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Infuse | Joy

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This sermon is part 2 of 9 in the Infuse | Galatians 5:22-24

We are compelled by God’s LOVE and the FREEDOM offered in Jesus to infuse our relationships with the mind of Christ.  As the Spirit of God directs our life, we take on the CHARACTER of the Spirit.  This Fall we will ask God to INFUSE in us the love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control of Christ through the Holy Spirit!

Listen to Infuse JOY
September 8, 2013 | Brad Murphy
Galatians 5:22-24, Luke 10:17-24

Restore Joy!

The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
-J.D. Salinger

Are quotes like this an excuse to be grumpy Christ followers.  I think so.

“I don’t have to be happy right now, but I have the joy of God.”  Really?

Aren’t joyful people happy?  Isn’t that why you say they are joyful?

You can be one of those people.

Pastor Brad searched the New Testament and found that happy, joy, and blessedness are used interchangeably.  The Joy God gives, by His Spirit, will help you be a happy person.  Listen to this encouraging message to discover how to Restore Joy, the Real McCoy.

Taking Victory Over Weeds

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I continue to be in wonder of our God who gives victory, peace, and assurance in the midst of trouble.  Jesus declares to us in John 16:33 , “In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”  Later, in Revelation 12:11 He says about the saints gathered at the victory over Satan, “They overcame the accuser by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.”

In Mark 7 we read, “Jesus…taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said: ‘Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain… Like seed sown among thorns, some people hear the word; but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.’”

We cannot shrink back from trouble.  We must advance against our opposition, against the deceitfulness of wealth and the desire of earthly things, to bring down the enemy.  Jesus has given you authority here on earth to have victory.  Take up the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God and use it today.

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Faithful with a Few

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Faithful with a Few

By Brad Murphy, Lead Pastor Eagle LifeChurch

Over the past weeks, God has been bringing newcomers through the doors and into the lives of the church family at Eagle LifeChurch.  Some have attended a morning worship service; some have not.

We have met those who have a church home and those who don’t.  We’ve met those who think they have God and religion all figured out and those who don’t have a clue.  We have met those who are mad at their previous church because they were too superficial, or too big, or because they were ignored or hurt.  We have met those with no previous church experience.  God is bringing us just what we asked for – hurting people.

Jesus tells a story in Matthew 25 & Luke 19 to help His followers understand the concepts of the Kingdom of God.  In His story, a master who is going on a journey leaves one servant with five measures of provision, one servant with two measures, and one servant with just one measure; each according to his ability.

Each of these servants-of-the-master invested in and took care of the provision of the master.  When the master returned, the one with five measures had gained five more.  The one with two measures had increased it to four.  The servant with one did nothing.  He buried what the master had given Him in fear that he would lose it and be punished by the master.

Each of the people God has put in your life and has brought to Eagle LifeChurch are a measure of God’s provision.  He has already assessed our ability and rationed out the provisions.  Will you be faithful to develop and grow the ones He has given you or will you burry them in fear that you will lose them and be punished by our Master?

Eagle LifeChurch family, and Christians everywhere, we must be faithful with the people He has put in our lives.  This past Sunday we had three visitors, all who need a church family.  Will you take care of them, nurture them, and grow them into six? Will you call them, take them to lunch, or invite them over for dinner?  Will you bother answering the phone when they call, or risk getting involved when things get messy?  Will you welcome them into our family?

If you do, Jesus said that the Master will look on us and say, “‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’ (Matthew 25:23, NIV)

The true test of whether Eagle LifeChurch will have a lasting impact on the city of Eagle, the state of Idaho, the United States, and the World, is in how we are Faithful with a Few.

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