Solid: God’s Promises For Real Needs: Philippians 4:14-19

 

Still, you did well by partnering with me in my hardship. And you Philippians know that in the early days of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you alone.  For even in Thessalonica you sent gifts for my need several times.  Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the profit that is increasing to your account.  But I have received everything in full, and I have an abundance. I am fully supplied, having received from Epaphroditus what you provided—a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.  And my God will supply all your needs according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.  Now to our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.
Philippians 4:14-19 (CSB)

1.   God is concerned with my needs

And my God will supply all your needs according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.  Now to our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.
Philippians 4:19 (CSB)

2.  God is able to meet my needs

And my God will supply all your needs according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.  Now to our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.
Philippians 4:19 (CSB)

3.  God is involved in my needs

And my God will supply all your needs according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.  Now to our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.
Philippians 4:19 (CSB)

A generous person will be enriched, and the one who gives a drink of water will receive water.
Proverbs 11:25 (CSB)

On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with your income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made.
1 Corinthians 16:1-2 (NIV)

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Solid: God’s Promises For Anxious Hearts: Philippians 4:6-8

1.   Focus Your Prayers 

Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.  If you do this, you will experience God’s peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:6-7 (NLT)

Pray without ceasing.
1Thessalonians 5:17 (KJV)

2.  Focus Your Actions

Keep putting into practice all you learned from me and heard from me and saw me doing, and the God of peace will be with you.
Philippians 4:9 (NLT)

3.  Focus Your Thoughts 

And now, dear brothers and sisters let me say one more thing as I close this letter. Fix your thoughts on what is true and honorable and right. Think about things that are pure and lovely and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.
Philippians 4:8 (NLT)

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Solid: God’s Promises For Big Challenges: Deuteronomy 31:8

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The Lord Goes…

1. Before Me—He’s My Leader

“The Lord is the one who will go before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or abandon you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.”
Deuteronomy 31:8 (CSB)

Prepare the way of the Lord in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.  Every valley will be lifted up, and every mountain and hill will be leveled; the uneven ground will become smooth and the rough places, a plain.  And the glory of the Lord will appear, and all humanity together will see it, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
Isaiah 40:4-5 (CSB)

2. Behind Me—He’s My Protector

The Lord will deal with them as he did Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and their land when he destroyed them. The Lord will deliver them over to you, and you must do to them exactly as I have commanded you.
Deuteronomy 31:4-5 (CSB)

But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen and guard you from the evil one.
2 Thessalonians 3:3 (CSB)

The Lord himself watches over you!  The Lord stands beside you as your protective shade.
Psalm 121:5 (NLT)

3. Beside Me—He’s My Encourager

“…Be strong and courageous; don’t be terrified or afraid of them. For the Lord your God is the one who will go with you; he will not leave you or abandon you.”
Deuteronomy 31:6 (CSB)

The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, “Take courage! As you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome.”
Acts 23:11 (NIV)

4. Beneath Me—He’s My Supporter

“…Be strong and courageous; don’t be terrified or afraid of them. For the Lord your God is the one who will go with you; he will not leave you or abandon you.”
Deuteronomy 31:6 (CSB)

But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen and guard you from the evil one.
2 Thessalonians 3:3 (CSB)

source https://edgechurchcolorado.com/solid-gods-promises-for-big-challenges-deuteronomy-318/

Solid: God’s Promises For Tough Times: Jeremiah 29:4-14

 

1. I Am Never Forgotten

For I know the plans I have for you”-[this is] the Lord’s declaration-“plans for [your] welfare, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11 (CSB)

2.  I Am Full of Hope

For I know the plans I have for you”-[this is] the Lord’s declaration-“plans for [your] welfare, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11 (CSB)

3. I Am Blessed While I Wait

This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says to all the exiles I deported from Jerusalem to Babylon: “Build houses and live in them. Plant gardens and eat their produce.  Find wives for yourselves and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons and give your daughters to men in marriage so that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there; do not decrease.  Pursue the well-being of the city I have deported you to. Pray to the Lord on its behalf, for when it thrives, you will thrive.”
Jeremiah 29:4-7 (CSB)

4. I Am Heard By God

You will call to me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.  You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart. 
Jeremiah 29:12-13 (CSB)

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Miracles: Frustrated With God: John 11:1-45

 

A man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany with his sisters, Mary and Martha. 2This is the Mary who later poured the expensive perfume on the Lord’s feet and wiped them with her hair. Her brother, Lazarus, was sick. 3So the two sisters sent a message to Jesus telling him, “Lord, your dear friend is very sick.”4But when Jesus heard about it he said, “Lazarus’s sickness will not end in death. No, it happened for the glory of God so that the Son of God will receive glory from this.” 5So although Jesus loved Martha, Mary, and Lazarus, 6he stayed where he was for the next two days.
John 11:1-6 (NLT)

Jesus responds to my hurt, anger and confusion…

1) With Compassion and Comfort

When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, He was angry in His spirit and deeply moved. 34 “Where have you put him?” He asked. “Lord,” they told Him, “come and see.” 35 Jesus wept. 36 So the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”
John 11:33-36 (CSB)

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses…
Hebrews 4:15 (ESV)

2) With Correction and Direction

Then Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother wouldn’t have died. Yet even now I know that whatever You ask from God, God will give You.”
John 11:21-22 (CSB)

Then Jesus, angry in Himself again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. 39″Remove the stone,” Jesus said. Martha, the dead man’s sister, told Him, “Lord, he already stinks. It’s been four days.” 40 Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?”
John 11:38-40 (CSB)

3) With Purpose and Power

Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?” 41 So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You heard Me. 42 I know that You always hear Me, but because of the crowd standing here I said this, so they may believe You sent Me.” 43After He said this, He shouted with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” 44 The dead man came out bound hand and foot with linen strips and with his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him and let him go. 45 Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what He did believed in Him.
John 11:40-45 (CSB)

Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying.
John 11:25

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