An Ambidextrous Year: 2014 watch night notes pdf
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A N A M B I D E X T R O U S Y E A RW H A T ' S O U R F O C U S I N 2 0 1 4
2 T H I N G S W E N E E D T O D O 2 0 1 4
2 T H I N G S W E N E E D T O D O
• Which would seem contradict each other
• But are crucial to getting to have our most productive year ever full if the miracles
T H E F I R S T
• Plan, Organize, Strategise, document.
• Equip study and develop a roadmap for the year
A N D O N T H E O T H E R S I D E
• We need to pray and act as if there us no plan, we are going to depend on God
W H Y ?
• Ephesians 3:14-21 (NKJV)
• 14 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—
W H Y ?
• Ephesians 3:14-21 (NKJV)
• 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. 20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
W H E N Y O U P L A N P R O J E C T S T U D Y Y O U A R E T H I N K I N G
• It creates a platform from which God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think.
• Giving God a great place to start with achievement or expectation
W H E N Y O U P L A N P R O J E C T S T U D Y Y O U A R E T H I N K I N G
• For example you planned to get a degree from university of Ibadan and does it and you end up in Cambridge UK he has done abundantly above what you asked or think compared to not expecting to go to university
S U B M I T Y O U R S E L F T O G O D
I T ' S M E A N S S U B M I T Y O U R S E L F T O H I S W O R D
• James 4:7-10 (NKJV)
• 7 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double- minded. 9 Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.
Nothing in MeJohn 14:30 KJV
Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
Mark 7:15 KJV There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the
man. !!!
The Fifth Column -‐ military tactic A clandestine group or faction of subversive agents who attempt to undermine a nation’s solidarity by any means at their disposal.
The term is credited to Emilio Mola Vidal, a Nationalist general during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39). As four of his army columns moved on Madrid, the general referred to his militant supporters within the capital as his “fifth
column,” intent on undermining the loyalist government from within. Dictionaries generally define a fifth column as “any group of people who
give aid and support to the enemy from within their own country.”
Self DestructionPsalms 107:20 KJV
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. Psalms 107:20 (LITV)
He sent His Word and healed them; and delivered them from all their pitfalls. !
Derek Prince at Khartoum Train StationAnother remarkable example of hearing God’s voice in an unexpected moment: Years back, about l943, when I was a relatively new Christian, I was a soldier in the British Army. I was in the Sudan and I was traveling in a train in which certain compartments were reserved for the military. Traveling north from Khartoum and I got to a small, very, very crowded station.
Derek Prince at Khartoum Train StationAnd if you have never traveled in the third world you won’t be able to picture this but the platform was totally covered with living creatures. Men, women, children, nursing infants, old men and then donkeys, camels, goats, chickens . . . Everybody was bustling, making a noise. And I looked out of the window in my splendid isolation and I said to myself, "I wonder what God thinks about all those people."
Derek Prince at Khartoum Train StationI didn’t expect an answer. But I got an immediate answer, "Some weak, some foolish, some proud, some wicked and some exceeding precious." That, I felt, was God’s categorization of the human race. You can think it over. There’s four basic reasons why people don’t come to Christ. Some weak, some foolish, some proud, some wicked and some exceeding precious.
A Different SpiritNumbers. 14:24
“But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he
went, and his descendants shall inherit it”
Understanding Caleb’s Character The “key” to our understanding of Caleb’s character is found in Numbers 14:24 in the phrase, “different spirit” (ESV). We too must possess a “different” spirit in order to be pleasing to God. Many in the Lord’s church must come to grips with the fact that we are not like everyone else. Standing for the truth will not be popular with those of the world (John 15:19; John 17:14; 1 John 3:13). Too many Christians are more concerned about “what everyone else thinks” than “what God thinks”.
Understanding Caleb’s Character
Due to no fault of his own, Caleb was forced to wander in the wilderness for forty years. He s u f f e r e d b e c a u s e o f t h e faithlessness of the children of Israel. The steadfastness of Caleb’s commitment to God during these troubling (and wasted) years i s a g reat testament to the character of the man. it is indeed difficult to stay the course when others bring undeserved heartache and problems to us. Through all this, Caleb never blamed God but simply trusted God and waited for the day when he would be allowed to cross over to the Promised Land.
B L I N D FA I T H
T H E P R E G N A N T D E E R
• In a remote forest, a pregnant deer was about to give birth to a baby. It found a remote grass field near by a river and slowly went there thinking it would be safe. As she moved slowly, she got labor pain…. at the same moment, dark clouds gathered around that area and lightning started a forest fire. Turning left she saw a hunter who was aiming an arrow from a distance. As she tried to move towards right, she spotted a hungry lion approaching towards her.
T H E P R E G N A N T D E E R
• What should the pregnant deer do ….as she is already under labor pain ?
• What do you think will happen ?
• Will the deer survive ?
• Will it give birth to a calf ?
• Will the calf survive ? or
• Will everything be burnt by the forest fire ?
• At that particular moment ?
• Could the deer go left ? – Hunter’s arrow was pointing
• Could she go right ? – Hungry male lion approaching
• Could she move up ? – Forest fire
• Could she move down ? – Fierce river
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• In reality, she does nothing. She just focuses on giving birth to a new LIFE.
• The sequence of events that happens at that fraction of a second (moment) are as follows:
• In a spur of MOMENT …a lightning struck (already it was cloudy ) and blinded the eyes of the Hunter.
• At that MOMENT, he released the arrow missing and zipping past the deer.
• At that MOMENT the arrow hit and injured the lion badly.
• At that MOMENT, it started to rain heavily and puts out the forest fire.
• At that next MOMENT, the deer gave birth to a healthy calf.
• Wisdom: In our life, it’s our MOMENT of CHOICE and we all have to deal with such negative thoughts from all sides always. Some thoughts are so powerful they overpower us and make us clueless. Let us not decide anything in a hurry. Lets think of ourself as the pregnant deer with the ultimate happy ending. Anything can happen in a MOMENT in this life.
• If you are religious, superstitious, atheist, agnostic… or whatever… you can attribute this MOMENT as sublime, divine intervention, faith, sudden luck, chance (serendipity), coincidence… or a simple ‘dont know’. We all feel the same. But, whatever one may call it, I would see the priority of the deer in that given moment was to give birth to a baby…. because LIFE IS PRECIOUS.
T H AT ' S W H E R E W E A R E I N T H I S S E A S O N , C O U N T R Y A N D T I M E I N O U R L A N D
S U R R O U N D E D O N E V E R Y S I D E B Y E V E R Y K I N D O F T R O U B L E
• We too are trying to consider running fro which one,
• The Devil and His Demons are like the Lion trying to devour us
• The Economy is like the Fire burning up everything we thought had value
• The Hunter is like people who want to kill you or jealous
• The River is life constantly in Motion
Y O U A R E T H E D E E R PA N T I N G AT T H E W AT E R !T R Y I N G T O G I V E B I R T H T O Y O U R C A L L P U R P O S E A N D D E S T I N Y
E X A M P L E S I N S C R I P T U R E O F B L I N D FA I T H
• Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
• Daniel in the lions den
• Esther and the king if I perish I perish
• Noah's extreme focus on the ark
• This year build an ark of faith for you and your family
W H AT D O E S T H E D E E R D O ?
• She does nothing and focusing on giving birth like we must do in our case
J E S U S
• Isaiah 50:6-7 (NKJV)
• I gave My back to those who struck Me, And My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting.
J E S U S
• Isaiah 50:6-7 (NKJV)
• 7 “For the Lord God will help Me; Therefore I will not be disgraced; Therefore I have set My face like a flint, And I know that I will not be ashamed.
• Luke 9:51 (NKJV)
• 51 Now it came to pass, when the time had come for Him to be received up, that He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem,
• Luke 9:51 (AMP)
• Now when the time was almost come for Jesus to be received up [to heaven], He steadfastly and determinedly set His face to go to Jerusalem.
• Luke 9:51 (NLTse)
• 51 As the time drew near for him to ascend to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem.
T H E F O C U S M U S T B E . .
• The focus if the deer was in its offspring and of its kind not its own safety or welfare or prosperity.
T H E F O C U S M U S T B E . .
• The Divine Deliverance
• Comes only after this focus
• Sphere of Influence and Sphere of Concern
P R AY E R
• 1 Thessalonians 3:10-11 (KJV)
• Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith? 11 Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.
P R AY E R
• 1 Thessalonians 3:10-11 (AMP)
• [And we] continue to pray especially and with most intense earnestness night and day that we may see you face to face and mend and make good whatever may be imperfect and lacking in your faith. 11 Now may our God and Father Himself and our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) guide our steps to you.
P R AY E R
• 1 Thessalonians 3:10-11 (NLTse)
• Night and day we pray earnestly for you, asking God to let us see you again to fill the gaps in your faith. 11 May God our Father and our Lord Jesus bring us to you very soon.
P R AY E R
• 1 Thessalonians 3:10-11 (PhillipsNT)
• as we pray earnestly day and night to see you face to face again, and to complete whatever is imperfect in your faith? This is our Prayer for you 11 So may God our Father himself and our Lord Jesus guide our steps to you.
W E A LT H , H E A LT H & L O V ES P I R I T U A L & M A T E R I A L G O A L S I N 2 0 1 4
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