Disciplined Minds and Expectant Hearts

The Lord ministered powerful Truths to us in the services yesterday with Brother Marty.  Below are just a few nuggets from each service as well as the links to listen to the services again.  We believe we will see the fruit of a sound mind, a heart at peace and full of hope (the confident expectation of good) as we attend to His Word, and as we allow It to become part of us in that we are a doer of it, and not a hearer only.

• Signs of the last days is a strong manifestation of fear.  Men's hearts failing them because of fear.  (Luke 21:26)
• Fear is a spirit.
• There are 365 times that God says, "Fear Not" in the Bible.
• Peace is part of the Kingdom of God.  It should be in the lives of the citizens of that Kingdom. (Rom 14:17)
• Peace I leave with you.  My peace I give to you. (John 14:27)
• How does fear enter?  Through the doorway of our minds. 
• Satan cannot take ground.  It must be given to him.  (Ephesians 4:27)
• My sheep hear My voice and a strangers' they do not follow. (John 10)
• It doesn't say the voice of a stranger they will not hear, but they will not follow that voice.  
• Worry is meditation on negative things.  
• Anything that causes you fear or anxiety as a child of God is based on a lie. 
• Worried prayers don't work.  (1 Peter 5:7)
• Worry is a form of atheism.  
• You can interrupt your thoughts with spoken words.  
• Fearful thoughts are taken down by speaking God's Word.
• You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You.  (Isaiah 26:3)
• Think on these <<Philippians 4:6-7>>.
• God has not given us a spirit of fear, but a spirit of love, of power/authority, and a sound mind. (2 Tim 1:7)

Evening Service:

• Hope is an essential part of faith. 
• Hope - Anticipation of something good.  A confident expectation of good.
• Why so downcast oh my soul?  Put your hope in God! (Psalms 42:11)
• May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Romans 15:13)
• Quit looking behind!  Look ahead! (Phil 3:13-14)
• Look up!  Quit looking at where you are now. 
• Faith must be in two places.  In your heart and in your mouth. 
• Say this:  "I cannot be defeated and I will not quit."
• No adversity stopped Paul or made him quit.  Say this: "The same Spirit of faith in Paul is in me."  (2 Cor 4:8-9)
• When circumstances are talking to you, you must answer it!  Don't think about it.  Open your mouth and answer it.  (Mark 11)
• Psalms 34:15, Psalms 126:1, Psalms 105:37,43
• Quoting Rick Renner regarding a Word of the Lord given to him about 2023:  2023 will be a year filled with divine surprises, divine provision, and divine revelation for those who will receive it."  (For those who will receive it means for those who will take it and receive it by faith.)