Time of Grace With Pastor Mike Novotny

God is almighty and powerful and loves us even though we are miserable sinners.  God doesn't care what we look like out the outside, he only cares about the faith in our hearts.

Let God into your heart, even the places that hurt the most because God cares for you. He gives us reassurance that there is a plan for our life and our only job is to have faith and hope in Jesus Christ.

God gives to us and also takes away to remind us that the most important thing is to remain in faith.  If we bind ourselves in faith to God nothing will tear us down.

Put all your trust in Jesus because he will provide. Our prayers might not be answered in the way we want or when we want, but God is listening. He hears our needs.

Jesus proved to be all powerful when he enabled Peter to walk on water.  He blesses us with daily miracles and our job is to trust in him and know that he is the ultimate creator and provider for us.

Jesus humbled himself as true man and provided, through a miracle, the money owed in temple taxes.  God continues to provide for us today and in return we give thanks to God through our freewill offerings.  

God works in mysterious and wondrous ways. As sinful human beings, we are not perfect and often forget that even though we have hardships God delivers us through it all.  

God encourages us to grow in our spiritual life. He will see to it that we grow in earthly ways, but our focus should be growing as children of God.

Don't hold on the earthly things because God will destroy everything when it is time to take all believers to heaven. It will be sad for us to see everything gone, but glad for the gift of eternal life with Jesus in heaven.

It can be hard to not complain about paying taxes and other fees to the government.  Christ instructed us to give to God what is God's and to the government what is rightfully theirs.  We honor God by honoring the authority he has placed here on earth for us to follow.