The Church of Eleven22

Are you living the abundant life or is your life defined by an abundance of stuff that will never satisfy?

Not my will, but Your will be done. What is the NEXT THING for you?

God does not call the equipped, but He equips the called. What is He calling you to do? What is the NEXT THING for you?

The next thing I should do is the most God-glorifying thing I can do.

"See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?”

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! – Psalm 150:6 No matter the season you find yourself in, the condition of your heart or the circumstances of your life, it is always the right time to Praise the Lord because He is worthy of your worship. Join with all of creation in making much of our King.

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. – Psalm 139:14 You are valuable and you should be treated as valuable.

Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain – Psalm 127:1 As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him! – Psalm 34:8 Jesus is not a philosophy to be followed, an idea to be understood or a religion to be practiced. He is the one true God meant to be experienced. He is more than enough to conquer our fears, reign over our circumstances and hear our cries.

Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! – Psalm 100:4 We all live on a continuum between gratitude and entitlement. Do not let this world drag you away from thanksgiving and into despair.

14 “Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he knows my name. 15 When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him. – Psalm 91:14-15 Abide in Him because apart from him, you can do nothing.

2 So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory. 3 Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. – Psalm 63:2-3 Do you see the gospel as merely practical, or do you see Jesus as beautiful and soul-satisfying? The gospel offers us so much more than a religious belief system that doesn’t end in hell. The gospel offers a beautiful journey of discovering and deepening a relationship with JESUS.

3 Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place? 4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart… – Psalm 24:3-4 Who shall ascend the hill? He who has clean hands and a pure heart. The King of Glory must do for us what we cannot do for ourselves.

Oh sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him. – Psalm 98:1 Worship is an overflow of our grateful response to God for who He is and what He has done.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. – Psalm 51:10 No one is too far gone for the far reaching arms of our gracious God.

10 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!” 11 The Lord of hosts is with us… – Psalm 46:10-11 Snatch back your faith from your circumstances and place your faith in the sovereign King of the Universe. Experience His goodness. He is for you. He is with you. He is inside of you. At the cross, He makes the war of our enemy against us cease.

But I call to God, and the Lord will save me. – Psalm 55:16 Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved. – Psalm 55:22 God hears our cries and knows our pain. Pour your heart out to the Lord in prayer like it matters more than anything else, because it does.

He will send from heaven and save me; he will put to shame him who tramples on me. Selah God will send out his steadfast love and his faithfulness! – Psalm 57:3 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth! – Psalm 57:5 The reason that missions exist to the ends of the earth is because worship doesn’t yet. Even when David is hiding for his life in the darkness of a cave, he never loses sight of God’s glory to be spread over all the earth.

The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? ¬– Psalm 27:1 Fear not, for I am with you. Perfect love casts out fear, and peace is found in the face of the LORD.

5 Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation 6 and my God. – Psalm 42:5-6 In the dark night of the soul, our only hope is to look to the Light of the World.

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. – Psalm 23:1 The Lord is my shepherd.

The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul… – Psalm 19:7 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight… – Psalm 19:14 The Word of God is a great gift to us. It is a map and a mirror. It is perfect and diagnoses our disease of sin. Jesus is the cure.

I say to the LORD, “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.” – Psalm 16:2 The sorrows of those who run after another god shall multiply… – Psalm 16:4 The insatiable human soul can only be satisfied by the everlasting God.

2 The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. 3 They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one. – Psalm 14:2-3 God’s relentless pursuit of our rebellious race is through Jesus.

3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, 4 what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? – Psalm 8:3-4 Our lives are for Your glory. How do we leverage all of our lives (family, vocation, culture, etc.) for Your glory?

his delight is in the law of the LORD , and on his law he meditates day and night. – Psalm 1:2 Is your life rooted in God’s word or are you trying to navigate life on your own?

When Jesus was on the cross and said "it is finished" it counted for you.

God does not reveal Himself to us so that we can sit and soak it up on the mountain top, but so that we can be sent and serve on mission.

Our enemy, the devil, is the Father of Lies. Do not believe the whispers, but stand on truth of the Word of God. "It is written.."

Jesus did not come to make bad people better or sad people happy. He came to give life to the dead and salvation for sinners.

A mustard seed-size faith in the infinitely powerful, promise-keeping God, is infinitely more powerful than putting all your faith in temporary, promise-breaking idols.

The law is the diagnosis that we are all sinners in need of a Savior. Jesus is the cure.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. – John 3:16

Christ is the secret to solid, satisfying contentment. "Be happy in him, O my heart, and in nothing but God, for whatever a man trusts in, from that he expects happiness." - Arthur G. Bennett, The Valley of Vision

Don’t compare. Don’t complain. Don’t cower in fear. But leverage everything that your KING has given you for His glory. Use all the treasures that God has given you to TREASURE Christ before all things.

Flee sexual immorality…you are not your own, you were bought with a price. So glorify God with your body.

If you want to be great, if you want to be first, then humble yourself like Jesus and serve.

No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. - Matthew 6:24 Are you serving money as your king? Or are you using money to serve the one true King?

“Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage" - C.S. Lewis What kingdom are you serving?

Prayer is a natural response to the gospel.

What are you worshiping? We are all wired to worship. Are you worshiping the ONE TRUE GOD?

The sabbath ultimately points us to Jesus.

Recorded live from our Baker Correctional campus. To STAND UP and act like a man you must first BOW DOWN and surrender to Jesus. For if, because of one man’s (Adam) trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ. Romans 5:17