They 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 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 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 MoreThe Bible describes us: we're like aliens and strangers walking through this earth. This isn't our home and because this isn't our home, and understand that, and that it's not going to last, we can look forward, we're still working here, we're still serving here, but we're looking forward to the glorious appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ and that sets my heart free.
Read MoreThose of you that had been in ministry for a long time, you know that this is basically what ministry is. There's a lot of joy, there's a lot of pleasure, there's a lot of satisfaction, there's no life that's more fulfilling, in my estimation, than serving the Lord.
It is a process of beating your breast in grief and you still got to show up. Prokope.
A heart of faith and love: These are two other qualities that we see are characteristics of a truly born-again Christian. They Have this faith and love and the inspiration for this of course is their expressed confidence in God. I want to give you a very simple definition for faith. Faith is simply taking God at His Word, that's what faith is: taking God at its word. It's not a feeling it can be, it can accompany feelings, but faith is not a feeling. It's nothing that you have to work up, it's nothing that you have to groan for or grunt for, faith is simply taking God at His Word.
Read MoreIn first Thessalonians, Paul tells us that we're to pray continually. How do we do that? Well, the simplest way I can describe continual prayer is not the folding of the hands and the closing of the eyes, and kneeling, and having a prayer list. That's a part of Prayer, that's a valuable part of prayer, but praying continually is just having an ongoing dialogue with God because he's our friend and because he's our Savior, and because we have a life in front of us every day.
Read MoreThe Gospel makes it clear that Salvation is by faith alone in the finished work of Christ and by virtue of that work alone, and faith alone, we stand secure in our walk with God. Now he wants to sanctify us no doubt, he wants to transform us, no doubt, he wants us to be created into the image of his son, no doubt, but our stability, and our foundation, and our standing is based on something outside of ourselves, and that's the work of God. Its about Living the Epic Life - The Abundant Life
Read MoreIt's an incredible journey we're on and God is the one that's going to make it happen. So, we can be at rest we can be at peace we can revel in it, we can enjoy it, we can let him do the work and we can even let the difficulties that we face in life, like Paul, instead of becoming a point of deficiency and a point of anger, and upset and offense on our part, it becomes our platform and a witness to believer and unbeliever alike, and a place where we learn how to be comforted by God in the midst of our trouble so that we too in turn can comfort others with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
Read More
