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GOD’S PLAN
OR
OUR PLAN
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Crossroads Full Gospel
International Ministries
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CONTENTS
GOD’S PLAN OR OUR PLAN................................................1
BUILDING ON THE ROCK................................................1
THE PLAN AND THE TIMING..........................................6
GOD WILL REVEAL HIS PLAN........................................9
OBTAINING GOD’S ANOINTING..................................13
HEARING THE VOICE OF THE LORD..........................17
GOD’S PLAN OR OUR PLAN
In this teaching, we will be examining various requirements for
churches, ministries and individuals achieving success in the Lord.
We will be looking at the primary ingredients needed to have a
successful church, ministry or personal walk.
And we will learn how
vitally important it is to have a God-given plan so that we can each
work towards the goal to which God has called us.
BUILDING ON THE ROCK
Background Reading: 1 Corinthians 3:10-15
The Lord Jesus Himself indicated in Matthew Ch.16 that any
work needs to be built on the foundation of “the rock.”
MATTHEW 16:16 And Simon Peter answered and said,
“You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
MATTHEW 16:17 And Jesus answered and said unto
him, “Blessed are you, Simon Barjona (son of Jonah):
for flesh and blood has not revealed it (My true identity)
unto you, My Father Who is in heaven.
MATTHEW 16:18 And I say also unto you, That you
are Peter (“petros”), and upon this rock (“petra”) I will
build My Church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail
(succeed) against it.”
The rock to which Jesus was referring was not Peter
(translated from the Greek word “petros” which means “a fragment
of rock”), but rather the Divine revelation that was imparted to Peter,
by the Father, of Jesus’ true identity (as in verse 17).
And we know
this “rock” (translated from the Greek word “petra” which means “a
huge, immovable mass of rock”) refers to Christ as the Living Rock,
in Whom all truth is found.
Only through Christ does God bring
truth to us, for He is the door, the gate, and the pathway - and in Him
is all our provision (John 14:6).
Only through Christ, by the ministry
of the Holy Spirit, can the truth of God’s Word be revealed, truth
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which we digest so that our minds are renewed and we are set free to
do God’s will.
Christ is the Living Rock, but only through daily
fellowship with Him can we grow.
Thus relationship with Christ and
truth function together.
Digested truth produces faith, which when
applied according to God’s will, brings the power of God to bear on
situations and circumstances.
Essentially, “the rock” (“petra”) on which the Church is built is
Christ, Who is the source of all truth.
Thus in a spiritual sense, this
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