June 21 2015 Letting God Meet Your Needs

LETTING GOD MEET YOUR NEEDS 

God's Answer to Your Greatest Needs 

Matthew 6:9-13 9“This, then, is how you should pray: “‘Our Father in heaven,  hallowed be your name,  

WHAT GOD'S NAMES TELL ME

1. God wants to SUPPLY MY NEEDS

Genesis 22:14 "God is my provider." ("Jehovah-Jireh")

Philippians 4:19 (Ph) "God will supply all that you need from his glorious resources in Christ Jesus.  "

2 Peter  1:3 (LB) "As you know Him better, God will give you, through His great power, everything you need  for living a truly good life. "

My most urgent need:

2. God wants to FORGIVE MY FAULTS

Jeremiah 23:6 "God is my Righteousness.  " ("Jehovah-Tsidkenu")

Isaiah 43:25 (GN)  'I am the God who forgives your sins, and I do this because of who I am."

Romans 3:23-24 (LB) "All have sinned... yet God declares us 'not guilty of  offending Him if we trust in Jesus 

My worst fault-

3. God wants to RELIEVE MY STRESS

Judges 6:24 "God is my Peace " ("Jehovah-Shalom")

1 Corinthians 14:23 (RSV) "God is not a God of confusion but of peace.  "

John 14:27 (LB) (Jesus)"The peace I give you isn't fragile like the peace the world gives. So don't be 

My greatest stress:

4. God wants to HEAL MY HURTS

Exodus 15:26 "God is my Healer" ("Jehovah-Rophe")

Psalm 147:3 "God heals the brokenhearted and binds up their

2 Corinthians 5:17 (LB) When. someone becomes a Christian he becomes  a brand new person inside.  He is not the same anymore.  A new life has begun!"

My deepest hurt:

Psalm 33:21 (LB)"No wonder we are happy in the Lord!.  We trust  His holy name!"

February 8, 2015 - How God Turns Nobodies Into Somebodies (Goehner)

How God Turns Nobodies Into Somebodies

Hebrews 11:32 and Judges 6 & 7

Judges 6:11 – The angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a wine press to keep it from the Midianites.

Verse 12 – The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.

Four Steps To Becoming Somebody Usable:

Step One: Affirmation.

Verse 12 – You are a mighty warrior.

Verse 13 – But sir, if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all His wonders that our fathers told us about when they said, did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt? But now the Lord has abandoned us and put His hand into the hand of Midian.

Verse 15 – But Lord, Gideon asked, how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Mannasseh, and I am the least in my family.

-The wrong village.
-The wrong family.
-The wrong guy.

Verse 14 – Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian’s hand. Am I not sending you?

Verse 16 – I will be with you, and you will strike down the Midianites as if they were but one man.

-I am sending you.
-I’m going to be with you.
-You can’t fail.

Step Two: Revelation.

Verse 22-24 – When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the Lord, he exclaimed, Ah, Sovereign Lord! I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face. But the Lord said to him, peace! Do not be afraid. You are not going to die. So Gideon built an altar there, and he called the altar, the Lord is Peace.

Altar: A personal commitment to God.

Lesson: Before you are ready to fight external battles, you must have internal peace.

Step Three: Confrontation.

Three Tests:

-God may test you spiritually.

Verse 25-27 – Tear down your fathers’ altar to Baal, so Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the Lord told him.

Exodus 20:3 – Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.

-God may test you emotionally.

Lesson: Service for the Lord always begins at home.

-God may test you physically.

Judges 6:30 – The men of the town demanded of Joash, bring out your son. He must die, because he has broken down Baal’s altar.

Verse 31 – But Joash replied to the hostile crowd, are you going to plead Baal’s cause? If Baal really is a god, he can defend himself.

Step Four: Transformation

Verse 34 – Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon.

Lesson: Power always comes after testing.

Luke 4:1 – Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, was led by the Spirit into the desert.

Verse 14 – Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit.