Lord, Give Me My Mountain

Joshua 14:12 “Lord give me my mountain”

I would like to ask you a question; are you ambitious enough to go after you dreams, your blessing, the promises that God has spoken over your life?

Many people might say that having ambitions or being ambitious is being self-centered. Ambition means to have a dream, hope, a purpose and the determination, the drive, and the motivation to reach it. God has placed in each of us the desire to be better, to accomplish great things… whether it’s to raise children in a godly home, to have a successful career, to finish school, to have a strong and healthier marriage, or to grow in the Lord. Whatever the case may be we must understand that having ambitions is God given.

Often times the enemy cripples our ambition. I call it the “A.C”, the Ambition Crippler. The enemy to ambition is our past. Every time God shows you your future, what you can do and what you can become, the devil comes along and shows you your past, your failures, your faults. All of a sudden you become overwhelmed with a spirit of inadequacies and fear comes over you and leaves you paralyzed. Another day goes by, a week, a month, then a year and you find yourself in the same place.

This is what happened to the nation of Israel, they came to the place of their promise, or their blessing. God told them to go up and to possess the land, but instead of possessing their blessing, they ran because of what they saw. It wasn’t the giants that they saw that frightened them, it was how they saw themselves, and they said “We are like grasshoppers in our own sight”. Seeing themselves as being inadequate robbed them of the ambition to go forward.

But forty years later Joshua and Caleb stand with the nation of Israel at the same place of forty years earlier, looking at the their promise. Caleb has seen this place before and says with a loud voice, “Lord give me my mountain”. In other words, I have the ambition, the faith, the motivation to go into my promised land and possess my blessing. Without ambition you will never possess your dreams. So go for it! The Lord has already gone before you to make the way!

Pastor Daniel R. Grandberry….G.M… You Know!!!

Where will you be on Sunday Morning...God’s House or your house?

Where will you be on Sunday Morning...God’s House or your house?

The bible say’s in Hag. 1:4-9 “Is It time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled (house that is made of cedar wood, very costly material) and this house (The Lord’s House) go to waste. Now therefore thus saith the LORD of host; Consider your ways. You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but you have not enough; you drink, but ye are not filled with drink; you clothe yourself, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth to put it into a bag with holes. Thus saith the LORD of host; Consider your ways. Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD."

The point behind this chapter that the Lord was expressing to His people, and it speaks to us today, is to not neglect His house. At times we can be so busy making a living that we give little thought to what’s important to God. God is very concerned about His House and how we treat His House. The house of God is a place of refuge, healing, deliverance, worship, prayer, praise, service, ministering to the needs of all people and most importantly, a place where we come to hear the Word of God.

The house of God should never be ignored, neglected and treated as a last option. We must understand that if we want God to fulfill his promise for our lives and to glorify Him, we must Love what He Loves, and cherish what He cherishes. Therefore God ask us to do four things:

1. Consider our ways: to stop and think about our actions, our behavior, our attitudes and make a change.
2. Come up to the Mountain: a place of high aptitude, another level, to come up higher
3. Bring your wood: bring a sacrifice, resources, to put some wood in your hand.
4. Build the house: come with a spirit to work, serve, to roll your sleeves up and minister to someone.

See you Sunday Morning at God’s House…remember the fire of God’s presence will be there so bring your wood…

~Pastor Daniel R. Grandberry….G.M…You Know!

God's Recall Letter

God’s Recall Letter: 2 Peter 3:9

Just the other day the Japanese car maker Honda recalled almost one million cars after discovering issues in their computer system.

When the car companies mail out recall letters they are admitting that there are some serious problems with their product and if not corrected it can cause harm even up to the loss of life. Recall letters tells the owners to bring their vehicles back to the dealership for repairs.

But believe it or not there are those who disregard their recall letter and keep driving their cars even when the vehicle can stop, break down or cause an accident. God sends out recall letters to His people every day; it’s His Word. God’s recall letter is calling us to repentance. Listen to what He says in 2 Peter 3:9, “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us –ward, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance”.

This recall letters is sent out to the nations out of Love. It is because God loves us that He tells us not to keep driving through life with a defected product. Come into the Spiritual Dealership (House of God) to be healed, restored, and forgiven. God is not trying to stop us from driving but He doesn’t want us driving a defected product,He want us to reach our destination safely.

Pastor Daniel R. Grandberry

G.M...You Know!