Pastor Jason Anderson - Audio

God needs you. He needs a partner - boots on the ground,

to accomplish His will. He calls us His hands and feet. Moses, I need

you. He created us with a purpose. He sent you into Egypt, a Trojan

horse, waiting to unleash the power and promise of God into the solar

system where he positioned you. It's gonna happen. You are like an

undercover special mission MI6 sleeper cell, just about to be triggered

into action. Before God called Gideon into action, he was frustrated. He

felt worthless. What can I do? What's the point? Then the Lord shows up,

"Gideon, you're exactly where I want you, welcome to the story I have

written for you." Gideon was frustrated, complaining how the world is

falling apart, feeling helpless. And often when Goliath is on the

battlefield calling down profanity, so many sit on the sidelines waiting

for someone else to show up. But I want you to know that you are the

someone else. God needs you. When Sarah felt replaceable she gave

Abraham Hagar to have the promised son, but she found out she wasn't

replaceable. It had to be her. God said nope, you are chosen Sarah, it

has to be you, no one else will do. This whole world needs us, it's

hurting, in pain, lost, broken, imprisoned, miserable. God is awakening

something in you, today is your burning bush day. And your mission,

should you choose to accept it, is all about others.

Today I want to talk to you about your value, your

worth, your significance to God. Studies show that 85% of Americans have

a low sense of value, that they are not significant, but feel common,

small. You may feel confident in some things, but in other things you

may have fears, feel weak. Society and science have told you that you

are an accident, a freak occurrence of a pool of goo that came together

to create a single-celled organism. There is no master plan, there is no

destiny, both you and life are aimless, pointless, meaningless. But God

speaks differently about you.... He says He created you... Ephesians

1:4-5 (NIV) "For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to

be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for

adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his

pleasure and will—" You were redeemed in order that you may bear fruit

unto God. Significance communicates importance, uniquely needed and

necessary. Without you it's not going to happen according to God's plan.

Satan wants you to feel insignificant, common, like you don't matter.

This way as God brings opportunity your way, you will say "No, what can

I do? How could I help? Nope not me, try again." 2018 is going to be a

year for you, God is bringing you purpose, things you've said no to in

the past He is bringing around again, challenges you couldn't step into

you are going to find a new strength and courage, risks will not seem

risky. Dreams and visions are coming alive and you are leaping into the

valley of the unknown with brave confidence.

April 15, 2018

Today I want to talk to you about where godly confidence

comes from. Confidence is an attribute of success, it is a critically

important quality, and one that God wants you to have. When God comes to

Joshua He declares over him in Joshua 1:9 (NIV) "Have I not commanded

you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged,

for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go." God was saying

that strength and courage will drive fear and discouragement out of your

land! When you received Jesus you received strength and courage, He is

your Joshua. Do not throw away your confidence! It will be richly

rewarded (Heb 10:35). You serve a confident Jesus that is revealing His

confidence in you! Luke 13:32 (NIV) He replied, "Go tell that fox, 'I

will keep on driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow,

and on the third day I will reach my goal.' Consider the heroes of our

Bible: Peter who climbed out of the boat, the apostles who risked jail

time and death, Daniel who prayed to God in front of everyone. God is

calling us to His promises and He is saying we will need to be

confident, and the confidence, courage and strength we freely receive

through Christ will drive fear out of our hearts. What is it that would

cause a man or woman to leap into the unknown, to laugh at

insurmountable odds, to handle an avalanche of weight with swagger?

Joseph, come interpret Pharaoh's dream. "Yeah, alright." My desire is

that Living Word would be an army of risk takers, water walkers, jump

out of boaters, men and women who aren't afraid, who spring courageously

into the unknown valleys, a church filled with the strong, the fearless,

the brave.

Today I want to talk to you about one man's incredible

story with Jesus Christ. Springing up from this story comes one of the

most-well known Bible verses on the planet - John 3:16 (NIV), "For God

so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever

believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:1-2

(NIV), "Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member

of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night and said,

'Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one

could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.'

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I want to talk to you about transformation through

instructions. The game of life came with instructions. Romans 12:2 tells

me to not be "conformed to the patterns of this world, but be

transformed." God has new information, better information. Better

information means better decisions. This book is a map to the treasured

life God has for you. It's a treasure map. As you follow the

instructions of the Word, you find the treasured life God has for you.

He gives you His Spirit to unlock the mysteries in here. Here's the

problem, a lot of times we know we need help, we ask questions... well,

what do I do now? My marriage, raising kids, my new job, relationships,

people, economics, my friend betrayed me, my dad passed, I'm down, what

now? He has instructions for every area of your life. What if you knew

exactly what to do? Psalms 19:7 (NLT) "The instructions of the LORD are

perfect, reviving the soul. The decrees of the LORD are trustworthy,

making wise the simple." Here's the problem, sometimes life finds itself

in a crisis because we were following the wrong instructions, or no

instructions. A life can be transformed with new information! My big

battle is often debt. I want it now, and I don't want to wait. God has a

better way for every area of your life, and His intention is to give you

the best life possible.

Today I want to talk to you about the transforming power

of God that is unlocked through meditating on it. Joshua 1:8 (NKJV),

"This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall

MEDITATE in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to

all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous,

and then you will have good success."

Today I want to talk to you about Transformation through

Grace. The Word of God works in us to conform us more and more into the

image of the son. The Word of God is a seed, packed with purpose, power,

and principle. When it catches life in our heart, boom, stuff happens.

The Word came to Samson's mom she would conceive a son. Boom, she does

and the fruit of this son was freedom from the Philistines. You see, the

Word works to free you, to free others. The Word comes to Mary in Luke

1:30-31 (KJV), But the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary; you

have found GRACE with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son,

and you are to call him Jesus." Look at the defining characteristic of

the womb that would germinate the seed planted.

March 4, 2018

"How I long to be with you so that I might impart some

spiritual gift to you..." (Romans 1:11) - something magical happens in

the gathering, something God designed to be a routine, once a week, a

place you would come. Ezekiel 46:9-10 (KJV) "But when the people of the

land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that entereth

in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of

the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall

go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of

the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it. And the

prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they

go forth, shall go forth." It's a picture of the transforming house of

God. God forbid them to leave the same way they came

in.