Idaho Grace Sermon Podcast

You need a spiritual family.  It’s not enough to come to church.  No, you need to be part of spiritual community.  You need to put down roots.   

You are accepted, confident, free and victories because Jesus is your atonement and your advocate.  But it’s not that Jesus is the cool son and God is the mean Father.  No, they’re one and the same.  And God loves you. 

We haven’t seen anything yet.  There are still souls to reach.  We are here for such a time as this.  But, it’s going to take more than an energetic team of pastors.  It’s going to take a Spirit-filled Church to make the difference.  But, with the Difference Maker on our side, in us and working through us, the impossible will be made possible. 

We have a calling: to love God with everything we have and to love our neighbor as ourselves.  We have a mission to make disciples, telling people about what Jesus did in our lives. 
 
We know what we’ve been given: all of these blessings “in Christ”. 
We know where we’ve come from:  from death to life. 
We know where we’re going: Heaven is our final destination. 
 
The only thing that will stop us will be settling for an image rather than resting in our identity.  Christ has more.

You can have a prayer life, if you want a prayer life.  You gotta have the want to. 
You can be a witness for Christ, but you gotta have the want to. 
You can preach, even if you have physical problems, all kinds of challenges.  If He calls you to preach, it doesn’t matter what you don’t have, because He has what you don’t.  You can do it!  You just gotta have the want to. 
 

In a world as tormented and confused as ours, we desperately need God’s wind and fire to energize us.  Can we just humble ourselves and seek God with all our heart, praying for “something from heaven”?