Agent of Restoration 3
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And at the time of the offering of the oblation, Elijah the prophet came near and said, “O Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word. Answer me, O Lord, answer me, that this people may know that you, O Lord, are God, and that you have turned their hearts back.”
39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, “The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God.”
1 Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”
God can make any body an agent of restoration , elijah has no reference but God choose hime to be the change .
Can be house maid .
Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by him the Lord had given victory to Syria. He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper. Now the Syrians on one of their raids had carried off a little girl from the land of Israel, and she worked in the service of Naaman’s wife. She said to her mistress, “Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.” So Naaman went in and told his lord, “Thus and so spoke the girl from the land of Israel.” And the king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.”
So he went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing. And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read, “When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent to you Naaman my servant, that you may cure him of his leprosy.” And when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Only consider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me.”
But when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent to the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come now to me, that he may know that there is a prophet in Israel.” So Naaman came with his horses and chariots and stood at the door of Elisha’s house. And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored, and you shall be clean.” But Naaman was angry and went away, saying, “Behold, I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call upon the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper. Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage. But his servants came near and said to him, “My father, it is a great word the prophet has spoken to you; will you not do it? Has he actually said to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?” So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
Then Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your sons here?” And he said, “There remains yet the youngest, but behold, he is keeping the sheep.” And Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we will not sit down till he comes here.” And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And the Lord said, “Arise, anoint him, for this is he.” Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.
David ,
it can be a no body at the beging , like peter who has carrier faliure , any of us can turn to agent of restoration .
God can pick up any body , so you are qualify .
the choice of the agent is God .. is God who choice .
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
So the last will be first, and the first last.”
The one who is going to be an agent is not choice , God is not a democrat
In those days Peter stood up among the brothers (the company of persons was in all about 120) and said, “Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus.
Let God choice for you , don’t toss coins,
And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples (altogether the number of names was about a hundred and twenty), and said,
And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
Matthias name was never hear again , God choice was Saul
Paul, an apostle—not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—
Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes,
2cor 1:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God,
To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus:
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus,
On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat.
God is soverny but is not abritratry
Our God is in the heavens;
he does all that he pleases.
I love those who love me,
and those who seek me diligently find me.
Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’
I found David … He saw in David , someone who will do his will, you can influence his choice , by your attitude to worship
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But now, O Lord, you are our Father;
we are the clay, and you are our potter;
we are all the work of your hand.
I must yield , ask God to give me his plan . depend on him for direction . your will be done .
the focus is his name be Glorify .
And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.
if you refuse to yield to the porter , you will become an example .
God has drop the capacity of greatness in you , but it all depend on how much you yield to him . your capacity of greatness is a function of your how much you yield .
God has a big plan but is a function of your yeildness.
God has something in mind when he call u .
Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “See, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not accepting from his hand what he brought. As the Lord lives, I will run after him and get something from him.” So Gehazi followed Naaman. And when Naaman saw someone running after him, he got down from the chariot to meet him and said, “Is all well?” And he said, “All is well. My master has sent me to say, ‘There have just now come to me from the hill country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothing.’ ” And Naaman said, “Be pleased to accept two talents.” And he urged him and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants. And they carried them before Gehazi. And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand and put them in the house, and he sent the men away, and they departed. He went in and stood before his master, and Elisha said to him, “Where have you been, Gehazi?” And he said, “Your servant went nowhere.” But he said to him, “Did not my heart go when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Was it a time to accept money and garments, olive orchards and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male servants and female servants? Therefore the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So he went out from his presence a leper, like snow.
2 king 5 : 20 -
Agent of restoration in not an ordinary solider but has to a commando .
God goes for the best of solider , to pick as an agent of restoration.
We are solider of christ . study the system .commando go for special training , to prepared them for the assignment .
Becoming a commando of Christ
They shave up their hair : where you are ccoming from you sombode but here u are not
“Depart from here and turn eastward and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.
“Depart from here and turn eastward and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan. You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.” So he went and did according to the word of the Lord. He went and lived by the brook Cherith that is east of the Jordan.
1king 17:3-
But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. Now as he went on his way, he approached Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven shone around him. And falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” And he said, “Who are you, Lord?” And he said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. But rise and enter the city, and you will be told what you are to do.”
You cannot beging to rise until you hit the ground .come down from your horse , so he can use you .
So he departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen in front of him, and he was with the twelfth. Elijah passed by him and cast his cloak upon him.
Elisha become the servant of a wondering prophet.
For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
2 . to learn among every other thing to be alone even among the crowd . you will need solituted
And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone,
You learn how to be alone with God.
I have a prayer parthern should be your wife . but as close as you have with your wife , you must learn how to be alone with God.
3. The Booth Camp. most unpleasent in the life of solider . where a civillian is turn to a war machine .
you learnt to die in other to live .
For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
but christ live in me .
by the time God finished with you the devil will run .
Booth camp of God
in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.
You cannot be a divine commando if you don’t tame your appetite. displine of a commando
“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
1cor
Their are demon that will not go out expect by prayer and fasting .
Bridge groom is around no fasting ,but now they fast
And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.
How long your booth camp will last determine how quickly you yield .
How long your booth camp will last determine how quickly you yield .
in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.
don’t let crisis force you to fast , do it to prepare your self .
God want to tame some wide horse so they can be ride my God himself
4. God will give you a test after booth camp
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
Ask to swim naked in the river very cold, to prepare them
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
5 mint to eat
they regulate everything you need
How to perform when u are hungry, in pain , tired , you are to endure hardness as Good solider of christ .
Thanks God Jesus pass the test , you will pass in Jesus name.
When the jailer woke and saw that the prison doors were open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.
Now it happened after these things that the son of the woman who owned the house became sick. And his sickness was so serious that there was no breath left in him. So she said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, O man of God? Have you come to me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to kill my son?”
And he said to her, “Give me your son.” So he took him out of her arms and carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed. Then he cried out to the Lord and said, “O Lord my God, have You also brought tragedy on the widow with whom I lodge, by killing her son?” And he stretched himself out on the child three times, and cried out to the Lord and said, “O Lord my God, I pray, let this child’s soul come back to him.” Then the Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came back to him, and he revived.
And Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. And Elijah said, “See, your son lives!”
Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now by this I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is the truth.”
. they reduce you to no body , no reputation , you are just a number .. survivng booth camp.
why are still going thorough the wire. ?
Maybe you are not yet sicking in the fire
If this be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king. But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.”
my test in not your test , as much as i love you , you have to go thorough the test by your self
after you have passed the exam . do the jumping rather than be push .
5. Revelation comes.
Graduation day .. Tremedioun prescsion .
And at the time of the offering of the oblation, Elijah the prophet came near and said, “O Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word. Answer me, O Lord, answer me, that this people may know that you, O Lord, are God, and that you have turned their hearts back.” Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, “The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God.”
Hs has become a truly Yes Man.. Ready to die for christ . Until you are ready to die you are not ready to live for him .
commando does not resist transfer , he goes where they where sent .
After many days the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the earth.”
All the master said is GO he didn’t said anything about coming back
They must learn to stand alone . You have to stand alone to stand out .
And David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”
David said i will go .
I will run wide , for God. Commando.
i will stand alone if need be , for the Kingdom work
A commando is automatically a prayer worrior
He shall seduce with flattery those who violate the covenant, but the people who know their God shall stand firm and take action.
Ready to pray relentenly doesent take no for an answer.
And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink, for there is a sound of the rushing of rain.” So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Mount Carmel. And he bowed himself down on the earth and put his face between his knees. And he said to his servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.” And he went up and looked and said, “There is nothing.” And he said, “Go again,” seven times. And at the seventh time he said, “Behold, a little cloud like a man’s hand is rising from the sea.” And he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down, lest the rain stop you.’ ” And in a little while the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel.
1king 18:41-
let other enjoy i will stand in the Gap.
Will he find a man , find a woman , as commando .
Agent .. Note . God is not looking for to many people , but individual , a boy and a Girl .