God with us

DefaultThe virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel”—which means, “God with us.”

Absorb the insult

Each of us should please his neighbour for his good, to build him up. For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: “The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.”

How God loves us

“I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, ‘How have you loved us?”

Disputable matters

Romans 14:1 Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters.

The goodness of God

Beware of the robbers

 

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

A thousand and one Questions

Elected for His purpose

1001 Questions

 Elected for His purpose

The Garden

 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God - this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Living in God given privilege

 Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises. Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of Christ, who is God over all, for ever praised!

The Church I Grew Up In - Tasha Cobbs Leonard 

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If you love the gospel, live the gospel

Love from the centre of who you are; don’t fake it. Run for dear life from evil; hold on for dear life to good. Be good friends who love deeply; outdo one another is showing honour.

Put your boerewors on the braai

 Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters. One man’s faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for God has accepted him.

Healing from grief

 Dolly Sonjica’s testimony of finding healing from grief after the loss of her husband and her son.

In view of God’s mercy

 So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking.

Anointed to embrace the other side

 While on the one side the Holy Spirit is convicting us of our poverty, blindness, slavery and captivity, on the other side, He has anointed Jesus to free us by dying on our behalf. 

The role of the Spirit in the life of the Saints

 Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send Him to you.  And when He comes, He will convict the world of its sin, and of God’s righteousness, and of the coming judgement.

Church and the power to change a nation

 Church and the power to change a nation

Rory from Swinburne

 Then Peter began to speak: “I now realise how true it is that God does not show favouritism but accepts men from every nation who fear him and do what is right.

Just like Peter

 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message.

Keep in step with the Spirit

 It is possible to keep in step with the Spirit, allow Him to produce fruit within you, and the outflow will be glorifying to God and witnessing to others.

Pray for all

 “I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people, for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Saviour, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people…”

The Holy Spirit on Monday

 ‘Whether you are more artistically inclined like Bezalel, or more strategic like Gideon, or just in need of POWER like Samson, just ask the Holy Spirit and He will fill you where you’re, with what you need to accomplish the task set before you.’

Spirit of Sonship

 Jesus never worked for His sonship, He worked from it. When we are full of the Spirit we will know: I am a son, He loves me, He’s well pleased with me, I’m adopted into His family, I’m not shaken by my family history, I overcome the temptation of self and power, and I tell people of the Lord’s favour.

The base with no walls

The wind blows where there are no walls.

Open your hands

 The invitation is to open your hands, drop your defences and invite the Holy Spirit in.

Are you thirsty?

 How do we come to know the gifts of the Holy Spirit?

The Names of God - Part 2

 He has a name written on him that no-one knows but he himself. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God.

The Names of God

 He has a name written on him that no-one knows but he himself. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God.

What if God really is for you?

 In Romans 8 Paul asks ‘What then shall we say in response to these things? IF God is for us, who can be against us.’ What would it mean if God really was for us?

The extravagant gift of the Holy Spirit

 He helps us, He intercedes for us and He leads us according to the will of the Father.

Lay hold of the future

 And if the Spirit of him or raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead  will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.

God’s Firstborn Son

 For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”

Minding the things of the Spirit

 For those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their minds set on the things of the Spirit. Now the mind-set of the flesh is death, but the mind-set of the Spirit is life and peace.

If you want to live you better die

 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

The solution is Christ

 To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps. “He committed no sin,and no deceit was found in his mouth.”

No condemnation

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.

Too good to be true

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus

Righteousness Through Faith

 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

Are you running from God?

 Our hearts are prone to run from God, to turn from all that He’s done and all that He has for us. Today we look at what God has done to capture our wandering hearts.

Keep it simple, keep it real, keep it up

 Paul reminds us that worry, stress and anxiety are not meant to trap us in a valley of indecision, but rather that it should be a constant call to prayer.

Peace be with you

 “ Divine Favour, Wholeness, Wellness, Tranquility, Prosperity, Flourishing, Every kind of Good “

A tesorium and hyssop

 If your heart feels like that one person - all alone in a hazmat suit and gloves - trying to salvage something of your life, trying to clean up a mess that’s way bigger than you... The cross says - put down your gloves.

You’re Still in the Story

 We stay in the story through prayer and the power of the Holy Spirit

Building a family - one at a time

Pray on the mountain

Learn how to climb the mountain. On the mountain we’ll see the promised land and the inheritance. We can only be effective if we know how to climb to the top of the mountain to be alone with God.

The God who answers with fire

 Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

On Your Behalf and For Your Good

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church

The promise of prayer

 Revival waits for those who will pray with the intimacy and authority of a son. God is calling for His church to awaken again.

The practice of prayer

  At 3Ci, what does it mean to live a life worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work.

Teach us how to pray

Our position in prayer

 This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name"

Attempt great things for God. Expect great things from God.City Celebration with Terry Virgo

The power of the gospel to save

 We have won an amazing victory, because what Jesus did for us.

Woman of Faith

 Far Above - Ladies event

People of Hope

 Do you know the Hope to which you have been called? How is it changing the way we live from this moment and into eternity?

Making better butter

 Paul calls us to live far above by getting to know Jesus better, getting to know his ways better and getting to know his church better.

Far Above

 That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.

Knowing God and His people

 For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. - Eph 1:15-17

David and Goliath

 The battle is the Lord’s