NJ - Over Fifty’s

Activated

Good morning and welcome to our over fifty’s morning tea! It is great to have you join with us today. If you are visiting with us, we welcome you.

LETS PRAY

Prayer: Father we thank You for Your grace and love toward us. We pray that we would be filled with Your strength and power that we can walk in all that You have called us to. We ask Your Holy Spirit to bring revelation of Your word that we can apply it to our lives. Amen

Activated

INTRODUCTION:

Over the past twelve months our focus has been on Ephesian 4 equipping of the saints for the work of ministry. It is so exciting to hear the testimonies of people stepping out in faith and seeing the power of God at work changing lives and setting people free. I LOVE HEARING THIS!

Now that we have stepped into 2024, we can sense and feel that we are going to see a mighty outpouring of Gods power on the earth. Seeing healings, miracles, salvations, baptisms, lives touched and changed and people being set free. So our word for this year is ACTIVATED. We have been activated to do the will of the Father. Jesus did it, so should we.

We know in the scriptures that Jesus empowered and sent out His disciple to go heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease and gave them power over unclean spirits to cast them out.

Luke 9:1–2 NKJV

1 Then He called His twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases. 2 He sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.

Matthew 9:35–38 NKJV

35 Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. 36 But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd. 37 Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. 38 Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.”

POINT 1

Following His example

God the Father sent Jesus into the world, Jesus has sent us, and we should go.

John 20:21 NKJV

21 So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.”

We know that Jesus came to seek and save the lost. He pursued them He went after them. He knew He was their answer to set them free from the bondages they were under. This is still the same for today, He is doing this through you and I.

Luke 19:10 NKJV

10 for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

Paul said be imitators of me as I imitate Christ.

1 Corinthians 11:1 NKJV

1 Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.

POINT 2

We are commanded to go

We are ambassadors for Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:20 NKJV

20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.

You are the right person at the right time and in the right place.

Matthew 28:16–20 NKJV

16 Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them. 17 When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some doubted. 18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

You are empowered to do the will of God. You shall receive power.

Acts 1:8 NKJV

8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

POINT 3

We need to reach out

People are hungry to encounter Christ, they were in the days of old and are still hungry to encounter Jesus today.

Jesus loves the lost. Luke 19:6 Zacchaeus quickly climbed down and took Jesus to his house in great excitement and joy.

Luke 19:1–10 NKJV

1 Then Jesus entered and passed through Jericho. 2 Now behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus who was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. 3 And he sought to see who Jesus was, but could not because of the crowd, for he was of short stature. 4 So he ran ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see Him, for He was going to pass that way. 5 And when Jesus came to the place, He looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, make haste and come down, for today I must stay at your house.” 6 So he made haste and came down, and received Him joyfully. 7 But when they saw it, they all complained, saying, “He has gone to be a guest with a man who is a sinner.” 8 Then Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, I give half of my goods to the poor; and if I have taken anything from anyone by false accusation, I restore fourfold.” 9 And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham; 10 for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

Going to find the lost sheep.

Matthew 18:12–14 NKJV

12 “What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying? 13 And if he should find it, assuredly, I say to you, he rejoices more over that sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray. 14 Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

Taking the opportunities when they arise.

CONCLUSION:

As we come to the end of this part of our service we covered how we can follow His example, we have been commissioned to go and we need to reach out to the lost. The bible tells us in:

Luke 10:2 NKJV

2 Then He said to them, “The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.