Greatness is Your Destiny

“Greatness Is Your Destiny

There are plenty of males in the world today who are content to slide through life, never making any waves in the world around them. Responsibility, leadership, and initiative are foreign concepts to them. And the world is suffering for it.

Our world is falling apart, not from the lack of males but for the lack of men. Real men. Kingdom men. Men who recognize that God has uniquely endowed them with the capacity and destiny for greatness. A kingdom man understands and loves this. He doesn’t run from responsibility; he runs toward it. This is the kind of man the world needs.

But the world isn’t the only one crying out for kingdom men. God is too. He’s looking for men who are willing to fully align themselves under His comprehensive rule. When they submit to His authority as their Lord, they are then willing to lead their families, businesses, and churches well. When a kingdom man shows up, everyone in his sphere of influence is affected for the better.

The time for the return of kingdom men has never been more critical. Our families need them. Our neighborhoods need them. “Our churches need them. Our world needs them.

This study is the launching pad for that kind of man—the man you always suspected you might be. Over the next six weeks you will discover what a kingdom man is and the incredible responsibility God has given to him. You’ll be challenged to live and do things you never before thought possible. And best of all, you’ll learn the biggest advocate for your becoming this kind of man is God Himself.

If you’re ready for the greatness God has destined you for, read on. It’s time for kingdom men to stand up and be counted.”

“Here’s How It Works

This study includes both individual and group study. The best way to understand how to be a kingdom man is to engage in individual, daily devotions and to participate in a Bible-study group that includes video teaching and discussion.

Each week’s study begins with a suggested process for a group experience. Each group session should follow this general outline.

• “Get Started.” Each week will begin with a brief time of discussion that helps you and your group get to know one another better and discuss what the Lord has been teaching you during the previous week.”

“• “Man Up.” Your group will watch a 30-minute teaching segment on DVD while completing the viewer guide provided in each group experience. Next your group will follow the suggested questions to discuss the truths presented on the DVD. Then you will close with prayer.

• “Hit the Streets.” Each week’s group experience wraps up with a key verse of Scripture to memorize and specific challenges to tackle as you learn more about the tools God has given you for living as a kingdom man.

The teaching segment and discussion will provide a foundation for your individual study throughout the next week. Each day you’ll read a devotion that fleshes out the Scriptures and ideas presented in your group. You’ll also complete personal learning activities that will help you apply the principles of biblical manhood. The next week you’ll come back to your group ready to begin another discussion based on the individual work you’ve done.”

“Throughout these six sessions you’ll find yourself wanting things you never wanted, knowing things about yourself you never knew, and tackling obstacles you never imagined. I pray that these biblical truths about the man God has destined you to be will work their way deeply into your heart and that your family, workplace, church, and community will feel the influence of a man who’s on fire for the kingdom of God.

Let’s get to work.”

Excerpt From

Kingdom Man (Member Book)

Tony Evans

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/kingdom-man-member-book/id1041134779?mt=11

Men Get Dress put on your War Clothes

Many times as men we are distracted by stuff that really doesn’t matter. We know more about Sports than we do the things or the Word of God and the Concerns of our families. We are more likely to have on a Football Jersey than we are the Armor of God. When the opposing football team arrives we proudly express and display our team but when the real enemy of our Soul shows up he finds us unprepared and unarmed.  

It is time that the men of God realize that we are in a war greater than the one fought on the football gridiron and this war is not for a earthly trophy but it is a battle for our life and the lives of our families. 

Men Suit up and Fight 

“In conclusion, be strong in the Lord [draw your strength from Him and be empowered through your union with Him] and in the power of His [boundless] might. Put on the full armor of God [for His precepts are like the splendid armor of a heavily-armed soldier], so that you may be able to [successfully] stand up against all the schemes and the strategies and the deceits of the devil.”

‭‭EPHESIANS‬ ‭6:10-11‬ ‭AMP‬‬

http://bible.com/1588/eph.6.10-11.amp

You Can’t do It All

Often times as Husbands we feel like we need to have all the answers and that we need to be the pillar of strength at all times. The burden of this weight can destroy the inner man.  We need to realize some things are bigger than we are and sometimes we need help. When you feel overwhelmed reach out to one of the brothers.  And if you cry that does not make you less than a man because in Scripture Jesus Wept and so can you.  

Learn from your mistakes, don’t run from them

“Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.”

‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭12:1‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Some men hate to admit they are wrong.  When the make mistakes they get loud and unruly to try to cover up their error. A wise man is one that is willing to accept correction and hunble himself but a foolish rejects correction and remains a fool.  

Pastor Joe

Forgiven

In marriage chances are good that something will be done that will offend or hurt you. One things that we must keep in mind is that all has sin and come short of the glory of God, that even includes your spouse. Just as we all need to be forgiven we all also need to forgive. Holding something over your spouses head just so you can have the upper hand is not the will of God. Getting even with your spouse for their failures will hinder your freedom. Today is a good day to let things go!

“But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.”

‭‭Mark‬ ‭11:26‬ ‭KJV‬‬

God Does not Pick Sides

Often in Marriage we feel that God picks our side in disagreements 

Maybe we go to church and our spouse does not 

Maybe our past is not as bad as our spouses 

Maybe we know all the right Christian statements to make 

Maybe we think we are just a better person than our spouse

God does not side with us because we think we are good 

As a matter of fact God does not pick the side of humans- It is humans that must pick the side of God- Blessing come when we are in alignment with the will of God 

We must learn how to rely on the Word of God so we can know the will of God so that we can be in alignment with God. 

When you and I start judging our spouse we often get a critical eye and before you know if we are out of the will of God but we don’t know if because in our own eyes we are better than our spouse so we feel God is now on our side. Not knowing we have fallen into correction.

Stop trying to make God decide between you and your spouse, instead you decide between your will and God’s

The easy way out

“And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it. Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan. And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.”

‭‭Numbers‬ ‭13:27-30‬ ‭KJV‬‬

One of the first question I ask any couple now before I perform their weddding ceremony is “ Are you sure this is the person that God wants you to marrry”. The reason for this question is to give them peace when they face the Giants( Large Issues) in marriage. The children of Israel had been promised the land of Canaan by God, but the forgot the promises once they saw how big the inhabitants of the land were. How many times do we forget the promises of God for our marriage when the opposition to the marriage seems greater than the opportunity to be happily married. 

Quitting should not be the option, unless there was infidelity in the marriage and even then we should go to God in prayer before we just up and leave. Many couples never see the Milk and Honey of marriage because the check out once the see the giants. 

Apply faith to your marriage and watch what God can do!