Stir Up The Gift

I want to say thank’s be to God, that there is still near the sheep a house of mercy, and grace and a pool that supplies every need, like Grace: which keeping from me what I don’t deserve and Mercy which allows me to get what I do deserve. ??As we look at this passage, we see that there was a multitude of impotent folks, feeble with sick diseases, without any strength. They were blind, halted and withered.

And my brothers and sisters it’s no different today, even in our own churches today across the land there are a multitude of impotent folk, weak, sickly, diseased, and powerless people.

Some are sick physically, some spiritually, some emotionally, some have sickness or weakness in their marriage, some are weak and feeble in their finances, some live on an emotional roller coaster, some are sick with fear and worry and anxieties.

Most of them have the hope that one of these days somehow, someway, God is going to move in their lives and it will all turn around miraculously, and there are many who are still waiting for the moving of the water today. There are multitudes who are waiting, they are waiting for the next great revival, The next great move of God. They are waiting for God to do something. But, the fact of the matter is that sometimes, in our waiting that we have to stir the water for ourselves, while we’re waiting on the water to be stirred, God is waiting on us to stir the water.??2nd Tim 1:6 says “Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. Sometimes we have to stir it up, get it moving, agitate things a little bit, (stir up the anointing, stir up our faith).

What God is looking for is some good old Holy Ghost agitators, someone that is going to help the Spirit of God to move in our life, the life of the church, and the life of God’s people. And may I tell you that if the Spirit is to be moving anywhere, it ought to be moving here in Praise Tabernacle. Because Praise is what we do. (Pause)

For those of you who knows how to bar-b-que will know that when it seems like your fire is about to go out, you can stir up the hot coals or embers underneath the ashes, and when the air comes across those embers they come alive again and rekindle your fire.

?And I believe that somebody this morning needs is a fresh wind from heaven, the wind of the Holy ghost needs to blow over our souls again. I’m sorry, let me speak for myself, I don’t know about anybody else, but I need the winds from heaven to blow over my soul and I need the fire of God stirred up in me. And allow me to remind you that wind and the fire always go together.

?To prove my argument, in Acts 2:1-3 it say “And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. Look at what happened. First, the wind filled the house, and then the cloven tongues of fire, and then they were all-filled with the Holy Ghost. Tell your neighbor. It’s time to wake up, shake up, whip up, and stir up the anointing ??The word Stir means to agitate, disturb, disrupt move, and shift. The two words put together "stir up" also means to keep blazing and to keep the flame of the fire burning.

But it can also mean to rekindle and to re-stir the flame, which indicates that the flame was about to go out. Which is what it meant here?

Because as we look here we see that there was no doubt Timothy facing what we sometimes face: he was facing times when he needed to be re-stirred, restored and rekindled. He was facing some disappointments, he was facing some sorrows, he was facing some depression, heartaches, let downs, some regrets, troubles, grief and some pains. But I want to share with you this morning, that in your time of adversity, that there are a few things that I want to suggest to you that will keep your fire burning.  

And the first thing you need to do is, stir up the gift of God in you. What is the "gift of God"? Your spiritual gifts, your natural gifts which the Holy Spirit gives to every believer to equip them, and to help them to be able to minister to others.