We are going to #reachUkiah with a vision.
We are going to #reachUkiah with love.
Your life as a Christian should make nonbelievers question
their disbelief in God.
Our love for others should make the world around us take
notice.
I.
Love is our language.
Philemon 1:5-7 NLT "[5] because I keep hearing about
your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all of God's people. [6] And I
am praying that you will put into action the generosity that comes from your
faith as you understand and experience all the good things we have in Christ.
[7] Your love has given me much joy and comfort, my brother, for your kindness
has often refreshed the hearts of God's people."
A.
It's our vision is to see people
saved, healed, set free, discipled, equipped, empowered and serving.
1.
I keep hearing about your faith in
the Lord Jesus.
2.
Not just faith in the church, not
just faith in your Christian relatives, not just faith in the next big event
but in Jesus Christ.
3.
Faith in Jesus Christ is what gets us
to heaven.
a)
Faith is our foundation, believing so
much that we would step out on nothing to experience everything.
(1) Now
faith.
(2) Faith
in this moment for our city.
(3) Faith
for this generation.
(4) Faith
for our time.
B.
And I keep hearing about your love
for all people.
1.
Love is a demonstration.
2.
Hearing about the love that was being
demonstrated.
3.
Love is an action.
4.
Love is a verb.
5.
Love is kind.
6.
Love is compassionate.
7.
Love is caring, love is concern,
pushing through toward doing.
8.
Love is timeless and speaks every
language.
C.
Many of us love family, love spouses,
love friends, but do we love all?
1.
Do we love beyond borders and
parameters?
2.
Do we treat all people good?
3.
Do we treat all people kind, treat
all people with compassion, with courage, with understanding and with love?
4.
Do we treat them with grace, mercy
and forgiveness?
a)
As we express mercy, we express His
love.
D.
In the global church there is a
definitive understaffing of the love of God being displayed and demonstrated.
1.
We are the people of God and
demonstrating the love of God is our specialty, it's our DNA, it's our way,
it's how the bible teaches that the world knows we are different.
2.
Me loving someone does not take the
pain away but it encourages them to know that someone cares, that someone is
concerned, and that someone is calling out their name in prayer.
a)
Oh I have a vision that we will
demonstrate prayer and that God will answer with fire!
3.
I have a vision that prayer and faith
in God will be our first step and not our last resort.
a)
I have a vision that prayer will not
be my spare tire!
E.
The scripture says in vs. 6
"I am praying that you will put into action the generosity that comes from
your faith..."
1.
Generosity-the quality of being kind,
the quality of being plentiful.
a)
Being generous in our love.
b)
Pouring out in great abundance our
love toward God, toward one another, and toward others.
(1) Value
God.
(2) Value
Others.
(3) Value
the Mission.
c)
Love is our language.
2.
Love empowers them to move forward
knowing that someone believes in them, that someone is paying a price for them,
and that love is molding their life.
II.
Love is our weapon.
Luke 4:18-19 NLT [18] "The Spirit of the LORD is upon
me, for He has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to
proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the
oppressed will be set free, [19] and that the time of the LORD's favor has
come."
A.
It's our vision is to see people
saved, healed, set free, discipled, equipped, empowered and serving because
it's God's vision for the church.
1.
I'm not making up a vision statement
and living out the vision that I created, or that was created by a committee or
group of members but deriving it straight from the word of an Almighty, all
powerful, all knowing, all resource having God.
2 Peter 1:5-9 NLT [5] In view of all this, make every
effort to respond to God's promises. Supplement your faith with a generous
provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, [6] and
knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and
patient endurance with godliness, [7] and godliness with brotherly affection,
and brotherly affection with love for everyone. [8] The more you grow
like this, the more productive and useful you will be in your knowledge of our
Lord Jesus Christ."
2.
Love is a very, very powerful weapon.
a)
It was love that called Jesus to this
earth, it was love that led Him to minister to the masses, it was love that
held Him to the scourging post bringing healing, bringing compassion to every
person.
b)
It was love that led Him to that
cruel cross, where He poured out His life, poured out His truth, poured out His
sacrifice for all of mankind.
c)
It was love that held Him to that
cruel and brutal death on that cross and it was love that cried out "Father
forgive them, they don't know what they are doing."
d)
It was love that said I will raise
Him from the dead so He'll defeat death, hell and the grave!
e)
It was love that silences every enemy
and it's love that has brought us forgiveness, belief, and eternal life!
(1) For
He is love!
III.
Love is our answer.
1 John 3:16-19 NLT [16] We know what real love is because
Jesus gave up His life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our
brothers and sisters. [17] If someone has enough money to live well and sees a
brother or sister in need but shows no compassion-how can God's love be in that
person? [18] Dear children, let's not merely say that we love each other; let
us show the truth by our actions. [19] Our actions will show that we belong to
the truth, so we will be confident when we stand before God."
A.
It's our vision is to see people
saved, healed, set free, discipled, equipped, empowered and serving.
1.
God responds to prayer, He responds
to worship, He responds to those hungry and thirsty for His righteousness.
2.
He responds to our sacrifice of
giving, serving, and leading.
3.
Through these serving, willing
vessels, God empowers His people to accomplish great things.
a)
Visionaries set goals.
(1) Write
it down.
(2) Focus
on the end result.
(3) 3
out of 10 people write down their goals but they achieve more than the other 7
people combined.
(4) Create
daily tasks, work hard, and focus on the process.
(5) Say
affirmations daily.
(6) Visualize
your success.
(7) Let
it happen.
(8) Make
it happen.
(9) What
you visualize, you materialize.
(10)
Goal achieved.
IV. God
wastes nothing!
A.
Nothing is wasted when it comes to
heaven's purposes.
B.
So many times we feel so ashamed, so
unworthy, so untalented, so ungifted and we absolutely are but because of God's
unfailing love, His unfailing power, we must speak out, speak up, speak over
others, and speak into their life our great God.
Romans 8:28 NLT "And we know that God causes
everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called
according to His purpose for them."
C.
God is wise, He is kind, He is all
healing, all love, all compassion, all justice, and an all inspiring
leader.
1.
He is not wasteful!
2.
He will use anything to propel us
forward, to propel us into growth, to propel us into His vision and we might
fail but we'll fail forward as He is in us.
D.
Having a vision for your life will
guard you, your future, your plans, your mission for God, and your offspring.
1.
When God through His Word began to
pour vision into my life it made me begin to battle against the world, the
flesh and the devil.
2.
It compelled me.
3.
The vision empowered me.
4.
The vision overtook me.
5.
The vision overwhelmed me, needing
accomplished.
E.
I have a vision that this church body
will always speak to the warrior in you and not the weakling.
1.
They will speak into your future and
help you overcome and learn from the past.
F.
I have a unmitigated vision that this
will be the most loving, spirit filled, worship filled, compassionate,
friendly, helpful, inspiring, serving group of believers on the Northern coast!
G.
I have a vision that the Spirit of
God will be so powerful in our lives, in our homes, in our families, in our
relationships and in our love.
1.
I have a vision that hope will rise
and defeat will die.
2.
I have a vision that God will move in
and through each of us.
3.
I have a vision that His body will
function in unity, unison, and unwavering faith.
Joshua 1:5 NLT "No one will be able to stand against
you as long as you live. For I will be with you as I was with Moses. I will not
fail you or abandon you."
4.
Can we see this together?
a)
We can accomplish it together only if
we can envision it together.
(1) Kill 'em with kindness, kindness
is our key.
(a) Making
a difference individually, locally and globally.
H.
Vision is a force to be reckoned
with, when God desires to move forward He sends a vision, a dream, an
encounter.
1.
Excuses are the crutches of the
uncommitted.
a)
Dream a dream for your life envision
greater.
2.
I'm not telling you it is going to be
easy, I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.
a)
Fasting silences the selfish within
and reveals to you a glimpse of God's plans.
b)
We must keep moving, keep fighting,
keep working, and keep praying, God is listening.
3.
If you want bible results, (miracles, signs, and wonders)
in your life then you have have to live bible principles.
4.
I've been praying for my January 25th
miracle early, expecting God to move on my behalf why can't I, I am favored of
God the scripture says.
a)
My fear of disobeying or displeasing
the Lord is stronger than my fear of man's response to my God Assignment.
5.
Vision is the ability to see new
possibilities.
a)
When you ask God to do the
impossible, He usually instructs you to do something uncomfortable.
b)
The ones who are crazy enough to
think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
6.
Vision is a picture of the future.
a)
Next it becomes a process to build
the future.
b)
Then daily it's a continuation to see
the vision come to fruition.
c)
Finally the vision is realized and
experienced.
(1) You
will always find the will of God in the Word of God.
(a) Everyone
looks for a leader, they look for a prophet, they look and search for a word
instead of getting and speaking to the Word Himself, Jesus Christ.
(b) Everyone
looking for a worship encounter, looking for a new vision, for God to do a new
thing, instead of seeking that out themselves they wish to be satisfied, and
pacified, with leftovers from others instead of from God Almighty.
(c) He
has spoken to us read Him, hear Him for yourself!
(d) Hear
His guidance for yourself, hear His purpose for yourself.
(e) Hear
His vision and dream for your life through His very voice!
V.
God, you are loving, You are wise,
there is nothing in my life that You cannot revive.
A.
There is nothing too hard for our
God.
1.
Your word inside of us He is my
strength, and my everything, He is my hope.
2.
Your breath inside my lungs, He
wastes nothing.
3.
You work all things for good, nothing
is wasted.
a)
We say things like what a waste.
b)
I'm just wasting time.
c)
What a waste of resources.
d)
Just wasting away, well God wastes
nothing!
B.
What God needs He'll create what He
doesn't create He'll revive, what God can't revive He'll restore, what God
can't revive or restore, He'll resurrect!
1.
There are no unsolved problems with
God.
C.
He is mankind's resource of healing,
restoration, vision, honor, purpose, salvation, love, encouragement,
compassion, deliverance, protection, provision, passion, mission, and
purity.
1.
There is no chain of addiction that
He can not break.
2.
There is no disease that can overcome
His healing.
3.
There is no sin that can over take
His grace.
4.
There is no shame that He can not
bring confidence into.
5.
There is no condemnation that His
forgiveness doesn't expunge.
6.
There is no hate that overwhelms His
love.
7.
And there is no disbelief that makes
Him nonexistent.
a)
Nothing is wasted!
