Sunday, October 16, 2016

16 October 2016 - ENCS

About the spirit empowered ENC mission, Joey Bonifacio spoke
Quotes from both Oswald Charles and Jim Cymbala he did invoke
Believers experience the Holy Spirit, but it takes time to understand
Remember that it is omnipresent, always there to give us a hand

Per John ten verse ten, the thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy
To prevent us from living God's abundant life he will use any ploy
He relies on temptation, deception, condemnation, and accusation
But God provides us antidotes to the enemy’s acts of abomination
Prayer, truth in the form of His Word, the gospel, and fellowship
Individually and collectively, they help us avoid even a little slip

Pastor Joey said that the Holy Spirit plays a very important role
Helping us apply these four tools to achieve God’s intended goal
Per Romans eight verse twenty six, the Holy Spirit help us to pray
The Spirit guides us in truth, John sixteen verse thirteen does say
The Spirit is our advocate, per John fourteen and Romans eight
Ephesians one says the Spirit marks us with a seal that is great

In summary, the Holy Spirit helps us achieve and live our life
As God fully intends us to have “perissos” and joy, not strife
We must remember that the enemy is indeed real and a threat
But the Spirit is just as real yet is the strongest ally we can get

Monday, October 10, 2016

9 October 2016 - ENCS

Joy Talavera spoke about the vision of Every Nation
Focusing on “Christ-centred” as a core foundation
Using Colossians one verses fifteen to twenty three
Several attributes about Christ were evident to see

#dropthemic is a performance completely definitive
That describes Jesus all the time, perfect He did live

Christ is the image of the invisible God, Paul did say
So He is the beginning and the end, including today
Because in things that are material, Jesus cannot be
If possessions take priority for us, trouble we will see

By, through, and for Christ all things were created
So He is the centre of everything, Joy then stated
Since Jesus knows everything that is in our heart
We should follow Him, from His path not depart

He is before all things and holds them all together
He can help us through even the roughest weather
And since he is pre-eminent for the entire universe
So not thanking him upon waking would be perverse

God’s fullness dwells in Jesus, per verse nineteen
So is Jesus with us permanently or only rarely seen?
If we let Christ into our lives, He brings real peace
And with such peace, our joy and love will increase

Between ourselves and God, Jesus bridges the gap 
To be reconciled with God we do not need a map
For only Jesus Christ can make us holy and blameless
More than anything we do, He pulls us from the mess

Being Christ-centred allows Christ to keep us centred
Putting an end to sinfulness that into us had entered