TODAY’S “GOOD NEWS” – February 2, 2003  

MESSAGE:  “LIVING FREE:

                                …Trusting God In All Situations” Part II

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: Freedom from anxiety is the byproduct of trusting God when He is silent.

INTRODUCTION:  “The parable of the growth of the seed teaches us that what God guides, He provides.  But between the planting and the harvesting is the waiting period when He is at work and we must wait.  Peace is God’s gift for the interface between the launching of what He wills and fulfillment in His way and time.  That peace is the product of the confidence that while we wait, God is busy working with people, potentials and possibilities we never dreamed of or even knew existed.”                        ~ 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