Be Strong Like Jesus - D. Fulkes
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Love God with all our strength
Love God with all our strength
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.
“The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”
I choose how much strength with which I will love God
If I love him the best I can…He will meet us where we are
The glory of young men is their strength, gray hair the splendor of the old.
Strength comes with training
Blessed are those whose strength is in you, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage. As they pass through the Valley of Baka, they make it a place of springs; the autumn rains also cover it with pools. They go from strength to strength, till each appears before God in Zion.
There is a correlation between my strength and God’s strength
It is something that grows in us as we walk in His strength!
Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath. Your arrows have pierced me, and your hand has come down on me. Because of your wrath there is no health in my body; there is no soundness in my bones because of my sin. My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear. My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly.
yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior. The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights. For the director of music. On my stringed instruments.
When I love God with everything I have…He comes along and gives me His strength
Strength can be...
seen
felt
used
built upon
trained for
received from God
It can also be lost…think of Samson
Strength doesn’t have to be harsh, mean, demeaning, etc.
Sometimes meekness looks like strength
Humility is a characteristic of strenght
We should go from strength to strength throughout our life
Strength...
Consumes energy
Requires resolve - when we decide to put our faith we must decide to be strong - to love Him with all our strength
Brings forces against
Strength builds on strength
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit,
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.
Jesus was a strong man as He walked this earth
Stood His ground
Spoke the truth
Calmed the storm
Cursed the fig tree
Through the money-changers out
In the Garden — “nevertheless...”
39 lashes — crown of thorns,
“He without sin…cast the first stone”
how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.
Jesus is our example
Jesus is our example
We can do things we don’t think we could do…because of His strength working in us when we choose to love Him with all our strength
I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
Ph 4:13
Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.”
Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals. And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?” But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look inside it. I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside. Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.”
Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing at the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. He went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who sat on the throne. And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of God’s people. And they sang a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased for God persons from every tribe and language and people and nation. You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth.”
Rev 5:6-
Through His strength we can rise up in this world to be men of strength