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Remember the joy you had when you first started following Jesus?  Today on BOLD STEPS, Mark Jobe opens Psalm 51 ... King David’s own “lost and found” chapter … to reveal why regaining spiritual joy begins with waking up to our need to be clean again, and what happens when we step out of the darkness and into God’s light.  Start your journey back to joy ... listen to Bold Steps with Pastor Mark Jobe.

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Many of us spend our life accumulating, hoping enough will finally make us secure. Naaman is healed, then learns his treasure was never the point. In this message, Pastor Philip Miller shows what it means to be possessed by God. Discover why we'll see Naaman in glory—not for what he owned, but for Who owned him.

This is part three of the sermon, "Naaman: Seeking Security Through Possessions."

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00:03 – Naaman in Glory: Why he's there for grace, not his fortune.
01:57 – Naaman's Healing: The servants' plea that changes everything.
04:30 – Made Clean: God heals the great man in the muddy water.
07:00 – Not How God Works: Why Elisha refuses Naaman's payment.
09:34 – Still Learning: A healed man with much left to unlearn.
12:04 – Taken in Grace: God takes possession of Naaman in love.
16:28 – Possessed by Jesus: What it means to be secure as Christ's own.
19:46 – The Day to Day: How being Christ's possession reshapes daily life.

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Dr. Philip Miller is the 17th Senior Pastor of The Moody Church. He is the featured speaker on "Living Hope" and "Moody Church Hour," with programs broadcasting on 700 outlets in the U.S. He and his wife Krista live in Chicago with their four children. Pastor Philip is passionate about proclaiming God's Word, cultivating healthy ministry, and investing in future leaders.

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One of our team members is quite the woodsman and hiker. And one foggy Saturday morning, he volunteered to lead a group of men who wanted to go hike to this distinctive rock formation called Hawksbill Crag. He had the book on the trails in that area; a book written by the man considered the expert. My friend kept consulting the book as they went along, pretty confident that they would soon end up at Hawksbill Crag. They ended up lost in a poison ivy patch, and the fog wasn't helping much. As they tried to retrace their steps, they passed a house set back in the woods and they happened to see its owner outside. My friend called to him and asked him if he would help them get "un-lost." That man went above and beyond. He actually came to where they were, helped them make sense of the map that they had, and pointed them right to the trail that got them to their goal. Of course, it turns out he was the man who wrote the book.

I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about “When You Can’t Find the Trail.”

Those men finally found the trail they needed to be on from the person who knew the trail best. There's not one of us who doesn't need that same kind of direction for our life! Most of us have lived long enough to have already tried several trails that looked good to us, that we were sure would lead us to the meaning we were looking for, and to the love we were looking for, and to the inner freedom and peace we've always wanted. But so far, no trail has led us there. We're lost. In fact, some of us have found ourselves standing in poison ivy rather than looking at the beautiful view we had hoped for.

But all the dead-end trails you've tried, all the fog, all the disappointments, all the brokenness, have been preparing you to meet the person who knows the trail better than anyone else. And He has our word for today from the Word of God. It's Jesus, of course, and we're reading His words in John 8:12. "Jesus said, 'I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.'" So, Jesus is offering here a relationship with Him that opens up that awesome possibility of being led by the very person who designed us in the first place, who wrote the book of our life.

So you don't have to "walk in darkness" any more. The problem is that we've all, as the Bible says, "gone astray; each of us has turned to his own way" (Isaiah 53:6). We're lost. We're wondering which way is the right way because we've consistently chosen to go our own way instead of God's way. That's what the Bible calls sin. And we were never meant to blaze our own trail. There's a trail you were made for. But following our own trail has left behind us a trail of brokenness, guilt, restlessness, scars and tears. And ultimately our trail leads right over a cliff into an eternity without God and without hope.

But Jesus left His home in heaven to come where we are to actually give His life to pay for every wrong thing we have ever done. And today He is saying to you, "Will you follow Me from this point on? I'll forgive your sin, I’ll come into your life, and I’ll lead you on the trail you were created for." You'll have to resign from being your own guide; from depending on your religion to get you to heaven, and you just tell Jesus, "I'm Yours, Lord. I'm pinning all my hopes on You. You died for me. You've got me."

It may be that you’re just tired of wandering, tired of feeling lost…off the right trail, and you are ready for the life you were made for. This is the day you can reach out to Jesus Christ, who will bring you into that very life that has your name on it. It begins when you say to Him, “I’m Yours.”

Your new story could begin today. Our website is called ANewStory.com because it's all about helping you get that story

Counterfeits can look so much like the real thing that we can't tell the difference. A peace treaty with Israel will turn to betrayal as the Antichrist demands the world's worship. In this message, Pastor Lutzer exposes the devil's counterfeit, unholy trinity. If Satan copies the Father, Son, and Spirit, who plays each part?

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Erwin W. Lutzer is Pastor Emeritus of The Moody Church in Chicago, where he served as Senior Pastor for 36 years. He is a prolific author of over seventy books. A clear expositor of the Bible, he is the featured speaker on "Running To Win" and "Songs In The Night," with programs broadcasting on over a thousand outlets in the U.S. and across more than fifty countries in seven languages. He and his wife, Rebecca, live in the Chicago area. They have three grown children and eight grandchildren.

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