Your Church Can Touch the World [Audio]

The first step for your local church to touch the world is to believe that it can. Faith is the key that unlocks all the blessings on God, including success in ministry. God has a bigger vision for your church that you do! He sent Jesus to open the door to reach the nations through you! He has plans that are beyond your wildest dreams. Catch the vision of God in your spirit so that you can run with it. Isaiah 54 speaks to this vision. Your eyes may be upon your abilities, your budget, your past experiences, or the number of people that are setting in your sanctuary each Sunday morning. But God sees the potential that is there because of your relationship with Him. “SING, O barren one, you who did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child! For the <spiritual> children of the desolate one will be more than the children of the married wife, says the Lord. Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; spare not; lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes, For you will spread abroad to the right hand and to the left; and your offspring will possess the nations and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.” Isaiah 54:1-3, Amplified. In this podcast you will learn: * The spiritual application of enlarging your tent. * How small thinking throttles down your ability to reach others * That your past is not an accurate representation of your future. * How hearing God’s voice is essential to fulfilling your mission. God has awesome things planned for you and your church. We are praying that you will fulfill your destiny and that your church will touch the world. God bless you! Sermon  Notes: Your Church Can Touch the World Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD. Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; (Isaiah 54:1-2, KJV). lengthen—expansion of the Gospel (Mk. 16:15 strengthen—building up of the church (Eph 4:11-12) MAIN THOUGHT: Get rid of small thinking and religioius [thinking which keeps you from flowing in God’s best as the body of Christ. Things that keep us back: Religious tradition, Control Systems, Small thinking , Fear THE LOCAL CHURCH is called to be a training center to terrorize the devil, a strategic war base to invade society, an operations center for world missions. Every church is called to be a missions organization to reach their area and to reach the world. We must renew our minds, in order to fulfill our destiny as the people of God. As Christians, our main problem in many areas is that we are more religiously brainwashed than biblically taught. Let make up our mind to be biblically taught and receive the truth of God’s Word. WE NEED A SPIRIT OF FAITH Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. (Mark 9:23, KJV). For with God nothing shall be impossible. (Luke 1:37, KJV). For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. (Hebrews 4:2, KJV). When God gives a vision, we must run with it. . . And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper. (2 Chronicles 20:20, KJV). We must believe not only the promises that are given us in the Bible, but also the promises given to us by the Spirit.