“The L ORD is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults,...

“The LORD is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.”

Psalm 28:7

You are my God, there is no other

You stand alone as Lord of all

Giver of life, peace and prosperity

Lord, You are Lord of all

(repeat)

My Life Belongs to YouDerick Thomas

My life belongs to You

My life belongs to You

My life belongs to You

(repeat)

I will praise You with all of my heart

I will praise You with all of my strength

I will praise You with all of my life

You are Lord!

(repeat)

You are my God, there is no other

You stand alone as Lord of all

Giver of life, peace and prosperity

Lord, You are Lord of all

My life belongs to You

My life belongs to You

My life belongs to You

(repeat)

I will praise You with all of my heart

I will praise You with all of my strength

I will praise You with all of my life

You are Lord!

(repeat)

You are Lord!

(repeat)

“My Life Belongs to You” by Derick Thomas© 2001 Integrity's Praise! Music (Admin. by EMI Christian Music Publishing)CCLI License #503207

Leader: It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to your name, O Most High;

People: to declare your steadfast love in the morning, and your faithfulness by night,

Responsive Call To WorshipPsalm 92

Leader: For you, O LORD, have made me glad by your work;  at the works of your hands I sing for joy.

People: How great are your works, O LORD!  Your thoughts are very deep!

Responsive Call To Worship

Leader: The stupid man cannot know; the fool cannot understand this:

People: that though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever;

Responsive Call To Worship

Leader: but you, O LORD, are on high forever.

People: The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Responsive Call To Worship

Leader: They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green,

All: to declare that the LORD is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him. 

Responsive Call To Worship

Friend of GodWho am I that You are mindful of me,

That you hear me when I call?

Is it true that You are thinking of me

How You love me,

It’s amazing!

(repeat)

I am a friend of God

I am a friend of God

I am a friend of God

He calls me friend

(repeat)

Who am I that You are mindful of me

That you hear me when I call?

Is it true that You are thinking of me

How You love me, it’s amazing!

It’s amazing! It’s amazing!

I am a friend of God

I am a friend of God

I am a friend of God

He calls me friend

(repeat)

God almighty, Lord of Glory,

You have called me friend.

(repeat)

I am a friend of God

I am a friend of God

I am a friend of God

He calls me friend

(repeat)

He calls me friend…(repeat)

You call me friend.

“Friend of God” by Israel Houghton and Michael Gungor© 2003 Integrity's Praise! Music / Vertical Worship Songs(Admin. by EMI Christian Music Publishing)CCLI License #503207

All around, all around

Everywhere I look Your love is all around

All around, all around

Everywhere I look Your love is all around

(repeat)

All AroundIsrael Houghton

[clap your hands]

Let the nations sing, let the people shout

Let Your kingdom come, pour Your spirit out

(repeat)

Manifest, manifest Your love

Manifest, manifest Your love…

All around, all around

Everywhere I look Your love is all around

All around, all around

Everywhere I look Your love is all around

(repeat)

[clap your hands]

Let the nations sing, let the people shout

Let Your kingdom come, pour Your spirit out

(repeat)

Manifest, manifest Your love

Manifest, manifest Your love…

All around, all around

Everywhere I look Your love is all around

All around, all around

Everywhere I look Your love is all around

(repeat)

“All Around” by Aaron Lindsey, Curt Coffield, and Israel Houghton© 2004 Integrity's Praise! Music / Like-A-Card Praise / Integrity's Hosanna! Music (Admin. by EMI Christian Music Publishing)CCLI License #503207

Almighty and most merciful father, we are thankful that your mercy is higher than the heavens, wider than our wanderings, deeper than all our sin. Forgive our frivolous attitude toward life, our callousness toward suffering, our envy of those who have more than we have, our obsession with creating a life of constant pleasure, our indifference to the treasures of heaven, our neglect of your wise and gracious law.

Confession of Sin

Help us to change our way of life so that we may desire what is good, love what you love, and do what you command, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Confession of Sin

Silent time for personal confession

The Lord’s Prayer

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.

The Westminster Shorter Catechism

Q. 102. For what do we pray in the second request?

A. In the second request, “Your Kingdom come,” we pray that Satan’s kingdom may be destroyed, that the kingdom of grace may be advanced, with ourselves and others brought into and kept in it, and that the kingdom of glory may come quickly. 

Everyone needs compassion,

Love that’s never failing;

Let mercy fall on me.

Everyone needs forgiveness,

The kindness of a Savior;

The hope of nations.

Mighty To SaveBen Fielding, Reuben Morgan

Savior, He can move the mountains.

My God is mighty to save,

He is mighty to save.

Forever, author of salvation;

He rose and conquered the grave.

Jesus conquered the grave.

So take me as You find me,

All my fears and failures;

Fill my life again.

I give my life to follow

Everything I believe in;

Now I surrender.

Savior, He can move the mountains.

My God is mighty to save,

He is mighty to save.

Forever, author of salvation;

He rose and conquered the grave.

Jesus conquered the grave.

Shine your light and let the whole world see.

We’re singing for the glory of the risen King.

Jesus, shine your light and

Let the whole world see.

We’re singing for the glory of the risen King.

(repeat)

Savior, He can move the mountains.

My God is mighty to save,

He is mighty to save.

Forever, author of salvation;

He rose and conquered the grave.

Jesus conquered the grave.

Savior, He can move the mountains.

My God is mighty to save,

He is mighty to save.

Forever, author of salvation;

He rose and conquered the grave.

Jesus conquered the grave.

“Mighty To Save” by Ben Fielding and Reuben Morgan© 2006 Hillsong Music Publishing (Admin. by EMI Christian Music Publishing) CCLI License #503207

Listening to Hagar: Sharing the Suffering of Our

Sisters Both Nearby and Worldwide

FCF Women’s ClassSeptember 15 – October 27

Beginning with a study of Hagar from the Book of Genesis, this class will raise our awareness about how our sisters are suffering -- from human trafficking, gender-based violence, HIV/AIDs, educational deprivation, and economic crisis -- and provide concrete opportunities to pray and consider other ways God may be calling us to respond.

Common Ground Sunday School

High School Sunday School Study Topic - Westminster Confession & Apologetic

Middle School Sunday School Study Topic - Characters of the New Testament

SUNDAY SCHOOL

3 and 4 yrs - Show Me JesusK-2nd grade - Show Me Jesus

3rd-5th - Kid’s Quest

Join us for Lunch and hear about the Persecuted Church

Sunday, Oct. 27, 20131-3 PM

Concert of Prayer 7pm, Friday, November 1in the Parlor

Sunday, November 312:45-3:00 p.m. in the Parlor.

11 About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food,13 for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. 

Scripture ReadingHebrews 5:11-6:12

14 But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.1Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

Hebrews 5:11-6:12

 2 and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. 3 And this we will do if God permits. 4 For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come,  

Hebrews 5:11-6:12

6 and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt. 7 For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.  

Hebrews 5:11-6:12

8 But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned. 9 Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things—things that belong to salvation. 10 For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do. 

Hebrews 5:11-6:12

11 And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end, 12 so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Hebrews 5:11-6:12

Joshua: Advancing on the Promises

Words for Courage and Strength

Joshua 14:

6 ¶ Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me.7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.8 But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the LORD my God. 9 And Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.’

10 And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.11 I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming.12 So now give me this hill country of which the LORD spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the LORD said.”

13 Then Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.14 Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.15 Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba. (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim.) And the land had rest from war.

G P A

Gripping

Praying

Acting

1) Resilient faith GRIPS the promises of God. vs 6-11

“You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me.….‘Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.” vs 6 & 9

“In the great race of life, there are some Christ-followers who stand out from all the rest…They seem to possess these spiritual qualities – They are committed to finishing strong. They are inspired by a big-picture view of life. They run free of the weight of the past. They run confidently, trained to go the distance. They run in the company of a ‘happy few.’

Get a grip on the Word of God

• The weakest finger represents hearing, because we retain the least through that method of intake. Some people may remember 10% of what they hear.

• The index finger, our strongest finger, represents memorization. We remember 100% of what we memorize if we consistently review it.

• MEDITATION is the inward processthat should accompany each of the otherfour methods of Scripture intake. This is why meditation is assignedto the thumb. Only the thumb can touch all the other four fingers. By meditating on God's word we hear, read, study, and memorize, and thereby God works in us.

2) Resilient faith PRAYS the promises of God.

So now give me this hill country of which the LORD spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the LORD said.” Vs 12

Joshua 15

16 And Caleb said, “Whoever strikes Kiriath-sepher and captures it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife.”17 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, captured it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.

18 When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she got off her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?” 19 She said to him, “Give me a blessing. Since you have given me the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water.” And he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

“Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring; for His grace and power are such, none can ever ask too much."

John Newton

3) Resilient faith ACTS on the promises of God. vs 13-14

“ Then Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.”

“ So now give me this hill country of which the LORD spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the LORD said.”

Joshua 14:12