Video Devotionals

Thursday, July 19, 2018

Healing Grace Part 2

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How do we experience God’s healing grace? It’s one thing to theoretically believe in healing, and another to believe that healing can happen in your life. We’ll never reach out to receive God’s healing grace unless we truly believe that Jesus made healing possible.

Through the ministry of Jesus, it’s clear that He welcomed all who came to Him for healing. Take a look at Matthew’s description in Matthew 15:30 (NLT), “A vast crowd brought Him the lame, blind, crippled, mute, and many others with physical difficulties, and they laid them before Jesus. And He healed them all.”

How does God heal us? God heals people:

• Sovereignly — He just shows up and heals!
• Through His Word — We are healed as we take in God’s Word. His Word is life and health to us.
• In response to prayer — Many of Jesus’ healing works during His ministry was His response to someone’s request.
• Instantly — Sometimes God’s healing comes miraculously; in a moment.
• Progressively — Jesus heals people progressively over time.
• Ultimately in eternity — Because we live in a broken world, not all ailments are fully healed in this life. For the believer in Jesus Christ, there is total healing in eternity!

When you come to God in need of healing He responds with compassion and touches you with His healing grace!

Pastor Dale

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Healing Grace Part 1

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Just as salvation is by grace through faith, all God’s blessings and gifts are also ours by His grace. They cannot be earned or deserved. This is true when it comes to healing. We all battle with sickness, disease, broken and damaged places in our lives––spirit, soul and body. What does God’s grace offer us for our sick, diseased, broken, damaged spirit, soul and body?

The Bible teaches us that God, by nature and character, is a healer. Healing is an expression of God’s grace to us—an undeserved, unearned gift from God. God heals, not because people deserve it or because He owes it to us. God extends healing to us because of and through His grace.

Healing is one of the benefits that come to us also as a result of Jesus’ work of salvation on the Cross and in His resurrection. At Calvary, Jesus purchased not only our forgiveness, He purchased our healing as well. The prophet Isaiah pointed us to this in Isaiah 53:5 (NIV) “But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed”.

In Jesus, God’s healing grace is available to you!

Pastor Dale

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Saving Grace

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The grace of God is an incredible truth that we need to understand. To understand God’s grace, we must do some thinking about eternity. What do you really believe happens to people after they die? What do you really believe about where you will spend eternity?

The Bible teaches us that heaven and hell are real places. Everyone will spend eternity in one of these two places. When it comes to salvation—when it comes to securing our eternal destiny in heaven—we need to understand God’s saving grace. There is nothing we can do to earn or secure our eternal salvation. The way we receive eternal life in heaven is by putting our faith in Jesus Christ, God’s Son. When we do, we are saved by grace.

Saving grace gives us access to heaven now and eternally. We’re reminded of this in Ephesians 2:8 (NIV), “God saved you by His special favor when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God.”

John Newton, a former slave trader and wretched sinner understood the beauty of saving grace in his life when he wrote, “Amazing Grace, how sweet sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found, blind but now I see.”

You don’t earn God’s saving grace. You receive it by faith.

Pastor Dale

Monday, July 16, 2018

God’s Grace

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One of the most important concepts in the Bible is the unfolding story of God’s grace. This week we are looking at several things about the grace of God. To live a successful Christian life, we need to both understand and experience God’s grace.

What is God’s grace? Grace is the gift of God’s undeserved, unearned blessing, acceptance, kindness, and love. Grace makes us strong and able to live for God and fulfill His will.

Grace is counter-intuitive to our natural, sinful nature. Actually, our prideful nature wants to achieve status, recognition, even salvation by our own merits rather than through the gift of God’s grace.

There is no way to achieve, qualify for, or earn the many benefits and blessings of God. The only way to access them is through the grace of God His grace comes to us when we put our faith in Jesus Christ. John 1:14-16 (NIV), “The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth… From the fullness of His grace we have all received one blessing after another.”

When we receive God’s grace marriages, families, businesses, finances, health, and all things change! God’s grace transforms us.

Open your heart to God’s grace today!

Pastor Dale

Friday, July 13, 2018

Moving Toward the Future

| 2:04 min video |

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Thursday, July 12, 2018

Do Your Best

| 2:16 min video |

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Wednesday, July 11, 2018

You Are Free

| 1:50 min video |

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Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Live In Your Calling

| 2:04 min video |

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Monday, July 9, 2018

Don’t Let Fear Hold You Back

| 1:03 min video |

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Friday, July 6, 2018

The Door to Your Blessing

| 2:16 min video |

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Thursday, July 5, 2018

Do You Need Healing?

| 1:25 min video |

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Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Love that Satisfies

| 1:47 min video |

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Monday, July 2, 2018

A Secured Future

| 1:58 min video |

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Friday, June 29, 2018

The Power of an Apology

| 1:06 min read |

The toughest words for some people to say are “I’m sorry.” Apologies are too often viewed as a sign of weakness. Pride and stubbornness cause people to dig their heels into the proverbial ground and refuse to admit their relationship mistakes.

As hard as it may be to do, apologies are extremely beneficial, not only to others but to us. When we say “I’m sorry,” we’re owning responsibility for our weaknesses, failures, brokenness, sinfulness, and insensitivities. An apology is a good reality check for us. It’s is a sign of self-awareness and emotional maturity. It’s also a way to grow in humility.

When we grow in humility, we position ourselves for blessings from God. James, the apostle, reminded us of this in James 4:6 (TPT) “ … God resists you when you are proud but continually pours out grace when you are humble.”

This verse alone should motivate us to be quick to acknowledge our failures. It should remove from us any hindrance to stepping up and saying “I’m sorry!” The opportunity to access increased grace and favor from God should make apologies attractive to us!

Pastor Dale

Thursday, June 28, 2018

Resolving Conflicts

| 1:29 min read |

How do you handle disagreements with others? Even the most compatible people sometimes differ. People have different personalities, different values, different opinions and different perspectives that can cause conflict. To have great relationships we must know how to deal with differences.

Sometimes our differences become conflicts. We find ourselves at odds with someone. Voices are raised. Harsh words are spoken. People are hurt. Distance is created. Emotional walls are built. Our friends become enemies.

How can you resolve these conflicts? Here’s a couple of great Bible verses that direct us in dealing with relationship difficulties:

Romans 12:18 (TLB) “Don’t quarrel with anyone. Be at peace with everyone, just as much as possible.”

Romans 14:19 (TPT) “So then, make it your top priority to live a life of peace with harmony in your relationships, eagerly seeking to strengthen and encourage one another.”

Conflicts are resolved when we place a high value and high priority on peace. When peace is a priority, it is pursued. Relationships improve when two people stop attacking one another and attack the problems that are hindering their friendship. Peace comes when people view themselves as members of the same team, rather than opponents. This change in perspective creates an entirely different attitude and approach to our differences.

Turn your enemies into friends again by attacking problems instead of attacking each other.

Pastor Dale

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Dealing with Differences

| 1:08 min read |

How do you handle disagreements with others? Even the most compatible people sometimes differ. People have different personalities, different values, different opinions and different perspectives that can cause conflict. To have great relationships we must know how to deal with differences.

Here are a few Bible verses from the book of Proverbs that guide us in handling conflict:

Proverbs 17:14 (NLT) “Starting a quarrel is like opening a floodgate, so stop before a dispute breaks out.”

Proverbs 20:3 (NLT) “Avoiding a fight is a mark of honor; only fools insist on quarreling.”

Proverbs 18:6, 7 (TLB) “A fool gets into constant fights. His mouth is his undoing! His words endanger him.”

These verses teach us several principles. The most important is that our differences shouldn’t divide us. They shouldn’t create personal attacks and ongoing contention between us. As it’s been said, you don’t have to always see eye to eye to walk hand in hand.

Where have you allowed your differences with someone to turn into division? Differences are differences. They don’t have to destroy your relationships.

Pastor Dale