If you're the husband, God has called you to be spiritual head, to stand up in a place of prayer and responsibility in the home. If you've got a leadership role, God calls us to stand up and be positioned near Him, hearing Him, following His directions. So positioning is everything. Positioning is one, about our spiritual positioning, our relationship with God; two, it's about our connection with other people, and where we fit. If you try and get somewhere you're not supposed to be, you'll find yourself out of God's protection, you can't win the battle. It's very important to be positioned right. Positioning - interesting, think about this. God made a place or position for Adam, before He made Adam. Think about that. He made a place for him, and He had an assignment for him; so before Adam was created, God already had a place for him prepared, and a job for him prepared. Think about that - so the man had to come into the place God had for him, in order to fulfil the assignment God had for him. That's why it's so important for you to know what God has called you to do, and to be, and where He's positioned you to be, who He's positioned you to fulfil that with - very, very important. Very important.
So our assignment is what God called us to do. Our positioning is who He's called us to connect with, and where, in order it might be fulfilled. Let me tell you this, the devil will do everything he can to get you out of positioning. If you're out of positioning, you can't fulfil your assignment. Think about this: when Adam sinned, he was then taken out of his position. He lost his position spiritually and physically. He was removed. Now I have seen many people, over years, see their whole family spiritually destroyed, because the position God had for them, and the place God had for them, they actually got offended or something went wrong, they couldn't handle it or didn't handle it or whatever; and they withdrew with offence. They were so wounded it actually cost their whole family their spiritual inheritance. I've seen it countless times. Positioning is everything.
You know I've had many offers to go to different places. I have them currently there. There's like offers to go do this, do that, whatever. Here's the thing I've realised a long time ago. The only great place to be is where God called you to be. That's the place of His will, it's the place of His prosperity, it's the place of His blessing, it's the place of your destiny. You can't guarantee, if you go outside that, you'll be able to ever do what you think you could do. I remember knowing a pastor - I'll have to be careful not to identify him - but who had a very good church going in New Zealand. He went to Australia thinking all things would be big in Australia, and now I look, he has not got - he had a church that was very big for its hour and time, and now he's got almost nothing. He's the same guy, trying the same things, but it's just not working for him. He's not in the right place, not in the right positioning - so positioning. Alignment is the second thing. You notice they were all united. They had one thing in mind. They were united around a common purpose, a common vision, a common goal, and you know Jesus has made that clear for us; our common vision, purpose and goal, you can put it in all kinds of words. At the end of the day, it always comes down, it's to go into the community and change it. Everything else, Jesus wrote it down so we wouldn't get it wrong. I like the fact He wrote it down: GO! Make disciples! Say well I'm not that, I'm not called to do that. We could argue with the Bible, or scratch that bit out of your Bible, or do something with it, but don't just leave it there, because Jesus gave every one of us a mandate to enter the community, to influence it. There's no way around it, and we can have great meetings and have great conferences, do all this kind of thing, but at the end if it doesn't overflow to the community, we miss the number one thing. Good thought isn't it aye, get aligned? [Laughs] Nice to be aligned isn't it aye? [Laughs]