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Get Prepared Now!
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| You say to prepare and to occupy. | |
| Would you help me with this? | |
| You think that some people are seeing what is going on in the world, but they are procrastinating to get prepared. | |
| Isn't that right? | |
| It's easy to put things off, especially if you think we have more time. | |
| And that thought that I put across where I say, occupy until I come, you know, until Jesus comes. | |
| Noah occupied all the way up until the day it started to rain. | |
| Okay? | |
| And I say, finish getting prepared first. | |
| If you've got some pet projects you want to do, those can wait because we don't know how much time we have. | |
| That's right. | |
| You know, a couple years ago, we all thought we had it down. | |
| And then, of course, recently I did that story of the trilogy of Matthew 24, wherein all three of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, he warned us that we would go to sleep. | |
| And he says, I don't want you to be caught unaware. | |
| There's a suddenly coming. | |
| Well, you know, if you think you know when it's going to happen, it's not a suddenly. | |
| And let me tell you, I am at the point now where don't ask me when it's going to happen. | |
| I just don't know. | |
| But I know the Lord is saying, get prepared. | |
| You know, and you know, I keep saying today, you know, it's in my DNA to help people prepare. | |
| And my assignment, you know, I put in a recent one of my studies, if your assignment is easy to accomplish, it's probably not God's assignment. | |
| Because in fact, God's assignment is going to be impossible. | |
| God wants to give you an impossible assignment because he wants you to look to him to be able to accomplish it. | |
| You see, Noah, when God said, Noah, I want you to build an ark, man, you look at what God asked Noah to do, and he would have said, God, that's impossible. | |
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The Miracle of Obedience
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| I can't do that. | |
| But you know what? | |
| I did that study, the miracle of obedience. | |
| Noah said, yes, I'll do it. | |
| I don't know how, but if you say, if you think I can do it, I'll do it. | |
| And when Noah stepped up to the plate to do what God told him to do, God stepped up to the plate with him. | |
| And miracles happened. | |
| I mean, let's say it was 800-foot battleship-sized boat that Noah built. | |
| I'm trying to tell you guys, too many of you are building rowboats when God wants you to build a bigger ark. | |
| You've got to quit thinking about just your own immediate family. | |
| You've got to start thinking about the lost that are surrounding you so that you're going to be able to minister and reach out to them. | |
| And so this whole concept, the miracle of obedience, I originally sent Jim two pages of a paper that turned into six. | |
| And it's like God just keeps giving me more and more about the miracle of obedience, the miracle of multiplication. | |
| And the thought hit me, what are you going to do when more people show up at your house wanting a meal than what you were planning on? | |
| What are you going to do? | |
| Are you going to say, well, I'm sorry, we only have enough for our own group. | |
| We can't feed you. | |
| And the thought hit me that what we should do is we need to look to the word of God. | |