Today we will cover a territory we’re all familiar with but in denial about. All things shall be revealed. How many know that God is about growing us up? Some of us are still children. I’m open to the Lord to teach me. When you become unteachable, you become unreachable. The Bible says that there is a way that seems right to a man. They believe it’s a right way. Anytime you emphasize what you want, it’s about you. If you feel, then its your will. If we are not very careful, our will’s can steer us away from His will. When you get out in the middle of a desert and you’re away from the oasis, the first thing you do is look back at the oasis because it’s the only thing that you can rely on. It gave us a place of refuge to block us from the sun, and water to refresh who we are. We shouldn’t stray too far away from our opinion. There is that away that seems right. It may appear to be, but its a trick of the adversary to pull you away. He knows that if he can stray them away a little, he can lead them a lot. A mirage is a distorted reflection of something that may be out there. It may be a mountain or tree. That comes because Satan tries to bring in your vision things that might be, could be, but you are not able to know until you go to see. In the process you’re leaving your place of refuge and you don’t know what it is. By the time you get to that point of no return, you realize “oh my goodness?!” How can I ever get back, because there is nothing here? By the time you get to one mirage another mirage pops up which leads you further away. Now God has never left. He is still there and solid; I am God and God alone. If I said it was wrong 2000 years ago, it is wrong now. I know that if you go this way, it’s going to mess you up. Lean not to your own understanding but in all your way acknowledge Him and he will direct your path.

Have you ever had a moment in your life where you said “enough is enough?!” Even though you’re saying that what you’re really saying is this: “Lord I’m a mess.” God deliver me from me. I thought I had got it. Because I hope you got it, or you will get it. We make that step toward that mirage because there is always something that will pull you away from Christ, because when you are a Child of God, ain’t nothing coming easy. People always say when you’re in Christ that it’s so wonderful and He’s carrying you. You’ve seen the picture of the foot prints in the sand? The foot prints are first light, then they get deeper in the sand. If the person had just gotten rescued, those foot steps will be deeper in the onset, because that person should have been able to walk on their own. He won’t carry you all the time. The world will always tell you, those Christians in the world, that He won’t let you fall. Well then realize who is Job? God, if you love Him and are walking the way you are supposed to and constantly allow Him to be in you, your life will allow Him to utilize you to be an example for others. Job was an example for all of us. When I was a kid, my favorite song was All My Appointed Time. “All my appointed time, I’m going to wait tell my change comes.” I knew the song and as it became a part of me, it became a part of my life. As those things happened to Job, it happened in my life. Someone came and told Job this, and someone came and told Job that. Until the servant reached home and said Job all your children are dead. Because, a lot of times we can’t fathom a child leaving this earth before their parents. A child shouldn’t leave this earth before their parents. I told my children, I’d rather go before you do. Your life should go on to represent who I am, you should be me in the future. I’ve lived my life and gained all the things I’ve desired to do. I’ve walked with God, talked with Him and been filled with His Holy Ghost. I want you to go forth and live the experience I did. God has given us 3 score and 10 years to live. 20 years + 10 years = 70 years. Why would you spend your time chasing mirages, trying to be very aggressive, trying to reach a goal that is not for you to reach? When we get to a mirage its gone. We look back and have seen we’ve made a journey when we could have made a journey to what was right. I lost x number of time, when it could have been placed in Christ. It’s good to know this when you’re young, because when your old, you can’t walk that fast. We need to stop when we’re young and utilize the youth in us, not for our personal gain.

How many know about a savings account? Why do you put stuff away? For something in the future you haven’t seen. Have you put stuff in your soul, so you can bank it for the future? Have you taken the time to invest in your soul for Christ? You’ll only get out of you what you put into you. If you load yourself up with candy bars, pizzas, frosty drinks, and fountain drinks, then at the very end of your life it has destroyed your life. When you get older you think, where did the time go. The reason you don’t want to be here is because you’ve messed up your years. Your soul depleted, your body depleted. We need to make sure we get it before we get it. We need to get the point now so we can live on in this point as a Child of God. He has given us things pertaining to life in godliness. So why are we trying to pursue us, why are we trying to pursue our lives? It’s not about you it’s about your service to Him. If you abide in Me and My word abide in you, you can ask what you will and it will be what? Possibly done, maybe done. No! It will be done. If you do what I’m telling you right now and get the point right now, you won’t even have to ask for anything because He’ll give it to you, because you’re locked into Him. “You’ll remain faithful to Me and I will always remain faithful to you,” is what Jesus says. That is what we have to remember. He knows what goes on in our heart. Did you know that God is a heart regulator? He makes sure your heart is beating right. He wants to make sure if your heart is for Him.

We take the time to believe that we have the understanding of what it is. As we lean-to the understanding of what it is, as in “I have it,” as you begin to follow what it is, you began to follow what you believe it is. In the process, what are you doing? You’re moving further and further from what It really means. Not realizing that it is not about you. Most people don’t know that. As you begin to follow the teaching of it, I got it, I get it, it pulls your further and further away from what it really is. People tend to want to pull you further from it. Have you ever been dangling out somewhere mentally? “I don’t know what I’m suppose to do, why did they leave me out here?” I thought you had it? Well you’ll get it! So many of the mistakes we make in our lives is because we’re following after the wrong “it.” It will lead your further and further from the truth. Christ wants you to get it. Hopefully once you get it you’ve got it. He wants you to have that understanding so if you have the understanding about what something is, then you shouldn’t get lost as you go further in your Christian walk. Where do we lose the direction of that Christian walk? We allow ourselves to listen to other people’s understanding. Their form of what they got of “it.” As we listen to their form of what they got, now you are getting “it.” Got it? Then we get confused. To understand the truth about a thing, we need to understand who we are first, because who we are will determine the information that comes into you. If your information centers are jacked up, your reception centers are jacked up, what will you receive? Jackedupness. So, your receptors will say this or this, because they’re jacked up. You get garbage in, you get a virus. This is an awesome thing. It does so all the information that comes into you that is not what you need, it give you a virus, now your receptors can’t receive what you need. Now you can’t get it because you’ve got it. Now here you are in a state of confusion. Because when you got what you got it wasn’t what you were suppose to get. The understanding that you thought you got wasn’t clear because your receptors picked it up wrong. I hope ya’ll get it. All this mess leads us to a false sense of understanding, your whole life is built on a false understanding.

Proverbs 3:5-7

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.

See if you already have jacked up information, how can you be wise in your own eyes? You’re a jacked up wise person, going on your own understanding.

James 1:12-23

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

What does being tempted mean? It means you go through a test. It tells you who you are in the subject. That is why you don’t want to despise being tempted. Taking the test. Sometimes tests can be so long. You’re up there thinking when you’ll be done with this test. “Please Lord how long?” We don’t want to say “test hurry up and be over with,” because in the process of a test it is bringing stuff up in who we are and reveals what we need. Salvation is not a person running through the field with grass and daisies flying. Its walking through the field and asking “why am I going through?” A test is there to make us, not break us. Do you stand there a waddle? You can’t tempt God with anything. He’s God, He already knows what your motives are. Every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust. In other words, he didn’t get it. Your understanding is based on what you thought you had, and you can only walk in what you knew. “I thought I had it right?” Well, where did you get that information from? It was corrupted. Well why did you sense it was corrupted? Oh because your receptors were all jacked up. You got a virus. When you get a virus, everything that you download in that virus becomes corrupted. People don’t realize that. If you have a virus, the only thing you can receive is corrupted, because the virus in contaminated.

We allow mess to come into our lives and we exemplify it and say that it’s in the Word. Surface understanding is what a lot of us have. Surface salvation. Surface, Bible understanding. Ask them a surface question about salvation and all they’ll say is “yes you have to accept God, as your personal saviour.” Its a surface salvation. The point is that a lot of us walk in surface salvation, because to dig for something and to root up everything and bring it to the forefront of your life, you wonder where did that come from? Aunty Lucy did the exact same things, and I’m doing it today. We allow that to happen. Don’t talk the talk of Christianity when you don’t walk the walk yourself. The point is you need to behold yourself. Do you ever avoid the mirror when you walk into a rest room, and when you go to wash you hands you can’t help but look at yourself and say you’re a mess?

Know that in your heart things may be right, but a clear heart is what you desire of God. Lord I heard it but let it be clear to me, so I can go forth and be what you want me to be. Even with people, get a clear understanding before you fall off, because you can’t come back, you’re committed. Look before you leap. Before you commit yourself in a situation, make sure the Lord gives you a clear understanding. The Lord isn’t slow, and 5 months later you should be able to understand. Ask God for clarity in all you say and do. Because once a word has left your mouth, they don’t have strings on them to reel them back.

Proverbs 14:12-16

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness. The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself. The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going. A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.

When you say you have something, make sure you have clarity of whatever the “got” is. What is the “it” you want to get? You ask, that way you get clarity in the statement. I hope you got it or your going to get it.