John 5:1-9; James 1:23-25; Isaiah 55:8-9; Matthew 15:8; James 4:8; Psalm 119:2; John 2:3-5; Matthew 6:21; Psalm 118:23
Scripture Look-up: Mark 8:22-25
We are walking in today: It's Time To Put The Word Into Action!
James 1:23-25 23
For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a
man beholding his natural face in a glass: 24 For he beholdeth himself,
and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth
therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this
man shall be blessed in his deed. We must walk in truth
as God told us on yesterday. Put the word into action. When we begin
to walk in God's truth we are set free. Putting the word into action
means standing on the truth. It is important to listen to what God's
word says. But much more important is to obey it and do what it says!
Do you put into action what you have studied? Get an action plan, take
the next step to walk in truth. The hardest step to take is the first
step. Sometimes you are looking at your life and say you gotta get to
step 20. Looking at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13...all
the way up to 20, right? You know that you need to get to 20, but the
hardest step to take is the first one. You can't even get off of step
one. You can't even walk out by faith. Because there are so many
things that are easily besetting you. We must get unstuck. We can not
remain paralyzed after knowing the truth. No more excuses! You must
work in truth! Listen to the man by the pool. We all got excuses, why
we can't take the next step. This must not be the season. We got all
kinds of excuses not to walk in the favor of God. But I tell you one
thing--I am not gonna miss God for nobody! John 5:1-9 1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called
in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. 3 In these lay a
great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for
the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain season
into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the
troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease
he had. 5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and
eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a
long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? 7
The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is
troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another
steppeth down before me. 8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed,
and walk. 9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
No more excuses! God is ready for you to walk in truth! Stand up,
pick up your mat! What is your mat today? Dead relationships? Doubt?
Fear? Whatever it is, you need to stop waiting for someone else to
take the next step for you. The word says the man was healed
instantly. See when you take that first step, that is your instant
blessing. When you take that next step that is your instant freedom!
He is waiting for you to take the next step. Where is your plan of
action? Your blessing is in your next step. God has been waiting to
bless you, instantly. Truth will make you free. Even when you find
yourself in a place where your yes is surrounded by no's. Anybody in
that place right now? You know what God is saying and it sounds
good--ask God for the impossible, expect the unexpected by faith. All
you got to do is to ask God, but you are saying to yourself right now--I
am a believer, I have been pressed. I know I have been going through
but let me tell the truth and be real with you. All of my yes' are
surrounded by no's! What are you gonna do? Take the next step! How
bad do you want it? We are walking in ask God for the impossible. Take
the next step. Be truthful with yourself. I know the truth in this
season! God has said yes to every prayer request, that we have made.
But it looks like no's all around us. That is the deception of the
enemy! It is harvest time! The earth is ripe! We are experiencing
heaven on earth! We are speaking those things that be not as through
they are! Tell the enemy, God is blessing my finances abundantly! He
is my provider! This is my time! I have a plan to shut you down,
devil! You are a liar! I am walking in the truth! I have taken the
next step to victory! It is time to put the word into action! If you
listen to the word and not obey is like looking into the mirror and
seeing yourself and then turn around and forget what you look like.
Don't forget you will know the truth and the truth will make you free!
God is sending us another how to message. How do you walk in truth?
Put the word into action! All you have to do is seek God's face. Obey
His word, and don't forget His word! He is a deliverer. Know that He
is the God of truth! Know if God says it, He will do it! Know that God
is a rewarder to them that diligently seek Him! Know that God brought
you to it and will bring you through it! But do you have a action
plan? Are you putting your plan in action? Are you taking the next
step? How bad do you want it? Even if your yes is surrounded by
no's--how bad do you want it? I got an action plan! Begin this
morning, I am gonna pray without ceasing! I am gonna stand on God's
word. I am gonna trust and believe God's word. He will open up a
window and pour you out a blessing that there won't be room enough to
receive it all! I choose to believe that I am walking in overflow
blessings. I choose to believe in the 1,000 fold return. I choose to believe
that this is harvest time. I choose to believe that this is my season! I choose to believe that I can expect the unexpected by faith! Take the next step!
We
walk by faith and not by sight! We must not worry about what it looks
like. His plans are not our plans. Nor His thoughts like our
thoughts. Isaiah 55:8-9 For my thoughts are
not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. 9 For
as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than
your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. Tell God
that you are ready to walk on water. How do you walk on water,
fiveamprayer by faith! God had the scales fall off of our eyes on
yesterday, when He revealed the truth! We are closer to Him than ever
before! Take the next step. Don't keep walking in every excuse.
Don't you want it? Take the next step! The man was instantly healed by
Jesus! The same man that had been laying by the pool for 38 years, how
long have you been waiting? God is saying to us to take the next
step. It is time to get unstuck! He has positioned you in a new
place. He is taking you to a new dimension in Him! Take the next
step. Don't worry about what people have to say. There will always be
haters and nay-sayers! Let them be your motivators! We are walking
with God and our steps are ordered by Him! We must take the next step.
Do you believe? Do you want to be healed? How bad do you want it?
Enough to push through a crowd? Enough to speak to a man alone at the
well? Enough to run on ahead and climb a tree to see? Are you willing
to move to hear and see God more clearly? Matthew 15:8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. James 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. We must have one mind in the one and only God! Psalm 119:2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
God is bidding you to come, to launch out to the deep, to cast your net
on the other side. Where there is faith, there is action! When Peter
knew that it was Jesus out on the water, he bid Him to have him to come
to Him. Are you seeking after God once He is revealed to you? Get out
of bondage and walk out on the water. Get untangled and focused on the
knowledge of truth that you learned yesterday. It is time to walk out
of that dead relationship. Take the next step and write a plan of
action. Faith without works is dead. God has been coming on this line
breathing on us, that our faith would be revived. God comes by to give
our faith CPR--that our faith with this refreshing breath of God will
carry us forward. We are the just and that is how we are to live. It
does not have to look or have the approval of man--our approval is of
Him! Many of us would say that we are waiting on God and all the while
God is waiting for you to get into action! What have you done that God
can move on? Like Christ who asks a question before healing them and
getting a response from them. Our response is to take the next step.
Are we walking that thing out in faith? Staying in motion in the plan
that God has given you? Are you looking to Him or all around you? Keep
your eyes on God and be not distracted by the storm--that is when Peter
began to sink when he took his eyes off of Jesus. Don't you know God
is your keeper in the middle of a tsunami or on dry land! Our God
changes not! So don't let your natural eyes take away what God is able
to do. You have seen it yourself so many times, God making things work
out. Where the confession of all who witnessed it--it was nobody, but
God! You know the truth, walk out of that dead relationship, take the
next step. Write a plan of action and walk it out! Faith with out
works is dead. You are waiting on God and God is waiting on you! Know
the truth and be made free! When you encounter the truth, you can not
remain the same. The wool is no longer over your eyes! Jesus comes to
heal our blindness that we see clearly! (Mark 8:22-25) How long have
you been sitting by the pool saying everybody is getting blessed but
me? Get out of self and take the next step. It is not about you, it is
all about God! Pick up your word and walk it out! Take three
steps in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost! All the
while saying over and over again I trust You Lord! I believe You Lord!
I am taking the next step! We must keep pressing toward the mark
reaching for the things that are before us! Take the next step! We
must forget the things which are behind. We are looking in the
direction that we want to go! Look forward and take the next step! Put
the plan into action! Hallelujah God! Even like the woman with an
issue of blood, you may have to crawl for your next step. Jesus is
moving and you will miss Him if you don't get moving. The woman had to
press through the crowd, forgetting what was behind and focused on what
was before her! When she got to Him she fastened on to Him. As the
Hebrew word touch is translated. We must really grasp onto God. To
hold on and not let go! Fiveamprayer have a firm grip on God and His
word! That is what is keeping you and will continue to keep you! No it
does not look right to your natural eyes but that is just the enemy
disguising your season. The devil is trying to show you all these
problems that you have, in your marriage, with your children, in your
body. But the truth is that it all belongs to God and He is responsible
for it all. We must look to Him to find what He is going to do about
it. John 2:3-5 3 And when they wanted wine, the
mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine. 4 Jesus saith unto
her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come. 5
His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.
That is how we turn worry into prayer! Thank you God! We have got to
really learn to take the problem, issue or concern to He who has the
answers! How many people who are in need of a doctor's care seek out a
gardener for help? So why would you seek out a friend who can only
share their opinion for what you are going through. You need to hear
from God, if not in prayer or His word being shared by someone
else--that they would speak life to what appears dead to your natural
sight. We must not be distracted or have a divided focus. God is a
jealous God. Where are you spending your time? What is getting your
attention? What is the first thought in your head? Does God get the
left overs or is He just a mere passing thought? No longer seek
everything else but God! Get in His word and let it to get into you.
Soak it up, your spirit man is thirsty for a long drink! Things feeling
too heavy for you, have you laid aside every weight that so easily
besets you? Keep praying and trusting God in every area, in your
marriage, with your children, on your job and in your finances. We have
to get a revelation--God is telling us this over and over again so that
we get it. How many times is a child told something before they get it
and walk according to that direction? We are His children and He wants
us to walk according to His word! That is what God keeps giving, us
that gentle correction, by His word. For those of us more wayward, a
less gentle but still loving word. If your child is in the street with a
car coming, would there not be urgency in your voice for them to come
back to safety? All the while rushing to them to protect them. God is
here and shows up more everyday on this line. Open your ears and your
heart, He is not hard to hear, but some of us are hard to listen! Shake
yourself, is it time to walk this out with God! Heaven and earth shall
pass away, but His word shall never pass away! Don't set up your
treasures here on earth. Send up your treasures to your heavenly
account, where they won't tarnish nor fade! Matthew 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
It we would just really grasp a hold and seek God! We get up at 5am
but are not seeking Him! We must seek Him to find Him. How in 2013
when He told us to ask for the impossible to expect the unexpected by
faith--you are not seeking Him? That is why you are not hearing from
Him. Get into His presence and draw closer to Him. So many believers
say that are not hearing from Him. While God is answering our very
thoughts--God is here! Seek Him and find Him--period! This is not just
looking when you feel like it. Do you only breathe when you feel light
headed? No, of course not! When you are in the fire, keep seeking
Him. You will find that there is a fourth man in the fire with you.
Seek Him through it all! Be content in the state that you are in. His
grace is sufficient! Through the good and the bad, He works all things
together for our good! Keep seeking Him, it is about His purpose and
His plan, not yours. It is God who supplies all of our needs according
to His riches in glory. Why would you seek any thing or any one else?
We must take the next step and they are all towards the Lord! They are
all with the Lord! We must walk in nevertheless, Thy will be done!
Take the next step. The Lord is our Shepherd and has the staff and the
rod. Sometimes we need one or the other to get back in line. Thank You
God for caring enough to line us up with Your word. Stop choosing to
walk this alone. Walking with the Lord, our joy is returned. Now you
are walking in peace and healing. I am lining up with Your plan. No
more being double-minded. He gives us spiritual vision and takes us
higher in Him! Take the next step in the name of the Father, Son and
the Holy Spirit. Thank You God! How can you walk in truth but not take
the next step? You have been sitting by the pool for too long. How
many years have you been sitting there, waiting on God? While God has
been waiting on you to get in motion. We lift up fiveamprayer, this
morning, deliver them, they have hands lifted, yielding unto You! Take
me Lord just as I am! You are the potter and I am the clay, shape, make
and mold me! I am taking the next step in the name of the Father, the
Son and the Holy Spirit! I need You Lord, no more walking alone or
sitting by the pool and wasting time. Get healing and be set free by
God! He does not come to spectate! I am walking with You Lord! We
lift up prayer requests, keep walking with Jesus. Keep believing and
trusting in Him! Take another step in the name of the Father, the Son
and the Holy Spirit! We come to lay on our faces this morning, we come
to repent. We had been walking in what we thought. It is God's plans
and thoughts that actually count. Forgive us, Lord! Cast our sins into
the sea that they be remembered no more. Thank You for freeing us of
the guilt of those sins. Thank You for teaching us to forgive others
that we too are forgiven. Fiveamprayer, be not lame nor blind. We see
Your glory. Thank You for this how to word, so that we are no longer
stuck. Teaching us how to get up and take the next step! To listen to
this again click here.
We seal this prayer in His precious blood, by His Spirit: Take the
next step in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit.
Fiveamprayer is pressing forward to what is before and forgetting what
is behind!
Welcome to the overflow...
Even when your yes is surrounded
by no's--take the next step. You are like the woman with the issue of
blood, who tried everything else. Now go get your healing, and trust
Jesus! Be fastened onto His presence, His word! You know that healing
is in Him! We can't hear this word and not obey?! You have been
looking for direction from all of your wandering around and God comes
with direction and you choose to remain lost? We must come out from
among them! You are not spiritually malnourished, God has been feeding
us His word for some time now! Seek Him and find Him! Go back and
listen to this again over the weekend. Get an action plan, walk in what
God told you to do! Stop waiting for man's approval, you have the
highest approval from God. Take the next step, proceed with your action
plan! John 5:9-16 shows that if Jesus waited for man's approval the
man by the pool could not be healed on that day. God is the maker of
all things and is not bound to the rules or regulations of man--that is
an effective response to the approval of man and that sea of no's that
are surrounding your yes. A little with God is much--the mustard seed
into the tree that is home to birds. There is nothing too hard for
Him. Stop looking for the things of the world. Open your eyes, God.
Is. Right. Here! As He has always been here! This is the time to chase
after Him! Pursue and get after what He has promised you. Thank You
God for this day! What a mighty God we serve! Only He can put this all
together in such a powerful way! All the glory goes to the Lord--Psalm 118:23 This is the Lord's doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.
Thank You God! Taste and see that the Lord is good! God is with you!
Walk in the word of God all weekend long! Each step you take say, in
the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. I am walking with
God! Thank You Lord! Have a supernatural weekend! Amen, amen!
Musical Selection
Tata Vega, God Is Trying To Tell You Something
Tye Tribbett, Chasing After You
Myron Butler, Speak
James Fortune & FIYA, I Believe
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