Sunday 9-19-2021
Scott Howard
Life Church of Mobile
So many are looking for a “there” they can miss the “Along the Way”…
The Bible is filled with people who had dreams and had many struggles and setbacks
before their God-ordained destiny manifested…but achieved great fulfillment along the
way.
Think of all the things that happened in the Bible “Along the Way”…
David was in a dead-end job with no end in sight…tending sheep and delivering cheese…His
family saw him only as a sheepherder and delivery boy….even after he was prophesied over….
He is taking food to his brothers…
That wasn’t his ultimate calling…
Don't confuse purpose with task…. Sometimes we have to do many tasks that don't seem
to completely aligned with our purpose.
Most of Jesus' miracles happened along the way… John 4…Jesus is headed to Galilee…stops
off in Samaria…sits down at a well…and has a prophetic encounter with a woman …the
disciples are acting like why are you wasting time doing this…she starts telling everybody about
what happened…MANY believed in Him…they talked Him into staying 2 more days…It’s
amazing what can happen along the way…
Jesus is passing through a place on an important assignment – go to Jerusalem and prepare for
the coming crucifixion…
Mark 10:46-52... Now they came to Jericho. As He went out of Jericho with His disciples
and a great multitude, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the road begging. 47
Ruth came into her destiny step by step staying faithful to Naomi and then later working
out in the fields picking up leftovers…
None of this is possible in isolation…
The church is anointed… The church belongs to Jesus…and…The church is
ESSENTIAL…
Hebrews 10:19-25…“Therefore, brethren, having boldness [ a ] to enter the Holiest by the
blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil,
that is, His flesh, 21 and having a High Priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with
a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience
and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope
without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider one another in
order to stir up love and good works, 25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together,
as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the
Day approaching.”
Consider…have concern…
Forsaking…leave behind, abandon…
The choice is ours as to what spirit we align ourselves in and what spirit we move in.
Let us partner with His Spirit to see a greater move of unity, love, honor, healing, blessing, and
restoration released across the body of Christ…and the demonic spirit of covid defeated.
Being Christian in America is becoming increasingly an “all or nothing” proposition.
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