Friday, 19 March 2021

The Christian Life

God’s love and revelation

God’s love is unconditional you can not earn God’s love, God’s love is unlimited you can not put god in a box, he is unlimited so we need a unlimited view of him and allow him to work in ours lives

God is for us and has our best interest at heart and wants to bless us, even if we mess up God still loves us and will not let us down, we need a daily revelation of who, God is and what he thinks of us

We need to change my view of God and how he views.  We need to ask God and read the word to find out what God thinks of me daily

The Father heart of god and his holiness

God wants us to come to him as we are, but he loves us so much he does not want us to remain the way we were, so he changes us into the people he wants us to be.

God does not want us to carry the baggage of the past around with us and want to heal us of it. 

God sent us his son to die on the cross to take away our sin and pay the price for that sin death, because he loved us.  He wanted to save us from our shelves and our destructive patterns and make us right with him.

We need to allow God to take away Our baggage and allow him to heal us

The cross images and victory

Jesus paid a price for my sin because he was the only one that could do it. We have been brought from slavery of death and sin, this means we are free.

The price for that freedom was high and a sacrifice, the only one that could pay it was God so he sent himself, the only response, to it is gratitude and accepts what he has done as a gift to us.

He has restored our relationship with god and he restores our identity and purpose for being.  Jesus turns victims into victors and Jesus wants us to help people. Jesus has wiped the slate clean, does not keep a record of our sins and gives us a new identity; we don’t need to hold onto shame.

In the light of this we need to get rid of negative things people have said to us / or things we ARE ashamed of, by writing them down praying over them and throwing them away.

The Nature and the correct handing of God’s word

Sometimes our life is like the computer term GIGO which means Garbage in, Garbage out, in other words if we plant bad things i.e., things that harm us spiritually, we produce fruit that should not be there.

We need the plant good seed into our lives i.e. the word and what God thinks of us, we need to spend time with God, we can sometimes be too busy running around for God that we forget the spend time with God.

Gods words do not return void if God says it will happen.

God’s word can harm people if used wrongly, we need to learn to use it correctly and we should always use God’s word in love.

In the light of this we need build in down time our lives where we can spend time with God, we can use the wasted times in times in our lives to do this i.e. travelling by bus productively by reading the word, praying and spending time with God

Correct handling, purpose of Gods word

God word has the power to direct us, and empower us, set us free and tell us the truth about us, but used incorrectly it can harm people we should always use God’s word to build people up and use it with love and grace to help people and set them free.

Jesus is our role model and we should always use God’s word as Jesus used the Word and we need the Holy Spirit to do this.

God words don’t return void if God says it will happen, we need to trust God that the words placed on our lives will come true.  God has a plan and a purpose for my life I need to trust God that he will lead me into it.

we need to build the word in me daily and spend time with God.

Faith

You can be a Christian a long time and not know fully who Jesus is, we need a intimate relationship with him to know who he is,

We need to go deeper and have a more intimate relationship with him, how we view God determines how we view our world and our identity.

We need to have passion to know who is and please him, worship is not just singing songs on a Sunday, worship should be our whole life, and it’s not about me its all about him.

We should be in God's amazing story not him in ours

We need to trust who God is, if God says it will happen, God words don’t return void, also God knows us and knows what we need.

we need to trust God, and praise God in faith that things, we are praying for will come about

Releasing power of faith

God has a plan for our lives, God knows what he wants us to do, God knows our destiny and the way to go, God prepares us for the thing he wants us to do.

To grow in faith we need to operate faith by doing what he wants us to do.

When I pray about situations I need to be specific.

Living in faith can lead to God giving us dreams and visions, God can give us specific words in our lives that impact our lives, we need to keep these words and stand on them.

we need to find out what God wants us to do and do it

New covenant blessing and living in the power

We had messed up, we could not meet God’s perfect target for us to live by, so God sent his son Jesus to willingly die in our place and pay the price, because only he could meet the target and he loved us.

God wants us to spend quality time with him, God want us to be in his Amazing Story, he wants us to do life with him and do amazing thing for god. We should not rule our selves out from God using us.

God gives us the Holy Spirit to empower us for the work he wants us to do in our lives, and he gives the Holy Spirit freely and without limit.  The same God who made the earth and the heavens is inside you.

God wants to bless us and God wants the very best for us, God knows what we need, god does not want us to live in mediocre lives.

we should allow God to use us more, and find out what he wants me to do, and spend more time with him.

Worship

Worship should connect you to God, and it should change you and restore us, Worship is powerful, when we worship things happen.

Worship is not something we do it’s who we are we should be worshippers it’s in our DNA, it involves all of us, not just singing songs on Sunday morning, we should be Extravagant with our worship, we should give our all for God.

Worship comes out of a loving relationship with God and is our hearts response to a loving God, worship or service comes from our heart not because we have to do it but we want to do it, because we love him and he loves us, and we should fall in love with him daily, we need to worship in the secret place, Worship is all about God, When we worship its not for us, its not for anyone else it’s all for God, God is the audience of one and all we do is for god, You can not earn God’s love he loves us anyway and loves to be with us.  

God does not need our gifts and talents, he wants you.

When things go wrong we should praise God, even when it’s hard to worship, god meets us in worship.  we should fall in love with daily, and give him all of us, the only way is to spend time with him

Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit is person, not a it, he is not gas, or a object he is a him, he has a personality and can be hurt or grieved, he also speaks.  The Holy Spirit is like Jesus living inside us and helps us live life and to pray.

Holy Spirit guides us, the Holy Spirit is a gentleman and never forces us to do something we don’t want to do and The Holy Spirit never goes against the Gods word or will.

Holy Spirit helps us to understand we are loved and accepted by God and confirms we are Gods children and belong to God

Holy Spirit transforms us into the people God wants us to be and helps us do the things he wants us do.

We need to receive the Holy Spirit daily, Holy Spirit Glorifies Jesus and points to him