gracespring Bible Church
UNdefeated
Today, Pastor Bryan kicks off a new 5-week series called “The Game Plan.” Today’s message title is “UNdefeated” and the scripture focus is Nehemiah 1:1-3.
Locations & Times
gracespring Bible Church
8643 Gull Rd, Richland, MI 49083, United States
Sunday 9:00 AM
Sunday 10:45 AM
What is GOD’S WILL for my life?
What is GOD’S WILL for my life . . . NOW?
What is GOD’S WILL for my life . . . NOW?
Questions when reading the Bible:
1. What did it mean then?
2. What does it mean now?
3. What does this mean for me personally?
4. What does this mean for us collectively?
1. What did it mean then?
2. What does it mean now?
3. What does this mean for me personally?
4. What does this mean for us collectively?
Visualize the PROBLEM
(Nehemiah 1:1-3)
(Nehemiah 1:1-3)
3 Categories of the WILL OF GOD:
1. Sovereign Will – WHAT God says will happen.
2. Moral Will – HOW God designed things to happen.
3. Personal Will – WHAT God wants YOU to do to make things happen.
1. Sovereign Will – WHAT God says will happen.
2. Moral Will – HOW God designed things to happen.
3. Personal Will – WHAT God wants YOU to do to make things happen.
Question 1: Can you SEE the need?
“Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control." – Proverbs 25:28
The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise, as some understand slowness. Instead He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. – 2 Peter 3:9-10
“Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control." – Proverbs 25:28
The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise, as some understand slowness. Instead He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. – 2 Peter 3:9-10
God’s Game Plan begins with Jesus.
Vince Lombardi
Question 2: Will you be part of the solution?
“I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before Me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one. So will pour out My wrath on them and consume them with My fiery anger, bringing down on their own heads all they have done, declares the Sovereign LORD.” – Ezekiel 22:30-31
“I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before Me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one. So will pour out My wrath on them and consume them with My fiery anger, bringing down on their own heads all they have done, declares the Sovereign LORD.” – Ezekiel 22:30-31
WHY we choose to turn a BLIND EYE to standing in the gap:
1. We forget WHOSE we are. (Colossians 3:1-4)
2. We get distracted by the lies of Satan out to. . .
DECEIVE you.
DISCREDIT you.
DISCOURAGE you.
DISTRACT you.
3. We prefer COMFORT.
1. We forget WHOSE we are. (Colossians 3:1-4)
2. We get distracted by the lies of Satan out to. . .
DECEIVE you.
DISCREDIT you.
DISCOURAGE you.
DISTRACT you.
3. We prefer COMFORT.
All of us live in 1 of 3 levels:
Level 1 – SURVIVAL
Level 2 – SUCCESS
Level 3 – SIGNIFICANCE
“Our greatest fear should not be failure, but in succeeding in things that do not matter.” – D.L. Moody
Level 1 – SURVIVAL
Level 2 – SUCCESS
Level 3 – SIGNIFICANCE
“Our greatest fear should not be failure, but in succeeding in things that do not matter.” – D.L. Moody
Our Game Plan MUST involve being a people who STAND IN THE GAP, helping be used of God to bring RESTORATION out of DEMOLITION.
2 Judgment Day Questions:
1. What did you do with Jesus?
2. What did you do with the life God gave you? (Eph. 2:10)
1. What did you do with Jesus?
2. What did you do with the life God gave you? (Eph. 2:10)
Hope of you developing a personal Game Plan:
1. Pull you out of apathy and into action.
2. Provide you a purpose over pleasure.
3. Prioritize steps that will take you from the urgent into the important.
“Your greatest joy is where your deepest longings collide with the worlds greatest needs.” – Frederich Buechner
1. Pull you out of apathy and into action.
2. Provide you a purpose over pleasure.
3. Prioritize steps that will take you from the urgent into the important.
“Your greatest joy is where your deepest longings collide with the worlds greatest needs.” – Frederich Buechner