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The Year Of Powerful Prayers
Contributed by Dean Courtier on Mar 5, 2014 (message contributor)
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1. Powerful Prayers To A Powerful God
Contributed on Aug 13, 2014
How many times in your life have you prayed? How many times have you truly experienced the power of prayer?
POWERFUL PRAYERS to a powerful God How many times in your life have you prayed? I’ve been a Christian for around 27 years now, and if we assume that I have prayed only once a day for 27 years thats 9,855 prayers. I’ve probably prayed more than that, I start and end my day with ...read more
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2. Do You Make God Wait For You To Pray?
Contributed on Mar 5, 2014
When we should be praying and asking God to speak, to act, to move, to bless, it seems that often we can be too busy to pray.
As always the question: Do you make God wait for you to pray? In your life - are there things that crop up each day - things that grab your attention and draw you away from taking the time to pray? When we should be praying and asking God to speak, to act, to move, to bless, it seems that ...read more
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3. The Year Of Powerful Prayers 1 What If ...
Contributed on Mar 5, 2014
If, right now, God were to answer the prayer of your heart, what would be different?
Message: WHAT IF? This morning, as usual I start with a question: The question is simply this - What if? Our theme for 2014 is The Year of Powerful Prayers or Powerful pra YERS and what if this year, what if this month, what if today, what if right now, God were to answer the prayer ...read more
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4. It's Time To Go Back To School
Contributed on Sep 25, 2014
A family service on the theme of going back to school after the Summer holidays. A history lesson, english lesson, geography lesson and a little Physical Education too as well.
Good Morning and welcome. If it’s your first time with us we hope that you will enjoy your time with us. This morning is a family service so the kids will stay in for the whole service. Right... time for a question! What are all the parents looking forward to in a couple of weeks time ...read more
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5. Are You Willing To Pray Dangerous Prayers?
Contributed on Aug 13, 2014
Are you willing to pray a prayer that if God answered it, it would change you? Are you willing to pray a pray that could transform your life?
We are continuing our series on Poweful Prayers and this morning as always, I start with a question: ARE YOU WILLING TO PRAY DANGEROUS PRAYERS? What do I mean by dangerous? Are you willing to pray a prayer that if God answered it, it would change you? Are you willing to pray a pray that ...read more
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6. Healing & Wholeness: Pray And Trust God Will Listen To Your Prayer
Contributed on Aug 20, 2015
God is interested in change. He’s interested in changing you. He can heal and restore – He can make the broken whole, the sick well, God can heal today.
Healing & Wholeness Straight to the question, actually I have 3 questions to begin. Do you believe God listens when you pray? Do you believe God’s timing is perfect? Do you believe God is God and He is able to heal today? On this Healing and Wholeness Sunday, I want to remind you of ...read more
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7. Prayer In A Desperate Place
Contributed on Mar 5, 2014
What stops you from praying? Are you too proud to pray? Are you trying to find your own solution? Don't wait to pray - God is listening now.
I always start my sermons with a question: My question for you this evening is When do you pray? In the Bible in 1 Thessalonians 5:17 we are told to pray without ceasing or as the NLT translates it Never stop praying I wonder how many of us do that? If we take that verse in context we ...read more
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8. Healing & Wholeness: Faith Is More Than A Feeling.
Contributed on Aug 20, 2015
Feelings are real – we truly experience them. We don’t imagine them and God has created us with the capacity for an incredibly wide range of emotions and feelings. If we regularly read the Bible and think about God’s promises, our faith will increase.
Faith is more than a feeling How do you feel right now? Have you ever thought about how many emotions and feelings we can have? Do you find it easy to express emotions? For example do you often watch a movie and find yourself crying tears of joy or sadness. Be honest, when you watched the ...read more
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9. God Never Forgets Your Prayers
Contributed on Mar 5, 2014
When we pray there are three possible answers from the Lord, yes, no and wait. We all hate to wait but we need to trust in God's perfect timing.
Let’s begin with this question: What is the major enemy of hope in your life? What is the one thing that, more than any other, threatens to weaken your hope? Could it be: discouragement, suffering; weariness, exhaustion. Perhaps the main enemy of hope in your life is simply the ...read more
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10. Prayer Can Break The Chains In Your Life
Contributed on Aug 20, 2015
Each of us have some kind of chain in our life that binds us, the chain can be physical, habitual or spiritual. The question: What chain or chains are their in your life that need to be broken?
Each of us have some kind of chain in our life that binds us, the chain can be physical, habitual or spiritual. The question: What chain or chains are their in your life that need to be broken? Have you prayed about it? Have you asked other to pray about it? The key to every chain that can ...read more
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11. Remember To Live In The Shelter Of The Most High
Contributed on Aug 20, 2015
It’s fair to say that this life is filled with its share of problems. Some are small and some are huge and when we are in the midst of a difficult circumstance its good to be able to remember God’s word and draw strength from it.
Remember to live in the Shelter of the Most High Psalm 91:1-16 Do you have favourite verses or chapters in the Bible? Each of us probably has a specific verse or chapter that we remember. It could be a specific promise of God, or perhaps a verse of encouragement, or a verse that speaks of ...read more
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12. Heart Of My Own Heart, Whatever Befall Still Be My Vision, Oh Ruler Of All
Contributed on Aug 13, 2014
A family service with a kids talk based on the song You are My vision (Rend Collective version)
KIDS TALK - VISION Choose some children to come out and draw a picture on the board whilst blindfolded. Get them to draw a house while blindfolded: Draw a square / a door / a roof / downstairs windows / chimney / upstairs windows / smoke coming out of the chimney/ someone looking out of a ...read more
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13. Where Do You Go To Be Alone With God?
Contributed on Mar 5, 2014
Do you have somewhere that you can go and shut out the distractions and demands of everyday life just spend some quality time with God?
As always, the question: Where do you go to be alone with God? Do you have somewhere that you can go and shut out the distractions and demands of everyday life just spend some quality time with God? We are spending a year considering Powerful Prayers, or Powerful Pray ERS and there are ...read more
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14. Be Still And Know That God Is God
Contributed on Mar 6, 2014
All of us need to take a little more time each day to be still don’t we? We need to avoid getting so caught up in our own agenda that we force God out of the way.
Do you have a list of goals you would like to achieve this year? Can you tell me something that is on that list? We all have lists of things we would like to do this year, this month, this week, maybe you even have something you would like to do today. I have a list of goals, things I ...read more
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15. The Sunday After Christmas Sermon
Contributed on Aug 20, 2015
How did Christmas 2014 feel to you? Maybe your Christmas wasn’t all you expected. Now that Christmas is over, maybe the excitement has passed and life is already returning to some kind of normal. Whatever normal might be in your life!
The Sunday after Christmas sermon How was your Christmas? Yesterday I went to buy some petrol and as I was queuing up to pay I heard another driver ask the cashier: “How was your Christmas?” Her response was “I am SO HAPPY that Christmas is over!” - I find that a ...read more
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16. If God Says "Wait" Don’t Worry - Just Pray!
Contributed on Mar 27, 2014
There may be many prayers that you have prayed asking God to change a situation or circumstance. There will have been times when it felt like God responded quickly to your prayer. What do we do when God says "Wait"?
If God Says "Wait" Don’t Worry - Just Pray! In this world, there are people who welcome change and people who resist change. There are those who like to maintain the Status Quo, and others who seek change for the sake of change. There are many things in this world that we cannot ...read more
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17. What Do We Do When God's Answer To Our Prayer Is "No"?
Contributed on Mar 27, 2014
God will always answer our prayers in one of 3 ways: Sometimes, His answer is YES … Sometimes it’s WAIT … and sometimes it’s NO … We are happy when God says YES. We can get impatient when He says WAIT. But when God says NO what are we supposed to do?
“When God says “No” So my question for you this morning is: Does God ALWAYS answer our prayer? In my life and in your life, God will always answer our prayers in one of 3 ways: SOMETIMES, His answer is YES … Sometimes it’s WAIT … and sometimes ...read more
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18. If You Could Ask God To Do Just One More Thing, What Would It Be?
Contributed on Sep 26, 2014
A sermon urging the listener to turn their face to God and trust in Him and not their own strength. Psalm 27
The question: Have you ever watched Columbo? He was a great detective - and he, like me, always asked a lot of questions. And often just when the person he was speaking to thought Columbo was finished with his questions, Columbo would often open his mouth and say: just one more thing. So ...read more
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19. The Heart Of The Father - A Fathers Day Message
Contributed on Aug 13, 2014
An exposition of the story of the Prodigal Son
The heart of The Father This morning I want us to consider the well known parable of the prodigal son. It’s the story about a younger son who leaves his father behind An older son who didn’t understand what relationship to the father is all about. And the focus of the story is on ...read more
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20. Always Be Joyful? Never Stop Praying? Be Thankful In All Circumstances?
Contributed on Aug 13, 2014
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 it says: Always be joyful. Never stop praying. Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus. Easier read than lived isn’t it.
DO YOU EVER HAVE ONE OF THOSE DAYS? Do you ever have you ‘one of those’ days? You know the type of day I mean. One of those days when you could have a lie in and the postman gets you out of bed at 7am. Or one of those days when you sleep through your alarm and wake up 5 minutes after you ...read more
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21. Satisfying Spiritual Thirst
Contributed on Aug 20, 2015
Jesus and the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s wellis perhaps one of the high points of John’s gospel, because included in this conversation is a priceless revelation about true worship and the message of salvation.
Text: John 4:3-30, 39-42 New Living Translation (NLT) 3 So Jesus left Judea and returned to Galilee. 4 He had to go through Samaria on the way. 5 Eventually he came to the Samaritan village of Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there; and Jesus, ...read more
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22. Do I Have To Pray Every Day?
Contributed on Aug 13, 2014
Pray Every Day. Manage the time God has Given you to include time for God and time in prayer with God. Plan your schedule to spend time in His presence.
Pray every day. Do you have a list of things you would like to achieve? We all have lists of things we would like to do this year, this month, this week, maybe you even have something you would like to do today. I have a list of things I would like to achieve - it’s not written down ...read more