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  GO FAR TO FIND FRESH FIRE
  by Vlad Savchuk
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of answering the call of
God, highlighting the need for believers to activate the call within
them to impact the world. It stresses that the next move of God depends
on everyday believers being activated by God for various ministries. The
sermon also discusses the significance of surrendering to God's call,
embracing suffering, seeking encounters with God to activate one's
calling, and the impact of character on fulfilling one's calling.

Topics: "Answering God's Call", "Activating Your Ministry"
Scripture References: Numbers 20:12, Deuteronomy 1:37, Hebrews 11:23, Exodus 3:9, Matthew 7:16, Galatians 5:22, James 1:19, Ephesians 4:26

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This sermon emphasizes the importance of answering the call of God,
highlighting the need for believers to activate the call within them to
impact the world. It stresses that the next move of God depends on
everyday believers being activated by God for various ministries. The
sermon also discusses the significance of surrendering to God's call,
embracing suffering, seeking encounters with God to activate one's
calling, and the impact of character on fulfilling one's calling.

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I want to share with you today about answering the call of God.
Answering the call of God. Somebody say answer the call of God.

We have a lot of breakers that are converging in this, a lot of people
that are on Isaiah's map, a lot of people that are maybe connected to
our ministry, many of you who got saved during COVID, many of you who
found your fire during COVID, and you must understand that this is not
about a one man. God has raised up men and women of God, not so that you
look at them, it's so that they activate the real call that is inside of
you. The next move of God is not going to depend on the stage, it will
depend on the pew.

It will be you and I, it will be everyday believer being activated by
God, to be used by God, to drive out demons, heal the sick, raise the
dead, make disciples, baptize people. You are called for such a time as
this. You are a royal generation, you are a holy people, you are his own
special people.

The only reason God raised up people like me, God raised up people like
Pastor Mike and Isaiah and so many others, not because we're special,
but because you're marked by God, to be activated by God, to be equipped
by God, to live for God, and to make a difference in this world for God.
Can somebody shout yeah! Unfortunately the church has become a
destination, but the church is supposed to be a gas station, a gas
station where you get fueled up. Your destination is your world, your
platform is your career, your platform is the marketplace, your platform
is the media, is the education, is the Hollywood, is the government and
the church.

This conference is a gas station. It's not your destination. Destination
is the Holy Spirit moving in your life and through your life at your
workplace, at your family dinner, at the Starbucks, at the restaurant.

Can somebody say amen? Career is what you choose, a calling what you
discover. Career requires education, calling requires anointing. Career
gives you a retirement, calling gives you eternal reward.

And it's nothing wrong to have a career, but every person here has a
calling. We all have a general calling and that is to love God, to win
souls, make disciples, cast out demons and heal the sick. And so many
people want to know their specific calling and I always tell them if you
give your attention to your general calling, your specific calling will
manifest in God's time.

The second most important decision in your spiritual walk after you
encounter Jesus is when you discover your purpose. When you run from the
call of God, you are running from the presence of God. The Bible says
about Jonah and Jonah fled from the presence of God.

Where was he running from? The call. God gave him the call to go to
Nineveh and Jonah didn't go to a bar, he just ran from the call of God
and in running from the call of God, he was actually running from the
presence of God. God's presence is connected to your purpose.

There are people who sometimes say I don't feel the presence of God, I
don't sense the anointing of God. God's anointing doesn't always rest on
the person, it rests on the purpose. When a person walks away from their
purpose, God's anointing begins to lift.

When Saul does not kill Amalekites, God lifts the anointing. Why?
Because God's anointing is connected to your assignment. When you don't
embrace your assignment, you can pray and fast, you can do all of the
stuff the people need to do.

But God's anointing is not for a show, it's not for you. It's so it
could be manifested through you and God will increase his anointing if
you stay connected to your assignment. I'm going to share with you just
five simple things concerning the call of God.

And so if you're taking notes, write the first thing down is I was born
on purpose. Say this with me, say I was born on purpose. Hebrews 11 and
verse 23 it says, By faith Moses when he was born was hidden three
months by his parents because they saw he was a beautiful child and they
were not afraid of the king's command.

By faith when Moses became of age refused to be called the son of
Pharaoh's daughter. I was born on purpose. What happened in the days of
Moses is what happened in the days of Jesus and is what happened in your
day.

There was a bloodthirsty Pharaoh, there was a bloodthirsty Herod and
there was a bloodthirsty Roe versus Wade that was killing babies. Moses
came at the time where baby's lives wasn't valued, where they would
throw them in the Nile, they would kill them. Midwives were ordered by
the king to kill male babies.

The same thing started to happen around the Jesus' time. Herod wanted to
wipe out the children. You came for such a time as this and the devil
knew that there is a generation that's coming and that's why he went on
a slaughter of babies because he did not want a deliverer, a breaker, a
somebody who is going to shake his kingdom to be born.

Some of you maybe are here and you never met your father and your mother
and you maybe feel like you were born on accident. Maybe your mom and
dad didn't want you but God used your mom to get you into this world.
You didn't come from your parents, you came through your parents.

You have a purpose and every suicide spirit was defeated. Every death
spirit that wanted to take you out could not take you out. You are
standing here because you have a purpose.

Somebody shout, I have a purpose. I was born a month after the Chernobyl
happened. I was not very far where there was one of the largest nuclear
explosions that happened in the world.

One of the things that even affected my eyesight and I believe that from
the early age the devil wanted to take me out. Three months before I was
born my mom was told that I am gonna be born dead. My grandma started to
pray, went to a prophet and the prophet says that child will be born.

That child will not die and I have a purpose for that child and I
believe the same thing is about you. Even if there was no prophet to
predict your birth, I'm here to stand. Your birth is a sign you have a
purpose.

Your birth is a sign that you have an assignment. Your birth is a sign
you are a threat to the kingdom of darkness and during the birth there
was something that happened where the optical nerve was damaged and I
grew up struggling believing that I had a purpose. I believed that I was
an accident.

I believed that my life had no meaning and it had no purpose but little
did I know is that I was wrong. There's not one person under the sound
of my voice who does not have an assignment from God. You have an
assignment from God and if maybe you grew up as a foster child or maybe
perhaps you grew up as a person who was rejected by your parents and
you're battling with these insecurities.

Please understand your parents love is just an appetizer. God's love is
the main meal. Don't curse the restaurant just because you got a small
appetizer.

Some of us expect too much out of our parents and too little out of our
heavenly father and that was my situation. I want to challenge you.
Forgive your parents for what they did.

Embrace the destiny that God has for you because you are not an
accident. You were born on purpose. Somebody say amen.

Purpose can change your life. The second thing that I want to highlight
and I'm going to go through this fast. Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 23
we've read that the bible says is that when he became of age Moses
refused.

Somebody say refused. And then it says in verse 25 choosing rather to
suffer. Somebody say suffer.

Affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of
sin. The second thing that I want to highlight and that is this is you
have to leave sin and embrace suffering. You're not ready for a call of
God if you don't develop a huge threshold for pain.

I know many of us come to Jesus to alleviate suffering but Jesus and the
call of God has an element of suffering that many times we don't tell
you about. The bible does not say that Moses forsook pleasures of sin
and embraced an abundant life. He embraced a life of suffering.

We have taught our people more on how to enjoy life and how to endure
life. We have raised snowflakes spineless Christians who melt when
hardships come. Who melt when they get offended.

Who melt when their pride get injured. Who melt when somebody doesn't
give them their parking space. Who melt when they have to wait for four
hours in the line and not get in the service.

Why? Because we have a generation that has been massaged in their ego.
Instead of being like Moses who the bible says he embraced suffering
with God's people. Living a Christian life is not being on a vacation.

It's more like being on a Normandy beach. It's a life of the cross not a
life of a Pepsi Cola. Many of us cannot enter the call of God because
we're too soft.

We are scared of pain. We are scared of suffering. We are scared of
persecution.

We are scared of losing our status. We are scared of being canceled. We
are scared of being demonetized.

We are scared of being deplatformed. We are scared of getting fired. We
are scared of being broken up.

That boyfriend leaving you. I want to tell you you will never walk in
the call of God until you have a big threshold for suffering. He
suffered.

He embraced it before God called him. He embraced suffering. Number
three.

He embraced the suffering with God's people and I want you to see this.
He goes far. Write this down.

Go far to find fire. Put this in your notebook. Go far to go fire and
I'm going to read from NLT.

One day Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the
priest of Midian. He led the flock far, somebody say far, into the
wilderness and came to Sinai, the mountain of God. For 40 years he was a
shepherd but something happened one day when he went beyond the border
of what was familiar.

When he went further than before, when he went far into wilderness, he
experienced a fire. He needed that fire to walk in that calling because
every person must understand God's callings are activated by God's
encounters. An encounter with God activates your calling.

You need, I need the fire of God for a calling. What has happened in our
nation is the Christianity has become this where you want to fulfill the
call of God you go and get a degree. A biblical way was never a degree
is you have to get fire.

That's why we have dead preachers preaching dead sermons to dead people.
That's why churches are closing because a degree does not break the
anointing, break the yoke. Anointing breaks the yoke.

Degree does not drive out demons. Anointing drives out demons. A degree
does not cause a homosexual to become a saint.

It is the power of the Holy Ghost and Moses could not deliver a nation
before Moses would have an encounter with the fire of God. Somebody
shout fire. How do you get this fire? Do you go to the conference? Could
be you can get it at the conference.

You can get a spark but you don't burn continuously on fire until you
find a mountain. God's fires come on God's mountains and if you don't
find your mountain you will not find the fire that you need to activate
the call that you have. So many of us are looking for connections and so
many of us were like man if only this person can get me on their
podcast.

If only this pastor could just open the door for me. If only you can
climb the mountain the hill of the Lord. If only you can encounter the
presence of Jesus.

You won't have to pull yourself by your shoelaces because once God sets
you on fire listen things begin to fall into place and no you're not
gonna be like me. You're not gonna be like him. You're gonna be like you
that God created you to be.

The world does not need another lad. The world needs another you but the
real you is trapped inside because until you meet the fire your calling
won't start working. You don't need a Facebook page to get your calling
going.

You need a fuego, a fire. Every breaker under the sound of my voice you
need a fire but the fire comes on a mountain. You climb mountains we
slide down we climb up.

Anybody whoever went hiking you know that it's hard. It's not easy but I
want you to notice this word he went far. Some of you fasted three days
nothing happened.

What if the fire is outside of the border of what you're accustomed to.
Some of you tithe you've never given a sacrifice. What if your fire is
outside of what you're familiar with.

What if this year you will say I will go far. The devil will tell you
you'll get lost and you say he'll find me. My pastor will if the Lord
won't.

Go far into the wilderness. I remember when the ministry was struggling
for over 12 years as a youth pastor. I knew I had a call of God.

I had a prophetic word when I was about 14 years of age. I had a I felt
like I had an audible voice at the age of 16 on a parking lot of a
grocery store of what the church is going to look like but something was
trapped. It's almost like there was this ceiling.

It's almost like there was like this limitation. No matter what I tried
there was just simply the same thing until being on the aisle seat of
Alaska flight to Sacramento and I was a tither all my life and I heard
the Holy Spirit. At first I thought it was the devil because I rebuked
it and this was what I heard give all of your savings away and I said no
I can't go that far.

I'm comfortable. I'm living a fasted life. I'm living a life of giving.

I'm living a life of serving God but I also have a sense around my
commitment to God. This is as far as I go. I know I can go further but
I'm scared.

What if I die behind this fence? This sense of familiarity was
electrocuted. There was electricity attached to it. I would never dare
to go there and when I climbed over my fence for the first time in my
life and gave like I would die tomorrow I met fresh fire.

When COVID happened because I got used to living on the edge I felt the
Holy Spirit. We started a 21 day water fast with the church and in the
sixth day I remember it like yesterday it was also in California. I'm on
my knees just praising Jesus and I felt the Holy Spirit.

My fence for fasting is 21 days. I don't do more than 21 days. That's
the most.

After 21 days I died. The Holy Spirit stood outside of my fence and said
climb over and I want you to do what my son did. I want you to go for a
40 day fast.

I said Lord you know I'm gonna die. He said that's actually the plan.
Physically he says you won't die and I remember climbing over that fence
and going for 40.

It has nothing to do with a 40 day fast or a sacrifice. It has to do
with this principle. Moses went far into the wilderness.

Could it be that your call is waiting for you to step outside of what
you have said is your spiritual limit. Of what you have said you're
familiar, comfortable and this is convenient and you're not gonna go
past that. I want to challenge you.

I want to provoke you. I want to make you slightly miserable and
afflicted because if there is no call flourishing that means fire has
become too small. If you're burned out.

If you're like a leader like Moses who tried to do the call of God in
your own strength and you're burned out with ministry and you say I will
never do it again. The church hurts people. The ministry destroyed my
family.

No no no it's not the ministry. It's the problem is the ministry was
never supposed to be done without the anointing. It was never supposed
to be done without God's grace.

It was never supposed to be done without God's power and without the
help of the Holy Spirit. When you do it in your own strength you will
strain your back. I want to invite you to have an experience with the
fire of God because when you have a fresh fire your call will become
more real but you don't get a fresh fire if you don't go far.

What would happen if you would give that represented going far? What
would happen if you would pray that symbolized going far? Some of you
are comfortable with your five-minute prayer in the choir. Nothing wrong
with that but that worked when you were a baby Christian. Some of you
are comfortable only fasting a breakfast when you didn't have time to
prepare one.

That worked when you were a baby Christian but you cannot get a fresh
fire if you don't go a little bit further. Go far if you want fire. If
you will look back at your life when you die your regret will not be
that you poured your life out to God.

Your regret will be is that you preserved yourself too much. I want to
die in such a way where disciples like Judas will accuse me and say it's
a waste what Vlad does. It's a waste the way he gives.

It's a waste the way he prays. It's a waste the way he serves. Why?
Because I know on the other side of going far is fresh fire.

Are you with me? Number four. I want you to notice when Moses encounters
the fire of God. God speaks to him and this is what God says.

Now therefore and that's Exodus 3 9. Now therefore behold the cry.
Somebody said the cry of the children of Israel has come to me and I
have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. Come now
and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people the children
of Israel out of Egypt.

Write this down. Number four. The call of God on my life is an answer to
the cry of my generation.

Write this down. I'm going to say that again. Say this with me.

Say the call of God. I can't hear you. Say the call of God on my life is
an answer to the cry of my generation.

God comes to Moses and God says Moses I heard the cry of my people. For
40 years Moses has blocked any of his people from his Twitter thread
feed. Moses has disconnected himself to to be completely oblivious to
the suffering and the pain of his people because he used to be there.

He's no longer there. But every single day and every single night God
heard the cry of his people and our God even though he tarries in
answering the cry he heard saw the suffering of his people and when the
prayer when the bottle of tears got filled God picks up the call picks
up the phone and starts dialing people in the nearest proximity and
starts calling them. He starts promising them power.

He starts promising to use them and it's not because they are special
it's because there has been a cry God seeks to answer. I remember when
this became apparent to me we just moved this was about six years or six
or seven years ago actually eight years ago we just moved close to the
church had this neighbor a wonderful older gentleman we interacted but I
was always in a hurry. I didn't have a chance to actually have a
conversation with him he was either in a hurry I was in a hurry and I
lived very close to church he lived very close to church and I was
waiting for the right time to talk to him about Jesus and bring him to
our church.

We finally moved in everything was fine and then I had a few trips I
didn't see him he didn't see me and then another month I stopped seeing
him completely and then I see FBI raiding his house turning everything
over I was like what is happening so kind of left that alone me and my
wife go for a rollerblading and my wife brings this question she says I
haven't seen our neighbor and I have this heavy feeling about him and I
said that's weird I wasn't even thinking about our neighbor but now that
you're saying that so I did what every millennial does I googled my
neighbor's address found his parcel number and typed his name into
Facebook didn't find him into Instagram didn't find him it wasn't a
surprise because he was older I put him into every database couldn't
find him then I put him into Google and when I punched him into Google
the first article showed up and it was an obituary I clicked on the
local newspaper and I found out my neighbor has been dead for two months
already a month later they put his house for sale a realtor lady comes
to show the house before the new people to buy the house come in there
she comes to my house and I'm in the driveway washing my car so washing
my car getting ready for the service she comes she's like sir are you
his neighbor I said yes I'm his neighbor she says do you want to go see
his house and I'm like uh um and I kind of remember I'm like I'm glad
behave uh you're a pastor I just kind of go along with it and I said
ma'am I'm kind of busy but yeah yeah I would love to go see his house
even though I didn't have time and I didn't want to go see his house
because I knew how his house looked we get inside of the house and I'm
just literally thinking irritating because this lady is wasting my time
my car I need to wash finish washing my car and so I'm walking to the
house I was like oh yeah this was great it's an empty house there's
nothing to see that I'm just walking with her just to make her not be
you know upset at me in the living room I see a piece of carpet cut out
so just to waste time and I said oh wow that was great a little design
he had over there probably and I'm walking by and she says you don't
know how he died and I said well he was old she said that's not how he
died I said enlighten me he said that's where he shot himself he said
this man struggled with loneliness and depression he works for the
government he didn't have a lot of family he didn't have a lot of people
I'm like no way he could not have shot himself every time I saw him he
smiled he says that's the image he portrayed to the world I never
finished washing my car I got into the room I locked myself in the room
and I started before God because every time they felt prompted to tell
him about Christ I always was in a hurry for something else and when I
got on my knees I remember I say God I'm so sorry that you placed a
neighbor so close to me and and I'm out of all people was the pastor and
he was actually open to talk to me but I just didn't find time and I
remember Holy Spirit says something that changed my life he said this he
says that man has been crying to me he says I heard his cry every day
and every night he said I strategically positioned him I've been waiting
for that moment he says I've been reaching to you when I've been
whispering to you it's because he's been crying to me he says I wasn't
tugging on your heart just because I wanted to make you an evangelist
I've been busy answering his cry but you couldn't answer the call you
always had a busy signal and because he had a busy you had a busy signal
I couldn't answer his cry because you didn't answer my call the call of
God upon your life it's not because you're special the call of God upon
your life it's not because you're unique the call of God upon your life
it's not because you're anointed the call of God upon your life has one
purpose God who created every human being muslim buddhist atheist
homosexual transgender people that are confused and every night they can
portray themselves online one way but every night they soak their pillow
with tears their parents will give their last money to put them through
a rehab and God hears the cry so when he calls you make no mistake it's
not about you Moses I don't care that you don't speak well Moses I don't
care that you were burned by Egypt Moses I don't care you have your life
established Moses I don't care that you don't want to go back to Egypt
Moses I heard the cry of my people Moses I will turn your rod into a
miracle weapon Moses I will put a voice inside of your mouth Moses
Hollywood will make movies about you years years years down the road
Moses I will give you whatever you need and want but Moses I can't
answer a cry if you don't answer the call when God called me at the age
of 16 in my office I felt God say I'm calling you son I was so scared to
answer the call because I was afraid that I will be poor for the rest of
my life I was afraid to answer the call because I said who will listen
to a guy with the weird eye who will listen to a guy who barely speaks
English at the time who will listen to a guy God I'm not the right guy
God says I know you're not the right guy but Vlad I ain't got a lot of
options I thought my credentials matter God says I don't care about that
God says I can do anything with anyone but Vlad please understand I'm
busy answering the cry of your generation will you answer my call I said
Lord at 16 if you can do something with someone like me if there is a
place for someone like me in your kingdom God count me in little did I
know the cry that God was hearing I will be able to meet those people
down the road a mother who had a son that committed the OD four times in
one month declared dead by police because of drug use and this young man
stepped into a church his name is Brian and I remember when Brian got
saved I went to his court hearing because he had so many drug stuff that
he needed to pay and finally he cleared all of his stuff and the judge
cleared his record and I was standing there and his mom was there who
was not a Christian that night his mom gave her life to his her life to
Jesus his mom moves to Tri-Cities listen to this his mom sells the
property gives a large check to the church and I remember when his mom
hugged me and she said thank you for saving my son I said ma'am I didn't
save your son I just preached the gospel he says you don't understand he
says I buried that man already today that Brian finished bachelor's
degree he's married he's a generous he's a godly man God heard the cry
of Brian and 12 20 years ago he was calling an insecure teenager like me
I thought the reason why God was calling me is because he wanted to make
my life miserable I thought the reason why he was calling me because
maybe I had something special that's why I kept saying God I'm not
special God says it's not about you it's about the cry of your
generation it's about the cry of people demonized people that are sick
people that are lost people that are confused people that are tormented
they're my children I love them you may not feel that cry right now you
may not care about those people right now you're looking at your
business you're looking at your busy life as a mom you're looking at
your busy life as a student and you say God I don't have time for all of
this but please understand your God looks at the humanity not as
Christians not Christians God doesn't look at the humanity as oh these
are homosexuals and these are good people God looks at the humanity as a
father looks at his children if you have five children imagine you're
going on a vacation on the way back from the vacation you realize one of
your kids is missing you won't say ah it's just one we still got four
you won't look at your spouse and say well it's an 80 success rate you
won't do math with your kids you can't think about your family with
percentages because you're a father God doesn't look at our city and say
well look 10% goes to church it's a win Gabriel it's a win Michael God
looks at every human being that carries his imprint and says they're my
people and they're hurting let me call 3,000 breakers let me call 3,000
people but a lot of us what we do is we make up excuses there are people
under the sound of my voice that God called you to pass to the church
God calls you to lead a small group and you've been making excuses and
you always said that you are not qualified you're not good enough today
I'm here to shatter those excuses and to say if you don't answer the
call how can God answer the cry you might not be able to do what I do
but you can do what God called you to do one man in Australia he was
living on the edge and when he was on that edge found out people would
come to the edge and look over the cliff he looks again they're
disappearing he went to the doctor and said doctor can you check my
eyesight I'm seeing stuff and I'm not seeing stuff the doctor checked
his eyesight he said your eyesight is fine he picks up a local newspaper
finds out the backyard of his house is the top suicide place in
Australia he says what can I do I'm an older man I don't communicate to
young kids I don't have what I don't know what to say to them him and
his wife says this but we can make cookies and milk anytime he would see
somebody standing on the cliff he would come up today to them and he
would say what is your name they would say my name is so and so he said
we're older people we live over here nobody visits us we just made
cookies and milk could you help us to eat them he says I would pull I
would he said I would emotionally manipulate them and they would feel
bad for all the people they would walk and he said by the time they took
the cookie they would say I came here to end my life but you're saving
my life through this cookie it was cookies and milk let's lift those
hands right now I have one more point that I might get to it about right
now for those of you that maybe you've been running from the call of God
and I really sensed even as I was standing on the stage there's Jonas
that the reason why God send a storm in your life is not to punish you
but to wake you up to wake you up back to your calling God is going to
anoint you God is going to release fresh anointing upon your life if you
find your mountain but not only if you find your mountain if you choose
to go just a little bit further there's somebody here that you need to
go just a little bit further than you went before you need to give just
more than because God is and I'm not saying this but if God has been
telling you God wants you to go just a little bit further in your purity
in your consecration he wants to release a fresh fire in your life but
he wants you to say yes to him come on everybody from the balcony all
the way in the front lift those hands right now just whether you're
seated or you are standing and begin to say God I surrender to your call
right now God I want to say yes to you come on I want to hear a sound in
this room right now come on make some noise begin to pray begin to pray
begin to drown that AC sound by your prayer by your prayer right now say
Lord I say yes to the call Lord I say yes to the call I say yes to your
call right now I say yes to your call right now I surrender to you I
surrender to you my excuses I surrender to you my fears I surrender to
you my insecurities Lord I surrender to you lack of this and lack of
that I surrender come on say this with me I will answer the call I can't
hear you say I will answer the call so God can answer the cry if you are
able to and you are sitting I want you to stand if you're on your knees
and the Lord is moving right now just keep keep keep being on your knees
Moses can I have a water and oh if you can open the water it's fine I
want to have the water and can I have one person on your staff that I
could kindly abuse you okay we'll do you hold this give a microphone
your mic I want you to hold this I want you to hold this water okay I'm
gonna share with you I said five things I'm gonna share with you last
thing because Moses he answered the call this is just just one second
guys guys just just those of you at the front for just one second could
you just just pause this for just one second we'll continue deliverance
we're gonna do deliverance tonight and we're gonna continue that in just
one moment just just just one second unless the Lord is moving in your
life you could just be in be in that mode be in that atmosphere right
now but Moses he had a fresh encounter Moses received the call Moses
said yes he eventually went to the people that God heard their cry he
was used of God mightily he kept going to the same mountain for more
encounters because an encounter with God changes your life encounters
with God will change your world but I'm gonna have one more thing that I
want to share Moses never entered the promised land well he did enter it
in the new testament on the mount of transfiguration but he didn't enter
it to live there not because he lacked anointing not because his church
started with about 600,000 soldiers that's not women or children
included his church was the largest church that anybody has probably has
ever had he's seen greater miracles than anybody has ever God has not
spoke to people like he spoke to Moses but I want to let you know Moses
did not enter the promised land he didn't reach what God called him to
reach not because he lacked anointing or dedication what he lacked was
character Moses had an anger problem it's an anger he killed a guy who
was fighting with an Israelite he took the tablets came down with the
tablets and when he saw Israel committing sin he broke those tablets and
one day when God called him to speak to the rock Moses hit the rock and
when he was reflecting and it wasn't the problem that Moses had an anger
problem it's that Moses never acknowledged that he had a problem I'm
gonna read something to you and I'm gonna finish on this Numbers 20 12
it says that God said to Moses because you didn't believe me to hallow
me in the eyes of the children of Israel therefore you will not bring
this assembly into the land which I've given them but I want you to
notice how Moses sees it because in Deuteronomy 137 he says this the
Lord was angry with me for your sake meaning he says y'all are the
problem it's not my fault you guys were the ones and because you were
bad I acted bad Moses was a great man of God don't get me wrong because
I don't want him one day to listen to this and me and him have a problem
in heaven I love Moses but something that I want to highlight that
destroys callings of God the last thing that I want to share with you
and write this down your character will limit your calling it might not
be passion anointing or fasting lack of sacrifice for Moses what
restricted his calling was his character and you can have a gifts of the
Holy Spirit but without having the fruit what is the fruit does a fruit
feeds people and so many people who have gifts what they do is on the
stage they operate in the gift and in the mall they operate in the gift
in the workplace they operate in the gift but when they come home they
don't have a fruit so their family goes hungry saying I don't want Jesus
I don't want anointing I don't want that why because we're deprived of
your attention we're deprived of your kindness you're always angry
you're always cranky you're always impatient you don't have joy you
don't have love and yes you're changing the world but you're destroying
your family how because you don't have a fruit when you have a fruit
good character you're feeding your family your wife your children when
you don't have a fruit your family is fed up by you until they say we
don't want to do anything with what you're doing and they say oh the
devil has come up and destroyed my family and caused my family not to
love Jesus not really it wasn't the devil it was that your tree was
barren you can be Moses and deliver a nation and have a have a bad
character and what I want to challenge you today as God begins to use
you you never forsake your character why and the biggest thing about our
character everybody has flaws including myself this is the biggest thing
God will send people in your life I want you to hold this a little bit
closer God will send people in life who do this that's exactly what they
will do they will come in your life and they will provoke your problems
and this is what you will say you say ah they made me do it you guys are
the ones that made me angry that's what Moses said the problem is you
always had anger there always as long as you have it they will provoke
it and God will allow that so that you say I have a problem and my
problem is anger as long as you're blaming your circumstances your
spouse and your anger it's like blaming your mirror for your bad looks
so what you gotta do is you gotta bring it to God and put it out and
this is what's going to happen after that when you deal with it people
will come and they will do this God will use your spouse God will use
your children God will use your employers God will use people closest to
you to provoke those issues because God knows you and I got him and God
will never fix them until we acknowledge it if we live like Moses and we
say yeah the reason I'm not entering the promised land God was angry
with me because y'all made me angry no they didn't make me angry I'm an
angry person who needs to repent of anger and you are causing me to know
that I'm an angry person so thank you for letting me know because it's
something I need to go and put it out to Jesus so Jesus can fix my
character so I'm not just anointed but I'm also not annoying so I'm not
just prophetic but I'm also not pathetic and so that I live my life with
the fruit of the Spirit and with the power of the Holy Ghost so I'm not
just delivering a nation but I'm also entering the promised land me and
my children are entering the promised land place your hand upon your
heart right now place your hand upon your heart and some of you have
this problem is you look like this right now somebody always drives you
crazy but the reason why they're driving you crazy because you got crazy
in your bottle and right now just just tell the Lord say Lord say this
those people drive me crazy I will take responsibility for my responses
even if it's not my fault change me and change the world through me in
Jesus name amen

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