Called to be Compassionate
In those days, the multitude being very great and having nothing to eat, Jesus
called His disciples to Him and said to them, 2 “I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now continued with Me three days and have nothing to eat. Mark
8:1, 2
Introduction
Ministering to God’s people calls for compassion
Sodzo style ministry has compassion as its root
Messianic arrival: Gushing forth of the mercies of God
Sodzo: Forgiveness & Deliverance
1) Service of Compassion; 2) Crux of
Compassion; 3) Consequence of Compassion
1) Service of Compassion
God doesn’t use us based on:
What we possess
Our level of importance
Our personal Prestige
Our compulsive perfectionism and attention to detail
Only one prevailing reason God uses us:
We’ve touched God/He’s touched us
There is a hard and fast relationship between the reign of God being reestablished on planet earth and the Messiah’s work and attitude.
Jesus’ identity is bound to His expression of Kindness: “I am willing. Be clean. Then Jesus said to him, ‘See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift Moses commanded, as a testimony to them (Matthew 8:4).’” These words followed a leper’s desperate plea for help. This resulted in a random act of the kindness, expressed as compassion.
Spiritual gifts are good things
We need to pursue them
They help us to minister more effectively
Some means of ministry that are outside of the box
Example: The purpose of pain
2) Crux of Compassion
Pain is a bummer. Its presence means we hurt. Shows us something is wrong. When used correctly: Pain is a powerful tool in the Masters hands. Redemptively: pain allows anointing to flow & our greatest ministry to occur out of our places of pain. Luke 22:44 speaks of pains anointing, and being in agony, He prayed more earnestly, then His sweat became like great drops of blood. It connects with the disappointment and pain of Golgotha. Compassion allows us to enter into the pain of others. Strategically it is the point of entry.
It also connects with Matthew 27:27-32, Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole garrison around Him. 28 And they stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him. 29 When they had twisted a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand. And they bowed the knee before Him and mocked Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 30 Then they spat on Him, and took the reed and struck Him on the head. 31 And when they had mocked Him, they took the robe off Him, put His own clothes on Him, and led Him away to be crucified. 32 Now as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. Him they compelled to bear His cross
Pain leads to a intercessory anointing
There is a significant relationship between the miracles and the Messiah’s identity. Jesus healed the paralytic’s sickness to prove that He could solve the man’s bigger problem of sin. Why was this important? Healing and forgiveness are inter-connected: sodzo. It’s important for us to remember that while we
were out living selfishly for ourselves, Jesus died to redeem us.
Ministering to God’s people calls for compassion. Sodzo style ministry has compassion as its root. Messianic arrival: Gushing forth of the mercies of God. Sodzo: Forgiveness & Deliverance.
This is a significant biblical concept. This is why the enemy uses pain also. Its’ why sodzo ministry is so important. Sodzo shuts the door/keeps out the…
We could also call this a ministry of Identification: Isaiah 52:13-53:12. Why is this important? Inner vows, hardness of heart, abuse, bitterness, grief: all can numb us. Sins consequence can be a lack of feeling, leprosy is the example here. Sodzos intercessory anointing allows us to engage in others feelings. Absorption/release-breath in/out.
Significant concept/part of humanity the enemy uses this also
3) Consequence of Compassion
This is the basis of Philippians 3:10 fellowship of His sufferings ministry, that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being
conformed to His death
Here’s something you can bank your life on: God doesn’t give up on us. Look at Jeremiah 18:1-4: “The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words. Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.”
Think about Jeremiahs title: he was known as the Weeping Prophet: Why? He felt God’s/peoples pain. We pray & sing open the eyes of my heart Lord… this is
how it’s done! Using Gods eyes to look through the windows of His house. Be willing to feel pain and to fail: It’s a key to moving in the anointing.
He felt God’s/peoples pain
We pray & sing open the eyes of my heart Lord… this is how its done
Using Gods eyes to look through the windows of His house
Be willing to feel pain: It’s a key to moving in the anointing
Conclusion
Look for the way God is flowing to move
Out of Pain: fellowship from fellowship
Out of tangible manifest presence
No feeling but a word
Possessing a distinct anointing/Cup bearers
Obedience to Scripture
Society: Thomas Edison, Sir Walter Scott, Wright Brothers and Walt Disney: All were
considered failures before they went on to success. People who fail in life
live with good company-Bible: Moses, David, and Peter. Look at Scripture: Moses
was a slave hiding from justice: used by God to deliver a nation. There’s a
story of a woman who failed in marriage 7 times, God used her to reach her
entire city. God took a crooked tax collector & made him an Apostle &
biographer of Christ. The point is: God can do the same in our lives if we let
him.
