Rev Dr Phil Pringle - Service 4

Credits goes to Thomas, Alicia, Karwen.

OFFERING MESSAGE

The church grows in a time of war.
A church that shakes the world is a church that fights the devil.

When you ask for a pot, God gives you clay.
When you ask for a tree, God gives you seed.
E.g. parable of the talent.

Everything begins in a seed.
God wants you to be involved in the GROWTH and MATURITY of the seed.
God gives you the power, you apply it.

To remember someone it means, to give/pay tribute.
E.g. to remember a birthday, is to buy a present, etc.

Tithing is a law. It works whether you believe it or not.
E.g. whether you believe gravity or not, even though you believe you can fly,
the moment you jump off a high spot, you WILL drop!

Your offering can bring in the biggest blessing, but without the tithe,
Which opens the windows of heaven, no matter how great your blessing is,
Its still being shut off because your tithe belongs to God, it is sacred.

Keep it and it becomes a curse, give it to God and you open the windows of heaven. Only then will your blessings rain down. E.g. a country without an open heaven experiences famine, civil war, etc.

E.g. North and South Korea. Both are alongside each other, but on one side, an opened heaven, on the other side, a closed heaven.

SERMON

God is not looking for innocence, He is looking for virtue.
Virtue is innocence tested and innocence THAT HAS passed the test.
Virtue brings in power in your life, that power can flow through you,
To heal, deliver, etc.

The devil attacks you with "If you are"; He doesnt care how high your calling is.
He attacks you in the area of your self-doubt.
Baby Jesus had no consciousness of being God, He grew up like a normal man.
He understood who He was by REVELATION.

Dont just suppose Jesus is with you, KNOW He is there.
Why did you God give you emotions? To feel and experience God!

Feelings can determine life or death!
E.g. people commit suicide not because of facts of situations or logic going on in their mind, but because of a feeling!

God gave us feelings for the positive.

You have to be healed inside, before you can be healed outside.
You have to be prosperous inside, before you can be prosperous outside.
Etc, etc...

If you can see it, you can have it.

The anointing is not just for preachers, but for every believer baptised in the Holy Spirit.

No Holy Spirit, no anointing.
There's a price to pay for the anointing,
a price which you may have to pay for the rest of your life.

Sometimes God will ask you to do what you cannot do.
At the same time, He will not ask you to do what He hasnt already equipped you to do.

Understand your weakness.
Understand the area in which you need God the most.
God's anointing and power falls on you the moment you realise you cant do it on your own.

When you are weak, He is strong.
(But it doesnt mean you put yourself down and despise yourself).

Its all about the anointing.

And when people finally see it, they glorify God and not man.
You have to stir up the anointing.

The anointing teaches you to do things you have not known how to do.
But that is no excuse for you to be lazy.

3 KEYS TO THE ANOINTING:

1. Emerge through your trials victoriously.

2. Acknowledge your weakness and depency on God.
All of us have an anointing in us; a measure of faith.
2 Cor 1:2

3. Wait on God.
Isaiah 40:31, Isaiah 64:5
Dont go ahead of God.

7 FACTS OF THE ANOINTING:

1. The anointing is tangible.

Mark 5:30
You can feel it.
When its there, you know its there.

2. The anointing sets you free.

Isaiah 10:27
There is liberty in the anointing of God.
Liberty is not the freedom to do what you want, liberty is the freedom to resist what you dont want.

3. The anointing enables you to do the impossible.

It teaches you, it guides you, it equips you to do the will of God.

4. The anointing brings you joy.

Isaiah 61:3
We should be the most fun people.
We should be the most colorful, the most happening, the most creative, the most productive, the most talented and skillful, the most prosperous, the most successful.

God is not a beige and boring God. If he'd just given you what you NEEDED, He'd given you black and white vision. Why give you colors? He couldve just fed you with potatoes, why feed you with fish? And fish alone, there are thousands of species!

God may be big and mighty, but He sure knows how to dance when He rejoices!
Being in a mess yourself isnt gonna help others in a mess.

5. The anointing can be imparted.

Luke 4:16-18, Heb 6

6. The anointing has a measure.

It can be increased. It can drop.

7. The anointing is here to revive and refresh.

2 Kings 4, Acts 3:19
'Refreshing' - recovery from the effects of heat.

Feel free to let me know if I missed out on anything. Oh yes, thanks Timo and Thad for the cg refreshments :) It was uber shiok haha. The last we had pizza even more shiok LOL.

Okay, I have no idea why I put up the offering message haha. I guess I got too excited about typing notes lol. I just love typing. :D

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