Making Room Starts with The Heart | Pastor Ron Eivaz

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] there is a fire there is a harvest let your kingdom come let your will be done and there is a hunger there is a longing come and fan the flame set our hearts are blaze and we make room for you to move feel this place come map your way holy we surrendered how [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] we've heard your call let your spirit fall and there is a shaking healing and breaking holy [Music] build this spirit [Music] [Applause] [Music] i'll go [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] holy spirit [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music] who are are [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] jesus you're beautiful [Applause] oh jesus [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] jesus jesus you're beautiful [Music] [Applause] no distractions [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and we make room for you to move [Music] for you to melt feel this place come have your way holy spirit fires we surrender to all you are i want you to go with me second second kings chapter four verse eight and i want to talk to you and i'm gonna do this really quick trust me um making room starts with the heart to make room for god starts with the heart one of my favorite stories in all the bible is second kings chapter four verse eight and i know i say that about all of them but but this is one of them it says it happened one day that elisha went to shunam where there was a notable woman and she persuaded him to eat some food i don't think she argued that much you want to get together with a preacher just invite him to lunch pastor alex said amen so it was as often as he passed by he would turn in there to eat some food and she said to her husband look now i know that this is a holy man of god who passes by us regularly please let us mix a small room uh on the wall and let us put a bed uh for him there and a table and a chair and a lamp stand so it will be whenever he comes to us he can't turn in there and it happened one day that uh that he came there and it turned and he turned into the upper room and laid there then he said to his surveillance hazy called the shunamite woman when he had called her she stood before him and he said and he said to him say now to her look what have you look you have been concerned for us with all this care what can i do for you do you want me to speak on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army she answered i dwell among my own people in other words i'm good i'm taken care of i'm blessed so he said what then is to be done for her and hazy answered actually she has no son and her husband is old so he wasn't saying let's get her a kid and a new husband he was saying she has no kid i thought that was funny all right he was saying she has no kid and now it's looking impossible because her husband is old and he says and he says call her when he had called her she stood in the doorway then he said about this time next year you shall embrace a son and she said i now you think she'll be like you know she's like like many of you guys right i do it now too you know we got she had her like recorder on her iphone as he's prophesying come on i'm here with me all right so it's like you can have a son she's like woo thank you lord that's not what she did she's like don't mess with me man of god don't say what you don't mean she said no my lord man of god do not lie to your mate servant what is she saying too many people are already giving prophetic words just to release a word and it didn't come to pass don't get my hopes up so it tells us she had stopped dreaming she had stopped hoping for the greatest miracle that she needed in her life it says but the woman conceived ambora's son when the appointed time had come of which elisha had told her now remember she already knew elisha he was already coming over to to the house for food right he was already eating he was already fellowshipping with them now you have to remember at that time the prophet now there was many prophets but elisha was the prophet right he was the chief prophet in other words you know in the old testament the prophet he carried the word of the lord he carried the anointing of god so in other words to invite the prophet to come be with you you're inviting for the anointing to come you're inviting for the work of miracles you're inviting for the word of the lord to come and be with you right so she said to her husband she says listen let's let's make a room for the prophet let's so that you know he's already coming to eat but you know he could get food other places but if we could make a room for him that he could actually not just come for dinner he could spend the night here that the dwell that the presence of god the word of the lord could actually be in our house every time god shows up to town now just a side note on that is now that's what we want for our own personal lives and that's what we want for us as a church we want to be a place where we've made room for god that if god's going to show up in in anywhere around turlock he's going to be here he's going to be here you say that's not not somebody somebody who's all holy watching online who's you know just awesome person and it's probably thinking right now well that's kind of arrogant we want him to come to all the churches well of course we do but i want them here i want them here of course i want them in all the churches i really do that's my heart uh pastors in this town we're good friends of course i want him everywhere but you gotta take care of your own house i want him here right i want god to show up and sometimes we forget what what an open portal we have until other people come and like when billy burke was here you know he said that others have said it mario said it i mean john bates was here a few weeks ago he tells me in the back he says man we got more done tonight sometimes it takes me weeks in certain places to even come close to what we could get done tonight because it's just open it's just open that's what we want we want a place we make room for god for god to show up because what happens when god shows up miracles happen it's not just us feeling blessed because of the presence of god is here miracles happens when god shows up the impossible becomes possible because god is in the house right god is in the house now here are some principles how do we make room for god number one is making room is in the natural making room is in the natural in other words you have to do something practical in the natural to make room for god now it's kind of like people say well i'm making room for god in my heart yeah but if there's nothing different in the natural in your life you haven't really made room for god in your heart right it's kind of like the people who sing like joy songs but they're frowning right and then you're like dude look like you have joy no i got joy inside no you don't no you don't no you don't right if you have joy it'll eventually catch up to your face so um so we have to make a natural change on the inside for her the natural change was she actually made a physical room i mean making a physical room was not convenient it's not convenient to have contractors in your house doing an addition right if you've done that you know what i'm talking about you're probably twitching right now as soon as you heard me say that uh but she made room for the prophet she made she made a uh literal room a physical room it was intentional she just then also and say hey let's just we just kind of fell into a room she was an intentional making room for god and by the way she built it listen to me now don't don't miss this she built it without a quote word from god a prophet didn't come to her and say hey you should thus saith the lord you should build a house for room for elisha she didn't get a word from the lord she'll be like she just knew the principle that if i make room he'll come if i make room he'll come i think too often we miss on the miraculous because we're waiting for a special word to come from god to tell us to do what we already know if we do it god will show up i i know on a couple different occasions now again i don't say this to try to you know ever manipulate through suggestion or anything like that so that's not at all why i'm saying this so hear my heart but my wife and i understand this principle so over the years i i believe probably at least three different occasions over the years we've looked at our finances we looked at what we needed and what we had and we said okay this isn't what we you know we need more than this monthly and probably none of you've ever had had that but we were like you know we need to make more money than this so again it was a prompting from the lord at that point we said uh but but we knew the principle we thought you know what we're going to begin tithing on what we need not what we have so we're going to tithe on the income that we need not on the income that we have did you know i kid you not every single time within six months we were making that amount well we knew the principle right we knew the principle make room for god in an area of your life and god shows up now again it's we make room for like for example for beginning of the year every year we've done this for over 20 years in the beginning of the year we set days aside as a church and we fast now why do we fast because we know that if we could make room in our waistband we make room for god right physical hunger brings spiritual hunger in our life we set time aside for god to come and we make room for him to do miracles in our life let me know if you just decide to spend more time in prayer how many know you're making room for god nothing might change the first week but i'm telling you stick with that extra time you've made with god something's going to change god shows up you make room for god he shows up he said well if i get a prophetic word that says i should add some time no you know the principle make room for god and god shows up you make room in your time god shows up you make room in your treasure god shows up right bring the tithe into the storehouse and uh and god will open up the windows of heaven and pour out blessing where you have not room enough to receive it right you believe that the bible actually says that and by the way tithing is not giving tithing is returning to the lord what is already his giving doesn't start until after the tithe when we don't tithe that's why the bible says we're robbing god but giving actually starts after the tithe let me talk about this one what about talents or giftings when god you know are you making room for god to do something with your gifting how does god increase your gifting matthew 25 21 it says his master said to him well done good and faithful servant you have been faithful over a little i will i will set you over much in turn to the joy of your master so what was god saying to them he says listen if you are faithful over what you have if you use what you have the talent that you have i'm going to give you more and by the way did you see did you notice what the reward of faithfulness is god says i will give you more responsibility but i've seen way too many christians of course nobody in this church but i've seen way too many christians who are trying to get away from responsibility so if you're trying to get away from responsibility you're actually trying to demote yourself in the kingdom rather than allow god to promote you then you're like bless me god bless me he's like i'm trying you know and here's what we do okay and i don't meant to i don't mean to step on anybody's toes yes i do but but just you know we'll pray for healing at the end is we justify our disobedience through christianese we do stuff like this you say well hey how about using a gift for the kingdom how about serving in this area how about serving that area oh no i i don't have time i just feel in this season the lord's called me to spend more time with my family so did you just see what happened so we use an excuse that we know is a high value in the kingdom and a high value to the church so that way i if i use the family word all right so let me ask you this how much tv time have you cut to spend time with your family how much time have you cut to go to the games to spend time with your family and this one hurts for me how much golf time have you cut to go spend time with your family you might deceive pastor alex but you don't deceive god i didn't say me because you can't deceive me anyways i'm kidding i'm kidding but do you do you understand what i'm saying now it you know it's no big deal the church you know i'm not trying to recruit people today that's not what i'm doing okay i love you i'm your pastor my name is ron i'm here to help uh so that's that's not what this is about today but i love you that's why i speak truth to you right i have you noticed throughout the year i preach things that other pastors don't preach and because the kind of stuff that i just said if you say that in any church everybody gets constipated all of a sudden but why do i do that because i'm not trying to please people but i'm trying to get you to come into the fullness of the kingdom and the blessing that god has for you all right i love you too much to not speak truth to you now so jesus says listen be faithful with what you have and by the way did you know jesus gave the same promotion to the one who had two talents and to the one who had five talents he doubled them both it's not about how much talent you have it's not about what you have is about being faithful with what you have god will promote you come on just say good a man so i know you're okay all right rip it all right all right i feel better now because i i so care about pleasing people all right so um so our time our treasure our talents here's the second principle when we make room we allow room for the impossible when we make room for gold we we allow room for the impossible listen she had a great need but she didn't even mention it when when the prophet says what is it that you want come on how many think if you have somebody like elisha in front of you and he says what is it that you want you're not going to be like oh nothing i'm good how many already know what you would want right it's like yeah i got a list just one you mean just one right uh she's like no i'm good you know what that tells us she has stopped dreaming she had so given up hope that she didn't recognize her greatest need and that god could do a miracle in her life so that gehazi had to actually remind her and say listen she does not have a child she does not have a son especially if you know the culture of that time that was a big deal that was her greatest need that was her greatest miracle it was impossible in the natural even in a natural couldn't happen anymore remember her husband was old you know that she had been disappointed and had no expectation because she says man of god don't mess with me don't get my hopes up when you say i'm going to have a son see when we make room for god he makes room for renewed hope and miracles in our life many of you know the story but you know both of our kids are miracle children my youngest my daughter we call her our sci-fi baby she was born through in vitro and uh just a side note how do you know i have a strange sense of humor i think it's funny others don't but as long as i'm laughing that's what matters right so a merry heart does good like a medicine you don't think i'm funny get healed anyway so um so one day we're driving through the bay area the city where you know the lab was and i said hey honey she was probably out of three or four i said honey she was going on a ministry trip with me i said that's where you were made she goes you mean where i was born i said no where you were made she goes i don't get it i go let's call mom on the speakerphone she'll explain it oh my my wife is so mad at me why do you do this why do you do this because i think it's funny anyway so pray for my wife so in two so in 2002 again remember we became interim pastors in 98 99 august of 1999 renewal hit our church and then god was moving so powerfully in our church that in 2000 most of the people left so seriously it was like oh wait you know god's moving people are getting healed there's miracles uh no we don't want this we want just regular church right and there's plenty of churches in town that bless them so they went and uh so so people were leaving and you know as a young pastor you know you're hearing these words from the devil and from some of the people themselves you know you're ruining this church you're going to shut this church down you're going to you're destroying this church but we made a commitment to god we said god if we here's here's what i used to say back then it's kind of terrible but here's what i used to say back then i used to say what's the worst thing that happened they kill me i just go to see jesus you know and but i said god i will not grieve you i want the holy spirit if everybody leaves and everybody's upset and they would use excuses like ah it's getting too pentecostal or it's the music's too loud or you know whatever you know whatever excuse and uh i was like i don't care we're going to make room for you god we want you to move and you have to remember now if i knew back then we would have everything we have today god would do what we he's done today it would have been easy it would have been like bye bye right and by the way you know you know we were talking about the double portions you know our church is bigger today than it was before the pandemic and that's and that's not what happens last sunday we had the most amount of people we've ever had outside of a special event physically on campus uh we did a thing for our elders here though sharing with them our our finances pre-pandemic 2019 to post pandemic 2021 we're up 43 percent i mean we are worth attendance too and and that's not normal your average and there's a handful of churches uh that that's happening with we're not the only ones but the average church right now is 40 to 60 of pre-pandemic what i'm saying is you make room for god god will do this supernatural in your life god will do abundantly beyond all what you could ask or think so so i didn't know what was going to happen all i thought is it either works or it doesn't work all i know is i i can't go back to the whole religious way of doing church i need the holy spirit and i determined early on i said if i have to go back to pastoring how it was before the renewal i'm going to leave ministry i can't do it and so anyway and so in so end of 99 renewal hits 2000 our mass exodus 21 is getting a little bit better still kind of we're making the turn 20 uh january 2020 uh not 22 2002 uh a minister comes to speak on a sunday night first time i had met him was that night and you know again there wasn't that many people here back then and uh he's preaching and uh and he's giving out these words and it's gonna be many people born again in this house and god's gonna grow this church and this is gonna happen then he looks to my wife and she's sitting right there in a second uh first row second seat and he looks at her and he says and as a sign you will be pregnant this year how many have met my wife so she must have given him that look because he told me later he was looking for an exit right because she was like the shinomite woman saying don't mess with me don't get my hopes up because there was a lot of stuff attached to that that she you know was very personal and emotional for her that was january 23rd 2002 our son was born january 25th 2003 and he was three days late because you know sometimes your analytical mind was like hey that was a coincidence i think god does it exactly to the day to put an exclamation point to say bam we were doing everything we needed to do we were seeing doctors we're getting tests done we were doing other things we got to do you know to get pregnant and um just want to let you know we're doing all things that you got to do because i know how that happens so and um and it wasn't and then the word of the lord comes so here's the thing we weren't saying god we're going to open up this church for revival because we want a child we say god we want to open up this church for revival because we want you and then god says this year this time next year you're going to hold a son when we when you make room for god god will do miracles that you that you had given up hope on and you weren't even believing for anymore number three making room begins with a generous heart a jenna's heart starts making room for god see it's all about the heart it's the heart that believes it's the heart that's given to god see i may realize god's not after your money he doesn't need your money he paves the streets with gold he doesn't need our dollars he doesn't need our biden bucks right he wants your heart but how do you realize if he has your heart he has everything else in john chapter 12 verse 1 it says then six days before the passover jesus came to bethany where lazarus who had been dead whom he had raised from the dead there there they made him supper and martha served but lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him then mary took a pound of very costly say very costly oil of spikenard anointed the feet of jesus and wiped his feet with her hair and the house was filled the fragrance of the oil but one of the disciples judas iscariot simon's son who would betray him said why was this fragrant oil not sold for 300 denarii and given to the poor this he said not because he cared for the poor but because he was a thief and he was uh he had the money box and he should take uh take from it what was put in it now two questions with the story first of all why would mary give such an extravagant gift and number two why would judas be so upset why would she give such an extravagant gift and why would he be so upset i want you to notice that there were two hearts on display there was a heart of generosity and there was a heart of selfishness but one thing revealed both hearts and that was given and giving always reveals what's in our heart always see every time we give every time i give it breaks selfishness off of me it breaks selfishness off of us giving is what reveals the heart see god is an extravagant giver isn't he god is extravagant he gave us his son he gave his best he gave his only begotten son now the bible looks as looks at generosity and looks at its extravagance very differently than we do now last week at all of my church sunday i talked about how you know david made preparations for solomon to build god a house now i didn't share this last week but you know if you if you know how much david left behind david left the equivalent of what would be today 21 billion dollars to build a temple i think you could build a pretty nice house with 21 billion for god 21 billion the bible calls that extravagant here's another example of extravagance in the bible jesus says that the widow who left two mites who gave two mites he called her extravagant and he called her generous did you catch that 21 billion and two pennies they're both extravagant in the eyes of god why because they have nothing listen they have nothing to do with the amount they have to do with the generosity of your heart the generosity of your heart because there's no amount that you could give god financially that impresses him you all know that the bible says he owns the cattle in a thousand hills and the hills you can't impress him with the amount you give i mean sometimes we think we could impress god or impress people like you know when we write write out that check i don't know if people still do checks but and we write that check and like we don't want anybody to see it can can you read this for me i can't see they have enough zeros on there you know how god's not impressed with what we have god's impressed with the heart god's impressed with the heart the heart of generosity that that releases what's in his hand and by the way if you have if god has your heart he has what's in your hand it's not about the amount it's about the heart why would why would mary give or poor break a perfume bottle over jesus feed and pour out the oil of a perfume that cost 300 denarii if you know what 300 how much 300 nauri was it was a year's salary so just think about what you make in a year that's how much the perfume costs she breaks it at jesus feet and pours it at his feet why would she do that and by the way that was the only anointing jesus received prior to going to the cross she anointed his feet sometimes i wonder if those feet still smell like the feet of a king while he hung on a cross with a nail through them she wasn't just being financially extravagant she was being extravagant in her worship she has been prophetic in her anointing of jesus feet why would she do that because she was grateful she was grateful and that leads us to the last point number four there's a reward to making room for god there's always a reward there's always a reward now i i said this in the other service but you know i'm not against this i don't think it's unbiblical i believe in it i've done it you know but sometimes we put too much emphasis on what god's going to do for us if i give you know and listen i went to college in tulsa oklahoma so i was right in the mecca of all this and as always name your seed which i believe in i believe we sow a seed we believe god first things right see time and harvest i believe in all that but there comes a point in our life where we got to get beyond that and it's not so much what i'm always believing god for but god how can our giving transform the world and you take care of me i'm fine do you understand what i'm saying i mean my wife and i have done this over the years we've named our seed we believe god for things and and all that but listen over the over the last especially in recent years uh our giving has gone through the roof okay i'm not even gonna try to say how much because that's between you know i want to keep that between us and god but it's it's been way more than we ever thought we could give into the kingdom and you know what i can't remember the last time we ever said okay we're giving this because we're claiming because i'm just believing that as we're extravagant with god he's already extravagant with us if i get a bigger house cool but i'm not giving to get a bigger house if i get another car cool but actually i need another one birds attacked my car this morning i didn't share this earlier but i was coming to church this morning down gear road and right there in the median there was this uh a legion of birds right i mean they were demonized i could tell and as i drove by them they flew into my car and boom and then the glass on the mirror just shattered as i'm driving i'm like i needed a new car anyway you know not to digress i will land this plane the first miracle god ever did through my life as a i was a little child is i raised the bird from the dead i kid you not that's a whole nother story how do you want to want to hear that story sometime okay i'll share that story it's really cool anyway i raised the bird from the dead this one i did not go back to race so i'm like he shattered my glass so anyway after service i might take communion release forgiveness i might go try to go back and find it and and see i don't know but that's what you get i hope you died you bird anyway so what was i talking about gratefulness i'm grateful anyway so we got to get to a place where we're not giving to get but giving to give you because we're grateful for god and again i don't be one of those people that are like i don't want to get i want to live in poverty i do not want to live in poverty that's a curse but god will bless us when we're generous with his work when you build his house he builds your house so there's always a reward to generosity so what was mary's reward because she poured that perfume at his feet mark 14 19 same passage but in mark he says he says this assuredly i say to you wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her right now in this service in the year 2021 mary is still receiving her reward as we're telling the story can you imagine that come on that's better than any house any car anything else is forever well until all the gospel is preached mary's right now in the cloud of witness she's like that's right that was me come on come on come on come on pastor preach it preach it she's loving my preaching right now because we're talking about her now why was she so grateful because two months before this incident her brother jesus raised from the dead two months before and somebody just thought well if you raise my brother from the dead i would probably be that grateful too well listen if you're saved anybody in your family is saved jesus already raised them from the dead he's already done it stop waiting for god to you know say he's going to do something he's already done he just don't see it god's already done it we we are grateful he's already raised us from the dead come on then and those names that we have on the cross the relief before they come come into the kingdom those are your friends your family all of them are going to be raised from the dead right see she didn't come to be rewarded but god always rewards generosity hebrews 11 6 but without faith it is impossible to please him but he who comes to god must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder who those who diligently seek him that word rewarder there is used only one time in the greek in the new testament it actually means to reward with extravagance to extravagantly reward you how many realize that the way god rewards you is not just a little bit he does it in a way that the world realizes you've been rewarded by god right remember what moses said to god he says if your presence does not go with us how will they know we're your people in other words there's an anointing there's a blessing in our life that the world will know remember what jesus said in matthew i believe chapter 6 uh he says if if you pray in secret and your father who hears it in secret will reward you how openly everybody will know you have a prayer life because of the reward on your life you know you don't have to tell people how much you pray that people could tell how much you pray and he who gives in secret don't let your right hand know what your left hand do because he who gives them secret your heavenly father will see it and he will reward you how openly the reward on your life will be open and when you fast do not be like the hypocrites going around looking all weak and i'm fasting he says go ahead and you know put on wash your face put on your makeup do whatever so that you not appear to men to be fasting but to your father who is in the secret place and your father who sees in secret will reward you openly isn't it so much better when you've had this thing with god in the secret and god puts the exclamation point in in public right in jesus name come on stand your feet father show my brothers and sisters show them father areas that they need to make room for a miracle in their life how many are ready for a miracle in your life [Applause] this is the year of double portions isn't it this is the year of double portions so father i pray right now in jesus name god that you come with your voice with that sense of that whisper of areas of our life for strategies and places that we make room for you to come and bring miracles even in areas where we lost hope and we thank you for that god everyone right now as i'm praying for you i believe the holy spirit is speaking to you and some of you are like oh i've never had god speak to me how do i go speaking to me sometimes i'll just put a thought on your mind sometimes it's an impression but god is speaking to you and he's saying hey i want to do a work in your life will you give me this part of your life will you make room for me in this area will you make room for me in your time and your talents and your treasure and watch me do a miracle in your life it's lord we thank you maybe you're here this morning and you need to make room for god in your life because you've never given your life to him if you were to die tonight you don't know you're going to go to heaven you're not right with god you're not in right relationship with him maybe you've never given your life to him or maybe at one time he had but you walked away from him but this morning before we leave we want to know that you're right with god and all your sins are forgiven right now with every head bowed night closed you're you're either watching online or you're in ripon or in a room interlocking say pastor i want to be included in that prayer i want to get things right with god i i want to make sure i want to know i'm forgiven i want to know i'm going to heaven would you pray for me if that's you without hesitation i want you to lift your hand up right now and say that's me and to get things right with god go on the balcony on the bottom thank you thank you thank you and then ripping come on if you pray if you lifted your hand i'm going to have you pray this prayer and those of you in ripon your campus pastor is going to come up right now they're going to lead you in prayer those of you in this room and watching online i want you to pray this with me say jesus thank you for dying on the cross for my sins i ask you come into my life forgive me of my sins and i make you the lord of my life fill me with your holy spirit i renounce every spirit by the holy spirit and according to your word i'm a child of god and i'm born again in jesus name amen come on give me [Music]

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Published: Tue Sep 21 2021