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Sunday Morning: Sermon Notes & Thoughts

Sunday, January 29, 2006

Our Adversary, the devil

Date:  1/29/06
Text:  I Peter 5:5-11
Title:  Our Adversary, the devil






My Personal Notes:
This sermon caused me to be more watchful and careful.

I have to remember to be humble.  That’s hard at times because LaVelle doesn’t want to back down from people.  I am praying about that one.  :)

I have to be more obedient as well.  I don’t always pray and read my Bible like I should.  I am hoping that this blog will help me do that more often.  I believe we all get that way.  We get caught up in life and forget about God.  I am so glad that God doesn’t forget about us.

My Personal Prayer:
Lord, help me to be humble, sober, vigilante, and obedient.  I know that this will help me defeat my adversary.  Thank you for being my advocate, when I couldn’t afford one.  Thank You for taking my place on the cross.

Scripture:  I Peter 5:5-11
5: Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
6: Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
7: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
8: Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
9: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
10: But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
11: To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Posted by You Know Who :: 5:22 PM ::

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Sunday, January 22, 2006

Where is Your Treasure?

Date:  1/22/06
Text:  Matthew 6:19-24
Title:  Where is Your Treasure?





NOTES:  You can’t live for Christ and live for the world at the same time!  You can’t be a slave to but one person.  This will lead to comparative hate.  (Matthew 6:24)


My Personal Notes:
This sermon reminded me that giving is my way to be blessed, not only with money, but with health, strength, and more.  I often get teased because I am a good tipper.  I tell people, “I am blessing someone else.  I am laying up my treasure in Heaven.”  Plus, I think that it is wrong for “CHRISTIANS” to sit at a table and talk about God the whole time and then don’t give the server a good tip.  CHRISTIANS have a habit of doing that.

My Personal Prayer:
Lord, help me to lay up my treasure in Heaven.  Thank You for blessing me with treasure down here.  My hope is in You and I know that You will supply my needs.

Scripture:  Matthew 6:19-24
9: Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
21: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
22: The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
23: But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
24: No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Posted by You Know Who :: 7:04 PM ::

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Sunday, January 15, 2006

Fighting Your Fears

Date:  1/15/06
Text:  2 Timothy 1:7
Title:  Fighting Your Fears


  • The Second Book of Timothy

  • This is the second letter that Paul wrote to Timothy

  • This book speaks of the being committed and facing challenges in life


  • Where does the spirit of fear come from?

  • From inside of us

  • From outside of us

  • If it comes from inside of us, it did not come from God

  • If it comes from outside of us, our perspective needs to be changed or adjusted


  • How do we fight our fears?

  • Confront your fears earnestly

  • Confess that our fear is a sin (Psalms 34:4)

  • Claim God’s promise of protection

  • Cultivate a closer relationship with God

  • Commit our life to Jesus Christ

NOTES:  What is the source of your fear?


  • More Scriptures References

  • Deuteronomy 30:31-36

  • Psalms 118:6

  • Proverbs 3:25-26

  • I John 4:18

  • Hebrews 2:14-15

My Personal Notes:
This sermon showed me ways to conquer my fear.

My Personal Prayer:
Lord, thank You for helping me to overcome my fears.  I know that fear is not of You.  Please help me.

Scripture:  2 Timothy 1:7
7: For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Posted by You Know Who :: 6:50 PM ::

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Sunday, January 08, 2006

What Fear Does to the People of God

Date:  1/8/06
Text:  Deuteronomy 1:19-33
Title:  What Fear Does to the People of God


  • The Book of Deuteronomy

  • Deuteronomy is a book of sermons Moses delivered to Israel

  • The book talks of Covenant, Love, Obedience, and much more


  • Fear!

  • Fear should not control our lives as sons & daughters of God.

  • What is my greatest fear?

  • Is fear a giant in my life?

  • Courage in God masters our fears

NOTES:  Fear robs us of our perspective.  Fear brings out the worst in us.  Fear is contagious.


  • What Fear Does

  • Disregards God’s plan (Deut. 1:19-21)

  • Distorts God’s purpose (Deut. 1:27-28)

  • Discourages God’s people (Deut. 1:28)

  • Disbelieves God’s promises (Deut. 1:29-33)

  • Disobeys God’s principles (Deut. 1:26)

My Personal Notes:
This was a good sermon for me.  Although I am not a fearful person, I do wrestle with my greatest fear at times.  My greatest fear is that I will die and no one will miss me.  My life will have meant nothing.  I know this is not a rational thought process because people always tell me that they miss me when I am not around and that they need me.

My Personal Prayer:
Lord, thank You for helping me to overcome my fears.  I know that fear is not of You.  Please help me.

Scripture:  Deuteronomy 1:19-33
19: And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
20: And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.
21: Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.
22: And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.
23: And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
24: And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.
25: And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us.
26: Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:
27: And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
28: Whither shall we go up?  our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
29: Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
30: The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
31: And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.
32: Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,
33: Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.

Posted by You Know Who :: 5:39 PM ::

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Sunday, January 01, 2006

Trust, the Believer’s Security Blanket

Date:  1/1/06
Text:  Proverbs 3:5-10
Title:  Trust, the Believer’s Security Blanket


  • The Book of Proverbs

  • Proverbs is a wise book of sayings

  • Many of them are credited to King Solomon


  • Trust in God

  • You should put your total trust in God

  • Trusting and worshipping is based on your knowledge of God and not on your feelings

  • God wants us to be closer to Him than anyone else

  • This will keep you from being so stressed out

NOTE:  When you think about something CRAZY, PRAY!


  • God & I

  • God nourishes us from the inside out


  • Show God

  • Show God that you are grateful; pay your tithes and offering

  • Show God that you trust Him; pay your tithes and offering

  • Show God that you are thankful; praise Him

  • God will bless you with increase (plenty)

My Personal Notes:
This sermon blessed me because I needed to be reminded that God is concerned about me and that He will supply my needs.  Recently, I had a need and God met it before I even asked Him to.  I had just thought about it.  If I just trust God, He will supply my needs.

I also needed to be reminded to praise God for everything.  Sometimes I forget to do that.

My Personal Praise:
Thank you Lord for your many wonderful blessings.  Thank You for everything that You have done for me.  Thank You for things that You are going to do for me.  I am grateful for every blessing that You bestow on me.  I know I don’t deserve them, but thank You.

Scripture:  Proverbs 3:5-10
5: Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
6: In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
7: Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
8: It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
9: Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
10: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.

Posted by You Know Who :: 5:25 PM ::

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