Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Nomad Principles

Nomad Principles for People who have a Heavenly Home. 
1. Everything we do by faith believing God's promises must be kept.
2.  Faith is an attitude, an action, and the adverb describing our lives as Christ followers.
3.  Everything that is was created by God.  Therefore He is supreme over all things we see and don't see. Creation
4.  Give to God a life that is acceptable as an offering.  Abel
5.  Walk with God and you will find the earth will fade away.  Enoch
6.  Do all that God's commands in the way he commads.  Noah
7. When God calls go with God.  Who you go with is more important than where you are going. Abraham
8.  Risk God's blessings continually on God's promises He has to keep His promises.  Isaac's Sacrifice
9.  God's blessing have to be fought for, wrestled from, and sought after.  Jacob
10.  All of God's promises are true and the weight of them being kept is upon God's shoulders alone.  Joseph. (Psalms 105)
11.  Dismiss everything in the world for the chance of knowing God and His resurrection power.  Moses
12.  Barriers are God's way of demonstrating His power and Glory over creation and those that seek to eslave us.  The Red Sea Crossing.
13.  All our battles are to be fought in unconventional ways.  Walking, trumpeting, shouting + God means the walls will come down.  Jericho
14.  No life, no soul, no matter how cursed with sin is beyond God's Grace.  Rahab
15.  We earn a good reputation every day with God by living with a positive attitude, taking actions based on his promises in obedience, and letting our lives be examples of hope for others. 
16.  Keep your eyes on Jesus and follow His example so you don't lose it.

Monday, August 13, 2012

Tent Stakes and Sandles for the Journey!

Tent stake 1.  INTIMACY:  Initmacy and walking with God are essential the journey.  Never compromise your relationship with God no matter how difficult the world is.  (Enoch)

Tent stake 2.  OBEDIENCE:  Commit to follow God's will no matter how difficult the task.  (Noah)

Tent stake 3.  AVAILABILITY:  Be available and ready to abandon what you presently have if God calls you. (Abraham)

Tent stake 4.  GENEROSITY:  Risky business; Be willing to give what God promised back to him as a sacrificial offering.  (Abraham & Isaac)

Tent stake 5.  BLESSING:  Submit to God's will and bless those you don't prefer. (Isaac)

Tent stake 6:  WRESTLE:  Don't let go of God till He blesses you, but remember God's blessings don't always look like blessings (Jacob)

Tent stake 7:  SHOULDER:  Let God have all your troubles, and cares because he is control of everything.  Roll them on to him, throw them at him in prayer, and heap them upon him he can handle it. (Joseph)

Tent stake 8:  DISMISSED:  Turn away from the things of this world by valueing more greatly God and our home in heaven.  (Moses' parents & Moses) 

Tent stake 9:  ADVANCE:  God is the way maker.  What God leads you to He will make a way through.  (Israel at the Red Sea Crossing) 

Tent stake 10:  OPPORTUNITIES:  Walls are not obsticles they are just opportunities for God to demonstrate His glory in you!