God Is FOR You, NOT Against You!

Does God cause SICKNESS, POVERTY or DEPRESSION?  ABSOLUTELY NOT!!

• He HEALS ALL OUR DISEASES - Psalm 103:3
• God has a plan to PROSPER YOU and not to harm you - Jeremiah 29:11
• He FILLS US WITH JOY - Acts 2:28

Many of our challenges are caused by others, our own choices and outside circumstances, but whatever the reason for your trial – this is the season for your triumph!

Here are 2 questions you need to ask in challenging times:

1. "If God be with us who can be against us?" - Romans 8:31
2. "Who can separate us from the Love of Christ?"  - Romans 8:35

• Tribulation means 'intense pressure'
• Distress means 'extreme difficulty'

There is NO Situation, NO Mistake, NO Challenge great enough to come between you and God!

CHALLENGE: Thank God for never leaving or forsaking you!  Call someone this week and encourage them that nothing can separate them from the love of God!

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You have a 'Never Give Up' Character

Romans 5:1-5 & 2 Corinthians 11:23-28
In order to experience victory in every area of your life, you need to develop a 'Never Give Up' character!  Today Pastor Kevin Begley reminded us to rejoice in the TRIALS we experience because they produce ENDURANCE, which means "to bear up courageously, to stand while under pressure."

"Don't Give Up, Bear Up!"
Click Here For a Real-Life Example of Bearing Up

Realize that endurance produces strong CHARACTER, but if you give up, the trials you are experiencing will not produce the strong character required to win the victory!

And finally, to get over that finish line as the First Place Winner, the strong character you have developed through endurance will produce the HOPE required!

CHALLENGE: Thank God for the trials and allow them to produce endurance, strong character & hope in you this week!

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Character of a Conqueror

May the Lord Cause you to Increase and Abound in Love
1st Thessalonians 1-13 Key Verses (v.12-13)

• Increase means 'to add to'.
• Abound means 'to overflow'.
• Love means 'to serve with humility'.

We need to love with humility so that, according to the text, we can be blameless. Notice it doesn't say 'sinless'. There is a huge difference between being 'sinless' and being 'blameless'. Being sinless is impossible but being blameless is possible! Blameless means 'intentionally living in obedience to God’s Word' and holiness is 'being separated unto God'.

The good news is that a pure love brings a pure life!
CHALLENGE: Everyday to look for people who you can love (serve with humilty)
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Character of a Conqueror

Conquerors have got a destiny of victory! But... we cannot neglect doing our part if we want to walk in that victory!

These are the things that are important, that we must do in order to conquer and arrive at our destiny of victory:

1. Coming to Church - Hebrews 10:25
2. Time for Worship & The Word - Acts 2:47
3. Obedience in Tithing - Matthew 23:23

God is looking for us to have relationship with Him as our foundation, responsibility in all of our actions and a refining of our character daily.

What the Lord Requires of Us: (Micah 6:8)

1. To Act Justly - (with fairness, honesty, integrity)
2. To Love Mercy - (undeserved acts of kindness)
3. To Walk Humbly with Our God - (Living in submissive obedience to His desire & His will)

THESE 3 WILL BRING ME TO VICTORY!!!

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Character of a Conqueror

In Ephesians 4:1-3, Paul begs us to walk worthy of our calling in 3 areas:

• Our attitude of humility (valuing others) & gentleness (showing brotherly kindness)
• Our actions (being patient with each other - having a long wick - exact opposite of quick tempered & making allowance for each other’s faults - bearing with one another.)
• Our inter-actions or how we influence one-another, keeping unity in the bond of peace (vs. 3)

Unity is always the goal - it is the four attitudes and actions above that get us to that goal. Unity is more important than expressing my opinion! It is not something you pray for, you have to walk it out!

THIS WEEKS SCRIPTURES:

• In 1 Corinthians 1:10 Paul appeals that we be in agreement to avoid divisions, united in mind and in thought.
• Amos 3:3 says 'How can 2 walk together unless they agree?' Our attitude must remain, "United we stand... PERIOD!"
• Romans 14:19 encourages us to make peace and build one another up.
• Acts 2 shows us that unity results in the Spirit being poured out, people being saved, all needs being met and miracles being released!

Ask God to show you this week any areas where you are deficient in the charcter traits that bring unity, especially within the houeshold of faith.

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Character of a Conqueror

Gal. 6:8-10

"Don't Grow Weary In Doing Good..."

The word 'weary' means 'tired or careless'. God is bringing a harvest of peace, prosperity and provision to those who 'do good'!

1. The 1st definition of 'GOOD' is 'Don't get weary of developing morally honourable, noble or excellent character'.
2. The 2nd 'GOOD' is defined as 'being generous, kind, practicing good things towards others'.

When you have Godly character, it will manifest in generousity, kindness and doing good to all people!

"...Especially To The Household Of Faith, The Local Church Family."

It's important to be involved in a local church where people love, help and encourage you! Jesus said, "they will know you are Christians by the love you have for one another."

Let's raise the bar and show each other and the world at large the love Christ showed us and changed us with. Find someone everyday, whether in the local church, your neighbourhood, your workplace or in the world at large and encourage, love and support them!

And always remember, as you refine your character, you are defining your destiny!

Character of a Conqueror

Today we learned how to develop the character of a conqueror. God is chiselling away at us, smoothing our character. Colossians chapter 3 teaches us how to take off the old nature and put on the new nature. We learned that there are obvious and not so obvious works of the flesh that need to be put off and they are 2-fold, the first being sins of the emotion which are progressive. They are anger, an impulsive feeling of emotion, annoyance or offence, which manifests in our attitude, rage, an outburst of anger which manifests in action, and malice which is ill-will toward another. Then, sins of the tongue. They are slander or speech which damages the name of another, filthy language or speech that's offensive and lying or to deliberately mislead or deceive.

After taking off the old, we need to put on the new which is compassion, kindness, humility (lifting others up), gentleness (anger in control), patience (opposite of short-tempered - lengthen your fuse), love (not love for God as He is easy to love, He never does anything wrong to us!)

When we put on love, that binds it all together! God is refining us (taking off) and defining us (putting on)!

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Joy Like Candy

Coming soon...

Taste & See That The Lord Is Good! (Ps. 34:8)

Today's amazing message on the 9 Fruit of the Spirit taught us that what we are connected to is what we will produce! The world tells us many things we can do to get these fruit that we seem to long for, like love, joy and peace. But God shows us these fruit will only grow as you abide in him.

God wants us to be blessed! 'Blessed' means "Happy & Satisfied!" Gal. 5:22-23

The fruit of the Spirit will be tested in the hard times, not just in the good times.

Faithfulness attracts favour and Self-Control (discipline) pushes us to victory!

Ps 1:1-3 Whatever I do should be prospering if I am planted in Christ!

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Guard This Season With Your Life! (AM Service)

Dr. John Guns brought a powerful message from 2 Chronicles 22. The story was of Joash who was taken away from the other princes by his nurse and hid in the temple for seven years in order to save him from certain death.

Only Things With Value Are Guarded.
Joash’s nurse guarded him, putting her life in danger, because she knew the value of his life. She understood that if the baby was murdered that no one would legitimately fulfil the kingship and the purpose for which he was created. There are times when we have to separate ourselves from people or places to get to the plans that God has for our lives. We are not conforming to the patterns of this world, but we are being transformed. When we go into the hidden place one way – we are transformed and will come out another way.
Dr. Guns reminded us that the anointing on Pastors Kevin and Pam is a gift and we must guard that gift. It doesn’t mean they need a security detail, it means that we are to recognize their value and be faithful to our assignment to them and the ministry so that they can fulfill their responsibility to the call. We guard our Pastors by: growing, giving and finding our place of ministry.

Make up your mind to become so engaged in building your church that you find yourself saying to everyone you meet, "I go to a church that is so amazing that if you just come once you will be so amazed and never want to miss a service!"

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