Author: Nathaniel Colt

Join us today as Pastor CJ shares a message titled Taking the Stew Out of Stewardship part 4

Key Scripture: Matthew 25:14-30

• Money and possessions are a very effective tool that God uses in our lives
• Money and possessions are very effective tests
• money and possessions are a very effective testimony that God uses
• Stewardship requires Action
• 5 Biblical reasons why everyone should be a tither
  1. Obedience
  2. Honesty
     • Malachi 3:8
  3. Love
     • John 14:15
  4. Gratitude
     • Psalms 116:12-14
  5. Faith
     • Malachi 3
     • Proverbs 3
     • Matthew 6

Join us today as Pastor CJ shares a message titled Taking the Stew Out of Stewardship part 3

Key Scripture: Luke 12:42-48

6 Keys to wise money management

1. Use a budget
   • Proverbs 21:5
2. Have a savings plan
   • Proverbs 21:20
3. Don’t Co-Sign for someone else’s loan
   • Proverbs 17:18
   • Proverbs 22:26-27
   • Proverbs 6:1-5
4. Stay out of debt
   • Proverbs 22:7
   • Hebrews 13:5
5. Avoid get rich quick schemes
   • Proverbs 28:19-20
6. Don’t buy on impulse
   • Proverbs 21:5

Join us today as Pastor CJ shares a message titled Taking the Stew Out of Stewardship part 2

Key Scripture: Philippians 4: 10-14

Financial Contentment…

1. is the ability to be content in plenty or poverty
2. is possible
3. is a secret to be learned
4. is accompanied by a grateful spirit
5. is required by God
6. is achieved by God’s power

If you would like Christ to give you financial contentment…

1. confess our sin of discontentment
2. submit to Christ’s will for our financials
3. ask Him in faith for his power to be content with money

Join us today as Pastor CJ shares a message titled Taking the Stew Out of Stewardship

Key Scripture: Genesis 39:1-6

There approx. 2,350 verses in the bible related to finance. Second only to Love.

“Steward”: A steward is someone who manages the resources of another to accomplish the goals of the owner.

Three biblical financial stewardship realities:
1. God owns all your money,
2. God enables you to earn all your money
3. You have a responsibility to manage God’s money to accomplish his purposes.

There are three truths good stewards live by:
1. Owners have rights; stewards have responsibilities.
2. Second, every spending decision is a spiritual decision.
3. The primary requirement for a steward is faithfulness.

Join us today as Pastor CJ shares a message titled Better Together: Worshiping Together

* God wants a love relationship with us
* Worship = expressing love to God

6 was to tell God that we love Him

1. Singing to Him (Worship)
   • It’s a heart thing
   • Psalms 147:6
   • Make a joyful noise (not necessary in tune)
   • Psalms 137
   • If you feel like you have lost your song, it is probably time to push in and worship that much harder
   • You can worship God wherever you are
2. Talking to Him (Prayer)
   • One of the key ingredient in a relationship is communication
   • It is something you you have to work at all the time
   • It is not a take/duty…he wants a relationship
   • Psalms 116
3. Listening to Him (Prayer too)
   • Prayer shouldn’t be one sided
   • When you listen to someone you are saying
     • “You matter to me”
     • “You are important to me”
     • “I value what you have to say”
   • Prayer should be 50/50 talking/listening
   • At any given time there are several radio station that are bouncing through a room, but without a the right equipment you won’t be able to hear them
   • God is always speaking but we aren’t always listening
   • The devices that we need to use are
     • His word (Bible)
     • Experiences
     • Trials
     • Other people
     • impressions/inspirations
   • John 10
   • when you think that God is speaking to you say “Speak, for your servant is listening” (1 Samuel 3:10)
4. Publicly Identifying with Him
   • Do you hide your Christianity at home, at work, at the store, or anywhere?
   • If Christianity were to become illegal, would there be enough evidence to convict you?
   • It is like a guy proposed to his fiance that they keep their marriage a secret from everyone forever
   • If you trust God he will prove himself over and over
5. Committed to Him
   • How much you are present at church, small groups, etc can be an indication of your commitment
   • It’s not that you can’t ever miss……….but what is your priority
   • Are you committed even when it is not convenient
   • Roman 12
6. Giving to Him (Stewardship)
   • Money is the nearest thing to most peoples hearts
   • Your ability to let it go can reveal what is in your heart
   • Are you willing to let lose what is most important to you and give it to God
   • Giving test your sincerity

Join us today as Pastor CJ shares a message titled Better Together: Serving Together.

 

Join us today as Pastor CJ and Jen share the Christmas story.

 

Join us today as Seth and Lisa Louton from Asia Pacific Media Ministry shares the message.

Key Scripture:
John 9

1. Are we asking the right Question
   • when we see bad in the world what question are we asking
   • Ask “How can the work of God be done in/through this?”
   • What can I do?  How can I help?
2. Are we hung up on the Method vs miracle
   • do we get hung up on him spitting in the dirt and putting it on his eyes
   • instead focus on the fact that he was healed
3. Tell your story
   • When we have an encounter with God we will come back looking different
   • ALL of our stories as christian start with “The man named Jesus”
   • no one can ever take our story away
4. We have to make the right choice
   • First choice is to follow Jesus
   • What type of Christian will you be
   • What are you going to do about missions

Call to action

1. Commit to pray
2. Pray fro revival  (nurture the attitude of Go)
3. Pray for people to support

Interested in connecting with Seth and Lisa:

Unit 2608 Raffles Corporate Center
F. Ortigas Jr. Road
Ortigas Center 1605, Philippines

seth.louton@agmd.org

https://www.facebook.com/loutonsinasiapacific

loutonsinasiapacific.wordpress.com

 

Interested in supporting Seth and Lisa:

giving.ag.org

Account #267653

https://giving.ag.org/Give/Details/600001-267653?MinistryName=267653&Page=1

Join us today as Pastor CJ shares a message titled You’ve Got it, We Need It.

Key Scripture:

2 Timothy 1:1-7
Genesis 2:1-7

• We are all “dirt bags”
• God can work with dirt
• God can work in a dirty mess and make it beautiful
• God put a seed inside everyone (a present/gift)
• What did you do with what God put inside you
• Greatest loss is not in death but in what you allow to die inside of you while you are alive
• The 2 greatest days in a person’s life
  • the day they are born
  • the day the find out why they were born

 

Join us today as Pastor CJ shares a message about Better Together: Reaching Out Together Part 4.

1. Magnify Him (worship)
2. Mature in your relationship with God and with people (discipleship)
3. Membership
4. Ministry
5. Mission

P – Pray together
* connect with others through prayer
* pray for those who are the sought
* pray for divine appointments to share the love of Jesus
A – Appeal to common interest
* Establish relationships with people who have common interests
*  Relationships become the bridge to share Jesus with other people
R – Reach out in love
* have the right motivation when we reach out to other people
* motive for outreach should be love
* God is love
* Why we should reach out
1. Because we have the greatest answer for the word
2. We have hears of gratitude
3. God is love
* We are just one beggar  telling another beggar  where they can get bread
* They will know that we are Christians by your love
* When some in your (Church) family struggles it is your responsibility to help them get back on track
T – Tell our stories
* 1 Peter 2:9
* You are an expert at your story
* When you find people who are struggling with what you struggled with you can express how the love of God lead you  through it
N – Nurture friendships
* Friendships allow us to build bridges from your heart to theirs so Christ can walk across
* Friendships take time and investment
* Most people wrongly gravitate to 2 extremes: isolation / imitation
* The answer is focus on insulation & infiltration
E – Expect God to Act
* We need to learn to dream again
* Need to never give up an anyone / Don’t quit
R – Represent Christ with our lives
* Not living a life that represents Christ can hinder our testimony
* People are looking for something that is different
* Colossians 3 / 1 Thessalonians 4