Faith is Not a Feeling
By: Nancy Missler; ©2000 What happens to your faith when you are faced with a devastating tragedy? Nancy Missler explores that question from painful personal experience. Introduction As we said before, faith is not a feeling: it’s simply the power to believe. It’s the ability to see everything through God’s eyes. The only way our…
Why is Faith so Important?—Part One
By: Nancy Missler; ©2000 Nancy Missler explains what faith is, and looks particularly at the life of Abraham to see what a difference faith made in his life. Contents 1 “Being Fully Persuaded” 2 A Scriptural Example: Abraham 3 Definition of Faith 4 Notes “Being Fully Persuaded” Few subjects in the Bible are more important…
Ways God Reveals His Will to Us
By: Nancy Missler; ©2000 Nancy Missler explains why prayer and fasting are important actions we can use when approaching God to discern His will for our lives. Contents 1 Introduction 2 God Speaks to Us Through Prayer and Fasting 3 God Speaks to Us Through Submission to the Spirit 4 Notes Introduction God wants us…
God’s Promises: Fulfilled in His Way
By: Nancy Missler; ©2000 How often have you “given up” on God because a promise was not fulfilled within what you considered a “reasonable” time frame? Nancy Missler give examples from the Bible, as well as from her own experience of promises fulfilled—in God’s time frame, and in God’s way! Contents 1 Introduction 2 “Lord,…
Knowing God’s Will Personally
By: Nancy Missler; ©2000 We CAN know God’s will for our lives. Nancy Missler looks at ways God has revealed it to us, and how we can recognize it. Contents 1 How Does God Let Us Know His Specific Will? 2 God Speaks to Us Through His Word 3 The Promises of God in the…
Our Own Free Will
By: Nancy Missler; ©2000 We must learn to free ourselves of sin and self in order to become conduits of God’s Love. Nancy Missler explains how this can happen. Contents 1 Our Free Choice 2 Moment-by-Moment Choices 3 The Power of Our Human Will 4 Notes Our Free Choice Having just explored the four aspects…
Will We Trust God?
By: Nancy Missler; ©2000 We must learn to free ourselves of sin and self in order to become conduits of God’s Love. Nancy Missler explains how this can happen. Introduction God finds new ways every day to ask us, “Will you trust Me? Will you trust Me to do towards you all that I need…
Sin, Self and the Love of God
By: Nancy Missler; ©2000 We must learn to free ourselves of sin and self in order to become conduits of God’s Love. Nancy Missler explains how this can happen. Sin and Self God’s ultimate plan is to set His people apart (or sanctified) from the flesh, the world and the devil, and fashion us into…
Sanctification
By: Nancy Missler; ©2000 What is sanctification, and how does God work in us to achieve it? How is Peter a good example of the process of sanctification? Contents 1 God’s Will in the Life of a Believer: Sanctification 2 Why the Sanctification Process? 3 The Process of Becoming Holy 4 A Scriptural Example: Peter…
The Forgiveness that Counts
By: Dr. James Van Dyke; ©2000 How important is forgiveness? What do we miss if we refuse to forgive others? What is the basis of our being able to forgive as Christ commands? A woman came into the team meeting at a Lay Renewal in a local church, asking the team to pray for her.…
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