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)

Sunday, July 13, 2014

Sermon note: Pioneer

Sunday 13/7- sermon note

Robert Ferguson

How to keep going for the rest of the year or the rest of your life?

A journey of trust & faith with God

Gal 3:6
- considered Abraham
Vs 9 those who has faith will be blessed along with him

Heb 11:8
God called him to go to unknown place.

In Christianity is not about the destiny but is about the journey.- a commitment to the relationship with God.

Our entire is founded in Pioneering Spirit. Everyone of us tend to want to settle but our life is in a pilgrimage .

Gen1:4
Gen12:5
He landed in the land of promise but not settle
Gen 12:1
God calls and promise

If you commit a journey of pilgrimage, two things are required in this journey :-

1)Leave & 2)be a blessings

1)LEAVE
- need movement
- need to leave your comfort & stuck in the familiar
- there is always people in your world will not come with you when u want to grow and lead a radical life.
- sometime we never achieve what God wants us to do because we refuse to leave the people that hold us back
- Abraham left...
- God wants us to pioneer again...find your next steps ...
- it's not easy to leave
- God remind Abraham to leave twice.

2)BE A BLESSING
- 6 expectations
- remove the Masks... You need to be like Israelite or Joshua

4 advices :-
1) Travel light in Spirit, soul & physical
- don't be so burden with debts, bitterness or unforgiveness.

Abraham did not know where he was going
Heb 11:8

2)trust God
- God wants him to count the stars. He would able to count them. Just for us, we can't count the stars but to trust God.

Heb 11:11
- he did not know how to get there.

Sometimes we can't commit to our personal visions that we can't see God's vision for us.

3)Turn up
- he did not know when but he keep turning up
Heb 11:13
Living their faith within their life time

Keep turning up and it could happen anytime

4)Think Jesus
- keep thinking Jesus

God has promised Abraham to fulfill in the seed ( Jesus)
Heb 11:17
- he didn't question God

Gal 3:16
The promise is in the seed

Heb 12:2
Set our eyes in Jesus.

You can stay home safe & dry but you won't be pioneer again and the next generation may be lost.

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