Encounters with the Author leads to Relational Trust

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Adoration leads to seeking. Seeking to encounters with God. Encounters with God to loving surrender to Him, which leads to trust!

This IS relationship – it is ETERNAL LIFE. Knowing Him and being intimately known by Him. But in the revelations which come from these encounters with God, we still need to…

⦁ Choose to reject other thoughts
⦁ Choose to not be anxious
⦁ Choose to respect the God of the words – value the words because of WHO spoke them
⦁ Relinquish control (surrender)

All of this facilitates faith!

Even after hearing from God you have to make the decision to trust what you heard.

There will always be competing voices and not all of them are from the enemy directly. For some, we need look no further than our own minds which have been trained towards unbelief, towards protecting self, towards guarding self against failed hope or disappointment.

So it is that we have to be intentional to believe with ALL the heart, rather than ration out our trust in small segments to avoid the devastation of our hopes being let down.

Faith, real faith is ALL IN. There is no back door, there is no backup plan, there is no protection of the heart against the possibility of failure! NONE of these things are consistent with real, genuine relational trust!

You either know God in the area of your trust or you do not. There is no fudging on this!

IF you know Him, you WILL trust Him WITHOUT ANY reservations!!!

Key concepts covered in this teaching are – worship, fear, encounters with God and surrender leading to trust!

In a nutshell, adoration for God provokes surrender leading to faith!

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Original QR Landing Page

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Who are we? Well, first off Living Grace Fellowship [a.k.a. – Grace Life] is a church. We meet in a home for many reasons, but the most important reason is it’s personal. We are not a church you can disappear in. If you show up, you will be noticed and that introduces one of the primary reasons why churches exist. According to the Bible, church is an assembly of believers which is to say – Christians. As such it is NOT a place of evangelism but rather of spiritual growth. It is not a place to bring the lost so […]

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Is there One church or many?

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Is there One church or many? Like so many topics, beliefs surrounding questions like this have been used by the devil to divide the body.  Like so many issues, this question is one easily agreed upon by anyone holding the scriptures as the final word on any issue of doctrine. Words used for “church” in the Bible and their meanings There were two words predominately used in the New Testament to refer to the gatherings of Christians.  The first word is ekklēsía which means called out ones and is NOT a word exclusive to Christian gatherings, but was in fact […]

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Binding & Loosening

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   Binding & Loosening The purpose of this article is to address the way these words have come to be used in the last 50+ years. We are going to look closely at the scriptures to see if… or to what degree, the scriptures support modern thoughts on the issue. What ARE modern thoughts and teachings of Binding and Loosening In most cases, and therefore the ones I am choosing to address in this article, the teachings of binding and loosening are largely in the sphere of spiritual warfare. Teachings regarding spiritual warfare are often riddled with difficulties, extremes and […]

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