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1 Chronicles 4:10
Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, "Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain." And God granted his request.
The Word of the Lord for us at Jubilee Family Church can be broken down into the title.
New Territory
I believe there is new territory in the natural and in the Spirit. I believe if we as a church walk in obedience to God’s voice. We’ll take new territory for the Kingdom of God.
New Territory means new people and new lands.
It means the flow of God’s Spirit is going to be different than what we’ve experienced in the past.
(I’d never experienced Holy Laughter before it happened to me. Some people had problems with it when it was happening.)
Dealing with fear of the Unknown and a lack of familiarity.
We all have patterns we’ve developed over the years that help us define what is ministry but the newness of what God is going to do is going to cause some to say, “We’ve never done it that way before.”
Religious Spirit
Doing it the way we’ve always done it simply because we’ve always done it that way.
It’s human to want to build a shrine around what God is doing in the right now and if he did it 10 years ago there may be a shrine in our hearts about the past right now.
The Experience
Mark 9:2-7
2After six days Jesus took Peter, James and John with him and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone. There he was transfigured before them. 3His clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them. 4And there appeared before them Elijah and Moses, who were talking with Jesus.
The Proper Response
5Peter said to Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah." 6(He did not know what to say, they were so frightened.)
7Then a cloud appeared and enveloped them, and a voice came from the cloud: "This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!"
The Contrast
Building Shelters around the move of God to memorialize it
Or
Listening to the Voice of God
Proper Administration of Growth (Exodus 18)
17 Moses' father-in-law replied, "What you are doing is not good. 18 You and these people who come to you will only wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone. 19 Listen now to me and I will give you some advice, and may God be with you. You must be the people's representative before God and bring their disputes to him.
20 Teach them the decrees and laws, and show them the way to live and the duties they are to perform. 21 But select capable men from all the people—men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain—and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.
22 Have them serve as judges for the people at all times, but have them bring every difficult case to you; the simple cases they can decide themselves. That will make your load lighter, because they will share it with you. 23 If you do this and God so commands, you will be able to stand the strain, and all these people will go home satisfied."
Before the work becomes too heavy it’d be good if people who are hearing from the Lord about getting involved could find their place of purpose and function in the church and begin to operate in that.
1. Training
If you are interested in getting involved in some component of ministry here let me know and we can set up a time or a series of times to talk and look into training to help prepare you.
2. Qualifications
Capability – you have the capability or the train ability to learn how to handle a certain percentage of a certain ministry.
3. Fear of the Lord – Moses was to select men who feared the Lord.
Proverbs 15:33
The fear of the LORD teaches a man wisdom, and humility comes before honor.
4. Trustworthy – worthy of confidence, dependable.
5. Hate dishonest gain – Men & women who know how to handle their business with integrity. These type of people will handle God’s ministry the same way.
Abilities - People have different levels of ability and character to handle different things. Some can handle more than others. What matters if faithfulness!
Thousands
Hundreds
Fifties
Tens
Why don't people get involved?
The Components of the Sidelines
Safety
Solace
Security
No Success
No Satisfaction
The Word of the Lord for some is…Prayerfully consider getting involved in some facet of the ministries of Jubilee Family Church. If God is speaking to your heart to get involved we want to help facilitate your involvement.
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