I was very impressed and touched with the anointing in our
evening service. I enjoyed greatly the young adults leading and directing
worship. The worship and music was wonderful and Jason was right on with the
Word of God. Here are a few things to remember about what Jason preached.
·
No one is exempted from the baggage’s of life.
We all pick up things that hinder our walk for God, things that kill our faith and
stunt our abilities to minister. The American church picks up more baggage and
petty things that will not even get close to mattering in eternity. So as Jason
preached, we all should have been in the altar praying for God to deliver us.
· We need to be able to recognize the baggage that
is keeping us weighed down. Realize what holds you back. God has a call for
each of our lives. The sooner we can realize that we have hindrances that are
costing us that call, the sooner we can get delivered and get on being anointed
to do God’s will. Be honest with yourself and Jesus. He already knows, the
sooner we admit it and change the sooner we can get on being what He needs us
to be.
· It is the anointing of the Holy Ghost that burns
the baggage. As Jason preached about Elisha’s call in 1 Kings 19:19-21, we see
the response of someone who means business with their walk for God. When the
man of God walked into Elisha’s life and through the Spirit of God put a call
on his life, he refused to allow anything to hold him back. Elisha takes the
things of his life and burns them so that they can never be visited or
considered again. When that day was finished, Elisha didn’t have any direction
left except after God’s will. He burned anything that would be baggage to him. It’s
the anointing of the Holy Ghost, the fire of God that can consume our baggage.
The fire is powerful enough if we will allow it to burn through our life.
A little before Elisha’s call the prophet
Elijah had a prayer meeting where the fire of God came and not only consumed
the sacrifice but the stones, water and everything in its way. (1 Kings 18:30-39)
Yes, we each have baggage we need to pile up all of it and set the Holy Ghost
fire to it once and for all.
·
Jason reminded us that we have a tendency to
take out baggage to the altar and then carry them away with us again. We also
tend to allow ourselves to pick up other things; other bags we know will hinder
us. We excuse ourselves and our actions but we need to realize that if we don’t
lose the junk forever the next generation will also have to deal with it. Later
we can read that Elisha the prophet is approached by a man with leprosy. The
man wants healing and does what the prophet tells him to do. The man is so
excited over his healing that he returns to Elisha to give him some stuff, some
baggage. Elisha refuses it and the man leaves. Yet, the servant of Elisha goes
after the man and lies and gets some of it for himself. In the end the servant
is stricken with the leprosy that the man was healed of. But the sad part is
that not only he but his children also, the next generation also had to deal
with the heaviness of the baggage. (2 Kings 5:26-27) The next generation desperately
needs to be delivered of the junk we are carrying around.
There are all kinds of stuff we pick up. Baggage from our
child hood, marriage, work, friends, and people who did us wrong. We pick up
junk from hurt feelings and bad business deals. We pick up all kinds of weights
and blame them on everyone. I don’t know if you have noticed but no matter how
long you carry the junk it doesn’t get any better, it never gets healed. It
just gets heaver and more of a struggle to deal with. Why not pile it up and
allow the Holy Ghost fire of God to consume the baggage. If you don’t you will
pass it on to the next generation and your kids don’t need to inherit your
bitter heart or heavy junk.
Thanks Jason for a wonderful message from God at FPB.
I was also touch and my heart convicted over the missionary
service that morning. I was also reminded as I thought of the church that would
win around 5000 people to God before that out grew the tin $3000.00 building,
we are coming up so short. Our nice day of blessings is keeping us a long way
from the will of God. Again we have too much junk in the way. We personally spent
enough money as a body of believers collective yesterday to build a church to
make sure 5000 people walked on streets of gold. That should convict us. I have
attached a link to a video that explains why we lack the great anointing of
God. Take the six minutes to watch this and hopeful change you directions.
At least that’s My Thoughts
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