Treasured Truth

One of the most compelling reasons we have for witnessing to others is the debt we owe to Jesus for our own salvation.  How do we pay the debt that we owe to Jesus?  Tell someone about Him and what He’s done for us.

Pastor Ford calls attention to the fact that there are a lot of people who criticize because they figure if they couldn’t do it, then you can’t do it either.  Or if they couldn’t do it, you shouldn’t do it either.  He’ll also share today how to determine what is the real source of this type of criticism.

As we begin to look at winning to lost no matter the cost, we will be reminded of the reasons we need to share our faith.  Today, Pastor Ford will share 6 reasons why we need to witness to others about our faith that the Apostle Paul spells out for us in the first chapter of Romans.

Pastor Ford will challenge us today to consider the need we have to understand how our problems and pain can be motivating factors in our lives. Even though we go through difficulties, they can motivate us to live in our “not yet,” right now.  In other words, we can focus right now on the hope we have in our future with Jesus, instead of dwelling on our current situation.

When we face problems and pain in life, we need to understand that what we’re going through is for the future that we’re going to.  That struggle is a part of making us who we’re going to become and it designed to accomplish God’s purpose for our lives.

Pastor Ford will remind us today that sometimes the solution to our problem is in our problem.  In other words, our deficiency—which is apparent to us in our problem—may be the provision for the sufficiency that God wants to provide for us, but we sometimes cannot easily see.

As we continue to consider how to see purpose in our problems and pain, Pastor Ford will explain the various kinds of suffering we can encounter.  One of those is remedial suffering and that’s when God burns character into us that cannot be changed, when He burns compromise out of our life, and when God burns off carnality from our behaviors, which keeps us from resembling the world.

As he shares how to overcome a critical spirit, Pastor Ford points out that for some reason, it’s easier for us to jump to negative conclusions about people, than to assume the best about them.  We naturally seek to lift our reputation by lowering theirs and promoting ourselves by demoting them.  Hear how to combat this natural tendency on today’s Treasured Truth.

God has sent us the trials we are experiencing in our lives, and He wants us to see them in the way He sees them.  And that’s because He’s shaping us to make us into something that we currently are not. And why is He doing that?   Because in the current shape we’re in, God won’t give us what He ultimately does want to give us.

There’s power in the name of Jesus.  So much so, that when we focus on Him and on magnifying His name, the smaller the problems in our lives actually become.