Nancy:

-God does not leave us where we’re at but draws us into repentance.

-Romans 2:4

-There are so many promises of God in the Bible.

-Romans 8:32

-He won’t with hold anything from us.

-Psalm 25:4

-The word of God is always perfect.

-Jeremiah 29:11

-Jesus never stops pursuing, but He needs a response from us.

-James 1:22

-Faith needs to be put into action to see changes.

-Jesus is always the answer.

-Matthew 7:7-8

-Are we asking? Seeking? Knocking?

-Mark 16:15-18

-Mark 16:20

-1 Corinthians 14:18

-Romans 8:1-2

-Matthew 5:4

-2 Corinthians 10:5

-We have the victory in Christ!

Lindsay: The narrow gate and the abundant life

-Matthew 7:14

-John 10:10

-Matthew 16:24-25

-To live an abundant life we need to know the heart and mind of Jesus.

-Philippians 2:2-16

-We were made for Him. Not Him made for us.

-We were made to give because love gives.

Bill: Benefit of beforehand

-2 Thessalonians 2:5

-How do we prepare?

-Luke 21:14

-Luke 6:44

-Luke 6:45

-Proverbs 4:23

-Settling it in your heart.

-John 16:33

-His plan was to tell them so that they would have peace.

-It requires understanding that we interact with our mind and body with the world, but we have joy.

-Renew our mind and settle truth in our heart.

-Tribulation and joy simultaneously.

-Don’t run away be prepared.

-Settling our hearts is permanent- it is where we choose what to believe.

-The transition from just renewing your mind/settling in your heart.

-It’s not a transition from learning/ doing more.

-It’s choosing what we believe.

-1 Peter 3:15

-This is why He tells us things beforehand- so we can settle it in our heart.

Fear or peace

-Hebrews 10:34

-Romans 8:11

-2 Corinthians 10:5

-Proverbs 18:21

-Proverbs 14:30

-fear and peace both grow from focus and repetition.

-How do we find peace in our heart?

-James 4:10

-Why do we repeat what people say and not what God says?

-We look for life in the Word, not to check a box.

-John 14:27

-Bless those who curse you.

-Pride can limit you.

-When you’re prideful you think you’re your own God.

-Hebrews 10:10

-Do our own opinions about ourselves or other peoples opinions about us conflict with Gods word? Then we know what needs to go.

1 John

-Your joy should be full because of Jesus. Joy is a fruit of the spirit.

-There is no darkness in Him so he does not put darkness on us.

-If we are experiencing darkness in our life, God is the light.

-if we’re in the light we will have fellowship with one another.

-We are supposed to receive His sacrifice.

-1 John 3:16

-How does someone’s heart get condemned?

-When your heart gets condemned it can lead to anxiety, depression, and all kinds of other things.

-You will know you are in Christ when you know how much you’re loved.

-The only way you know that is by spending time with Him.

-He has made us free from the things that have paralyzed us. He has made us free from the law of sin and death.

-There is no condemnation for us who are in Christ.

-Don’t let your heart be condemned.

-We abide in Him and He abides in us. It’s not a feeling it’s the truth.

-How do you test a spirit? Holy Spirit will tell you. Look at their fruit.

The finish line- Joel

-Hebrews 11:8-9

-Philippians 3:12-14

-“The finish line” is setting your mind on Heaven.

-We have victory over the enemy.

-John 16:33

-Philippians 3:15

-The prize in Heaven itself.

-Philippians 3:20

-Hebrews 11 and Hebrews 12

-1 John 3: 2-3

BUTCH & JULIEANN

-Everything is under the name of Jesus.

-The word needs to be in your heart.

-1 John 4

-We don’t have the spirit of fear.

-We will have challenges but be of good cheer! He has overcome the world!

-The dark spirits sometimes disguise themselves as good spirits.

-Don’t believe every spirit- test the spirit.

-Our flesh is weak. We need to be careful that we don’t grab whole of just anything- test the spirit.

-He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

-He is greater than any temptation.

-If we know God we know He will take care of the situation.

-1 John 4:8

-Jesus doesn’t come to make us comfortable.

-If we are fearing anything, we are not trusting God.

-Truth is not always the loudest voice, but it can become louder if you begin to walk in it more.

-The most powerful thing in the world is words.

-Doubt means unbelief, wavering, questioning

-In this world we need discipline.

-Jesus says to love everybody. What is love? Jesus is love.

-We have Jesus inside of us so we have love inside of us. We want to love others the way Jesus loves not the way we love.

-We have to take off ourselves and put on Jesus every day.

-Proverbs 18:21

-Gods image is love.

-When you cut people off that’s not forgiveness.

-It makes practice to love people “in this way” as Jesus said.

-We need to practice daily and put on Jesus daily.

-Can you get away from your own love to use His love?

-There’s a transformation that’s supposed to happen to every person who believes in Jesus.

-See the change.

-Jesus refers to us as little children because our mind is not set yet. We need to believe it.

-Don’t live by your senses, live by your spirit.

-Speak with authority so you can hear it and belief it. If you say it with doubt you won’t believe it.

-Faith comes by hearing.

-Jesus doesn’t temp or test, satan does.

-There are no generational curses just generational choices.

-We don’t serve a God who created trauma- we serve a God who heals trauma.

-1 John 5

-1 John 3:23

-God can’t make you change the things you’re thinking about. But you can and it comes through spending time with Him.

-Fear involves torment, it is anti love.

-When we learn to love the Lord we will obey Him.

-The witness of God is great than the witness of man.

-99% of the time it’s not the enemy attacking us it’s our own thoughts.

-We can pull down the stronghold because it’s our thoughts that are creating them.

-Ephesians 4:17

-Revelation 2

-2 John

-2 and 3 John specifies and focuses on: truth, love, grace, mercy, peace

-The truth abides in us.

-There is not a truth, there is THE truth.

-A soft answer turns away wrath.

-Love = walking according to His commands.

-Guard your heart.

-It should be for the Lords name sake, not for ours.

-Do not entertain that which is not of Christ.

-Those that do evil have not seen God.

-Truth exposes deception.

Cole M

-1 John 3:16

-Romans 5:6-9

-You get all of his love right now.

-1 John 3

-2 Corinthians

-Matthew 6- seek first the Kingdom

-1 John 3:14

-Laying down your life for one another.

Pastors Butch & Julieann

-Matthew 5:44

-Isolation makes us self centered.

-Jesus washed his betrayers feet and treated Judas with as much love as everyone else.

-Mark 12:29

-James 2:8

-The more love permeates your heart you won’t even consider things of the world.

-We love Him so much we don’t want to leave Him.

-Jesus wants to know where our hearts are.

-Jesus is fine with us having things as long as the things don’t have us.

-What has your heart right now?

-Offense is a choice.

-Matthew 22: 37-39

-John 13: 34-35

-2nd John 1: 5

-Psalm 19

-Sometimes it’s easier to cut off the outward sin than to address the chasm in your identity.

-Go to the foundational crack not just the outward action.

-We can rely on the laws of God and they revive us.

-The testimony of the Lord is sure.

-There is so much joy in the structure of the Lord.

-The commandment of the Lord is pure.

-His intentions toward you are pure.

-The fear of the Lord is clean.

-The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

-The rules of the Lord are true.

-Psalm 20:4

-May He grant you your hearts desire & fulfill all your plans!

-Psalm 19 is the road to righteousness.

-Testimony means do it again.

-Hide yourself in His word.

-If your foundation is Him it is sure and secure. If your foundation is about you it will crack.

-The Lord can’t lie to us.

-Believe means trust.

-If the Lord loves us why would he tell us he loves us and lie?

-Hold your peace- trust in the Lord with all of your heart.

-The steps of a righteous man are ordered by the Lord.

-Gods strength is perfected in our weakness.

-Don’t rely on yourself and your 5 senses- rely on Jesus.

-A merry heart does good like a medicine.

-It’s not about what we can attain from God because we’ve already received it as a free gift. It’s about Him.

-Jesus never was sick. As He is so are we in this world. If Jesus wasn’t sick- we aren’t sick.

-We’re lacking the simple perspective of not living by our own principles, but living by dependence on Him.

-Trust is one of the biggest parts of the Christian life.

-Isaiah 53

-Faith means trust.

-When we turn to God and say “Jesus help me” His strength is perfected.

-Let go and let the Lord be Himself in us. His yoke is easy and His burden is light.

-Deny ourselves, our own strength, daily.

-We don’t care what the symptoms are saying- we can hold our peace.

-When you hold your peace satan loses.

-We need to be lead by the spirit of God.

-Sometimes we get so caught up in striving an effort that we don’t realize that we’ve lost out peace.

-God gets the final word.

What makes Jesus move?

-Don’t miss what’s in front of you.

-If you’re looking into the future you will miss what He’s doing right now.

-He already moved.

-You can’t be broken when you’re LOVED!

-In Him we are FREE!

-It’s the truth that sets you free. Not the slaying of the demons.

-Jesus went to the cross believing every single thing He said.

-Hebrews 4:12

-The word will bring out what’s really in your heart.

-Love brought Jesus down, love took Jesus to the cross, love sustained Him, love resurrected Him.

-Ephesians 2:8

-It is nothing we do that gets us saved other than receiving Him.

-When you’re not facing something, sometimes you don’t make the time for Him.

-Proverbs 4:20

-Keep your heart with all diligence.

-Jesus tells the truth in love. Love doesn’t look like agreeing with everyone and their ideologies.

-Know what truth you’re following.

The Fathers love

-John 3:16

-Jesus never complained.

-We are called to love our enemies. We can love our enemies because we love/ are loved by Jesus first.

-When you put everyone else is the God spot it brings trouble.

-Romans 5:8

-Jesus died for all of us before we were saved. Can we do that? We can with the love of Jesus in us.

-There’s always going to be someone who isn’t going to be nice, but we are to love them.

-1 John 4:9-10

-Romans 8:38-39

-Time with Jesus should be #1.

-He is protecting us wherever we are.

-What if when something happens we let the love of God rush in and we remind ourselves of how loved we are?

-Instead of considering all of the knowledge we have, consider how loved you are!

-Ephesians 2:6-10

-Don’t let your heart be hard like a walnut shell.

-We are His masterpiece.

-Romans 5:5

-Jesus is our hope.

-John 15:9

-Abide means stay, live, remain.

-Ephesians 3:14-19

-John 16:27