HOW TO LIVE A BLESSED LIFE - Getting the Right Start
The Beatitudes are one of the best known portiotns of Scripture because they tell us how to have a blessed, happy life. We live in a very unhappy world. Someone has said, "Unhappiness is not knowing what you really want and working yourself to death to get it." Blessed living is knowing what you want and that you don't have to work for it and you can't buy it, because it is a gift of grace from a loving God. The first step on a "journey into blessed living" is understanding what statement of Jesus in Matthew 5:3?
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How God Changes Us
How God Changes Us – Acts 10 & 11 Acts 10-11:18
Throughout our Christian lives, God is constantly changing us. These changes are often not so much in lifestyles as in attitudes. Changes are a part of our spiritual growth called "sanctification." We are now going to see God make some dramatic changes in the great apostle Peter and also discover three ways God changes us.
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Becoming a Magnetic Christian
LIVING A POWERFUL LIFE…SERIES
Becoming a Magnetic Christian – Acts 5:1-16
After the healing miracle at the temple (3:1-10), Peter has to fight opposition from outside the church (4:1-22). When opposition from the outside doesn't work, the Evil One starts working through people inside the church. The church has always attracted people who come for the wrong reasons. However, all believers should have certain characteristics that are attractive to genuine seekers in whose lives God is working. From this passage, we can find three requirements for becoming magnetic Christians who attract people to Christ. First is to...
Epitomize the importance of integrity – 5:1-6
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How To Receive Spiritual Power
Peter on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, where our Lord reinstated him three times as the leader of the disciples (Jn 21). As a result, in the book of Acts, Peter becomes a changed man. After His resurrection, Jesus continues to appear to the disciples and others for 40 days as proof He is alive (Acts 1:3). Once while eating with the disciples, He tells them not to leave Jerusalem but to wait for the promise of His Father. He then tells them they will be baptized with the Holy Spirit in a few days (1:4-5). Just before His ascension, Jesus tells them they will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon them (1:8a).
What does He also tell them in Acts 1:8b?
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Why Should I Fast?
Throughout the Bible we most often find God’s people turn to fasting as the natural, inevitable response to a grievous sacred moment in life, such as death, sin and tragedy. But other times a fast is not a spontaneous reaction and we have time to prepare to respond both physically and spiritually.
Fasting is not an end unto itself, but a means of focusing our minds and bodies for a spiritual reason. Whenever you fast, do so for a reason that is mentioned or modeled in the Bible.
Here are ten primary purposes for fasting mentioned in Scripture:¹
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A Healthy Spiritual Heart
In a world that can often values surface image more than spiritual heart health, attention to matters of the heart must be something we daily pursue and steward.
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