Have you ever been faced with something in your life and at times it was so bad, you went to God to pray. Then you prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed. Then Days and Weeks pass, then Months pass. In this message were going to cover a few reason why prayer may not be heard.
I had a friend of mine tell me this, “Being a Christian is the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” and yes I would have to agree with him. Because Jesus gives us many instructions of how we must live. In this message we learn why being a Christian is Hard.
How about this, do many of us do fall into this category? We wind down at the end of the day in front of the TV or with our mobile phones. We sleep and again get up the next morning and get back to the same routine as the day before. So the question is this. Have we become so busy in our lives, we do not take time out for God?
In this message we find out have we become Busy Bee’s
You probably know a few people who suffered unimaginable trials, hurts, tragedy’s and testing’s in their Christian Faith, yet when they let it go and die to self, they have more peace and love as a result. In our message tonight we learn the 4 principles of dying to self.
To properly observe the ordinance of the Lord’s Supper, we need a spirit of seriousness and at the same time an attitude of joyful celebration. In tonight’s message we will cover 4 reasons why we should proclaim the death of our Lord as a great redemptive act that has significance for all people.
A Crisis of belief is a turning point where we must make some decisions that will determine whether we go on to be involved with God and stand strong in our faith and beliefs in him or become tempted to walk away from it and go into the world and stay away from everyone.
What does it mean to really live for Christ? Have you ever thought about the real meaning of that question? If not Jesus gave us some insight to this question when he said this was the very reason that he came to the earth. He came that we might have life and have it abundantly.
Is Christ your life? Is he your daily passion? What is your life? What is it that you’re really living for? Is it success, wealth, comfort, or family? If so, you will not be able to say to die is gain—to die would really be the loss of all you are truly living for.
Let me ask you a question, How do we live the Christian life? The Christian life is supposed to be a life lived by faith. It is by faith that we enter into the Christian life, and it is by faith that we live it out. The Christian life is also supposed to be one of death to self in order to live a life by faith.
When were faced with hard times, it can confuse us, cause us to become rattle, stressed and even make us ask the wrong questions or expect wrong answers. So when faced with hard times, what did you learn from those hard times and did God helped you and gave you hope in these hard times.?