Living A Holy Life Everyday (The Power of Holiness)

I'm so and welcome to those. People are joining us from whatever Latin name of a Spanish speaking country. You're from we blog. Now in 30, we were fasting this week who who enjoyed fasting this week off, the church prayed and fasted this way. I was blown away by the number of people to run the cold on Tuesday night and Thursday night as we fostered. Thank you for fostering, but I want you to know it's not finished. I don't mean to file something. I mean, the impact of the fasting is not what I we finished off thing, but God hasn't finished it. So like dropping a stone into a Still Pond. The stone has been dropped for, the ripples are still running. He's still at work and I I sent you my spirit as somebody is going to blinding headache today. If I see what you stand, another people doing legal things today of this week, that some funds to pay for the room and legal things that need to be signed. Just want to pry. Go to call you out of it by sense that some people are going to sign some legal paper this week as people with blinding headaches, if that's you at home, please stand, cuz I want to cry cuz I believe God wants to heal people that I got he's a heathen. God God is able to do a measurably more than we asked her. Imagine. Father, I pray the Lord God right now for those people are standing Lord. If it's a headache though, but you put your finger right on where the pain is coming lobe? Would you take away the blockage? Would you take away the pressure point? No. Father. Would you loosen and free everything that needs to flow in Jesus name, we pray, amen, and father God, I pray for those who was signing paperwork, look out signing legal paperwork this way. Father, I pray that Lord. It would be a joy rotten. The pine, it will be a privilege and a pleasure rather than something to worry about. Father, I pray that those people that was signing paperwork, which step into freedom and a new season in Jesus. Mighty name Ayman are men. So thank you. So, if you picked a nice and thank you for praying, thank you for frosting do so this week, we started plotting another couple of languages cuz we have a multinational church multi-lingual church. We started blogging in Greek this week and soon-to-be. What? Portuguese. Thank you. I'm so and I'm going to do something. Now, I'm going to really test my memory now. Morning through number one, picking any belongings. God is he you probably wondering if I said,

But we all we are building in pidgin English and it's it's a language. I used to speak 30 plus years ago, I was a math teacher, one of the classes are one of the schools. I told Shane in Papua New Guinea, I had thirty-eight different languages in the class so I got each of them to teach me how to say good morning in a different way and we talked to her in a different language I forgotten, most of them now. Anyway, so you're staying in for you two today. I want to speak about living a holy life every day

Now, I want you to think about your worst day this week or your worst moment this week when you did something or you said something and you thought, nobody else sees this children, I'm just asking you to open your parents now and just remind them about something, maybe they did or something. They said, imagine dropping a plate to something that you prepared all over the floor. You probably said something. I was driving somewhere this weekend, somebody pulled out in front of me unexpectedly without me waving them in. I had to break quite hard. Anybody else feel like that? Yes thank you for being honest. You have to pay for today. Thank you, Rob Rob, Spain on living a holy life every day. So I was in a queue in, I am not proposing an appetizing one brand over another, but I was in a Cuban white rice and with the, we went downstairs to fight the cop off and there was a queue to fight for the compound. And there, I was thinking, I mean, And then I realize that lady at the front was struggling to pay for that bill. In the end, she gave up and stepped away and join the back of the kid. She was standing behind me. Now, this is the lady was causing the blockage and now she's standing behind me and I felt humbled, I thought, okay, I was, what are you doing? How do you have a hobby sickness? You getting in, Judea always does. Anyway, I felt in my spirit. OK Google, see, any way to put moths with this machine doesn't take money out of. You need to borrow a coat and I had some extra ball code. So I turned in a sexy way you are you can use the same machine and you can fight that you can use that to buy. I had an opportunity to bless her and it turned from her to blessing living a holy life every day. One pizza, one, 15 and 16 just as he who called you is Holy. So be wholly in all that you do for these written be holy because I am wholly and what he's holding a different. If we are a holy people, want to show you don't show me no attitude in our language and what we do. And if it doesn't we need to pay attention. I'm not I'm not going to go on the guilt trip about me saying you're not good enough. That's not where I'm going. I'm just saying. Okay, we can be changed from me then because he is, Holy Note to self number one hits in all that you do. If your house if your spiritual home has rooms in it.

Maybe when you invite people round to your house at home, you have to tidy things up and there's a spice maybe some of the state's maybe it's a couple that you just come to shove everything in before they come round just said the place looks tidy. Not you. Do that. Yeah but I'm talking about your spiritual home. No not the house and children is spotting a cuz they looking at them up with that. Sung, we know you do that Mom. We know you do that. We seen you do it and sometimes you even being part of it, when Mom said, come on,

But I want to talk about your spiritual home. So if your body is different rooms, what is the room that you wouldn't take someone to? What is the room under the stairs? Where you shove everything in that you don't want to talk about?

That people are looking around, Nautica tree. Pizza side. Be holy. In all that you do not just on Sundays, but I Mondays Tuesdays Wednesdays Thursdays Fridays and Saturdays. In your life group. What? Ship is good? Be holy, not just when you lift hands up and feel good. But the holy at 1 in the afternoon, when you're feeling stressed at work, maybe When Something's Happened on the commute to work,

Yes, some of us treat hardness as something that's for the special people. It's full, it's for you and me this matter, how good we are, cuz it, we will never justify being saved and being retained by God. We will not justify Christ justifies that he's the perfect sacrifice. And so, I want to give you a pretty clear picture children as well. That Holiness is not a lot of you climb. Is not points that you score. It's the life of God flowing through you. Saying, yes to God every day.

Coding. This begins with. Who is God? Give me, who we are begins with? Who is God?

I saw I saw the Lord Lift High and lifted up in the surfing cried. Holy holy, holy is the Lord Almighty says that it's fast. Response was not a program, was not self-improvement. You said, whoa, is me. This is West Simon ended last week where is me? I am ruined. Then the life Cole, touch these lips and his guilt was taken away holding. This means was set apart. It means that, that wants me some of the goodness of God in the character nature. God that shines in us and through us. Aw, Tozer, I love him a call number of books by him on it on, on myself said that. What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing of Oz. A smoothie of God, produces a casual view of sin. A great view of God, but you see is a Glides and reference and holy life. Romans 12, verse one, offer your bodies as a Living Sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God. I don't know whether you're the kind of person who looks in the mirror every morning and goes is another wrinkle. Who is another gray hair over. This is, God loves us all to myself. You want things removed, and won't tell her I have. I'm not saying it's right or wrong. I'm just saying that, sometimes the way we look at ourselves, we look at ourselves as being imperfect and we want to see some of that. How much money but God looks Austin says, you're wonderful, you're wonderfully, made, you are precious and special and unique. There is no one like you. And maybe one or two of the children. When is no one like my mom does no one like my dad.

Romans 12:1.

Offer your bodies as a Living Sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, this is your true and proper worship. Holiness is a daily surrender, I'll just once in awhile, not just when we feel like it and it stops here, he starts with the renewing of our minds into a 12-2. How we do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds. If we got it wrong, if we said something wrong, if we've done something wrong. It responds, just say sorry, just trying to go in a moment, just find a spice to Sky Tucanes. I saw you said that short account with God he is faithful to forgive us and he's merciful to us his compassion on you every morning remotely reminded that in Lamentations 3. Holiness is not something we achieve perfectly overnight, it's a work-in-progress. It's a direction for our journey. It's a direction for a lifestyle.

So, holiness is something we can see in the ordinary.

And we read if we, if you like the Book of Daniel, I love the book. I love the fact that it makes it the real world that Daniel up right here at work and took a spicy, took a spice to places where you and I probably wouldn't. I don't really want to end up in the fiery furnace because I've done something at work but it happens. Your Holiness is not tested in the primary testing. Holiness is tested in our everyday, living in the places. When no one else is what, you'll maybe some people are watching, maybe some of your children. And I want to include the children in this because you do see what goes on at home. One of the things I have the privilege of traveling from time to time and staying with people. And sometimes people say I'll put you up in a hotel. If it done enough, please don't put me up in a hotel. I'd rather stay with you if that's okay. It's not just about saving money. I want to spend some time with them and you start to see the way people live their lives. Suck. My first Challenger. Two challenges to die is. How is your holiness? What's it like at work? What's it like at home? What about online? What about all bullets? What about our expense claims? What about all our appraisals? If we have to give her prices to people, what about standing at the coffee machine, and having a child, Do we jump into a gossip and start to criticize people?

Whatever we do work at it, with all of our hearts just as unto the Lord Colossians 3:23 with one another, I was impatient and not kill you trying to pay for pay for the parking. I wasn't patient. I told and sometimes we not patient because we're in too much of a hurry.

Sometimes we need to give ourselves a little bit more time to do things and we'll do them Besa and will notice things.

I think I told you this story before but it's relevant hair. I did a course. I'm a part of the course will. That was some homework between the different modules. I'm one of the pieces, how much I know how to trace of things. But one of them is to sit and look at the tree for 15 minutes and just enjoy the tree. If at any point you started thinking about your to-do list or started thinking about something else will work with something that was going on. You started to talk again. You had to focus on the Troy. You know what? I tried for two weeks. I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it. So, I mean, I'm in too much of a hurry. It's a great horiness test. So what's the sight of your relationships at work? What about a hun? Is that some things that go unsaid?

Who was it? Who said it was. It was it a Elton? John sorry, seems to be the hardest word. How many people like saying sorry? I want to see people. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, I don't want to say, sorry. But you know what? Sorry is a good word? Sorry, I didn't mean that. Sorry, I didn't mean to say that. Sorry, I didn't mean to punch you in the face.

Find the weather outside of a Hottentot, the elbow, somebody in the face. So I just turned around somebody on the Chiefs on Monday this week. So this is a real fresh story. But it was a it was a pest. I was about his tools. I wasn't trying to doing this. I was just I just turn around. I had bags in my hand and didn't see them. At least I didn't break a nose or cause a nosebleed. Thank goodness.

Holiness is Spirit empowerment. Not self impound. We live in a world where there's a lot of self, self self. This is how you do it. Self-improvement games, I want to encourage you, if you focused on self-improvement. Yes. And we can be improved, don't do it on your own, with God's help because he will shape you and mold you and me in ways that we can even ask, or imagine he's the good news. God never asks us to manufacture holding us in our own strength. Walk by the spirit to do not gratify the desires of your flat sheet, says, starting July shootings, by 16. The fruits of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience imposing here cuz I want you to take it and climb this, some people know this off my heart, that's great, you know, the word goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control fantastic. Any one of those fruits will influence just a little bit of Holiness, give people a little glimpse of God. If you brought fruits at this time of year, there's often raspberries in off Ridge, Terrace will tell you this. That often moldy. Because we thought we saw a team member with something fresh. This is something fresh about holiness.

In the Old Testament, we hear about how many was provided on a daily basis. Bread was for Life, Food was provided on a daily basis. Did not keep. It went by pretty quickly. They'll have to leave the same the podium. So I think I actually the more Heidi. We are, the more we can pour out and I see is holy living. The people will notice, and they will see 1 Thessalonians 5:23 and 24 May God himself, the God of Peace sanctify through and through the one who calls you a spiteful and he will do it. I want you to know to say who does the hard worker. It's gone. It's gone. All part is to stay close to him. Catch? What? He's trying to say. We surrender to him. When somebody tells you, this is the way you should do it. And you think you should do it differently. It's a fight it. You did not like that. I don't hold your folks like this. But I'd like you to like this. Mommy, I like you, I like balancing. Please on the end of my knife. I like sticking my knife, and I'm not recommending this children. I'm not even got to complete the sentence. Should I walk? Sometimes we have to submit, sometimes we have to yield for the greater good, for the good of the family, for the good of the household for the good of the church for the good of society. For the good of the town, for the good of the strait living, for the good of your school for the good of your college, or university for the good of the whole class. So you'll have some nights for the greater good. Now, for the greater, good means, we might be about self and more of others.

so, I'm going to ask you just to consider this challenge as I bring, what I'm going to share to a close.

At least this thing you want to bring the challenge up. What would change on a Monday morning? If I treated my workplace or school or University or college or wherever you spend the last part of your week. What would my what would changing my Monday morning if I treat it that place as Holy Ground. A place to be holy. I'll be honest, I'm going to go get some of you and some of us don't like our bodies. Some of us don't like all teachers. Summer Stephanie. Don't like the bus driver. Who drives us two to call each other over to work once in a while. He's always mr. Grumpy.

Do you know what would change if we treat those moments as holy and we were willing to be a lightning rod with God, as I do whatever you want to release in this moment at this time. Whether it's just the kind words, whether it's just an Open Door, whether it's doing and saying something that you knew you were, I wouldn't normally do or say, that's my reflection moment for you. We're going to start with where we're at. If you want to work out where you need to go to the first thing you need to do is to work out where you are. If you don't know where you are, you don't know, how are you going to get to where you go cuz and so I'm just going to ask some questions. I'm going to ask us to close our eyes and people are hiding. People, listening lights. Are people listening anywhere in the world?

Another like to have to close our eyes and that includes the children to now and was going to ask a few questions and if I see you what you stand to look at a cool anybody out. I'm not going to say anything else but I just sent by God wants to cause us to step into a holy place.

If in the last week you have said something that has hurt someone. And you haven't sorted it out. Would you stand? I'm really starting with some big couches. If you said something that hurt somebody and you haven't resolved, you haven't, you know, it's loose and you might be, would you stand Play song? Eyes closed. I kept my eyes closed too. I am ready. Not that interested. I just want to pray, but he thinks you. Would you say if you said something. If you did something. It was not glorifying to God if we played it on the video stream right now. You'd be hiding behind your hands. I do have resolved it Unholy living what you stand?

It's in the week. I had you already have plans. Something that you would not want to be on the front page of the local newspaper. Because it's not God. It's you what you stand?

I'm at this is not a guilt trip, guys. I'm not getting there at 2. One final thing. If it's something that's being on your to-do list for months, if not years

And you've never got around to it, but you know, someone has been hurt because of it. Would you stand?

I thank you for the only honest day of the people do outstanding, father, want to pry Father, we've messed up. We got it wrong, though. We want to stay with sorry, right now, as we stand. But as we stand loading, sign, with sorry we say help. Lord help me. Help me now. Let your horniness flow through me. Let me make better choices in my tool kit in my thinking, in my payments in my calendar choices. And fill me Lord with the power of your presence. In Jesus time.

Oh man. No, thank you for those who stood. Thank you. Wasn't easy. It's not an easy thing to do to adjust headlights, are on the run, if you need prayer. And then please write the song that was sung at you on the touch, dude, are we going to Ministry spice? Just be on the golf course. So when we come to the end of the service, if you need prior, that always be a couple of people out there ready to pray for you. We just trying to make spice SpongeBob to move. Don't move in the service. That's fine. But sometimes people say yes, but I just need this.

So, I'm done.