- If we know God only because of what He does, then we know His acts. If we know God by His character, then we know His ways.
- If we know God's ways, we won’t get so caught up in His acts- when He doesn't.
- If we can hold onto knowing God by His ways, it will sustain us until we see His acts.
- He that comes to God MUST believe. Unbelief takes us away from God.
- When we know about God nothing can make us doubt Him.
- We enter into the rest by believing.
- We must not allow ourselves to get comfortable with our unbelief.
- Guilt, shame, condemnation are all designed by the enemy to keep the people of God out of rest.
- Rest is not inactivity. It's ceasing from our own work.
- Sep 6, 2020A Place Called Rest
Sep 6, 2020A Place Called RestSeries: General- Unrest- state of dissatisfaction, of agitation. There is a rest for the people of God.
- If we know God only because of what He does, then we know His acts. If we know God by His character, then we know His ways.
- If we know God's ways, we won’t get so caught up in His acts- when He doesn't.
- If we can hold onto knowing God by His ways, it will sustain us until we see His acts.
- He that comes to God MUST believe. Unbelief takes us away from God.
- When we know about God nothing can make us doubt Him.
- We enter into the rest by believing.
- We must not allow ourselves to get comfortable with our unbelief.
- Guilt, shame, condemnation are all designed by the enemy to keep the people of God out of rest.
- Rest is not inactivity. It's ceasing from our own work. - Aug 30, 2020Staying Focused In These Times
Aug 30, 2020Staying Focused In These TimesSeries: General
Psalm 34:4-7, 112:4-5,7; 1 Corinthians 6:12, 10:23; 2 Corinthians 4:8-12
- Some of the things that we are choosing to do are designed to take us off of our course.
- The enemy has been setting up distractions from the beginning - he wants us to satisfy our desires instead of staying focused.
- The enemy is always trying to divert us from our course.
- All diversions are not evil, but can yet be diversions, and yet present a need for us to be mindful.
- We have to be aware of whether or not the activity is building us up.
- We must examine our lawful activities to see if they are diversions.
- Keeping our mind on God is better than staying away from problems.
- Are our diversions going to deliver us from our problems?
- We can be troubled on every side, but we don't have to be stressed.
- We have to maintain our connection to Jesus. - Aug 23, 2020Getting the Answers You Need
Aug 23, 2020Getting the Answers You NeedSeries: GeneralGenesis 1:1 -4, 2 Corinthians 11:14-15, 4:3-4,6; John 3:19, 8:12, 15:13-15; Romans 13:12; Ephesians 5:11; Psalm 27:1, 25:14; 1 Peter 2:9; Matthew 5:16, 22:2-13; Deuteronomy 29:29; Amos 3:7; Proverbs 3:32; Jeremiah 33:3
- God wants to answer us.
- The first recorded act of God was speaking light into the darkness.
- God is light and God is good. Light is good. The enemy is dark. Darkness and evil go hand in hand.
- Darkness is associated with sin; evil, condemnation, spiritual blindness.
- It's not whether we are good or not we have to have on the right attire. with the robe of righteousness.
-Light is symbolic of salvation. Light is symbolic of Jesus.
- Light is symbolic of revelation.
- God wants us to see so He is dispelling darkness.
- God reveals things to me.
- God spoke to His prophets. Jesus speaks to His friends, I am a friend of God's. God gives His friends answers.
- God's friendship is for God's worshippers. They are the ones He confides in. ( Psalm 25:14 msg)
- The enemy blinds the mind, God enlightens the heart. - Aug 16, 2020What You Can’t See
Aug 16, 2020What You Can’t SeeSeries: GeneralRuth 1:19-22, 2:1-3 4:16-17; Leviticus 19:9-10,23:22; Deuteronomy 24:19, 28:16-68-; Ruth 3:10-13; Galatians 3:13-14
- We don't see ourselves how God sees us.
- God wants to take what we can't see and change it around for us.
- What we can see, we can be.
- We don't have to put somebody down, in order to lift someone up.
- Somewhere in our lives we all have a Ruth. Someone that stays with us in our time of need.
- We get so focused on the people that have left us, that we overlook our Ruths.
- Don't let your circumstances change your name.
- Change your name and you can change your destiny.
- Everybody around you is not necessarily down for you.
- We work for a giving, not a living.
- We may not be able to see what God is doing, but He is at work, just like He was with Ruth.
- We need to do things for others on purpose.
- We have to realize the "field" doesn't belong to us. God wants us to be a blessing.
- God is not trying to take stuff from us, He's trying to give it.
- God wants us to see His hand moving in our life.
- God doesn't write child support checks, He takes care of His children.
- Boaz was the form of a redeemer. Jesus is our redeemer. He can take us out of a situation. God wants us to see that.
- Even after we accept Jesus, we need Jesus. We need to see His redemption.
- Just because we have been saved, does not mean we've been saved from the enemy's darts.
- We need to see that we have a Redeemer.
- We just live day today, but there is a larger purpose in our life. God wants us to see that. - 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.