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Daily episodes are hosted by Pastor Loren Hicks. This podcast will challenge you to go deeper into your Christian faith. The goal is to inspire you to be a fully devoted follower of Jesus Christ. Episodes have been downloaded over 600,000 times.
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Where is our confidence? It is not in ourselves, and it is not in our prayers. Our confidence is in God. This is where we place our faith. Our faith is not in ourselves, in our prayers, or even in our faith. Our faith and confidence is in God. Main Points: 1. I want to encourage you today to pray with boldness. Not a brash boldness that orders God around. After all, we must remember that prayer is asking, it’s not telling God what to do. 2. The Scriptures teach us to pray with confide...
After his departure, Jesus would send his followers a Helper. This helper is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit lives within us and though we cannot see Him, we can feel him and we sense he is working in our lives to make us more like Jesus. Main Points: 1. Although we cannot see the Holy Spirit, we should be able to sense His work in our lives changing us to be more like Jesus. 2. Truth has never been more scarce than it is today. You and I live in a time where it is culturally appropriate t...
Today, you and I can work on our foundation. In fact, we never stop working. We are to keep growing in God’s grace. We continue to pursue a closer relationship with God. We go deeper in His Word. We grow in our faith. We use our gifts to serve God. We obey His Word. All of this contributes to a strong foundation for our lives. Main Points: 1. We are all building a spiritual house. What foundation are you building on? Are you taking time to build on a solid foundation? The storms of life are...
In Matthew 6:33, Jesus says we are to seek God, but he goes on to say that we are to seek him “first.” This is a matter of priority. We all seek something. We might seek opportunity, position, resources, and open doors. We could seek pleasure, enjoyment, comfort, success, and fulfillment. We might seek friendship, family, and connection. We all seek something, but Jesus said that for those who would follow him, we must seek God and his kingdom first. Main Points: 1. To seek is to pursue, to...
Your story is one of your greatest ministry tools. I meet people who feel they have nothing to offer the Lord. In their minds, they feel incapable of serving in some ministry. Yet, every one of us has a story. It’s a God story. It’s a story of how we met Jesus, the circumstances of your salvation, and how Jesus has changed your life. Main Points: 1. When I think of the explosive growth of the New Testament church in the Book of Acts, we see two things at work. People were filled with the po...
The author of the Book of Hebrews makes the case that we simply can’t stay with the basic, elementary teachings about faith and spiritual growth. We must move forward to a deeper and more mature understanding of our life in Christ. This makes sense, doesn’t it? Main Points: 1. Here’s an important truth: God wants you to grow spiritually. He wants you to mature and develop a strong faith. He wants your understanding of his Word to grow so that you can move past the elementary stages and move...
Jesus paid our debt on the cross. He bore our sins upon his body. He suffered and died in our place, as our substitute. Jesus took the shame, condemnation, and pain we were to bear. He carried our cross and paid the ultimate price. It was a very high price to pay for our forgiveness. Main Points: 1. Forgiveness comes at a cost. If you forgive someone, you bear the cost rather than insisting that the wrongdoer does. And that is what Jesus, the Mighty God, was doing when he came to earth and ...
There is a struggle that all of us face, and it is the struggle of submitting to God’s will. Why is this so difficult for us? Because we really want to do our will. We have our own desires, dreams, goals, and ambitions, and often these desires conflict with God’s will for our lives. Main Points: 1. But I have discovered that the more we know Jesus and the closer we are to Him in relationship, the more our desires align with God’s desires. The more our will lines up with God’s will. 2. We s...
Joy in the Biblical context is not an emotion. Joy is an attitude of the heart. It is not necessarily based on something positive happening. Joy is something that lasts; happiness is temporary. When happiness fades away, joy remains. Joy is something God deposits into us through the Holy Spirit. Main Points: 1. In these verses, Jesus actually gives us the key to living our lives with joy. We also see that God intends that His joy would remain in us and t...
There is one key that is absolutely necessary for a relationship to be restored. It requires forgiveness. I’ve never seen a broken relationship restored without forgiveness. Main Points: 1. A relationship can break down from neglect. A relationship can break down from conflict. A relationship can break down from misunderstanding. The world is literally filled with broken relationships. We see it all around us. It’s possible you have some broken relationsh...
Loving our neighbor is not simply a good idea or an admirable ethic; Jesus called it the second greatest commandment. We first love God, and second, we love our neighbors as we love ourselves. Main Points: 1. The idea of loving our neighbor is beautiful to think about, so long as it remains an idea. But the concrete reality of loving our neighbor, the difficulties and the challenges, strips the beauty away. 2. If God is not the love of our lives, there is no way that we will truly love our...
What a tragedy it is when there is a loss of spiritual identity. I believe you can lose your true identity, give it away, forget it, waste it, or change it for better or worse. It’s also possible that some individuals go through life searching for their true identity and never find it. Main Points: 1. If you don’t know who you are, then you are vulnerable to other people telling you who you are. But the concrete, solid, gospel truth is that as a follower of Jesus, you are ...
Can I ask you an important question? What do you do when you become discouraged? You need an answer to this question. You need a plan, and you need it now. Discouragement comes to us all. Everyone will face it. Everyone will battle it. Main Points: 1. Discouragement will make you want to quit. Maybe even right now, as you listen to this podcast episode, you have been fighting the feelings of wanting to quit. 2. There are going to be times when you have to encourage yourself in the Lord.&nbs...
From scripture, we come to see that love is more than words, feelings, and emotions. Love is action. True love calls for us to do something, and also to refrain from some things. Main Points: 1. Love, when truly demonstrated, is not just an emotion expressed to family and close friends. Love is seen the clearest when it is given to those we think don’t deserve it and those who don’t expect it. 2. When God’s love changes us, we begin to notice others. We begin to see what God se...
The Bible has a lot to say about time. The most important thing it says is something we know already—that our time is limited. Time can be used or wasted, it can be invested or squandered, but either way, once used, it can never be regained. Time matters because we have such a limited supply. Main Points: 1. We always have plenty of time to do everything we need to do. This means that all of my time belongs to God, and therefore, how I spend my days is a sacred issue. Someday you and ...
I’m convinced that most of us listening today would say we have been blessed by God. In fact, many would say that we have been greatly blessed and blessed beyond what they deserve. God has been so good to us. So what do we do with our blessings? Main Points: 1. Jesus teaches us that the blessing is found in the giving. The blessing is found in the serving. The blessing is found in ministering to the needs of others. 2. Continually, the scripture speaks to the heart and motive behind ...
There is no truth more fundamental in all of God’s Word than this truth. God is for us. God is not against us. God is not neutral towards us. Because of Jesus Christ, once and for all, the question is settled. God is for us. Main Points: 1. Paul’s question is, “If God is for us, who can be against us?” In other words, who can really fight against us, who can defeat us, if God is on our side? 2. Name the enemies of the people of God. Can the devil stand against us? No, because he has been de...
We should desire to be like Jesus in our values, beliefs, character, and behavior. The only way we can be imitators of God is that we would follow him. We must come to know Him. We must learn from Him, and it’s only then that we will know what to imitate. Main Points: 1. In some ways, we cannot be like God. You and I will never be all-knowing or all-powerful. We will never be omnipresent. We cannot be unchangeable like God. But there are characteristics of God that we can emulate. 2....
When we come to Jesus and make Him our Savior and Lord, he begins to work in our lives and strips away old ways of living that conflict with scripture and dishonor the Lord. Through the Word of God, He teaches us a new way of living. As we break with the old sinful patterns and habits, we form new ones that please God, but also give joy. Main Points: 1. It’s through the power of the Holy Spirit that we can break the patterns of the world that we have lived by for so long. Now, through Jesus...
It’s so important to remember the Lord’s faithfulness. In our times of anxiety, fear, and discouragement, the remembrance of what God has done brings peace to our souls. Main Points: 1. When it comes to what the Lord has done for us, we cannot forget. Repeatedly throughout scripture, we are called to remember what the Lord has done. 2. Decides to remember God. A strategy for fighting discouragement and doubt, and darkness is remembering, pondering, and meditating on the deeds, wonders, and...
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in this podcast, I heard the first part of how we may not let God into all our rooms. that Strikes home! I think we all do that and we shouldn't.
thanks pastor this one spoke to me, I am quick to react, I pray to God give me this gentle spirit...
a great quick message to help, to inspire, to boost your faith. it will keep you devoted on your daily walk with Christ. #Live4Christ