Initiate

Initiate-cause an action or process to begin

To cause an action or a process to begin.

I.       Initiate a challenge.

A.     Initiate a challenge in yourself.

B.     Initiate a change and start it with you.

1.      Initiate a move a God through a hunger for God in your own life.

2.      Cause others around you to be jealous of your relationship with Him.

a)     Jealous of the closeness, the blessing, the time you spend together, and the strength of relationship you have with one another.

3.      Cause others to initiate a worship encounter with Him because they see yours.

a)     If our lives are a testimony, what is your saying?

b)     Stop being so passive and initiate a difference.

II.   Initiate a change.

A.     Initiate a change in your attitude.

1.      People who have amazingly horrible and destructive attitudes generally have no friends or at most a few.

2.      Don't you get tired of having no friends?

3.      Don't you get tired of trying to make things always go your way?

4.      Initiate a change.

a)     Start with you, go ahead press the button!

Numbers 14:19-24 NLT "[19] In keeping with your magnificent, unfailing love, please pardon the sins of this people, just as you have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt." [20] Then the Lord said, "I will pardon them as you have requested. [21] But as surely as I live, and as surely as the earth is filled with the Lord's glory, [22] not one of these people will ever enter that land. They have all seen my glorious presence and the miraculous signs I performed both in Egypt and in the wilderness, but again and again they have tested me by refusing to listen to my voice. [23] They will never even see the land I swore to give their ancestors. None of those who have treated me with contempt will ever see it. [24] But my servant Caleb has a different attitude than the others have. He has remained loyal to me, so I will bring him into the land he explored. His descendants will possess their full share of that land."

B.     Caleb the bible says, "initiated, and lived with a different attitude."

1.      God chose to bring Caleb into the land because he has been faithful but it's his descendants that will posses their full share of the land.

2.      They got to reap the benefits of what their father, grandfather, planted. 

3.      What will you plant that your children will inherit, your children's children?

a)     My son Alec serves about 17 hours a weekend, God is gonna bless his service, his attitude, his loyalty to the Kingdom, and his initiation into the lives of so many.

b)     My son Chase, initiated a mission to at the age of 16 raise $3600 for an 11 day missions trip that will alter him forever, alter a nation forever, alter a people forever.

c)      Brooke, Hannah, Sydney, Madison, Amber, Chase, Kassie, Mark, Mike, Kristen, Chad, Stacy, Lindsey. 

C.     Initiate a change in your work ethic.

D.    Initiate a change in your words.

E.      Initiate a change in your actions.

III.   Initiate a challenge in the lives of others.

A.     Cause a chain reaction of events to take place that will forever change you, those around you, and those you come in contact with forever.

1.      Hunger for God is a process, passion for God is a process, discipleship is a process initiate a change.

2.      Initiate growth, initiate spiritual growth, initiate discipleship, initiate change! Press the start button.

a)     You press it!

Hebrews 12:1-4 NLT "[1] Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. [2] We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith. Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now he is seated in the place of honor beside God's throne. [3] Think of all the hostility he endured from sinful people; then you won't become weary and give up. [4] After all, you have not yet given your lives in your struggle against sin."

IV. Become nothing to become everything.

A.     Strip off every weight, initiate growth in God by letting go of the past, letting go of your current sin, and let go of the stress of the future.

B.     Jesus our champion who initiates our faith and He perfects our faith.

1.      Faith is a complete trust or confidence in someone or something.

2.      He initiated our faith and He will finish our faith.

a)     What will you do with Him?

C.     A lot of people start well with Jesus but finish off weak, disinterested, dysfunctional, and disappointed.

D.    Then you have the group that goes back and forth between their faith and their sin.

1.      Back and forth from shame to joy shame to joy shame to joy and never really finding true freedom because the bible teaches that whom the Son hath set free is free indeed.

E.      Then you have that group that might not have initiated strong, they might not have pressed the trigger but realized that through a daily walk in God, a consistency of prayer, a habit of bible reading, a life of serving that they have encountered a faith that has overtaken them.

1.      Listen I have a confidence in God so strong that no matter what I've faced, what I'm facing, or what I will ever face I choose to trust God!

a)     I will initiate a mission.

b)     Initiate a cause.

c)      Initiate a change.

d)     Initiate love.

e)     Initiate joy.

f)        Initiate long suffering.

g)     Initiate life change.

h)     Initiate training.

i)        Initiate an iserve project.

j)        Initiate a revolution.

k)     Initiate a rebellion against culture, against hell, and the Devil!

(1) C'mon initiate a revival.

(2) Initiate an awakening.

(3) Initiate a Spirit filling.

(a) Go ahead I dare you, pull the trigger, do it now what are you waiting on?

(b) God is always waiting on you, you are never waiting on Him.

i)        He is waiting on your step of faith.

ii)      He is waiting on your simple prayer.

iii)   He is waiting on your worship encounter with Him.

iv)   He is waiting for you to connect with Him through His word! He wants to speak to you.

v)     He wants you to initiate an encounter!