 This morning. I want to take a little bit of your time just to speak on a few things that I Think should be addressed and that everybody should be aware of and know how to approach it at this morning I just want to talk on the subject of you know Maintainants how to maintain the things that God has for you in your life Many of us in here in this place we work so hard For a certain thing in our lives yet once we receive it We do so little to maintain it Have you guys many I've seen people When they when they're sick the run to church and they begin to cry to God God heal me God heal me I'll do anything that you want me to do yet once they're healed You see them nowhere to be found in church Or when you see some people, you know when they're broke that have no money They begin they the crowded God, you know bless me with the job I'll I'll do everything into just out there desperate states once God begins to give him a job you never Ever against to see them in church and their excuses. I'm too busy. I have nothing else going on for me You know just I need to spend time with family this or that which is important But after God has blessed them they walk away From God the giver of that blessing and sooner or later you hear back from them and they no longer in The same position of blessing as when they received it so this morning I just want to talk a little bit and take of your time to talk about the principles the principle of Maintenance, how do we maintain the thing that God has for our life? We work so hard many times to fight for the good things We work so hard for we pray we battle but yet when we receive it We do not know how to hold on to it how to make it last for a lifetime Because this is the will of God the once God saves you the once God heals you one God's blesses you It is a blessing forever. God does not want to give you a temporary blessing God does not want to give you a temporary joy. That's not of Jesus Jesus. God is a God who is faithful He's the same yesterday today and forever. He speaks of consistency He does not speak of something that is just short the last just for a little bit He speaks and he talks about that when I want to give you something that it lasts a lifetime We've seen many people, you know today who were previous car owners are walking on their feet They're no longer they drive a car. They take a public transportation We've seen many people who had great businesses in the past today are working Just a minimum paying jobs We've seen many people today who had beautiful marriages today are divorced and they're single We cannot say that God did not bless them and they'd not give them a beautiful thing a nice thing But yet because people do not know how to maintain a blessing they begin to lose that good thing that God has for their lives We've seen a many happen to many people before God is a good God God is good And he blesses us. He gives us the things that we asked for but yet if we don't do our part to maintain that miracle That blessing is soon begin to leave our lives. I Want to there's this I was recently reading our Yahoo news. There's this NBA player David Harrison if you put up his picture he's played for Indiana Pacers He once was a in 2007 2008. No, I think back in the day He was a first-round pick for an NBA and he was destined for just greatness but according to Spears of Yahoo Sports the former University of Colorado Colorado standout was working at McDonald's restaurants to make ends meet as recently as two years ago Harrison made four point four million before taxes during the four seasons with Indiana Pacers and also played in China professionally for three seasons He said he said almost all the money is gone now at 32 without a college degree Harrison said he is having a hard time Finding a job and it is working at McDonald's currently as we speak Somebody who had I was at the peak of his career or somebody that was making millions of dollars today is working at a McDonald's Somebody where a 16 year old just getting out of high school supposed to be working just to to be able to to get up Somebody who had the great blessing in his life today is working at the lowest point of his life What is the cause of this downfall? What is the cause of people receiving the good things and yet not knowing how to maintain it? You know many people who even you know what a few many times in church It happens, you know a single guys, you know, they come to church and they meet a girl You know, they're like God. I'll stop talking to all them hundred girls. I'm just give me that one And it doesn't happen You know, and it's one of those things that they they asked for a great things from God Yet they do so little effort and they put in so little effort to maintain the miracle that God has for their lives So this one I want to just read the scripture and just point out a few things That we can learn from the stories from the Bible and take through principles to learn How can we maintain the blessing that God has for us? You know, even as a church, we have great things that God has in store for us How do we maintain the miracle that God has in store for us? We are praying for multitudes. We're praying for Hundreds we're praying for healed healings to happen praying for deliverance How do we contain the miracle that God has his future for us? Because God says that I am faithful whatever you ask you shall receive But when you receive it, how do we maintain it? So let's open to the book of Mark 10 if you have your Bibles verses 49 to 52 and it says so Jesus stood still and Commanding him to be called and thrown aside his garment. He rose and came to Jesus So Jesus answered and said to him, what do you want me to do for you the blind man said to him? Rabboni that I may receive my sight then Jesus said to him go your way Your faith has made you well and immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus on the road I want you to underline that last thing that said and Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus on the road What is this statement mean to you? What does it mean that blind but to marriage what if you do by? Follow Jesus along the road after you receive this healing. Is it that the blind man just wanted to be seen by others? Is it that the blind man wanted to show everybody the look, you know, I'm following Jesus. I'm sitting in the front row I'm praising Jesus, you know, I'm a I'm a good Christian guy. What was blind by to marriage trying to prove to us What secret the blind but to mayors knew that we can learn from him today Blind but to mayors understand that to receive a blessing is not as hard as to maintain it He understood that part. He knew the look anybody can receive a good thing, but not everybody can maintain it Not everybody can maintain it Anybody can go get a Mercedes Benz off dealer from from from the parking lot, but not everybody can afford the payments Everybody can receive a good health and many of us do have good health But not everybody can maintain good health Maintaining good health requires going to gym eating right Anybody can receive a good and happy relationship, but not everybody can maintain that We've seen it happening many times where God is faithful He gives us the things that we asked for but yet on our part. We have to do what is required to maintain it We find ourselves many times in the same position as blind by to mayors. We cry out Desperately we cry Jesus. How mercy and a son of son of David Immersions give us the thing that we're asking for we see that happening in our church many times people come and at the desperate stage They're like they either bound in drugs. They either have incurable disease and they just promise God heaven and earth But yet once they receive it They see they they they're not committed to church. They're not serious They they don't want to do nothing with church that for them to come to church is a mission is like hey Why weren't you at church? This one's a man. Everybody's pressured me feel so much pressure Two hours is a lot. You know, I'm tired. I need to clean my house pillows on the floor I just need to clean it takes me three hours to clean a pillow. There's just on the floor It is just so much pressure. Everybody wants me to become a leader. I don't know I just I can't handle this good life I want to go back and you know sooner or later you see them Going from the front to the second to the back to the baby to the baby's room and then after that They're gone. It's the truth. I'm saying the truth, right? That's that's how it happens because they feel like once at the desperate stage. They promise God heaven and earth Once receiving it they forget all about what they promise to God They have this good thing in their hands. They're holding it and they forget that They're they were they were asking God for the good thing and they begin to concentrate on the good thing instead of the giver of God-blessing that you asked for and one thing that we can realize from the Blind by Timaeus is the secret that he can tell us is that whatever that we have now Came from God and whatever that we'll have in the future will also come from him Anything and everything that you have right now in your possession. It is not yours. It came from God and Everything in the future that you will still receive is also coming from Jesus Christ One thing that we can know now another first point that we can write down is That we need to look beyond the blessing to the blessing provider We need to look beyond the blessing. We're asking God many times for you know for a home group I don't know what you're asking God for you every single person has a thing We're asking God for maybe asking for the good health. Maybe you're asking for a good marriage Maybe you're asking for promotion, but you have to look beyond that to the blessing provider the giver of the blessing We have to understand because we know in life It's not certain we do not know tomorrow by God does we know one thing about this life that it is uncertain We know that many times we have things and many times We don't have things when we begin to concentrate on the blessings we begin to cling to them hold on to them We begin to waiver we begin to go up and we begin to go down and blind but you may as the blind man Wants to teach us a lesson this morning that look beyond that The statement that we underlined this morning that he said that after his healing he followed Jesus along the road He did not follow Jesus so people can see all he's a good church boy Blind but you may as understood that I can chase the blessing or I can chase the blessing provider He understood that look what I gonna get right now is the blessing that site. I'm gonna get it right now He's gonna gonna give it to me. It's not mine But in the future I'll still need Jesus because there's more things to come and he's the one That's going to give it to me. Come on put your hands together for Jesus Christ In the in the Bible we see many heroes of faith that teaches the same lesson a great example is a life of Job He's his life modeled Concentrating on Jesus Christ who is the blessing provider at a time where he said he was the richest man on the holy He was most righteous Yet he looked beyond his possessions beyond his health beyond what he had because at a moment When tomorrow was not promised he got down on his knees and when he lost everything he said God Blessed be your name when his wife what challenged him said curse God and die You're losing everything. He said you speak as a foolish one because God was the same God who blessed us When we had nothing and God is going to be the same God who's gonna bless us We're gonna have everything blessed to be his name Look beyond the blessing look beyond of what you're looking for this morning Is it made me that deliverance that you're looking for? Begin to see God instead of the blessing begin to see God instead of the healing Begin to see God instead of the deliverance that you're looking for this morning a man church and Looking at the life of David and one thing when I was reading When Saul began when Saul begins to chase David begin wants to kill his life and because just destroy it Just jealousy in it and at a time where where David's men, you know said, you know You could David could kill Saul just wipe him out of this this earth and and David begins to say is it I will never raise my hand against the anointed one Basically, he's trying to say is look that God is in control and I'm not gonna go take the manners into my own hands God knows what he's doing. I'm gonna trust God even though I can solve this problem right now by myself But God is in control. I'm trusting God. I know I need protection. I know I need to be saved I know my kingdom was taken away from me, but I'm going to trust that God is in control I'm looking beyond my protection. I'm looking for to the one who gives that protection, which is Jesus Christ in my church We need to understand that today is ours But tomorrow belongs to God Today is ours what we do today It belongs to us, but tomorrow is not promised because God holds tomorrow in his hands We have to understand that since man was created by God's touch He will always and continually will need God's touch in order for him to exist We can never walk away from our creator We can never walk away from him because we always will need that we were created by his touch We'll always long that will crave that and the blessings that we receive they cannot replace it Men will always will have that craving for God's touch and many times blessings They get in the way and we begin to crave that we're gonna begin to want it But once we lose the blessing provider that blessing begins to turn from a blessing into a curse Once we lose the giver day of the healing that healing begins to turn from a healing into a sickness Because we lose the focus off the healing off the healing provider into the healing and this morning The blind wants to teach us a lesson look beyond the blood loom beyond the blessing and to Jesus Christ the giver of the blessing and my church number two make a choice to commit your life to the Holy Spirit Make a choice to commit your life to the Holy Spirit It's not a feeling but a choice a choice is never Determined on how you feel how circumstances are, but it's something that you choose It's it's something that you get up and say I'm going to do it no matter good times or bad times We have to every single person in this place. We have to make a choice as a matter of how tired I am It's a matter of how sick I am. It doesn't matter if I have abundance or if I am in need I'm going to commit my life to the Holy Spirit because Holy Spirit has made a choice that he will never leave us or Forsake us as a matter of we fall does a matter of we're sick or blessed Holy Spirit has made a choice for our lives That he'll never leave us or forsake us and that's the same choice We need to make this morning that if I'm doing good. I'm following God if I am not doing so good I'm still following God just recently. I I was making a H. I actually made a choice for it was a choice To start coming to morning prayer as a matter of I get two hours of sleep one hour sleep or if I get eight hours of sleep It was something that was hard for me to do because I was like I many times I came to morning prayer because if I felt that I was strong enough outcome and at times where I'm like, you know What if I'm not having as much strength? I'm gonna go in a little bit later and as Vladimir was preaching the message on consistency how God wants to bless us I was like, you know what doesn't matter how I feel if it's maybe two hours I'm making a choice to come every morning for morning prayer as a matter of how tired I am I'd rather sleep on this pew than be at home but I'll make a choice to commit to developing that relationship with Jesus Christ and To see my life how just even in the matter of days how God begins to bless how God begins to strengthen How God begins to give you wisdom and protection is just Undescribable and this is what happens when you commit your life to the Holy Spirit when you make a choice Regardless of what happens on the outside. I'm gonna stay committed to Jesus Christ Amen church and we see in The Bible we see in Luke 17 verses 11 through 19 when Jesus Christ heals the 10 lepers He he he prays for them they begin they heal and he says go show yourself to the priest and One person comes back and Jesus Christ asked this question. I never really paid attention to but he says where are the other nine? Because the first one he came back and says begins to worship God because to give him his praise begins to follow Jesus and Jesus like Where is the other nine? What happened with them didn't I hear all of them? He's trying to prove a point that it's like look you you you receive your blessing you walk away from me But you don't understand. I'm the one that gives you that blessing Where is the other nine? Jesus begins to emphasize that you cannot maintain that blessing without following me You cannot keep and hold on to the blessing unless you develop that relationship with the Holy Spirit Where you commit your life to him on a daily basis not just Wednesday two hours Not just Sunday two hours, but every day I make a choice. I am committing my life to the Holy Spirit Do all that we can to trust Do all that we can just to to rely on Jesus Christ to trust in him because he is the giver of all that we seek in for him and church Work as if everything depends on us and pray as if everything depends on God We do everything that we can on our part and the rest is left to God The rest is left to God God is the one that he said that I am faithful I'll give you that blessing But we ourselves have to put in that work have to put in that commitment Have to put in that trying just God. I'm making a choice that today. I'll be the best God today I'll spend time with you God today. I might be tired, but I'm still going to do it It's a choice that I am making regardless of what is happening around me If Satan loses no time Plotting against us how he can destroy us. We should lose no time in committing our lives to Jesus Christ We should lose no time in committing and just giving our lives to Jesus Christ because Satan is every day That's his desire the Bible says he walks around like a roaring lion seeking who can destroy He doesn't have a well. I'm not feeling today. Let me not destroy his life Any second that you just give him he just Destroy your life any second that you open the door to Satan. He's like, maybe I don't feel like destroyed Pablo today Maybe I don't feel like destroying noses today. Maybe I don't feel like giving them ax him No, the moment you open the door That's when the devil just steps in and destroys your life So Satan does not waste time in plotting on to destroying your life We should lose no time in committing our lives to Jesus Christ. Amen Church How many are you saying that this morning? I'll make a choice to commit my life to Holy Spirit put your hands together for Jesus Blind but the blind man teaches us a lesson this morning That he understood one thing that a lasting relationship with Jesus Christ is healing forever It is deliverance forever. It is blessing forever. It is having more than enough forever He's teaching us that lesson this morning. He's telling that look you have to have a lasting Relationship with Jesus Christ not an occasional visit to the church not just man. I'm not I don't know I'm just just hard times hard times. It's overrated in church today It's committing your life to Jesus Christ That's a lesson that we can learn from blind by Timaeus a lasting Relationship with Jesus Christ. He says he followed Jesus along the road. There is no turn back All the bridges burnt. There's no more. Oh, maybe if God meets my need then I'll do it There's no such thing as oh God if you bless me, I'll do it. No God You are my healer whether you heal me or not God you might deliver whether you deliver me or not God you are my savior whether you save me or not my long be my life belongs to you And there is no turning back in Jesus Almighty name put your hands together for Jesus To embrace the source of the blessing is far more important than a blessing itself to embrace the source of The blessings far more important the blessing itself because the blind man understood that once you lose the source The blessing itself will dry out Once you lose the source the blessing itself will dry out and we understand I mean dude leave me look at your iPhone. Don't charge that thing for like two hours that thing will dry you Well, we'll just dry you out like this. You won't know what to go about your life and everything else It's it's like that technology even proves itself to us and can teach us a lesson to look you need to connect to the power You need to stay connected regularly. I mean take away Cell phones from a young generation. We will go down the flames very fast Yet less we're talking about our relationship with God our Christianity Take away God from many of our lives and to some of us will be happy. Tell you truth. Oh Vladimir is not texting me for home group. Yeah, you know It's like he's not bothering me to edit that video. Come on life is good You know, it's like it feels like if you take away God from some of our lives life become better Which shows that you're not building your life with Jesus Christ on the right things The moment you begin to sense and you begin to know that there are people are pressuring me at church That means that you are concentrating on the blessing The moment you begin to understand. Oh, I have so much to do. Oh, I'm just Overloaded Vladimir. Don't give me another task because I can't handle it. I mean, I remember I remember I Told that to lad one time terrible thing to say I knew I'm like if I'm gonna tell Vladimir. I'm too busy. He's gonna like finish me on that one He did he said your priorities are wrong your priorities are wrong So even if I take off less things from you, you'll still find another thing to be busy at So it just developed a relationship with Jesus Christ May God your source and everything else will come in its way Blind but to me is teaches us a lesson follow Jesus along the road follow Jesus along the road amen church Number three obedience is better than sacrifice Obedience is better than sacrifice make God's word the standard for your life Once you follow Jesus Christ begin to begin to read God's word begin to meditate God's word Don't just begin to like oh, I'm right at chapter day. This is good begin to make it a part of you Read God's word as if your life depends on knowing it begin to develop that relationship with God in the mornings That's why we challenge every single person. We have morning prayers It is open sometimes as early as three in the morning four o'clock is the usual But as early as as four in the morning you can come you can pray you can just read the word you can meditate on God's word You can develop that relationship with Jesus Christ. God does not want anyone to receive a blessing or lose it It's better that you never receive it then receive it and know and to be known that you had it and you lost it it's always always it's like You know, if you know that you can't handle certain thing It's better that you never receive it then later on people's like oh, I remember you had that thing Haha, what happened to it? You're like it's a life, you know life hit me like a truck So it's it's better that we do not receive the blessing than to receive and to lose it It's better that me and many people even like you know talk about you know They do wish we were like when I was staying that year They wish they could live in America so they could have the things that though we have you know But many times we have the things that we have and we mismanage it we become even worse at it So how do we maintain that blessing? How do we walk with Jesus Christ develop that relationship with Jesus make God's word the standard for life? Amen church and number four and the least in the last point is give back to God give back to God and The how do we give back to God is love God with all your heart and love people Witnessing you know serving opening a home group has to be part of you has to be something that you want to do because That's how you maintain your miracle give him back to God as Rescuing people is inviting people to church if somebody is having a bad day. We we give him our love we give him our encouragement We help him out with money. We do anything that we can that's how we give back to God because that's how we know We can maintain our blessing We've seen many people who Jesus Christ has delivered they began to serve God afterwards They stayed alongside Jesus Christ to begin to serve Jesus because they know that in order for you to maintain the blessing You have to give back to God and to give him back to God is to do what matters to God the most is people Begin to witness begin to invite people begin to open a home group You say that I'm going to be a home group leader not because you know I want to put my picture on the board because you know everybody or the cool people are not bored No, because I want to maintain what God wants to give me maybe it's for you to be a doctor I don't know maybe for you is to just to be a husband But in order for you maintain the blessing whatever it is you need to give back to God Give back to God given in finances opening home groups Inviting people regularly to church that has to be your lifestyle because that is a lifestyle the maintains a Blessing that God has amen church. I want you to repeat after me say I need God. I Want you to say with faith I need God? more in blessing Then in poverty I need God more in freedom Then in budnach I need God More in supply Then in wants and I want to challenge you this morning I want to challenge you this morning stay true to Jesus Christ until the last moment Till you live stay true to Jesus doesn't matter good or bad until we're glorified at last with him We have to stay true