Nearer To God – is teaching about drawing nearer to God. It’s not good enough that we come to know Christ Jesus by being baptized, we must draw closer to God the Father through Christ Jesus. What God is offering us through Christ can only be obtained if we give ourselves away and draw closer to God. Our walk must change, so we are not walking with the world, but with the Lord. We no longer seek the world, we seek God’s Kingdom and his righteousness. Through us drawing nearer to God through Christ, he gives us the peace and love we seek.  When we draw closer to God, our lives become one with Christ. For in the Lord, we receive all we need, and willing to do what pleases God. As we draw nearer to God, our desire for the things of the world is stripped away, and we who were once far away from God are brought nearer. As we develop a closer walk with Christ Jesus, we become one with him, and able to stand before God, to feel his presence, and to know of this glory.  

• Potters Wheel – is teaching about falling into brokenness. At some point in our lives, things occur that get us into a broken state. It could be emotional, financial, a matter of the heart, struggles in our mind, or with our body. It could come from our relationships, family, or children, life is not easy. Any one of us could suffer something that causes us to feel like we need to give up. It's interesting how we are, it's only in brokenness that we call on God, cry out to Jesus. We don’t call out to God in good times, only when there is trouble, a very bad situation has to come before we call on God. The Lord is so loving, he takes us in our brokenness, and places us on the potter's wheel to change and mold us. Depending on how broken we are, we may be on that potter’s wheel for a long time as Christ works out everything in us that rebels against God. We must stay on the potter's wheel until the work is complete, if we jump off, trouble and misery will return. Christ will reshape us, and form us into a useful vessel, a letter of Christ Jesus, so everyone can see the work of God in us, poured in us, and done to us.

Giving God Our Best – is about giving our best to God. Unfortunately, the world has taught us the best way for us to have the best is to put ourselves first, to hoard all we make, and spend what we make on ourselves. As Christians, we learn this is not the way we receive the best from God.  The Father sent his Son into the world so we can have the best of God through him. It requires that we accept Christ, we accept God’s Word and Ways into our hearts.  The Spirit teaches us and trains us, so we give ourselves to Christ Jesus and receive the best from God. Our best compares nothing to the best of God in Christ Jesus. The Lord is willing to give us his best, not so we can have more, but so we can help those who don’t know God, who have no relationship with Christ Jesus.  

Growing Under Grace – is about how God has been providing us grace from the beginning of time. Because of our sins, God had to extend us grace, or he would have to destroy all of mankind.  In the past, God provided his grace to certain people, who walked upright before God, even that was not enough to save us. So God sent his Son Christ Jesus, to be an atonement for our sins, so anyone who comes to believe and have faith in Christ Jesus could receive the grace of God.  God’s grace found in Christ Jesus is a covering, a shield for us, so we have time to learn of God, overcome, and have victory over sin and the world. Under God’s grace, we have access to peace, love, healing, mercy, forgiveness, and blessings found in Christ Jesus. God is giving us time to learn and overcome. We cannot waste the grace of God, by continuing in sin. Under grace, we must change and become more like Christ Jesus.   

Planks In Our Eyes– Is teaching about removing any planks or obstacles that stop us from serving God, and hearing God’s truth about ourselves. We have to be courageous enough to make the tough changes in our lives, so we can receive all the blessings God has for us. For us to grow our faith in Christ Jesus, we have to be willing to listen to him and the Spirit talk to us about getting rid of the planks that keep us from receiving, from seeing, from growing, from becoming more and more like Christ. We cannot allow this world, religion, desires to keep us blinded from the grace and mercy God wants to lavish on us through Christ. We need to be able to see clearly, so we can receive it all. All the planks that cover our eyes must be removed. Christ has the power and authority to guide us so every plank is removed, and we are completely free in him.   

Keeping The Story Straight – This is about how the Power of God is founded in what God spoke, wrote, and revealed through Christ Jesus.  If we decide to add, modify, or delete anything from God’s Word then we are impacting the Power of God to be effective in changing lives, and saving souls. If we add made-up stories to God’s Word, then we are nullifying its power to transform us into the image of Christ Jesus. We must keep God’s Word straight, so it can have an impact on lives that are yet to come. Keeping God’s Word straight requires we change, not that we change God’s Word to suit our desires, passion, and sinful lifestyles. We need to keep God’s Word just as it was given, so many can be saved, receive salvation, and God’s Power in Christ Jesus is effective today, and in generations to come.

• Walking In Darkness – This is about how God uses darkness to bring things to light, especially those hidden things within us. He uses darkness to teach us about sin, ourselves, and the cares of the world. I know this is a subject most will skip over, and assume because we accepted Christ, we go to church, and we pay offerings, that darkness is not present in us. But that is not the case, God’s Word teaches us how to walk in the light of Christ Jesus, so we are no longer walking in any parts of darkness. We must examine ourselves and grow our faith, so we have confidence we are fully walking in the light of Christ, and there are no traces of darkness in us at all. We live in a time where deception is running high, people are being deceived and deceiving others as the Word of God taught us it would be in the last times.  We must approach the light of Christ with our eyes open and be honest about areas of darkness that remain in us, so we can live by the light of Christ, and pass by his judgment seat.   

According To Our Faith – This is teaching is about knowing what to expect from God the Father and Christ Jesus based on our level of faith. I know there is a lot of different teaching about how God moves based on our level of tithes and offerings, which is the old testament, compared to Christ's teaching on faith. While the whole Word of God is useful for teaching, preaching, and correcting. We must accept what Christ taught over what was taught in the old testaments. Everything from God is now driven by the level of faith we have in God.  Nothing happens from heaven, without faith, we can cry, shout, and scream to God for help, but without us showing we have faith in God, nothing happens. Christ said, according to our faith it will be done. We must grow from having weak or little faith in God, to where our faith is growing and producing good deeds, to the point we reach mature faith in the Lord, where everything is about God’s Will in Christ, and nothing is about our will or what we desire.

Truly Devoted – This is a teaching to encourage every believer to be devoted to God by increasing in faithful and obedience to God the Father and Christ Jesus. There are a lot of things in this world and in our personal lives that keeps us from being fully devoted to God. If we desire to receive blessings and God’s promises we must live a devoted life to God, there is no other option. God requires we devoted ourselves to him, serve him through his Son and by his Spirit! We know how to devote ourselves to things of the world, things we want to do, things we desire, now it is time to use the same effort we put into serving ourselves, into serving God, and the work of Christ Jesus. We must grow our faith by being wholehearted devoted to God. Being devoted to God will keep the devil away, as our hearts draw closer to God through Christ Jesus.   

Nothing Is Impossible With God – is about learning there is nothing impossible for God to do. While we like to believe in ourselves, yet there are many things impossible for us. We must recognize our limitations, and understand there are many things we cannot achieve within ourselves. We must trust and have faith in God the Father through Christ Jesus, it’s the only way we can make it when things seem impossible for us. While there are many things impossible for mankind, nothing is too hard for God, nothing is impossible for the Lord. If we believe, place our hope in him, and live our lives knowing Christ is coming again, we will experience the delivering hand of God. If we place our lives in his hand, seek him, we will see through Christ there is nothing we cannot do according to God’s Will. There is nothing too hard for God, nothing is impossible for him.  Our faith must grow, so we come to believe and trust in God’s Power in Christ to make good things occur in the lives of those who believe.