30 Mar

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Let's take this week to review our series.. God has a specific and special plan for your life and it is about time you discovered it and fulfill it!   If you will allow me a little liberty, these verses could be paraphrased to mean this: “See then that you are preoccupied with walking diligently in a straight line.  Not like unwise unbelievers that don’t know Jesus, but as wise (people who see life from God’s perspective).  Buying back all the Divine opportunities that you possibly can because this culture is evil.  Because of that, don’t be unwise, but understand what the will of...

23 Mar

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Over the past few weeks we began sharing our key verses for this series from Ephesians 5:15-17:  “See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.  Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.” These verses could be paraphrased to mean this: “See then that you are preoccupied with walking diligently in a straight line.  Not like unwise unbelievers that don’t know Jesus, but as wise (people who see life from God’s perspective).  Buying back all the Divine opportunities that you possibly can because this...

16 Mar

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God has a specific and special plan for your life and it is about time you discovered it and fulfill it!   Let’s look at our key verses for this series from Ephesians 5:15-17:  “See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.  Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.” Last week we began to break this verse down a little bit.  Notice the word “walk.”  This is the Greek word “peripateo.”  It is a Greek compound word that comes from “peri” which means “around”...

09 Mar

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When I was about six or seven years old, I slept in the same room as my brother.  At night, I would turn away from him and face the wall and quietly preach myself to sleep!  What is so fascinating about this is I wasn’t even born again!  (I did not surrender my life to Jesus until I was 20 years old.)  I did this almost every night for months.  How could this even be possible?  Well remember, the call of God is pre-ordained by the God who knows the end from the beginning (see Galatians 1:15, Isaiah 46:10 and...

02 Mar

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The first of each month will will begin to share First Tuesday's Teaching Tips. These are teaching nuggets from over thirty years in ministry. As we begin March let's share from my book "Pray the Word" ~discovering that prayer is not just for comfort but for results ...

16 Feb

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Deception will be a huge weapon of the enemy to get some to slowly walk away from the Word of God! Here is the good news…YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A ‘SOME’!   As you can see, the war is over the Word of the Living God!  Over the past few weeks we have shared with you “Seven WORD War Wonders”: The war is over the Word (Gen. 3:1)The Word is the most powerful force in the universe (Heb. 1:3)God’s blessing resides within the Word (Gen. 1:28)God’s Word is written for a reason (I John 5:13) Last week shared that...

09 Feb

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I know a pastor that is a “loud talker!”  Because he is a pastor and preaches all the time he has no idea that he is talking so loud.  His wife will literally have to tell him, “Honey, you’re talking loudly!”  From time to time I will do the same thing….I will talk loudly because I preach so much!  The big difference…I am aware when I talk loudly and therefore I can tell myself, “Jim lower the volume a few decibels.”   That is a pretty good definition of deception.  We all blow it from time to time, but it is important...

02 Feb

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The first of each month will will begin to share First Tuesday's Teaching Tips. These are teaching nuggets from over thirty years in ministry. As we begin February let's share on: SPEAKING LIFE ~ Speaking what you know will eventually change how you feel ~ You can heal a life in a sentence. You can destroy a life in a sentence. ~ Never underestimate the power of a kind word ~from Winning with Wisdom volume 4 (available for purchase in the Joy Store at Joy Church, Mt. Juliet, TN) Come join us at Joy Church on the first Wednesday of each month for our leadership series. ...