Genesis 24:63, v. 10,18-21; Romans 12:1-2;1 Corinthians 2:16,5; Joshua 1:8; Hebrews 11:11
- Real beauty comes from the inside of a person.
- There are people that have nice features but what goes on in the heart mars their outer beauty.
- If we would meditate the promises of God, one day we will look up and "the camels will be coming."
- Worry comes from meditating on the problems.
- Renewing our mind is an ongoing process.
- God loves us just the way we are but He does not want us to stay that way.
- We'd rather buy a book than simply meditate on the Word of God. As a man thinketh, so is he.
- Meditation is focusing over a period of time.
- We have to hold onto promises for ourself.
- We look at people's lives like a snapshot, not realizing that it is a moving picture.
- Find the promise. Google it. Ask your mobile device. Look in the concordance. And meditate on it.
- We have to flush the bad experiences from our mind.
- Don't let the devil remind you of the failure. You still passed!
- We can't see the camels coming because we are too busy focusing on the pain.
- You gain strength from believing the promise of God.
- Aug 9, 2020Meditate the Promises
Aug 9, 2020Meditate the PromisesSeries: General
Genesis 24:63, v. 10,18-21; Romans 12:1-2;1 Corinthians 2:16,5; Joshua 1:8; Hebrews 11:11
- Real beauty comes from the inside of a person.
- There are people that have nice features but what goes on in the heart mars their outer beauty.
- If we would meditate the promises of God, one day we will look up and "the camels will be coming."
- Worry comes from meditating on the problems.
- Renewing our mind is an ongoing process.
- God loves us just the way we are but He does not want us to stay that way.
- We'd rather buy a book than simply meditate on the Word of God. As a man thinketh, so is he.
- Meditation is focusing over a period of time.
- We have to hold onto promises for ourself.
- We look at people's lives like a snapshot, not realizing that it is a moving picture.
- Find the promise. Google it. Ask your mobile device. Look in the concordance. And meditate on it.
- We have to flush the bad experiences from our mind.
- Don't let the devil remind you of the failure. You still passed!
- We can't see the camels coming because we are too busy focusing on the pain.
- You gain strength from believing the promise of God. - Aug 2, 2020Even If He Doesn’t
Aug 2, 2020Even If He Doesn’tSeries: GeneralDaniel 3:13-18; Deuteronomy 29:29; 1 Corinthians 13:12; Proverbs 25:2; Ecclesiastes 3:11; Acts 6:5,8; 7:51-60
- Our confidence is based on what we've seen or not seen God do, yet God is still able.
- We need to have a confidence in God that even if God doesn't do it, He's able.
- Our devotion to God must not stop at answered prayer but go beyond that even if He doesn't.
- There is a place in God where our understanding stops.
- On this side of glory, we know only in part, the secret things belong to God.
- We have to be okay with not knowing.
- We need to focus on what we know about God.
- God does things for us even if we don't ask, on behalf of others, and even if we don't know Him.
- It's never about us, it's about God. - Our view of God, the wonderfulness, cannot be determined by whether or not we get our prayers answered.
- Faith yet matters, but it is still the power and sovereignty of God.
- We only have problems with the sovereignty of God when He doesn't do what we want.
- Faith does not override the sovereignty of God. It is in the secret place.
- Jesus and God watched Stephen getting stoned and did nothing to interfere. It's not for us to know
why, it's in the secret place - Jul 26, 2020Slow Your Roll
Jul 26, 2020Slow Your RollSeries: General
Numbers 32:1-18, 13:26-14:4; Hebrews 10: 35; Proverbs 25:8; Jeremiah 29:11
- When we get close to the promise of God, disruptions come.
- Most disciplined, close to the promise.
- When we get close to the promise, be even more diligent- the enemy always comes back.
- If it's in your view, don't put down your spiritual guard.
- Discouragement is contagious. Discouragement is easier than encouragement.
- When we look at our situation through the lens of ourselves, we are going to come up small and short.
- We are more inclined to believe the bad than believe the good.
- We must not let our spirit gets discouraged, because discouragement leads us to say foolish things.
- Many of us live on the edge of discouragement in spite of being a child of God.
- We can be disappointed and not be discouraged if we come in from the border.
- Expectation has reward. Confidence.
- We need to declare to the enemy that the buttons that he has been pushing are out of order.
- We jump to conclusions based on what we perceive things to be.
- We cannot discard the things that we have gone through,
- Don't jump to a conclusion there might be a perfectly good explanation to what you just saw.
- Some things don't work out the way we want, but all things work together for the good. - Jul 19, 2020Divine Restoration
Jul 19, 2020Divine RestorationSeries: General
2 Kings 8:1-6, 4:8-10,22-26; Psalm 114:15, 51:12; 2 Chronicles 20:20; Jeremiah 1:17; Zechariah 9:12; 1 Peter 5:10
- Can, ability. May, permission,
- In a time when loss is all around us, God wants us to know the story is not over.
- There is no honor in being great financially, if you are not generous.
- When faced with the death of her son, the Shunammite woman declared, it is well. She was a woman of great faith.
-God wants to increase us more and more.
- Do we perceive our leaders as "people" of God? A man of God. A woman of God. Elisha was perceived as a man of God and the woman prospered. Believe His prophets and you will prosper.
- When we have a problem we need to go to the King.
- God is a God who can restore everything.
- God restored double unto Job, and double unto Zechariah. He’s doing that even today.
- We must continue to be hopeful.
- After we have suffered a little while, God will restore us.
- Ask God for revelation. - Jul 12, 2020Follow His Lead
Jul 12, 2020Follow His LeadSeries: General
Luke 8:51-56; 9:11-15; Matthew 9:5-6, 11:28-30; Acts 9:36-42
- God hears your silent cry.
- We convince ourselves that loud and long represent power.
- If we go into a service and all we come away with is being impressed by the preacher, then that service has done us a disservice.
- We need to come before God broken, so the glory of God can be seen.
- Jesus is going to dos omething.
- Jesus did not use a lot of words to perform the miracles He did.
- Two little words from Jesus can make our spirt come again.
- When we arise we change our position.
- If we are in the right position we can speak quietly and briefly and yet have power.
- Arise, come into being. To move upward, to ascend.
- Jesus is calling us to walk, work and watch.
- Walk with Him, stay in agreement with Him.
- Walk with Him, cooperate with Him, do what He tells us to do.
- Watch how He does it. Follow the lead of Christ.
- Learn. Watch to learn.
- If we are impressing man, we are failing him.
- Peter did what Jesus did when he put the people out and spoke what Jesus said.
- Peter is an example of walking with, working with and watching Jesus. He learned and walked with the power Jesus did. - Jul 5, 2020Be Free
Jul 5, 2020Be FreeSeries: GeneralJohn 8:31-36, 12:27, 4:1; Romans 6:18,22, Galatians 5:1; Mark 5:34; Proverbs 4:23; Isaiah 26:3-4; Philippians 4:6- Bondage is not just about slavery, but it's thinking like a slave.- Jesus as the Truth, makes us free.- Freedom is liberation from slavery, or from the power of another.- Free from sin, guilt and shame.- God does not free us from, He frees us to.- Jesus made us free, me have to go and be free.- Peace should not come and go based on your circumstances.- Jesus gives us peace and our responsibility is to not let your heart be troubled.
- Jun 28, 2020A Rude Awakening
Jun 28, 2020A Rude AwakeningSeries: General
Judges 6:25-30
- God is handing out faith and commitment test to the Body of Christ.
- Gideon's test was to pull down the altars of the false god.
- God's people were worshipping a bull, strong and might, associated with prostitution. Baal. Asherah, Baal's mistress, sexuality, male prostitution.
- Anything that is trying to replace God has to be pulled down, torn down and cut down before change
can be made.
- People know that things need to be changed, but don't know God is the author of that change.
- We may have to pull down the altars of others in our lives.
- We carefully prepare and do things for God. God has already told you what He wants to do in you and through you in the earth.
- What is God calling you to get rid of? Those things have to get out of the way first.
- People of God wanted to kill Gideon because he pulled down the altars of Baal.
- The thing that God is calling us to do to please Him are going to inflame the passions of men. - Jun 21, 2020My Father Said So
Jun 21, 2020My Father Said SoSeries: GeneralLuke 5:25-26, 7:12-16; Numbers 23:19; Titus 1:2; Isaiah 31:2, 55:10-11, 64:4; Psalm 89:34; Hebrews 11: 11; Exodus 34:10; Hebrews 8:8, Matthew 9:32-33; John 9:1-3,6-7,27-33
- We are seeing strange things in these times today, but they are not necessarily God things.
God is going to do a strange thing. A God-thing, in your life.
- In this second half of 2020, we should expect to see some strange things coming down from heaven.
God is not a man that He should lie. If He said it He'll do it. If He spoke it He will bring it to pass.
- When we believe God, we receive strength. If we are tired we might have to release our faith.
- We are in relationship with God. If we honor the relationship, we'll receive the blessing.
- It's time to go back and pick up the promise God gave you. God wants to do a thing that has never
been seen before, in front of everybody.
- We can go from a dead man to a young man when Jesus speaks. God is going to make an open show of His goodness so that people will marvel.
- God does things for us, just because He sees us. Sometimes we don't have to ask. - Jun 14, 2020Don’t Give Up Now
Jun 14, 2020Don’t Give Up NowSeries: General
Zechariah 4:1-7, 1 Kings 18:41-45; Psalm 24
- We have to remember that when are discouraged, things will not happen by anything but by God's spirit.
- We find ourselves worn out and worn down because we are trying too much to do it our own strength.
- God will complete the work He has begun in us and through us.
- To be used, to be called by God, is a privilege.
- Our natural eyes will keep us discouraged. Our spiritual eyes will give us hope.
- We have a never-ending supply of oil.
- Just because it's God's will doesn't mean it will be easy.- Discouragement doesn't mean we should not do it.
- If God called you to the thing. He wants to do the thing.- Life is hard, but nothing is too hard for God. - Jun 7, 2020Seize the Moment
Jun 7, 2020Seize the MomentSeries: General
Judges 6:1-17, 22-23,35-27; Exodus 2:1-4; John 2:16
- Faith operates in the present.
- When we hit rock-bottom, come to yourself, go back to the father.
- We hide behind a lot of things. God is calling people out of hiding. You cannot seize the moment and hide at the same time.
- People cannot hide their true sentiments anymore.
- Things that are good start with God. Failure does not start with God.
- We are living in a time that is going to be written about in the history books.
- God is looking for Gideons to fill in the gap all over the world, so that we can be agents of change in this time.
- When we seize the moment, we will have supernatural strength.
- We are not living right now by accident. It may be for such a time as this.
- We need to get rid of the idols in our life.