Sermon Note
Pastor Prince (New Creation Church)
Even for believers our souls need saving
James 1:21
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
His Word is health and healing for all our flesh
Walk in faith. Without faith is impossible to please God
Ephesians 2:8
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
Faith spring eternal when we look at Jesus
Hebrews 11:1
By Faith We Understand
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Faith is having a good opinion of God
God is for me and not against me
Acts 20:21
testifying to Jews, and also to Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 8:32
He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
Faith is having good opinion of God
God is faithful
Always have good opinion of God
Genesis 42:36
And Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me: Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin. All these things are against me.”
All these things are working for your good
Joseph put them in the land of Goshen where all their needs are provided for
Romans 8:31
God’s Everlasting Love
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Everything is working for our good
God is making it work for the good of His beloveds
God sees the end from the beginning. We can only see one step at a time
We are going up one step at a time. The Lord will lead us one step at a time at the winding stairs
We are going higher and higher
God will make it work together for our good
Have a good opinion of Him
All these things are for you
Heroes of the good opinion of God
God is faithful
I rest on His faithfulness
I am the bearing part. I am the part that receives and manifest.
Let your life so shine before me
Romans 4:20
He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
God is good in my life!
God is causing everything to work together for my good
Everything bad you see is the result of sin and not act of God
Romans 8:19
For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Genesis 3:1-3
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
The devil always want to attack God’s Word
Genesis 2:16-17
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
They shall eat abundantly of your house
Everything you enjoy
Gluttony is not good for your body
1 Timothy 6:17
Instructions to the Rich
Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.
John 11:25
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.
Death has come in. Resurrection is overcoming greater restriction put on earth, and that is death
Jesus is with us
Romans 6:9
knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.
I am a resurrected spirit in a unresurrected body
Genesis 3:13
And the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
God gives us richly all things to enjoy
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life which He has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity; for that is your portion in life, and in the labor which you perform under the sun.
1 Peter 3:7
A Word to Husbands
Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
God wants you to have heaven on earth. He gives us life and life more abundantly
Exodus 3:17
and I have said I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.” ’
The land flow with milk and honey
Numbers 13:27-28
Then they told him, and said: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.
Unbelief is a bad opinion of God
Numbers 14:6-9
But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes; and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying: “The land we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land. If the LORD delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey.’ Only do not rebel against the LORD, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their protection has departed from them, and the LORD is with us. Do not fear them.”
Numbers 14:7
and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying: “The land we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land.
Good good land
If the Lord delights in us. This “if” is not condition “if”
“If” – certainly, since
They are not doubting God
Do not fear them. This giant is our bread
Something will feed and strengthen you and bread is a picture of health and healing too
There is bread in your situation
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
Find the bread
Go eat it and be strong
Joshua 14:11
As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.
Instead of allowing the difficulties to swallow him, he ate the difficulties (bread)
A lot of fear never came to pass
Numbers 14:23-24
Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
The most coveted service was to burn the incense
Luke 1:12-15
And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him.
But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your prayer is heard; and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth. For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink. He will also be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.
Luke 1:18-20
And Zacharias said to the angel, “How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.”
And the angel answered and said to him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God, and was sent to speak to you and bring you these glad tidings. But behold, you will be mute and not able to speak until the day these things take place, because you did not believe my words which will be fulfilled in their own time.”
Luke 1:18 NLT
Zechariah said to the angel, “How can I be sure this will happen? I’m an old man now, and my wife is also well along in years.”
Good tiding
Because you don’t believe you will be dumb
There is power in your words in your tongues
Just for a while the world stops and enjoy this Gift of ℓσνє
Isaiah 11:1
The Reign of Jesse’s Offspring
(Is. 9:1–7)
There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, And a Branch shall grow out of his roots.
Luke 1:26-38
Christ’s Birth Announced to Mary
Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. And having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!”
But when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and considered what manner of greeting this was. Then the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name JESUS. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.”
Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?”
And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God. Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age; and this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren. For with God nothing will be impossible.”
Then Mary said, “Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.
Every morning when you wake up
Every night before you sleep
Call out your name you are highly favoured, blessed woman and man of God
Ephesians 1:6
to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.
Highly favoured in the beloved
Highly grace
Highly favoured
I am blessed among men
That means you stand out
The angel said to her do not be afraid
Have a good opinion of God. God don’t us to entertain fear
You have found favour with God
With God nothing will be impossible
Genesis 15:6
And he believed (AMEN) in the LORD, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.
Revelation 3:14
The Lukewarm Church
“And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write,
These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God:
God works with faith
Faith is amen!
2 Corinthians 1:17-20
Therefore, when I was planning this, did I do it lightly? Or the things I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be Yes, Yes, and No, No? But as God is faithful, our word to you was not Yes and No. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me, Silvanus, and Timothy—was not Yes and No, but in Him was Yes. For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.
God is always good
God is faithful
Speaks word of life
Luke 1:44
For indeed, as soon as the voice of your greeting sounded in my ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
We are made in God’s image
Light be and light was
2 Corinthians 4:13
We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
Starts speaking positive
We live vertically
We are not here to please men
We are here to please the One who called us unto Him
Faith is having good opinion of God
