Building Our Lives on the Foundation of Christ

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God, I thank you for your your graciousness, just in who you are, for you are great and you are greatly to be praised. We thank you for your son, Jesus. We thank you that we can come to you for whatever it is, wherever we are, whatever we're in the midst of, no matter how bad, how good, how far, we can come to you. [00:00:06] (40 seconds)


For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now, if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each one's work will become clear. For the day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test each one's work, or what sort it is. [00:06:34] (40 seconds)


Paul, who had gone out, Paul was graced by God to build. To build a church. Not a building. But the universal church. The church is you and I. You and I. We are the church. And so we, as the church, we have a certain work that we should be doing. Each and every one of us. [00:09:01] (38 seconds)


It matters how you build. You matter. That which God gave you, you are supposed to use it. And you're supposed to use it to build the church. Not using it is an atrocity. Because God says that he wants his kingdom built. And he wants each of us, participating in that, to build. [00:11:14] (37 seconds)


It is now to be built upon, but everyone in the church, ministers, lay people alike, must take heed how we ought to build on it. Each one of us. Jesus Christ, the foundation. Christ is that foundation. Christ is that foundation. There's no other foundation than that of Jesus Christ. He's the only one. [00:12:58] (35 seconds)


The pigs crying wolf, wolf, wolf all day long. One running into a house of straw. One running into a house of wood, I believe. And one running into a house of bricks. The house of straw. Burns up. There's no safety there. It goes every which way the wind blows. And it's toppled, but whatever comes by is gone, no good. [00:15:37] (40 seconds)


The things that you have gone through can make you stronger. If you trust God. God's word says that we must build upon the foundation of Jesus Christ. Well, what can we use that's fortifying? That's going to hold the foundation together. That's going to stand up when the storms of life come. [00:18:02] (36 seconds)


We talked about the empowerment of the Holy Spirit who leads us and guides us and helps us. Who teaches us. And it's all upon us saying yes to the Holy Spirit when he says go. What he says do. When he says to do it. And we can't balk. We can't hesitate. We have to be obedient. [00:18:47] (30 seconds)


Sometimes when you're praying you might have a tendency of wanting to give up nothing happened there's an acronym that we use yes push pray until something happens have you ever been in a position to where you didn't know what was going to happen you didn't know the outcome and you done prayed and you still yet waiting [00:26:28] (33 seconds)


Prayer encourages us to pray for everything with a thankful heart pray for everything with a prayerful heart and when we are open and present all to him he will protect you with his peace peace and so we want to do that to be continually in prayer have you ever had a friend [00:38:12] (32 seconds)


Jesus spent 40 days and nights in the wilderness fasting and praying before he began his God's work on earth he needed time alone to prepare for what his father had called him to do there in Matthew 4 1 and 2 we go we fast to seek God's wisdom Paul and Barnabas prayed and fasted for the elders of the church [00:49:09] (30 seconds)


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