Wednesday 01/13/16 Series: Living in the Kingdom XVI Message – Unified in Purpose VII Click here for the Video As we are living in the kingdom, our pursuit of being unified in purpose with God requires faith and patience. As we ended our service on Sunday we illustrated these points with Psalm 37. Today, after having a brief review, we went on to further illustrate these truths in Psalm 25… Review Paul prayed that the dedicated saints of Ephesus & Colossae would be filled with the knowledge of God’s will concerning two predominate things… The knowledge of God’s will of their […]
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Faith is a topic which is widely misunderstood. This is largely due to it’s being treated like a religious topic or a “tool” to manipulate circumstances and ultimately God to make our own lives more satisfying.
Any Biblical idea which has been stripped of its relational context is doomed to mislead people in the end.
Faith is nothing more that relational, whole-hearted trust placed in God as a RESULT of Him taking the initiative to reveal Himself to us in any area of our live. The trust we place in Him, initiates from Him. As He reveals Who He is to us, the heart response of trusting Him to be Who He reveals Himself to be is what faith is – nothing less and nothing more.
Living in the Kingdom XIV
Wednesday 01/06/16 Series: Living in the Kingdom XIV Message – Unified in Purpose V Click here for the Video As we are living in the kingdom, our pursuit of being unified in purpose with God requires faith and patience. As we ended our service on Sunday we illustrated these points with a chapter out of Jesus’ life found in Matthew 26:36-46 & Luke 22:39-46, Matthew 26:36-46, “Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples, “Sit here while I go and pray over there.” (37) And He took with Him Peter and the two […]
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Wednesday 12/30/15 Series: Living in the Kingdom XII Message – Unified in Purpose III Click here for the Video The Knowledge of His Will in the Kingdom We ended with Ephesians 1 last Sunday, where Paul prayed a very similar prayer over that church for the exact same reasons…”Ever since we heard of your faith in Christ and your love for all the saints do not cease to pray for you…”. What we see Paul praying is that these dedicated saints be filled with two predominate things… The knowledge of God’s will of their inheritance, which is Christ IN us! The […]
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