Storms Pt. 1: You’re Still Breathing

2 Corinthians 7:8-10 (NASB)

If you use it, you will never lose it.

Victim or Victor?

Eugene Peterson: Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings BUT self-pity is possibly the most ignoble. It is a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality. It is a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.

It’s hard to critique up close.

Acts 27:20-21 (MSG)

1. Your going to lose this ship and everything on it, but you’re still breathing.

Acts 27:21-22 (NASB)

The gift of goodbye

A season is changing and soon it will be over. Don’t hold on to it. Bless it and move on.

Acts 27:23-24 (NASB)

2. It’s not just about you, it’s about all the others sailing with you.

3. Focus on what you’re going to, not what you’re going through.

The best way to get over what is not in your life is to bless your past and invest in your present.

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Pablo Pt. 10: I Press On

Philippians 3:13-14 (NASB)

The most successful people I know are not those with the most talent or the highest IQ. They are those with the greatest drive. They keep pressing on.

Luke 1:28-33 (NASB)

Faith is for the middle.

Your potential is like a seed. It only grows in the dark.

John 5:1-8

For 38 years he was:
1. Waiting on God to move.
2. Waiting on someone to help.

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Pablo Pt. 9: The Preeminence of Jesus

Colossians 1:1-4 (AMP)

Colossians 1:7 (AMP)

Colossians 1:13-18 (AMP)

Colossians 2:1-8 (AMP)

Don’t allow others to make Christianity complicated. Jesus is the message. Lean on His power, His wisdom and His goodness.

Colossians 1:13-29

Do you have a life scripture? There are 31,102 verses of scripture in the Bible. What’s your verse?

2 Chronicles 26:5 (AMP)

2 Chronicles 26:15-16

Pride is where you begin to rely on YOUR strength, YOUR wisdom and YOUR goodness.

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October First Wednesday

Reach the Lost
Disciple the Found
Empower the Called
1 Timothy 4:14 (NLT)
Acts 15:35 (AMP)
Acts 15:32 (AMP)

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Pablo Pt. 8: Pastor Caleb Moran: Turn Around

Go Out Where It Is Deeper
Luke 5:1-9 (NLT)
Jesus may meet you where you are at, but He will always ask you to go deeper than where you are.
What’s Your Pulpit?
Luke 5:3-7 (MSG)
What do you have that can be used as a pulpit for Jesus?
God has made it to where His advancement on earth is tied to our cooperation.
God doesn’t need us, He chooses us.
Dr. Lilian B. Yeomans said,
  “God has tied Himself irrevocably to human cooperation in the execution of divine purposes. He has made man’s faith a determining factor in the work of redemption.”
Never lower your expectation because of your desperation.
If you want bigger, you will have to go deeper.
Turn Around
When you partner with God- allowing Him to use your resources as a pulpit to amplify His voice- He will redirect ample provision to your location.
Conclusion
If we can aid in helping spread the Gospel, God will fill our boats to overflowing.
Partnership is adding value back to the thing that is adding value to you.
We must leave the shallow waters of low expectation, and launch out into the deep waters of faith.

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Pablo Pt. 7: Paul Adds Value

Acts 20:32-36
You need to believe in our friendship
Two questions everyone must answer:
1. Who is with you?
2. Who are you with?
Gratitude and Thanksgiving are never wrong.
Everything God does through you is a testimony to those who have parented you, mentored you, discipled you, and loved you.
2 Timothy 4:9-11
Who are you with?
Act 15:35-40
It’s easy to hug and thank a miracle man.
It’s harder to touch a leper.
We are called to touch the lepers.
Your future is in who you serve.

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Pablo Pt. 6: Paul Leaves Corinth

Stir yourself up to go after a life that only God could give you.
Who do you think God is and what do you believe He is capable of doing in your life?
Ephesians 3:20 (KJV)
Paul could write to the church at Ephesus that God was capable of amazing miracles because they had seen them.
Acts 19:1 (KJV)
Acts 19:8-12 (KJV)
Acts 19:17-20 (KJV)
They never would have seen them if Paul would not have left Corinth.
Paul believed God was capable of more.
Each and everyone of us will come to place in our lives where God asks us to leave Corinth. To exchange safe and good for great and God.
It’s not just about seeing miracles and having more. It’s about your faith resting in the power of God. When the power of God is missing, devotion will be waning.
Luke 5:1-11 (MSG)
You have to leave the shore of ease and get in the uncomfortableness of the deep in order to see miracle.

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