Are you in a season of waiting? Feeling stuck between your calling and your breakthrough?
“God is not punishing you—He’s preparing you!” – Jeremiah Johnson
In this powerful and raw message, we dive deep into the process between anointing and appointing—the journey that God takes us through to refine us, shape our character, and prepare us for His ultimate purpose.
Key Takeaways from this Message:
✅ The difference between being called, consecrated, and commissioned
✅ Why the wilderness season is necessary for spiritual growth
✅ How to stand firm in God’s goodness even in trials
✅ The truth about prophetic training—rejection, testing, and refining
✅ Why God is raising up shining stars, not shooting stars
Through personal testimonies of faith, struggle, and perseverance—including battles with family crises, mental illness, financial hardships, and the supernatural provision of God—this message will challenge and inspire you to trust God through every season of your life.
- Jeremiah 1:5 – Called from the womb
- Matthew 22:14 – Many are called, but few are chosen
- Romans 8:28 – God works all things for good
- Galatians 1 – Paul’s time in the wilderness
- Genesis 50:20 – What the enemy meant for evil, God uses for good
Your anointing is real, but the process to appointment is vital! Stay faithful, stay ready, and trust in God’s perfect timing.
The good news today is that Peter and John are coming to church! Peter represents faith and power; John represents love and intimacy. I want to prophesy to you—when I say Peter and John are coming to church, what I mean is that faith and power, intimacy and love, are coming for a generation that has been crippled by religion. And the word of the Lord is: Rise up and walk! I felt it when I stepped on this property today—that The Roads Church has a mandate from heaven to speak to this! Oh, I feel the Holy Ghost! To speak to this region and say, “Rise up and walk!” You’ve been in routine. You’ve been going through the motions. You once served the devil wildly, but I want to invite you into New Testament Christianity. I want to invite you into revival. I want to invite you to say “Yes!” to Jesus.
Luke 2:27, Luke 2:47, Matthew 21:12, Acts 2:42-47, Acts 3
The early church was committed to steadfastly continue in prayer.
So, if we as a church today believe that we should pray, then what keeps us from praying?
– WE DON’T KNOW HOW.
Prayer can be taught & learned. Jesus taught His disciples to pray.
– WE CAN BE LAZY.
Not wanting to put in the time & effort.
– WE WANT TO BE INDEPENDENT.
Pride won’t pray, it doesn’t need God. Humility prays, it’s dependent on God.
– WE THINK IT DOESN’T MATTER OR MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
Active, working & functioning prayer – it gets the job done!
Keep praying! It matters! It makes a difference! Our prayers are filling the golden bowls in heaven. The goal in prayer is to align our hearts with God and to know what to pray.
“Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.” JAMES 5:16-18
Acts 2:40-47, Luke 18:24, Luke 22:45-46, James 5:16-18, Revelation 8:1-5
Prayer came first. Then 3,000 souls were added.
Prayer makes a way! It is the plow in the ground that comes before everything that God wants to do in the earth.
Jesus instructs us –
ASK and KEEP ASKING,
SEEK and KEEP SEEKING,
KNOCK and KEEP KNOCKING.
God is GOOD, and gives good things to those who ask Him. We must not quit. We must keep praying.
“These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.” Acts 1 : 14 NKJV
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!” Matt 7 : 7 – 11 NKJV
Luke 1:5-20, Acts 2:40-47, Acts 1:14, Matthew 7:7-11, Luke 1:5-10
What did the first church in Acts 2 think was important? SOULS
God doesn’t just want people who attend and sit in a church, looking for an outward touch, with no inward change. HE WANTS SOULS! Those that receive and believe. Those are the ones added to the Church. The ones being saved.
And the purpose of the Church is to link people together with Jesus, and continue to grow in Him based on the 4 Pillars of the Church:
1) Apostle’s Doctrine – didachē – Instruction, teaching
2) Fellowship – kŏinōnia – Close mutual relationships and involvement
3) Breaking of Bread
4) Prayers – prŏsĕuchē – To speak to God
“Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.” Acts 2:41
Acts 2:40-47, John 3:3-6, Ephesians 4:11-16, 2 Corinthians 5:17