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 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 22, 2020Do We Really Trust God?
Jul 22, 2020Do We Really Trust God?Series: Bible Study
Exodus 16:3-3,14-21; Proverbs 25:2; Numbers 11:4-6; Psalm 106:14-15; Matthew 6:9-11; John 6:25-35
- God will test our faith by presenting us with an obedience issue.
- It's not what we have, it's whether or not we are following God in it.
- The only way we get God's results, is doing things God's way.
- Even if something makes sense, if God does not say do it, we should not do it.
- It's not about figuring it out, it's about searching it out.
- The desire to have our flesh satisfied will override our obedience.
- We completely overlook the things we have and complain about what we don't have.
- There is a part of us that doesn't want to depend on anyone.
- We will be satisfied if we stop trying to put our hands to work and trust God.
- We will make better decisions if we trust God.
- Tomorrow really doesn't exist. We only have today. - 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 15, 2020God Is Ready To Work
Jul 15, 2020God Is Ready To WorkSeries: Bible Study
John 14:9-10,1:19-21,15:5,7; Deuteronomy 18:9-19; Psalm 138:2,103:20
- The Father does the work.- Don't take credit for what God does through you.
- If we want God to keep us in line, hide His word in your heart. But only the spoken Word will get God to work.- God does the work through the words He put in Jesus mouth.- We return God's Word to Him, simply by speaking it in faith.- We declare the thing, and it will be established. By God.- When we say something that God says we give voice to His word and the angels go to work. - 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 8, 2020Building A Foundation of Faith (Part 7)
Jul 8, 2020Building A Foundation of Faith (Part 7)Series: Bible StudyGetting out of Your Flesh
John 20:24-29; 2 Corinthians 4:13; Hebrews 11:1,10:19-23; Jeremiah 14:9; Job 3:10; Isaiah 40:8; 1 Peter 1:8
- Believers don't operate by believing and seeing. We operate by seeing and speaking.
- Believers are to look at the not seen things.
- So much of faith is based on what we don't see.
- We have to avoid operating by our feelings.
- Feelings have a place, but we have to keep them in their place.
- God gave us our feelings, but we are not to be led by them or live according to our feelings.
- Feelings should not have supremacy over our faith. - 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.
- Jul 2, 2020Building A Foundation of Faith (Part 6)
Jul 2, 2020Building A Foundation of Faith (Part 6)Series: Bible StudyJames 1:2-4; Hebrews 11; Romans 5:3-5; Proverbs 24:10; Job 23:10, 42:5
- We need to learn how to allow adversity to strengthen our faith.
- It's not the testing only that brings the patience, it's how you take the test.
- Adversity is a revealer. It reveals where we are in faith.
- God uses adversity to accomplish His will.
- Many times adversity will drive us back to the will of God.
- He also uses it to develop the character of Christ.
- Suffering precedes the resurrection.
- Adversity is God's way of getting our attention.
- Adversity encourages us to lean on God's strength.
- Adversity purifies our faith.
- Adversity points us towards God.
- We will keep our integrity if we allow adversity to teach us.
- If we take adversity the right way, it will cause us to see God.
- Adversity is not here to destroy us - it's here to build us up.
- "Lord, do not let the pain I am going through be wasted." - 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 24, 2020Building A Foundation of Faith (Part 5)
Jun 24, 2020Building A Foundation of Faith (Part 5)Series: Bible Study
"What Happens When Our Mountains Don't Move"
Mark 11:20-26; Hebrews 12
-If mountains aren't moving, we need to ask ourselves the question, are we having faith? Are we walking in love? Faith works by love.
- Do we have doubt? We have to guard our hearts against the infiltration of doubt.
- Many times our mountains aren't moving is because we are not speaking to it.
- Once we say something we need to believe what we say.
- Once we believe a thing, that thing becomes settled in us
- We need to acknowledge the sin that is in our life.
- We need to acknowledge that God's will is sovereign.
- Could be that God has something better for us that we are not ready to receive.
- We need to remember the importance of persistence. Keep praying. Faith looks funny.
- Keep trusting God. Absolute confidence that God will not fail
- Ask God to open our eyes.
- Stay thankful. A thankful spirit and an open heart leaves you open to receive from God at any moment.
- Don't despair.
- Resistance always makes us stronger.