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God’s Grace & Mercy

April 20, 2025

Ephesians 1:3-10; 2:8-10; 1 Peter 1:3-9 — By God’s grace and through His mercy, we have been saved. Grace is a gift, and it is by His mercy that we receive it. We receive this gift from God through faith. Grace is a gift from God, who forgets our wrongs and loves us as though we never sinned. Grace is His love toward us while we are still sinners. God’s grace is his goodness and kindness toward those who deserve only punishment. His love for us is always unmerited and undeserved. We can do nothing to earn grace. It is always a gift that’s freely given. God’s mercy describes his compassionate forgiveness and kindness toward the miserable and afflicted and his desire to help them. Mercy is when punishment is not given to us when we deserve it. We all are sinners and therefore, deserving of judgment. We need both grace and mercy to have new life and be with God forever. God’s grace is His love toward us while we were still sinners, and His mercy is the gift of heaven to us forever, when our sin would send us to hell. In Jesus Christ, grace and mercy came and work together to save us. He is the physical revelation of God’s grace and mercy. Our response to God’s grace and mercy should be joy, thanksgiving, holy living, and to be merciful to others as our Father is merciful.

This is part of the 40 Days of Prayer Series 2025, which is based on the Christian & Missionary Alliance’s annual 40 Days of Prayer Series. However, our church decided to do this during the Lent season instead of at the beginning of the year.

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The Love of God

April 13, 2025

1 John 3:16-18; 4:7-21; 5:1-5 — God is love, and we see this love in the Trinity, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, who love and delight in each other eternally. God’s power is his all-powerful love. This love has all the power necessary to accomplish God’s purpose of creating, redeeming, and recreating the world into the new creation, thus bringing it to its appointed goal. God’s love is self-giving, self-sharing, and self-communicating. It is for the good of the other. God is love and lives in us, and thus love lives in us. Our response is to love God with our whole being and to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. Our neighbors include our Christian brothers and sister, unbelievers, and our enemies.

This is part of the 40 Days of Prayer Series 2025, which is based on the Christian & Missionary Alliance’s annual 40 Days of Prayer Series. However, our church decided to do this during the Lent season instead of at the beginning of the year.

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The Power of God

April 6, 2025

Revelation 4:8, 10-11 — The Bible portrays God as the Lord of both creation and the history of creation. All that exists owes its reality, integrity, and continuity to the mighty Word of God, which founds and upholds it. Consequently, no created power can compete with God; his power stands overall. He is above and beyond seasons, circumstances, human realities, and the forces of darkness. His power has no comparison. His power cannot be stopped or contained. Nothing on earth can overpower God. God’s sovereign power means that He is without bounds or limits in ability; he is omnipotent or almighty. He has all the power and every right to do as He sees fit in our world. We will explore five aspects of God’s power: his creating, transforming, sustaining, overcoming, and resurrecting (saving) power.

This is part of the 40 Days of Prayer Series 2025, which is based on the Christian & Missionary Alliance’s annual 40 Days of Prayer Series. However, our church decided to do this during the Lent season instead of at the beginning of the year.

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The Sovereignty of God

March 30, 2025

Col. 1:15-18; Eph. 1:19-23; Proverbs 3:5-6; 16:9; 19:21; Is. 55:8-9; Luke 13:16-21; James 4:13-15; Jeremiah 29:4-14 — God’s sovereignty refers to his absolute and unrivaled rule over all his creatures and their circumstances. To say that God is sovereign is to affirm that He reigns universally and invincibly. His sovereignty implies his absolute ownership, authority, and control over all things. Our faith in a sovereign God serves as a compass to guide us through uncertainty. We can steadfastly hold onto the Lord’s great plans as they profoundly impact our lives. Our response to God’s sovereignty? Surrender and trust the Lord with all our ways. We should call on, come to, and pray to the Lord.

This is part of the 40 Days of Prayer Series 2025, which is based on the Christian & Missionary Alliance’s annual 40 Days of Prayer Series. However, our church decided to do this during the Lent season instead of at the beginning of the year.

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God Is Eternal & Never Changes

March 23, 2025

Isaiah 6:1-4; Hebrews 12:10-14; Leviticus 11:44-45; 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1 — God is a holy God. God’s holiness is His complete otherness and separation from His creation. He is unique, distinct, and radically different in a class of His own with no comparison. No one is holy like the Lord; there is no one besides Him (1 Sam 2:2). His holiness stands apart: unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible, and unattainable. It’s His transcendence, majesty, and moral purity. No sin, evil, or impurity can survive in the presence of his holiness. God revealed his holiness to us in Scripture and Jesus Christ, the Holy One. In Christ, we are made holy, and now, as his children, we are called to be holy as He is holy. His commandments reflect his holiness and how we should live holy as his people. His holiness should bring us to the cross in humility, repentance, and thanksgiving that God has provided us a way to be in His holy presence and for Him to dwell with us and in us. His holiness gives us a posture of dependence and reliance on God. We seek after Him. And through his Holy Spirit, his character and holiness is lived out through us.

This is part of the 40 Days of Prayer Series 2025, which is based on the Christian & Missionary Alliance’s annual 40 Days of Prayer Series. However, our church decided to do this during the Lent season instead of at the beginning of the year.

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The Holiness of God

March 9, 2025

Isaiah 6:1-4; Hebrews 12:10-14; Leviticus 11:44-45; 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1 — God is a holy God. God’s holiness is His complete otherness and separation from His creation. He is unique, distinct, and radically different in a class of His own with no comparison. No one is holy like the Lord; there is no one besides Him (1 Sam 2:2). His holiness stands apart: unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible, and unattainable. It’s His transcendence, majesty, and moral purity. No sin, evil, or impurity can survive in the presence of his holiness. God revealed his holiness to us in Scripture and Jesus Christ, the Holy One. In Christ, we are made holy, and now, as his children, we are called to be holy as He is holy. His commandments reflect his holiness and how we should live holy as his people. His holiness should bring us to the cross in humility, repentance, and thanksgiving that God has provided us a way to be in His holy presence and for Him to dwell with us and in us. His holiness gives us a posture of dependence and reliance on God. We seek after Him. And through his Holy Spirit, his character and holiness is lived out through us.

This is part of the 40 Days of Prayer Series 2025, which is based on the Christian & Missionary Alliance’s annual 40 Days of Prayer Series. However, our church decided to do this during the Lent season instead of at the beginning of the year.

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Unfailing Love & Amazing Grace

March 2, 2025

Hosea 11:1-11 & 14:1-9 — God as the Father loves his children. When He as a Father is rejected and forgotten, we see God’s mind and heart exposed as He is torn between agonizing alternatives, his steadfast love, and his righteousness and holiness that must judge and punish sin. Consequently, God executes his loving discipline to purify, refine, and test his people. God’s love and mercy ensure the survival and future of his people, though they deserve neither. He tempers his judgment and discipline with mercy. He does not destroy his people totally. Because He is God and not human, He can change his heart. Now, He calls his people to repent, to return to Him, and follow the Lord. However, this requires a true change of heart and authentic repentance by his people; otherwise, history will just be repeated. In response to his people’s return, God’s gracious response and loving care restores, reconciles, and revives his people so that they can experience stability and fruitfulness. He has done this ultimately and supremely in Jesus Christ.

Series on the Old Testament Prophets — Walk in God’s Ways.

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Knowing God

February 23, 2025

Hosea 4; 5:1-4; 6:5-6; 7:10; 8:4, 11-14; 9:7-9; 12:7-8 — We are to know God more than we know anything else, love Him more than we love anything else, and delight in Him more than we delight in anything else. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge and wisdom. That is, to know God intimately, living in a personal relationship with Him, and not merely to know about God. Not knowing God has serious consequences, as we see in the life of Israel. Knowing God enables us to weather the storms of life, but we need to know God daily.

Series on the Old Testament Prophets — Walk in God’s Ways.

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