DA Brown - Associate Pastor's teaching references for 07/04/2021

Acts 10 - The Cup of Blessing

Life Lesson (verse Acts 10:)

Expect and look forward to God speaking to you as you seek Him, no matter your background, your status, or where you are.

Life Lesson (verse Acts 10:)

Being open to whatever God wants to say or however He leads will bless you and those He calls you to impact.

Statement (verse Acts 10:)

WHEN YOU SEEK GOD, and HE ANSWERS OR SPEAKS, THE IMPETUS IS NOW ON YOU, HE'S DONE HIS PART.

Statement (verse Acts 10:)

May we think of Freedom, not as the right to do as we please But as the Opportunity to serve God.

Matthew 8:8 NKJV

8 The centurion answered and said, "Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof. But only speak a word, and my servant will be healed.

Matthew 27:54 NKJV

54 So when the centurion and those with him, who were guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake and the things that had happened, they feared greatly, saying, "Truly this was the Son of God!"

Acts 27:42-44 NKJV

42 And the soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim away and escape. 43 But the centurion, wanting to save Paul, kept them from [their] purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should jump [overboard] first and get to land, 44 and the rest, some on boards and some on [parts] of the ship. And so it was that they all escaped safely to land.

Psalm 141:1-2 NKJV

1 LORD, I cry out to You; Make haste to me! Give ear to my voice when I cry out to You. 2 Let my prayer be set before You [as] incense, The lifting up of my hands [as] the evening sacrifice.

Proverbs 8:17 NKJV

17 I love those who love me, And those who seek me diligently will find me.

Psalms 55:17 NKJV

Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, And He shall hear my voice.

Ephesians 3:3-6 NKJV

3 how that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already, 4 by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ), 5 which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets: 6 that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel,

John 18:28 NKJV

Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Praetorium, and it was early morning. But they themselves did not go into the Praetorium, lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover.

Colossians 3:11 NKJV

where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave [nor] free, but Christ [is] all and in all.
 

James 1:5-8 NKJV

5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 [he is] a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Genesis 22:18 NKJV

18 "In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice."

Acts 2:40 NKJV

And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation.”

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