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| 2008-04-21 - Falling in Love with God - Communication Talking to God is the best way to break the chains that our hearts captive Tempted to everything but talk to God Sometimes we feel that we need to get everything "just perfect" before going to God God listens to complainers - Job, Jeremiah, Jonah, Abraham, and Moses God prefers honest agreement to dishonest submission Psalms 42 - Half of psalms like David telling himself what he should be thinking and feeling Deepest parts of him longed to connect with what is deepest with God | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008-04-23 - Falling in Love with God - Discerning God's voice
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| 2008-06-20 - Purpose Driven Life - Defeating Temptation There is always a way out Refocus attention on something else By resisting, you actually reinforce it Reveal your struggle to a gold friend or support group If you fall, a friend can help you up - Eccelesiastes 4:9-10 Resist the Devil He will flee when you resist - James 4:7 Realize your vulnerabilities The heart is deceitful above all things- Jeremiah 17:9 Don't carelessly place yourself in tempting situations, avoid them - Proverbs 14:16 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008-06-24 - Purpose Driven Life - Accepting Your Assignment You were put on earth to make a contribution Not what we get out of life, it what you give You were created to server God God created us for a life of good deeds - Ephesians 2:10 Set apart for a special work - Jeremiah 1:5 You were saved to server God Saved us and chose us for his holy work - 2 Timothy 1:9 We are not saved by service but you are saved for service Offer yourself as living sacrifices to God - Romans 12:1 Our love for each other proves we have gone from death to life - 1 John 3:14 A saved heart is one that wants to server He leaves us here to fulfill his purpose | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008-06-26 - Purpose Driven Life - No Excuse for Not Serving The Bible warns against living only for ourselves - Romans 2:8 Trying to save our life; we will lose it - Mark 8:35 What excuse have you been using to not serve?
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| 2008-07-14 - Purpose Driven Life - Sharing Your Message (Godly Passions) God passionately loves some things and passionately hates things other thing The closer you are to God - you will share these view Jesus - Man's heart determines his speech - Matthew 12:34 David - Zeal for God's work burn within him - Psalms 69:9 Jeremiah - Cannot keep silent - Jeremiah 20:9 Are defend the defenseless, those who can not speak for themselves Should not expect everyone to have the exact same passion as you It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good - Galatians 4:18 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008-09-13 - Teach Us To Pray - Sin and Transgression God both forbids and forgives Clearly forbids - Genesis 2:16-17 We must understand that sin hurts God deeply - Jeremiah 8:20-9:3 In his infinite wisdom, he found a way to forgive the unforgivable. Forgiveness is an undeserved gift | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008-09-24 - Teach Us To Pray - Plans to Prosper Us God has plans to prosper you - Jeremiah 29:10-13 Quiet time about things that happened in Flavio and Renee Uribe's life as they trusted in God. The found out that their plans and prayers didn't come about on their timing. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008-11-15 - Man of Prayer - Miracle List It is helpful to keep a separate list of needs for times of pure intercession:
Also good to have a "miracle list" God can do anything - nothing is impossible - Luke 1:37 During difficult times, God extended a seeming impossible invitation: Call to me and I will answer with great and unsearchable things - Jeremiah 33:3 He can do immeasurably more than what we can ask - Ephesians 3:20 We know God can do anything; we just don't know if he will do them
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| 2009-04-17 - Why We Need God - He is The Creator GOD IS THE CREATOR...
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| 2009-05-02 - No one like him - His dependence on God (part 1) No one claimed to be able to do what he did He knew the result would be if he completely depended on God – gave confidence Dependency can have negative connotations; those who are dependent sometimes are looked down on. Bible says not to depend on ourselves or other men … but on God.
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| 2009-08-26 - Wild at Heart - God loves wilderness (part 2) God’s relationship with us is risky We are unpredictable; there is the likelihood to get hurt (ultimate risk anyone ever takes is to love) God give love all the time (and gets hurt all the time) Music, wine, poetry, sunset – all his inventions God is romantic at heart Heart of man is drawn from God – strong and courageous love Have you noticed the most often word used with boys is 'don’t' –God’s design 'Yes' Sexes show different sides of God’s heart Heart of a woman – deep hearted, seductive more than fierce Wants to be loved Why don’t you choose Me? 'Seek and you will find me…with all of your heart' – Jeremiah 29:13 God wants to be wanted Why does God does not answer prayer right away? – he wants us to talk to him God has beauty to be unveiled Each stage of creation is better than before All Adam can say is “WOW” Women wants he beauty unveiled Do you delight in me? God wants to be worshiped | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010-04-08 - Life to the Full - Two Wisdoms (part 2) Teaching is one of the few gifts mentioned in both in the lists of Ephesian 4 and 1 Corinthians 12 What exactly is a teacher?
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| 2010-07-05 - Desire's Journey - The Grand Affair (part 2) As a bride you loved me and followed me through the desert - Jeremiah 2:2-3 If you're writing a romanc, love is the goal - you must allow for the possiblity of betrayal Hebrews thought God would be satisfied with some religious rituals and rule keeping You said, "I will not serve you!" - Jeremiah 2:20 True love never fails I will lead her into the desert and speak tenderly to her - Hosea 2:14
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| 2010-07-16 - Desire's Journey - Deeper Desire (part 3) The first step in the journey of desire is to stop pretending that we would be happy with less Recovering our heart involves facing our deepest disappointments We do not need to fear what we find because our heart is our biggest ally The father of lies takes many people out of the journey for life by keeping them in shallow desire He threatens us from going to the deep waters of desire by telling us that are core desires are evil Makes us thing that every thought and desire is our own I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; remove your heart of stone - Ezekiel 36:26 Our core desires are good: I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts - Jeremiah 31:33 We still struggle with sin with our tendency to kill desire or give our hearts over to false desires | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010-08-18 - Waking Dead - Point of all Living Everything you love is what makes a life worth living Action: Set down the book and make a list of all the things you love
Jesus was asked what was most important He boiled it down to loving God and loving others - everything else will fall into place The heart is the connecting point; can not love without it If we can truly love, be loved, and never lose love - we would be finally truly happy If we worship efficiency, we can not grow in our love Some try to master all sort of principles and and never know God intimately, heart to heart. If do all sorts of Christian things without knowing God, he will say "I never knew you" - Matthew 7:22-23 The point is not the activity but intimacy with God Taking a course on anatomy won't help you love you spouse Taking a religion class will not help you love God You will find God when you seek him with all of your heart - Jeremiah 29:13 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010-09-05 - Waking Dead - Deep Restoration (part 2) Everything Jesus did was to illustrate what he was trying to say He offered healing for the body but more importantly for the soul The Lord is my shepherd, he restores my soul - Psalms 23:1-3 He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds - Psalms 147:3 Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed - Jeremiah 17:14 Sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings - Malachi 4:2 He welcomes them and healed those who needed healing - Luke 9:11 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010-12-04 - Mission - Peter, From a Reed Peter was a reed blowing in the wind who became a rock whom God could build great things Jesus looked at Peter and saw what he could become Perhaps for the first time in Peter's life someone believed in him and had a vision that he could be someone great When we feel believed in, we feel loved The only thing that counts if faith expressing itself through love - Galatians 5:6 God looks at us for what we will become - Jeremiah 29:11 Viewing our day to day struggles and failures as their growth process on the way to becoming what God wants Peter was convinced of this It kept Peter coming back after his failures When Peter was asked if he wanted to leave, he said 'Lord, to whom shall we go?" - John 6:68-69 Think of all of Peter's heartbreaking failures....
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| 2010-12-07 - Mission - Cannot Help Proclaiming (part I) We can help speaking about what we have seen and heard - Acts 4:20 Have you ever been so committed to something that you were unable to stop? What would it take to stop you from sharing your faith? What does it take to motivate you to share your faith? Does it take accountability it invite people? What compelled Peter and John? 1. We are overflowing with Jesus The authorities took note that the disciples had been with Jesus - Acts 4:13 His word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in - Jeremiah 20:9 Do we feel that we will burst if we don't open our moths 2. We need to be filled with gratitude We so easily forget what God's grace has done for us David says over and over again to tell and celebrate God's glory Are we overflowing with gratitude for the wonders of God? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010-12-11 - Seeking God (part I) What are you looking for in life? Acts 17:16-28
Jeremiah 29:11-14
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| 2011-01-20 - Followup - Heart Issues The Examination Proverbs 4:23 - Above all else guard your heart. Psalms 139:23 - Open your heart to God. Hebrews 4:13 - God cuts with His sword and sees everything. Types of Heart Disease Jeremiah 17:9, Proverbs 14:12 - Deceit Deuteronomy 29:26-31 - Idolatry Deuteronomy 8:10-18, Proverbs 18:12 - Pride Hebrews 3:12-19 - Unbelief (hardness, rebellion, disobedience) Hebrews 12:3-12 - Weariness | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011-01-27 - Followup - Prayer (part II) Key to Effective Prayer
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| 2011-03-20 - God Is (part I) Starting a study of God attributes this week:
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| 2011-03-22 - God Is (part III) Continuing study about who God is:
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| 2011-03-26 - God Is (part VII) Last day of this series on God's attributes:
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