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Abounding Grace for Abounding Work. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work : II Corinthians 9:8 May 13, 2012 Rev. David B. Hanson Deaf Liberty Baptist Church Overland Park, Kansas.
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Abounding Grace for Abounding Work And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work: II Corinthians 9:8 May 13, 2012 Rev. David B. Hanson Deaf Liberty Baptist Church Overland Park, Kansas
Your Endeavor Is Effective • Ephesians 3:7 • Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. • Is your work connected to God’s plan? • Are you ready to partner with God on a great endeavor?
The Lord Needs Small Gideon’s Army • Judges 7:2 • And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. • 22,000 • 10,000 • 300
Gideon Has Committed to God’s Plan • Judges 7:19-20 • 19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands. • 20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.
Jesus Christ Needs Paul’s Obedience • Acts 16:9-10 • 9 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us. • 10 And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them.
Paul Has Committed to God’s Plan • Acts 16:25-26 • 25 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. • 26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.
Brother Andrew – God’s Smuggler • Andrew van derBijlwas born in Netherlands on May 11, 1928. • He was wounded in the ankle at the war against Indonesia and during his rehabilitation he read the Bible, and he became a Christian, and had his ankle healed. • He became a Bible-smuggler behind the Iron Curtain. • “If your vision doesn’t scare you, then both your vision and your God are too small.”