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21st July 2024 Infill Service - See into the Invisible, Do the Impossible...

An Inspiring Word from RCF, Egham, Runnymede,

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  1. H m hm h m h kah mhm h m h m hm hm.

  2. So good morning. So the title of this word is see into the invisible

  3. and do the impossible. That this is on the same series of dealing with

  4. what you don't see. So it's see into the invisible and do the impossible.

  5. So Father, I pray that you would open our ears to hear what

  6. you want us all individually to get from this word, whether listening online,

  7. listening in the room, or listening later in Jesus name. So, as

  8. believers, we inhabit two words, that which we can see, the world

  9. of the flesh, and that which is invisible, which is the world of

  10. the spirit. So we are a spirit person inside a physical body because we

  11. were born again. So flesh to flesh is firm, Spirit to spirit is

  12. firm. That's just how it is. That's how God made things, and

  13. they make the run and different rules apply in each world. To see into

  14. the invisible, we must inhabit the world of the spirit. In Habit means

  15. that we live there. We don't go for a visit. We live there.

  16. Somebody's going to go on holiday or be in a holiday, and you

  17. go, you stay for a few weeks ago, I'll tell you come back,

  18. and then you go back to your home. That's where you live,

  19. which is where you inhabit. That's all your stuff is there. You live

  20. there. And we have a choice every day whether we walk in the spirit

  21. or whether we walk in the flesh, or sometimes we flip from one to

  22. the other, depending what's going on, depending on who cut you up or

  23. what's Onny said about you. To fulfill our potential in the Kingdom of God,

  24. you must learn to walk consistently in the spirit, where we will see

  25. into the invisible and will do the impossible. That's just how Jesus walked on

  26. the earth, and we are supposed to be as he is. Fundamentally,

  27. this requires us to live by faith. Rom As one seventeen said the judge

  28. to live by faith. Had I back two fall said the same thing Hebrews

  29. ten thirty eight. He said the same thing. There's there's a there's a

  30. there's a there's a little thread with the band bat that judeall live by faith.

  31. So this is going to be fundamental words. But there's there's a reason

  32. for share what we're sharing, because we have to build a bit of a

  33. foundation before we talk about more in depth things, because that's just how it

  34. works. So Hebrews eleven one, which is something Dave started about two two

  35. weeks ago, says, now faith is the substance or the compound of things

  36. hoped for, the evidence of things not seen im invisible. For by it

  37. the elders obtained a good testimony or good report. By faith, we understand

  38. that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which

  39. are seen were not made of things which are visible, so that things which

  40. are seen were not made of things which are visible. See. God created

  41. in image, didn't they Genesis one twenty six. We're creating an image of

  42. Guardia. God spoken and Jesus made it. The Holy Spirit breathe life into

  43. it that'd been the flesh body. So we need to learn to live by

  44. the Spirit within us and follow his directions and follow his leanings. If you

  45. can't see it in the spirit, it's not going to manifest in the flesh.

  46. It is an easy thing to say, but it's it's it's a truth.

  47. The spirit world is more real than the natural world. That is just

  48. how it is. But we were born into the natural world, and now

  49. we have an encounter with the living God, and now we're called to live

  50. in the spiritual world, so we need to learn how to do that.

  51. Although we might move from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light,

  52. it takes us time to learn the things of the world and learn things of

  53. the spirit. That's just how it is. Individually and corporately, the challenges

  54. that we see into the invisible and do the impossible, that's individually and corporately.

  55. We're all in different places. That's just how it is. Again,

  56. I does work for this preach. We're all in different places. Nobody's in

  57. the same place. Nobody's twins. Yeah, So God don't to take us

  58. from where we are to where he wants us to be, and that is

  59. step by step. So the ass today is to listen to what you're saying

  60. through me to you and make the adjustments that you need to make on your

  61. journey. We're all on the journey, are we. Let's be honest about

  62. it. Nobody's arrived and said you've arrived to say that's a poky, Oh

  63. that's not true. If sorry, if you don't understand what that means.

  64. We're all on the journey and it all starts with faith. That's what connects

  65. us to the world in the spirit. And the way God works is God

  66. creates with faith fulfilled words. He calls things that do not exist as though

  67. they do exist. I know that's just that's a fundamental truth. But we

  68. need to go the next morning. He lives by faith. He is faith

  69. so much though that he calls things that are not as though they were.

  70. To Romans four, verse seventeen, have I I have major the father many

  71. nations in the Prince of Hippoboo believed God who gives life to the dead and

  72. calls those things which do not exist as though they did. He does this

  73. by faith, activated, energized and expressed and working through love. Again,

  74. this is a fundamental truth. God works by faith through love, and he

  75. wants us to work by faith through love to see into the invisible and do

  76. the impossible. You can't just leave from this concept, this precept, to

  77. this precept. There are the journeys that you need to take. I've talked

  78. to her. I know that he was telling me how about his son,

  79. Tiny shoelacers. He took a journey from shoes with belcrow straps on to Tiny

  80. his own lasers, and I found out the kid found it difficult to make

  81. the two loops and then wrap it round and than not, and so he

  82. just lost it and melt down. So they can't do it. I can't

  83. do it. I can't do it. I can't do it. I can't

  84. do it. He said, yes, you can do it. Just take

  85. it step by step by step. Do it again. So he did it

  86. again, and then he got it, and he was running around there the

  87. room very excited. Now we need to take it. I said that to

  88. say this, we need to take it step by step by step. If

  89. you don't get the right, if you don't get step two, go back

  90. to step one and take it step by step by step till we get it.

  91. Does not interest how long it takes, as long as we get it.

  92. Abraham, it was nineteen nine years old when he spoke to him.

  93. It's a bit older when where I had a son. So was Sarah.

  94. There was a time we say progression before we got the key. Thing is

  95. for us to get where we need to get. There is therefore no condemnation

  96. in Christ Jesus. He doesn't condemn us, know, so we condemn ourselves.

  97. So in other words, take it step by step by step, not

  98. a lot ones, but he stepp is a miracle. Some people think,

  99. oh, I've tried this, it doesn't work. Yes, it does work.

  100. You've got to take it step by step by step. Don't give up.

  101. Jeers didn't give up on us. Let's not give up on the journey.

  102. So start where you are today, where I am today, and take

  103. a step by step and met the adjustments that the Lord nudget you on that

  104. journey. To move mountains, to do the impossible, we need to see

  105. into the invisible. Interesting question, does anybody want to move mountains? Does

  106. any want to see God move in their life, in their community, in

  107. their family. Yeah, so we need to see into the invisible until the

  108. impossible. Galatians five six says for if we are in Christ Jesus, either

  109. circumcision nor ussertations didn't count, but anything and only faith activated and energized and

  110. expressed and working through love. There's an inexpitable connection between faith and love.

  111. We need to walk in love through the Holy Spirit's help. Otherwise we might

  112. not be as gracious we could be. Someone us a better buy grace than

  113. we are. Naturally. Some people as sweet as pin naturally some people as

  114. hard as nails. Naturally depend where they come from. But God always wants

  115. to get to that place where we walk in love and nothing moves us something.

  116. You can't get angry if but the Father said, get angry and say

  117. nut. So God creates with faithful words. He says light b Genesis one

  118. twenty one. The light was as well the people of translation light be light

  119. was as he calls things that are not as though they were. Need to

  120. call things that are not as though they were. That's when we read in

  121. the Bible Joshua one ain't it says, do you know that these words depart

  122. from your mouth, keep them in the midst of your heart for their life

  123. to those if you have been in the midst of your heart, yeah,

  124. problems for twenty the same thing. Don't know this words department their mouth for

  125. their life, to the pin of health, medicine, to all their flesh.

  126. It's interesting that there's a little thread through the Bibles, like golden threads

  127. through the Word of God. Cos there's golden threads through the Word of God.

  128. So our foundational job is to make sure that we know His word,

  129. to make sure it's in us, to make sure that it's part of us,

  130. because that's where faith comes from. Right, So we pay attention to

  131. his word and meditate on it, it becomes part of us. A level

  132. of our faith raised us. And that's what Jesus did. Jesus meditating on

  133. the word of God. He spent time in the word of God. All

  134. Hebrew children did that. That was theirs our training. John five, verse

  135. nineteen in the AD Classic Versions says that Jesus answered them by saying, I

  136. assure you most solemnly. I tell you the son is able to do nothing

  137. of himself of his own accord, but he's able to do only what he

  138. sees the father doing. Whatever the father does is what the son does in

  139. the same way in his turn, So Jesus said, the son is able

  140. to do nothing of himself and paraphrase now, only what he sees his father

  141. do. Mm hm. So jesus earthly dad was Joseph. So he saw

  142. his earthly dad with natural eyes his heavenly father you saw with the eyes of

  143. the spirit. That's those two worlds. Again, I spoke about the initial

  144. to start this breach. Naturally speaking, may have seen your dad do certain

  145. things, and you learn from watching what your dad does, whether it's it

  146. was a cook cooking, whether if it's was a builder building. Something you

  147. learn from him by watching man. I don't pass me this, pass me

  148. that, do this, do that, Don't touch that that's hot, Touch

  149. that you'll get burnt. All these things you learn from your natural dad.

  150. And there's a relationship there. You stood next to him and he stood next

  151. to you. Don't touch that, not yet, that's a drill. Don't

  152. play with it. We learned all truth is parallel. What's true in the

  153. naturalist true in the spiritual realm. Jesus sat with his heavenly dad and learned

  154. what he needed to do. Now in the world of the spirit, you

  155. just don't go, hey, I'm here, mate, let me sit down,

  156. have a chat with you. You come in too, God's presence in

  157. a certain way, with thanksgiving, with praise. And then when you come

  158. into that secret place Father talks about the secret place, you sit and you

  159. listen, and as a communion, and there's a union, which talking about

  160. in a bit. Don't get ahead of myself here, but there's a relationship.

  161. And it's in that time of relationship, in that times of communion and

  162. union, that you see what your heavenly father is saying and doing. Now,

  163. depending on your relationship is what you will learn. Depend on how deep

  164. that relationship is. Your dad said when you're two or three years old,

  165. like the gas, chop the onion, or pass me that drill, or

  166. passion that screwge ever. You know, you got to a certain age,

  167. we could do that. And God develops a spiritually speaking to a certain age.

  168. So we're ready to do with the bigger things because when we carved that

  169. time with the Father and we can't see what he's doing, but there's a

  170. development, and that's where it's tending the word of God, developing healthy habits

  171. with him in his presence, that we learn to develop that relationship where we

  172. see into the visible and do the impossible. There are some youngsters around here

  173. do that sort of thing when they started gym, and as people in their

  174. ages of sit like a bump of a lot because they stopped when the red

  175. received the message of salvation. It's all depends on how we want to develop

  176. that relationship. Certain relationships are waving relationships. Certain relationships are deeper relationships.

  177. Sometimes that's made by choice, sometimes made by circumstances. With God. We

  178. can go into his buried presence. We can no him intimately. Everybody has

  179. that privilege, no deeds excluded. But we've got to follow it, follow

  180. his pattern. Do it this way, m M M. John fifteen,

  181. Jesus is speaking. Verse four says dwelling me. This is the amplified classic

  182. version, dwelling me and I will dwelling. You live in me, and

  183. I will live in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit of itself

  184. without abiding in being vitally united to the vine, neither can you bear fruit

  185. unless you abide live remain in me. Verse five says I am the vine.

  186. You are the branches. Whoever lives in me and I in him bears

  187. much abundant fruit. However, apart from me, cut off from vital union

  188. with me, you can do nothing. If a person's not dwelling me,

  189. he's thrown out like a broken off branch and withers. Sus branches are gathered

  190. and thrown in to the fire, and they are burned. So Verse five

  191. talks about the union to what I alluded to earlier, about having that union

  192. communion with the Father. So you can see what he's doing. He can

  193. speak to you I just spend time with this word, your faith increases.

  194. She can do what initially he said to you. I like to do that.

  195. Let me give you a little secret. If God asks you to do

  196. something, you can't do it by yourself. Generally speaking, it's usually impossible

  197. in the natural. But we've got all things are possible. We do it

  198. by faith. I like use due letter, the exampswer not here today,

  199. But so she she said, up an orphanage in there outside the gingers.

  200. You're gander. That was really impossible and natural. But God gay with the

  201. grace to see something of his heart that he wanted to do in that place.

  202. And she did that, and she's doing that if you know truly,

  203. I even though it's not easy, everything is a step of faith, just

  204. as an example of somebody. But what about us? For about our journey?

  205. What about our walk? What were we doing? Are we in union

  206. community with a farmer? Do we need to make it adjustments so we can

  207. do that sitting down? Somebody takes time, doesn't it. Whether it's we

  208. have a friend who spends their time with the Lord, like eleven twelve,

  209. one o'clock at night. I can't do that. I'm out by our take

  210. nine o'clock nowadays, because I got experily in the morning and when that's their

  211. own time, when they spend it with him in that communit union, communion,

  212. that's a fundamental or foundational step is creating the time to do that.

  213. All this stuff we talk about this morning is its fundamental foundational stuff. But

  214. they ask is that you revisit it, reflect on it, and make your

  215. own make your own adjustments. What we do now echoes into eternity. The

  216. decisions we make now will affect our journey, whether right decisions or wrong decisions.

  217. And it's our decision, but we need to make it through the through

  218. the lens of God's direction. If you don't spend time with him, you

  219. don't know. It's very hard to know who's speaking. To get a phone

  220. over something, it's like who are you? Or only speaks to an automatic

  221. fay that they said one word. Sometimes don't say hello, it's me.

  222. A phone call from Hello, it's me. I have another phocus from Hello,

  223. it's me. I'm thinking who is me? I'm thinking thinking that,

  224. oh, hello, so and so you might be a met person. Hello,

  225. it's me. Say hello, it's me. To see into the invisible

  226. and do the impossible. We need to make adjustments in our lives, how

  227. we do stuff, when we do stuff. This is just a fundamental message.

  228. A lot more to this and that, but I haven't got the time

  229. to give you justice this morning. So this is just foundational information which we

  230. need to pray over and decide how we want to use it, what we

  231. want to do with it. As a fellowship, We're going to change this

  232. town. That's certain things we need to do which you can't do by ourselves.

  233. And if we don't do it by faith, it will happen because that's

  234. how God works. So we need to make some adjustments individually and corporately.

  235. I mean, it's a time of self reflection and thinking. Okay, Father

  236. Jesus Fellers, but what am I doing? I need to maybe change?

  237. Unless you're all perfect, of course, I am a work in progress,

  238. so I don't count myself in that sort of a place right now. Maybe

  239. perfect in God's side, but I'm still a work in progress. So one

  240. key thing, and what's consciously time. One key thing is that we need

  241. to remember all this sits around the words surrender that song I surrender own,

  242. I surrender home Jesus I surrender, I surrender. All nice song, nice

  243. words? Do we do? It? Is the It's a question, isn't

  244. it? So this is a more a reflective word, whether load of answer

  245. to reflect on what he's saying to us personally today, take it away,

  246. think about it. Let's start making some ADJUSTMCE so we can see into the

  247. visual and do the impossible. Once you were it's tip this world is gonna

  248. be and so as I said, what you're gonna call this? So he

  249. said that, and I know I was typing in yesterday. That's all the

  250. eye and I thought that's interesting. I haven't seen that before. So it's

  251. it's like we see with the eyes of faith. Want a better description.

  252. I can't think of a better way of saying it rather than the eyes of

  253. naturalized. See, your journey starts today. If for the military say we

  254. accept this mission, you're going to go for it. You know you're going

  255. to step up to the plate. Use americanism. God's ask is what are

  256. you going to do so you can see into the invisible? Doingly impossible in

  257. your generation, in your lifetime. Let's face it, when we're all done

  258. in dustity and some of us have fur down that round others. Your ability

  259. to influence in this space, as far as I understand it, is diminished,

  260. So I think we'll leave it there. I'll pray Sharon and the rather.

  261. I asked that you would help us to assimilate what has been shared and

  262. make our own God directed decisions about how we make adjustments so we can do

  263. what it suggested to see into the invisible and dearly impossible. I appreciate it's

  264. it's step, step by step, so please help us to to get it

  265. because I was not to lose heart, because I was to journey on that

  266. road in Jesus name. Yeah yeah h