Biggest Loser: God's Way

Series: Biggest Loser
Message: God’s Way, Not Your Way
1/31/10


 We have been in a passionate pursuit of following Jesus in the Word of God
 John 3:30 is trying to become flesh in our lives
 We must decrease so Christ can increase in our lives
 We started this month full of our selves, but now we are ending this month with less of us and more of Him
Jesus this itinerant preacher walked up and down the Judean hillsides preaching healing everywhere and the ones He healed and saved didn’t put Him on the cross, but His accusers were those of His own field
 They hung Jesus on the cross, and the devil thought he won, but little did he know about the resurrection
 This Jesus that the disciples had gave their lives for, left everything, had just died and though distraught…
 Sunday was still coming, Jesus burst forth from the tomb, and God gave Him an exit sign written in red called the blood
 Jesus put 1 foot on the crumbling empire of death and the other on hell and the grave lifted His hands to the father and declared to be the Son of God with Power
 He declared all power in Heaven and Earth is given to me, I am the alpha and the omega the beginning and the ending and what you call the end is just the beginning
Acts 1 He leaves again …why stand you here gazing…
Acts 2 the HS comes and the Church is born… it wasn’t the end of anything, but the beginning of the dispensation of the fullness of times, dispensation of grace, the church age,
 Now the curtain is not coming down on humanity in 2012, but the curtain came down on the law when Jesus died when the curtain was ripped from the top to the bottom, that way no one could say that man did it,
 But Jesus is about to rise in all His glory with you and I, He is about to take center stage and every eye will behold Him, and col 1:27 Christ in you the hope of glory will be revealed to spill the glory into all the earth so all the earth shall be filled with the Glory of the Lord!
I want to encourage you this morning not to give up
If you have regained a sense of return back to God during this month through the Word then good.
Because He wants to lead you in His way, don’t draw back, but keep going in your spiritual exercises and disciplines to the Lord.
But you must do it His way.
Isa 55:6-13 KJV
 It’s not a statement of unbelief from God to us, but a plea
 I want your thoughts to become my thoughts, I want your ways to become my ways
 Moses and David both said Lord show me your glory, show me your ways, not only the way you operate, but the next course of events, so I can go there too, and lead others.
Isa 2:3 says that He will teach us His ways
 God’s way is the right way, the only way, Jesus said, I am the way, His Word is the way
The power of His Word will always fulfill the Promise of His Word
Faith is developed by hearing the Word of God Rms 10:17 AND receiving it wholeheartedly and humbly and fruitfulness is the guaranteed by-product. Salvation, healing, provision whatever…
 God’s Word cannot be barren or fruitless, His own life power is within it.
Don’t give up, but let go
Isa 56:1 His salvation is about to come, righteousness to be revealed
Vs 4 choose what pleases Him
V 5 I will give you a place and a name better than sons and daughters, an everlasting name
What God titles or names He is prophesying His commitment to change it into that the thing that He said!
V 7 He is going to bring you to His Holy Mountain, and make you joyful in the house of prayer
 He is going to bring you to the place you need to be His way, not yours, and make you joyful, that would help a lot of our faces!
Isa 55:12-13 12For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. 13Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
 Surrender your ways to His because for all your pain, and trouble His is going to make you joyful
Happiness depends on our happenings, but He is just going to make you joyful, just like He made you male or female, your gonna be happy and like it, true joy.
Ex: God don’t you want me to lead?
 It’s so hard to let go, we take too much on ourselves
 Yes He wants you to lead, just lead His way, not your way.
 You go through the tests for a testimony
In leading God’s way it’s a Theocracy=God is King, your decision making process is suspended until the new product info is uploaded to you.
 God’s people do things God’s way.
 Wickedness disqualifies you from leading
 The one who seeks to benefit himself at the expense of others is on the path to self destruction
God judges leaders not on how much they accomplish, but on whether or not they do things His way.
3 things you must have to do things God’s way
1. The Mind of God-1 Corinthians 2:16
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ
2. His Appointment-Matthew 26:19
And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them
2 Peter 1:10-1110Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: 11For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
Ephesians 4:1
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called
3. His Anointing-
Luke 4:18 (King James Version)
18The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised
Acts 10:38 (King James Version) 38How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him


Conclusion

Repentance from our own ways, and adopt God’s way, the right way
Proverbs 3:5-6 (King James Version)
5Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
6In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths