Let’s start with this: Your greatest need becomes a gift when it drives you to depend on God. We saw this last week in 2 Kings 3. Let’s review. Continue reading
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One thing I know about every single one of you is, you need God. Whether you know it or not, you need His presence. And because you need Him, you need something from Him. Some of you, it’s a miracle in your marriage. You need him to show up and bring healing in your marriage. Some of you, you need God’s presence as a parent as you train and guide your child through middle school and high school. For some of you, it’s a miracle in your finances, you need help and provision from heaven. For some of you, it’s a miracle in your body, that the report is not good, and you need a touch from the healer in heaven. For some of you right now, you are an emotional mess. You are anxious, overwhelmed, worried, afraid, depressed, or angry. You need a peace from heaven that only God can give. Some of you, you need God’s presence at work and in your daily life and routine. Continue reading
There are times where you may feel spiritually stuck. It feels like you are not growing spiritually, your prayers seem to bounce off the ceiling, and doors of opportunity are not opening. You feel like you are going through life doing the same thing over and over and over, but not getting anywhere or making a real difference. You feel spiritually stagnant. You get up, go to work, go to school, fix dinner, do laundry, go shopping, go to church, read your Bible, go to a Bible study, watch TV and whatever. You find yourself doing the same thing over and over again and it doesn’t feel like you are making an impact or headed anywhere in your life.
That’s where we find Elisha right before God was going to interrupt his life with a great purpose. Continue reading
Today, I want to talk to those who might be spiritually stuck in your faith. You feel like your faith and spiritual life have become stagnant. You don’t feel like you are moving forward in your faith and if you are you feel like you are moving at a snail’s pace. You feel like your spiritual life is missing something. Yet, there is this part of you that desires more spiritual growth and more spiritual passion and more spiritual impact. Yet, what you are experiencing is more of the same and more of what you just had. You feel like you are going through the routine spiritually, but nothing is really happening. For some of you, you may feel like you’re living below who you know that God created you to be. And it’s not that you don’t care, you actually do care. Some of you have been like me at different seasons of my life where you are genuinely praying and seeking God, but your prayers don’t really feel effective. Or you are reading the Bible, and you want to hear from God but sometimes His voice just seems distant. And sometimes, you are worshipping God and you really want to feel His presence, but you just can’t seem to feel Him. This is when you feel like you are just PLOWING through life. Someone just say, “I’m just plowing.” Continue reading
Have you ever watched a TV series or movie and when it ended there was no resolution. It didn’t make sense. You get to the end of it, and you go “Wait?!” I paid attention all the way through. I watched the entire series, and we get to the end, and it ends like that! Who knows what I’m talking about? Raise your hand. I have so many questions: did they get back together? Did the good guy live? Did the bad guy actually die? Sometimes they look dead, but they are not really dead. How many of you get frustrated when something ends like that and there is no resolution? Raise your hand. If that kind of stuff bothers you, then you are not going to like Jonah 4. Jonah ends leaving you with a lot of questions. Continue reading
Today we are in chapter 3 in the book of Job and I want to show you my favorite Bible verse in the entire book. Wait a second. Did I say we were in the book of Job or Jonah? It’s been a long week. Can I start over? Will you give me a second chance? Continue reading
How many of you believe in the power of prayer? Raise your hand. That’s awesome. Now, how many of you believe you should pray more? Even though many of us believe in a God who hears our prayers and responds to our prayers will also say that we need to be more engage in talking to God and praying to God. More on prayer in just a moment. Continue reading
Take your Bibles and open them to Jonah 1. In chapter 1, Jonah received a word from God. God told Jonah what he wanted him to do. Jonah responded with disobedience. He didn’t want to do it. Instead of obeying God, he rebelled against God. He decided to run from God. Jonah went the opposite direction that God wanted him to go. Jonah knew better. God had used him throughout his life, but Jonah was now running from God’s purpose and mission for his life. Continue reading
Take your Bibles and open them to Jonah 1. Last week, we left Jonah admitting to the sailors that he was running from God. He was rebelling against God and disobeying God. Jonah knew better. God had used him throughout his life, but Jonah was now running from God’s purpose and mission for his life. He had found a ship that would take him to Tarshish, the furthest place away from Joppa known to them at the time. While out on the sea, God sent a violent storm upon Jonah. The sailors became very afraid and started praying to their gods for help. They started casting the cargo overboard to lighten the ship. They woke Jonah up and cast lots to see who was the cause of this catastrophe. The lots pointed to Jonah. He was the reason why the storm was occurring. The crew and Jonah are now having a desperate conversation in the midst of the storm about all this. We pick up the story in verse 11. Continue reading
Let’s dive right into it. Let’s begin with verse 1, The word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and cry out against it, because their wickedness has come up before Me.” 3 But Jonah got up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. So he went down to Joppa, found a ship that was going to Tarshish, paid the fare, and boarded it to go with them to Tarshish away from the presence of the Lord. Jonah had three bad attitudes that sent him running from God and into disaster. These three bad attitudes set in motion everything that follows. Continue reading
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