Monday Jan 08, 2024
How To Listen And Spend Time With The Father #3
The Kingdom Cowboy
Join Andy Taylor, seasoned church leader in candid discussion about the Father, His children and His Kingdom. We’ll be talking about the emergence of the True Church and the unfolding manifestation of the Kingdom of God. We’re living in the midst of what the Bible calls, perilous times. But despite this, the True Church is rising up as a force to bring His kingdom into this earth. As Jesus said, “I will build my church and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it”. This is happening now, today!
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Episodes
Episodes
Sunday Jan 07, 2024
Sunday Jan 07, 2024
Summary:
Relating to God as Father brings you much closer to Him than just relating to Him as God up there somewhere. So many people have a conceptual knowing that God is a Father, but not nearly as many folks really know Him as Father. If we can get past the distractions and start spending time with Him, we will come to realize that the prize is not what God gives, but the prize is God Himself.
Show Notes:
There are many who had a dad who was not there or one who was critical toward them. God said that He would never leave us or forsake us and He is always good to us.
In Luke 11:1-2, “Our Father”, Jesus gives us permission to relate to God, just exactly like He relates to Him as Father. It’s something we should take full advantage of.
When spending time with the Father, the prize isn’t what God will give to you, but the real prize is God Himself.
Quotes:
God is not looking for a congregation, He’s looking for a family. If He is looking for something other than a family, He would have called Himself something other than a Father.
It’s just a gamble of trusting God as Father and calling Him Father, Dad, Daddy, whatever, just starting that process, and engaging in the relationship.
It’s a stretch for some, but it’s the only fix for fatherless people or an orphan mindset.
Somewhere along the way, as I read and studied, He began to reveal Himself as Father.
You don’t have to have had a good father to be a good father, but you don have to be a good son to be a good father.
There is no substitute for time with the Father. I’m going to the Lord with no agenda.
My time with the Father now, and all the revelation that is coming, is from sitting in my living room by myself with no agenda. I usually tell the Lord, “I don’t know anything.”
Let Him speak if that’s what He wants to, or let Him not speak if He doesn’t want to, but enjoy the presence of the Lord.
References
Hebrews 13:5
John 5:39-40
Luke 11:1-2
Psalms 34:8
Philippians 4:6
Take Away:
Learn to relate to God as Father, rather than a God who is somewhere out there who is not attainable. Coming into an intimate, close relationship with the Father becomes all that you ever really wanted out of your walk with God. It’s not what He gives to us that matters as much as what He becomes to us as we walk with Him.
Friday Jan 05, 2024
Friday Jan 05, 2024
Summary:
This is an introduction to the Kingdom Cowboy podcast and insight’s into Andy Taylor’s life. Andy talks about his
salvation experience, his rodeo career, and how real a walk with God is to him..
Show Notes:
Introduction to the Kingdom Cowboy Podcast with Andy Taylor.
Andy gives us insight’s into his salvation experience.
He tells stories about his rodeo career.
Andy has had many opportunities to speak into many of his rodeo friend’s lives.
The Word of God became very real to him by sitting around the kitchen table with his pastor.
As time went on God reveals Himself as Father to Andy.
Quotes:
...I felt the Lord dealing with me, so I walked all the way from the back row and the to the front and gave my life to the Lord.
I knew something happened. I didn’t know what and I’m still after all these years learning what happened to me…
So I had for 10 years between 1974 and 1984 what I would call a disposable relationship with the Lord. .
..Still crying and prayed this prayer word for word, “God if You’re out there, You got to help me”, and He did.
So I had opened the book and made myself a real student of the Word.
Pastor, I think the Lord’s calling me to preach. And in his deep voice he said, just forget it!
But along the way, within the next five or six years, the Lord began to show me who He was as a Father.
God is what He is, but Father who He is.
Knowing that He is Father is different knowing as Father.
Take Away:
Andy talks about his life, his rodeo career and how much God has meant to him as his Father.
The Vision
“Then shall this gospel of the kingdom will be preached as a witness to all the
nations and then the end will come.” Matthew 24:14
From the many indicators it appears we are definitely in the last days. And, while the outlook on the world scene would look bleak and hopeless to many, the Kingdom of God is emerging and advancing at a rate never seen before.
Our goal with the Kingdom Cowboy Podcast is to communicate the importance of the true Church and its mission and mandate from the Father. This should be the finest hour for the Church of the living God and her people. We approach the message of the Kingdom, and its demonstration of agape, with signs and wonders accompanying, with great sincerity and diligence.
The goal here, at The Kingdom Cowboy Podcast is to make that as simple and palatable as possible by totally trusting the Father for the results, so the children of God will fulfill their prophetic destiny, and the Church will be what Jesus intended it to be. It’s a great time to be alive! Let’s make the best of it!