Living Water for Thirsty Soul

Living Water for Thirsty Soul

John 4:10-14

• John 1 - Jesus goes around finding his disciples.
• John 2 - Placing his first miracle.
• John 3 - Interacting with Nicodemus he was a Pharisees they were Jeoluce of Jesus. They didn't have a relationship with God they had a religion.
• John 4 - A thirsty soul encounter, What are you thirsty for? How desperate do you want it? You can't have enough money to get happiness? The only temporary, they don't feel the soul, your answer is Jesus.

No religion can quench your only Jesus thirst

1. The path Christ choose - John 4:1-4 How do you act when someone crosses your path?
2. The person Christ encounter (John 4:5-9)
• Social Class (Woman, Samaritans)
• Sinful Condition (vs.6) & (vs. 16-18)
3. The Pitty Christ felt (John 4:25-29)
• Use your trials to help and lead others to Christ.
• What are you doing with your trials?
4. The pardon Christ delivered (John 4:39-42)
• Average person commits 3 sins a day.
• We must account for our sins.
• The reason he was able to forgive this Samaritan lady is because he would be nailed to the cross for everyone's sin.
5. The perspective Christ offer (John 4:31-35)

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Married Couples Retreat 2015

This is some old notes from our last year couple's retreat, hope you don't mind us charing.

Section I

Genesis 2:18-25

• Obedience - Deut 29:29, Joshua 1:8, Genesis 3:6 (Just because it looks good doesn't mean is good for you) Psalms 19:128, Genesis 3:7
• Someone said it makes you smarted
• 1 John 1 (Disobedience) fake fellowship
• 1 Peter 3 (Simple Obedience)
• Marriage is 100% him and 100% her not 50 each.
• No excuses - simple obedience is all he wants.

Section II

Lot's Wife

• Luke 17:32, 2 Peter 2, Genesis 19, Genesis 13:13
• Great Religious privileges (Genesis 18:19)
• Wordly Husbands (2 Peter 2, Matthew 24:12)
• Prayer (Genesis 18)
• Being dragged out (Genesis 19)
• Matthew 6:21 (Looking back (unbelief, choice, disobedience) PRAY FOR A GODLY HOME!
• If she wouldn't look back, she could have stopped her daughters from committing their sin. Revelation 4:10-11, 1 Peter 3:7
• Be the wife you need to be even if your husband is not being what he needs to be.

Section III

Creator

• Matthew 5:17-19 (Every 3-6 Months on a weekend getaway (Feb, May, Aug, Nov)

Solverant

• Psalms 99:9, Isaiah 6, Romas 1:18, Malachi 3:6, Hebrew 13:6
• Numbers 15:32-34 (Not work on the sabbath day, gathering sticks, vs.35 they put him to death, god means what he says)
• 2 Samuel 6:6-7 (God means what he says)
• 1 Peter 3 (Do you joke about your mate?)

Section IV

Split Session

• What is your purpose in life?
• What fulfills and make us happy?
• Candle becomes lite is the purpose to bring light.
• When you give light to the candle they complete each other each is not complete until each other meet. (John 1:5, Exodus 13:31)
• A husband is complete with his wife we are their candle, they are the light. (Ephesians 5, Titus 2)
• Everyone's marriage is different: there's is not wrong & neither are yours.
• We need to learn to fix things for our man when they are busy, to have time with him.
• What we need to do to make things better, Genesis 2:20.
• Blessed differently, to help each other to be successful.
• You need to burn out for Jesus.

Section V

• 1 Corinthians 11:1-6, Genesis 1:26-29, Psalms 119:28, 1 Corinthians 11:14 (Testimony)
• Important to the Lord & Angel - we must look different (1 Corinthians 11:4)
• 1 Timothy 2 (Prayer)
• Ephesians 5:22 (Moses, was by his brother) Ephesians 5:23-25
• Is not about being fair, is about right & wrong.
• We need faith & practice & God is right.
• Fairytale world (When you are trying to live in this world)

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Singing In The Rain

Job 35:10

The rain is good, it helps you; (IS NOT ABOUT YOU) grow, learn, is help from the Lord.

God sends the rain, (Hate, Anger, Bitterness (World, Flesh)) Storms.
 It will get dirtier if you don't get it clean with God.
With (God) the storm is not about you, is about God. (Joseph Story) Joy, peace, love is what we need to clean our self up after the storm.

• By being emotional usually gives us evil thoughts, there are more people on this side. The more you stay in the emotional side everyone around you will be all around everyone you love.
• If we don't show how to respond when the rain comes if we choose, the world the flesh or God, To Be Right.

We have a choice, be thankful, go on a missions trips, godly friends singing to the Lord and serve when you are in the flesh - do something Godly.

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Doing God's Will

Doing God's Will? Are We?

• Walking with Jesus doesn't make life sweeter, but we must keep walking towards Jesus.
• Are we a true Christian? What is a true Christian?
• Why is it sweeter with the Lord? - Psalms 139:13-17
• How precious we are to God . . . 
• We trust remind our self how precious we are . . .
• We can do anything through God, nothing can be done without him.
• God works through us throughout a lifetime.
• Show them how to walk with the Lord.
• If it is your will.
• Open & honest to each other.
• Be Obedient.

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Sin Destroys Everything Good

Matthew 27:35-46
Isaiah 53:5
John 10:10
Romans 5:21
James 1:14
1 John 1:9 - Forgiveness for our sins

• Sin will take our lives is terminal, Jesus became our sin and he paid for our sins on the cross.

Romans 6:1

• Everyday sin hurts us, this kills your relationship with God, church.
• The world mocks us Christians as they mocked Jesus in the cross.

Romans 5:20 - We give into it over and over but you must have an end.
Galatians 2:19-21
Romans 7:7-12, 24-25
Romans 10:4 (Christ is the answer)
1 Timothy 1:12-14
1 Corinthians 15:10 (By the Grace of God)

• Is in our end when Grace begins.

Romans 5:21
Galatians 2:20-21

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Jesus Last Moments

Matthew 27:48-52
Mark 15:33-37
Luke 23:44-48
John 19:28-30

Jesus finished days his last moments.

Hebrew 12:4 - resisting on the blood, Jesus resisted but never sinned.
Hebrew 9:16 - A new beginning (something must be done)
John 19:30 - It is finished know something else begins the new era.

• You should never end, anything in an angry way that is not the Christian way, never leave in discussed.
• You must trust to continue Ephesians 2:8 not just do, do, do in just by the part you must have trust believe and be filled with the Holy Spirit.
• Stop trying, you must be finished and give it to God. 

Romans 10:3 - They had an ego problem and a sight problem.
Romans 10:4 - All you have to do is believe.
Romans 11:6 - Can't be Grace and work.

• Pursue of Freshly Lust, they wear you out and they are not fulfilling is like chasing your trail.

Romans 6:21 - Where does it bring you, Death. . . 

Romans 6:19 - Being ashamed because of those things is DEATH, keep pursuing the holiness, (reading the Bible, following God, staying with the church)

Being DONE with the FLESH, like Jesus was DONE @ the cross John 19:30

Think about how many sins you committed by burden? (Flesh)

Think about how much sin by watching TV? (Lust, Murder, Bad Words, Adultery all in TV, even commercial (FLESH)

1 John 2:15-17

Conclusion:

Be satisfied with Jesus, are you finished with Flesh, our love affair with the world.

The Secret of Paul's Success

Philippians 3:13-14

How can the endure everything he went through and still go on in the path of God. Forgetting those things behind, that is why he was successful. We current Christians we cant let go of the past, we always reminisce. Philippians 4-14 (Reflects on his life)

We live in a deceptive world. Commercials are all lies, they only show pretty things. To know GOd intimately is costly, and would you pay the price. You cant live in this world and eternity. To get to eternity you must give up this world. He will show you what you need to do all you need to do is ask. Read the Bible and ask.

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Beating the Enemy Day#6

Beating the Enemy

Read - John 8:44 (Mark the devil with the pitchfork)

1. What did you learn about the devil?
2. What summarize his nature?

God has equipped us with everything we need to defend ourselves against the devils attacks.

Did you know!

Satan, Devil is a single entity - OUR ENEMY

Devil means "accuser, slanderer"

Satan means "adversary, the enemy"

Satan found 54 times in the Old and New Testament, while the devil occurs 44 times only in the New Testament.

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About Tithing

Malachi 3:8-10
Hosea 10:1-12

America is in the same spot as the people in chapter 10 of Hosea. The Gospel is the only answer to what is going on. Most Christians do not truly have God in their life, they only seek God when a problem rises up, why wait for problems to rise -v.12 it is time to seek God. The needed and poor people seek God more than others. Their life counts for God. People are important not things.

Everyone wants to be like the people of the world, where are they heading?

Hell - is that where you want to go. When we got here it wasn't here is not ours, so why do you want the things that don't belong to us. Adopting the world standard, instead of making God first, just one day Sunday America is becoming the old wild west police officers are becoming afraid of media, court and they're going to walk and just clean up the mess. Us the church should be the lighthouse to our town. People are double-minded today, people are afraid of stating they are Christian, tithing the 10% talking about serving God this is all double-minded. We want to be Christians without prosecution, penalty or pain.

Matthew 6

You must trust God so he can take care of you. We need to seek the Lord when we break our vows. His goal is to restore us, and we need to seek God and get right.

Is your life filled with Joy? If not you need to seek God and except him in your heart. The story solomon, Love the Lord and serve him.

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Vision & Goals

Proverbs 29:18 (Importance of having a vision)
Hebrew 11:3 (There is something out there we cant see)

• We live by Faith not by sight
• What God has made is way better than what man has made
• Don't let the world dictate what you listen to.
• Stop being distracted so you can so, hear to follow Jesus.

Psalms 46:10

• See what God wants in your life, so stop and listen.
• We are called to live by Faith.
• No matter where you are or live God is there for you.
• Is your life by Faith or by sight?

Acts 26:15 (Appeared unto thee for this purpose)
Example: The vision of Noah's ark he was obedient.

Hebrew 11:10 Abraham looking for the city (The Vision) Abraham had obedience, faith, being raised.
Acts 2:17 Believing in the visions by Faith. (you need the Faith)

• Do not get distracted do not get filled with the world.
• You grow in Grace, you will not become a brother a sister of Christ overnight, it has taken time one step at a time.
• When you receive a vision you need to have faith and act have the goal so it can become a reality.
• It takes Faith to act on the vision.
• Some are afraid to try, attempt cos they lack on Faith.

Faith = risk, people don't want to take the risk, people are too content with what the world is doing.

Do you have the Faith?
Will you receive your vision?

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Beating the Enemy Day#5

Beating the Enemy

Read - Matthew 13:37-39 (We are marking the enemy with a pitchfork, he is the devil)

1. How is the devil described?
2. What has the devil done in this passage?    

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