What's The Catch - Kingdom Partnership

Well, good morning. Today I want to talk to you

about what is the catch, All right.

We're talking about Kingdom partnership today, Amen.

Turn over to Psalms 115 versus 15 to 16115 versus 15 to 16.

It says this, May you be blessed of the Lord, Maker of heaven and

earth. The heavens are the heavens of

the Lord, but the earth he has given to the sons of men.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah. He is the Maker of heaven and

earth. The heavens are the Lords, but

the earth He has given to the sons of men.

Psalms chapter 8, verses 4 through 9 says it this way.

Psalms 8:4–9

What is man that you take fault of him?

The Son of man that you care for him, yet you have made him a

little lower than God. And that is the correct

translation, because that word in the original Hebrew is

Elohim, which is not angels, is actually God.

So you made him a little lower than God, and you crowned him

with glory and majesty. You make him to rule over the

works of your hands. You have put all things under

his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the

field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea.

Whatever passes through the paths of the sea.

Oh Lord our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah. So the heavens are the heavens

of the Lord, but the earth he has given, He has entrusted, He

is allowed to rule to the sons of men.

Amen. Who is man that you consider

him? He's a little lower than God.

In essence, God said, I'm creating a partner.

I've created by the words of my mouth.

I've created the heavens and the earth and the realm of earth.

I am wanting a partner, someone who will come alongside me and

rule as I rule in the realm of the earth.

Hallelujah. I'm going to create a man in my

image according to our my likeness according to Genesis

Genesis 1:26–28

chapter 1, verses 26 to 28. He said.

God said, let us make man in our image according to our likeness,

and let them have rule over the fish of the sea, over the birds

of the sky, over the cattle, over all the earth, and over

every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

God created man in his own image, in the image of God.

He created him, male and female, He created them.

God bless them. And God said to them, be

fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and

rule over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, over

every living thing that moves on the earth.

Hallelujah. So we see in these three

passages of Scripture that when God created the heavens and the

earth, He had us in mind. He intentionally decided that

I'm not going to do everything alone.

I am going to have those who partner with me and I'll give

them a task. I'll give them an assignment.

I'll give them a purpose, a reason for living.

And he defined our boundaries because the psalmist said in

chapter 8 and then Genesis 1 is that what is man that you care

for him? Now, obviously the psalmist is

saying that because he is taking this from a perspective that he

has fallen out of his position at the time of the psalmist

writing. Man has sinned.

Man has fallen from dominion, Man has been pulled out of their

original intent. Yet God is saying all along, I

always intended when I spoke creation into existence, both

the heaven and the earth. I wanted my man to be able to

rule over the earth. He would rule in his realm as I

rule in my realm, and together we would partner over creation.

Hallelujah, that's why the beginning of first Corinthians

1 Corinthians 3:9

chapter 3 verse 9 says for we are God's fellow workers.

We are God's fellow workers. Another translation the the good

News Bible says it this way. We are part we are partners

working together for God. Amen.

You could also say with God, we're working together now.

He's the one who holds the authority ultimately, but He has

delegated authority to his man. And when I say man, I'm not

talking males only. We're talking males and females.

He has delegated to the spirit of man, OK, the ability to rule

as God rules in his realm, we can rule in this realm.

God always intended to have a partnership, not to be doing it

alone, not to be doing it alone. And he never created Adam out of

the dust of the earth when he breathed into his nostrils the

breath of life for him to do it alone, because he said it's not

good for man to be. Now man's not alone.

God was with him. So God's sufficiency is still

not enough. God's sufficiency is still not

enough. We can't take this.

All I need is God. Well, God didn't make man to be

only with him. He created man to not only be

with him, but we be with others like him.

So fellowship and community and partnership across humanity is

God's ordained will. Hallelujah.

Now in humanity today, there's two types, those that are of the

devil and of their father who is the father of lies.

And then there there are those who are of our Father who is in

heaven, hallowed be your name, Amen.

And man, we want to be around those that are in the Kingdom of

God with us. Now, let me just say this.

Not everyone knows Dad like equally because it depends on

when we came out. It depends on what we've set

under to hear. It depends on our own personal

seeking and studying. But I would say the more you

have revelation of your Father, the more patient you can be with

those who do not, the more you can rally to reveal Him to them

and be patient as they're learning.

Because there was a day I didn't know what I know today.

But I love God with all my heart, with all my soul, with

all my mind, and with all my strength.

It's just that my mind didn't know a whole lot yet.

I knew I was saved. I knew that if I died, I would

go and be with Him who's presently in heaven.

But I did not know that I could be baptized in the Spirit, that

I could have this expression of God's power come upon me.

Didn't know that. And I'll never forget.

You know, obviously I met another pastor who brought me

into that truth. And man, I was thankful that he

was patient with me, that he met with me every morning before I

went to work. I'm glad he didn't say I can't

believe you don't know that and was offended of my lack of

knowledge. No, he was patient with me.

He was like man, let me help you out and I said just show me in

the word and man lie about. But ultimately, even though he

was showing me scripturally, I had to get the personal

revelation and faith to receive and man in October of 1995, I

received the baptism of the Holy Ghost man and spoke in the

language of the Kingdom and my life's never been the same.

Yet a few two years later, three years later, I find myself on

the campus of Rhema Bible in college and sit in a class on

the ABC's of Faith. And it was just that, ABC's.

But for me that was even foreign.

I had never heard the stuff they were saying.

And I'm looking at my wife and I'm like, I don't even know the

Bible. But up to that point, I am

loving the Lord my God with all my heart, all my soul, all my

mind and all my strength. I remember being so upset after

the first month of Rhema. Then I'm like, why in the world

did the pastors that I said under as I was growing up never

teach me this stuff? I'm using my childhood Bible.

It was in there the whole time and I'll never forget these

words from the Lord. He said, Son, you can't.

If you get upset with them, then you're going to be in

unforgiveness and I, I cannot train you any further, he said.

But besides, you didn't seek me on your own anyway.

That's why out of that I coined this phrase that I communicate

every time I in any place that I've ministered, and I've said

it here multiple times, do not believe what I'm saying because

I believe it because I'm saying it.

You believe it because you search the Scripture out for

yourself to determine that it's so.

Amen. Don't ever believe because I

believe because the best you'll be is a seventh son of Skiba,

and you'll get yourself in trouble.

You're going to have to have your own personal revelation and

understanding of the things we're talking about.

See it yourself, God reveal it to you, and boom, the lights

come on in the Spirit, renew your mind, and now you can walk

in that truth. But I know this man, I'm not

going backwards. I am not going backwards.

I have gone from faith to faith to faith to faith to glory and I

am not going back. So I'll be patient with those

that may not be where I'm at. And I'm always looking for those

who are beyond me in revelation beyond me and an application of

the knowledge of God. Because if there's something I

don't know, please give me the instructions.

Show me in the word. I just want to be the best that

I can be for the King while I'm in the earth.

Amen. So we are fellow workers with

God. We are partners.

God never intended for us to do this alone.

He didn't want to do it alone, and He doesn't want us to do it

only with him, but with Him and others that are part of his

family. Again, if God only wanted to

have a relationship singularly, he would have made Adam.

But he said, let's make man in our image.

Then he said, here's your purpose, you're going to have to

multiply, which means I want more of you.

I've put it within you that when Adam and Eve, if they had never

sinned, would begin to always produce a seed that would have

constantly been godly, not in sin, not sinful, and it would

have been a generation of only holy godly offspring, that would

have been it. And ultimately, that's all we're

going to have in the end anyway, that when those who have

rejected Jesus as Lord and they're cast into the lake of

fire, which is the prison system of the Kingdom, hell is not the

devil's, OK? The hell is not the devil's

domain. The devil is not in hell.

He's actually in the air, OK? He's one of the principalities

of the air. Hell is a prison place for the

Lord that ultimately would turn over into a lake of fire.

And that's where all the eternal that have rejected him are

judged according to their will of not wanting to be with the

Lord. And he'll give them what they

want. But for us who've called on the

name of the Lord, for us that want to be in his Kingdom, for

us that want to serve him and be with life man, we're going to be

together. And it's not like I'm going to

go up there and, you know, be with the Lord and monopolize his

eternal time. No, we're going to be together

and I'm going to love to be. I love to be around those that

love God like I love God passionate.

I mean, it's the easiest relationship.

I mean, it's so much joy to be around those who are like

minded. Second Corinthians 61 says it

this way, another scripture and working together with him.

We're working together with him. The new Living Translation says

it this way. As God's partners as God's

partners, so we are are always having to rework our minds

because of the of a of a spirit that is in our nation and that

is the spirit of independence. And the spirit of independence

is, is where we kind of want to do our personal thing, our own

thing. Nobody's going to tell me what

to do mentality. However I need the Lord to tell

me what to do and I need the Lord to lead me and guide me by

a spirit because He's life and so I'm fully dependent upon him

and I have to pull. And then I also have to

understand that I'm not in this thing alone and it's not just

about me. That God always envisioned

something larger than us. Never once He did not come for

just one at all. Again, you've heard it said, you

know, well if, if only one would have received the Lord God,

Jesus would have came. And we know that Jesus is

coming, period. Whether any of us would have

accepted him, because God is going to have a pathway back to

dominion so that he can rightly judge all of humanity, no one

will ever be able to say to him, well, you didn't even give us a

chance. You knew we weren't none of us

going to come, so you didn't even try.

That won't happen. He will have.

He would have paid the price anyway.

But he did not come for just one.

He's not thinking about just one.

He's thinking about all of us, even the ones that he'll have to

say depart from me for I never knew you.

He's even thinking about them. Amen.

Because God will fulfill His word.

So partnership is really important, Say partnership.

Partnership is really important. And as the church, if we are

going to become the church mature in the last days, then we

have to know our dependency for each other and our partnership

is necessary. Anyone who owns a business and

has employees are thankful for the partnership because the

reality is even though they're employees, employees can quit,

employees can can transfer to another place, employees can

call out and not show up. Hey, man.

And a lot of times, you know, if you're just the employee side

or, or you think that of only what you're technically doing,

you think that when you don't fulfill part of your partnership

responsibility, it doesn't really matter.

It matters all the time. It always matters because here's

the thing, you're needed. The enemy wants you to think

that you're not and that you're taking off or not being here or

not coming doesn't matter. It does matter because the enemy

always wants to isolate the sheep.

Because if the wolf can isolate the sheep, then the sheep, you

understand a shepherd can leave sheep alone and the sheep have

power to overcome the wolf. You say, how's that?

The 99 shepherd has sheep, one strays off, he leaves, he leaves

the 99 and goes after the one. Which means that pack staying

jointed and fitted together is too intimidating for a wolf.

The wolf is not coming to the to the flock not coming in.

He can leave the 99 and take the time to go search for the one

that is at the most risk. So there's power when you come

to the church, there's power when you connect with the

church, there's power when you stay with the church, because

again, when you're unified and in partnership in his church,

listen, the devil doesn't really want to come around, but he'll

talk, try to talk you out of it. Come over here.

Don't go today, stay here. You're not always trying to get

you to pull out. Come out of partnership, get you

isolated, Amen. The Lord doesn't want you

isolated. The Lord wants you in community,

Amen. Which brings me to Luke chapter

Luke 5 · chapter mention

5. Because there's power in

partnership. There's power in partnership,

all right? And so I'm going to read these

first 11 verses and then we're going to break them down.

And so it was as the multitude pressed around him to hear the

word of God, that he stood by the lake.

Now this is the Sea of Galilee. This lake is the same as the Sea

of Galilee. And saw two boats standing by

the lake. That means they were anchored on

shore by the fishermen who had gone from them and were washing

their Nets. Then he got into one of the

boats, which was Simons, and asked him to put out a little

from the land. And he sat down and taught the

multitude from the boat. And when he had stopped

speaking, he said to Simon, Launch out into the deep, let

down your Nets for a catch. But Simon answered and said to

him, Master, we have told all night and called nothing.

Nevertheless, at your word I will let down the net, or one

translator said, I'll let down the Nets.

OK. And when they had done this,

they caught a great number of fish, and their Nets were

breaking. So they signaled to their

partners in the other boat to come and help them.

And they began and came and filled both the boats so that

they began to sink. When Simon Peter saw it, he fell

down at Jesus's knees saying, Depart from me, for I am a

sinful man, oh Lord. And he and all who are with him

were astonished at the catch of fish that they had taken.

And so also were James and John, the sons of 70 who were partners

with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, do not

be afraid. From now on you will catch men.

One translation said you'll become fishers of men.

And when they had brought their boats to land, they forsake all

and followed him. Amen.

So again the new American standard says that he let down

his Nets. He let down his Nets, unlike the

King James. And if you actually.

Look at in its original context, that's what we're talking about.

We're talking about not just one, but multiple Nets.

In fact, the boats would have not just had one, they would

have had a string of Nets that they would have could have been

connected together so that they could gather in more fish.

So when in one sense, when it says net, it's a string of Nets

together. OK, so with that being said

here, I want to bring up my net because I need you to visually

see that God wants to do something powerful in us as a

church. Because God always intended for

partnership. Are you hearing me?

He never intended us to do things alone, so these words

should have never come out of our mouth.

My ministry, are you hearing me? My ministry?

These should have never come out of our mouth because any

ministry we have, it requires others.

Amen. And Jesus came back for our

Jesus established the church. So anything in ministry must

have a connection to the church. If it does not have a connection

to the church, that can become a problem.

OK, Now, I only say that because, again, Paul referenced

that there were some challenges with those at times that would

seek their own interest. We're not here to cover that.

We're staying with partnership because partnership is where

power exists. Are you hearing me?

So with that being said, let's look at a few things here that

we can learn from this passage of Scripture.

There was a time of Labor that went with Peter, James, John,

and Andrew where there were no results, meaning they labored

with the intent to catch. However, they caught nothing.

Now let me tell you something, if you do not labor you have no

chance of catching again. I Passover the Matanzas Bridge

every day and when I do there are a lot of times people

fishing. They either have rods or some

have Nets and they're casting those Nets.

Not this big though, casting their Nets off the side of the

Matanzas Bridge. All right, why they have to

many, I've never, I've only seen maybe 2 where somebody's pulling

something up. I'm like, do these people catch

anything? Because it's not like I'm always

seeing people reel and stuff in. But again, you have no hope of

catching unless you go labor. So laboring, even when you don't

catch, doesn't mean it's in vain.

I'm going to say that again, laboring, although you may not

catch, doesn't mean it's in vain because you must put forth the

opportunity to labor. Hallelujah.

All right, all the Nets, we're being cleaned at this time when

Jesus shows up in preparation for the next scheduled time for

labor. So in essence, we've done,

obviously it's outside the window of catching.

These are professional fishermen.

Now, again, they're not. They've already done a time

period. They're exhausted, they have

grown weary in their, well doing, so to speak, and have

caught nothing. So they're going to clean up and

we're going to come back at the next appointed time.

We're going to get some rest and go after again.

Just because they didn't catch didn't mean they quit.

It just means they prepare for the next time.

Amen. So everything is clean.

Both the boats are on the shore both of them because here's the

thing, there can be a time of Labor that can be routine.

There's schedule to a particular time of of of Labor.

So Jesus says, Simon, can I use your boat?

I need to do some teaching. And so he launched him out.

Now the the other Gospels account this particular

communicate this particular account would simply Jesus

coming by find us. Some disciples say follow me and

I'll make you fishers or men that said they immediately

dropped their Nets and came and that's all it gives you.

It didn't give you the back story that Jesus came and taught

and that then Jesus was a part of a fishing trip.

You just get he's walking by. He says come and be fishers or

men. They dropped everything.

Now you're going to know why they dropped everything.

Now you're going to know why because it wasn't him just

walking by and like, he's this guy.

So he is speaking to the multitude.

Now imagine Jesus is seated in the boat.

You're the multitude. I'm a little bit out in the

water. Jesus is seated and then he's

finished and he says, Peter, let's go launch out in the deep

and cast your Nets. Now the Nets are not in the

boat, they're on the shore. They're cleaned in preparation

for the next day. So everything he just did, the

Lord saying put it back in the boat.

Jesus doesn't get out of the boat.

Jesus is in the boat as they launch out.

OK, Jesus was a part of the expedition.

He said launch out into the deep and let down your neck.

And so Peter explains as he's loading the Nets.

Now Lord Master, we have labored all night and didn't catch

anything, but at your word we going to do it.

So he's seated in and Peter and Andrew launch out.

Now they only have the Nets assigned to Peter's boat.

They only have the Nets assigned to Peter's boat.

And so they let down the Nets and guess what happens?

Well, we just read it because Jesus operating in the dominion,

the first Adam had, which is dominion over the fish has

communicated through his words. Go put down your net for catch.

The fish now are going to obey the king and they for the last

maybe 12 hours avoided not only Peter's Nets, but their partners

Nets while they went around dragging those Nets all night

long, was able to evade them. But he could put those Nets down

now. And the Lord sent add a word

filled up that boat's Nets. Now here's the thing.

When he begins to pull this bad boy in, it is so heavy with the

number of fish that it begins to reach its capacity.

They begin, they, they break, they start breaking.

As you know, I understand when, when you start to pull the stuff

out of the water, all of a sudden gravity kicks in.

You know, you pick up some things heavy underwater, but the

minute starts getting to air, then the weight shows up.

I was watching an excavation, or it's probably not the right

term, that they were salvaging a, a tugboat that had sunk.

And so, you know, they got these air bladders in there and

they're going to pull it to the surface.

Now what they were having to do is they had to determine what

its weight was because they said the closer we get to the once it

starts getting out, all of a sudden its weight will kick in.

And if the crane cannot hold the IT a break.

This happened with another sailboat that went down in a

hurricane. Same issue.

They brought brought it in, had floated it to the surface.

They had a crane that was rated for £8000 to pull it out onto

the shore, but it was still full of water and when it went to

grab it, it was 12,000 lbs. The crane could not pull it so

they had to run down to a store, get pumps, get all the water

pumped out of it to reduce that weight.

Yet when it was down it was. And so you understand when

they're pulling the fish seems but then once they got it to

here, the Nets cannot support the weight.

At this point, they have to yell back to the shore and what do

they do? James and John, get your boat

out here. They had to call their partner

in. I said they had to call their

partner in. Now a partner doesn't say I'm

already cleaned up, not coming. Are you hearing me?

I mean, you understand partnership is in this

particular business of fishing. We're partnering.

We have more than one boat, which allows us to get more fish

so that we can sell more and provide for our family and our

community. And that's why they had the

boats. When one gets out, the other one

is going to partner and come. Why?

Because this is the purpose. The purpose is not when it's

convenient. The purpose is to accomplish the

task. And so he calls out to the other

boat and says, come on, we have so many we we can't pull them

in. So they have to take the time to

come in and get beside. And then they start unloading

the fish in both boats. Now notice all night they had

their own sets of Nets. Now all of a sudden Peter's Nets

has enough fish in it that not only does it fill his boat, but

it fills their boat. They had less equipment but

caught more fish. God was able to multiply the

amount within the Nets that all the Nets they had were required

to be able to do the same thing in the one.

And they've developed so many fish that it put a strain on

their own boats that they couldn't handle the weight.

It says they began to sink, which means they were taking on

water, which means now we have so many fish in here, if we do

not get to land, we're going to sink and lose what we have.

Are you hearing me? So you can sit that down now,

gentlemen, Thank you. So what do we learn from this?

Let me give you the word of the Lord for real quick.

When I was new, I was going to minister on this today as I was

driving. I don't remember where I was

coming from yesterday, but it came up in my spirit and I heard

the Lord say this. He says what you have done so

far will seem like your work has had no results compared to the

catch you will pull in together in these final days.

I heard this fair Lord say that. He said what you have done so

far will seem like your work has had no results compared to the

catch you will pull in together in these final days.

Hallelujah. Do you understand when you want

God's involvement in the catch? It doesn't matter how much we

plan, we're never going to be able to handle the capacity.

Does God know how much weight the boats can handle?

Does God know how much the Nets can handle?

Yet He still let Nets break, and he still let the boat begin to

sink. Now, it didn't immediately sink.

I understand that he knew enough that you know what, this is

really beyond what you have prepared for.

So that tells me this, with as much preparation as we do, when

God shows up, it's always exceeds our preparation.

Amen. And you understand it'd just get

a little crowded. So let me help everyone that is

my age or older. I want you to get a new

confession of our community, a new confession.

And that I understand we have congestion.

I understand a lot of people have moved in, but the catch is

big. Do you understand what's so

awesome is that their territory, their seas there, they have to

go out and they have to do something.

Notice God did not say, well, I'm going to bring the fish come

and they just started flying out of the water and jumping on the

shore. That didn't happen.

Could it have happened? Sure.

All things are possible with God.

Could he command the fish to come?

Sure, He could have done that and they could have come and

just jumped on the shore. Absolutely.

However, what is God showing? He says it's not about me doing

it. We have such this mindset of God

only when the Lord's like. I love your participation.

God gets pleasure at his children being involved with in

the family business. He gets great joy when he can

give you credit for your part. How do we know this?

Because when Gideon is going to overcome a nation with 300 men,

he sends him down to the camp and he says, hear what they

saying. He could have if it's only about

him. He could have heard them say the

Lord has taken the camp a lot and they never would have known

Gideon's name, but he let them know the name of Gideon.

Because God rejoices to say your name when you are only wanting

to do what He says. Amen.

He rejoices that you represent him clearly.

He's proud to call you his partner.

He loves to be able to put on the front of the building your

name with his in Lord. He wants people to know that you

are a part of the process, although it's not you doing it

yourself, but it's your partnership with him that caused

it to come to pass. He had no problem with them

knowing about a man named Moses. He had no problem with them

knowing about a woman named Esther.

He had no problem with them knowing about a man named King

David. Why?

Because all those people would always tell them about their

father Hallelujah, about his rule, his reign.

He loves the partnerships, he says.

Now listen, I'm going to use you, which will put you in a

vulnerable position sometime and even a sometimes seemingly life

threatening position. Because in this case the

blessing had a life threatening position, meaning they could

have lost it all. Now I'm assuming these guys

weren't so far out that they could have swam back to shore,

but I can't tell you that either.

The point is though is that their ships about to sink

because of the blessing of God, the partnership of God.

Because when we really partner at the word of our King, then

he's always going to bring it to more.

So again, we don't have to wait to build a sanctuary to get

more. We just need people to be

passionate like Brazil and be willing to sit on the floor.

That's it. Instead of saying it's too

crowded, our community is getting so crowded, so many

people. Well, let's turn that confession

to thank you, Lord. That was the partnership of

Anchor Faith Church with you. We're going to reap these

people. I mean, these people that are

cutting you off, these people that definitely need to have

their license revoked. I understand there was one from

Michigan yesterday. I'm like, Jesus, help poor, not

Pure Michigan, poor Michigan. I mean, we were coming back from

the airport from Brazil and, and in Miami, Ernie, you know, this

is true that there's four lanes of traffic and then you have two

lanes that are the express lanes.

And so they were in the lane next to the express lane, the

4th lane to the left, and there's an exit they decided

they wanted to get to. Now, we weren't technically

running 6570 miles an hour. You know, it was, you know,

traffic was pretty backed up, but this person basically did

this. No.

Yeah, they were actually. You're right.

Thank you for correcting that. Pastor Mars.

They were in the express lane, so all the pylons are there.

They drove in a little bitty, like, you know, small car.

I mean, a little one that came. Yeah.

Some kind of like a camera ran over the cones.

You're like, where's police officer when you need them cut

into the foreland and cut off and had to cut back in order to

get into the exit. I'm not going to lie, I had a

thought. I'm not going to lie.

I said, man, if I had a vehicle that had a bumper, the

temptation is really motivating me right now to help move them

along because you're like, what are you thinking?

That is the most self-centered move I've ever seen in my life.

That cares nothing for the safety of anyone else, nothing

for the safe. You miss an exit, Go on.

Please don't be the one that's going to pull over it and back

all the way. Don't do that.

Because if I find out it's you, we're going to have words.

We've trained you better here. God will bless.

There's a reason. Just go ahead and use that that

little you know Christianese well, the Lord had a reason for

me to miss it then and just go on to the next exit, turn around

and come back. Same in anyway all right.

So I believe the Lord wants to do more in these last days it

with us and our partnership together.

Look what it says in Luke 1620 and they went out and preached

everywhere and the Lord working with them and confirming the

word through the accompany signs.

Amen. Jesus Christ who sits on the

throne is not doing this alone. He's not doing this alone.

He has his church. Jesus needs us.

Look to your name and say Jesus needs you.

Never take the thought that you're not needed.

You're needed. You're needed.

Your partnership is needed. And I'm always amazed at the

caliber of of children that God has and their individual skill

sets that can bring such resource to the Kingdom of God.

It's amazing to me that there are those that are able to be at

a get into a trauma situation. Blood can be everywhere.

And they are the calm in the storm.

They're not the ones who's passing out, throwing up knees,

drive on. We need partners like that.

There are others, you know, not afraid of heights, can scale a

tree, cut off a limb, swing out, you know, with a rope, cut that

thing off and come back crazy. It can happen.

I mean, there's there's things that people, everyone who works

with the children, praise the Lord, Amen.

There's a skill set to be able to minister into their little

lives. Some of you, you're not there

and that's why you have no skill set, Amen.

The reason why we don't have men change the diapers is because

most of you gag, Hallelujah. And those are the funniest

videos. But He's working with us.

Matthew 937 to 38. Then he said to his disciples,

the harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are therefore

prayed, the Lord of the harvest, to send out laborers into the

harvest. Hallelujah.

You know what God wants to send us.

But here's the thing, you don't go out by yourself.

You're not alone. Meaning even if you're in a

workplace or you're in a store, you're by yourself.

You know that the work you're doing is not alone.

That you have a place to bring them back to.

A place they can connect. A place they can get decipher

the place they'll be loved. A place that they can receive

the word rightly divided. A place where they can be

nurtured and cared for, but ultimately have their gifts

released and the ability for them to thrive in the Kingdom of

God. We're not alone where miracles,

signs and wonders where you can be diagnosed with scoliosis, but

at the word of the King, your spine is made straight

Hallelujah. And miracle after miracle and

testimony after testimony takes place.

And how much more should we be the church that is passionate

about the things of God. Amen.

So I'm going to leave us with this verse here because it

helped me kind of go into next week what I really want to be

able to minister for the next few Sundays.

And it says this in First Thessalonians 512 to 13.

He says we beseech you brethren to know them, which labor among

you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you.

We need to know those who labor among us.

We are to recognize those, which means I should not know you and

I shouldn't. I should know what it is that

you are bringing to the table in the partnership because in the

church you're not an employee, you're a partner.

To have membership is partnership, which means you

have a stake in this thing and God needs you to bring your

gift. It is necessary.

It is necessary and you know, we're adding to the team all the

time and you understand people that are being added to the

team, you're having to renew their minds to this team to how

we're doing things. You know what, we may not be

like that team over there or that team there.

I mean, God's called those teams to do their work.

We're called to do ours. I'm not here to assimilate to a

different style. I'm here to do what God's asked

us to do. And you know what he's going to

send people that can be released in their gifts and do some

amazing things. So you want to know those who

labor among you. You don't want to be the, the,

the partner of anchor faith that comes in, goes out and no one

knows anything about you. That's good.

Good. Because the reality is we are

in. We are victors that are having

to occupy in an earth where an enemy is still trying to kill,

steal and destroy. And I want to know you well

enough that if a scheme of the devil shows up, I know you've

got my back and you'll know I have yours.

Because as an ex soldier, I do not want to be in a foxhole with

someone who's going to abandon their post when the when the

fire comes down range. I want to know that you are

going to stay in the fight. And here's the thing.

At risk of seeming like we're going to die, Yeah, though we

walk through the valley of the shadow of death, we're going to

fear no evil. We going to ultimately win this

fight anyway because Christ has already won.

We're just defending the ground he has already given us.

In fact, we are the ones who'll continue to take more territory.

We're not in a defensive posture.

We're the one on the offensive. We're the one who's going into

the enemy's territory and we're taking the prisoners of war that

he has and and releasing the captives and getting them over

into the Kingdom and they're going to fight on our side.

Hallelujah. So we want to know those who

labor among us and those that are over you in the Lord.

You want to admonish verse 13 and to esteem them very highly

in love for their work's sake and for the P and be at peace

among yourselves. So you understand, in any

partnership, there are those that are going to manage certain

aspects so that the whole organization can move forward.

And they've been given that opportunity because God has put

them in those positions of responsibility.

And for those that are laboring well among you, you want to

steam and say, you know what? Look how they're laboring.

Look how they're staying with it.

Look how they're staying in faith.

Look how their life is modeling that.

Look how they're doing it. Not let me find a crack in their

stuff and see if I can't figure. No thankful Lord, look how they

overcome. Look how they have, because

again, if if a round gets through and they fall, I'm going

to go in there and to gird them. And then among ourselves, we're

at peace with each other. Why?

Because we're in one goal, 1 spirit, 1 faith, one God, one

purpose, one thing. We're moving towards the upward

call of God for all of our lives in this vision called Anchor

Faith Church. And it's not just in this

community. It is gone globally now.

And all of those congregations are united in one purpose, to

pull in a catch that this end time has not yet seen.