Grace Baptist Church

In our Lord's teaching on anxiety, He focuses our attention on getting rid of worry through worrying about bigger things. Things that involve His strength.

At times we struggle with being anxious. That may be anxious about work, family or relationships Today you may be anxious about bills, health, children, world problems, city problems, loneliness, what others think, an upcoming task or transition . . . the list could go on and on.--Those Jesus taught felt the same pressures, and He encourages His followers to consider the Lord's care for them. The Lord's preaching in the Sermon on the Mount not only challenges us at the heart level, it also encourages our faith in a practical way. He teaches us how our Theology affects our everyday life.

In the faith chapter, Hebrews 11 teaches that faith is the -evidence- for what we -hope- for. By faith, we worship and serve a God Whom we have not seen, expecting that He will take us to a place that we have not seen when we die. --Seeing the unseen -faith- touches every part of our lives. The truth is, if you are a follower of Christ, you will live this way. Or if you stray from living this way, God will guide you back to living this way. Not only is this a central truth in Christianity it is the primary point of Jesus' sermon on the Mount. Serving and seeing One we cannot see.

Giving our heart to God--Who already owns all things--is one primary application that Jesus gives in the Sermon on the Mount. In this instruction, Jesus' gives a revolutionary view of -treasures- and trust for followers in His kingdom. His followers trust Him with everything as they give Him their heart -see text below-.

In Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, He repeatedly refers to God as our Father. What kind of Father is He- He is One Who notices, Who cares, and Who loves to graciously reward His children. This is why we come to Him in prayer and seek Him even with fasting. --Your Heavenly Father notices you. That will the theme for the service tomorrow as Jesus picks up the theme of prayer and fasting

A walk through the book of Ruth examining the lives of mothers Ruth and Naomi.

We finish our study of the Lord's Pattern Prayer as we leave this great text with a closing for the Glory of God in our purity.

The life that God blesses is clearly outlined in Psalm 1. Brother Muki takes us carefully through this Psalm to encourage us to follow the Lord toward the righteous way of His blessing.

What do you need- As the Lord teaches us to pray for our needs, it is significant that He only uses a few words to describe what we need physically, and yet He uses many to describe what we need spiritually. And so we begin again with the text. What do you need- You need forgiveness.

As we continue through Jesus' Pattern Prayer, we find the only phrase that deals with praying for our physical needs. Let's glean from our Lord's teaching on how to pray for your daily bread.