Pastor Cheri
Welcome back from your Loveworld Specials Season 6, Phase 1 with Pastor. I believe you learnt a lot and had a glorious time in God’s presence.
I believe you have given your partnership. You saw those amazing testimonies, they are all as a result of your partnership. So, don't stop giving, which means, don't stop changing lives. Hallelujah!
If you are yet to give, you can do so using the link given. Praise God!
We will have partnership every third Sunday of the Month. So always come prepared. You can give any other day, but that Sunday is our major partnership day. Praise God!
I hope you have been meditating on our Scriptures. Praise God.
Say this,
"I have been chosen by God"
"He chose me before the foundation of the earth!"
Shout a big Hallelujah!
How would you feel if someone told you your boss chose you for a top position, especially a top position that people have envied for long?
You would feel on top of the world, not only because you were chosen but also that you were chosen by the boss himself.
Do you know it's that way already?
You have been chosen by THE BOSS! The King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
He chose you directly, by Himself.
He doesn't need to ask someone to help Him choose you because he knows you, you are in relationship with Him. Praise God!
Turn to John Chapter 15 verse 16
It says, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, He may give it you."
This Scripture should remove all fears and worries about being chosen by God.
Matthew 22 verse 14 says, "For many are called, but few are chosen."
You are among these chosen ones. We are God’s called out ones. The whole world was called, this is the call of salvation, the believers were chosen.
You are chosen means you have been separated from the evil and rudiments of this world, you have been separated from poverty, lack and death, you have been separated from frustration and struggle, unto God. Hallelujah!
God chose you. Praise God!
He ordained you. Hallelujah!
Take up your Bibles and open to the book of Jeremiah Chapter 1 verse 5
It says
"Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations."
The Living Bible says,
"I knew you before you were formed within your mother’s womb; before you were born I sanctified you and appointed you as my spokesman to the world.”
The Amplified Classic Translation says,
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew [and] approved of you [as My chosen instrument], and before you were born I separated and set you apart, consecrating you; [and] I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."
This Scripture is talking about YOU! Praise God! You and no one else!
You were born for a purpose. You were not born for nothing.
God already planned for you before you were born.
The Living Bible says
"...I sanctified you and appointed you as my spokesman to the world."
Any where you find yourself, don't keep quiet, keep preaching. You are God’s representative here on earth, you are God’s spokesman. Praise God!
When you are representing someone, you are announcing him as present even if they don’t see him physically, meaning everything goes on smoothly as though he were there in person.
So when you move around, move around like the child of a King. You are representing the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. Don’t move around without recognizing the power that is backing you up. You have spiritual entourage with you 24/7. Praise God!
This is what the world is trying to understand about us. They are wondering why we are the way we are. The way we talk, the way we walk, the way we act, are all different from the way they think we should.
We don't operate by the world's principles, that is why we are that way.
We are living the Kingdom life here on earth.
You are God’s chosen instrument. Praise God.
You are an instrument.
Still in Jeremiah, go to Chapter 51 verse 20
It says,
"Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war..."
You are God’s chosen instrument. It didn’t stop there, it goes on to say
...for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;
This is what He uses you for, to put the earth in order, to put things in place.
Chapter 1 verse 10 of the same book says
See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
You are important to God. He needs you, this is why He chose you.
Never look down on yourself. Never call yourself a speck in the dust and then you try to bring your shoulders down like you are trying to be humble.
You say, "we are trying to be humble so that God can consider looking at us."
You see a Scripture like the one in Jeremiah 1 verse 5 telling you He chose you, and you say, "Me? How? No no no, it's a mistake? I'm a nobody, infact, if that's the case, yesterday, I did something terrible, if I tell you, you may just..."
But He chose you.
The Word says so. I didn’t write the Bible. If the Bible says so, it's that way and no one can do anything about it. It’s already that way.
1 Peter 2 verse 9 says,
"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;"
Note the tenses, not "ye are about to be..." but "ye are...." In other words you are already that way now, not in the future, NOW.
Forget about the past and "...shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light..."
From our Scriptures above, we find out God didn’t choose us and then left us saying, "okay I already chose you that's all" No! He chose you and then He gave you a responsibility.
He chose you for His work! He chose for the purpose of preaching the Gospel. You may say, "Do I have to always go out to preach?"
Yes.
Also find out what area you fit in, in the house of God!
Can you sing?
Can you dance?
Do you love talking to people?
You could join the choir or dance group, and if you love to talk to people, go ahead and start winning souls. Bring them to Church. Hallelujah! Find your place in the house of God.
Everything we do in the house of God is for the advancement of the Kingdom! It's for souls to be won into the Kingdom and remain in the Kingdom. Praise God!
Don't say "I'm not good at many things." Wrong. Don’t even make that confession!
God never made a failure so don't think you will fail. He says,
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. This found in Jeremiah 29 verse 11
Just go ahead and begin. It's not your ability but God’s. Paul says in Philippians 4 verse 13, "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." You say this to yourself and go ahead and begin, and after you have won, you can look back to say, this is what I and the Holy Ghost have achieved. It says, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. Zechariah 4 verse 6
You and the Holy Ghost are an unbeatable team team. Praise God!
Lift up your hands now and thank Him. Thank Him for choosing you and for His ability at work in you to do all that he has assigned to you. Thank Him now.
Scriptures For This Week, Monday - Sunday
Mon 22nd - 2 Corinthians 3:2
Tues 23rd - 2 Corinthians 4:6
Wed 24th - Isaiah 11:2
Thurs 25th - 1 Peter 2:5
Fri 26th - 1 John 1:2
Sat 27th - Jude 1:20
Sun 28th - 1 John 5:14-15
