Saskatoon Full Gospel Church http://www.saskatoonfullgospel.com A Sending Ministry To The Nations Tue, 08 May 2012 19:06:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 WEEKLY WALK IN THE WORD http://www.saskatoonfullgospel.com/weekly-walk-in-the-word-44.html http://www.saskatoonfullgospel.com/weekly-walk-in-the-word-44.html#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 18:04:24 +0000 sfgc http://www.saskatoonfullgospel.com/?p=4189 Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ  to all our weekly readers and welcome to our first time readers if you have stumbled on to this site we want you to know we have prayed for people to be directed to our site. These last two weeks I have had such great joy sharing with our church and those who watch our Livestream service sunday after sunday. The Apostle Paul speaks to the church at Ephesus and and shows them how that with the death of our Lord Jesus they have been made rich. Ephesians 1:1-6 There has been for the longest time in the church and generally with mankind the idea that no good thing could happen to them. Its as though people have been made to feel like they don’t deserve to be on the receiving  end of the goodness that life has available. It seems sometimes that we have been conditioned to think that good things should only come to those who live rich and privileged. But reading and understanding exactly the intention of Apostle Paul’s heart to the church at Ephesus, it becomes very clear that those of us who have received Jesus into hearts and lives have unlimited favour. Tis book reveals to those who have been made to feel hopeless and helpless that God has made available extreme blessings to us in Christ. It also tells us how we can live right in this day and age with all that is going on around us, and tells us how who we are and whose we are and how much power we have available to us. One of the many discoveries a person will make is that we have an inheritance in Christ given to us freely. Nothing that we can do to earn it or deserve it and not work for it or enter into any contest for it. I like the following verses from Ephesians 1:17-19 ” God may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him….that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe.” I find that many christians have no idea of who they really are in Christ and that is where the problem begins. And also do not have a clear understanding of who they belong to they see themselves as powerless and impotent and that is why they live such defeated lives. Knowing the truth about what the bible says about you can make the difference between living in rags or living the rich life that Christ alone can provide. Another thing that is noteworthy is that TRUTH is always truth whether you believe it to be or not it will always be truth. How sad to see so many christians living below their privileges when they were meant live in the wealth provided for by the death of the Lord Jesus. There three characteristics of who you really are as a believer for you to discover as found in the first six verses of Ephesians 1:1-6 Firstly and one of the most important things that made me come to freedom in Christ and in myself is that “I AM SIGNIFICANT” . When you have grown up in the context of Apartheid South Africa you will understand that the system was designed to make you believe you are insignificant. It was something that was entrenched and enforced by diabolical laws and to be taught in the school education systems that people of colour were insignificant and were third class citizens. I am sure now you will be able understand my excitement coming to Christ and reading in the Bible verses like Ephesians 1:1-3 and finding that it says that I am significant. Something so contrary to what I was made to believe something that ingrained into our very being every day of school and every day you went to work and every day you went home. Let me explain a little bit about people of colour were allowed to live only where the governing party said you could live and where you could go to school or what kind of job you can get or what bus you can ride. People have no idea how liberating it is to read that Christ died on the cross for you and the penalty for your sin and put to death the old self on that cross. We sometimes can get so awed and caught up with His dying to forgive us and that is right but He also died to enable us to receive this new life He offers. Surrender of our lives is the first step to receive this new life there is such a thing as the Great Exchange where He gave His life so we can now let Him live His life through us. he becomes our life and we live by His life He is now in us and we are in Him and as such we live from a new and different level of life. His righteousness is made our righteousness when the father looks on us He sees His son. In Christ we are significant and no one can change that or alter that as long as we stay “IN CHRIST” we endued with SIGNIFICANCE. And once I received a revelation of who I am in Christ I started to live from that position and what a change and difference has come into my life. Colossians 3:1-4 ” If then you have been raised up with Christ, seep seeking the things above where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above and not on things that are on the earth. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life is revealed then you also will be revealed with Him in glory” Our position as believers is as those who are “HIDDEN” we are now seated in heavenly places in Christ. That is our position, and we are saints because of our position in Christ. This is the truth we must see by faith this is who we really are, it has been said that some people can’t get saved because they won’t accept their sinnership and that some Christians can’t walk in victory because they cannot accept their sainthood. In Christ we are SIGNIFICANT and we are saints and we don’t have to wait to die to become saints and we have His permission to live like saints.

]]> http://www.saskatoonfullgospel.com/weekly-walk-in-the-word-44.html/feed 0 WEEKLY WALK IN THE WORD http://www.saskatoonfullgospel.com/weekly-walk-in-the-word-43.html http://www.saskatoonfullgospel.com/weekly-walk-in-the-word-43.html#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 16:53:30 +0000 sfgc http://www.saskatoonfullgospel.com/?p=4185 “YOU HAVE SIGNIFICANCE OF GOD” Dear readers agin we were awed by the goodness of our God and King Jesus who graced us with His awesome presence. Its been such a humbling these last few weeks to think that the creator of everything that there is and that has been created or spoken into existence would care to manifest His presence in our humble little building. I had the great privilege of sharing what I think is lacking in our day and in our churches by and large. People are told and there are many teaching on how to get this or that from God and how to be and don’t get me wrong I think we should. But my challenge is that there just foes not seem to be enough teaching on the significance of the believer as described by the Bible and by the Lord God Himself. When a person who lives or comes to Christ like I came from a third world background its easy to come to church in North America and start to chase down all these wonderful possibilities we hear preached. But the best thing that ever happened to me was coming to just discover what the Bible says about who I am and Whose I am and What I have in Christ. That has changed my course in this life and caused me to walk in a more confident and positive as well as productive way in this life. As I read through the book of Ephesians and tried to understand what the Apostle Paul was trying to get them to begin see and begin to walk out in their lives. I saw it in my own life as I searched the scriptures from Ephesians 1:1-3 I found such freedom in knowing I am significant in the eyes of the one person who knows me the Bible says while I was in my mothers womb. Paul the Apostle to the church in the book of Ephesians 1:1-3 It opens with a call to the “SAINTS” which is the word  ” HAGIOS” = Holy. So often when we think of the word SAINT we think of someone who died and not someone who is still alive.

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]]> http://www.saskatoonfullgospel.com/t-e-a-c-h-first-year-lesson-1knowing-gods-will-and-voice.html/feed 0 WEEKLY WALK IN THE WORD http://www.saskatoonfullgospel.com/weekly-walk-in-the-word-42.html http://www.saskatoonfullgospel.com/weekly-walk-in-the-word-42.html#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:23:59 +0000 sfgc http://www.saskatoonfullgospel.com/?p=4153 Hey everyone its that time of the week again when thoughts become words and words become sign posts or directional signs pointing us to places that have been there just that we have not traveled there personally. So here goes as we have taken the time over the last several weeks to cover the storms of life that sometimes come to beat down on us as we walk this planet. Its not a matter of if the storms come but rather its a matter of when they come how we respond will determine how we come out on top or in the deep. Acts 27 has been our scripture for reference and has served us a place to to start every week for the last four weeks and we begin again this week. We covered how that when the Apostle Paul was been transported from one port to another one of the most violent storms had crept up on their boat and started to beat down upon it. We looked at how the Apostle Paul was able to stay calm in what must have been a time of great chaos as witnessed over the last few weeks that the sailors had started to throw things out of the boat. The reason for throwing things out of the boat was that they realized they had lost control of the boat and that they needed to do something real soon if they were going to save the boat and the lives on board. What they did not bank on was that on board was a man with a very personal relationship with a Holy God and who could hear from God no matter how loud the storm was screaming. We see that the last thing they threw overboard was the four anchors in the hope of the anchors dragging the bottom of the sea and coming to a stop. I have likened these four natural iron anchors to four spiritual anchors that every child of God has available to them when things get out of control. The first week we covered the first one as the Anchor of Gods Presence as the rest of the crew and passengers on board were fearing for their lives the Apostle Paul had a visitation. He had a personal visit from the angel of the Lord God whom he belonged to and whom he served. The second anchor we covered was the anchor Knowing God and the comfort that the Apostle enjoyed in the midst of the storm because he knew the Lord. The third anchor we covered was the WORD of the Lord in the storm that the Apostle Paul was able to hold on to during that trying time. When as a child of God we are faced with challenges and trials that come to take us out the HOPE for all our HOPELESS situations is to know the Word God has given us. There is nothing like having a prevailing Word from God when the enemy of our souls comes to do what he like to do best and that is to rob, steal and kill, knowing we have an answer is so refreshing. Lastly the fourth anchor that every child of God has when storms of life come is that of the WILL of God always comes to pass. The owners of the boat were chartered to take the Apostle Paul to stand trial but even though that was what the authorities had as their plan God had His own plan. And that plan included the ship they were travelling in would run aground on an island that God needed to come to the knowledge of who the true God is. When they landed on the island the natives wanted to care for them and started to collect wood to make a fire to warm them who had been in the water for awhile. Apostle Paul was one who also went about collecting the wood and a serpent locked its mouth around his hand and the natives thought surely he was going to die. But we read that the Apostle Paul just shook the serpent off and that caused the natives to really see that there was a greater power at work in the Apostle Paul life. As a result they took him to the chief of the tribe and he prayed for the chief and the Lord healed him and the whole island came under the power and rule of the Lord Jesus. So we can see that no matter what we going through there is always the plan of God that will have its cause and we should take courage that nothing can happen to us that the Lord will not know about. Every step of the righteous is ordered by the Lord and the Lord knows our end from the beginning its why His called the ALPHA and OMEGA. I hope you have been encouraged in some small way through these last few weeks of the WEEKLY WALK IN THE WORD. Its why I take the time to share some of my thoughts its my HOPE that some may find Hope in theses words or that some would find the HEALING they need through reading these words. Its when we look outward sometimes at other peoples storms that we get a fresh look at where we are and are better able to deal with our own personal storms. SHALOM

]]> http://www.saskatoonfullgospel.com/weekly-walk-in-the-word-42.html/feed 0 WEEKLY WALK IN THE WORD http://www.saskatoonfullgospel.com/weekly-walk-in-the-word-41.html http://www.saskatoonfullgospel.com/weekly-walk-in-the-word-41.html#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:29:10 +0000 sfgc http://www.saskatoonfullgospel.com/?p=4147 Wow its hard to believe we just started this year and already Easter weekend has come and gone that can mean only one  thing and that is we fast approaching the end of the first quarter of the year 2012. Seems like just yesterday people all around the world were standing on the edge of a brand new year with some trepidation not knowing what this year would bring. Many made new years resolutions and have hoped to stay true to those they made and as they must look at this first quarter closing down I wonder what must be going through their minds right now. For those of you who have been on this weekly journey together with me for the last several weeks we have taken time to look down the corridors of time at the Apostle Paul on his way to stand trial in Rome as found in Acts 27: Its here discovered no matter how trained and experienced one might be there come a time in everyones life that things can go wrong and you just do not have the answer for it. These were experienced seamen that were part of the company of soldiers paid to deliver Apostle Paul safely to Rome to stand trial before the Roman courts. Over the last couple of weeks I have stated that as the seamen were looking for ways to bring some control to their out of control situation they started to throw things overboard the ship. One such time they threw four anchors in the hope that if only one would catch the bottom of the seabed its would slow them down and perhaps keep them from being destroyed on the rocks. I shared how I felt that we too react in similar ways when things get out of our control and we start to panic we tend to look get rid of things anything that can help feel a reconnection to some semblance of control. But as I said earlier even experienced and trained people sometimes meet with that one time or could i call it the “PERFECT STORM” that seems to set on ultimately destroying your very existence. But the last two weeks we covered how as believer we have anchors that we can grab a hold to during these challenging times and be reassured that we live in Christ and nothing surprises Him. The (1) Anchor we said was the Paul had a very present Angel stand beside him in the storm and tell him not to fear but be of cheer. As believers we not only have angels on assignment to protect the believer but also we have the ever present Holy Spirit dwelling on the inside of every child of God. For every HOPELESS situation He provides HOPE. (2) The second anchor we said we have as children of the sovereign Lord God and King of our lives is that Apostle Paul had the knowledge of the Lord. And he also had the knowledge of the fact that not only was the Lord His hiding place or His helper in times of Help but that he Apostle Paul belonged to the Lord. We read in the chapter ”  of whose I am and whom I  serve”  there was no mistaking during the storm who Paul belonged to and whose possession he was. The author of that storm would have to go through the almighty God to take His prize possession the Apostle Paul and the same has to said of those who put their trust in the Lord. This week I want to leave you to ponder the third of such like anchors given to every believer in Christ Jesus as Saviour and Lord. Third we have as privileged children of the sovereign Lord is the anchor of knowing the “WORD” of the Lord, there is nothing more satisfying than that. As the Apostle Paul stood in the midst of the perfect storm with destruction on it mind he could take courage in knowing that before they set sail he had a word from the Lord. There is nothing more empowering and more thrilling than to know when life places before you what seems to be the end of you as people would know you to be, then for you to just somehow come through it again. I have had many near death experiences and even give an expiry date for living but knowing that I have the PRESENCE of a Loving God, having the KNOWLEDGE that I am not my own anymore and that I have been bought with a price is overwhelming, and to know thatGod has set a PREVAILING WORD above me and nothing that comes my way can stop His word from prevailing. As a believer we live sometimes far blow what Jesus died for, we make His death seem so small when its loaded with so much for all believers. And the cry of my heart to our church weekly is not for those of us who have discovered this awesome life to gloat and do nothing but that all mankind should be participators of this glorious life. When God sets a word over your life its as though He has sealed it and has the only key to open that seal. Even though the ship was now off course from the original plan scheduled for Paul to stand trial before the Roman courts it now seamed after taking a beating by the storm they were now going in a different direction. Often times when storms come they have this tendency to make you feel like you are way out and off the beaten path and on the forgotten path. But we are never afar from His Love or from His help or for those who feel Hopeless we are never without Hope. As we find out in the story we have been reading for the last several weeks we are always on His mind in the bible tells us in Jeremiah 29: 11 that His thoughts towards us are to prosper and give us a HOPE and a future not to destroy us. So if you feel like you are in a storm grab hold of these anchors and assert your God given rights as a son or a daughter and rejoice.

]]> http://www.saskatoonfullgospel.com/weekly-walk-in-the-word-41.html/feed 0 WEEKLY WALK IN THE WORD http://www.saskatoonfullgospel.com/weekly-walk-in-the-word-40.html http://www.saskatoonfullgospel.com/weekly-walk-in-the-word-40.html#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:55:41 +0000 sfgc http://www.saskatoonfullgospel.com/?p=4122 Greetings again my friends its a great joy as always to come to you week after week. Last week we discussed the idea of life sometimes puts us through storms. And we used the Apostle Paul’s life as described in Acts 27: and the storm he had to face in the boat that was taking him to Rome to stand trial. Last week shared how they as the stormed began to beat down on the boat they were in  they began to fear for their lives and started a course of action by throwing things overboard. Its not hard to see that when a storm begins to beat down on our lives we too like the sailors who were on board with Apostle Paul, we look for anything that we think may be responsible for the situation we find ourselves in. But often times it becomes a operation of fear rather than one of knowing who you are in Christ. And this week I want to share with you as a follow up from last week that the second anchor that Paul had was the knowledge of Christ and who he was in Christ. There is nothing more calming in the middle of some of the worst storms of life that come and blow on you, as knowing you are a child of God. The first anchor we discussed last week Paul told them they should have listened to him and not leave for the destination they had set out on. Now the second anchor that the believer or the child of God can take courage is in the KNOWLEDGE of God and the character of God. We have probably heard many times over this saying “GOD IS GOOD” but we have heard it said so much that it has lost the full impact. Because we do not serve a God who has become a favourite but rather a true and living and loving God who offers to the Helpless His Helper the Holy Spirit. For the HOPELESS He offers to us the only HOPE for this dying world filled at this present time with so much turmoil. Leaders from around the nations have never had to meet so often around world issues as they have in the last several years trying to provide for a HOPE that has been so elusive to them. They sit and go for days sometimes weeks and hoping to come up with new peace initiatives and still they have not found for the turmoil a solution. Most accord of peace are never either honoured or are honoured only to be broken in a short period of time which brings them back to the table to discuss a new way to peace. I don’t what you our readers may think I would not like to sound pessimistic  because this Bible we read and live by and have allowed the words to govern our every heart beat is full of situations that looked so bleak and yet at the end when all is surrendered to the Lord it all works together for our good. Our reading from Acts 27: shows yet another instance where things may getting out of our control and may cause much anxiety but its never out of His control. A life lived in Him and out of Him is never out of His control nothing that happens around us to us or even in us would surprise the Holy God we serve. Paul had a life in Christ and that guaranteed Paul peace in the most hostile situation even at the risk of loss of life and belongings. Paul had a knowledge of the God he had come to know on the road to Damacus and that knowledge prepared him for the unfortunate situation was before him. And instead of panicking and stressing out and losing his sanity PAul reminds them about his earlier warning not to leave but they listened to those who should know the seas better. Sometime even the best of us an in the areas of authority and influence that we preside can make mistakes or be lead by our training as was the case of the sailors but there is something about having the leading of the Holy Spirit. As stated last week Paul stands delivers his short exhortation and then says be of “good cheer” there will not be any loss of life.Why won’t there be any loss of life” because there stood before me this day an angel of the Lord of whose I am” knowledge whose you are is powerful. I believe its the most liberating feeling when you know that you have a father who is rich in MERCY and full of GRACE and that He will not let your foot slip. He will make all things work together for your good even those things like the financial storms perhaps a physical, or a health storm and maybe even a domestic or marriage storm, at this time that may seem painful or distasteful.( Romans 8:28)

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