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Summary: This message will serve to open our eyes to the fact that the leaders who seek the Lord, can expect God to do great things including placing people in certain positions to meet a need.

SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES

(1 Corinthians 1:10-11) (10) “Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.” (11) “For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.”

(Ephesians 4:1-3) (1) “I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,” (2) “With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;” (3) “Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.” (4) “There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;”

PREFACE SUMMARY

The church was born in power, and we are each chosen by God to fill the right place in the body of Christ. No one can do what you have been called to do and purposed to do in the kingdom of God. You are not here by chance because God had a divine plan for you even before creation.

God desires you to be active in the body of Christ, fully embracing and fulfilling the unique calling He has placed upon your life. He desires that you appreciate and embrace this calling because it is essential to your identity and impact on the world.

One problem in today's society is that some have developed pride and fallen into the devil's deception that they can isolate themselves from the body and build their kingdom, going so far as to call themselves "God's man or woman of the hour."

What’s wrong with this dangerous mindset is that it isolates them from their covering and leads people to associate their gifts with the person rather than giving worship and praise where it belongs.

If there is one thing that I have learned in my Christian life, it is that people are essential to God, and he does not want us living in bondage but in the power and victory of the cross.

Through the pages of church history, we discover that God has allowed His Holy Spirit to empower men and women of God in mighty demonstrations of His power, causing medical science to reconsider the power of prayer.

These powerful men and women of God allowed the Lord to use them to leave His signature through them to future generations, including us today, and it's exciting to read the testimonies of eyewitnesses who lived through these mighty outpourings of God’s Spirit.

The lives lived by these Saints are treasured maps that lead to treasures buried in remote, hidden places, waiting for someone to find them and claim them.

Our prayer should be for God to send a mighty Earth-shaking revival, one where His holiness will unmask the pretense that we witness in some churches today of what people call worship when, in reality, it is nothing more than a show of worked-up flesh full of pride and deceit.

I ask that you prayerfully go with me through this message, with an open mind, as I share what God has been revealing to me about the need for revival and what the enemy is doing to hinder it.

“GOD HATES A PROUD LOOK”

The enemy wants us divided and living in bondage to sin, which means being under its control, unable to break free from its influence. We must never give the devil an inch in our lives, for if we do, he will become our ruler, luring us to take the bait dangling in front of us like an angler trying to catch a fish.

He knows how to make it look appealing, but remember, if we do take the bait, it will have consequences and place us in bondage not only to him but to ourselves, causing us to sink deeper and deeper into mental depression.

It is time to come clean before God and ourselves and realize we are in a colossal war between good and evil, which is attempting to snare us into its malicious web of lies, believing that man is good and if you change his environment, you can change the man but does, not the scriptures tell us that man's heart is desperately evil and did not one writer declare that in this flesh, there is no good thing?

Did you know that there are two dangerous sins of the flesh that can greatly obstruct the flow of God’s Spirit in our lives and ministries: Pride and Racism?

Pride often manifests as an inflated sense of self-importance, leading people to prioritize their desires and achievements above God and, yes, above others. This attitude can create barriers to humility, community, and genuine connection with those we serve.

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