Uth service 18th May 2007
Overcoming the wimp in you (part 2/3)
7 Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.
8 Then the word of the LORD came to him:
9 "Go at once to Zarephath of Sidon and stay there. I have commanded a widow in that place to supply you with food."
10 So he went to Zarephath. When he came to the town gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and asked, "Would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have a drink?"
11 As she was going to get it, he called, "And bring me, please, a piece of bread."
12 "As surely as the LORD your God lives," she replied, "I don't have any bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die."
13 Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small cake of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son.
14 For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD gives rain on the land.' "
15 She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family.
16 For the jar of flour was not used up and the jug of oil did not run dry, in keeping with the word of the LORD spoken by Elijah.
1) God can take away so that there may be greater blessings to come
2) God has his plan for you
- be willing to give up and move
A. God reveals his plan step by step, so take the step
B. God's timing is perfect (obedience is vital)
3) God ways are not ours
- they are higher than ours
Isaiah 55:8-9 - 8
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD.
9 As high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are my ways above your ways and my thoughts above your thoughts.
Job 1:19-22 -
19 when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on them and they are dead, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!"
20 At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship 21 and said: "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be praised."
22 In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing
- take the step and He will show you the next one
4) God wants you as a blessing
- think less of yourself and more of others
Philippians 2:3-4
3 Do nothing out of selfishness or out of vainglory; rather, humbly regard others as more important than yourselves,
4 each looking out not for his own interests, but (also) everyone for those of others.
5) God always honour faith
- you can be a blessing to others if you take the steps of faith
Sunday, May 27, 2007
1 Kings 17:1-6
Uth service 11th May 2007
Overcoming the wimp in us (part 1/3)
1 Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word."
2 Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah:
3 "Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan.
4 You will drink from the brook, and I have ordered the ravens to feed you there."
5 So he did what the LORD had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there.
6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.
1) The Man that God uses
- He was a nobody, no qualifications: You do not need qualifications to be used by God to serve HIm
- Uncompromised preaching of His Word: to dare to stand up and preach God's word, to help others, to salvage a situation
- Living sacrifice to God: Jehovah is our saviour means to let his spirit fill our heart (spirit controls your actions and your doings, like wine controls a drunk man), surrender everything to Him
2) The method that God uses
- Read His word
- Study His word: think and absorb (like mugging), memorise verses
- Humility: start from the most fundamental ways of serving God, do not talk big. God does not work though proud people
3) The manner that God uses
- Day by day dependence on Him: let Him rule your life
Overcoming the wimp in us (part 1/3)
1 Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word."
2 Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah:
3 "Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan.
4 You will drink from the brook, and I have ordered the ravens to feed you there."
5 So he did what the LORD had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there.
6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.
1) The Man that God uses
- He was a nobody, no qualifications: You do not need qualifications to be used by God to serve HIm
- Uncompromised preaching of His Word: to dare to stand up and preach God's word, to help others, to salvage a situation
- Living sacrifice to God: Jehovah is our saviour means to let his spirit fill our heart (spirit controls your actions and your doings, like wine controls a drunk man), surrender everything to Him
2) The method that God uses
- Read His word
- Study His word: think and absorb (like mugging), memorise verses
- Humility: start from the most fundamental ways of serving God, do not talk big. God does not work though proud people
3) The manner that God uses
- Day by day dependence on Him: let Him rule your life
Revelations 2:1-7
My 1st Uth service on 27th April 2007
2:1 To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: "He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among of the seven golden lampstands says these things:
2:2 "I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can't tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.
2:3 You have perseverance and have endured for my name's sake, and have not grown weary.
2:4 But I have this against you, that you left your first love.
2:5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.
2:6 But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
2:7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.
Have you forgotten your First love?
- Christ's Church
- Christ's criticisms
- Christ's counsel
Remember the first time you received God into your life!
2:1 To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: "He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among of the seven golden lampstands says these things:
2:2 "I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can't tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.
2:3 You have perseverance and have endured for my name's sake, and have not grown weary.
2:4 But I have this against you, that you left your first love.
2:5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.
2:6 But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
2:7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.
Have you forgotten your First love?
- Christ's Church
- Christ's criticisms
- Christ's counsel
Remember the first time you received God into your life!
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