Answering the question we have all ask at some time in our life. 

Notes:

1.    Ever had these questions about God; Is He There and Does He care?

o    Mark 4:35-41 (NKJV)

2.    Verse 37 Note: Windstorm 2978. λαῖλαψ laílaps; Whirlwind, hurricane, tempest.

3.    Storms are not an indicator whether or not you are in God's will.

4.    Three storms happening here:

       1. Circumstantial storm.

       2. Emotional Storm.

       3. Theological Storm.

5.    Verse 38 Note: Jesus is sleeping in the same storm you’re in. (He’s in the same boat with you)

6.    Verse 39 Note: Have you gotten the Lord's attention about the storm you’re in - or are you just complaining to everyone about your circumstances?

7.    Verse 40 Note: They allowed their circumstance to overrule what Jesus had said.

8.    Storms are real they are a reality of this life on earth, but God never wants them to overrule His word in your life or His presence.

9.    Verse 41 Note: This storm brought them into a new discovery of who Jesus really was and the power that He has for their life.

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How to Live a Thankful Life 

Notes:

1.    Thanks-Living = Someone living a lifestyle of Thankfulness.

2.    We tend to thank God only when He is serving/blessing us in a way that we believe.

o    John 20:27-29 (NLT)

3.    How you’re thankful, and how and what you give to matters.

o    1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 (NKJV)

o    Romans 8:28 (NKJV)

o    Luke 17:12-19 (NKJV)

4.    Verse 18 Note: Humble people are some of the most thankful and appreciative people on earth – While – Arrogant people are the most foolish people on earth.

5.    Someone who struggles to say Thank You to people will have a lack of saying Thank You to God.

o    Psalm 23:1-6 (ESV)

6.    God notices the Thanks-Living Lifestyle.

o    Hebrews 6:10 (TPT)

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How to Live a Thankful Life 

Notes:

1.    Thanks-Living = Someone living a lifestyle of Thankfulness.

2.    One of a signs of a Thanks-Living Lifestyle is generous giving.

3.    There is a Gift of Giving.

o     Romans 12:6-8 (NLT) 

4.    Giving and Generosity is a lifestyle of who you are when you’re Thankful.

o     2 Corinthians 9:6-7 (NKJV)

5.    Verse 7 Note: Cheerful - 2431. ἱλαρός hilarós; Cheerful, joyous; denotes a happy, glad or cheerful state of mind.

o     2 Corinthians 9:8 (NKJV)

o     Galatians 6:9 (NKJV)

6.    God wants to give us more than enough – everything.

o     2 Corinthians 9:8-15 (NLT)

7.    Verse 11 Note: There is never a time you can’t be generous.

8.    Verse 11 Note: All the gifts we have, are to point people to Jesus (Not Us)

9.    Verse 12 Note: The person that lives a Thanks-Living lifestyle is in a Ministry of God.

10.    Who and what you give to, reveals the true picture of who and what you are living for.

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A Thankful Life is a Consistent Life

Notes:

1:    There should be no such thing as a whiny Christian.

2:    A Thankful Life is a Consistent Life.

o     1 Thessalonians 5:15-18 (ESV)

o     Matthew 7:9-11 (ESV)

o     2 Corinthians 8:1-2 (ESV)

3:    The only way to fulfil the commands found in 1st Thessalonians 5:15-18 is to be “in Christ Jesus”.

o     Romans 8:28 (ESV)

4:    We can find consistency in these things (doing good, rejoice, pray, give thanks) ONLY when our minds and hearts are so totally captivated with Christ that our circumstances no longer dictate our feelings and therefore our actions.

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Your conscience and how it affects your life.

Notes:

1.    “God and all of Heaven is hearing a sizzling sound coming from the USA it’s in the streets, the schools and colleges, the work force, government and the church.”

o    Acts 2:1 (NKJV)

o    Zechariah 9:9 (NLT)

o    Luke 19:37-40 (NKJV)

2.    Sin in America and in the American church is at an all-time high.

o    1 Timothy 4:1-2 (NKJV)

o    1 Timothy 4:2 (NLT)

3.    “Seared with a hot iron” was translated from one Greek word, 2743. καυτηριάζω kautēriázō; -“to brand (‘to cauterize’), to render unsensitive.

4.    You are responsible for your actions and how you respond to life.

o    1 Timothy 1:18-19 (NLT)

o    Titus 1:15 (NLT)

o    Hebrews 10:22 (NKJV)

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Learning to say No to the Distractions in our life.

Notes:

1.    You are here at this time on planet earth to make a difference – you have a purpose for the Kingdom of God.

2.    If the enemy can’t destroy you – he will distract you.

3.    Distractions come to get you out of 3 things, your: Place – Purpose – Position.

o    Nehemiah 6:1-2 (NLT)

4.    What we sometimes see as an opportunity – is often a distraction.

5.    NO is one of the most important words you can learn.

6.    Don’t say Maybe – when you mean NO!

7.    We say No – not because we don’t care – but because we do care.

o    Nehemiah 6:4-13 (NLT)

8.    Rumors are spoken by haters - spread by the ignorant - and believed by the idiots.

o    Nehemiah 6:3 (NLT)

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Understanding the Holy Spirit from the Kingdom of God 

Notes:

1.    Kingdom people/church = when you understand and (LIVE) that Jesus didn’t come to bring us a religion but a Kingdom with the King's Government.

2.    The Gift of the Holy Spirit – HE, the HOLY SPIRIT HIMSELF, is the GIFT.

o    Genesis 2:7 (NKJV)

3.    Breath - 5397. נְשָׁמָה nešāmāh: meaning breath, wind, spirit.

o    John 20:21-22 (NKJV)

4.    Spirit - 4151. πνεῦμα pneúma; Breath. Breath of air, air in motion, wind.

o    Mark 16:15-18 (NKJV)

o    Acts 2:1-4 (NKJV)

o    1 Corinthians 3:16 (NKJV)

o    1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (NKJV)

o    2 Corinthians 6:16-17 (NKJV)

o    1 John 4:4 (NKJV)

5.    Believers received and spoke in tongues.

o    Acts 8:5-8 (NKJV)

o    Acts 10:44-48 (NKJV)

o    Acts 19:1-6 (NKJV)

o    Acts 9:3-5 (NKJV)

o    Acts 9:15-17 (NKJV)

o    1 Corinthians 14:18-19 (NKJV)

o    1 Corinthians 14:39 (NKJV)

o    1 Corinthians 12:27-28 (NKJV)

o    John 18:4-6 (NKJV)

o    Jude 20 (NKJV)

o    Romans 8:26 (NKJV)

6.    Groanings - 4726. στεναγμός  stenagmós; prayers to God expressed inarticulately.

o    1 Corinthians 14:14-15 (NKJV)

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Understanding the Holy Spirit from the Kingdom of God 

Notes:

1.    The Holy Spirit is a person with God's best interest for you – A promised gift from God – Not something weird or spooky.

o    Acts 1:5 (NKJV)

2.    When you govern your own self – you can’t learn anything beyond yourself.

3.    Sin filled/controlled people cannot produce a righteous man or a righteous nation.

o    Matthew 4:17 (TPT) 

o    John 1:32-34 (NKJV)

4.    Sin requires 2 things for it to be cleared out – 1) Blood 2) Death

o    1 John 1:5-7 (NKJV)

o    Romans 6:23 (NKJV)

o    John 7:37-39 (NKJV)

5.    The H.S. is given to us by the King to govern our lives to look, act, talk and be just like our homeland and King. = To be a witness of what the Kingdom of Heaven looks like on Earth.

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What the Bible says about Him 

Notes:

1.    Jesus is not an American.

2.    Jesus never came to earth to establish a religion - but a Kingdom.

o    Matthew 4:8-11 (NKJV)

o    Matthew 4:17 (NKJV)

o    Matthew 4:17 (TPT)

o    Isaiah 9:6-7 (NKJV)

3.    Kingdoms are not religions – they are a Governments.

o    Genesis 1:1-2 (NKJV)

o    Genesis 1:26 -28 (NKJV)

4.    Dominion - 7287. רָדָה rāḏāh: to rule, to have dominion, to subjugate - the exercise of authority by the priesthood, and by a king over his kingdom.

o    John 16:7 (NKJV)

o    Matthew 6:33 (NKJV)

o    1 Corinthians 15:45 (NLT)

o    1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (NKJV)

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What the Bible says about Him 

Notes:

o    Acts 1:5 (NKJV)

o    Acts 1:8 (NKJV)

1.    Holy - ἅγιος hágios; Holy, set apart, sanctified, consecrated. Sharing in God’s purity and abstaining from earth’s defilement. Pure, clean, including the idea of deserved respect, without blemish.

o    2 Corinthians 5:21 (NKJV)

2.    Righteousness - δικαιοσύνη dikaiosúnē; righteousness, is thus conformity to the claims of higher authority and stands in opposition to anomía (458), lawlessness. = (Without authority)

o    Luke 11:11-13 (NKJV)

o    Luke 12:32 (TPT)

o    John 16:7-8 (NKJV)

o    John 16:12-15 (NKJV)

3.    The Holy Spirit will give you a Spirit of Holiness.

o    Romans 1:1-4 (NKJV)

o    Romans 14:17-18 (NKJV)

o    Hebrews 12:14 (NKJV)

4.    The Holy Ghost is Holy.

o    Ephesians 5:3-4 (TPT)

o    Colossians 3:8 (NKJV)

5.    If you can willingly sin without the conviction of the Holy Ghost, are you really saved?

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