The Church of Eleven22

One of the purposes of pain (and Psalm 42) is to ween us off the insecurity of hope in our circumstances and cleave us to our Sovereign Savior’s.

Don't be conformed to the pattern of this world. Do not fall into the trap by letting this world tell you who to be…but be transformed by the renewing of your mind; be the woman God created you to be. Don’t make Eve’s mistake and let the serpent rob you of joy because of promises of bigger and better things outside God’s will. *The use of the trademark "Act Like Men” is with the express permission...

Jesus is our perfect Redeemer. - Jesus has the right to redeem: He became our “kinsman” by becoming a man. - Jesus has the resources to redeem: He lived a perfect life and died in our place. - Jesus has the resolve to redeem: He loves us and was willing to pay the price for His glory.

Spend less time looking and MUCH more time becoming. Instead of looking for someone to “complete you”, look to complete the mission that God created you for.

Are you grateful or entitled? You cannot simultaneously look up at what Christ did for you on the cross and look down on your current situation.

We work FROM favor, not FOR favor.

Sometimes we suffer pain because of us, sometimes because of the enemy, but always under the sovereign hand of God…but God is always good. He always has a purpose and a promise.

A small amount of faith in an infinitely powerful God is infinitely more powerful than enormous faith in a powerless “god”.

Don’t waste your life. Don’t waste your time, your talents, your treasure...but use all the treasures that God has given you to treasure Christ before all things.

Have you been flirting with Jesus on your own terms? Are you ready to follow Jesus on His terms?

God did not give you all that you have so you could have all you want, but so others could have all that they NEED.

Give glory to God; your joy depends on it. No one can give you what God has not and no one can keep you from what God has for you.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it’s not even thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more and more and more about the glorious nature of Jesus until we forget to even think of ourselves at all.

Prayer is about who you are praying to not just what and how you are praying. When we RIGHTLY see God for who He is, then we will rightly respond in desperate, persistent, humble prayer.

To be rich toward God is to GLORIFY GOD by leveraging your temporary RICHES for the building of God’s eternal Kingdom, not your temporary kingdom.

Forgiveness is the willful decision to cancel someone’s debt against you because at the cross Jesus canceled your debt.

It is the condition of the soil, not merely the delivery of the seed, that determines growth.

When Jesus says “follow me,” He isn’t offering a second chance at life. He is offering a NEW LIFE… HIS LIFE.

There is no celebration of the risen King without the crucifixion.

See that you fulfill the ministry that you have received in the Lord.

When Jesus is before all things, the RESCUED will stop at nothing to tell the world about the RESCUER. When we are in Christ His mission is our mission and His mission is: For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost. Luke 19:10 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. John 3:17

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him ca stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your childre...

Of all the parents in the entire world, God chose YOU to raise your kids. Are you raising God worshiping missionaries or culturally compliant citizens. Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward. 4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children[a] of one's youth. Psalm 127