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Bradbury CCLI #606984 Video clip O God Our Help In Ages Past © Public Domain /Isaac Watts and William Croft CCLI #606984 O God our help in ages past Our hope for years to come Our shelter from the stormy blast And our eternal home Under the shadow of Thy throne Thy saints have dwelt secure Sufficient is Thine arm alone And our defense is sure Before the hills in order stood Or earth received her frame From everlasting Thou art God To endless years the same A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun Time like an ever-rolling stream Bears all its sons away They fly forgotten as a dream Dies at the opening day O God our help in ages past Our hope for years to come Be Thou our guard While life shall last And our eternal home © Public Domain /Isaac Watts and William Croft CCLI #606984 Great is Thy Faithfulness CCLI #606984 Series: RECOVERY Sermon: Toward Belief Scripture: Hebrews 11:6 Step One: To realize I am not ____, God that I am not in _______. control Step Two: To earnestly ______ believe that rewarder exists and that He is a ________ god _____ of those who seek Him. Hebrews 11:6 ( NASB ) 6 And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him. Psalms 14:1 ( NASB ) 1 The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” Toward Belief 1. Acknowledge that God exists _____. God’s existence is made known as…… creation • Universally visible in His _______. Psalms 19:1-4 ( NASB ) 1 The heavens are telling of the glory of God; And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands. 2 Day to day pours forth speech, And night to night reveals knowledge. 3 There is no speech, nor are there words; Their voice is not heard. 4 Their line has gone out through all the earth, And their utterances to the end of the world. Toward Belief 1. Acknowledge that God exists _____. God’s existence is made known as…… creation • Universally visible in His _______. incarnation • Personally available through His _________. resurrection • Ultimately powerful through His __________. How do I demonstrate my belief that He exists? • • • • cry out to Him in my day of trouble When I _______ ______. When I trust _____ in Him to direct _____ my paths. turn to Him to ____ heal my hurts. When I ____ thank Him for all He does. When I ______ Toward Belief 1. Acknowledge that God exists _____. 2. Understand God’s ________. business God is in the _________ RECOVERY business. Mark 5:2-15 ( NASB ) 2 When He got out of the boat, immediately a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit met Him, 3 and he had his dwelling among the tombs. And no one was able to bind him anymore, even with a chain; 4 because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him and the shackles broken in pieces, and no one was strong enough to subdue him. Mark 5:2-15 ( NASB ) 5 Constantly, night and day, he was screaming among the tombs and in the mountains, and gashing himself with stones. 15 They came to Jesus and observed the man who had been demon-possessed sitting down, clothed and in his right mind, the very man who had had the “legion”; and they became frightened. Toward Belief 1. Acknowledge that God exists _____. 2. Understand God’s ________. business 3. Appropriate God’s ______. Spirit John 7:37-39 ( NASB ) 37 Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. 38 “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’” 39 But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. I Surrender All CCLI #606984 All to Jesus I surrender All to Him I freely give I will ever love and trust Him In His presence daily live I surrender all I surrender all All to Thee my blessed Savior I surrender all All to Jesus I surrender Make me Savior wholly thine Let me feel Thy Holy Spirit Truly know that Thou art mine I surrender all I surrender all All to Thee my blessed Savior I surrender all All to Jesus I surrender Lord I give myself to Thee Fill me with Thy love and power Let Thy blessing fall on me I surrender all I surrender all All to Thee my blessed Savior I surrender all Video clip © 2009 Words and music by Justin Bradshaw Highlands Creative Publishing (4700 Highlands Way, Birmingham, AL 35210 / highlandsworship.com) and in:ciite media. All rights reserved. CCLI #606984 CCLI #606984 CCLI #606984 In Christ Alone © 2002 Keith Getty and Stuart Townend/ Thankyou Music (adm worldwide by worshiptogether.com Songs except for the UK and Europe which is adm by Kingsway Music)/PRS CCLI #606984 In Christ alone my hope is found He is my light my strength my song This cornerstone This solid ground Firm through the fiercest Drought and storm What heights of love What depths of peace When fears are stilled When strivings cease My comforter my all in all Here in the love of Christ I stand In Christ alone Who took on flesh Fullness of God in helpless babe This gift of love and righteousness Scorned by the ones He came to save ‘Til on that cross as Jesus died The wrath of God was satisfied For ev’ry sin on Him was laid Here in the death of Christ I live There in the ground His body lay Light of the world by darkness slain Then bursting forth in glorious day Up from the grave He rose again And as He stands in victory Sin’s curse has lost its grip on me For I am His and He is mine Bought with the precious Blood of Christ On Christ the solid Rock I stand All other ground is sinking sand All other ground is sinking sand On Christ the solid Rock I stand All other ground is sinking sand All other ground is sinking sand No guilt in life no fear in death This is the pow’r of Christ in me From life’s first cry to final breath Jesus commands my destiny No pow’r of hell no scheme of man Can ever pluck me from His hand ‘Til He returns or calls me home Here in the pow’r of Christ I’ll stand © 2002 Keith Getty and Stuart Townend/ Thankyou Music (adm worldwide by worshiptogether.com Songs except for the UK and Europe which is adm by Kingsway Music)/PRS CCLI #606984 Series: RECOVERY Sermon: Toward Belief Scripture: Hebrews 11:6 Step One: To realize I am not ____, God that I am not in _______. control Step Two: To earnestly ______ believe that rewarder exists and that He is a ________ god _____ of those who seek Him. Hebrews 11:6 ( NASB ) 6 And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him. Psalms 14:1 ( NASB ) 1 The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” Toward Belief 1. Acknowledge that God exists _____. God’s existence is made known as…… creation • Universally visible in His _______. Psalms 19:1-4 ( NASB ) 1 The heavens are telling of the glory of God; And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands. 2 Day to day pours forth speech, And night to night reveals knowledge. 3 There is no speech, nor are there words; Their voice is not heard. 4 Their line has gone out through all the earth, And their utterances to the end of the world. Toward Belief 1. Acknowledge that God exists _____. God’s existence is made known as…… creation • Universally visible in His _______. incarnation • Personally available through His _________. resurrection • Ultimately powerful through His __________. How do I demonstrate my belief that He exists? • • • • cry out to Him in my day of trouble When I _______ ______. When I trust _____ in Him to direct _____ my paths. turn to Him to ____ heal my hurts. When I ____ thank Him for all He does. When I ______ Toward Belief 1. Acknowledge that God exists _____. 2. Understand God’s ________. business God is in the _________ RECOVERY business. Mark 5:2-15 ( NASB ) 2 When He got out of the boat, immediately a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit met Him, 3 and he had his dwelling among the tombs. And no one was able to bind him anymore, even with a chain; 4 because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him and the shackles broken in pieces, and no one was strong enough to subdue him. Mark 5:2-15 ( NASB ) 5 Constantly, night and day, he was screaming among the tombs and in the mountains, and gashing himself with stones. 15 They came to Jesus and observed the man who had been demon-possessed sitting down, clothed and in his right mind, the very man who had had the “legion”; and they became frightened. Toward Belief 1. Acknowledge that God exists _____. 2. Understand God’s ________. business 3. Appropriate God’s ______. Spirit John 7:37-39 ( NASB ) 37 Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. 38 “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’” 39 But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. CCLI#606984 CCLI#606984