Bucket Full of Grace

TLDR: Video Link Background: Paul had traveled to the city of Thessalonica after being beaten and imprisoned in Phillipi.  You can read in the book of Acts, when in Phillipi, Paul and Silas had released a fortune teller girl from demonic possession and her masters were enraged and they beat Paul and SIlas with rods in the marketplace, humiliating them, then they were thrown in a dungeon called the Tullainium where the worst criminals were kept, their feet in stocks that stretch the prisoners feet apart, causing severe pain.  Did they give up?  Did they say, oh we must not be in the Will of God? No, an earthquake during the night broke open the jail, they stopped and witnessed to the jailer helping him and his family come to Christ, and they were released.  This is when they went to Thessalonica. In Thessalonica, it’s important to understand the type of place this is.  It’s like a political rally with all the parties vying for attention on every street-corner and...

  Prophecy > Tongues Sermon Notes Open with me to 1st Corinthians 14 and let’s Pray. -The Holy Spirit Teaching Us -Unity of the Brethren -To Pursue Love 1 John 1:5 “God is light: in Him there is no darkness at all.” Of all the light [electromagnetic spectrum] that is whizzing around us.  Humans can only see what we call visible light, and this light makes up less than 1% of all the light, actually less than 35 ten thousandths of a % of all the light.  We see in a mirror dimly but one day we will see Him face to Face.  And so it is with the Holy Spirit Gift of tongues.   There is some small percentage of the Glory that God is due that I am actually able to give in the English language.  But, when praying, it can become overwhelming and we just don’t have the words to express to God what needs to be said, so the Holy Spirit intercedes for us with groaning beyond our understanding… and this exalts God to His True place, this is 100% of the light or 100% of ...