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Post  Admin Tue 28 Mar 2023, 6:06 pm

Hello Elaine,

Paul referred to himself and his fellow apostles as "stewards of the mysteries of God" (1 Cor. 4:1).
A steward is someone who has been entrusted with something of great value.

Which means the mysteries belong to God and He has freely given these mysteries to you and to me.

All of us are, one way or another, "stewards of the mysteries of God."

God has made Himself known through the pages of Scripure and through the ministry of Jesus, Who revealed mysteries hidden from the foundation of the world.

Now the Spirit guides us into all Truth, revealing the mysteries of God and empowering us to share those mysteries with others.


What a wonderful age we live in: An age of wisdom and revelation, where anyone with discernment and diligence can see the mysteries of God plainly and simply revealed.
If you've missed any part of the series over the last three months, you still have one final opportunity to participate.

Join us this week as we come to the last message in our series...

THE 12 MYSTERIES IN SCRIPTURE (Part 12)
Thursday, March 30, 2023
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We just relaunched our popular online course, and I wanted to invite you to check it out!

This course is for anyone who wants to grow closer to the Lord – especially if you want a deeper relationship with God without religion, church, and all the other “stuff” that complicates the simplicity of that relationship.

Although this is an online course, it’s really designed to be an online experience – a personal retreat without actually “retreating” – a spiritual journey of growth, healing, and renewal. A time where you can just hit the “reset” button and make a fresh start.

This course is designed to be completed in just a few minutes a day over the next seven days. Each day contains a short video followed by some simple exercises for you to put into practice. Let’s see what sitting at the feet of Jesus is all about!

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Post  Admin Thu 23 Mar 2023, 7:21 pm

Hello Elaine,

Join us tonight as we consider...

THE 12 MYSTERIES IN SCRIPTURE (Part 11)
Thursday, March 23, 2023
7:00 pm Eastern Time (New York)

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Post  Admin Tue 21 Mar 2023, 2:17 pm

Hello Elaine,

God does not call us to repair, reform, or revive Babylon, but to come out of it.

Babylon the Great represents a spiritual and systemic religious antagonism against the Testimony of Jesus and all who bear that Testimony.

In the end, Babylon will be destroyed, and God’s Purpose will triumph over this and every other thing that makes war against the saints.

But the destruction of Babylon is only one piece of the puzzle.

As we come near to the end of our study of the mysteries, we now must consider how God will bring everything to a final conclusion.

What should we expect as we come to the end of the age?

How should we prepare?

And (as always) what's taking so long?

Join us this week as we consider what the Bible says...

THE 12 MYSTERIES IN SCRIPTURE (Part 11)
Thursday, March 23, 2023
7:00 pm Eastern Time (New York)

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Post  Admin Mon 20 Mar 2023, 10:31 pm

Hello Elaine,

Thank you for your prayers for my daughter and grandson.

We went to court Friday and mostly got what we wanted with only minor changes.

We asked for, and have been given, a trial date for May, where we hope to get a final resolution in our favor.

It is by no means a "sure thing" and there is a lot of work to be done in the meantime, so we appreciate your continued prayers.

Thank you again for your support and encouragement!

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Post  Admin Sun 19 Mar 2023, 2:01 pm

Death of the Harlot Church
by Chip Brogden
There is a mass exodus of people leaving churches today.
The significant thing is that they are not so much leaving one church and then joining another; there has always been a lot of that, and that will always be the case. What is significant about this mass exodus is the numbers of people who are leaving their churches and not going back. They are not looking for another church to attend.

How do you explain that? I believe I can sum everything up for you in one word: dissatisfaction...

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Hello Elaine,

Thank you so much for your prayers for my family this week.

Meanwhile, I hope you can join us for tonight's online Bible study...

THE 12 MYSTERIES IN SCRIPTURE (Part 10)
Thursday, March 16, 2023
7:00 pm Eastern Time (New York)

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Post  Admin Tue 14 Mar 2023, 6:23 pm


Hello Elaine,

God has clearly revealed the mystery of His Will and Purpose.

But there is another force in the universe that stands in opposition to God and to the people of God.

The question of the ages is: Which is stronger?

Is man's ability to rebel greater than God's ability to redeem?

Is Darkness greater than Light?

Is Death greater than Life?

Which abounds more - Sin, or Grace?

Seriously consider these questions, and if you answer them according to outward appearance, then it seems that God is losing the battle.

But we should know by now that appearances are deceiving.

In truth, God is working all things together for good and according to the counsel of His Will.

Nothing and no one can thwart His Purpose - though they will surely try.

This week we consider one of the most "successful" attempts to prevent God's Purpose and Will from being fulfilled.

Very deceptive, very seductive - and very good at leading the saints astray from the simplicity of Christ.

But the mystery is revealed so we can know it and prepare for it.

Join us to learn how to discern this and how to overcome it...

THE 12 MYSTERIES IN SCRIPTURE (Part 10)
Thursday, March 16, 2023
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Post  Admin Thu 09 Mar 2023, 8:11 pm

Hello Elaine,

Join us to learn how God ultimately overcomes all resistance and establishes His Will "on earth as it is in heaven."

THE 12 MYSTERIES IN SCRIPTURE (Part 9)
Thursday, March 9, 2023
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Post  Admin Tue 07 Mar 2023, 3:02 pm

Hello Elaine,

I have always said that if it is impossible for God to lie (Heb. 6:18) then it is impossible for God to fail.

But you might wonder: What's taking so long?

Last week we discussed the first of several "Dark Mysteries" in Scripture.

I refer to them as Dark Mysteries because, unlike the "Bright Mysteries" that reveal wonderful truths concerning Christ, these mysteries help us better understand the forces that oppose God's Purpose.

The intent is to demonstrate how God ultimately overcomes all resistance and establishes His Will "on earth as it is in heaven."

But we live in a great in-between time.

It's the space between the promise made and the promise kept.

It's the gap between what exists now and what will be in the future.

There is a "hope set before us" (Heb. 6:18).

Hope, by definition, means we do not have it yet.

We may not even be able to see it.

But we have Hope because we have God.

Regardless of current conditions or circumstances...

Regardless of your situation...

Regardless of whether it makes sense or not.

Because we may not have the "thing" yet, but we do have Him!

He is with us always.

I believe He also suffers with us, and suffers in ways we cannot imagine or appreciate.

There is a fellowship of His suffering that we enter into.

It is the suffering of Love, sometimes referred to as "passion."

It is this Unfailing Love that suffers long and bears, believes, hopes, and endures all things.

This (to me) is the secret to understanding the Dark Mysteries: How God overcomes all opposition, not through a raw display of power, but through Faith working by Love.

This will become increasingly clear as we reveal the 9th Mystery this week...

THE 12 MYSTERIES IN SCRIPTURE (Part 9)
Thursday, March 9, 2023
7:00 pm Eastern Time (New York)

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Post  Admin Thu 02 Mar 2023, 10:57 pm

Hello Elaine,

We reveal the 8th Mystery tonight...

THE 12 MYSTERIES IN SCRIPTURE (Part 8)
Thursday, March 2, 2023
7:00 pm Eastern Time (New York)

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Post  Admin Tue 28 Feb 2023, 9:56 pm

Hello Elaine,

There are two types of mysteries in Scripture.

I call them Bright vs. Dark mysteries.

So far we have been looking at the Bright mysteries - wonderful revelations of God's purpose and Will in Christ.

But there are Dark mysteries as well.

Because, as you may have noticed, we are still waiting for the fulfillment of God's Purpose and Will.

We are still looking forward to a full and final deliverance from evil.

Why is it taking so long?

To answer that question, we turn now to the Dark mysteries in our study.

No, this is not about the "depths of satan" or demonology.

These are mysteries that have to do with the negative forces at work that resist God's Kingdom and Will.

These mysteries reveal how God overcomes all resistance.

They also make sense of why things seem to be taking so long.

If you have ever wondered about these things then now is a good time to join us for this study.

We reveal the 8th Mystery this week...

THE 12 MYSTERIES IN SCRIPTURE (Part 8)
Thursday, March 2, 2023
7:00 pm Eastern Time (New York)

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Post  Admin Sun 26 Feb 2023, 5:34 pm

Ephesus: The Loveless Church
by Chip Brogden
Jesus prioritizes relationship over religion. What is religion? When you’re going through the motions of doing things for God when you’ve forgotten Who you’re supposed to be in love with. It’s when you take the “work of the Lord” and make it more important than the Lord of the Work.
Love is a relationship-oriented word. It’s the strongest word in a relationship that you can use. He said, “You don’t love Me like you used to.” And that hurts Him more than if they had just given up on all of the works, and labor, and patience, and things that they were doing in His name. The truth is that no amount of working for God can make up for a lack of loving God...

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Post  Admin Thu 23 Feb 2023, 6:26 pm

Hello Elaine,

We reveal that Seventh Mystery tonight...

THE 12 MYSTERIES IN SCRIPTURE (Part 7)
Thursday, February 23, 2023
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Hello Elaine,

We reveal the Sixth Mystery tonight!

THE 12 MYSTERIES IN SCRIPTURE (Part 6)
Thursday, February 16, 2023
7:00 pm Eastern Time (New York)



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Post  Admin Tue 14 Feb 2023, 10:30 pm

Hello Elaine,

We live in such an amazing season.

It is a season of rich spiritual revelation and illumination.

Truths we take for granted today were inconceivable to saints in generations past.

The Spirit is able to lead us into depths of Christ that were previously unknowable.

True, the battles are bigger and the obstacles seem larger than ever.

Yet, "He gives more grace."

We must not allow "things" and circumstances to hinder us from pressing onward and upward towards the high call of God in Christ.

That's why I'm so excited about this series of teachings.

Will you join us?

We reveal the Sixth Mystery this week...

THE 12 MYSTERIES IN SCRIPTURE (Part 6)
Thursday, February 16, 2023
7:00 pm Eastern Time (New York)



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Post  Admin Sun 12 Feb 2023, 6:26 pm

Prevalence, Prominence, and Preeminence
by Chip Brogden
In my written and spoken messages I talk a lot about the preeminence of Christ. “Preeminence” is a lofty word. It means the highest place of ascendency, above all, over all, surpassing all, to the point that nothing and no one else can even come close.
The real truth is that Christ is simply not preeminent among many (most?) who call Him Lord. Jesus points this out by asking, “Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord’ but you do not do what I say?” (Luke 6:46). We may give Him lip service and call Him Lord and think we are really giving Him preeminence – but the fact remains that most people just do whatever they want to do, ask God to bless it, and then wonder why they struggle so much. We may go through the motions of prayer and make a pretend surrender, but when it comes down to it, Christ just does not have preeminence in us!

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Post  Admin Fri 10 Feb 2023, 9:28 pm

Hello Elaine,

We reveal the Fifth Mystery tonight...

THE 12 MYSTERIES IN SCRIPTURE (Part 5)
Thursday, February 9, 2023
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Knowing HOW God goes about it is just as important.

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Post  Admin Tue 07 Feb 2023, 5:19 pm

Hello Elaine,

Knowing WHAT God wants is important.

Knowing HOW God goes about it is just as important.

The Will embraces All; the Way embraces One- and for the Will to be fulfilled, the Way must be followed.

God's Way is not always our way.

Thankfully, God does not adjust Himself to us; we must adjust ourselves to Him.

This "Adjustment to the Government of the Holy Spirit" is an ongoing process of getting "less of me" and "more of Him."

That same process is at work in you, in all disciples, in the Ekklesia, and in all Creation.

This is the tremendous energy of God Who works all after the counsel of His Will.

We can cooperate with that Will, or we can resist it.

We can flow with the Spirit, or we can swim against the current.

Either way, God's Will will be accomplished God's Way, which also includes the time and the season of its ultimate fulfillment.

We want it "now" but even that is determined by the counsel of His Will - not by us.

The amazing thing is that God has revealed these things to us in the form of Scripture Mysteries.

We will consider these things as we discuss the Fifth Mystery this week...

THE 12 MYSTERIES IN SCRIPTURE (Part 5)
Thursday, February 9, 2023
7:00 pm Eastern Time (New York)



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The Fig Tree Has No Figs
by Chip Brogden
A growing number of people have come to the conclusion that the social benefits of going to church can no longer compensate for the lack of spiritual life.
People are tired of going to fig trees that promise fruit, but offer a hungry person nothing but leaves to eat. They’ve been eating leaves or chewing on bark, but there is no fruit, no sustenance, no nourishment. One day they wake up and say, “No more. Whatever this place used to mean to me, whatever purpose it used to serve in my life, this place no longer represents the Lord Jesus. I can’t fully explain it, and I don’t completely understand why or how, but the religion of church is hindering my relationship with the Lord and it is time for me to leave...”

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Hello Elaine,

HOW will God achieve His Will?

We will begin to answer that question as we reveal the Fourth Mystery...

THE 12 MYSTERIES IN SCRIPTURE (Part 4)
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Hello Elaine,

Last week I presented a theory on why God's Will is often seen as "mysterious."

My theory is that people typically think of God's Will in terms of personal guidance and direction - what is God's will for me in a particular situation or decision.

While that is important, it isn't the most important thing.

Scripture refers to God's Will as a "mystery" that has been revealed to us.

So, if it has been revealed then we should not think of it as unknowable.

While we may be in prayer about God's Will for us personally, there is no question about God's Will for All: His ultimate Purpose, Heart, Mind, and Intention.

We discussed that mystery last week, and it lays out a very clear picture of WHAT God wants.

The next logical question is: HOW will God achieve this?

We will begin to answer that question as we reveal the Fourth Mystery...

THE 12 MYSTERIES IN SCRIPTURE (Part 4)
Thursday, February 2, 2023
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He Must Increase
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“He must increase, but I must decrease."
John 3:30

These seven words found in John 3:30 contain the entire mystery of God’s dealings with man from ages past to eternity future. “He [Christ] must increase.” All of God’s works are towards this end of increasing Christ.
In other words, everything God has done, is doing, and will do is related towards revealing His Son and bringing us into the full-knowledge (epignosis) of Him. The goal is for Christ to have the preeminence in all things, beginning with us individually as disciples, then with the Church, and finally with all creation, “that He may be All in All...”

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Hello Elaine,

What a shock!

In our study last week we discovered that God has not called us to a "God-centered" faith.

(This is one of the 12 Mysteries we are looking at in Scripture.)

Many religions can claim to have a "God-centered" faith.

Many people can claim to have a relationship with "God."

The challenge is that "God" can be defined and re-defined in so many different ways under the rubric of Churchianity, Judaism, Islam, religious cults, Mother Nature, New Age, the Universe, or any of a thousand different philosophies.

"But who do you say that *I* am?"

What makes Jesus Followers unique is not their faith in God, but their faith in Christ THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD.

A Christ-centered Faith is God's WILL and WAY.

This does not diminish God the Father in the least; rather, when we glorify the Son, we glorify the Father, and the Son reveals and leads us to the Father.

But when we dishonor the Son then we dishonor the Father, and if we reject the Son, we reject the Father Who sent Him.

This is so important that God has designed only One Way to reach Him, and that Way is through His Son.

This is so important that heaven's gate is slammed shut against all attempts to gain entrance through some other way.

This is so important that even Judaism - a God-centered faith worshipping the same God of the same Bible that you and I worship - falls short in their rejection of God's Son.

This is why the Mysteries are so critically important.

They give us spiritual discernment into things that are true AND they help us make sense of WHY things that look and sound "good" are anything but.

We'll consider a third mystery in Scripture this week...

THE 12 MYSTERIES IN SCRIPTURE (Part 3)
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The Work God Blesses
by Chip Brogden
Thus did Noah; according to all
that God commanded him, so did he.
(Gen. 6:22)

I spent many years creating and executing my own plans, asking the Lord to bless them.
One day I understood that instead of always trying to get the Lord to bless what I wanted to do, it was much simpler to find out what the Lord wanted to bless, and simply do THAT. Instead of trying to get God to come down to my level and do what I wanted, it was far better to come onto the Lord’s ground and do what He wanted. Great synergy and blessing is released when we simply cooperate with what God has already purposed to do. Heaven backs us up with tremendous power and authority. Instead of trying to make something happen, I simply flow in a current that already exists. The Lord will deny no request that is in agreement with what He Himself has originated...

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“And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, ‘Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth'” (Genesis 9:1).
Every man and woman has a work assigned to them by God. This becomes their purpose, their reason for being on the earth, their calling, their destiny.
Abraham had an assignment for his life, as did Joseph. Moses was called to perform a specific life-task. David had a destiny. So did Daniel, Jeremiah, and all the prophets. Esther was raised up “for such a time as this.” John the Baptist fulfilled a definite role, as did Peter and John. Paul had a purpose, a reason for being.

Only a few of these people realized what their work was. Most of them were like you and me: we only come into an awareness of our purpose slowly. Everything seems ordinary and mundane; we feel like there is nothing special about us, no calling we could possibly fulfill. Moses is a striking example. The first forty years of his life were spent learning how to be a prince of Egypt. The next forty years of his life were spent in the desert, unlearning everything he had been taught. It seemed like a huge waste of a life. When God sent him back to Egypt at the age of eighty, Moses still did not understand or appreciate the full extent of what God was calling him to do. Neither did the Hebrews. But now we understand that God had a purpose for him all along.

Or look at Joseph. At an early age he senses God’s call on his life for something special. But things do not go the way he expects them to go (things seldom do). His brothers first seek to kill him, but then settle for selling him to the slave-traders. His situation improves for awhile, but then he is framed for something he did not do and gets thrown into the dungeon. As the years slipped away Joseph must have believed he’d made a mistake when he thought he heard from God. But when we see the final result everything makes perfect sense. God used those experiences to shape and mold his character, and to prepare him for the work he was called to do.

And consider Noah. In Genesis 9:1 we see that God blessed Noah and his sons. The blessing of the Lord means divine favor and approval. How do you feel when someone ELSE gets blessed? Are you happy for them? Envious? Frustrated? All we see is the end result – but we do not see all the labor, the sweat, the tears, the pain, the struggle, the misunderstanding, the confusion, the dark nights, all the things that person has endured in order to have the blessing of the Lord. I am not saying the blessing is something we can earn through self-effort; but the blessing of the Lord is the benefit of fulfilling the work He has called us to do.

In this writing we will look at the life of Noah, learn the universal principles behind the work that God blesses, and apply those principles to our lives as well. They are not complicated principles, but very, very simple. I pray they will encourage and strengthen all of us to persevere in whatever situation the Lord has placed us.

A Heritage of Walking With God
The story of Noah begins over four hundred years before he was born. The Scriptures tell us that Noah’s great-great grandfather was Enoch. We know Enoch was a man who walked with God and suddenly disappeared, for God took him. Exactly what that means we can only speculate, but this much is clear: Enoch had a close relationship with the Lord.

Enoch was also a prophet. Jude 14, in the New Testament, records one of his prophecies of a future judgment. But a little closer to his own time, Enoch perceived that the Lord was about to execute judgment on the earth. So when Enoch had a son he named him “Methuselah.” You remember Methuselah is the oldest person in the Bible, living to the ripe old age of 969. The name “Methuselah” has prophetic significance. Most Bible reference books give the meaning as “dart man” or “man of the spear”. A less frequently found definition is of Chaldean origin and means something a little more intriguing: “at his death, the sending forth.” The sending forth of what?

Perhaps that makes no sense to us – until we use the chronology provided to us in Genesis 5. All the generations of Noah are given to us with the exact time frames in which they lived and died. Enoch had a son named Methuselah, Methuselah had a son named Lamech, and Lamech had a son named Noah. When we do the calculations from Enoch to Noah, we find that Noah finished building the ark the same year his grandfather Methuselah died, just in time for the “sending forth” of a great flood – exactly 969 years after Enoch said that it would come.

So this judgment had been building for nearly a millennium. Enoch knew it was coming. Certainly Methuselah knew. Presumably Lamech knew. But none of them were called to build the ark. That work was reserved for Noah. And even then, he was five hundred years old before God revealed His purpose for Noah. Think about it: Noah walked with God for five hundred years before God gave him the plans for building the ark. If the man is not right then the plans are not right; but after five hundred years of relationship-building, the Lord finally said, “Now I can trust you to do the work I have called you to do. The survival of all life on earth depends on it.” What an awesome responsibility!

The Lord Blesses Us to Be a Blessing
That brings us to the first principle: the work that God blesses is bigger than us. The ark was not Noah’s private little retreat. It was not his personal little ministry, his private little vision. Of course, Noah and his family were beneficiaries of the work, but the purpose of the ark was to preserve all living things. Otherwise, Noah would have built a much smaller vessel.

When the Lord gives us a work to do it will be bigger than ourselves. The size of a person’s heart may be judged by the size of their work. By size I do not mean numerical or financial strength. I mean this: is the work larger than the person working? Is it fulfilling a purpose far greater than the people involved? I say this because I am convinced that most churches exist only because the pastor needs a place to preach. Entire ministries are created to give some man or woman an audience. What a tragedy that is. Yesterday I drove past a little building that calls itself a church. The church was named after the presiding elder: “Smith Apostolic Church” (not the real name, but a true story). Such work fulfills nothing of eternal significance, it only meets the self-serving needs and aspirations of the person leading it.

The work that God blesses is not merely for our own personal benefit, but for the benefit of the Body of Christ, for the Kingdom of God. Our vision must carry us beyond ourselves; our vision must survive us. The only vision that is bigger than ourselves is Christ. If our vision is Christ then we are building upon an eternal foundation, and the Lord will bless that labor. Noah carried the Messiah in his loins – the ark was meant to preserve not just physical life, but a spiritual lineage. Thus, it was bigger than Noah, and the Lord blessed the work.

The Lord Blesses What We Cannot Do On Our Own
The second principle is closely related to the first, and it is this: the work that God blesses is beyond our ability to do on our own. In other words, if I can do it all by myself, then I do not need the blessing of the Lord. I can simply call upon my natural talent, experience, and skill to do what needs to be done. Now, work done in this manner may or may not be successful, but irregardless, it is MY work; it is not the Lord’s work, and it does not enjoy the blessing of the Lord.

The Lord delights to place us in impossible situations. Noah was no shipbuilder. Yet God calls him to do the very thing he cannot do and gives him specific and detailed plans for doing it. The sheer size and scope of the work is astounding. First, Noah is to build a boat. Not just a little fishing boat, but a floating fortress with three levels in it. The Living Bible gives the dimensions as 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. Nothing this large had ever been constructed. The project would take one hundred years to complete. But the most amazing thing about this huge boat is that it was built on dry land. The Bible says Noah had faith (cf. Hebrews 11:7)!

But building the ark was only part of the work. After the ark was complete, there was the issue of bringing every sort of animal and bird into the boat. In the movies you see the animals streaming towards the ark of their own accord while Noah looks on in amazement. Perhaps that is the way it happened. Yet the Scripture says that the Lord told Noah to go get them and bring them into the ark (cf. Genesis 6:19). He had to go and gather them. How does one go about gathering one male and one female of every kind of animal in the world? And with some species God said to get seven pairs!

Then there is the matter of food. The Lord told Noah to gather samples of every kind of food that is eaten (cf. Genesis 6:21). The food was for feeding his family and all the animals, but it was also for future planting. Today we have fruits, vegetables, nuts, and grains because Noah somehow managed to find them all and store them in the ark. Now I ask: is it humanly possible to do all the things Noah did? Can someone with no experience build a boat that large? Can an ordinary person gather together every kind of beast, bird, and bug? Can anyone gather together every kind of food in the world, and store it? The Bible says, “Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he” (Genesis 6:22). When God asks us to do the impossible, we can ask for, and expect to receive, the blessing of the Lord on our work. He will show us what to do, and He will enable us to do it.

The Lord Blesses Obedience, Not Originality
The third and final principle is this: the work that God blesses is originated by God Himself. This is one of the most important lessons we can learn. I spent many years creating and executing my own plans, asking the Lord to bless them. One day I understood that instead of always trying to get the Lord to bless what I wanted to do, it was much simpler to find out what the Lord wanted to bless, and simply do THAT. Instead of trying to get God to come down to my level and do what I wanted, it was far better to come onto the Lord’s ground and do what He wanted. Great synergy and blessing is released when we simply cooperate with what God has already purposed to do. Heaven backs us up with tremendous power and authority. Instead of trying to make something happen, I simply flow in a current that already exists. The Lord will deny no request that is in agreement with what He Himself has originated.

Noah could expect the blessing of the Lord on his work because he was simply carrying out what the Lord had already determined to do. It is so much easier this way. Often the greatest hindrance to the best is the good. The greatest hindrance to Isaac is Ishmael. There are many good things we can create, many good things we can do. But only one thing is needed (cf. Luke 10:42). We have to discover the “one thing,” and we only discover it when we are seated at the feet of Jesus. When we are only motivated by what JESUS needs, not what MAN needs and not what we think WE need, then we are on the path of continual and perpetual blessing.

Noah walked with God, and Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord (cf. Genesis 6:8,9). It took five hundred years of walking with God, but Noah found grace, and that made it all worthwhile. Let us learn to do nothing apart from this amazing grace. It is better to wait five hundred years for grace than to work for five minutes without it. What is grace? I teach people that Grace is a Man. Amazing Grace is simply Jesus living in me, doing what I cannot do. It does not matter if “what I cannot do” is save myself, overcome sin, love my neighbor, or build an ark. “For by Grace (Jesus) are you saved through faith (trusting Jesus to do what you cannot do); and that not of yourselves: it (He) is the Gift of God” (Ephesians 2:8). I am insufficient; but His Grace (Jesus) is sufficient. His Grace (Jesus) is more than enough. His Grace (Jesus) is Infinite Supply! But “without Me you can do nothing” (cf. John 15:5b).

Be encouraged. The Lord has a purpose for you, and a destiny for you to fulfill. But things will not always go the way you think they should. That is because the Lord calls you to something bigger than yourself, something beyond your ability, something you cannot originate or perpetuate without Him. It takes time. Noah walked with God for five hundred years and spent one hundred years building the ark. Abraham was one hundred years old before he finally saw God’s promise come true. Moses spent forty years in Egypt, then forty years in the desert, before God sent him to Pharaoh. Jesus prepared thirty years for an earthly ministry of three and a half years. Dear brother, dear sister: walk with God. Find Grace. Discover the One Thing. Focus on being, not doing. And when it IS time for you to do something you can be confident that your labor of love will be the work that God blesses. Amen.
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