Friday, September 28, 2012

Open Up God's Playbook.

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 Lovehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8ovVVd-q4Q
Kirk Franklin, Lovehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nQxM0dJcLE&feature=related

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