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Sound of Liberty
7286 Hwy 53 West
Dawsonville,
GA
30534
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Unity
Through Leadership
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by Ben Howard
Preached July 31, 1994
Message transcribed and edited
from audio tape #0539
I'll be reading in the fourth chapter of the Book
of Ephesians to begin our message. We are going to
read several scriptures on the thought, "Unity
Through Leadership." The Word of God speaks of
unity. In plain language, unity is believing the
same thing, looking at the same thing, going the
same way, having the same mind. Paul spoke of it in
1st Corinthians 1:10, "Let us have the same mind and
the same judgment." In the first chapter of the
Book of Romans when Paul spoke of unity he said,
"having a mutual faith."
Paul wrote about the Church coming to the unity
of the faith. Now when I say, "unity through
leadership," I believe God has some leadership in
the earth, apostolic leadership, and not only that
but I believe He has leadership in each one of you
through the Holy Ghost to lead you individually.
There will be a ministry preaching the Word of God
where all the preachers preach the same thing; one
won't preach it one way, and another preach it
another way. I'm talking about all that are in the
Bride; they'll recognize what God is doing and
they'll speak the Word the same way.
Let's pray before reading the Word. Heavenly
Fahter, in Jesus' name, we thank you now for another
privilege to come and stand before you, and praise
you, and thank you, Lord. As the song says, "I
didn't come to ask you for anything. I just came to
praise you." Oh, God, I pray that you will accept
our praise tonight, as we praise you, we honor you,
and we wait for the anointing of God. We are
craving the anointing of God to be upon us as we
speak the Word. God I pray that you will just help
us to do what you have ordained and to speak what
you have ordained to be spoken, and that you will
just make this Word come alive to us. We spoke last
week, Lord, about the washing of the water of the
Word, how the water moves, the liquidity of the
Word, how it washes and cleanses the Church. I
pray, God, that you will let that same Holy Spirit
just anoint us that we may receive from you, and
that we may be able to speak what we do receive.
Lord, I pray that the people be anointed to receive
that that you give. We praise you for it in Jesus'
name. Amen.
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