Step Out with Missionary Matt Cantinella

You know, as I've been praying for you guys and just asking the

Lord what to share, I really feel like the Lord was just

speaking to me about having obedient faith, having faith

that obeys. Today I want to share with you

in the word of God in Hebrews 11/8.

But before I do that, you know this young generation that we're

working with this, this generation that we work with is

young adults, 18 to 30 years old.

Every Friday night that we are meeting and ministering to this

young generation. That's the age group that the

Lord has mandated to us to work with.

We don't have a church. We have fellowships that meet

every Friday night where people aren't up in the clubs and doing

stuff they're not supposed to do.

But every Friday we have 4 campuses that are across Uganda

that are meeting that have a full band.

Then we have campus leaders that are ministering there and then

we have fellowship with each one of them.

But this campus, these campus students are a very, I would say

extremely the, the campus students there, they'll do

anything on a drop of a hat. And I don't know if you've heard

of this thing on YouTube, it's called yes theory.

But what these influencers will do is they will pick up someone

and they'll take them and they'll stand at the airport and

they'll say, Hey, pastor or so. And so you want to go on a date

with this person, go all the way to Italy right on the stop drop,

drop your hat, drop everything and come with me on this trip.

And we have this generation that is fearless and they do things

and they'll step out when things don't make sense.

I'm talking to you about stepping out to do things when

things don't make sense. Today the Bible says in Hebrews

11/8 it says by faith Abraham when called to go to a place he

would later receive his inheritance, obeyed and he went

even though he did not know where he was going.

So here is Abraham, the first missionary ever sent out in the

word of God. The man gets a word and he has a

simple word to step out and to go somewhere where he doesn't

even know where to go. Unknown, not known, unfamiliar,

not identified. Stepping out of his own country.

I wonder if someone today, the Lord is speaking to you about

stepping out of your own country.

Maybe stepping out of your own comfort zone.

Maybe stuffing out of the stuff that's been normed to you, the

things that's been familiar to you, the things that you know,

the things of the surroundings that are normal and comfortable

for you. What if the Lord shakes you a

little bit and says it's time to step, to do something different?

Maybe it's a nation, maybe it's a county, maybe it's a new job.

Maybe it's opening a cell group, maybe it's taking on the worship

team. What is it that the Lord is

shaking you to step out to do? Many people will have to see

things before they do and that's not the Bible kind of faith.

Stepping out into the unknown by trusting Abraham obeyed after

being called to go out to a place which God would give them

as a possession. Indeed, he went out without

knowing where he was going. God didn't even tell this man

where to go. He just said go.

My mother-in-law, Pastor Earl, she began to like pack all these

boxes. I said, what are you doing?

And at when she was living in Michigan, she began to just pack

boxes. I said, where you going, Maggie?

She says, I don't know, but I just been told I'm to go.

So she just packing boxes, getting ready.

Everyone say getting ready by faith, you see, in Ezekiel 2230,

it says he looked for someone among them who would build up

the walls and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so

that I would not have to destroy it.

But the Bible says that he found none.

One of the saddest scriptures. In all scripture I need someone

to stand in the gap and that will go for me.

In Hebrews 10, Hebrews 11/8, it says by faith Abraham, when

called to go to a place he would later receive his inheritance,

obeyed even though he did not know where he was going.

You see, Abraham was God's first missionary.

This word means sent one. He is not sent by his own plan,

his own purposes, what he wants to do.

But the Lord said, listen, I'm calling you and I'm sending you

to the nations. And I went to Raymond and I

thought I would be a youth pastor.

Go there and go back to Michigan and run this hip, cool youth

ministry. And then the Lord began to speak

to me about going to Africa. You see, Abraham was the first

missionary. What is God telling you to

pursue something that's maybe unknown in your life?

In Genesis 12/1 it says. Then the Lord said to Abraham,

go from your country, from your people, from your father's

household to the land I will show you, and I will make you

into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your

name great, and you will be a blessing.

And I will bless those who bless you and whoever curses you, I

will curse you, and all the people on earth will be blessed

through you. Everyone say through you, it

says that he was called out or he was a sent one.

Maybe for you, you need to step out of a comfort zone.

Maybe you need to step out of the current situation that

you've been in because the Lord is leading you out into

something different. In Romans 10/14 it says how can

them that they call on the 1:00 they have not believed and how

can they believe in the one whom they have not heard and how can

they hear without someone preaching to them?

Verse 15 says and how can the anyone preach unless they are

sent That is it is written beautiful are the feet who bring

good news. You see, we got to get out of

our country. What are the things that maybe

you need to get out of so that you can get into what are the

things in your life that you need to get out of so that you

can get into what God wants you to do with your life.

You know, there's areas of our lives that were entrapped by the

flesh and they feel good. But if God really told us to do

something, could we do it or we bound or held back by those

things, simple things. Oh, you have a car payment, You

have a house payment. If God really called you to go,

could you let go of that stuff to go do what God called you to

do? And it's OK to have stuff.

And I know Pastor preaches excellent with in how we're

supposed to prosper, but we don't need things to keep us and

to hold us from what the will of God is to do when we're called

to go. And it might be called to go

just to a county over. It might be called to go to a

state over. But pastors going to be sending

people out that this is a sending church, that we're not a

holding church, but we're equipping people and we're

sending you and we're getting you ready to go to the places

and the highways and the byways that the Lord has for you so

that you can make a impact and God can work through you.

Amen. So we're not sitting down and

just getting fatter and listening to other more messages

and more messages and getting fat on the word and follow

around Joyce Meyers again and again and again until we hear

another message and say, well, that message didn't have enough

revelation for me. Well, what are we doing with the

revelation that the Lord has given to us?

How are we using it? What are we doing with the

mandate of the Lord has given to each one of us?

Should we just preach this like we're in Africa?

Amen. So my first point is we must

have faith to obey. The first thing that Abraham had

to have is he had to have faith to obey.

I had to have faith to give me to Raima, had faith to leave

Raima. There's still people living in

Tulsa, OK. There's still people in Saint

Augustine. There's still green seats.

Well, Abraham still didn't know where he was going.

He didn't know what God was up to.

It doesn't tell him where to go, it just tells him to go.

Do you have an ear to hear what God is saying enough to know

when he's speaking to even get that revelation?

There's so many things that are buying for our attention, and

they're great things, but we've got to have an ear to hear what

God is saying to do Hallelujah, obey.

And he went, even though he did not know where he was going.

Sometimes all we have is a word. All we have is a word that was

spoken by God. The Lord told him to gather all

of your belongings, gather your household, gather all of your

workers, all your employees, get them together.

Load up the the tractor, load up the animals, load up everything.

Get ready to go. Where we going, boss?

We don't know we're going. God always does the right thing,

even if it seems absurd or it doesn't make sense.

You know the Bible says to lean not to your own understanding.

It doesn't lean not to your thinking.

Don't lean to your way of thinking.

Don't lean to what your mind says to do.

Lean to into what the Holy Ghost is saying to do.

And I didn't even know where Africa was on the map.

I mean, I knew Africa, but I didn't know where Uganda was.

We were in South Africa serving and doing things, and then we

felt like our time was off. I had to look on the map, where

is Uganda? And my wife grew up in Kenya.

I thought we'd go back to Kenya. We went to Zambia to visit the

Sures, thought maybe it'd be Zambia.

We went to Botswana. Wasn't that?

And then the Lord says that Uganda is the place God always

does the right scene thing when it seems absurd.

Abraham got a single word. He did not get a paragraph.

He didn't get a chapter. He didn't get a book.

He didn't have to know the whole revelation.

Well, what about this or how much about this, or what do I

got to do to do this or what about that?

No, he stepped out on a word. Hallelujah.

The second thing I want to share with you is what you do first

determines what God does next. We don't get to 2nd grade until

you pass first grade, right? I had these new shoes given to

me. Pastor Earl sent in all the way

from America. I mean, we only can go to the

resale shops there and, and, and buy used stuff.

So I had these new shoes sent next to me and I was like, Lord,

these are nice. Lord told me right when I'm

opening the box, give those away to someone.

Amen. What he says first will

determine what he says next. It meant if you can't give away

your shoes, how you going to get to the nations?

What you do first determines what he does next.

He said, get out, don't stay. Then I'll show up.

Genesis 12, seven says then the Lord appeared to Abraham and

said, I will give you the land to all your descendants.

Now he's beginning to give him a little bit more revelation

because Abraham took that first step.

Now he's like, listen, I'm going to give you some land.

Let me try this side. I'm going to give you some land.

Who needs some land? Maybe Hallelujah, a land of our

own, a place. But if you can't give that extra

$50 away, you can't sew into the missions, you can't open the

cell group. You can't do the little thing.

If you don't do what's first, you can't get to 2nd.

The guy didn't even know where he was going.

He's just loading up his his camels and all of his donkeys,

everything. He's heading out.

Me and Angela went to Africa with two bags of luggage each.

That's it. Being obedient to do the will of

God, Amen. And I know that you want to do

the will of God as well, Amen. And you will fulfill that.

You know, we had this girl Tracy, that's in our ministry.

She came up to the to the front of the church and she's waiting

for pastor to give her this big revelation in his word because

she's like, I need some tuition, pastor and I haven't been able

to meet my school fees and pay for my college.

And, and I said, well, what do you have, Tracy?

And she basically had 2000 shillings.

It's probably about $3 at the time.

And I said, you need to sow that seed.

So she waited till yesterday or the next day and then she went

to school and she found someone to, to give that person just a

little bit of chapati, as we call it, or flat bread.

And she bought him a nice little lunch.

She said, pastor at the evening someone called me a member of

Parliament and they paid for all my college tuition.

Let me all of her college tuition was paid for because she

bought a piece of flatbread. She bought a little chapati for

someone, a Panera Bread, Hallelujah.

She was able to sow a seed and do something out of obedience.

I wonder what the Lord is asking you to do and to be obedient

with. Are you holding on to that 100

so tight? Are you holding on to that

thousand so tight? Are you holding on to that house

when you're supposed to sew it? How many of you have sewed cars

before? I've sewn a couple cars before

just giving away cars. Hallelujah.

We want to get to a place. Pastor was encouraging me.

We're getting to a place where where with Jairus, he was saying

it's, it's not about that him, it's about the servant, right?

What you do first determines what God does. 2nd.

After he does the first instructions, then you'll get

the next step and you're like, well, Lord, I don't know.

I don't know what what's the will of God or and you're

praying and you're praying about stuff, but you haven't done what

he told you to do. You haven't opened that that

that cell group. You haven't taken that job that

you were supposed to take because you're doing what you

want to do. You put in the flesh first.

The Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak, Amen.

And we've got to push down some things, Amen.

It's not about your comfort, it's about your obedience.

And, and America is all about our comfort.

And I love it when we come. But when Uganda, when we're

there and the power is going out and the electricity is not

working and the water is broken and, and, and the water is not

running, you haven't showered in a month and traffic's coming at

you sideways because the third world country, it's not easy.

But it's not about me, it's about the nation.

After he does the first instructions, he gets a second.

He does not give the 2nd until he fulfills everyone.

Say, fulfill, Say what has he spoken to me about?

Say what has he spoken to me about?

What is he speaking to you about doing?

Are we in the motions? We come in, go out, come in.

Are we in the motions? Are we doing the will of God?

I don't want to come to be this her pastor.

Most people want to understand everything.

They want to see the complete end and not walk by faith, not

step out, not take the first step.

If you could see it, touched it and feel it.

And pastors teaches you this, that's not faith, right?

If you want to feel your healing before you're healed, that's not

how it works. We stand and we rejoice even in

the midst of how our body feels like, Amen.

No matter what our circumstance looks like, no matter what we're

going through, we stand in front of it and we, we rejoice, Amen,

Because we know it's done. You know, one of our girls, her

name was Agnes. She started with us in the

ministry and she was going into the schools and reaching a

thousands of students with us. She was teaching about 100 every

every three days and teaching the purity program and doing an

amazing job at it. And then pastor, she was

faithful over the little and she came to me at the end of her

school year after university said, I, pastor, I think I'm

going to have to quit, you know, I need an internship.

And I said, no, no, no, let's wait and see what the Lord does.

Amen. We began to pray together and

there was this couple from California that was out in

Uganda making these sandals that kind of wrap around your ankle

like gladiators. And I knew as soon as I released

Agnes to them, she was gonna probably be gone forever.

And then 'cause she was one of our great leaders, but she began

to be faithful over those few steps and, and she would.

Do you know, some people, Pastor, I'm sure you experienced

that. Some listen and don't, some

don't. Amen.

But everything that I would share with her to do, she would

do. And her life just got so

blessed. Now she's the CEO of this

company and and overseeing all these sandals in Uganda and

connected with the president. She spoke at Willow Creek in

front of 5000 people at the at the conference there.

These sandals are in Macy's and Nordstroms.

But God did it through the faithfulness of obeying the

number one word right of doing what is right for the first

thing Hebrews 4/2 it says unto us was the gospel preached as

well as unto them, but the but the word preached did not profit

them not being mixed. Everyone say mixed with faith in

them that they heard it. You see, you got to mix it.

You got to what you hear. You got to step out to do what

God told you to do Amen. Amen.

Everyone say that's me, that's me.

He did not just say he did not stay in his prayer closet.

The in Uganda, they do these things, they're called

overnighters that you stay in the church all night long and

just Hyundai, Hyundai it all night long and you pray and I'm

like, you need to get out and get a job, bro, not be in the

church all night. Amen.

So we're just not staying in our prayer closet.

No, he had to obey Abraham's like, no, no, I got to pray this

one out. I got to spend some time in

prayer. I got to intercede.

I got to see if no, the man began to step out and do He

mixed it with faith. Everyone say mix.

You see, most people don't like to be out on the edge because it

scares them. They're in fear.

If I told you God called you to go to Africa, you would look at

me. What that that you got the wrong

man because of fear. But when we walk by faith, we're

not in fear, Amen. Because we're of a different

spirit. Amen.

You know, some people get nervous because of the they've

never experienced something before it.

You know, they've never done this before.

Are you with me today? You know, I always told my my

daughters, just do what I say, Amen.

I'm sure you're teenagers might be the same way.

But Alexis, just do what I say. Just do what your father says

and you'll eat the benefits. You'll reap the benefits.

If you're willing and obedient, you'll eat the good of the land.

Amen. Just do what your father says.

What is he asking you to do first so that you can get to the

second thing? Matthew 1929 It says in everyone

who has left house, brothers or sisters, father and mother or

wife or children or fields, for my sake will receive 100 times

as much and will inherit eternal life.

Amen. Because you stepped out to do

the will of God, you push down the desires of your own to do

your Heavenly Father's will, whatever that might be.

And not everyone is called to be a missionary, but you're called

to be obedient. He's not called you to comfort,

He's called you to obedience. Amen.

The third thing that we can see through Scripture, verse 2, it

says I will make you into a great nation and I will bless

you. I will make your name great and

you will be a blessing. You see, God wants to make you.

He wants to make you into what He's called you to do.

When we went to Africa, we didn't know what we're doing,

but God is making us. He's refining us into what He

wants us to be and He's still making us say, you see, God

doesn't call these that are qualified, but He qualifies the

people that He calls. Let me say that again for you.

God doesn't call these that are qualified, but He qualifies the

people that are called. He's making you in first

Corinthians 127 says, but God has chosen the foolish things of

the world to put to shame the wise, and God chose has chosen

the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which

are mighty. You see, He's making you.

You don't have to have it all together.

All you have to do is be obedient to do what he's called

to you to do every step. Hallelujah.

We had this guy that was he just got born again in our ministry

and he said, pastor, I don't know any scriptures.

I said, that's fine. You can just come and pass out

hot dogs, Amen. Jesus learned through the things

that we suffered, right, serving in the Kingdom of God.

Everyone say serving, serving is what refines us, Amen.

Every part of this church you should be involved in serving in

some capacity. That should maybe your first

step, that's maybe kindergarten for you, is to join the Archer

team. Hallelujah.

It's not about us, guys. If I can go all the way to

Africa, you can put on that blacks, that black, black, black

shirt, right? God picks the foolish things to

be Kingdom builders. We had this guy Pastor, his name

is Easton and he was a part of our team for a little bit and we

usually celebrate everyone's birthday.

So we got him a birthday cake at staff meeting.

We began to put it in front of him and he began to weep

profusely. How old was he?

Like 20-3 years old, 22 years old and he's like Easton, what

is going on? What's your problem?

He said, this is the 1st birthday cake that I ever

received. Pastor, you don't know, but I've

been, I'm an orphan and I'm sleeping in the closet at the

church. We're talking about God using

the foolish things. And now he's our camera guy.

And now he's working with graphics and, and now God is

shifting his life around because he's able to step into the

things that he's supposed to do for the kingdom's sake.

He made us into missionaries. You see, there's a lot of

believers, but there's not a lot of disciples that will go.

I wonder what God is asking you. I wonder what sector God is

asking you to be a part of. I wonder where He's calling you

to go today or to get into or get out of.

And Isaiah 6-8 it says, then I heard the voice of the Lord

saying, whom shall I send and who will go for us?

And I said, here am I send me. The next thing that we can see

about Abraham. Our fourth point for you today

is that he lived on a promise. Hebrews 11/9 says by faith he

made his home in the promised land.

Like a stranger in a foreign country.

He lived in tents and as Isaac and Jacob to heirs of him of the

same promise. Everyone say he was living on a

promise. Do you see the word of God that

I am living on to be in Uganda is the word of God that he spoke

to me to go to Uganda, the word of God and it said Matt and

Angela, I Commission you, I tell you, I ordain you, I send you to

go to the nations and I open up Uganda for you.

I am living on a word. I am standing on a spoken word

that was spoken to me when my kids have malaria, when I'm my

my house is robbed, when my car is damaged, when motorcycles,

they steal the whole sound system.

I am living on a word that was spoken to me to be in Uganda.

I wonder what word you've been living on for 21 years.

Or you get in a bigger boat, or you redo it in your kitchen for

the third time. You got your benzo now, and

those are cool things. What word are you living on?

Abraham was living on a single word to go Hallelujah.

Stretch forth your faith, my people.

He wants to bless you, but we have to be obedient to live upon

His Word. Amen.

Genesis 12/2 it says I will make you into a great nation and I

will bless you and I will make you into a great nation and you

will be a blessing. You see, you're to be a blessing

for someone else. You're blessed and you step out

for someone else. Thousands of kids, I can't

believe it, have been blessed through us because of my small

obedience to go to Uganda from Rhema.

We had this guy named Nicholas Pastor in our ministry and he,

he, I didn't know, but Nicholas was walking 30 minutes to get to

our discipleship classes. He said I was chasing after you

because you are a Bazoomgu, a white guy.

They say because you're white. I thought you were rich.

You give me money, but you gave us so much more.

You gave us the word of God. So then Nicholas, after he went

through our discipleship class, he went back to the village

about 6 hours away where you can't even see your hand in

front of your face at night, it's so dark.

And he's like, I'm going to put a school there.

There's no schools there. And he built a school out of cow

dung and thatch with thatch roof, cow dung and bricks.

He put it together. He has 100 students in it, in

the middle of the woods in Nowhereville.

And then because he did that, he stepped out.

There was another school that was started living on a word.

I wonder what the word is that He spoke to you to do.

Is this speaking to anybody? The next thing that He says #5

One of my last points for you says I will bless you.

You see, God is in the blessing business, Amen.

Genesis 12/2 it says, I will bless you and I will make your

name great and you will be a blessing.

Hebrews 1035 it says and but my righteous one will live by

faith, and I take no pleasure in one who shrinks back.

He's going to bless you when you don't shrink back.

That David ran to Goliath. God makes His promise good where

He is, not what not where you want to be.

But He makes His promise good where He wants to be, where He

commanded you to go. Are you with me today?

He makes His promise good where you're supposed to be, not where

you are. You see, when I throw the

football and I get ready to throw a touchdown, I'm not

throwing it to the receiver where he is.

I'm throwing it to where He's going to be and when he hits

that intended spot, he's going to catch that.

And many of you aren't living in the blessing is because you're

not at the place called there. He has a place that's called

there for you where he wants you to be and that you will live a

blessed life if you get there. God makes his promise good.

He'll make his provision good there too.

And God is supplying and we've been able to only be in Uganda

21 years is because God's faithfulness and that's his will

of God for his life. Every time I come back to

America, Lord, I ask Pastor Earl, is that Lord, am I gonna

get to go back 'cause I can't do it on my own.

I can't go there in my own flesh.

I can't even live a day there without the, the anointing and

the, the grace of God upon my life.

It's dangerous people to, to be out of the will of God.

It's dangerous when you're not in the place that God has called

you to be. Sometimes we have to pray and

say, Lord, is this even the vacation that we're supposed to

do? And we one time we went up and

people kicked in our doors and stole everything 'cause it

wasn't where we're supposed to be.

We thought, well, that's the enemy.

Yes, it's the enemy, but He gives us wisdom to be in the

right place at the right time, intersecting the blessings of

God, and He wants to bless you. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

Am I speaking to some people? Some of you are not experiencing

supernatural provision because you're not at the place called

the unknown. I never thought that I would be

in Uganda, but we're obedient to do the will of God, and I will

make you into a great nation and I will bless you.

If Abraham would have stayed there, he could have prayed, he

could have begged, he could have asked the Lord, he could have

threw ashes up. He could have done this over and

over again and he could have. But that was the place he could

have remained because each one of us have a free will.

I didn't make my wife come down the altar.

It meant she has a free will, and you have a free will to

either say yes or no to whatever the instructions are that God is

instructing you to do. Amen.

You know, we have this guy named Franklin that's a part of our

ministry. And, you know, he was going to

medical school at the time and he was playing drums for us.

And he, he kept on trying to get to Australia.

And I said, Franklin, I really don't feel like you're supposed

to go to Australia as his oversight.

And I was like, just stay here in Uganda.

Everyone wants to go to America, wants to go to Australia, wants

to go to England, going to get to the place.

The green is not always, the grass is not always green,

right? I said, you just stay.

And he began to stay and study for two years and three years.

And the Lord gave him this open vision.

He was able to buy land to put a hospital now and he built a

hospital there in Uganda. He said, Pastor, I'm going to

build a hospital where where the women can't.

They have no place to deliver babies and they're dying.

I'm going to put a hospital in the middle of nowhere.

Franklin began to build that hospital.

We had some friends come over from San Antonio.

They built a hospital in another area of Toro in the north.

And they said, you know, we need someone good to help us.

And Franklin began to help them and began to get them medicine

and doctors and facilities and stuff.

And they, they had to go back after six years and that what

did they do? They turned over the hospital to

Franklin. He's got 2 hospitals now.

Amen. Being obedient to sow into one

man over and over and over again that we are pouring into

Franklin's life, Amen. Now he's reaching hundreds and

thousands of people in Jerusalem, Judea, the uttermost

parts, Amen. I'm not in the uttermost parts.

I'm right in the city ministering to the campus

students who are then reaching the Bush.

You see the powers in the little, the small things, the

one soul, the one person that you're supposed to bring along

and disciple. The one person that you're

supposed to baptize in the Holy Ghost that you haven't stepped

out to do. The one person that you're

supposed to invite to church. The one person that you're

supposed to walk through that book with one soul at a time.

Amen. God made a promise to Abraham

and he's living on a promise. Amen.

The last thing I want to share with you today is the most

powerful thing that I could see about this scripture that I read

with you is basically that Abraham went in a family and he

came out a nation. Hear me today, Abraham went in a

family and came out a nation because of his obedience to do

the will of God. He went in with four or two kids

and a wife. He went in and then thousands of

students are being impacted. What did Abraham, What was it

the Lord told him? Look up to the sky.

As many as the stars that you can see will be your descendants

because of your obedience not to stay, but to go where I've

commanded you to go. You're going to come out a

nation who's ready to to change Saint Augustine, who's ready to

change this area, who's ready to see something happen in this

city Because of your obedience, Hallelujah, because of your

obedience. Because of your obedience,

thousands of people can be impacted.

It's not about you.