Treasured Truth

When you consider going beyond the walls of your church to reach your community, you may not feel ready to engage the people you will encounter.  And that’s okay, because readiness can take time.  But those who are ready to go still need your support through prayer.  Your prayers will be the umbrella of protection over them, so that you can also be involved in the effort to reach those who need Christ.

As we consider the people who need Christ in the communities around us, we must realize that we don’t have an option—we must go and reach them! God has put us where we are to be a lighthouse for Him.  And as Pastor Ford explains how he and the believers at Christ Bible Church will be striving to reach their own community, he’ll be asking us to consider this today—are we ready to make a difference where we live?

Pastor Ford reminds us today that if Jesus conquered death, then what is our sickness to Him?  He can handle our employer.  He can handle our haters.  If He can conquer death, He can handle all of our insufficiencies.  Our insufficiency, becomes sufficiency, because of Christ’s all-sufficiency.  Jesus can handle all the issues that we have.

As we continue to look at how we are victorious through Christ, Pastor Ford will remind us that we all have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God.  That fact made us unqualified to come before a Holy God.  But then Jesus gave us His name.  And when He gave us His name, we became qualified.  And now, because we longer have our own names, we can do everything in His name.

The reason why all we do is win, win, win is because out of the seven and a half billion people in the world today, God chose each of us as believers to be part of His family.  He chose us!  So, after considering that amazing truth, one might then ask, how could we not win?

Pastor Ford will explain today that if we are praying for something that is not attached to the purpose of God, then we shouldn’t expect it to happen.  The questions we ought to ask when we want something from God are these—will this glorify the person of Jesus Christ?  Will this fulfill the purpose of Jesus Christ?

Pastor Ford will remind us today that when Christ is not valued in our lives above all, He is not valued at all.  A lot is out of place in our lives because Christ is not in first place.

We need to remember that because Jesus is invincible, we can be victorious through our trials.  We need to know that life is more than just what’s happening to us.  Life is about what’s happening for us. All things work together for good to those who love the Lord and are called according to His purposes.

Just has so many people were waiting to be healed at the Pool of Bathesda, too many of us are hanging out at the pools of life where there are no answers!  We’re hanging out at the pool of materialism, the pool of sour careers and our jobs, the pool of our family.  We’re hanging out looking for answers in something that will never satisfy, instead of looking to Jesus for our answers and healing.

We take a break from our normal programming line up so Pastor Ford can answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life. The topics he’ll be addressing include why homosexuality is still considered a sin today and how to become more in tune with the Holy Spirit.