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Crowned

In every season, when we are in Christ, we are crowned by His goodness

Lessons In Love - Advent Week 4

Advent Week 4 - Lessons in LOVE 

Jn 3:16&17

1 Jn 3:1

1 Jn4:7-11

 

1) God Loves us

 

Unconditional love required us to know and accept a person’s flaws and love them just the same.

 

1 Jn 4:18

 

2) The Flaw is Fatal

 

Rom 5:6-8

 

1 Jn 4:19

 

3) God’s AGAPE moves through us

 

1 Jn 3:16

 

“Unconditional love, extended to others without exception, is considered to be one of the highest expressions of spirituality” Professor Mario Beauregard

 

Rom 5:5 

The Mystery of Joy

The Mystery of JOY - Advent Week Three

 

Luke 2:8-11 NLT

 

1) Happiness and Joy are not the same

 

Heb 12:2

 

Psalm 126:5&6

 

2) Joy and Trust are inseparable

 

Ps 33:20-21

 

Ps 5:11-12

 

Ps 20: 7&8

 

Who or what we TRUST will determine our measure of experienced JOY

 

1 Pet 1:3-8

 

1 pet 1:8&9 NLT

 

“Disillusionment and disappointment will always strike where genuine trust in God grows thin. And that’s why when TRUST is missing - JOY will also go missing” Tony Reinke

 

3) Joy is strength

 

James 1:2-4 NLT

 

Neh 8:10

The Supernatural Power of Peace | Advent Week 2

The Supernatural Power of PEACE

 

 

Luke 2:13-14

 

Isa 9:6-7

 

Isa 53:5

 

1) This Peace is NOT OF THIS WORLD

 

Jn 24:27

 

“A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we do is enter into it” D.L.Moody 

 

2) This Peace is GOVERNMENTAL

 

Isa 9: 6-7

 

Rom 14:17

 

Mt 5:9

 

3) This Peace HAS A RULER

 

Eph 2:14

 

Col 3:15

 

Judges 6:23-24

 

Jn 24:27

 

Mk 4:39-40

 

Fear makes us fight to gain control - but Peace let’s us rest, knowing God is in control

 

4) This Peace is INSIDE OUT

 

Jn 16:33

 

“Peace is the smile of God reflected in the soul of a believer” William Hendrikson

 

Phil 4:6-7

HOPE - Purposeful Expectation ( Advent week 1)

“You look forward by looking backward, trusting nothing but God’s character” The Bible Project

 

Look back in CELEBRATION > forward in EXPECTATION  

 

Look back in REMEMBRANCE > forward in ANTICIPATION 

 

John 1:1-14

 

1) Advent - Arrival

 

Isa 9:2&6

Jn 3:16&17

 

Luke 2:25-33

 

2) Advent - Acceptance

 

Just because the promise came - does not mean that we suddenly partake of that gift. There must be a conscious choice to receive. 

 

Jn 1:10-12

Rom 15:13

Rom 4:17-21

 

3) Advent - Anticipation 

 

1 Peter 1:13

 

Hope RESTS somewhere

 

Rev 21:3-5

 

Defining LIFE

The more we choose the God life - the more the life of God becomes evident in us

The Power of Presence

The Word of God is like a seed that is activated by the PRESENCE of God in and with our hearts. 

Sacred Scrolls

The Bible is full of the Word of God and the revelation of who God is. People gave their lives to preserve, translate, and distribute these sacred scrolls

Restoring The Roar

ROAR: A full, deep, prolonged cry. Great in intensity

1) We are Victorious

2 Cor 2:14

1 Cor 15:57

Romans 8:35&37

Romans 8:31

Rom 8:18 2

Cor 4:16-18

Eph 6:11-13

2) The victory is claimed through relationship What we access had everything to do with how much we want to walk in relationship

1 Sam 17

3) The victory is spiritual with natural benefits The roar you feel on the inside is meant to be directed and released

3 Key Elements to the ROAR

a) Prayer and intercession

b) Declaring and enforcing the Word

c) Praise and Worship

Ps 34:15&17

2Tim3:16

Isa 55:11

Ps 43:5

Acts 2:1-2

Assurance of Answered Prayer

"Do NOT approach prayer from the basis of TRIAL AND ERROR.

You come to God in prayer with full assurance in your heart."