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Do you have locks on the doors to your heart?

5/22/2017

 
When inviting the Holy Spirit to open the eyes of my understanding He requires full access to my heart and He waits for me to remove the locks from the doors.
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2 Thessalonians 3:5
May the Lord lead your hearts into a full understanding and expression of the love of God and the patient endurance that comes from Christ.

The Father's Smile

5/21/2017

 
​Love always brings the greater yield, the enduring legacy, and The Father's smile.

It's Coming

5/20/2017

 
Today was once was beyond the view of yesterday's horizon, and eternity will dawn much sooner than the present moment suggests. What once was a faint whisper hinting of it's advancement is growing in volume each day, Time is precious and people more so. Love without delay.

​James 4:14 
How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone.

Self

5/18/2017

 
Sometimes the fiercest challenge to personal advancement comes from self.

The Holy Spirit

5/16/2017

 
​The Holy Spirit's water is better then the devil's Kool-Aid.

​John 4:14
but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

The Word has the answers

5/15/2017

 
God graciously permits us to take tests with an Open Book.
2 Timothy 3:15
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and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Travel Friendy

5/11/2017

 
The Gospel is the most travel friendly message in the world. It can wear the clothes, speak the language, and advance the health, of every culture and community.
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Revelation 5:9
...... For You were slain, And have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,

Your Potential is in Christ

5/9/2017

 
Reaching one's man assigned potential is not the chief aim of personal faith, Christ becoming more is.
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John 3:30
​30 He must increase, but I must decrease.

One Truly Cares

5/8/2017

 
The world is filled with scores of personal storylines, so much pathos.There is One who is compassionate without discrimination.
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1 Peter 5:7 
Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.

The Best Version of Me

5/7/2017

 
Potential is often based upon man's measurements and projections. However, "The Best" version of me on any given day, is increasingly more of Christ and less of self. God sees what I can become and He desires that I allow Him to transform my life, so that it will reflect His authorship.
Philippians 3:13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,

    Pastor Rick Ritenour
    Lead Pastor

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