Archive for June, 2010
The Battles Are the Lord’s
Many times in life people, including Christians, can get bogged down with worry, frustration, and fear. We are losing battles before they even begin. But we need to look to God for the victory and when we do we will be altogether victorious. We have to remember that when the enemy is taunting us what they are really doing is taunting God and we need to remind the enemy of our souls whose name it is that we come against him in, the name of the Lord.
Aaron masterfully illustrated this point with his storytelling ability. He walked us through the story of David and Goliath as it is laid out in 1 Samuel 17, creating an amazing visual display in our minds eye of what it must have looked and felt like to be there on the battlefield. His message will be an encouragement to you today.
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No commentsTypical Father
What is God’s view of a typical father?
1. A pure man. (2 Peter 1:3, Eph 5:3-4 “not a HINT of immorality”) Be
faithful with your heart, soul and mind.
2. A prophet to his household. Speak God’s perspective into the
situation where you are living.
3. A man who is consumed by his marriage. The best thing a father can
do for his children is to love his wife. Every woman’s desire is to
have her husband honor and cherish her.
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No commentsTransition Ahead: Show Extreme Caution
This week Pastor Ted’s message explored what we do when we are facing times of transition. Transition is something that we face many times in life. We have transitions when we move, when we have children, when we get married, find a new job, loose a job that we thought was good, when a loved one dies, in graduations, promotions, and demotions, and the list could go on and on. Transitions something that everyone must go through at various points in their lives but how we go through transition is something that we need to take seriously.
During a time of transition there are three things that we need to do and Pastor Ted outlines each of these more specifically. First of all we need to keep on doing the right thing. (Gal. 6:9) Just because we may be going through a tough transition or one that messing with our regular routine does not give us the right to start doing what we please or making excuses for wrong choices and poor behavior. We need to keep doing what is right.
Secondly we need to be impressed by God and aware of Satan, instead of having it the other way around where we are impressed by Satan and aware of God. Many times we put all of our focus on Satan and worry about what he is doing and allow ourselves to be impressed with his capability while letting God live on the peripheral of our lives and minds. It needs to be the other way around. There are only three forces in this world: God, Satan, and Human Nature. (James 4:7)
Third we cannot allow ourselves to be isolated. Just as we see on the Discovery Channel, when a lion attacks they try to separate a lone victim from the herd. Satan is more than happy to do the same so when we face transition in our lives we need to resist the temptation to separate our selves from the church and from God’s word. By an act of our own will, we need to push in closer to God in the midst of Transition. (Romans 8:28)
No mater the cause or reason of the transition that we are facing remembering these three things will not only make the transition easier but could make the transitions of our lives, moments where we are drawn closer to God and we have our faith encouraged.
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