Shift

If you have ever driven a standard, you know that shifting is necessary to slow down or speed up. You can grind the gears if someone does not know how to shift the gears. In life we must know how to shift the gears with grinding them.

When it comes to our relationships, economic status, and emotions, we have to know when to shift. Every time Jesus was talking to the disciples, He would shift the gears. He would say something like this:

John 21:15-17 (New Living Translation)

After breakfast Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?”

“Yes, Lord,” Peter replied, “you know I love you.”

“Then feed my lambs,” Jesus told him.

¹⁶ Jesus repeated the question: “Simon son of John, do you love me?”

“Yes, Lord,” Peter said, “you know I love you.”

“Then take care of my sheep,” Jesus said.

¹⁷ A third time he asked him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?”

Peter was hurt that Jesus asked the question a third time. He said, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you.”

Jesus said, “Then feed my sheep.

The first two replies by Peter was a basic response of friendship. It was not until the third time Peter responded with the correct love. Jesus had positioned a shift. Peter became hurt and angry because he was not shifting. This is the same way in our life. God begins to speak to us to do something and we do it in the same gear we did something else. We like Peter become angry, hurt, disappointed, frustrated, and even to the point of giving up. The reason is because we did not shift the gears. What He is asking us to do requires us to shift the gears.

I want to encourage you today to shift the gears. Move toward God's plan, purpose, and destiny in your lives.

Blessings,

Pastor Mark

Part 2 of Making of a Man

I want to continue with "Making of a Man Part 2." God is into making us in every area of our life. It starts with having the same spirit of faith.

There are 7 components that make up the same Spirit of Faith or Same DNA

And here they are:

1. Hear ( Romans 10:13-17) We can not have the same spirit of faith without hearing and hearing what God's is saying through our Pastor/Leader.

2. Believe (see, take, keep) Mark 9:23 if you can believe all things are possible. It's believing in what God is saying through the Man of God.

3. Speak (see what you speak) Acts 3:6-8 If we only speak what we see, then we will only go so far. But if we see what we are saying, then we will reach our full potential.

4. See ( speak what you see) II Cor. 4:7 When we see what we speak, then we will speak what we see. It's God that performs the miracle. This allows us to never give up no matter what goes on in our lives.

5. Receive –Mark 4:24 They received what God was saying to them. We must do the same and we will be able to receive all that God has for us.

6. Keep- Proverbs 4:23 We must keep what God has spoken to us and not allow anything or anyone to extract it out.

7. Increase-Matthew 12:35 We must increase what God has given through the Man or Woman of God in our life and performance. We increase it by hearing, believing what you hear, speaking what you have heard and believed, then seeing what you have spoken, then are we able to receive it, we are then able to keep it, and then we can increase it.

More to come

Blessings,

Pastor Mark

Change

Change is present. For the past few weeks I have been sensing a change in my spirit. It's a change of destiny. In the last several days, it has begun to get stronger.

If you are experiencing change, I want to give you some points on what to expect.

1. Be willing to flow with it. The disciples were constantly asking Jesus "why" "when" they could not understand everything He was saying, but as they followed, it became clear. So it is with us, follow Him and you will see.

2. Change is uncomfortable. If someone is remodeling a house, there are quite a few dis confronts. Don't allow the dis confront get you distracted from acquiring what you have been praying, fasting, obeying and following through on. Your Next!

3. The opposition you are sensing is only part of the process to pull out of us what God has put in us. He has placed in us the ability to withstand the pressure and to lean upon Him for our outsource.

4. Relax, God will do what He has said. He will bring the help needed to deliver and accomplish what He has placed in you.

Blessings,

Pastor Mark