The World Is Waiting For You.

Main Passages for sermon. Acts3:1-10, 1Kings 18:30.


Acts 3 - Peter Heals a Lame Beggar
¹ One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer—at three in the afternoon. ² Now a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts. ³ When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money. ⁴ Peter looked straight at him, as did John. Then Peter said, “Look at us!” ⁵ So the man gave them his attention, expecting to get something from them. ⁶ Then Peter said, “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.” ⁷ Taking him by the right hand, he helped him up, and instantly the man’s feet and ankles became strong. ⁸ He jumped to his feet and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and jumping, and praising God. ⁹ When all the people saw him walking and praising God, ¹⁰ they recognized him as the same man who used to sit begging at the temple gate called Beautiful, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

Jesus said in the scriptures that "no man comes to the father except by me". Jesus practiced the principle of Prioritisation. To get ahead in daily life you need to stop wasting your resources on things that aren't necessary and important. The understanding of your purpose will determine your focus.


Knowing your purpose and what God says is a very crucial thing in your life. Jeremiah 1:7

⁷ But the LORD said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am too young.’ You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you."

Jesus sent his disciples to the lost sheep of israel to preach the gospel. They brought redemption to the lost. So also you are a solution to a problem, don't let the solution walk past the problem.


From the text we saw that Peter and John went "together" to the temple. The emphasis here is the togetherness. They probably had been going to the temple individually in the past and walked past the lame begger who we know from verse 2 is always at the temple gate. But because they were together they connected and saw the problem, which is the lame man at the gate. There is power in togetherness. Acts 1:6, Acts 1:14, Acts 2:4, Acts 2:44, Acts 2:46.


Verse 1 says they went "Up" to the temple. This implies that they were now operating on a higher level with God, gone to the next level, to the next dimension. Only then could they be sensitive to the things around them. You need to go higher, rise above the vicissitudes of everyday life.
When you start to go higher you start to lose people and friends (i'm not talking about death), God starts to prune you of the unnecessary things holding you down.


Why should we go up higher i hear you say?

1. The further you go, the further you see. When you go to the place of God, you start to see the needs of others. God wants you to see more so that you can start to pursue things other than yourself.
2. The further you can see, the further you can reach. Mathew 9:25 ²⁵ After the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took the girl by the hand, and she got up.

When Peter and John came up higher, they could then feel the need of the lame man. When you see further, you start to feel empathy towards others. Don't get sucked into the details of your problems. David exalted God even when he faced Goliath.


Peter and John saw the lame man and said "look at us". They were able to say this because they have been spending time with God and looking to God. When you look to God, then people can look to you and see God because he lives in you. The man looked on them expectantly, they stirred up an excitement in him. They said to the man “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.”. They were not complaining about their lack, but they were magnifying who they have. How awesome is that!


In conclusion, it is time to come together as there is power in corporate gatherings and also to move to the next level with God. When you do this you are able to go further, see further, and reach further to the people who desperately need to know God. The World Is Waiting For You.

Get Off The Circle Line - Pt 2

This is the continuation from pt 1 of the message.


The effects of change:-

1. Aging - This is about growing old
2. Maturation - Growing up, being fruitful, multiplying.

Proverbs 4:18
¹⁸ The path of the righteous is like the morning sun, shining ever brighter till the full light of day.
You  change by vacating one position to occupy a new and higher position. Taking steps is the way to move to the next level. A step is a walk into something new and a new environment. As with climbing steps, releasing your standing leg is difficult because it is already on familiar ground and quite comfortable there. When you refuse to change, you result in irrelevance.

Basic things about maturation:-
Change - With maturation comes change. You get tested which results in being shown approved to move to the next stage. If you get promoted without a test you become a danger to yourself and others. The higher you go, the greater your influence.

With every test comes a temptation. Hebrews 12:1
¹ Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us
John 15:2   
² He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.

Things to consider:-

1. How have i changed recently?
2. Can you be very specific about the things in your life over the last month, year?
3. Do i make daily adjustments?

Maturation or Growth is a choice. 1Corinthians 13:11

¹¹ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

Get Off The Circle Line - Pt 1

Message Bible Passage: Mark 4: 26-29

²⁶ He also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. ²⁷ Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. ²⁸ All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. ²⁹ As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.”

Jesus was talking to people of agrarian background. He uses the things that each person can easily relate to explain the word. Let us look into the verses as Jesus drives home his point regarding the kingdom of God.

v26 - Jesus explains that 'someone' must deliberately scatter the seed, because without the scattering there will be no harvest. So just sitting down and doing nothing will bring you no positive result what so ever.

v27-29 - The man has to continue with other things in life as 'time must pass by'. The passage of time allows the seed to sprout, grow, and increase. Without the mans interference with whats been sown in the soil it starts to bring forth the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel. All this happens with the progression of time. This indicates that there is a daily progression going on to that which is sown.

There are 2 wisdom keys from this passage:-

1. Everything in life starts in seed form and then grows into an experience
2. We live life on levels and experience it in stages. We can all never be the same

We need to change and encounter change. When change starts, you start to feel and smell it just like when the rain is about to fall. The wind changes and smells different and you will know that the atmosphere has changed. Change is a natural consequence of life. When things don't change then they become obsolete and irrelevant. Anything that is created is subject to change. An example of resistance to change is seen in a book written by Chinua Achebe called Things Fall Apart (if you get to opportunity to read this book, i promise you will enjoy it). In this book the main character refuses to change even as everything around him changes. This frustrates him so much to the point where he then commits suicide. This reflects what happens in our society nowadays.

If you don't change willingly, you will be forced to. The only thing that does not change is God himself, and this is because he is not 'created'. Psalms 90:2
² Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

When you were created by God, you are expected to increase, improve, expand, and grow. Your situations are all created and hence they are subject to change. As all these things created exists within the realm of time, they are all subject to change. Your possessions are susceptible to change once time elapses, they serve their purpose for a period.
Genesis 8:22
²² “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”

Change does not ask anyone for their permission.