Praise Fellowship Church

In the phrase “In the Word, not of it”, we look at the first part of that phrase and see what Jesus said about his followers staying in the world and what the purpose of that was for.

Passion has various meanings. A Compelling Emotional response of love or hate, and also suffering as a result of the opposition of people against you. This message is about the Apostle Paul’s suffering passion and God’s answer for him.

Four groups of people: Those who will not listen, those who listen and believe but are afraid to follow for fear of rejection, those that follow knowing the fear of God is the only thing that is important, and those that speak making it possible for others to hear and follow if they will. However, when you speak you will often face the opposition of others. Jesus’ followers prayed for courage to speak no matter the opposition.

God creates platforms for us to speak from. It is an area of your life where you have the opportunity to impact other people. On that platform the Lord will have words for you to speak – to use your voice – which is His voice through you. To be silent is to speak, in essence to condone what is going on when you should speak truth. Then in preparation for the election we find out that our vote is our voice and we must not be silent in this election.

Sometimes difficulty comes for the purpose of teaching and training or even God’s discipline, all because of God’s love for us and because he is preparing us for greater things ahead.

When loyalty is divided between God and the World, it is necessary to purify our hearts. In these last days it is of utmost importance that we focus on godly living in purity.

James 4 speaks about loyalty divided between God and the world. This passage says that to make yourself a friend of the world, you make yourself and enemy of God.

An “Issue” may be a problem that you are dealing with, or it may be something that is being poured out. Divided loyalty may be an issue of the heart (a problem with your inner being). And it may result in an issue of something coming from your inner being flowing out impacting your the course of your life.