GraceQC Sunday Podcast

Until you determine the value of a given thing, you don’t know how to treat it.

If there is anything that characterizes Christmas, it is light, light that has been shown to us in the face of Jesus Christ. Light bespeaks hope and warmth. Jesus, the Light of the World.

The King has come to turn around the course of human existence and to turn over new possibilities for our being and becoming. The Gospel genealogies illustrate that Jesus is not ashamed to be identified with people impacted by human failure.

The truth of the Word of God is greater than the facts of our circumstances. Acknowledge the facts, but realize that God cares and has something to say about it in His Word. Find out how God addresses it in His Word and let the Holy Spirit bring it to life in your heart.

Remember to tell your story, to your generation and the next, that you are not who you used to be.

Fire - distinguishes between the mere instrumentality of the water, and the spiritual element  where the child of the kingdom is baptized

Baptism is a symbol of Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection. It means we also have died to our old life and have been raised to live a new life with Jesus. 

"Change isn't change until it's change." - Dr. Edwin Louis Cole

You have been divinely shaped for relationships. Relationships, which may have been the greatest source of your fear and pain, are originally designed by God to be your greatest place of safety and joy. This is an example where if you don’t intentionally learn the truth, you will unintentionally believe a lie.

When a person experiences actual heart blockage, the heart will grow new blood vessels around a blocked one. Similarly, when we have “relational heart blockage”, we “grow” alternative and “unhealthy” ways to meet our needs. 

If the Corinthians are as keen as they seem to be on having the spirit work in and through them, the thing they ought to be longing for, praying for, and working towards is that they would all be able to do and say things which make the body of Christ work together in harmony and be built up in love.

Study > pray > seek God’s face > put it into practice, but by all means, stoke the fire .

But be zealous for the gifts - The GREATER GIFTS, And NOW BY A MORE EXCELLENT way I will show you. — (1 Corinthians 12:31)

The original intent of God's investment in humanity was not to establish a religion, but a nation of people who would love, serve, and honor God.

Most of the miracles Jesus did were from the marketplace. Most of his friends were from the marketplace. We, as Christians, have a cultural mandate to effect our marketplace. 

Simply put—the invisible God will be made visible thru the lives of His ambassador kids—in every facet of society.  -Johnny Enloe

Transformed people, transform culture! Use your authority and you will lose your influence use your influence and you will gain authority. - Loren Cunningham

God has called you to live a life of an OVERCOMER!

"It is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than to get into the Kingdom of Heaven." - Ever wonder what Jesus was getting at with this statement. Well, he was talking less about money and more about identity. 

Everything pertaining to healing and living whole is unbelievable and impossible . 

If Jesus is who he claimed to be, He must back up those claims with tome demonstration. The resurrection was the greatest proof to all the claims made of Jesus. 

The truth that has the greatest potential to set you free always has the most potential to offend you.

When Jesus performed the miraculous 37 miracles 23 healings - One speaks of many - Not sure of the number  64% were "healings" Not counting the raising from the dead

The Fear of Failure is generally a faith issue. Faith always overcomes fear but fearing failure we rarely ask  for the impossible.

“The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.” -George Mueller