Jody Romero leads a vibrant, diverse church in Los Angeles, Ca. He, Vanessa and their 3 children planted out of a relating church in 2009 to return to their hometown, "The City of Angels". Contrary to it's name Los Angeles is a broken city. But through the power of the Gospel and the spirit of God, in their togetherness they are witnessing many SALVATIONS, BAPTISMS, TRANSFORMATIONS and RESTORATION!
Revelation, Adversity, Preparation & Release
We are now almost a year into this Journey of planting [RE-PLANTING] in Los Angeles. And after a year, I am still being amazed by the grace of God. He has proven himself faithful in every way. And because of that I can now encourage you. Anyone who has planted a church will tell you that planting is NOT easy and it is NOT for everyone. I truly believe that there are men and women out there who have planted churches that were never meant to. But I also believe that there are men & women in churches who are ignoring the stirrings of God to be trailblazers for His kingdom.
As I look at the progression of “God’s” plan to have His temple built, I believe there is a ton of wisdom we can draw from David’s experience as we progress in our journey to plant a churches.
Revelation: 1 Chronicles 17
David’s desire to build a temple for the Ark of the Covenant was not enough! God had to repackage that revelation and give it back to David through Nathan. God’s plans and desires are always greater than ours. (Is 55:8-9) We cannot be afraid to allow God to confirm His revelation through others. We need to allow Godly men and women to breath life into what God has revealed to us. If God truly has said it will He not confirm it? And just as David was blown away by Gods heart to bless him and his whole household, we will also be blown away by what God want to do for us.
Adversity: 1 Chronicles 18-21
If you ask any Church planter their story of planting, you are going to hear amazing testimonies of people who have stared adversity right in the face; and watched God come through in major ways. The enemy will do ALL he can to insure God is not glorified here on earth. Especially through Church planting. This should not frighten you. But it is a call to be prepared. And we can never start preparing until we have experienced victory over the adversities in our lives.
Overcoming Adversity is a mark of ALL great men & women of God.
Preparation: 1 Chronicles 22-28
Someone once told me, “Once you know what God is calling you to, then every decision you make in your life has to line up with that call”. That’s what being prepared means. We start living our lives, like church planters. I believe we need to administrate our lives like a church planter before we can ever plant a church. David geared up his people for this amazing task. We need to GEAR UP!
Release: 1 Chronicle 28
David was never called to build the Temple. Solomon was. And David had to turn over all of the materials, the blue prints and the deeds to the property so that Solomon could now do what he was called to do.
As for you and I, we are not called to build the Church. Christ is. We are called to be faithful to the revelation God has given us. We are called to be victorious through adversity. We are called to prepare the Church that Christ is building. Some of us hold on so tightly. This is MY plant. This is MY church. This is MY vision. Really? Let me encourage you to RELEASE! Let go. Open up that hand and let Christ build His church.
Jody Romero
Jody Romero leads a vibrant, diverse church in Los Angeles, Ca. He, Vanessa and their 3 children planted out of a relating church in 2009 to return to their hometown, "The City of Angels". Contrary to it's name Los Angeles is a broken city. But through the power of the Gospel and the spirit of God, in their togetherness they are witnessing many SALVATIONS, BAPTISMS, TRANSFORMATIONS and RESTORATION!
Revelation, Adversity, Preparation & Release
We are now almost a year into this Journey of planting [RE-PLANTING] in Los Angeles. And after a year, I am still being amazed by the grace of God. He has proven himself faithful in every way. And because of that I can now encourage you. Anyone who has planted a church will tell you that planting is NOT easy and it is NOT for everyone. I truly believe that there are men and women out there who have planted churches that were never meant to. But I also believe that there are men & women in churches who are ignoring the stirrings of God to be trailblazers for His kingdom.
As I look at the progression of “God’s” plan to have His temple built, I believe there is a ton of wisdom we can draw from David’s experience as we progress in our journey to plant a churches.
Revelation: 1 Chronicles 17
In this portion of scripture God reveals to David through Nathan the desire for HIS temple to be built. A temple worthy of the Glory of God.
David’s desire to build a temple for the Ark of the Covenant was not enough! God had to repackage that revelation and give it back to David through Nathan. God’s plans and desires are always greater than ours. (Is 55:8-9) We cannot be afraid to allow God to confirm His revelation through others. We need to allow Godly men and women to breath life into what God has revealed to us. If God truly has said it will He not confirm it? And just as David was blown away by Gods heart to bless him and his whole household, we will also be blown away by what God want to do for us.
Adversity: 1 Chronicles 18-21
In between 1 Chronicles 17 & 1 Chronicles 22 we see nothing but adversity for David. We read about battle after battle taking place. Satan himself rose up against David and the people of Israel. (1 Chron. 21:1) Why? The answer: Because David was preparing a temple that was going to bring glory to The Most High. This had never been done before. So not only Satan, but every nation, every man, woman and child that despised the Lord’s people were not going to stand by and allow this to happen.
If you ask any Church planter their story of planting, you are going to hear amazing testimonies of people who have stared adversity right in the face; and watched God come through in major ways. The enemy will do ALL he can to insure God is not glorified here on earth. Especially through Church planting. This should not frighten you. But it is a call to be prepared. And we can never start preparing until we have experienced victory over the adversities in our lives.
Overcoming Adversity is a mark of ALL great men & women of God.
Preparation: 1 Chronicles 22-28
These 7 chapters in 1 Chronicles are dedicated to the preparation of temple. In his preparation David begins to administrate and delegate to insure he would have everything in order when it was time to build.
Someone once told me, “Once you know what God is calling you to, then every decision you make in your life has to line up with that call”. That’s what being prepared means. We start living our lives, like church planters. I believe we need to administrate our lives like a church planter before we can ever plant a church. David geared up his people for this amazing task. We need to GEAR UP!
Release: 1 Chronicle 28
After the Revelation, after the adversity and after all the preparation, David releases God’s plan to his son Solomon to build the temple.
David was never called to build the Temple. Solomon was. And David had to turn over all of the materials, the blue prints and the deeds to the property so that Solomon could now do what he was called to do.
As for you and I, we are not called to build the Church. Christ is. We are called to be faithful to the revelation God has given us. We are called to be victorious through adversity. We are called to prepare the Church that Christ is building. Some of us hold on so tightly. This is MY plant. This is MY church. This is MY vision. Really? Let me encourage you to RELEASE! Let go. Open up that hand and let Christ build His church.
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