6th November 2022 - Communion Service - Simon Chaffer - Walking in the Power of God

Reason. We're looking at mission for the month of November, and Simon's going

to come and share with us. I'll just pray and then I'll hand over

to Simon. Father, God, thank you that we can get around your

word. Lord. We're looking forward to your word today. Father, thank

you for the time that Simon is given to prepare and download from your God.

Father. I pray that you'd fill him. And Lord, you'd speak

to us. O God Father, I pray that you'd you'd change us.

And so, Father, let our ears be open. Our we say,

our ears open, our hearts are ready to hear from you. O God

speak, O God, be praying Jesus name, oh Man, Simon m

M money my name or vertically challenged. But the other way. So,

as Dave said, the subject for this month is mission and smort this morning,

we're going to be talking about mission walking in the power of God.

It's a mission walking in the power of God. Now, if I said

to everyone mission, I don't know what scripture pops into your mind, But

what popped into my mind was Mark sixteen, which says, this is the

new King Jason, the new King James version go into all the world and

preach the Gospel to every creature. You believe, and his baptized will be

saved. But he does not believe, be condemned. And these signs will

follow those who believe in my name. They will cast out demons, they

will speak with new tons. That's Mark sixteen, fifteen to seventeen. Notice

Jesus called us to go to share the good news, the gospel. But

when we go need to go in His power and his strength. We go

without that, don't bother going. The works of man come to nothing.

The work of God last forever. Zachariah four and verse six says, not

by might nor by power. By spirit, says the Lord. Not by

might nor by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord. Jesus

was full of controlled, led and directed by the Holy Spirit, Mark four

four. So look for forth, and that's how we need to be when

we go. We've been equipped, but that equipping comes through the Holy Spirit.

We need to be like Jesus when he walked on the earth, he

was fully equipped, fully connected. He only did what he saw the Father.

Do you only spoke what he saw what he heard the Father speak.

It's a big ass when you think about it. Some of us could be

a blam of ours. You know, not ready to listen before we speak,

but to flow with the Holy Spirit. We need to listen and then

to speak. And that's something that you need to learn, something you need

to grow into. It's all about a relationship. In fact, you could

say in relationship is the power. When you have the relationship, then there's

a manifestations of power. The relationship, no power. It's as simple as

that. Really. Anyway, that's a part of seven. So what I

want to do today, what we want to do today is a look at

John six. I'm just going to read John six. It's not on the

slide day, but I think I'm gonna reading. I'm reading from the you

can change version. I'm reading from verse one, which is about the feeding

of the five thousand. After these things, Jesus went over the Sea of

Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberius. Then a great multitude followed him

because they saw his signs, which he performed on those who were diseased.

And Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat with his disciples.

Now the passover, a feast of the Jews, was near. Then

Jesus lifted up his eyes, and seeing a great multitude coming toward him,

he said to Philip, where should we buy bread that these may eat?

This is said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.

Philip answered him, two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for

them, that every one of them may have a li. One of his

disciples, Andrew Simon, Peter's brother, said to him as a lad,

here was five barley of those and two small fish. What are they among

so many? And Jesus said, make the people sit down. Now there

was much grass in the place. So the men sat down in number about

five thousand, and Jesus took the those. When he given thanks, he

shipsued them to the disciples, and the disciples to those sitting down and likers

of the fish as much as they wanted. So when they were filled,

he said to his disciples, gather up the fragments that remained, so that

nothing is lost. Therefore they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with the

fragments of the five bard, those which are left over by those had eaten.

Hyeah, m hm, So let's have a look at verse two.

John six. Verse two. Then a great Viltu followed him because they saw

the signs which he performed, and those who were diseased. When we walk

in the fullness of the Holy Spirit, as Jesus did, signs and w

will follow, and that will draw people. We have a God shaped home

in our lives and we try to fill it with other things, but nothing

satisfies. You see people in the world try many different things to fill that

gap, many adrenaline fixers, jumping out of aeroplanes, doing a lot of

strange things to fill that hole. But when we're exposed to the power and

the presence of God, that draws us and there's like a divine connection that

the whole that we've got. God knows the size of that hole and he

fills that hole. There's a design connection. There's an opportunity to be made

home, and that's what Jesus deadly drew people, and he made them home.

When we go into all the world to treat the gospel, it's not

about sharing the message only that Jesus, the Son of God, that he

died and rose again. It's about making people home. It's about meeting their

physical needs and sharing the gospel. Jess was sitting with the disciples on the

mountain when he saw the people coming towards him. The Bible says five thousand

in this in John, but if you look into the versions of the other

gospels it says plus women and children. So five thousand men plus women and

children. So I let you do the maths that it's more than five thousand

people. Notice when Andrew said to him, I found a lad here with

five by the thaves and two small fish. But what are they too?

What are they to feed all these people? He didn't respond in the negative.

He responded in faith. And now we do anything in the Kingdom of

God, we need to respond in faith. The King James vers, just

go yee, and when we go ye into all the world, he needs

to be in faith. H h. You know God has never phased by

numbers. He used what's in our hand. And in this instance, the

young boy or the young lad was obviously Yorkshire, gave him his five byle

loods and two small fish. I mean a five barley load. If research

it was a tiny little cake a way for thin. It's for a small

small lad and the fish are probably a small broiled fish. It wasn't it

wasn't It wasn't a feast. It was literally to feed a little lad m

hm. You know, whether you're giving or whether you're going, never underestimate

what's in your hand. Mhm. The bow says, we've got all things

that are possible. Even the smallest seed can bring about the biggest harvest.

Jesus stayed in faith. When they responded to Andrew, he didn't respond to

him. He just said, make the people sit down. And when when

we operate in faith, we do not look at our circumstances, look at

the bigness of our God. We mustn't be moved by what we see.

We only be moved by the word of God and what God says. God

says, do it. You do it in the faith, in the power

of the Holy Spirit. It's not by might, it's not by power.

It's by my spirit. Say to the Lord. If you're not connected to

the sauce, there's going to be no flow of power. Can be like

a damn squib John six eleven, Oh, my God. And Jesus took

the lows, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to the

disciples, and disciples to those sitting down, and lifers of the fish as

much as they wanted. She's broke the bread. What was the bed a

high break, a small fish? I'm not really sure. But he wrote

the small fish then handed it to twelve disciples, and they handed it to

the crowds, and as a miracle of multipican that went on. God broke

the power of natural law. He broke it and then multiplied. If I

did that that stuff that's on that desk over there for communion, you know,

without the anointing upon me, he'd just be broken into interns of the

two bits before bits, the Jesus was working under the anointing. He was

working with the Holy perier. He was cooperating with the Holy prayer. He

only did what he saw the Father doing. He only spoke what he heard

the Father. And so this is what God has spoken to him. He

wasn't phased by the five thousand people. He wasn't phased by the challenge.

He knew the bigness of his garden. He walked in faith, and we

see a miracle. First twelve says. So when they were filled, he

said, the disciples gathered the fragments that remains, so that nothing is lost,

isn't it interesting, God said, Jesus said, when he said when

they were filled, there are five thousand men plus women plus children, so

at least ten thousand people plus kids. And he said when they were filled.

God is a god of abundance. He's not got a just enough set

of our life to the full in abundance, to the over flows. John

ten ten. God is the God of abundance. They eight, they were

filled, they were satisfied. Have a meal and just have enough, but

to be satisfied. When you work for God and you're working in the Holy

Spirit, you will be filled. You will be satisfied. You will need

to go without. God is a god of abundance. You know, we

are part of this world. We're in this one. Sorry, but we're

not part of this world system. We're in this world, but we're not

part of this world system. So what I mean by that is, don't

be concerned by what you read or what you see or what you're here.

If you will live in God's kingdom, if you operate in God's principles,

there will be no lack. We cast our minds back to one kings and

you live. Joab and the woman with the oil and the meal which probably

with the older rants at the time when we pitched uff got cleaned that up.

And for the duration of the throughout, which just three and a half

years they had, and then the limited supply of oil and then the limits

to fly of meal to make the cakes. There's no lack in the Kingdom

of God. But we need to be connected to the sauce. Stay connected

to the sauce, and God will take what's in our hands and they'll multiply

it. So when God asked us to give, let's give what's in our

hand. H that's the person I know, and I mentioned his name,

but it was in a service. And God said, give so much.

And he started the sweat of it and said, that's all I've got.

He said, I know, so putting the offering, gave what was into

it's a world mission. And God multiplied that seed. I'm saying, to

give what you got in your hand. The young boy gave what I had

in iside. He gave his lunch. She has multiplied that lunch and we

got twelve basket falls of bread. Noticed there was no fish there the novel

of the fish, but the bread was left over. It's interesting, you

know, the fish went where the bread didn't, So they filled upon the

bread, but the fish pish leftover. That that's quite interesting. When we're

connected to the source, we're connected to the Holy Spirit. When we're cooperating

with the Holy Spirit, we'll see God's power change people's lives and set people

free. You know, it's not the look of a man, it's the

work of the Holy Spirit. You need to recognize that truth and cooperate with

the Holy Spirit. God wants to take us deeper in a relationship. So

whether you're going to the end of the street into testgoth or into Waitrose,

whether you going to the end of the earth like Uganda smiles of it,

it doesn't matter what matters you go in the power. HM, no relationship,

no power to takes a bit of challenge. Really, let's to where

are you h You know we can we can stay at stale this nice stuff

Pike show on the back, go home, have a cup of tea or

coffee and launch into our week. There still people out there doing the hell

every day every day. Unless we walk in the power. Let's have that

relationship, unless we give up to give it. Let's reach out. Took

a step for open hearted things want to change. I will start with that,

doesn't it It's very convening to see here are the nice, warm seats

and that's about seven mate, Well done, thank you san. However,

you know there's a reality, isn't there you know? Mhm. So I'll

be heavy about it. Just just this is the facts of life in the

Kingdom of God. When you're in, you're in, you walk the walk,

you apply your faith. But we're here to bring our people for the

kingdom ally and then to build those people up and look Lord, and to

say this morning that all things are possible. To belit. You may have

some impossibilities in your life today, but God says all things are possible.

Don't look at the bigness of your circumstance. Look at the bigness of your

God. Other words, stretch to it, fly your faith, don't give

up, press through, press through until you get the picture, until you

win, and we'll have a circumstance as situation. That is, then give

glory to God that it's not the work of a man. It's the work

of the Holy Spirit. This is just a flesh and blood body, that's

all it is. It's the Holy Spirit within us. We're earth and vessels

full the Godly treasure. So if that's you stretch to it, do not

look at the bigness of that problem. Look at the bigness of your God.

And God will overcome. God will I'll recome. That's that's how it

is. You press it and God will not let you down. But don't

quit. If you quit, it won't work to repentancetart again. But God

will give you that chance opportunity now, a chance. You don't do things

by a chance. We need to be like Jesus, full of control,

lead and directed by the Holy Spirit. H think I'll leave it there,

but let's pray. So you've got a need, I go to prayer that

God meets with the point of your need. And then well, I know

today from the communion. That's whether listening up, listening online now or later.

At least your faith and believe God for the impossible, the whether that's

as all things are possible to those who believe. Where it's a broken marriage,

a broken relationship, something that works, something with a family situation,

and save love one, all things are possible God. M hm. Let's

pray together, and I release my faith, release your faith for your situation.

Don't say the lack of pump on a log. Focus and release your

faith and trust God to do something. Let's do it together. So pat

the namage is, I pray, are the people in this room, people

listening online, peas looking, people listening later, that you meet them at

the point of their need, Lord, wherever that specific need is. That.

I believe Father, You're a God of abundance, You're a God of

the impossible. Nothing is impossible for you. So I'm trusting that to work

in these people's situations. Work in these people's circumstances, Father, in Jesus'

name, and turning each situation around for God, Lord, bring about a

miraculous change in people's lives. Father in Jesus name, I believe it and

receive it now in the name of Jesus. Hmm. Thanks Simon. Walk

in the power of God, walk in with what He has placed in your

hands. You're going to come around communion in a moment. So for those

at home, please encourage you to get your communion elements ready. For those

in the room, they should be on the table in front of you.