July 8, 2009

Pastor Brooks
July 8, 2009

• Mark 4
• Any area that you’re not bearing fruit in has the potential to be your most fruitful area. Why? Because when you can’t do it on your own, you then have to depend on God, thus have the ability through Him to do more.
• You can’t play up to God and man at the same time. If you’re trusting in man as your source, then you can’t trust God as your source. If you’re trusting in God as your source, then you aren’t concerned with man.
• Wisdom is a condition of your heart, not an accumulation of knowledge. No matter how much you know, you still do not know what you need to know.
• Wisdom and understanding are related to the heart and also related to healing.
• Matthew 13:1-23
• Always look in the Bible for patterns
• God starts with those who hear… the most important thing is the condition of your heart.
• Everything that God does is aimed at your heart.
• THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR HEART

1. God can change the condition of your heart: you’re not stuck with the heart that you have. Duet. 8:18 (people are looking for wealth when God gives you power to get wealth.

Seeking money can mess you up, but seeking God will get you what you want

2. You are responsible for the condition of your heart.

3. Your heart should be your most important prayer focus: every time you go into prayer you should come out changed. There should be an exchange; you give God something and He replaces it with something that should be there.

4. The condition of your heart determines the level of your walk

• 1 Kings 3:6-13
• Good Kings turn the people’s hearts toward God; bad Kings turn their hearts away from God. A good leader turns the people’s hearts to God, not to themselves.
• Asking for the right thing pleases God.
• Certain things allow you to get other things. Certain things are breakthrough things.
• You go from glory to glory; the first thing you need is a hearing ear (willingness to change), then you need understanding.
• The invisible thing is the kingdom attracts seen things and there are people who are drawn to the seen thing, but never get the essence of the unseen thing and miss out on what they are supposed to get.
• If you do not have the revelation, you do not want the ministry or you will lose it.
• Of whatever is seen, if it is not rooted in the unseen, you will lose it.
• If you don’t see the kingdom, you will get into false warfare and shoot yourself in the foot every time.
• Humility precedes promotion and honor. If you start tripping, a fall is coming.
• The condition of your heart determines the level of your walk.
• The word that you have gotten is not to you, it is to the transformed you. When you get a word (a promise) a process of change comes next.
• God will allow you to have enemies because they will do something that your friends will not do and that is, take you to the cross.
• Before every breakthrough there is a cross (trouble).
• Change usually takes place in crisis because crisis brings reality.
• Hebrews 3:1-8
• Faith, hope and joy are not an option.
• Any situation in your life that does not produce hope means that you have believed the lie.
• The answer to poverty is the gospel
• Obedience softens the heart. Every time you obey something that God tells you to do, it is easier the next time. When you disobey, it is harder the next time.
• Unbelief is a decision to resist God’s word by hardening your heart to it; unbelief is a choice.
• Faith is a matter of yielding, not a matter of effort [with God nothing is impossible].
• No rhema (Word from God) lacks the power necessary for it to come to pass.
• If God has something for you, the enemy (trouble) is going to come and try to take it from you and many times it will happen in a relationship. Watch the people who are in your life. Sometimes you think that it is a natural altercation, but it is spiritual.
• On your way to your destiny, something is going to happen to tick you off, scare you, or intimidate you. Your focus should always be on your response, not on what happened.
• If you don’t watch it, you will stay small to keep people comfortable with you who have small minds.
• If people cannot rejoice with you when something good happens to you, they do not love you.
• You never cooperate with the stony part (the hardened heart).
• God gave you a comforter because it is going to get uncomfortable.