Be Hope Church

KEY POINTS: · Silence about your sin is the enemies plan to keep you in bondage.  · Sacrifice - Zebach - Ritual or act of sacrifice. · Show devotion and deal with sin.  · The Alter is where God does the impossible.  · God's plan starts when we are on our knees - a shift in our posture.  DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: 1. Psalm 32 says, “Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven.” What do you thin...

Hello and welcome to another day of 21 days of prayer and fasting. My name is Jeff Odum, and I'm here at Be Hope church, and I'm on staff with Be Hope College. So today we've or this week we've been talking about how God provides for all of us. I just started to think about what better story to think about than the story of Noah. So in this story, and in Genesis, we see that God isn't very happy w...

Welcome to 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting. And today we're going to be talking about the prophet Elisha, not the prophet Elijah. And we're going to be in Second Kings chapter four. And we're going to be talking through verses eight through 37. But I'm not going to read all of them to you. I'm going to summarize the story a bit and read a couple of verses. But Elijah meets this woman and she opens u...

Devotional: Welcome back to another day of 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting. Throughout these 21 days, we’re looking at all the ways that God is a provider in our lives - and I believe that He provides in abundance. Today, we will be looking at Matthew 14, where Jesus is speaking to a large crowd of 5000 men, plus women and children. As He is speaking, His disciples become worried that it’s getting l...

Devotional: Welcome to another day of 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting. It has been fun to wake up each day and hear new stories that all point to how our God provides, and that is exactly what we are going to continue to do this morning as we talk about the story of Adam and Eve. Going into this I had always known the story to be about how sin entered the world, but there is actually so much more to...

Devotional: Hey Be Hope Church! Welcome to 21 Days of Prayer & Fasting where we are focusing on how God provides. Have you ever been so hungry you couldn’t think about anything else? Now imagine you’re in the desert with no grocery store, no DoorDash, no snacks in your bag. That’s exactly where the Israelites found themselves in Exodus 16 - kind of hangry. God has just freed the Israelites from sl...

Devotional: In this series of 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting we are going to talk about how God provides. God has provided for His people all throughout time and the Bible is full of examples of how God provides for us. He provides what we need when we need it. One of my favorite examples in the Bible is in 1 Kings 19:3-9. Elijah, the prophet, has just come from this great victory where God has sho...

Key Points: · I'm Over It. · I'm over it, because I'm under it. · I'm over it, God meets you under it.

KEY POINTS: • From Big "G" to Little "g". • When He's the God of your mountain but not the valley. • When your mountain top miracles become the valley of imprisonment. • When your valley is memorialized into a mountain. • Can you believe it? The Creator of the Universe wants a relationship with you.

KEY POINTS - An encounter with Jesus will change everything in you. - God is never far from us - He meets us where we are. - God should get the glory for what He has done and for what He is still doing. - Convincing people doesn't make them love what we love - tell them what Jesus has done in your life!

KEY POINTS - We live out our relationship with others how we live out our relationship with God. - The picture of me is a portrait of God. - The first step towards healing isn't perfection, it's confession. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. What "fig leaves" do you use to cover up the parts of yourself that you’re afraid others, or God, might see? In Genesis 3, Adam and Eve covered themselves with fig leave...

KEY POINTS - God’s love is not conditional on what you do or don’t do. - If we had to earn God’s love, it wouldn’t be grace, it would be wages. - Mercy stops the punishment that we deserve. Grace pours out blessings that we could never deserve. - Grace isn’t just for you. It’s for them – through you.

KEY POINTS - The quicker you find a way to connect, the easier it is to communicate. - Find what kind of conversation you’re having: - Practical (“Do you need help?”) - Emotional (“Do you need a hug?”) - Identity (“Do you need to be heard?”)

KEY POINTS - The Lord’s prayer is a framework for how we live our lives, not just how we pray. - Healthy relationships start with one question : What is God’s will? - In healthy relationships, forgiveness isn’t optional, it’s foundational. - Forgiveness is powered by God and practiced daily.

KEY POINTS - We do what we do for His name. - Serving isn’t our job, it’s our joy. - Serving isn’t what we do, it’s who we are. - We serve to make His name known!

KEY POINTS - Faith isn’t built in the big event, it’s built on a big God. - When nothing’s happening, God’s just getting ahead. - Faith is built in boredom. - God can turn boredom into breakthrough.

KEY POINTS - God runs with winners. - Obedience to God is death for Satan. - Winners live like sin is losing. - The spiritual journey of dealing with sin doesn’t happen in a moment, it takes a lifetime. - One is how they won. - Sin loses one win at a time.

KEY POINTS - Silence creates tension and it gets our attention. - We create silence in our faith by allowing fear to be louder than the peace God is offering. - Silence is not absence. - The world sees peace as calmness, but in faith, we see peace as contentment. - God’s plan is always better. - We can move from the fear and silence of our “not yets” and into the peace and surrender of opening our...

KEY POINTS - Some parts of the Bible are prescriptive (how we should live our life) and some are descriptive (learning from the mistakes of others). - Sin blinds you and sin will always bind you. - God uses broken people. - God has been and always will be working. - God doesn’t just save us – He redeems the story. - One moment of humility before God can change everything. - It’s in the middle that...

KEY POINTS - It’s the simple things that keep us in bondage. - God will always answer your prayers when you call out to Him. - God uses what we have to accomplish His mission. - God has given you what you need to live out His plan. - We need markers to go back to that remind us that God is faithful.

KEY POINTS - Storms reveal who we trust the most. - You don’t know how strong your faith is until you’re in a storm. - You will either panic in the storm or have peace in it. - We need to know how to sail the storms! - We must decide who Jesus is. - We must learn to trust in a Savior that doesn’t just deliver us FROM the storms but THROUGH them. - He’s a trustworthy anchor for our souls.

KEY POINTS - God works His power where you give Him permission. - God won’t touch anything in your life that you don’t give Him access to. - Jesus leads out of relationship with His Father. - We live from the foundation of the Father. - We’ll never learn to lead until we learn how to be led. - Great faith changes everything.

KEY POINTS - Sin is the thing that will have you swimming in a toxic environment unaware that you’re actually drowning. - A friend that isn’t willing to call out your sin isn’t your friend. - God is not blind to the things that keep you bound. - Greed is the hollow pursuit for fullness that can only be found in God. - Greed is obsessing over things that don’t deserve our full attention but get our...

KEY POINTS - Toxic measuring is when you let someone other than God determine whether or not you measure up. - God knows what you’ve got. - God loves equally and equips each accordingly. - God is your portion and your share. - When I start looking OUT, God calls me to look WITHIN. - Jesus is my joy! “Stuff” isn’t a substitute for a Savior. - Know who holds the standard. - If it’s not from God – tu...

KEY POINTS - Fire = Renewal - Fire needs to breathe. - The one who doesn’t rest never recovers. - It’s hard to be unreasonable in faith when we’re irresponsible with our recovery. - When we return what doesn’t belong in our hands, we return our hands to where they belong.