Change House – No Water to Bitter Water to Sweet Little to Much More
3Jn 1:2 Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers
Grumble – Red Sea Marvel – Grumble
• Exo 15:22-23 Then Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea and they went into the Wilderness of Shur; they went three days [thirty-three miles] in the wilderness and found no water. (23) When they came to Marah, they could not drink its waters for they were bitter; therefore it was named Marah [bitterness]. Exo Exo 15:24 The people grumbled against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
• Exo 14:12 Did we not tell you in Egypt, Let us alone; let us serve the Egyptians? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.
Call to Love & Prosperity
15:25-27 And he cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree which he cast into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There [the Lord] made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He proved them, (26) Saying, If you will diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord your God and will do what is right in His sight, and will listen to and obey His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon you which I brought upon the Egyptians, for I am the Lord Who heals you. (27) And they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there by the waters.
Grumble at or Cry To
• Exo 15:23-27 When they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter; therefore it was named Marah. (24) So the people grumbled at Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” (25) Then he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree; and he threw it into the waters, and the waters became sweet.
• Marah – came or we went for it
• What shall we drink or how shall we heal – What God brought you to – He will pass you thru
• You give me – poverty spirit
• Don’t seek other options
Bitter & Grumble or Loved & Loving
• Luk 10:27 And he answered, “You shall love the lord your god with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.“ – , he said, – Loved for belonging higher than ourselves, ennobling love – We have to be loved redeemingly – if we are to love in order to give than get. Loving Lord with all our heart is redemptive.
• Loving the Lord with al our soul is sanctifying – fellowship, sharing, communion
• Loving Lord with all our strength is commitment & loyalty
• Loving the Lord with all our mind is to commit our will as well as our intellect singing the wonder of His magnificence – all things wise & wonderful all things bright & beautiful
Cry of Faith Opens Eyes
• (25) Then he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree; and he threw it into the waters, and the waters became sweet.
• You have to see your Tree to Heal your Marah – no imports
• Working out the Tree for You = Calvary, Tree of Life
• Working thru the Tree of Life God plants in you
• Tree spread out over the Bitter Waters
• Calvary reached everybody
• Know Your spread – fulfil
• God Does it Right – When You’re in His Sight
• There He made for them a statute and regulation, and there He tested them. (26) And He said, “If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the LORD, am your healer.”
• Test was use what God gave you
• Trust Him to take you thru
• Voice of the Lord – In His Presence – 2 Chron 16:9
• When you seek His Kingdom – He sees you
Hearing the Voice of God
• Hearing the Voice of God – from the word of God read every morning – do not get isolated
• Hearing many voices – confusion
• Sunday Worship & Message, Altar Call
• Up the stake – Cell, Vigil, Saturday, Camp Times
• Right in His Sight – You & God
• and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the LORD, am your healer.”
• Desired Outcome – Directed Process
All in Me = All God Benefits
• Desired Outcome Psa 103:1,2 Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name. (2) Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits;
• Directed Process 1 (3) who forgives all your iniquities;
• 2 who heals all your diseases;
• 3 (4) who redeems your life from ruin – past or present; Pauper turns Prince – we now have more than enough – Elim
• 4 who crowns you with loving-kindness and tender mercies;
• 5 Consumption & Confession (5) who satisfies your mouth with good; your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
• Ps 103: 1,2 – all in me is God benefits
• Forgive iniquities – Heal all your diseases – recurrent illnesses
• Pro 3:8 Healing shall be to your navel & marrow to your bones
• Redeem & recover loss – destruction – noon day destruction
• Crowns – covering – cloud – no serpents
• Mouth = appetites – health in our appetite – Consumption satisfaction – Confession – no bitter but sweet fountain
• Confession – Good things – praise, testimonies & blessing
• Pro_16:24 Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bone
• Renewed Youth –
• Pro 14:14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, but a good man from above (himself).
• Day is Coming – Desired Outcome
Shining Like Sun or Burning Like Furnace
• Burning Furnace for Unrighteous Mal 4:1 “For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.”
• Shining Sun for Righteous Mal 4:2 “But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall.
• More Than Enough Life
• 27) Then they came to Elim where there were twelve