Happy Easter

As Christians, Easter is really all about a warrior called Jesus Christ who came down from heaven and laid down His life for us so that we could be set free from the power of sin and death and could have eternal life through believing in Him.
Jesus is our hero who displayed true love by laying down His own life for you and I. No greater love than this.

YOUR BEST LIFE - NZ

Will leave for Your Best Life conference on Tuesday for three weeks with my wife and daughter. This is going to be great. Time out with the family and conference, double dose. Will update with photos of our break

Advance Conference

Started our conference today with all our senior pastors at Tanoa International Hotel. Great time with pastor Mark Kelsey speaking on Leadership and Relationship. Tomorrow is going to be a blast with 172 delegates out at the Tennis Court.
Will update our blog soon
God bless you

Hope is AN ANCHOR OF THE SOUL!

Greetings to all in the name of Jesus our Lord and Savior. Its been a while since I put something again in this blog.

HOPE is AN ANCHOR OF THE SOUL!

Hebrews 6:19

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil, (NKJV).

We know that the soul is the mind, the emotions and the will. Often our soul takes a roller-coaster ride through life, so there are times when it needs an anchor. This anchored soul is a bit like a sea anchor.

We need a Sea Anchor

When we’re drifting on the tide, when we are tempted, when we face worldly

pressures, friends and peer pressure.

We need a Sea Anchor

when the wind is against us, unfamiliar circumstances, crisis, difficulties.

We need a Sea Anchor

when you are in a full blown storm, a real disaster, tragedy, financial collapse, lost relationships, jobs or family, failing health.

A sea anchor stops you running out of control and it keeps you "pointed in the right direction". Too many Christians get “off course” and before long they are miles away from where they should be. It all started with a simple and very small course deviation. An anchored soul is held secure, is saved from anguish of soul (no hope), is less likely to sin with its mouth or actions, and is less likely to make wrong decisions. An anchored soul doesn't stop the storm, but it knows storms will soon pass. An anchored soul knows that when the storm is passed, it is still on course!

Without Hope

- people have never overcome personal problems,

- people never broken through difficulties,

- never had a go at something life building,

- never discovered they can do more than they think,

- never found God to be really God!

Hope is the security we need today; it is a very powerful thing.

Have a great week

Understanding Grace

LET US TALK ABOUT GRACE FOR A WHILE CAUSE THIS MIGHT HELP YOU

WHAT GRACE IS AND IS NOT

Grace is not

- going to do something for you

- a bad situation

- cheap, it is free

Grace is free to you and me but it was paid for with a dear price Jesus Christ

What Grace is

- what flows out of a Gracious God

- God’s Riches at Christ’s Expense

- Getting what you don’t deserve. Mercy is not getting what you deserve

- God doing for us what we couldn’t do for ourselves.

- The sum total of all that God did for us in Christ.

- God’s operational power

- The power for our faith to produce something

- The power that energizes our faith

Faith is what we use to draw that power into our lives

UNDERSTANDING GRACE

Grace has many facets

- diamond

- electricity produces; heat, light and cooling

Three facets of Grace

Saving Grace: God’s grace flowing into my life to justify

and save me

Standing Grace: God’s power flowing into my life so I can

stand victoriously

Serving Grace: God’s power flowing into my life so I can

serve God with His ability

SAVING GRACE

- God has totally initiated our salvation

A. Grace has nothing to do with human works , good or bad

B. Isaiah 65: 1 -2

- Jesus did not come to earth by invitation

- Jesus came by the will and the love of the Father

- We did not initiate grace at all. If we would have , it wouldn’t be grace

C. Revelation 13:8

- Lamb slain before the foundation of the earth

- In the mind of God, Jesus died before man ever sinned

By faith we let Jesus take the test for us. He satisfied the regulations of the whole law for us

D. Romans 3: 10, 19 – 24

- the law condemned man. Grace freed MAN

- Under the law, no man is righteous

- The law found man guilty (accountable) to God

- We have been justified (made righteous) freely by His grace

E. Romans 5: 6 – 9

Having now been justified (made righteous) by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him

- God’s grace is bigger than sin

F. Ephesians 2: 1 – 10 saved by grace through faith

- God is rich in mercy because of His great love

- By grace you have been saved

- Our old nature deserved wrath

- God wants to show us the exceeding riches of His

grace.

Grace speaks of what God has done

Faith is responding to God’s grace

G. Titus 2: 11 – 13 Grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men

- Grace is past, present and future

- Verse 11 - grace has appeared - past

- Verse 12 - grace teaches us - present

- Verse 13 - grace looks to His coming - future

H. Titus 3: 3- 8

- verse 3: This type of lifestyle produces judgment

- verse 4, 5: Grace did not appear because of man’s

righteousness

- verse 7: God made us righteous (justified) by grace

- verse 8: People who receive the grace of God should live like gracious


people

I. 1 John 4: 10 – 11 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us.

- Because he loved us, we should love each other

- Grace should have the same effect coming out of you as it did going in you




I will continue with the series next time. In the meantime be gracious to every one so they can see Jesus in you.

Have a great day and God bless