Let's Stir Up The Gift

I want to say thanks be to God, that there is still near the sheep a house of mercy, and grace and a pool that supplies every need, like Grace: which keeping from what I don’t deserve and Mercy which allows me to get what I do deserve.

When we look at John 5, we see that there was a multitude of impotent folks, feeble with sick diseases, without any strength. They were blind, halted and withered. And my brothers and sisters it’s no different today, even in our own churches today across the land, there are a multitude of impotent folk, weak, sickly, diseased, powerless people.

Some are sick physically, some spiritually, some emotionally, some have sickness or weakness in their marriage, some are weak and feeble in their finances, some live on an emotional roller coaster, some are sick with fear and worry and anxieties. And most of them have the hope that one of these days, somehow, someway, God is going to move on their behalf, and it will all turn things around miraculously. And there are many who are still waiting for the moving of the water today. There are a multitude of people who are waiting, they are waiting for the next great revival, The next great move of God. They are waiting for God to do something. But the fact of the matter is that sometimes, in your waiting that you have to stir the water for yourself, while we’re waiting on the water to stir, God is waiting on us to stir the water.

2nd Tim 1:6 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. Sometimes you have to stir it up, get it moving, agitate things a little bit; we need to stir up the anointing, stir up our faith. What God is looking for is some good old, old fashion, Holy Ghost agitators.

For those of you who knows how to bar-b-que, you know that when it seems like your fire is about to go out, you can stir it up and find some hot coals or embers underneath the ashes, and when the air comes across those embers they come alive again and rekindle your fire.

And somebody this morning needs is a fresh wind from heaven, the wind of the Holy Ghost to blow over our souls again. And you got to know that wind and the fire always go together.

To prove my argument, in Acts 2:1-3 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. So, first, the wind filled the house, and then the cloven tongues of fire, and then they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. Tell your neighbor. It’s time to wake up, shake up, whip up, and stir up the anointing.

The word Stir means to agitate, disturb, disrupt move, and shift. The words stir up, also means to keep blazing and to keep the flame of the fire burning. But it can also mean to rekindle and to re-stir the flame, which indicate that the flame was about to go out, which is what is meant here. Because as we look here we see that there was no doubt Timothy facing what we sometimes face: he was facing times when he needed to be re-stirred, restored and rekindled. He was facing some disappointments, he was facing some sorrows, he was facing some depression, heartaches, let downs, some regrets, troubles, grief and some pains. But I want to share with you that in your adversity that there are a few things that I want to suggest to you that will keep your fire burning.

The first thing you need to do is, stir up the gift of God in you. What is the gift of God? Your spiritual gifts, your natural gifts, which the Holy Spirit gives to every believer to equip them and to help them to be able to minister to others.

In other words, even though you are facing trails and

tribulations, the gift that is down on the inside of you will still have enough left to help you minister to someone else.

In our lesson Paul was facing death; he was about to be executed. And in his departing, He he’s still give charge after charge to Timothy. He told him that one of the very first things Timothy needed to do was to keep his spiritual gifts blazing and burning to the hottest point possible. He shares with him that he needs to keep on stirring up his gift, and never letting its flame lose any of its intensity. He needs to use his gift to minister and never slack up or losing his zeal.