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Keys For The Christian Living: Getting God's Vision

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Keys For The Christian Living: Getting God's Vision Summary:  Today, we are looking at the second part of the  series entitled Keys For The Christian Living, and this message is about  Another important key for The Christian Living, is   "the ability to anticipate and make provision for future events; foresight; insight." Series: Keys For The Christian Living Scripture:  Phil 3:13-14 Date:  11 December, 2016 In our last message in this series on Keys For The Christian Living , we saw the importance of perseverance.   If we're going to last the distance, we need perseverance; it's an important key for living. Another important key for living, is "the ability to anticipate and make provision for future events; foresight; insight." That's how the Webster's Dictionary defines vision -  the ability to anticipate and make provision for future events; foresight; insight. What do you want for your future? If you want...

Keys For The Christian Living: Perseverance

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Keys For The Christian Living: Perseverance Summary: Today, I'm beginning a series entitled Keys For Living, and this message is about something I believe is absolutely essential for survival. It's a quality that Joseph had. And it's most definitely a quality that Jesus personified. That quality is perseverance - the ability to hang in there, to stick with it, to keep on going. Series: Keys For The Christian Living Scripture: Gen 41:37-46 Date: 11 December, 2016 Scripture Reading Take your Bibles and rise to your feet, turn with me now and Read Gen 41:37-46 37  And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants. 38  And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is? 39  And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art: 40  Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy ...

A Time to Build: Lessons from Nehemiah-Standing by Our Promises

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Standing by Our Promises Summary:  We all fail to keep our pledges, don’t we? Our good intentions and plans often fall by the wayside. Sometimes we blatantly break our promises but other times, we just kind of drift away, a little at a time. Series:  A Time to Build: Lessons from Nehemiah Scripture:  Nehemiah 13:1-31  Date: 4 December, 2016 Scripture Reading Take your Bibles and rise to your feet, turn with me now and Read  Nehemiah 13:1-31 13  On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever; 2  Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing. 3  Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel...