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GOD, WHO ARE YOU? This week, we have looked at five characteristics of God. There are so many more to consider, such as:  Forgiver Judge Redeemer Savior Healer Shepherd Ruler   Of the five we studied this week, or any other characteristic of God, what is God speaking to you most about who He is? What part of Who God is do you need revealed even more to you?  Write a prayer to the Lord, being honest about what has happened that’s made it hard for you to believe in a specific p

GOD, WHO ARE YOU? | GOD IS OUR SUSTAINER One of the great privileges of pastoring is walking alongside people. We often get invited to their mountaintops and their valleys. We get to hear so many testimonies of how God has provided for people and pray for people while they’re in the waiting. It’s in the waiting that hear the greatest pain and, sometimes...  it’s in the waiting that I hear the greatest healing.  When someone shares with me how God has changed their heart befor

GOD, WHO ARE YOU? | GOD IS OUR RESTORER Mary Magdalene was a devout follower of Jesus. There aren’t many Scriptures devoted to her, but the few that are, are power-packed.   Read  Luke 8:1-3  John 19:23-25  Mark 15:45-47  Matthew 28:5-7  John 20:1-18  Mary had been healed and delivered by Jesus; she had seven demons inside of her. With that amount of terror and evil inside her body, her lucid moments must have been horrible. Her body must have been consumed by debilitating pa

GOD, WHO ARE YOU? | GOD IS OUR COMFORTER I’m always amazed that the God of Creation, the King of Kings, the Holy of Holies, the Lord of Lords cares about our comfort. It’s remarkable to me that He is paying that much attention to us.  He doesn’t just care about what we’re doing, He cares about how we’re doing.   The Bible tells us He is our Wonderful Counselor (Isaiah 9:6) and His Holy Spirit is our Comforter (John 16:7).   Elijah experienced being comforted by God during an

GOD, WHO ARE YOU? | GOD IS OUR EQUIPPER As often as I have asked the question, “God, who are You?”, I have just as frequently asked “God, who am I?” Especially when it comes to stepping into my calling.   Like you, I’ve been called to many things throughout my life. As a teenager, I remember being called into a few leadership opportunities, and I wondered why God would choose me for those responsibilities. When I was 21 years old, I was hired as a third-grade teacher in the m

GOD, WHO ARE YOU? | GOD IS OUR CREATOR God reveals Himself to us first as a Creator; THE Creator.  Read Genesis 1   This is likely not an unfamiliar passage of scripture to you, nor an unfamiliar characteristic of God. It may seem hard to learn something new about God from a passage and characteristic you are so familiar with. I haven’t spent much time in the 40 years of my relationship with the Lord studying Him as the Creator; this was a part of God that was very settled fo

Have you ever thought about what you love the MOST about God? Do you have a FAVORITE part of God? I think I do. Or at least I know today’s favorite thing about God.    Like me, you may change your mind about this. Something about being a girl makes us slightly susceptible to changing our minds about a number of things. That’s one of my favorite things about us girls, actually… how flexible we are. How much we embrace learning new things and maturing as we walk through life. H

GOD, WHO ARE YOU? We’re going to begin by asking God to reveal more of Himself to us. Who is He? What is His character? We will not come close to answering this question in seven days; we can’t even fully answer this question with a lifetime of study. He’s far more than what we’ll see in these five passages in scripture. These are a starting point of Who God is.   It is so important to God that we understand Who He is, that He sent Jesus, His Son, from being with Him in heave

GOD, HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT ME? This week, we have looked at five pursuits of God. Studying God’s pursuit of us helps us to believe the truth about how God feels about us.  Are there other pursuits in scripture that have revealed the truth to you about how God feels about you?   Of the five pursuits we studied this week, or any other pursuits of God, what is God speaking to you most about His pursuit of you?   Through studying pursuits of God, what has He revealed to you about