The Steps of a Good Man

It’s not enough that we merely say He’s a good father. It’s so easy to just lift our hands here in church and declare He is good. But that’s not enough. We need to make a declaration of faith through our actions. We’ve got a decision to make, are we going to be those that will arise? Awaken? Will we be like Peter and step out of the boat? We need to recognize that before we step out of that boat, realize that the wind, the rain, the boys back in the boat are going to try to take your attention. You have to determine, before you step out of the boat. As we prepare to take steps of faith we have to know that it won’t always be easy. There will be challenges that come when we step out of the boat. There’s a tiny bit of safety in the boat and that safety is completely gone when we step out. But Jesus doesn’t want us to have the relative safety of the boat and the oars and the sails or the friends around you. He wants you to find 100% complete security in Him. It’s scary, but it’s the sa...

Tenacity, it’s not just enough that we have faith and action, we need to understand that there is timing. A time to build up, a time to crash down. Often times we begrudge the process, we begrudge the time of preparation. We resent the process, the preparation. We desire the outcome but we begrudge the process. When we resent it, out hearts get hard and so the process does not have the desired effect and outcome and we have to take another trip around the mountain, through the wilderness. David faced the lion and the bear to prepare him for Goliath, he faced Goliath to prepare him to face Saul, he faced Saul to prepare him for the throne. God has a plan but in order to execute that plan, you have to be prepared. If you avoid that time or preparation, you will not enter into the promise. God has used beaten, broken people to usher Israel into its Golden Age but they had to walk through the process. We have to get rid of the begrudging of the process. We have to go from beg...

To have the best season, a fruitful season, we have to begin to act. But it’s not enough to just act, we have to act at the right time, for the right result. And it’s not enough to just act at the right time, we have to have the tenacity to act at the right time. God has created minutes, hours, days, the everyday, kronos but inside of those minutes, hours, days, there are kairos moments. God-ordained moments. Kronos is the moment to moment, time, our most precious gift, a gift that is given to both to saved and the unsaved. Kairos is God ordained time, a specific time where God ordained something to happen. It was the kairos moment “let there be light” that God ordained light to be. The God ordained moment for creation to take place. The kairos moment of Jesus’ birth, the kronos moment, the day to day, where a kairos moment take place. The son of God was born. We have this misconception that the kairos moment is meant to be easy. That if it’s not easy, it’s not of God. Only t...