Lessons from Jabez and Jethro

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New Territory

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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War on God in America

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Christian Computing

Jesus and Satan were having an on-going argument about who was better on the computer. They had been going at it for days, and frankly God was tired of hearing Satan bicker.

Finally fed up, God said, 'THAT'S IT! I have had enough.. I am going to set up a test that will run for two hours, and from those results, I will judge who does the better job.'


So Satan and Jesus sat down at the keyboards and typed away.

They moused.

They faxed.

They e-mailed.

They e-mailed with attachments.

They downloaded.

They did spreadsheets!

They wrote reports.

They created labels and cards.

They created charts and graphs.

They did some genealogy reports .

They did every job known to man.

Jesus worked with heavenly efficiency and Satan was faster than the underworld.

Then, ten minutes before their time was up, lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, thunder rolled, rain poured, and, of course, the power went off.

Satan stared at his blank screen and screamed every curse word known in the underworld.

Jesus just sighed.

Finally the electricity came back on, and each of them restarted their computers. Satan started searching frantically, screaming:

'It's gone! It's all GONE! 'I lost everything when the power went out!'

Meanwhile, Jesus quietly started printing out all of his files from the past two hours of work. Satan observed this and became irate.

'Wait!' he screamed. 'That's not fair! He cheated! How come he has all his work and I don't have any?'

God just shrugged and said,



JESUS SAVES....


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God's Fatherly Discipline

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Discipline – Discipline is training that corrects, molds, or perfects the mental faculties or moral character.

Hebrews 12:5-11
"My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline,
and do not lose heart when he rebukes you,
6because the Lord disciplines those he loves,
and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son." (Proverbs 3:11,12) 7Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? 8If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons. 9Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live! 10Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness. 11No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.

A. Two Incorrect Responses to Discipline

1. Making Light of it
2. Being Crushed by it
   
   Both responses to discipline show a fragile inner spirit man.

The lack of understanding the loving and accepting heart of the discipliner is the cause for both extreme responses.

As the discipliner we need to communicate our love and acceptance for our children in a way that communicates to them.

5 Ways we can show love and acceptance to our children.

1. Words of affirmation.
2. Acts of service.
3. Quality time.
4. Gifts.
5. Physical touch.

1. Words of Affirmation
Saying, I love you and other encouraging words will build a strong inner person
Saying good job
You look pretty
You are smart
Etc.

2. Acts of Service
Coming along side someone and helping them with whatever they are interested in says, “I Love you and accept you.”
For some people this is the way they understand love.

3. Quality Time
Sometimes our loved ones just need some hang out time. I’ve noticed if we’re going to watch a family movie together, it’s not good enough for me to be in the same room sitting on the couch next to my children while I work on the computer. I have to shut down the computer and pay attention to the movie even though nobody is going to say anything, just laughing together is important.

Sometimes going places together and paying attention to each other is a great way to spend quality time. I’ve noticed that things that aren’t that important can vie for that quality time. Make it a priority to spend quality time with your loved ones.

4. Gifts
God sent his one and only Son Jesus Christ as a gift for us. While we were still sinners Christ died for us. Nothing says I love you like a gift. Some children receive a gift and feel loved and accepted. Especially a well thought out gift.

5. Physical Touch
I believe it’s important for us as parents to touch our children in proper affectionate ways. I like to wrestle with my kids and I think they like it more than I do. It’s one way I say, “I love you.” With a body slam on the bed!
Hugs and kisses, holding hands also. Back scratches and rubs are also good ways to say, “I love you.”

B. The Lords Discipline comes as hardships

I believe the majority of the hardships that come our way are the direct result of cause and effect relationships that are already laws of sowing and reaping.
Every hardship is not necessarily a discipline from the Lord.
God is not standing over you meting out hardships. Your choices, when they are out of God’s will, can bring these hardships due to the laws of sowing and reaping.

Sowing and Reaping
Galatians 6:8
The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
The Discerning and Foolish
Proverbs 17:10
10 A rebuke impresses a man of discernment
more than a hundred lashes a fool.
How we respond to the Holy Spirit determines how he disciplines us.

C. God Cares about us so He Disciplines his True Sons
From verse 8 we know that fathers discipline legitimate children. If he didn’t it would mean he didn’t care about their outcome. As it is, God deeply cares about us and desires a relationship with us where we develop into his image and likeness.

True Sons of God
Matthew 5:9
peacemakers will be called sons of God.
Romans 8:14
those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Galatians 3:26
You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus,

Romans 8:19
The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.


D. The Purpose for God's Discipline

God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness.
Hebrews 12:14
Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.

E. The Results of God’s Discipline

It produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.

In conclusion
Our prayer should be, “Lord Soften My Heart so I can respond to your voice.” If I can hear your voice and obey you I can avoid your discipline.
Dad’s our prayer should be, “Make me the father or grandfather you want me to be.” Help me discipline my children and grand children skillfully and lovingly.

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Sheila Taboy Testimony

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This version of Sheila's testimony is a re-record due to poor audio quality on the original video. The people of Jubilee Family Church gave the Lord a standing ovation and many here were touched by God's work in Sheila's life. Sheila was also water baptized this Sunday!

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