Prayer Call 01/31/12

Good Morning,

The points Bishop Walker made on his prayer call were so encouraging, I felt that I should share them this morning. They are:

Anchor Text Romans 8:28-30

1. Know that he has a plan for your life – Be able to tolerate the things that happen in your life, because you know that God has a plan. Jer 27:11
2. Know that there is going to be pressure - Know that pressure is coming so that God can develop you for where you are about to go. Remember that you are under construction
3. Always know and respect the providence of God – No matter what is going on in your life, know that God is at work in your life. He is always behind the scenes working.
4. You have to presevere – Because of who you are in Him, know that you are stronger than the average person.
5. Know that you will prevail - Know that you are going to come out on the top no mattter what it may look like in your life right now.

I hope these words from Bishop Walker’s prayer call will encourage you like they encouraged me. God Bless!

Living the Life Part II, Bible Study 01/11/12

Living the Life Part II

THE PURPOSED LIFE

 

Synopsis of 01/11/12

Delivered by Bishop Walker III

 

Each of us know we are here for our purpose. Knowing this, every move you make should be an intentional move. God doesn’t move arbitrarily and since he doesn’t, we must always act based on our purpose. The question is, how do we accomplish this? It is by the power of being properly developed and maturing in wisdom.

 

What is Wisdom?

• Mental intellectual perspective- SOPHIA- This is the practical ability to sense and understand life in all relations and situations- In other words, we see moments in our lives as individual events attached to purpose. Everything has a place when you are a person who walks in purpose
• When you dont walk in wisdom, you do things off the cuff. The way you act can adversely affect what God has for your life. Ex- Somebody gets under your skin and you act in that moment. You do something not realizing that this moment can impact what God has intended for your life. Think of the people that are in the grave or in jail right now that allowed one act to keep them from where they were supposed to be. A person that doesn’t understand purpose doesn’t understand how their actions can impact their purpose.
• Show a person their purpose and they will be willing to live and die for it.
• No matter how many degrees you have or how many books you have read, there are some people with smarts, but no common sense.

 

How do I attain wisdom?

1. It is a Gift from God- James 1:5:⁵If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him. –The scripture says if you lack wisdom, you can just ask God for it. Wisdom can only be given by God in the way that you need it. Look at Joseph. He went from the pit to the palace. Joseph wouldnt give in to the moment, because he knew this would have cost him what God had intended to do in his life.
2.  By personal experiences- Some of you have been made wise by your mistakes. Life can give you wisdom.
3.  Traditions of our fathers and mothers. Job 8:8:⁸“For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself for the searching of their fathers;-There are things that previous generations could teach you, because they have gotten through certain things.
4. Learn wisdom .Proverbs 4:11:¹¹I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.-God taught us how to be wise. Proverbs 9:9-10: ⁹Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser; teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.¹⁰The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. –The more you teach a wise man, the more he will want to know. Proverbs 13:20: ²⁰He that walketh with wise men shall be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.-You cannot hang out with some people. There are some people you can be cool with, but you can’t hang out with them. The reason some people miss their purpose is, because they have too much allegiance to people that have no regard to your purpose. Ex- Bishop has friends all over the world. He explains that he has some that are good Christians and some that are not. As an example, he explains that he has a friend named Tyrone (made up name). He explains that he has known him for a while. Tyrone is not living a saved life and just because Bishop is in Ministry and Tyrone is still out there, Bishop still recognizes him as his boy. Bishop explains that he doesn’t know what he does for a living. All he knows is that he is just cool. Bishop will play ball with him or even talk to him on the phone, but if Tyron asks him to come over to his house, Bishop will decline. Bishop further states that he will not allow him to come to his house either. Bishop will only meet him in public places. Why is this? Say they are watching the game at Tyrone’s house and the Feds come and kick the door in. Now they have Bishop outside on the ground with the rest of them and the whole world thinks he is a drug dealer. People would comment, “So that’s how ya’ll (Mt Zion) was able to build all of this.” If you act in the moment, you will jump into the car with anybody and end up an accessory to something. Some people you just can’t hang around.

• When “I was a child…” is referring to us. You got to teach kids when they are young. Proverbs 29:15: ¹⁵The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.- Bishop is the Pastor of Mt Zion today, be is a product of rod and rebuke.
• Everything is connected to everything else. Everybody you give number to and every one you want to be seen without, can keep you from getting where God connected you.

 

Stature and physical maturity

• HELIKIA- Primarily an age as a certain length of life as of age. The bible says we will live 3 score and 10. A score is 20 and you add ten to it, the average is 70. Knowing this, we don’t have time to waste
• Age does not qualify you for maturity. Just because you move up in numbers, it doesn’t validate your maturity.
• Read Ephesians 4:11-16 later. You will learn that God gave us prophets and evangelists for the maturing of the body of Christ. Every week you have a Pastor that comes and gives you the word. (It is important to know that the place call your church home is the place you should be gettting fed. What you stand under, is what you understand) you Pastor is like somebody that is trying to get you to grow up. Just like this, when your parents say clean up or finish your plate, they are preparing you and they measure your maturity by your willingness to abide. You are teaching them certain things to place value in them and create maturity. 1 Corinthians 13:11:¹¹When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.-This scripture says, when I was child, what came out of my mouth was childish, because I was immature.
• How do you talk to a child? You get on a child’s level. The child doesn’t have the capacity to understand adult things. God says he can’t bless children with things intended for adults. You have to mature to the thing you want. Ex- You are mature. You know that other you may be talking to may have great potential, but they don’t have the capacity to understand. The things that come out their mouths doesn’t make since, because they are immature. Remember you are talking to a child prisoner in an adult’s body. This is why you have to mature in God’s word.
• Immaturity is trying to make something fit that you have outgrown. You look at your awesome purpose and the things and people around you and you wonder if it fits where you’re going. If it doesn’t fit, dont force it. Relax and let it go. Ex- If I am a child, I don’t know it doesn’t fit. When you don’t see purpose, you don’t know that the person on your arm doesn’t fit? You think you are happy. We think that you are in a relationship where one person doesn’t belong with the other.
• When we get to this place, where things begin to fit, we are not going to be 16 yrs old still riding the big wheel. Having said this, we are not going to be a person in church all this long and still playing games. At some point you got to grow up.

 

Favor with God spiritually-

 

• When you understand wisdom spiritually, it puts you in the category with exceedingly abundantly. In this season, favor will be attracted to some of you, because you walk in wisdom. If you mature in God’s word, you will attract favor to your life.
• The connection is understanding the will of God.
• What is his will? BOULEMA-God’s immutable irrevocable will is immutable which means unchanging. When- God says when he proposes to do something in your life, nothing can change it.
• One of the most prolific statements that have been made is, “What God has for me, it’s for me.” In earnest it is true, but let’s examine it practically.
• God created this for you for example: Abram has Isaac and he has Jacob and Esau. Esau is the first born and is supposed to have the blessing and the birthright. Out in the field one day Esau is hungry. He has now detached himself from his purpose. Now he just wants to fulfill the desires of his flesh. Jacob offers him a bowl of soup in exchange for his birth right. As a result, today the scripture reads “the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob…” instead of the father of Abraham, Isaac, and Esau. The bible says Jesus comes from the linage of Jacob. It should have been the linage of Esau. Esau forfeited all of that for the bowl of soup. The devil can’t take it, but he can create enough distraction that you will give it up to somebody else. As a result of your distraction, somebody may live in your house instead of you or somebody might raise your children instead of you. Somebody else will be the benefactor of your foolishness, because of one distraction. Say to your neighbor, “You are not getting mines.” Just to think, we have always said, “What God has for me is for me.
• John 10:10:¹⁰The thief cometh not but to steal and to kill and to destroy. I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.-God wants you to have the God kind of life.
• His will deals with your heart-Matthew 22:37: ³⁷Jesus said unto him, “`Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.’- Your mind is your inner thoughts and the value system of your life. It is the port of entry into the heart.

 

Intellect, emotion, and Will

• Commander and chief – God is our commander and chief
• General- Our thinking process, strategy works out specifics. God speaks to you and you say you’re going to do it.
• Lieutenant- Our will- You can strategize all day, but if you don’t follow the orders… Your will follows it.
• Surrender is necessary- Nobody gives their will away. You have to learn to surrender it.
  • There are things that God wants you to do, but it is not clear. It gets clearer when you surrender and get into position.

 

Surrender:

• Brightens your vision.
• Enlarges perception of your responsibilities- Some perspectives are so small, you are not understanding what happened.
• 3.Increases strength and insight
• 4Opens doors to new solutions.

 

7 ways to be sure you are in God’s will:

 

• Get into the word- Let’s it speak to me- God will give your confirmation or tell you that you are wrong.
• Prayer
• Overcome self-Realize your worth.
• Partners in fellowship with God- We want to partner with what God he is doing.
• Commitment- Some people don’t get what God has, because they don’t have commitment.

 

7 steps to success

 

• 1, Dream- Got to be a person that knows how to dream. When you dream, you don’t take in consideration your current context. When you’re a dreamer, dream around mature people. Remember however that children dream too.
• 2. Desire- Don’t pursue something that you don’t desire. Whatever you do, have the desire to do it, because God gives you the desires of your heart.
• 3. Decision- God makes decisions of what you are to do. Colossians 1:9:⁹For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;-In other words, eventually you have to do what he wants you to do.
• Dare- I dare you to do something poeple say can’t be done. Failure is inevitable. In fact, Bishop is working on sermon right now that says, “I hope you fail.” Ex- Babe Ruth held the strikeout record in his first year of baseball. He is known later as the homerun king. He kept on working at it. Study people that have done great things and they will all tell you they failed many times, before obtaining success.
• Do it – Do something- Every time we see you, you ought to be doing somethig. Sharpen a pencil or glue something up or something. Don’t just be sitting around.
• Direction- Every time we see you, you ought to be headed in that direction. If you know someone is going toMemphisand you pass them speeding and heading in the wrong direction, you might try and call them to say, “Man you are going fast the wrong way!” This is how we are seeing you. We know you supposed to be going one way and we wonder why you going to fast the wrong way. If you don’t listen and turn aorund you are going to be in the mountains. When you see sombody not doing what they should, sayMemphisis the other way.
• Devotion dedication- If you’re going to be successful, do it with a spirit of excellence- We don’t produce raggedy production. What we do for God, we want to be done in the spirit of excellence. We not going to trust in our power, but God’s power. Proverbs 3:5-6:⁵Trust in the LORD with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding; ⁶in all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths. -Everyone here has a purpose. To walk it out, you must be intentional. We must mature in a way that brings favor to me. The devil can’t take it, but he can distract us enough where we will for forfeit it. Look at the people walking around with the stuff we are supposed to have. We dont time to play, if it dont fit!

The Pious Life, Bible Study 01/04/12

The Pious life

Synopsis of Bible Study 01/04/12

Delivered by Bishop Walker III

 

Study Text

1 Peter 1:10-16: ¹⁰Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: ¹¹Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. ¹²Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into. ¹³Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; ¹⁴As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: ¹⁵But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; ¹⁶Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

 

In this text, we believe that Peter wants us to understand the concept of discipline. There are things God has purposed for our lives to accomplish. What is important for us to understand is that it will require discipline to accomplish this purpose. Discipline is ignited by character. Gifts and talents will get you there, but character keeps you there.

 

If you work out often, it is easy to keep working out, but you if lay off it for a while, it is hard to get back into it. If you pray often, it is easy to remember to pray, but if you stop it is hard to get back into the habit.  Discipline must require discipline. We must maintain character to walk it out. It takes character to maintain discipline, so then the enemy’s job is to distract us from this discipline.

 

This message is simply ground work for this series. We must examine then what Peter was trying to tell us. Peter was trying to tell us:

 

1. I.                    Don’t give up on what the prophets before you were looking for
   1. Isaiah 2:1-4 says ¹The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. ²And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. ³And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. ⁴And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. – Here Isaiah was talking about how we would not study war no more.
   2. Deliverance – Micah 2:12-13 says ¹²I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men. ¹³The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them. – Prophesied that deliverance would come to God’s people.
   3. Strong indestructible kingdom – Daniel 2:44 says ⁴⁴And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. -. Jesus came prophesying the kingdom of God.
   4. The prophets and the angels didn’t have what we have the benefit of having now, yet they were disciplined and held on. They endured afflication and hung in there based on prophesies they heard. Surely if they did this, we should be able to hold on after seeing how many prophesies have manifested throughout the bible.
   5. Prophesies that we find in the bible, reveal things to us and give us revelation. God reveals things to us though revelations.

1. Prophets before (found in the Old Testament) prophesied during what we call their dispensation. What we mean is these prophets looked into the future during their dispensation to speak on what God would do in the future. Now (in today’s times) we know that the prophesies that they prophesied about, came to past. Knowing all of this, how could we not believe what the word says.
2. Prophesy

 

1. II.                  Gird up the loins of your minds
   1. Gird up-ANAZONNUMI- This means to gird up or to gather the loose ends or to pull yourself together.
   2. The mind – DIANOAIAS – This is the understanding – In other words, do we really understand what God is trying to show us. To gird up our minds means to be sober.
   3. Be sober- NEPHO- Signifies to be free from the influence of intoxicants- Like intoxicants, there will be people that want to polute your thinking process. They come into your life and plant seeds. Think about the time you wasted thinking about stuff that polluted your mind. Ex-Just imagine you have this big project that you are supposed to be doing. All of a sudden you receive this text message. You see it knowing you shouldn’t answer it, but you do anyhow. Now that you have answered it, you don’t have time to complete that project that you should have finished. Answering the text message caused you not to be productive. This is the season where you have to declare you won’t let negative people cloud your mind.
   4. 1 Thessalonians 5:6 says ⁶Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. – In other words, pay attention to the things that happen around you.
   5. 1 Thessalonians 5:7 says ⁷For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. – Those that sleep do it at night.
   6. 1 Thessalonians 5:8 says ⁸But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. – Let us put on salvation.
   7. You got to learn how to keep your head. Confession is a mater of the heart. Romans 10:9-10 says ⁹That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. ¹⁰For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. – How can we have so many people that say they love the Lord with their heart, yet their minds are so messed up? Their minds are so messed up; you don’t want to hear anything come from their mouths. Remember, we have said it before. There is a thin line between from Schizophrenia and hearing God.
   8. The bible says put on helmet of salvation. This is mentioned one other place in the bible. This is however very important. In other words, God can have your heart, but Leroy can have your head. If Leroy has got your head, he will eventually make your leave God. We have to really process this.

1. Peter understood that the attack would first come to our mind. If you think about it, most of your problems start in your mind 1 Peter 1:13 says ¹³Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
2. This scripture teaches:

3. Prevention of negative people clouding your mind

4. 2 Timothy 4:5 says ⁵But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. – Timothy’s assignment was for him to be an evangelist and fulfill his minstry. Affliction was going to come, but he had to keep watching. Paul told him to focus on his head so he could fulfil his assignement.
5. Set your hope fully on grace-1 Peter 1:13 says ¹³Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; – God gives you and I the grace to live out our asignement. Every assignment we have, God gives us the grace to walk it out. This is why you can’t walk out anyone else’s assignemnt. God didnt give you the grace to do their assignment.
6. What we got do in this grace is trust God more than we trust ourselves. We can’t trust ourselves, because we are a mess. We have to trust God to walk this thing out. We walk this thing out in hope.
7. Hope – is desire with expectation. Expectation creates desire, making us focused and disciplined towards this thing. The first attack the devil will bring then is to plant people who will plant negative thoughts. Today my mind will be sober.
8. If Satan can’t get you through there, he will plant affliction. Now we know we got revelation, because we know we dont have to deal with it. Our assignment was to focus on the goal. Folk are working it out.

 

1. III.                Don’t be distracted
2. IV.                We need God to consecrate us.
   1. Sanctify- When we got saved, right at that moment, God took away all the things of my past and made us clean instantly. Nobody tells us about sanctification. It won’t work by itself, because we are flesh. We have to engage other flesh all the time. In fact, we are released in a world exposed to what people say and do. It is inevitable that we will bump up against some things (or encounter our lust issue) with our saved self. Now if you bump into someone or have a mere encounter with your lust issue, that is one thing, but it entirely another when you lay down with it. You had to make a conscious decision to do that. This is saved folk doing this not people of the world. We have to realize that nothing in our flesh is good.
   2. Every man in this place is bumping in stuff if he was to be totally honest about it. Don’t ask to have your issue of the flesh taken away, because what are you going to do when you get married? Are you going to ask for it to be put back?
   3. Sanctify- means we are cleansed. Sanftification is the porecess of setting thing in order.
   4. Holiness -is sanctification laws. God doesn’t’ deal with rubbish.

1. 1 Peter 1:14 says ¹⁴As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: - We are walking this thing out, but we have to understand how to live in obedience-Obedience-HUPAKOUO-This means to listen or attend, to submit, or to obey. – Two key words here is to listen and submit. Ex- When a parent tells a child to do something and the child doesn’t do it, the first response is to say, “Didn’t you hear what I said?” You think in your mind, “Clearly you must not have heard me, because you respect my authority and my ability to take stuff from you, so clearly you must not have heard me.” In like manner, God says, “Clearly you didn’t’ hear me. You know I could just take back the breath I gave you or the job I gave you that you didn’t deserve” We have got a lot of folk in church, but like this example, not everyone who goes to church is listening. We got a lot of folk who go to church who is not listening.
2. Only when Christ comes in will you know the difference. – The devils destaction is to cause you not to listen, so you will not obey. If you dont submit, you will conform to this world rather than being transformed by the renewing of your mind. The devil says, “I got you now”, because if you are not obedient, you conform and you go back to the former lust of your ignorance. There were things you done in your former life, because you were ignorant. Now the devil is trying to pull you back to it.
3. Examine this and see if any of this gets into your Kool-Aid. God you gave me stuff to do and now I have decided to do it. I have made up my mind not to let people mess with my mind. When my mind is sober and I have sobriety. Now I know how to handle affliction. We are not worried, because we are turning it all over to him. We find out while we trying to figure it out, he has already worked it out. Now as soon as I get out of church, trying to do right, the devil asks if I thought he was done on me. As I begin to answer, he says “Look behind you.” There is some stuff our flesh likes and Satan says if he can get us to like that, he can get us to turn. There is a part of us that is like Paul that says when he would do good, trouble is always around. You realize you have a flesh issue. Satan uses this and waves it in front of us like a banana. We try to be holy, but why don’t somedy tell us how to handle being holy when our flesh is horny. How do we handle this? Deep people might be saying they can’t believe we are saying this in a church like setting.
4. We must realize that it is holiness that we are after. That is why we got saved. We turned from our waves and got saved.
5. God’s desire is for us to be holy- HAGIOS- Means to be separated. – We got separated somehow from God. We are trying to help you so you don’t join church 10 times this year. True deliverance is not running from our flesh issue. Instead it is the ability to to walk by it and not have a problem with it. Running from it is called relocating.
6. Relocating is not the answer, because guess who is going to be in your new location? You will!

1. 1 Peter 1:15 says ¹⁵But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; -Holiness is God’s work. Sin has the power to blind your mind, compromise your integrity, break down you morality, and pervert your view of God
2. Rationalism – This made Cain murder Abel, because their inequity had reached its fullness.
3. The wrath of God is being revealed – Romans 6:11 says ¹¹Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. -Sin makes us miss the mark. We were dead to sin and Paul asks in the scripture, what died in you? In other words, what is the authenticity of your salvation?
4. We have people vacillating between two different things. There is no difference between their post and pre-saved state. In their present state, they drank all the time and after being saved they still drink. You slept around before and after. What died then? What died in you? Here is the problem. In order to reach that goal God has set for you, you have to understand the process of sanictification.
5. Sanctification-It is not a denomination. After all, we hope all churches are sanctified.
6. Sanctify, sanctification, holiness

 

Every day, we wake up with something but we turn it over to Jesus.

How do you deal with that stuff in your flesh? Sin is to miss the mark. Holiness is a life style. Can we truly be holy? God is purely holy, because he is God. We can pursue and come close to holiness, but can we really be purely holy in this flesh? Every day we wake up, we had to die of something. Paul says he had to die daily, so surely we would. Every day, we say Lord consecrate me. We might pause and look, but we got to go towards our goal. We know this is trick, but we know what we have to do. When we get right there, the Devil tries one more time and put in front of you what you really like. How do you make it? You make it by looking back from where you were delivered and examine how far God has brought you and you ask if your really want to go all the way back there as to moving on to the short distance you have left before reaching your purpose. We have to remember that every man became a man when he got sick and tired. Every woman became a lady when she got tired. Every believer becomes more like Christ when they get tired. Are you tired?