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David Butt


 
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Transition


 
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An Introduction to Philippians

This is Paul’s happiest letter. And the happiness is infectious. Before we’ve read a dozen lines, we begin to feel the joy ourselves—the dance of words and the exclamations of delight have a way of getting inside us.

But happiness is not a word we can understand by looking it up in the dictionary. In fact, none of the qualities of the Christian life can be learned out of a book. Something more like apprenticeship is required, being around someone who out of years of devoted discipline shows us, by his or her entire behavior, what it is. Moments of verbal instruction will certainly occur, but mostly an apprentice acquires skill by daily and intimate association with a “master,” picking up subtle but absolutely essential things, such as timing and rhythm and “touch.”
When we read what Paul wrote to the Christian believers in the city of Philippi, we find ourselves in the company of just such a master. Paul doesn’t tell us that we can be happy, or how to be happy. He simply and unmistakably is happy. None of his circumstances contribute to his joy: He wrote from a jail cell, his work was under attack by competitors, and after twenty years or so of hard traveling in the service of Jesus, he was tired and would have welcomed some relief.
But circumstances are incidental compared to the life of Jesus, the Messiah, that Paul experiences from the inside. For it is a life that not only happened at a certain point in history, but continues to happen, spilling out into the lives of those who receive him, and then continues to spill out all over the place. Christ is, among much else, the revelation that God cannot be contained or hoarded. It is this “spilling out” quality of Christ’s life that accounts for the happiness of Christians, for joy is life in excess, the overflow of what cannot be contained within any one person.

Eugene H. Peterson, The Message : The Bible in Contemporary Language, Eph 6:24 (Colorado Springs, Colo.: NavPress, 2003).

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Paul Benger (Rest)

[Psalm 37]
A person who purposes to live at REST:

1. Refuses to respond to opposition.
2. Refuses to look at what they do not have.
3. Refuses to leave the place of rest.
4. Refuses to take matters into their own hands.
5. Refuses to get mad.

 
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Magnetic Marriage

 
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Duane White @ Grace Church of Richmond

A one night Naturally Supernatural Conference!

 
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A Prophetic Picture for Grace Church

How will you go out and what will be your banner? What cry shall be upon your lips and what truth shall be written on your heart? For these are the things you shall be known by. Let your banner be the Holy Spirit, let your cry be the salvation of souls, let the truth upon your heart be Jesus Christ crucified and risen again. Even as I have sent you to spy out the land that I would give you, so you must unify yourself for My purpose. For there are those who have seen mighty giants and fortresses that have never been breached. Let what you see and what you hear be tempered by My truth. For the place I have called you is HARD GROUND and it is a battlefield. But I do not call you to this battlefield to merely fight, but I have called you to PLOW. It is not enough to defeat the enemy and take the ground. If you would fulfill my purpose you must PLOW. Where you have PLOWED I will PLANT and where I PLANT you shall harvest. Do not let the enemy deceive you, for it is easier to fight than to PLOW and if you become distracted, he will make you fight again and again for the land that he cannot reclaim if you PLOW it. Be careful to not number your forces. For the Holy Spirit is not limited by one man or ten thousand. Do not measure your success with the battles you win but with the acres you PLOW. If you will do this, then you will have success. I tell you the truth, if you do this then you will have a great harvest in the midst of winter. (Prophetic given to Jeff Warner January of 1997.)