WHEN GOD IS SILENT! Matthew 8:14-17 INTRODUCTION: We can easily understand our Lord’s interventions in the lives of those He loves. Matthew 8:14-17; John 9:1-12; Mark 3:1-6. We all rejoice when our God intervenes in our lives and blesses us. What we struggle with is the other side of the story: We don’t understand God’s […]
JESUS WAY TO HAPPINESS! Matthew 5:1-12 INTRODUCTION: In the first twelve verses of Matthew chapter five, Matthew, in the Sermon on the Mount lays out Jesus way to happiness. The Greek word used for “blessed” is “Markarius” and it means happy. As we look at the Sermon on the Mount today Jesus way to happiness […]
PREPARING FOR GOD’S SPRING! Isaiah 43:16-21 INTRODUCTION: The faith and hope of God’s people was very low during the days of Isaiah and they constantly needed assurance that things would eventually turn around for them. In spite of their backsliding God still loved them and through word pictures God described His love for them. Isaiah […]
GOD’S RECIPE FOR JOY! John 15:9-17 INTRODUCTION: Today we want to talk about how we can have the fullness of Joy that is offered to us in God’s Word. How to have fullness of joy in our hearts and how to learn God’s recipe for joy. John 15:11. Joy is the birthright of every child […]
GOD’S RECIPE FOR JOY! John 15:9-17 INTRODUCTION: Today we want to talk about how we can have the fullness of Joy that is offered to us in God’s Word. How to have fullness of joy in our hearts and how to learn God’s recipe for joy. John 15:11. Joy is the birthright of every child […]
STANDING ALONE WITH GOD! 1 Kings 22:1-38 INTRODUCTION: Courage has been defined as “the ability or the willingness to do something difficult or dangerous.” Remember, our God shows up when we step up and when we take that first step of faith: 2 Chronicles 16:9. Fear […]
AN INDEPENDENT NATION TOTALLY DEPENDENT ON GOD! Daniel 9:1-19 INTRODUCTION: Daniel was a very godly man. He is one of only a few men that the Bible speaks a great deal about that no sin is recorded in his life. Daniel was a praying man. Three times a day he prayed toward Jerusalem, even when […]
STANDING ALONE WITH GOD! 1 Kings 22:1-38 INTRODUCTION: Courage has been defined as “the ability or the willingness to do something difficult or dangerous.” Remember, our God shows up when we step up and when we take that first step of faith: 2 Chronicles 16:9. Fear is the biggest enemy to courage and there are […]
FASTING FOR GOD’S GLORY AND POWER! Matthew 6:16-18 INTRODUCTION: In our nation we live to eat not eat to live. We have a fixation on food! The average American will eat 150,000 pounds of food by age seventy. We eat about a ton of food every year. Food is never very far from our minds […]
WHEN OUR TROUBLES BECOME OUR TRIUMPHS! Proverbs 24:15-20 INTRODUCTION: Often in lives our greatest triumphs come from our everyday troubles! As Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson said; sometimes what you want so badly is “the best thing that never happened to you.” Our message today is being given so you might see that your time of […]