GOD IS SO GREAT!! We just finished our second meeting tonight and God showed up in an awesome way reminding us that He is in control and that our victory is in His best interest. It was a great night where we were reminded that no matter how hard the struggles, trials, shifting and storms were in 2008, God has an appointed time for his deliverance. It's his timing not ours!!!! Everyone that showed up left encouraged and refreshed. We also shared some "out-of-this-world" kool aid and chili cheese dip after the meeting!!!We will be meeting every Thursday night @7pm at my house until we find a new location near the Cypress TX area. Please be praying that God opens doors for us in the next couple of months!!
Also check out our "rough draft" logo for the Ministry!!!! it's a bit rough but it's a start!!! if their are any computer design geniuses out their, send me your ideas!!!!!
My children Chris and Suzy also participated in tonights meeting so I am especially proud of them. Chris shared Jeremiah 29:11 and Suzy prayed for the offerings!! They did so good!!
Well thanks guys for all of your prayers and support. I will see you next Thursday night!!
Until ALL have heard,
Oliver
The Notes from tonight:
New Beginnings
Out with the Old, In with the new
Scripture: Isaiah 43 1-19; Habakkuk 2
Key verse: vs. 19
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.
Someone who is unable to get over previous hurts and failures is held hostage to the past.
The biggest weight that we have holding us from living the life God intended for us is the anchor of the failures and struggles of yesterday.
We have heard many, many times before that God has a great plan for our lives. His desire for us is that we live life to the fullest and achieve everything He has for us to achieve.
Everyone Dies but not everyone really lives!!! We must live a life that is worthy of Christ's death on the cross!!
Out with the Old, In with the new
Scripture: Isaiah 43 1-19; Habakkuk 2
Key verse: vs. 19
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.
Someone who is unable to get over previous hurts and failures is held hostage to the past.
The biggest weight that we have holding us from living the life God intended for us is the anchor of the failures and struggles of yesterday.
We have heard many, many times before that God has a great plan for our lives. His desire for us is that we live life to the fullest and achieve everything He has for us to achieve.
Everyone Dies but not everyone really lives!!! We must live a life that is worthy of Christ's death on the cross!!
Habakkuk chapter one was the chapter of complaining and Chapter 2 Habakkuk has a “ watcha gotta say to that complaint God???” attitude: What's God going to say to my questions? I'm braced for the worst. I'll climb to the lookout tower and scan the horizon. I'll wait to see what God says, how he'll answer my complaint. (Habakkuk 2:1)
God answers his complaint with revelation and vision.
Revelation is the unveiling and presentation of something you did know about
And Vision is the ability to see.
Habakkuk reminds us that God is still working and that he is not done with us yet. It also reminds us that that our struggles and failures are not fatal. And that an appointed time for victory and fulfillment is right around the corner.
Isaiah tells us some fundamental truths that are necessary for living a victorious life.
1) But now, this is what the LORD says— he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.
- God created us, He formed us and He claims us. God does not make mistakes and His creation has a purpose and destiny as to why it was created,
2) When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.
- He does not promise that we won’t go through trials, but he does say that when we go through them they will not get the better of us IF WE DON’T QUIT!!
3) 5 Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your children from the east and gather you from the west. I will say to the north, 'Give them up!' and to the south, 'Do not hold them back.' Bring my sons from afar And my daughters from the ends of the earth.
- No matter how far you think you’ve gotten He is drawing you back. You are His and He wants you!!
4) 11 I, even I, am the LORD, and apart from me there is no savior.
-God wants you to understand that your sight must only be placed on Him. Only He can save, redeem and transform.
5) 16 This is what the LORD says— he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters,
- The God of making the impossible possible and the improbable probable wants to remind you that he has come through in your life in the past and he is getting ready to come through again!!! You need to get ready.
6) 18 "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland
- 2009 is a year of promise, a year of new beginnings, a year of new strength, a year of new vision and dreams,
‑ 2008 was a year of shifting, and moving and struggle, and labor, and a year when the devil tried to make you quit. All you had to do was hold on!!!! The devil should have killed you but in stead you made it!!!!! You’ve been laboring and pushing and now the appointed time is here!!! This is the year where you will give birth to Zoe life, a life in God. It speaks of the life that is given by God through Christ Jesus to those who believe the gospel, it means means "eternal", "everlasting", "of endless duration."
Scripture reveals that the source or fount of this zoe life is God the Father. Indeed, Jesus calls Him "the living [zao] Father" (John 6:57), indicating that zoe life is the very life that God has in Himself. Having life in Himself, the Father imparted this life to the Son: "For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself" (John 5:26 NASV).
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