Discover your “Before Place”
On this past Sunday the youth pastor, Joshua, of our ministry delivered a powerful message entitled Transformational Anointing Trilogy: Discovering the “Before Place”. This was the third message of a series that we have been studying.
During the message Joshua used clips from the 1999 film The Matrix. It was WOW! I would like to take a moment to impart to you some truths from that message on the Transformational Anointing.
God is calling us to our “Before Place”. I challenge you to rent, or buy The Matrix. This time when you watch it, open your mind and see how different scenes relate to our transformation from the world to the kingdom.
The main character Neo represents the believer. He has been called out from the Matrix into the truth.
Jeremiah 1:5 says that “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
Okay so the question that I would like for you to ponder on is “What did God have in mind for you in your before place.”
In the movie when Neo first woke up outside of the Matrix. He went to open His eyes he stated that his eyes were hurting. The response he received was “You have never used them better.”
Just like Neo, we have never used our spiritual eyes before. We have allowed the world around us to dictate who we are, what we do, how we talk, how we dress, and how we even serve our God. It’s time to WAKE UP!
Romans 12:2 tells us “Do not conform 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.
A WAKE UP call is going out to you. It time out for going through the motions of being a “good” Christian. God did not die on the Cross for you to be a “proclaimed” Christian. He died so that everything about you would represent Him. If you have not allowed for your mind to be renewed then you are not in the GOOD, PLEASING, and PERFECT will for your life.
He is calling you back to your first Love (read Rev. 2: 1-4). The word of God says that you must RENEW your mind. RE means to do over. That means that he already has given you what you need you in your before place. You have to check back in with Him and let Him show you the original plan that He had for your life.
Relating this back to the Matrix, Neo mind had to be unplugged from the system. Then they had to download into Him programs to help Him fight and survive while he was in the Matrix. It was a process. That is what the word of God does for us. We must unplug our mind from the world’s system and plug into the Word of God and allow a download to take place.
Duet 28:1 says “If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nation on the earth.”
It’s time out for doing it our way! We must submit to the will of Lord for our lives. When Neo was in the first Jump Program, Morpheus told Neo you have to remove all doubt, all fear and unbelief. That is what the Lord is requiring too. Remove all doubt, all fear and unbelief. Let Him be the Lord of your life so that He can show the original plan that He has for you.
1 Peter 2:1, 9 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind ….. you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
Come out of darkness! WAKE UP! Walk in your BEFORE PLACE!
On this past Sunday the youth pastor, Joshua, of our ministry delivered a powerful message entitled Transformational Anointing Trilogy: Discovering the “Before Place”. This was the third message of a series that we have been studying.
During the message Joshua used clips from the 1999 film The Matrix. It was WOW! I would like to take a moment to impart to you some truths from that message on the Transformational Anointing.
God is calling us to our “Before Place”. I challenge you to rent, or buy The Matrix. This time when you watch it, open your mind and see how different scenes relate to our transformation from the world to the kingdom.
The main character Neo represents the believer. He has been called out from the Matrix into the truth.
Jeremiah 1:5 says that “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
Okay so the question that I would like for you to ponder on is “What did God have in mind for you in your before place.”
In the movie when Neo first woke up outside of the Matrix. He went to open His eyes he stated that his eyes were hurting. The response he received was “You have never used them better.”
Just like Neo, we have never used our spiritual eyes before. We have allowed the world around us to dictate who we are, what we do, how we talk, how we dress, and how we even serve our God. It’s time to WAKE UP!
Romans 12:2 tells us “Do not conform 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.
A WAKE UP call is going out to you. It time out for going through the motions of being a “good” Christian. God did not die on the Cross for you to be a “proclaimed” Christian. He died so that everything about you would represent Him. If you have not allowed for your mind to be renewed then you are not in the GOOD, PLEASING, and PERFECT will for your life.
He is calling you back to your first Love (read Rev. 2: 1-4). The word of God says that you must RENEW your mind. RE means to do over. That means that he already has given you what you need you in your before place. You have to check back in with Him and let Him show you the original plan that He had for your life.
Relating this back to the Matrix, Neo mind had to be unplugged from the system. Then they had to download into Him programs to help Him fight and survive while he was in the Matrix. It was a process. That is what the word of God does for us. We must unplug our mind from the world’s system and plug into the Word of God and allow a download to take place.
Duet 28:1 says “If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nation on the earth.”
It’s time out for doing it our way! We must submit to the will of Lord for our lives. When Neo was in the first Jump Program, Morpheus told Neo you have to remove all doubt, all fear and unbelief. That is what the Lord is requiring too. Remove all doubt, all fear and unbelief. Let Him be the Lord of your life so that He can show the original plan that He has for you.
1 Peter 2:1, 9 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind ….. you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
Come out of darkness! WAKE UP! Walk in your BEFORE PLACE!
1 comment:
awesome revelation! thanks for sharing sis!
Pastor E
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