Cutting the Power line
Power and energy
These are some hot themes these days. The price of Oil is changing economies, alternative energy sources are being sought more than ever.
The world knows it needs power or nothing will happen.
Family there is an oil shortage in the spirit. Not because it is not there, but because it has been turned of at the pipelines.
Power that is channeled and controlled can be a big blessing.
The electricity in these lines can do all the things that we need them to do. Look at the lights and the equipment in the Multimedia room and the kitchen. We can cool this place and we can heat it. The sound and the music, this computer without power would do nothing.
- Demonstrate (lamp with cable: plug in and there is light.)
- Cut the plug off. Are all the parts still there? Yes, but no light.
- I will simply repair the cut. Cut it again!
- So many cuts that there is little hope of Power.
Are we any different? We need not only physical power (food) recharging (sleep) but we also need spiritual power.
Psalm 133: 1 How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity! 2 It is like precious oil poured on the head, running down on the beard, running down on Aaron’s beard, down upon the collar of his robes. 3 It is as if the dew of Hermon were falling on Mount Zion. For there the Lord bestows his blessing, even life forevermore. NIV
· #1 Never connected to the power
o James 1:22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
§ Talk about the Power
§ If we never get plugged into God and what he is doing we will always be without power.
Luke 6: 46 “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?(obedience) 47 I will show you what he is like who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice. 48 He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built. 49 But the one who hears my words and does not put them into practice (disobedience) is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete.” NIV
o Obedience connects us to the power source for our lives!
o Someone said to me the other day “Pastor I pray so much but tnothing happens” “Why?” Disobedience!
John 15:7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. NIV
- # 2 Disconnected from the Power
- Electronics troubleshooting
- Always the first thing you check for is “do we have power?”
- Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
- Are you filled with the Spirit?
- 1 Corinthians 14:4 He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church. NIV
- Are you praying in the spirit?
- #3 Cut in the power lines
- 2 Corinthians 2:10 If you forgive anyone, I also forgive him. And what I have forgiven—if there was anything to forgive—I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake, 11 in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes. NIV
- Unforgiveness and division is Satan’s number 1 way to shut us down.
- Look at what Paul said “if you forgive, I forgive”
- I will not keep it if you have let it go. I forgive for your sakes*
- I know that if I hold division in my heart it will affect all of you. (when on hurts, grieves, rejoices we all do (whether we know it or not)
- The ones who have created a faith in God without being attached to the Body of Christ have created another Gospel.
- There is no life outside of Christ’s body.
- The body without the spirit is dead, but also the spirit without a body has no expression.
- Maybe you are affecting my life more than I know?