Sunday Sermon: God's Dream Church: House of Power

House of Power: Spiritual Lameness

“The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them”

— Matthew 21:14 (NIV)

“Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees. “Make level paths for your feet,” so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.”

— Hebrews 12:12-13 (NIV)

Causes of Lameness:

1. Lame by Birth: Acts: 3:1-2 "...Now a man who was lame from birth..."

2. Lame by Accident: 2 Samuel 4:4  "...he fell and became disabled..."

3. Lame by God: Genesis 32:25, 31 "...he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched..."

Sunday Sermon: God's Dream Church: House of Power

God's Dream Church: House of Power

“The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them.”

— Mathew 21:14 (NIV)

Types of Spiritual Vision:

1. Blindness

2. Blurriness

3. Brightness

“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!”

— Matthew 6:22-23 (NIV)

“They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. When he had spit on the man’s eyes and put his hands on him, Jesus asked, “Do you see anything?”

He looked up and said, “I see people; they look like trees walking around.”

Once more Jesus put his hands on the man’s eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. ”

— Mark 8:22-25 (NIV)

“Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes and took him down to Gaza. Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding grain in the prison.”

— Judges 16:21 (NIV)

“So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.”

— Revelation 3:16 (NIV)

“Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone.”

— Deuteronomy 34:7 (NIV)

“Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law.”

— Psalms 119:18 (NIV)

“I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms,”

— Ephesians 1:17-20 (NIV)

Sunday Sermon: God's Dream Church: House of Prayer

God's Dream Church: House of Prayer

“It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”

— Matthew 21:13 (NIV)

“these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.””

— Isaiah 56:7 (NIV)

1. How the Church Should Pray- In One Accord

Acts 1:14 "They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers."

2. Praying Church Founded On Doctrine And Fellowship

Acts 2:42 "They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer."

3. Church Has A Season of Prayer

Acts 3:1 "One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer—at three in the afternoon."

4. Pray That Ministers Have The Boldness To Preach

Acts 4:30-31 "Stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus. After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly."

5. Pray For The Right Leadership

Acts 6:6 "They presented these men to the apostles, who prayed and laid their hands on them."

6. Pray For The Persecuted

Acts 12:5 "So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him."

7. Pray For The Sick

Acts 5:13-16 "No one else dared join them, even though they were highly regarded by the people. Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number. As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by. Crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those tormented by impure spirits, and all of them were healed."

Sunday Sermon: I know a man in Christ

I know a man in Christ

“I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows.”

— 2 Corinthians 12:2 (NIV)

“3. And I know that this man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows—

4. was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell.

5. I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses.

6. Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say,

7. or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.

8. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.

9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.”

— 2 Corinthians 12:3-9 (NIV)

Sunday Sermon: What God Expects From His Church

What God Expects From His Church

“Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”

The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant.

“Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him.

“Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read,

“‘From the lips of children and infants
you, Lord, have called forth your praise’?”

— Matthew 21:12-16 (NIV)

My House Shall be called:

1. House of Purity

2. House of Prayer

3. House of Power

4. House of Praise

“Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,”

— Ephesians 4:15 (NIV)

“Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord?
Or who may stand in His holy place?

He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol,
Nor sworn deceitfully.”

— Psalm 24: 3-4 (NKJV)