Treasured Truth

Overcoming temptation is tough, but the challenges we go through have meaning and purpose. Christ had to be tempted so He could show us how to be victorious over sin. And now He supplies the power in our lives to help us defeat sin. Hear more about having victory over temptation on today’s Treasured Truth.

We can be completely confident in the fact that God’s promises are true and everlasting. They are irretrievable, irreversible, irrefutable covenants. If men can make contracts that are legally binding and that cannot be broken, then how much more is God able to carry out and fulfill all that He has promised to do?

Sometimes we just need someone who will tell us like it is. We need someone who will just get up in our face and tell us stuff, especially the hard stuff that we don’t want to hear or even talk about. On today’s Treasured Truth, Pastor Ford will tell us about the man who did this for him and discipled him when he first became a follower of Christ.

Today, Pastor Ford asks us to consider these things—What are people learning from our example at our church? What are new believers who are getting saved and coming to our church, what are they learning from us and the other members of our congregation?

When we consider the importance of discipleship, it’s not at the expense of salvation. Salvation shouldn’t be minimized or relegated as something that is not important. But it’s really just the beginning, not the end. And so we need to understand that discipleship is like going a step further beyond salvation.

As we continue to look at discipleship, we’ll consider the fact that when people met Jesus’ disciples, they knew that those men had been in the presence of Jesus Christ because of the lifestyle that they were living and because of the message that they were giving. And that’s because Jesus discipled them. He did what He wanted to do in the lives of those men by discipling them.

God has a strategy in mind for your life. Whatever trials you are going through, He has strategically planted you like a farmer sows a seed. Today, Pastor Ford will encourage you to—even in the midst of your struggles—bloom where you have been planted.

There are people in the church who are not mature. But if you are mature, then what’s your job as a mature believer? Today we’ll see in 1 Corinthians 4 that it says you ought to be discipling those who are less mature and making sure they are firmly rooted in the truth of the Word so that they’re not shaken by every wind of doctrine that comes along.

We are all called to make disciples. But how do we know that we’re being effective in our discipleship? When we have a fourth generation disciple. Find out more about what it means to disciple generationally on today’s Treasured Truth.

God’s resources are reserved for those who fulfill His responsibilities. Our provision has to be linked to His purpose. And the problem is that many of us want the provision, but we don’t want His purpose.