Mack Sanders

About me:

Hello everyone, i would first like to take this time out to wish everybody a happy new year and not just a happy one, but a blessed one. Um, so in this hour of living i have been thinking a lot lately about my life and how i want it to be so much more than what it is now. So as i continued to think about this thing i then began to think about the many things i was doing and the outcomes that they were giving me. I began to think about all the ministries i have ever been apart of. I began to think of all the nice things that I have said to people. I began to think of all the nice gestures I have done,and then it hit me. Its nice to do nice things for people and be apart of every ministry in your church and so forth and so forth, but if there is no God present when you do any of those things they turn out to be just what they are "things" and not works of the Lord. Towards the end of 08' i started to hear a lot about what 09' was going to be like for the saints. I heard a lot of "This is the year of OVERFLOW", and "In this year we will reach the FULLNESS of what God has for us" and "This is the year that the MANIFESTATION of the things we labored for happens". And this is all very true, but we cant expect to receive any type of rewards for the labor that we do if there is no labor being done. And no longer is it time for being "busy" in labor, but it about being "effective" in our labor. For truly anyone can get up and preach a sermon, but when that sermon is done and if it wasn't effective then no one is being touched and nothing is being solved. So now the thought that began to run through my head was well first how do i become effective and in order to become something i first need to know what it is. So I looked up the definition of effective and i got several. Effective: 1. adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result 2. actually in operation or in force; functioning 3. producing a deep or vivid impression; striking 4. prepared and available for service 5. a member of the armed forces fit for duty or active service. 6. the effective total of a military force. Now after reading the six definitions there was one that stuck out to me the most and that was the fifth one which says, "a member of the armed forces fit for a duty or active service." So now i'm sitting here and i'm thinking did this definition really just say what i think it did. We in this hour need to realize that it is no longer is about us and actually it was never about us it was all about God and the spread of his glory in our lives. That is why within the year of 08' we had to deal with so much whether it was mental, emotional, spiritual or whatever cause with us being called into "The Lord's army" he had to make sure that we were fit and ready for the duty at hand. Okay, so now i know what effective means but how do i become effective is the next thought that pops into my head. And then I start to think on the beginning part of 2 Chronicles 7:14 which i know is cliche but its the word of The Lord and is oh so true, and it reads "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways..."we can not expect to be effective doing any and every kind of thing that we want to do and then come into the presence of God's people and think the are going to be receptive to what it is that you have to say. We have to become pure, we have to become holy. We cant go around doing these things of the world and then come stand to a mic or behind a podium or pick up a pen to write and just expect God to use you. ERROR!!! He is looking for a clean vessel to dwell in not some run down shack. So basically what i'm trying to say is this year is let not then your good be evil spoken of. Let us not do all this busy "so-called" ministry and there be no effective outcome from it. Let us stop holding these musicals where God is not even present and we fake the funk like HE is there and instead of leaving with the one and only true God we are leaving with instead every Tom, Dick, and Harry...Lucy, Mae or Joan. These events are supposed to be times when the saints, the levites get together and left up the name of The Lord with our gifts. Instead of that happening we are whoring what it is that God has given us and using it to bring ourselves fame instead of bringing people into the kingdom. And please don't get it confused that's not the only matter of error that's going on that needs to be fixed that's just something that I see closely with me singing on choirs. On this here January 1, 2009 lets just take the time out to reflect on our lives and ask God what is it that i'm doing that is keeping me from being effective in you. And if you stay open and be transparent unto HIM he will show you. And when he shows you its then your job to left that thing up to God and ask that he then takes that sinful nature away from you so that you can then go and do what he has called for you to do in HIS name. Ok peace and love everyone and I speak OVERFLOW, FULLNESS and MANIFESTATION to everyone that makes forth an effort to live EFFECTIVE!!! -Mack .. .. .. .. .. ....