Christ Covenant Church
What would this New Year look like if instead of a new fad diet or list of resolutions, we began to neutralize the damaging influences happening on the inside of every one of us? Most have convinced themselves that God will just improve their messed up life but that they could never be their best. Instead they think they will just wait and be perfect in heaven. The fact is God wants to make all things new now. Get ready to experience a year of real lasting change. It’s time to Change For Good!
1 Peter 1:3-9 MSG
“THE FUTURE STARTS NOW”
01. YOU’RE IN THE WILL
1 PETER 1:3-5 (NIV) Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
02. THE STRUGGLE IS MAKING YOU STRONGER
1 PETER 1:6-7 (NIV) In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
QUOTE:
Faith in the middle – is worth more than gold.
03. DON’T MISS WHAT’S RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU
1 PETER 1:8 (NIV) Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and even though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy,