Awaken the warrior within
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Intro and Frame Sermon
Intro and Frame Sermon
What have we learned last 4 weeks? | We have real enemy |
3 weeks ago : Deciever - He decieves our mind with lies
2 weeks ago: Accuser - He attacks our heart with accusations
last week: Russell - Who I am in CHRIST.
Brings us to today - I want you to know, that you are a warrior, you are a warrior | You fight EVERY day | Someone to protect | A kingdom to Advance | a battle to win. You’re a warrior, and you have been entrusted with something.
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
**Prayer over message**
Engage
Engage
Alexis is the apple to my eye | Talk it up | Alexis and the bullies - I am pretty placid, and in a second, I became a warrior
Rules for Dating my Daugher
You might think you’re not a warrior | You can become a warrior if you need to | God needs you to.
Message title: Awaken the warrior within
Tension
Tension
Right now you might be thinking | “Oh Gosh, the Pastor is going to ask me to engage, and I am just trying to get out of bed in the morning!” (Bang on about it) | OR | Just when I get through this season, I’m gonna be a warrior | After Covid, I’m gonna stand up and be heard.
Who are we? Faith Filled, Spirit led, truth seeking, warriors of God - If you call on the name of Jesus, you are, a Warrior of God If you can pray, you are a Warrior of God | You have Someone to Protect | Kingdom to Advance | A Battle to win…but before that…before you become a fully fledged warriro for the Kingdom, Jesus asks us to do something
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
Challenge = Be Present | Such a busy world | Mind Might be racing | Can I ask us to be present Right now, in God
Sometimes “I will be a warrior When…I will be faithful When, not now, not now, not now” | Jesus, has given us SOMETHING to be faithful with.
Let’s turn to a story of Jesus to get some more context
Context | Jesus on his way to Jericho | He is going somewhere | Comes across a Blind man - Bartamayes | Blind man cries out to Jesus | The man is rebuked | This is JESUS, HE IS IMPORTANT, GOING SOMEWHERE | What does Jesus do, he stops
And Jesus stopped and commanded him to be brought to him. And when he came near, he asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?” He said, “Lord, let me recover my sight.” And Jesus said to him, “Recover your sight; your faith has made you well.”
He stops | In his Busyness, he stops, and sees, the need | Faithful, with a little.
Then Jesus in Jericho | It says that Jesus was PASSING THROUGH | Again going on, he doesn’t have TIME | He stops, for a funny little man we call Zacchaeus - Who, decided to climb a tree (he was short) - Tax Collector (say he was bad) | Jesus stopped, for this tax collector | Crowd Grumbled When Jesus went | What was the result
And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.” And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
Salvation - He Got | All because Jesus stopped, to see, what was right in front of him | What, is right in front of you? What is he asking you to be faithfull with?
Illustration if you have one
A third time, Jesus stops, to help, what is in front of him | This time, Jesus is on way to save somoenes life - Jairus daughter (Ruler of sinogogue) | Crowd is following him | someone touches Garment | A woman | Jesus stops | Knowing someone touched him | Demands who touched him | Bled for 12 years | This woman, was isolated | Cut off from Society - Not allowed to be touched | Jesus stops, and sees her
Jesus, sees you | What does Jesus do?
And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.”
If you are faithful with a little, you will be entrusted with a lot - At this point someone came up to Jesus and said “Do not bother him, for the life he was going to save is now lost, the clild is dead”
But Jesus on hearing this answered him, “Do not fear; only believe, and she will be well.”
So he went in, he took 5 | Peter | John | James | Mum and Dad
And all were weeping and mourning for her, but he said, “Do not weep, for she is not dead but sleeping.”
And they laughed at him, knowing that she was dead. But taking her by the hand he called, saying, “Child, arise.”
And her spirit returned, and she got up at once. And he directed that something should be given her to eat.
What’s dead in your life that you need to trust Jesus with? | What is sleeping that you think is dead | What little thing you need to be faithful with | Maybe a Gift you have is sleeping? Maybe your discipline is sleeping | Maybe your loving marriage is sleeping | Devotion to Christ is sleeping | Faith is sleeping > Give it to Jesus, give it to Jesus and he will awaken it. You have hte smae spirit living in you, you have the authority to say ARISE | Discipline ARISE | Marriage ARISE
Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever -
illustration about being present
What is happening in your present RIGHT NOW that you are MISSING. What Miracle? What blessing?
Application
Application
Garner University did a study | 47% of people where not living in the Present | Not living for the now | I think WORSE now with Covid and the fear of hte future | Opportunities right now |
Or we live with attitude: ONe day when…then i’ll be happy. One day when I gradutate | Get a good job | get married | have kids | When I am set up then i’ll serve God
My mates mum, Tingly face, 4 weeks - Wasn’t a christian
We are going through life hoping for a future that may not exist when there are people that need to be saved / helped / blessed today.
What must we do? To start living in the present and being Faithful to the little bit?
Surrender a past that you cannot change and trust God for a future you cannot control
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
Shop with Friends, Dreading the time I had with Alexis - Oh gosh, sleepless nights - wish I could go back!
Stamps Picture of slowing down
You have been given SOMETHING to be faithful with. A small, something, that is right in front of your face.
2. DO NOT let your circumstances determine your call
You have someone to protect | A Kingdom to Advance | a Battle to in - Even if it’s small.
This is the day that the Lord has made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it.
You have today | You can’t love Jesus were you’re not. | You are a warrior, and you need ot fight for NOW - Be strong enough to FIGHT and give up what you think that looks like - and do what GOD is CALLING you to DO.
Story in the old testament, a man named Naaman | Great Warrior | Lead Armies | Had Leprosy | No cure | He wrote to the King asking for Healing | He went to Elisha the prophets house | Elisha said,
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 this is not the way Naaman thought it should go | left Angry | Not only was this too simple of a thing to do, he compared the water in which he was being dipped in
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.
He finally got convinced to do it | He was healed |
What do we know? Naaman needed the Lord | Naaman got Direction | Naaman didn’t like direction | Naaman got encouragement | The lord Comes through
Be faithful with What God has for you, even if it doesn’t make sense TO YOU.
God will always come through for those who obey his ways
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What was David doing when God came knocking? Tending hte Sheep | He was where he was meant to be. What was Joshua instructions? “If you walk in my ways and keep my charge”
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If there was ANYONE that should have been self centered and focused on the future it was this guy (Picture of Jesus on cross)
He was present, and saw what was in front of him, someone that needed help | Criminal | The man said Jesus didn’t deserve it | Jesus looked over, in this state and says
And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”
Action
Action
You are a warrior | You have been given something | What have you been given? | What person to protect (wife, kids etc) | What part of kingdom? (Who to talk to?) | What battle?
So much going on in the world, bring your focus back to what you need to be faithful to here, what requires ALL your energy.
Inspiration
Inspiration
How do you start? Know who you are | Jesus Baptism | Son of God
What does your life look like to live this way? To be obssessed with the little | Marriage | One person to Christ? | What does it look like
You are a Child of God | Own it | Let me tell you where you are
Surrounded by Spirit lead, faith filled, spirit led, Warriors of God | Who will look to pour, before being filled | Spirit contributors, not consumers | Who will not insult God with anything less than BET the farm risk taking and will do anything short of sin | You are int he Fathers house | Community | You are a warrior
Someone to protect | kingdom | Battle. Be faithful with the little
**Prayer**
**Song**
**Mid Song - Altar Call** Let me tell you who Christ is.