Week 1 Recap
Live with a
Do not fear, little flock, it’s your Father’s good pleasure to give you the
. —Luke 12:32
With man this is impossible, but with God all things are. —Matthew 19:26
Big dreams begin with one question: What
Expect great things;
great things. —William Carey
Week 2 - Faith Enablaing Friend
Enable
1-One who
2-One who
3-One who gives someone else the
6 Jonathan said to his young armor-bearer, “Come, let’s go over to the outpost of those uncircumcised men.
Jonathan’s armor-bearer became his faith enabling
We need friends who dump
I want to be a
Maybe some of us today are even struggling to be hopeful?
11 For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. —Jeremiah 29:11
Some of our thoughts go straight to worse case scenario. Expecting the other shoe to drop.
What would change if when you were entering into a room and you thought everybody likes me here. Everyone here is hoping that I show up.
But I don’t deserve the blessing and favor of God? The Lord can’t use me like that, I have somehow disqualified myself. Start listing excuses.
Redemption
The purchase back of something that had been lost, by the payment of a ransom.
The term was used specifically in reference to the purchase of a slave’s freedom.
Our debt has been paid in
Jesus has redeemed every area of our lives so that we can belive Him and dream with God in every area of your life!
What if the Lord wants us to bless
Bless our Health, our wealth, our ministry, our relationships, our fun and even recreation.
1. We Need to Surround ourselves with Hope
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm. —Proverbs 13:20
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother —Proverbs 18:24
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity —Proverbs 17
7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. —1 Corinthians 13:7
Ruth And Naomi
Faith enabling Friends
20 “Don’t call me Naomi (which means plesant),” she told them. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter.
21 I went away full, but the Lord has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The Lord has afflicted me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me.” —Ruth 1:2016 But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. 17 Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.” —Ruth 1:16-17
2 And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor.” —Ruth 2:2
3 Wash, put on perfume, and get dressed in your best clothes. Then go down to the threshing floor, but don’t let him know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking. —Ruth 3:3
9 “Who are you?” he asked.
“I am your servant Ruth,” she replied. “Spread the corner of your covering over me, for you are my family redeemer.” —Ruth 3:914 Then the women of the town said to Naomi, “Praise the Lord, who has now provided a redeemer for your family! May this child be famous in Israel. 15 May he restore your youth and care for you in your old age. For he is the son of your daughter-in-law who loves you and has been better to you than seven sons!” —Ruth 4:1`4-15
16 Naomi took the baby and cuddled him to her breast. And she cared for him as if he were her own. 17 The neighbor women said, “Now at last Naomi has a son again!” And they named him Obed. He became the father of Jesse and the grandfather of David. —Ruth 4:16-17
Nothing can
- Romans 8:31: If God be for us, who can be against us?