Your ability to endure pressures and storms will not be found in your strength, wisdom, or pride. It is found as you surrender your emotions, feelings, and thoughts to the Word of God.
When you open yourself to be offended, it opens your life to deception. In today's message, Pastor discusses the deception of offense.
Your ability to overcome, stand, endure, be strong in the Lord, and to reign in life is dependent upon the level of your surrender.
Today, Pastor taught on the exchange that occurs in our surrender. What we surrender to is what we authorize into our life.
REALITY - If you want to grow into wholeness and into the image you are designed into, you must be willing to lay down (surrender) traditions, patterns, routines, entertainments, etc. to DO Joshua 1:8-9
Your strength against storms, pressures, and circumstances is not found in your mental resolve, but in the ability to SOW THE WORD daily into your heart.
The strategy of the enemy is to assault and bring fatigue to your mind. When you are mentally wore down, you are susceptible to the lies of the enemy. Learning to contend against the enemy and his strategies are the key to maintaining or taking back the territory of your life.
There is an all out assault, from the forces of darkness, against the minds of people. We must learn to continue in our faith and contend for the faith we have been given.
The greatest need is not want you think your love language is. Your greatest need is what God defines as the duty of the spouse to the other, which we will talk about today.
The Six Keys we have discussed, set the FOUNDATION of Building a Godly Home. Psalm 11:3 - If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
Holiness is NOT a dress code. Holiness means to be separated, set apart, and consecrated.
Faithfulness is not just an action, it reveals character. Our target should not be act faithful, but rather to walk in faithfulness.
Understanding honor is paramount to everyone. It affects all relationships, it structures all homes, and it is foundational to your walk with God. If you do not extend honor, you express betrayal.
Correction is a guardrail or backbone to all relationships. This week we discuss the third key to Building A Godly Home, which is receiving correction.
The fear of the Lord requires us to walk away from sin, not to abide with it.
In the World we live in, it is imperative that we learn to cultivate a home that God authored and not one that society defines.
Having a personal relationship with God is revealed by living through the "Fear of the Lord". If God's Word has no weight or value in your life, or you refuse to submit to God's Word, then you do not have a real relationship with Him.
The key to building a godly home is NOT about our background, culture, or what your love language is...it is about a true, genuine relationship with God.
As a believer, we have received the Holy Spirit, The Word of God, the Blood of Jesus, and the measure of Faith. We have been given everything needed to overcome the enemy and to stand in the face of opposition...to CONTEND for that which God's Word provides.
To truly understand the value of the Person of the Holy Spirit, we must see how His influence and abiding presence even impacted the life and ministry of Jesus Christ.