26th January - Teaching Service - Simon Chaffer - This is the way, walk in it

Heavenly Father, once again, thank you so much for my

brother Simon. He's a man of God. Thank you for

what you have placed already in his heart to share

with us. Made the Holy Spirit will be poured upon him,

a Lord, that he will deliver exactly the heart of

yours through him to us, Father, and help us to

be the recipients of that word and the power that

comes with that word. In the name of Jesus, we

pray Amen, Thank you.

Come on.

So I think this is the last in the series

of the new start, or it was not. Anyway, January's gone.

Yes.

So, as I was preparing this message, I thought, you've

heard a lot of new starts and new things. The

Lord led me in a slightly different way. And the

title of this message is this is the Way walk

in it. Also, I was taken from the book of Isaiah.

I'll see you we're familiar with that. So the way

the Lord's been leading me is it's a new year.

We all know that we have a new year every

twelve months, so that there's no surprises there. But go

on to talk this morning about relationship, you know, how

we communicate with him, or maybe don't communicate with him.

We've all got our smartphones, whether you're an Apple fan

or an Android fan. But you know you're rather on Instagram,

or you not on Instagram, you'rerather on Snapchat, you're not

on Snapchat. But we communicate quite regularly with everyone their way.

I don't know if you hear people's phones pinging and

binging wherever you're going, but you know, we're very good

at communicating together with each other.

But the Lord wants to talk about how.

We communicate with him because end of the day, it's a

new start, it's a new day, all that sort of stuff.

We need to hear what he's saying. It's like, how

easy would it be if whatever we needed to know,

we know we knew the answer, if he knew what

God was saying to us at that point in time,

if he knew he said to us, this is the

way walking it. Sometimes it's easy when it's just something simple.

There's something that's like whoa and went into a slang there.

But well, you know, if if it's something that's like

out there and you want an answer and you need

could give some answer in twenty four hours, and it's like, oh,

I don't know what to do that's that puts different

perspective on hearing what God is saying to doesn't it.

You know, there's always challenges and we need an answer

to a question. What to do, where to go? Why

am I here? Why is this happening to me? There's

a lot of questions that we have in our lives

at some point in time. Now there's those people who

are my age and older who might go to the

help sex section, help section of the bookshop and through

a book about how to this and how to that.

And there's some people who are slightly younger than me.

I might just look on their phone and surf and

online books or to see what we're going to do,

or look through something on Google to find out what

the answer is. Let me give you a new flash.

Google is not the answer. The bookshop is not the answer.

Hearing for God from God for yourself is the answer.

Right now, this is quite fundamental stuff. But I said

to the lady today, why am I doing this? It's like, well,

because I want you to share this today. There's a

purpose behind it, Okay, It's about reinforcing what we know

so that we know what to do when we need

to know what to do. You can't just pick up

your mobile device and ring him up and say hey,

I've got a question, you know, and he's going to

be it's not that ringing your dad or your mum

and they'll give you some advice and you put a

fat okay, or can I have some money, or you know,

I'm coming. I'm coming this weekend. I want this food. Yeah,

it's not that.

Late with God.

In God, we need to have a regular conversation all

the time. To be successful in life. We need to

make the right decisions at the right time every time.

HM.

So today he's gonna go to some scriptures and see

what the holy spirits are. I've got many scriptures, John,

but we'll see what the Lord does. So for look

at Extras three I meaning for the New King Jai's version,

verses one to five. This is talking about Moses. Now,

Moses was tending the flock of Jethrow, his father in law,

the priest of Midium, and he led the flock to

the back of the desert that's obviously way out on

the back in the middle of nowhere, and he came

to horror the mountain of God, and the Angel of

the Lord appeared to him like a flame of fire

from the midst of a bush. So we looked and

behold the bush was burning with fire, but the bush

was not consumed. Then Moses said, I will now turn

aside and see this great sight. Why the bush does

not burn. So when the Lord saw that, he turned

aside to look. God called to him from the midst

of the bush and said Moses, Moses, and he said,

here I am. Then he said, do not draw near.

Do not draw near this place. Take your sanders off

your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.

So this is how God communicated with Moses.

Right.

I was in Moses an inquisitive guy because decided to

light a bush up and he wasn't burning. And Moses said, oh,

I'll go and look at this. I haven't seen it before.

So God got his attention, and then God spoke to

him through a bush. Very often God is trying to

get our attention. Newsflash. Is not going to go and

light up a bush for you down egg High Street

or whatever. But he does want to get our attention.

You know, God treats us all as individuals. He doesn't

have a pattern. If you're five foot six, you're from Bradford,

I'm going to speak to you like this. He doesn't

do that. He treats us all as individuals. I once

asked him, you know, why do you speak to different

people differently? He said, because they're all different people. And

I choose to speak to my children how I choose

to speak to them differently. Everyone is an individual. Everyone

is precious in God's sight. Here today, you need to

hear that you are precious in God's side, no matter

where you came from, where you're going, You're precious in

God's side, and God wants to speak to you. God

wants to communicate with you. Okay.

This is known in the.

Scriptures one Samuel three. Now, the boy Samuel ministered to

the Lord before Eli, and the word of the Lord

was rare in those days. There was no widespread revelation.

And it came to pass at that time when Eli

was lying down in his place, and when his eyes

had begun to grow so dim that I could not see,

and before the lamp, God went out in the tabernacle

of the Lord where the ark was, and while Samue

was lying down, the Lord called to Samuel, and he answered,

here I am. So he ran to Eli and said,

here I am. You called me, and he said, I

did not call you. Lie down, and he went and

lay down. Then the Lord called again Samuel. So Samuel

rose and went to Eli and said, here I am,

for you called me. And he answered, I did not

call your son.

Lie down. Now Samuel did not yet.

Know the Lord, nor was the word of the Lord

yet revealed to him. And the Lord called again to

Samuel the third time. So he arose and went to

Eli and said, here I am, for you did call me.

Then Eli perceived that the Lord had called the boy.

Therefore Eli said, Samuel, go lie down, and it shall

be if he calls you that he must say, speak Lord,

for your servant hears. So Samuel went and laid down

in his place. Now the Lord came and stood and

called other other times, like other times Samuel Samuel, and

Samuel answered, speak for your servant hears. Different perspective. Samue's

a small boy. If remember Hannah his mother. I think

it's Elkin and his father. She went up to the

house of the Lord. She went to the boy, she prayed.

He gave her Samuel. I think she had another three

boys and three girls something like that.

For a memory.

Either way, she gave that boy to the Lord, and

he served the Lord. Isn't interesting that God does there

speak in his voice Samuel, Samuel right. And God is

speaking our voice, our name through his voice every day. Yeah,

and he wants us to connect with him every day. Yeah.

Let's look at Joshua. After death of Moses, the servant

of the Lord, it came to pass that the Lord

spoke to Joshua, the son of None, Moses' assistant or

minister's of the Word, saying, Moses, my servant is dead.

Now.

Therefore, arise, go over the Jordan, you and all this

people to land which I'm giving them, the children of Israel,

even the place that the soul of your foot will

try upon. I have given you, as I said to Moses,

from the Willness and this Lebanon, as far as the

Great River, the great River Euphrates, on all the land

of the Hittites, and the great Sea towards the going

down of the Sun shall be your territory. No man

shall be able to stand before you all the days

of your life. As I was with Moses, so.

Will I be with you. I will not leave you,

nor forsake you. Be strong and of good courage.

For to you, For to this people you shall divide

and inheritance the land which I swore to their fathers

to give them. Only be strong and very courageous, that

you may observe to do according to all the law

which Moses, my servant commanded. You do not turn from

it to the right hand or to the left, that

you may prosper wherever you go. This book of the

Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall

meditate in it day and night, that you may observe

to do account to all that is written in it.

For then you shall make your way prosperous and successful.

Have I not commanded you be strong and have got courage.

Do not be afraid nor be dismayed, for the Lord,

your God is with you wherever you go. That's Joshua

one one through nine. Another person, another situation. So Joshua

used to work for Moses, and you had to get

what sirk a four million Jews across to Jordan, take

the promised land, divvy all up and move on. Imagine

managing four million people. That was a job that God

spoke to him. He gave him specific direction, and as

God spoke to him. God will speak to us and

give us specific direction. God's no respector of persons. Yeah,

if you need an answer to a question, don't go

to Google unless it's something pretty simple. You know, speak

to God and God will speak to you. God wants

to have a one to one regular communication with everybody

in this room and listening online.

Yeah.

He wants us to know that, to recognize that, and

to operate that way.

Yeah.

He doesn't want us to come to him when we've

got a problem, or when we've only got a problem.

Should I say, you don't ring your friend up when

you got a problem to here. I was on the

on the train I come out of London. I was

in the meeting or on a meeting in London. I

was this young lad sitting opposite me with his phone

and he was messaging his measures and calling all his

friends on his phone.

Love you bye bye, love you bye bye. What are

you doing tonight?

Love ye bye bye? What are you doing tonight? I

was thinking, Okay, there are blokes you're speaking to, you know,

and they rang up his his his girlfriend or can conson?

So come around? Can we do this? Can we do that?

His planigs his social life on the throne from from

water to loop back back out.

He was connecting.

Yeah, it was I find it amusing because I wouldn't

do that sort of thing personally. But you know, I'm

a different generation. But I said that to say this.

He was communicating from the time he got on the train,

when he finished work. He didn't put his phone down

to we go off the train. He was playing with

his phone, measuring somebody, talking to somebody. God wants us

to communicate with him throughout the day. Yeah, from the

time we get out of bed or God resurrects you

out of bed, depending what sort of person you are,

if you're a morning person or a night person. He

wants us to having that connection with him. He wants

to speak to us. He wants to talk to us

right now. Somebody might know that, but God wants to

remind you. He wants you to go deeper. Relationship doesn't

stop after five minutes. If you've known somedy for five

minutes and you've known something for five years, it's a

bit deep for you. Lot on the front road knows

something for fifty years. There's a different relationship, yeh, because

you know more about that individual. You know more about

that person. It's going to be a bit creepy for

some of us, but sometimes our parents know more about

us than we know about ourselves.

You're looking tired. No, no, yes you are.

Why do they know that because they had us in

our in their arms and then they says this big

and this big and this bid and you're always their child,

doesn't matter how old you are, yes, mum, no, mom,

you know when you're when you're that age or that age.

I've seen big blokes, yes, okay, yes, mum, and mum's

this big in their seventies and it's yes, yes, m'am.

There's a relationship there, and the Lord wants a better

relationship than that with us.

Okay hmm.

So there's a key in Joshua Joshua one, verse eight.

This book of the Lord shall not depart from your mouth.

You shall meditate in it day and night. I think

the word meditate means to mutter or to repeat, that

you may observe and do all that is written in it,

that you may make your way prosperus and they have

good success when we give attention to the word of God,

when we spend time in the word of God, that's

a vehicle that God used to speak to us. More

often than not, God will speak to us to his word. Yeah,

thank you, shir. God will speak to us to his word.

He agrees with me. If you know God, you'll learn

his voice. But he speaks to us through the word.

He also speaks to us when you're walking down the street,

but it might be through the word as well. But

the key here in this scripture is if we spend

time in the word of God, we'll get to know

God better. So when the time comes to have a

conversation about something which is a bit sticky difficult, we'll

know his voice. When Sunday rings you up, you recognize

their voice because He's used to hearing their voice. And

God wants to be in that place with us. So

this is fundamental stuff we talk about now. And then

you go, oh, no about that time. I've got my

tic this day, and you know I've got my tic

this dear, And that's good. But we need to do

more and tick a box. We need to apply that

principle so we know so when again into a situation

we need an answer, We've got an answer.

Hm.

I know a guy who's we're still a lived in

his nineties. Now he was he remembered the sort of

the end of the Welsh Revival, good old Welsh name.

I'm not.

Mentioned on the film on this Preacher, but I remember saying,

have I been saying to me? When people come to

come working for prayer? I don't want to know where

their situation. I don't know what I don't want to

know what their problem. I want to come to me.

I'll pray, and I'll pray what God gives me to pray.

I don't want my perception to be influenced by what

I know. I want to hear what God is saying

to me. That's why it's so important to know God's

voice and not be moved by other voices. Because we

have preconceived ideas. If I say the word dog, I

ask you on the front row, because you're nearest me,

what dog did you see? It wouldn't be the same

dog all the way down that row. It'll be a

different dog. It might be a poodle, it might be

a spaniel. It might be a labrador, it might one

of those little handbag dogs. You know, you will all

see something different because we're all individuals. So when God

speak to us. We need to have make sure we

don't have any preconceived ideas or perspectives.

We need to get it from the sauce.

Yeah, I know, I get it from the source's getting

to know the word, because the word is the sauce Jesus,

the living Word.

The word was with God. The word was God. Yeah.

Or to put it another way, Proverbs from twenty to

twenty two. My son, give attention to my words. Incline

the ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart

from your eyes, keeping in the midst of your heart,

for they are life to those who find them health.

The translations medicine to all their flesh. I don't know

the familiar scripture, but I'm going to put out there

today is to give attention to his word.

All right.

God wants you to know where you're going, why something's happening,

without asking somebody else. It's okay to ask directions for

the person you ask directions, need to know where you're going.

Not go down the road there, but don't turn right.

That's the wrong way. You know, that's not the directions

you want to hear. He wants you to know for yourself.

It's okay to speak Sunday who's maybe older or more mature, whatever,

and get some advice when it comes to your life,

your plan, your purpose, your direction. You need to know

all right. And any way you know is if you

know the voice of God.

All right.

So sound forty six and verse ten, a very very

familiar scripture, be still and know that I am God.

I will be exalted to among the nations. I will

be exalted in the earth. Another key here I wanted

to to mention today, be still, I know that I

am God.

Be still.

In other words, don't talk when we come to God.

Everyone wants to talk talk talk.

Talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk.

Talk that God says, be still and know that I

am God. Because God wants to talk to you. And

if you're yapping, yeah, he can't talk. Now it's I mean,

it doesn't mean it's okay not to talk to God.

But there are times and places to talk to God.

So when when you want God to speak to you,

you need to lay down your preconcert, idea, ideas, lay

down the day, lay down all this stuff because we

all have stuff. If I wanted to put their hand

up today, have you got any stuff going on? You

know you're going to go, no, everything's cool, man. They're

going to go, yeah, I've got stuff going on, because

they one has stuff going on.

Otherwise you're dead.

So we'll go on to say this morning wards, when

you come to me, listen rather than talk. When you

go to the library. If people still go to the

library nowadays, but you know there's there's use a big

sign up the rule of silence must be observed in

this library, or something like quiet to please with an

exclamation mark. They won't talk like this in the library

because there's a pattern there.

You don't.

You don't have a chat in a library because people

try to do some work or they try to read

the book. And so there's times when we can be

loud with God and there's times we need to be

quiet with God. But we need to understand those timings.

So it could be that you're coming to God and

you're chashing and then you disappear and he's going, hey,

I want to say something to you. Sometimes God will

say to me I want to have a conversation about something.

Need to sit down have a chat. I say okay, sure.

Then we sit down, have a chat and he speaks

and I go okay, and then I'll write it down

on my phone or something. But it's important I need

to remember it. But God deals with all of us

in a different way. And there's somebody who escapes to

God to the nod their head this way, say they

head that way. I know people here hear from God

months and say yours and the advants.

God talks us differently.

I guess when you tundstand that, you need to find

the pattern how God talks to you as an individual.

Remember that pattern so when God is speaks about something important,

you recognize it's God, not the cheese you had to

night before. Yeah, Or you're not running through your mind

some plan which have conceived yourself and trying to fit

it to God's plan for your life, because sometimes God's

timing is not our timing. You're thinking, come on, God,

now now, and he's going nah, And then they now

can be thinking is it really now?

Yeah?

Okay, that's the way he does things. He has a

certain pattern. People say, it's never early, is never laid

his own time. He has his own time frame and

God's time. Prayer is not necessari our time frame. Or

maybe you're so cool that it always is your time frame.

Who knows. H We need to be active listeners.

Get your tablet, get your smartphone, be ready to listen.

And if you're going somewhere and you can have and

you want to write something down or communicate something, You're

ready to go, aren't you. There's a guy who to

do some work for me years ago, and he was

in church. I think he ended up. He was going

to preach. So if I got his bible, if I

got his glasses, he had to borrow a bible. You

had to borrow some glasses so he could do the preach. Now,

I said, I'd like to say this. He wasn't ready.

He had the word. I thought, Oh, I left my

glasses at home. I can I borrow your glasses? Something

to fairy glasses? Oh I left my Bible home. Ah,

I never do that. We need to be ready to

listen to God. H. So some questions people ask, how

don't know when God's speaking to me? Was it the cheese?

Generally speaking? Does it align with the word of God?

Go out from here and jump off the bridge does

not align with the word of God. Have you got

some peace in your heart about what God's saying to you?

Does it align. We've got current plan for your life.

You've just got a new job. He just bought a

new house. He says, A you know, I need to

move to other side of the world, and you better

have a work from God before you do that. Yeah,

that does happen to somebody or some people, but you

need to know. So don't do something for lak and

just go out there on nothing. Make sure we build

our life on the word of God and hearing what

God says to make sure it lines with his word. Yeah,

this is all simple stuff. It's all foundational stuff, but

it's something we do every day.

We need to know what to do God. We have

choices to make. It's not like God.

Sh'll have a I can't remember now, I'm not a

coffee drink of it. Can I have a cafe latter,

can have a double expresso, can have a America Why,

He'll probably say, it doesn't matter. Choose what you like. Yeah,

it doesn't really matter. You can have a conversation about it.

What would I fancy today? Well, I think you fancy that? Okay,

Oh I'm gonna like that cake.

Oh that cake.

No, you don't like that, you're like that? You can

have that conversations with God. He likes to be engaged,

but you can do that. So when you come to

the situation, is this the right girl for me? Is

this the right bloke for me?

Yeah?

Or I've got to get my first job is as

to where i should be going? Or what want we

do about my kid? My kid's having some problems or

the kid says I'm have some problems with my parents.

What I'm going to do about it? I'm going to

manage it. God, look give you the answer because you've

learned to have a conversation. Yeah, So I think we'll

leave it there. So something to connect our faith with

this morning, if you want to refresh or if you

want to reset with God in you're here in their time,

you stand up, I'll pray. If you don't need a reset,

we don't stand up. It's something that you can connect

your faith to. There's someone's need to have a reset

or a restart. If you want a computer. You know

you've restart computer, don't you it's not working, Restart it,

reboot it. If you want to have a restart with

God so that you know you need to get a

better amplification about hearing, or maybe I even some people

don't even listen to God, so I don't even know

that they can talk to God. If you want to

start that journey, we'll pray and then we'll wrap this.

We'll go back over to that's all right, oh Father.

I pray for the people who won't have a reset,

won't have a refresh load. In Jesus name those who

are standing or those who are not standing that I

pray for those people that you would reset them. They

give them a hearing here so they know what the

Holy Spirit is saying to them.

This is the way, walk in.

It, so they know that, they know that, they know that,

they know that, they know that they know what you're

saying and where you're going.

In Jesus' name, M