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Sermon Notes: 5/19/2013 Making tough choices: - Exodus 1:15-23 - The pharaoh spoke to midwives and were told to let the girls live and killed the baby boys, the boys were to be cast into the Nile and the girls shall live. But they were feared God and did not do so. - The pharaoh feared coup d'etat by the Hebrews as their number rapidly increased. - Evil people make life difficult. - When the pharaoh asked the midwives to do something against their better judgement conflicts arise. - We have conflict all throughout life. It starts with your parents when they tell you to do or not something you want to or don't want to do, your friends, your partner, all throughout. - What happens when you're being pressured to do things to disobey...

Sermon notes 5/12/2013: The treasure of a godly mother: - 2nd Timothy 1: 1-7. - In this passage, God reminds Timothy of his heritage. - You would become a mother, grandmother, grandfather, etc., one day. - What would your children remember about you most? - Is it something material that you left? The way you made them feel? The way you dressed? - You want your children to be wealthy spiritually. - That's the thing that can't perish or be taken away. - This is not the world where you were born nor you grew up. Times have changed. - Schools are teaching students that God is a figment of their imagination. - It's harder for them to maintain their faith. - The world is ungodly, unsafe, and unsatisfying with all kinds of temptations. - Of...

Sermon notes: 5/5/2013 Stress is a killer, what brings the most stress in your life? Your health, family, friends, the direction of our nation? What ever happened to peace and joy and all those great things we used to talk about. People turn to drugs, sex, gambling to cope with their stress or to look for an escape. But none seem to work. What is the solution? God's Stress Remover: - No one has done that to you, you've done it to yourself. - You bring stress upon yourself. - Matthew 14:23 - You can stand against stress if you handle it in the right fashion. - Sometimes God has to pin us to a wall for us to learn a lesson. - What gives you a sense of freedom is Solitude. - Clarify the meaning of Solitude. - Loneliness is an...

Sermon Notes: 4/28/13 So I'll stand in trust, I'll stand in faith. I will not be shaken. The increasing number of suicide: - Most people who commit suicide weren't interested in it at some time. - Suicide takes the life of nearly 30,000 every year. - It's estimated once a minute someone attempts, and many succeed in taking their own lives. - More people die from suicide than people who die in car crashes. - For 15-24 years old, suicide is the third cause of death. - From 25-65 is the average age of men that commit suicide. - There are four males that commit suicide for every woman. - In the military 2011-2012, suicide increased by 11 percent. - More than 349 took their own life in the four branches of the military or one every 25...

Sermon Notes: 4/21/2013 We never know when a tragedy is coming into our life because they come by surprise, unexpected. Sometimes it may look like something simple but it may be major. £ Responding to Tragedy: £ - my ways are not your ways neither are my thoughts your thoughts - learn to trust God when we don't understand. - what were the tragedies in your life? What did you do? And what should you do towards the tragedy happening around us? - The tragedies seem to be increasing day by day. - 2nd Corinthians 1: 3-10 - Our safety is only to be found under God. He is the only one who can protect us. - This is a fallen world, there are going to be tragedies. ¥- Express our compassion and concern for the suffering and sorrowing. -...

Sermon Notes: 3/31/2013 - A lot of what we see is what we are looking for a lot of what we hear is what we are listening to. - Christ's resurrection is a reason to rejoice: - We will live forever with him. - We too will experience a bodily resurrection. - We will understand like we never understood in life. (Once in heaven) - So much of the world is lost because they don't know what to look for. They all look for material and earthy things but not for God our savior. - 1 Corinthians 15:42. - At a funeral if the person in the casket was not Christian there is an absence of presence. - When you die, are they going to be weeping or smiling? - If you were to die right now, would your relationship with God during this...

Sermon notes: 3/17/13 Based on the apostle Paul's teachings on being single. 1 Corinthians 7: 1-5; 25-35 ...What is singleness an obstacle to.... - Companionship loneliness - Intimate relationship - A family - Feeling of completeness - Feeling of belonging - The relationship if a woman with her father will determine the relationship with her husband. Because if you can't relate to your father, how can you relate to some stranger you just fell in love with. - Feeling of worthiness - Feeling of competence. - Feeling of acceptance. These negative feelings don't come from God; they are because of the society we live in and their expectations. - Colossians 3 The results of such attitudes: - No one is attracted to a self-destructive...

Sermon notes: 3/10/13 Strong life Matthew 7: 24-29 Characteristic of a strong life: - Has placed their trust in Jesus as personal savior and lord. - Guided by the holy spirit. - Priority time daily alone with God in prayer. - Built upon the teachings and the scripture feeding upon it daily (Matthew 7:24). - Consistently obeys God leaving all consequences to Him. - Acknowledge God as the source of their strength (Philippians 4:13). - Has a clear sense of direction for their life. - Can withstand the storms of life and learn from them. * My utmost in His highest. * God has a purpose in your life, find out what it is. * ### years old - Strong faith. - Courageous (Joshua 1:9). - Optimistic. - Develop friendships with those who can...

As I was here thinking of what can I post today to encourage someone, and especially myself? I noticed that I didn’t “feel†like it. That got me to thinking about feelings. We all have feelings. Thousands of them, most of them we cannot even put into words. Sometimes we live according to what we are feeling and we react to others according to how we are feeling. This week was an example. I asked my ### can we go for a drive he said he didn’t feel like going for a drive. I immediately turned the car around and went to get on my bike and leave. He asked if I was mad. I go, when you are going to get it, there is nothing you can do to get me mad anymore. Then he looked sad. I realized that because I was hurt I had hurt him because...

“Lord, in the name of Jesus and through His precious blood,” open ###’s spiritual eyes and ears, delivering ### from darkness into Your light and truth. Set ### free from all of satan’s bondages, evil schemes, deceptions and plans to destroy his soul and our marriage. Show ### your unconditional love and forgiveness LORD and call your lost sheep unto you. Father, I ask and pray that you touch my beloved right now, wherever ### is, showing him the fire and power of “Your Holy Spirit.” Your word says that You will remove ###’s heart of stone, giving ### a new heart of flesh, with a new spirit and that “I and all my household will be saved.” Sanctify ### through me Father. Father sanity me and help me to hold on Father, as we are one...