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" Reaching The Harvest One Person At A Time "
International Ministries of Last Call, Inc
8311 N E Zac Lentz Parkway Unit
Victoria, TX 77904
ph: 601 324 1240
JEREMIAH 18:
The Lord gave another message to Jeremiah. He said, 2 “Go down to the potter’s shop, and I will speak to you there.” 3 So I did as he told me and found the potter working at his wheel. 4 But the jar he was making did not turn out as he had hoped, so he crushed it into a lump of clay again and started over.
5 Then the Lord gave me this message: 6 “O Israel, can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay? As the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand.
Now God told Jeremiah to go to a certain place at a certain time, because he had something specific to show and a specific word for
Jeremiah to hear.
It is so important that we as christians obey the voice of God when He speaks, especially if we desire to walk in His divine will and purpose for our life and ministry.
So God sent Jeremiah to the potter's house...to a place called " THERE " and He said " THERE " I will cause thee to hear my words.
Let's truly understand that God was not going to speak to Jeremiah until he got up and went to his place called " There ". Because there was a certain thing that Jeremiah could not have learned anywhere else.
Sometimes, God speaks to us to do things and we do not have a clue as to why.... for example...over a year ago, I was working as a Store Manager for a Major Big Box Retailer...making quite a large salary that was not easy to walk away from.
Alot of our funding for TLCM came from this income and yet in August of 2011 when God dealt with me to give up my job, I was definately in the questioning mode, because I knew this was a major funding for TLCM and in my own mind I could not see how we would make it.
But after much prayer, and leading of the Holy Spirit I obeyed, and I will be the first to tell you we have struggled financially ever since.
But yet as I take a look at all the growth that has taken place and all that has been accomplished, I am in awe of God....honestly I am speaking truth from my heart...IT IS A MIRACLE!!!! Where God
has brought us to IS NOTHING SHORT OF A MIRACLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU JESUS FOR YOUR FAITHFULNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now that doesn't mean it's been easy, no, on the contrary, many times I have felt like giving up, and just going back to making the big bucks, but you see God wanted us to have faith in Him, everytime He leads us in a direction, sometimes in our natural mind it doesn't make sense.
But our Heavenly Father is an ALL KNOWING GOD, and there's always a reason why He's asking these things of us, we just can't see it ourselves.
Therefore God is teaching us that every thing in our life whether its good or bad, whether we understand it or not, is for a purpose.
Now Jeremiah could have given God any excuse as to why he could not get up and go to the potter's house, and had he done so, he may have missed his one chance all together to hear the voice of God, now he may have even prolonged getting there and thought; well it doesn't matter as long as I obey, NO!!! for had he gone later the potter may not have been there and he may have gone back time after time after time and the potter still not be there so because of his disobediance he would have totally missed what God was trying to teach him and he would have totally missed God's message to him for His people.
But let me tell you...because Jeremiah obeyed God...he walked in God's perfect timing... and he had no " wasted time ".
No! Jeremiah arrived just in time to find the potter molding a vessell and heard God's instructions for His people and His nation.
God did exactly what He told Jeremiah He would do.
I just wonder how much of our lives have been wasted because we have failed to hear and obey the voice of God.
Our self-willed life will lead us to nothing but " wasted time ".
Yes, it happens over and over everyday, God reveals His will to us and we have our own agenda that is more important than God's.
That is why God's word warns us to "beware " that after we have preached to others we ourselves become cast- aways.
My friends, obediance is better than sacrifice...God may not tell us why nor is it necessary all the time that we know or even understand, even though we all in our own human capabilities feel we have to know and understand all things, but my friend that is not FAITH and it does not teach us toTRUST GOD.
God sometimes just wants to know if we will obey Him when He speaks. Why? Because He wants to know if He can TRUST us.
If God cannot trust us what makes us think He's going to annoint us, trust us with His most precious gifts and power.
Many times Great men and women of God who had great anointings and giftings in their life failed to hear and obey the voice of God and walked in their own self-will, failed and possibly caused others to fall because of dis obedience.
26 As for Philip, an angel of the Lord said to him,
“Go south down the desert road that runs from Jerusalem to Gaza.”
27 So he started out, and he met the treasurer of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under the Kandake, the queen of Ethiopia. The eunuch had gone to Jerusalem to worship, 28 and he was now returning. Seated in his carriage, he was reading aloud from the book of the prophet Isaiah.
29 The Holy Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and walk along beside the carriage.”
30 Philip ran over and heard the man reading from the prophet Isaiah. Philip asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
31 The man replied, “How can I, unless someone instructs me?” And he urged Philip to come up into the carriage and sit with him.
God told Philip to arise and go to Gaza:
Gaza means " desert "...Now Philip was in the middle of a GREAT REVIVAL!!! People were being healed, delivered and set free, but God in the middle of Philips greatest revival speaks to Philip and tells him go to Gaza, which means " desert "...
now Philip could have looked around and said God, I'm in the middle of a great revival, how can I leave this and go to a desert? I mean here people are getting healed, delivered and salvation is coming to many and you want me leave and go to a desert?
Or Philip could have done like all of us and looked at the situation and said " God wouldn't tell me to leave this revival and go to a desert!!! That really don't make sense so I think I'm just gonna stay right hear where the spirit of God is...in the midst of this Holy out pouring.
But listen, truly God sent Philip from ministering to hundreds of people all because He had a message for one man in a desert.
4 The eunuch asked Philip, “Tell me, was the prophet talking about himself or someone else?” 35 So beginning with this same Scripture, Philip told him the Good News about Jesus.
36 As they rode along, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Look! There’s some water! Why can’t I be baptized?” 38 He ordered the carriage to stop, and they went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.
39 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away. The eunuch never saw him again but went on his way rejoicing. 40 Meanwhile, Philip found himself farther north at the town of Azotus. He preached the Good News there and in every town along the way until he came to Caesarea.
Now look at God, not only did He give the Eunich a miralce by sending him a word in the middle of the desert, but God also gave the apostle one of the greatest miracles, Philip expereinced one of his greatest miracles because he obeyed God.
I wonder how many of us have missed our greatest miracles from God because we failed to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit, and because we break down and look at everything in the natural instead of just believing God and walking on out into that deep water when He bids us like Peter to get out of the boat, and walk on the water.
BREAK FREE!!! BREAK FREE!!! IT'S TIME FOR US TO BREAK FREE!!! Lord help us to see that all you need is an obedient heart,
A child that will dare to hear and obey you, not because everything in their life is good and perfect and makes sense, but because they love you and trust you as ALMIGHTY GOD, who has engraved us in the palm of His hand and has numbered every hair on our head, He knew us in our mothers womb and has called us by name.
I wonder what miracles are waiting on you right now up ahead, as God may be sending you to the potter's house for a word of prophecy for His people in these last days, or He may be taking you away from ministering to the hundreds to just minister to one.
Seek to hear and know His voice and His divine purpose and perfect timing for you, Listen for the voice of God speaking ever so gently to your heart.
It may surprise you to see what miracles God has in store for you as you go forth to find your place called
" THERE "......
where you have walked in the perfect place, in God's perfect timeing, to recieve your perfect miracle.....
International Ministries of Last Call, Inc
8311 N E Zac Lentz Parkway Unit
Victoria, TX 77904
ph: 601 324 1240