Straight Talk with Mark Jobe

When your inner being is not being satisfied by the truth of God, then your natural cravings become stronger because your inner being is hungrier.

I believe there’s an even more ominous identity theft that’s taking place. Much more dangerous, much more powerful, with much more destructive results, and that’s spiritual identity theft

You have something to give. Do not allow yourself to be caught into a cycle of I need, I need, I need. You have something to give. You can contribute. And the moment that you get up and start contributing. The moment that you start giving is the moment that you’ll start discovering that God can use you as well.

You need to be proactive. And you need to come with this mentality. You need to come asking yourself: where can I sow a seed of friendship? You need to come to church saying, How can I meet a need? How can I encourage someone? How can I reach out to someone?

All of us have areas of scarcity and abundance in our life. So if you look at your life right now and ask yourself this question, in what area of my life am I suffering scarcity in?”

Life is found in the seed, and the seed is the precursor to life and fruitfulness. Whatever there are a lot of seeds of, you will eventually have a harvest of. Where you have no seeds of something, you will have no harvest of something.

The greatest principle of breaking out of isolation and a need mentality is that you take initiative to reach out even in your need and meet somebody else's need, and that’s biblical.

What happens when you start feeling isolated and lonely is you start looking at your own needs and feeling like you are a lonely individual and that it’s up to other people to meet those needs. What happens when you start developing that mentality is you go from being a someone that can contribute to someone that is a consumer. You move from someone that has something to give to be someone that simply needs in your life. In this message Pastor Mark give the greatest principle about breaking out of isolation.

Takes a degree of humility to humble ourselves before God as we worship in the presence of others.

The right attitude towards worship can lead to great fruitfulness and the wrong attitude toward great barreness.