River of Life Church Long Prairie (Audio)

This week we continue our fully surrendered series. We take a look at surrendering our lives in order to fill the role we play in the body of Christ...the Church. We talk about the church, how the world sees it. How we as Christ followers have messed this up. How do we fix it? We must surrender ourselves, our calendar, our time to commit to the Church and begin to step into the role that God has called each one of us to.

Last week we talked and looked at what Jesus said it took to be fully surrendered to Him. We all have areas that we struggle to fully trust God in, one of those areas is in our finances. We say we trust God with our finances, and we say we trust that He will provide.  But does how we live and steward our money actually show that? So what does scripture say about our finances? How do we begin to fully surrender our money to God?

What does it mean to fully surrender? When we proclaim "Jesus is Lord" are we showing that with how we live our lives or is it merely a statement? In order for us to fully surrender we need to take a look at what Jesus meant to surrender our lives and to follow Him.

This week we look at a well know story in the gospel of John, the story of the woman at the well. We look at her story, what she was carrying and how it affected how she heard what Jesus was telling her....which leads to us having to look at our own lives...what are we carrying that is holding us back from understanding who God is, and what he has for our lives.

This week we look at the story of Job. It is a story that most of us are familiar with, and have found comfort in the story as we go through our own times of suffering. But is the story of Job just simply a lesson in suffering or is there something much deeper for us to learn and apply to our own lives?

This week we look at the idea of Missions, specifically the scriptural backing that is referred to as the Great Commission. For most of us, we have heard about missions and missionaries, but statistically how are we doing as a "Church" in spreading the gospel. We look at some eye opening statistics of how much of our world is unreached.

Obedience what does that look like? How would we define disobedience? Disobedience we all would agree would simply be saying no to something. Pastor Josiah walks us through a few passages of scripture, and different situations in our own lives and we find that we can be disobedient in different ways.

There is so much happening in our world today. With the recent events in the Middle East so many of us have some type of emotional reaction to what is happening. But as Jesus followers how should we respond? Pastor Josiah walks us through several examples in scripture, and challenges us to maybe re-evaluate how we respond to tragic events in our world today.

In our final week of "This Is Us." We look our final statement that we want our church to be known for. What is it that our church prioritizes? Of all of the other statements we have talked about, this priority is what would be the foundation of them all.

We continue our series, "This is Us" with another statement that we want our church to be. What does it mean to be Holy Spirit led? We see God leading people throughout the Bible in different ways. We walk through several passages where the Holy Spirit lead people, giving them direction. We need to ask ourselves, are we willing to be guided, and partner with God in every aspect of our life?