Change Your World Pt. 6 - Create Church

Bob Beaudine

4 minute read

In a transactional world, it is all about knowing the right things to get ahead. I want to give you two quotes to help you not only get ahead in this transactional world, but also to help you live a transformational life. The first quote is kind of a warning; we have to be wise. The second quote is a promise.

The first quote is so good:

“My people perish, for lack of knowledge.”

-Hosea 4:6

When we look at successful people, the top 1% of the country, we can see that they do everything differently than we do. So often we’re told that we have to work our way up on our own merit, by our own power. When I look at successful people, I see that they work within their communities. They do everything with their friends and family, meanwhile we wait with the masses in line. The world doesn’t tell you that you have a personal relationship with the King, even though that knowledge changes everything! That’s what we got to understand.

That first quote is good, but personally I think the second is even better: ’

“‘For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

-Jerimiah 29:11

What knowledge is God sharing in this verse?. Firstly, when God has a plan, He declares it to you. Well, that’s a good thought, but how would He do that? This might sound so simple, but we have to talk to Him about it. We have that personal access to Him as our king. I know about Abraham Lincoln. I know about Martin Luther King, but I don’t know either of them because I’ve never met them. We can know God. We can meet with Him because He called the meeting. Think of it this way:

There are two chairs. You’re in one, and you think the other one is empty, but it’s not. God’s there, and He wants to talk to you. The enemy is going to try and create a whole bunch of clamor and noise to drown out the voice of the Lord. Listen, your thoughts are not all your thoughts. That’s a revelation. Some of those thoughts are not meant to spend all day in our head. That’s called “knowledge.” When those thoughts sink eighteen inches down to your heart, that’s when you have “faith.” Faith is so much stronger than knowledge, but even beliefs and faith can change. You want to know what keeps faith from ever wavering? When you have an experience, when you see your faith worked out, that’s when it really sticks.

Now listen, how many people want to sit in the morning with a king who knows your name? Try sitting with Him for five minutes. When you do this five minutes a day, you begin the process of living a transformational life. That’s a game changer because you’re either living a transactional or transformational life. We want to be transformational. We have died. Christ lives in us now, and we’re seated in heavenly places. I can’t wait to be seated there. I’ll get to see someone that I truly miss. I haven’t thanked you all enough. Thank you to each and every one of you for praying for my grandson, Bo. Why? There was such a unity that there wasn’t anything that the apostles had in the upper room that we didn’t have. God’s not done with the story. And when all of a sudden our hero gave his life so that three kids would live.

I want to leave you with this thought. God is so big. He has plans for us to prosper, even when we love those who are so precious and dear. Grief is real. Sorrow is real. Hardships are real. Despite those hardships, God will transform that pain into plans to prosper. Now THAT’S what a TRANSFORMATIONAL life is!