April 22, 2018

No Church Services Today
Below are some of the Spiritual Inspirational Thoughts used during the church service. These were gathered from the Bible, Internet, other church signs, poets, authors, etc.

• The word listen contains the same amount of letters as the word silent. You can't really listen to someone unless you're silent.
• He who kneels before God can stand before anyone.
• Worrying does not take away tomorrow's troubles, it takes away today's peace.
• Prayer is not a "spare wheel' that you pull out when in trouble, but it is a "steering wheel" that directs the right path throughout.
• Don't get ANTS - Automatic Negative Thoughts
• Faith in Jesus breaks the power of sin.
• Are you married to Christ or just dating on Sundays?
• If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging!
• Don't worry about tomorrow, God is already there!
• Life can change in the blink of an eye, but don't worry, God never blinks!
• The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith.
• Comparing yourself to others is a thief to your joy.
• Christianity is more than a collection of interesting facts; it is the power of God to everyone who believes.
• God is God and we are not!
• If you want to know what God has to say, read the Bible.
• God is good at His job!
• Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - it has no point.
• A Christian's freedom is not to do as we please but as we ought.
• If God is your co-pilot, move over.
• Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted.
• Faith is the ability to not panic.
• Work for the Lord. The salary may not be much but the retirement benefit is out of this world.
• Hot words never result in cool judgment.
• A simple man believes anything but a prudent man gives thought to his steps.
• Thoughts become works....works become actions....actions become habits.....habits become your character.....be careful what you're thinking.
• Those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed.
• If you are slinging mud, you are losing ground.
• Be sure you taste your words before you spit them out.
• Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never a weakness.
• Grudges like babies grow when nursed.
• God would never send a thirsty mind to a dry well.
• God can do what he says he can do. As Savior he saves. As Deliverer he delivers. As Redeemer he redeems. As Master he assumes authority. As Bread of Life he provides. And as Almighty he exerts divine strength.
• Don't allow a distraction to become your destruction.
• A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
• If you have not time to PRAY, you will become PREY.
• Don't follow the world, follow the Word.
• Grace is not a license to sin.
• If the grass looks greener on the other side, stop staring, comparing, and complaining. Start watering the grass you're standing on.
• Never trust your tongue if your heart is bitter.
• If you only pray when you're in trouble, you're in trouble.
• Worry is the darkroom that develops negative thoughts.
• Worship gets you through the hardest times in your life because it shifts your focus from the problem to the problem solver!!!
• Do not regret growing older, it's a privilege denied to many.
• Does God's Word lay on the surface of your brain or does it sink in and spread and marinate?
• Faith in God must be exercised every day.
• Is there anything too hard for God? Absolutely not! He can provide peace, strength and courage to face whatever you were up against. Don't give up. Put your hope in Him. There are no limits to what God can do. He can do far more than what we might ask of Him, More than we can even imagine.
• What God began, He finished!
• I day hemmed with prayer is less likely to unravel.
• Nothing we have is because of luck or chance. It's all due to God's grace and favor.
• Salvation is not based on a feeling.
• Alcohol leaves you breathless, drugs leaves you senseless, evil leaves you heartless, death leaves you lifeless but God won't leave you regardless!!
• God leads but do we follow?
• When things go wrong, don't go with them!
• No other birth has had the impact that Jesus' birth had.
• Faith doesn't make things easier, it makes them possible.
• God can turn a mess into a message, a test into a testimony, a trial into a triumph, a victim into a victory. God is great and worthy to be praised.
• Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.
• Be careful who you trust, remember the devil was once an angel.

 

March 26, 2017

Sunday School
A Study of Prayer

To understand prayer we must first understand the Will Of God!
References: Bible-Gateway; Google; Kay Arthur; Priscilla Shirer; Angela Thomas; Beth Moore
References of the Will of God:

• Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
• 1 Thessalonians 4:3 It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality.
• James 1:5 If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.
• Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will direct your path.
• Ephesians 5:15-20 Be very careful, then, how you live-not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is. Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from eh Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
• Micah 6:8 He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.  And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
• Hebrews 10:36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.

Prayer is a intimate connection with God.
We, as Christians sometimes tend to sink into turmoil, rejoice in our woos, live in confusion, have doubt about nearly everything, anger to easily, get frustrated by the tiniest thing, linger in heartache, stress over day to day living, etc.
There is always an answer in prayer.
We should always praise God when we pray.

Examples:

•  Nehemiah 9:5-6 You alone are God; 
• Psalm 31:7-8 You have set me in a safe place;
• 1 Kings 8: 23 You keep your promises with unfailing love;
•  Jeremiah 32:18-19 Nothing is too hard for you;
• Revelation 15:3-4 You are great, marvelous, just and true!;
•  Revelation 4:8 Holy, holy, holy is the Lord;
•  2 Corinthians 1:3 You are the source of all comfort.

Sermon
Psalm 37:1-4  v1 Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness. v2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. v3 Trust in the Lord and do good; so shall you dwell in the land and feed surely on His faithfulness, and truly you shall be fed. v4 Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart.
Subject: "Don't Worry About A Thing. Every Little Will Be Alright!"

• Why do the wicked seem to prosper?
• We as Christians need fret not!!
• Be conscience of our walk with the Lord.
• Be pleasing to God.
• We walk by faith not by sight.
• Do good.
• And we know that all things work together for good to those who love  God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.  Romans 8:28
• Trust in the Lord with all your heart; and lean not unto your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your path.  Proverbs 3:5
• For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways.  Isaish 55:8
• The just shall live by faith.  Romans 1:17
• Position yourself to be blessed by God.
• We are the light and salt of the earth.
• But seek you first the kingdom of God and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.  Matthew 6:33
• Delight in the Lord.
• His will be done.

 

October 25, 2015

Sunday School
(References: Google; Discover Revelation; Kay Arthur)
Revelation 15-17

• Revelation 15 begins the preparation for the last seven bowls. God's wrath began with the seven seals and will be finished with the last seven bowls.
• As we've studied, God has poured out His wrath in judgment on early sinners. Adam's sin in the Garden of Eden; Noah's family was spared when God sent the flood that destroyed the whole world; Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed by God with fire and brimstone. 
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• Revelation 16 describes the final seven bowls of the wrath of God which represents the climax of God's punishment of sinners during the Tribulation time.
• An angel says, "Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus."
• As terrible as these judgments are, they are deserved. God is the Judge of the world!

• Revelation 17 goes back and fills in some of what has already happened during the Tribulation. Babylon was begun by Nimrod who was a rebel before the Lord.

1. The vision of the woman is detailed as follows:
2. The great prostitute
3. Who sits on many waters
4. With her the kings of the earth committed adultery.
5. The inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries.
6. A woman sitting on a scarlet beast; dressed in purple and scarlet
7. Glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls; she holds a golden cup filled with abominable stings and the filth of her adulteries
8. On her forehead is written Mystery Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes and of the Abomination of the Earth.
9. Drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of those who bore testimony of Jesus.

The vision of the Beast is described as follows:

• Had seven heads
• And ten horns
• The prostitute rides it
• The beast was, and is not, and will come up out of the bottomless pit and go to his destruction.

Perdition is mentions in this chapter. It means ruin or loss or damnable.

Sermon
Matthew 5:14-16 
V14- Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. V15- Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. V16- Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Subject: The Light of the World

Snippet of Sermon

• This is personal that we are the lights of the world.
• If we live for Christ, we will glow like lights, showing others what Christ is like. 
• We hide our light by (1) being quiet when we should speak, (2) going along with the crowd, (3) denying the light, (4) letting sin dim ur light, (5) not explaining our light to others, (6) ignoring the needs of other.
• We are to be beacons of truth, not allowing our lights to shut off to the rest of the world.
• In the beginning God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. Genesis 1:3
• Light reveals danger
• Light will expose what's in the darkness.
• We are a reflection of Christ.
• But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are a kingdom of priests, God's hold nation, His very own possession. This is so you can show others the goodness of God, for He called you out of the darkness into His wonderful light. 1 Peter 2:9
• A Christian may be the only sermon some people may ever see. So, what kind of light are we reflecting? What vision is casted?
• Choose you this day, whom  you will  serve, as for  me and  my house, we  will  serve the Lord. Joshua 24:15
• We are both salt and light.
• You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor? Can you make it useful again? It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless. Matthew 5:13
• What does light do? It conquers the darkness; Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path. Psalm 119:105
• The purpose of light: Light is a witness to the lost; Light is shines on our good works; Light is to be a witness for our Lord.

April 26, 2015

Sunday School
1 John 4:1-21

"Discerning False Prophets"

• Do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit.
• We must try the Spirit by the Spirit.
• 1 Corinthians 14:29 - And let the prophets speak by two or three, and let the others discern.
• 1 Thessalonians 5:20-21 - despise not prophesyings; prove all things; hold fast that which is good
• 2 Peter 1:20-21 - knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation. For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
• Satan, the Antichrist, the Imitator
• Love one another as God loves His only Son.
• v4 - But you belong to God my dear children. You have already won your fight with these false prophets, because the Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world.

Sermon
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 - For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh (for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds), casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.

Subject: "Living In The Land of Giants"

• Some things appear to be larger than we can handle.
• Are there giants in the land of your life?
• We have a spiritual warfare going on.
• Giants occur through sin.
• We live in a fallen world simply because of Genesis 3.
• Spiritual wars go on within each person.
• "Offensive" warfare is our stance in the now. 
• By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.  Hebrews 11:30
• Go into the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believes and is baptized shall be saved but he that believes not shall be damned. Mark 16:15-16
• Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.  Matthew 11:28
• David said to the Philistine: "You come against me with a dagger, spear and sword, but I come against you in the name of the God of Hosts, the God of Israel's armies - you defied Him." 1 Samuel 17:45
• Against strongholds, we have the Whole Armor of God.
• Our power come from God alone.
• If God be for us, who can be against us.  Romans 8:31
• No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.   Romans 8:37
• Strongholds can be devastating in ones life.
• Don't allow Satan to get a "foothold in your life, for it may become a stronghold.
• "Not by might nor by power but by My Spirit," said the Lord of Hosts.  Zechariah 4:5
• Lean not unto your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6
• Lustful thoughts, greed, love of money, envy, etc. are just some of the strongholds that can happen in our lives.
• Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. 1 Corinthians 15:58