14th September, 2014
Subject: ENDURE THE PROCESS - PART 2
Scripture Focus: Jeremiah 32: 1 - 17 and vs 27
To welcome in the sermon for today, we sang lustily - "CELEBRATE JESUS CELEBRATE!"
Last week, we started a sermon series entitled - ENDURE THE PROCESS. During our introduction we looked at several 21st Century individuals who struggled right up to their success point because they ENDURED - THEY NEVER GAVE UP!
We also stated, most importantly that because Jesus endured and CONQUERED death, hell and the grave, we have a fresh reason and a fresh HOPE to live on too - SIMPLY BECAUSE JESUS LIVES!
Let's continue with PART 2 of our sermon series titled - ENDURE THE PROCESS
Did you know that Jeremiah The Prophet Was Locked Up By The Government of The Day Too, For Speaking Out and Publicly Condemning the Government of The Day For its Wrong Doings and for suggesting that the CITY of that day would go to another king because of their SINS?
Three verses from our Focus Scripture says so - Jeremiah 32: 1 - 3
Jer 32:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.
2 For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.
3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
The greatest men and the greatest women who have lived back then or who are alive in the world today, ALWAYS go through the greatest trials.
They always have society speaking and condemning their UNIQUE AND DIFFERENT actions and BOLD WORDS!.
Society loves to gossip about them day and night with their SWORDLY TONGUE, seeking to belittle them and their dreams.
The Bible is full of such instances. Job, Jesus, Joshua, Caleb, Daniel, Paul, Silas, John the Baptist, Stephen, Peter, Joseph, Moses etc etc etc. Therefore if you've never been through anything severe and hurtful in your life as yet, you MUST go through and ENDURE before you are even ELEVATED to another level in your life and gain a FRESH GODLY WISDOM that causes people to be confused when they look at your life and your actions and SEE FOR THEMSELVES HOW GOD IS BLESSING YOU RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR MESS OR AFTER YOUR MESS! Experience is the greatest teacher! That is a fact!
You cannot run from TRIALS - they will come! The PRESSURE and the PAIN and the SUFFERING and the HURT always preambles YOUR VICTORY! You MUST endure that first, then after you've been through the FIRE AND ENDURED - YOU WILL COME FORTH AS GOLD AND STUN AND AMAZE THE WORLD FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE! That's a guarantee! That's how GOD WORKS! Do you remember what happened to JOB after all his friends mocked him and gossiped about him and condemned him as he suffered and lost everything? Do your remember?
Yet during all of that, he NEVER took his wife's instructions which was to CURSE GOD AND DIE. Becareful with some of the advice some WOMEN and MEN want to give you when you're hurting and need desperate help eh. BECAREFUL! Becareful! Some people you think are your friends and family members are DEADLY - DECEPTIVE - PEOPLE WORKING HAND IN HAND WITH THE DEVIL! I can't put it any softer, clearer or cleaner!
Some of your friends and family members are DEVILS - but LOVE THEM STILL! Proverbs 25:21 If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
22 For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.
ALWAYS TEST THE SPIRITS AND SEE WHETHER THEY BE OF GOD OR OF THE ENEMY! LISTEN TO ONE VOICE ALWAYS - THAT IS THE VOICE WITHIN - THE VOICE OF GOD that lives in the hearts and minds of ALL TRUE BELIEVERS and you'll NEVER-EVER go wrong!
When you are going through your PROCESSING STAGE - ENDURE, do not try to fight back your enemies - just be SILENT AND PRAY! Leave the DEFENCE STRATEGIES AND MECHANISMS AND THE FIGHTING to your Father GOD! He is guaranteed to DESTROY every enemy and hater of yours and make them your FOOTSTOOL, all in his time after he delivers you and proves a point to them, THAT ALL TRUE CHILDREN OF GOD are covered and protected by the BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST EVEN IN THIS 21st CENTURY!
What happened to those who plotted to destroy Daniel? God KILLED THEM ALL, after he took Daniel up from the DEN and they saw for themselves that NOBODY CAN STOP ANY TRUE MAN OR WOMAN OF GOD FROM DOING WHAT THEY HAVE TO DO! LEAVE YOUR ENEMIES UP TO GOD AND HE WILL DO WHAT EVER HE PLEASES WITH THEM!
ALL WE ARE REQUIRED TO DO - IS TO PRAY - KEEP THE FAITH AND ENDURE!
TICK - TOCK - TICK - TOCK! TIME ALWAYS RUNS OUT ON YOUR ENEMIES AND HATERS AND THEY ARE ALWAYS DESTROYED AND END UP SUFFERING AND HURT AND AMAZED AT YOUR BREAKTHROUGH AND SHOCKING VICTORY AND DELIVERANCE! THAT ALWAYS HAPPENS! ALWAYS - once you are a TRUE BELIEVER OF GOD!
Let us look at POINT 2: LIVE THE POWER
In the book of 2 Chronicles 20, we see that King Jehosophat never forgot that GOD WAS REAL! Too many of us are FALSIFIED CHRISTIANS! We say we have a GOD LIVING WITHIN AND ALWAYS COMPLAINING AND HAVE NO FAITH! WE ARE LIARS! WE ARE JUST PUTTING ON BIG SHOW!
King Jehosophat wasn't too BIG OF A MAN IN THE LAND TO HUMBLE AND CALL UPON GOD FOR HELP! He was ready now to LIVE THE POWER.
I wish some of the Presidents and Prime Ministers around the world, would get rid of their NARCISSISTIC LEADERSHIP STYLES AND HUMBLE AND PRAY LIKE KING JEHOSOPHAT, so that the RIGHT HELP AND DELIVERANCE WOULD COME TO OUR PEOPLE!
I guess they'll come lock me up again, like JEREMIAH, after this word from this sermon lands on their desks and in front their - but I don't care! NO ONE SILENCES A CALLED MAN OF GOD - EVER! I am prepared to suffer like STEPHEN and speak the truth about what GOD REQUIRES!
There is something KEY that all of us MUST KNOW!
Great troubles can only be met by great prayer. Let us use this certain remedy when trials come up upon us like a flood.
Great troubles can ONLY be met by great prayer!
This is a world of trials, and none of us, in passing through it can escape them; but if we, in despair of all human help, look to the LORD and depend solely on him when we go through our problems and have burdens too much to bear, he will in due time stand up and stand out for us, grant us relief and PUT OUR ENEMIES TO SHAME - ALL - ALL - ALL - OF THEM!
And so, we recognize in these verses that God finally comes through for KING JEHOSOPHAT and his nation. The words that ring out here in these verses are:
Subject: ENDURE THE PROCESS - PART 2
Scripture Focus: Jeremiah 32: 1 - 17 and vs 27
To welcome in the sermon for today, we sang lustily - "CELEBRATE JESUS CELEBRATE!"
Last week, we started a sermon series entitled - ENDURE THE PROCESS. During our introduction we looked at several 21st Century individuals who struggled right up to their success point because they ENDURED - THEY NEVER GAVE UP!
We also stated, most importantly that because Jesus endured and CONQUERED death, hell and the grave, we have a fresh reason and a fresh HOPE to live on too - SIMPLY BECAUSE JESUS LIVES!
Let's continue with PART 2 of our sermon series titled - ENDURE THE PROCESS
Did you know that Jeremiah The Prophet Was Locked Up By The Government of The Day Too, For Speaking Out and Publicly Condemning the Government of The Day For its Wrong Doings and for suggesting that the CITY of that day would go to another king because of their SINS?
Three verses from our Focus Scripture says so - Jeremiah 32: 1 - 3
Jer 32:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.
2 For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.
3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
The greatest men and the greatest women who have lived back then or who are alive in the world today, ALWAYS go through the greatest trials.
They always have society speaking and condemning their UNIQUE AND DIFFERENT actions and BOLD WORDS!.
Society loves to gossip about them day and night with their SWORDLY TONGUE, seeking to belittle them and their dreams.
The Bible is full of such instances. Job, Jesus, Joshua, Caleb, Daniel, Paul, Silas, John the Baptist, Stephen, Peter, Joseph, Moses etc etc etc. Therefore if you've never been through anything severe and hurtful in your life as yet, you MUST go through and ENDURE before you are even ELEVATED to another level in your life and gain a FRESH GODLY WISDOM that causes people to be confused when they look at your life and your actions and SEE FOR THEMSELVES HOW GOD IS BLESSING YOU RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR MESS OR AFTER YOUR MESS! Experience is the greatest teacher! That is a fact!
You cannot run from TRIALS - they will come! The PRESSURE and the PAIN and the SUFFERING and the HURT always preambles YOUR VICTORY! You MUST endure that first, then after you've been through the FIRE AND ENDURED - YOU WILL COME FORTH AS GOLD AND STUN AND AMAZE THE WORLD FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE! That's a guarantee! That's how GOD WORKS! Do you remember what happened to JOB after all his friends mocked him and gossiped about him and condemned him as he suffered and lost everything? Do your remember?
Yet during all of that, he NEVER took his wife's instructions which was to CURSE GOD AND DIE. Becareful with some of the advice some WOMEN and MEN want to give you when you're hurting and need desperate help eh. BECAREFUL! Becareful! Some people you think are your friends and family members are DEADLY - DECEPTIVE - PEOPLE WORKING HAND IN HAND WITH THE DEVIL! I can't put it any softer, clearer or cleaner!
Some of your friends and family members are DEVILS - but LOVE THEM STILL! Proverbs 25:21 If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
22 For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.
ALWAYS TEST THE SPIRITS AND SEE WHETHER THEY BE OF GOD OR OF THE ENEMY! LISTEN TO ONE VOICE ALWAYS - THAT IS THE VOICE WITHIN - THE VOICE OF GOD that lives in the hearts and minds of ALL TRUE BELIEVERS and you'll NEVER-EVER go wrong!
When you are going through your PROCESSING STAGE - ENDURE, do not try to fight back your enemies - just be SILENT AND PRAY! Leave the DEFENCE STRATEGIES AND MECHANISMS AND THE FIGHTING to your Father GOD! He is guaranteed to DESTROY every enemy and hater of yours and make them your FOOTSTOOL, all in his time after he delivers you and proves a point to them, THAT ALL TRUE CHILDREN OF GOD are covered and protected by the BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST EVEN IN THIS 21st CENTURY!
What happened to those who plotted to destroy Daniel? God KILLED THEM ALL, after he took Daniel up from the DEN and they saw for themselves that NOBODY CAN STOP ANY TRUE MAN OR WOMAN OF GOD FROM DOING WHAT THEY HAVE TO DO! LEAVE YOUR ENEMIES UP TO GOD AND HE WILL DO WHAT EVER HE PLEASES WITH THEM!
ALL WE ARE REQUIRED TO DO - IS TO PRAY - KEEP THE FAITH AND ENDURE!
TICK - TOCK - TICK - TOCK! TIME ALWAYS RUNS OUT ON YOUR ENEMIES AND HATERS AND THEY ARE ALWAYS DESTROYED AND END UP SUFFERING AND HURT AND AMAZED AT YOUR BREAKTHROUGH AND SHOCKING VICTORY AND DELIVERANCE! THAT ALWAYS HAPPENS! ALWAYS - once you are a TRUE BELIEVER OF GOD!
Let us look at POINT 2: LIVE THE POWER
In the book of 2 Chronicles 20, we see that King Jehosophat never forgot that GOD WAS REAL! Too many of us are FALSIFIED CHRISTIANS! We say we have a GOD LIVING WITHIN AND ALWAYS COMPLAINING AND HAVE NO FAITH! WE ARE LIARS! WE ARE JUST PUTTING ON BIG SHOW!
King Jehosophat wasn't too BIG OF A MAN IN THE LAND TO HUMBLE AND CALL UPON GOD FOR HELP! He was ready now to LIVE THE POWER.
I wish some of the Presidents and Prime Ministers around the world, would get rid of their NARCISSISTIC LEADERSHIP STYLES AND HUMBLE AND PRAY LIKE KING JEHOSOPHAT, so that the RIGHT HELP AND DELIVERANCE WOULD COME TO OUR PEOPLE!
I guess they'll come lock me up again, like JEREMIAH, after this word from this sermon lands on their desks and in front their - but I don't care! NO ONE SILENCES A CALLED MAN OF GOD - EVER! I am prepared to suffer like STEPHEN and speak the truth about what GOD REQUIRES!
WE CANNOT BE OUR OWN SOLUTIONS TO OUR PROBLEMS!
There is something KEY that all of us MUST KNOW!
Great troubles can only be met by great prayer. Let us use this certain remedy when trials come up upon us like a flood.
Great troubles can ONLY be met by great prayer!
This is a world of trials, and none of us, in passing through it can escape them; but if we, in despair of all human help, look to the LORD and depend solely on him when we go through our problems and have burdens too much to bear, he will in due time stand up and stand out for us, grant us relief and PUT OUR ENEMIES TO SHAME - ALL - ALL - ALL - OF THEM!
And so, we recognize in these verses that God finally comes through for KING JEHOSOPHAT and his nation. The words that ring out here in these verses are:
THE BATTLE IS NOT YOURS - BUT GOD'S (vs 15)
ENDURE THE PROCESS - DON'T GIVE UP - HOPE IS AHEAD!
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Don't Give Up - Hope is Ahead!
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