Church Notes: Victory Life Bible Church 01/30

[CLT: "With Everything" - Hillsong United]

The second week, a group of us went to Victory Life Bible Church. One of the student leaders, Shadrach, went there; his dad was the pastor there. It was a more charismatic/pentacostal church, and it was smaller than LIC, but it was definitely a good service to experience. Here's the notes:

SPIRITUAL SIDE OF CALLING:

The calling of God calls us to Himself to be children of His in obedience to Him. Just as God chose and called Abram OUT OF his father's house to follow Him, when God callus us, He glorifies us and strengthens our hearts to live for Him. When He calls us, He's expecting us to live a life in accordance to Him. If He doesn't cll us out of our sin, we can never live as children of God.

Text: Romans 8:28 "And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose."

When God is our Savior, He directs our footsteps (Prov. 3:5-6), and He expect u to live a life according to His own purpose, which is what Rom. 8:28 says.
The purpose of your life as a Christian is to be a mirror of God (2 Cor. 3:18) and to reflect His light to the world (Matt. 5:16).
God did not give us a spirit of timidity but one of power (2 Tim. 1:7). This power is working in us to make us want Him more and work for Him (Phil. 2:13) so that we can carry out what He has commanded us to do. Apart from His merciful power working in us, we would never be able to live for Him (Rom. 9:16), and even with it, we still struggle to follow it perfectly.
God calls us to obedience in Him, and to follow His leadings in our lives, even if they don't make sense to us at the moment. In Joshua 1:1-9, the people were saying they could not beat the giants they saw in the land. They were ready to give up even though they had the promises of the Lord Almighty telling them they WOULD live in that land. As Christians, we have the promise that God will keep us in His grace, and that He will never leave us to face the challenges of this world on our own. He has indeed commanded us to go and make disciples of all nations with the promise that we will never be alone (Matt. 28:18-20, Acts 1:8). Therefore, let our hearts take courage (John 16:33), and let us go and be obedient to the One who is infinitely greater than our sin.