Treasured Truth

In the book of Haggai, the prophet relays a message from the Lord of Hosts to the people of Israel.  He says, “Consider your ways!” because their ways were not the Lord’s ways.  Today, we can glean from this passage that the key to getting what we need in our lives is to focus on what God wants for our lives.  God’s priorities must become our priorities.

Every wall we have put up, Jesus has broken it down.  The racial barrier, the gender barrier, the educational barrier—He’s broken them all down.  Pastor Ford wants us to consider this important fact as he continues his message on unity in the church from Ephesians 4.

Abuse damages a person’s self-esteem, because our mentality shapes our personality,which determines our reality.  If we think something—because someone’s told us that we’re worthless and no good—and then we believe that about ourselves, that’s how we’re going to act.  On today’s Treasured Truth, we’ll hear more from Pastor Ford about this important topic and how to deal with the problem of domestic violence, especially as it affects our fellow believers in the church.

People are sometimes in unhealthy relationships for so long, that the sub-normality of their relationship seems to them to be normality instead of abnormality.  They’re so used to dysfunction, if anything normal comes their way, they don’t know how to respond to it.  We’ll hear more today about how to deal with dysfunction like this and to recognize the problem of domestic violence.

Today, we’ll begin a new study and deal with an elephant in the room—domestic violence.  October is domestic violence awareness month and Pastor Ford will help us look at this important topic and become more aware of how to deal with it.  He’ll urge us to quit turning a blind eye to those who need help, and to expose sin and seek recovery for those involved in these tragic situations.

When trying to get out of debt, will we do as the widow in the book of 2 Kings did? As Blind Bartimaeus and as Abraham did?  What is it they did?  They believed God to bring life to a dead situation.  They didn’t try to figure out how God was going to do it.  They just acted on what God said and held on in spite of all of the negative circumstances in their lives.

As we continue to look at how to get out of debt, we’ll learn that when we borrow, it entwines us and unites us together with someone other than God who’s going to direct our lives because of what we owe them.

As we start a new message today from Ephesians 4, Pastor Ford will remind us that those of us who know Christ are family and so we should act like it and be unified in the church.  He explains that what we believe about God should control how we behave with other people.

When we allow God to use our stuff for His purposes, He takes our stuff and multiplies it to meet our needs.  Learn more about how God honors us when we honor Him with our finances on today’s Treasured Truth.

If God loved us enough to set us free and to pay our sin debt, then He loves us enough to guide us, guard us, govern us, and to grace us, then to provide and protect us as we give generously to others and begin to honor Him with our money.