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The Good Samaritan
This is honestly the best illustration i’ve ever seen. Enjoy!
God Is…
Wow, i feel like i owe you all an apologie for not blogging in soo long. Things have been crazy around here with Encounter, Events, Fundraisers, Events Planning, Etc… (especially wedding planning haha) 
As most of you know, OCC is following the ONE PRAYER series along with Craig Groeschel @ Lifechurch.tv and currently 1872 other churches all across the world in order to become Jesus’ answer to His prayer in John 17:20-24.
This year’s theme for One Prayer is: God is…
We have already looked, together as a church, at the fact that God Is: Able as well as God Is: Moving. On Monday of this week, i was working at the bakery and i was just thinking and meditating on this word of God Is… As i was pondering on this fact, something came to mind that was quite shocking to me, yet very true. I starting to think about how God Is… (in one way) UNable. Let me explain.
Though God IS very able to DO anything, BE anything and BECOME anything we need Him to be, (up to a certain extent of course), in a sense, God is very UNable as well. Numbers 23:19 clearly states that God is not a man that He should lie as well as stating the fact that He is unable to break promises.
In Joshua 9 we clearly see that God cherishes convenants and that He is a God of covenants. God is UNable to break covenant.
All throughout Scriptures we see that God is UNable to be unfaithful.
Here are a few more – God Is Unable:
- To Sin
- To Be Where Sin Is
- To Deceive
- To Go Against Free Will
- To Be Unjust
- To Be Unfair
- To Ignore His Children
- To Hate His Children
- To Break Any Commandments
- To Make Mistakes
And that is just to name a few. Let me know your thoughts!
Effective Growth
Posted by Phil Jean on May 15, 2009 in Bible, Christianity, Get a Grip Ministries, Life, Sermons, Small Group, Young Adults, Youth
So tonight, i am starting this new message series entitled, “Effective Growth”. I am super excited about this because we are going to be hitting a few different areas in each of our lives in which growth is required.
- Growth is required in our spiritual lives.
- Growth is required in our social lives.
- Growth is required in our relationships.
- Growth is required in our professional lives.
Our personal lives are not the only thing that needs growth, we are also going to be look at
- How to effectively grow our influence.
- How to effectively grow as a ministry.
- How to effectively grow as a small group or life group.
Hope you come pumped and ready to receive tonight. All of our messages are all downloadable, streamable and also posted on podcasts which can all be found at www.getagripministries.ca
Friday April 10th Youth Service
We had an AWESOME time this past Friday. The word, the worship and the ministry time was phenomenal. A Lot of people were blessed and a lot of people were moved and touched by the Spirit of God. I heard a lot of good things from a few people but please let me know YOUR thoughts regarding last night’s service! If you can also share a little something that God spoke to you about, that would be awesome. It doesn’t need to be something personal, in fact please refrain from sharing if it’s personal. That should stay between you God and maybe your life group leader! Can’t wait to hear from all of you.
Donevan Impact Apr 9th
WOW,
That’s all i can say. Wow. The Spirit of God was so present today as we spoke about forgiveness. The story of the adulterous woman accused by the Pharisees and Sadducee’s in Matt 8 was shared. I have never seen these kids pay such attention since Valerie Dionne shared her Testimony. (if you never heard he testimony, take her out for lunch and ask her, it’s worth it!!!) an altar call was made and 6 people gave their life’s to Christ. It was awesome. If there is one thing that will never stop to amaze me, it’s when someone surrenders to Christ! I got a quick chance to speak to them and i invited the whole group back to our Get a Grip Generation Service and our Special Easter Service on Sunday. Many of them took fliers and agreed they would come to both Sunday and Friday service! This is amazing
A Love Story
Last friday, i delivered my second message from my new message series called The Hot Pursuit. I talked about God’s love and love in general. I explained our need FOR love, TO love and TO BE loved. In order to try to explain the love story that God wrote to us know as the Bible, i wrote a little story my self and was told i need to put it on my blog. So here it is. Enjoy!
Once there was a man named Joe. He was in love with this one girl. Her name was Tina. His whole entire life he was trying to get her attention. One day she noticed him but she didn’t think much about him. He really loved her. He would buy her flowers, bring her chocolate, take her to the movies but she wouldn’t change how she felt about him. On the other hand though, she really liked the attention so she kept going to the movies with him. She always loved that he would bring her flowers but still, she wouldn’t give in. Soon enough, you could say that she was just flat out using Joe. Joe felt really hurt because he knew what she was doing but his love for her was so grand that he just couldn’t help it. He did everything he could to try to make her happy and to be there for her even if he knew that she didn’t want anything to do with him.
One day, Tina got really sick and she had to be hospitalized as there was something wrong with her heart. Everyday Joe would come and see her. He would buy her gifts and write her poems and cards to try to make her feel better. All this time, Tina was wondering why Joe was doing all this, but she never said anything. The doctors said that Tina needed a heart transplant but because of her rare blood type and heart tissue, it would be nearly impossible to find a match. It was as if she was already dead; there was no hope. Tina started to cry. The next time that Joe came by, she told him everything. A few days had gone by since Joe’s last visit. though she didn’t love him the same way he loved her, she started to wonder where he had been but she didn’t think much about it after that. Later on that same day the doctors stormed in to Tina’s room saying “Ma’m We have found you a new heart. It’s a miracle.”
A few short days after that, the surgery went on as planned and was a success. Tina came out of the operation as healthy as before. On her way out, the doctor stoped her and said that there was a note that came in for her. He said it was from a man named Joe. Tina quickly opened the note and began to read. By the time she got to the end, she was crying uncontrollably. The note went as follow.
Tina, How should I begin? My whole life, all I wanted was you. You meant more to me then you will probably ever know. I know that in your heart, you did not feel the same way as I did, but all the things I did for you, was in hope that one day you might. My love was never along the lines of, “as long as you love me, I will love you”. My love for you was unconditional. When I came in that day to your room and I saw the grief, pain and hurt on your face when you told me what was going on, I knew what I had to do. I left your room and got tested for my blood type and heart tissue to see if it was compatible and it was. After much thinking, I knew I had to do it. Your life meant a lot more to me than my own. I truly hope that you live a life with as much love as i currently feel for you. Hope you like your new heart!
In hope that we meet again one day,
Joe
Power of our Words!
Last week was my second message on my “Words of Faith” series. It was based on James 3:3-12. Watch this clip. Dr. Masary Emoto is not a Christian and yet he understands this concept. The movie is pretty self explanatory so enjoy!
Mid-Winter Meltdown
WOW, man I Don’t even know where to start, It was just awesome all together. I have never met a man with so much revelation about God’s Word. I remember the Mid-Winter Meltdown 2008 when Pastor Ebenezer Markwei came, I got to spend time with Him and He knew so much about the Bible. You asked him about a story in the Bible and he would know it by heart. I thought that was awesome. What i truly loved about Pastor Danny Bonilla is the fact that Not only did He know His Bible front to back but also the fact that He so easily challenged our thinking by shedding light on scriptures like never before. He preached from stories that we’ve all heard in Church but with a brand new pair of glasses. I thought it was awesome! let me know what you all thought of the weekend!
Bless you all
-Phil-
Words Of Faith in Action
I find it amazing that God is like He is! I mean, like I previously mentioned, I just started a new series on the power of your words and it just so happens that God makes me practice what I preach. For the last 3 days now (starting on Tuesday) I’ve been having this pain in my bowels. I went to the doctors and got a bunch of tests done and they can’t give me a straight answer to what it is. Now the Doctor has told me that he thinks it’s a stomach flu which WOULD affect my bowels. The reality is that God started to speak to me. He asked me, in a reminding tone, what was I starting to preach about and so He told me, well start to act what you preach! Sure enough, all I needed to do was to speak over it and I’m doing a lot better now!
Words Of Faith Series
I started a Series called the Words of Faith last Friday and i have already heard lots of awesome responses. The thing is that everything we say every day affects the outcomes of our lives. The best scripture to support this thing is found in Matthew 12:35-37 “35 A good man produces good things from his storeroom of good, and an evil man produces evil things from his storeroom of evil. 36 I tell you that on the day of judgment people will have to account for every careless word they speak. 37 For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” Tell you what, to know that by my own words I will be condemned, it really makes me want to think twice about what i am going to speak over my self and other people and about what kind of speeches come out of my mouth! Always remember that life and death are in the power of the tongue! (proverbs 18:21)