Follow The Instructions

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Tough of the afternoon to you.

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Hello. How are ya? I hope all is well with you and your household. I'm going to be sharing with you again out of the word of God. I'm going to be coming from Ephesians, the fourth chapter, starting at the fourth verse, and I'm going to read down to the 16th. There is one body and one spirit, even as ye are called and one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in you all. But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men. Now that he ascended, what is it? But he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth. He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might feel all things. And he gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, that we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sight of men and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive, but speaking the truth in love may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual work in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body until the edifying of itself in love. Um there's a blueprint given for every building, and that is what uh contractors read in order to know how this building is going to be built. But Jesus is the builder of this house, and the Bible says, except the Lord build the house. We that labor, labor in vain that builds it. Because God has specific orders on what is needed in the house, he knows what it takes to build the house. Um and we cannot violate principle and get the promise. If God says these things are needed, then these things are needed. Um He put in the body what He said was needed. He gave some apostles, some prophets, some teachers, some evangelists, and some pastors for the work of the ministry. These things were placed so that the ministry can be worked. It's for the empire. It's everything to do with his building, his body, and everything that he placed in the body, he made it so it would perfectly join, be joined together. Everything has his proper gift, everything, just like the ocean, uh, just like the earth that he made in the uh beginning, this the heavens and the earth, everything had its boundaries, everything knew what it's supposed to do. Where there was darkness, he said, let there be light. Uh, he put the stars, he put the moon, he put the sun, he put them in the heavens, he didn't put them down here on the earth because he knew that where they would be most profitable at. He made the bigger uh light to move to rule the darkness, and the lesser for for the uh the daytime. So he didn't put the sun at night, he didn't put the moon in the day, he put it where it would be profitable at, and then he made earth, and he put on the earth everything that man needed, he put the fish in the ocean, he put the animals on ground, and so he put everything in his church, in his house that's needed. He said, until we come into unity, and you can look around yourself, we haven't come to that place yet, so until we come to that place, we still need each other, we still need those proper gifts. Why? Because it's for the work of the ministry, we can't do without it because God said it, God said it needs to be there, and until we come into of the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, until we grow up and until we have unity, we gonna forever need what God placed in the body. Best results follow instruction. It's just like the pillars to it to the house. It's just like building a house. You don't put the roof on the floor, you put you have a plumber, you have an electrician, electrician, you have those that built the foundation, you have those that frame the building out. Everybody has their proper job and they don't cross each other, and they know when it's time for them to work. It's a process, it's progress once we follow the instruction. How to read a blueprint, so a few of the houses were built without the pillar, one of the main pillars, because the person didn't know how to read the blueprint. We must learn to learn to read the blueprint, don't put the cart before the horse. Do the first things first. Matthew 6:33 says that seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these other things will be added. We don't hang curtains, we don't lay rugs, we don't put hardware floors in until the framework, the foundation have been done. We don't put cosmetics before the foundation of the house. We must put the walls up, we must put the windows in, we must do all those things before we start dressing the house up. For best results, follow the instruction, read the blueprint, ask somebody to help you because what we are looking for, what we are expecting, can bring frustration to us, and to expect something, information without application leads to frustration, and a lot of times we are frustrated because of our um our expectation. We haven't fully got all the information yet. Um, so hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a prayer answer is like a tree of life or answer for fear. What we must do is find out what's in the blueprint, and then we can base our expectation off of that because God won't make a hope of shame, but we have to hear the conclusion of the whole matter. Paul in the book of Romans talked about this. He said, My heart's desire and prayer for Israel is that they be saved. I bear them record, they do have a zeal, they're excited about what they're doing. It's just not according to knowledge. We have to know something, we have to get knowledge, we have to get wisdom, we have to get understanding. The Bible says that wisdom is the principal thing, but of all thy getting, get and understand it. He said, and by Israel not knowing the righteousness of God, they went about establishing their own. So sometimes we can get frustrated and waiting on God, although God told us what to do, as when he told Sarah, you're gonna have a child, and because she just thought that it wasn't going to happen, she went and got uh her handmaid to go in um to her husband. Then he turned around and got mad at the handmaid and wanted um Abraham to send them off. But you did that, Sarah. And I said the same thing today. Wait on the Lord, he doesn't need you to intervene and to help him do anything, he knows just what to do, he can handle it, he can fix it, he's a promise keeper. Yes, he is, he's a covenant keeper, and that that he promised you, if you obey his word, if you do just like he said to, you will reap the benefits, you will get what you prayed for. We have need of patience that after we have done the will of God, we may be able to obtain the promises. So, for best results, follow the instructions, follow the blueprint, do exactly what God has ordained you to do. Mary told the people when they needed they wanted wine at the wedding of Cana. She told him, told them, whatever Jesus tells you to do, do that. Don't worry about you don't see no bonds, don't worry about that. You don't see no grace because we're paralyzed, because we analyze, because we don't see it and can't see it with our little finite minds, and we're our natural minds, we don't see what God is doing in the spirit. Put the super on the natural. You can only see this if you are in the spirit of God. These things are not, these things are spiritually discerned. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Whatever he tells you to do, just do it. For best results, follow instructions, read the blueprint and follow that. This is healing stream waters, daily dosage. God loves you, I love you, and there's nothing that you can do about it.