Treasured Truth

Obedience is the hallmark of commitment.  And we’re only as committed as we are obedient.  Jesus said, “You are My friends if you do whatsoever I command you.”  We need to surrender fully to Him.  Consider giving Jesus the “blank check” of your life and let Him fill in all the details.

Pastor Ford will explain today that if our Christianity is not touching our whole life it’s because we’re still carnal.  It’s because we’re still immature.  It’s supposed to affect everything we have, everything we do, everything we say, feel and give.  And so, our relationship with Christ should compel us to serve Him with our everything.  Are you ready to serve Him that way?

Intimate trust and fellowship with Jesus provides the enablement for making the impossible possible.  But we need to make sure that whatever we’re doing is connected to our vital and intimate fellowship with Jesus Christ.  And that it’s something which will be in fulfillment of His purpose, His plan, and that will glorify Him first and foremost.

God says that we can.  And if God says we can, then guess what—we can! And what we have to do is believe what God has said and we have to move on it.   We can trust Him to follow through on His promises to us.

When we begin to realize that the essence of everything we need is found in the person of Jesus Christ, we will begin to seek His face more. Why? Because we realize that in Him we live and move and have our being. Knowing that truth is key when we are learning to live life right.

As we conclude our message on unity, Pastor Ford points out that we will not respond to the call for unity unless we’ve been captured by Christ.  He’ll explain that our love for Christ is only as great as our love for the person who we love the least.

As we’re learning to live life right, Pastor Ford wants to remind us that the Bible is our instruction manual for life. We’re not ever going to do better than what we can do when we follow the instructions it has for us. And as believers, if we go outside of what the Bible instructs, eventually we’re going to fail.

The quantity of your wisdom determines the quality of your life.  The more wisdom you get the better you’re going to be able to live life.  So, the challenge in life then becomes getting more wisdom.

As His children, God wants us to align our lives with the plan He has for us.  As we consider our ways and assess whether or not we are aligned with His plan, we can learn a lot from the message that Haggai delivered from the Lord to the children of Israel in the first chapter of the book of Haggai.

What happens when our priorities are not God’s priorities?  Among other things, we break fellowship with God and we focus on satisfying our own selfish desires.  But God always gives us the opportunity to repent when we realize that our ways are not His ways.