Fall Creek Christian Church

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him. - 1 John 5:14-15 What is it that you want more than anything else? Money? Fame? Healthy family? New car? John tells us in this passage that the thing we could want more than anything else is God's will (what God wants). It is the first key to experiencing answers to all of the prayers that we have been praying. I wonder how much differently we would pray if we were seeking God's will 100% of the time. In the Lord's prayer that is quoted in Luke 11, Jesus shows us what is completely in line with God's will: Declaring that no one is like God. Asking God to bring heaven to earth. Together is the best way to pray. Ask for what you need, nothing more. Ask for God to forgive you of all that you've done, and don't forget to forgive ...

Webster’s Definition:   Continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition Wow…I don’t know about you but that describes more than one area of my life right now and over the past few weeks I have gained great comfort in understanding that as I pray for Gods Will that his will is for me to persevere.  Let me share a great story with you on perseverance that I learned from my 14 year old daughter this week.  Over Christmas Break she had a pretty tough basketball tournament and was disappointed in how she performed.  We went to the gym later and worked on a few things and had fun hanging out.  During this time together she shared her discouragement that her shot wasn’t falling and that she hadn’t hit a “3” all season.  I tried hard to give her some sound advice such as it will fall, hang in there, but in the mean time step up and hit the open jump shots, free throws and layups.  This was intended to be encouragin...