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31st December 2023 Celebration Service

An Inspiring Word from RCF, Egham, Runnymede,

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  1. M hm m m mm hmmm. Yeah, mhm hm hm hm. Okay,

  2. this is another message about Kingdom ready. Last one you'll be pleased to

  3. know. They the title of the Holy Spirit Gaming was Operation Breakthrough. For

  4. this word operation breakthrough. This might sound like a military briefing, but that's

  5. how the Law gave it to me, So there we go. Hm.

  6. The dictionary definition of the word breakthrough means an instance of moving through or beyond

  7. an obstacle, or an instance of passing through a barrier, or you could

  8. say taking it to the next level. And what the Lord has have talked

  9. to us about today is about breakthrough, but operational breakthrough. If you don't

  10. have a breaker, it's not operational. You are if you like on the

  11. sidelines, you do not do anything in the Kingdom of God. It is

  12. made up of people like you and like me, ordinary people who have within

  13. them the presence and anointing of God, which makes us super natural people.

  14. When you were dead in sin, you were just the person. When you're

  15. born again, you're filled with the presence and the person of God. You

  16. carry that presence wherever you go. So to be operational, we need to

  17. be ready. Otherwise, if you're not ready. You can't be put into

  18. a position where you're operating how God wants you to operate. You know,

  19. you sit and he puts somebody else into play who is not their job to

  20. do what you should be doing, because He has to mobilize them because you're

  21. not ready. And that happens a lot, believe it or not. So

  22. they we're going to talk a little while about operational breakthrough h Professional athletes work

  23. to be at their best. Runners train altitude so when they go to where

  24. they're going to do the race, they've got that little bit extra than the

  25. next guy or the next goal. They're always pushing for a competitive edge.

  26. If you know people are into sports, they're very competitive, not just at

  27. sports but everything, any quicks, anything, They want to be there.

  28. They want to push to be where they want to be. They're always pushing

  29. the invisible barrier so they can be the best of the best, and they

  30. train hard to achieve those goals. All truth is parallel what you're seeing the

  31. spirit world. He's more real what's in the natural world. God wants us

  32. to be at our best. He wants us to train the way he wants

  33. us to train us to fulfill purpose to achieve his goal. John, that

  34. working man, thank you. Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven. Very familiar skipt

  35. scripture. I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord,

  36. especially from the amplified better. Another thing for I know the thoughts and plan

  37. to half of you, says the Lord thought some plans for welfare and peace,

  38. not for evil, to give you a hope in your final outcome.

  39. M another. When it's done, it's done. God prepares people to win,

  40. not to fail. However, you've got to get in the program.

  41. You cannot sit like a bump on a log and say, yeah, I'll

  42. do it, no problem. We're coming to the new year now. So

  43. it's one of those things where people make New Year's resolution, isn't it,

  44. The either look trickier, thinner or whatever. I don't want to achieve something,

  45. and they write some stuff down and some people go through that, go

  46. through the steps and get somewhere to people don't they just he just fades away.

  47. God does not want us to fade away. He wants us to fulfill

  48. purpose. Yeah. So when the hold this bit nudges you in the mind

  49. to get up and pray or nudges you to go and get hold of your

  50. Bible or wherever it is. That's the time to make the step. It's

  51. not like the astronauts said one leap for mankind or the exact translation. I

  52. can't remember. It's what it says, but you know it's it's it's shaping

  53. steps to get where we need to be. Yeah, this is all stuff

  54. we know, but this is what I mean asked to convey. So it

  55. is what it is. In essence, we can align with God's plan or

  56. can do our own. Sweet thing. Choice is hours, isn't it.

  57. Jesus said, I will build my church, and the gates of help shall

  58. not prevailed against it Matthew eighteen sixteen eighteen, And he will do just that.

  59. We need to cooperate. We all are bits, and we may go

  60. home. Everyone does their bit key things. To find out what your bit

  61. is and then do it. So God wants us to be operator ready at

  62. a moment's notice, and that with that in mind, we're going to conduct

  63. an inventory. I take stock of what we need to be doing. There's

  64. only two or three thinkering talk about Romans ten seventeen says, so faith comes

  65. by hearing. So that's the wrong translation. Let's get the right translation.

  66. So the faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. So

  67. then faith comes by hearing and hearing by them. You can't hear the word

  68. of God, I should come to church or you read on your bible,

  69. in your bible. Yeah, So the first thing to talk about this morning

  70. is our word. Level that's the written word, the living word, the

  71. Word of God. No word, no faith, no word no faith.

  72. The just shall live by faith. Yeah. The word of God produces faith

  73. in our hearts. So we need to have that word regularly. Daily.

  74. Daily input means a daily boost of faith. Yeah. I guess I'm just

  75. think about Christmas now, Sorry, my mind went to Christmas. Christmas,

  76. we have all these this Brits spread, don't we. Well wherever you know,

  77. we have turkey in this gun shape, people have harm and we have

  78. you know, roast potatoes, pickles in blankets, gonna be hungry now,

  79. all all that sort of stuff. And then if you're very English, you

  80. have Christmas pudding why branded more brandysource or something, isn't it. And there's

  81. a big spread and we told that food and people go and sit down and

  82. go, oh, obviously when we were we were chilling. Anyway, there's

  83. a long time ago. God wants to eat his spiritual food. Food is

  84. nice. Too much of it, you get fat, it is. You

  85. can't get fat on the word. You get strong on the word and your

  86. faith developed. So you can release that faith and see God heals somebody or

  87. work in somebody's life. God's for twenty, look probably for twenty. Put

  88. it on there. Yeah, my son, give attention to my words.

  89. Inclineate ear to my sayings, Do not let them depart from your eyes,

  90. keeping them in the midst of your heart. Their life to those that find

  91. them health, those translations of medicine to all their flesh. God's words are

  92. life and their health. Whatever we give our attention to will be front and

  93. center in our hearts and in our thinking. If you're watching a load of

  94. films or a load of soaps, or are you looking at them, that's

  95. what's going to be there. If you put the word of God that that's

  96. what's going to be there. Not saying don't watch TV. What I'm saying

  97. is we need to be operationally ready, so you know when you're listening online,

  98. we're going to listen later to this. You know where you are.

  99. God knows where you are. You know to me, I see your face.

  100. You could be smiling, you can be down wherever I see your face.

  101. God doesn't look at the outBut Pence, He looks on the heart.

  102. He sees you. You cannot hide from him. Try it doesn't work.

  103. Believe me. God sees it inside of what you're thinking in your heart.

  104. Never mind what you say in your face. He sees this in here.

  105. You cannot hide from him. So you know where you are with your word

  106. level. I'd have to put a finger or anything here. This applies to

  107. you. You know what you've got to do. If it doesn't apply to

  108. you, keep on doing what you're doing. Ye, The key thing is

  109. to be ready. The key thing is to the vest in the word of

  110. God. So your faith level is where it needs to be. Keep us

  111. foretold. So the word of God is sharp at the two edges, so

  112. penetrating. When you speak the word of God out of your mouth, things

  113. change. God said, light be, and light was With God's words in

  114. our mouth. As we walk in faith, things will change, and we're

  115. speak into circumstances. The situations to people's lives that's what God wants us to

  116. do. There's twenty twenty four of you're sitting at a bump on the log.

  117. He wants it to be a of operational readiness so it can move forward.

  118. It's no case looking around the people in this room, which get to

  119. look at the bigness of your God and what your God is going to do

  120. through you if you commit to the program and get on with it. They

  121. include me in that anyway. It's a number one, what's your word level?

  122. Like number two? What's your prayer that I like? Let me find

  123. that. M hm h m hmm. I think one Testalonians five seventeen comes

  124. to mind. Yeah, one Testonians five seventeen Paul speaking pray without ceasing.

  125. If you read the Apostle Paul's letters, he's always rocking up about prayer,

  126. prayer, prayer, prayer, prayer, prayer, prayer. That's what he

  127. says. I'll be thanks to God, thank you for his grace, and

  128. pray without ceasing. I think it's James five and verse fourteen. Then he

  129. said, como, I think or field as the church and then pray over

  130. him nineteen with oil and the prayer of faith is fifty and the prayer of

  131. faith you'll save the sick, and the thought she'll raise him up if he

  132. has committed and you half forgiven him. The prayer of faith shall save the

  133. sick. It's only a prayer filled with faith that's going to make any difference.

  134. Otherwise it's just going to hit the ceiling and bounce back. God wants

  135. us to be full of the word and in prayer. Now our prayer level

  136. is linked to our communion or our relationship with the Father. Oh we've got

  137. no relationship with God. I've got a prayer life just as that simple,

  138. isn't it. Really? You've got to have a connection if your marriage.

  139. Speak to your wife, you speak to your kids as a relationship. There

  140. if he didn't say anything for a few days, somebody at a slat,

  141. what are you doing? Why aren't you speaking to me? We need to

  142. be regularly communicating with God minute by minute, second by second, having that

  143. relationship with the father we had his children. When you come from your praise

  144. to play, people should see the presence of God in your life. John

  145. fifteen arm verse under evaned amplified the dwelling me and I will dwell in you

  146. live in me, and I will live in you. Dwelling me and I

  147. will dwell in you. Live in me, and I will live in you.

  148. Just as no branch can bear fruit of itself without abide in or being

  149. vitally undded to the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you abide,

  150. live remain in me when you are the branches. Whoever lives in me and

  151. I in him, bears much abundant fruit. However, apart from me,

  152. cut off from vital union with me, you can do nothing. If a

  153. person does not dwell in me, He's thrown out like a broken off branch

  154. and withers. Such branches are gathered, but I'm thrown to the fire,

  155. and they are burned. If you live in me, abide vitally united to

  156. me, and my words remain in you, and continue to live in your

  157. hearts. Ask whatever you want, will, and it shall be done for

  158. you. If you live in me, abide vitally united to me, and

  159. my words remain in you, and continue to live in your hearts. Ask

  160. whatever you will, and it shall be done to you. I was quite

  161. a promise. Do we believe it? Do we do it? It's all

  162. the bad relationship it's all the bad relationship. He wants us to be vitally

  163. united to him in that fellowship, which takes time into case comima, doesn't

  164. It said to your wife a quick chatter for two minutes, I'll see you

  165. in the end of two days. Time to give a quick chapter two minutes.

  166. That isn't going to work for any relationship. It's got to be daily

  167. contact. It's got to be quiet, it's got to be a time of

  168. quality time. But that's quite an hour in the morning for you, or

  169. where it's going to be. We're all different, we've all got different pressures

  170. in life. I'n't in nowadays. These things I've picked up about people listening

  171. online, ring at all times, or text being at all times nowadays.

  172. I was a youngster. These things didn't exist, So you'd use a landline,

  173. or you know, you wrote a letter, who wrote a letter and

  174. posted it and waited for a response. It was a different, different world,

  175. no computers at the time. So life run at a different place.

  176. Now life is a lot quicker, a lot faster. Whatever happens to the

  177. other side of the world. Things on your device in a matter of seconds,

  178. and so the life we live is very very quick, very fast paced.

  179. But that doesn't allow us to walk away from our communion with God.

  180. That means we've got to be wise how we use our time to get into

  181. that space. If you don't have to do it, ask him give you

  182. a little plan so you can do what you need to do. Someone's are

  183. very organized. I can half time out others just everywhere and how to do

  184. that? God knows that. But God come work with us to achieve the

  185. goal he wants us to achieve in our lives. It's ours possibility to take

  186. time to live and to do well with Him. Well with Him. Idea

  187. of faults should be to do life with God. And that's just not the

  188. only on a Sunday. We should be living and remaining a walker every day

  189. and that's where he wants it to be. With this operational readiness peace.

  190. Yeah, the worst level of the faith level of community and that will all

  191. roll into one thing. So about filling ourselves the worth of God. So

  192. we're operating in faith, having a decent level of prayer, so we can

  193. release that faith in the people's lives, see people's change and kind of presence

  194. of God in such a way that manifest to other people. I've just seen

  195. shadows of people walking backwards and authority, as with praising God, going to

  196. town to shop on a Sunday, These people who don't know Jesus. Maybe

  197. if people like you and I they're going to see them, they'll be ready.

  198. Otherwise, you know, we're going to give you best, like the

  199. runners. You've got to prepare. We've got to give our best. Genesis

  200. five twenty two says he not walked in habitual fellowship with God. Genesis five

  201. twenty four says, and he not worked in habitual fellowship with God, and

  202. he was not forgot took him home to be with him. That's before they

  203. come with the Holy Spirit. He not worked with God, and he was

  204. out of her only Bang gone. We need to a place where we walk

  205. with God. They say, Oh, that's Simon, he walks with God.

  206. That's Salmon, she walks with God. Why because they can see that,

  207. not because we're telling them that. Because they can see that. So

  208. it's a guy called ruthless. Ruthless Mosley who was nineteen nineteen forties, nineteen

  209. fifties. He'd put it this way, each believer has promised to them the

  210. ability to live on daily, moment by moment, conscious union with Jesus that

  211. would produce a life of joy on an unparalleled level. I'll say that again.

  212. I'll read that again. Each believer has promised to them the ability to

  213. live on daily, moment by moment conscious union with Jesus that would produce a

  214. life of joy on an unparalleled level. So we talk about the union and

  215. the communion, which is you get to God's presence. That's what we need

  216. to be stretching for. That's what that's the space we need to occupy.

  217. We need to prioritize a union. Interestingly, John five and verse thirty,

  218. which is Jesus speaking, says, I'm able to do nothing from myself independently

  219. on my own accord, but totally as I am taught by God, and

  220. as I get his orders, even as I hear, I judge, I

  221. decide, as I am bidden to decide, as the voice comes to me.

  222. So I give a decision, and my judgment is right, just righteous,

  223. because I do not seek or cancel my own will. I have no

  224. desire to do what is pleasing to myself, my own aim, my own

  225. purpose, but only the will and pleasure of the Father who sent me.

  226. If the Master said that, then we need to align with that. You're

  227. only going to hear the voice of God if you get into the union and

  228. the communion and you sit and you listen, and then as the union community

  229. develops, when you're walking along the street, God will speak to you when

  230. you can't. When you're at work, God saith to you, and you'll

  231. make a divine intervention into a situation where people say, where did that come

  232. from? That's an opportunity to tell them, but it's sony when we commit

  233. to the union. But it's just going to happen. So homework for today

  234. is to read during the five thirty every day this week, meditate on it.

  235. That's a lot to speak to you through that. What do you need

  236. to do to be in that place? You can read the scriptures, you

  237. know, we can read. It's all cool, it's all good stuff.

  238. But we've got to be operation already. We've got to live this stuff.

  239. You're talking to this and about the Kingdom of God. You know, they

  240. want to see reality in what you're sharing. There's no reality. If there's

  241. no life, they're going to say, I don't want know. When they

  242. see life, they're interested because people are drawn to life. You see somebody

  243. with a little baby might never be their baby or their kid. Big eyes,

  244. funny noises, people tickle, people are drawn to life. God is

  245. life. We call to live life to the full till it overflows. He

  246. says, that's abundant life. We will live abundant life when we walk in

  247. in union and communion, full of faith, full of the Word. It's

  248. that simple, following nose. He So we've talked about the word level,

  249. We've talked about the prayer level, we talked about the communion. So a

  250. practical intervention. So don't no of You can't fulfill purpose, you can't fulfill

  251. plan if you're not healthy. I you're not sleeping properly, you're not eating

  252. properly, you're exercising properly, some form of those sects that are laid down

  253. in beats and sleep. If you'll never make me do an in safety and

  254. confident trust, we have a responsibility, no need to invest in the spiritual,

  255. but to invest in the physical. No point stuff in your face with

  256. donuts and the word of God. After a while you won't be able to

  257. get into your clothes. How I know people in this room what that revelation.

  258. It wasn't me. You know. We've got to look after our physical

  259. bodies. They carry the presence of God. You're going to be out of

  260. you before your time and not fulfill your purpose because you're not investing in your

  261. health, in investing your sleep, you're investing your eating. This might be

  262. simplest, but that's why I that's to convey this morning. So we need

  263. to make right choices about what we do so we can feel perfil for purpose.

  264. It can be operationally ready. We can pray to go when he says

  265. go, do when he says do. That makes it to sort about making

  266. right choices, isn't it? Only thirty four seven says Moses was one hundred

  267. and twenty years old when he died. His eyes were not dim No,

  268. it's natural vigor diminished. So if you're eight, you've got through the twenty

  269. years if you want to believe in faith and stretch for that. Moses when

  270. he died, his eyes were not dim in these glasses, and his natural

  271. vida was not diminished. We need to push through a fulfilled purpose. We

  272. need to be ready to do that. We need to be That's why it's

  273. about what I call the smatches now operational breakthrough, because wants to be operational,

  274. not only spiritually but also physically. Okay, God speaking to you about

  275. that? Fair enough? It is not. But don't just focus on the

  276. one part of it. Make sure you understand the big picture. That might

  277. mean something. You've got to go do some walking someone, you've got to

  278. go to the gym or any equivalent. Doesn't matter what you do, is

  279. it? You do what all this bird says? You know? To do

  280. this? You need to do that? You know, Yeah, I don't

  281. eat that anymore. Don't put that in your mouth. No no, no,

  282. that's not anymore. No more in your mouth. Something else? I

  283. have that in moderation, Godly help us. We've got to listen. M

  284. do you know no, no, no, not not the two cakes today?

  285. Just one. It's Christmas, yes, Christmas, but it's tomorrow.

  286. We need to be listening to what you're saying. So fulfill purpose. So

  287. last one commitments. We need to check whether or a committed to something,

  288. or committed to doing something, or committed to certain relationships, certain connections with

  289. people. There's only so much that we can do as individuals, and how

  290. we direct our time, how we direct our resources the twenty four hours in

  291. the day, we're supposed to sleep for most of that part of that,

  292. not work until midnight, and then get a put poll and start again.

  293. That's not balanced. So we need to assess our commitments, should it be

  294. involved in this or not where it should be targeting our time. That applied

  295. to everybody. The scripture we're going to look out here is John fifteen,

  296. bringing from Versus one through eight and the truth eye. And my father is

  297. the vine dresser. Any branch in me that does not bear fruit, that

  298. stops bearing, he cuts away, trims off, takes away, and he

  299. cleans and repeatedly prudes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it

  300. bear more and richer, a more excellent fruit. You are cleans and prude

  301. already because of the word which I've given you, the teachings I've discussed with

  302. you. Whether in me and I will dwelling, you live in me,

  303. and I will live in you. Just as no brands can bear fruit at

  304. itself without a binding in or being vitally united to the vine, neither can

  305. you bear fruit unless you are buying me. I'm the vine. Whether whether

  306. lives in me, and I in him bears much abundant fruit. However,

  307. apart from me, cut off from vital union with me, you can do

  308. nothing. Person does not dwelling me, he's thrown out like a broken off

  309. branch and withers. Such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire,

  310. and they are burned. If you're live in me, abide widely united to

  311. me and my words, remain in you, and continue to live in your

  312. hearts. Ask whatever you will, I should be done for you. When

  313. you bear or produce much fruit. My father is honored and glorified, and

  314. you show and prove yourselves true followers of mine. So if it's the vine

  315. where the branches first couple verses of the whole lot, prunely going on there,

  316. you're proven. If you do, you'll be done. Yeah. If

  317. you're not in a bear fruit, you're proved. If you are in a

  318. bare food, you're provend. So sometimes we need to get our pruning shares

  319. out and do a bit pruning. Is that relationship or is that thing I'm

  320. doing go in the right direction? I do need to chop it off where

  321. I want to be fall through the fruits. But it might also want to

  322. prone's other things in our lives, the things that take our attention away from

  323. what we need to be focusing on. It's not that might be wrong things,

  324. it's cause where the attention needs to be. Again, that's about flowing

  325. and walking in and through the presence of God to know what we need to

  326. do. God can tap us on the shoulder, espe actually hello, tap

  327. it on the shoulder, and we can go hello, I want to do

  328. this, and you can go, oh right, do it a bit later,

  329. you know, torow, or you can go yeah, okay, again,

  330. I'll do it. Let's get on with it. Let's get on with

  331. the picks that we need to do. It's to it isn't it. Kay?

  332. You know they're very short trouser here today. So you know, we're

  333. all got a long trousers. Things that are dead and proven, so that

  334. things that need to grow have the energy to do. So. You need

  335. to make sure that we're growing in the right direction. We need to bravely

  336. consider our commitments, our relationships on what changes we need to make to be

  337. the operationally ready. Yeah, I will build my church, and the gates

  338. of Hell shall not prevail against it. He does the building he does the

  339. pruning, He does a talking to position ourselves in a place to listen and

  340. to hear and then to respond. We need to align with God's will for

  341. our lives because purpose and our plan is plan. Should I say I linked

  342. to doing these things right? World level, right prayer level, right communion

  343. level, look after your physical body, do what it says to do,

  344. look at your commitments. Other things wrap up into one thing. That's successful

  345. Christian life, where your operations are ready to do what you need to at

  346. the drop of that. It can deploy you anywhere in this world, anywhere

  347. in this town, to do what He wants you to do, not say

  348. somebody else across the town. Okay, you better go and do this because

  349. you're not ready. Don't I get to heaven? I got to. Well,

  350. you're going to do that. I have cause you went ready. It's

  351. best to be rest of forel your purpose as it's all about making quality decisions,

  352. isn't it little decisions directors? It's not just one decision, that's it.

  353. Flippings three and verse fourteen. Hopfuls of this way I press towards the

  354. goal the prize of the book calling of Gone in Christ Jesus, I press

  355. towards the goal, the prize of the book calling of Christ of God in

  356. Christ Jesus. Later later on, I said, I run the race.

  357. I've done my bit, I fulfill what I've got to do, I've done

  358. purpose, I'm done, and dustard, I'm out here. We need to

  359. press towards to go. So we can't say I've both said I've run my

  360. race, aren't here. When it's God's timing, we cannot miss God's best.

  361. We must make sure we fulfilled his purpose through our lives. Let's pray.

  362. So whether this room, whether they sting later, whether they's thing now.

  363. I pray that God takes you from where you are put through from where

  364. it puts you where you need to be, positions you in these areas we've

  365. talked about, the physical, the world level, the prayer level, the

  366. commitments, the health. So so he puts you in a position where it

  367. helps you achieve your best, fulfill your purpose. This won't be all at

  368. once. It will be step by step, and each step will be a

  369. miracle. There's not trying to do anything at the same time. This is

  370. about taking step by step making adjustments. The key thing is to be operationally

  371. ready when you need to be. God can work with you. Don't misunderstand

  372. me. There are certain things that need to change in our lives, so

  373. I pray the name of Jesus. Thank God speaks to you clearly about these

  374. things, step by step, and each step will be a miracle in Jesus

  375. name. Amen,