"You Have Not Passed This Way Before" with Jentezen Franklin

the following program is sponsored by friends and partners of Kingdom you when you see it move out from your positions and follow it then you will know which way to go since you have never been this way before you curiosity is one of the elements that can turn a mere man into an icon curiosity it's that essential trait that every Explorer has people who discover new things are fascinated with the discovery of the unknown something in them says there's more something in them says that I longed for something I don't have that's how people who have changed the world have changed the world because they had a curiosity stirred up in their heart his name was Christopher Columbus and his discovery of the new world only happened because of a tremendous curiosity when everybody else said the world was flat his theory was that it was round and his theory meant was met with cynicism his theory was met with ill regard people laughed at him people made fun of him because he believed that there was more than what had been discovered when Queen Isabella the queen of Spain commissioned him and gave him the money and financed Christopher Columbus and his screw in the journey that he would take in his ship he set out on grand ideas that there had to be more than what he had experienced a paradigm shift occurred in his own life and in the in the crew that he had that would be willing to risk everything to discover a place they had never been before what was amazing that when he discovered the new world then suddenly it became regular to go back and forth from Spain to the new land that we now know as America when he discovered the new world he found their spices and silver and gold and all the beauty of the America shores but he was not satisfied with discovering a whole new world something in him yearned for more he would not sit back long until he would set out on another journey trying to find out surely there's places that I've never been before but in that nation of Spain the mystery of sailing began to dissipate the sovereigns of Spain became more interested in just going back and forth to the place that they had been before from Spain to America Shores getting the riches and going back to Spain from Spain back and forth what was once thought impossible and non-existent became a regular journey back and forth in other words they were they were more interested in settling than discovering they just wanted to be regular they just wanted to be average they just wanted to be normal and I'm afraid that it's possible sometimes for us in our walk with God at first we don't even know the spiritual world exists but if you're not careful that new world can just become a regular journey of coming to church and experiencing and picking up some silver some golds and blessings from the treasure house of the Word of God in the house of God and going back and forth back and forth to that same place never realizing that God never intended for us to stop discovering new places in him that we have never ever known he doesn't want us to settle for colonization over expiration spiritually speaking something in US needs to yearn for more something in US needs to hunger for more something in us needs to be stirred up to say god there's got to be more than just going and coming and going and coming to a place called Church occasionally there need to be those moments in our walk with God where we get desperate for a place we've never been before an experience we've never had before because I want to tell you that it does exist there is a new world spiritually that exists for me and for you if we won't be settled and just be in a place where we don't hunger and yearn for more you see I believe that when we get interested in just settling we get settled in our walk with God we settle in the valley of the common we settle in the plains of the plain Church doesn't have to be playing Church doesn't have to be coming are we living in common times do we need more common services with little talks where we just leave and we come and we leave or do we occasionally need to say God why don't you tear me up in this service God why don't you not get me excited but drive me to my knees and brokenness and tears until I press through and I get into your presence where I desperately need to be because it's there that all that we long for is waiting for you and waiting for me lot set out and he's settled in the plane of Zoar the word sore means little I'm afraid we settled with little prayers and little worship little change in little sermons and little dedication and little devotion I'm tired of little I'm tired of little prayers and little services I'm ready for God again to send a move of his spirit starting with this pastor because I'm in a place that I've never been this way before and fault hit me so strong if I've never been to this place before maybe I need to go in God to a place that I've never been before because I need him like I never needed him before how about you are you facing things you've never faced something tells me there's more in God because when we have greater need he has greater grace come on and give Him praise if there's a yearning in your heart for more we just want to camp here don't we we just want to get settled in our walk with God we just want to get saved and do the journey back and forth back and forth back and forth but we don't go to any deeper in God any mightier in the spirit any deeper in worship any heavier in intercession and there there is a place in God that is beyond just the norm I'm telling you it's there I've been there the average service rarely gets to a place where we feel uncomfortable we like everything comfortable and predictable Columbus toward the later years of his life listen this is amazing history records record he would squint his eyes so much looking for the new horizon he would get out on the bow of the boat and he had learned what only a few sailors know how to navigate by the Sun and he would squid his eyes so much that history looking for a new horizon I know it's out there I don't I know it's out there that he became blind looking for the new horizon his eyes were affected by navigating by the Sun gazing that he did peering for the unknown peering and longing where is it where is it where is it I know it's there I know it's there what if we came to church like that what if we all got that in our spirit tonight that we begin squinting until we became blind explorers he actually lost all of his sight because he squinted his eyes so much looking for new horizons staring into the Sun day after day looking for new place looking for something more before discovering Santo Domingo Christopher Columbus was blind yet his instincts were so sharp by previous voyages he was able to follow the curved line only known by a few navigators those eyes squinting squinting looking the thought hit me do I have eyes that are squinting looking for the headwinds of the Holy Spirit to carry me where others say don't even exist in the spirit the church world in general says be satisfied just to go to church and go back home and go to church and go back home and don't get too spiritual because you might get a little weird but maybe there's a place that they don't even know exist squinting looking I'm telling you that we're called to better than average we're called to better than normal we're called to more than regular church and regular services we've settled into the regular we've settled into the average and God wants you to see beyond the spiritual place that you are are your eyes growing tired for looking from something new or do you just expect nothing new spiritually to happen anymore you've hit your highest place you're in the wrong church tonight because I have come to afflict the comfortable and comfort be afflicted by telling you there's another place there's a place where you can unload your burdens there's a place where there is joy there's a place where you can pray and your spirit can be released and you can leave this place saying I'm free give the Lord a big praise if you believe it come on here for more are we as a church peering form or are we satisfied as God brought us to this place just to exist now and be satisfied or should we spiritually be out on the bow of this old ship peering with eyes that have been enlightened with the anointing and the vision of the Holy Spirit seeing the harvest all around us seeing souls everywhere around us saying God thank you for all that you've done but there's more that we can do as your people then that's rise we'll never get you where vision from the Holy Spirit will get you you see opportunities when he enlightens your vision you have to lose yourself to find yourself I want you to take the spiritual context of that for just a moment lose yourself and realize we've got this moment and we own it we can have as much of God as we want we can be as powerful in God as we want to be we need to lose ourself so that we can find ourselves so that we can own this moment the church should be having its greatest hour now I need somebody to stir up the fire in your soul to peer out and see a new horizon turn to somebody and say lose yourself we've seen you we're not impressed lose yourself come on get out there where you lose yourself lose your attitude and get his attitude lose your habits and get his holy habits lose your way and get God's Way lose your direction and find God's direction lose yourself Joshua the son of nun her God in His Spirit say today's the day I know you've been going in the wilderness for 40 years I know you knew this land existed 40 years ago and everybody else has died out but Caleb in you but it's time there's more how many of you believe there's more that God is a God of vastness that we have not discovered the mighty great powerful things that he wants to reveal to his people he said in Joshua chapter 3 I want you to send the Ark of the Covenant out that's why you need to pray for the leaders because he said send the priests out first with the Ark of the Covenant and when the soles of their feet touched the wall her the water will part pray for your leaders because you're not going anywhere they don't go so you don't want a pastor that's just kind of laid-back about ministry you don't need a church that just lets you grow religious fat and sassy spiritually speaking you need a church where Joshua turned and said sanctify yourselves clean your act up for tomorrow this time we're going where we have never gone before turn to somebody and say your tomorrow can be better than your today because there's a place you've never gone before waiting for you the Bible said that he he set out that's blind exploring stepping off of a bank of land up under your feet and the Bible said the River swelled started flooding that's dangerous but he steps out and when he steps out the water parted I was reading today and one writer said that the water did not part all the way across the river until the feet of the priest you know I thought it the whole thing parted but he was saying the guy had to the priest had to walk by faith all the way across and when he would it would stand up on both sides but it was a continual walk of faith you see I guess what I'm trying to say to you tonight the simple little message is there's nothing wrong with settling enjoying the blessing of God as long as you continue to have in your spirit and exploration a blind a blind exploring spirit that says wherever you lead me I will step out and move in that direction in blind faith if I hear your voice I have nothing to do but move at your voice and I may not know how or when but I'll move by faith and I've never been this way before that's what I love about following God he doesn't want it to get boring and the thing that I've come by tonight to say in this message is if you will begin to long for the immensity of our vast God if you will be willing to leave the comforts of the settlement for a new discovery of where God is even in this place tonight you can go where you've never gone spiritually before and we could have a Holy Spirit revival right here in this room that shakes me and you to the core of our being and don't we need it when man said if you want to build a ship don't gather people together to collect wood teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea and then they'll build a ship and I'm saying to you it's time to long for more you won't ever get more from God until you hunger and you long and you reach and you're dissatisfied with where you are am i preaching to anybody here tonight that's ready for a new I've never been this way before I am so glad you're watching this program we're here because we want to impact people with the truth of God's Word and I believe that we are in a place that God is looking for leaders and God is looking for men and women and young people and college students and teenagers that he can place his hand on and raise them up and that they can go where we have never gone before with the gospel and with the truth and with the plan and the purpose of God and his church and I encourage you today just to say Lord I'm available Lord I want those laws of leadership and he's taught me today in my life I want to be fully developed and I want to live a life on purpose I want to see God do great things with me beyond what I'm capable of doing he really does want you to think that way he really does want you to dream that way and when you get Jesus inside and he becomes your whole source of life he will begin to take you places you never dreamed you would go and you will begin to see the plan of God in your life and in powerful and unusual ways and I'm believing for that today in your life why don't you ask the Lord if you've never done it before to be your Savior I know he loves you I know he cares about you I know he knows everything about you and he still loves you and right there where you are just say Lord Jesus just say it Lord Jesus I surrender everything to you I really need you I really need a reason to get up and live my life on purpose please take my life in Jesus name Amen I believe you're feeling his presence right there in that room and if you want to share with somebody and want to know that somebody's praying for you there's a prayer line on the screen please call that number we love to hear from you there's free material on our website and go to Jensen franklin org and there you're going to find fantastic material and aids to your walk with the Lord whether you are a new believer or you have been walking with God for many years we just want to sew into your life free material free messages things that you can just download and get instantly and I know that it will be a blessing to your life this month's offer is amazing this book that I wrote called take hold of your dream it's absolutely beautiful by the way it's 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Length: 28min 30sec (1710 seconds)

Published: Thu May 09 2013