We are Ambassadors of Christ!

“And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him.  19 For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. 20 So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”  21 For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.” 

2 Corinthians 5:18-21

Praying: "O God I Know You Are For Me"

Prayer From God Series – Part 4

“TO THE CHOIRMASTER: ACCORDING TO THE DOVE ON FAR-OFF TEREBINTHS. A MIKTAM OF DAVID, WHEN THE PHILISTINES SEIZED HIM IN GATH. Be gracious to me, O God, for man tramples on me; all day long an attacker oppresses me;  2 my enemies trample on me all day long, for many attack me proudly.  3 When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.  4 In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?  5 All day long they injure my cause; all their thoughts are against me for evil.  6 They stir up strife, they lurk; they watch my steps, as they have waited for my life.  7 For their crime will they escape? In wrath cast down the peoples, O God!  8 You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book?  9 Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call. This I know, that God is for me.  10 In God, whose word I praise, in the LORD, whose word I praise,  11 in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me?  12 I must perform my vows to you, O God; I will render thank offerings to you.  13 For you have delivered my soul from death, yes, my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.”

- Psalm 56:1-13

God & Government

“19 Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. 20 Daniel answered and said: "Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might. 21 He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding.”

- Daniel 2:19-21

Praying: "O God, You Have Only Begun to Show Me Your Greatness"

Prayer From God Series – Part 3

"23 And I pleaded with the LORD at that time, saying,  24 'O Lord GOD, you have only begun to show your servant your greatness and your mighty hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as yours?  25 Please let me go over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, that good hill country and Lebanon.'  26 But the LORD was angry with me because of you and would not listen to me. And the LORD said to me, 'Enough from you; do not speak to me of this matter again.  27 Go up to the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward, and look at it with your eyes, for you shall not go over this Jordan.  28 But charge Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he shall go over at the head of this people, and he shall put them in possession of the land that you shall see.'”

- Deuteronomy 3:23-28

Praying: "O God Thank You for Your Wisdom"

“Prayer From God” Series – Part 2

“19 Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.  20 Daniel answered and said: "Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might.  21 He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding;  22 he reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.  23 To you, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise, for you have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we asked of you, for you have made known to us the king's matter."

- Daniel 2:19-23  

CORRECTIONS: In the message Pastor Roy said the start of the Islamic Caliphate was 632 B.C. He mispoke. It was 632 A.D. He also said the Roman god Mars was adopted from the Greek god Artemis. This was a mistake. Mars was adopted from the Greek god Ares. Both were minor points that do not change the substance of the message.

Praying: "Who is Like You, O Lord?"

Prayer From God Series – Part 1

“The LORD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.  3 The LORD is a man of war; the LORD is his name.  4 "Pharaoh's chariots and his host he cast into the sea, and his chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea.  5 The floods covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone.  6 Your right hand, O LORD, glorious in power, your right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy.  7 In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries; you send out your fury; it consumes them like stubble.  8 At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up; the floods stood up in a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.  9 The enemy said, 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.'  10 You blew with your wind; the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.  11 "Who is like you, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?  12 You stretched out your right hand; the earth swallowed them.  13 "You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed; you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode.”

- Exodus 15:1-13  

Is the Bible Understandable?

Like No Other Book Series – Part 11

“Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.”

- Psalm 119:18

"Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.  25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.  26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.  27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it."

- Matthew 7:24-27

“Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God actually say, 'You shall not eat of any tree in the garden'?"  2 And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden,  3 but God said, 'You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"  4 But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die.  5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

- Genesis 3:1-5

Is the Bible Enough? - Part 2

Like No Other Book Series – Part 10

“…from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.”

- 2 Timothy 3:15-17