I AM PASTOR DEB

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Today is a magnificent day, a day granted to give God glory.  A day to bask in joy.  Today, I urge you to take time to pay attention to the natural beauties God created as the earth’s decor.  

When was the last time you paid attention to the beauty of a flower?  When was the last time you were in awe of the majesty of a tree, its trunk, and its branches?  When was the last time you took the time to enjoy the sunset?  

When was the last time or have you ever stood amazed by the darkness of night and the stars that hang so eloquently to give bursts of light when the sun has gone?

Now let’s talk about you.  When was the last time you thanked God for the ability to laugh, for your sight, for being able to hear, for the rhythm of music, for keeping blood running through your veins, for a mind that can process thought?

We should also never get tired of thanking God for our uniqueness.  Think about the one thing you do differently with no real effort, your God-given talent.  Some of you possess creative artistic talents, when was the last time you drew or painted a picture?  When was the last time you took the time to exalt the incredible voice God gave you, or play out the rhythms trapped in your head? What are you doing with your passion for children, your love of seniors, and your writing abilities?

Whatever your talent is, whatever makes you unique is your God-given talent and these are gifts from God intended to provide us joy, intended to direct us to purpose and give Him glory.  And just like His word, I want to tell you this morning your talent has no expiration date.  

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Some question the validity of the Bible.  Even those who believe in the Bible and God, cannot explain why they believe what they believe or the dynamics of the validity of the Bible.  This series is designed to give clarity to the validity of the Bible and equip believers to better explain why their belief is concrete.  GRAB A PEN AND PAPER AND LISTEN.

The Bible has proven itself to be a historical document that boasts accuracy and reliability. Historically, culturally, geographically, and scientifically, the Bible has stood as reliable and has been verified as factual by even non-biblical resources. The Bible exposes the history of religious and cultural customs, politics, languages, ethics, humanity, and the earliest days of Western civilization.   

 If you read a single passage of the Bible, then skip to another verse, hopping around from scripture to scripture, you will discover what seems to be contradictions, as this would be true concerning any book.  However, if anyone reads the Bible chapter by chapter they will find what they deemed as contradictions to be just different revelations of a unified and consistent message.  There are a total of 31,102 verses in the Bible, but because of spiritual laziness,  lies are spread, deceptions are created and cults are established based on one or two scriptures without referencing the remaining scriptures that would certainly provide clarity.

 When one really begins to crave The Word of GOD, the commentaries included at the beginning of each of the books of the Bible become appealing as they provide, background, and cultural accounts of each chapter. As believers our desire should be to understand and draw closer to GOD, His Word, and His will, not being satisfied with just being able to quote our favorite scriptures.

The Preservation Process

 The preservation process of the Bible prompts disbelief in many. The preservation of the Bible was done in a thorough and sacred manner. This concept is so hard to grasp because we maintain and exist in a culture where dedication to anything is almost obsolete and integrity is often dismissed, especially if it requires one to be inconvenienced. 

 The original Bible manuscripts (called autographs) were written on papyrus,  a material that deteriorated quickly. Consequently, scribes needed to copy and recopy the Old Testament books letter by letter. These copyists knew they were copying the Word of GOD, so they committed themselves to operate with excellence and integrity. We must also be mindful there was no reason for scribes to change or misquote scripture.

 Because of their diligence and commitment to accuracy, the Old Testament in our Bibles today is virtually identical to the autographs written over 2,000 years ago. Bible scholars have demonstrated this by comparing ancient copies of the Bible with more recent copies. 

 For example, prior to the discovery of the Dead Sea Scroll manuscripts in 1947, the oldest existing Old Testament manuscript was the Masoretic Text, dated around a.d. 900. Upon the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls the fragments were compared, and proved the writings aligned almost identical in wording and exact in context.  

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We were created to desire more, the best, for we were created with a spirit of royalty interwoven into our DNA for we are joint heirs with Jesus Christ in the Kingdom of God.  Let that just marinate for a moment. We take what that means for granted.  We casually refer to God as the King of Kings without really embracing the depth of what that means.

If God is the King of Kings, and you are His child, then your position outranks all of Queen Elizabeth’s heirs. We don’t embrace that because our minds immediately begin to calculate our worth based on money and material things. William and Harry never questioned their inheritance because that was a given, they just grew up preparing for their position, and the handling of their legacy. No need to brag or boast about who they are because they had no reason to feel they had to prove who they were to anyone.

True royalty just walks in their inheritance, doing all they can to maintain their legacy and steer their heirs.  

The God-given desire for more, for better, for excellence we have allowed the world to taint, taking our more and redirecting it to desire more stuff, not more of ourselves, not more to expand the Kingdom of which proclaim to be tied to.

Where we fall short of the glory of God is we prioritize the things of the world.  We place too much value on money, things and the opinions of others, which deflects from what secures our Kingdom inheritance.

Proverbs 2:6 For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

Proverbs 24:14 Know that wisdom is such to your soul;  if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

When spending our time not seeking more of the Word of God, but more money, more material things, bigger houses, and finer cars, nothing that secures hope

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I need to talk to the children of God this morning just for a few moments.  Now if that is you listen very carefully, I am going to tell you how to make sure you are not blocking your blessing and have positioned yourself to receive all of God’s favor.

As a child of God, you are required to conduct yourself differently.  I don’t know about you all but I had a mother who if as a child began to act like a monkey in public she would quickly check me and warn me, you better not embarrass me.

God is the same way, His children are held to a higher standard, and we don’t get to do what most do.  Do you know what I mean just because this one was rude to you, you decide to be just as rude to them.  As a child of God…. you are not privy to rudeness.

As a child of God, you are charged to shed light on the situation with words similar to this, I don’t know if you are aware of how rude you were, I am sorry you are having a bad day, we all have those, but let’s not take it out on one another and recognize that God is bigger than all we are going through. 

 I know that may sound a bit corny, tweak it anyway you want to.  My point is this don’t let someone else’s issues derail your blessing, because you are charged to be light in dark situations, and God holds us accountable when we know the right thing to do and don’t.

Romans 12:17-21  Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. 18 If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. 19 Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,”[d] says the Lord. 20 On the contrary: “If your enemy is hungry, feed him;  if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.”[e]

21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

I am not going to make this easy. YOu will have to discipline yourself to change how you react, but once you repeatedly do it, before you know the character of light will overtake you, and watch and see if the favor of God seems to be coming at you from the left and the right.

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For anyone to prove or to be absolutely certain there is no GOD, he or she would have to actually be GOD themselves, possessing at least 2 godly characteristics. One would have to be omnipresent (the ability to be present everywhere at once and have been present before the beginning of time and able to be present after end-times) and omniscient (the ability to possess all awareness and understanding of all things: past, present, and future).  

The Bible tells us,  “In the beginning, GOD created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of GOD was hovering over the waters” Genesis 1:1-2.  The most profound evidence of the existence of GOD is incredibly outside the writings of the Bible, it is the universe. If GOD does not exist, then the universe would have had to create itself.  

Now let's examine that possibility. For the universe to have created itself, it would have had to both exist and not exist at the same time.  Puzzled?  Follow closely.  For the universe to have created itself, it would have had to first exist and be prior to itself. Because in order for anything to create something, it has to first exist itself. Since nothing can exist prior to itself to bring itself to be, this leaves us to draw the conclusion that it is impossible for the universe to have created itself. 

Here are 2 questions for skeptics who hold firm to the Big Bang Theory:  

#1.  What existed before the universe, to cause it to be and even generate a bang? 

#2.  And whatever that was, should we not at least research it and upon discovery,  honor and, even worship it?

GOD, Himself is pure existence, or what some call “pure actuality”, meaning with no possibility of not existing. Put another way, many things can have existence, but only GOD can “be” existence. Other things have “being” but only GOD is “Being”. 

GOD alone is a self-existent being and the initial cause of everything that exists. John 5:26 simply says, “The Father has life in Himself.” Paul preached, “He is not served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives all men life and breath and everything else” Acts 17:25.

GOD is a necessary being whose non-existence is impossible. GOD is the only necessary being; all other things are contingent beings. If GOD did not exist, then neither would anything else. Job states: “If He should determine to do so, If He should gather to Himself His spirit and His breath, All flesh would perish together, And man would return to dust” Job 34:14–15.

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I remember my Aunt Reidy who was determined to stay up all night so she could witness her 80th birthday come in because that was a milestone her mother or father didn’t have an opportunity to celebrate.  With all the death and dysfunction, life and milestones should not be ignored.

There is no biblical mandate against a Christian celebrating birthdays, nor is there anything to indicate we are required to observe them. Scripturally speaking, whether we as Christians celebrate birthdays or not is a non-issue. 

The Bible does mention two individuals celebrating birthdays: the Egyptian Pharaoh in Joseph’s time (Genesis 40:20) and King Herod in Jesus’ time (Matthew 14:6; Mark 6:21). 

Some want to use these two birthday celebrations as evidence that celebrating birthdays is wrong;  because both men were non-believing individuals, so the thought process is that a birthday celebration is seen as some form of a pagan ritual or practice.

However, that conclusion is NOT founded biblically in either passage. The Bible does not even hint that it was wrong for Pharaoh or Herod to celebrate their birthdays. 

The Word of God is consistent and can be trusted, so we have to believe and trust that if the celebrating of a birthday was against the will or mandate of God, He would have made it clear as He does with everything that He finds displeasing.   The Scripture also does not indicate anywhere that a Christian was discouraged from celebrating a birthday.....

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• Fear shuts down faith, as we act and react out of fear that God won’t do what he promised he will do.
• Fear pushes us into wrong relationships based on a fear of being alone, fear of being rejected, fear of lack, and fear of no provision.
• Fear also rises its head making us fearful of failure, we don’t want to be embarrassed, we don't want to invest and not succeed, so we walk away from pursuing God’s purpose, living a stagnant unfulfilled life.
• Fear also gives life to insecurities, fearing we are not smart enough, not the right color, from the right side of the tracks, all this which lays the foundation for dysfunction and generational curses as we instill these fear in our children.
• Fear overtakes us as we stress over losing material possessions, status, title, positions, 

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What does it really mean to know God?  Knowing God goes beyond the surface of belief.  "For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives" Colossians 1:9.

Knowing God is the establishment of a true relationship with God, that will guide and direct your life according to the principles and will of God.

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Rulership vs Headship

Genesis 3:14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals!

Genesis 3:16 Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule (be consumed by, controlled mind and body, (dictionary- the standard of judgment) over you.” NOT A CURSE

Genesis 3:17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’

“Cursed is the ground because of you;  through painful toil, you will eat food from it all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 

The head is not regarded as the seat of the intellect but as the source of life (Mt. 14:8, 11; Jn. 19:30)

 Ephesians 5:22-24  Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

1 Corinthians 7:15  But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases, the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.

Hebrews 13:4 

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Colossians 3:19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

Psalm 11:5 The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.

1 Peter 3:7 Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

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2 Timothy 3:1-5 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

Father God in the name of your son Jesus, we come before you today first thank you for waking us up another day, thank you for giving us another day, to serve you another day to be an example on this earth of your good, your majesty, your grace, and your mercy.

Lord, we thank you for your Word for in your Word you told us we would face these times, and your Word has proven over and over to be true and prophetic.  In Matthew 5:18 you confirmed, “until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished”

As we approach your throne this morning, know that your Word is true, all we can do is humble our hearts, renew our minds and ask that you steer and guide us, give us a spirit of discernment, and let us not become consumed to the ways of this world.  Let us seek truth over popularity, “celebritism”, money, and fame.  Let us not walk in a spirit of selfishness, guard our tongues that we do not speak a slanderous word again another for we know all souls were created engraved with your divine destiny, we respect and humble all that you create and every purpose you have laid out in your plans.

Lord and every household and family represented under the sound of my voice, Lord I ask that you bless, protect, cover, exalt, and elevate in your purpose.  Anything that is not of your will working against the households and families represented, we ask that you take control of it, shift the atmosphere in each home to align with your will and your purpose, and let praise to you oh God be the paint on their walls, let humility be rooted in the floors they walk on and let the Holy Spirit consume the water they bathe and drink, align each household with your Kingdom.

We give you glory, we give you honor we give you praise.  And we thank you in advance for your continued protection, direction, grace, mercy, and blessing. Amen Amen and Amen

Thank you for joining us in prayer this morning, I pray you “deem” this prayer worthy of sharing, for we all need to get back to the basic principles of the righteousness of God.  

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