Gateway Essence 16 Feb 2019

Text I'm just letting you know if old is 6 polish event since we all in this first session in each Saturday, we're working through some of the chances of aw. Tozer discloses. Classic book the number to the holiday. So we thought it would be very good to do a thing. Where is she looking at the various antabuse all gold that would be helpful thing to do we sold and it's also an exercise in am exploring certain amount of journaling meditating on God's word and talking to each other. So in this section as is often the case they will be time for you to meditate on a particular passage and journal and also talked to you in groups to discuss weighty questions and then share your wisdom with everybody. I will get all of that done. But what about Mary? Keith morning fights at the omnipotence of God to speak words.

But it means he's full powerful. Just I picked some exits from the chapter.

I don't know who's right the top 10 out of Interest. Write the chapter in the book or on the piece of paper today that you can read at your leisure, but these are some adjectives. dessert starts with R verse from Revelation 19 in the time of his vision since John heard the voice of a great multitude and as the voice of many Waters and the voice of Mighty thunderings sounding throughout the Universe. I want the voice proclaimed was the sovereignty and the omnipotence of God. Hallelujah for the Lord. God omnipotent Reigns. Sovereignty and omnipotence must go together one cannot exist without the other two rain. God must have power on to rain so rudely. He must have all power. That's what of nipotent means having all power. The word derives from the Latin that is identical with the more familiar which we have from the Anglo-Saxon this word because 56 times in English Bible and is never used of anyone but God he alone is Almighty.

Power belongs to God says the psalmist in Psalm 62 that gives evidence of the eternal power of the godhead. From this knowledge. We reason to the omnipotence of God this way. God has power. Since God is also infinite what type of he has Must Be Without Limits. Therefore God has Limitless power. He is omnipotent. We see further that God is self-existent Creator is the source of all the power that raised and since a source must be at least equal to anything that emanates God is of necessity equal to all the power Diaries and this is the same game that he is omnipotent. Jermaine's going inside

Self-sufficient take anything of his affections and he's never surrendered the least to have his power he gives but he does not give away All That Remains he's on and returns to him again. He must remain what he has forever Bean the Lord God omnipotent.

Omnipotence is not given to the sum of all power button a tribute of a personal God that we Christians believe to be the father of our Lord Jesus Christ and of all who believe on him to life eternal the worshipping man finds this knowledge of sorts of wonderful strength is in a life his face Rises to take the Great Leap into the fellowship of him who can do whatever he Wills to do for home and nothing is hard or difficult because he possesses power absolute.

Since he has at his command all the power in the universe the Lord God omnipotent can do anything as easily as anything else. He's done without effort. He expends. No energy the must be replenished his self sufficiency makes it unnecessary for him to look outside of himself for renewal of strength. All the power required to do that old. He will stew do lies in undiminished fullness in his own infinite being

Right so that I accept from the book and I'm I'm going to hunt I've asked Jesus to Jesus.

Wow thing for sure.

So I'm on the other side of United service in biblical references. We don't gain suits in the mouth that you can unlock their true. I think they were giants in the Bible is true. I hope the reference is a correct. I'm sure they are pretty sure they all please feel free to check them. But they're just to be selling pills today. Also marries just from the excerpt sometimes chapter 2. It's about the oh my goodness of God, but these pussies and kind of acid in what does that mean? What does that mean for Jesus? And what does that mean for his followers? What does that mean in the air now for us? So the New Testament we see this. Lots of Jesus says power to forgive sins. The almighty has power delegated power to forgive sins. how to heal sicknesses to cast out demons and also the pallet that Jesus moved in he than he can just keep it to himself and showed his disciples high on I fantastic then dedicated. He got that power to his disciples who said you see me to amazing stuff. But I just want you to watch and applaud and tell me I'm fantastic. I want you to do exactly the same stuff that I'm doing. So he actually gave that power to them. There's an application. If I'm in the life of Jesus disciples. There was power given to be witnesses to Jesus and his resurrection. Is power given to do signs and wonders? anise pound given to could someone she look up Romans chapter 1 verse 16 pallets of Salvation. I'm interested.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God to Salvation for everyone who believes for the Jew first and also for the Greek. Thank you.

The actual gospel itself has power put into it says no just stood. Go to delegate statpower to us to help people get saved. The gospel itself has power. So when we are presenting people with the gospel, we all presenting with I staying but itself has the power to bring those people is the kingdom of God. That's kind of interesting the snip you could could meditate tonight if you wanted to maybe not today muggle puzzle pulled operation ghost power, but he was very aware who's panel. It was I just want to say this. I don't know why but I just want to say it. I'm a big fan of the Apostle pole. I have read the Bible a bit and I'll read through it. I think more than once. I remember the first the first time I actually in a disciplined way right through the whole Bible in the yeah, one of the things that struck me when I read the whole Bible was I'm very impressed. I was with Pole

Just isn't mad very very impressed. And in these are the verses we looking at stuff that pulled his sides and is a we're going to come to the particular passage from meditation about s peanut Jars of Clay is very good passage to meditate on but I don't want you in that to pick up any kind of idea that all this is special Christian version in finding a little bit pathetic.

Because I think that would be a misreading of won't pull says it's amazing that given the amount of power that he exercised that he wrote something like that is related injury amazing Township and trials, but he was not a pathetic individual. If he was perfectly capable, even when he was in Chains, he was perfectly capable in a very Public Auditorium. to address Kings It didn't faze him. So this was this was a guy with a lot of integrity and a lot of strength. Sorry. I just saying that he's a dude in my personal opinion supposed to pull up right in ghost power, but he was very aware of his power. It was this a reference that's 1 Corinthians chapter 4 verse 24 the kingdom of God is not just lost a toke. It is living by God's power. In 2 Corinthians chapter 12 verse 9 each time that this was basically he's talking about an issue a problem that he has personally. Each time. The Lord said my grace is all you need my power works best in weakness. And then the passageway kind sorosky to meditate over and journal bounce in their little while 2 Corinthians Chapter 4 verses 7 through 10. And that's with each other references Branch taking is from the New Living Translation.

So this is about living living living Palm Coast Power does not necessarily mean an easy life.

We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like Fred Jones Jones fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that how is from God not from ourselves. We are pressed on every Side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed but not driven to despair. We are hunted down but never abandoned by God and they said someone is a song in here. You might be reminded of we get notes down, but we are not destroyed. through suffering our bodies continue to share in the death of Jesus said to the life of Jesus may also be saying about his three suffering a police continue to strengthen the death of Jesus said the life of Jesus may also be seen in a body's so that is that is the passage you can you can meditate on something else if you really want to but really what we would like you to meditate on the journal the balance is that passage and whatever strikes you From that passage and any of the other passages of which we've mentioned so we'd like you to talk to God. About how he wants you to live by his power. I want a life living bikers power would be like for you. So we're trying to try to paint a little bit of picture about the old MySpace account Independence ago, but we we want you to try to zero in on what I asked right? Okay code is all might say but wants it this mean Show me what is it going to be like for me to actually live in fellowship with a goat? Who is Almighty and who is giving me power? What is that? Like, is that? Okay, so we will shortly unleash the cushions if you'd like Christians to lie down or sit on U-verse parts of the room. Hopefully poke Cancun will have some music playing in the background to that so I will give you until

Around about 20 to 11 then we'll call you Bank get it.

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So what would the live living by God's power be like? But yeah. And if you have any fresh inside now, you'd like to share.

I was thinking like Kylie's. Okay, sweetie sufficient. You wouldn't say that it's right. That was fat and then think about how that would impact me off the prize and every day that the power to lend a hand up how to get out of my bed in the middle of the night when someone needs me the power to be an uncomfortable place but being a source of help I was thinking, you know when my mom was a hoe and that's not an easy place to pee but that's how was it that you can be given to feed not stuck installing cuz it was the power to say. Yes in the power to say no power to choose the results of that. Everything was up there. Coming to my mind. Yeah, I can't.

So what are kind of sorry in a different way when I was made to tighten this song kinds of mind, which was You Raised Me Out. And I saw a picture of a baby. I am learning to walk naked in a cat food and now you from getting back up again and sometimes happen if I'm hurting itself always helping the parent Case 580 to shift to save the baby Corner seat backs up God sets, Maine. You are a beautiful client for which he might but it was never his intention for its just sit on the shelf or never be used. If I was just a clay pot without God. I would even be broken smash to pieces or left abandoned and forgotten Highway for The Clay Pot that go to creative meets Bay is Is a Poppy Reserve ice cream be stored back to restore treasure. It refilled and being used it looks after me in Tights great care of me. He knows how fragile I am. So he protects me from harm and he can always restore me.

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It's a bit. Strunk me initially was we now have this light shining in our hearts and I had a picture of them. I don't know if they were very popular here. But in the 70s when I grow up and I forgot we had play candle holders with should have carved out patents in the side and of themselves, they didn't look very great. So when you put a candle inside them and you put it in a job cream, it was really beautiful and that the light shining outfit made really beautiful Pattinson. And what I felt God was saying to me was that sent it, you know, it's not to focus on the plane is in the fridge. Elati of the closure is the light that's inside that it matches and when it's placed in a dark place, you don't notice what the parts made of whether it's play in the weather. It's decorated but Solange Signing outfit that makes a difference and dispels the Darkness and creates beautiful patterns, but then he also said to me that the first was not an important and he said I've chosen you to be a clay jar and it shows new to be a treasure chest. And if I'm living in you then you have this great treasure in you all the time and all that I have is available to you and you can have confidence because I lack nothing, but you're not unimportant.

I am I found that it's it's great. It's a wonder when it got it and then I come to dwell in you all. My attributes are with me while I'm grilling in you. I'm the source of power. I command whatever I will you cooperate with me by faith without me. You can do nothing. I promise I will never leave you my power is present in you in all circumstances on your of your life vest that song that says no water can swallow the ship where lies the master of ocean and sea and skies. All creation. Obey the will of God this Paul that is delegated to the disciples is accessed by faith walking close late for the Holy Spirit.

Mrs. Called and he said let me show you and show me a picture of me scuttling along the ground with rest of the world and he said rise and I stands out and he said if I say Stein's you stands and the rest of the world has lots of sauce does come in and then tried to hide and I remain standing and it's just a sense of what he said to say and then he takes my hand and he wants me to go to alone long enough to rise of angels. I did not just me to walk between the two rows of angels, but he's stains behind. Hope you guys just wave my sick wife like the biggest Olmec ever imagined. I don't know why I can hear the excitation to go states that but I'm just still walking through the tunnel, but on the seat and I thought you said to go. I just also to get a nice is that he's walking in power stones will come her to come and but being able to continue to work on the stand is in my power.

Yeah, so knowing who he is how we can live tonight.

What are the things I thought is a result of living in God's power is having the inside the Jesus house so that he will from react to things in the news, but we don't understand but Jesus has the inside to see what each individual is unable to minutes to that needs where they are at an inn that life that particular time. Where should we land?

I was some actually thinking of Passage read before in Romans 1:16 about the gospel being the power to Salvation and then he put his face this this dynamite power inside of us and he looks like dynamite DC is used in construction to to you know for Demolition and the gospel has that power to just a tear away the lies and all the negativity and clear the space for something new to be built on and I was thinking if I had a box of dynamite where I would what would I place it in my house early? I don't have a fireplace, but I wouldn't place it near the fireplace god with some soda challenge me to live dangerously to actually place that time, you know TNT box full of TNT's near the fire and his and the fire. I don't have the fire within me, but the fire is is in him is in his word. So the closer I am to him The Closer I Get to You Don't Have to TNT lit up and live Dangerously.

I think I was taken a mole a back on it says on the Northside in the life of his disciples and one of the point x 6 bus 8 races now Steven van full of God's grace and power did great wonders and miraculous signs among the people.

I'm looking looking at the notes Waze says about the power of the life of Jesus. Especially it says about Healing The Sick casting out demons and he dedicated to his disciples and you just one of you know his followers and I'm just thinking, you know, sometimes you know, you can think about God's power and you can think about it and then you kind of threw it to call when you faced with people. You just trying to pray for people trying to heal the sick about you. Sometimes you you're not that confident, you know, or you don't feel that you can do it, but it's just confirm here that you know, this is for us, you know, he dedicated to us and we can move out in confident to do that. You know, whether we are praying for the steak or casting out demons of whatever they throw throwing front. But not only that I also feel that it's not always that we have to be confident because it says here is my grace is all you need. My power works best in your weakness and it just feel I just feel like I don't have to be always strong. I can be as big as I am as vulnerable as I am. But still when I moved in God's power something will work through through me, you know, because of his grace is now so yeah, so I just feel like I don't know. It's so big that you should say that the dine did the do not miss, you know, the power that is actually in us to know that we can carry forward to the people that we meet. Traffic for me. I felt that some. He was saying to me that last What would life is living by God's power be like for me. Condom fell asleep. It's it's not about me. But it's for other people. But first we need to receive it to know what it is, you know to be changed by it and then give it away an ultimately it's all about restoring people to God instead of having that sort of sense of purpose. It would describe him to Quincy. His father's ambassadors for Christ. We've been given the ministry of reconciliation. He was talking about being purposeful really in that not looking to heal the sick for the sake of Healing The Sick but as positive reconciling them to go out for them to know that God really loves them. He really wants them to be reconciled to him. But sometimes I'll press don't seem to get announced. I'm just supposed to be interesting questions to look at and you in groups and how have you seen God's power at work in your life and in the life of those around you so you can share some some encouraging stories. We going to old to be too challenging if God is all-powerful. Why isn't the world a better place? It got that look like 6 pounds of why isn't everyone I pray for healed and I saw that some things to chew around a little bit with each other. I suggest you against groups try this is a leadership always a ladyship challenge and tests are organizing themselves into groups by suggest you when I see self into three borders equal-sized groups around the tables over there. And will I will call you back sometime between five pasta 10 pause depending on how noisy you all I'm going to put a time to feed bank before the drink Sprite. That's about 5 people in a group.

Can we start with? Some examples of the power of God that you've seen in live. So you shed some of that.

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question one, isn't it? Question 1 the discussion how have you seen God's power will in your life and Sin Cara from the people that you know through the group that talk how I can fix up the points if you filled me with his love Council being a council 222 us a restaurant to us and give us wisdom and Grace not to react in a bad way and go violence forever.

I'm through his power Works through a family's gaining back. The grounds so-called enemy ground and setting us free. Buy social giving giving us a free will to choose.

Thank you.

is this was a long time ago, but I was in a place. We we started to run an hour, of course and I I wasn't thought of it somebody we can go to all of the types as it was in those days and we saw a lot of people come on the course of people and physics people that she also said yes to come and

we saw a lot of people came to Faith baptized and also two things were happening and believe it or not. This was in Riyadh Saudi Arabia. And it was just the strangest places for this to happen.

So if God is all-powerful, why isn't the world a better place?

Easy question somebody might ask you that like a lot of people.

We didn't have long on this question, but I think we we felt that it came down to the fact that we have a free choice that all the power of God is available to us, but people still have to cooperate with him and he won't ever full some self on people. So people have the chance to make right or wrong choices and live by the consequences room. It is given the subject for this session is your sense of God it is I think it's very important question.

It's a bit of a funny thing to get your head and heart rounds that I could go diesel powerful but he allows for whatever reason things to happen, but he doesn't like or even want but he's so powerful is a big thing is net and we can see all the things he doesn't want and then decide will therefore he is not all-powerful and yet he is so powerful. Came to my mind was the time that Jesus healed 10 lepers and only one of them came back and said thank you. So that was in Jesus ministry. This power is if it's right that this power is all about helping to reconcile people to God for Jesus, not everybody business ever be reconciled to God. At the risk of confusing things that were repeated Liberty on helpful, but another so it's not fresh for me today, but it's at the soul that I have had this distract me a little bit. Is that some another side of this for me? He said if I'm in any situation where I feel that old goat is moving through me and Power. That's lovely. But that doesn't mean that everything goes he's totally happy with everything that I'm saying and everything I'm doing so he does does he love me? Yes. Does he approve me? Yes, does he move through me? Yes. Does it mean that when he moves through me so I can then I can then decide that means that everything I'm doing is right and everything I'm doing is right. It doesn't mean that I'm a bit of a word of warning that when you see other people say to me moving in power. That's right. It doesn't mean that everything that they say and everything they do is good cuz it's not true for me. There's no tree for anybody. That's

Talking about being at work in three people's lives here. So I think my personal testimony would be you know, I just being amazed at Spirit Cafe, you know stuff, you know, you really put yourself on the line, you know, you have somebody sat in front of you and something you could have come up with something and you know, sometimes you just have to fear was pretty mundane were the other two hemispheres Electric

Ferrara experiencing something of goats power another situation like Nazis very much under with the purpose of helping people to find out about to go out and staying and I said questions. It was a question. If if you if you in a situation where go to the power is moving through you whatever that means without spraying for something to something else. If you feel something or do you feel nothing any ideas or is it the mixture?

So you don't always know to you sometimes you know, sometimes you type 9.

You out because he said if your faith is as small as a grain mustard see you might not seem like the person want you to pray for your not believing in it. And I think if you don't actually believe for your love the person would like to know what if you're doing anything for someone you have to love them first you love them and job. Yeah, that's just what we just experienced outside. There might be times when I feel like a lot of faith. They might be time for 13th. August I said so but I still be prepared to do something because of love and some of those times I might feel something and nothing appears to happen and I won't be at the times when I feel nothing until I get something just happened. I said good mystery. I am always kind of thinking that if we praying for someone we don't necessarily always see the healing because there might be something and inhaling but I also think that this is a higher spiritual warfare with someone. We don't see what's happening in the spiritual World. Say the battle might have food ready started in the spiritual realm and then say that we done today at 3 o y c the yam. The helium how come the straight away it could actually we you could have had she triggered something called friend eventually that he didn't have sex with her face. So you don't actually physically see with your eyes, but that's deep relief funds PS4 spry answers to heal the sick to do our part, but actually it's his power. Uncensor we need to be obedient to what you're supposed to do, but it's his job to watch to do the healing and somehow to have a a real understanding of that thing is very helpful. Thank you for cooperating in this section. I replace Olive a little jealous of play to go and do what we need to do in out lose and cafeteria areas come back. Hopefully when you come back over here.

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