Sunday VT – 3/09/2014

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Speakers:

• Steven Atherton
• Megan Atherton

Scriptures used:

• Isaiah 14:12-14

Subject:

• We have to be ready, which starts first thing in the morning, so that when we are called upon we are ready.
• When we try and bring our works to the Lord to say “I did this” or “I did that”, our offerings are like Cain and we are saying that we are like the most high God.
• If you don’t choose to serve God, you have already chosen against serving God.
• Sometimes we have the wrong answer to an instruction.  When we repent what do we say to the Lord, He has forgiven us our sins?  Ask Him to forgive us of our secret sins, the ones we don’t know about.
• We can’t disappoint God, but we can please Him.
• When we don’t recognize the righteousness of God and try to work it out ourselves, we are offering an offering of Cain.
• We don’t always choose right but then we have another chance to choose right.
• He is here.  If you choose to be with Him, how does that change you and your decisions?  There is a beginning to every person’s walk with the Lord.  Where are you today on that walk?
• He wants to work a wonder here among us, every day.  He will never depart from us.  We depart from Him when we choose to not believe Him.
• Choose to believe Him and exercise your faith.  Take authority over that problem and cast it down, and refuse to accept anything but victory in Christ Jesus.
• We can bear witness of the things the Lord has done in others’ lives, but if we don’t step out and do it ourselves, we die in the desert, it doesn’t mean anything.
• The children of Israel never believed God for themselves.
• It’s not natural to believe God.  It is a decision and a fight.
• The story of Joseph, Steve’s son, being raised from the dead. Step out and you will be called to exercise yourself in the faith you profess.
• The Lord will guide the paths of our feet if we step out in it.  He will not forsake us.  Pride causes us to be offended.
• Jesus Christ says I can do all things through Him.  Our lives tell us we can do no things well.  We fail.  We have to develop that attitude of seeking till you find.  Faith like a mustard seed.
• When you step out you will make mistakes but you will learn.  You also see more things that are beyond you all the time.  Step out in them and the glory will go to Him.