God desires for us to live soberly, chastely and godly.
That word soberly means: free from excess, extravagance, or exaggeration; showing self-control; it is to be sane or rational.
Chaste means: clean, elevated, unsullied, undefiled or stainless.
That's God's greatest expectation for us.
That our lives would be elevated and unstained by world systems or thinking.
To be godly means to be just like Him, in every aspect. To have His mind, His character, His love, grace, mercy and forgiveness overflowing in your life.
You see, everything in God overflows.
There is no shortage or limits. Dictionary.com defines that word overflow as:
- To flow over, beyond; to flood as rivers or water.
- To have the contents flowing over or spilling.
- to be filled or supplied with in great measure.
- It is an excess, surplus, or superabundance.
God has never depended upon humanity for rain; just seed.
Amos wrote:
"Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine and all the hills shall melt [that is, everything heretofore barren and unfruitful shall overflow with spiritual blessing]. And I will bring back the exiles of My people Israel, and they shall build the waste cities and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards and drink the wine from them; they shall also make gardens and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be torn up out of their land which I gave them, says the Lord your God. (Amos 9:13-15)
Only a seed can produce overflow.
God has put supernatural increase and potential on your life to change the destiny of people you touch daily. But overflow is the result of being able to fill something void or empty.
What role is unfilled in your industry?
Despite all of your stress and crushing difficulties, what are you filled with?
Champions must:
- Build cities to inhabit (WHAT ARE YOU BUILDING?)
- Plant vineyards to drink (WHAT HAVE YOU PLANTED?)
- Make gardens to eat (WHAT CAN YOU CREATE TO FEED YOUR DREAM FINANCIALLY?)
We must be the standard; the benchmark; the difference maker in our workplace, industry and city.
What is the mark of a difference maker?
- If I said the name, Steve Jobs, what the first thing that comes to mind? (iPhone or Apple.)
- What about Bill Gates...? (Microsoft)
- Michael Jordan...? (Basketball Hall of Famer, Entrepreneur)
- Conrad Hilton... ?(Hotels)
QUESTION: If I said your name, what is the first thing that would come to people's minds?
What is your brand or name associated with?
That's the difference maker in your life.
Moses was the difference between slavery and freedom; between poverty and promise, Egypt and Canaan for over 6 million Hebrews.
As a difference maker, you are designed to stand between something (life and death, blessing and curse, solutions and problems, etc.) with a word or message ("rod.")
Today, the sudden loss and uprooting you have experienced is over.
But the recession you are in demands you build, plant or create something.
If you have worked over 10 years in the same workplace or industry and are not proficient enough to teach others, there is no overflow in your life.
When God initially called Moses, Moses questioned the call and the Lord asked, "What is that in your hand? And he said, A rod. And He said, Cast it on the ground." (Ex 4:2-3)
God will take what is in your hand (what you deem insignificant) and perform a miracle as you use it today.
What is it?
