Treasured Truth

Pastor Ford will explain today that God wants to do something in us, even if He doesn’t do something for us.  He wants us to be His children who have an attitude of gratitude for all that He has done and what He is able to do, whether or not He is doing what we want Him to do.

While we’re going through, whatever it is we’re going through, God’s Word tells us that we ought to have an attitude of gratitude.  There must always be this perspective in us that acknowledges the fact that God does all things well, no matter what our opinion (good or bad) is of what He is doing in our lives.

Why do we walk by faith and not by sight? Because we see in the present what God has done for us in the past, and that assures us of a blessing in our future.  Find out more about what this means in our every day lives, when you join us for today's Treasured Truth.

According to Pastor Ford, faith lets us live in the right now, while believing in the not yet.  That’s because we understand that faith moves us from insufficiency to sufficiency, because of Christ’s all-sufficiency.

Scripture says that God is able to do exceedingly and abundantly above all that we could ask or even think of Him to do.  And today, Pastor Ford will explain that he acknowledges that truth by saying when he prays, “God, if this prayer of mine is not big enough, then please super-size it!”.  Learn more about taking our limits off of God, on the next Treasured Truth.

We don’t have to love what God is doing, but we do have to trust what He’s doing.  As God leads us, He sometimes makes us lie down (metaphorically), just like a shepherd would make his sheep lie down.  Why?  Because He’s able to give us things when we’re lying down that we won’t be able to receive when we’re standing up.

Pastor Ford will remind us that God wants to take us from sin to salvation, from hell to heaven, from emptiness to everything, from barrenness to fruitfulness. He’ll turn our worries into worship. So, if we can can begin to comprehend all of this about God and take our limits off of Him, then we won’t fear turning over our unknown to our all knowing God!

It's easy for those who believe in God to put Him in a box. But Pastor Ford will encourage us today to look beyond the way that God did things in the past for you. Because God may chose to do things differently in the future. If you keep looking for Him to do things the way He always did them before, then you may miss what He is doing in the present.

Today, Pastor Ford will point out that prayer is not peripheral, but rather, prayer is paramount in our lives.  It’s not optional.  It’s essential. Learn more about how effective prayer can be on today’s Treasured Truth.

On today’s Treasured Truth, Pastor Ford will share how important it is to have a place in your home, where you go to meet with God on a consistent basis.  That’s one part of building up a better, more consistent intercessory prayer life. Find out more about how to pray for others when you join us for today’s Treasured Truth.