We have had two awesome weeks into the "knowing" series. Over the past two weeks we have learned that one of the most crucial things a person must know is who they are!! It sounds elementary enough but oddly it's one of the biggest challenges in individuals lives.
YOu are not what society says about you, what your past failures say about you, or what your education says about you. you are who God says you are!! God wants His people to know that a failure is not a person, it's a time in history and that's it. Don't let the past determine who you are today. It may take a time of wrestling with yourself and with God like Jacob did in Genesis 32 or just may take you going throughout the Bible discovering all the things God says about you. All in all if a person does not know who they are they will never really discover what they can truly do and will probably lose many of life's battles.
We also talked about knowing your enemy. We talked about the devil but we also talked about an enemy that messes with us probably more.....OUR OWN FLESH. Yeah, the devil's tactics are to condemn us for wrong doing, accuse us before God and tempt us to do wrong things to take us out of God's will,but our flesh gets us in trouble everyday. The only way that we will conquer both is submit wholly unto God. Making mistakes in life is inevitable, being tempted is inevitable, falling down is inevitable but rising up, receiving forgiveness, and walking in victory on a daily basis is our right BUT it is our choice. Choose God, look to the cross, Go in His presence daily, find someone to be accountable to and you will win!!!
Anyway, It's only getting better at Next Level, so I hope to see you all their!!!! Every Thursday, for now at 7:30 for worship and 7:00 for prayer.
Until ALL have heard,
Pastor Oliver
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