What A Friend We Have In JESUS!

Thank you so much GOD, for the best wireless communication in the world, PRAYER!

For you GOD are omnipresent, present everywhere at the same time, so YOU can hear us anytime and anywhere.

GROW------GOD Rewards Our Work

Five Principles of GROW

GOD- Rewards- Our- Work

1.   The Principle of sowing and reaping.

• No church will reap if they will not take the time and effort to sow.
• We must prioritize ministry and outreach.

2.   Involving Every Member

• JESUS has called all believers to be s part of the Great Commission.

3.   Having Fun with Outreach

• We need to remind others and ourselves that serving the Lord can be fun.

4.   Making Quality Time Greater Than 
      Quantity Time

• Desire alone is not enough to see the church grow.

5.   Reaching Out By Divine Appointment

• Not every visit, letter, call or contact will be a divine appointment; but many of them will be!

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WHAT EVERY SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS 
NEEDS FOR GROW
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• Four GROW Captains
• The Teacher's Excitement About GROW
• Accountability to One Another
• A Class Prospect List

Types of GROW Visits/Calls/Letters

1. Prospects
2. Sunday School Absentees
3. Home bound
4. Hospital
5. Bereavement
6. Names of People GOD puts on my Heart
7. Gospel Presentations

"Living and Giving Beyond Myself" --- By Pastor David Luckert --- 9-04-16

Mark 6:6-44 King James Version (KJV)

⁶ And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching.
⁷ And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits;



¹² And they went out, and preached that men should repent.
¹³ And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.



³⁰ And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught.
³¹ And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.


³² And they departed into a desert place by ship privately.
 ³³ And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together unto him.


³⁴ And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.
³⁵ And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came unto him, and said, This is a desert place, and now the time is far passed:



³⁶ Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.
³⁷ He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?


³⁸ He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.
³⁹ And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.



⁴⁰ And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.

⁴¹ And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all.


⁴² And they did all eat, and were filled.
⁴³ And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.
⁴⁴ And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men.

Consistently Communicate With GOD -- James 5:16 --- June 2018 ---Dr. David Higgs

 

1. No relationship can flourish without constant communication!

• Communicate with.......
• Humble Heart
• Wholeheartedness
• FAITH
• Righteousness
• Obedience

      2.  You can talk to GOD about anything!
Philippians 4:6
 


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___A Useful Prayer Guide__

A  Adoration
C  Confession
T  Thanksgivngs
S  Supplication --- request or petition

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• Get involved in at least one prayer group
• when you feel the impulse to pray, then PRAY

 

Intermittent Fasting

A Timeless Message...For A Contemporary People...In A Traditional Voice. 9-04-16

 

"There's Something About That Name"

 

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus; there’s just something about that name.
Master, Savior, Jesus, like the fragrance after the rain;
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, let all Heaven and earth proclaim
Kings and kingdoms will all pass away,
But there’s something about that name.
Kings and kingdoms will all pass away,
But there’s something about that name.

 

 Songwriters: Gloria Gaither / Willam J. Gaither

 

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Responsive Reading

Matthew 22:35-40

 

35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

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"O How HE Loves You And Me..."

 

Oh, how He loves you and me, Oh how He loves you and me. He gave his life, what more could he give?
Oh, how He loves you; Oh, how he loves me; Oh, how he loves you and me.
Jesus to Calvary did go, His love for sinners to show. What He did there brought ho

 

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1975 Word Music, LLC (a div. of Word Music Group, Inc.)

pe from despair.
Oh, how He loves you; Oh, how he loves me; Oh, how he loves you and me.

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O How I Love JESUS

 

O How I Loved Jesus

Alan Jackson

There is a name I love to hear
I love to sing its worth
It sounds like music in my ear
The sweetest name on earth

Oh, how I love Jesus
Oh, how I love Jesus
Oh, how I love Jesus
Because He first loved me

It tells me of a Savior's love
Who died and set me free
It tells me of His precious blood
The sinner's perfect plea

 

Oh, how I love Jesus
Oh, how I love Jesus
Oh, how I love Jesus
Because He first loved me

It tells of One whose loving heart
Can feel my deepest woe
Who in each sorrow bears a part
That none can bear below

Oh, how I love Jesus
Oh, how I love Jesus

 
Songwriters: Alan Jackson

O How I Loved Jesus lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hearing GOD'S Word      Mark 6:35-41   

 And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came unto him, and said, This is a desert place, and now the time is far passed:36 Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.
37 He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?
38 He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.
39 And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.
40 And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.
41 And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all.

Ambassadors for CHRIST ( JESUS' mentoring of the disciples.) 5-15-18 ---Mike Head

JESUS'S Approach to Create Ambassadors

• Create a small group to train.
• Invest in even smaller groups that will lead the others
• (ex.  Seminary in Belize,  Church built in non-churched area)

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I.   Bear Witness

2 Corinthians 5:17-20 King James Version (KJV)

¹⁷ Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
¹⁸ And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
¹⁹ To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
²⁰ Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

"I appeal as a fellow elder, a witness of Christ's....."  
I Peter 5:1-2

Matthew 10:19-20 King James Version (KJV)

¹⁹ But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.
²⁰ For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
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II.  Authority

Matthew 10:1 King James Version (KJV)

10 And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.

Ephesians 6:19 King James Version (KJV)

¹⁹ And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,

²⁰ For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
 

Acts 4:13 King James Version (KJV)

¹³ Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
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III.  Ambassadors Go

Where are ambassadors needed?   everywhere

Matthew 10:5 King James Version (KJV)

⁵ These twelve JESUS sent forth.....

Luke 10:1-3 King James Version (KJV)

10 After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.

² Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
³ Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.

Luke 10:16 King James Version (KJV)

¹⁶ He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.

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IV.  The "Work":  Ambassadors represent    someone else, not themselves

Our America culture bring great problem solving skills and a great "can do" attitude
but we can sometimes fall into the trap of placing the project completion Over the people we came to serve.

The object is NOT always the project as much as WHO did we Touch while working on it.

Continuously Witness To Others ---- Luke 15:8-10 ------- David Higgs

It is people that matters to GOD!



 What Should We Be Doing?

1. Two Actions

• Searching

• Rejoicing

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Why was she searching?

• the tragedy of the lost

• value of the lost      ---- Romans5:8

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Why should we rejoice?

• Christ's Kingdom is enlarged

• a new birth has occured

• Heaven is rejoicing

 
 

3-29-17---- Restore----

You Wouldn't Still Be Alive If GOD Didn't Have Another VICTORY In Store For You!

Matthews 7:21-23
Romans 10:9-10
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A--      Amazing Blessings  in response to our Obedience
L --      Life Abundant
I ---      Invitation to Start Over
V---      Victorious Existence
E ---     Eternal Life

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John 1:16
I Samuel 2:30
Jeremiah 32:41
Psalms 1
Matthews 5
John 10:10
John 15:11
Acts 15:52

Isaiah 65
GOD prepares us for something, even when we don't know it!
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Celebrate Recovery 12 Steps and Biblical Comparisons

1. We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors, that our lives had become unmanageable. 

I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.
For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. Romans 7:18 NIV


2. We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose. Philippians 2:13 NIV


3. We made a decision to turn our lives and our wills over to the care of God.
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God - this is your  spiritual act of worship. Romans 12:1 NIV




4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord. Lamentations 3:40 NIV



5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. James 5:16a NIV



6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up. James 4:10 NIV


7. We humbly asked Him to remove all our shortcomings.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9 NIV



8. We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
Do to others as you would have them do to you. Luke 6:31 NIV



9. We made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift. Matthew 5:23-24 NIV



10. We continue to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall! 1 Corinthians 10:12


11. We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us, and power to carry that out.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly. Colossians 3:16a NIV




12. Having had a spiritual experience as the result of these steps, we try to carry this message to others and practice these principles in all our affairs.
Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore them gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted. Galatians 6:1 NIV
Throughout this material, you will notice several references to the Christ-centered 12 Steps. Our prayer is that Celebrate Recovery will create a bridge to the millions of people who are familiar with the secular 12 Steps (I acknowledge the use of some material from the 12 Suggested Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous) and in so doing, introduce them to the one and only true Higher Power, Jesus Christ. Once they begin that relationship, asking Christ into their hearts as Lord and Savior, true healing and recovery can begin!

Dig A Deep Well---- Genesis 26 ----- David Higgs ---- 7-16-17

98.3

Life is a matter of   FAITH.

Pray Big Prayers By FAITH!

Genesis 26:12-13

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How To  Dig A Deep Well With GOD

1. A life of meekness and peace making.  (vv. 19-22)
2. A life of giving.   (v.25)  (v.30)
3. A life of worship
4. A life of obedience (v.2)

Issac was wise
He was building wells
180 years old

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Benefits of Digging A Deep Well

1. You will leave a legacy
2. Life sustaining supply of GOD'S Grace
3. Plenty to share with others
4. Deep wells don't dry up, but shallow wells dry up, when you need them the most.

Who Invented the Pacemaker? Otis Boykin 1920-1982

Otis Frank Boykin (August 29, 1920, Dallas, Texas – March 13, 1982, Chicago, Illinois) was an African-American inventor and engineer.

He then moved to Chicago, where he studied at Illinois Institute of Technology for two years.  He was discovered and mentored by Dr. Denton Deere, an engineer and inventor with his own laboratory.  He graduated from Fisk University in 1941 and got a job as a laboratory assistant, testing automatic aircraft controls.

In 1944, he moved on to work for the P.J. Nilsen Research Labs in Illinois. Shortly thereafter, he started his own company, Boykin-Fruth Inc. The firm Boykin-Fruth, Inc., would collaborate on a number of projects.

Otis Boykin was born in 1920 in Dallas, Texas. His mother was a maid, who died of heart failure when Otis was a year old. This inspired him to make the pacemaker.  His father Walter was a carpenter, who later became a minister.


Boykin attended Booker T. Washington High School in Dallas, where he was the valedictorian, graduating in 1938. He attended Fisk University on a scholarship and worked as a laboratory assistant at the university's nearby aerospace laboratory.


He then moved to Chicago, where he studied at Illinois Institute of Technology for two years.  He was discovered and mentored by Dr. Denton Deere, an engineer and inventor with his own laboratory.  He graduated from Fisk University in 1941 and got a job as a laboratory assistant, testing automatic aircraft controls.


In 1944, he moved on to work for the P.J. Nilsen Research Labs in Illinois. Shortly thereafter, he started his own company, Boykin-Fruth Inc. The firm Boykin-Fruth, Inc., would collaborate on a number of projects.

An x-ray of a pacemaker, one of Otis' inventions

Did You Know that Otis Boykin invented the Cardiac Pacemaker?

(August 29, 1920, Dallas, Texas – March 13, 1982, Chicago, Illinois)

Boykin was an African-American inventor and engineer, who patented 28 electronic devices. One of his early inventions was an improved wire resistor. 

Other notable inventions include a variable resistor used in guided missiles.

His most famous invention was  a control unit for the artificial cardiac pacemaker.  The device essentially uses electrical impulses to maintain a regular heartbeat.

Otis Boykin ---- Inventor of the Wire Resistors used for TV's, Radios, and Computers,etc.....

An x-ray of a pacemaker, one of Otis' inventions





Otis Frank Boykin (August 29, 1920, Dallas, Texas – March 13, 1982, Chicago, Illinois) was an African-American inventor and engineer.

Boykin patented 28 electronic devices. One of his early inventions was an improved wire resistor, which had reduced inductance and reactance, due to the physical arrangement of the wire.

Other notable inventions include a variable resistor used in guided missiles.

His most famous invention was likely a control unit for the artificial cardiac pacemaker. The device essentially uses electrical impulses to maintain a regular heartbeat.

Living Under GOD'S Grace --- Romans 6: 14-15 ----- David Higgs ------ May 5, 2019

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Justification  ---  FREED from penalty of sin

Sanctification  ----  FREED from Power of sin

Glorification  ---  being set FREE from the presence of sin
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I.  Freedoms From the Law
    A.  Three (3) Types of Laws
          1.  Ceremonial Law   ---- Leviticus 1:2
          2.  Civil Law  ----  Deuteronomy 24:10-11
          3.  Moral Law of GOD   ------ 10 Commandments
    B. Why was the Law given?
          1.  To Control us  ---- Galatians 5:1
          2.  To Condemn us  ------ Romans 3:20
    C.  How are we FREED from the Law?
          1.  Galatians 3:13
          2.  Romans 8:1

II.   New Life Under GRACE
     A.  Four (4) Types of GRACE
          1.  Saving GRACE   ----  Ephesians 2:8-9
          2.  Sustaining GRACE  ----   II Corinthians 12:7
          3.  Sanctifying GRACE   ----  I Corinthians 15:10 --- 
          4.  Dying GRACE
 

Philippians 2:13 King James Version (KJV)

¹³ For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

King James Version (KJV)
III.   Closing Thoughts About GRACE
       A.  GOD'S GRACE can be resisted
           1.  Hebrews 12:15
           2.  James 4:6
       B.   GOD'S GRACE is not a license to sin.
     C.   GOD's GRACE doesn't remove the consequences of my
            sins here on earth.        
     D.   GOD'S GRACE will lead to proper response
     E.   GOD'S GRACE is to be celebrated. 

Do You Need Help? ------- By David Higgs ----- 11-12-17 ----- Psalms 121

We all need GOD'S help.      (v.1)

We all have access to GOD'S help.   (v.2)

GOD'S help is constantly available.   (vv. 3-4)

GOD will not let our foot slip.

GOD our helper can meet every need.  (vv.5-6)

• physical needs

• emotional needs

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Applications

1. Call out to GOD and admit your need for help.
2. Look up  --  Pray on knees.
3. Go through life singing the song of  Psalm 121.

James 4:6 King James Version (KJV)

⁶ But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

Proverbs 16:5 King James Version (KJV)

⁵ Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

Isaiah 2:12 King James Version (KJV)

¹² For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

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I lift up my eyes to the hills.
From whence does my help come?
My help comes from the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.

                            Psalms 121:1-2

Scriptural Text 4-23-18

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Matthew 24:29 King James Version (KJV)

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Daniel 7:13-14 King James Version (KJV)

¹⁴ And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

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Matthew 19:28 King James Version (KJV)

²⁸ And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

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Ezekiel 36:34-36 King James Version (KJV)

³⁴ And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
³⁵ And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
³⁶ Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the Lord build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it.

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 Daniel 11:25 King James Version (KJV)

²⁵ And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him.

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Revelation 12:6 King James Version (KJV)

⁶ And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

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Egypt  -King of South Destroyed

Daniel 11:42 King James Version (KJV)

⁴² He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
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Daniel 11:42 King James Version (KJV)

⁴² He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.

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 Ezekiel 38:14 King James Version (KJV)

¹⁴ Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord God; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?

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 Daniel  11  ----  'where we are

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