Feb 26, 2020
Facing and Overcoming Challenges (Part 2)
Series: Bible Study
Ephesians 2:11-13; Jeremiah 32:27; Isaiah 41:10,43; John 6:63,10:10; Deuteronomy 8:3; Matthew 4:4; Luke 4:4; Deuteronomy 32:46-47; Psalm 119:105
- Everybody doesn't want to win because they are not willing to put in the work required to win.
- God is bigger than our problem. There is nothing that is too hard for Him.
- When we have issues and challenges in our lives, we must not underestimate the importance of going to the Word of God.
- Many of the issues we have in our lives are spiritual problems.
- We cannot overcome spiritual things in our flesh - which is why we need the Word of God.
- If we are trying to figure out the answer to our problems, we are relying on our self.
- Don't figure it out, search it out. The words are spirit and life.
- The just shall live by faith.
- Faith comes by hearing, hearing by The Word of God.
- Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from God's mouth.
- The word is our life.
- The word is a lamp unto our feet. We can see things that trip us up.
- It's great to get out of a problem, it's better to avoid them.
- The Word of God will change the way we think.
- When we start to think like God, we speak like God.
- Everybody doesn't want to win because they are not willing to put in the work required to win.
- God is bigger than our problem. There is nothing that is too hard for Him.
- When we have issues and challenges in our lives, we must not underestimate the importance of going to the Word of God.
- Many of the issues we have in our lives are spiritual problems.
- We cannot overcome spiritual things in our flesh - which is why we need the Word of God.
- If we are trying to figure out the answer to our problems, we are relying on our self.
- Don't figure it out, search it out. The words are spirit and life.
- The just shall live by faith.
- Faith comes by hearing, hearing by The Word of God.
- Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from God's mouth.
- The word is our life.
- The word is a lamp unto our feet. We can see things that trip us up.
- It's great to get out of a problem, it's better to avoid them.
- The Word of God will change the way we think.
- When we start to think like God, we speak like God.
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- Feb 26, 2020Facing and Overcoming Challenges (Part 2)
Feb 26, 2020Facing and Overcoming Challenges (Part 2)Series: Bible StudyEphesians 2:11-13; Jeremiah 32:27; Isaiah 41:10,43; John 6:63,10:10; Deuteronomy 8:3; Matthew 4:4; Luke 4:4; Deuteronomy 32:46-47; Psalm 119:105
- Everybody doesn't want to win because they are not willing to put in the work required to win.
- God is bigger than our problem. There is nothing that is too hard for Him.
- When we have issues and challenges in our lives, we must not underestimate the importance of going to the Word of God.
- Many of the issues we have in our lives are spiritual problems.
- We cannot overcome spiritual things in our flesh - which is why we need the Word of God.
- If we are trying to figure out the answer to our problems, we are relying on our self.
- Don't figure it out, search it out. The words are spirit and life.
- The just shall live by faith.
- Faith comes by hearing, hearing by The Word of God.
- Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from God's mouth.
- The word is our life.
- The word is a lamp unto our feet. We can see things that trip us up.
- It's great to get out of a problem, it's better to avoid them.
- The Word of God will change the way we think.
- When we start to think like God, we speak like God. - Feb 23, 2020Be Ready
Feb 23, 2020Be ReadySeries: GeneralMatthew 25:1-13; 24:36,42-44; Numbers 14:37-45; Acts 12:5-16- Being ready when Jesus returns. No one knows the day or the hour.
- Be ready when God moves in our situation.
- When God starts to open doors, will you be ready?
- Every one of us is personally responsible for ourselves.
- When God moves in our lives, it may not be at our convenience.
- We need a power source to generate light. We need the oil of the Holy Ghost in order that our lamps would be lit.
- The lamps are our lives. The oil is the Holy Spirit.
- We can't give away our oil to people who have the same opportunity to get it.
- Gaining oil requires sacrifice.
- People can drain us if we let them.
- If we allow people to take our oil, there will be none left for neither of you.
- We are personally responsible for our own oil supply.- The God who supplies the oil will give it to you freely.
- We can have some oil. We can be low on oil, but we cannot go as far as someone whose tank is full.
- In order to do what God has called you to do, you need to be full of oil.
- When Jesus shows up, He takes the ones who are ready. Those who were not ready, the door was shut.
- There was a time for the children of Israel to go.
- God is going to move in our lives we need to be ready. Our lamps need to be filled.
- Being ready is not as easy as it appears. We need the help of God.
- The believers were praying and still almost missed Peter knocking.
- Don't quench the Holy Spirit.
- Keep spending time with God, keep giving. keep praying, keep meditating on the word. - Feb 19, 2020Facing and Overcoming Challenges
Feb 19, 2020Facing and Overcoming ChallengesSeries: Bible StudyEphesians 2:11-13; Psalm 145:-3; Luke 11:14-20; Proverbs 18:10; 2 Chronicles 21:20; Psalm 8:3-4,139:17-18; Deuteronomy 3:22; Joshua 1:9; Hebrews 13:5; Numbers 14:9-14
- Good success is when you can accomplish other things in your life.
- If we don't know how to face other challenges we won't know how to win.
- With no God, you have no power, no privileges, no hope, no benefits, no promises, no advantages. God is the difference maker.
- If we don't know we have the power of God, we won't have power.
- If we start in the wrong place we will end up in the wrong place. We have to start with God.
- In order to overcome our challenge, we must first face it.
- God is bigger, greater and stronger than your problem.
- The greatness of God is beyond our ability to understand.
- Just a finger of God will cast a devil out of a man.
- All God has to do is lift His finger and our problem is solved.
- Always remember that God cares about you.
- God wants us to have victory. But we cannot have victory if we don't compete.
- God is with you. Emmanuel!
- In the face of perfection, God saw something that was not good.
- God will never leave us or forsake us.
- God is with you wherever you go. - Feb 16, 2020A Closer Walk With God
Feb 16, 2020A Closer Walk With GodSeries: GeneralGenesis 5:18-24; Hebrews 11:5- God desires a closer walk with Him.- The closer we walk with God the more we will be like Him and reflect His glory.- We can't have power if we are distant from God.- Enoch walked with God by faith, according to the Word and will of God.- Because Enoch walked with God, he had the heart of God.- Enoch walked in a way that pleased God.- When we walk by ourselves, we are vulnerable to the enemy's attacks.- The closer we walk with God, the more we are protected.- Before God took Enoch, he changed Enoch.- Whatever Enoch was, whatever he used to be, He was no longer.- The more we walk with God, the more we will be like Him. The more strength we will have. The more power. And the more we will reflect His glory.
- Feb 12, 2020The Words We Speak
Feb 12, 2020The Words We SpeakSeries: Bible StudyExodus 8:1-4,8-10; Numbers 13:32-33,14:1-4,24-30- Use your words to create the world you want.
- The words that we use have power.
- The more power we have the more care we must use.
- If you don't want it, don't say it.
- Pharoah had the ability to get rid of the frogs with his words.
- Because of how we see ourselves, people will see us as such.
- God is looking for people to speak His Word so that He can perform it.
- Words produce fruit. - Feb 9, 2020Keep Praising God
Feb 9, 2020Keep Praising GodSeries: GeneralMatthew 21:12-16; Isaiah 6:7; Psalm 8:2- As we go through things, one of the most dangerous things that could happen is that we lose our praise.- The only requirement to praising God is having breath in our lungs.- Praise is strength and strength is praise. When we praise God, we have a strength that can only come from God.- The enemy of our soul does not want God to be praised.- The only one who does not us to cry out to God is the devil.- You bring God on the scene, when you praise Him.- God has ordained strength and perfected praise so that the enemy/the avenger might be stopped.
- Feb 5, 2020Watch Your Mouth!
Feb 5, 2020Watch Your Mouth!Series: Bible StudyProverbs 18:21, 29:20, 16:24, 21:23, 12:14, 4:23; Hebrews 11:3; James 1:19, 3:3-7; Psalm 141:3; Colossians 4:6- What we say affects more people than the actions we take.- There is a need to be careful with our words.- If Jesus is our example, we should be speaking words of life.- We don't have the ability to control what we say.- Let the words of my mouth be acceptable in thy sight.- God is giving us power to live the life that He is calling us to live.- Guarding our mouth keeps us out of trouble.- God has to renew our mind.- We have the ability to frame our world just as our heavenly Father framed His.- We can call all things forth.- Our words can speak peace and strength to our lives.
- Feb 2, 2020What God Has Done
Feb 2, 2020What God Has DoneSeries: GeneralGenesis 17:1-5; Jeremiah 1:5; 2 Corinthians 1:20; Romans 4:16-21- We fight from the wrong vantage point. We need to fight to keep.- Some of the things we are waiting for, is not for God to do it, but for us to get a different perspective.- We need to see what is going on in the spiritual world and not the natural.- God speaks in past tense, it's already done.- The enemy wants to steal, but he cannot take from us, what we don't already have.- God has done things for us that we don't even know is ours.- We don't fight for our healing, we already have it. We fight to keep it.- We have to fight to keep the things we don't have.- How do we stay believing God when we don't see anything? Remember Abraham.- We have to make up our mind as to whether or not we believe God.- Belief is tested in the face of a contradiction.- We must not look at our situations, and call ourselves that.- Call things that be not as though they were.- No reason to hope, but yet hoping.- Do not consider your circumstances.- We cannot plan and think so much that we limit God.- We must not stagger at the promise of God.- We have to be fully persuaded.
- Jan 29, 2020The Aftermath of the Tragedy of Kobe Bryant (Enjoy Your Life)
Jan 29, 2020The Aftermath of the Tragedy of Kobe Bryant (Enjoy Your Life)Series: Bible StudyJohn 10:10; Psalm 39:4, 1 Timothy 6:17; Ecclesiastes 5:18-20- Why do we resort back in just a few days after a tragedy?- We don't really want to accept that life is fleeting.- Queens and Kings should walk a certain way, an assuredness of who they are.- God wants to keep us busy enjoying life.- Whatever we practice we get better at.- Enjoying life is a decision.- Our ability to enjoy life is not dependent on other people.
- Jan 26, 2020The Power of Perseverance
Jan 26, 2020The Power of PerseveranceSeries: GeneralHebrews 12:1-3, Revelation 3:10, Romans 5:3-4; 1 Thessalonians 5:11; Micah 7:5-7- To continue on with a course of action, despite the difficulty. (Little or no prospect of success.- Turn down opportunities to quit.- Quilters never win and winners never quit.- Jesus knew why He was hanging on the cross- The crowd could not shame Him of doing what God told Him to do.- Part of persevering is despising the shame.- No one can embarrass you if you refuse to be embarrassed.- Perseverance is more than showing up.- Even though it's spiritual it can be seen.- Perseverance is demonstrated through action.- Perseverance really is a key to accomplishment and achievement.- Perseverance requires fighting.- We have to fight the right enemy.- We have to use the right weapons.- We have to fight until the end.- We have to keep the faith.- God says because we have kept the command to persevere, God will keep us.- Perseverance is a requirement to develop godly character.- Don't give up on your dream or promise.- Surround yourself with people who can encourage you and build you up.- Don't forget to encourage yourself.- Keep your focus on God.- As we are persevering, where we decide to look will determine our success.