Podcasts about discover life church

The last pillar here at Discover Life Church is commission. We were made to reach one more! Let us go into every person's world and preach the Gospel to them in a clear and concise way!

Discover Life Church stands on four pillars: Christ, Community, Cultivate, Commission. Step one for everyone should be finding Christ! If we want to make it hard for people to go to hell, we have to make it easy for them to go to church. Christ is the most valuable pillar!

In part 4 of our series, "Discover Life", Pastor Chad dove deeper into our mission as Discover Life Church. We exist to reach one more for Jesus. You are God's one, God needs to be your one, and we have to reach one more.

In part 3 of our series, "Discover Life", we talked about how important names are to God. In this next season, Cape First Church will become Discover Life Church! We exist to help people discover life through Christ. Tune in to hear more about the future of Discover Life Church.

We all live in an imperfect world – with a constant awareness of contradictions and oppositions to all that God promises us. Which tempts us to live down to the level of our fears, feelings & frustrations. However, God calls us to accept that His power is always available and accessible for our good. Prompting us to live with an expectation for His manifested best even at the worst times & seasons of our life.

Our initial perception – right or wrong, shapes our attitudes toward & actions towards a person. This makes it key that we have an accurate and authentic introduction about a person. Especially when it comes to our relationship with God. The more clear that are we are about WHO God is the more we are encouraged & excited to live the kind of life that manifests His reality in our daily lives – bringing out His best for us.

What does the bible teach us about how to treat the poor?  This sermon provides a biblical prospective on how God wants us treat our poor brothers and sisters.  

It's been said that thankfulness (gratefulness) is the least; shortest & quickest emotion. In part, because many view thanksgiving only as reactive behavior; instead of seeing it as proactive, prescriptive & protective action against life's troubles. THUS… God calls us to practice thanksgiving as a lifestyle; and recognizing that the more thanksgiving is our norm – the more we experience His breakthroughs.

In every relationship, we have systemic practices/acts that are done based on a schedule or season. And our challenge is to not become listless in doing them – no sense of life or expectation for them to maximize the fruit of being connected. So, in our walk with God, there are two specific practices that when moved from a tradition to a revelation --- they manifest the fullness of His promise & our prayers!

In every relationship, we have systemic practices and acts done based on a schedule or season. And our challenge is to not become listless in doing them – no sense of life or expectation for them to maximize the fruit of being connected. In our walk with God, there are 2 specific practices that when moved from a tradition to a revelation -- they manifest the fullness of His promise & our prayers!

From the beginning, the enemy's sole focus is to mislead & misrepresent God's promises to us -- to make us believe that everything God says to us…gives to us…and does for us is to limit us in life. And since we're not born trusting of God, it's key that we live beyond our natural senses & abilities. So, God gives us the Holy Spirit -- not to keep anything back from us, but to bring us into everything He has for us.

Growth = the process of developing or maturing physically, mentally and spiritually.There are 3 things that inhibit spiritual growth (fear, believing lies, & refusing to change) and there are 3 things that enhance spiritual growth (the Word of God, the Holy Spirit, & the love of God and His people).

"Just like no coach enters a game without a plan on how to win the game, no one enters into relationships and friendships without an idea (image) for them being successful. And, as the saying goes, “if we fail to plan, then we plan to fail," Therefore, God has provided a gameplan for our relational success. That, when fully followed, guarantees our win – the highest level of relational fulfillment & enjoyment."

Once a team is assembled every coach knows that there must be a definitive selection process by which a starting line up is formed -- players who give the team it's best chance at winning. Likewise, from our circle of relationships (friendships) we must identify those who are our first and last line of defense against everything that opposes us from prospering & prevailing in God's best for our lives.

Relationships were never designed to be one sided.  Healthy relationships are even sided.  The most successful teams recognize how well we draft determines how far we go.  The same is for our friendships and relationships.  Who is in your starting lineup?

We each will have moments in life where we struggle to make sense of what God is doing IN our lives, WITH our lives, and THROUGH our lives… as if there's a disconnect between our prayers and God's promise. But our not knowing His plan doesn't mean that God doesn't have a plan. God's plan includes working even when we don't know what He's doing to make things turn out for His glory & for our good.

When the enemy knows that he can't directly draw us away from God's promises, he will try to use our good intentions & deep compassion for others, against us. He hopes that their negative attitudes & destructive actions will cause us to turn away from and turn on God.Therefore, it's imperative that we know how to stay available & accessible for God to use us without letting our feelings of being used, rob us of God's best.

We each have our favorite song… that even without hearing a word of it --- just the sound causes us to smile and sway to its rhythm. The sound alone creates a sense of calmness, quietness, and easiness. Likewise, the enemy will use a specific sound to terrorize & demoralize our faith, even taunt us about our life. BUT, God wants change the sound that disturbs us the most to the sound that encourages us the most.

The power of vision (sight) – naturally or spiritually is that it provokes us to fight, freeze or flight. And though God uses vision -- what we see, to increase our expectation for His best, the enemy uses our sight to trigger reactions & responses that hinder us in enjoying God's best. No… we can't change who & what we see, but God has made it possible to change how we see who & what we see.

From birth, each of us have positive and negative experiences. And the enemy focuses on using our negative experiences to trigger harmful emotions, expressions & expectations for enjoying life as God originally designed. Building our lives around our triggers; not His truth about us. BUT… God has made it possible for us to turn down and turn off our triggers in order to turn up His best in our lives.

Every promise from God and prayer to God, has a process of waiting for manifestation. And, because we never control the waiting time -- we're tempted to allow anxiety or fear move us out of position for experiencing God's blessings and breakthroughs. Wrongly thinking that nothing is changing or happening for our good. BUT, whenever God tells us to wait --- it will always be worth the wait.

God created us to live with an authentic awareness & appreciation of His presence in our lives. As a result, we must overcome the constant temptation of living from earth to heaven – AND instead, live from heaven to earth. Where more than anything else, the reality of God governs our affections, actions & expectations. His worth in our lives; importance & significance shapes our daily walk in life.

Sometimes it is a challenge to enter into worship with God.  Things we need to do to enter into worship

Every man (person) lives out a vision and version of themselves that they believe reflects them at their best. However, it's often rooted in presumption, tradition, or just self-determination. But, to be the best man (person) we can be, it doesn't come by our striving, but our submitting. The truest & greatest expression of who we are – The Best Man is a response to God's reality in our lives!

My Capacity is my God-given ability to produce at the level I was created to produce. I have the capacity to handle What is on my plate now. If the capacity is not present it is not mine to handle.You have the capacity to take what you have been given and increase it.

The enemy's main point of attack is really our mind – our perception and internalization of life. Which is why, winning and losing often has little to do with what happens around or outside of us but everything to do with what goes on inside of us. Making it critical that we remain unshakeable, even unchangeable about believing what God has placed in our heart will happen. 

God will use a transforming moment in our lives to create momentum – real movement and excitement in our lives. BUT… we can't stay in that moment forever – we must on from that Day, Place, or Location which birthed the momentum. As a result, we must discipline ourselves to habits that help us to preserve & prolong the momentum pass life's contradictions & temptations, and to our best life.

The enemy's main point of attack is really our mind – our perception and internalization of life. Which is why, winning and losing often has little to do with what happens around or outside of us but everything to do with what goes on inside of us. Making it critical that we remain unshakeable, even unchangeable about believing what God has placed in our heart will happen. Our Mind Is Made Up!

God's purpose for our lives is always beyond our ability do it on our own – it requires God's help. He knows that we're prone to being delayed or distracted by our fears, friends, feelings & frustrations.As a result, He will use various conditions and actions to move us into His purpose for our lives. We are never able to fully stop at places of confusion or celebration, only the place of total obedience to His purpose.

God has entrusted and empowered us with the responsibility of determining how effective His word works in our lives. Sadly, the enemy has deceived many people into thinking a lack of answered prayers or fulfilled promises is due to an inability with God. When the truth is, it's our responsibility to develop the inner condition that allows His promise to produce manifested and maximized results.

SERMON THEME: Most of us believe that God created us to live a good life. But our confusion & frustration from not always being clear on how His plan works. Making it critical that we have an accurate understanding of how His will works in our lives to manifest His plan (promises) and even our prayers. Because knowing how His will works in our lives helps us to be convinced that things are going to work out for our good.

Most people are convinced of the truth that God's will leads to our BEST life. But our humanity makes it difficult to always be fully in the know of what He's doing & how He's working. However, God has provided some basic practices to give us a measure of real clarity and certainty about His will; make us confident in knowing He's working to fulfill what He's promised, and we've prayed - - our BEST life!