His story makers - Empowered by Christ (My story, His story)

All right, are we ready to listen to the word of God? Yes, I hope so. And today, we have faster day was going to be sharing with us. I meant. So let's welcome our past four days, and we would continue with our, I mean,

Went to church. You're a wonderful people. Some people don't believe me. You're a wonderful people and I'm not talking about the person sitting next to you. Sometimes we contact the flats thinks we did flights nice things. We got to do. Not me, not me. I might look at someone so you're a wonderful person and you're looking over your shoulder, as if it's not you. I'm talking to you tonight, you are wonderful people. I'm talking to that was really sitting on your wonderful people, because you've been fearfully and wonderfully made Fearfully and wonderfully made. If you ever noticed the lady, who joined just on Tuesday, she's a friend of yasmin's Carol, she's a sculptress, And she creates things out of stone and other things. And she says, you can own a number of times. Now, you can only get down to this. Phone was already in this phone. But the Craftsman reveals the beauty. I'm sorry you'll want your fearfully and wonderfully made. There is great potential in all of us. I'm so I want to come to finish up a series as we journey through his story. My story in August 2025 to talk about his story makers stream Acres. His story makers and I put take care of, you want to talk about walking in our identity in Christ. We need to, we need to work everyday. My app on my phone counts. How many steps I do? My work. Some of you might have those kind of Technology counting. How many steps I need? The king is good for you. One of the best things that we can do walking out all life in Christ is the best thing that we can do. Wookies pop walk, his wife walk out the fullness of who we are is a book by Geico Alister McIntyre before we know what we can do before, we know who we can be, we have to know our story, we have to know where we from. We have to know the legacy of what's going to be for because he didn't pipes the way we are. And that story can change because Christ becomes part of who we are and changes who how we work. I want you to use it. Don't take me a great illustration, this week, I do not understand why God puts things in my hand. Sometimes it's anybody know what this is. It's a ratchet strap. If you ever have to put something on the Lori, you put it around DeLorean, you pull it tight and you pull it so I can you put it outside and then it holds the thing of the lorry. And what a message a couple of weeks ago, I can sign with anybody like some of these. So I'll take 50 of each So church right now has will less than 50 cuz we give me a whole bunch of white. But you might say, what am I going to do with that duty, is tighten something down her allotment and she's great great and strengthen the compost heap by putting one of the outside, he is the illustration that I want to bring sometimes if you cut a tree that's not quite during the way, you want it to grow. You got a choice of two things you want to pull alongside. And that's where a ratchet strap. Might be useful or you chop it off because it's just going to get in the way and sometimes go bunch of it to a line us to his plans and his purposes in ways that are a bit different. Sometimes he wants to pull us in the policy in with the people around us know, why am I telling you about that way forever. So if you go to friends who might use a ratchet strap, ask them the two point five and six point five meters long run, it's just an excuse to have a conversation with somebody. That's all I'm doing.

I have a conversation. Why would the judge will give these white ball tonight? Doesn't want them in his Drive, number one, but pasta to, we want to blast people. So let's walking, that's walking. All right, entity in Christ. I want to explore what it means to do. It know how many just to walk, but to walk with power and authority, pull right station to Corinthians 5:17. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation old things have passed away, behold? All things have become new. All things have become New York. You might have an insurance policy, which ensures you new fault on. When that thing breaks and you need to get a replacement, you go to the insurance company and you knew fault. Not repaired, not sent back in service, new 4 hours. This is the promise, I feel, right? We have been changed in the moment in the twinkling of an eye. We are not defined by our 5 years. I'll say that again cuz some people still working that I've walked in that. We are not defined by our fight. Is or even what others say about us. I know you probably had some horrible. Things said about you, it does not need to Define you.

All right, thing to see is rooted in Christ. Call Ramon Sosa, when collisions 220, I have been crucified with Christ and it's no longer I that live but Christ that lives in me. Christ lives in. You Christ lives in you, those at home. Don't has a great love for us before. I do one, John 3 verse 1 see what the great love. The father has lavished on us that we should be cooled children of God, and that is what we are.

I wonder when you walked into starts college this morning when you got up this morning and walked wherever you are right now. I wonder what you so.

Am I the son or daughter? My parents? Or am I the child of a living? God.

When we understand this. Then we start to realize that he's life is now our life. 1 Peter 2:9 says, you are a chosen people. A royal priesthood, a holy nation, his own special people. But you may proclaim the Praises of him who called you out of Darkness Into His Marvelous Light, you are special people. That's why I said, you cried, you. You I'm not talkin to the person sitting next to you. I'm not talking to someone else sitting at the back. I'm talking to you, you are a special person.

What did Jesus say to his disciples in Matthew 28 verses 1820. Sole Authority in heaven and on Earth has been given to me that for go and make disciples

Authority flows from him to us, as children of God, we are as with Christ, Not as worried as cold as. Now if we are children, then we are as as of God and co-heirs with Christ. We find that in Romans 8:17 CO as with Christ

James gives us some practical truth are submit ourselves to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you. Because we all co-heirs with Christ, not because we know not because we got a big waste away, scary. Because of who we are in Christ and we can find power in the journey Act, One nights, but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you and you will be my Witnesses in Jerusalem and Judea Samaria. And to the uttermost parts of the Earth, let me just see if you'll allow me and you shall be witnesses to me, in Eagan, in Runnemede sorry, and to the ends of the Earth. Wherever you go wherever you place your feet and sometimes I want to kick my shoes off and somebody wants it to me who's from Yorkshire? You got too much to end up with tulle Simon will understand that, if you don't understand that, ask Simon.

Think of this.

Norman talked about having an accident, you often, when I students Hatton, please turn up. I like to write to the traffic on the track. The policeman will hold up his hands and you want me to stop. Pause will not stop because of the strength of the policemen or even the size of the policeman. Play. Because of the authority that stands in him. We as Christians when we say no to the enemy, it's not because when nice people is not because we've been trained. Well, it's because of Christ in US Christ in a spool rights. In the phaeacians 1, 19 and 20 the incomparable great power for us to believe that power is the same as the mighty strength when he raised Christ from the dead. God is able to do a measurably more than we ask or imagine. It's a beautiful song that I love by Graham. Kendrick from Heaven. You came helpless by but in the I think it's verse 3, it says Hines plumbing stores in to spice to cruel Nails surrendered. That same hands that heal the sick in Jesus's time is he also is upon you and upon me.

I'm going through this with a confidence into Tim at 2 and 2 Timothy one. It says this for the spirit of God does not make us timid but gives us power love and self-discipline. A sound mind who likes to sound mind? Yeah, it's two hands going up for some people. Yes, absolutely. There's nothing worse than being troubled. In our minds. No trouble, Big Trouble in our minds. Often happens at the craziest of times or the cleverest of times, if we could put it another way, In the middle of the night. When there's no one else to talk to when you're on your own. When you feel you're in the corner.

What does Paul say in Philippines 4:13? I can do all things through Christ, who gives me strength. So how do I live out my story? How do I make it his story and how do I make it history? His some points that I want to encourage you with, when you fight how many people of Temptation This Week? Okay, feisty. I didn't say I submit I didn't say given to. I said, how many people have faced sensation of us? Probably

Something comes along that maybe we shouldn't do. When not Temptation comes, remember who you are.

Remember who you are? I'm a child of the Living. God why do you need to you to this temptation when fear comes?

Okay, but not least, there is nothing wrong with having fits what we do with it. If we allow fear to overwhelm us and fish captured our house, but we we face the fear and in the authority in Jesus name, we will not have a hold on me.

They will not have a hold on me in Romans 8:37. It says, we are more than conquerors through him, who loves us. Let me step into work family community or being Christ ambassadors. We are agents of change to Corinthians 5:20. We that for Christ ambassadors as their God was making his appeal through us. So why do I say walk as Christ? Walk as children of God. I want to encourage you walk boldly. Confidently. I stopped working with our heads down as though. We're a little ashamed.

I told this story before now but is still very relevant to me today. Judy and I were in the church many years ago.

And that moment decide. Which way you go around and you say peace. The Lord be with you and will stay with you. But I encourage people should not just be the vehicle or somebody from the front side and everybody repeating it going to share it with somebody else could connect with somebody. And I remember walking out to honor and I know it's about 4 ft x. She was about a stool and what's a kohai. And then I said, the Peace of the Lord be with you and I had to push down and she mumbled something. I didn't even

Do you know what? I could have just walked away and just go on to the next person out of habit and also spell a nut to my back to that again. Can we do that again? Can you look at me? So we looked at one, another me looking down her looking up and I said, the Peace of the Lord be with you and she just burst into tears.

But she'd already set the pace with at least six or seven. Other people head down every time that was something going on in the world. Do not need to tell you about that now but I have the privilege to pray with her. I'm absolutely sure to this Thai. If I had nevasta to look at me, she wouldn't have shared it with anybody. The cult Stephen in that moment as the piece was shed and it was a boldness in a company. So just said, if we do that again, if you ever feel another touch of the spirit, so I can do that again. Don't think he's repetition. What is, what is repetition with God? So he's doing something different, is going to be done a different because now you're, okay. This is not me. Just sharing the pace. This is me sharing the peace. Could go inside the peace right now. I did not moment God invites.

We know in Revelation it talks about we will overcome by number one. The word of Our Testimony. Oh yes of course then the word about the word of Our Testimony is important. 1 John 4 verse for you, dear children are from God and have overcome them because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. Be strong in the Lord. And in his mighty power, put on the full armor of God, Ephesians, 6, 10 and 11.

Please don't just put on the helmet fully dressed. I don't know whether you ever go now not putting something on that, you should have put on. Let's not get into being dressed and ready but that's what you think about. Have you ever gone out gents, maybe you need to check whether certain kinds of things? What certain buttons are done up Fully dressed fully dressed in the armor of God important. The helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, to fight the sword of the spirit, the fake show, me, the Readiness of the gospel and the belt of Truth. The old important If we go out without one of them, we are. I'm dressed. We are undressed be strong in the Lord, is mighty Potter, put on the full armor of God. And so, therefore, I want to make it very practical this week. Let me encourage you in these own scriptures on sliced, thin. So don't worry about this. But let me encourage you this week to speak life where there is despair. Don't know why when a spirit of heaviness to embed something Proverbs 18:21, Speak Life where there is despair. I have sat in rooms where the other words that I want to pay hair. I'll send a blessing. Often. The room is full of those kinds of words.

Sometimes you'll sit in a room full of gossip. You can, you can do one of three things you can sit down and just ignore it. You can leave the room because you are offended by it, or you can change the atmosphere and we don't have to say I'm not.

As the Lord, as the spirit leads you to pray in Jesus name. Praying Jesus. I'm drunk fool Team, 13 and 14. Pray in the Name of Christ, with the authority of who we are, as children of the Living God and then step into the opportunities knowing that Christ goes before us.

Austin, we feel like we're the first person in the room. We think. Oh my goodness. Christ has gone before us. He's going to head of us. Know, a story is not finished. My story is not over there for there is plenty more history to be made in one facility, in Flight 2046, the one who calls you is faithful and he will do it. He will do so Church those listing a listing like number one, rise up. What's up? Steph opposite of stand-up say something. Be part of the change. Our world is in a mess. It's being in a message that in the message is going to be in a mess tomorrow. I'm part of the reason it's in a message because the church and we not doing some of the things that we should be done. And when I signed the check, please don't point to the building. I'm pointing at me as part of the checks and not just me as a leader, me as a person. I could, I'm sure everyone who's listening to my voice, can think of a moment when we should have stepped up and we didn't

I want to stop retail sales of about it. That's learn from that the next time I see

So let's rise up lights, not working Fair, that's walking fight. Let's not working weakness, but in power, that's not working confusion, but in Clarity John 10:10 says, the enemy comes only to steal kill and destroy. Now I'm not focusing on that because that's not the important part is important, is the next I have come that you might have life and have it to the full. And please British people, listening foolish, not just posted the top. Where in scripture pricetown I'm flowing over fullness is Messi. Fullness of life is messy. Please. If I don't know what you're thinking about the tsunami that goes from, his cousin was saying, you people every week. And that's great. But I don't know what you think about it, but the Saddam he's got to be messy. And I want to do is not be people who come with things that we won't know how to pray.

Look up with a quickness and we will petition the throne room of Heaven not because we could people not because we've attended church today that because of he, who promised is faithful. So, I'm done.

But I do want to pry, I think it's important to pry. I think it's important that we just share so forth. I was listening to those in the room.

I want to stop this pair cuz he's the one that kind of overwhelmed with so readily verify, Tia, they're getting it wrong repeating History Fair and I could keep on going there. I want to focus on the choice that you know. So I'm not going to ask you what you're planning for, but if you have an area of your life that you are fearful, Marty, how might be financed is my whole bunch of things.

Do you want to face that fear again? But we fight. Would you stand today? And imagine your house. Your body is a house with lots of rooms. The living room's. Fine. That's so nice and tidy. What about under the stage? What about in the MC? What about the spare room? Well, they are good places where there is no fear or do you just put those things you don't like dealing with in that? So if if it's fair in your house in the house of who you are, would you stand? Cuz I'm going to pray and I got to pray with wife. I'ma pray. That FIB. Be gone.

About to go buy. Thank you. And I'm standing to Father God I thank you. But do you all the God of all things? You are in control and low. We lift our eyes up and look to you first but we don't face or circumstances we don't look and focus upon the problem. We look to the solution, we lift our eyes and look to the hills from whence comes our help and we lift our hands in praise and thanksgiving. I'm father eastleigh have your way in a release 5. To my brothers and sisters. Really spice to me, really spice that I was at home face for a change fee for a breakthrough. Faithful, A New Perspective. Faithful, a new job faithful salary. Situation fight for a different prognosis. Father, I pray that as fight the Rises, as we lift up the shield of faith and we Proclaim with the sword of the spirit. Lord, God be God. In Jesus name, Faith, arise be gone. Shepherd Academy belt. I see a few belts of Truth lying on the floor. I don't know who they are, who they are, but part of the reason you're faithful is because you've not been true in the past. You how to tell a lie in the past for whatever reason and your fearful of what telling the truth, smart mean. Not to sense. The father says, put on the full armor of God put on that belt of trees. Declare, the truth. And find Freedom. do not keep looking over your shoulder about what might come and what might have

and the second thing I want to do. So maybe if everybody wants to sit down again, now I just want to pray about one more thing. That's about baldness. That's about boldness. I sense there are a number of people amongst the place of a listing of Home lights. Are who are standing outside the door. I'm standing outside of door. and the You're wondering why they should press the bell, ring the doctor or just put a call through the door. I just sense. The father, says, knock on the door, knock on the door, will be open to you seek and you will find Ask and it will be given. There are some dose of people standing at a window knocking on the door because we're not confident that we will have the right words to say scripture, says, open your mouth and I will fill it. If you make yourself available to Christ, he will give you what you need in that moment. So if you need a fresh boldness, that I am going to ask you to stand again, and that might be something to do with a work situation, that might be a family situation, it might be a situation is a place where you just sent this as a place. You come to in the reason you'll recognize you come to it again and again and it's a bit while you walk up to the door and then you walk away. You cannot envisage yourself walking through that door. Since the father says, I want to give you a fresh boldness that I want to give you a fresh boldness. So that not only can you knock on the door but you can imagine when the door is open you can walk in with confidence and 5. I forgot to ask you to stand, if that's your father. I'm going to pray for. I sent that one or two people are standing on. This is about both missing Pryor. This is about knocking on the door of Heaven. Do you want to have a fresh boldness in prayer today?

That's our Father. God. I thank you that you bring us to places where we have to make a choice and we want to make ourselves available to, you know, God available to be used by you in moments of blessing an opportunity. All the help us to be both father. Would you release bonus to my brothers and sisters tonight? We're doing released bonus of your, your, your words look up when you breathe release a bonus, if that, would you release a bonus in Stamps? Instead of shoulders, down shoulders will be up. Instead of hadestown heads would be out. That would be an engagement that communicates that shouts the screen brightness to those, whose doors will be open today in Jesus name, amen?

Amen.