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What would you be willing to bet on a game that had already been played?
Greetings from GTCOTR, my wife Brenda and from our close knit family of churches.
Your Pastor, Rodger Bradley, and his wife Stacey …
We are joined together at heart and vision. Together we are helping to provide funding and staffing for orphanages, bible schools, medical clinics, schools, churches and feeding centers around the world. We are drilling water wells, providing daily bread, building churches, winning souls and making disciples of Jesus in this community and communities like this around the globe.
Like the bible stories of old, our lives should be a script that only God can write.
God knows that success is more than a one step process and success often belongs to those who are willing and able to endure that process.
There is a universal law called the ‘Law of Sacrifice’. Simple stated it says that we must be willing to give up in order to go up.
We are more effective being what we need to be instead of being what we want to be.
Even little things done right can make a big difference.
With a common enemy we can hide together, but with a common purpose we can run together.
God demands that we participate in our miracles.
Both heaven and earth choose aggressive, decisive and determined individuals to lead the defining battles of life.
Key Scriptures:
Hebrews 11:31 By faith the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did not believe, when she had received the spies with peace.
James 2:25 Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?
Allow me to ask you a question:
What if God has a plan that includes you?
The stories in the Bible are written for our admonition and are designed to guide us through life as we glean principles of divine truth from each one. When we see the same patterns of life repeating themselves over and over again, weaved into several stories of life, we must accept that God is trying to teach us something which He sees as very important.
Our scripture reading this morning tells of two sides of the coin of life:
1. Faith
2. Works
The story of Rahab is one of the more unlikely success stories in the Bible. (Recount the story of Rahab beginning in Joshua 2)
Compare with:
* Ruth the Moabitess in the book of Ruth
* Rebekah from
* Leah the unloved wife from Genesis 29
* Tamar the daughter-in-law of
* Bathsheba the adulteress from 2 Samuel 11
All great, great, great grandmothers of Jesus!!!
Even the 12 tribes of
Believe me when I say to you that the Bible paints an unmistakable picture of the truth and the truth is:
1. God Has A Plan
2. He Will Succeed
3. You Have A Chance To Participate
It is the undeniable will of God that each one of you:
1. Make A Living
2. Make A Life
3. Make A Difference
Little is much in the hand of the Lord
And
Many hands make a light load
A few days ago I stood on a hill overlooking a valley belonging to the city of
The central truth of that story is one repeated in many others stories of the bible:
Often, when God wants a job done, a child is born.
The child born to Manoah and his wife in Zora was none other than Samson.
Like Ester, Samson was born at the right time, in the right place and life prepared him to participate the plan of God.
There on that hillside I heard God ask me, “Why were you born?”
Today I know for certain that I was born to fit the plan of God.
Each day, in every way, in the ordinary events of life and the extra-ordinary opportunities I may be afforded, I was born and life has prepared me to participate in the plan of God.
Let me ask you: “Why were you born?”
God has a plan
He will succeed (even if it costs Him your life)
You have a chance to participate
Commit your all to His success.
