PRECIOUS TIME

A young man learns what's most important in life from the guy next door. …

It had been some time since Jack had seen the old man.. College, girls, career, and life itself got in the way. In fact, Jack moved clear across the country in pursuit of his dreams. There, in the rush of his busy life, Jack had little time to think about the past and often no time to spend with his wife and son. He was working on his future, and nothing could stop him. Over the phone, his mother told him, "Mr. Belser died last night. The funeral is Wednesday." Memories flashed through his mind like an old newsreel as he sat quietly remembering his childhood days. "Jack, did you hear me?"

"Oh, sorry, Mom. Yes, I heard you. It's been so long since I thought of him. I'm sorry, but I honestly thought he died years ago," Jack said. "Well, he didn't forget you. Every time I saw him he'd ask how you were doing. He'd reminisce about the many days you spent over 'his side of the fence' as he put it," Mom told him. "I loved that old house he lived in," Jack said. "You know, Jack, after your father died, Mr. Belser stepped in to make sure you had a man's influence in your life," she said "He's the one who taught me carpentry," he said. "I wouldn't be in this business if it weren't for him. He spent a lot of time teaching me things he thought were important.... Mom, I'll be there for the funeral," Jack said.

As busy as he was, he kept his word. Jack caught the next flight to his hometown. Mr. Belser's funeral was small and uneventful. He had no children of his own, and most of his relatives had passed away. The night before he had to return home, Jack and his Mom stopped by to see the old house next door one more time. Standing in the doorway, Jack paused for a moment. It was like crossing over into another dimension, a leap through space and time. The house was exactly as he remembered. Every step held memories. Every picture, every piece of furniture.... Jack stopped suddenly.. "What's wrong, Jack?" his Mom asked. "The box is gone," he said "What box?" Mom asked. "There was a small gold box that he kept locked on top of his desk. I must have asked him a thousand times what was inside. All he'd ever tell me was 'the thing I value most,'" Jack said. It was gone. Everything about the house was exactly how Jack remembered it, except for the box. He figured someone from the Belser family had taken it. "Now I'll never know what was so valuable to him," Jack said. "I better get some sleep. I have an early flight home, Mom."

It had been about two weeks since Mr. Belser died Returning home from work one day Jack discovered a note in his mailbox. "Signature required on a package. No one at home. Please stop by the main post office within the next three days," the note read. Early the next day Jack retrieved the package. The small box was old and looked like it had been mailed a hundred years ago. The handwriting was difficult to read, but the return address caught his attention. "Mr. Harold Belser" it read. Jack took the box out to his car and ripped open the package. There inside was the gold box and an envelope. Jack's hands shook as he read the note inside. "Upon my death, please forward this box and its contents to Jack Bennett. It's the thing I valued most in my life." A small key was taped to the letter. His heart racing, as tears filling his eyes, Jack carefully unlocked the box. There inside he found a beautiful gold pocket watch. Running his fingers slowly over the finely etched casing, he unlatched the cover. Inside he found these words engraved: " Jack, Thanks for your time! - Harold Belser." "The thing he valued most was...my time" Jack held the watch for a few minutes, then called his office and cleared his appointments for the next two days. "Why?" Janet, his assistant asked. "I need some time to spend with my son," he said. "Oh, by the way, Janet, thanks for your time!"

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"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away,"

Think about this. You may not realize it, but it's 100% true.

1. At least 15 people in this world love you in some way.
2. A smile from you can bring happiness to anyone, even if they don't like you.
3. Every night, SOMEONE thinks about you before they go to sleep.
4. You mean the world to someone.
5. If not for you, someone may not be living.
6. You are special and unique.
7. When you think you have no chance of getting what you want, you probably won't get it, but if you trust God to do what's best, and wait on His time, sooner or later, you will get it or something better.
8. When you make the biggest mistake ever, something good can still come from it.
9. When you think the world has turned its back on you, take a look: you most likely turned your back on the world.
10. Someone that you don't even know exists loves you.
11. Always remember the compliments you received.. Forget about the rude remarks.
12. Always tell someone how you feel about them; you will feel much better when they know and you'll both be happy .
13. If you have a great friend, take the time to let them know that they are great.

Let people know that you care….BY YOUR PRECIOUS TIME…

The 3 Most Significant Leadings Of The Holy Spirit In Your Life Part 2 (June 27)

The 3 Most Significant Leadings Of The Holy Spirit
In Your Life Part 2

Text: Rom 8:14
"Because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God."

Introduction

Review of last Sunday's message

1. Transformation into Christlikeness

2. Expansion of God's kingdom

3. Intercession for God to move

TODAY'S MESSAGE IS STILL THE POINT 3 OF LAST SUNDAY'S MESSAGE
GOD HAS IMPRESSED UPON ME TO EXPLAIN IT FURTHER TO YOU FOR T WILL CREATE BIG IMPACT AND RESULTS TO OUR PRAYERS.

3.Intercession for God to move

*The Holy Spirit leads and empowers you to pray.
*God can only and will only move when you pray.
*Prayer is giving God permission to move and intervene.
*Without prayer , God cannot move and will not move
*The Holy Spirit leads and touches a child of God to pray that
God may move

Rom 8:26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not
know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself
intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.

Rom 8:27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit,
because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with
God's will.

Zec 12:10 "And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants
of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication.
NLT "Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the
family of David and on all the people of Jerusalem.

GOD IMPRESSED UPON ME A SPECIFIC PATTERN OF PRAYER

1.Invoke and apply the Blood Of Jesus

Rev 12:11 They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the
word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so
much as to shrink from death.

*The Blood of Jesus loosens demonic holds.
*The Blood of Jesus is the Covenant of God between Him and you to
bless you

Mat 26:28 This is my blood of the[2] covenant, which is poured out
for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Heb 9:15 For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant,
that those who are called may receive the promised eternal
inheritance--now that he has died as a ransom to set them
free from the sins committed under the first covenant.

2.Bind and uproot demonic presence,influence and strongholds.

Mat 18:18 "I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will
be[4]bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be[5]
loosed in heaven.
Mat 18:19 "Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about
anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father
in heaven.
Mat 18:20 For where two or three come together in my name, there am I
with them."

3.Revelation to come.

Eph 1:17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
glorious Father, may give you the Spirit[6] of wisdom and
revelation, so that you may know him better.
Eph 1:18 I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened
in order that you may know the hope to which he has called
you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
Eph 1:19 and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That
power is like the working of his mighty strength,


*This prayer can be applied when you pray for yourself and others

A. When praying for yourself:

1. Invoke and apply the Blood of Jesus upon yourself- mind, emotion,
will and body

2. Receive revelation what specific things to pray in your life
especially attitude, behavior or habit to be changed by God
You must surrender it to God. You have to renounce it from your
life. Ex.anger, lust, bitterness, pride, fear

note: God can only change an attitude in you when you surrender it

Receive revelation what he wants you to do and become

Ex. God wants you to become a soul-winner and make disciples
God wants you to become a cell leader or G12 leader
note: God can only make yuo a soul winner and cell leader when you
want and pray about it.

B. When praying for others

1. loved ones such as spouse, parents , children to be transformed

2. lost to be saved

2Co 4:3 And even if our gospel is veiled,
it is veiled to those who are perishing.
2Co 3:16 But whenever anyone turns to the Lord,
the veil is taken away.
2Co 4:4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers,
so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the
glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

note: spirits to bind and uproot

1. blindness
2. religious
3. false teachings
4. idolatry
5. stubbornness and dumbness
6. pride

note: Ask for forgiveness on their behalf

3. New believers to be consolidated

Act 2:17 " 'In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.
Act 2:18 Even on my servants, both men and women,
I will pour out my Spirit in those days,
and they will prophesy.

note: Pray that they will dream of serving God with us in our
church.

We need to teach them immediately how to pray correctly
Use consolidation lesson o prayer immediately

4. flocks to be caught by the vision

The flock have to be set free from all demonic minsets and
disobedience

The flocks have to receive revelation of the vision.

The vision is our destiny. Destiny of meaningful and purposeful life. Destiny of usefulness and fruitfulness.

The flocks have to pray for themselves to become soul winners, consoidators and cell leaders.

You wont become a soul winner if you don't pray to become one.
You wont become a consolidator if you don't pray to become one.
You wont become a cell leader if you don't pray to become one.

CONCLUSION

God's children who are sensitive and obedient to the Holy Spirit recognize the importance of praying and they pray a lot. They love to pray and they love to pray with others esp prayer gatherings such as dawnwatch.

The 3 Most Significant Leadings Of The Holy Spirit In Your Life (June 20)

The 3 Most Significant Leadings Of The Holy Spirit In Your Life


Text: Romans 8:14
"Because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God."

Introduction

*God's children are given the Holy Spirit
Rom 8:9 You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the
Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not
have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.
*One evidence that you are a child of God and you belong to Christ is the
presence of the Holy Spirit in your life.
*The Holy Spirit is given to lead you to do the will of God.

THE 3 MOST SIGNIFICANT LEADINGS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE LIFE OF A CHILD OF GOD.

1. Transformation into Christlikeness

The Holy Spirit leads and empowers you to be transformed into Chrislikeness

Rom 8:29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to
the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many
brothers.

Rom 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but
be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to
test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.

*The Holy Spirit transforms you by empowering you to crucify the sinful
nature. But you need to decide to crucify the flesh . You need to give
the control of your life-mind,emotion and will. You need to fully
surrender your will to Him.

CRUCIFY THE SINFUL NATURE DAILY

Gal 5:24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful
nature with its passions and desires.
Luk 9:23 Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me,
he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
Gal 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but
Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by
faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Christlikeness can only be achieved by crucifying the sinful nature
daily. The victories Christ achieved can only be achieved by crucifying
the sinful nature.Sufferings through trials and testings become easy
to handle when flesh is crucifed. Pressures can be withstood and
overcome when flesh is crucified.

The victories against demonic attacks and traps can only be yours when your flesh is crucified.Satan can do whatever he wants to do by the limit God allows him but you'll always be
victorious when your sinful nature is crucified. Satan tickles the flesh for you to remove the nails and live again.

Rom 8:6 The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by
the Spirit is life and peace;

Luk 22:42 "Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me;
yet not my will, but yours be done."

2. Expansion of God's kingdom

The Holy Spirit leads and empowers you to expand God's kingdom.

Luk 4:43 But he said, "I must preach the good news of the kingdom of
God to the other towns also, because that is why I was sent."
Luk 9:60 Jesus said to him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but
you go and proclaim the kingdom of God."
This is well known as Jesus's Great Commission
Mat 28:19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing
them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit,

Great Commission says 2 things to do-

1.Win souls- Jesus wants you to win souls.
Have you won lately? How many have you brought to your
Guest Night?
2.Make disciples- Jesus wants you to make and have disciples to learn
and immitate the Lord Jesus.


3.Intercession for God to move

The Holy Spirit leads and empowers you to pray.
God can only and will only move when you pray.
Prayer is giving God permission to move and intervene.
Without prayer , God cannot move,
The Holy Spirit leads and touches a child of God to pray that God may move

Rom 8:26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not
know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself
intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.

Rom 8:27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit,
because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with
God's will.

Zec 12:10 "And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants
of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication.

NLT "Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the
family of David and on all the people of Jerusalem.

TMSG- PRAYER TO RECOGNIZE JESUS AS THE ONLY SAVIOR

Zec 12:10 "Next I'll deal with the family of David and those who live in
Jerusalem. I'll pour a spirit of grace and prayer over them.
They'll then be able to recognize me as the One they so
grievously wounded--that piercing spear-thrust! And they'll
weep--oh, how they'll weep! Deep mourning as of a parent
grieving the loss of the firstborn child.

God can only change things in your life that you pray about.
God can only change wrong and bad attitude, behavior, habit and speech
in your life when you pray to God to remove them.
God can only change you and me when we pray to God the specific things
in us that need
God's children who are sensitive and obedient to the Holy Spirit
recognizes the importance of praying and they pray a lot. They love to
pray and they love to pray with others esp prayer gatherings such as
dawnwatch.

CONCLUSION

Follow the leading of thre Holy Spirit and you'll be used mightily by our
God to transform the Philippines and this world.

Walking in the Spirit (June 13)

Walking in the Spirit

Text: ROMANS 8:2-14 and GALATIANS 5:16-25; 6:7-9

Introduction

Zec 4:6 So he said to me, "This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel:
'Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says the LORD
Almighty.
CEV: So the angel explained that it was the following message of the
LORD to Zerubbabel: I am the LORD All-Powerful. So don't depend
on your own power or strength, but on my Spirit.

TMSG: "This is GOD's Message to Zerubbabel: "You can't force
these things. They only come about through my Spirit,' says
GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies.

GNB: The angel told me to give Zerubbabel this message from the LORD:
"You will succeed, not by military might or by your own strength,
but by my spirit.


THREE THINGS YOU SHOULD BE DOING IN WALKING IN THE SPIRIT

illustration: biking- balance, steer and pedal

1. SET YOUR MIND ON THE THINGS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
2. SEEK AND SUBMIT TO THE GUIDANCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
3. SOW TO THE SPIRIT


EMPHASIS TODAY IS:

2. SEEK AND SUBMIT TO THE GUIDANCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Joh 16:13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into
all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what
he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.
Joh 16:14 He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making
it known to you.
Joh 16:15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the
Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you.

a. the Holy Spirit guides you into all truth v.13

-the Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of Truth
-the great truths the Holy Spirit wants us to know are who Jesus really
is and what He accomplished at cross-7 divine exchange.
Also, who we are in Christ-our identity that we must declare
often in a day.
-Satan is a master deceiver.
--sight and emotion
-Illus: Quiboloy

Mat 24:5 For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Christ,[1]' and will deceive many.
Mat 24:11 and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.
Mat 24:24 For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform
great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect--if
that were possible.
-Satan blinds
2Co 4:4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers,
so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the
glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

b. the Holy Spirit says the message of Jesus to you

-This is called "rhema"- word of revelation
-This happens often in your DEVOTION
(CEV) John 16:13 The Spirit shows what is true and will come and guide
you into the full truth. The Spirit doesn't speak on his own. He will
tell you only what he has heard from me, and he will let you know
what is going to happen.
John 16:14 The Spirit will bring glory to me by taking my message and
telling it to you.
John 16:15 Everything that the Father has is mine. That is why I have
said that the Spirit takes my message and tells it to you.
-message of the Lord Jesus in our situation, trials,how to solve
your problems. v14

-Examples
1. Get intimate with and passionate for God
Make your DEVOTION a priority in your day
2. Get into the process of PEPSOL
3. Be committed to your cell group and be discipled by your cell
leader
4. Be faithful with your tithes to prosper and for protection
5. Change your attitude
6. Submit to your husband
7. Love your wife. Be faithful to your wife
8. Obey and honor your parents

c. the Holy Spirit reveals the future (yours, others, country,etc)

-This is called prophetic word
(CEV)
Joh 16:13 The Spirit shows what is true and will come and guide you
into the full truth. The Spirit doesn't speak on his own. He will
tell you only what he has heard from me, and he will let you know
what is going to happen.

Act 2:16 No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
Act 2:17 " 'In the last days, God says,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your young men will see visions,
your old men will dream dreams.
Act 2:18 Even on my servants, both men and women,
I will pour out my Spirit in those days,
and they will prophesy.

Examples
1. You will become a fruitful G12 leader
2. You will be a catalyst in the transformation of this nation
3. You will be prosperous and successful
4. Danger! Don't go. Don't do that. Go now!
note: The Holy Spirit is the Helper to give strength, power and wisdom
to fulfill your destiny

CONCLUSION:

2Co 13:14 May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
TMSG The amazing grace of the Master, Jesus Christ, the extravagant
love of God, the intimate friendship of the Holy Spirit, be with
all of you.
AMP 2Co 13:14 The grace (favor and spiritual blessing) of the Lord
Jesus Christ and the love of God and the presence and fellowship
(the communion and sharing together, and participation) in the
Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen (so be it).

Develop an intimate relationship with the Holy Spirit. Talk to Him everday.
Acknowledge your dependence on Him. He will lead you to victory even as
He will empower you.