What does it mean to have a renewed hunger for God Find out next on bold steps whatever piques our interest whatever we re hungry for whatever worrying gate typically where our heart is that is what we will have a hunger and there are more. Steps with Joe president instituted senior pastor church in Chicago. Today. It s titled experiencing grassroots renewal I know your business you know renewal has been on my heart for years just because I know how much I need to. Periodic. Because we get crusty little bit cold spiritually but it s been said that without periodic visitations from God the church. Shrinks back to a state of lukewarmness And I think that s true in our own heart and so this passage is all about that it s about what it means to have a hunger for God and the purest form of revival is when people are hungry for God and become convicted so much so that they re willing to take steps of well I look forward to what God s Word will teach us here today on this theme where Nehemia
What books that your life listens to your conversation watches how you live when they say no that s a real Christian Well let s face it most people who sit in church week after week after week do not necessarily look like what we just described rather than look so much like the world you can t tell the difference between a Christian and a dog Christian and so when you think about this inside in which we live it is aside it is drifting not toward God been away from God It is a site in which generation after generation has drifted away from the principles of the Word of God and the customs and the ideas that were based on biblical principles and so your question is what s the answer to this drift what s the answer to being God in the end I got listen age well I want you to turn to a little book in the New Testament Titus you know background Paul wrote to Titus giving him some admonitions about the church in Crete he sent him to a very difficult place the pastor a church and when you see
Cost of medical services assisted living or help their children with higher education how will negative interest rates affect their portfolios or will the stock market crash Christians literally rob God and sometimes their families over fear the future there s a growing mania for buffering ourselves against any possible future event but unless we depend on God will be like the man who built his house upon sand Jesus said the wise man built his house upon the rock Our faith must be rooted in our Rock Jesus Christ not in our material security otherwise fear will drive us in control us it will cause us anxiety and sleep loss unhealthy frugality marital stress bitterness and separation from God So I ask a simple question do you really trust God He promises to work all things together for good for those who love him and are called according to his purposes so no matter the size of your bank accounts you must trust God with it all how do you do it you release the past and believe that God h
You make sure we all come back in this story Jericho that I got out that got a job don t kill me can ya make him she s she s she s interceding for others she said can you make a deal with me swear to me make the old make a promise to me that when you when you guys come back that that you won t kill me my dad my mom my brothers my sister your Our family will be saved. Once again so it was good to say and forget about everybody I hate to see somebody come to the Lord and start looking funny at everybody else that s still not saying yes it s the worst thing we could do you know that week you know get all brand new on everybody else that you know you you just got say you know God s the shit daughter working a life and now you look at everybody else like I don t understand how they can do that he was doing it with them a week ago you know last year you was out there you know other people do that you know I used to work in a work in the lunchroom when I was going to Bible College and so who
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