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Believing in the name of Jesus and loving people helps your heart stay confident toward God. When you’re confident toward God, your heart is in a position to receive from Him. It’s also true that your heart is not in a condition to receive from Him if you are not confident toward Him. The issue is not God’s willingness to give you what you ask/pray for, it’s the confidence of your heart that makes...

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1 John 2:21-3:7 Practicing Righteousness - Clint Byars by Forward Church Sermons

Message 2 in our series John's Letters, covering 1, 2, & 3 John. You can be confident that your salvation is secure because Jesus is your righteousness. He satisfied all the legal requirements on your behalf and you are safe in him.

If we are not walking in love toward fellow believers, we are walking in darkness. If we are in darkness with fellow believers, how can we hope to reach an unbelieving world? There is too much division in the body of Christ, it’s time to put the kingdom first and stop identifying ourselves through political parties, race, economic status, or anything else worldly that causes division.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart... — Ecclesiastes 3:11a I don't suggest you follow your heart, I suggest you follow God, but you do that from the heart. So you want to make sure your heart is receptive to His leading. You do this by learning to live from your spiritual senses and desires. You see with the eyes of your heart. You receive rev...

God made a promise to Abraham, "your seed will be a blessing to all nations." That seed is Christ. Christ is a blessing to all nations, specifically Christ in you. You are a joint-heir with Jesus and God wants the body of Christ to be the agent through which he blesses the whole world.

To be spiritually minded is life and peace, but to be carnally minded is death. Life and death are in the power of the tongue. What you think and what you speak matter. Especially your thoughts about yourself and your words about yourself. Fortunately, God gave us a secret weapon to bypass our thoughts and words, the gift of praying with our spirit. In this message, Clint helps you understand the...

To overcome the deceitful desires of flesh-based thinking, you have to walk in the spirit. To walk in the spirit you must first have to think spiritually. Being spiritually minded simply means to be mindful of spirit. A life-view that places the kingdom of God as our true reality is the kind of view that lends itself to spiritual thinking. You don't have to figure out how to get into a different d...

You have desires. God-given physical, emotional and spiritual desires. All of those lusts or desires can be fulfilled in healthy ways. But as you are fully aware, you can fulfill emotional and physical desires in unhealthy, sinful ways. James tells us in his letter that temptation in our lives comes from our natural desires. It's up to you how you will seek to satisfy those desires. Read the full...

When you're tempted or under a trial, turn to God's spirit within you and allow patience to bear fruit. Patience will eliminate most of your temptations. If you can just want a few minutes, or however long you need to clear your emotions and desires from the forefront, you can make a decision based on wisdom rather than emotion and desire. Read the full article here: https://www.clintbyars.com/blo...

The Most Underrated Passage In The Bible | Colossians 2 - Clint Byars by Forward Church Sermons

Helping Others Remember Their Identity In Christ - Clint Byars by Forward Church Sermons

God has the utmost respect for you. He has a high sense of value for you. You are worth his own life. You are worthy to be treated with dignity because of the kind of being he made you. Being made in God’s image doesn’t mean you look like him, it means you are a being that’s worthy to be in his class. You are not a worm, you are a valuable creature, born of God’s image, carrying his presence every...

The Apostle Peter lied to the face of God and didn't feel worthy to be loved by God, yet Jesus still pursued him and affirmed his calling. God will not give up on you when you fail and feel distant from God. He will still love you and love you back into productivity. Read the full article here: https://www.clintbyars.com/blog/2020/6/4/jesus-will-not-give-up-on-you

The world’s systems can fall apart in a matter of days. Things we depend on can crumble overnight. Then what? What do you do if you lose everything? Answer: Remember the Lord and forget not his benefits. God sees ahead and makes provision, and our job is to stay receptive to him, so we’ll follow his leading into provision. Read the full article here: https://www.clintbyars.com/blog/2020/5/27/forge...

Discover how to pray for those who have hurt you.

When I think of God, I think of a loving, powerful, forgiving father, I am aware that He is good and only good! I love what Clint says, "God created a whole planet for two people." He wants us to be a family and to live in paradise together. Read the full blessing here: https://www.clintbyars.com/blog/2020/5/12/su8b83qeslmyj6auvzsd2wnthdanc5

Grace is not just unmerited favor, it’s strength in your inner man. It’s divine life and power from his heart to yours. His love is the vehicle for his grace. If you don’t know how to live in his love for you, you will have trouble accessing his grace that is always available. Ponder God’s extravagant love for you today.

You Can Know God's Ways - Clint Byars by Forward Church Sermons

Did you know you can hear from God anytime you want? God is never silent! We may be more focused on the physical world’s circumstances and ignore His voice, but he is without a doubt speaking. If you can’t hear him in your heart in prayer, you can go to his written word and listen to Him. Whether He said it 3000 years ago or 3 seconds ago, His logos can give you life. In this message, I walk you t...

With freedom from sin comes personal responsibility. Believers have the personal ability to respond to God’s grace rather than continue to live in sin. Response ability. Under the New Covenant, we are free from sin. We are free from sin in that God is no longer holding our sins against us. Paul explains in Romans 6 that freedom from sin doesn’t give one an excuse to continue in sin; it’s just the...

Can I pray for you? Join me in a meditative prayer through Psalm 91. There is a lot of uncertainty in our communities right now. Many of you are not sure how any shut-downs will affect your life and your family's lives. No matter what happens, God's Word is a firm foundation we can stand on. Let us help you root your heart in God's Word and find strength in this time of unrest and uncertainty. Rea...

You will not work out your own life’s equations and end up with correct solutions if you try to figure them out with natural logic. If God’s solutions seem illogical to you, you know you are thinking carnally or naturally. If God’s solutions or promises seem plausible to you, you are thinking spiritually. Keep on thinking that way. In other words, stay in faith. https://www.clintbyars.com/blog/202...

If you're in trouble or under pressure, you can look at what God has said until it becomes alive in you now. You'll know the word is alive in you when it becomes believable. When it's believable, all things are possible. When God's word is alive in you, you begin to see his options and hear his leading. The word of God can lie dormant in your intellect, but it's up to you to open your heart in suc...