Sunday, February 04, 2007
WORKING WITH GOD
Pastor Daniel sharing...
3 characteristics of God's nature
1. God is Love
- His will is always the BEST
- God's very nature is love. He can't do evil to you...He simply CANNOT!!
2 reasons why bad things happen:
1. God allowed it so that we can grow.
2. We do it ourselves.
- God does bring discipline but even His discipline is based on LOVE.
Hebrews 12:6
- Because the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son.
- His love will never change!
- His love for us was settled on the cross.
- When we look at our circumstances, we must ALWAYS look with the BACKDROP OF THE CROSS BEHIND.
1 John 3:16
- This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
- Trust that His way is the best way.
- God's commands are also for our own good.
Deuteronomy 10:12-13
- And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the LORD's commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?
- Life is full of landmines. God doesn't want us to wreck our life and miss our His Best for us! Go His way and live.
2. God is ALL KNOWING
- His directions is always RIGHT. Even when it don't make sense!
- We need to trust Him.
- God never makes mistake.
3. God is ALL POWERFUL
- He can ENABLE YOU TO ACCOMPLISH all He asks you to do (His will).
- If you do God's way, you will get God's result.
- If you do Man's way, you will get Man's result.
- Ordinary men in the handsof an extraordinary God love extraordinary lives.
- God has always given His people assignments that are too big for them to handle, so that the world can see what God can do!
2 things to experience God
1. Experiencing God by knowing He is at work around us.
- God is orchestrating history. God is the one who is at work redeeming a lost world. His desire is to involve His people in reaching the lost.
2 Corinthians 5:17-20
- Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore
Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God.
Jesus examples:
John 5:17
- Jesus said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working."
John 5:19-20
- Jesus gave them this answer: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your amazement he will show him even greater things than these.
2. Experiencing God by working with Him
1) Romans 3:10-11
- As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.
- We need to know where God is working.
2) John 6:44
- No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
Luke 19:5
- When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today."
How do we know who God is working on?
- Our goal should be, "Is my heavenly Father working here? Because if He is, I want to be involved."
Share Jesus without fear. 5 questions to ask.
1. Do you have any spiritual beliefs?
2. To you who is Jesus?
3. Do you think there is a heaven or hell?
4. If you died right now, where would you go? If they say heaven, I say why would God let you in.
5. If what you believe were not true, would you want to know more about it?
~Yvonne~
Scribbled by: Child of God @2:08 am
