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Blessed to be a blessing

6/30/2024

Pastor Jason Goertzen from Leading Influence was our guest speaker this week.
He first shared a bit about the work at Canada's parliaments with politicians. He also included a personal testimony of seeing God's power at work.
God wants to bless you to be a blessing. What is your calling? Sometimes people try to "help" God when they think things are not going to work out.
Wisdom and revelation: What is the difference and value of it?
https://Leadinginfluence.com/
https://ChristianRootsCanada.org/the-Location-of-the-25-scriptures-on-Parliament-Hill/

Genesis 12:1-3
1 The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you.
2 "I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."
1 Peter 2:9-10|NIV
9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

Isaiah 54:13|NIV
13 All your sons will be taught by the LORD, and great will be your children's peace.
Genesis 15:5|NIV
5 He took him outside and said, "Look up at the heavens and count the stars-if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."
Genesis 11:31-32|NIV
31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.
32 Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.

1 Peter 2:17 – Fear God, Honour the king.

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The Father's heart

6/23/2024

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Last week was a panel discussion with 3 fathers about raising children.
This week pastor Dwayne looks at Biblical ways for parenting with the emphasis that God is a good Father!
If you have made mistakes, there are ways to change it. God can repair where we have made a mess.

Psalms 136:1
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good. His love endures forever.
Ephesians 1:3|NIV
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.
Romans 8:28|NIV
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
John 14:8-9|NIV
8 Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us."
9 Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?
Luke 15:1-3|NIV
1 Now the tax collectors and "sinners" were all gathering around to hear him.
2 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, "This man welcomes sinners and eats with them."
3 Then Jesus told them this parable:

Luke 15:5-7|NIV
5 And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders
6 and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, 'Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.'
7 I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
Luke 15:8|NIV
"Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Does she not light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?
Genesis 1:27|NIV
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Luke 15:10|NIV
In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents."
John 3:16|NIV
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

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Power in personal testimonies

6/9/2024

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In the past pastor Dwayne covered being born again, being filled by the Holy Spirit and recently how we do "church".
It is commonly believed that you can be a Christian without going to church, but what example do we have nowadays?
How does this influence your personal testimony?

Jeremiah 6:16
This is what the LORD says: "Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, 'We will not walk in it.'
Deuteronomy 28:1-2|NIV
1 If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.
2 All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God:
Deuteronomy 28:15|NIV
However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

Isaiah 35:8-10|NIV
8 And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not journey on it; it will be for those who walk in that Way; wicked fools will not go about on it.
9 No lion will be there, nor will any ferocious beast get up on it; they will not be found there. But only the redeemed will walk there,
10 and the ransomed of the LORD will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.

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Who are you?

6/2/2024

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Pastor Dwayne's message covered:
We are human, we can fail and fall. But God gave us an identity in Him.

John 14:12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
Matthew 7:16 By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
Proverbs 24:16|NIV for though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again, but the wicked are brought down by calamity.
Romans 8:28|NIV And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

Psalms 1:1-3|NIV
1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.
2 Timothy 1:9|NIV who has saved us and called us to a holy life - not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time,

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