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by Jay Kline and Bill Yaconis

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by Sean Finnegan

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by Sean Finnegan

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by Vince Finnegan

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Receive with Meekness; Retain with Conviction; Release with Boldness

1 Thessalonians 2:13   Receive and accept it as the Word of God. When you understand the Word of God, you are having an encounter with God.

Psalm 19:7-10

Making wise the simple – do you feel like you don’t know what the hell is going on?

Rejoicing the heart

Enlightening the eyes

Acts 17:11   Meekness in this context is receptivity toward God and the things of God. Meekness is acceptance of God’s will without being argumentative and without stubborn resistance. It is a willing setting aside of our own thoughts, opinions, and ideas for God’s. Simply stated, it is the willingness to listen, hear, and do God’s will.

Psalm 119:33-44

James 1:21-22   Receive the Word implanted. insert or fix (tissue or an artificial object) in a person’s body, especially by surgery. Sin impedes our ability to hear.

Regard the word of God as food for your soul

Romans 13:11-12 Road blocks – TIME

UNWILLINGNESS TO CHANGE

We hinder growth by limiting God to our meager framework of understanding. How could anyone ever think his or her own knowledge is complete and refuse to learn more? Yet, this is a common deception to which many fall prey.

Often an honest, sincere desire to believe, think, and speak accurately about God moves to a presumptuous conviction that our beliefs contain the whole truth about God. This has the practical effect of confining God to our understanding. The honest, sincere desire to be right slips into narrow-mindedness or closed-mindedness. We become deceived into not considering anything other than what we believe to be the truth. In doing so, we think we are taking a stand for God!

From this posture of mind, it is a very small step to criticize, condemn, and fear all those who believe differently than we do. “Surely they must be wrong because they do not believe what I believe.” Too often, we perceive other sincere, committed Christians as a threat because their beliefs are different from ours. Therefore, we think we must avoid them. Our convoluted thinking moves to: “how can we fellowship with someone standing outside the proper theological structure and thus outside God!” This mind set opposes meekness, closes God out, and causes division in the family of God. We all have to fight the fear of being wrong or of having been wrong. Regarding God, many people would rather stay ignorant in their wrong beliefs than concede they have been wrong.

Retain with Conviction

Luke 8:15   bear fruit with perseverance.

1 Corinthians 15:1-2

2 Timothy 2:15 work the word

Study using my books

Memorize the word

Speak the Word

Release with Boldness

1 Timothy 2:1-4; 2 Timothy 4:1-4   The greatest way to retain with conviction is to release with boldness.

by Jerry Wierwille

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by John Cortright

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Nehemiah 8:1-3; 5-6; 8-12

There was weeping, yet the admonition was that the joy of the Lord was their strength!

Ezra 3:10-13 – A similar experience of weeping and joy occurred when the foundation of the second temple was laid.

Nehemiah 8:13-17 – They celebrated the Feast of Booths, as had not been done since the time of Joshua.  The commandments of God convicted them.  It was real to them!  There was great rejoicing!!!

Throughout the Scriptures when the people of God experienced God’s salvation, they experienced great joy.   – When the children of Israel crossed the red sea defeating the Egyptian army; when David and Saul defeated the Philistine armies; when the ark of the covenant was brought into Jerusalem at the time of David; when Israel defeated a great multitude at the time of Jehoshaphat; when the Messiah was born; when the 70 returned with great joy, saying “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name”; when the disciples saw the resurrected Christ; when Philip preached in Samaria bringing great deliverance, the entire city was filled with rejoicing.  The Scriptures also speak of great joy that will occur when Jesus returns, when the Kingdom begins, when the true salvation is realized, when there is a restoration of all things (Is 26:19; 35:3-6, 10; 51:3).

Jesus told his disciples of the joy they would experience.  John 16:16-22

There is great fortitude in joy.  It strengthens the soul in rough times; it helps endure strife, temptation, and tribulation (James 1:2; Hebrews 12:1-3; Acts 5:40-41; 13:50-51).

1 Thessalonians 1:6-8

The church at Thessalonica received the word in much tribulation with “the joy of the Holy Spirit” (Acts 17:1-9).

Jeremiah 15:16

The word became the joy and delight in the heart of Jeremiah.

1 Peter 1:3-9

Inexpressible (unspeakable) joy!  You can’t put this joy into words.  It’s not just being happy.  It’s joy!  It’s a spiritual reality that comes through the holy spirit, through the Scriptures, through Jesus Christ!

by Vince Finnegan

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Fortified with Resilience (the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness)

Acts 14:1-2 Wherever and whenever Paul spoke, resistance arose.

3 When there was resistance, Paul reacted with more boldness.

5 The attack intensified.

6-7 Therefore, Paul’s determination intensified.

8-12 Zeus was the sky and thunder god who ruled as king of the gods of Mount Olympus. Hermes in Greek religion and mythology was the son of Zeus, the emissary and messenger of the gods.

13-21 He allowed nothing to stop him.

Acts 21:27-22:22 Every opportunity he took, even if it was dangerous or life threatening.

2 Corinthians 11:22-33 Was Paul fortified with resilience?

How did he have such resilience? Where did it come from?

Ephesians 6:12 He knew the warfare and understood the spiritual battle.

2 Corinthians 12:1-3 He embraced his hope of the coming Kingdom.

2 Corinthians 12:10; Romans 5:1-5; Philippians 2:13 He used tribulation as a tool to draw closer to his God and Lord.

1 Timothy 1:12-17 He understood God’s love and mercy for him.

2 Timothy 1:7 His love overshadowed his fear.

Paul had resilience because he was head over heels in love with his God and Lord. He knew it’s a spiritual battle; he did not fear death because his destiny was the Kingdom of God. He used the devil’s attacks as leverage to draw more dependent upon God. He had great love and no fear.

by Sean Finnegan

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by Sean Finnegan

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by Jerry Wierwille

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