SERMON NOTES: November 1st 2020

Speaker:Apostle Dr Lucille Baird Theme: Text: Isaiah 40: 28-31

28 Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
29 He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
30 Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
31 but those who hope in the Lord
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.

It’s not your end it’s just the beginning

You have been through your metamorphosis but you are now emerging as a beautiful butterfly.

Don’t write off a person who is going through the process. Eventually like the eagle his feathers will grow back. And they will rise to a majestic level. It’s time for elevation.

Like Samson his hair started to grow back and he positioned himself and he was revenged of his enemies. They took Samson’s eyes but his hair grew back. In that one day he killed more that one day than his entire life. They mocked and jeered him but it was too late his hair had grown back.

There are some people you have to pluck out of your life. In order to fly the eagle has to remove the dead feathers. God wants to give you new feathers but unless you remove the old ones there is no room for the new blessings.

You have to wait during the process, but those who wait on the Lord will renew their strength. Not might but WILL , they shall be refreshed. But they have to wait.

When the eagle does her first flight she flies toward the sun. When God elevates you go to the Son on God and fulfill your purpose.
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

This is time for a new beginning . It’s NOT time to retire but re-fire.

Blessing Sunday:

Deuteronomy 28:1-14

Blessings for Obedience
1 If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. 2 All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God:
3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.
4 The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
5 Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.
6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
7 The Lord will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.
8 The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.
9 The Lord will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the Lord your God and walk in obedience to him. 10 Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they will fear you. 11 The Lord will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground—in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.
12 The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. 13 The Lord will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the Lord your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. 14 Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them.