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Welcome to this week's message from Empower Church - The Shire. Join us as we venture into the second week of our brand New 'Fulfil Your Destiny' series. Pastor Luke Harris shares on our enthusiastic engagement of God, the Local Church, and our lives, as we're encouraged to to live fully engaged with our destiny, regardless of the situation.
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Psalm 139 1 You have searched me, Lord, and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
Joshua 1:5b (NIV) …I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.
Psalm 46:1 God is our refuge and strength, an ever-‐present help in trouble.
Ma9hew 28:20b And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.
Zephaniah 3:17 (NLT) 17 For the Lord your God is living among you…. He will take delight in you with gladness…. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs.”
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enthusiasm |enˈTHo͞ozēˌazəm| noun
1 intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval: her energy and enthusiasm for life | few expressed enthusiasm about the current leaders.
• a thing that arouses feelings of intense and eager enjoyment: the three enthusiasms of his life were poliLcs, religion, and books.
2 archaic… religious fervor supposedly resulVng directly from divine inspiraVon, typically involving speaking in tongues and wild, uncoordinated movements of the body.
enthusiasm |enˈTHo͞ozēˌazəm| noun
ORIGIN early 17th cent. ( sense 2): from French enthousiasme, or via late LaVn from Greek enthousiasmos, from enthous ‘filled / inspired by God,’ (based on theos ‘God’).
Enthusiastically Engaging
E is for. . .
Our Life
Our Lord
Our LovesThe Lost
& Our Legacy
Our Local Church
Our LORD
"I beheld Him in my heart as my Father, as my God. I worshipped Him the oSenest I could, keeping my mind in His holy presence and recalling it as oSen as I found it wandered from Him. I made this my business, not only at the appointed Lmes of prayer but all the Lme; every hour, every minute, even in the height of my work, I drove from my mind everything that interrupted my thoughts of God.
Though I have done it very imperfectly, I have found great advantages by it.
When we are faithful to keep ourselves in His holy presence, and set Him always before us, this hinders our offending Him, and doing anything that may displease Him. It also begets in us a holy freedom, and, if I may so speak, a familiarity with God, where, when we ask, He supplies the graces we need. Over Lme, by oSen repeaLng these acts, they become habitual, and the presence of God becomes quite natural to us."
Our LORD
I make it my priority to persevere in His holy presence, wherein I maintain a simple aYenLon and a fond regard for God, which I may call an actual presence of God. Or, to put it another way, it is an habitual, silent, and private conversaLon of the soul with God. This gives me much joy and contentment. In short, I am sure, beyond all doubt, that my soul has been with God above these past thirty years.
Were I a preacher, I would above all other things preach the pracLce of the presence of God. Were I a director, I would advise all the world to do it, so necessary do I think it, and so easy too. Ah! Knew we but the want we have of the grace and assistance of God, we would never lose sight of Him, no, not for a moment.
Our LORD
"Please keep my recommendaLon in mind that you think of God oSen; by day, by night, in your business, and even in your diversions. He is always near you and with you. Leave Him not alone. You would think it rude to leave a friend alone who came to visit you. Why, then, must God be neglected? Do not forget Him but think on Him oSen. Adore Him conLnually. Live and die with Him. This is the glorious work of a ChrisLan; in a word, this is our profession.”
Our LORD
Colossians 3 3 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is your[a] life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Our LORD
Ephesians 1 18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, 19 and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength 20 he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, 21 far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. 22 And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.
Our LOCAL CHURCH
1 Corinthians 7:17 (NIV) 17 Nevertheless, each person should live as a believer in whatever situaLon the Lord has assigned to them, just as God has called them. This is the rule I lay down in all the churches.
Our LIFE
1 Corinthians 7:20 (The Message) 20-‐24 Stay where you were when God called your name. Were you a slave? Slavery is no roadblock to obeying and believing. I don’t mean you’re stuck and can’t leave. If you have a chance at freedom, go ahead and take it. I’m simply trying to point out that under your new Master you’re going to experience a marvelous freedom you would never have dreamed of. On the other hand, if you were free when Christ called you, you’ll experience a delighmul “enslavement to God” you would never have dreamed of. All of you, slave and free both, were once held hostage in a sinful society. Then a huge sum was paid out for your ransom. So please don’t, out of old habit, slip back into being or doing what everyone else tells you. Friends, stay where you were called to be. God is there. Hold the high ground with him at your side.
Our LIFE
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