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Sunday, July 25, 2010
You have liberty not because of where you live but because of the fact that you dwell in
the kingdom of God. God purchased that liberty for you. There are many religions that claim to give liberty but
in reality they bring bondage: Bondage to a law or servitude to tradition and they put you under their rules without
allowing you to realize that you are free, or some will enslave you if you do not obey them. Only God can bring liberty
to man for Only God can deliver man from sin. You cannot have liberty without being free from sin. Sin had to be dealt with
and it was dealt with on Calvary. I must see myself not through my sin but through the cross of Jesus. If I choose to see
myself by my fleshly deeds then I am no better then someone who sees themselves by religious principles for instead
of having a relationship with God I have now degraded it into a religion. The uniqueness of Christianity is that it
is a relationship with God - 1 on 1 a personal relationship one that does not go through a priest or any other religious
leader and that you can personally know God and have him live in you.
Do you desire to be free from the bondage of the law that puts the focus on your doings instead of a relationship
that focuses on just being. HE did the work all HE wants from you is to BE. When you allow yourself to just BE
then HIS WORK will flow through you and you will see the lame walk and blind see, the dead raised and lives changed.
The Spirit of God will work through those who let Him. HE must drive your car, so give him the keys and be content to
sit and enjoy the ride. God can make you give him control but he wants you to willingly give it. So the liberty comes when
you give up trying to do and let God BE in your life. If you desire
to be free then renew your mind by focusing on grace and letting God do the work for you, come and allow your freedom to explode
into joy regardless of what is going on in your life. Speak your joy and it will produce peace in your life. Liberty
is not just freedom, but liberty is letting go of the bondage that you had and experiencing freedom after you knew what bondage
was. The shout give me liberty was by someone who wanted to be free from the tyranny they were under at the time. You have
liberty but some of us do not realize the depth of what we were saved from, so the appreciation ofit is not as
great as ones who were delivered from some life threatening situation, but our liberty cost just as much. Let us focus
on the greatness and goodness of God so we can enjoy what HE provided and then our joy will be full.
Pastor Don Carson Word of Grace Fellowship
Sunday, July 18, 2010
You are eternally freed from all of Satans work. There is nothing that God is holding
against you anymore but we think about what we see and that is the basis for whether or not we believe that God is
mad at us. God is for us or against us,so we use the life experiences we have as the basis for what we believe. Our
belief needs to based on what the Scripture says and not on life. God is the focus or should be of what we believe.
Is He? Do you really believe God? Do you really believe the Bible is true or do you put more trust in what your senses
tell you? The bottom line is which was more value to you? I understand
that it is hard to see that you can be free when your senses tell you otherwise. Here you are and you are looking at your body
and it hurts, or you are told you have cancer or some other disease and yet the Bible says you are healed. You can
see the problem or someone said they saw it on a scan and you are afraid for it is so scary to hear the word cancer
or leukemia that you do not know what to do. Jesus paid for your healing and you can be assured that God said
it so it is true. God said you were healed by His stripes 700 years before Jesus died and now it is 2000 years
later after He died so it is a recorded fact. Accept the provision of what He said.
I mention healing because that is one of the hardest thing for people to accept. For others it is finances. We sometimes
blame ourselves for what happened to us and think that it is our fault. We try to say God is mad at us because of what we
did. The truth is that God has no wrath toward us 1 Th 5:9 and that God is pleased with you just the way you are Heb 13:20-21.
God is for you and you need to be confident in who HE is to be confident in what HE says Rom 8:31-32. If I have
no confidence in a person then the words they say have no value to me. You can rejoice because God said you are
healed. GOD said it so it is true. To have true freedom you must be able to put more value on what God said then on what
men say. Let your praise come from your innermost being, let your confidence come from your Spirit so the God
who indwells you can give you peace in the midst of the storms you go through.
If this blesses you then come to our service on Sunday at 11 AM at the Springfield YMCA which is located at 100 S Springfield
Ave in Springfield. Directions are available on our website. Go and tell others about this site www.wordofgracefellowship.com so they too can be blessed. Pastor Don Carson Word of Grace Fellowship
Monday, July 12, 2010
We share with you what we have but we also share with you what the Lord desires
to share with you. We know that you need to hear how to blessed and that you have needs and problems in your life just
as we do. Our life has people in it that we trust, that we go to and can count on. God put them in your life and you should
thank God for them. I know because whether I was being ridiculed or had problems, God put someone there to help
me and even at times protect me. God will never abandon you and He will keep you no matter what the problems you are
going through. We have been focusing on sharing Salvation. Salvation is
what God put in you and when you pray you are giving to others what is already there. It is not a matter of having to get
something from God but release what you have. The same power that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you. YOU
need to have assurance of what you have and walk in it. Do not let the situation control you; instead control the situation
by what is in you. Give what you are given and it will be given back to you again. See it with the mind of Christ.
See it! See the healing as having happened! See the finances as being met! See the answers as being yes and not a maybe or
no! God said Yes to you for all the promises of God are yes and Amen!
I know that you may read this and say, but I have real problems. I was recently in the hospital and what is of utmost importance
to me is the Word of God and you can ask anyone that knows me. The word of a doctor does not have the same value to me as
the Word of Jesus Christ. When I was in the hospital I was able to lead someone to the Lord, so God uses what the devil
turns for evil to my good so I can share with people what God did. What attracted my nurse is that I believed and she saw
it and said I want to know the Lord because of your faith! This is what attracts people- faith which is manifested through
the love of Jesus Christ! So share the Gospel no matter what people tell you and let God become alive in you and when you
do you will see the Gospel will become real to you too! I pray that
these sermons will help you realize that you need to give out not just of your finances to bless others but also of
what is in you. Give the power of God out to others so they can receive from you; when you release the power of God
then you are also blessed by the sharing. God did not make you a storehouse of Him so that you just sit back waiting
on God thinking that He is going to one day bless you. Let your words and deeds unite together and minister so that
people can see that you know God. Tell me if you were put on trial for being a Christian would they convict you or not?
Minister my friends in power and let God help you realize the windows are open to you!
Pastor Don Carson Word of Grace Fellowship
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Friends,
Today we celebrate the freedom we have as a nation in the US. We fought hard to be a nation and had a great record
for many years in the battles we fought. Then we fought nations like Vietnam and Iraq and we did not do as well becuase
we lost our vision. Our vision was to spread the Gospel and that was the reason we were established as a nation. So
we celebrate freedom from England every July 4th. This is a great country but we have a greater freedom then this.
Our Freedom is based on the eternal blood that never dies - the blood of Jesus Christ which speaks about your being Holy
and Right before Him! You celebrate your freedom as a citizen of this
nation with fireworks and have a big party! Yet Christians are quiet when it comes to celebrating a freedom that will
endure forever. The freedom you have God honors and no one can take it away. You will be free before God when he judges
the world in righteousness for HE judges based on Jesus and His work. Celebrate your Salvation! This celebrates
who you are and the new creation you were made into. You are perfect because HE made you into His perfect body! SO
enjoy who you are and then you will feel the joy of God in your life!
So be strong in your salvation and strong in the power of his Might. Be strong in who you are and in who is your Savior.
Focus on Jesus for he is the answer. There is no other answer. We are to rejoice in Christ Jesus Rejoice in the
provision and in his life in us. When you do then you will see His life manifested more and more in your life. So watch
God as HE does miracles in your life.
Pastor
Don Carson Word of Grace Fellowship
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