Brave Miami

READY TO LIVE

In 2017 I’M READY TO…

1. Live with Vision

"What God has in store for you is never in your past."

2. Live with Intention

"You are the most difficult person you will ever lead?"

3. Live with purpose

“You are the only being in the universe that can cause defeat in your life.”

Proverbs 4:25-27

25 Look straight ahead,and fix your eyes on what lies before you. 26 Mark out a straight path for your feet;stay on the safe path. 27 Don’t get sidetracked;keep your feet from following evil.

Christmas Day 

1. We had it all

2. We lost it all

3. God gave it all

Matthew 1:18-25 NLT

18 This is how Jesus the Messiah was born. His mother, Mary, was engaged to be married to Joseph. But before the marriage took place, while she was still a virgin, she became pregnant through the power of the Holy Spirit.  19 Joseph, her fiancé, was a good man and did not want to disgrace her publicly, so he decided to break the engagement quietly. 20 As he considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream. “Joseph, son of David,” the angel said, “do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife. For the child within her was conceived by the Holy Spirit.  21 And she will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” 22 All of this occurred to fulfill the Lord’s message through his prophet: 23 “Look! The virgin will conceive a child!She will give birth to a son,and they will call him Immanuel,which means ‘God is with us.’” 24 When Joseph woke up, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded and took Mary as his wife.  25 But he did not have sexual relations with her until her son was born. And Joseph named him Jesus.

Genesis 2:16 NLT

16 But the lord God warned him, “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden—

John 3:16 NLT

16 “For this is how God loved the world: For God loved the world so much that he gave. his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

Beautiful Outlaw

2 things God calls us to do at Christmas:

1. Bear Some Burdens

2. Break Some Rules

Mark 2:17 NLT

17 When Jesus heard this, he told them, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor—sick people do. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners.”

Mark 2:1-5 NLT

1 When Jesus returned to Capernaum several days later, the news spread quickly that he was back home. 2 Soon the house where he was staying was so packed with visitors that there was no more room, even outside the door. While he was preaching God’s word to them, 3 four men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. 4 They couldn’t bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, so they dug a hole through the roof above his head. Then they lowered the man on his mat, right down in front of Jesus. 5 Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, “My child, your sins are forgiven.”

Current Location

Where are you? Do you like where you are? Do you ever wish your HERE was THERE? This weekend, Pastor David is going to be speaking LIVE to bring a practical but very profound message that you need to hear before you get too much further into the Christmas season.

Purpose and Placement.

    - The key to God moving you from HERE to THERE is you being honest of where HERE is. 

How To Seize The Moment You Are In:

1. You have to give God permission to use your current location.

2. Your current location connects you with someone else's situation.

3. Your progress doesn't produce your praise, your praise produces your progress.

Exodus 3:1-12

One day Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock far into the wilderness and came to Sinai, the mountain of God. There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from the middle of a bush. Moses stared in amazement. Though the bush was engulfed in flames, it didn’t burn up. “This is amazing,” Moses said to himself. “Why isn’t that bush burning up? I must go see it.” When the LORD saw Moses coming to take a closer look, God called to him from the middle of the bush, “Moses! Moses!” “Here I am!” Moses replied. “Do not come any closer,” the LORD warned. “Take off your sandals, for you are standing on holy ground. I am the God of your father —the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” When Moses heard this, he covered his face because he was afraid to look at God. Then the LORD told him, “I have certainly seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their cries of distress because of their harsh slave drivers. Yes, I am aware of their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own fertile and spacious land. It is a land flowing with milk and honey—the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live. Look! The cry of the people of Israel has reached me, and I have seen how harshly the Egyptians abuse them. Now go, for I am sending you to Pharaoh. You must lead my people Israel out of Egypt.” But Moses protested to God, “Who am I to appear before Pharaoh? Who am I to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt?” God answered, “I will be with you. And this is your sign that I am the one who has sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God at this very mountain.”

Romans 8:28

And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.