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Saturday, March 27, 2010
Do you focus on the entry that Jesus had or do you focus on the fact that God uses anything to give
Him praise and glory.What is your focus right now in your life. I hear from people in other countries and tell them
what to do. They need to help people who had houses burned to the ground because of persecution and are afraid. Do we think
that can happen here? It can and one day it will happen that people are persecuted with a great persecution in the
United States of America. The day is coming! This is Palm Sunday and we honor Jesus who
entered in to the city of Jerusalem riding a donkey. What was unusual about that? He often went to the city and probably
many times rode in on some animal. That is what was used for long journeys back then. God moved on the people and the
people worshipped Him as the Saviour of all men. The religious leaders were offended and too often we are still offended
by some things he said. Religious people follow the money. They want the church to be a business and not a place where people
can be helped. They run it as a place to help themselves by flocking people. They come to sell their products and tell
others the latest way to they need to have that is hot off the press on how they can be healed, or have their needs
met. God has not changed for God is still God and what worked back then works now. God is unchangeable
and we still have the same problems as we had back then. We need family, food, shelter and clothes. We all need these things
but it has become polluted and now we think we need cell phones blackberries and internet. People who say they
need money have it to go on the internet. They have money to travel to the US and raise money but have no money
to give. The Jesus of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John with power and authority lives and is
alive in you. He still heals the sick and raises the dead, makes the lame walk and blind see. He is still the God of
the impossible and He wants to work in your life. Seek that Jesus and not the religious Jesus who does good deeds
to impress the religious. The religious Jesus I do not want. I want the Jesus who came to be my Saviour and keep
me from all the demonic tricks and the one who loves me so much He would rather die for me then live in Heaven without me.
The Jesus who is coming for me to show me that great Home that is watiing for me and does not have a mortgage and where
there is no death. So when you go to church this weekend I ask you to focus on the God Man Jesus Christ who is
the one in the Gospels and not the one that man has focused on the one who they use to fleece people with. Serve the
risen Lord today!
Pastor Don Carson
Word of Grace Fellowship
Sunday, March 21, 2010
This year Easter is closer to Passover and that is the way it should be. This week
is the week before the Passion week and we will be hearing about Jesus and what He went through on the cross. That
is good that so many hear but sometimes the only time they do hear is this time of year. I encourage you to go and tell
others and help them know of Jesus and His love, tell them what HE did for them on Calvary and be assured of your redemption.
What do you have in Jesus? Be assured of your place with the Father and know that you will be in Heaven. You
need to be assured of your place with Jesus and your authority before you can demonstrate it before others. DO you know
that God is pleased with you? We have much because of Jesus and we spend so
much time talking about what Jesus did. Our focus needs to place Jesus as the center and we need to see ourselves as complete
in Him. Too many see themselves as incomplete until Jesus returns saying things like we will be healed when we die or get
to Heaven. We focus on the answers as coming from medicine and not from the stripes. Let us become more complete in our understanding
of who Jesus is and what HE did so we can more fully share it with others.
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Pastor Don Carson Word of Grace Fellowship
Sunday, March 14, 2010
I noticed that Chile had an earthquake but that one did not receive the attention that the Haitian one
did so the relief effort was not as great. The magnitude of what God does in our lives is partly dependant on how much
value we place on his work. Where do you see the work of God? Do you only see it at church or through his minsters? Do
you see God as working through you every day? See God came to live in you and to minster through you whether you were
called to minister or not. God is wanting to use you to bless others and all the problems we have are so that the glory of
God might be revealed in us. The Gospels tells us that the Jewish leaders asked Jesus who sinned this
man or his parents? They beleieved that sin was the direct cause of sickness and disease. If someone was sick then they
must have sinned. But this man was born blind so they reasoned it had to be the parents sin. Tradition makes the Word
of God of non effect in our lives. Jesus said neither the son or his parents sinned but so the glory of God might be
revealed. The Devil wants to steal from you kill you and destroy from you.The Devil is bad and wants
to hurt you. God is good and wants to bless you! God is not mad at you - He is not the one that is not answering your prayers
or not doing good in your life. God is for you! God loves you and wants you to be a part of his family so He paid
a terrible price so you could know him. He paid double for all your sin! Isaiah 40:2 This was done so that you might have
peace with God. The peace of God is not just God being happy with you, but you being happy
with God. God said the warfare is accomplished the victory is assured so He sent his Son to die for you; bit first He sent
someone to cry as a witness ( John the Baptist said this was him) The payment is made and you are now right with God
so you can rejoice. This is the compassion that God has and it is why God is called a God of peace. SO I admonish you
that when you have trouble or sickness or problems - see yourself with the understanding that God has provided peace
for you and that the war is over for Jesus won and gave us the victory!
Pastor Don Carson Word of Grace Fellowship
Sunday, March 7, 2010
March 7, 2010 Worthy My child know that your worthiness is not based on your doings but on my doings, for if your doings could
make you make you holy then your doings would be able to keep you holy. Your holiness was not attained by what you did nor
was it attained by how worthy you are for there is only one who is worthy. There is none worthy, because all were born sinners
and were not able to keep the law. I have come to give to you what you did not have: so you could return to Me freely what
I wanted- YOU! Love Love is
giving without evaluating the cost for you rather bless the person then see them suffer. You focus on what makes someone
else happy instead of yourself. Love is selfless thoughts. Love has no conditions only asking you to say Yes. Love only wants
to be received. Love does not see the what ifs but love sees the possibilities for love and faith work together. Have confidence
that I will keep you even when it looks hopeless. Love me and you will have hope; be confident that your hope will produce
and you will see that faith work in your life. Speak in Power!
I gave my gifts to you so that through you, you might bless others. Speak to others the Word that
I have given to you today and tell them that I love you and they are worthy because I made them worthy by the blood of my
Son. Speak to yourself that no matter what is going on in your life, you are worthy because I made you worthy. Speak that
I love you so do not question your worthiness to receive. My love for you is what made you worthy in my sight. The glory
you see on this side is minute compared to the glory that you will see and the glory that will be revealed in you. When
you focus on my glory then you will see my power. Soon I will come to get you and bring you to your home- Jesus!
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Monday, March 1, 2010
Today we are in the midst of a loss of peace and we do not have all that we want.So
many are losing things so where do we turn for grace? Grace is not something that we need to look for; for grace is in our
hear. It is called the throne of grace and when we go t here we get the mercy we need to meet our needs. This sermon
is about receiving mercy. How do we receive all that we need to get what we need to meet our needs? Look with your
heart for in your heart is where the issues of life are. The issues of life are not based on what you see or feel; it
is not based on what is going on around you. It is based on who is in you and what is your relationship with God. God is pleased with
you so walk in what He did for you and not in what you have done for yourself. Too often we focus on what we
do for ourselves and not on what God did for you. The Bible
says that Eternal life is in knowing Jesus Christ. Eternal life is not in just going to Heaven but in knowing who JEsus is
and it begins the moment you are born again. Stop limiting yourself to what you see. Limit youself only by what God sees and
how he looks it. Our Founder said get God's POV his point of view and the Bible says let God be true and every man
a liar. I encourage you to spend time reading and praying not to make sure God knows what you need but to praise him
for working in your life. Thank you Lord you have met my need in Jesus. Thank you Lord for life and for all I do have. Thank
you Lord I have a roof or any other blessing you have. Spend time ministering to the Lord in praise and then you wiil
see that HE is worthy. Rev 4-5 talks about how worthy God is. Change your value system and see what God thinks of you and
how valuable HE thinks you are. You are worth the Son. God has no wrath to you.God wants to be your friend. God loved
you so that while you were his enemy He died for you! Love him! Live for him
and let the other stuff fall where it may!
Pastor Don Carson Word
of Grace Fellowship
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