“I’m Changing The Way I Live”
The problem with the children of God is that we gain the knowledge of God and never allow the spirit of God to complete the work in us. The carnal mind judges after what it sees, feels and taste. Our conciliation can not be in what we have. To be spiritually minded means to agree with the word of God. We must be spiritual to hear what he says and able to see him in every situation; this causes us to change the way we live!
I have come to also understand that we sometimes like the way that we live. Why should anyone become addicted to there lifestyles? Why should the alcoholic continue driking himself to his grave? Why should the gambler stay in the lottery line and have no money to give to his family? Why should the prostitute continue selling her body on the streets when she can get married and receive Christ in her life and enjoy the blessings of God? All of good questions, but no one can ever give a response to them.
A lot of times we credit our troubles and temptations to God. It is fascinating to know that God will for our lives is for us to be ill, when he’s the doctor. Isn’t it fascinating to know that God wants us to be without and poor when he’s the richest and have everything. It is very funny to know that God wants us to play lottery when he tells us to give our tithes and we will have blessings that we won’t have the room to receive.
We need to sit back and ask ourselves this quesion, "What will I do if the Lord was not on my side?" How many of you have ever asked the Lord that? I know many of you haven’t because you have been busy questioning God as to why he hasn’t give you that Mercedes of Condo yet. The reason God is allowing the devil to hold your stuff is because you haven’t understood the word "faithfull." In this season of blessings in which God is blessing his people abundantly, God is blessing on accounts of faithfulness.
You want God to bles you with a 5 bedroom house and you couldn’t keep a 3 bedroom house. You almost break your neck walking over garbage and clothes, and (beer cans) that are in the floor. Don’t get crazy in here today! You know when you see Pastor, you start hiding them cans and tickets. Don’t try to fool me, honey the bible says in Proverbs 15:3:"The eyes of the Lord are in every place keeping watch on the good as well as the evil." I don’t never have to know what you are doing, I just know that you aren’t living right.
When you’re living right, my spirit and your spirit should have connections. Oh, I know I am not going to get many amens. I could not have seen you in fifteen years, it doesn’t matter, when I see you it shouldn’t be no oughts or frets, our spirit should connect and be as if I have seen you on a regular basis. The reason being is because the same God in Texas is the same God in Georgia. The same God in Canada is the same God should be in Georgia. That is why the bible describes God as omnipresent. He is everywhere at all times!
In order to change the way you live, you first must be willing to accept correction. Do you know that there are church folk who know everything! They know more about God than you and they just got saved. That’s fascinating to me. You want to join my ministries and learn from me and you know more than me. How can you know more than me and you didn’t know that Christ loved you. If you had known, you would have given him your life a long time ago. Pastors, in order to deal with people like this, you have to let them think they know everything and when they finish giving you inadequate bible study, take them to the word of God and show them your kindness in a friendly way. I am tired of preachers especially who preach there initial sermon today and are pastoring on tomorrow. How can you pastor and you have just preached your first sermon.
The questions to the pastor is this: "You wander why you don’t have a vision and if you do have one, it is not prospering? The reason is because you don’t have a relationship with God. If you had a relationship with God you would have heard when God said "Pray for Pastor..........and not go and Pastor. That’s why you got three members and that’s you, your wife, and your mother. You will always have three until you get connected to God again. A lamp won’t work until it have connection. Until you connect with God, your gifts, ministry, and anointing will be on HALT!
I am wandering, how many people in here are ready to change the way they are living? The second step in changing is: be willing to change. If you want to stop smoking cigarettes, stop going to the store and buying them. It’s that simple! If you want to live a better life for God, stop feeding your flesh so much, go on a fast and let God lead you into the places that he has called you too. Many of you say, "I CAN’T FAST...!" That’s why you’re fat and I am not talking about physically, I am talking about spiritually, FULL OF LUST...!" So FAT you can’t even hear God no more. You got to question God twenty time before you make your move. The minute you prayed, as a matter of fact before you prayed, God answered your prayer. I love that about God, he is a pre God. Always there before anything occurs, on the scence before anything takes place. Isn’t he awesome!
The last thing to change is: separating yourself from things that causes you not to change. IF you want to be a better christian, you must hang around good christians. In hanging around good christians, the anointing upon their life makes you glow. You know you haven’t been spending time with God, but your brother whose in the faith and doing the will of God anointing is shining you and him. Have you ever wandered how an ugly person have the best mates? Baby, it’s not the looks, it’s the anointing that she sees in Brother Joe. God knows his looks wouldn’t have got her, but I want you to know that anointing does something that looks can’t do.
You see, when God has changed your life, you don’t need the pastors’ anointing to heal the sick. You can use your anointing. You don’t need the pastor everytime there’s a crisis, you can use what God has given you and get the job done. You need to know, it is not the pastor whose doing the healing anyway. All the pastor does is lay hands and God does the healing. It is time for God’s people to change and live the life that Christ has called us to live.
In going to our text, we find that if you’re carnally minded, it leads to death. A carnal mind is a terrible mind. The devil uses carnal minded people to defeat us spiritually minded folk. That is why my brothers and sisters, you have to stayed prayed up. In order for your car to run, it needs gas. In order for your spirituals bodies to run, it needs some anointing, praying, fasting, and reading or studying the word of God. It is time for God’s people to change and take back what the devil has stolen from us.
People in the church don’t even have there own identity anymore. Everybody is trying to be like somebody else. I have learned that it is only one Eustache and I think I do a good job being myself. I have also learned that God didn’t create but one of me. I can remember kids, young people telling me they want to be like me and I was one who had a big problem with lusting. See, what you need to realize is; when you are talking about you want to be like someone, you need to check there lives out. I still want to be myself. The bible says in Ephesians 5:1"Be Imitators of Christ."
Christ is the best person in the world to imitate. If you imitate Christ, some of those lusting spirits will flee. The next part of that verse is: "to be spiritually minded is life and peace." When your mind is focused on God and his wonderful works, you don’t have time to sit and thank how you’re going to plot evil against your sister or brother. When God is on your mind, you don’t want to call Sis. Cantaloupe and gossip about what Sis. Honeydew had on in church today. Brothers, when you focused on God, whether Brother Brother Collard or Deacon Chicken had on a six button suit or an eight button, it doesn’t matter because your mind is spirituals. Pastors’ jobs will be a lot easier if the people would stop fighting and seek the face of God.
I hope this sermon has helped you. There are several other parts to this sermon, I can’t paste them all right now because I have to finish completing them. I hope you have been blessed by this sermon. If the Lord leads you into calling me for an engagement, I will surely be glad to accept is the spirit approves of it. Go to my contact page and let me hear from you today!
God bless you!
