What is the Kingdom of God - Where can you find it and When does it reign in history? Answers to these questions and more as we continue to explore The Promise & The Purpose
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Focus on your calling and not your comfort… and see what God will do in your life!
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Are you spiritual or logical - a person of science or of faith? This week Lydia explores how Jesus is the very essence of logic and reason - and following him is the only logical thing to do!
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Going to church is not reliant on how good the service might be or who’s preaching this week or how many modern worship songs they might sing there… nor who’s leading the worship. That’s how you might choose to attend a conference or a concert… not how you choose whether to go to church!
Going to Church on a Sunday should be your custom, It should be an immoveable object in your life …
When you have a confident expectation of good - when you live in alignment with the truth that God has good plans for your life, when your Hope is based on God’s good promises not your own bad imaginations of what might go wrong - then you realise that Hope is the answer to every temptation.
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Adam was formed from the dirt, from the created physical realm, yet he was animated to life when God breathed into him, imparting the breath of life - a phrase used only here in the whole bible -
Adam is different from all the other living things God created - Adam is a fusion of the physical with the spiritual - the breath of life shared from Yahweh dwells within Adam and his offspring and no where else.
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The purpose of the story of Enoch is to illuminate the story of Jesus and to frame his victory on the cross as complete - not just reversing the sin of Adam - the rebellion of humans against Yahweh - but also dealing with the sin of the angels, the rebellion of the spiritual sons of God against Yahweh.
And the promise of Enoch is to know that we can please our God, not by living perfectly, not by working hard, but simply by believing him and believing his promise to reward his children.
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When you walk with someone, you are going in the same direction they are going
When you walk with someone you have to be walking at the same pace they are walking at
Noah walked with God
The bible starts with Adam and Eve walking with God, and ends with God once more dwelling with his creation.
Walking with God is the key to success
When you walk with God you set your direction, and you make your choices to stay alongside God
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Abraham and Sarah waited 25 years for the promise of a child to come to be.
Waiting is not punishment or learning or with any understandable reason – Sometimes it is just a part of life. We do not have all the information. God knows what we don’t. Trust Him.
Yes waiting tests our faith sometimes - but as I wrote this message I felt God impress upon my heart that it isn’t always for that reason.
GOD IS NOT REASONable – We cannot learn or grasp GOD with a human concept.
Sometimes we have to wait just because he hasn’t given us the fulness of the promise yet.
That’s it, no BIGGER REASON and we can laugh while we wait, and we can wait with faith, and we can expect with full confidence - because GOD has shown throughout time that He always keeps his promises in his timing, which is always on time every time!
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When God tests us, when God puts a test before us - he presents us with a choice, an opportunity - an opportunity to see God move, and opportunity to grow our faith - to see something amazing
And the test for us is: what will we choose?
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Join Pastor Lydia as she uncovers 2 big lies that could be holding you back your Awesome Blessings from God. Continuing our slow walk through Luke’s Gospel and the family tree of Jesus - today we look at the life of Jacob.
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Our relationships define us - in ways that are obvious and subtle
We define ourselves based on our relationships - a husband, a pastor, a boss - our identity is closely linked to our relationships
Which means, when a relationship is healthy, it has a positive impact on our identify and our definition of ourself
And when the relationship is not healthy - it can have a negative impact
What if, the unhealthyness in the relationship comes not from the other person, but from you. From what YOU say, how YOU act, YOUR attitudes and YOUR behaviours… You will see in todays message, how that also has a negative impact on you - on your sense of identity and your definition of yourself.
Who you are - your identity and sense of self - is affected by how you treat other people just as much as by how other people treat you.
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