9:00am Service | Pastor Zach Backues | Life on Mission
What does it look like to live life on mission?
- Taking time and making time in real time.
1.) Slow down
- Taking time
- Learn to be present to God and present to people.
- Taking the time to see what the need/opportunity (problem) is.
2.) Show up
- Making time
- Power of presence; the atmosphere you carry.
- “It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence” ~ Oswald chambers
- Making someone else’s problem your problem, making someone else’s need your need.
3.) Step out
- Real time
- Speak something, give something, touch someone.
Scripture:
Luke 5:15-19 (NKJV)
- Connects all points 1- 3
- la) verse 16: “… he often withdrew into the wilderness and prayed.”
- 2a) verse 17: “… the power of the Lord was present to heal them.”
- 3a) verse 19 “…(they) let him down on his bed through the tiling into the midst of Jesus.”
11:00am Service | Pastor Greg Mohr | Walking in Wisdom
Proverbs 4:5-9 (NKJV)
5 Get wisdom! Get understanding!
Do not forget, nor turn away from the words of my mouth.
6 Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you;
Love her, and she will keep you.
7 Wisdom is the principal thing;
Therefore get wisdom.
And in all your getting, get understanding.
8 Exalt her, and she will promote you;
She will bring you honor, when you embrace her.
9 She will place on your head an ornament of grace;
A crown of glory she will deliver to you.”
Proverbs 3:13-19 (NKJV)
13 Happy is the man who finds wisdom,
And the man who gains understanding;
14 For her proceeds are better than the profits of silver,
And her gain than fine gold.
15 She is more precious than rubies,
And all the things you may desire cannot compare with her.
16 Length of days is in her right hand,
In her left hand riches and honor.
17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness,
And all her paths are peace.
18 She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her,
And happy are all who retain her.
19 The Lord by wisdom founded the earth;
By understanding He established the heavens;
Galatians 6:2, 5 (NKJV)
2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
5 For each one shall bear his own load.
How to Activate the Wisdom in you:
1) Realize you have His wisdom in you
I Corinthians 1:30 (KJV)
30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
II Corinthians 5:21 (NKJV)
21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
James 1:5-7 (NKJV)
5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
I Corinthians 2:16 (NKJV)
16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.
I John 2:20 (NKJV)
20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
2) Meditate on the Word
Psalm 51:6 (NKJV)
6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
Colossians 3:16 (NKJV)
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Hebrews 4:12 (NKJV)
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Psalm 103:7 (NKJV)
7 He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.
3) Follow Love
I John 4:8 (NKJV)
8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
I Corinthians 14:1 (NKJV)
14 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
I Corinthians 10:24 (NKJV)
24 Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.
Philippians 2:4 (NKJV)
4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.