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  • Darrell Stetler II avatar

    How To Be Used By God

    Contributed by Darrell Stetler Ii on Feb 17, 2004
    based on 97 ratings
     | 12,463 views

    What does it take to be used by God? Do you need a dynamic personality? A great word flow? A lot of education? An young, energetic person? This sermon is an examination of Jeremiah’s life to see why he was used by God, and draw principles from this f

    How to be Used of God INTRO: What do you think of when you think of a person who can REALLY be used of God? - A dynamic personality? - Someone who always seems cheerful? - Someone who never meets a stranger? - A young person? - An older person? - Highly trained? Do you ever think of ...read more

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    Denomination: Holiness

  • Jason Cole avatar

    How To Know God's Will

    Contributed by Jason Cole on Feb 26, 2004
    based on 46 ratings
     | 6,085 views

    We often wonder what God wants us to do, the Bible teaches us that we can find and know God’s will for our lives.

    “How to Know God’s will” Introduction: A man wanted to know the will of God for his life, so took out his Bible, let the pages fall open, closed his eyes and put his finger down on a spot. Looking down at the verse under his finger he found that it said, “Judas went out and hanged ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • David Seeley avatar

    How Big Is God?

    Contributed by David Seeley on Mar 5, 2004
    based on 54 ratings
     | 4,056 views

    God is abundantly able to help those who obey Him and put their trust in Him. This message gives hope to those who are facing the trial of life. No matter how big the trial, God is bigger than it all.

    How Big is God? (Matthew 19:26) But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. (KJV) I. God is bigger than your whale <problems of your own making> Jonah was the cause of his own problem. If he had only obeyed God in the first place ...read more

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    Denomination: Holiness

  • Ed Wood avatar

    How Big Is God?

    Contributed by Ed Wood on Feb 18, 2003
    based on 58 ratings
     | 18,635 views

    A message about the Omnipotence, Omnipresence, and Omniscience of God.

    HOW BIG IS GOD? Isaiah 66:1 INTRO: “How Big is God?” The song writer, Doris Akers, asked and then attempted to answer that question in a song. Akers compared God’s bigness to the mightiest ocean, the tallest of trees, the broadest of rivers, the deepest of seas, and the highest of mountains. I ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Paul Fritz avatar

    How To Be Blessed By God

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 17, 2003
    based on 159 ratings
     | 26,541 views

    Psalms 1 gives us guidelines for being blessed, favored and multiplied by God. It also provides us with warnings that are equally important but usually misunderstood.

    How to Be Blessed by God Psalms 1 gives us guidelines for being blessed, favored and multiplied by God. It also provides us with warnings that are equally important but usually misunderstood. Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    How Big Is God

    Contributed by Jay Robison on Feb 16, 2009
    based on 14 ratings
     | 9,993 views

    Is God bigger than my mistakes? Is God big enough to love the whole world? Of course God is, but sometimes we need to ask ourselves if our God is too small

    HOW BIG IS GOD? April 13, 2008 Jay Davis Robison ISAIAH 12:1-6 She was a precocious 6 year old with a pink bow in her hair It was after worship service at church one Sunday When she turned and asked her mommy How Big is God? Is God bigger than our dog, or daddy or a mountain? Perceptive ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Brian Bill avatar

    How God Restores Series

    Contributed by Brian Bill on Feb 22, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 18,233 views

    Life is filled with bad news and good news. Joel and Zephaniah offer us both.

    How God Restores Joel and Zephaniah Rev. Brian Bill 2/22/09 Life is often filled with good news and bad news. Have you ever heard someone say, “I have some good news and some bad news? What do you want to hear first?” When I’m asked this question I usually want the bad news first in the hopes ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Shawn Rose avatar

    How To Please God

    Contributed by Shawn Rose on May 18, 2009
    based on 7 ratings
     | 5,954 views

    Enoch was described as a man that "pleased God." Wouldn’t you like to have this testimony?

    HOW TO PLEASE GOD Text: Hebrews 11:5 Introduction: · Enoch mentioned 9 times in Bible, 6 in Genesis, 1 in Luke, 1 in Jude, 1 in Hebrews · Genesis 5:24 Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him · Hebrews 11:5 he had this testimony, that he pleased God · Wouldn’t it be nice to have ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Patrick O'Loughlin avatar

    How To Please God Series

    Contributed by Patrick O'loughlin on Jun 4, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 19,418 views

    How to please God by faith

    Text: Hebrews 11:6 Title: How to please God I want to concentrate on the first part of the verse. The part that says “And without faith it is impossible to please God…” (Hebrews 11:6) The phrase “And without faith it is impossible to please God” tells us three great truths. 1.it tells us ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Blake Inscore avatar

    How To Be Used By God

    Contributed by Blake Inscore on Sep 26, 2008
    based on 17 ratings
     | 7,067 views

    We often talk about wanting to be used by God but aren’t willing to discuss what we must be willing to do for that to happen.

    Introduction: Do you think God can use you? As Christians we should have the confidence that God can use us, but often we don’t. Why? The simple answer is a lack of faith, but what does that mean? Jesus talked about faith moving mountains, but most of us don’t have any connection with that level ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Richard Schwedes avatar

    How God Heals

    Contributed by Richard Schwedes on Sep 22, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 11,711 views

    Healing is an important gift from God given to the church. This sermon explores how God heals physically, spiritually and emotionally.

    The bible clearly shows that healing is one of the things God is up to. In Mark 1:33-34 we heard The whole town gathered at the door, and Jesus healed many who had various diseases. Imagine being in that room. Or imagine being in the house when four characters pull the roof off the house to lower a ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Tim Huie avatar

    How To Respond To The Will Of God Series

    Contributed by Tim Huie on Apr 14, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,290 views

    God has a will for our lives. The question is, how will we respond to that will?

    1. Illus. of man on motorcycle (Getting Down To Brass Tacks, pages 137-138) • Punchline- “I’m going home…. if it’s the Lord’s will!” 2. I want to talk to: • That Christian who I struggling to stay in God’s will, and wondering if it was all worth it. James has a word for you/ • That Christian who ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Kenneth Trent avatar

    How To Be Useful To God

    Contributed by Kenneth Trent on Nov 26, 2005
    based on 46 ratings
     | 23,936 views

    We are charged with cleansing our daily walk and bad habits. God will not do for us what He has commanded us to do for ourselves.

    HOW TO BE USEFUL TO GOD Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, "The Lord knows those who are His," and, "Everyone who names the name of the Lord is to abstain from wickedness." Now in a large house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also vessels of wood and ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Patrick Bissig avatar

    How To Be A Dud For God

    Contributed by Patrick Bissig on Nov 28, 2005
    based on 14 ratings
     | 2,812 views

    How to be ineffective for the Kingdom of God

    I Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.” Brought up with fireworks on the 4th of July. Tennessee to buy them Every now and then we would have one that The fuse would light… Smoke would come out… Anticipation would raise…NOTHING!!! It was a dud! Nothing but ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Brian Atwood avatar

    How To Respond To God Series

    Contributed by Brian Atwood on Dec 15, 2005
    based on 35 ratings
     | 5,278 views

    How Mary’s response to God’s enlightenment is an example to us all on how to respond to God.

    How to Respond to God Part 3 of 4 in the series, Christmas Calms Our Fears Last week we reflected on the pronouncement of the angel to Zechariah that the prayers of he and his wife Elizabeth had been heard and that they were going to have a son. Let’s pick up the story in the first chapter of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist