillness.

So we make a decision. We enter through a door,

Paul said in Romans ten, verse six. But the rights

of faith speaks in this way. Do not say in

your heart, who will ascend into heaven, that is to

bring Christ down from above, or who will descend into

the abyss, that is to bring Christ up from the dead.

But what does it say? The word is near you,

in your mouth and in your heart. That is the

word of faith that we preach that if you confess

with your mouth and believe in your heart that God

raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For

the heart one believes to righteousness, and with the mouth

confession is made unto salvation. So that's the door that

we went through. If you believe, whether here and whether

you're online, that's what.

The Lord's nudge me to pray this prayer.

To those people who don't know who listening later, listen online,

Lord Jesus, I thank you for loving me enough to

die for me. I accept that you shed your blood

for me on the cross, and I receive you as

Lord and Savior.

Amen.

So if you pray that prayer, drop us a message

via the website, since that's the right thing to do

this morning. So some maketure for somebody. So back to

the preach. So the concept of gift giving came from God.

And there's a inherent something within us that we like

to receive gifts. Let me ask this question. Who doesn't

like to receive gifts? Yeah, it's something in us that

got put there that we like to receive gifts.

Yeah.

And God likes to give gifts. He gave us his

son to those who believe. He gave the Holy Spirit.

He also gave gifts to men and women to build

the church. This is all foundation of stuff. Haven't gotten

too the pre shet He gave us the gifts of

the Holy Spirit one Corinthians twelve. I just find it

on my phone, reading from verse one. Now concerning spiritual

gifts or spirituals, brethren, I do not want you to

be ignorant. You know that you were gentiles carried away

in these dom idols.

However you were led.

Therefore, I make known to you that no one speaking

by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no

one can say that Jesus Lord except by the Holy Spirit.

There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. There

are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. And there

are diversities of activities, but it's the same God who

works all. In all, but the manifestation of the Spirit

is given to each one is given the word of

wisdom through the Spirit to another, the word of knowledge

through the same spirit to another, Faith by the same

spirit to another, gifts of healing by the same spirit

to one another to another, the working of miracles to another,

prophecy to another, discerning spirits to another, different kinds of

tongues to another, the interpretation of tongues but one and

the same Spirit is working in all these things, distributing

to each one individually as he wills, the gifts of

one Corinthians twelve. And the fact all the gifts are

all received by faith. If I had a big pile

of presence around here, then called you out by name

and give you.

I gave you a gift.

You know that's you have to get off your seat.

You've got to come here. You've got to receive the gift.

You've got to open the box, and they do, You're

going to enjoy that gift.

God gives us gifts.

His mechanism to come and get it is to perceive

it by faith. There's some things that we are born

with a natural ability which comes from our family line,

and there's some things that got puts in there and

have to be developed. So in the conscious of this piece,

I'm talking about those things that God gives us, not

that it is natural to you. Okay, So when he

gives us that gift, like giving some day a big

red car and the and and the person's a little child,

and he gets into the car, but he can't put

his feet on the pedals and you can't really reach

the steering wheel. But recom managed to put the key

in the ignition. And then the Holy Spirit teaches us

how to walk in that gifting and we grow into

that gifting. And it's not the work of a man.

It is the work of the Holy Spirit, because our

glory goes to God. And these gifts work by faith

and be the load saying that He's given gifts to

this body. But some of those gifts adornment. And like

Paul said to Timothy, it's time to stir up the

gift of God which is in you through the laying.

On of hands. That's on here.

That's to Timothy one verse six. It's time to stir

up that gift that is in you through the laying

of hands. God give us gifts for a purpose. It's

not to have a fun time, or it can be fun.

Operating the gifts is to build up and edify His body.

May be the thought saying it's time to step into

your destiny and not to be bound by fear, but

to choose to refuse fear and to walk by faith.

To those who God is speaking to, Dave Richards wrote.

A song a long time ago, I think about nineteen

seventy five. I was very young. I was I was

very young. Back thank you, it goes. I am building

a people of power. I'm making a people of praise

that will move through this land by my spirit and

will glorify my precious name. The Lord reminded him about

that for a purpose. God is building a people of

power here because he wants us to move through this

land Egham, the university, the local area by his spirit

in power. That means everyone needs to be in the

right place at the right time. In the body. God

is all about building people. It's not all about building buildings,

because some nice church buildings they are very well built.

But God builds people. He builds the individual, and he

builds the body. A that in the spirit there's a

move of God coming to this place, a sense that

we need to be ready, a sense it's time for

us to take our place.

But how do we do that?

Hebrews eleven and verse six says it's impossible to please

God without faith, so we don't do things in our

natural strength.

If the Holy Spirit is prodding us.

Then we go and speak to the leadership, Dave, Julia, whoever,

and share what God is saying to us. It's about

that purpose, and it's about destiny. As a prayer about

doing this preach, it was on those interesting preachers. We

don't get tho of scriptures. You just get a very

vague sense to what you've got to preach, which is

not helpful. I prefer to have a road map. As

was praying this preach, I saw the Lord positioning pieces

on a chessboard, and he was specifically placing pieces in

a specific place, and once he put the pieces on

the board, he sort of step back to watch what

their next move would be. It's like it positioned them

in a place as watching what they were going to

do next. It's one thing to be in the right

place and be positioned in the right place. It's the

next thing to take the next step and to walk

with the Holy Spirit into His plan and purposes in

that time, in that season. Because there are times and

there are seasons, there are promotions in the Kingdom of

God where God moves people around his chessboard. H I

f you'l like he's waking to see what next steps

of faith we are going to take. So I guess

three things. God knows us. He knows whether you know.

He knows us. He knows.

Whether you're doing the right thing or not doing the

right thing. Nobody else does, but he does. He's a

guy who has a conversation in our heads. We might

we might have about thinking something on God's in the back.

Saying well, what about this? What about that? What about

the other?

You cannot get away from God. Jha tried to do that.

It didn't work out very well. Jeremiah one verse five

says before I found you in the womb, I knew you.

Before you were born. I sanctified you.

And in terms of Jeremiah, I ordained you a profit

to the nations.

But it could be.

I dan knew Dave to be the pastor and senior

leader of running me Christian Fellowship, and I could go

around the room, but I'm not going to do that.

Dave's just sitting there, so he's an easy person to reference.

He knews before he we were formed in the womb.

He sanctified us. God has a plan and purpose for

your lives. I guess a crutch of this. What I'm

sensing is we mustn't miss what that plan is. That

plan changes to our lives from when we are younger

to when we get older. There's people here who are young,

and there's people here who are old, and there's people

in the middle. But we are all serving a purpose.

We're all fulfilling our purpose in the.

Kingdom of God. So God knows us.

So when he's speaking to us, let's respond number two.

He gives us direction. And it's really nice when God

speaks as us through the word. But guess what We've

got to do something with it. Sometimes we can dwell

in that place of receiving direction and not take the

next step. As I thirty twenty one says, you should

hear the word behind you saying this is the way

walk in it. Whether you turn to the right hand

or whether you turn to the left hand, this is

the way walk in it. And sometimes we'll get that

quiet nudge saying, come on, now, let's do this. Or

it might be a loud voice, or it might be

I had this conversation before. Are we going to go

around the mountain again? How are we going to do it?

If we just take the mask of the mascot for

the recording. God's not going to beat us up. He

wants us to fill our potential. Even though Jonah went

to Niniva fulfilled his potential. I'm sure he had regrets

he didn't go there first time. Let's not live in

there of regret. Let's live in doing what God asked

us to do when he asked us to do it.

So why does he give us direction number three? Why

does he give us direction.

One?

Corinthians nine twenty four to twenty five says, do you

not know that those who run in a race or

run but one receives the prize, run in such a

way that you may obtain it. And everyone who competes

for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they

do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we fought

an imperishable crown in a natural You might not be

a runner, you might not be built to run. He

might have the two big feet, two short of legs.

You just might have that physique for running. In the spirit,

we're all runners. We're all running our race, and we're

going for that imperishable crown. It's not about looking around

you about how competing with your contemporaries. It doesn't matter

what other people they're doing. It really doesn't matter. In

the Kingdom of God. What matters is that do you

run your race. You step into the gifting that God

has placed within you, whatever that may be. I'm not

going to go through particular elements or giftings. But you

step into the gifting that God has purposed for you

at that period of time, and you run your race.

You know, God has a God of purpose, plan, design,

and objectivity. Nobody is here by accident today. Nobody is

listening to my does it tones on the recording by accident.

If you listen again later, you know this by accident.

We all have a destiny, we all have a purpose

in the Kingdom of God.

That's not just some nice words. That's the fact.

So don't switch off and go here he goes again,

because then you miss what God's doing for you. God

wants us to follow his direction and run the race

by faith, and it will not be the work of

a man.

It'll be the work of the Holy Spirit.

So to wrap this, it is time for us to

step into our destiny, in your gifting, in your position

in this body, in your position in the kingdom. Listen

to what the Holy Spirit is saying and step into it.

Take the next step, and don't be afraid. Sometimes the

devil can try and scare eragent to not doing things.

Forced to Timothy in the next few verses, for god'sn't

giving you a spirit of fear, but a spirit of power,

a spirit of love, and the spirit of a sour mind.

So let's stir up the gift of God that was

putting us and run our race. I just pray im

over to Juliet. Okay, Father, thank you, your word does

not return to your void, but it accompanies that which

you please, and prospers something where until you sent it.

I pray that your word will not return to your void.

Today people accompass that which you please, and they will

prospering nothing wherein to you sent it.

Do what you gotta do, Jesus, do what you gotta do.

Father, pray for the people in this room listening later,

listening now, h I prayly move in their hearts and

in their spirits that in jes Day and they would

take the next step on their journey. Father, in Jesus name,

I think each step is a miracle.

Amen, Thank you, Thank you, Brother Simon. The word has come.

Now we go to the next level, which is holy, convenient,