Sunday Message - Pastor Fred and Sabrina Watonatay (September 21, 2008) | Life Bible Church

and Sabrina Watanate. Thank you. Thank you so

much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much.

You may be seated. Thank you, Mike. Thank you

for that warm welcome. What you said is true,

actually. I don't know how I missed the target.

But it was a great time yesterday. This is my

wife Sabrina, and we've been married for 20 years

now and We have three children Two girls and

one boy, and I wanted to say hello to you before

we open the word of God I thank the Lord for

my husband. We don't usually travel, but every

time we travel, he wants me to be with him. And

I thank the Lord because this time he brought

me with him and I've been able to meet all you

wonderful people. Please clap for him. I want

to encourage you today. I want you to know that

you're very special. And the Lord loves you dearly.

We've been having people confirm what my husband

and many preachers have said to you. God knows

you. God understands you. God has within you

a treasure. And sometimes the devil comes and

whispers that God doesn't know us. That God can't

use us. But I've come to encourage you that if

God can bring preachers, even one, all the way

from Uganda, to confirm to you that he wants

to use you, that you have the treasure, you have

something that he wants you to do in this nation

of America. You have to take it by force. I want

you to claim that song, I will not be denied.

Sometimes you're dry, sometimes many things come

to try and cause you to lose focus, but today,

and even starting from today onwards, tell the

devil, hallelujah. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Amen.

Hallelujah. Let's bow our heads and have a short

word of prayer before we start. Father, we thank

you so much for this wonderful group of people,

your children, your sons and your daughters.

Father, I pray this morning that your voice will

be heard clearly. With God, you give me clarity

as I present your word to your people. And your

word will come with anointing. And God, you confirm

your word with signs and wonders in people's

lives today. Lord, in everything, God, be glorified.

We pray in Jesus' name, amen. Amen. This morning,

I want to bring to you a message that I've entitled,

God's Agenda. God has an agenda. God has a program.

God has a schedule. God is working towards something.

God is moving history towards a final point of

destination, a point of finality. God has a plan.

And this morning I want us to understand where

we fit in. So please turn with me to your Bibles

to the book of Isaiah chapter 54. Isaiah or Isaiah?

Isaiah 54 · chapter mention

whatever you want to call it, Isaiah chapter

Isaiah 54 · chapter mention

54. And what I'm going to share with you in this

passage, I've been told by some people that other

pastors have come here and preached the same

message. And I think you should open your ears

this morning because God might be confirming

certain truths and principles that he has already

revealed to you as a congregation, something

that you need to take note of. Chapter 54, the

Bible says, sing, O childless woman, break out

into loud and joyful song, Jerusalem, for she

who was abandoned has more blessings now than

she whose husband stayed. I'm reading from the

Living Bible. Let me read also from the King's

Version. Sing, O barren, thou that didst not

bear, break forth into singing and cry aloud.

thou that didst not travail with child, for more

are the children of the desolate than the children

of the married wife, saith the Lord. Enlarge

the place of thy tent. Let them stretch forth

the curtains of thy inhabitations. Spare not

lengthen thy cords and strengthen thy stakes,

for thou shalt break forth on the right hand

and on the left, and thy seed shall inherit the

Gentiles and make desolate cities to be... inhabited.

God is going to bring a time of revival all over

the world. God is going to speak against the

spirit of barrenness in his church. There is

a barrenness that has been there in many churches

and many churches have stunted. They don't grow.

We hardly see people come to Christ and God is

coming to a time when He's telling his church

to enlarge the place of their tent, because God

is about to bring in a mighty harvest in his

house. Someone say amen. God is speaking against

the speed of barrenness. And in the Bible days,

to be barren was something that was shameful,

something that was looked upon as a curse. When

a family didn't have children, they were looked

down upon. First of all, it was not good for

that family not to have children because in the

Bible days, children also helped to form a line

of defense around a family. The scripture says

in the book of Psalms, I'm going to read, it

says, as arrows are in the hand of a mighty man,

so are children of the youth. Happy is the man

that has his quiver full of them. They shall

not be ashamed. but they shall speak with the

enemies in the gate. Children formed a line of

defense. When parents grew old, children will

be there to take care of them, feed them, defend

them. You remember in the times of Jacob when

his daughter Diana was defiled by a certain prince,

and when Diana came back in the home, the Bible

says Jacob would not utter a single word. He

waited for his sons to come back. When the sons

came back, hell broke loose. You read the Bible.

You know what happened. You know how they tricked

the people and circumcised them. Then they came

back later and killed all the men and all the

women and only kept the young virgins. So in

the Bible days, children were precious. They

were warriors. And when you invested in your

child, He became like an arrow prepared to hit

the mark. Children became a source of strength.

And I was teasing my brother David. David has

got six children. David is an African in white

skin. Six children, that sounds African. I came

from a family of, my mother gave birth to 11

children. My father had other children with other

women. We were probably about 18 plus children.

So God is coming to a time right now where I

believe he's about to usher in a mighty revival.

And he's telling his church to stretch, to lengthen

the cords, to extend the place of their tent.

God is coming back for a victorious church. is

coming back for a strong and vibrant church.

And the Church of Christ is going to have all

kinds of people. You'd be amazed. I was speaking

to a man a few days ago who's been working in

Muslim countries. He told me, there are thriving

churches in Iraq. There are churches springing

up in Iran. Can you believe that? Believe us,

people coming to Christ in these Muslim countries,

these Muslims. have dreams and they see Jesus

coming to them. I don't know why many of them

get saved through dreams. Christ comes to them

in a dream, and many of them confess and accept

Christ in their lives, and they become Christians.

I know there's a thriving church in Egypt. I

met one man in Egypt who told me about their

believers praying, and the church underground

is growing in these Arab countries. Why? Because

God is working. He has an agenda. His agenda

includes all nations, all tribes, people from

every religion, people from every color. God

has a program. God has an agenda and He's speaking

to His church today. He's telling us to expand

the place of our tent, to lengthen the course.

Somebody say Amen. And I believe this church

is strategic. When the Bible speaks of codes,

you probably all know that is speaking about

relationships I believe God is going to give

you an opportunity to get ties with many churches

that you don't know of you're going to get tired

with churches in India and Africa and God is

trying to give you an opportunity to work with

him to bring in the harvest He wants to give

you opportunities to send the missionaries to

send teams of young people to give so that you

can work with God to bring in the mighty harvest.

And these codes are going to stretch across nations.

These are long codes that God is going to tie

to you and connect you to other groups and other

people. People that you don't know of right now,

but God knows he can trust you he can use you

he can use your resources He can use your expertise.

He can use your young men and young women to

bring in the harvest Hallelujah, but also God

told me to warn you that there are Tires you

need to avoid there are people with lying Lying

spirits There are many false prophets out there.

There are many groups that have got another agenda.

There are people who will come in and pretend

to be men of God or women of God. And I'm praying

that God will give it to some men to know who

to work with and who not to work with. Because

sometimes you don't want to get messed up with

them. But there are opportunities coming your

way. And I'm excited for you guys. I also believe

in my own church the full gospel church that

I passed in Kampala We're looking at going to

the force to done looking at going into Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe has had a difficult time and God has

spoken to us as a local church Because there

is an agenda going on God is working mightily.

He's bringing in a harvest Now we're not a very

wealthy nation, but we've got young people on

fire for God And we have plans to send them in

these countries to do evangelism, to go on short

-term missionary trips. We are a third world

country, but that's what God has told us to do.

We are stretching the cords. We are lengthening

them. We have a young man in Burundi who sent

out a young man, his wife and five children.

And they've been there for about two, three years

now. And they have planted a wonderful church.

Next time you come, Mike and David, I need to

take you down to Burundi. We have a church there

that we have been privileged to start in us across

the border. And I'm excited about that because

God is telling us to lengthen the course. We

hope to go into Congo because they need the gospel

there. They've had very difficult times. Why?

Because... God in the end times is bringing in

a harvest. He's against the spirit of barrenness.

The times of churches not growing is over. God

wants the church to produce, to have children,

to raise up sons and daughters, a people that

will go on warfare against the kingdom of darkness.

Remember children in the Bible days help In times

of war, they provided a line of defense. They

would provide manpower in war. When a man had

his quiver full of children, he could speak with

his enemies in the gates. Are you following me?

He could speak. It would not be a shame. The

Bible says he would speak boldly. God is looking

for a people that he can entrust to do spiritual

warfare He wants us to invent the kingdom of

darkness and bring in the loss Hallelujah now

the Bible says also that we should Lengthen the

cords and he speaks about stakes. Let me read

that to you. It says here strengthen this by

sticks Strengthen thy stakes. Now, you probably

have heard this before. The stakes would speak

of leaders. Every tent, every church, every congregation

depends upon leaders. When you have a tent, you

have to have pegs and stakes put in the ground

and you tie cords to them. Stakes are extremely

important. But I believe we have come to a time

when God wants to examine the stakes. God is

coming to check on his stakes. Every local church,

I believe, every Bible -believing church, we

are living in the time when God is examining

the stakes. Some stakes have begun to rot from

the bottom. They've been in the soil for so long,

and they have become weak because of rot and

decay. He wants to pull them out, clean them,

sharpen them again and put them in the ground

again. That's why God has allowed many ministries

now to be exposed. There's been a lot of rot

in the church, a lot of decay, a lot of hidden

sin, but those days are over with because God

wants to strengthen the stakes. Hallelujah. And

I'm speaking to every leader in this house. You

need to check your life this morning. Do you

have any rot in your life? Is there any termites

eating you? Because when you have stakes in the

ground for a long time, sometimes termites and

ants begin to gnaw and eat on the stakes. And

that is dangerous because when the wind comes,

if the stakes are not strong, it will lift the

tent and cast it away. So the stakes must be

firmly planted in the ground. hallelujah and

I believe that we as leaders we need to check

and make sure there's nothing hindering us the

Bible says to run the race lay aside everywhere

that besets us you know I can I can run with

20 pounds in my hands I can run but I'm gonna

be able to break the world record I'm gonna be

able to do very well in that race If I laid aside

that weight and trained, maybe I could, you know,

do something, you know, but same thing is true

spiritually. Many of us serve God, but we are

not effective or maximum in serving God because

there are some ways that beset us and we are

leaders. God is saying lay aside every weight.

I want you to run that race and break your own

record. I Know what you're doing may not look

like something bad not something not very serious

It might be stuff you read or stuff you see on

TV It might be the kind of friends you have or

the kind of job you do you say pastor? It's not

a big deal. I'm not robbing a bank. I'm not I'm

not Sleeping with somebody. It's just a few small

tiny things, but those are extra weights that

Drag us and prevent us from running arrests and

those are termites that eat at the sticks and

This morning God is saying to us if you want

to Be a lead and sub God check yourself because

it's time to excel Hallelujah, it's time to run

our race and run with all our strength Let nothing

hinder you from excelling in the work of God.

Praise the Lord. Now, the other thing I see here,

and this is where I want to take some time and

study, when you enlarge the tent, when you expand

the place of the tent and make the tent bigger,

you may need and you may have to provide new

stakes in the ground. The old Stakes may not

be enough anymore. You may need to wait to plant

some new ones and you know, I have traveled Wherever

I've gone. I'm amazed at the new crop of leaders.

God is bringing up today Here in your country.

There are people that we didn't know of say ten

years ago But now they are among the most effective

and powerful national leaders in the church There's

a new crop of leaders God is bringing up. A new

crop of people, both men and women. Someone said

some of God's best men are women. That's what

somebody said. God is raising up a new crop of

leaders today, brothers and sisters. Young men,

young women who are on fire for God because God

has an agenda. He's anointing them. He's empowering

them. And some of us who've been in this work

for a while wonder now who in the world is that?

Where did he come from? And they have growing

churches. They are preaching powerful messages.

They are touching cities. They are affecting

their generation. Why? Because God is enlarging

the tent. And he needs new stakes. He needs people

who are on fire and are willing to be used by

him because this gospel must be preached and

People must hear about Jesus and people will

get saved friends They will get saved and people

there will be a time when people will come through

that door Without you preaching to them and say

can I find? Anyone here to pray for me. I want

to become a Christian those days are coming when

people will come under the conviction of the

Holy Spirit. Because God is against the spirit

of barrenness. He says, sing, O barren woman,

your days of being barren are over. The days

of revival are here. And God needs stakes. A

people who are willing to hold up the tent. Now,

in the book of Daniel, I wanted to see what kind

of new stakes God has in mind. The book of Daniel

chapter one, please kindly turn there with me.

The book of Daniel chapter one. I've been told

that you're reading the Bible as a church and

you're studying the book of Daniel, is that right,

Ellie? Okay, interesting. Okay, chapter one.

Let me read from verse one. The Bible says in

verse one, in the year, in the third year of

the reign of Joachim, king of Judah, came Nebuchadnezzar,

king of Babylon and to Jerusalem and besieged

it. And the Lord gave Joachim, king of Judah,

into his hand with part of the vessels of the

house of God, which he carried into the land

of China to the house of his God. He brought

the vessels into the treasure house of his God.

I'm going to skip to verse... Verse four. Children

in whom was no blemish, but were favored and

skillful in all wisdom, cunning in knowledge

and understanding science, and such as had ability

to, in them to stand in the king's palace, and

whom they might teach the learning and the tongue

of the Chaldeans. When I was reading my Bible

a few days ago, God showed me something that

was so powerful. You see, God will always be

in control of what happens in the world. God

will never lose control of what is going on in

the world. The world belongs to God. The earth

and the furnace thereof belong to God. God has

never said, oh, I'm losing control. What's happening?

No, God all the time is in control of what happens

in the world. Now, When Israel sinned, God shifted

the center of political power, economic power,

military power from Israel and took it to Babylon.

When he did that, he had to have an inside man

in Babylon to continue to influence the world.

God had to put an insight. In fact, there were

four guys that we know Daniel Shadrach Meshach

and Abed Nagor. He took those four Hebrew children

Because he was shifting the center of power the

center of influence For many many years the center

of political military and economic power shifted

from Israel and resided in Babylon and later

on Nineveh, the capital of Middle Persian Empire.

And all those years, God has his own men placed

strategically in the corridors of power in those

kingdoms. Oh, hallelujah. You know, because of

sin, some churches are going to crumble. Some

churches are going to die That's not good news,

but it's a fact God is not tied to any group

of people When we mess and sin against him he

can decide to leave us on our own God shifted

the center of power and influence from Israel

because he now Had a powerful Emperor called

Nebuchadnezzar whom he had called And this man

was not influencing the entire world. But God

sought to continue to influence the world through

a man he put there. And remember, God always

has had this agenda of walking through Israel.

He had to have somebody there to help preserve

and restore Israel, someone that was inside the

corridors of power in Babylon. God used Daniel

to preserve the nation and help restore the nation

of Israel You see but but then God had to relocate

Daniel and his three friends from Jerusalem over

to Babylon and God showed me That there's going

to be some shifting It's going to be some shifting.

It's going to be some shaking Get ready for some

changes. Changes in your economy, not just United

States, but all over the world. All over the

world. God is going to bring about changes in

the economy and the military balance in the different

countries of the world. That change is going

to come. But in the midst of all that, God wants

to continue to influence the world. And he needs

some Daniels. Some of them are women. I said

to you, some of God's best men are women. Women

say amen. Because God has no... God will use

a man, a woman, no problem. If he can't find

a woman, he'll use a man. If he can't find a

man, he'll use a woman. No problem, because God

is not limited. God wants to have a new breed

of leaders Place strategically in certain places

so that his agenda may continue And I sense that

it's not just preachers Not just pastors, but

God may give you a political office like he did

with Daniel Yes, he can God may give you a pulse

Something in something you do in business. Maybe

you're in your own field your own industry whether

I don't know business or farming, but it will

place you in a strategic place So that he may

continue to influence your world through you.

Oh hallelujah You've got a crop offering Yes

We We live in that their brethren we live in

those days God is going to raise up ordinary

people ordinary folk Ordinary people some young

some old and it's going to be shifting But God

has never he will never lose control of the world

he will never That's why he needs you and he

needs me and everybody here is a candidate for

that position. Can you say amen? Now, let me

show you what kind of man or woman God is seeking

for. In verse 7 of the book of Daniel chapter

Daniel 1:7

1 verse 7, the Bible says there, unto whom the

prince of the eunuchs gave names. Now, a few

years ago I read this and I said, whoa, Daniel

became a eunuch? Daniel lost his manhood? You

mean they cut off the I don't want you you can

compete that sentence But they he became a eunuch

How could God do that? Daniel lost any hope of

being a father He lost any hope of being having

a family That was gone like smoke went through

the window But then God showed me That if he's

going to use a new breed of leaders a new breed

of people and warriors They must have their sex

drive in check You cannot become a man or a woman

Like Daniel if you've got an honest unrestrained

sex drive The devil has used this area to bring

down more people than I can count. It's one avenue

that the enemy has used to oppress, torment,

destroy. I mean, from the Bible days, you look

at the story of Reuben. Reuben was the firstborn

of Jacob, a young man full of potential and promise.

Jacob said, you're the strength of my life. You're

my firstborn. But Reuben, you are unstable. You

will not excel because you went to bed with my

wife Ruben lost his birthright Ruben lost his

position of influence Ruben lost the birthright

of being the first born that was gone Goodness

me. I can give you example upon example. This

is one area that if we're going to keep our places

as a new crop of leaders We have to put this

under control hallelujah Solomon is another story

Solomon was a great man smart wise intelligent

But the Bible says he married many women and

they turn his heart away from God David Samsung

I can go on and on and on And this morning I'm

speaking to you. I'm speaking to myself If Daniel

hadn't lost his, you complete the sentence, if

Daniel, you know, if he had come in the palace

and messed with the king's wives, if Daniel had

tried to seduce and play around with, he would

have lost his head and Cadenza would not take

that well. He would have his head chopped off.

But he had no problem because he had no more

sex drive. That helped him to be stable, to be

solid, to be focused. He had no attachment to,

you know, gathering wealth and building a big

family and getting a nested. He was focused on

doing the will and purpose of God in his life

now I'm not saying you should go out from here

and go and see a doctor and ask him to remove

your I'm not saying that I'm not saying that

please don't do that. Don't do that But my point

is this My point is that you need to put in check

to bring under subjection to control Your normal

and natural sex drive because if you don't you

will not be able to serve God like Daniel did

Hallelujah Now the other thing that God is seeking

for in today's leaders and people that God is

going to use it is endurance endurance endurance

tenacity perseverance Fortitude hanging in there

If you look at verse 7, he says, for he gave

unto Daniel the name of Belshazzar, and to Hananiah

of Shadrach, and to Michelle of Meshach, and

to Azariah of Abednego. The name Daniel was changed

to Belshazzar, which means Bell's Prince. The

name Hananiah, became Shadrach, which means command

of Akku. Akku is one of the gods in Babylon.

The name Michelle became Meshach, which means

who is like Akku. The name Azariah became Abednego,

which means servant of Nebo. There were three

gods of Babylon that the Babylonians, Gave names

they they linked up these Hebrew children with

their gods That may look like something innocent

something without any ill motive But the Babylonians

had an agenda They were trying to destroy their

identity as Jews They're trying to to baptize

them immerse them in the culture of the Babylonians

and What I like about Daniel and his friends,

we don't have any record of Daniel campaigning

and asking the king whether he could keep his

name. What we see is they simply endured their

new names. They just hang in there. Some things

we're going to go through in life, in these last

days, we just have to have endurance. somebody

say amen in the days to come I don't know about

your country but I know in Africa we sometimes

get tyrants we have oppressive laws oppressive

leaders we have people who come up and hate the

Bible we had a man called he attacked our church

one time we There were Christians praying and

he sent in soldiers with big big machine guns

Mike not the ones were using yesterday. These

were really big things big gum and These were

unarmed believers people women men children worshipping

I mean had been given money by Arabic countries

to make Uganda Islamic The agenda was to make

the whole of sub Saharan Africa, right from Sudan,

way down, and make it a Muslim part of the world.

Amin was doing well. He shut down many churches,

and he killed pastors, he killed bishops, he

imprisoned people. And I remember the time he

attacked our church, I wasn't a Christian yet.

I was somewhere playing basketball and we looked

over beyond and we saw smoke and we had gunshots

and we went and looked and we saw the whole church

surrounded by armed men and they were shooting

everywhere up over people's heads. It was horrible.

We saw women and children running, crying, falling

over each other and these armed men. began to

tell them to lie on the ground and with my own

eyes I saw them count them by stepping on them

one two they told uh trucks that were passing

by to stop and they began to load them with people

take them to prison you know friends that was

the day I began to think to myself what do these

people have that will cause them to defy Decree

by idiom in how was the Christian yet? But that

got me to begin to think what do they have that

we don't have they can stand up to idiom in and

Say we will not stop to pray to worship and we're

waiting to die for our faith I mean all of us

were scared of idiom in but this bunch of believers

Well, I think they were either fools or crazy

both How do you dare defied a mean you don't

give him a chance to kill you but they did and

amazingly God spared them because just after

that I mean was overthrown but here's my point

believers in these countries have had to endure

and God is looking for a people of endurance

They might call you names in your school They

might think because you're a Christian. You are

a fanatic. You are crazy. You are dumb You are

out of place. You must be a fool. How can you

say believe in Jesus? What do you do? Well do

what Daniel did and do Hallelujah Daniel did

not try to fight back He didn't try to tell them

stop calling me those names. I'm not Belshazzar.

I'm Daniel I made you didn't waste time telling

them that He only endured he knew he who he was

he believed in his God. He believed in himself

He was strong in his belief in his conviction.

He just kept on serving the Lord Endurance endurance

There's a lot of people today who are wishy -washy

spineless They they they they buckle under easily

under pressure and threats But if you're going

to be one of the key leaders, one of the key

people, one of the new stakes that God is putting

in place as He stretches His tent, you've got

to have endurance. Hallelujah. Now, I also believe

that sometimes the most hardest thing to do is

not to stop someone calling you names, but stopping

your mind For mutilating your identity Yeah,

yeah, yeah, I can easily fight back someone who

may call me a derogatory name I can you know,

I can swing if you put now won't pass But you

know, you can answer back that anyone can do

that but the most difficult part is Maintaining

your own self -esteem in your own mind Knowing

that they may call me names But I know I'm loved

I am blessed. I Am a Christian. I'm not crazy.

I am handsome. I'm beautiful Hallelujah, I'm

important, you know, I am not crazy They are

crazy. I'm not crazy Endurance endurance Now

the last thing that we see that God is going

to do with this new breed of leaders is The area

of intimacy that's going to be something very

special with this new breed of leaders God is

raising up a people who love him with all of

their hearts and all their strength Look at what

happened in verse In verse 8 the Bible says in

verse 8 But Daniel purpose in his heart that

he will not defile himself with the potion of

the king's meat Nor with the wine which he drank

Therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs

that he might not defile himself now I got to

thinking When Daniel refers to eat the food offered

idols. What was the problem? I know the issue

is not the level of cholesterol in the food It

wasn't the grease in the food. It wasn't the

amount of alcohol in the drink. It wasn't the

eating habits of the Babylonians. But the problem

was simply that the food had first been offered

to idols and to any Jew. When you eat food offered

first to idols, you are participating in idolatry.

And Dan did not want anyone. Anybody or anything

to affect his fidelity with God? his it messes

God His relationship with God He said look I

have obeyed you up to this point. I have gone

to your schools. I've taken your courses You've

called me names. I haven't answered back But

on this one, I will not eat food offer to idols.

I will not participate in the worship of idols

I am a worshiper of one living god the god of

israel The new breed of leaders god is going

to raise up are people of who have a strong intimacy

with god And you know I When I read that this

morning, by the way what i'm preaching now God

woke me up at one in the morning pastor. You

wouldn't believe it I I preached a different

message last night But God this morning told

me, no, you better give them this word. He woke

me up and God told me, he showed me, Daniel was

different because Daniel was able to see beyond

the facts. He was able to see beyond the dreams.

He was able to see the reason and the meaning

of what appeared to be. You know why? Because

Daniel had an intimacy with God. God was able

to explain to him the reason behind whatever

was going on. And the new breed of leaders God

is going to raise up are people who are going

to be so intimate with him that God will explain.

He will reveal to them. He will give them meaning.

They will have revelation. They will have inspiration.

They will have a knowledge that is supernatural.

Because they will walk in that close it miss

it God will share his secrets with them. Oh see

man There are things God will reveal to them

he will not reveal to anybody else I Remember

what happened to Paul? Paul was in his way to

Damascus. He meets the Lord. He struck blind

and he says Lord, who are you? And the Lord says,

I'm Jesus. And he says, Lord, what would you

have me to do? Paul was seeking a roadmap, a

blueprint about his future. He wanted to know

the will of God for his life. And listen, he

just told him, Paul, you go to the city and wait

there. Oh, I love that. Because you know what

happened? When Paul asked for Road map his life

God gave him a relationship From relationship

came forth the road map. Are you following? It

is everything springs from a relationship Everything

comes from an intimacy with God There are people

here wanting to know God's will for their lives

God is saying No, what you need is a relationship

with me. You get to know me and spend time with

me, and I'll reveal to you my will for your life,

step by step, step by step. Because when Paul

was waiting, praying in the room, after three

days and three nights of prayer, God sent a man

called Ananias and said, Paul, rise up, because

God has called you to be an apostle to the Gentiles.

God wants to have the people of intimacy. That's

why it on that that worship service is powerful

God wants to have a people of Intimacy people

that will value that more than anything else.

You will be willing even to give your life for

it You wouldn't just to give up everything even

your job Because no one nothing should ever touch

that and take that away from you That's your

lifeline that is my lifeline and I believe that

we're coming today when God yes, we need to pray

together but there is a ministry of Shutting

the door going in a closet. We need to develop

a time where you can be you alone with God alone

with God Get those moments where you can spend

time alone with him build that intimacy with

just between you and him. Oh Praise the Lord

Can I pray for you as we close this morning?

Let's bow our heads and what a prayer If you

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