One Small Step Pastor Jeremy Foster 2-18-2018

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2-18-2018

Today at Real Hope we join Hope City Church and Pastor Jeremy Foster as we continue the message, "Are you ready to take "One Small Step?"

 

Real Hope Program and Study Guide for 2-18-2018 

 

Welcome to Real Hope.  We’re Glad You’re Here.  

 

Join us in worshiping our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

 

This is our program for today, Sunday February 18th.

            

Countdown to Worship: "New Testament Trivia"

 

First Music Offering: "The River," Jordan Feliz.

 

Video Presentation: The story behind Casting Crowns, "One Step Away."

 

Second Music Offering: "One Step Away," Casting Crowns.

 

Third Music Offering: "Communion," Third Day

 

Communion Service: Shirlee Yoder

 

Offering, Prayer Requests, and Announcements: Dana Smith

 

Today’s Sermon: "One Small Step – Part 2," Pastor Jeremy Foster, Hope City Church, Houston, Texas. 

 

Closing Prayer: Ted Yoder

 

 


 

We hope that you enjoyed our service today and encourage you seek God in everything that you do.

 

At Real Hope our purpose is to love the Lord our God with all of our hearts and with all of our souls and with all of our minds.

 

Our focus begins with all the people of Citrus County and by the Grace of God we will:

 

Gather together to worship and celebrate God,

Grow in our knowledge and faith,

Give in love and,

Go out into the world to shine brightly with the light of salvation from our Savior Jesus Christ and tell the world what we know is true!

 

We boldly ask God to help us shake the Earth and touch the Heavens!

 

We look forward to seeing you again. 

 

Thank you and God bless you.

 

Sermon Message & Study Guide for 2/18 to 2/24/2018

"The Next Step," Pastor Rick Warren

 

 And Jesus said to him, ‘Go; your faith has made you well.’ Immediately he (Bartimaeus) regained his sight and began following Him on the road.” (Mark 10:52)

 

I don’t know what step you need to take next, but I do know that you need to take it.  For some of you, the next step is to accept Jesus Christ into your life. For others, it may be to be baptized.  Maybe you need to join a church, get into a small group, tithe, find a ministry, go on a mission trip, or invite a friend to church. I don’t know what your next step is, but I do know this: You have one. God will never be finished taking you deeper in faith. There is always a next step.

 

If you don’t take the next step, you’re going to get stuck in a rut — and the only difference between a grave and a rut is the length. If you don’t move forward in faith, you will die. Your heart will grow cold, and you will feel more distant from God. He isn’t going to help you with step three, four, and five until you take step one. If you’re asking God to help you with something, he’s asking you, “Why haven’t you done what I’ve already told you to do?” You may have “been aiming to” do something. Stop aiming and pull the trigger.

 

Before Bartimaeus met Jesus, he was sitting beside the road. After he received his sight from the Lord, he “began following Jesus on the road” (Mark 10:52b NASB). Which of those two phrases describes your life: sitting beside the road or following Jesus on the road? Which of those two lifestyles do you think is more fulfilling? Which do you think has more joy, more meaning, and more satisfaction? Which one do you want to represent your life?

 

There’s only one way to follow Jesus on the road: Take the next step.

 

Faith is more than believing. Faith is more than thinking, talking, or having convictions about Jesus. Faith is action. It is movement; it is activity. Faith is something you do. In fact, the Bible says in James 2:14, “If people say they have faith, but do nothing, their faith is worth nothing.” 

 

Where do you get the faith to begin a fresh start? There’s only one source: Jesus Christ.

 

“Everything that we have — right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start — comes from God by way of Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 1:30 MSG). Bartimaeus had no idea that Jesus Christ was going to pass his way that day. To him, it was just another day. But God gave him an unexpected opportunity that offered him a fresh start. God is giving you the same opportunity. Don’t blow it. Take your next step of faith before the opportunity passes you by.

 

Think  About It

 

    What are you waiting on in order to take the next step of faith in your life? What’s your excuse for procrastinating?

    What “next step” will you take today to move forward in faith?

 

Suggested Reading

Joshua 1:9
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

 

2 Timothy 1:7

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

John 15:16

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.


Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

James 1:22

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

 

Jeremiah 29:11-14

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.

 

Philippians 4:13

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

 

John 15:1-27

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

 

James 1:5-7

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord.

 

Thank you and may God bless you!

 

 
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