A Great Claim: Subtitle Does Your Shirt Need Ironed?

Interpretation

The church was totally full, my tie and shirt did not match and my shirt needed ironed.

A shirt and tie, in my case, go together, if they don’t match they don’t look right.

Shirt means- covering: anointing in this case it might even mean protection.

I went to the restroom to find another shirt that was going to match my tie.

The Lord was letting me know that there was something in my life that needed worked on. (something ironed out)

I now have a shirt and tie that matches, but my shirt still needs ironed.

God has given me a new shirt, covering, anointing maybe even protection, but it still needs ironed.

The gift that God has given me, I have. It is mine, but I still need to work on it with His help.

God wants to perfect the gifts in our lives to make a difference within other people lives.

On 2-11-08 I dreamed that there was an anointing flowing through the hands of the people of this church.

Maybe that anointing is flowing through you this morning.

The Anointing is approval, and power that flows from God’s Throne room.

Maybe, this morning, it is time for us to make a great claim.

God, I want power and approval that comes from you.

God, I will be all that I can be in you, and through it all I will not take my eyes off of you.

In order for Elisha to receive Elijah’s mantle he had to keep his eyes on his master.

In order for us to receive the mantles in our lives we have to keep our eyes on Jesus.

Hebrews 12:1-2

1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. {author: or, beginner}

Church, we need to lay down every weight and sin that gets in our ways of receiving our prizes.

Run your race and become a winner in Jesus name.

Maybe you need a new shirt, once you receive it maybe it will need ironed, maybe it needs worked on?

God has a call and a plan for your lives this morning.

That means He has an anointing for your lives.

Don’t you think that it is time to get serious for God?

Do you know that He is serious for you?

There have been many great warriors that have run this race of life before you.

They learned how to look to God for their answers to the problems that they had.

They learned how to be over comers by the Blood of Jesus.

Don’t you think that it is time to make a great claim?

Some of us might not have claimed anything at all; don’t you think that it is time to claim what is already ours?

Some of us have had hard beginnings; some of us have really gone through it but guess what?

1 Corinthians 10:13

13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. {common...: or, moderate}