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Valley Chapel Assembly of God
Characteristics of a Conquering Faith
Sunday, August 7, 2022 at 11:00 EDT at Valley Chapel AG, 300 Valley Rd, Clifton, NJ 07013, and ONLINE at https://bit.ly/VCAG-LiveStream
Locations & Times
Valley Chapel Assembly of God
300 Valley Rd, Clifton, NJ 07013, USA
Sunday 11:00 AM
As Christians, one of the battles that we continually face is struggle between flesh and faith. Our natural selves tend to want to do things “our way” and be a “self-made man.” Children quickly develop a pride of accomplishment when they become capable of doing things on their own, without anyone’s help. Teen’s struggle as they approach adulthood, as they resist parental assistance, wanting to become more and more self-sufficient. Young adults take joy when they are able to launch out on their own, capable of finally establishing themselves in this world. The businessman feels he has accomplished his goal when as he “does it his way” and his company is a success.
We have learned to lean on our flesh so continuously that it’s no wonder that it becomes a difficulty to stop leaning on the arm of flesh, and begin to totally walk by faith and not by sight.
However, if we are to be and do all we can in the Lord, we must not lean on our abilities and strengths. We must be a people of faith. In fact, the Bible tells us in Hebrews 11:6 that “without faith it is impossible to please God.”
How do we learn to develop a faith that will increasingly please our God and move the mountains in our life? The Old Testament prophet Elijah provides for us some key characteristics of the kind of faith we must cultivate in our lives if we are to truly be conquerors for Him! This Sunday morning, we will look at 1 Kings 18:41-46, and examine the faith-actions employed by Elijah, as he declares rain upon a barren land! Don’t miss this life changing message!
Join us this Sunday at 11 am at Valley Chapel Assembly of God, 300 Valley Road in Clifton, NJ!
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Elijah demonstrates for us exactly what the characteristics of a conquering faith are! We must have these SAME characteristics if we want conquering faith!
“Go eat and drink, for there is a sound of a heavy rain”
· How faith comes
· Faith versus presumption
“Elijah… bent down to the ground and put his face between his knees.”
· Faith cannot act alone!
· Are you willing to pray the price?
“Go and look toward the sea,” he told his servant. And he went up and looked.
· Our vantage point
· Our need to forget the past and the natural
· Our need to look to Jesus!
“There is nothing there,” he said. Seven times Elijah said, “Go back.”
· The folly of “microwave Christianity”
· The persistent widow –
“A cloud as small as a man’s hand is rising from the sea.”
“Go and tell Ahab, ‘Hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’”
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