Sermons on Abraham Did Not Wait For God:

Do Something Different

Contributed by Mark Witherden on Jan 16, 2003

will this year be the same as last year? Do something different this year and just see the miracle that God has waiting.

2 Kings 7:1-20 Do something different. Introduction The Syrians were in the middle of a war with Israel and they had come to the city of Samaria to lay siege to it. It wasn’t long before all the resources within the city were running out and the people were beginning to starve. The desperation ...read more

Scripture: 2 Kings 7:1-20

Denomination: Pentecostal

The Window Of Witness: Simeon & Anna, Do You Wait Well?

Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on Dec 28, 2021

Have you ever been a witness to something you knew was important? Have you seen something maybe you weren't supposed to see? Something bad? Uh oh, I better call the police. Or, have you witnessed something beautiful? A "God moment" you might say? Yes, God is in this.

Have you ever been a witness to something you knew was important? Have you seen something maybe you weren't supposed to see? Something bad? Uh oh, I better call the police. Or, have you witnessed something beautiful? A "God moment" you might say? Yes, God is in this. But better yet, ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:25-28, Luke 2:36-38

Denomination: Salvation Army

God And David Series

Contributed by Rev. Dr. Andrew B Natarajan on Aug 7, 2018

God did not look on the appearance, on the height of the stature of a person, on the beauty, on the mighty. He never choose like how we choose. Samuel said to Jesse “God did not choose anyone of these”(1Sam.16:10). Then who?

David: God's Choice I Sam 13:14. “But now your kingdom will not continue; the Lord has sought out a man after his own heart and the Lord has appointed him to be ruler over his people, because you have not kept because what the Lord has commanded you”. Choosing criteria: God did not look on ...read more

Scripture: 1 Samuel 13:14

Denomination: Methodist

God's Plan For Us

Contributed by Jon Mackinney on Nov 26, 2003

Is the Christian life a constant challenge to improve and please God, or a soft rocking chair of comfort as we wait for heaven? The truth is somewhere in the middle.

Sometimes it seems that the Christian community is divided into two different camps. One camp views the Christian life as one of a constant challenge to do better, to try harder, to work to please God. And the other extreme tends to see the Christian life as basking in the warm glow of salvation ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 2:12-14

Denomination: Evangelical Free

God Help Me Decide Series

Contributed by Bala Samson on Apr 14, 2013

Have you ever felt that you don’t have enough time to pray and wait for an answer?

God help me decide! Isaiah 58:11”The LORD will guide you continually, And satisfy your soul in drought, And strengthen your bones; You shall be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.” Have you ever felt that you don’t have enough time to ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 58:11

Denomination: Pentecostal

Precursor To The Great: Faithfulness In The Small Series

Contributed by James Wallace on May 17, 2018

Joseph was faithful in small things during very difficult times. He who is faithful with a little will be entrusted with much. It was after years of faithfulness in smaller things in very difficult circumstances that God entrusted Him with great things.

Fixing Family Feuds Precursor to the Great: Faithfulness in the Small Genesis 40 As we have studied the life of Joseph, a fair question we might ask is there are any modern-day examples of lives that have been blessed like godly Joseph's ultimately was. This week the Christian world has mourned ...read more

Denomination: Bible Church

Coming In First

Contributed by Travis Voeltz on Jun 30, 2020

Who do you love the most…? And, how much do you love that person…? Now take that love you have and ask yourself…what would you do if God suddenly told you to sacrifice that person…?

Open What do you love the most…? I read on article in USA Today that listed the 20 most popular things people are buying today. Some of the 20 listed were: cloth face coverings, hand sanitizer, mother’s day flowers (I’m guessing this wasn’t on Father’s day), active dry yeast, toilet paper, the ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 22:1-14, John 3:16, James 1:13, Exodus 15:25, Exodus 16:4  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Methodist

Jesus, Lamb Of God

Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Sep 12, 2018

What does salvation have to do with a lamb? How did Jesus become the Lamb of God?

How is God’s purpose hinted at from earliest human history? What does it have to do with a lamb? Let’s look at how Jesus, the Lamb of God was slain from the beginning and how it culminates in Revelation 22. Genesis 4:4 “Abel also brought a gift—the best portions of the firstborn lambs from his ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

The Spirit Of God

Contributed by Jim Belcher on Oct 1, 2009

What did it mean for God to send down his Spirit on the day of Pentecost? When the Spirit of God fills you, how do you know it?

Some kind of power came from outside; a transcendent energy. How are we filled with the Spirit? Reminder: Pentecost was 50 days after Easter, 10 days after the ascension. They had been told by Jesus to wait for it. In the forty days between Easter and the Ascension Jesus had instructed them on ...read more

Scripture: Acts 2:1-13

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Believe God Series

Contributed by Christian Cheong on Jul 29, 2021

Faith in God is critical for our salvation and also for our walk with God. Learn from Abraham and put our faith in God's Word, His wisdom, and glorify God. Faith faces the facts with an unwavering trust in God.

Is faith in God important? Does our faith in Jesus Christ matter? Paul has been stressing to his readers that we are all justified by faith in Jesus Christ, our only way of salvation. • This was not a new, novel idea that he came up with. It was God’s plan for all men. • Paul highlighted in ...read more

Scripture: Romans 4:18-25, 2 Corinthians 4:17-18

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Patience

Contributed by Kelvin Mckisic on Feb 25, 2012

Patience when we wait on the Lord.

Patience Lamentations 3:24-26 “The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.” Patience and loving ...read more

Scripture: Lamentations 3:24-26

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Zechariah And Elizabeth Series

Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 7, 2016

Waiting is hard work, perhaps the hardest work you’ve ever done. And that is what the season of Advent is all about: waiting for the coming of the Messiah

iWitness: Zechariah and Elizabeth Luke 1: 5-17, 39-45 Wayne Styles tells of sitting on the tollways headed into work and realizing how much he spent on tolls. That led to trying to go to work on the access roads but he discovered that just took more time. So he was going to pay with either time or ...read more

Scripture: Luke 1:5-17

Denomination: Methodist

Blessed Assurance Series

Contributed by Ken Mckinley on May 17, 2011

This is the 29th sermon in our series on the Book of Genesis. In this sermon we examine God's grace in providing assurance to Abraham in-spite of his mistakes.

Blessed Assurance (Genesis part 29) Text: Genesis 17:1 – 8 By: Ken McKinley (Read Text) Thirteen years have passed in the life of Abraham since the last time we looked at him. Ishmael is a teenager now, and Abram has pretty much resigned himself to be content with Ishmael as his son. We ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 17:1-8

Denomination: Independent/Bible

"When The Chips Are Down"

Contributed by Ken Harris on Feb 8, 2009

The purpose of this sermon is to encourage the hearers to affirm to others that the Lord gives RENEWED STRENGTH to believers who WAIT on Him.

8 February 2009 U.S. Army Chaplain (MAJ) Ken Harris Fortress Chapel F.O.B. Sykes Tall-afar, Iraq BIG IDEA: Believers sometimes feel like God doesn’t care, and He has forgotten and neglected them. But God gives RENEWED STRENGTH to believers who WAIT on Him. REFERENCES: Fifth Sunday after ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 40:27-31

Denomination: Pentecostal

Divine Appointments

Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Jan 22, 2010

you will have divine appointments this year, but if you aren’t looking for them or ready for them, they may pass you bye

Intro: There was a man, Jack Wugman walking down the beach one day. He saw an unusual glass bottle. He bent over and picked up the bottle. His life would be forever changed. There was a note inside from a man named Singer. You know of him. He invented and perfected the sewing machine. Singer penned ...read more

Scripture: Habakkuk 2:3

Denomination: Assembly Of God