9/21/2020 Faithful until the end! This is the Lord's expectation of you! (Prophetic Drive Time)

Finish the race. Be faithful until the end. 

There are so many people who are distracted by different things, and different times and different seasons. With each event, it causes people to stop and say, "What's going on and where am I with God?" With each event, people are tempted and they find themselves looking off their responsibility, looking away from what they are called to do and bringing into question their commission. But the Lord is saying to you, "Be faithful until the end."

When you don't allow the moments and situations to shift your focus, it keeps you on target, it keeps you on course, on path to achieving, to arriving, to doing the things God called you to do. 

Stop being concerned with everything that is going on around you. You have to know that you are in this world but not of this world. And it very important for you to know that whatever assignment God has given you, your requirement or God's expectation of you is to be faithful over the thing that He has given you until the end. 

We're subtly programmed to think that every time a situation arrives, then all of a sudden it augments what God has spoken, the first thing we bring into question is what God has spoken. We have to disavow ourselves from this ungodly, pollution of an idea and a notion. We are responsible which means I don't care if it's all falling down around you, God's expectation of you is to be faithful until the end. Faithful in your belief, that Jesus is who He says He is, that He is the author and finisher of your faith, He is your salvation, the key to your salvation. 

DIE BELIEVING.

If we are the ones chosen to be here when the Lord arrives, when He shows up, He made this statement here: 
Luke 18:8
I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?

Faith is an action. Will He find the action of faith permeating the atmosphere? Or will people be so lukewarm, so broken by what they see, so enamored by their own situations that they have lost connection to what God has spoken?

A lot of people got a lot of things to say about what Jesus is looking for. But Jesus will tell you, When I come, you know what I'm looking for - faith. I wanna see it in action, I wanna see it in your belief in Me. I wanna see it in your belief to heal your body, I wanna see it in your belief to stay faithful to Me, while they're changing laws and doing all these things, I wanna see it in action. 

-The story of when angel Gabriel come to visit Zacharias and Elizabeth-

Luke 1:12-17

And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him.

But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John. And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb. And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

The Lord is saying for you, there are some of you that the Lord is talking to you about something very dramatic, something very life changing, something that is so far beyond you and you have been struggling at the preponderance, weight or size of the Lord's communication to you. You're like, "Could God really do it?" You find yourself a little intimidated by it. You kind of don't believe it. Reality is you're struggling to believe what God has said.  

The Lord says, He can't even tell you what He has planned for you right now. He's going to strengthen your faith little by little to be able to even take.

The Lord says, I have so much more for you but you can't even stomach it. You can't even take what I have to say to you, you would throw it up, you would just vomit it, you wouldn't be able to take the word. So the Lord's gonna feed you that gerber food until you're strong enough to handle. Some of you don't even know the significance of what God wants to do, willing to do, is able to do for your life right now. So you are snacking on the very morsels of words that are coming through, that God has given you but they have not even tapped into the full weight of what He wants to do for you, what He's able to do for you, what He's willing to do for you. You haven't even been able to knock on the door of the provisions that are assigned to you. You're not even in the hallway. You're not even in the room. It's one thing to collect treats being in the favor of God, being in the goodness of God, but it's another thing to knock on the door and see what God has in store for you. 

In this passage (Luke 1:12-17), Gabriel is giving the run down of what's gonna happen, showing Zacharias what's at the door. 

Luke 1:18 

And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.

This is the problem many people have is they look naturally to try to determine what God is able to do. But God don't care nothing about your age, bank account, about your natural conditions. Your natural situation is no limitation for God. He doesn't work by the constraints of your natural situations or environment. That's why He can take you out of the hood and put you in the palace, out of the pigpen and put you in leadership. There are so many people who are prophesying to themselves, opening their mouth and declaring what God can and cannot do based upon the natural limitations. Some of you have become your own worst false prophet. You have opened your mouth and limited God based upon your experience, your childhood, what you got going on around you, where you come from. You have lied. You have opened up your mouth and prophesied against your own self, your own destiny and what God is willing to do for your life. 

Luke 1:19

And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.

You struggling at a good thing that God's been. We're quick to grab some negative things but when God shows up talking about a good thing, we struggle at it. What is it about us that we can't take the goodness of God? Do you see how difficult it is for us to receive good from God? 

Luke 1:20

And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.

There was such an harsh response to his lack of faith, it's because the lack of faith is an abominable perspective in the Kingdom of God. With it, you can please God. Without it, God will cast you out. It's an absurdity in the Kingdom of heaven. It's offensive to the integrity, the righteousness, the holiness, the authority, the sovereignty, the might, the ability, the power of God. Gabriel was offended.

Some of us asks God for confirmation like Gideon. "Is this from You, Lord?" 

When your heart is for God and you have given yourself, God says, He's gonna make it hard for you who are submitted unto Him in this time frame to be misled. If it's not so, He's gonna tell you. If you're not going in the direction that God does not want you to go, He's going to tell you. He's not going to leave you subject anybody who is trusting in Him. God will not allow you to be destroyed. The Lord is saying, I'm not gonna to let your faith be turned over. All you have to do is seek Him. If you seek the Lord on any matter, He will not allow you to fail. 

Just be faithful until the end. You don't have to worry about any other thing. "My burden is easy and My yoke is light." Instead of worrying about every single situation that arises, just worry about being faithful. Your faithfulness will keep you in the right place and it's also going to be a format of protection for you. It's going to allow you to rest.