GOD NEEDS YOU! THE DOMINO EFFECT: HERE GOD, HERE ---
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (YouTube: Wade Hughes) (Two part)
SEVERAL YEARS AGO WE HEARD: PAY IT FORWARD?
The Bible speaks of making a difference.
Jude 1:22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
The inverse of this is true: Some do not have compassion and they will not make a difference. The choice is up to you. WE RISE BY LIFTING OTHERS! PAY IT FORWARD: ONE ACT OF KINDNESS CAN GO A LONG WAY. ONE PERSON CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
IS IT EASIER TO MAKE A BUCK THAN IT IS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE? WHAT AM I CONTRIBUTING TO MAKE OUR FAMILY, OUR CHURCH AND OUR NATION BETTER?
Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. 9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
LET US BE HONEST: SEEMS EVERYONE THINKS OF CHANGING THE WORLD, BUT FEW THINK OF CHANGING SELF? COULD YOU MAKE A POSITIVE IMPACT ON ONE PERSON?
*JOHN F. KENNEDY SAID: ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU; ASK WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY.
JFK: ONE PERSON CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE, AND EEVERYONE SHOULLD TRY.
*SUPEREME COURT JUDGE: RUTH BADER GINSBURG
FIGHT FOR THE THINGS THAT YOU CARE ABOUT. BUT DO IT IN A WAY THAT WILL LEAD OTHERS TO JOIN YOU.
WE RISE BY LIFTING OTHERS! PAY IT FORWARD: ONE ACT OF KINDNESS CAN GO A LONG WAY. ONE PERSON CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
PERHAPS ONE PERSON CAN NOT CHANGE THE WHOLE WORLD? GOD’S LOVE CAN HELP YOU BECOME THE WORLD TO ONE PERSON. IF EACH ONE REACHED ONE KINDNESS CAN
CONSIDER THE DOMINO EFFECT: BE AN IGNITOR: BE AN INITIATOR TO INSPIRE OTHERS. GOD HELP US GIVE HOPE.
Oprah Winfrey was travel on a TOLL ROAD in the north east. She stopped to pay her toll, and the lady said: SOME MAN AHEAD OF YOU PAID THE TOLL FOR YOU. Oprah drove away and thought about it. She turned around and went back and paid the toll for the next 100 cars. Look what one act of kindness did? PAY IT FORWARD.
ONE MAN MADE A DIFFERENCE. GOD EXTENDED AN INVITATION TO HIS FRIEND THAT MADE A DIFFERENCE. . GOD CAME DOWN TO EARTH AND WALKED AND TALKED WITH A MAN THAT MADE A DIFFERENCE. GOD SAID: ENOCH TOMORROW WHAY DON’T YOU COME TO MY HOUSE ---
Genesis 5:22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: 23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
ENOCH WAS ADAM’S GREAT GRANDSON. ENOCH MADE A GREAT DIFFERENCE AND WAS GOD’S FRIEND.
CONSIDER ELIJAH. HE MADE A DIFFERENCE WHILE SERVING UNDER IN UNDER ONE OF THE OF WORSE KING AND QUEEN, AAAHAB AND JEZEBEL. ELIIJAH’S WORK HAD A RIPPLE EFFECT OF COMPASSION FOR THE WHOLE NATION OF ISRAEL.
Ask Elijah: CAN ONE PERSON MAKE A DIFFERENCE? His answer: SURE THEY CAN --- HOW? Elijah warns AHAB the same dogs that licked Nabboth’s blood will lick yours. Jezebel was a woman of manipulation and idolatry --- faces a terrible death: THE DOG’S not only lick her blood they eat all but feet, hands and head.
2 Kings 9:35 And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
HOW CAN I MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
Luke 6:38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
One makes a difference by loving people and by being kind. In the Bible we see people make a difference by taking God’s 3 gifts (TIME, TALENT AND ENERGY) TO BE MOTIVATED AND GIVE ACTION TO BRING ABOUT POSITIVE ATTITUDES AND CHANGES. We can give hope by VOLUNTEERING, TEACHING AND SETTING AN EXAMPLE FOR OTHERS TO FOLLOW.
JESUS IS TIRED BUT HE KNOWS THERE IS A HOPELESS LADY DESPISED BECAUSE OF HER SINFUL CHOICES. JESUS CARES… THIS LADY IS GOING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. ONE LADY BRINGS THE WHOLE TOWN TO JESUS.
John 4:4 And he must needs go through Samaria.
John 4:28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, 29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ? 30 Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.
SOMETIMES TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE GOD MUST TAKE US THROUGH NEGATIVE SITUATIONS. SOMEONE HAS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO RELEASE A MIRACLE.
HOW WILL THIS PAGAN SICK MAN KNOW THAT GOD CAN HEAL? WHY DOES THIS BEAUTIFUL YOUNG GIRL HAVE TO BE A CAPTIVE IN A STRANGE LAND? GOD CAN USE NEGATIVE SITUATIONS TO BRING ABOUT THE MIRACLES THAT TESTIFY TO THE WORLD. TRUST GOD’S PLAN EVEN WHEN IT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE. NAAMAN IS NOT A CANDIDATE FOR GOD’S MERCY? BUT HE TRUST THE PLAN.
2 Kings 5:1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper. 2 And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife. 3 And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy. 4 And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel.
I CAN DO IT, I CAN’T MAKE A DIFFERENCE. GOD CALLS: WHO ME? YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING? GOD IS LOOKING FOR A PERSON THAT WILL BOLDLY STAKE A STEP OF FAITH. THE ENEMY HAS SO OPPRESSED GOD’S PEOPLE THAT THEY DON’T TRUST GOD. THEIR FAITH HAS SURRENDERED TO DOUBT. FAITH GOD WANTS TO USE YOU ---BUT YOU ARE HIDING IN FEAR FROM THE ENEMY.
Judges 6:11 And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
12 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.
LORD, ARE YOU KIDDING? GOD IF YOU ARE WITH US --- WHY IS ALL THIS BAD STUFF HAPPENING?
Sure we have heard of miracles but that was years ago!
Judges 6:13 And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.
YOU THINK GOD WANTS TO USE ME? YOU DON’T KNOW THE FACTS: MY FAMILY IS POOR --- DON’T YOU KNOW: I AM THE LOWEST ON THE TOTEM POLE? I HAVE EXCUSES TO OFFER.
Judges 6:15 And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.
Gideon has 30,000 troops? God says that’s too many. WHAT? YOU’RE KIDDING AGAIN? No, God can take 300, a trumpet, a pitcher and a torch --- GOD NEEDS YOUR HANDS!
GOD IS NOT SEACHING FOR CERTAIN GENDERS. GOD SEARCHES FOR WILLING WORKERS. GOD IS LOOKING FOR WILLING WORKERS. KING JABIN HAS A GENERAL NAMED SISERA.
SISERA WAS CRUEL AND UNDEFEATED IN BATTLE. WANT TO TALK ABOUT IMPOSSIBLE ODDS? ISRAEL IS IN GREAT TROUBLE AGAIN, JABIN HAS BEEN CRUEL TO GOD’S PEOPLE. GOD NEEDS SOMEONE TO ARISE AND OBEY GOD’S PLAN. LET US MEET A LADY NAMED DEBORAH. GOD TAPS DEBORAH ON THE SHOULDER AND SAYS: I NEED YOU AS A LEADER, A JUDGE AND A PROPHETRESS.
Deborah has a leader named BARAK. Barak was supposed to have been Israel’s military leader. Deborah was the prophetess and she BOLDLY SAID: BARAK, GOD HAS THIS PROBLEM. Barak is moved by fear and doubt. He doubts’ himself and thus he doubts GOD’S PLAN. Barak refuses to obey… SO DEBORAH STEPS UP AND COMPLETELY TRUSTS GOD’S PLAN.
THAT IS NOT THE END --- DEBORAH LEADS TO A GREAT VICTORY OVER JABIN’S 900 CHARIOTS. BUT GOD IS GOING TO SHOW BARAK GOD USES WOMEN. SISERA WAS UN-DEFEATABLE. SISERA WAS THE MIGHTY GENERAL. BARAK COULD NOT DEFEAT SISERA. BUT GOD --- BUT GOD USED A LITTLE LADY NAMED JAEL. GOD USES THOSE THAT HE CHOOSES.
Judges 4:15 And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
GOD IS SEARCHING FOR THOSE THAT WILL TRUST HIS PLAN AND OBEY HIS COMMAND.
Judges 4:17 Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite. 18 And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle. 19 And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
WHO DEFEATED SISERA? LITTLE, OLD TENT KEEPER JAEL. GOD DOES NOT NEED MIGHTY MEN. GOD‘S PLAN WILL USE THOSE AVAILABLE.
Judges 4:21 Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote he nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
THE SEARCH IS ON! WHO WILL STAND IN THE GAP FOR YOUR FAMILY? YOUR CHURCH? YOUR NATION? WILL YOU GO, MY FRIEND? CAN THE HEAVENLY FATHER DEPEND ON YOU?
Ezekiel 22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
DON’T EAT THE SEED CORN. WE MUST DIE TO SELF DESIRES. WILL WE BE CRUCIFIED FOR GOD’S PEOPLE, TO BEAR FRUIT. WILL BE FOREVER BARREN? HEAR THIS TRUTH --- GOD NEEDS SOME TO PLOW, SOME TO WATER… SOME TO REAP.
My dad was a pastor and we lived in the country. A large part of our food chain was the garden. We had a huge garden and mom would can our food for the winter. Part of gardening was reaping and preparing the food.
My dad had a line he would always say: DON’T EAT THE SEED CORN. Sure part of the harvest was for food. There was a larger part. WE HAD TO SAVE SOME SEED FOR NEXT YEAR. If we ate the seed there would be no garden next year. Dad would always save an abundance of seed in a dry place… this would be our future.
John 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
1 Corinthians 3:6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
CONCLUSION: Someone needs you! Someone is watching you? Someone will follow in your footsteps? Where are you leading others? Let us trade “A ROD” for “THE ROD OF GOD!”
Isaiah 6:8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
God needs you to stand in the gap for others. Can the pastor count on you? Ask yourself: What kind of church would your church be if all the members were just like me?
His servant, Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (YouTube: Wade Hughes)
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