Pt. Parkash Khubani
Joshua 3:14-17
A miracle is an unexpected event attributed to divine intervention. One of the greatest tragedies in life is to live and never discover your destiny, but worse than that is to discover your destiny and forfeit it. We are God's precious children and we deserve the best, each of us has a promise from God, and each of us should have our mind made up, that whatever it costs you're going to get what God has promised you.
Now it you're satisfied where you're at, with what you've got, seeing what you're seeing, and doing what you're doing and experiencing what you're experiencing. Then this message is probably not for you.
But if you happen to be one of those rare breeds called dreamers, and if something inside of you is kicking, and if your spirit is divinely dissatisfied, and if you know God has destined you for more, then this message is for you.
But remember that every promise comes with a price. There is no victory without a fight, and there is no testimony without a test. There is no crown without a cross and there's no resurrection without a crucifixion.
1. WORD - Peter
Luke 5:5 - nevertheless!
Remember that word of God, claim it for your life!!
2. FAITH - woman with the issue of blood
Mark 5:28
your determination will move God's heart
3. PRAISE - Paul and Silas
Are we just calling and praising God, just because we're needing Him?
Praising God will make heaven doors open!
Act 16:25
4. ACTION - Bartimaeus
You don't get a miracle if you don't act on it. Meet God in half way.
Mark 10:47
5. COURAGE - David
everyone is facing trials and tribulations, do we have the courage to fight and to ask help from God?
1 Samuel 17:45
6. PATIENCE - Joseph
"God has given me a dream, am just going to be patient to receive my miracle"
Gen 50:20
7. PEACE - Elisha
2 Kings 6:16
8. DETERMINATION - Samson
Judges 16:30
9. OBEDIENCE - Noah
Gen 6:22
10. HUMANITY - Naaman
Some of us need to be changed first, just like Naaman.
2 Kings 5: 14
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Somebody is one step away from your miracle, one step away from your breakthrough. One step away from a too much blessing. You've put in your time of toiling, and trying and praying and confessing, and waiting, and watching. And I tell you, that you are one step away from what you've been believing for. One step is moving us from borrowers to lenders. From barely making it to more than enough, from weeping to rejoicing. I'm trying to tell you, one step can turn your situation around and put you in charge. I don't know what "Jordan" you may be facing today. Your "Jordan" may be completely different from what I describe to you from my own life. And I don't know what that one step is that you need to take, but if you will obey God and take that step, "-Jordan" is gonna run from you!
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
God of Comfort
Pt. Dave Kenney
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. 5 For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. 6 If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. 7 And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort. 2 Corinthians 1:3-7 (NIV)
Comfort and Suffering
Time for a Biblical perspective
"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." John 16:33 (NIV)
overcome when He died and ressurected.
Sickness
Death
Persecution
Temptation - we are tempted, and sometimes we gave into it.
Trials
Natural events
...They called the apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
41 The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name. Acts 5:40-41 (NIV)
I am happy because I am worth suffering!
What did Jesus say about suffering?
John 15:20 - If you are a body of Christ, you will be persecuted.
What did Paul say?
2 Tim 3:12 - same thing, will be persecuted.
Why do we have to suffer?
Why should we suffer? We are better equiped to be suffer.
Our sufferings have a purpose - Paul rejoice because he know it has a purpose
How does God comfort us?
His presence
Matt 28:20
His promise
John 14 : 26-27
His provision
Heb 13:5-6 - God wil always provide our needs, and not our wants! :)
How do we comfort others?
2 Cor 1 : 5
First, accept God's comfort - experienced it!
Secondly, reach out to comfort others
Application
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. 5 For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. 6 If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. 7 And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort. 2 Corinthians 1:3-7 (NIV)
Comfort and Suffering
Time for a Biblical perspective
"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." John 16:33 (NIV)
overcome when He died and ressurected.
Sickness
Death
Persecution
Temptation - we are tempted, and sometimes we gave into it.
Trials
Natural events
...They called the apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
41 The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name. Acts 5:40-41 (NIV)
I am happy because I am worth suffering!
What did Jesus say about suffering?
John 15:20 - If you are a body of Christ, you will be persecuted.
What did Paul say?
2 Tim 3:12 - same thing, will be persecuted.
Why do we have to suffer?
Why should we suffer? We are better equiped to be suffer.
Our sufferings have a purpose - Paul rejoice because he know it has a purpose
- Suffering changes us.
Romans 5 : 3-5
- Suffering draws us close to Christ
philippians 3 : 10
romans 8 : 15-18
Jesus suffers in this earth. we co-heirs with Jesus.
Paul was beaten with stone, persecuted, had a terrible life. But everything means nothing.
- Suffering enables us to comfort others.
2 Cor 1:3-4
- Suffering creates endurance in others
2 Cor 1:6 - it enables us to be persistance.
- Suffering produce community
2 Cor 1:7 - suffering is not that God wants us to experience bad things. It's just sometimes God will answer immidately like Job, or sometimes He just hold our hands all the way..
How does God comfort us?
His presence
Matt 28:20
His promise
John 14 : 26-27
His provision
Heb 13:5-6 - God wil always provide our needs, and not our wants! :)
How do we comfort others?
2 Cor 1 : 5
First, accept God's comfort - experienced it!
Secondly, reach out to comfort others
- be with them
- encourage them
- help them
Application
- Surrender everything in prayer
- Be in Christ's body!
Friday, April 2, 2010
Good Friday
Cross isn't a decoration
Jesus was put on the cross, coz the Romans wants to make sure that no one makes mistakes.
Christians in Chorintians [profoundly wise people] - your leader was crucified which is only received by pirates -> embarassed them.
1 Cor 1:18-25 [NIV]
v.18
there's 2 ways : there is God's way or without God's way.
we need to chose.
v.19
No one is not too smart to find God.
It is God's plan.
It is not the preeching that saved people, but the Message -Jesus Christ crucified on the cross, that's been shared.
Relationship with God can't be : learned, earned, bought, transfered.
Only when He extend His offer : received the Son.
No one can aquired a relationship, only when God offers.
God choose His way.
The cross is the way God extended Grace for us.
I only can take whatever He offers.
I can't offer Him anything to make it ____ [value? unless?]
whatever I offer can't earned me His love.
v.22-24
There's nothing profound about "God". It's just the matter of God's way or without God's way.
They are just looking for someone to defeat Romans. It's weak and it's foolish.
v.25
The weak and foolish - that is what God's offer.
"The first will be last, and last will be first"
Jesus was put on the cross, coz the Romans wants to make sure that no one makes mistakes.
Christians in Chorintians [profoundly wise people] - your leader was crucified which is only received by pirates -> embarassed them.
1 Cor 1:18-25 [NIV]
v.18
there's 2 ways : there is God's way or without God's way.
we need to chose.
v.19
No one is not too smart to find God.
It is God's plan.
It is not the preeching that saved people, but the Message -Jesus Christ crucified on the cross, that's been shared.
Relationship with God can't be : learned, earned, bought, transfered.
Only when He extend His offer : received the Son.
No one can aquired a relationship, only when God offers.
God choose His way.
The cross is the way God extended Grace for us.
I only can take whatever He offers.
I can't offer Him anything to make it ____ [value? unless?]
whatever I offer can't earned me His love.
v.22-24
There's nothing profound about "God". It's just the matter of God's way or without God's way.
They are just looking for someone to defeat Romans. It's weak and it's foolish.
v.25
The weak and foolish - that is what God's offer.
"The first will be last, and last will be first"
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