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Thursday Aug 25, 2022

It’s a Family Affair

Thursday Aug 25, 2022

Pastor Zack Strong

It's a Family Affair

Text: Genesis 1.26, Matthew 1.1, Psalm 145.4, Deuteronomy 6.4-7, Psalm 127.3-5, Matthew 1.18-21, Luke 2.17-19

It’s about us, as a family, aligned in and for God’s purpose in a new season for our lives.

It’s standing with our teachers and systems to ensure the best for our children.

Far greater than anything we could participate in, is the health and wholeness of our family. The greatest asset you have is your family.

The family unit is the first institution formed in the Bible before any church or government.

It’s God’s design that the family is how God intended His glory and light to be displayed in the earth. Family should be the most powerful force against sin and the highest motivation for godliness.

God’s family is the foundation of society and everything should be built upon that. This is a revival about returning and restoring the church and family to it’s original intent so that God’s dominion would be in the earth again.

We must have God’s view for our children. We’ve got a responsibility to raise our children and train them in the things of God. The plan of God is to instill in children what God has spoken over their lives.

God valued the family unit so highly that He had to make sure Joseph stayed in the picture as Jesus’ earthly father so He could get everything He needed.

The greatest thing we can do for children is to tell them who they really are: sons and daughters of the most High.

3 Lies of Culture
-You need to live your life alone outside of your family
-Grandparents are just babysitters
-Spend what you’ve earned on yourself

3 Things Families Can Do
-Teach that God is the source of morality
-Teach the gospel
-Teach obedience to authority

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Thursday Aug 18, 2022

Let’s Get On With It

Thursday Aug 18, 2022

Pastor Zack Strong

Let's Get On With It

Text: John 21.1-22, 13.36-37, Roman’s 12.1-2, Philippians 1.21-24, John 21.7-15, 2 Corinthians 5.21, Matthew 26.69-75

-Jesus didn’t need Peter to die for Him but to live for Him. We need to die to our will, our selfishness, our flesh. If you can’t die to your flesh then how could you ever lay down your life?

-Jesus has finished the work for us. It’s our human nature that feels like we have to cover our sin and work to earn our salvation.

Finished: to bring to an end, to complete, to accomplish, signifies a special end to a potential

Jesus didn’t come to earth for discovery but to be the sacrifice that would pay for our sins. If Jesus paid the price then there is nothing else owed. There is no work to do; it is completed.

-Don’t deny who you are. When we are in persecution, our flesh wants to give up.

Tend to my sheep; protect, guard, covering .
If we want sheep in our pasture, then we’ll have to deal with their poop too.

Feed my sheep.

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Thursday Aug 18, 2022

Redeemed, Restored, or Renewed

Thursday Aug 18, 2022

Pastor Zack Strong

Redeemed, Restored, or Renewed

Text: John 21.15-22, Matthew 4.18, 10.2, 14.31, 16.22-23, John 13.6-10, Matthew 26.41,75

To become a Christian is the experience of a moment. To be a Christian is the experience of a lifetime.

Peter was an ordinary man, a fisherman.
Simon: hearing
Peter: a rock

You are the purpose of God.

No one has everything we need or even everything they need. We can learn from everybody.

God wants to have a personal, intimate relationship with you; what concerns you, concerns Him. You have a personal God.

The moment Peter let himself think he shouldn’t be there, he began to sink. God doesn’t always stop your storms, sometimes he helps you through them.

We stumble when we try to operate out of someone else’s faith.

There’s a time we need to be following instead of trying to be in front. He was more concerned with the things of men than with God’s plan. It wasn’t a love issue but a thought process.

Even people mature in the faith can miss it. The wisdom of God is more important than how I feel. We get shipwrecked when we don’t keep the things of God first.

On the Mount of Transfiguration, Jesus wanted Peter to hear from another realm.

In the upper room, Jesus washed their feet. They were already clean but just needed their feet washed. We’ve been redeemed but need a reminder to keep our flesh pure.

When the disciples fell asleep in the garden, it was a picture of our flesh being weak. This is a journey.

When Peter cut off the soldier’s ear, he was only creating issues. Sometimes we fight things we weren’t called to fight. Pick your battles.

After Jesus’ resurrection, Peter was the first person Jesus wanted to see. He knew Peter would go back to his old life.

Jesus is asking us to
-love Him with all of our heart, mind, and soul
-trust His completed work at the cross; He didn’t come as a king but as a priest to give a sacrifice
-give away what He’s given us, go help another one that’s sinking

You are redeemed. The price has already been paid. He will restore you and renew your life.

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Thursday Aug 11, 2022

From Here to There, Promise to Possession

Thursday Aug 11, 2022

Pastor Zack Strong

From Here to There, Promise to Possession

Text: Exodus 3.6-8, 3.16, 1.7-Genesis 15.13

Covenant is greater than a promise; life and death is at it’s core.

When they put more burdens on the Israelites, their abundance increased. Maybe our difficulties are doing more to us than we realize.

3 Principles

-Promise
God usually gives us a promise that has to do with our flesh to make us move. Promises don’t just happen. Promises require a decision.

-Process
Process is a series of action of steps to achieve something. The process will cause you to be misunderstood by things around you. If we move out of time, we’ll move out of the gifting.

Process will always bring change. God created only one man because the seed was in Him.

Process will always reveal who we are. We want to go to Jerusalem but we are still in
Egypt.

The process requires us to act, see, and function differently. The process was constantly revealing how much Egypt was still in Israel.

It causes us to do major reviews. Sometimes you have to tear down and uproot before you build back up.

-Possession
From Egypt to possession, they had to be delivered. After deliverance, they had the ability to overthrow the Egyptians.

It’s time to say yes to the Lord and whatever change may come.

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Thursday Aug 11, 2022

Growing Pains

Thursday Aug 11, 2022

Pastor Zack Strong

Growing Pains

Text: Philippians 1.1-11, 2.6-9

This is the eighth month; 8 is the number of new beginnings. New: never been seen or done before, always existed but you’re just getting to it. We ought to be expecting something fresh from God every day.

Confident: inward assurance, come to a place of rest. Leave a place of striving and enter into rest. Strife makes you
feel like you aren’t enough. If we all act and look alike, then only one is needed.

What is our assignment today? He’s not asking us to operate alone; we are partners with God.

When God says something is good, He’s only comparing it to Himself. This move of God is good. You are a good work of God. God is looking at us from the end and He’s already defined who we are.

We’ve gotten more excited about the move of God than the God who moves. Quit thinking of it as labor but a kingdom assignment instead.

We need to keep ourselves pure, out of and away from sin. You will feel disqualified because of your sin. Sin tells you you’re unworthy. Sin will block the flow of your anointing.

Jesus had to learn how to be a man in the same way we have to learn how to be a son.

It’s not wrong to be like your father; it’s acceptable. Religion tells you you’re not good enough. You are a son whether you’re in sin or not. Redemption is redeeming us back to our original form.

It takes humility to go from spirit to man and from man to spirit. Humility is not weakness but acknowledgment that there are others and greater than me.

When you walk in, the angels stand at attention.

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Thursday Aug 04, 2022

Why Christians Aren’t Getting Their Prayers Answered - Dr. Mike Smalley

Thursday Aug 04, 2022

Doctor Mike Smalley

Why Christians Aren't Getting Their Prayers Answered

Text: Colossians 1.13, Ephesians 1.3, 2 Peter 1.3, Isaiah 53.4, Matthew 8.16-17

We can’t criticize someone else’s battle that we’ve never had.

Stop focusing on what’s happening and focus on what’s already done.

Everything you’re wanting and needing from God, He’s already said yes to it. He’s already done it.

It doesn’t matter who you are, you can have a seat at the table. Christians don’t have a forgiven past, they have no past at all.

-We’re asking God for things He’s already said yes to. When we remove faith from the equation, God can’t move.

We don’t have to bear the fruit of sickness or sin.

-We’re positioning ourselves based on performance.

-We think answers to prayer come down from Heaven instead of out of our born again spirit. We don’t have to see God because we are the temple of God. Don’t ask him to be with you but thank Him that He always is.

What we say matters because we are training our brain to believe us or not.

Your pain has nothing to do with being healed.

Doing our best or less than our best doesn’t make us any more or less of a son or daughter.

Asking the same questions over and over implies that He hasn’t done what He said.

You don’t have to have victory over everything to be qualified to come to God.

As soon as you got saved, He made your spirit exactly like Jesus’.

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