Hello Everyone,

If you want to live abundantly if you want to have your cake and eat it too you have to do it God’s way.

You cannot go your own way, do your own thing, and make your own rules and then expect God to bless it. God has given us His instruction manual for life – His Word - read it, know it, live it and your way will be abundant.

His Word gives us the rules for marriage, for purity, for raising children, for living - and we ignore those rules to our own destruction.

I want to tell you today that no matter how many people you get to agree that something is right and ok - if God says it’s not ok - He’s right!
• The world thinks that living together outside of marriage is ok - God says it’s not - who wins?
• The world says sex outside of marriage is a given - God says it’s not - who wins?
• The world says that little white lies never hurt anyone - God says Thou shalt not lie. Who wins?
• The world says underreporting your income on taxes is smart - God says render unto Caesar what is Caesars - who wins?
• The world says he who dies with the most toys wins - God says seek first the kingdom and His righteousness - who wins?
• The world says if it feels good do it - God says the body is not for immorality but for the Lord - Who wins?

Your answers to these and many other questions will determine the course of your life.

Do you want abundance - are you tired of losing - are you tired of having less than God planned for you?

God says, “This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success.”

Do you want to live an abundant life - do you want to live in the potential that God made for you? Are you tired of the slop that’s in the pig pen you are in?

It’s time to find your purpose in life, time to make a change - a positive change - time to develop a plan and work that plan - it’s time to start focusing on the Spiritual and living in accordance with God’s plan.

Do you want abundant life, an abundant marriage, an abundant life for your children - it’s time to start winning this battle.

Greater Things Are Still To Come!

Pastor Phil

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Hello Everyone,

Next Ingredient - Do Life God’s Way –

II Timothy 2:1-5

¹ You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. ² And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others. ³ Endure hardship with us like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. ⁴ No one serving as a soldier gets involved in civilian affairs—he wants to please his commanding officer. ⁵ Similarly, if anyone competes as an athlete, he does not receive the victor’s crown unless he competes according to the rules.

You cannot cheat and win. “…he does not receive the victor’s crown unless he competes according to the rules.”

You know it’s not a popular position today to remind people of God’s RULES.

We live in a world that sets its own rules for living.

Look around and see what living by our OWN rules has gotten us.

Almost ½ of all marriages end in divorce, approximately 1/4th of all pregnancies end in abortion, almost 50% of our teenagers are sexually active before they graduate High School; more than 1 in 4 children under the age of 18 are living in single parent homes.

The stats go on and on and on and on. What has all of this free living, making our own rules, going our own way gotten us?

Do we live in a better world?

Are we safer, more secure, or happier?

Are our families better off?

Still the media and the world around us say, “Keep it up we are only just breaking out of these restrictive Moral Values.”

God spoke to Joshua when He called him to lead the people into the promised land and this is what he said, “This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success.”

Paul said “…he does not receive the victor’s crown unless he competes according to the rules.” It all means the same thing.

Greater Things Are Still To Come!

Pastor Phil

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Hello Everyone,

Listen! It ALL starts with Him. It ALL finishes with Him!

Look with me at Matthew 7:21-27.

²¹ “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. ²² Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ ²³ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

²⁴ “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. ²⁵ The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. ²⁶ But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. ²⁷ The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”

Jesus after offering the harshest rebuke of all scripture tells us where life is to be founded.

This is what I’m saying to you today - It starts with the Spiritual.

If you want an abundant marriage- it starts with your Spirit.

If you want abundant life for your children - it starts with the Spirit.

If you want abundance in life - it starts with the Spirit.

Christ is the foundation for all these things - and unless the Lord builds the house they labor in vain who build it. Abundant life begins with “fanning into flame the gift of God, which is in you…”

Greater Things Are Still To Come!

Pastor Phil

Hello Everyone,

Today let’s look at II Timothy Chapter 1:1-7.

¹ Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus,

² To Timothy, my dear son: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

³ I thank God, whom I serve, as my forefathers did, with a clear conscience, as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers. ⁴ Recalling your tears, I long to see you, so that I may be filled with joy. ⁵ I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also. ⁶ For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. ⁷ For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.

Paul is writing in the latter days of his life to his beloved son in the faith Timothy.

Timothy is ministering in Ephesus and dealing with many hardships.

Paul always the spiritual mentor writes from prison in Rome - encouraging Timothy with the foundational principles of life - and calling on him to come to Rome to be with him in his final days.

In this letter Paul shares our next two ingredients for abundant living.

Start with the Spiritual - Paul says to Timothy - “fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you …”

If you want to live an abundant life it starts with the Spiritual. It’s amazing to me that we pay such little attention to the Spiritual aspect of our lives.

We spend great amounts of time on work, health (exercise), sports, and recreation - but so little time on the Spiritual side of life.

Cultivating our spirits becomes a job for the time that is left over or at best a job for Sunday mornings.

Cultivating our spirits has become like weight loss drugs - Eat all you want, suck down all the deserts you can hold - go to sleep and loose 150lbs in two weeks with Fatgo - our miracle weight loss pill.

Except it looks like this - live any way you want to live, watch whatever you want to watch, fill your heart with the filth of the world - and in two short Sundays you can look like this on our new miracle spiritual growth formula - Churchgo.

Spend just one hour a week inside these walls and all the trash of the world will fade into history - Just take Churchgo and all your problems will disappear.

Spend ALL the time you want on anything you want and with miracle Churchgo you’ll find the abundant life that Jesus has promised.

Oh nobody would admit that’s the way we live life, but it is.

Everything else in life is more important than the Spiritual things.

God gets what’s left over after everything else is finished.

Greater Things Are Still To Come!

Pastor Phil

Hello Everyone,

This week we are continuing in our series for the New Year – “Having Your Cake and Eating it to” or, ingredients for abundant living.

Remember that this whole series is based on 3 very important principles.
1. God has a plan for your life - Jeremiah 29:11 says “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future”.

2. There is a battle engaged for your life - Jesus said in John 10:10 “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.”

3. Too many of God’s people are losing the battle - Marriages, children, finances, life. Matthew 9:36 - “When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.”

Over the last 3 weeks we have looked together at our first five ingredients.

• 4 Questions - Who are you? What are you ? Where are you? What do you really want?
• It is your recipe Own It! Take responsibility for and control of your life.
• Embrace Positive Change!
• Make a Plan!
• Work your Plan!

Greater Things Are Still TO Come!

Pastor Phil

Hello Everyone,

David faced other giants before he ever faced Goliath. Here are some of David’s Other Giants

THE GIANT OF COMFORT

I Samuel 17:20 Early in the morning David left the flock with a shepherd, loaded up and set out, as Jesse had directed. He reached the camp as the army was going out to its battle positions, shouting the war cry.

He Left the Sheep
He left His role of being merely a shepherd
He left his place of security and comfort
He left what he was most experience with

He had to defeat the mentality that said I’m comfortable in my little field.
He had to conquer the giant that said don’t challenge me to do something I’ve never done before.

I got it easy here. I’m doing what I’ve always done why do more?
He had to step out of the average, mundane, the usual, tradition, ritualism.

If you ever really trust and have faith in God-you’ll begin to do things that make you feel uncomfortable- you’ll begin to go places that challenges your faith.

You’ll begin to step out of boats and walk on stormy seas!

WHEN YOU WALK BY FAITH-IT’S UNCOMFORTABLE-IT’S CONTRARY TO WHAT THE FLESH TELLS YOU

YOU WALK BY FAITH NOT BY SIGHT!!

THE GIANT OF FEAR

I Samuel 17:11 On hearing the Philistine’s words, Saul and all the Israelites were dismayed and terrified.

FEAR SEES THE SICKNESS AND NOT THE SAVIOR
FEAR SEES THE DIFFICULTY BUT NOT THE DELIVERER
FEAR SEES THE WIND BUT NOT THE WATER-WALKER
FEAR SEES THE FIRE BUT NOT THE FOURTH MAN IN THE FURNACE
FEAR SEES THE LION BUT NOT THE LIBERATOR
FEAR SEES THE VALLEY BUT NOT THE MOUNTAINS ON BOTH SIDES
FEAR SEES THE MEAN, SCREAMING GIANT BUT NOT THE BIG UGLY FOREHEAD

DAVID NEVER DIGRESSED TO THE LEVEL OF CALLING HIM A GIANT…BUT HE LABELED HIM AN UNCIRMCISED PHILLISTINE

You can glamorize the devil by what you call him
“OOOO he’s a ROARING LION!” “He’s a vicious dragon” “The prince of the air”

Can I set the record straight…

HE’S A LIAR AND THE FATHER OF LIES,

HE’S A FALLEN ANGEL,HE’S A COWARD, A CHEATER AND A THIEF, HIS MOTHER IS UGLY AND DRESSES HIM FUNNY,

AND IN MY BOOK IT TELLS ME I’VE GOT POWER TO TREAD UPON SERPENTS,

HE’S ALREADY BEEN DEFEATED!
GREATER IS HE THAT IS WITHIN ME THAN HE THAT IS IN THIS WORLD!

THE GIANT OF CRITICISM & RIDICULE

I Samuel 17:28 When Eliab, David’s oldest brother, heard him speaking with the men, he burned with anger at him and asked, “Why have you come down here? And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the desert? I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is; you came down only to watch the battle.”

THE GIANT OF SELF

I Samuel 17:38 Then Saul dressed David in his own tunic. He put a coat of armor on him and a bronze helmet on his head.

Greater Things Are Still To Come!

Pastor Phil