Our Guests: Susie Wolf, Gabi Soltau, Vickie Guillory, and Lisa Stringer
Key Thoughts and Scriptures:
1 John 4:19 NIV We love because he first loved us.
- Our love for God cannot be separated from how we love the people He puts around us.
- That order matters. Before we can truly love people well, we need to know the love of God ourselves.
2 Corinthians 3:18 NIV And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
- As we pursue His presence, His presence changes us.
James 1:27 NLT Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.
- In the early years, the group would study the Word, pray, and make sure their own hearts were right before going out to minister.
“Relationships define our destiny.” – Doug Stringer
- We need to see others through God’s eyes, not our own bias.
“While men reach for thrones to build their own kingdoms, Jesus reached for a towel to wash men’s feet.” -Doug Stringer
- God is real!
“It’s your vision, do it.” – Doug Stringer
- Unity with a purpose. The common denominator was Jesus.
“If it doesn’t equate into changed lives and souls being saved, it falls short of being a true revival.” – Doug Stringer
Listen to the leading of the Lord, and be available as a tangible expression of God’s love to others.
Mark 5:25-34 NLT The woman with an issue of blood
- Jesus knew who had touched Him.
Luke 12:7 NASB But even the hairs of your head are all counted…
- We cannot outgive God.
- With one fishing pole you can catch a fish, but with a mended net we can bring in a greater harvest.
“God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supply.” – Hudson Taylor
Ephesians 3:20 NKJV Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us
- You can’t do anything without faith.
Acts 20:24 NIV However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.
- We need to model seeing and loving others through God’s eyes.
Colossians 4:6 NIV Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
“Speak the truth in love, seasoned with grace.” – Doug Stringer
Psalms 46:10 NIV …“Be still, and know that I am God…”
- Be willing to engage with people.
- Many of the younger generation are hungry for what truly matters.
- It’s so important for the generations to run together.
- The wisdom of the older generation and the zeal of the younger generation.
Deuteronomy 6:7 NKJV You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
Genesis 24 NIV Rebekah’s story
- Rebecca went to the well and continued serving and giving from what she had.
- Ask the Lord to show you who He wants you to notice and then be willing to respond.
Ephesians 3:16-19 NIV I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
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