What Will He Find When He Comes

When He Comes 9 25 16

September 25, 2016
Amazing Life Church
“What Will He Find When He comes?”
Greet People
What a lovely name, the name of Jesus. What a promise
of love and grace. A promise of forgiveness, spiritual
healing, revelation and eternal life. All of this and more
define the life that Christ has offered to us by faith in
Him. Eternal life!!!
Never hungry because He will be our sustenance. Never
thirsty for when you drink of Him you will never thirst.
Never sad for happy are the people whose God is the
Lord. No turmoil or confinement for He is our peace,
He has broken down every wall.
I believe there is a Divine purpose for every living soul.
It’s degree of influence is in the plan of God. Small does
not mean insignificant. God calls and equips according
to the purpose He has defined for our lives.
If you fulfill your destiny by reaching one you have
accomplished the same as one whose destiny would
reach millions. You have obeyed the Lord!!!Page 2
I want to share some thoughts today titled, “What Will
He Find When He comes?”
In Job the 42 nd chapter He had neared the end of the
great tragedy he had dealt with. Yet throughout the
process he had questioned God, received bad council,
and expressed His lack of understanding. I want to read
you the 1 st 6 verses from the Message to begin our
journey of destiny today.
Job 42:1-6 Message
1 Job answered God.
2 “I’m convinced: You can do anything and everything.
Nothing and no one can upset your plans.
3 You asked, ‘Who is this muddying the water,
ignorantly confusing the issue, second-guessing my
purposes?’ I admit it. I was the one. I babbled on about
things far beyond me, made small talk about wonders
way over my head.
Preach This Verse
4 You told me, ‘Listen, and let me do the talking. Let me
ask the questions. You give the answers.’
5 I admit I once lived by rumors of you; now I have it
all firsthand—from my own eyes and ears!
6 I’m sorry—forgive me. I’ll never do that again, I
promise! I’ll never again live on crusts of hearsay,
crumbs of rumor.”
Preach listening to what sounds pleasing to the earsPage 3
Job is describing reactions that he had about God and
the things he was dealing with. Many of us are guilty of
one or more of the mistakes he made. Myself included.
“Ever second guessed God. Griped about things you
didn’t like. Listened to everyone else and their take on
your circumstances. Their belief and their theology.
Disregarding the word and the promises of God.”
Preach-Guilty
When you come clean and admit Job gave us the
example of what to do. “I’m sorry—forgive me. I’ll
never do that again, I promise! I’ll never again live on
crusts of hearsay, crumbs of rumor.”
Preach who you let speak into your life.
The Father by the destiny of Christ has given us the
responsibility to know His will for our lives.
Romans 12:1-2 NASB
1 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God,
to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice,
acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of
worship.
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you
may prove what the will of God is, that which is good
and acceptable and perfect.Page 4
Let me read verse 2 a couple of different ways.
NLT
Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but
let God transform you into a new person by changing
the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s
will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
Message
Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you
fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your
attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out.
Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly
respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always
dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God
brings the best out of you, develops well-formed
maturity in you.
The word world from the Greek has a very interesting
meaning. The word ahee-ohn’ means, “for ever, an
unbroken age, perpetuity of time, eternity”
Our word eon probably came from this word. The word
eon in astronomy means a unit of time equal to a billion
years.
You are wondering where this is going.Page 5
The story of Job, Romans 12:1-2 are in this amazing
collection of divinely inspired writings for this reason.
For the last several thousand years. Should Christ tarry
another several thousand years, and so on and so on.
These words are here to remind every generation that
the ability to obtain maturity in God is directly related to
how long you remain immature.
Preach-There is always going to be stuff.—- “The best
way to deal with it is pray.”
Here is an example.
Luke 18:1-8 NASB
1 Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all
times they ought to pray and not to lose heart,
2 saying, “In a certain city there was a judge who did
not fear God and did not respect man.
3 There was a widow in that city, and she kept coming
to him, saying, ‘Give me legal protection from my
opponent.’
4 For a while he was unwilling; but afterward he said to
himself, ‘Even though I do not fear God nor respect
man,Page 6
5 yet because this widow bothers me, I will give her
legal protection, otherwise by continually coming she
will wear me out.’”
6 And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge
said;
7 now, will not God bring about justice for His elect
who cry to Him day and night, and will He delay long
over them?
8 I tell you that He will bring about justice for them
quickly. However, “when the Son of Man comes, will
He find faith on the earth?”
The last part of verse 8 is written in red. Signifying
these are the words of Jesus. It is one of the saddest
questions asked in the Bible.
“when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the
earth?”
AMP
“when the Son of Man comes, will He find this kind of
persistent faith on the earth?”
Preach Preach-What will He find when He comes?

Destined for Excellence

Destined Excellence 9 18 16 (PDF download)

September 18, 2016
Amazing Life Church
“Destined for Excellence”
Greet People
I love the Lord. I am so thankful for His amazing grace and His unconditional love. Unlike many in the
American church today I see fields awaiting harvest. The only thing lacking is being watered with the story
of Jesus. It is the life giving ingredient that will activate hunger and hope in every soul that is looking for
purpose. Last week I talked about the destiny of the church. Our role as a collective. A local body and a global collective of churches throughout the world. The destiny of the church is generally the same whether it be in America or in foreign lands. Tell the story of Jesus. Reveal Him to a dying people. Help them find their path of destiny all the while teaching and strengthening them with the Word and the Love of God. Care for the poor, and financial support of the ministry and the church.

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Obviously we can get a lot more specific but these things are pretty well the foundation for the church and it’s reach into the world. Today I want to share some things about personal destiny. Let me establish this from the beginning. I Believe that everyone has a purpose. Yours may be small and seem insignificant but it isn’t. Every purpose is like a stone in the wall of a building. The building won’t look right nor be as strong if a stone is left out. If you have never really understood destiny and what God’s plan for you is let me state this emphatically. You are never too young nor too old to begin your journey of destiny. Even if you knew your purpose but have not walked it out for a while. You can pick back up where you left off when you are ready. “Jonah is a perfect
example.” I want to share some thoughts with you today titled, “Destined for Excellence” I will begin by sharing our example for walking out our destiny.

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Hebrews 12:1-2 NASB
1 Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross,
despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Verse 2 Amplified
looking away from all that will distract us and focusing our eyes on Jesus, who is the Author and Perfecter of
faith the first incentive for our belief and the One who brings our faith to maturity, who for the joy of
accomplishing the goal set before Him endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and sat down at the right
hand of the throne of God revealing His deity, His authority, and the completion of His work. I have to get back to this in a little bit. Sometimes an event will activate your path to destiny. Circumstances that God allowed can often create within you the very dream and purpose that God had designed from the beginning.

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Nehemiah 1:1-4 NASB
1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it happened in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, while I was in Susa the capitol,
2 that Hanani, one of my brothers, and some men from Judah came; and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped and had survived the captivity, and about Jerusalem.
3 They said to me, “The remnant there in the province who survived the captivity are in great distress and reproach, and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down and its gates are burned with fire.”
4 When I heard these words, I sat down and wept and mourned for days; and I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven. His brokenness created within him a vision of restoration. Nehemiah was in captivity but the favor of God was upon him. He devised a plan and was given the means and the leave to go and rebuild His homeland and
the temple. Preach, “All too often we look at tragic circumstances as the end. We should look at them as the beginning.” Preach Preach

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Destiny is moving forward.
Philippians 3:13 NLT
No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead.
Preach-Forget your mistakes, delays, failures, all of your poor me’s. Look forward. Your destiny is not behind you it is in front of you. Fulfilling your purpose will take determination. I mentioned that I would come back to Hebrews 12:2 so let me read it again.
Hebrews 12:2 Amplified
looking away from all that will distract us and focusing our eyes on Jesus, who is the Author and Perfecter of faith the first incentive for our belief and the One who brings our faith to maturity, who for the joy of accomplishing the goal set before Him endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God revealing His deity, His authority, and the completion of His work.
In Luke I read a passage that greatly interested me.

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Luke 9:51 NASB
When the days were approaching for His ascension, He was determined to go to Jerusalem.
Amplified
Now when the time was approaching for Him to be taken up to heaven, He was determined to go to Jerusalem to fulfill His purpose.
He wasn’t looking at the process, He was fastened on His destiny. His persecution was the process. Returning to the right hand of the Father a perfect ascended sacrifice for the sins of all mankind was His finished work. His destiny.
What are you focused on? Preach process and destiny.

The Unified Purpose

Unified Purpose 9 11 16

September 11, 2016
Amazing Life Church
“The Unified Purpose”
Greet People
It is my honor to stand before you each week and share
the heart of God. It is my consistent and persistent
prayer that God will encompass you with His favor and
grace. Blessing you with peace beyond your
understanding and surrounded with His unconditional
love.
We are living in an amazing time. Churches with vision
and faith are being positioned by the Holy Spirit to
change their communities and the world. These
churches, of which ALC is one, are churches that pray.
“Persistent, consistent, passionate, and compassionate
prayer will change your life, your family and friends,
and the world you live in.”
Before I share the message today let’s join together in
unity and pray this awesome prayer.Page 2
Matthew 6:9-13 NASB
9 “Pray, then, in this way:‘Our Father who is in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
10 ‘Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as
it is in heaven.
11 ‘Give us this day our daily bread.
12 ‘And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven
our debtors.
13 ‘And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us
from evil. [For Yours is the kingdom and the power and
the glory forever. Amen.’]
I want to share some thoughts today titled, “The
Unified Purpose”
My theme will be destiny for a couple of weeks,
personal and corporate. It is my sincere belief that
before we can begin to acknowledge our personal
destiny we must align ourselves with His destiny for the
church. Although we each have an individual purpose it
is designed by God to fit into His plan for His church.
The proverbs give us a couple of ideas to reach for in
our quest for destiny.Page 3
Proverbs 16:3 NASB
Commit your works to the L ORD And your plans will be
established.—–Explain
Proverbs 15:22 NASB
Without consultation, plans are frustrated, But with
many counselors they succeed.—–Explain
A passage from The Apostle Paul to the Ephesians will
begin our journey towards destiny as He tells us the
importance of connecting your destiny to the church.
Ephesians 3:8-12 NASB
8 To me, the very least of all saints, this grace was
given, to preach to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches
of Christ,
9 and to bring to light what is the administration of the
mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who
created all things;
10 so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be
made known through the church to the rulers and the
authorities in the heavenly places.
11 This was in accordance with the eternal purpose
which He carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord,
12 in whom we have boldness and confident access
through faith in Him.Page 4
Preach- “The role of the church is to bring
understanding of the Gospel to the Heavenly realm
and the unfallen angels.”
God called His church to educate the angels in heaven
about His grace. How, “By example.”
Hebrews 2:16 NLT says, “We also know that the Son
did not come to help angels; he came to help the
descendants of Abraham.”
Our Kingdom Authority reaches beyond what we can
see. Our destiny is bigger than you can imagine.
Corporately as a church, a body of Christ, and globally
the church of our Lord Jesus Christ is the single most
powerful institution the world has ever known.
It must be driven forward with compassion and love for
people and for God. It is not about creating boxes that
confine His purpose, it is about setting people free.
“Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it
is in heaven.”
Preach-It is the destiny of the church!!!!Page 5
Hebrews 6:16-18 NASB
16 For men swear by one greater than themselves, and
with them an oath given as confirmation is an end of
every dispute.
17 In the same way God, desiring even more to show to
the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His
purpose, interposed with an oath,
18 so that by two unchangeable things in which it is
impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge
would have strong encouragement to take hold of the
hope set before us.
Verse 18 AMPC
This was so that, by two unchangeable things His
promise and His oath in which it is impossible for God
ever to prove false or deceive us, we who have fled to
Him for refuge might have mighty indwelling strength
and strong encouragement to grasp and hold fast the
hope appointed for us and set before us.
Preach Jesus
The body of Christ has been set apart in the world with
an unmistakably clear destiny. We have been called to
represent Jesus to the world, encourage one another in
our journey. Proclaiming freedom and individual
purpose to everyone we can.Page 6
The global Body of Christ is represented by many
members and each one has a distinctive purpose to
fulfill.
1 Peter 2:9-10 NASB
9 But you are A CHOSEN RACE , A royal PRIESTHOOD , A
HOLY NATION , A PEOPLE FOR God’s OWN POSSESSION , so
that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has
called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
10 for you once were NOT A PEOPLE , but now you are
THE PEOPLE OF G OD ; you had NOT RECEIVED MERCY ,
but now you have RECEIVED MERCY .
Message
9-10 But you are the ones chosen by God, chosen for
the high calling of priestly work, chosen to be a holy
people, God’s instruments to do his work and speak out
for him, to tell others of the night-and-day difference he
made for you—from nothing to something, from
rejected to accepted.
Preach—-Your destiny begins with the story of Jesus.

The Lord Is The Maker Of Them All

No Respector 9 4 2016

September 4, 2016
Amazing Life Church
Proverbs 22:2 NASB
“The rich and the poor have a common bond,
The L ORD is the maker of them all.”
Greet People
It seems the roller coaster has continued for another
week. Actually I never tire of God and His awesome
purpose. Even when Betty and I are called to do a home
going service it is an honor to serve others and do the
work of the Lord.
I am continually humbled that God could speak words
of hope and love through such a flawed vessel. His
grace and mercy have always been my source for the
hearts of those whom God puts in my path.
I love Him so much. My mission always is to help
someone who feels unloved and flawed beyond use,
know that God loves them with a passionate love.
He is not mad at you. He is patiently waiting to embrace
you with His arms of love and grace.Page 2
I want to share some thoughts today that I have titled
with a scripture. Proverbs 22:2. “The rich and the poor
have a common bond, The L ORD is the maker of them
all.”
This message came to me late in the week. Someone
must have prayed for me so that God’s word for the day
would get through. Before I get into the message I want
to share a paragraph from a very old writing by St John
Climacus. He was a Syrian Monk born in Syria around
579 and He died in March 649. He died on Mt Sinai.
Little is known about him except for this book or
training manual if you will, titled, “The Ladder of
Divine Ascent.” On the 1 st page there is a paragraph I
found very poetic and it is in agreement with the title of
my message.
“God belongs to all free beings. He is the life of all,
the salvation of all—faithful and unfaithful, just
and unjust, pious and impious, passionate and
dispassionate, monks and seculars, wise and simple,
healthy and sick, young and old—just as the diffusion
of light, the sight of the sun, and the changes of
the weather are for all alike; ‘for there is no respect of
persons with God’.”Page 3
1 Peter 1:17-21 NASB
17 If you address as Father the One who impartially
judges according to each one’s work, conduct
yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth;
18 knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable
things like silver or gold from your futile way of life
inherited from your forefathers,
V18-Message
“It cost God plenty to get you out of that dead-end,
empty-headed life you grew up in.”
19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished
and spotless, the blood of Christ.
20 For He was foreknown before the foundation of the
world, but has appeared in these last times for the sake
of you
21 who through Him are believers in God, who raised
Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your
faith and hope are in God.
After I read these scriptures the word reboot came to
mind. The Writers of the New Testament were often
reminding people of where they came from and who
brought them out.
“I asked myself why?Page 4
Reboot is generally used as a computer term that means
turning the computer off and then on. In doing this the
system fixes things. It uploads new versions of software
installed on the system It will also update the operating
system of the computer.
I suspect the scriptures I read and the word reboot speak
to our relationship with Christ.
Preach-Sometimes we grow cold-satisfied-
discouraged.——We look beyond our relationship
with Christ and try to find contentment in people,
places, and things.
The Apostles reminded people then, and by extension us
today. That who we are and what we have is all because
of Jesus.
Isaiah 64 is a prayer for mercy and help. In verse 8 the
prophet reminded God of their relationship.
Isaiah 64:8 NASB
But now, O L ORD , You are our Father, We are the clay,
and You our potter; And all of us are the work of Your
hand.Page 5
Preach the work of His hand-Job Said in 34:19 “Who
shows no partiality to princes Nor regards the rich
above the poor, For they all are the work of His
hands?”
All of this brought me to this somewhat familiar
passage.
Jeremiah 18:1-4 NASB
1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the L ORD
saying,
2 “Arise and go down to the potter’s house, and there I
will announce My words to you.”
3 Then I went down to the potter’s house, and there he
was, making something on the wheel.
4 But the vessel that he was making of clay was spoiled
in the hand of the potter; so he remade it into another
vessel, as it pleased the potter to make.
Jeremiah 18:4 Message
Whenever the pot the potter was working on turned out
badly, as sometimes happens when you are working
with clay, the potter would simply start over and use
the same clay to make another pot.
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What an awesome thought. God can make us over and
over again. Using the same flawed clay and makes it
fresh and new. A vessel that will hold His presence,
formed in His will by hands of love.
A vessel that will honor Him. A vessel with a destiny
that is exceptional to each vessel He has formed.
A destiny that only you can fulfill.
There are those here today who need a reboot. Maybe
another turn on the Potters wheel. Preach