The Good Shepherd: Confidence in Crisis, Part 3
During these times where many things are unknown, it seems like we are in a hopeless situation.
SERMON THEME
Pastor Richard continues his message on Psalm 23 with the focus on verses 5 and 6. Pastor Richard discusses how we can sit at the table God has prepared for us in the presence of our enemies. This is a promise for today, not in the “by and by”. We also discuss the enemies of the sheep that can prevent us from taking our seat at the table.
SCRIPTURES
Psalm 23; 2 Chron 20:15; Proverbs 16:7; Matthew 5:44
*not an exhaustive list
Discuss and Reflect
What is the army of Heaven? What battle do we have to fight?
Why does He prepare a table for us in the presence of our enemies?
Discuss how partaking at the table will bring peace between you and your enemies.
What are the two types of enemies and what do they represent?
PRAYER POINT / DECLARATION
We decree a new open heaven over California that will change the atmosphere this year. We decree a remnant of God’s people that will rise from territory to territory to command new openings for the Lord to move in.
Romans 9:27-29; Isaiah 10:22-23
'Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant will be saved. For the Lord will carry out his sentence on earth with speed and finality.” It is just as Isaiah said previously: “Unless the Lord Almighty had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.” ''
NEXT STEPS
All Liberty Church partners and attendees are invited to take their next step. What is your next step? Is it water baptism, joining Growth Path, joining the Impact team or joining a LIFE group?
The Good Shepherd: Confidence in Crisis, Part 2
During these times where many things are unknown, it seems like we are in a hopeless situation.
SERMON THEME
Pastor Richard continues his message on Psalm 23. As we focus on the Good Shepherd, we learn about the staff and how the staff can be representative of Holy Spirit. The 23rd psalm is about bringing the kingdom of God into our lives. We can continue to have confidence in crisis as we put our faith in the Good Shepherd to lead, guide and comfort us through crisis.
SCRIPTURES
Psalm 23; Proverbs 3:26; Luke 12:32; Psalm 91:1-3
*not an exhaustive list
Discuss and Reflect
Have you made the Lord the shepherd of your life? Discuss practical areas that you have.
Discuss the 3 areas of sheep management
The staff is used to draw sheep together in intimate relationship.
The staff is used by the shepherd to draw the individual sheep close to himself for intimate examination.
The staff was used to guide the sheep.
How have you allowed the rod (the word of God) to examine you?
PRAYER POINT / DECLARATION
We decree the Kingdom of God is being released in California as it is in heaven. Matthew 6:10
' your kingdom comes, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. '
NEXT STEPS
All Liberty Church partners and attendees are invited to take their next step. What is your next step? Is it water baptism, joining Growth Path, joining the Impact team or joining a LIFE group?
The Power of Blessing
During these times where many things are unknown, it seems like we are in a hopeless situation.
SERMON THEME
A spoken blessing is a positive, prophetic statement that releases the favor of God in the life of another. To speak a blessing requires seeing another from God’s perspective and declaring the intentions of God toward that person. In this message, Pastors Richard and Joan talk to us about the practical power of blessing someone and how important it is to now the power of the tongue.
SCRIPTURES
Proverbs 16:24; Proverbs 18:21; James 3:8-10; Ephesians 4:29
Discuss and Reflect
·Discuss the 4 powerful truths about blessing
Blessing edifies the hearer, identifies who you are in God’s plan, and multiplies the life of God in the person receiving it.
The power of blessing breaks opposition.
Blessing is powerful when obstacles threaten the will of God for your life.
Blessing Flows out of a Kingdom Mindset.
If you have children, have you asked God to show you how to speak into the identity of each one of your children and to impart God’s grace and favor to come to pass in their life?
Who do you know who has a present condition that needs you to speak words of blessing over them?
PRAYER POINT / DECLARATION
We decree that a governmental shake-up will start a new course for California. The Government in California and the USA is shifting to Jesus’ shoulders.
Isaiah 9:6-7
'For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David’s throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this. '
NEXT STEPS
All Liberty Church partners and attendees are invited to take their next step. What is your next step? Is it water baptism, joining Growth Path, joining the Impact team or joining a LIFE group?
The Good Shepherd: Confidence in Crisis
During these times where many things are unknown, it seems like we are in a hopeless situation.
SERMON THEME
Confidence- Faith or belief that one will act in a right, proper, effective way. Our confidence is in Christ Jesus. This week, Pastor Richard will give us six powerful truths that we can learn in the first three verses of Psalm 23, the most known psalm in the bible.
SCRIPTURES
Psalm 23; Proverbs 3:26; John 10:14
Discuss and Reflect
What is the driving desire of a good shepherd?
How can you practically live out allowing Jesus being your shepherd?
Do you need restoration somewhere in your life? Discuss and pray with the group.
PRAYER POINT / DECLARATION
We decree breakthrough is happening in California through our worship! Our worship is bringing about transformation and victory in every area of our lives: spirit, soul, and body.
Psalm 98:1-2
'Oh, sing to the Lord a new song! For He has done marvelous things; His right hand and His holy arm have gained Him the victory. The Lord has made known His salvation; His righteousness He has revealed in the sight of the nations.'
NEXT STEPS
All Liberty Church partners and attendees are invited to take their next step. What is your next step? Is it water baptism, joining Growth Path, joining the Impact team or joining a LIFE group?
Defining Moments, pt. 2
During these times where many things are unknown, it seems like we are in a hopeless situation.
SERMON THEME
A defining moment is described as an event that influences or changes all subsequent related occurrences. How we respond to defining moments determine our destiny. Today Pastor Richard tells us how to recognize a defining moment, how to position yourself for a defining moment in God’s kingdom and how to capitalize on a defining moment.
SCRIPTURES
Matthew 16; Isaiah 43:18-19; 1 Samuel 17:12-20, 26-31; Mark 10:43-44
Discuss and Reflect
Reflect on how 3 strategies to prepare for defining moments
Being faithful to someone else’s vision or ministry…prepares you for your own.
Private disciplines prepares us for public ministry
Realize our confidence is in the unchanging nature of God. Understanding who he is leads to knowing what he will do.
How does God want to define this moment through you?
What do you do when no one is watching? Are you faithful with what God has given you?
PRAYER POINT / DECLARATION
We decree breakthrough is happening in California through our worship! Our worship is bringing about transformation and victory in every area of our lives: spirit, soul, and body.
Psalm 98:1-2
'Oh, sing to the Lord a new song! For He has done marvelous things; His right hand and His holy arm have gained Him the victory. The Lord has made known His salvation; His righteousness He has revealed in the sight of the nations.'
NEXT STEPS
All Liberty Church partners and attendees are invited to take their next step. What is your next step? Is it water baptism, joining Growth Path, joining the Impact team or joining a LIFE group?
Defining Moments
During these times where many things are unknown, it seems like we are in a hopeless situation.
SERMON THEME
A defining moment is described as an event that influences or changes all subsequent related occurrences. Defining moments change our life’s trajectory. Defining moments can be positive of negative, How we respond determines which direction we go. Once we experience a defining moment, that part of our life that was affected is never the same. This COVID-19 pandemic is a defining moment. Pastor Richard tells us how to make this defining moment a catalyst for a great awakening.
SCRIPTURES
Daniel 11:32 AMP ; Hebrews 11:1-3; Hebrews 11: 32-40 (TPT); Deuteronomy 31:6
Discuss and Reflect
Reflect on the five activation points for dealing with fear/uncertainty about a defining moment
Put your trust in God
Lift up songs of praise
Pray in the spirit
Declare God’s word
Be a receiver of God’s love
Reflect on what God is going to do through your life during this next season
Describe a defining moment in your life and how God helped you navigate.
PRAYER POINT / DECLARATION
We decree worship will come into a new dimension in California and will be used as a weapon against the enemy in the midst of difficult times. Psalm 149:5-9
'Let the saints be joyful in glory; Let them sing aloud on their beds. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, And a two-edged sword in their hand, To execute vengeance on the nations, And punishments on the peoples; To bind their kings with chains, And their nobles with fetters of iron; To execute on them the written judgment— This honor have all His saints. Praise the Lord!'
NEXT STEPS
All Liberty Church partners and attendees are invited to take their next step. What is your next step? Is it water baptism, joining Growth Path, joining the Impact team or joining a LIFE group?
Is Anyone Listening-Resurrection Power
During these times where many things are unknown, it seems like we are in a hopeless situation.
SERMON THEME
God demonstrated that He saw our needs, heard our cries and that He is listening to our prayers. IN this message, Pastor Richard shared how we can know God is listening and how we can access resurrection power, right now. We will learn how to sustain our faith and continue to trust God.
SCRIPTURES
Revelations 1:18; Matthew 27:46; 1 Corinthians 5:20-21; Isaiah 53; 1 John 3:8-9 (AMP); Mark 11:25; Romans 8:10-13; 1 Peter 1:15-16 (TPT)
Discuss and Reflect
What hinders our prayer life?
Discuss the definitions of repentance that Pastor Richard shared.
Discuss a time when you felt God wasn’t listening, but you determined He was. How did you know?
PRAYER POINT / DECLARATION
We decree as God brings about a time of great shaking this coming year in California, God’s people will remain standing! God’s voice will be heard out of the shaking. Heb. 12:26-28
'whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. '
NEXT STEPS
All Liberty Church partners and attendees are invited to take their next step. What is your next step? Is it water baptism, joining Growth Path, joining the Impact team or joining a LIFE group?
Is Anyone Listening- Palm Branches to Thorns
During these times where many things are unknown, it seems like we are in a hopeless situation.
SERMON THEME
Palm Sunday is also known as Passion Sunday. The beginning of Holy Week and Jesus’ final agonizing journey to His crucifixion. When Jesus rode a donkey into Jerusalem, it was as “King for a Day”. It was only a day because as soon as He didn’t do what they wanted Him to do, the same people that shouted Hosanna shouted Crucify Him.
SCRIPTURES
Matthew 21:1-11; Luke 19:39-41 ; Matthew 24:1-8; James 1;
Isaiah 41:10-13 (TPT)
Discuss and Reflect
Have you ever expected God to do something and He didn’t do what you expected and you became disillusioned?
Discuss the 3 things to do when palm branches turn into thorns:
Pray that you do not enter into temptation
Die to your “self will”
Receive resurrection power
PRAYER POINT / DECLARATION
We decree that the church in California is prepared to display the works of God that will bring about great glory to the name of Jesus. 1 Peter 2:12
'These individuals are nothing but brute beasts—irrational creatures, born in the wild to be caught and destroyed—and they will perish like beasts. They are professional insulters, who slander whatever they don’t understand, and in their destruction they will be destroyed. '
NEXT STEPS
All Liberty Church partners and attendees are invited to take their next step. What is your next step? Is it water baptism, joining Growth Path, joining the Impact team or joining a LIFE group?
March 21/22, 2020- Choosing Faith Over Fear How To Face Your Giants
During these times where many things are unknown, it seems like we are in a hopeless situation.
SERMON THEME
During these times where many things are unknown, it seems like we are in a hopeless situation. We are experiencing a divine reset, resetting our values to KINGDOM values. Fear has four destructive steps. Fear causes us to: 1. Focus on our problems, 2. Expect only defeat, 3. Have an attitude of self-protection and 4. Reap the results of fear. We took a look at the famous account of David and Goliath to learn about fear vs. faith.
SCRIPTURES
1 Samuel 17 (NLT); James 3:3-5
Discuss and Reflect - 5 Things David Did That We Need To Do
He ignored the negativity of others (his brothers and other leaders).
He faced his Goliath head on.
He reminded himself of the faithfulness of God.
He ran TO the battle, not FROM it.
He proclaimed that GOD was his source of strength.
PRAYER POINT / DECLARATION
We decree a move of intercession across California! God’s people are humbling themselves praying, seeking His face, turning from their wicked ways and He is hearing from heaven and healing our land.
If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
We decree there is a remnant of God’s people in California being filled with God’s glory! This remnant will activate a release of the word of God throughout this state and the entire nation.
And the remnant who have escaped of the house of Judah Shall again take root downward, And bear fruit upward.
Isaiah 37:31 (NKJV)
Arise, shine; For your light has come! And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you. 2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, And deep darkness the people; But the LORD will arise over you, And His glory will be seen upon you. Isaiah 60:1-2 (NKJV)
But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing. James 1:25 (ESV)
NEXT STEPS
All Liberty Church partners and attendees are invited to take their next step. What is your next step? Is it water baptism, joining Growth Path, joining the Impact team or joining a LIFE group?
The Pursuit of Faith PT2
Everything we do requires faith.
SERMON THEME
This is a continuation of our message from last week. When you know the will of God, you can pray according to the will of God. Faith has the language of thanksgiving. You have to believe when you pray, and speak. You must make sure you eliminate doubt. Get a rhema from God what His purposes right now. This is how you produce faith.
SCRIPTURES
James 1:5-6; Romans 10:17; Matt 11:2-6
DISCUSS AND REFLECT
· Can Faith and Doubt can exist at the same time?
· Explain what doubt does to a person’s faith?
· From the story of John the Baptist, How did Jesus explain we should deal
with Doubt?
· Can faith be strengthened, if so explain?
PRAYER POINT
Pray for the heart of believers concerning government on every level.
'Remind people to respect their governmental leaders on every level as law-abiding citizens and to be ready to fulfill their civic duty. And remind them to never tear down anyone with their words or quarrel, but instead be considerate, humble, and courteous to everyone.
Titus 3:1-2
NEXT STEPS
All Liberty Church partners and attendees are invited to take their next step. What is your next step? Is it water baptism, joining Growth Path, joining the Impact team or joining a LIFE group?
The Pursuit of Faith
Everything we do requires faith.
SERMON THEME
Everything we do requires faith. Faith is not mystical, and it is not just knowledge. It is a substance the grows in the heart or spirit of a man. Faith accesses the realities of heaven and brings those realities to earth. We must pursue faith.
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SCRIPTURES
2 Corinthians 5:7, Hebrews 11:1; Romans 5:1-2
DISCUSS AND REFLECT
· Fear will sink you. Is there any fear that is gripping and controlling your decision making?
· If being in faith truly meant you automatically had zero unbelief, why did Jesus include this part about not doubting in your heart?
· Have you been in situations where you had faith and doubt at the same time? Discuss.
PRAYER POINT
Pray for the churches in Solano County
'praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints— '
Ephesians 6:18 NKJV
NEXT STEPS
All Liberty Church partners and attendees are invited to take their next step. What is your next step? Is it water baptism, joining Growth Path, joining the Impact team or joining a LIFE group?