God Always Finishes What He Starts...
How many of you have ever started something?
How many of you have ever started something and not finished it?
You know...for whatever reason
Either you may have forgotten
or changed your mind...
How many of you know… the moment you take Jesus as your Savior you start something...it's called a relationship...
And you become a member of the family of God, you are grafted in, you become an adopted son or daughter, an heir to the throne...AND you become entitled to everything that God has had planned for you from the beginning of time!
I tell you that to remind you...that this next
Scripture applies to you
Isaiah 41:10 MSG
“But you, Israel, are my servant.
You’re Jacob, my first choice,
descendants of my good friend Abraham.
I pulled you in from all over the world,
called you in from every dark corner of the earth,
Telling you, ‘You’re my servant, serving on my side.
I’ve picked you. I haven’t dropped you.’
Don’t panic. I’m with you.
There’s no need to fear for I’m your God.
I’ll give you strength. I’ll help you.
I’ll hold you steady, keep a firm grip on you.
Philippians 1:6 NKJ
“Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:”
Regardless of how you may feel, if you know JESUS as your your and Saviour...
no matter what your circumstances may be this morning!
Whether your 19 or 99, whether your alive or you've already went on to your reward....
and I say that because eternity is forever....
TBS (the bible says)
Your best days are not behind you..
with God,
Your Greatest Days Are Still Ahead of You!
That’s what makes serving God so exciting, because if you will let it, everyday will be more exciting than the one before!
And God will be there every step of the way...Gloriously Helping you through each and everyone of them...
Never tiring, never wavering...always attentive to what's going on in your life...
Psalms 121:1-5 NKJ
I will lift up my eyes to the hills—
From whence comes my help?
2 My help comes from the Lord,
Who made heaven and earth.
3 He will not allow your foot to be moved;
He who keeps you will not slumber.
4 Behold, He who keeps Israel
Shall neither slumber nor sleep.
When you make the choice to serve and live for the kingdom of God...
You can expect God to do all these things were reading about
Illus.
Bible Questions Answered.com says this:
The Bible is so full of God’s promises, that it is not really possible to count them. Some people have tried and come up with about 3000. Others have counted 7000. Herbert Lockyer wrote a book called All the promises of the Bible and claims to list 8000 of them...
So I want you to get the picture here… It's not about right doing, because we could never do enough to deserve all that God has in store for us…
It's all about right believing...not a bunch of rules and regulations, but simply believing and taking God at His Word!!
It's nothing that your going to do,
but everything that God can and wants
to do for you!
We haven’t even begun to reach the potential God has for each and
everyone of us...We haven't
even scratched the surface yet!
And probably never will...because even just scratching the surface is more than a lifetime of blessings and favor that we cannot even fathom or comprehend!!
The moment you became a child of God, you became a work in progress, Praise God!
If you will let God mold you and shape you, Like the Clay on the potters wheel...
He can take and make your life into something so far beyond beautiful...
And the amazing thing is… That he wants to! He loves you that much...that He is willing...to do that for you..
Well, you might say, you don’t know what’s going on with my situation!
I don’t have to know your situation, God knows!
But i do know this, He is bigger than your situation!
Maybe you feel like you are right in the middle, of one of the biggest
fights of your life...
There is nothing he can throw at you, even the kitchen sink, that Jesus hasn’t already defeated at the cross. Amen?
There’s not enough demons in hell, or roaming this earth, to keep God’s purpose and plan for your life from being fulfilled!
Romans 8:38 NKJ
37. Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
38. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,
39. nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
There is nothing that can get in between us and the love of God!
No matter what we may come against, God through His Son Jesus and His Love for us, has already made us conquerors over it! Praise God!
What I'm telling you today… Ought to be like throwing gasoline on the fire
That's what God's word does…
It fuels your faith!
It's full of life! Amen??
The world will try to bring you down…
The accuser will try to bring you down…
Your friends will try to bring you down…
Even your family will try to steal your joy…
God would have me tell you… That all those things are no match for the power of the Cross!! For what JESUS willingly did for you!
God knows better than anyone...“that in your life, as long as you rely on Him...
the best is yet to come
and that the greatest things in your life are still in the making....
Psalms 139:16 NKJ
16. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
And in Your book they all were written,
The days fashioned for me,
When as yet there were none of them.
The accuser doesn’t have the last word in your life, he never has!
God does, always has and always will have!….Gods words, speak life in every situation!
Gods words have Power in them...
Gods words never come back empty to Him, they always accomplish what He wants!
Come on now....Somebody ought to be Praising God for His faithful Word!
You may have never heard a word like this...
But God has been speaking good things over you, your whole life long!
When no one else was concerned...God was!!
When everyone else was saying no you can't… God was saying yes you can...
He has always said...you can do all things through Christ my Son who strengthens you...
He has always wanted nothing but the best for you and not one time anything less...
Even after all the stuff...everyone of us have put Him through! Not one time anything less
then His BEST....
And let me tell you this-His best, is way better than our best...there's no comparison
His word tells us time and time again…
Just how much God Loves and wants to bless His children!
Ephesians 5:2 MSG
Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that
TBS. Isaiah 55:8-11 MSG.
8-11. "I don't think the way you think.
The way you work isn't the way I work."
God's Decree.
"For as the sky soars high above earth,
so the way I work surpasses the way you work,
and the way I think is beyond the way you think.
Just as rain and snow descend from the skies
and don't go back until they've watered the earth,
Doing their work of making things grow and blossom,
producing seed for farmers and food for the hungry,
So will the words that come out of my mouth
not come back empty-handed.
They'll do the work I sent them to do,
they'll complete the assignment I gave them.
God brought Joseph up, out of the pit and took him straight from the prison to the palace, second in power only to Pharaoh!
Was Joseph qualified for that position of power?
Not really, but it didn’t matter, because God’s favor on his life, propelled him right past the qualifications,
The favor of God always does!
Who wouldn’t want the favor of God
on their life, if they only knew they could have it and what it could do for them in their life?
Its kind of like, the horse and water thing though, by that I mean,
You can tell someone about the favor and goodness of God….You can show them that they can experience it as well….But you can’t make them drink it!
If I could do one thing today… I would encourage you
to drink of the goodness and the things that God has for you!
But in order to do that...you have to be willing to lay the way things are….
the way things have always been aside….
and allow God an opportunity
to do a new work in your life and TRUST HIM if you want to see His Favor
Nothing is to hard for God! When you give Him a chance to work in your life!
Just because its always been the way it seems to be now...doesn’t mean that it’s the way its always gonna be!
Romans 8:28 NKJ
“all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
There’s not a mountain high enough….or a river wide enough, that can keep you from
The good things and the good life God has created for you!
As long as you are not only willing
to believe...but also receive them..
John 1:12 NKJ
12. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:
If you’ve been born again, then you are part of the family of God.
Everything that belongs to Jesus belongs to you.
When satan sees you he sees a child of God...
he sees what you are about to become and what you are about to do...
and I believe it worries him!
When satan sees your faith in Gods Promises...
he sees a destiny, in the making....That’s why he always
pulls out all the stops!
He wants to keep you from your future and keep you buried in the past.
He is not fighting you because of who you now are, where you now are, or what you now have.
He is fighting you because of who you are about to become, where you are about to go, and what you are about to do.
He knows better than anyone...that if you know Jesus, Know His powerful Grace and favor in your life and realize that others need to know the same thing,
You are a triple threat to him and he doesn’t stand a chance against you!
God has so much in store for you, if only
you are willing to step into it and embrace it!
That’s why the accuser fights so hard and spends all of his time talking about yesterday.
Did you ever notice satan doesn’t talk about your tomorrow, because he can‘t stand the possibility of what it might hold for you?
Funny idn’t, because your future is the only thing God wants to talk about, because He knows how good it looks for and what it holds for you! Praise God!
It’s your future, your destiny, that satan
wants to keep you from entering into.
Don’t look at your circumstance, look to the One who can change all your circumstances.
It doesn’t matter who or what is against you because if God is for you, they are fighting a losing battle, no matter what they might think! Praise God!
Romans 8:31 NKJ.
31. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
You are amazing in gods eyes!
You’re a work in progress!
You’re a miracle in the making!
When people look at you they may not see a finished product, but the good news is when God looks at you He already sees a finished work.
Isn’t it time you started seeing things God’s way, Nobody sees the possibilities and the good things that lay in store for you...
New opportunities each and every day...
His mercies are new every morning! His mercy endures forever! Great is His Faithfulness!
Amen??
Let's pray!
