Father's House Church Sermon of the Week

In PART 2 of LUI, we looked at how do we live under the influence. Jesus tells us to not let our hearts be troubled, to trust in God and in Him. Are we prepared to surrender and say God we trust you? Jesus didn’t say come to me and your life will be easy, but He did promise us that He will never leave us nor forsake us. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. If we want to experience real life we need to plug into Jesus. He is the same yesterday, today and forever.

The biggest thing that needs to penetrate our lives is God’s voice. There are a million voices coming at us from all different directions and we need to make sure that those voices are aligned with the voice of God. There is also the voice of the enemy, who over promises and under deliverers and leaves us with a broken heart. It’s our choice to chose to live in obedience to God and submit to His ways.

What does Faith mean to you? The ultimate reward of our faith is a Father who loves us and knows us intimately. If Jesus set foot on earth only just for you and I, that kind of love brings hope and that hope says that we can have a relationship with God. This past Sunday Eric Montgomery looked at three key points of our faith: Relationship Faith which leads to Real Faith, which leads to Rewarding Faith.

Life starts with intimacy with God, for us to have relationship with God. We were created with an identity and a destiny, we were created to live in community and to share life with others. The enemy can only get to us by lies. Believing lies damages us and the earth. The question is are we going to settle with life as we know it or are we going to live free by surrendering to God and submitting to His ways.

This past Sunday pastor Greg Timms shared with us that God is relational. Many people know of God, but don’t know God out of relationship. The day is coming when we will be living with the Word, but until that day the bible carries all that weight. He wants us to know what He thinks and feels about us and we find that by reading his love letters to us. The best we can do is to develop a History with God. We become what we behold!

God’s will for us is freedom, joy and peace. To be transformed and to look more and more like Him. We can’t have an outstanding 2019 outside of Jesus. We weren’t called to just get better. We were called to live in relationship with the God.

This past Sunday pastor Greg Timms shared a message about “Connecting the Dots… 2019”. Jesus said I am the way so we need to follow the Father’s lead. We celebrate one dot at a time. One dot leads to another. You can’t skip a dot because you won’t have the full picture. If God highlights the next dot - don’t miss it.

This past Sunday at our Christmas Eve Service pastor Greg Timms shared that when God says something, it is really good, powerful and important. We often hear or see these words over this Christmas time, “Emmanuel - “God with us”, “Joy to the World” and “Peace on Earth”. We were designed to live in perfect peace, absolute joy and with the presence of Christ with us every single day. What good is a gift that needs batteries but arrives on Christmas morning without batteries. The same is true of us, we need batteries, not Duracell, but Emmanuel. Jesus said I am sending my Son to be with you, to bring you peace and to bring you joy.

This past Sunday pastor Greg Timms spoke about Christmas being about celebrating the risen King who is Emmanuel God with us. A Father who is abundantly generous. He knows us in every detail and loves us and He wants us to live with hope and expectation. This Kingdom is for us to be enjoyed.

This past Sunday pastor Greg Timms spoke about God’s call on us is that we function as a body and as a unit. We are of equal value and importance to God and that we don't discredit ourselves because we are different in function. Our gifting is not for ourselves, it’s to be a blessing to the body and the gifting we have is meant to encourage and build each other up. We know that a body has many parts, but God has put every part just where He wants it to be and honor makes for harmony within the body.