Seeking Jesus First

Seeking Jesus First July 22, 2205

We’re Following Jesus “And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.” (Matthew 10:38–39, NKJV) “Then Jesus said to

Seeking Jesus First

Seeking Jesus First July 18, 2025

Unity in a church is extremely important. “Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the

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Seeking Jesus First July 17, 2025

Desire Spiritual Gifts “Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries. But he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation

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Seeking Jesus First July 16, 2025

Love is the foundation for faithful Christian living. Everything we do by faith must be built upon love. “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy,

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Seeking Jesus First July 14, 2025

You are the temple of God and you are holy. 1 Cor. 3:16 “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of

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Seeking Jesus First July 10, 2025

What did God say? If you don’t care what God said, you won’t hear what God says. Once again, if you don’t care what God has already said, how can you expect to hear what He is currently saying? Let’s use the metaphor of a house

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Seeking Jesus First July 9, 2025

What is The Church? The Church is the body of Christ living in the earth. The Church is The ‘Ekklesia’. It is not just a congregation. The Church is made up of Jesus Christ, in the person of The Holy Spirit, operating as The Head of The Body of Christ

Seeking Jesus First

Seeking Jesus First July 8, 2025

Apostle Paul wrote this to Pastor Timothy “Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity. Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. Do not neglect the gift that is

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Seeking Jesus First July 7, 2025

When God brings us out of something, He is bringing us into our inheritance. We have to let go of something to take hold of something new and better. “Then He brought us out from there, that He might bring us in, to give us the land of which He

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Seeking Jesus First July 3, 2025

When God speaks to us or shows us signs, it is because He wants us to seek Him. When seeking Him, we are easily swayed into looking for Him in the same manner as we have already seen him. When He is speaking to us, it is likely that he

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Seeking Jesus First July 2, 2025

Our Father God kept secrets. Our LORD Jesus revealed the secrets. “that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: “I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things kept secret from the foundation of the world.” (Matthew 13:35, NKJV) “To them God willed

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Seeking Jesus First July 1, 2025

Mustard Seed Faith “So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.” (Matthew 17:

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Seeking Jesus First June 30, 2025

If you had faith…, you would say… “So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible

Sermon Scriptures

Sunday June 29, 2025

There is an important connection between faithfulness and righteousness. * God is righteous. God is faithful. “I have proclaimed the good news of righteousness In the great assembly; Indeed, I do not restrain my lips, O Lord, You Yourself know. I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart; I have

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Seeking Jesus First June 27, 2025

61 times in the New Testament, we read the phrase, “It is written”. Christ Jesus used the same phrase three times in Matthew 4 when being confronted by the devil in the wilderness. “Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

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Seeking Jesus First June 26, 2025

Is sin connected to bad things happening? Jesus taught that sin is connected to bad things happening to us. “Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you.”” (John 5:14, NKJV)

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Seeking Jesus First June 24, 2025

Why do we fight with Scripture? Why do we wrestle against The Word of God? As believers, even as those who are “spiritually mature”, we may seek to justify ourselves rather than allow the word to justify us. We are sanctified and justified by The Word of God - not

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Seeking Jesus First June 23, 2025

Our inheritance is the fullness of God and Christ Jesus. “And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace.” (John 1:16, NKJV) “which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.” (Ephesians 1:23, NKJV) “to know the love of Christ which

Confessions

Seeking Jesus First June 20, 2025

Fruit of the spirit daily confessions I sow to the spirit and reap abundant and everlasting life. Because I have and speak the words of Christ Jesus, who is the High Priest of my confession, the words that I speak are spirit and life. The love of God fills my

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Seeking Jesus First June 19, 2025

Self control is a fruit of the human spirit which was made in the image of God. If it were not, then only those who have Holy Spirit could exercise self control. Unfortunately, self control seems to go out of the window with some of us who are Spirit-Filled. The

Seeking Jesus First

Seeking Jesus First June 18, 2025

The Holy Spirit is The Advocate as well as The Comforter and Helper John 16:5-11 “But now I go away to Him who sent Me, and none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’ But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

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Seeking Jesus First June 16, 2025

Jesus told Nicodemus, “whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” What does it mean to “perish” if someone does not believe in Jesus? “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes

Seeking Jesus First

Seeking Jesus First June 13, 2025

God is light and The Father of Light. Christ Jesus is the light. We are the light. “This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.” 1 John 1:5 “Every good gift

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Seeking Jesus First June 12, 2025

John 1:14 “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” 1 Peter 1:22-25 “Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in

Seeking Jesus First

Seeking Jesus First June 10, 2025

Born of God “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” (John