Brother Gary Sunday Morning 6/10/12

Brother Gary Sunday Morning 6/10/12

We need to learn how to wait on God.  Sometimes His timeframe involves waiting either so we can get to the place where we have things in total surrender or just because we need to wait.

The Lord waits that he may be gracious and that he may be exalted.

God waits; He has a definite thought, design, plans and a definite way of working.

We need to learn the lesson of waiting on God, letting Him work as He will, and when He works things out, give Him all glory, and praise.

God is a god of judgment; He knows what is best for us individually, as a family and collectively as the Church.

Blessed are all they that wait for Him.

You may have prayed for a miracle, understanding, or growth and you haven’t received it yet.  It isn’t the thought that God wants to bless; It is the thought that God waits for us to wait so that He can bless His people.

We serve a God of miracles, healing, and restoration.  There wouldn’t be any in this audience that has lived in a life of sin that wouldn’t have regrets.  He wants to bring us to a healing so that we are not always shadowed with our failures. 

Isa 30:19  For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.

There is something about the cry of a child.  It takes humility to cry out to God.  It takes humility to stand up in the congregation of the righteous and say, “I really need prayer and my children really need prayer.”  We as Americans have heard, “Everything is great” for so long that we think that things are wrong if things are not great.  Not everything is great.

No one is able to be anybodies savior but God.  This doesn’t mean that we cannot help one another.  When God comes to our rescue we need to learn how to let God help us.  Sometimes we are so starchy that we don’t know how to let Him help us.

Isa 30:20  And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:

Make sure the difficulty is from the Lord.  There are many difficulties that we can bring into our lives.  There are troubles that we can take on.  We live in a day when there is way too much information.  We can buy books, listen to people on the radio and look at the web.  You can be loaded with information until your life is full of fear and difficulty.  That will not help any of us spiritually.

When troubles come, and life will see to it: the eternal God of heaven will engineer your life so that there is adversity and affliction designed by God. This doesn’t mean that there is something wrong with you spiritually.  God wants you and me to learn in the water of affliction to see our teacher, the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ.  They come as teaching aids to help you and me to know how to position ourselves so that we can be climbing Mt Zion.

The Holy Spirit teaches us.  This is not a light thing: praying in the Holy Ghost, walking in the Spirit and having the Holy Spirit teach us.  It deals with the spiritual side of things, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

How we need our eyes anointed so that the word of God can teach us.

Isa 30:21  And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

Adversity is designed to cause us to position ourselves so that we can see God.  If we have things between us and God, when we have something out of its proper position, then we have an idol in our lives.  When the Spirit of God works with us, anointing our eyes and ears, then we can see that we don’t have that thing in its rightful place.  We can say, I need to take that thing down.

Isa 30:22  Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.

Isa 30:23  Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.

The more that I read and study the Word of God the more hungry that I become for the word of God.  Difficulty and affliction causes us to position ourselves to have more of God.

“The rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal.”  In the last days, as dark as it is, where people have rejected God and truth and how little of the Word of God is preached.  The very opposite is being done where the word of God is shining as the light seven fold.  And the ground is taking it in, “Lord I want more of thy word.”

God sends His word; we choose to be good ground.  Matt 13 shows four kinds of ground.  Wayside soil, you and I chose to not be wayside soil.  It is a choice to not let the enemy take the conviction of the Word of God when it comes to us.

The second type is stony soil.  We choose to not let anything separate us from God.  We choose when the heat comes to not let it separate us from God.  We choose when the hard times come to get the network out of praying to God: to pray more and have others pray for us.  We choose to not let the word get choked out. 

Life often becomes so full that the word of God is choked.  We all have many things on our plate.  We need our life ordered by the Lord.  Then how much ever room God leaves on the plate for cares, riches and other things then that is alright. 

We must keep God first or we will be apostate and Laodicean.  We will not have anything flowing out because we don’t have anything flowing in.  We choose to be good ground.  What ever you are capable of then that is what you can produce. 

Whatever you are capable of if you present yourselves before God and tell Him, “I don’t want to just be saved enough to keep my marriage together.  I want to present myself to God, surrender, spend adequate time praying, studying and practicing.” 

It is a choice to be good ground.  It is a good choice. 

Moses chose to suffer rather than to enjoy.  I’m not going to tell you that there are not some pleasures out in sin, but how much enjoyment are they getting out of it.  I see lives that are so empty and void by what sin and Babylon has to offer. 

God has designed that we have light seven fold and walk in the light and bring forth 100 fold.

Isa 30:24  The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

The oxen are the laborers.  There is something that as laborers we want to remember:  we need to eat clean provender.  There is a value in eating the pure undiluted word of God with the Spirit of God.  I’m not going to try to tell you all the avenues the enemy will use to lead you away from eating clean provender. 

What he likes to do is while you are praying to be distracted.  You say words but your mind is somewhere else.  May God help us to when we pray, to pray.  Enter into the closet and pray in the Holy Ghost.  When you do this and worship God in spirit and truth there will be a hunger for the word of God.  This word of God is just as real as it was when Peter preached on the day of Pentecost.  There is a price to pay, they had been praying.

Isa 30:25  And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

There has always been people that make an issue of some kind and make their issue be a big deal.  They become absorbed with the idea of going past whatever to no music or no neckties.  I’m not here preaching that you must have music to worship or a necktie on in order to preach.  When men leave what the word of God teaches to say what is needed to worship God then they leave clean provender. 

We reach our hand in fellowship to every blood washed one.  If they see me and an old ugly spirit arises because I have a necktie then they are not saved.  If I see them and an old ugly spirit arises because they have no necktie then I’m not saved.

As sad as it is with what is going on in Babylon, God doesn’t want us to get our eyes on Babylon and the emptiness of it.  He wants our eyes to be on Him and the light of the moon will be as the sun and the light of the sun will be seven fold.

Isa 30:26  Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

Psa 48:2  Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

The Old Testament reveals how beautiful God’s church is for every situation. 

Psa 50:2  Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

Eph 2:19  Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

Moses prayed, Ps 90, “Let the beauty of Our God be upon us.”  God moved upon David and he prophesied in Ps 149: “The Lord takes pleasure in His people He will beautify the meek.”

He beautifies.  Daniel had an excellent spirit.  Only God can beautify the meek with salvation.  John as an elderly man saw God’s church as a holy city coming down from God out of heaven prepared as a bride for her husband.  The greatness of God has designed that in the Gospel Day men and women can be prepared for God as a bride adorned.  John then told us that the Holy Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.”

We live in a society where everywhere around you, you look and see lives that are so messed up.  Jesus is saying “come”, the hearers, those that have come, are saying “come.” 

“Let Him that is thirsty come and whosoever will, let him take of the water of life freely.”

May God help you and I to realize how blessed we are to live when the sun is shining bright and the moon as the sun.  We were invited; we came, and now we have the message, “Come.”