Hebrews 10:22-25 (The Message)

So let's do it—full of belief, confident that we're presentable inside and out. Let's keep a firm grip on the promises that keep us going. He always keeps his word. Let's see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out, not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on, especially as we see the big Day approaching.
Hebrews 10:22-25 (The Message)

Connect Groups.

Together" in the Bible: Hebrews 10:25 The Christian church is meant to be a community of believers. We are most effective when we're surrounded by fellow believers to correct and encourage us. The apostle Paul here instructs Christians not to neglect the act of meeting up periodically for worship and fellowship. Now we come together as Connect Groups.

What Connect Group(CG) is all about?
Connect groups are groups of friends based on age or location that meet on a regular basis. Together connect groups provide a great foundation to learn more about God and each other on a personal level.

Psalm 1:2-3 (New Living Translation)

Those who are planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. Psalm 92:13 (New King James Version)
But they delight in the law of the Lord, meditating on it day and night. They are like trees planted along the riverbank, bearing fruit each season. Their leaves never wither, and they prosper in all they do. Psalm 1:1-3 (New Living Translation)

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Pioneering Again Part III


Notes for next Bible Study

Acts 1:4-8, Isaiah 43:10, Jeremiah 29:11-13

God thinks on a different scale than we do. While our thoughts and dreams are often limited by our immediate circumstances, God’s plans and thoughts have always been about reaching the ends of the earth. God can do big things with someone who has a heart to serve him and pioneer his gospel, amazingly even us ordinary, broken people.
God’s thoughts for us are good – for peace, for hope, for a future with him and he pours out his Spirit on us for our good. The Holy Spirit does something explosive in our lives. With the Holy Spirit we receive the promises of God and are witnesses to his wonderful works. When we face opposition, we depend on his strength and in the Holy Spirit we experience all that God has in his heart for us.

Through his Spirit, God gives us a new law, new language, and new land. When we operate in the Holy Spirit we are no longer under the law of sin and death, but instead the law of his life. The Holy Spirit unifies us and gives us a new language. As we understand the power of the Holy Spirit, we see the marvelous works of God in our lives, extend the boundaries of the possible, and by depending on him we are empowered to invade the realms of the impossible – reaching the ends of the earth with his gospel.

We live thankful for the promise of our almighty God fulfilled through his Spirit in our lives. May God ignite his wonderful works in our lives, leading us to dream the impossible, taking new territory in Jesus name. Let us be stirred to pioneer again – believing God through the power of the Holy Spirit to continue to do the impossible in our lives as we give him all the glory.


Read: Jeremiah 29:11-13, Psalm 139
Q: How are God’s thoughts different than ours?

Q: What activities and thoughts does God do these verses say he engages in that would be physically impossible for a human?

Q: How does understanding God’s thoughts and heart toward you change what you believe to be possible?

Q: Think of examples of “hurtful” thoughts we may have in our human experience and the corresponding “everlasting” ways of thinking God invites us to have (Psalm 139:23-24).

Q: Identify mindsets, thoughts, language that you are believing God’s Holy Spirit to make new in your life and in our world?
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