Seeking Jesus First 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
Seeking Jesus First 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
Seeking Jesus First 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
Seeking Jesus First 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
Seeking Jesus First 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
Seeking Jesus First 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
Seeking Jesus First 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:
Seeking Jesus First 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
Seeking Jesus First 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.
Seeking Jesus First 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)
Seeking Jesus First 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
Seeking Jesus First 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
Seeking Jesus First 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.
Seeking Jesus First 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
Seeking Jesus First 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
Seeking Jesus First Seeking Jesus First June 5, 2025 1. It is not “religious legalism” to be faithful to do what is right and keep doing what is right. 2. Regular fasting, daily Bible reading, confessing the word, prayer, thanksgiving, praise and worship could be “religious observances” for some. However, as we live by faith, these things are just
Seeking Jesus First Seeking Jesus First June 3, 2025 Have you come to know your God-given purpose? “For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a
Sermon Scriptures Seeking Jesus First - Sunday Notes The gospel is the good news that the kingdom of God is given to us (Matthew 3:1–2, NKJV) “In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” (Mark 1:14–15, NKJV) “Now
Seeking Jesus First Seeking Jesus First May 29, 2025 When life has thrown hard times your way and you are struggling with keeping your mind and your responses right, what do you do? What do you do in the midst of a trial? Psalm 27:8,13-14 “When You said, “Seek My face,” My heart said to You, “Your
