In all reality this is one of the Christians biggest problems, “Hanging On!” Oh not that hanging on is bad. It is just that TOO MANY ARE BENT ON HANGING ON TO THE WRONG THINGS. What happens, is that when they have gotten to the proverbial, ‘end of their rope’ they have a tendency to tie a knot and hang on, giving up the fight that would lead them to victory.

God gives us all things, desiring that we rejoice in all things. He gives today and says, “This is the day the Lord has made let us rejoice and be glad in it.” He gives us tomorrow and tells us not to worry about what tomorrow holds and to have peace for He is the one that holds tomorrow. Yet there is another day that we have. The day we call yesterday, the day before. The ‘once upon a time.’ For some it’s the ‘I wished it never happened’. The ‘if only’ or ‘should have been.’ I’ve always said, “Tomorrow is the today that you worried about yesterday.” Yesterday can be the most difficult thing we’ve ever dealt with. For some it’s more a nightmare than memory. What we thought should have been joyous and happy, is found to full of pain and hurt. Yet most never realize how much pain and hurt until they get to tomorrow. Sadly, to many have seen their past become a very real part of their present.

All those who have come to Christ are recipients of God’s amazing grace. The scriptures often describe them with words like forgiven, free, befriended, and adopted. That is who we are! It is our identity! However, we often don’t seem to live like it. Our attitude is not always consistent with our condition in Christ.

It has been said that man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air...but only for one second without hope. I am not sure of those numbers, but I am sure of this one thing, ‘we need hope just about more than we need anything. God knew this when He made Joshua this promise after the death of Moses, ‘NO ONE WILL BE ABLE TO STAND UP AGAINST YOU ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE. As I was with Moses, so I WILL BE WITH YOU, I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU NOR FORSAKE YOU.

It has been said that man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air...but only for one second without hope. I am not sure of those numbers, but I am sure of this one thing, ‘we need hope just about more than we need anything. God knew this when He made Joshua this promise after the death of Moses, ‘NO ONE WILL BE ABLE TO STAND UP AGAINST YOU ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE. As I was with Moses, so I WILL BE WITH YOU, I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU NOR FORSAKE YOU. A statement I’ve made many times is a truth to help us have hope in the midst of our daily living; ‘peace is not an absence of problems it is confidence in the one who holds the solutions.’ It is the same with security... security is not the absence of danger, but confidence in the presence of God, no matter what the danger. When we have hope in and the hope of Christ in our lives nothing will be able take us or keep us down.

It has never been an issue of who knows God better; it is always an issue of faithfulness. God is faithful to us, and all He desires is that we be faithful to him. Christianity is like a marathon. It is hardly ever those who run the fastest that win and it is virtually always those that commit to the long haul who come out winners. We are already winners scripture calls us… ‘More Than Conquerors’, which means we have won even before the battle began. Victory has little to do with ability. Let me encourage you… God has taken the most unlikely candidates over the years and brought about amazing results and throughout biblical history God calls them winners.

As Christians we must understand the Christian life, unlike life in the world, is not a competitive event to see who wins at life, but rather it is a dedication of faithfulness to the life we win. I Christ, life is not a competition… It has never been an issue of who knows God better; it is always an issue of faithfulness. God is faithful to us, and all He desires is that we be faithful to him. Christianity is like a marathon. It is hardly ever those who run the fastest that win and it is virtually always those that commit to the long haul who come out winners. We are already winners scripture calls us… ‘More Than Conquerors’, which means we have won even before the battle began. Victory has little to do with ability. Let me encourage you… God has taken the most unlikely candidates over the years and brought about amazing results and throughout biblical history God calls them winners. Join us as we begin our new series, 'We Are More Than Conquerors.'

As Christians we must understand the Christian life, unlike life in the world, is not a competitive event to see who wins at life, but rather it is a dedication of faithfulness to the life we win. I Christ, life is not a competition… It has never been an issue of who knows God better; it is always an issue of faithfulness. God is faithful to us, and all He desires is that we be faithful to him. Christianity is like a marathon. It is hardly ever those who run the fastest that win and it is virtually always those that commit to the long haul who come out winners. We are already winners scripture calls us… ‘More Than Conquerors’, which means we have won even before the battle began. Victory has little to do with ability. Let me encourage you… God has taken the most unlikely candidates over the years and brought about amazing results and throughout biblical history God calls them winners.

Heaven… Christians talk about it regularly and believe in it completely, but do we understand it thoroughly? None of us have been there, but all of us long one day to be there. Where is it? What do we do to enter into it? And on that day, how do we arrive at it? Join us as we look at this wondrous place called heaven and answer the questions, ‘What will it be like?’ And ‘What will we do when we get there?

You want to dig deeper into God's word but your not sure how, Then this informative series is just for you. Join pastor Tim Masters as He teaches us "How To Study the Bible" and get the Living Word of God from the pages into you're Life.