Holy Spirit. We're so thankful for you and for your presence and your testimony
of Jesus. Thank you that you're here. Thank you that you're making good
on all that He's said and all that He's promised. We honor you today.
We honor you today, We honor the revelation of the Word. We
ask, Holy Spirit, you will come with revelation, wisdom, conviction,
faith, courage, be present in our midst. Holy Spirit. Thank you
that you edify, that you build up, that you name us as we
are in the Christ, that you speak royalty and life and kingly authority and
grace overs We give you the praise for it in Jesus' name. Everybody said,
Amen, you may be seated. Exodus chapter three. Exodus chapter three,
I want to talk to you a little bit about the call of leadership,
the calling of leadership on our lives, on every single person. And
we'll just start with a little bit of stuff out of Moses and dive into
this Exodus three. I'm going to start at verse seven, but before we
get to verse seven, what's happening is and some of you know the story,
So Moses led the people of God, the Jewish people. He led
them out of captivity, led them out of bondage in Egypt. Maybe you
know that story, but for the sake of those who were newer to the
faith, Moses was that leader that led the people out of bondage. They
had been in Egypt for four hundred and thirty years, and so God's getting
ready to do something. The cry of these people in slavery is coming up
before the Lord. And what happens right before verse seven, the first part
of the chapter is that God shows up in a burning bush. So Moses
is I wouldn't say he's really hiding from God, but he's hiding from Egypt
because forty years previously he was very passionate about the Israeli people, the Jewish
people, and he saw them being abused, and so he stood up on
behalf of a fellow Hebrew and took the life of an Egyptian. So from
that moment on, the Pharaoh wanted to take his life. So he escapes.
He runs out to what we know in the Bible as Midian. He's
out in the middle of this, you know, kind of this area called
Midian. He gets out there, he finds his wife, and therefore he
found his wife's family. The father in law we're told about quite a bit.
His name is Jethro. And so he gets out there, and it's
while he's there for forty years hiding from Egypt that God finds him, right
and so, but we know he's out there. He's out there. He's
not against the Lord, he's not running from God, because his influence on
the family that he married into brought a shift and a change to them.
Insomuch that Jethro is later called the priest of Midian, So that means Jehovah
is now being worshiped in Midian, and there is a troop of people following
after Yahweh Jehovah God. And he's out there making an influence, but he's
still hiding from the Pharaoh. And so it's in that setting that this bush
catches on fire, and he's like, and he sees the bush. The
bush is on fire, but the bush isn't consumed, and so he,
you know, heads over to take a look at this bush. And then
a voice comes out of the bush. Right, you're familiar with the story.
So verse seven, the Lord said, and this is the voice coming
out of the bush. Indeed, I have seen the misery of my people
in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers,
and I'm concerned about their suffering. So I've come down to rescue them from
the hand of the Egyptians, to bring them up out of the land,
out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with
milk and honey. The home of the Canaanites, the hit Heites, the
Amorites, the Parasites, the high Bites, and the Debucyites. And these
are a bunch of like bad folks, right, and so God's going to
give that land to them. But part of the thing that we don't realize,
and you know, just thinking about Israel for a moment, is that
this is also the land that Abraham saw when he lifted up his eyes and
God made him the promise of land. And so Abraham hasn't possessed the land
yet. Now there's bad folks living in the land, idolaters, people that
sacrifice their children to the demonic realm. But this is the land that was
promised to Abraham four hundred and thirty years previously, or even longer than four
hundred thirty years, because it was four hundred and thirty years that Jacob went
down to Egypt. It was even before that that the land was promised to
Abraham. And so he says, I'm going to give them that land.
And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen
the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. Verse ten. Here's the funny part.
So now go. So now you go. I am sending you to
Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites out. Now this is the way
leadership works. God gets stirred up about something. God sees something happening.
God hears the cries of people. God observes what's happening in culture. God
is aware of what's happening around us. God sees all of this stuff where
people are held in captivity. They're not in the blessing that he has desired,
ordained and wants for them. And so his heart is moved, his
heart is moved to come and rescue them. He comes down to rescue them,
and then he says to you, now go, because this is the
way God rescues people. The way God rescues people is he comes and he
calls you though he's moved. He calls you though he hears them. He
calls you, though he wants something better for them. He calls you,
though he is going to move to set them free. He calls you.
He's not going to do it on his own. He's going to call you.
He's going to call you. He's going to empower you, he's going
to enable you. And that's what we say happening here, and that's the
leadership call. The leadership call comes upon Moses, and Moses does what all
of us do. Typically, Moses does what so many in the Bible do.
Be it, Gideon, be it. You know, we could just
go on with the list. He does. He does the the not me
God thing. Right, I didn't know demons appeared in burning bushes? Okay,
right, I resist you in the name of Jesus. Right, this
can't be God. And so Moses, you know, he's the reluctant We
see him, you know, kind of acting out as this reluctant leader.
And so he, for you know, first like no, thank you,
and then he's like, who would I say he sent me? And why
would they listen to me? And so he's got all these questions for God
in chapter three, and God spends chapter three trying to convince him that he
will be with them, that he will strengthen him. And he shows him
some several miracles. Right, he says, what's in your hand? Okay?
And he says my staff, and he says, throw it down.
He throws it down, it turns into a snake. He says, pick
it up. He picks it up, and it turns back into his staff.
So there's several convincing miracles going on. By the way, he's asking
you today the same thing. This is a parable as well as it's a
real story. It's a real story, but it's a parable. He's asking
you today what's in your hand? Because you're saying, who am I to
go? Who am I to lead? Who am I to rise up?
Who am I to act like I know anything? Who am I to influence?
Who am I to touch anybody? Who am I to start something?
Who am I to assert myself? And even if I did, what would
I say? Who has sent me? And what would I do it with?
And what power would I go with? And he's saying to you,
what's in your hand? What's in your hand? Use what's in your hand,
and I'll put supernatural on the natural. I'll put my power on what's
in your hand, and so he continues to be reluctant. We get through
all the way through chapter three with his reluctancy, and then we get to
chapter four, and this is his last excuse, his last excuse. Chapter
four, verse ten, the Lord says, pardon your servant, Lord,
but I've never been eloquent. This is the I'm reading out of the New
International today. The King James is a little more dynamic. It's just it.
It's got, you know, the Shakespeare Macbeth language, and so I'm
sparing a view of that. But you know, he's like, pardon your
servant, Lord, I've never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since
you've spoken to your servant. I'm slow of speech and tongue. Now we
know that Moses stuttered and he had a hard time expressing himself, and so
this is his way of saying, I can't do this, Lord, I
can't even talk. I can't even talk. Why would you send me?
How could it possibly be that I could do this when I can't even talk?
And that might be you evaluating yourself today, that might be you evaluating
the passion within you. And even as the passion is present, you might
disqualify yourself because you're looking at your natural abilities. And so God fires back
real quick, and God says, hang on here, who gave man his
mouth? Right? Who can make them a death or mute? Who can
give them sight or make them blind? Is it not the Lord? Now
go and I will help you speak and teach you what to say. Here's
something we can immediately learn from this. And this is not the sum total
of the sermon, but something we can immediately learn is that God's calling on
your life. God's calling also means his enablement on your life, right.
It means his enablement to overcome whatever barrier, whatever hurdle, whatever boundary,
whatever, whatever you've used, whatever history's used, whatever your sin has used,
whatever the enemy's used, whatever perfection has used. Education is used to
disqualify you. God has qualified you. And if God's qualified you, nothing
can disqualify you. This is huge that we that we get this. And
I want you to notice the common thread with every single leader in the Bible,
every single leader, every single person that I know. The Bible's kind
of iconic. So we're really hearing about the high points. We're hearing about
the real icon leaders. But you got to know that under every icon leader
are many also who had to be called. Just like Bezeleel in chapter thirty
one of Exodus, who was anointed and called to fashion all of the art,
all of the gold, all of the bronze, all of the decor
for the tabernacle. He was a necessary leader. He was an anointed leader,
He was a selected leader. And no matter how he saw himself,
God saw him as anointed and set apart, and so God empowered him as
he yielded and embraced the calling. And also, what I want you to
see with every single one of these iconic leaders. You know, we've got
all these names, you know, be it Gideon, be it Samson,
be it Samuel, be it whatever it is. I want you to see,
the most important thing is not their leadership quality, their leadership abilities.
It is the passion burning within them. Passion means grace, and grace means
the faith, the power, the enablement, the help of God will be
present when you rise up and assert yourself with a passion to make a good
Godly influence on others, to inspire them toward their land of milk and honey.
Leadership is not I'm not just thinking about me anymore. I'm thinking about
others. And with the passion within me and the passion you know, the
passion within you, it's there's different, you know, realms of leadership.
And I want you to realize this and think about this. Is that because
today you're sitting here thinking I'm not a leader. I'm not a leader.
The person with the most passion is always the leader in every sphere, in
every circle. If ten of us get in the kitchen, the one that
emerges to the top is the one with the most passion. If ten of
us are building a shed, the one that emerges to the top is the
one with the most passion. If ten of us are building anything, we're
putting anything, to anything we're doing, If ten of us are cleaning apartments
or whatever we're doing right, it doesn't matter. Whoever's got the most passion
is going to lead that project. Passion is leadership because passion is connected to
God's heart. God sees passion within you, and he grazes it when you
come up under him and say yes to lead and influence those around you,
getting them to a better destination, a destination of milk and honey, So
passion is a huge deal, and every single person in this room has passion
in a of life, and that passion is what God it's actually, it's
actually, you know, a calling means, a calling means to be called
out, and it used to be that even our names bore witness of the
calling on our life. So if your last name was Carpenter back in the
days, it's because you were called to be a carpenter. And then there
were families who their last name was Butcher's because the whole family carried the calling
of those who thank you. So the name of a person the etymology of
a name in the Bible as well. Right, God says to Jacob,
your name has been Jacob. It means supplanter, trickster, usurper. But
I'm changing your name to Israel. What's Israel mean? Prince with God,
I'm changing your name. So it used to be that our name, and
aren't we glad that mine doesn't. Actually, you know what, there was
a prophetic word over me. There was a prophetic word over me. So
actually, for the first time in sixty five years, I've realized my name
has a godly value. It's true, it's true, it's true. I
can't remember the passage, but my perfect memory is working. It'll come back
to May. But we were at the revival town Outreached a couple of weeks
ago, and this prophetic guy who's the father of Jason, the pastor in
the Spirit Realm, came up and he said, the Lord gives me a
word over you, and he says that you are like Benjamin. Now this
is the prophetic word that Jacob spoke of for Benjamin. And he said,
you are like Benjamin. And he said that you are like a wolf.
You rise up in the morning and seize your prey, and in the evening
you distribute the plunder. For the first time, my name had spiritual meaning.
All of this time, everybody's been asking you, why do you go
to a church where they have a wolf in sheep's clothing? But finally you
know why. It's because of Benjamin. All right, back to the sermon.
The name, the etymology of a name, it used to apply to
our calling. And the word calling means literally to be vocally called by God.
It means that God called you for something. And what I want to
submit to you is that your passion, the passion in you is indication of
God's voice over you, the passion in you, and you can't make up
a passion you can't like, Oh, I want to be passionate about cooking,
good luck, I want to be passionate about cars. No, no,
no, no no. If it's not in you, it's you can't
make it up. You can't pay money for it. You can't go buy
passions, you can't get them online. The passion in you is an indication
of God's calling for you. And God's calling for you is an indication of
the leadership that He's desired to erupt out of you, to bring an influence
over others, to carry them from where they're at in their wilderness into a
better place of milk and honey. So here's the thing is that that means
when you recognize a passion in you, if you do nothing with it,
Yah, you're in sin. Oh why did you say that, Pastor if
you do nothing with it, if you listen to if you listen to perfection,
if you listen to your history, if you listen to distraction, if
you listen to the enemy, if you listen to how busy life is,
if you listen to others around you, if you listen to the critics,
you will do nothing with your passion if you look in the mirror and you
look at yourself. One of my favorite passages on God's selecting leaders is for
Samuel, let's just go to that verse. I'm gonna skip around. We're
not gonna hit every verse during this message today that I've got, So I
just need the team to bear with me. But for Samuel sixteen six and
seven, this is when this is when Samuel was called because Saul. Saul
saw himself as too small to lead. But he didn't get under the anointing
and stay under the anointing. But Saul's confession was, I'm from the least
tribe, and I'm the least family from that tribe. So he always was
striving because he feared the people. He feared the opinions of the people.
So he was always striving like up in pride and up in right. And
so because he feared the people, he missed God. Instead of fearing God
and serving the people, he feared the people right. And so Samuel is
called to go anoint the one that will follow after Saul. And so he
goes to the House of Jesse. God's into the house of Jesse. He
goes there, he takes the flask of oil with him. Jesse pulls out
all of the sons, you know the story. All the sons come out
and this is where and they're all handsome. They're like, just like a
hair better looking than Pastor Dwynn, all right, two hairs, two hairs,
three hair, three hairs better. Okay, So all the sons come
out and they all line up, and Samuel's there with the oil, and
you know when the first one comes out, this is first Samuel sixteen six.
When they arrived, Samuel saw Eliab and thought, surely the Lord's anointed
stands before the Lord. So he sees the first one. He's like,
oh my word, this guy is tall, dark, and handsome in the
world. This this has got to be the Lord's anointed. And the Lord's
like, nope, I've rejected him. And this goes on right, Son
after son after sun. One comes out. Surely this is the Lord's but
look what, look what? Look what the Lord says to him, This
is what I love because it's so valuable to all of us. Then the
Lord said to Samuel, do not consider his appearance or his height, for
I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look
at. People look at the outward appearance. But the Lord looks at the
heart. The Lord's looking at the leadership gift within you. He's looking at
the passion within you. He's looking at the heart. It's not just a
heart toward the Lord, but it's the heart of fire. It's the fire
of passion over something. And it doesn't matter. You could be you could
be doing what what Samuel. Samuel had his natural lenses on, and so
he's trying to adjust his natural lenses and he's looking at the outward appearance.
And this is what we do many times. I believe when we look in
the mirror, we look in the mirror with Samuel limbses on, and God's
saying, take off your Samuel limbses and put on my limbs. Put on
my limbs. Quit looking at your dimples, Quit looking at your your SAgs,
Quit looking at your gray hairs, Quit looking at the balding spot,
Quit looking at your pimples. Quit looking at your height or your stature.
Quit looking at your converse or your all stars, or your your blue jeans
or whatever. Quit looking at all that stuff. Quit looking at your education.
Quit looking at your sin, Quit looking at your failures, Quit looking
at your family lineage. Quit looking at everything that everybody else has used to
disqualify themselves. I've qualified you. Put on put on your God limbs.
Put on your God limbs, Rise up, give place to the passion,
and put on your God limbs. This is huge. Otherwise what happens is
we end up good, ends up with a bunch of spectators. He's never
meant The New Testament Church is not Moses two point zh. The New Testament
Church is not Moses two point oh. The New Testament Church is. Every
person is a priest and a king. Every person is a priest and a
king. Every person is a cultural influencer, a body of Christ's influencer,
every person, every person. Somebody pray for me this morning. Somebody had
a word over me. Who are they to have a word over me,
have a word over you? Are you kidding me? Ef? He's ins
five twenty one. Submit to one another as unto the Lord. Submit to
yield to one another as unto the Lord. Give place to one another.
We're all kings and priests in the body of Christ. Amen. Where were
they going? What would they saying, what is the sermon? Help us
Jesus? All right, So here's what I want to talk about a little
bit. Is I want to talk almost out a time. I'm going to
talk about that there are five talent leaders, Yes, four talent leaders.
Three talent leaders, two talent leaders, one talent leaders. I'm going to
read the NIV Matthew twenty five. It says bags of gold ESV. King
James says, talents. But the idea is that we are given the responsibility,
according to a grace that's downloaded to us. We're given our responsibility to
invest our lives into those around us, to be fruitful and to be productive.
Right. And he didn't talk about four talent leaders. He didn't talk
about three talent leaders. He didn't need to. The story was for brevity.
He talked about five to two. And one doesn't mean there aren't.
Four doesn't mean there aren't three. He didn't say there aren't. We can
assume there are. He says, A five talent leader is the ones who
get to work the hardest, the five talent leaders, the one who gets
to work the hardest. Don't think of it like the five talent leader.
Oh I just wish I was a five talent leader. If I was the
five talent leader, boy, then I could get something done, and then
i'd have the microphone, then I could be We live in this goofy iconic
world where everybody wants to be a star. You are a star when you
shine with the gifting God's given. You forget the praise of man and start
thinking about the praise of God. So there's different levels of leadership, right.
So Matthew twenty five, and this is all about the Kingdom of Heaven
on earth. This is all about the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Everybody
say Kingdom of Heaven on earth. It starts in verse one. That way,
at that time, the Kingdom of Heaven will be like And then I'm
going to jump down to verse fourteen because that's where we're focusing again. It
will be like a man going on a journey who called his servants and entrusted
his wealth to them. The one he gave five bags of gold to another,
he gave two bags of gold to another, he gave one bag of
gold each according to his ability. Now his ability doesn't necessarily mean his education
or his background. His ability. This is very interesting I wanted to know
what that word means, so I looked it up. The word for that
in the Greek is each according to his dunamus. It's the same word used
in Luke twenty four forty nine Acts, Chapter one, verse eight. After
this time, the Holy Spirit will come up on you and you will recevedunamous.
So this is interesting. He's saying. The Kingdom of Heaven on earth
is like this. God distributes dunamus into the hearts of people, and he
distributes certain levels of dunamus passion, power, grace, enablement upon the people
who are in the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, and they are to invest
that dunamus into others. Right, So that's what the word is. Then
he went on a journey. The man who had received five bags of gold
win at once and put his money to work, and he gained five more.
So also the one with two he gained two more. The one with
one he went off and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's
money. This is a parable. It's a story about what are we to
do with how God has graced us? And what God has grace you with
is very much connected to the passion within you, because that passion married to
knit two Holy Spirit in intimate submission means there's nothing that can't be accomplished according
to the passion that's in you. That God will bring it to pass.
He'll turn what's in your hand into something that would be powerful. After a
long time, the master of the servants return and settled accounts with them,
and the man who had been in received five bags of gold, brought the
other five. We know he was blessed. Right, the man with two
bags of gold came and he was blessed. You entrusted me with two,
I've gained two more. The master replied, well done, good and faithful
servant. You've been faithful with a few things. I'll put you in charge
of many. That's interesting, too, is it the us within you grows?
Because why would he put them in charge of more things when in the
beginning he only gave them what they had the dunamous to manage. He didn't
give them more than they had the dunamus to manage. But suddenly, when
they did the right thing with what they were given, the dunamous increased.
And now the one who only had two before had the ability now to manage
four and the one who only had the ability to manage five had the ability
now the dounamous to manage ten. But the one who did nothing with the
dunamus within them, according to that which had been given them to increase,
did nothing. And so they're Donamous shrunk. They're doing the US shrunk.
I can't figure out why I can't get answers, why I'm not getting breakthroughs.
I can't figure out why things aren't going better for me. I can't
figure out why. I just feel like I'm struggling. I can't figure out
why I'm up against stuff. I can't figure out why things just won't get
out of the way. Because your whole life's focused on you, your whole
life's focused on you, find some empty vessels to pour some oil into the
Donamous. I'm still passionate about that. I'm still fired up about that.
What have you done about that? Well, just you know, I haven't
done much about that. I'm you know, I kind of stutter, and
I have a hard time, you know, And then I don't look very
sharp. I don't have any money. I don't have you know, and
I come from this messed up family, and you know, and then I
got so much sand that do something with that passion, and all at wants
to donamus increases, do nothing with that passion, the donamous discreases, and
then you're like, what's going on? And you're up against stuff and it
could simply be solved by you partnering with Holy Spirit. What in the world
you put this in me? What do you want me to do with this
fire? What do you want me to do with this thing? What do
you want me to do with this you have it? I'm fired up about
money, and we know that's evil. Really, you know how many people
in the church need good money management leadership and money management skills. Yet,
but I'm fired up about this or that or the other thing. I don't
know if that's really what God's excited about. He's excited about everything. Are
you kidding me? There's nothing he's not excited about. And he put that
deposit in your heart because he needed somebody to be excited about that stuff.
I think what happens so many times is we see ourselves as a one talent
person, and so we think of one talent person that's not much of a
leader. There. We compare ourselves in this star minded culture. We compare
ourselves often and always, and if you've got a media machine like a phone
or television, you're constantly drawn to compare yourself subconsciously to all the stars,
all of the five talent people. So if you're not careful, you're like
hopelessness, despair, self loathing, discouragement, it'll just come over you.
You'll just allow it to take place because you're like, who am I compared
to all that? Ye? Right? I can barely get up on my
surfboard. I'm behind the boat. I'm trying to ride that wave on the
surfboard. I got to hang on to the rope still, right, But
man, if I go to the club, they play this stuff on the
TV with these guys doing flips, and you know that it's like my surfing
compared to somebody else? Are you kidding me? So? Should I stay
off the board? Should I what should I do? Should I just count
myself out? Or is there some joy for me? Can I get in
the game? Can I get in the water? Can I get on the
surfboard? Maybe? Could I improve a little bit? Right? Do I
need to be like somebody else? Do I need to be somebody else?
Can I ever be honored if I'm not as good as somebody else. Oh,
come on, the Lord needs every one of us. The Lord needs
everyone. The Lord honors, he says, he honors the least more than
the honors the greatest. He says, this is why we have to be
so careful when we come together in our churches. We tend to do the
same thing. We tend to put all the acloids, accolades, and all
the praise on the five talent people. But Paul writes to the Corinthians,
and he says, oh, it should be just the opposite. We should
all run back to the children's ministry this morning and hug them who weren't in
here, who laid down their morning to serve children. We all should be
hugging Albert and his team who come and spend their Wednesday here loving on our
young people, in our youth. We should be hugging those that are in
the broadcast room who don't get to see the service. They got to listen
on ear muffs so they can get the message out to hundreds of others who
are listening across the world. Today. We should be hugging those don't give
the stars all the praise realize every single person is worthy of honor, and
God needs every person serving, leading in their passion, and acting out of
their passion with the fullness of faith. The same Jethro who became the priest
of Midian Moses father in law in Exodus, Chapter eighteen, Moses gets two
million people out in the middle of the desert. He leads them out there.
They're out in the middle of the desert. They've crossed through the Red
Sea, and he's spending all of his time caring for these people. And
the people there's not enough time in any day to get to him. There's
not enough time for him to manage what's happening. So Jethro, the father
in law, comes out and watches this thing, and he's like, hey,
mo, can we talk. Come here, meet me at the tent
where they serve the cactus caffeine. Just go over there and get a little
cactus caffeine and have a little chat. So they meet over at the cactus
caffeine cafe, and this is what he says, Chapter eighteen Exodus, what
you're doing is not good. This is verse seventeen. You and these people
that come to you, they're going to wear out the work's too heavy for
you. You can't handle alone. Listen to me and I'll give you some
advice, and God will be with you. You must be the peoples representative
before God and bring their difuse to him. Teach them his decrees of his
instructions. Teach him the way that they live and the way to behave.
But select capable men from all the people, men who fear God, trustworthy
men who hate in disnas gain and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds,
fifties, and tens. Have them serve the judges for the people,
and the people will come to them, and the people will have all of
their problems answered. He will make your load lighter because they'll share it with
you. If you do this, and God so commands, you'll be able
to stand the strain and the people will go home satisfied. This is a
model for leadership. This is actually the global model for leadership. Came out
of these words of Jethro to Moses. Now, how'd you feel that day?
How'd you feel when Moses selected you and he called you out, and
some of you said, kam here, Camara, I want you to lead
a thousand of priss. God I'm coming. We'll be right there. Okay,
good and you you, I need you to lead a thousand. You
know, the word prime minister means chief servant. Prime minister doesn't mean hot
shot. It means yeah, you that are all excited that you get to
lead a thousand, come over here. That means you get to work a
thousand times harder than the other guys. Just come up here and keep smiling.
But the way we think of things, you know, we want to
poor storedom stardom on those folks. Right, and how did the guy feel
when it got down here and you, Bob, Bob, I need you
to come up. You're gonna lead ten. Okay, all right, I'll
take that on. Thank you, Dave, I need you to lead ten.
Okay, ten? All right? Thanks? Oh he believes in me.
Wow, I'm special. No, No, it's not that way.
Every leader was important, Every leader was key, Every leader was called,
every leader was honored, every leader was selected. Every leader enjoyed the same
blessing. The blessing of God was coming on every leader. Some of us
never graduate out of we never graduate. It's like it's not supposed to be
that way. We're not supposed to be like, Yeah, I'm gonna grow
up. I'm gonna be leading fifty. Yeah, then I'm gonna well,
when I get to be a real, i'm mature person, I'm gonna be
leading hundreds. What if there's a grace on you to lead ten all of
your life? What if there's a grace on you to lead fifty all of
your life? You don't have to climbate wrong of success. You don't have
to graduate out of a lower calling. Are you kidding me? Because we
have these ridiculous, carnal and stupid thoughts, we won't even embrace the ten
that we're called to. We won't even rise up to the ten that we're
called to because I thought I'd be called to a thousand, And if I'm
not called to a thousand, I'm not doing nothing. We'll just set it
out. This is carnal thinking. God needs us to embrace those empty vessels
before us. God needs us to embrace the passion burning within us. God
needs us to welcome his dunamus to flow through us. God needs us to
rise up and lead send with me this morning, heads bow's eyes closed all
across the auditory of just for a moment or two because this morning, as
we've come together, I want you to I want you to shake off comparison.
I want you to shake off pride. I want you to shake off
the need to be seen. I want you to shake off the fear of
man. I want you to shake off the love of praise. The praise
of man is deception. Forget about it. Shake it off, Shake it
off, Shake it off. Shake off the need for money. The need
for money can be deception. The love of Mammon is deception. It will
turn your heart away from the calling God has for you. Shake it off.
Shake off the fear of failing. Shake off the fear of responsibility.
Shake off slothfulness and distraction, the fear of trying something new, the fear
of trying something, the fear that you are not enough. I just I'm
going to tell you right now, whether you're called to ten or one thousand,
you aren't enough. That's the whole idea. You aren't enough. It's
the do you and with God with you, it is the two of you
that are enough. It's only the two of you that are enough. I
guarantee today you aren't enough. You aren't enough, But with Him, you're
more than enough. Pray with me, and I'm going to open the front.
I want the team to come and prepare to pray. Some of you
are giving your life to the Lord today. And you got in here and
you've hesitated and you've waited, and you're coming to him for the first time,
or you're recommitting your life to him, and I want you to know
you haven't missed it. We're going to open the front. Do not let
the enemy steal the word from your soul. God wants to restore you.
God wants to bring you into the milk and the honey He's ordained for you.
Others of you, This word is to jar you. God wants to
jar you. The one who receives one talent and did nothing with it.
The words of the Lord over that person are not good words. He said,
you, wicked and lazy servant. Wicked and lazy servant. God is
calling us away from a focus on our own lives and our own endeavors and
our own stuff so deeply that we were not looking up. He says.
Lift, He says today, lift up your head, Lift up your head,
Lift up your head. Look around you. Others need what's in you
and on you. Others need your passion to burn to inspire them. Others
need your influence. So he's calling new and afresh today, and I want
you to respond. I want you to come forward. I want you to
be prayed for. I want you to be strengthened. I want you to
get something broken off of your life. Today. Let's say this together,
Father, I shake off the fear of failing. I shake off the need
to be seen. I shake off the praise of man. I shake off
the fear of trying something new. I shake off comparison with others. I
shake off the need and the care of wealth or finance or money. I
shake off the excuses of weakness. I take off the lens of Samuel and
I put on the lens of Holy Spirit today. And I ask you,
Holy Spirit, rekindle and refresh the passion, the calling, the awakening that
you have for me and my generation in Jesus' name. And everybody said,
God, bless your church. Let's pray as we go, let's worship as
we go, Let's respond as we go.