Yeah, I want to talk to you about the leadership call on every one
of your lives and just you know, the ministry call, the ministry call.
Every one of us in this room have a ministry call on our lives.
And as it was with David and paula years ago. You know,
David was were you working in a restaurant something like that over there? So
you know, David was led to the Lord and then came over here and
went to Bible College, and then he went to a liberal a liberal arts
college, and that was the beginning of the American dream and making money,
you know. But the voice of the Lord was on these two, and
the voice of the Lord was in and on David's heart. And sometimes we
don't recognize that the voice of the Lord is not calling us to sell everything
and go on the mission field or to plant a church, but the voice
of the Lord is calling us still to invest in other people with ministry.
And oftentimes the hindrance of us responding to the voice of the Lord, because
that's happening with every one of us that have given our lives to Jesus in
this room. Oftentimes the hindrance is that we just don't open our mouths,
and we could talk today about the reward of their suffering, because there is
a reward of investing in others. There's a reward in sacrifice. We tend
to put a lot of emphasis on sacrifice, but the emphasis of Heaven is
on the reward. And right now we could look and say, okay,
thirty you know, some odd years later they're thirty one years later, they're
walking in a lot of the reward now and it's the I believe God give
gift to all mens or of you all possess some kind of gift from God,
each one of us. We must discover and know that gift. And
then the word of God, said Roman, chapter eleven, verse twenty nine.
You know, God can take lives away, can give life, can
take everything that you have, God can take it away from you, even
the wealth, health, anything, God can take it away. But there's
only this two things that God cannot take it away from. You give and
the calling of God that Romans, chapter eleven, verse twenty nine. So
use that gift, shine that gift and bless people around you, and that
bless those who need it. Yeah, and it all starts by opening your
mouth. Everything God wants to do through you and the reward of your investment
in others. It starts just by opening your mouth. You know, the
Bible says, don't despise the day of a small beginning, and the smallest
beginning is just to open your mouth this week. If you would just open
your mouth, if you would stewart your mouth, you would be stewarting the
river of God in you. Because the river of God in you can't come
out of you if you won't open your mouth. But when you open your
mouth, the river of God can be loosed through you out of your belly.
John seven thirty eight, out of your belly will flow plural, not
just a river, but rivers of living water. This he spoke concerning the
Holy Spirit. You are a receiver of the Holy Spirit. This is for
every born again believer. You're a receiver of the Holy Spirit. He wants
to bring out of you rivers of living water, Rivers that quench the thirst
of others, rivers that satisfy, rivers that hydrate, rivers that quicken and
build up, that feed and nourish. But it starts by opening your mouth.
You just got to open your mouth. And we choose every day to
either open our mouth or keep our mouths shut. But the future, the
future of your investment in others as it was for them, It just starts
with that simple act of opening your mouth, because, like David saying,
you've already received the gift of the Holy Spirit. Many have discovered, many
psychologists, many authors, many counselors, many insecular and in the sacred studies
have discs covered. The greatest hindrance to all leadership, the activation of all
risk taking and all leadership, is the fear of public speaking, the fear
of not opening our mouth, the fear of just not expressing ourselves in a
small or a greater circle of people that fear the fear of public speaking.
And yet the Bible says, open your mouth wide and I will fill it.
Open your mouth wide, Psalm eighty one to ten. I am the
Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt. He's saying that it's over
the children of Israel. Open wide your mouth, and eye will fill it.
Anybody ever think too much, anybody in the room ever think too much,
You ever think too much? Jesus is what Jesus said over the disciples
who became the apostles. Jesus said that in the hour of pressure, trouble,
persecution, or opportunity, do not even worry about what you will say,
because the Holy Spirit will give you what you should say. So don't
even worry about it. Don't even think too much. Don't even think too
much about what you should say. Why, because Holy Spirit dwelling in you
is a better proclaimer, teacher, counselor enlightener, coach and help that you
could think yourself into in an hour or two or three of fussing' and steuben
and worrying. Just open your mouth wide and he will fill it. Come
on. Sometimes we think too much. Sometimes we think too much, and
sometimes what happens is our thinking gets in the way of a Holy Spirit activation.
So instead of coming out of us what should have come out because we
relied on him, what comes out of us is a lot of thinking,
dead thinking. You ever had dead thinking come out of you, it's because
we aren't relying fully on the Holy Spirit. He wants to activate ministry through
you. He wants to activate the touch of people through you. He wants
to activate the leadership gift on you. He wants to activate the bringing up
of what he's entrusted you in and with and so many times it just starts
by opening our mouth. Let's stand this morning, Peter fourteen. Each of
you has received a gift, to use it to serve one another as good
stewards of God's grace. New International, each of you should use whatever gift
you've received to serve one another as faithful stewarts of God's grace. Each of
us have received the outpouring of the spirit. Each of us have received the
grace of God. Each of us received, as it says in John thirty
eight, whoever believes in me, as the scripture has said, rivers of
living water will flow from their innermost being. Now, I bet, just
as I'm saying this this morning, you're doubting yourself already. You're listening and
doubting yourself. You're listening and wondering, what in the world is he talking
about? Come on, somebody, I know already, just as I'm talking
about this, there's all sorts of emotions or thoughts or contradictions or fears that
want to keep you limited, keep you compressed, keep you constricted, keep
you quiet, keep you devaluing yourself and thinking that who in the world wants
to hear from you. I mean, this is one of the greatest,
one of the greatest shifts that ever was meant for God's people from the Moses
pattern to the New Testament pattern, was that it's no longer about the Tabernacle
and Moses. It's about the Tabernacle and the Spirit of God within. Frank
tried to talk about it during communion. You've become the temple of the Holy
Spirit, and you, every one of you, have to stop doubting the
power and the grace that's in you. Most of the time when we talk
about that, we're talking about doubting God's word, and we're talking about doubting
and this and that, and then doubting the word of God and doubting this
and you know, and it's usually a God word doubt. But I'm exhorting
you right now stop doubting the Spirit of God who dwells in you. Quench
those fears. I'm gonna ask the prayer team to come. We're going to
close again with prayer this morning. Maybe you're here giving your life to the
Lord this morning. Maybe you're recommitting your life to him, Maybe you're renewing
your walk with him. Maybe there's something going on, and you feel the
tug of the Holy Spirit on your heart this morning, and that's been happening,
and I want you to seal that before we leave this morning. I
want you to seal that decision that you've made to follow God, to restore
your walk with God, to have a walk with Him. But others of
us this morning, we know Him, we know we're walking with him.
We know we're forgiven, we know we're born of the Spirit. But we've
got to conquer some fears that keep holding us back. There are fears that
keep holding us back. And if that's you, I want you to come
this morning, and I want you to be prayed for. And I want
that fear and even that self doubt, I want it to be quenched,
and I want you to say no to it. And I'm just exhorting you
this morning in the Lord, in love and in the Lord, that she
would no longer listen to the voice of fear, that you would no longer
listen to those self accusing voices, that you would no longer be suppressed and
oppressed and constricted and quiet, because you have a river in you, You
have rivers in you, You have birds of living water, the temple.
You've become the temple of the Living God. And now the Living God wants
you to distribute life through you. Would you do it this morning? Heads
bowed and eyes closed, just for a moment, hands raised up all across
this auditorium, Holy Spirit, right now we welcome you to loose us.
We welcome you right now to come with liberty. As we close this morning,
Holy Spirit, we welcome you to come and quicken the life giving call
of the Spirit within us. We're all called into greater realms of ministry.
We're all crawled into greater realms of ministry expression, and we carry the rivers
of living water within us. And so Holy Spirit, come and loose the
living water. Let there be a loosing of our tongue, a loosing of
our tongue. All across this over auditory this morning in Jesus' name, and
everybody said, come forward, Church, be prayed for, be ministered to
come into a liberty this morning. Welcome a new liberty over your heart,
over your tongue, over your voice, over all that Jesus would do through
you this morning. As we close,