October 9, 2018
• Humbled Obedience One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, the people were crowding around him and listening to the word of God. He saw at the water’s edge two boats, left there by the fishermen, who were washing their nets. He got into one of the boats, the one belonging… Read More »
September 23, 2018
You no longer have to be defined by your mistakes, your selfishness or your sins. You don’t have to live there anymore. Leave it behind and go with God into the new life He gives you:a life where you can be your true self – a life where you are free to live as His beloved and love others as God has loved you. This is why Jesus set you free – not so you can do what you’ve always wanted to do – but so you can now do what you were created to do – to bring God glory!
September 18, 2018
Eating this meal would be their moment of faith. By OBEYING God’s Word, slaughtering an unblemished lamb and then daubing its blood on the doorposts of their homes they were acknowledging that they deserved to die every bit as much as their enemies… they were acknowledging their need for God’s mercy.
September 11, 2018
Is there something you are holding back from God? Is there a sin you’re treasuring, that you won’t let go? Is there a resentment you’re harboring? Is there an ungodly habit that you’re not giving to God? Jesus rescued you from the dominion of darkness, but is there a part of you still walking in darkness? God doesn’t want just part of you. God wants all of you. He wants you to escape the darkness.
September 4, 2018
We are linked to this same story… The same God who delivered Israel by His mighty hand is the same God who delivers us. God delivered us by the mighty hand of Jesus: Jesus came to rescue us from this present evil age. By His death he not only forgave us, but rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of light. This is what Jesus did.
August 29, 2018
Pharaoh had seen what God’s power can do: his gods have been humiliated, his country ruined, even his flesh felt the sting of God’s wrath, but as far as God was concerned He’s been easy on Pharaoh. Up till now, He’s given him a touch of His mighty hand; but now God’s going to lay the hammer down. But before he does, God calls out Pharaoh’s sin: You still set yourself against my people and will not let them go.
August 21, 2018
There is no one like the Lord our God. That’s why Moses allowed Pharaoh to set the time of prayer. So that Pharaoh would not just experience the mighty hand of God in judgment, but that he would also experience God’s mercy.
August 21, 2018
Your goal in life is to bring glory to God with everything you say, everything you think, and in everything you do. Is that your goal in life? Is living to bring God praise the ambition of your heart? If it is, then you’ll cultivate ears to hear and hearts willing to obey His Word. But if this doesn’t describe you, if you resist God’s will, if you refuse to listen, then you are really no different than Pharaoh.
August 12, 2018
This is Our Power: When we obey God, we show the world that God is real. When we obey God, we show that we are trusting His Word. And when we trust Him, that’s when He works.
