Episodes
Sunday Jan 28, 2018
Dreaming: Why Dreams? Week 1 (1.28.18)
Sunday Jan 28, 2018
Sunday Jan 28, 2018
17 ‘In the last days,’ God says, ‘I will pour out my Spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams. 18 In those days I will pour out my Spirit even on my servant—men and women alike— and they will prophesy. (Ac 2:17–18, NLT)
Dreams are the inheritance of the children of God.
Dreams are impossible and ridiculous without God’s help.
Dreams prepare us for the suffering of today so we can reach the glory of tomorrow.
3 Ways a “God Dream” Impacts us
Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love—but the greatest of these is love. (1 Co 13:13., CSB)
By FAITH we see the future.
With HOPE we make it through tough times.
Through LOVE we make a difference on the journey
Jacob’s Dream
10 Meanwhile, Jacob left Beersheba and traveled toward Haran. 11 At sundown he arrived at a good place to set up camp and stopped there for the night. Jacob found a stone to rest his head against and lay down to sleep. 12 As he slept, he dreamed of a stairway that reached from the earth up to heaven. And he saw the angels of God going up and down the stairway. 13 At the top of the stairway stood the Lord, and he said, “I am the Lord, the God of your grandfather Abraham, and the God of your father, Isaac. The ground you are lying on belongs to you. I am giving it to you and your descendants. 14 Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the earth! They will spread out in all directions—to the west and the east, to the north and the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants. 15 What’s more, I am with you, and I will protect you wherever you go. One day I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have finished giving you everything I have promised you.” 16 Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I wasn’t even aware of it!” (Ge 28:10–16, NLT)
3 Ways Tell if a Dream is of the Lord
Is it something you can do without God?
Will the journey be Hard?
Does it make you love God and Love Neighbor more?
Sunday Jan 14, 2018
Looking Back and Moving Forward-The Tabernacle (Wk 3) 1.14.18
Sunday Jan 14, 2018
Sunday Jan 14, 2018
They serve in a system of worship that is only a copy, a shadow of the real one in heaven. (Heb 8:5., NLT)
Enter His Courts with Praise to Jesus.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! 5 For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations. (Ps 100:4–5., ESV)
Look to the Cross of Jesus.
The message of the cross is foolish to those who are headed for destruction But we who are being saved know it is the very power of God. (1 Co 1:18., NLT)
Present your bodies to Jesus
And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him (Ro 12:1, NLT)
Receive the Spirit of Jesus.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom (2 Co 3:17., ESV)
Feast on the Word of Jesus.
16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. (2 Ti 3:16–17, ESV)
Offer Your prayers to Jesus.
8 And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. (Re 5:8, ESV)
Remember God made a covenant with Jesus' blood.
20 And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood. (Lk 22:20, ESV)
Sunday Jan 07, 2018
Looking Back and Moving Forward (Wk 2) 1.7.18
Sunday Jan 07, 2018
Sunday Jan 07, 2018
Instead, train yourself to be godly. 8 “Physical training is good, but training for godliness is much better, promising benefits in this life and in the life to come.” 9 This is a trustworthy saying, and everyone should accept it. 10 This is why we work hard and continue to struggle, for our hope is in the living God, who is the Savior of all people and particularly of all believers. (1 Ti 4:7–10, ESV)
When we engage in Spiritual activities, the Spirit can move in our hearts to reveal God's Truth
11 For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. (Heb 12:11, ESV)
Everything must be grounded in the Grace revealed in the Gospel
God is attracted to weakness.
We must learn the difference between condemnation and conviction.
Make Yourself availible
3 Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you, (2 Th 3:1, ESV)
Be Consistant
7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. (Mt 7:7–8, ESV)
How to fast
Keep your mouth closed.
2 And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. (Mt 4:2, ESV)
Keep it between you and God.
17 But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, 18 that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. (Mt 6:17–18, ESV)
Sunday Dec 31, 2017
Looking Back and Moving Forward (Wk 1) 12.31.17
Sunday Dec 31, 2017
Sunday Dec 31, 2017
καιρός time: a point of time, (The) appropriate the right, proper, or favorable time. a season
13 Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a lifelong friend of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. 2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” 3 Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off. 4 So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus. ...6 When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they came upon a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus. ...(who) opposed them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith. 9 But Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him 10 and said, “You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord? 11 And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and unable to see the sun for a time.” Immediately mist and darkness fell upon him, and he went about seeking people to lead him by the hand. 12 Then the proconsul believed, when he saw what had occurred, for he was astonished at the teaching of the Lord. (Ac 13:1–12, ESV)
The word time was used 717 times in Scripture.
Besides this you know the time, that the hour
has come for you to wake from sleep. (Ro 13:11, ESV)
The word remember was used 234 times in Scripture.
45 But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.” (Le 26:45, ESV)
There are 3 Ways People Spend their Time
Creating, Wasting, & Destroying
Ways to invest in and move forward in your relationship with God.
A.) Spend time God
(21 Days of Prayer)
B.)Spend time People
(Small Groups)