The Call, The Vision, The Journey Into The Unknown! | Pastor At Boshoff | 29 August 2021 AM

[Music] come on more much more does he love you if he's so close to filled with grass and he takes care of the birds in the sky god's got your future even in this covert season in the palm of his hand and i want to say to you god still says i know the thoughts i think towards your thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you a future and a hope so welcome to the many hundreds of thousands watching with us today live in the service all over our facilities firstly in all our crc churches back in children's church as adults okay so uh maybe there's a message in that welcome to tbn tv and year two praise tv one gospel this morning so many many new viewers connect with us online if you don't have a church become part of the crc family we would love to take care of you please connect with us talk to us we have churches all over south africa we have home sales all over south africa even there in india in pakistan we have pastors there so connect with us we are excited about those in russia this morning israel america europe all over africa welcome and then also china and pakistan we welcome you welcome to crc online youtube radio stations and everybody come on let everything that i breathe praise the name of the lord and look at the person next to you today they're in your lounge in your living room and say don't you worry come on god's got a perfect plan for you god's got a future for you god has a great tomorrow for you those of you up there on the balcony that we brought in from the ice cold you are closer to god this want to give him a big big big praise in jesus name amen god bless you take a seat as we talk about your future is brighter than your past [Music] amen i said your future is greater than your past i don't care what people say you know uh so many people are focused on the antichrist and they are concerned about the end times and i've withheld from talking about the end times because people want to get in a survival mode and people almost want to get in a cocoon and wait for jesus to come back well crc that is not who we are we are yet to occupy we are here to plan for the future we are yet to live as if jesus can come back any day but well you have to plan for generations to come amen so i'm excited about the future i mean we had a great week uh with many religious leaders some politicians uh police officers the most senior police officers in south africa so we thank god things are looking good things are looking up so we continue to pray we keep on knocking soon we will all be back together again and there's no devil in hell that can stop the work of jesus christ he said i will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail so we are not focused on the negative we are focused on the positive amen and if jesus comes back we're all out of here in any case so we're not gonna try and find the antichrist behind every tree and behind every bush and we're not going to get involved in endless debates that do not lead people to jesus christ we have a mission we have an assignment and we are not going to allow vaccine to divide the church first it was black lives matter there's always something that wants to divide the church of jesus christ okay so you follow the holy ghost people say pastors pastor what do you say i say follow the holy ghost amen amen i won't say much because then i lose many people on tbn so uh let me just get into the word this morning i want to talk to you this morning start a new series in line with speaking about vision and i called the message this morning the call the vision and the journey the call the vision and the journey they all talk about tomorrow the goal is not to sit the vision is not to be blind and the journey is not to camp in yesterday so let's look at the father of faith and uh the bible says those who are sons of abraham those are sons of faith so let's look at the journey of abraham and let's bring it into our own lives today amen are you all okay this morning you're all happy this morning you're all glad that god is on your side that two-thirds of the angels are still on your side more of those that are for you than those that are against you that your name is written in the lamb's book of life that there is nothing to fear you have a great tomorrow amen so no matter how bad things may seem today god is calling you into your tomorrow so genesis chapter 12 is when the bible says now the lord had said to abram get out of your country well your country may not be your city but it is your state of mind from your family from your father's house to a land that i will show you now remember abram was living in a place of idol worship we'll talk about that this morning and i will make you a great nation first conversation god says he doesn't come and he says i'm going to minimize you it's it's amazing how many people think that god actually first has to break you before god makes you or god has to humble you god humbles nobody god breaks nobody god says you humble yourself then i will exalt you god says you lose yourself then then you will find your life god says you decrees so christ may increase god is not in the breaking down business god is in the building up business in matthew chapter four when he called the disciples remember he said follow me and i will make you i mean student i don't care what is happening during this lockdown god says i will make you and i will make your future something beautiful in jesus name he says and i will bless you i will bless you that means i will empower you to prosper and to succeed in life doesn't say i'm gonna curse you says abram follow me it's like people say well i'm not into the prosperity gospel well i'm not into a prosperity gospel always but i am into an abundant life gospel jesus said i've come that you may have life and have it more abundantly and i'm not going to apologize for what god says here to abram amen so abram's blessings are mine and i will make your name great god's going to make your name great and the jealous people are going to become more jealous but it's not going to stop god from blessing your business from causing you to increase come on crc we are going places we are going to fill stadiums we are going to do greater things for god than we've ever done before this lockdown does not define us can i have an amen he says i will bless those who bless you and i will curse him the devil who curses you and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed and abram departed the journey began every journey begins with one step in the right direction you climb mount everest you have to take the first step you want to get out of poverty you have to take the first step you want to get out of depression you have to take the first step in the right direction everything in life starts with one step i mean you got you this morning with one step you had to climb out of bed you had to go to the bathroom put on your clothes walk to your car and you got here this morning everything change starts with a journey with one step no change takes place while you sit so many sitters and soakers in south africa now waiting for the return of jesus he never called us to sit and play the waiting game he called us to be proactive he called us to have great dreams he called us to plan to live a great future he called us to build for generations to come so we are going to plan more building projects we are going to build more orphanages come on we are going to expand our businesses those in business you are going to build more shopping centers come on you are gonna plan and you're gonna be busy until jesus comes back oh come on if i'm talking to you this morning jump out of your seat and give the lord a praise in jesus name [Music] so the first thing is god calls abram the second thing genesis 13 and the lord said to abram after lot had separated from him listen if you if you want to go into your future there always has to be a separation a separation from and a separation unto he said lift up your eyes now and look from the place where you are not look to the place you want to go look from the place where you are because vision will find you you don't have to go and find vision and god will give you vision while you sit in a pit god will give you vision while you are in a lockdown god will give you vision while you are in a prison because your vision is your future and will relocate you so god says lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are look northward southward eastward westward new territory somebody said new territory right there like jaybird says david said lord increase my territory say new territory come on come on come on business people new territory in jesus name new territory new beginnings new dreams new tomorrows look from the place where you are not look at your grave not look at retirement can you believe that years back people retired at 55 advocated and 55 imagine that means you and i would have been retired but i mean it feels like i haven't even begun so i mean life starts at 75 that's how it was for abram okay so he says look to all the land which you see i've given to you and your descendants forever now south africa is not going to come to ruin things are going to change we have a promise of a blessed future if if that means either god's going to revive the anc or god is going to raise up another political party that will come into power and secure the future of the people in south africa because we have a promise that is generational so god says arise journey walk through its length walk in the land walk through its length its width and i give it to you then abram moved somebody said removed say this morning say nothing changes until i move you've got to be a mover you've got to be a shaker you've got to make up your mind to be proactive nobody gets saved without somebody preaching the gospel you have to plan big plans you have to make big dreams because that is what god has in mind for you the thief comes to steal what does he steal he steals vision he steals your future so god is calling you back to lift your eyes to the heavens god is calling you back to see the future that god has planned for you not the riots of natal or the riots of khao teg for the negativity on the news bulletin you have a future and that is in abram which has been sealed in christ say amen you may have no job and he is jehovah jireh we sang it this morning he's el shaddai he's more than enough he's the all-sufficient one he still is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all you can ask or think according to the power that works within you god's not dead he's alive come on christian that's a good time to give him a mighty praise in jesus name [Music] so genesis chapter 15 after these things the word of the lord came to abraham in a vision so uh you know the bible says old men will dream dreams young men will see visions so abram is 75 years old so he sees a vision so i'm still going to see visions till i'm 75 amen and then my last one will be a dream by the grace of god when i'm 85 and then i'm going to climb the biggest mountain of my life the biggest project thing that crc has ever embarked on i'm not saying i'm going to lead everything but i'm saying we are going to do the greatest thing then and then the greatest generation will be alive and we will plunder hell we will have churches all over uh america all over uh asia all over um europe all over africa generational placing and promise we are not intimidated by a quota of 50 we see thousands upon thousands upon thousands upon tens of thousands upon millions of people coming to christ in the next two three years god gave us a promise seven million watch next year we are going to fill stadiums for the glory of god we are going to preach the gospel god is going to bless businesses you are going to go to a whole nother level i prophesied in the name of jesus shout amen if you believe it in jesus name so god comes to him in a vision and god says to him do not be afraid fear will rob you of your faith and this journey will always require faith faith never takes a day off so when god calls you to himself then god gives you a vision concerning your future you have to be committed to the journey and the journey is a journey of faith a journey is a journey where you have to overcome obstacles or turn obstacles into opportunity you have to see opportunities in every difficulty you can't become now reminded you can't allow fear to grip your heart you cannot allow the scenario of the day to determine your future god says be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good acceptable perfect will of god for your life so god's not changing his mind concerning your tomorrow i don't know i don't care what you've gone through i don't care what mistake you've made i don't care how low you've been it doesn't change god's love for you and he doesn't change god's mind toward you and it doesn't change the future that god has in mind for you there's one thing we can agree upon this morning nobody can change yesterday but everybody can get up and everybody can begin to move in the right direction say amen this morning in jesus name so god says to him do not be afraid abram i am hallelujah whatever you need i'm el shaddai i'm jehovah jireh i'm jehovah rapha you're healer i'm jehovah nisi i'm your victory on the battlefield i'm jehovah shalom i am your peace in the midst of trouble i am jehovah ra i am the lord that is the i'm a prison help in times of need i am not i was not i will be i am in the midst of covert i am your deliverer i am your mighty fortress i am your shield and your protector i am the waymaker i am the god of many breakthroughs i am the god who will sustain you i am the god who will oh come on i am the god who will provide for you god says do not be afraid abram because i am hallelujah and i want to say to christians all over the world today he still is the great i am the bible doesn't call him the little i am and covet the great i am it says god is the great i am and he still is the great i am i want to say to you that the grave is still empty and that his resurrection power is still alive on the inside of you that the promises of god are still yay and amen that greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world that that which god has started in you god is faithful and god is able to complete in the name of jesus christ you have to believe it you cannot become neutral you cannot begin to sit down you are called a sojourner that means you journey through life come hell or high water even when you walk through the valley of the shadow of death you fear no evil why because i am hallelujah i am with you i am with you i am with you i am i spoke to a lady in the gym i'm always in the gym okay i'm getting a bit bigger but then i'll get a little bit smaller so in any case she comes to me she says pastor look a few months ago she came to me and her husband lost his job in the restaurant business and lost everything and but she's a woman of faith and she kept on tithing and i encourage everybody watching on tv and one gospel praise tv don't stop tithing keep on tithing to your local church because god says he will open the winners and pour out a blessing you keep connected to their house of god you stay faithful with your offerings and your tithe it doesn't mean you don't go to church that you shut your hand we don't receive offerings that you don't worship god with your finances so she said in the most difficult time i continued to tithe because i knew i had a covenant and i want to say this to the ladies sometimes men because they in the battle their faith can waver a little bit that's why it's a partnership amen the bible says when one is weak the other one picks him up so you keep your husband strong and she took the um money he gave her for groceries etc and she tithed and believed god and prayed and the next minute he got a partnership in a restaurant and he earned more than he earned while he had his own restaurant and this week she said to me pastor we just expanded we bought the restaurant right next door as well in the name of jesus when other people are trying to sell things you are gonna buy things come on the wealth of the wicked he's laid up for the just you're gonna get the best bargains the best deals you're gonna buy a 5 million round house for 2 million rent you are going to buy a business that is worth 100 million you are going to buy it for 20 million things are hit i believe it with all my heart in the name of jesus christ because there's a spirit of fear that is controlling the world and we as christians have to be governed by faith this is the greatest time of opportunity and i will tell you when we open our churches we are not going to be able to fit the people in we've reached so many people come on can i have agreement and amen matthew 18 praise god for the better things that are coming your way in jesus name oh come on stand to your feet if you haven't done so once today do it now and give god a praise of faith in jesus name [Music] so abraham has this conversation with god and um he says look he says to god imagine how we talk to god we all do the same thing right look god says i'm not looking god i've lost my job but i am abram i told you i am not not look god i'm feeling bad i am he's saying to god look i have no child but god gave him a promise god said you will have a child from sarah so after delay abram becomes impatient and he begins to waver in the faith like peter who began to sing and jesus said how is it that you had no faith or what did jesus literally say how is it that your journey of faith had such a short duration you started out in faith when the covert storms came you doubted the word and the promise and you begin to renegotiate and normally when people negotiate with god they negotiate down they don't negotiate up okay god i'll settle for less but i'm not less i'm el shaddai i'm more than enough i'm not just enough i'm more than enough i am your future i am i am so what is the calling we talking about the calling is unto him to get it to have a revelation and a clear picture of who god is that he is the omnipotent god that he is the omniscient god that he is the all-powerful all-knowing god that he is a god who can turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones that he is the god that can open a door and he's a god that can make you from the tail and turn you into the head he's a god who can do anything if you keep your eyes on jesus looking unto jesus the author and the finisher of our faith so abram who's a friend of god and we know god had many conversations with abraham very special relationship he had with god he's called the friend of god and here he comes to god he says look god it's covert my business is going down i've lost my finances my dog is sick everything is bad bad bad because when you talk to most people they don't you're not you're a positive thing you don't do a positive thing when people talk about the future they talk about a new world well we already are part of a new world but not the world that this world order tries to establish we are in this world and listen to me while we are in this world god is going to look after us and god is going to take care of us and then people come and say well i don't believe in this prosperity because many people are struggling in poverty etc do you know that there is a vow of poverty that you make there's a vow of celibacy where you can decide i'm not going to get married although god says you should get married you can make a vow to say i'm not going to get married so i can serve god better it's a value can make you can take a vow of poverty and sometimes people take a vow without realizing it because of what's coming out of their mouths but god says to abram i mean we're not after money for the sake of money we offer money to advance god's purpose to to do what to advance the kingdom because money in itself will never bring you happiness what will his purpose so that's why we talk about the call the vision the journey so the calling for abraham is unto god follow me and i will bless you make your name great and there's the purpose you shall be a blessing you live your life with purpose you love connected to god's kingdom purpose not just i'm calling you to be a blessing i'm calling you to riches although god wants to bless you there's a purpose to the blessing the purpose is to advance god's kingdom right come on so now abram is having a conversation and sometimes we don't voice this but it's in our minds i'm 25 years old i still don't have a boyfriend you're very old i'm 30 years old i'm not pregnant and how about sarah that's 89 years old and she's still not pregnant and she had a promise when she was 65 years old and when god actually said you're going to have a child god says no no no no not from hagar your wife is going to have a child she laughed and god said to abram did your wife laugh and she said no i didn't love he says but you did laugh so what love was that it wasn't a laughter of joy it was a laughter of cynicism because people listen to a preacher and their level of faith is so low that the word does not even penetrate their hearts or their minds because they've been so conditioned they've so built up paradigms in their minds that their mind rebuts the word of god well this is where abram is abram is sitting in his tent he's got the promise of god his his livestock has increased god has blessed him but he still doesn't have a son and now he tells god look he's stealing god who's a god of faith he's telling god who cannot even recognize the natural [Music] god who says i do not even look at you according to the flesh he says to god recognize and accept my natural circumstance and god does not entertain the conversation as little as god entertain the conversation when gideon said i'm the least i'm the weakest god says no no no no no you're a mighty man of valor you go in the power of your might and you save israel you're a deliverer i don't see no weakness in you i see no failure in you i see no bad past in you i see no mistake because my mercies are new every morning i see a great future when i see you i see you through the redemptive work of jesus christ i see you righteous i see you sanctified i see you washed in the blood of jesus oh come on i see you with a future and i hope that's what god says in jesus name so he says look you have given me no children but god just said i am and he says to god god do not [Music] [Laughter] the the picture we have of god in our minds and our hearts is critical to all faith and to our future because until we don't change the picture of god and our belief concerning the word of god we are never going to journey into what god has for us so god says i am he says look god you have given me no child so what is he saying to god he says no god you are not [Music] so what does god say to you he says i'm your provider what do you say i don't have a job god says now what is faith faith is not saying i don't have a job faith is denying not having a job to override your belief and your focus on god's promise so faith is saying what god says that's why god changed abram's name to abraham we know abraham means father of many nations romans 4 17 the bible says god calls things that be not as though they were so abram says look god i have not late on god changes his name he says no longer will your name be abram because you're not getting it but your name shall be abraham for a father of many nations i have made you now the bible says we have been blessed ephesians 1 3 with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places so so so what is the short circuit here the short circuit us is our perception our paradigms our belief systems concerning god and our focus and our camping in a place where god has not called us to camp whether it is like gideon camping in inferiority whether it is like moses camping for 40 years in the wilderness because of his mistake he's backslidden he killed an egyptian he preempted the will of god whether it is jonah running away from the call of god whether it is peter denying christ people stop god because they choose to camp in a place while god calls you forward so god comes to abraham and god's plan with abraham is never to be a camper but god calls him to be what a journeyman we are called to journey so so so destiny is never a location destiny is a journey so i remember when we built the first little building in lady brand and um the people thought that was the location so or the destination so after we built that building it's like everybody sat down and said wow we built a building and i had to really work hard to get people up and say no no no we're not gonna we're not sitters we're not soakers we're movers we shakers same thing happened in bloomington when we built the first building the project became such a big a thing for the people because nobody built a big building in bloomington ever so just that little one and a half thousand cedar building we built um everybody just wanted to settle because they thought we reached our destination and i had to tell them no this is just a milestone this is just another step that we have taken for god this is not a destination so with a businessman it's exactly the same people lose vision so what do they do they build a business they become comfortable they buy a farm in south africa they go hunting every second weekend because they've got enough money but god called them to go from glory to glory god called them to continue to journey and to take more territory and more land till the day they die and after them their children should come and take more and more territory and i think it was when we started in pretoria that people in bloomington got it hey the destiny is a journey the destiny is not a location it's not a situation it's an ongoing journey of following god from glory to glory and the only way you will constantly succeed is if you stay focused on i am i am when god calls you to build a building i am your provider even in the natural there's no money i am your provider when god calls you to to start a new business i am your source of wisdom i am whatever you need i am el shaddai i am the all sufficient one you don't live from miracle to miracle you answer the call and for me the call started many years ago after i got saved in 1982 and then i did mission work in botswana for three years and then 1988 started the first little church in lady brand that was a journey i never wanted to go to a small place i knew god called me to preach too many people but my character wasn't right i had to be developed so i needed a journey so what was my journey i had to take a step where i didn't want to go i had to go to brandyland athletic brand a place where i was discouraged every monday a place where i fought personal battles every monday a place where i thought i'm wasting my time a place where i thought i don't want to be a place where i felt this is my prison but that was my journey my prison was my place of preparation and many people missed this i heard this week one of my pastors told me there's a job that's going uh say for twenty thousand rain a month um they're looking for a junior accountant and they put the cv out to many people that they know and everybody who are unemployed pulled up their noses unemployed pulled up their noses for a job because the salary wasn't big enough are you kidding me do you mean that your entitlement mentality has become so controlling that it overshadows the understanding that a destiny unfolds by taking little steps in the right direction and that's not even a little step from zero to twenty thousand around a month no that's beneath me well then you're gonna stay beneath you're gonna stay down and out all the days of your life because you cannot despise the the small beginnings you cannot despise the little things because it's the little steps that you take that take you to the journey and to the destination and and yeah abram got stuck in a place and i believe many people got stuck during the covet season many people are with stuck covert weary 18 months stuck in negativity sometimes you counsel people and you look from the outside and you say i've said the same thing to you for 10 years what the heck is wrong with you how is it that you don't get what i'm saying to you stop being mean and nasty i don't think you need counselling you you need somebody to lay hands on you to slap some sense into you sense of that i'm talking about laying hands paul says lay hands on no man suddenly what do you think he's saying he's saying don't go around slapping people no it's not what he's saying but sometimes people don't need prayer they need a slap i mean a wake-up call say why don't you get you're making the same mistake again and again and again and again it's hijacking your future what don't you get you're sitting in that same place making the same mistake nursing cursing rehearsing your setbacks in life and you're not going forward it's not the devil stopping you it's not the economy stopping you it's where you have planned to camp and somehow you've justified where you are like abram look god i'm hurting i've come through a divorce look god i've been abused and i weep with our children that are being abused that's why we need churches open we're writing a letter to the president to say if you don't want adults to come to church give us our children my word give us the children if they can go to school why can't we get them to church get them on buses and get them in church so we can take care of the children at least if you don't want to give us adults give us the children so we can heal them and restore them and protect them being destroyed so he says to god look and sometimes we're not where we want to be because we're not looking the way god called us to look we're not looking to i am we're looking to our mistakes our past our failures our flaws our inadequacies we're looking at external things while vision is never external so then god says to abram so god brings him outside that's why people need to get to church you need to get outside of your environment that's why in bloomberg even when um we built that building in bloomberg first building and we had people come on buses that was still in the apartheid years and people criticized me for bringing poor people on buses and so you're just bussing people in well many of those people are now of our key members they lawyers they're doctors they're advocates they are teachers they're politicians they're all over but i realized if you want to change somebody bring them out of the environment doesn't help you go build an inferior building and you say okay everybody just sit here and just accept your environment no bring that person out expose that person to something bigger and something better that's why we need these children the poor children of south africa in churches like this we have to get them to come so they can walk in you and say wow wow look at this and people can hug them and love them and feed them and clothe him and we can put dignity dignity upon those children and they will be the greatest leaders because that's what the world does the world strips you of your dignity of your self pride your confidence only god can restore that if our government still doesn't understand the importance of the church they never will looking at the latest crime statistics have told every police officer including the commissioner of police that crime is a moral problem you're not going to fix the problem without the church so god said god brings him outside and god says look now toward heaven look to your future lift your eyes from the place where you are lift up your eyes look up look under jesus and count the stars process of renewal we'll talk about that you have to keep your eyes in the word so your thought patterns can be reconstructed so your thinking will be different because you ultimately are controlled by your thoughts i can or i can't i am or my or i'm not so he says to him and number them and he said to him so shall your descendants be and the bible says and abram believed god he did what he believed he believed he made a decision no matter how bad things are in the natural i'm going to believe god and i want to say to you this morning no matter how bad things may seem in the natural you have to get out god is a god who relocates you god is a god who puts you on a journey and i believe this morning god wants to bring many of you out of darkness into his marvelous light god wants to bring you out of sin into a life of righteousness god wants to bring you out of the place of failure to a place of victory god wants to bring you out of a place of shame into a place of dignity where you can lift your head up high and feel good about yourself come on god wants to bring you out of your mistake into a place of miracle god wants to bring you out of a place of weeping into a place of joy god wants to take you out of a place of ashes into a beautiful place that god has prepared for you because god says i know the thoughts i think toward you thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you a future and i hope this is the god that we serve i am that great i am i am that great i am i am love grace mercy kindness victory i am your god and the greatest calling of them all is i never got there we'll get there next week he calls us to be sons and his daughters imagine that abraham is a friend of god and people say oh i want to be abram god calls you to a much higher place god calls you to sonship daughtership if there's a word like that he calls you to an intimate relationship so that when god sees you he sees you as he sees jesus i've read an amazing scripture you can read it in ephesians chapter one i'm gonna blew my mind away as i was meditating upon this week that the bible says god loves us with the same love that he loved jesus wow god loves us with the same love that he loves jesus that means there's acceptance that means you are not defined by your past you are defined by the sacrifice of jesus christ the bible says come to me all you who labor and are heavy laden this morning i've never heard about every eye closed no one moving you say pastor i need to draw closer to god i need a fresh start with jesus put your hand on your heart right now just stay where you are come on come back to god this morning say jesus i come back to you i open my heart and i accept you as my lord my savior thank you for dying for my sin i believe you rose from the grave i believe you are alive and today i answer your call and i give myself back to you in jesus name god bless you amen come on let's give them a big break come on connect with us on our social media give them a big big big god bless you come on we're going to stand to your feet and we're going to worship as god's sons and daughters it's cold out there but it's hot on the inside your god loves you i know everybody we are all facing challenges uncertainties but hey this is where we come and we find our peace and we change our perspective and we see what god sees and we worship god in spite of just like job he's a god of restoration he's a god of new beginnings and i do believe that what god promised us this will be a year of recovery and restoration just you're not going to do it without the i am i am able to do exceedingly abundantly above all you can ask or think come on come on come on don't worship don't make this christian thing a sideline thing because you're sitting online no no my brother you're not going to venture in your future without answering the call which is a call unto him to worship him to put him first in your life to love god with all your heart all your soul all your mind with everything and then let god show you the vision that he has for your life then god will guide you by the holy ghost into the journey every day a step i'm going to talk about that tonight into the unknown because if if we knew the future if we knew every step then faith was never required i started with one step to lady brand i still have many steps to take by the grace of god you have many steps to take come on one step today whatever it is make up your mind walk away from your past walk away from your heart walk away from your pain walk away from your guilt walk away from condemnation walk away walk to jesus this morning as we sing one more worship song come on everybody in this place every facility every location every church still with us you can have your moment right there in children's church this morning in the entrance for you this morning wherever you are you are this morning you are here today that means you are hungry for god and god's gonna meet you at your place of expectancy come on family come on let god lift your spirit lift your hands and let's worship him let's trust him for the future that he has for us in jesus name amen we worship you god like a deer thirst for the waters [Music] my soul my soul longs for you i search for the well of your waters when my soul can be satisfied [Music] like a wave reached to the shore [Music] my heart reaches out to yours like dry lands for the rain i am desperate for [Music] [Applause] there is nothing that compares [Music] behold your glory [Music] comes from [Music] i will test there is no [Applause] [Music] your glory there is my [Music] [Applause] [Music] i'm [Music] [Music] oh you and what can i do for you [Music] can i oh what can i do [Music] what can i do i i will pray [Music] [Music] stand as i behold your glory there is nothing like you sing everything like [Applause] [Music] come on this morning just lift your hands where you are come on just close your eyes and spiritually lift up your eyes just like god say to abram from the place where you are look to the stars and look to your scars don't look to your past look to the stars look to jesus the bride and the morning star and see see the land see the milk and the honey [Music] see the great i am abram i am your exceeding great reward i am lift your eyes to him this morning and every disappointment every disillusionment every frustration every anxiety every worry every concern give it to him i know you may not know where the next paycheck is going to come from but you position yourself he will make a way he has and he continues continually will come and lift your eyes do not let this tent this environment this limiting stifling environment that is all over our world get inside of you you stay free and you stay liberated on the inside and you dream that dream again remember when god spoke to abram god said i will not you will abram god said i will bless you i will make your name great i will do this all you have to do is get out of your tent get out of idle worship idol worship sometimes is worshiping our pain is worshiping our tragedy worshiping our our past we don't even realize it because it becomes an idol that's anything that controls you outside of jesus christ doesn't mean idol worship is always something that is is spectacular sometimes it's the refusal to let go of something and that idol then controls you and stops you from the future that god has for you he promises to heal the brokenhearted he promises to set the captive free he promises to give you beautiful ashes this is the god that we serve we are not defined and we are not bound and we are not loyal and we are not attached to the mishaps of yesterday and to the pain the tragedy and the opinions of people and the experiences that you've had no you get out of your tent you lift your eyes and you look to him see the stars this morning come on you may have many scars but see the stars this morning come on see the stars come on see the stars see the stars hallelujah come on lift your eyes this morning change your disposition let go of your anger let go of your bitterness let go of your resentment come out of your tent and lift your eyes and see see the stars this morning come on give the lord a praise god is a good god come on god is talking to you this morning god is talking to you come on there in television land god is talking to you this morning let go let go let go let go let go let go let go let go come out come out come out let go let go separate yourself separate yourself from that worry separate yourself from that low self-esteem separate yourself from that guilt come on say to yourself this morning i'm coming out i'm letting go i'm moving on i'm departing from that inferiority from that bad experience from that which defined me that which happened to me as a child i'm separating myself i'm separating myself come on by the grace of god i'm coming out [Music] and every time satan talks to you about your future remind of your past remind him of his future amen come on give the lord one more praise hallelujah god is good come on give him a joyful praise come on there on the balcony you better pray for cold weather every week then you'll be in the building okay [Music] you may i love you too much to get allowed to freeze out these so i take the responsibility with that amen um we are going to be adjourning now peacefully unlike other people out there in the world and um be generous continue to give online continue to worship god with your tithes and your offerings because it matters to god i said to somebody this last week they said well you know god told me to do something for somebody and then that somebody is not doing what they should be doing with what i gave them i said it's not the issue your issue is do what god tells you that's where your if god tells you to honor your parents no matter what your parents do with the money you give them your responsibility stops by honoring god by obeying god you obey him amen that's your responsibility you honor the lord and if you have still parents that are alive honor them take care of them bless your parents it's the one command with the promise of long life amen by the love of god the grace of our lord jesus christ the fellowship the communion of the holy spirit be upon each and every one of you my gods favor surround you like a shield may god go before you may your enemies bow before you may they flee before you seven different directions my god gives you wisdom my god enlarge your territory my god bless you beyond your wildest dreams and beyond your wildest imaginations may the lord give you the desires of your heart may every burden be removed from you may peace be your portion shalom prosperity and the presence of god more than anything else grace peace and mercy to each one of you from god himself through our lord jesus christ god bless you amen keep on spreading love keep on reaching out to your world keep on making a difference come on i know women's month is over but we're going to continue to mobilize our women and do great things in our communities and help people who are suffering and people who are going through difficult times so that wasn't a project that was a start of a journey for women of crc to change the communities to be the hands and the feet of jesus christ so please continue to avail yourself and let's make this world a better place because we can and remember an act of kindness is never forgotten especially to a child always pause and put dignity upon a child wherever you can because they'll remember that for the rest of their lives are you mean no child is to blame for where they are we must give love and dignity and no matter the color of the child or the state of the child you take a minute get down to the level of that child and say say you matter there's a god who loves you and if you can bless that child if you see a child barefooted in wintertime take that child and go buy shoes for their child do something you want god's attention then look after poor children you want god not just your children look after children they don't deserve poverty they don't deserve a life of suffering and we will be radical in our cause to bring healing and freedom and liberty and education to children all over south africa because they are out tomorrow come on they are your grandchildren they are the children that are not even born that is our greatest mission amen a child is innocent one act of kindness especially if you're a gray-haired gentleman and there's a black child with the snot near us and they have nothing and you just look at that child with love and kindness and you bless that child clothe that child are you listening to me you want god's attention take care of the poor god bless you i love you all have a great week amen [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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