CHECK INSIDE

CALVARY IS REAL BIBLE CHURCH

#13 UKWANSI STREET, ABAKALIKI

SUNDAY SERVICE (14/12/2019)

TOPIC:         CHECK INSIDE

TEXT:           Gen. 39:20-23; Jer. 1:9-12

INTRODUCTION

As we prepare to move into the New Year, resolve to dream big dreams, to stretch your faith and to do great things for God. There are two things you must never forget;

·        Winning

Elevation is not a function of what you have around you but rather of what you have within you. In other words, you cannot be limited by lack of money, people or resources. Those are things around you. The only things that can limit you are internal things; Your attitude, your faith, your discipline and many more. That is why as the year ends, you must invest more time in developing and building up your inner man. The second thing is this; It is not what happens to you but what happens in you that wins. Don’t let the disappointing situations of life reach into you and turn off your switch of victory. No matter how 2019 has been, refuse to give up. Accept what you cannot change. Change what you cannot accept. Yes! You can’t change some things that have happened this year! But you can decide to stay positive even though you feel disappointed or you feel like everything is crushing you. Instead of feeling sorry for yourself or letting your emotions control you, you can decide to LOOK up to the God who knows your future – 2020! It’s easy to get worked up and create an even worse situation for yourself. But the only thing you have control over is how you react to the battles confronting you! Choose to end 2019 in Hope and refuse regrets. Refuse to be a quitter! Refuse to sniff life out of your God-given dreams. 2020 will be your elevation season. Refuse depression! If God could not forsake Joseph in PIT and in the PRISON, He will not forsake you. No matter how deep life pushes you, God will go down with you to Take you to the Top; Higher and higher than everyone and Everything that pushed you down. Hold on and hold out! You will get there.

This message is coming under three sub-headings;

1.      Distract your distraction

2.      Secret of a liberal soul

3.      I will end this year well

DISTRACT YOUR DISTRACTIONS     Numbers 14:1-10

Hilary Duff was right when she said It’s hard to stay true to yourself and what you want in life when there are so many distractions and so much craziness going on around you. You cannot do big things if you are distracted by small things. Work is hard! Distractions are plentiful and time is short. As 2019 ends, Satan will do all he can to distract you. In fact, each time you are NEAR your BREAKTHROUGH point, DISTRACTION will be sent to stop or slow you down. Distractions come in ways you can never imagine. They come to confuse you, lure you, invite you to beautiful destinations and they tempt you to think that one day wont change anything. But a distraction is still a distraction. That is why you must be vigilant. There are seasons when your social media, facebook, instagram etc are satanic distractions. There are times when even the tV or newspaper is your distraction agent. And yet there are times when your friends or family members can become the voice of distraction. But with self control and discipline, you can say NO to distractions, so that you can say YES to your destiny. I decree over you today as I am commanded: Every arrow of distraction from the pit of hell designed to change the course of your STORY to GLORY journey, is destroyed now by the fire of Holy Ghost. Distractions stopped ORPAH from seeing the good things that heaven had in store for her. Ruth became an eternal star with a DIVINE ATOMIC ENERGY, while ORPAH disappeared from destiny’s roundtable. Oh hear Henry Ford; Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Starve your distractions and feed your focus! Peace!

THE SECRET OF THE LIBERAL SOUL         2 Cor. 9:6-11; Prov. 11:24-26

The scriptural reference here share one of the most powerful and well known principles of life; your current harvest in life is a function of your past seeds What you sow now determines what you will reap tomorrow. Also the QUANTITY you sow determines the QUANTITY you will reap. This principle affects every area of life including finances and your daily actions. No wonder King Solomon said many centuries ago, by the spirit of wisdom that God blessed him with, that There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth and there is that witholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. The liberal soul shall be made fat. Note Made fat. The Amplified bible puts it this way; There are those who (generously) scatter abroad, and yet increase more; there are those who withhold more than is fitting or what is justly due, but it results only in want. The liberal person shall be enriched and who waters shall himself be watered. You will be enriched and watered. Enrich means Evergreen. Watered means whatever you lay your hands to do cannot wither or dry up. Wow! Determine to be a More Liberal Soul – a person that gives freely. But here is the secret. If you look at the size of your wallet or bank account before you give, you may never give. There is giving fatigue in the church today due to unfaithful people and pastors. Others keep thinking within themselves when I become a millionaire, I will start giving. When I get promotion and they increase my salary, I will have enough to give or pay my tithes. But, note this What you do now is what you will be doing when you start earning more money.  If you have not been giving your tithes now (with little you are earning), if your income increases, the distractions that are now stopping you from giving your tithe will also increase later. You may not be able to do great things now, you may not be able to give great and large gifts now, but, when you wrap that little gift with love and you release it, God’s rich hands of Grace will see it that you are enriched with more and more. It is a universal law of the universe.

I WILL END THIS YEAR WELL

Determine to end the year well no matter the pressure here and there. Attack here and there, confusion here and there, noise here and there; clear all you are owing God; tithes, vows, pledges, testimony. Determine to end the year with prayer, fasting, peace etc.