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Moving Beyond the Past-Lesson 4a Face to Face Encounter with God The story of Jacob is one of a man who was a manipulator and deceiver who ran into a someone who could manipulate and deceive greater than him. You reap what you sow. It took a face to face encounter with God for Jacob to become Israel. Those who experience wounding in their life many times become manipulators or enablers (like Jacob...

Moving Beyond the Past-Lesson 3b The Prodigal Son-God's Forgiveness The prodigal son chose to do his own thing. Many times those who have been wounded chose to do their own thing. The son got himself in a mess doing his own thing. Those who try to deal with their wounds their own way get into a mess. The good news is the son came to his senses and came back to his father as a humble man. If you wa...

God's Daily Promises for Leaders Contentment Hebrews 13:5 Remember we all have someone watching/following us. When others see your life do they see you as a person that is content, at peace, regardless of your circumstances. If not, how about getting some alone time with God and experiencing His presence in your life and asking Him to give the assurance to you that He will not fail you or forsake...

God's Daily Promises for Leaders Forgiveness Colossians 3:13 Remember we all have someone watching/following us. If you are a Christian it is critical to walk in forgiveness. Yet for some people it is the hardest thing to do. We need to remember that we have been forgiven much by God when we did not deserve it. Forgiveness is not based upon someone deserving forgiveness. Forgiveness is actually fo...

God's Daily Promises for Leaders Church Matthew 18:20 Remember we all have someone watching/following us. There are Christians that say "I don't need to go to church to be a Christian". Yes, that's true, but there are many benefits in having fellowship with believers at church: being encouraged and encouraging, being strengthened and strengthening others, getting prayer and praying for others, bei...

God's Daily Promises for Leaders Hope 1 Peter 1:21 Remember we all have someone watching/following us. We can have hope in the promises of God because of Christ promising He would rise from the grave and he did. What promises of God are putting your hope in, knowing God will fulfill His promise? How has God worked in your life in the past, fulfilling the promises you trusted in? Be sure an share y...

God's Daily Promises for Leaders Faith John 20:29 Remember we all have someone watching/following us. Some of us come to faith in Jesus Christ based upon the overwhelming evidence that the Bible is true. But it does not take long where it is obvious that we must walk by faith, not sight. When we walk by faith we see God do amazing things. As God works in amazing ways in our life others will want t...

God's Daily Promises for Leaders Change Philippians 2:13 Remember we all have someone watching/following us. God is putting the desire within us to do His will and is giving us the ability to do His will. When we walk out His will through His strength, others will grow in faith as they see God working in us. Let us be faithful to His will.

Moving Beyond the Past Lesson 3a-The Prodigal Son-God's Forgiveness Senior Pastor Richard D. Dover Seattle Open Door Church This podcast is about the story of Jacob having a face to face encounter with God. Jacob was a manipulator, his mother was an enabler. Jacob by deception obtains the birthright of his brother Esau and the blessings of his father Issac. He also deceives his father-in-law. It a...

God's Daily Promises for Leaders Backsliding Hebrews 2:4 Jeremiah 3:22 Remember we all have someone watching/following us. Backsliding happens by neglecting personal time with God and ignoring willful sin in your life. The good news is you can come back to God. The better news is that you can keep a close relationship with Christ so that you do not backslide.

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God's Daily Promises for Leaders Success Matthew 16:26 Remember we all have someone watching/following us. We need to remember that God measures success different than man True success is living a life of obedience, doing the will of God. Walking in His calling.

God's Daily Promises for Leaders Pure Heart Luke 12:34 Remember we all have someone watching/following us. Ask yourself what is the condition of your heart. If you are treasuring bitterness, resentments, hatred, your heart will be poisoned. Follow the example of Jesus and be able to say "Lord forgive them, for they know not what they do." Ask God to give you thick skin that things bounce off of yo...

God's Daily Promises for Leaders Sharing John 3:16 Remember we all have someone watching/following us. When as a Christian we consider that Jesus gave His all so that we can have salvation, it should be easy for us to give our all for others. But of course, it is not always easy, but by His grace we can give our all out of thankfulness for what God has given us.

God's Daily Promises for Leaders Blessings Matthew 25:23 Remember we all have someone watching/following us. Jesus gives praise to those who do well. We should do the same. Give honor where honor is do. As we follow this principle this make sure we use wisdom and have pure motives. Some use praise to manipulate people and others seek the praise of men rather than God.

God's Daily Promises for Leaders Thankfulness 1 Timothy 4:4 Remember we all have someone watching/following us. There are so many things to be thankful for. Besides being thankful for the things God has done, how about being thankful for the things God is going to do? As followers of Jesus Christ we can be assured good things are coming our way. Even in the midst of trials.

God's Daily Promises for Leaders Overreacting Galatians 5:22-23 Remember we all have someone watching/following us. At times situations come up in our life and we overreact to them. We need to ask the Holy Spirit to give us patience, guidance, and wisdom. Things are not always as they seem. We do overreact we need to apologize.

God's Daily Promises for Leaders Opportunities Revelation 3:8 Remember we all have someone watching/following us. The Bible promises us that God will open up doors of opportunities for us and no one can stop us from missing those opportunities. But we must walk through the door. Receive what God has for you.

God's Daily Promises for Leaders Mercy Matthew 5:7 Remember we all have someone watching/following us. As born again Christians God has bestowed mercy upon us to the extent of saving us from hell and giving us eternal life. Because of this we should certainly show mercy to others even our enemies, since we were enemies of God and He showed mercy to us.

God's Daily Promises for Leaders Competition Matthew 18:1-4 Remember we all have someone watching/following us. There is nothing wrong with competition and having the desire to be the best as long as it is clothed in humility. Remember that any good thing in you came from God, not you. Nobody is better than another human being, just some have made better choices. www.sodc.tv

God's Daily Promises for Leaders Limitations Psalms 119:96 Remember we all have someone watching/following us. Let's make sure that our desire to do things 'perfect' for the Kingdom does not limit us from doing SOMETHING for the Kingdom. Let's trust a limitless God to use us, a people with limitations. www.sodc.tv

God's Daily Promises for Leaders Responsibility John 17:4-5 Ecclesiastes 3:1 Remember we all have someone watching/following us. What is the will of the Father for you? Are you doing what He wants you to do? Or are you doing more than He has called you to do? Remember Jesus left many things undone when He left earth, yet He was completely in the will of the Father.

God's Daily Promises for Leaders Comparison 1 Corinthians 15:49 Remember we all have someone watching/following us. If we compare ourselves with others we will always find someone who is better or worse than us. Our comparison should not be us comparing ourselves to others but comparing ourselves to Christ. We will realize we fall short and call out to Him for grace. He will then empower us to wal...

God's Daily Promises for Leaders November 16, 2016 Help Psalm 28:7 Remember we all have someone watching/following us. When we encounter trials and tribulations we need to remember to call out to God, not just try and solve the problem ourselves. When we allow God to intervene He does more than we can imagine and He gets the glory,

God's Daily Promises for Leaders November 15, 2016 Humility 1 Peter 5:6 Remember we all have someone watching/following us. If we want to be effective for the Kingdom of God and have God's favor, we need to humble enough to acknowledge sin in our life and ask God to remove it.