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Speaker 5: Hi, this is Victoria. Thank you so much for downloading
Speaker 5: this podcast. I believe God has amazing things in your future.
Speaker 5: I hope you enjoy this message. You know, I pray
Speaker 5: for people all the time and they want to know
Speaker 5: the will of God for their life. You know, they're
Speaker 5: really looking to find their assignments from God. And I
Speaker 5: think that's a good prayer to pray because that means
Speaker 5: God is rawing you and he's working with you, and
Speaker 5: he wants you to follow him. You know, we all
Speaker 5: want to know the will of God for our life.
Speaker 4: God, what's my assignment?
Speaker 5: But can I tell you this, God is already laid
Speaker 5: out your.
Speaker 4: Assignment for you.
Speaker 5: He's laid it out, He's pre arranged your assignments.
Speaker 4: God is already working in you.
Speaker 5: We can't wait around for our assignment to find us.
Speaker 5: We have to move out in our assignments that are
Speaker 5: laid out for us today. See, God has plans and
Speaker 5: purposes for each one of our life. In fact, He
Speaker 5: is working those plans and purposes out in us. Listen
Speaker 5: to what Ephesians two says. It says that we are
Speaker 5: God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works. See,
Speaker 5: we are God's handiwork. He is making us, He is
Speaker 5: molding us. We're we're created to do good works. It
Speaker 5: goes on to say, which we're already prepared in advance for.
Speaker 4: Us to do. You See, God is working through us
Speaker 4: in our good works. You See.
Speaker 5: Sometimes I think that we think good works is kind
Speaker 5: of like good deeds. We think, well, when I held
Speaker 5: the door open for this stranger, that was nice, or
Speaker 5: we thinking, you know what, my husband has been driving
Speaker 5: me crazy lately.
Speaker 4: But I haven't yelled at him, even though he deserves it.
Speaker 5: You know, those are nice things, and I think sometimes
Speaker 5: which are good deeds, and they are good works in
Speaker 5: a sense because something is working in you when you
Speaker 5: do that. But I don't want us to think that
Speaker 5: these good works are something that God's gonna love me more. God,
Speaker 5: do you see what I've been doing for you? Have
Speaker 5: you ever felt fallen in that train of thought? I mean,
Speaker 5: I'll raise my hand. Okay, I'll be the first one
Speaker 5: in the here. I know nobody else is gonna raise
Speaker 5: their hands. But you know what, sometimes you think, God,
Speaker 5: I am doing all this good stuff, where's my blessing?
Speaker 5: You know what, Lord, They're not as nice as me,
Speaker 5: but you're blessing them.
Speaker 4: You see.
Speaker 5: I want us to not look at these good works
Speaker 5: as our Christian duty. Because we're Christians, we have to
Speaker 5: do these good works. Now, first, let me say this.
Speaker 5: God is a blessing God. He blesses obedience. He's a
Speaker 5: rewarder of those who seek after him. I am not
Speaker 5: really talking about the blessing. I'm talking about the good works.
Speaker 5: And I don't want us to fall into the trap
Speaker 5: of if we do good works, God's gonna bless us.
Speaker 5: I think he will reward us, But don't do good
Speaker 5: works to get the blessing.
Speaker 4: You see, you can't even.
Speaker 5: Get saved by good works. The Bible says that we
Speaker 5: are saved by grace through faith.
Speaker 4: It is not of ourself.
Speaker 5: Is a free gift, it's free. You can't be good
Speaker 5: enough to get saved. You can't be rich enough to
Speaker 5: purchase your salvation.
Speaker 4: It's free.
Speaker 5: But I think sometimes we fall into this trap that
Speaker 5: I'm gonna do good works.
Speaker 4: God so that you will bless me. You see, God
Speaker 4: created us to do good works.
Speaker 5: So if God created us to do good works, we
Speaker 5: know exactly what we're supposed to do. We know that
Speaker 5: we will walk in our assignment when we do the
Speaker 5: good works.
Speaker 4: What is a good work?
Speaker 5: A good work is when you're patient, that's a good work.
Speaker 5: A good work is when you choose joy, when you
Speaker 5: choose peace, when you choose long suffering, when you're a
Speaker 5: mother serving your children, when you're a husband going out
Speaker 5: every day to work. Those are good works because within
Speaker 5: those good works, God is working something you those good works,
Speaker 5: God is working in you. When you come up against
Speaker 5: that challenge, a person that's trying to put you down.
Speaker 5: Guess what, There's a good work to be done right there,
Speaker 5: and you get to choose it. But sometimes we run
Speaker 5: into these challenges and we're miserable.
Speaker 4: We think, God, why why? You know why?
Speaker 5: Because God is saying, I've already put the DNA in you.
Speaker 5: You are predisposed to be able to push through and
Speaker 5: let the good work work in you. The good work
Speaker 5: is working in you.
Speaker 4: See, you're made to do good.
Speaker 5: Works, and those good works they're making you. They're building
Speaker 5: your character, your morality value. See, there is nothing better
Speaker 5: than to come up against a challenge and be able
Speaker 5: to make it through because you chose the right thing.
Speaker 5: You allowed that prearranged pre determine good work to work
Speaker 5: in you.
Speaker 4: You see.
Speaker 5: I think the greatest gift in the world that God
Speaker 5: could ever give us is a strong and fortified life
Speaker 5: living for Him wholeheartedly.
Speaker 4: Do you know those good.
Speaker 5: Works that are working in you will make you more obedient.
Speaker 5: That obedience will then trigger the blessing of God. So
Speaker 5: I just want us to look a little differently today
Speaker 5: at good works when you're pressed, when you're up against
Speaker 5: a challenge. Listen, the Bible says it like this, that
Speaker 5: he will set a table before the presence of your enemy,
Speaker 5: before any situation. God is already pre arranged the good
Speaker 5: choice for you. He's already made a way of escape.
Speaker 5: You know, we need to know that God intended these
Speaker 5: good works to work in us so that we could
Speaker 5: fulfill our destiny, that we could walk in these assignments
Speaker 5: every single day. You see, it's not one thing that's
Speaker 5: gonna make your calling.
Speaker 4: It's an every day walking out.
Speaker 5: These good works that's gonna lead you, guide you to
Speaker 5: open doors to places of influence, to supernatural opportunities. Because
Speaker 5: let me tell you something, God's not gonna give you
Speaker 5: anything you're gonna fail at. He's not gonna open a
Speaker 5: door that you're not ready for. So let these good
Speaker 5: works work in you. No, hey, I'm challenged. This thing
Speaker 5: is happening over here. I have a choice. I can
Speaker 5: choose to do the good work. You know, it's a
Speaker 5: good work for a reason. Is that a bad work?
Speaker 5: God doesn't want it to be a hard work. He
Speaker 5: wants it to be a good work. Think about that
Speaker 5: just a minute.
Speaker 4: What is good?
Speaker 5: It's pleasing, it's honorable in God's sight, it's pleasant, it's
Speaker 5: a good way work when you work it with God.
Speaker 4: It's something he's doing in you to set.
Speaker 2: You up.
Speaker 5: For greater things, set you up for greater things. So
Speaker 5: let's put down a struggle. Let's put down the fact
Speaker 5: that somebody's trying to get to us, or or are
Speaker 5: trying to get in our place or get ahead of us.
Speaker 5: We don't have to do it like the world does it.
Speaker 5: We have a buffet table laid out for us. It's
Speaker 5: interesting because in Romans twelve to two it says this,
Speaker 5: It says, don't let evil defeat you, but defeat evil
Speaker 5: with what good? What with good, with pleasant, pleasing, honorable things.
Speaker 5: In the sight of God, you can overcome when you're
Speaker 5: willing to do the good work, the good work.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: Some sometimes we think our life is so simple, We think,
Speaker 5: you know, where is that big thing? But can I
Speaker 5: encourage you that your simple things, your simple good works,
Speaker 5: are so making you and accomplishing you that you're gonna
Speaker 5: look up and you're gonna think, God, how did I
Speaker 5: get where I am?
Speaker 4: God? How did you set me up for such an
Speaker 4: amazing thing? God?
Speaker 5: Look at this family that I've produced. Because I've been patient,
Speaker 5: I've been a servant, I've long suffered. I've warked through
Speaker 5: the good things, so I've produced something good in my life.
Speaker 5: You see anything good, it's going to take our time
Speaker 5: and attention. I think about the first telephone. When Alexander
Speaker 5: Graham Bell invented that telephone, it was such an amazing thing.
Speaker 5: You could literally talk to someone that wasn't in the room.
Speaker 5: You could talk to another person at another number on
Speaker 5: the other end of another telephone.
Speaker 4: That's pretty crazy.
Speaker 5: Isn't it not? These days why he thought it was amazing.
Speaker 5: He didn't know where it was going to go. But
Speaker 5: today we're not stuck to the wall. We have our
Speaker 5: telephone in our pockets. We can take pictures with our phone.
Speaker 5: We can send messages with our phone. We can get
Speaker 5: on the internet and learn anything we want.
Speaker 4: With our phone.
Speaker 5: Can you imagine if Alexander Graham Bell realized what his
Speaker 5: simple invention did, he would be astonished. It would be
Speaker 5: unbelievable to him. But it was a simple invention that
Speaker 5: accomplished great things.
Speaker 4: And in the same way.
Speaker 5: Your simple works, good works are going to accomplish unbelievable
Speaker 5: things on this earth.
Speaker 4: You can't see it now, you think it's simple. God,
Speaker 4: where is it leading me? Where is it taking me?
Speaker 4: For guy says, I want to make you unbelievable. I
Speaker 4: want your reach to be further than you could ever
Speaker 4: think possible.
Speaker 5: So next time you're saying, God, what do you want
Speaker 5: me to do?
Speaker 4: What's my calling? What's my assignment? Remember this. You were
Speaker 4: walking into it. You were walking into it because those good.
Speaker 5: Works that you were made to do are making you
Speaker 5: and God will fulfill everything that he's ever promised you.
Speaker 4: Amen. Amen, He's an awesome God. Thank you for listening
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