R1101 My Prayer For You

God has an encouraging word for you and me today. Through the Bible-based teaching Dr. Don Wilton message, my God, Wilton begins in acts chapter 1 adjustable what you want to know where you are you four hours a day at 86699 were love prayer. Connect with resources at 866-899-WORD 967 Dr. Don Wilton I just want you to love the Lord Jesus has an encouraging word just for you to he really does. This is going to be a wonderful day.

I have a lot on my plate and I'm sure you do to.

But I want you to know that God is in control.

That is one confidence that I so I'll be talking about that tonight and some of you might say will who's invited everybody's invited to come to 101 at 5 o'clock.

It's a wonderful time of Bible study. Now my friend you going to need your Bibles and you going to need open them at the book of acts and chapter 1. I'm absolutely convinced that this is where the Lord wants us to be. I'm very excited about the study. I cannot make you study this with me but I invite you to do so. There is a sense in which II feel I you know I didn't do a lot of it, but I in my early days. I used to love to go out in the Indian Ocean and surf on paddle skis and things in. If you've ever surfed on the ocean you get away Bennett's the top of that way when you sitting on top of a wife and you haven't caught the wave yet, but the wave is positioned under your board and you look down and you looking down at this mountain slope in front of you and you hearing the way begin depressed and you know you're about to be in for the ride of your life. It's the greatest rush that you can possibly imagine. And I feel as though in this congregation that all the ingredients are more in place today than I have ever seen.

Which is not to suggest to you that we suggest that we are positioned completely where God wants us to be. We have so much work to do. But, my friends, there is much more to life than a church that just simply provides programs to satisfy the needs of people.

If all church amounts to is this organization where people say well I can go there because they do something for me then that's not the church. And while our church in this ministry does everything we can to provide for all of us. We are the church where everyone can invite anyone become the first Baptist Church to encounter the living one. Because we believe that in Christ more is possible that you and I can ever imagine God is going to take our hearts each one of us as the church and God is going to shake us from inside out, and the result is that hundreds of people are going to come to know Jesus Christ and that the people of this church in this community are going to be sold for food in giving out from him rather than taking in from out we are going to change from being a consumer oriented people like we are in America today, giving people lack the real spirit of America, God is speaking to our hearts. I've entitled my message today, a very simple message entitled my prayer for you. I've been praying for you.

I just see a group of people with so much potential for the Lord Jesus Christ and I want you to know that I'm I'm praying for you. I love being your pasta and I love being here.

I wouldn't want to be anywhere else in the world and your lab work to do. My friends, this is serious business.

This is right. Business this is wonderful this is so exciting and you and I can become so full food so whole and complete. Feel like we will work something that we are making a contribution that we have purpose in this life and meaning and that God is in our hearts and he's fueling us and and and would just energize because we wake up every day just like a powder keg saying wow is this incredible God would choose to use someone like you, and someone like me to make a difference in this world.

Acts chapter 1, I just read to you the first five verses in my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and teach until that day that Jesus was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions to the Holy Spirit to the apostles that he had chosen after his suffering, Jesus showed himself to these men.

And he gave many convincing proofs that he was alive.

He appeared to them over a period of 40 days, and he spoke to them about the kingdom of God. On one occasion while he was eating with them often. He came out of the grave after he rose from the dead. He gave them the scum on not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my father promised, which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit. May the Lord write these words on our hearts together. My prayer for you. I want to summarize what my prayer is for you and for me, please allow me to be included in this I am part of this.

This is my prayer for me it's my prayer as your pasta. This is my prayer for you. This is what I'm praying for you.

I want you to know I'm praying this for you.

My prayer is that we would be the people of God during the work of God in the power of God. I don't want to camp on those three things right now but just think about it.

Three components number one. I pray that every single one of us would truly be the people of God. So I'm going to ask you a question.

Who are you really folks the guy has got to come that we understand that life is not in the hands of a few 18-year-olds who are able to throw a football property.

Life is not in the result of a Super Bowl as much as you are not will enjoy life is not in a bank balance. Life is not in a marriage. Life is not in our wonderful children. These are all blessings I pray number one that you and I would truly become the people of God. I pray that we would be the people of God that we would do the work of God. Far too many of us are doing far too many things that do not count eternally at the drop of a hat. You and I will give all kinds of money to all kinds of thing, but when it comes to God's work. We have a reluctance at the drop of a hat. You and I will stand in line and we will serve tables and we will do all kinds of wonderful things which we must do which I'm in to continue to do, but how much more so the work of God.

I pray that we would be the people of God during the work of God.

How, by the power of God. See I can't do that. Folks, my greatest struggle in life is that I can't do what God wants me to do, but we going to discover that God's given us his power in this study in the book of acts we are going to come to understand three things I'm one that Christ has all the authority, number two, that the church has Christ's fullness.

Number three that we are the church. I want you to just flip over to Ephesians chapter 1 everybody turn there with me. Thank you Bibles I really want you to see this Ephesians, chapter 1 and verse 22, just very quickly with me today. Ephesians chapter 1 verse 22.

Listen to what Paul said. Ephesians chapter 1 I love to hear the pages of God's book. Thank you for getting your Bibles out. Thank you very grateful very important love to hear those pages wrestling like that rustle of angels wings. So wearing God's word. This Encouraging Word and I'm asking you to look at Ephesians chapter 1 verse 22 and God placed all things under his feet. How many things all things. What is that mean that means that Jesus Christ has all authority is what we going to discover that when you truly trust Jesus Christ.

You have all the authority necessary to do everything that God tells you to do the folks we go to trust God when not trusting God what we do is we throw a program at everything in our culture today. We believe that yes we can accomplish something, but we gotta create something in order to accomplish that we no longer believe that God can do what God says he will do what he says God placed all things under his feet arrived.

Look at the next statement and appointed him to be head over everything for the church who's in charge around here, but neither Larry Fike, our Chairman of Beacon's norm are still as you see in your pasta when not in charge. God is the big problem that is occurring in America today. In one church offer another is that people have put themselves in charge of the church. We have never been better position because folks I'm going to make an announcement to you today. I know of. Nobody in this church who thinks they are in charge you.

There are no strongholds in the strict we do not have one man in this church because of his money or his position is throwing his weight around in the street you know anybody like that.

Would you stand up and identify yourself in this church a strong person would be thrown out in a New York second. You wouldn't survive. God will have no part of it and the reason I say to you that we've never been better position is because of low of no zone in this church. To my knowledge when I find people who will not really say Jesus Christ.

God has all the authority and secondly, that the church is the embodiment of the fullness of Christ. Now watch this. Folks, this is what he says. He says he appointed Jesus to be head over everything for the church which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way. Now want you to just think about that.

What is the church who are we, what is this place, this is the fullness of the very body of Christ. In other words, Jesus is is given to his please forgive the interruption will be back for the rest of today's message. My prayer for you Dr. Don Wilton in just a moment to our website lately.

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That's just recovering that provides for us a place as the church together as the church we are the church read this again to God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church which is his body, the fullness of him. Everything in every way. All right watch me. This is how this works. Remember, my prayer for you and for me is that we would be the people of God doing the work of God only bother power of God. So there are three understandings that we are going to discovery and along starting to get someone that Jesus Christ has all authority. He told us that by the wind. The great commission. He said authorities been given to me in heaven and in the you want to be you want to be complete. You gotta just say Lord you're the boss, your sovereign your God. You have all the authority for everything. Number two that that authority all of God is based in the fullness of Christ is vested in his church. Can you believe that in number three. We are the church. What we do is we can't just accept the fact that we are the church. The time is come that we need to be the church. My prayer through this study is that we will see three things number one that we will see what God sees that we will see what God sees. So what is God see folks God sees essentially two things he sees a sinful world lost without him and God sees a seeking world save because of him. That's what God sees this study on the power of the gospel is going to help us to see number one what God sees number two what God does in her memory. Christ has all the authority all the fullness of East authority has been given to the church.

We are his church. We may do this is an amazing thing that God would create us to carry the fee authority in the fullness of Christ as the church I think we under estimate what it is that God will allow us to do well holding back on God, and what this is going to do for us. It's going to help us to to see what God sees. It's going to help us to see what God does what is God do.

He provides the way his death, burial and resurrection, but he doesn't just provide the way he supplies the way you know I love about being a Christian is God in Christ has not just provided the means for me to be forgiven of my sin and to have my name written in God's book in heaven, but he supplies all that I need to be church which means to carry his authority at the fullness of all that God is the studies going to help us to see what God sees and to see what God does, but also to see what God expects. God expects never had someone you got an interview for a job and and the man or woman interviewing utility everything and then you get out of the bottom and you say so what is it that you expect of me and I went want me to come to the office and when wanting to close and how much this and what's the expectation what what do I have to do well.

This study is going to help us to a fresh understanding to see what God expects what is God expects of us number one God expects for us to hear him speak. God expects now, there may be someone here today that you've already tuned out you not noticed. For example, you see a lot more people walking around our community with earphones in listening to music. Nothing wrong with music loving but the restaurant sometimes we were at a restaurant recently and there was a couple sitting at another table.

There and I both had their iPhones and their blackberries, and the entire meal. The wife and the husband if I were husband and wife.

They sappy and they were texting and playing with their iPhones. A blackberry what the entire meal. They chewed themselves out. It was like they had escaped from the unnecessary need to have to actually have a meal in a restaurant and look at each other and have a conversation. You may have tuned out. But God expects us to hear him speak and number two God expects us to follow his instructions. God expects is not an option. The Lord doesn't say you know this is what I'm telling you, and if you'd like to consider these things. The bottom line is that my prayer is that we would be the people of God doing the work of God by the power of God and beloved friends and praying that this would consume us because people need the Lord, you need the Lord in your life. Don't you if you haven't made all Jesus interpreted you for not just a great teaching from Dr. Don Wilton.

You've heard the voice of God reminding you that he loves you.

He has a plan for you.

You've heard this through the power of the word of God and the messenger from God for Dr. Wilton as he's been teaching and preaching now as he steps into the studio. Open your heart what he wants to share next are you ready to give your heart and life to the Lord Jesus Christ. Why don't you pray this prayer with me right now.

Dear God, I know that on the center and I know that Jesus died for me on the cross today, I repent of my sin and by faith I receive you into my heart. In Jesus name, my friend. I welcome you today into the family of God. This is exciting news. God is changing lives. I pray that some of you were praying along with Dr. Wilton. Moments ago and you gave your life to Jesus Christ, perhaps rededicated Christ, you need to know that we stand ready to encourage your The Encouraging Word and we are based in the Scriptures, and when the first things Dr. Wilton said as we got to be able to have a conversation not just a presentation so you know we're here to pray with you and for you to have that conversation at 866899 were a number got down 866-899-WORD 9673 will connect with us 24 hours a day and Dr. Wilton has specific resources. If you just gave your life to Christ rededicated your life to Jesus what you have been absolutely free calls, 866-899-9673 if you like to connect on a website you can do that as well.

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