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Dr Sam Soleyn

The Word that brother Sam brought, will stimulate anyone to spend more time with God and His Word, to see His pre-existent covenant with man!

GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH – PART 1

So why did God create the heavens and the earth? That demands that we understand that there were things in play before the creation of heaven and earth that are meant to be served by the creation of the heavens and the earth. So what would those things be? What could examples of those things be? Listen to Dr. Soleyn explaining the Father’s plan, as he opens up Ephesians 1 from verse 3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In this you see a relationship of Father and Son; that would make Jesus Christ the Son. So God already determined that the earth would be configured in a particular fashion, and predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself. So whose sons are we going to be? Sons of God! So this configuration, the spiritual man known as Christ, will be brought forth in the earth, nurtured by the economies of heaven, according to the pre-determined purpose of God.

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GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH – PART 2

We were designed to carry His glory! That is why He created the heavens and the earth. At the end of days what will be revealed is His glory in us! The choreography of this one spiritual man in the earth would be that by many trials God will perfect him to the standard that was in the Head so that in Him heaven and earth will meet in this mature man. Every aspect of God presented in creation authentically is by representation. And he will decree that all of the representations of himself upon the earth must come exclusively through SON.

God swore an oath to Himself. What chance do you think there is that this covenant will be abandoned? Heaven and earth will pass away before His word will pass away!

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Series: Trust; Giving

Sunday am 6 August 2017 – Eddie O’Neill

King James Version: Ps. 37:5, 25 ; Isa. 26:3; 1 Cor. 4:2; Matt. 25:14-29; Mark 12:41-44; Mark. 10:17-22; Luke 16:10-11 (Amp); (Matt. 6:24); (Acts 20:35); Prov. 3:9; (2 Cor. 9:7)

The Spirit of God said, movement is going to come and there is going to be repositioning. Repositioning is going to bring change because you come out of the comfort zone that you are used to living in for years and years and years. It is repositioning you into an accurate position and an accurate place, where you can now reach your destiny. Repositioning always requires you to take a risk, to move out from a traditional way of thinking. It is not only physical; it starts with your thinking. It starts by saying, “Yes, I am prepared to go into something I am not used to, which is going to be foreign to me, but I am going to risk it by faith. God is going to reposition me to put me in a place where I can hear accurately from Him and do His work.” Say, “Lord, I am ready to be repositioned.”

Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass (Ps. 37:5-KJV). We have to relocate ourselves back to God’s Word and trust in Him. So much is happening in the world today that has taken us away from our trust in Him. We trust the politicians and they are failing us. We trust the government, the banks, people, and unfortunately, we have come out second best. That is where the repositioning has to come. We have to start trusting God for our future, for our children, for our congregation. We have to put the Word of God first in every way and He will bring it to pass. It depends on where our loyalty lies.

The word “trust” means, to be confident, to be secure and steadfast and focused on Him. There is so much happening today that is drawing us away from Him. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee (Isa. 26:3). You trust Him! Peace is a Person. You change your focus away from the changing situations in the world that you thought you had security in. They failed you. So God is calling us back, once again, to trust Him implicitly. You are not double minded but your mind is focussed on Him. You can be fearful if you live from your soul man; the spirit man has no fear. You have to start living from your spirit man. He does not drop His very own. Do you believe God can do the impossible? That He can restore wholly and totally? Trust Him! When things look like they are going wrong, can you trust Him? Your mind has to be stayed on Him, not on your circumstances, not on people. God has never failed us. Trust is the issue.

Who do we trust? We have one or two choices. Do I really believe? The more God adds to our lives, the more He trusts us and He wants to add to our lives. Moreover, it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful (1 Cor. 4:2). Underline the word “steward” in your mind, not “owner”. A steward is somebody who serves another man’s purposes, he is not an owner. God is our owner. He sent His Son Jesus and bought us with His precious blood. He requires of a steward to be found faithful and trustworthy. Peace comes when you know you are stewarding everything on His behalf.

Those who are faithful over little things will be made ruler over much (Matt. 25:14-29). What are the little things? Money! See what the world system has done to us! In God’s sight money is a little thing. Steward it accurately. Can you accept that money is a little thing? When shopping it becomes so little, but when you come Sunday morning suddenly it becomes so big. You cannot afford to give. That is what religion does. It is a mind thing because we see money as great value; we do not see it as a little thing. Our trust is in the thing which is least in God’s sight. We cannot do without it but it is about trust.

I have never seen the righteous forsaken or begging for bread (Ps. 37:25). Jesus said the widow had given more because she had nothing left (Mark 12:41-44). It is not about money, it is about trust. Who do we really trust?

One came running and asked Jesus, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? Jesus said, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, (Mark. 10:17-22). But he left sorrowful. He had a love affair with money and was blinded by the mammon spirit. To trust is to rely on, by an inward certainty, that it is going to be the solution. The only Person who has the true solution is Jesus Christ and God.

A radical shift in our minds has to come; a repositioning of your minds. He, who is faithful in a very little thing, is faithful over much. And who is dishonest in a little thing is dishonest in much (Luke 16:10-11). What are true riches? It is something of the spirit realm that is true. Your spiritual growth is directly connected to what you do with money. If you do not know how to deal accurately with money, it could affect your spiritual growth. When we can deal with money honestly towards God who we trust, the Word of God starts opening up to you. There is revelation knowledge that comes. If we are faithful in what belongs to Him, He will give us the true riches.

There is something awaiting every family here; for the future of this house. What are we going to do with what belongs to Him? Make a confession: I am not the owner of this, I am the steward. When I steward well, blessing comes, honour comes and peace comes.

What divides families the most and causes divorces? Money! You cannot serve God and mammon (Matt. 6:24). It is a spirit working to keep you in bondage. It is a spirit of poverty in our minds. It leads us to trust money as the most valuable thing. Money is amoral, it has no morality. There is only good and bad people, not good and bad money. It depends in whose hands it is, who is managing it, and who gives it value.

It is better to give than to receive (Acts 20:35). The world system and the mammon spirit have influenced our thinking. We have an inaccurate view of who it belongs to. We belong to God, He bought us with His precious blood, and He made us His very own. It is not mine, but His. I am not just speaking about money, but about trust. Reposition yourself. It means you may have to live more accurately now and not be taken up by the world system of consumerism. Trust in Him and He will see you through.

Honour the Lord with the first fruits of all your substance (Prov. 3:9). To honour means to be heavy, to be weighty, to be prized or to be treasured or to esteem something higher. Honour the Lord! Come and give with gladness, He likes a cheerful giver (2 Cor. 9:7). It is a sign that the spirit of mammon is broken over this house. You will not submit to the spirit of mammon any longer. There will be no more fear about the future; no more fear that you will not have enough. Do not allow money to dictate to you.

Series: Kingdom Congress 2016

Sunday am 9^th October 2016 – Alan Scotland

(Matt. 10:16); I Sam. 30: 1-20; (John 9:1-2); (Job 1:6-12); (Ps. 23:4); Ps. 27:14; 2 Cor. 12:9; (John 8:59)

I want to speak to you as a church in terms of the most critical phase that you are in, which is in line with what is happening all over the world. The Lord said that ‘I send you as lambs amongst wolves’ (Matt. 10:16). That has never changed in any century for the church of Jesus-Christ. There is always a challenge facing the Church on how to have an impact because of the nature of our salt, the truth that we carry and the light that brings hope; the light of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus-Christ. Seasons come and go, and areas change but we have one constant: the Lord remains in charge of His Church and we are but stewards of His house. To individual churches, the challenges are the transitions that are taking place. We are in perpetual change. There are highs and there are lows and we have to know that we are dependent on God. If we are not dependent on God we will be disappointed.

I want to talk a little bit about depending on God even in crisis. I Sam. 30: 1-20 is a phenomenal story. David is anointed to be king. For this purpose God took hold of him and up until that moment when the prophet recognised him he was inconsequential. Who is this boy? God’s heart is towards him; a shepherd boy. God came to him through the prophet and He was prophesied a wonderful future and he was anointed to be king. There are a lot of stories out there about anointing in Christian circles. The fact that you are anointed does not mean that you are kept from the ‘grit’ of everyday life and challenges. Otherwise you are a robot with no expression of gratitude and no understanding of the goodness of God and the harshness of reality. The anointing does not mean that you will have it all your own way. Anointing does not mean that you walk on clouds and you do not walk on ‘terra firma’. It does not mean that you are not going to think, or that you are never going to pray. It is not so much the enemy without but it is the enemy within. The problem creeps up on you. Remember Job, the way the old devil was telling God that he was only superficial (Job. 1:6-12). Remember the disciples when they asked Jesus who sinned for the man to be born blind, always with a negative connotation (John 9:1-2). When there is a crisis there is always someone undermining. The devil does not need to work; he goes on holiday the way you talk.

God said you will not escape your humanity. This is what it is about. Your will be done in this terra firma (earth). Your will be done in my life though the good and through the bad! So that people know that I trust in You, I believe in You that You are not a distraction to me. You are the centre of my universe! Let us get real! Whatever challenges you are facing, God knows about it. You are not alone; you were bought at a price. Even if I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, because You are with me (Ps. 23:4). So David is anointed and yet he is in trouble. David was running away from Saul who was out to take his life because he was jealous. Half of our challenges are not theological, but relational. David learned the hard way. Sometimes you have to understand that if God can entrust you with discouragement, with challenges, with difficulties it is for a reason. It is so that you do not remain naïve or become a slave of a lesser loyalty. Your loyalty is to Him and all that He has done for you.

David lived in exile in Ziklag for ten years. I am talking about the king! The one who was to epitomize the Messiah. For a whole decade he was on the run but he was anointed! The challenges we face in our world are not to diminish us; they are to increase our status. My greatest enemies were people who had no room for the Spirit, no room for the Word and no room for my generation to emerge. God had to educate me. David had a hard time but it was okay. You may be having a hard time but it is okay. The issue is how you handle it. David wrote a psalm: Wait for the Lord, be strong and take heart (Ps. 27:14). Where did he get these psalms from? It came from the depth of the reality of the ‘grit’ of life.

Get used to the ‘grit’ of life! That is what Jesus was born into. That is what David had. That is what I welcome you to: the ‘grit’ of life if you have not woken up to that reality. Jesus has already paved the way for us. The most creative moment is also the most dangerous moment. Any time of shift or change is going to be a ‘Kairos’ moment. It is a dangerous time but a creative time too. This church is at the ‘Kairos’ moment. You are in the ‘grit’ and it is a great place to be.
Grace is the second thing. My grace is sufficient for you (2 Cor. 12:9). Sometimes we do not like the mud; we do not like the ‘grit’ so we need to draw on the grace. Ziklag has two verbs to its name. The first verb is a place of intense pressure, and the second verb is releasing the precious. It is really about smelting. It is a place of pressure and the pressure is to bring out the best of what is inside. That is why God designed Church; that is why God designed marriage, to sanctify you. God wants to mature us, He wants to grow us. He wants to deepen us, to establish us so that we become pillars of righteousness, foundations that are built upon on the rock. The rock is a safe place. God knows more about suffering than anybody else on the planet. Then there are these mighty men with him who have lost everything. They are helpless. All they can do is to cry. David’s mighty men are speechless. Then they turn from sweet to bitter. Be careful because you have options. You can choose your attitude. They were thinking inside of themselves, “Who can we blame? We will blame the anointed, the king. We are not only going to blame him, we are going to kill him.” David was under threat. Is this not like the Lord Jesus Christ when He stood up and preached under the anointing of God and bringing a message of hope, but they did not like it. So they picked up stones to kill Him. He got up and walked right through the middle of them, they could not touch him (John 8:59). I believe in the grace of God being sufficient. There are moments when you feel so dried up, so dried out yet you are still going to look like you have no mud, no ‘grit’ on you, but your heart is broken. You can choose to be bitter or sweet. If you choose to be sweet, you are going to be better off. But if the root of bitterness takes hold of you, you will not even see the root anymore. It is going to be in your attitude, in your mannerism, in your spirit to the point that you are looking for someone to kill. Hatred is the first motivation of murder next to jealousy. So you have to depend on the grace of God even when you are in the ‘grit’, when you are discouraged. So David strengthens himself. He calls on the priest who was the only surviving priest from of all the priests that Saul did not manage to kill. He was a man who knew suffering, pain and discouragement, yet he was still a priest. David asked for the ephod. David needed to come into the presence of God and to signify that he could not do it himself. He wanted to know want the Lord required. The decision making process has to do with the voice of God. This place does not exist without the voice of God. Leadership has no right to be in leadership without the voice of God. It is not what you want to be but what God wants you to be! So you handle very carefully when you position people in leadership. Remember that God appoints them, and when God appoints them, be very careful how you handle them. The decision is clear, it is God’s decision. We still believe on waiting on the Lord, we still believe in the voice of God. Equally He carries us in His heart. That is our identity. We are who we are by the grace of God.
Be a person of gratitude! The hard-nosed covenant people who were with him, who were turning bitter, suddenly saw the hand of God and gave to David the first portion. They expressed gratitude. They changed their heart as they saw God was with David. David goes on his way pursuing and wins the battle. Then they gave David the primary portion of the spoil. They expressed gratitude. Do not be grumpy.
Be generous. David took what they gave him and blessed others. That is generosity. The hallmark of the kingdom is a generous spirit. When God gives you life, He gives it to you abundantly, when God forgives you, He forgives totally. As a king he is moving in anointing and restoring all that was lost. He is regaining the ground.
The last ‘G’ is glorious! When God’s people in the ‘grit’ draw on the grace, move in gratitude and become very generous, the total outcome is the glory of God.