15th October 2023 Infill Service - Simon Chaffer - Pattern for Living

Which one. Mm hm h m hm h m hm m m good morning.

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this room online now online later just take my words and then what you want

them to be in Jesus names. Good morning. So we're continue in the

series. I resist, We'll see it later. It's not in the title.

I want to talk about patterns. Patterns for living as a child.

My mum, who's in the eighties now, used to use K's patterns to

make clothing when we were kids, for her and for us. I remember

getting these little packets from K's and inside there was some light tissue paper with

different shapes on depending on how big you were where your size ten, twelve,

whatever. I remember my mother laying out the material on the table and

then pinning the pattern to the material. After just cut it down to the

right size, and then went to the sewing machine, and then we've got

a garment out of that. One of my childhood members making things from patterns.

About this yesterday, putting this word together. You know, we all

have patterns in our own lives that we've learned from significant others, parents,

grandparents, aunts, uncles. Where's how we learned to smile or how we

learned to frown. Have I learned to do some things. If you meet

a family, sometimes when you see them and they all smile, they all

smile in a certain way. If you notice that, it's either how the

mom smiles or how the dad smiles or the grand smiles. But it's there.

There's always there's something there. I once once around the day Julia's health

for dinner, and I remember meeting Dave's sister and they both smiled about the

same time. I thought, oh, look, it's not very similar.

Their eyes lit up, a smile came up. It was right, Okay,

I never met david sister before, so you know, I only knew

Dave when I met a sister. Of the smile was there. It's like,

okay, So we have those sort of patterns in our lives. That's

just how it is. But I also have patterns when the things are challenging

as well. When something doesn't go quite right with a pattern kicks in,

whether that's a positive pattern or a negative pattern. When somebody applies some pressure

to us which is outside on our control, then we have a pattern.

That pattern can be the word of God. Says us, and I'm not

going to fear or that pattern can be. What am I going to do?

I do not know what I'm going to do about the situation, depending

why on what you're doing. You know, some of those patterns might not

align with a God's pattern that has given the master pattern to live our lives.

It's in the word of God. He lays it out for us in

the Word of God, how it should operate, how it should approach certain

situations and circumstances. And that's good unless we go through his school alone.

I don't until we go through that process of abiding, of imbibing his pattern.

If you like swapping and swapping our pattern for his pattern, you go

through the same cycle. And what the Law wants to do today was talk

about patterns in our lives and maybe it's going to goose you or produce.

So if it's him, you need to do some a doubt. If it's

not him, just asn't to the sermons else them. So he wants to

challenge us about patterns in essence or in summary. We've got some adjustments to

make in our lives. Some of them may be small adjustments, might be

big adjustments, depending on what God's going to speak about today. I don't

know, John says in the amplified version, the thief comes in order to

steal and to kill and to destroy. I came that they may have and

enjoy life, and have it in abundance to the full, to the overflows.

Jesus wants us to enjoy life. We hear for a purpose to extend

the Kingdom of God, but he wants us to enjoy life. He's not

a great advert for the Kingdom of God. Who walks around long faced,

head down, not living in the blessing of God, not being victorious in

the things of God. That's not a great advert for God. And that's

where God wants us to be. He wants us to enjoy life and have

it in abundance to the full toll. It overflows. Few full of glass

up and keep feeling that glass, and keep feeling that. After a while,

it's going to start overflow. It's going to start running on the table,

it's going to start under floor. It's going to make a mess.

Sometimes abundance is messy, but abundance is abundance, and things can get messy

when the abundance of God flows and God walks to what us to walk in

that place of abundance. I thought the name in two and that's the space

he wants us to occupy. However, more often than not, we can

allow circumstances to become hindrances, and we can take our eyes off God on

what the Word of God says, and focus on our circumstances. I think

it's Jeremiah who says, Behold, I am the Lord of God of old

flesh. Seven Behold, I'm the Lord of God of all flesh. Is

there anything too hard for me? The joke goes, yeah, but there's

no butts with God. Nothing is too hard for God. But it's how

we see it, what pattern is playing through our mind when something happens.

The key is how we react in the first few seconds, the first few

moments, that will determine the outcome. I remember story of a lady who's

child in hospital with many ingitis, and she got to the hospital and the

first thing that came out of the mouth I refuse to fear. I refuse

to fear about this situation. I refuse to fear about this circumstance. A

child was healed, and Joyce's not a nice disease. A child was healed,

but she chosen the first few moments to send the tone of how she's

going to respond. Because you've learned to pattern about what to say and what

not to say. But it needs to come from within. It's not thinking,

you know, out of the bundance the hearth, the mouth mouth speaks

Lot six at the abundance of the heart. If you've got rock and roll

and east Enders or whatever you want to watch in there rather than the word

of God, when you come to a circumstance of the situation, that's what's

going to come out. This is how it is. I have a hosepipe

at home which I used to wash the carriage of the garden, and I

left it standing for long time. So when I turned the hose on,

you start to spin out of this green slime. The stagnant. I tossed

the hose although that's I'm not going to get that clean anymore. There was

an old hose I got with it. But you know, if it's stagnant,

if you're not flowing with a living word, the whether those alive and

it's full of power active operty, bendigrid and effective sharpening. The two edge.

It sort of penetrating the divided line and sold in the spirit. Yeah,

if that word living word is not flowing through you, you're going to

stagnate with green slime stuff. So what's going to come out? I got

look at my notes? An't I h m hm? Yeah. We can

either build our house on the solid rock or can either build that house on

the sand. I do a lot of buildings, so I know what I

do. I want to build it on a solid rock. Mm hmm.

We need to look at the bigness of our God, not our circumstances.

We don't want to be defined by our circumstances. We need to be defined

by what the Word of God says about us. But to do that,

we need to know what the word of God says about us. So let's

just talk about particular pattern. Yeah, jump up that scripture, Yes,

especially amplified version of Phippians for just do not threat or have any anxiety about

anything anything, Do not fret. How many people have thretted that's a word

this week? I've got my hand a very much house. Yeah. So

whether God says do not threat or have any anxiety about anything, that's quite

definitive. Definitive, isn't it so that again, that's quite definitive. Do

not fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in every circumstance and in

everything, by prayer petition, definitely request with thanksgiving, continue to make your

wants known to God. That's the Apostle Paul speaking to the Philippians. It

is possible not to thret. It is possible not to have any anxiety about

anything. By prayer petition, definitely requests with thanksgiving, continue to make your

wants known to God. It is possible. But to go from where we

may be to where we need to be, we need to break the path

so that we don't go from that up here, down here, up here,

down here, up here, down here, we go like this.

I was only to say, and God's peace shall be yours. That tranquil

state of the soul issued a bit salvation through Christ, and so fearing nothing

from God, there's a lot of us. Is that piece which transcends on

understandish our garrison and mount guard over your hearts and over your minds in the

annointedgies or in Christ Jesus. Like a lady whose child having had many ingitus.

When we get to a situation or a circumstance. You need to say,

I'd choose not to threat, I choose not to have anxiety. That's

your starting point. Then you've got to find yourself on the word of God.

Sounds very easily in the circus or something kicks off, He's not.

But God wants us to be in a place and a position where this happens

in our lives. So you think I'm not there yet, That's okay.

There's more. God can do a bunch above all that we ask or think

quite. The power that works in us, the power that works in us.

If you're born again, he dwells in you, He lives in you.

The power of God resides in you. We are earth to investments with

that treasure within. Yeah. Complete Jewish Bible Daniel Stearn's Bible says in terms

of verse six and verse seven, then God's shalo on nothing missing, nothing

broken. God shalom, which passes all understanding, will keep your hearts and

mind safe in union with the Messiah. Issue. So when I do things

God's way, not our way. When I run God's pattern, not our

pattern, you get his peace through every circumstance, through every situation. So

how do we do this? Then it's easy, right, Yeah, it's

my only other reference to resist. We choose to resist I learned pattern while

we learn God's pattern. Yeah, we choose to resist our pattern where we

learn God's pattern. For that me, you've got to shed loads of patterns

in your back pocket. They've got's got the word of God, and you

have a choice which pattern you've put in when something happens Romans twelve and verse

two. Interesting spicture. He says, do not be coming forward to this

world, be transformed, what is metamorphized by the renewing of your mind,

that you may prove what is the good and acceptable, perfect will of God.

Do not be conformed to this world, that be transformed by the renewing

of your mind. The word renewing there in the Greek is like renovating.

I do a lot of a lot of renovating properties of the years, we

do a lot of renovating. And you ripped things out, your belt,

walls down, there's a lot of muck, there's a lot of mess.

You come out black with the soot or the filthy recod property. And that's

how it works. But after a while they clear that muck out and then

you do your first fixing, your second fix wiring and plumbing, that sort

of stuff. Then you do you put your plaster from the world and your

paint in the world. I look something nice after a while, and then

go live in it. But you go through there's a period of renovation.

Renovation doesn't start on the Monday and finish on a Tuesday. Renovation is a

big job, and God wants us to renovate our minds with the Word of

God. Like I said before, the word God is alive and it's full

of power. It's active, optic, energize and effective. It's got power.

So we need to take that power and use it to renovate our minds.

We need to learn His pattern rather that pattern. It sounds simple,

and the theory is simple practice quality decision. Then to take time in the

Word of God to change our way of thinking the Holy Spirit, to strip

out our pattern and put in His pattern. Doesn't happen all at once,

perhaps over a period of time. It's a lady called Caroline Leaf. She

wrote a book called Switch on Your Brain. It's an interesting read, but

in essence what she says it takes around twenty one days to change a pattern

twenty one days around twenty one days. So with the Holy Spirit's help spending

time in the Word of God, we can change a pattern in twenty one

days, putting it to the diligence in the Word of God, to get

the Word of God in our ears, in our mouth and meditate on him.

It's not when people go in the diet, those a few pounds and

that one day two and then they see Chris Matween, don't they go Chris

beppeen, don't Oh yeah, but you're only on day two of the diet.

It's like, you know, it's not going to help with it unless

one of those people like a pin and you don't do they diets, you

know, but make spins with the kid to watch My mum do various diets

and we get to where she gets who want to be obviously, so it's

okay, she gets who want to be and then she go back to a

normal diet. So we over the other years, I just saw this thing

going. We need to be consistent. My mom was consistent. She would

cuss on fish and during the diet. After diet, she went back to

normal, so she she lost what she wanted and went back again. We

can't do that. We need to be consistently consistent doing the same thing in

the word of God. How can't you exercise? Definitely a bit of exercise.

You don't start on day one. I got, oh, but I'm

aching a bit now. I'll give you a rest because you also go through

a process of aching a bit. When you do something I've done before,

you've got to give it three or four weeks. She started baking. Once

I met a guy in the gym and he was about six foot tall,

and he was about twice my width. And he said to me, I've

lost the stone in a month. I've lost the stone. Just come into

the gym. And I thought, wow, because I couldn't tell you lost

the stone because of a big guy. But he was very pleased, and

I was pleased. I lost the tone. Wow, I just come into

the gym a month, I've lost the stone. He persevered and lost the

stone. That's you know, that's I'm seen it since. But you know,

but you know, he lost a stone by persevering for a month.

I said that to say this, if we persevere in the word of God,

if we remain in the word of God. If we've made it on

the word of God, we'll change that pattern. But it takes time to

change the pattern. And once you change the pattern, you've got to maintain

that pattern. That means more word of God, more word of God.

So when when that circumstances, that situation which might kick off anxiety for your

worry doubt, for example, he doesn't move you when you see that Christopher

Kreme doughnut and your four weeks into your diet, think I don't need that.

That's just processed sugar. That's not doing any good. I'll go home

and met my own stuff with all this nice stuff and it will be all

healthy and it will taste just just just good whatever. To get my drift

anyway, Joshua one verse eight says, this book of the Law shall not

depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night,

that you may observe to do according to that was written in it. But

then you will make your way prosperous and they have good success. This book

of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth. You shall meditate.

I think the meditate is actually mutter in there Hebrew day and nights hardcore that

you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. When

you know that, you know that, you know that, you know that,

you know that, you know the word of God. You know the

word of God. But then you will make your way prosperous, and then

you have got a success. That's what God said to Joshua when Moses died

and he had to take on the four million Israelites to get him into the

Promised Land, who were full of Egypt. So had the pattern of Egypt

when in their lives to got force. Hears you had that pattern out of

them and a number of generations to do so. But he did it.

So where do you want to be with this? That's give us a challenge

this morning around this pattern business. Everyone can run their own pattern. Everyone

can run their own pattern was saying for those who commit to change the pattern

today, It'll help you with that, all right. There's no pressure about

that, just in case what you choose to do. Life is a series

of choices, simple as that. So God will help you today if you

want to commit to change the pattern, the will work with you to do

that. Not the work of the man, and put the work of the

list prayer, but it's down to you to do me. I've got my

own patents to change. H oh, I've got enough. I might play,

but if you want to commit, He'll work with you. M M.

Let me pray. I think I'll wrap it up here now. I

don't think you want to say anything else. I'm looked at the notes much.

Then again, Yah, welcome allergy as well. Welcome you well for

those people listening in this room, those people listening online now and people listening

later. I want to change a pattern. I want to do some different.

I want to and buy your pattern. I want to run your pattern

in their lives. Father, pray for those people now. He told me

you're help them. So everyone who's reaching out to you in their hearts now,

are they in here, now, at home or later? I should

help them run to break the pattern and run your pattern in their lives over

the area situation that it's a pattern which needs to be broken and change that.

I started to help them go from where they are now to where you

want them to be. They will help me like a big jump. It

will be step by step, but each step will be America. So I

believe that Jesus now and received the answer to those prayers. Learn in Jesus

then hyah, thank you, Simon, real clear challenge this this morning.

We're going to allow God to settle in our hearts and press in and as

we can, just allow that to settle in our spirits. So let me

pray, and then we're going to kind of go back to worship. We've

got some other stuff to