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Lansing SDA Church

Wes Peppers

In Due Season

We don't always see it directly, but it's coming soon.

I think we are seeing direct things that he's doing, but it's amazing in the middle of the direct things to see what he's doing in between those things and that's always very powerful and it's a great privilege for me to pray for you each day.

And I hope that you're praying for me as well, and that you're praying for each other.

Spending time with the Lord, opening to Scripture.

Today the things that God has taught me over the past several months are just incredible, friends.

And I think about that verse in Jeremiah where he says, Call upon me and I will show you great and mighty things.

And as we open the Word of God, the Spirit of God will come and He will lead us in an understanding of the Scriptures.

I think about when Jesus breathed upon the disciples and it says when the Holy Spirit came upon them, the Scriptures were open to them.

And there is a rich blessing, there is a rich joy in understanding the Scripture, yes or no?

When God begins to move upon your heart, He begins to show you things in Scripture, you just want to jump up and leap for joy.

How many of you have had that experience before?

And as well, when you are on your knees and when you are pleading before the Lord to ask Him to do something in your life or something in someone else's life, and you see that thing happen, how many of you jump for joy?

You know, friends, if there's 1 thing I could tell you as your pastor, it is that you need to spend whatever amount of time you're spending, I don't need to know the time, but whatever amount of time you're spending in the Word of God and in prayer, you need to increase it.

Beginning today, you need to spend more time with God, more time in the Scripture.

Jesus, friends, I don't know that I've ever had the sense that Jesus is coming soon stronger than I've had in the past year.

We see things that are taking place that we've never seen before.

And everything that we have preached for the last 150 years as a movement of God in the last days, we are now seeing happen before our very eyes.

I know I keep saying that, but don't be alarmed, I'm not dementia, but I know that I say it over and over again, and just so you'll know, I'll continue saying it, that Jesus is coming soon, and we need to be ready.

Our lives need to be aligned with His will.

And it's more important than anything else that you're doing.

If you're doing something that's getting in the way of being in the presence of God on a daily basis, you need to remove it.

And if it's your children that prevent you from doing that because you're so busy with them, You need to kneel down with them in the presence of God together.

Jesus is coming soon and that ought to make us tremble.

It ought to make us realize the seriousness of the times in which we're living.

And as we approach Unlock Revelation, friends, as I've said before, this may be our last opportunity to openly preach God's message.

What are you doing today for God's Kingdom?

What are you doing today to reach out to those around you, to reach out to people that don't know Christ and draw them near to Him?

Friends, we may be introverts and that's okay.

We may be, God's going to empower you to do what He's calling you to do.

In your hand this morning is a prayer list and I thought of everything that I could think of that could be an ongoing regular prayer list for our church.

I sent out a first list and then I returned and it's divided up into 4 categories there.

I'm not going to read through all these with you, but I'm going to invite you to take this list, don't lose it, don't lay it somewhere, forget about it, but keep it in your Bibles.

And Every day, as you kneel before the Lord, some people say, well Pastor, I kneel down and pray and I pray for 5 minutes and then I just don't know what to pray for.

This will keep you praying for at least a good 30 minutes.

You just go down through the list and you're not going to get up for a while.

Now maybe you don't have time to pray for the whole list every day.

And we want God's continued blessing, friends.

We're not going to get it if we're not on our knees.

We're not going to get it if we're not uniting together and calling upon Him.

You're depressed, you're discouraged, get on your knees.

Somebody in the church Messes with you, they say something to you that you feel is un-Christ-like, don't go to somebody else and complain, don't stay at home, get on your knees.

God's been waking me up early, early, early in the morning.

And 1 of my prayers is that my congregation in Lansing would become more spiritual, godly people.

I'm not saying you weren't spiritual before.

I'm not saying you weren't godly before, but you become more.

Because we all have a certain place, we all have more to grow.

How many would agree with that this morning?

So this is an invitation from your pastor, especially as we approach Unlocked Revelation.

Take this list, it's not going to expire at the end of this month or the end of this year.

This is a list that you need to be praying for until Jesus comes again.

How many of you would be willing to commit to praying to this thing?

Don't get up until you know He has blessed you.

You have to be late for work and whatever else.

I know people say, well, it's easy for you to say that because you're the pastor and you're paid to pray.

But this wasn't my job because I have been in this church for a chunk of time when it wasn't my job.

This morning, I want to share with you just a few verses.

I planned for a little shorter message this morning because of our baptisms and so forth.

Thomas and Lydia, we're so excited to welcome you into our family.

I'm anticipating a harvest in Anak Revelation.

But it's not dependent upon my preaching.

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In Due Season

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