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Think Bigger!
Contributed by Shane Brooks on Aug 2, 2005 (message contributor)
Summary: See things from God’s point of view.
Every day we are advancing the kingdom
But we’re only as powerful as we want to be.
There’s a lot of folks that wanna go to church
Not many that wanna be the church
Tired of looking for God in a building
Tired of looking for Jesus on a cross
Tired of "we gotta do it this way or that way"
I’m tired of---“My way or the HIway"-- God’s way falls by the wayside.”
Numbers 11: 4-23
Funny story – story of small faith
God we don’t have enough to feed em
“Moses when did I get weak?”
Moses open your mind
Enlarge your thinking
I set the world in place, spoke into existence.
You want meat Ill give you meat.
God fet the complainers---
If God will do this for the complainers
What will he do for the Worshippers
God always wants to make things bigger
How can we be bigger
We’re 3 and half times bigger that we were
We’re singing praises
We’ve found freedom
We’ve lost religion
We’ve lost the religious
We’ve seen your Holy Spirit
We’re working in your giftings
We’re growing in knowledge
Have you met God---This is not his pinnacle creation
God says, “You aint seen nothing yet.”
I will enlarge your territory
Every Sunday I’ve prayed for the enlarging, and I bless local churches
Why do I do that?
If I pray a blessing on their congregation, I get blessed
Why? WERE ALL THE SAME BODY
When any of us prosper we all prosper
I don’t want to be griping to God,-
Like these in the story
God wasn’t mad because they were sick of their menu
He was mad ---they still wanted to be in Egypt
That’s why buildings, names, or Denominations don’t move me
I don’t care which building I worship in
What the name is
I just wanna worship you God
King of kings
Lord of lords
Savior, king, redeemer
I wanna be where ever you want me
Luke 5:1-11
Another story of a small vision
Lord I’ve always done it this way
We know where the fish are
God wants to fill our nets
HE wants to almost sink our boat
Drop your net Peter, There’s a new way to catch fish
Forget what you knew in the past,PETER- check this out
Jer 33:3
Call to me and I will answer you and tell you
Great and unsearchable things you do not know”
The body of Christ isn’t defined by a building
But a building is defined by the People in it.
My faith swells when I think of how God is working on our behalf
Psalms 37:23-25