Real Life Church: God is the God of the Bible

Your greatest enemy is fear; fears great weapon is the uncertainty of what will happen in the future. Think about it. All fear comes from what might happen. These are uncertain times for many but not for all. There are a few - a happy powerful few - for whom the future has no fear. These are the few who know that the future is good, grand, and even great.

Why do we struggle to receive from God the abundant gifts He offers? Because many of us confuse wages with gifts and grace with works. If it is a gift, then it isn't a wage (something earned), and if it is of grace, then it is never of works.

Today the body of Christ acts as if its common, ordinary, and impotent before the crisis of our day. The body of Christ is uncommon, extraordinary, and powerful beyond comprehension. When we rediscover what our God made us to be, we become modern day superheroes.

Faith is the only way to please God and it's not emotional or mental. The God pleasing faith changes your behavior and as you act on what God has spoken it is what brings results.

According to Ephesian 1:3, God has blessed us with every spiritual blessing. He doesn't say that we are blessed if we believe. We are blessed because we are believers

As we walk this faith walk out step by step there will be seasons when not only do we FEEL foolish, puny and powerless but we will LOOK foolish, puny and powerless. Know this that God will not place us where we are not yet prepared to occupy, nor will HE place us where the place we are to occupy is yet unprepared.

Forgiveness is intended to free you from pain, not to reopen old wounds or increase the emotional trauma. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

Jesus asked the Father to forgive the people who had betrayed, brutalized and condemned Him. He tells us we have to forgive people who have wronged us and Let Them Go. The person who gains the most from forgiving is the one who offers the forgiveness. Forgiveness is the pathway to freedom. 

A common denominator of the Bibles' outstanding people is that they each endured seasons of difficulty and stress just as you and I do. God tells us to Look UP in our dark nights that try our sou and the answer to the down cast soul is to Look UP and consider God.

Praise is a form of prayer and we must praise the Lord through our ups and through our downs. It is sometimes hard to praise God when we're in our down times but that's why the Bible calls it a sacrifice of praise because you will have to push through. As you praise the Lord you will gain power, it will impact everything. Praise will hinder the enemy, it will liberate God and it will empower you.