Operation Generation - Live the Promise - 11am Service

Sermon Text: Joshua 5: 9

Sermon Title: Operation Generation: Live The Promise

Point 1: Transferring The Promise

Point 2: Receiving The Promise

Point 3: Responding to the Promise

Point 4: Realizing The Promise

Conclusion: Living The Promise in [Today] Gilgal

All into Prayer: Prayer That Gets God’s Attention - 830am Svc

Sermon Text: Isaiah 38:2 Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,

Sermon Title:  Prayer That Gets God’s Attention

Point 1:  Prayer that is heartfelt, sincere and gut wrenching. 

Point 2:  Prayer that has feet on it vs. 21 - Isaiah had said, "Prepare a poultice of figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover."

Point 3:  Prayer backed up with a life of faithfulness vs. 3 "Remember, O LORD, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes." 

Point 4: Hezekiah prayer had purpose.

God answered:

With a word: vv 4, 5, 6 Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah: ⁵ "Go and tell Hezekiah, 'This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life. ⁶ And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.

A sign:  vv 7, 8 ⁷ " 'This is the LORD's sign to you that the LORD will do what he has promised: ⁸ I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.' “So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down.

A response:  vs. 5 "Go and tell Hezekiah, 'This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life.

All into Prayer: I Need An Answer Pt. 2

Sermon Text: Luke 18: 1 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.

Sermon Title: All into Prayer: I Need An Answer Pt. 2

Point 1: Promise Keeper

a.  A.S.K. Matt 7: 7 - 11 ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

b.  Confidence 1 John 5: 14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

c.  Receive Matt 21: 22 And all things, whatever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive

d.  Abiding  John 15: 7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you

e.  Call Him Jeremiah 33: 3 Call to me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things which you do not know

f.    Sin…

Point 2: Delay Develops…

a.  25 years…Genesis 18: 13 The Lord said to Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh and say, "Will I really have a child, now that I am old?"

b.  400 plus years…Exodus 3: 7 The Lord said, "I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering.

c.  18 years…Luke 13: 11 And behold, there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself.

d.  Since birth…John 9: 1 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.

Point 3: Promise Hearer…

a.  His…

b.  Doors…

c.   Unction

d.  Yes…

e.  No…

f.    Wait…

Conclusion:

All Into Prayer! I Need an Answer!

Sermon Text: Luke 18: 1 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.

Sermon Title: All into Prayer! I Need an Answer!

Point 1: Don’t do as she did… vs. 3, 5 And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with a plea…(5) yet because this widow keeps bothering me…

Point 2: It's not how many times you say it…vs. 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me…so that when won't eventually wear me out with her coming!

Matt 6: 7, 8 And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. (8) Do not be like them for your father know what you need before you ask him.

Point 3: Does the prayer connect to a covenant promise? vs. 3, 7…she kept coming with the plea…will not God bring justice

a.  Define…

b.  Determine…

c.  Declare…

Point 4: God wants to answer Luke 11: 7 And will not bring about justice for his chosen ones…

Point 5: Remember when God did answer…don’t give up vs. 1 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. James 1: 6,7 17…

Homework:

a.  List…

b.  Expect…

c.  Don't…

d.  Join…

e.  Join…

The Edge

Sermon Text: John 5: 1 - 12

Sermon Title: The Edge

Point 1: How did you get here? 3, 5

Point 2: Get away from those who can’t get you into your destiny vs. 7

Point 3: Get up vs. 8

Point 4: Get what got you vs. 11

Point 5: Get a new life vs. 14, 15

Living on the Edge: The Edge of Greatness

Sermon Text: 1 Kings 3: 9 “So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong. For who is able to govern this great people of yours?”

Sermon Title: Living on the Edge: The Edge of Greatness

Point 1: Acknowledge God vs. 7 Now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David. But I am only a little child and do not know how to carry out my duties.

Point 2: Ask for help vs. 9 “So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong. For who is able to govern this great people of yours?”

Point 3: Accept help from God help vs. 12 I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning hear, so that there will never have been anyone like you, nor will there ever be.

Point 4: Acquiring success will happen vs. 13 Moreover, I will give you what you have not asked for—both riches and honor—so that in your lifetime you will have no equal among the kings.

Point 5: Apply what you learn vs. 24, 25 The king said, “Bring me a sword.” So they brought a sword for the king. (25) He then gave an order: “Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other.”

Conclusion/Homework

Living on the Edge: My Deliverance Will Come

Review: Stepping into your promise means…

Pericope: Exodus 14: 10 - 31

Sermon Text: Exodus 14: 31 And when the Israelites saw the great power the Lord displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord and put their trust in him and Moses his servant.

Sermon Title: Living on the Edge: My Deliverance Will Come

Point 1: The Edge of Deliverance also means the edge of desaster

vs. 10(a) As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them.

Point 2: God is the conductor vss. 17, 18 I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them…(18) The Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I gain glory through Pharaoh…

Point 3: Dismiss your fear vs. 13…Do not be afraid…

Point 4: You must move forward vs. 15…Tell the Israelites to move on…

Point 5: Deliverance requires dependence on God vss. 22, 31 when the Israelites saw the great power the Lord displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord and put their trust in him…

Conclusion/Homework