Posts with the tag “perfect”

Keep Building
by Delman Coates on October 12th, 2024
"Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce."- Jeremiah 29:5   When you’re in a season of waiting, it’s easy to feel stuck. You may feel like you’re just biding time, waiting for the next thing to happen, the breakthrough to come, or for life to get better. It can be tempting to put everything on pause and say, “I’ll get back to building my life once this is over.” But God ...  Read More
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Just Stir It Up
by Delman Coates on August 5th, 2024
"Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us." - Ephesians 3:20   God’s power is available to everyone. When Paul talks about the power that works within “us,” he is referring to both Gentiles and Jews who have surrendered their lives to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. This power is not exclusive to a select few; it is a...  Read More
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Life is Not Perfect
by Delman Coates on July 5th, 2024
"My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." - 2 Corinthians 12:9   Life is not perfect. We see this when we look at one of Jesus’ disciples, Judas. The reason many people get thrown off by the selection of Judas is because they think that a perfect, all-knowing God ought to be able to create a perfect situation to fulfill His perfect plan.  They struggle to understa...  Read More
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The Promise of God's Reconciliation
by Delman Coates on November 7th, 2023
"So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us." – Hebrews 6:16-18   In the midst of a fractured world, the promise of Go...  Read More
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Embracing Imperfection
by Delman Coates on October 5th, 2023
"While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: 'Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?' On hearing this, Jesus said to them, 'It is not the healthy who n...  Read More
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Double Minded
by Delman Coates on May 25th, 2023
“Come near to God and He will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.” - James 4:8  We have spent a lot of time the last few weeks talking about success. Not worldly success, but godly success – success in the eyes of our Creator. There is nothing more fulfilling than living out God’s good and perfect will for our life.  To do that, we must draw n...  Read More
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Peace Be With You
by Delman Coates on May 2nd, 2023
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” - John 14:27-28  Are you struggling to step into the life God wants for you? Maybe God has revealed His good and perfect will for your life, shown you exactly what He wants you to do, and now all you must do is obey Him and claim the blessings He wants to...  Read More
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The Perfect Wave
by Ministry Support on January 2nd, 2023
“Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant. If they watch every cloud, they never harvest.” - Ecclesiastes 11:4  A while back, I was watching a special on surfing. During the show, there was this guy talking about how surfers are constantly in search of the perfect wave. The perfect wave, he said, has the right amount of curl, a perfect tube, and is just at the right height for the surfer. ...  Read More
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Work on Your Weakness
by Ministry Support on July 30th, 2022
“He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.” - Isaiah 40:29After you identify your weakness, you must reduce your susceptibility to that weakness. If you read the story of Abraham in Genesis 20, you cannot ignore the fact that for the first time Abraham has moved to a new community, and yet, he failed to construct an alter as was his custom.  Every time Abraham moved, ever...  Read More
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Aware of Your Weakness
by Ministry Support on July 29th, 2022
“Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.” - 1 Timothy 4:16As we have mentioned in the last two days, Abraham had a clear Achilles heel. But the truth is all of us have an Achilles heel. All of us are like Abraham. We have areas wherein we are strong, but we also have areas that we need to work on as well.  The first ...  Read More
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Another At-Bat
by Ministry Support on May 5th, 2022
“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.” - Psalm 73:26Have you struck out? Have you made a decision driven by desperation? Have you listened to the wrong people’s advice? Are you facing the consequences of those decisions even now? I have good news for you: you will get another at-bat!The strike zone of life is God’s perfect will and plan for yo...  Read More
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Power Made Perfect In Weakness
by Ministry Support on March 20th, 2022
“David said to the Philistine, ‘You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hands, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head…All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves; for the battle is...  Read More
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Praying With Grace
by Ministry Support on January 29th, 2021
Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people to make unjust gain. Her prophets whitewash these deeds for them by false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says’—when the Lord has not spoken. The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, d...  Read More
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