Stay on the Journey

Stay on the Journey

Our Theme for this Year: “Under Construction”

 1 Peter 2:5 – You also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Christ.

For every Believer, the Christian life should be a journey of progression and not stagnation

What will keep us progressing on our journey?

1. Putting the Needs of Others Above our Needs
2. Being Equipped with God’s Word

• Having a Grateful Heart

1. Putting the Needs of Others Above our Needs – A Burden for the Lost

• God’s Perfect Son came and died for all mankind.

1. It is through the transformative and empowering work of the Holy Spirit that believers can become an effective witnesses by drawing others to Christ
2. Acts 1:8
   1. But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth.
      1. By the work of the Holy Spirit, we get to be part of the greatest story ever told. “The Great Commission:
   2. Matthew 28:18-20
      1. And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you, and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age, Amen.

1. Equipped with God’s Word

     2 Timothy 3:15-17 NKJV

• All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Hebrews 4:12

• For the world of God is living and powerful, and sharper that any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of the soul and spirit, and o joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart”

Amos 8:11-12

“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord GOD, “when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD.  They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the LORD, but they shall not find it.”

• A Grateful Heart of Thanksgiving

1 Thessalonians: 5:16-18

Romans 12:12

• Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer.

Rejoicing in Hope

Psalm 100

• Make a joyful shout to the Lord, 1all you land! Serve the Lord with gladness;

Come before His presence with singing.

Know that the Lord, He is God;

It is He who has made us, and 2not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.

For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting,

And His truth endures to all generations.