Southcoast | You Are Made to Overcome Hard Things
From Hebrews 12:2
1. are part .
📖 Hebrew 12:2 ESV looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
📖 Hebrews 12 :1-2a ESV Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith….
📖 Jeremiah 29:11 ESV 11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfareand not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
📖 Romans 8:28-29 ESV 28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. 29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
📖 Psalm 34:19 ESV 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.
📖 1 Peter 1:13 ESV 13 Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
2. I Choose into every day.
📖 Joshua 24:15 NLT 15 But if you refuse to serve the Lord, then choose today whom you will serve. Would you prefer the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates? Or will it be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now live? But as for me and my family, we will serve the Lord.”
📖 1 Kings 18:21 ESV 21 And Elijah came near to all the people and said, “How long will you go limping between two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him….”
3. I Can on resources.
📖 Luke 22:43 ESV 43 And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him.
Four Spiritual Resources Available to Every Believer:
I. .
📖 Philippians 2:13 ESV 13 for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
Four Spiritual Resources Available to Every Believer:
II. .
📖 Hebrews 7:25 ESV 25 Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
Four Spiritual Resources Available to Every Believer:
III. .
📖 Ephesians 3:20 ESV 20 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us
Four Spiritual Resources Available to Every Believer:
IV. God’s .
📖 Psalm 34:7 ESV 7 The angel of the Lord encamps, around those who fear him, and delivers them.
📖 Philippians 4:13 ESV I can do all Things through Him who strengthens me.
4. I Choose on the .
📖 Hebrews 12:2 ESV 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
📖 Psalm 22:27-28 ESV 29All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you. 28 For kingship belongs to the Lord, and he rules over the nations.
📖 1 John 3:8b NLT .… But the Son of God came to destroy the works of the devil.
📖 John 14:6 ESV 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
📖 Philippians 2:9-11 ESV Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor and gave him the name above all other names,10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,11 and every tongue declare that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
📖 Revelation 21:1-4 ESV 21 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling placeof God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
📖 Psalm 23:5-6 ESV You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Sermon in a sentence:
Life is full of . We are called to courageously step into each day, trusting that God meets us there. We must resources to sustain and guide us. And through it all, we keep on the future, knowing that what lies ahead in Christ far outweighs the trials of today.
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