Ecclesiastes 3:1-8; Exodus 3:1-12
- People get attached to seasons, because things are attached to seasons.
- If we don't know our purpose, there is not one single thing that is going to make us happy.
- We were created with a purpose.
- To everything there is a season, but there is a time for every purpose under the sun.
- We will find our purpose through a relationship with the God who created us.
- We are not going to find our purpose where are, we're going to have to move.
- God has met us in our pain so that He can change us.
- The mourning period is a purposeful one.
- There is a time to move on from certain relationships.
- There are physical times and emotional times. All of it is linked to our purpose.
- Time to be at peace. To put into practice what you have learned.
- Time to go from debt to debt freedom. There is a purpose for our losing.
- There was a time for you to be silent. A time where you have learned, listened and grown. Now it's time for you to come forth and speak up.
- When you move, God is with you filling you with His power so that His purpose can be fulfilled in your life.
Acts 9 (the Story of Saul's Conversion)
- Too many of us are ignoring the burning bushes in our lives and not hearing the voice of God calling us to purpose.
- You are fully equipped for this next phase in your life.
- If God is calling you to more on, He has fully prepared for you to move on.
- Mar 14, 2021Time to Move
Mar 14, 2021Time to MoveSeries: General
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8; Exodus 3:1-12
- Things are attached to seasons, purpose is linked to time.- People get attached to seasons, because things are attached to seasons.
- If we don't know our purpose, there is not one single thing that is going to make us happy.
- We were created with a purpose.
- To everything there is a season, but there is a time for every purpose under the sun.
- We will find our purpose through a relationship with the God who created us.
- We are not going to find our purpose where are, we're going to have to move.
- God has met us in our pain so that He can change us.
- The mourning period is a purposeful one.
- There is a time to move on from certain relationships.
- There are physical times and emotional times. All of it is linked to our purpose.
- Time to be at peace. To put into practice what you have learned.
- Time to go from debt to debt freedom. There is a purpose for our losing.
- There was a time for you to be silent. A time where you have learned, listened and grown. Now it's time for you to come forth and speak up.
- When you move, God is with you filling you with His power so that His purpose can be fulfilled in your life.
Acts 9 (the Story of Saul's Conversion)
- Too many of us are ignoring the burning bushes in our lives and not hearing the voice of God calling us to purpose.
- You are fully equipped for this next phase in your life.
- If God is calling you to more on, He has fully prepared for you to move on.
- Mar 10, 2021Living By Faith, Part 8 “Building Up Our Hope”
Mar 10, 2021Living By Faith, Part 8 “Building Up Our Hope”Series: Bible Study
Romans 4:16-21; Hebrews 11:1; 1 Samuel 1:8-18
- Our believing and hoping must be according to that which was spoken.
- There's no reason to hope, but we believe anyway.
- Faith is acting or living like the promises of God are true.
- Biblical hope is not wishful thinking.
- Hope is a confident expectation that God will do what He said.
- So many times do we not understand the depth of someone's pain. Not understanding may not be a malicious thing.
- Just because someone doesn't get it doesn't mean that they don't want to.
- Hannah wanted to do something different.
- It's a mark of godliness when we have every right to be mad, but respond in grace.
- Our soul can be lifted up, our psyche can be changed, even when things all around us remain the same. That is the power of hope.
- When hope begins to dissipate, so do our words.
- Hopelessness takes away our voice.
- God will fill us when our mouths are open.
- Mar 7, 2021All That I Need
Mar 7, 2021All That I NeedSeries: General
Colossians 2:8-10; Numbers 14:21; Matthew 12:43-45; Ephesians 4:27
- Some of the philosophies, the traditions we follow are man-made.
- We must not let anyone, including ourselves, capture us from following the teaching of Christ.
- God is not a God of fairness, He is a God of justice.
- We are not looking for things that seem right, we're looking for things that are right.
- All that God is and all that God can do is found in Jesus.
- God wants us full of Him. He fills.
- We can look in order and yet be empty. We need to be filled with God.
- When we are complete in Christ, we are missing nothing.
- Feb 28, 2021Stop that Runnin’! (Confronting Our Problems)
Feb 28, 2021Stop that Runnin’! (Confronting Our Problems)Series: General
Genesis 16:3-9, 21:16-19; Proverbs 28:1; John 4:4-5; Romans 8:35-37; James 4:7; 1 John 4:18; Luke 15:11-18
- The only true basis that we have that things will change is a Word from the Lord.
- It's easier to run away from problems than face them.
- We think that if we run and hide, the problem will go away.
- When we try to run away from our problems, we end up in a bigger mess, we end up in the wilderness.
- Some of us run from problems with no destination in mind.
- God commands us to go back. Return, submit and go back with the right and different attitude.
- God has a Word for us just like He had a Word for Hagar.
We have to listen and stop running.
- We need to do what we can to face or problems, instead of running away.
- Once Hager returned and faced her problems, then she saw a solution.
- We have to stir up on faith.
- Resist the devil.
- We resist lies with Truth.
- Focus on God and not the problem.
- We have to take extra steps of faith when problems arise.
- We have to avoid doing the bad opposite of running away with our problem, and not get too familiar with it.
- Our problems will not get any better by running away from them or getting comfortable with it.
- Feb 24, 2021Living By Faith, Part 7 (Faith for Finances, Part 3)
Feb 24, 2021Living By Faith, Part 7 (Faith for Finances, Part 3)Series: Bible Study
Luke 12:13-21; Deuteronomy 8:18; Proverbs 1:24-25; 1 Timothy 6:17-19; Exodus 12:35-36; Psalm 105:37; Genesis 32:13-18, 33:8-11; Haggai 1:1-11; Isaiah 58:1-11
- The blessings of God do not come through man's devices.
- We cannot just be wanting stuff.
- God looks at selfishness as foolishness.
- It's selfish to want enough just for you and yours. God wants us to be distribution centers.
- Giving is a condition of the heart, not a condition of your wallet.
- Have a heart to give and God will give you your heart's desire.
- The resources will come as we allow God to work on our heart.
- The generous prosper.
- God doesn't mind us having things. He just wants us to share what we have.
- God has no problem blessing His people.
- When we bless someone and they refuse it, it may cut off your blessing flow.
- Feb 21, 2021The God of the House
Feb 21, 2021The God of the HouseSeries: General
Genesis 35:1-3,4-7, 25:20-28, 28:10-22, 31:11-13, 32:24-32, 34:1-30
- Just because your daddy and your grandfather knows God, does not mean you know God. You have to know God for yourself.
- God is with us and we don't even know it.
- Jacob renamed the place Bethel, the house of God when He realized God was with Him.
- There will always come a time when God is going to come to you and release you from the place where you are.
- Jacob was forever changed when He held on to God.
- God is calling us to go back to the place where we first met Him.
- We need to remember that God answered us in the time of our distress.
- God puts limits on our enemies and what they are able to do to us.
- We need to not only know the house of God, we need to know the God of the house.
- We don't mind hearing from the preacher, but we don't want to hear from God Himself.
- Feb 17, 2021Living By Faith, Part 6 (Faith for Finances, Part 2)
Feb 17, 2021Living By Faith, Part 6 (Faith for Finances, Part 2)Series: Bible Study
Matthew 6:33; Psalm 89:14; Luke 6:38; Proverbs 19:17, 28:27, 11:25; 2 Samuel 6:1-9; 2 Corinthians 9:6-8
- God has a way of getting to us the provision we need.
- We cannot be the powerful representatives of Christ concerning our finances, if we are fretting.
- It's through giving that we receive.
- We can only get to the place of prosperity God's way.
- It's important to maintain a spirit of generosity during a period of lack.
- Giving is a condition of the heart.
- Blessings come when you give out of your lack.
- It's very important to do what God says, how He says it.
- God has a way of doing and being right.
- God will make sure you have so that you can give to every good work.
- Feb 14, 2021Receive God’s Love
Feb 14, 2021Receive God’s LoveSeries: General
1 John 3:1-2, 4:16; 1 Corinthians 13:8; Romans 5:8, 8:38; Zephaniah 3:17; 2 Kings 4:8,18-26
- Knowing something goes beyond head knowledge... it's heart knowledge.
- We have to behold God's love. See it. Think about it.
- Love is decisional. Selfless choices that are made with your mind on someone else.
- God loves with an everlasting love.
- There is a difference between knowing and believing.
- Believing leads to receiving.
- God will quiet us by His love.
- God's love will quiet all our fears.
- God will be with us in trouble.
- God lavishes us with His love.
- We will only become better at loving people when we receive God's love.
- Our life will change when we love other people, not when people love us.
- God's love gives us a sense of security.
- When we know God loves us we don't run from our troubles, we run towards them.
- When we know the love of God, we will know that it's going to be alright, in spite of what is happening to us.
- Feb 10, 2021Living By Faith, Part 5 (Faith for Finances)
Feb 10, 2021Living By Faith, Part 5 (Faith for Finances)Series: Bible Study
Galatians 3:13-14; Deuteronomy 28:1-14 (The Blessing), v.15-68, (The Curse - Sickness, Disease, Poverty and Lack), Deuteronomy 8:18; 3 John 2; 2; Timothy 3:16; Genesis 12:1-3, 13:1-2; Psalm 35:27; 2 Kings 4:1-7
- Poverty and lack are a part of the curse of the law.
- I'm redeemed from poverty and lack.
- God wants to demonstrate His goodness in such a way that the world will say, the half has not been told.
- One of the reasons God wants to bless us is so that we can be a blessing to others.
- We've been empowered to prosper but not all of us are prospering, because we have not turned on the switch. The switch is faith.
- God wants us to prosper so that we can have resources and the ability to prosper in the earth.
- God doesn't have a problem with us having money, it's money having us.
- We have to be the ones to be generous with the resources He gives us.
- God gives us the power to get wealth so that He can establish His covenant in the earth.
- Others will see God when they see the extent of your generosity.
- A grateful heart is expressed in generosity.
- God gives us more than enough. He is not just interested in paying our bills. He wants us to live.
- Feb 7, 2021Take A Look Inside (Part 2)
Feb 7, 2021Take A Look Inside (Part 2)Series: GeneralMatthew 14:22-29, 21:19-22; John 14:12,15-17,20; Romans 4:17; 2 Corinthians 4:13; Ephesians 5:2; 1 John 2:6-The power to change our lives resides on the inside of us.- In spite of how Peter is talked about, Peter had faith.- Peter was telling Jesus if You walk on the water, I want to walk on water too.- Peter imitated Jesus.- If we are going to imitate Jesus, we have to take the time to observe Him.- God did not speak what He saw, He spoke what He wanted. Jesus was able to send the enemy away because He spoke it.- Faith speaks. The spirit of faith says something.- Our power can be diminished if we don't do as God does.- The more humble a person is, the more powerful they are and become.- Jesus encourages us to watch how He does it, then go and do likewise.- God did not say good enough, He said good. We have to be like Him on all points.- We cannot pick and choose how we want to be like God.- The minute we stop acting like Jesus, we can no longer do what Jesus can do.