Your challenges, your trials become an expression of the power and majesty and divinity and beauty of your creator. Every time you go through a trial with a heart that rejoices in God, not because of the trial, but in the midst of it, because you can see that God is good and that your worship of him, and your love of him, isn't based on cause and effect, but it's based on cause. It's just based on cause, and he is the cause, he is the reason we worship. He is the reason that we love him. His mercy to us is the reason that we respond back with this devotion, and this total surrender is a citizen of this new kingdom.
Read MoreIt’s not about us being strong, it's about God making us strong so we have a part in strengthening ourselves and also a part in relying on God for that strength. In the midst of that, God gives us a source of protection and he tells us to put on the full armor of God.
Read MoreThey know that they have sinned, they know that they should be burning in hell, they know they have no proper or right standing on their own apart from Christ. To have a relationship with God, they've accepted that they're Extra Ordinary in fact they are disqualified from having a relationship with God entirely by their sin.
Read MoreIf you are a born-again Christian and you're filled with the Spirit of God this is the life that will be produced in you these are the marks that should be noticeable. These are the things that you should be expecting as you move into this new normal of this walk with God
Read MoreGod's answer for our failures is his blessing which is really strange. God actually takes our failures, and he takes our inabilities and our weaknesses and he's able to actually, on the heels of that, give us strength and promise for a future.
Read MoreYou know the lord is speaking. There's no question he's trying to communicate some things to us but if we don't know the prophecies, and we don't know his plan, we're going to be confused by the message. We're going to be distressed by it, but if we understand that God is said in advance, he is going to shake the nations and there's a reason he's going to shake the nations, then we can participate in it and we can partner in it and we can actually contribute to God's eternal plan.
Read MoreHe has given us new life. He's adopted us as his sons and daughters. He's given us great and precious promises. He's invested in us and in dwelled us by His Holy Spirit, he seated us in the heavenly realms with Christ at the right hand of God the Father and he gives us an inheritance that the Bible says will never perish, spoil, or fade and it's kept in heaven for us, and it's guarded by the Spirit of God. The Epic Life
Read MoreWe need to avoid loving our political party more than we love the souls of men and women. We need to avoid loving winning more than being true to the word of God. We need to avoid loving a spirited political debate more than being salt and light and encouragement, even to those who are oppositional to our political beliefs. We need to avoid loving our patriotism in our country more than the city of God.
Read MoreThe real issue is that not, is God on our side; is God on our side with politics or God on our side with our team, or whatever it might be. The real question is are we on the Lord's side, that's a question that really needs to be answered
Read MoreObey the Great Commission and get on board with what I call The Epic life. Share the Gospel. Be a part of making disciples. Why? Because we're running out of time, and we have a message here, and we have a prophecy, and we have an understanding of things that we won't even be part of, so that we can inform and warn and exhort people that have not yet received Christ.
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