2 Timothy 2:15; Jeremiah 29:11; Colossians 1:16; 3 John 1:2; Romans 8:18; Joshua 1:8; Jeremiah 15:16; 2 Chronicles 7:14; Genesis 3:8
We are walking in today: Open Up God's Playbook.
2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. Now
that you are in position and are not worried about your condition and
walking this thing out by faith and not by sight--open up God's
playbook. Many people are living life outside of God's design--outside
of His plan for them because they haven't taken time to read His
playbook, the Bible. That is what is to help us win this game of life.
I don't know about you, but I am a big sports fan, the Steelers is my
team! Often while they are playing I will call out, open up the
playbook! Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Every day that we wake up, we need to read God's playbook. Like a
member of fiveamprayer who has a group and they stand on no Bible, no
breakfast! We make time for everything else, why not the most important
thing, He that created and redeemed you?! Get into God's playbook,
find out His plans for you. This playbook is not like the guarded
secrets of the professional teams, this is a book that was dictated by
God unto man and is a written record for generations to be able to study
to show themselves approved. That we would have a written record, and
account of the Son of Man when He walked the Earth for the first time in
the flesh. That we would be able to rehearse these words, to be
increased in faith, that we would prosper and have our way made
successful. It is even said to be a love letter to us, directly from
the Father, as He keeps reaching to us in His perfect love. Thank You
Lord for your reaching out to us, that You are looking for us!
Fiveamprayer will you get into position to be found? How can you win
the game if you don't know the play? The coach can not direct you if
you are not at practice nor studying the playbook. When the time comes
you have gotta know that the play is called out what it is that you are
to do! After meeting up in the huddle, which for believers would be
like gathering together in prayer and the best play is figured out, the
quarterback may call out Isaiah 54:17, you don't want to be out of
position! Or if the QB calls out Psalms 23:4, that is where you need to
be! Standing on that word and being in position for that play. We are
looking to Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith and in this
illustration, He is the quarterback. We just have to be studied up and
ready to move when He calls out the plays. How would you know the plays
if you don't study God's playbook? This is not a secret, He wants you
to read it so that you know what to do. You can't have players on the
field who don't know the plays messing things up for the rest of the
team! So that you are not benched--study your playbook, that you are
not found lacking, a skilled workman is not found ashamed. A plan is a
list of steps, with timing and resources used to accomplish a specific
purpose. What does that mean? You are not here on Earth by accident.
There is a plan and purpose for you. God has a greater purpose for your
life. That will bring about a greater fulfillment in your life.
Especially when you do all that you have been created, purposed,
designed or made with a specific function and given a mind to do. Think
about it, your purpose ultimately starts with God. Because He is is
the one who created us. The Creator know the purpose of the thing that
which He has created. In God's playbook, the Bible tell us that He
knows the plans that He has for us. Colossians 1:16(NLT)
for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on
earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can’t see—such as
thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world.
Everything was created through him and for him.
Your ultimate purpose is fellowship with God. Because you need to be
connected to Him and so God can be glorified. Your life should be a
reflection of the time spent in relationship with Him. Only then will
God begin to show you other parts of your purpose. Purpose, does not
start with a selfishly but with the One who created you. God's
playbook, the Bible tells us that His plans are to purpose us not to
harm us! Isn't that wonderful?! That is the kind of God that we
serve! He wants to prosper us and not bring us harm. So then what are
we waiting for?! Grab the playbook and read God's plan for your life! 3 John 1:2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Here is the principle, if you prosper inwardly, you will also prosper
outwardly. Prosper and be in good health even as you soul prospers! So
that you are blessed on the inside as well as the outside. It is time
to see, review and read the God's playbook. God's playbook, the Bible
gives us hope for our future. Hope is what you need to handle what you
are going though in the present. Because of hope, I know that the
things are going to get better. God's playbook, the Bible tells us in Romans 8:18 For I reckon that the
sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the
glory which shall be revealed in us.
So even if right now what I see doesn't look good in the natural, I can
trust that God has it already worked out. Take a look in the playbook,
the Bible, it is all in there. God is not surprised, He is not running
in the back in a panic, well, I did not consider that. He is prepared
and can not be depleted--for what ever you need, He has it already
available before you an even ask for it! When we take the time out to
read and meditate on His word, reviewing the playbook then we are
prepared for what we will be dealing with. Do you think that the team
does not review the playbook before going out on the field, so how can
you walk out your door and not even bother to open up your Bible for a
word to stand on through out the day?! And that would only be start, we
are to study to show ourselves approved! The focus on the word study
seems like there will be a test, will you be prepared? Our quarterback,
Jesus is letting us know that more than anything else we need the word,
that is why we must read and study to have the word inside us. Like
the psalmist says I will hide Your word in my heart that I may not sin
against You! How would the word get into your heart if you are not
reading God's playbook? The Lord will work all things together for our
good. We need that word to be able to stand when our flesh would not
stand there and take that. We are strengthened by our study in the
word. That way we know what play to make of it we need to alter the
play. In order to maintain and have victory everyday we must spend time
reading God's playbook. Do you know His plan for you? Open up the
playbook. Not only know the plans He has for you, make ready to walk in
what He has purposed for you to do. As God told Joshua after the death
of Moses, Joshua 1:8 This book of the law shall
not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and
night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written
therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou
shalt have good success.
I
don't know about you but all weekend long, you are gonna need to open
up God's playbook! Get in the word of God and stay in position, not
being worried about your condition. Stay in the race. This race is not
given to the swift but to those that endure until the end! Run the
race, fiveamprayer, run on to see what the end is gonna be! The steps
of the righteous are ordered by the Lord. He has gone before us to make
the crooked places straight. Open up your playbook and learn more of
who God is! We are to meditate on His word day and night. While the
enemy is seeking who he may devour, you are in study of God's playbook
to be able to stand and fight him with the weapons that God has given
you! We are more than conquers, more that overcomers! Open up the
playbook, we have to know what is going on right now--in this time and
season! He is giving us the keys to life, relationships and
marriages--open the playbook to know the plans that He has for you. To
prosper us as our soul prospers! He is our Shepherd, we shall not
want! He did it for Israel and He is not a respecter of persons! Trust
in God to bring you out! Focus on being in position, not on your
condition! Study to show yourself approved, be grounded in His word.
There are many false prophets going around nowadays. God will tell you
what is true, when you get into His playbook. His word does not come
back void nor can it be reversed! We have been given spiritual weapons,
not weapons in the carnal! We have to know His word and meditate on it
day and night. Be in a position of constantly seeking Him! Be in the
word of God, like a tree that is planted near rivers of water--that you
don't wither and whatever you do prospers! Open up God's playbook! We
have already been given dominion, the devil is under our feet! We have
to know God's word for ourselves! How would it look for the football
players to have to ask each other which play is the quarterback calling
out? Is there time to explain or should you already know--it is game
time! We have to make ready, to be ready at all times! Stop waiting
around for someone else to give you a word, go and seek out God's word
for yourself. God is waiting to speak to you. Everyone on this line
could read the same scripture for themselves and get something different
out of it. God is speaking to us but if we won't open the Bible to
listen to His word, that we are reading--how else could you get the
message to be on the inside? How else will you know what He wants us to
do? This is God's plan and His system. You can try every other way
but you will lack success and prosperity. Get in to God's playbook,
this is about your soul salvation, we can read the Bible anytime not
only for Sundays or at Bible study. God wants us to have a daily
appointment, like it was back in the garden, when He came in the cool of
the day for a daily walk and chat. We need to be so much in the word
of God that is our only response to every situation. His playbook
covers every situation that has come up or will come up. Fiveamprayer
be wrapped up, tangled in and totally intertwined in Him! Walk this out
with blind trust in your heavenly Father! How can you know God's word
if you won't study it? O taste and see that the Lord is good. Jeremiah 15:16
Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the
joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God
of hosts. He is the maker of the way out of no way! He brought
you this far by faith! So you can speak to those storms. You have got
to stay in the word. All weekend, take timeout and get into God's
playbook. Our all knowing, loving and longsuffering God is beckoning us
closer to Him through His word. Because He so loved the world He gave
His only begotten Son! Can't you give Him sometime in the word, that He
can pour into you in preparation for what you are about to face? For
that which you are ready and equipped and He already knows is coming?
God knows you can handle this with preparation and study of His word.
That you are in such study that you are aware when someone just brings,
any old word. Be in position and suited up and meditating on the word
of God as you sit on the bench, ready to get into position when it is
time to make that shift as God directs. Are you wearing the whole armor
of God, are you suited up for battle? Have you gotten your mind ready
for battle, with study of His word? Trust God, He will always bring us
out! We have a offense and defence--with God we never loose! We are
made victorious through Christ Jesus! Look to God's playbook, that is
where we find out resolution. The battle is not ours it is the Lord's.
Position yourself in the word of God. Get a scripture that you can
stand on. Like Numbers 23:19. Open it up and don't be worried about
condition while you are holding God's playbook, it is full of all kinds
of solutions for everything! Stand on His word, He is bringing us
through and out. He is an on time God! When is the last time that you
just spent time in the word of God? It is His word that will bring you
out and through! That is what we need in this season, more and more of
Him! Thank You God for this word. Hear what the Spirit of the Lord is
speaking! He is telling us to study to show ourselves approved. God is
making the unseen, clearly seen--that is is no longer a mystery! Walk
through the book of Revelation, do not be afraid to be in the word of
God! Let God pour Himself into you. Get into the word to learn about
your marriage, children, finances, singleness, healing--it is all
covered in God's playbook. We come to repent Lord for not making and
spending time in Your word. We find time for so many other things. We
really want more of You and less of us! That we could walk so close
with you that we would walk right into heaven like Enoch did, who was
here and then was not. Open up God's playbook to see how much He loves
us, how He washes us with His blood. We come to humble ourselves and
seek His face. No more distance from God, we are drawing nigh to You
that You would draw nigh to us! That you would make that change in your
work schedule and keep scheduling everything that you squeezed out the
time that you had for God. Be careful, don't make other things your
god. That is why America is going through so much, with prayer out off
the schools and the people turned away. Stop putting everything else
first! He wants our first fruits! 2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are
called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face,
and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will
forgive their sin, and will heal their land. God is calling us to relationship with Him.
Genesis 3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking
in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid
themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the
garden. He is seeking us, we must be seeking Him. Come to God,
just as you are, He will clean you up. You are not able to make the
corrections, only He can do it. God is so great that He can use us just
as we are. We come to repent for wandering around, we want to be in
relationship with you. We must examine ourselves and get back into
alignment. We love you Lord and we thank You for forgiving us! That
You would look beyond our faults and see our needs. Thank You for not
giving up on us! Nobody could do us like Jesus! Even when we searched
the whole world, we could not find nobody, quite like Him! Let us draw
nearer to Him, He will draw nigh to us. He is looking for relationship
not just a panic call when we are in crisis. That we can only seek Him
in the midst of the storm. You have forgotten your first love, go back
to the old landmark and tarry at the alter and when you did not have the
words you would moan. We have to get back into relationship with Him.
Go back to when you first found Him. We come to repent this morning,
Lord. We have been giving you our leftovers. We had forgotten about
You. That we are just going about and picking You up when we get
ready. Where is your word, fiveamprayer?! We have an anchor for our
souls, the Rock of Ages but we keep passing Him by. God is coming back
for a church, we are the church. We are to spend time in the word.
That we make time for Him and Him alone. We can give so much time to
watching tv or reading a novel but not in time of study of His word.
Don't just seek Him at 5am and not other time in the day! You can
search for the word on the computer and on your smartphone. There is no
excuse. Make time and seek His word--we are to meditate on His word
day and night. We repent, Lord, we are going back to our first love.
You never forget your first love, but you forgot about God. If you had
remembered your first love, than you would not be focused on your
condition. This is personal, it is me oh Lord standing in the need of
prayer! Make time to read, on yesterday God told us, but many of us did
something else. Open up His playbook and find grace, favor and mercy.
We have to know Him each for ourselves. Thank You for new mercies that
we can get it together. We repent and we will study and pick up His
word. We want more of you, a relationship. We want to hide Your words
in our hearts that we may not sin against You. Thank You God, thank You
Holy Spirit for letting us know we have forgotten about You. We must
remember! As God told Joshua to take 12 stones from the river Jordan so
that the children of Israel would remember their crossing over. God
has bringing us out--healing us, delivering us, keeping our children.
Take a look back over your life and see that it was nobody but God. He
comes to heal the brokenhearted and to set the captives free. That is
how God puts us together. He is drawing us closer to Him. Remember
your first love! We thank You Lord! Remember how He gave you peace and
joy. Remember, He did it for you! That now we can just sit in His
presence. O taste and see that the Lord is good! Nobody but Jesus
could do it! Thank You Lord! I remember Lord, when I had lost
everything, when it was late in the midnight hour and You kept me! When
no one else could or would help. Take this weekend to get into His
word and remember. God is crying out to us, that if His people would
humble themselves and pray that we would stop forgetting about Him.
With God being taken out of school and so many other places, when He
sent His Son to die for us. That which He did to redeem us, that is how
He loves! That is how important it is to Him that we are redeemed unto
Him. Stop beating up on yourself, He has already forgiven you. He
wants you to remember Him. To give Him thanks for all that He had
done. Because we could not do anything without Him! Never forget that
you should have been dead, were dead until He came and saved us! That
His light shined on us and our eyes were opened to the truth. In the
garden their eyes were open to see the worldly things that the focus was
not automatic to the things of God. With us being washed in the blood
of Jesus we are now in position to see and walk in the things of God!
We must never forget that He has set us free! Thank the Lord and give Him praise!!
Thank You God! Jesus, I'll never forget what You have done for me! I
will stop being so worried about everything else and get in position of
focus on You!
We seal this prayer in His precious blood, by His Spirit: I
will never forget God, what You have done for me! You have been for me
and never left me! Never allow anything separate me from the love of
God!
Welcome to the overflow...
Draw
nigh to Him and He will draw nigh to you! Don't you feel Him wrapping
His arms around you? Draw us nearer to You, Lord. Thank You Jesus!
Hallelujah Lord! There is such a sweet rest--thank You Jesus. What a
sweet anointing flowing through the atmosphere. Rest in it, He is
calling us unto Him to get rest. Are you burdened or heavily laden?
Christ gives us rest. Come to Him and He will give you rest. Send us
Your word God that we can be in Your word all weekend long! Have a
blessed day and supernatural weekend. Thank You Lord!
Musical Selection
Kirk Franklin, First Love: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8ovVVd-q4Q
Kirk Franklin, Love: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nQxM0dJcLE&feature=related
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