Rupertus Meldenius, Essential Unity, Liberty and Giving Love

IN ESSENTIALS UNITY, IN NON-ESSENTIALS LIBERTY, IN ALL THINGS CHARITY RUPERTUS MELDENIUS “the watchword of Christian peacemakers” (History of the Christian Church, vol. 7, p. 650). Often attributed to great theologians such as Augustine, it comes from an otherwise undistinguished German Lutheran theologian of the early seventeenth century, Rupertus Meldenius. The phrase occurs in a tract on Christian unity written (circa 1627) during the Thirty Years War (1618–1648), a bloody time in European history in which religious tensions played a significant role.

What are the essentials? IN ESSENTIALS UNITY ... The Doctrines are the essentials. ... 1. Theology or the Doctrine of God. There is a God. 2. The Doctrine of The Bible, The bible is our authority, inspired, every word, 3. The Doctrine of Sin ... man has a sin nature, 4. The Doctrine of Salvation ... man can not save himself by being good he needs to accept the gift of Salvation given to us by Christ's death on the cross our Lamb of God. 5. The Doctrine of the Spirit. The Spirit proceeds from the Father and indwells, fills, controls, gifts the believer to build up the body of Christ. 6. The Doctrine of Christ... Jesus is the one true son of God, the only begotten without sin, tested, tempted in all ways yet without sin. 7. The Doctrine of the Church... The church is Christ's bride, a community and fellowship united for the purpose of loving God, and being His witnesses. 8. The Doctrine of End Times Jesus is coming again. He has ascended and we the church must live with this reality as we wait. These include the Scriptures the olivet discourse by Jesus, the books of Ezekiel, Daniel, and Revelation, and proclaim to us the Victorious Jesus! THESE ARE THE ESSENTIALS.

IN NON-ESSENTIALS LIBERTY .... NON ESSENTIALS are our practice and the forms of worship, discipleship, and systems for making disciples. So one person is a vegan, another eats and drinks beer, both love God and have been saved and baptized. One dresses up in a suit, their Sunday best, and another comes relaxed in jeans and sandles. One prefers hymns, and still others prefer modern forms of worship. One wants to experience church and others want traditions to be upheld. In these things you have liberty.

IN ALL THINGS CHARITY. Here we work to maintain unity in the Body of Christ. I give grace to those who worship differently, and I give grace to those who eat differently, and I give grace to those who do not live as I do but are brothers and sisters in Christ. I receive love from those who worship differently. So I give preference to the other... meaning I am willing to see my preference as the weaker of the two positions, and love my brother and do life with them. Protecting the unity of the body verifies to the world that Jesus exists. He exists because people can disagree and continue to love each other. Am I loving my brothers and sisters?

The Shepherd's Prayer for His Church

The Shepherd's Prayer for His Church

Lord, I lift up my eyes to Heaven. “Father, the hour is coming. Glorify me and let others see Jesus in me, not me. I want to bring Glory to You. Lord evan as You gave Jesus authority over all humanity so that He might give eternal life and salvation to those far from Him. Grant us authority and influence in the community with seekers, new believers, new families, and new members, and give us a greater anointing of Your Spirit that these others might be drawn into your family. Lord, let the teaching of Cornerstone be clear that eternal life is in Jesus Christ alone, that these far afar may know You, the Only True God, and Jesus Christ whom you sent Father and let them see Him in Cornerstone. May Cornerstone be committed to glorifying you here on Earth. May Cornerstone be committed to accomplishing the work which you have given Cornerstone to do. Now, Father, allow me to be seen like Christ the Shepherd together with You. Let Jesus be seen as I humble myself and He leads Cornerstone.

I am making known Your name to the men whom you gave Me. These men are Yours and You have given them to me. These are keeping your word. Lord let them know that everything You have given me is from You. Let the words which you gave me and I have given to them be received and truly understood. Lord You have brought me to this Church. You have established me and confirmed me as the Shepherd of Cornerstone. They believed in You, and You sent me. I have come Here from the Father. I ask on these men’s behalf, on Cornerstone’s behalf not on the world’s behalf, but for Cornerstone and its members for They are Yours, all that I have is Yours, and I also know that all that you have is mine. I AM TRUSTING. I ask that you heal our Church, that you keep Cornerstone in Your name, The name which is above every name… JESUS MY LORD! I ASK THAT CORNERSTONE WOULD BE ONE EVEN AS JESUS YOU AND I AND THE FATHER ARE ONE WALKING. Lord empower me to guard them and so that not one of them will perish save those who are opposed to Your leading. Let the Scripture be fulfilled, “The Gates of Hell will not prevail” against the church. We cast the division to the foot of the Cross, in the name of Jesus.

Lord, I am asking that Cornerstone will receive “a new” the joy of walking together and be made full in it. Lord as I am allowed to teach them the Word. Let our hearts unite because the world will hate us because they hate You Lord Jesus. Let us be in the World, a powerful witness. Let us not be removed from the world, but keep us safe, true in our walk, joyful, praising, full of the Spirit and safe from the evil one. We commit to be like Jesus and to not be of the world. Lord, let the truth of who You are, and truth of the Word of God make us holy and true and consistent in our lives, and in my life also let this be true. Lord, we commit to go into the world, and to be sent into our communities to tell the Gospel boldly. Lord, I humbly submit and surrender myself as Your shepherd under Jesus the Shepherd so that they will become sanctified by the teaching you give me.

Lord, I do not ask for those who are belongers of Cornerstone alone, but also for those who will believe in you through the mission, and the message You have given to Cornerstone, The Haven of the Valley! Let Cornerstone be united, healed from its past, free to receive your Spirit. Let us BE ONE, even as Lord Jesus, The Father, and I are one in mission and heart beat. Let Cornerstone Hide in You and let others become One with You God the Father, Lord Jesus. Then our community will know that You have sent me the shepherd under The Shepherd.

How glorious are You. Let us be one with You, just as You and the Father are one. Grant us the anointing and filling of the Spirit as in the past (in the gym). So the world will know that You loved them, let Cornerstone love those far off. Lord you loved us before the world began let us be together in Harmony as we long to be with You in Heaven.

Lord let us be able to say, “The world, Lewisburg, Buchnell, Milton, Northumberland, Union, and Synder county know You because they know Cornerstone, and me the shepherd under The Shepherd.” I have made known to them the Love which you love me with. May that love be in Cornerstone, and may I be confirmed by my love for them.

In Jesus name Amen

Pastor Rob

Awe or Ugh!

My Cornerstone Series / Awe or Ugh? 

Acts 2:1-4 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared to them tongues as of fire distributing themselves, and they rested on each one of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.

Joel 2:28-29  The Promise of the Spirit

28 “It will come about after this That I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind; And your sons and daughters will prophesy, Your old men will dream dreams, Your young men will see visions. 29 “Even on the male and female servants I will pour out My Spirit in those days.

Acts 2:37-47 Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brethren, what shall we do?” 38 Peter said to them, “Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself.” 40 And with many other words he solemnly testified and kept on exhorting them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation!” 41 So then, those who had received his word were baptized; and that day there were added about three thousand souls. 42 They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.  43 Everyone kept feeling a sense of awe; and many wonders and signs were taking place through the apostles. 44 And all those who had believed were together and had all things in common; 45 and they began selling their property and possessions and were sharing them with all, as anyone might have need. 46 Day by day continuing with one mind in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of heart, 47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved. 

Big Idea: The awe of the Spirit moving is what founds every church

1. The Spirit came … (Acts 2:1-4)

2. They were craving waiting and longing; for the Spirit (Acts 2:1-4

3. They certified the Spirit was from God (Joel 2:28-29)  

4. They were contrite and repented of sin (Acts 2:37) 

5. They connected with and received the Spirit (Acts 2:38)

6. The culture of experiencing the presence of the Spirit was the founding of the church.  (Acts 2:43)

How do we join with God to create awe? 

STEP 1: UNITY - AWE COMES WHEN GOD’S FAMILY IS TOGETHER /  DISUNITY UGH!

STEP 2: AWE COMES WHEN IN WORSHIP THERE IS EXALTATION OF JESUS AS LORD RESURRECTED

STEP 3: FOCUS ON THE GOSPEL … AWE COMES WHEN GOD ADDS TO YOUR NUMBER

STEP 4: AWE COMES BY PRAYER AND SEEKING GOD’S WILL … THEY WERE TOGETHER WAITING  

THE POWER OF PRAYING

The Power of Praying!

James 5:16-18 Pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much. 17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months. 18 Then he prayed again, and the sky poured rain and the earth produced its fruit.
Prayer is the Christian’s greatest superpower, but we have stopped using our superpower.

BIG IDEA: Prayer is the action that validates our belief in God!

Matthew 7:7-11
Keep asking… Keep seeking … Keep knocking: emphasis doesn’t translate for us in English

1. Prayer can. There is nothing that God does that I can't if I pray!

2. Prayer believes. There is nothing God does that I can't if I pray!

3. Prayer seeks. There is nothing God does that I can't if I pray! 

We seek first the Lord .. Matt. 6:33, We set our affections on heaven Col. 1:15
2 Chronicles 7:12-16 Humble... then pray ... if we pray...
Humility is paramount if the other keys – prayer, seeking the face of God, and obedience – are ever to produce victory in our lives. ... Thus, if we want our prayers to be answered 'Yes', we have to be in Christ for it is then He is glorified, and we have to operate in humility.

4. Prayer is all powerful ... 

Since God is all powerful we are all powerful when we pray!
Nothing of eternal significance ever happens apart from prayer. - Jerry Falwell Sr

5. Prayer is all knowing ... 

Since God is all knowing we can pray for all that we don't know to be revealed.
Matthew 5:5-13

6. Prayer is always present ... 

everywhere present at the same time “Like being there in person.”
Revelation 1 .. in the spirit on the Lord’s day
Psalms 139 ESV

7. Prayer is infinite in its affect.

James 4 Effectual Availing Much - Gives us the ADVANTAGE IN THE FIGHT...
Ephesians 1:15-23

8. The voice and action of the trusting is prayer!

Trust in the Lord with all your heart … Proverbs 3:5,6 … NO LEANING HOW.. PRAY ...
Cry out… Psalm 34:17
Philippians 4:4-7 Psalms 3, 4, 26, 86… All prayers of Trusting in God..
NOT TRUSTING IN GOD THE GREATEST SIN.

9. The philosophy by which we wait & still our hearts, minds, will is prayer!

Isaiah 40:31. James 4 Draw near...

10. Our warning to the enemies of God is prayer!

THE WEAPON OF THE FAITHFUL
Psalms 109:4 … But I am in prayer … i.e. as a warning
Ephesians 6:18

Challenge: Prioritize prayer, forgiveness, and love passionately everyone in front of you.

Men & Women who prayed in a crisis and God answered.
Moses Cry @ the Red sea
Abraham begging God for the righteous
Joshua’s march in silence
Gideon’s petition and re-petitioning
Naaman’s plea for healing
The nobleman request for Jesus to heal his child
The leper’s cry … if you are willing
Jonah’s agony of being digested
David’s caves of shame and shelter
Hezekiah’s request for a longer life
Elijah’s prayer to cease the rain
Jeremiah’s weeping & laments
Hagar’s cry for her son
Hannah’s request for Samuel
Jesus’ prayer for all of his children
Illustrated. "Say my name" fight ALI We beat our enemy and force Him to say the name of Jesus as Lord when we pray. Daddy... Abba

Lessons for Cave Dwellers

Big Idea: Caves are sacred places where God works for good!

“The frame of the cave leads to the frame of the man.” Steven Gardiner

“When life caves in, you do not need reasons – you need comfort. You do not need some answers – you need someone. And Jesus does not come to us with an explanation – He comes to us with His presence.”  Bob Benson

1. David’s cave …
Where God grows our Intimacy with Him & Grows us into His warriors.

Psalms 34 A place to praise; to record God’s goodness continually … when you look up you will find that God is looking back and right at you!

• Bless the Lord at all times… not just in the good times… It was madness to do good to HIs enemies but did that…
• Perplexed with tough decisions and given no good option David cried out to the Lord who heard him in the midst of his trouble
• The angel of the Lord camps around those who are His children and rescues them. God Lays siege to your heart with His heavenly forces
• There isn’t any circumstance of life in which you feel surrounded by the enemy, abandoned by companions, or brokenhearted by life that God ceases to surround by his power and presence, to be present with you comforting, and to heal your heart with His compassion and care!

Psalms 57 A place for finding comfort with God,and for steadfast trust rather than captivity from fear

• God sends forth to us in trouble his love and faithfulness
• His love reaches to the heave and to the skies… For great is your love, reaching to the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
• So I have a steadfast heart. A heart that fear can not affect… because I have God’s love and faithfulness
• God’s love and faithfulness are without end… as infinite as the heavens and sky … you can’t find an end to God’s love and faithfulness.

Psalms 142 A place of prioritizing prayer to God… so that He might release your soul from the prison of fear.

• Cried out to the Lord
• Bring my soul of out Prison…
• David’s prison was fear that God would not rescue Him when He was all David had to trust in. Allusion to Jesus in the grave here.
• Prayer releases our souls from the prison of fear.

Principle : God grows us closer and god grows us stronger

What if God is growing a warrior spirit in you by allowing this times.

2. Elijah’s cave 

1 Kings 19 Where God reveals Himself, guides, corrects our understanding our place and refreshes us

Caves are never hiding places for followers they are sacred meeting places

• God is The Power
• over the power of wind,
• over the power of the earthquake,
• over the power of fire
• God is The Power in the gentle breeze (A Refreshing Spirit)
• Refreshes
• Renews
• Redirects

There are always more followers dedicated to following God than you know of. You are never the only one capable of what God is calling you to. (7000 principle)

Principle: Seize this moment to be renewed in His strength, to know Him, and to know what to do.

What if God is allowing rest so that you can experience His refreshing Spirit, be renewed, and redirected… commissioned.

3. Jesus’ cave … 

Where God pauses before He Empowers you as a New creation!

• Was necessary for all our sins to be defeated
• Was temporary for all our hopes to be fulfilled
• Was the starting point not the ending point of faith …
• Nothing was lost in death but everything was gained
• Nothing was taken by death but everything was given
• Nothing was left to sorrow about for death but everything is glorified

Principle: Remember you have gained and been given everything from Jesus. Rejoice & give Him  glory!

Jonah’s whale … It is only when we are stuck in a place dark like death that we realize life to the fullest and seize every moment to do God’s will.
Daniel’s lion’s Den … It is only when we are in the Den of the Lion that recognize the power of God over Kings and creators to shut the mouth of the hungry to give us rest.

Illustration: All superheroes have caves… Hideouts where they draw strength, power, and gain wisdom … Batman… Bat cave… Superman … fortress of solitude where his father spoke to him and refreshed him… The Avengers building where community and unity align to fight evil…


The church is in a cave that powers us up with wisdom and a place where the spirit of the father speaks and refreshes us. It is a building but more a community that is on a mission together. All extraordinary leaders have caves. All leaders cave or leaders cave… David, Elijah, and Jesus never caved to anyone but God.

God made caves so that when the world is caving in we can go into that sacred space our superheroes cave and find what we need!

Challenge: Don’t let the cave become a place of regressing in your faith.

1. Make the cave a place of spiritual growth & strengthening by Him
2. Make the cave a place of refreshing, renewal, and redirection.
3. Make the cave a place of gain not loss, and of rejoicing

Bringing Rest to a Crazy World (Genesis 6&7)

Bringing Rest to a Crazy World (Genesis 6&7)

God’s regret with humanity’s wickedness & violence is contrasted with God’s favor for Noah

Big Idea: Be a person others find “Rest” with from the culture and chaos of life! Jesus is our rest!

The Ark is Jesus… We are in Christ. He has closed us in. He is our security. He is our

1.  Love others “Rightly” so that God has an “Above Reproach” Reputation.

“If we love God most we will love others best.” John Bloom, Desiring God

What does it mean to “Love Rightly” ? ….
First there is a deep desire and devotion to God … a forsaking of anything that draws us away from our relationship with God. So that we are full of faith and more deeply committed to trust the Lord in every circumstance of life.
Second, we must be willing to look to others before our own interests as if it was our own interests.

Our behavior and love should be both Vertical and Horizontal

• Christians are “God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works” (Ephesians 2:10).
• Christians are a chosen people, belonging to God so that we may declare His praises (1 Peter 2:9).
• The “actions” that glorify our Father in heaven are those that bear much fruit (John 15:8). This is, in fact, how we show we are His disciples. Indeed, the fruit of the Spirit—love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Galatians 5:22-23)—should be the hallmark of Christian behavior, especially love.
• Christian behavior includes heeding Jesus’ call for us to be His witnesses to “the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8).
• Be imitators of God…and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us” (Ephesians 5:1-2).
• Paul urged the Romans to “offer your bodies as living sacrifices” (Romans 12:2). This, ultimately, is the essence of true Christian behavior – surrendering our hearts and yielding our bodies to Christ so He might continue God’s work through us.

Book Who Am I?: Identity in Christ By: Jerry Bridges

Our values at Cornerstone… “Compassion, Kindness, generosity, intentionality, Hearing God … imitating Christ.”

Examples of loving rightly (Depends on Time)

• Abraham’s compassion for others including those who are wicked and under judgment … Plead with God…
• Joseph's kindness to his brothers even though the cost him half his life as a slave in a foreign country
• Barnabas’s generosity in giving his land and words of encouragement
• The intentionality and plan of Jesus and God the father… what is your intention during this time
• Jesus needed to go to Sychar… he was led by the H.S. into the wilderness… Enoch walked … we are to be led by the H.s. filled with H.s. just as we are gifted by the H.s. .
• Jesus was moved… compassion, kindness, generosity, these act… they move … forgive, forget, go forward… take the loss to love those FFG

2.  Find “Rest” for yourself by developing a Walk with God
Illustration… how to walk with God… Two guys moving furniture a coach were trying to get it through the door way… after quite a while struggling with it they realized they were trying to go in different directions… We must go in God’s direction… i.e. today for us it is to follow Jesus… to be Christ follower.

• Walk with God so others will be able to “Receive” your message!
• Walk with God so you will not “Resign” from your life of faith
• Walk with God so you will be able to “Resist” the culture and its tests
• Jesus was led by the H.S.
• Jesus did community with the Heavenly Father
• Jesus was God & with God… He became human and dwelt among …
• He is our focus Hebrews 12:1-4
• He is our image to imitate (Ephesians)
• We are not here to survive but to thrive and see lives saved because of the sacrifice of our lives. 

3.  “Risk” doing all that God says for you to do “Regardless” of what the world thinks.

Crazy things God asked people to do

• Build an ark for a thing that has never happened
• Take you son and sacrifice him
• Turn down into a valley with your back to the red sea
• Look to a snake and be healed
• Raise your hands and you will have victory
• Walk around the walls and they will fall flat
• Grab a sling and some stones and run at a giant
• Shrink your army to 300, shout, and break a lantern

What crazy thing does God want us to do?

• (2 Timothy 1:7) Live as though IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL
• Live Strong… courageously for God… to trust courageously
• Love others
• Have a sound mind… think rightly about circumstances… to apply wisdom for living … to act

Challenge: Live “ready” & “without regret”!

• Answering "Here I am" … Abraham, Moses, Samuel …
• to Loving rightly… To Rove with God as a walk … to risk doing all that God asks us to do.
• Rain is promised but so is God’s presence & wisdom to build a life of rest from the storm!

DON'T FORGET

DON’T FORGET 

Big Idea: Jesus IS GOD, He Heals Don’t forget

Don't forget How Jesus Can Heal and Have Hope!

1.  Jesus is the great physician

• John 4:46-54 - Spoke healing over the Nobleman’s son by simply stating it as a fact.
• John 5:1-17 - Commanded an lame man by his words to get up, pick up and walk out
• John 9:1-12 - Healed a blindman by his own spit and dirt, and washing
• John 11 - He raised Lazarus from the dead by calling his name
• Matthew 8:1-4 Jesus heals a Leper by touching him
• Numbers 21:8 He heals by looking up to His power / John 3:14 Jesus must be lifted up like the serpent on the pole to heal us of the greatest plague… Our own sin nature. 

David’s response and understanding of God concerning troubles 

“Don’t forget God” Praise for the Lord’s Mercies. A Psalm of David. Psalm 103

Bless the Lord, O my soul, And all that is within me, bless His holy name. 2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget none of His benefits; 3 Who pardons all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases; 4 Who redeems your life from the pit, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and compassion; 5 Who satisfies your [a]years with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle.

2. Don’t forget HOW He has loved us. 

• He pardons our sins
• He heals our diseases
• He redeems life from the pit
• He crowns us with love and compassion
• He satisfies us with good things
• He renews our strength

6 The Lord performs [b]righteous deeds And judgments for all who are oppressed. 7 He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the sons of Israel. 8 The Lord is compassionate and gracious, Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness. 9 He will not always strive with us, Nor will He keep His anger forever. 10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. 11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, So great is His lovingkindness toward those who [c]fear Him. 12 As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us. 13 Just as a father has compassion on his children, So the Lord has compassion on those who [d]fear Him. 14 For He Himself knows [e]our frame; He is mindful that we are but dust.

3.  Don’t forget WHO our God is that loves us

• He is compassionate, gracious, slow to anger & abounding in lovingkindness
• He will not let any trouble go on too long, all trouble is temporary for us
• He plays favorites in regards to our sin, he is overly forgetful
• His grace is piled as high as the heavens from the earth
• His grace has hidden our sins as far as the east is from the west
• He is our Good Good Father giving us compassion instead of condemnation

15 As for man, his days are like grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. 16 When the wind has passed over it, it is no more, And its place acknowledges it no longer. 17 But the lovingkindness of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who [f]fear Him, And His [g]righteousness to children’s children, 18 To those who keep His covenant And remember His precepts to do them.

4. Don’t forget God’s love is WITHOUT END for those who are His children.

19 The Lord has established His throne in the heavens, And His [h]sovereignty rules over [i]all. 20 Bless the Lord, you His angels, Mighty in strength, who perform His word, Obeying the voice of His word! 21 Bless the Lord, all you His hosts, You who serve Him, doing His will. 22 Bless the Lord, all you works of His, In all places of His dominion; Bless the Lord, O my soul!

5. Don’t forget God is STILL on the throne

6. Don’t forget God is WORTHY! 


Challenge:

1. Do not doubt in this dark moment who God is!
2. Double down on trust, prayer, joy, and seek to find the good in all of this.
3. God is working and so I am looking for where God is working in this.
4. Grandma's apple pie / Jesus should be like grandma’s apple pie to those in our community.

7 Words to Remember in a Crisis

The Goodness of God 

(7 Words to Remember in Crisis) 

Psalms 27:13 I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living.

God is infinitely and unchangeably good ( Zephaniah 3:17 ),  God's goodness appears in two things, giving and forgiving."

Therefore, He is…

1. OMNIPRESENT: PRESENT in every life / I am with you -

I AM NOT ALONE IN ANYTHING. GOD IS WITH ME … MY HEAVENLY FATHER IS RIGHT HERE WHERE I AM!

2. OMNIPOTENT: POWER over everything and everyone / I am for you

I AM NOT WEAK, BUT STRONG. I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME.

3. OMNISCIENCE: PRACTICE for every life in every circumstance. I know the way to go!

WHAT I DON’T KNOW HE KNOWS, SO I GO TO HIM. HIS SPIRIT GUIDES & COUNSELS ME!

4. PAUSE … Be still and know that I am God … Trust … no leaning on own understanding


5. PURSUE… Seek first the Kingdom of God… Set your affections on what is above


6. PRAISE … Rejoice … (Philippians) … always … live with Joy as response


7. PRAYER … Be anxious for nothing … let your request be made known… Ask, seek, knock

CHALLENGE:

PERSIST 

KEEP YOUR EYES ON JESUS SO THAT YOU DON’T LOSE HOPE