The Steps of a Good Man

Where we bring kingdom expansion, we bring kingdom blessing. As long as we are built on the foundation that is Jesus, Kingdom expansion is inevitable. There are many people in the body of Christ today that talk the talk but don’t walk the walk. They put on their make up and good clothes, go to church and pretend they don’t have mess. They envy after the brotherhood of the church, that team but you don’t get that brotherhood without sacrifice. You have to be willing to pay the price. How much of your talk are you willing to walk? There are three groups in the church. The first is the crowd. These people are like the 5,000 that Jesus fed. They are just part of the crowd. Members of the crowd come to receive something and that’s it. We need to begin to take what He’s given us and give it to others. We need to receive what Christ gives us but don’t let it stop there, we must pass it along. As you grow in your walk, church cannot simply be a refilling station. You’ve got to esta...

Before we can begin building we need to be building on the proper foundation. We don’t want to be the one that built their foundation upon the sand, who, during the first storm, is swept away with the wind and rain. We want to be the ones that build their foundation upon the rock and can take whatever storm, whatever turmoil and make it through it. As a team we must build our foundation upon the rock. We all have situations, circumstances but we can not close ourselves off! Open the door! We weaken our foundation when we close in on ourselves. We must lean on God, lean on each other in times of need. We must begin to cultivate and apply the principles we have learned. When we choose to make accursed things our own, we are not only cursing ourselves but cursing our households, our family, our team. We are once again weakening that foundation and bringing hardship onto ourselves. The sin that you commit does not just affect you. They affect everyone around you. We must begin to i...

God divinely purposed that you would be here. That you would be a part of this team. As a team we must show unity. As we show unity, the demons of Hell will stir. As we show unity, it makes the demons quake. If we want the gates of Hell to tremble, we need to get united. As a team we need to understand that we don’t have the time for the forces of Hell. We have a job to do. The pagan kings of this world may rise up but I don’t have time for that. I have gates and walls to build for the Kingdom of God. We have to have a big goal for the kingdom of God. A big goal means we need a big vision. A big vision means we need a big team. To begin to have a vision we must have more than a Christian mindset. I want a Kingdom mindset, a look at the big picture, rather than a small, Christian picture. If your goal and your vision don’t need a team, they’re not big enough. As people of this world we, so many times, tend to invest in this world. We invest our hearts and treasure into our house...

Teamwork is the only way the dream works. We need to begin to understand that when we go through the hard times, we are not alone. We do NOT stand alone. When we go through the hard times the first thing we want to do is step back. To take a break. Our dreams ought to be doing something, they ought to be working. Working dreams create the impossible, non-working dreams simply fade when you wake. I don’t want the destiny God has for me to vanish when I wake up. With work, dreams can come to pass. We can’t merely have a vision, we have to know where we are or we’ll never get to where we envision. We will not discover where we are if we have one perspective. A white, a black, a red, a yellow perspective. We must look from a Godly perspective. We live in a pagan world, any pagan perspective we bring to our starting point is already leading us the wrong way. You are first and foremost a child of God; we are held to a higher standard. In many ways the body of Christ is divided. We ha...

When wanting to see the bigger picture there are four things we must keep in mind. The first is that there will be a press against us. The best ways for us to strengthen as individuals and as a team is through the press. God doesn’t make us go through the hardships but he allows us to go through them so that we may strengthen. Fortification comes through the storm. If there are no storms to go through, what are we supposed to fortify against? Blind Bartimaeus didn’t let the people quiet him but pressed forward against them. The second thing we must do is let go of the past. As a team when it’s time to press, you need to press along with your team. If one of your team members or you, are holding onto the past, you are bringing the rest of the team down. We tend to carry in today the negative things that people did to us yesterday. Stop spending time looking back, look forward to the Cross. Sometimes we tend to get comfy in our bitterness and we bring others into our bitterness, sh...