TODAY’S “GOOD NEWS” – January 19, 2003  

MESSAGE:  “LIVING FREE:

                                …Trusting God In All Situations”

SCRIPTURE:  Mark 4:26-29

KEY VERSE:  Philippians 4:6  “Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.”

 FOCUS:  God boldly promises peace as replacement for our anxiety.

INTRODUCTION: “If I could have the confidence in the midst of crises and challenges that I have after they are over, how much more abundant my life would be.  I am much better at retrospective interpretation of what God has done than I am at relaxed insight about what He’s doing.”       ~ L. Ogilvie

I.     THE PLANTING OF GOD’S TRUTH IN YOU

 

 

 II.    THE PERSISTENCE OF GOD’S WORK IN YOU

 

 

 III.  THE PATIENCE REQUIRED TO REALIZE GOD’S PLAN

 

 

 IV.   THE PRODUCT OF GOD’S WORK FULFILLED

 

CONCLUSION:  “Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the gospels, it would seem that our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak.”  ~ C. S. Lewis

PREACHING:  Pastor Holland Lewis