Greater Life Church

What does praise produce in our life? We know that God inhabits the praises of His people. Praise is where God lives and dwells. In this time, the people of God are under attack – we are living in the time of the wearing out of the saints. If the saints will be worn out then they will be loosing strength/loosing their joy (the joy of the lord is our strength). We can’t afford for our happiness to...

In our text, Sumeria found itself in the midst of a great famine due to a siege by the Syrians. The bible paints a picture of great desperation and need. Four men began to realize: If we go the city we will die. If we sit here we will die. If we go to the Syrians, they may kill us, but we may leave. All three options carried with it the possibility of death. Only one option held any possibility of...

If God were to allow us to look back over our lives when we get to heaven, most of us would be surprised at what was the best and key blessings in our lives. Often times what we look at as the worst of times, are really the beginnings of the best that God has for us. None of us like the valleys, but we learn things in the valleys that we can never experience on the mountaintop. The burdens that Go...

When we look at Moses' life we tend to not spend much time on the early parts because of all the things that occured in the latter part. The early parts of his life do not paint a picture of a man who would stand before Pharaoh and demand "Let my people go” : or that would lead a people through the wilderness and to the banks of the promised land. In our text, Moses is on the back side of a desert...

Sometimes the hardest part of life is not physical, but mental. It is in the mind that the real battlefield of the soul takes place. Our bodies can endure as much as our minds can take. As long as we do not allow our minds to cave in and give up, there is nothing that can come against us to cause us to fail. In our text Paul is on the way to Rome as a prisoner. His ship is lost at see and they was...

Paul writing to the church at Ephesis talks about the relationship that we can all have with God. Living for God was never intended to be something that was hard to do. The biggest battle we have with living for God is the battle with our own flesh. We are all saved by grace. Some believe that we live by grace. That is not what the bible says, it says we live by faith. Faith is the conviction that...

When playing a game of cards, we do not choose the cards we receive. Sometimes the cards are good and other times they are not. In some games we can discard and draw new cards; other times we cannot. In some games you have a partner and even though your hand may be bad, theirs can compensate for that disadvantage. In life we face similar circumstances. We have all been dealt things in life. Some t...

Sis. Melissa Fross comes tonight to tell us about her work as a Metro Missionary to Quebec City in Quebec Canada. Metro Missions is a project to send missionaries into metropolitan areas that have few or no Pentacostal churches. Quebec City is a city of 900,000 people and there are no apostolic, spirit filled churches…yet. Sis Fross goes on to teach from the book of Joshua and Judges that God want...

Our text concerns an event early in the Davids reign as King. The city of Jebus was one of the great strongholds of Canaan. It was an extremely powerful, almost impregnable city. The Jebusites had held the city since before Israel came to the land of Canaan. The city is situated between three mountains. The natural surroundings worked to the advantage of he security of the city. They had great con...

The word Jericho means fragrant. It was one of the most important cities of Palastine. When Israel crossed the Jordan, their destination was the city of Jericho. It was a center of trade and enterprise. There are many accounts in the bible that prominently feature Jeraco. At the time of our text, the city had rebuilt after many years of being cursed by God. The city had recovered, but the source o...

The actions we take today can determine the what life will be like tomorrow.. We cannot tell the exact time, but we can impact and shape the future by our actions now. The bible uses the analogy of sowing and reaping to illustrate this principle. Galatians 6:7 tells us that as a man sows, so shall he reap. In 2 Corinthians 9:6 we read: He which soweth sparingly shall also reap sparingly. With this...

The human mind is an amazing thing. The more that science learns about the mind, it underscores the fact that we are all fearfully and wonderfully made. The brain has the processing capacity of .1 quadrillion instructions per second. It is hard wired to learn. it has the ability to develop and adapt. A brain that has been damaged can reconfigure itself to function normally. God made us with the ab...

Imagine the largest and most powerful army in the world marshaled against you. They are poised to overrun you and your cities leaving death and destruction in their wake. So far they have ravaged the countryside and are now surrounding your capital city. This was the predicament in which Hezekiah found himself. For days the Assyrian army mocked and jeered that God would not protect him. Hezekiah d...

Second Peter was written to a group of believers who had gone beyond the initial stages of a church. These believers were good people. Time had passed and in that time there came to be things that needed to be addressed. Peter was looking ahead to the literal last days and he saw things on the horizon that he felt were critical issues of the closing hours of time. Peter begins by stating his purpo...

Our text takes us to a place in Jerusalem that was known throughout the land. People came and congregated at this pool because of what they could find there. No one knows why the waters would become troubled, but there was a belief that healing was available when this happened. Some historians challenge the authenticity of that, but if that is the case, why were so many people waiting? Something m...

Life has it's share of grief. Life does not play favorites. The word grief in the orignal Greek referrs so an ailment. For most people, grief is viewed as an intruder into our lives. Yet it is how we respond to these times of grief that determine our outcome. Jeremiah was a man of many tears. He was called to a people who needed God's correction. It as Jeremiah's task to awaken a lost people to tr...

Everyone has had to deal with a death in our lives. A close loved one or a distant relative, we have all experienced the sting of death. Death is part of our earthly walk. In our text, Paul tells us that he is persuaded that nothing, even death would separate him from the love of God. More precisely, not him for the love of God, but God’s love from him. Death was not intended to plunge us into a d...

Captain Charlie Plumb graduated from the Naval Academy at Annapolis and went on to fly the F-4 Phantom jet on 74 successful combat missions over Vietnam. On his 75th mission, with only five days before he was to return home, Plumb was shot down, captured, tortured, and imprisoned in an 8 foot x 8 foot cell. He spent the next 2,103 days as a Prisoner Of War in communist war prisons. One day he rece...

Our text describes the return of a united Israel. For a long time Israel was divided into two factions. They came together and ask that King be anointed king over all. When the Philistines heard this, they came against Israel. Verse 17 says “When they heard that David had been annotated King over Israel.” The devil hates unity. He likes things that are in disarray. He loves it when we live disorde...

This chapter in Luke is perhaps one of the most encouraging when it comes to the subject of prayer. Our text lays out a blueprint for prayer and gives us the example from which we should pattern prayer. The description in the latter verses of our text demonstrate the love that God has for His creation. His intent for us is nothing less than the very best. It is clear that He wants to meet the need...

Everything that we desire in 2016 is nearer than we believe. This time of year, we read many predictions of the new year will hold. From the amazing to the absurd we can find it all on the internet: Who will win sporting events, who will win political office, who will succeed or fail in business. Today, on the first service of the new year, Bro. Hughes comes to predict what is in store for us in 2...

Although it is one of the shortest books in the bible, it is contains some of the most profound statements to be recorded. Habakkuk shows us that we can be as open and honest with God about our lives and our situations, and that God will not be offended. God is not threatened by our questions or our problems. Habakkuk is unique not in what he says, but in the direction he faced as a prophet. All o...

Our text from Micah is perhaps one of the most profound in the Old Testament. It does not replace salvation, but it is a song of the saved. It is what is the result of salvation. Living in a culture characteristic by image worship and outright rebellion, Micah's writing could easily described our world today. The truth is that all of the people to whom Micah was addressing felt that they were righ...

A blessing often does not come in the form that we expect. In our text, Mary was engaged to be wed. She was expecting the wedding celebration that was the custom of the time. IN this time, Mary was visited by an Angel who tells her that she is highly favored. This blessing would not look like she would expect. When we think of God's blessing, we are hoping that God will give us things that will ma...

Our text is from Paul's letter to Timothy and it describes the characteristics of the church in the end times. Men will become self absorbed and consumed with themselves rather than being concerned with their fellow man. Reading this text, it is not hard to visualize the characteristics described in our world today. Our world has created an atmosphere that will facilitate the coming of the Lord. I...