PAUL'S PRAYER

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Paul’s prayer for the believers in Ephesians 3:18-19 “That you may be able to comprehend…what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.”
These verses expresses the heart of Paul  for his fellow believers to understand the fullness,  vastness and completeness of  Christ’s  love . The Apostle  prays  because only by divine intervention can our finite minds comprehend the great love that Christ gives. Such love  surpasses human  knowledge. John MacAuthur does a good contrast; human love lasts until it is offended. Christ love lasts despite every offense. Human  love is  for what it can get. Christ love is  for what it can give. Paul knows that when the child of God grasp the magnitude of this truth it will  result in deep gratitude manifested  in a life  yielded to the will and purpose of Christ born out of a deep sense of obligation. The book of Romans describe it as a living sacrifice which is our reasonable response to His love demonstrated through  His mercies and grace. Being filled with all the  fullness of God that is  being under God’s complete control and emptied of self. These are critical elements for a victorious Christian life.

THE SIN OF WORRYING PT. 4

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“Do not be anxious for your life, as to what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor for your body, as to what you shall put on’” (Matthew 6:25).

To worry about the future is to sin against God.

4.  Worry means you are distrusting God.
If you worry, you’re not trusting your Heavenly Father. And if you’re not trusting Him, perhaps it’s because you don’t know Him well enough. Study God’s Word to find out who He really is and how He has been faithful to supply the needs of His people in the past. Doing so will help give you confidence for the future. Allow His Word to indwell you richly so that you aren’t making yourself vulnerable to Satan’s temptations to worry.

Therefore let us not strike out at God or disbelieve Scripture or be mastered by circumstances by worrying, but be in total submission to God.

THE SIN OF WORRY PT. 3

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“Do not be anxious for your life, as to what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor for your body, as to what you shall put on’” (Matthew 6:25).

To worry about the future is to sin against God.

3. Worry means you are being mastered by circumstances.
Let the truths of God’s Word, not your circumstances, control your thinking. By worrying, you make the circumstances and trials of life a bigger issue than your salvation. If you believe God can save you from eternal Hell, also believe He can help you in this world as He has promised.

We worship an all-powerfull and all-knowing God, today we will allow Him to be not only Savior but also Lord of our lives, and not our circumstances.

Proverbs 3:5 says, “trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.”

THE SIN OF WORRY PT. 2

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“Do not be anxious for your life, as to what you shall eat, or what you shall drink, nor for you body, as to what you shall put on.” Mathew 6:25

To worry about the future is to sin against God.

2. Worry means you are disbelieving Scripture.
You can say, “I believe in the inerrancy of Scripture. I believe in the verbal, plenary inspiration of every word,” and then just live your life just worrying. You are saying you believe the Bible, but then worry about God fulfilling what He says in it.

Hold fast to Scripture today, His promises are true.

THE SIN OF WORRY PT.1

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“Do not be anxious for your life, as to what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor for your body, as to what you shall put on’” (Matthew 6:25).

To worry about the future is to sin against God.

Someone has said, “You can’t change the past, but you can ruin a perfectly good present by worrying about the future.” Worry does ruin the present, but even more important for the believer is to recognize that worry is sin. For this week let’s look at why that is so. 1. Worry means you are striking out at God.
Someone might say, “Worry is a small, trivial sin.” But that’s not true. More important than what worry does to you is what it does to God. When you worry, you are saying in effect, “God, I just don’t think I can trust You.” Worry strikes a blow at God’s integrity and love for you. Today, let us trust God regardless of the circumstances. Remember Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego trusted God when King Nebuchadnezzar was going to throw them into the blazing furnace (Daniel 3:16 NIV). 2 Corinthians 5:7 (NIV) says, “For we live by faith, and not by sight.”

I pray that your faith will increase!

Couples Ministry: Savings, Loans, Mortgages. What a choice!

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The members of the Couples Ministry of the Hope Road Church of the Nazarene, Hope Road, St.
Lucy invite you/ your organisation to participate in a discussion entitled Savings, Loans and
Mortgages: What a Choice! on Saturday, 05 September 2015 at 6.00 p.m.
The discussion will be led by Mr. Norman Yearwwod, Bank Manager and Rev. Collis Jordan,
Loan Officer. All persons (married or single) who are interested in financing commercial or
personal projects are especially invited to be part of this discussion.
The discussion will be held at the Church of the Nazarene, Hope Road, St. Lucy.
Thank you for your interest.
…………………………………………….
S.Victor Johnson
Co-ordinator
(Tel. 439-8102 E-mail: vjsvictor20032yahoo.com)

Back to School Service

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Join us next Sunday, August 30th, for our Back To School Service.
The service will start at 10:15 am.
Let us pray for God’s blessings on our children as they enter school.
We look forward to worship with you on Sunday.

GOD IS NOT AN IDOLATER

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When he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed. (2 Thessalonians 1:10)

People stumble over the teaching that God exalts his own glory and seeks to be praised by his people because the Bible teaches us not to be like that. For example, the Bible says that love “does not seek its own” (1 Corinthians 13:5, NASB). How can God be loving and yet be utterly devoted to “seeking his own” glory
and praise and joy? How can God be for us if he is so utterly for himself? The answer I propose is this: Because God is unique as an all-glorious,
totally self-sufficient Being, he must be for himself if he is to be for us. The rules of humility that belong to a creature cannot apply in the same way to its Creator.

If God should turn away from himself as the Source of infinite joy, he would cease to be God. He would deny the infinite worth of his own glory. He would imply that there is something more valuable outside himself. He would commit idolatry. This would be no gain for us. For where can we go when our God has become unrighteous? Where will we find a Rock of integrity in the universe when the heart of God has ceased to value supremely the supremely valuable? Where shall we turn with our adoration when God himself has forsaken the claims of infinite worth and beauty? No, we do not turn God’s self-exaltation into love by demanding that God cease to be God. (Piper)

Instead, we must come to see that God is love precisely because he relentlessly pursues the praises of his name in the hearts of his people.

WHAT THE RESURRECTION MEANS

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“Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Romans 10:9)

The meaning of the resurrection is that God is for us. He aims to close ranks with us. He aims to overcome all our sense of abandonment and alienation.

The resurrection of Jesus is God’s declaration to Israel and to the world that we cannot work our way to glory but that he intends to do the impossible to
get us there. The resurrection is the promise of God that all who trust Jesus will be the beneficiaries of God’s power to lead us in paths of righteousness and through the valley of death. Therefore, believing in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead is much more than accepting a fact. It means being confident that God is for you, that he has closed ranks with you, that he is transforming your life, and that he will save you for eternal joy. Believing in the resurrection means trusting in all the promises of life and hope and righteousness for which it stands. It means being so confident of God’s power and love that no fear of worldly loss or greed for worldly gain will lure us to disobey his will.

That’s the difference between Satan and the saints. O, might God circumcise our hearts to love him and to rest in the resurrection of his Son.

HOPE TO OBEY HARD COMMANDS

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Whoever desires to love life and see good days . . . let him turn away from
evil and do good. (1 Peter 3:10–11)

There is only one basic reason why we disobey the commands of Jesus: it’s because we don’t have confidence that obeying will bring more blessing than disobeying. We do not hope fully in God’s promise. What did he promise? Peter passes on his teaching like this: Do not return evil for evil or reviling for reviling; but on the contrary bless, for to this you have been called that you may obtain a blessing. He who would love life and see good days . . . let him turn away from evil and do good. You will always be better off to obey than to disobey, even if it costs you your life. Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and the gospel’s, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time . . . with persecutions and in the age to come eternal life. (Mark 10:29–30) The only way to have the power to follow Christ in the costly way of love is to be filled with hope, with strong confidence that if we lose our life doing his will, we will find it again and be richly rewarded.