Category: Experiencing GOD

GOD’S INITIATIVE Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us … EPHESIANS 3:20 At times we feel as if we could impress God with all we’re trying to do for Him and His church. Yet God isn’t…
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A LIVING SACRIFICE I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. ROMANS 12:1 God takes great pleasure in worthy sacrifices. In the Old Testament He gave detailed instructions for the way His people…
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MAKING ROOM FOR GOD’S WORK Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes. ISAIAH 54:2 When Almighty God encounters a life, it’s always a time of rejoicing and expectation for the future. Isaiah described this experience as similar to that of a…
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GOD SPEAKS IN MANY POWERFUL WAYS In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son. HEBREWS 1:1-2 Our generation is preoccupied with methods. When we find a program that works in one business,…
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THE BIBLE All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 TIMOTHY 3:16-17 All Scripture is useful. Knowing this, we cheat ourselves when we don’t access every book, every truth, every verse, and every…
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PRAYER Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. MATTHEW 6:8 Prayer doesn’t give you spiritual power. That may sound surprising, but it’s true. Prayer doesn’t give you power. It aligns your life with God so that He chooses to demonstrate His power through you. The purpose…
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CIRCUMSTANCES When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am.” EXODUS 3:4 Christians habitually seek God’s voice through prayer, through His Word, or through His messengers. Yet sometimes we fail to hear God speak through His activity,…
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IF GOD SEEMS SILENT “The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign LORD, “when I will send a famine through the land— not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.” AMOS 8:11 One more way God communicates that you might not expect is through…
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SPIRITUAL WRESTLING Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. MARK 14:38 Too often we settle for much less than what God wants to do through us. We read in Jeremiah 32:27, “I am the LORD, the God of all mankind. Is anything…
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IT’S NOT DIFFICULT, BUT IT’S A CHOICE What I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. DEUTERONOMY 30:11 The Christian life isn’t difficult. The same Christ who lived a perfect, obedient, and sinless life stands prepared to live it again through you (see Gal. 2:20). God’s will isn’t…
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