welcome to creekside online we are so
glad you have joined us
it's starting sunday september 13th
creekside is going to start meeting
every sunday that's right every sunday
at 9 00 a.m
you will be able to join us at creekside
outside there will still be a drive up
option available and the service will be
live on
fm 93.5 for you to enjoy in your car
but with creekside outside we are also
going to open up a seating area
up front and we're going to turn up the
volume so you can come
closer to the action all you need to do
is park your car in the paved parking
area
we will have some socially distant
seating set up or you can bring your own
folding
chairs up and and set up some socially
distant seating for you and your family
you're also more than welcome to drive
your car to the back parking lot and set
up some seating around your vehicle
or of course you can enjoy the service
from the comfort of your own vehicle
as well we will also continue to have
our creekside online services available
each week so join us each sunday either
at creekside
outside or creekside online
so plan to join us sunday september 13th
at nine o'clock
bring your own coffee but we're going to
be providing the
donuts we will see you there i also want
to let you know about some weekly things
we have going on
did you know that we post an online
devotional
every monday wednesday and friday called
looking up
you can find it on our website
creeksideeg.com
our facebook page or our youtube channel
we also have a weekly prayer time on
zoom
every wednesday from 12 30 to one you
can get the zoom
information on our next steps page on
that same page you can also sign
up for a prayer workshop that is going
to be
saturday september 12th from 9 to 11.
kelly bowers will be sharing a practical
approach for bringing life
and intimacy to your conversations with
god so we have a lot of great things
happening here at creekside if this is
your first time checking out creekside
online
we would love to know about it text
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someone
contact you say hello and let you know
more about creekside
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talk to or or help with your math
homework
just text need prayer to 888-111 and
seriously
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tell them pastor joel said that he would
help me with my math homework
and i will hope that you are an 8th
grader or below
and i will contact you and i will help
you with your math homework
we also want to uh thank everyone who
has continued to faithfully give to
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god is doing great things and if you
would
uh and we would just love you to give to
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just text the word give to the number
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again we are so glad you have joined us
the church
and god have never been confined to and
defined by
a building the church is everywhere
god is everywhere and we now gather
in spirit to worship him let's worship
together welcome so glad you've joined
us
we're going to worship god in song we're
going to sing together
there is great power and gratitude we're
gonna sing about how grateful
we are right on let's join together
put your hands together
[Music]
this is the day that you have made
whatever comes i won't complain
[Music]
you have done i will sing
of your mercy and your love your love
isn't bearing for i am
grateful
[Music]
[Music]
your faithfulness
[Music]
of your mercy and your love your love
i am grateful i give
thanks for all you have done
i won't forget all the
is battles for i am grateful
and as we lift our hands
the heavens open
heavens open
so let our lives declare the
love our god has spoken
over us and as we
lift our hands the heavens
our god has spoken
over us
[Music]
i give thanks for all you
have done i will speak
of your mercy and your love your love
lord i am
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
colossians chapter 2 verses 6 and 7 say
this so then
just as you received christ jesus as
lord continue to live your lives in him
rooted and built up in him
strengthened in the faith as you were
taught and overflowing
with thankfulness rooted and built up in
him
got a good reminder of that this week my
wife is
an amazing gardener she can grow
anything and
over the years uh as i've learned from
her
she's pointed out that the soil is so
important
and she had planted these little
broccoli seedlings and they were
sprouting up the first tiny little
leaves and then
we brought them inside because the smoke
and stuff and then we looked one day and
oh no here's these little worms these
little caterpillars that were
eating the leaves and we plucked them
off and thought oh man
it eaten them down some of them to just
stems and we thought oh we've lost them
you know and
put them aside but a couple of days
later yesterday when she was repotting
she looked
and here some of them had sprouted new
leaves
like what and the soil was so good the
soil was so rich
the roots had gone down and the new
leaves had
come up that was such a good picture
for me of this verse and in this year
when so many things like that
caterpillar have come and
eaten things out of our lives right so
much loss and challenges
for those of us who are rooted in christ
the good news is we can be built up in
him
when our roots go down the leaves will
come up
right if we build our lives on him we
will ultimately
not be shaken thank you lord let's sing
this
together i'll build my life
i will build my life
upon your love
it is a firm
foundation i
will put my trust
in you alone
and i will not
be shaken i
will build my life
upon your love
it is a firm foundation
i will put my trust
in you alone
and i will not
there is no one like you
there is none beside you
open up my eyes in one
[Music]
me holy there
is no one like you there
is none beside you open up my
and eyes me who you
[Music]
[Applause]
i are build my
life upon your
love it is a
firm foundation
i will put my trust
in you alone
and i will not be
shaken
[Music]
my wife michelle has a secret place that
she loves visiting here in elk grove
it's called green acres now for those of
you that have never been to green acres
it's just off of east stockton boulevard
between bond and elk grove boulevard and
it's really just a business that helps
us make our yards
look better and really what it is is
just this huge greenhouse where every
plant every bush every tree
imaginable is available to see and
to purchase and everything there is
healthy and it's just growing like
crazy michelle just loves to visit the
green acres and
and see all the wild colors and see the
vibrant green growth breathe that oxygen
rich air
and spend our hard-earned money there it
is
her happy place and by the way that's
her marilyn monroe pose okay
but why does my wife love green anchors
so much
it's because it's a big green green
house it's full of life it's full of
vitality and growth and beauty
it reminds her of our glorious
life-giving
god you know all life is derived from
god he's the ultimate living being he is
the author of life
so it's not hard for those of us that
have come to know the lord jesus christ
personally
to to acknowledge that if we want to get
the most
out of our one and only life that he's
given us we have got to get closer
to god uh this is stated in both old
testament and new testament for example
in deuteronomy chapter 30 this is what
we read
choose life so that you and your
children
may live and that you may love the lord
your god
listen to his voice and hold fast to him
for the lord is your life
do you want to thrive spiritually and
experience the fullness of life
if so there's a clear biblical recipe
for thriving in the realm
of the spirit here's the truth there's a
lot of people that profess
faith in jesus christ today that don't
experience anything close to spiritual
thriving and vitality and maybe today
i threw a little salt in the wound and
that experience is yours
i want to remind you of john chapter 10
verse 10 where jesus says i have come
that they may have life
and have it to the full that you may
have life that you may have life to the
full
and throughout church history 20
centuries there are certain
irreducible commitments or disciplines
or habits
that are consistently found in the lives
of believers who are thriving
spiritually so what is it that makes
some believers thrive like greenhouse
plants at green acres growing fast
growing healthy
and the answer is found in acts chapter
2 verses 42 and following just
six short verses and in these verses we
have a clear recipe
for spiritual thriving and vitality
last week we read about the coming of
the holy spirit on those very first
christ
followers and the spirit came with power
there is a loud violent wind and a big
fire that separated into small little
tongues of fire that delighted on all
the believers present about 120 of them
acts chapter 2 verse 4 says they were
all filled with the holy spirit
and the result was the church was born
happy birthday church
and as that first group of believers was
filled with the holy spirit they
experienced the divine
empowering to witness acts 1 8
and then they went out to probably the
southern steps of the temple area
and supernaturally began to speak in
languages and dialects of the jewish
pilgrims that had traveled
throughout the entire mediterranean
world to come up to jerusalem to
celebrate the feast of pentecost
now when some of the people attempted to
blame that experience on
alcohol peter boldly stood up and said
no it's not alcohol
and he preached before this huge crowd a
powerful message about their need
to receive christ by faith their messiah
and as a result about 3 000
people were born again that day and
baptized
in john chapter 14 verse 2 i'm reminded
of jesus actually
giving us a promise he said i tell you
the truth whoever believes in me
will do works i've been doing they will
do even greater things
than these think about this on the day
of pentecost that pentecost harvest
it represents more people one to faith
in christ in a single day
than jesus ever saw during his three
years of public ministry promise kept
why because god lit a match and he
ignited a normal group of people into a
universal movement
that was unstoppable in acts chapter 2
verse
47 we read the lord added to their
number daily
those who were being saved
so what was their greenhouse secret i
mean
when it comes to growing thriving
flowers plants and trees the essential
ingredient ingredients of sun
soil water and food you know like
fertilizer
such but in the realm of the spirit
the recipe is a little different
in acts chapter 2 verse 4 we read that
they were all
filled with the holy spirit but what
what's the distinguishing signs or maybe
better the habits
that accompany people that are filled
and led by the holy spirit
i mean the early church was just so full
of god they were so full of life so full
of beauty power generosity vitality
boldness and fearlessness the people
were being changed left and right
and thousands flocked to get into their
ranks
so what was their greenhouse secret or
maybe greenhouse secrets
because whatever they had we got to get
whatever that was
we read about that in acts chapter 2
beginning at verse 42.
they devoted themselves to the apostles
teaching and to fellowship
and to the breaking of bread and to
prayer
everyone was filled with awe at the many
wonders and signs performed by the
apostles all the believers were together
and had
everything in common they sold property
possessions to give to anyone who had
need
every day they continued to meet
together in the temple courts they broke
bread in their homes
and ate together with glad and sincere
hearts
praising god and enjoying the favor of
all the people
and the lord added to their number daily
those
who were being saved
since we can't yet meet for indoor
worship services here at creekside last
sunday our life group decided we were
just going to have an outdoor breakfast
watch
the message and then discuss it and pray
we wanted to worship the lord together
but within that atmosphere i got to tell
you we also decided to eat together
we enjoyed each other's company we
opened our hearts to the scripture
and then we prayed for each other it was
a great experience
we welcomed a new couple to our our life
group we even
have a life group member that had to fly
back to texas to be with her family she
lost her brother so we called her
and we encouraged her expressed our love
to her and we prayed for her
why was that such a rewarding
life-giving time
i think it's because we followed an
ancient tried and true recipe for
spiritual growth and vitality
the opening words to this passage we're
starting today are
they devoted themselves to
what does that mean to be devoted that's
a passionate
focused purpose that's a single-minded
pursuit
without without apology the early
believers were obsessed about a few
simple habits that changed their lives
they went to bed thinking about certain
things
and they woke up thinking about the same
things they prioritized certain
activities and disciplines pushing them
to the top of their list they were
willing to change and adjust
their daily rhythms to make sure that
certain new spiritual habits were at the
center
of how they operated actually
they were willing to stop doing some
things in order to start doing
better things they didn't live under the
american illusion that people could just
keep adding stuff to their lives
and maintain quality they practiced some
blessed
subtractions as well as some blessed
editions
i remember when i became a christian one
of the things i'd assessed was
a reassess was the time i spent before
the television and the content i was
willing
to expose myself to maybe it's sunday
sports programs for kids whether it's
god or sports for you or frivolous
entertainment or
maybe relationships that have become
toxic you can probably add to the list
of
classic time activities but my point is
the secret of the spiritual vitality of
the early church was is that they
stopped
doing some things even good things to
devote themselves
to pursuing the best things the
essential things and we're going to see
in the next chapter even persecution
couldn't hold them back from the
devotion
that they had to these certain new
habits that changed their lives and
as a result of such decisions and new
devotions
they thrived let me give you principle
one today
thriving in the holy spirit will require
life
alterations serious life alterations
thriving in the holy spirit will require
serious life
alterations if this is not a price that
you are willing to pay
i don't think you can realistically
expect to thrive
as a spirit-filled christ follower
you know and i was powerfully drawn to
the lord by the holy spirit
and then adopted into the family of god
years ago all my life rhythms changed i
desired different things
how i spent my time what i was hungry
for the kind of friends i wanted the
music i listened to
the role that the local church played in
my life it was huge the kind of
attention i paid
to certain forms of advice who my
counselors were
and then there was this strange new
burning desire to share my faith with
others and pursue personal purity
that was a work of the holy spirit i
began to see
people as god saw them and actually
cared about their well-being
and friends that was new to me before
becoming a christ follower it was all
about me but when the holy spirit came
into my life
what i cared about radically changed
because i was on fire for the lord and i
couldn't get enough of him
when you get a taste of true spiritual
thriving in the lord everything else
just seems like old bad
leftovers it's like cereal that's been
soaked in milk for a few hours or like
bologna
or cheese that's moldy
are you ready to passionately give
yourself to focus single-minded pursuit
of god
because if so you're going to need to
follow the example of the early
believers
and you're going to need to devote
yourself to certain things
like teaching verse 42 says they devoted
themselves
to the apostles teaching remember
remember these are jewish pilgrims who
have
some knowledge of the old testament from
genesis to malachi that was their bible
but in their very midst they also had
numerous teachers that were full of the
holy spirit that had spent three plus
years with the lord jesus christ
so the early believers devoted
themselves and their time and attention
to sitting at the apostles feet
and drinking in like sponges and this
authoritative teaching and instruction
from the apostles the
the church didn't have any books written
by the apostles yet that come later but
they had their eyewitness teaching and
it was so critical
they offered the members these apostles
these this brand new church they offered
them facts they explained the meaning
of the life of christ now in today's
terminology
we would identify this kind of devotion
habit as reading and studying
the word of god but i just need to add a
little caution here there was just no
interest in simply gathering information
or bible facts some people do that today
what
these early believers really wanted was
life-giving truth
about the son of god which leads me to
principle number two
our journey into scripture needs to be
motivated
by a burning desire to know god
better we read in first corinthians
chapter
eight verse one that knowledge puffs up
while love builds up
so and this has happened to me too
listen if you're reading or you're
studying the bible takes a detour into
kind of
simple information gathering stop and
just beg
god to turn that around beg him for a
deeper more experiential knowledge of
himself
you know god still speaks today and his
primary way of doing so
is through scripture through bible
teaching
so if you want to thrive spiritually
like the early church devote yourself
to the teaching of scripture
they also devoted themselves to
fellowship fellowship acts 4
242 they devoted themselves to
fellowship fellowship with god
and with each other their new
relationship with heaven it it resulted
in a complete change in the way they
viewed and related to those around them
particularly believers
and the word there in the greek is
koinonia it's what happens when serious
christ followers get together and allow
god to be their focus
it's just this joy and vitality that's
so tangible
that you can almost cut it with a knife
we read about this in acts 2 46 and 47
it says every day
they continued to meet together in the
temple courts they broke bread in their
homes that ate together with glad and
sincere hearts
praising god and enjoying the favor of
all the people
honestly we didn't design this message
to align with our promotion of life
groups
promise i promise but the best kind of
coinage of fellowship spoken about
in these verses is exactly what we're
aiming at with our life groups
practicing the new testament one another
commands and doing
life together koinonia
choosing not to do your spiritual
journey with god alone koineni is
recognizing that if god exists eternally
in community as a triune god
and we're made in his image we're
designed for community as well
koinonia it's opening your hearts and
your homes to others seeking god
koinonia recognizing that there's
greater strength in numbers
koinonia enjoying honest edifying
christ-centered conversation and
friendship with other christ followers
koinonia a spiritual support system
let me give you a real real simple
application
if you're not in a life group sign up
today
you know we're going to start meeting
for worship services
outside every week on september 13th
we're going to call it creekside
outside and when it's sufficiently safe
to do
so we're going to start worshiping god
indoors again
but let me tell you a little secret what
happens during our big worship services
isn't really koinonia it's worship
it's teaching but it's not one another
christianity that only happens in
smaller contexts of
of direct human interaction like our
life groups
this desire for being rooted in
community it's so fundamental to how we
operate as humans that if people
can't access that at a local church like
ours
they'll leave i mean people attend big
churches like creekside because of
quality and options but people
stay at big churches like creekside when
they make meaningful friendships and
experience
fellowship biblical koinonia
they also devoted themselves to the
breaking of bread
and this is actually mentioned twice in
the passage in verse 42 we read they
devoted themselves
to the breaking of bread and then again
in verse 46 it says they broke bread in
their homes and ate together with glad
and sincere hearts you know eating
together
is joyfully sharing god's provision of
food and it represents a threshold in
new friendships get invited to the table
it's going to get better you know
relationships that just get stronger
richer and more satisfying when we're
doing
meals together i can't explain it but
there's just something about
food that can take koinonia to a higher
level last sunday our life group
gathered and we were gonna we watched
the sermon
we did a discussion we prayed but
we also had brunch together we ate
together we not only met
and had fellowship but we broke bread
together
but what's interesting is that most
scholars actually believe that the
phrase breaking bread
is more than just eating together it's
actually a common figure
speech in the early church that referred
to the partaking
of the lord's supper or communion i'll
give you an illustration if you look at
acts chapter 20 verse 7 you'll read that
on the first day of the week
we came together to break bread and this
is without doubt
a reference to sunday gatherings of
believers
to worship and partake of the lord's
supper together the cup
and the bread now what's fascinating
about this
is the implication in acts chapter 2
verse 42 and following it seems to
indicate that the early church
took the words of jesus rather literally
do this often in remembrance of me that
looks like they were doing it almost
daily but regardless of how often we
come together to partake of the lord's
supper and we're going to do that next
week by the way
it's a spiritual habit we need to enrich
the soil of our lives
so that god brings forth the fullness of
life
from us and fourthly those early
believers they devoted themselves to
prayer
verse 42 again says they devoted
themselves to prayer
there was this fire in their hearts god
was just so real to them
they had to talk with god i mean this
little reference of prayer is a
curiosity it's a little clue into the
spiritual vitality of those
first believers because it's probably a
reference to times of united prayer
that they actually had in the temple as
well as from
house to house they were just you know
there were jewish regular times of
prayer yes but it seems like this was a
new habit with the believers
where they just spontaneously called out
to god and they did so
together prayer for them it was
it was essential it was like breathing
it was like their food it was like their
oxygen they
couldn't live without prayer
you know i have done a lot of messages
on prayer and i got to say
in its simplest form let me just say
prayer is one of those
it's probably the most humble
faith-driven dependent things that we
can do with our life
it's an open admission that we need god
it's an open admission that we welcome
god's active guidance and health
and input into our lives but true prayer
is not just asking for things from god
it's also a vehicle of expressing
gratitude and praise i just want to stop
right now
and let's just follow the example of
those early believers i just want
a moment of prayer if i can okay let me
pray
heavenly father even as we revisit the
healthy habits of the early church
like them we lift our hearts to you
right now we thank you for being in our
lives
we thank you for offering us life and
your son we thank you for gifting us
with everything that we need to live on
earth
in a matter that pleases you so god we
just stop right now and we worship you
and we thank you for how you're always
at work in our lives even when we don't
see us
god make us hungry for the things that
lead to spiritual vitality
we pray in jesus name amen
so we know about the four healthy habits
there was teaching there was fellowship
there was breaking of bread there was
prayer but what grew out of that kind of
healthy soil what were the results
from these four healthy habits
first of all there was contagious aw
it says in acts chapter 2 43 everyone
was filled with awe
it goes on to say everyone was filled at
all with the many
wonders and signs performed by the
apostles a little more on that later
some translators actually say fear came
upon everyone but i don't think that
word fear
entirely captures the thought here you
know
the bible calls every one of us to fear
the lord but when we surrender to god's
love and his forgiveness and his
salvation the normal fear that we might
feel towards such a transcendent being
it morphs into a life-giving reverential
awe
and wonder you know when i was lost and
i first heard the gospel i'll be real
honest with you i realized i was messed
up
and i was afraid i was afraid of god but
that fear
turned into reverential awe when i
surrendered to jesus now it frees me to
continue my faith journey with god it
it's the jet fuel for my spiritual
pilgrimage
the early christian church it expressed
this new sense of awe by regularly going
to the temple and worshiping god
you think about it as their church grew
like wildfire there was no building big
enough to contain them
even our own auditorium as big as it is
there was no way it could
have sufficiently accommodated the rapid
growth of the early church
so they worshipped god not just in the
temple but they broke up in smaller
groups and they worshiped
our awesome god in their homes just like
we seek to do
with our life groups acts chapter 2
verses 46 through 47 say they continued
to meet together
in their homes with glad and sincere
hearts praising god
and don't miss this little detail i bet
you didn't right that
this contagious fear or awe of god also
was a result of an outbreak of
miraculous power through the apostles
they were doing
miracles like the lord they'd followed
let's just admit the obvious right
miracles would generally rock our world
and get our attention as well
you remember that peter on pentecost
preached the sermon where he included
the book of joel chapter 2 and
in that passage we also read a
prediction of miracles i will show
wonders in the heavens and on earth joel
2 30.
you know when when you read throughout
the scriptures you're going to notice
that the bible contains interesting
periods of miraculous intervention
followed by longer periods without
obvious public miraculous intervention
for example you see a lot of miracles of
creation and then later on at the exodus
then during the days of the prophets
elijah and elisha in the days of daniel
in babylonian exile
at the birth of christ during the
earthly ministry of christ
at the birth of the church displays a
miraculous power seem to have been
employed by god to launch
new chapters in his salvation drama
so why don't we have miracles every day
i i just you know i think we do but let
me just say
miracles don't create faith i think
miracles
confirm faith for example
uh if god were to instantaneously
stop the coronavirus tomorrow in such a
way that it was clear
i really don't think that the major part
of the human race would turn to christ
in faith
because miracles don't create faith they
confirm it
but let me tell you something else
that's cool even if we don't have overt
miraculous expressions or wonders
we still see god breakthrough in our
lives recently in our prayer
time in our life group we asked for two
specific things that had to do
with healing and god did them both in
that week
and that is a very very cool thing isn't
it
another thing that came from this rich
soil was radical generosity we read at
verse 44
all the believers were together and had
everything in common they sold
property and possessions to give to
anyone
who had need now this is amazing and it
should inspire
us to live with an open hand and an open
heart regarding others needs
but let me give you just a little
context here because it's very unique
you see the challenge of the early
church hit emergency levels of need
very very fast there were thousands of
jewish pilgrims that had come from all
over the roman world to jerusalem
with the intention of staying for one
week during the time of pentecost but
hundreds of these jewish pilgrims were
born again
during the preaching of the apostle
peter and they insisted on
extending their stay in jerusalem so
they could learn as much as possible
about their new lord and savior jesus
christ
and return home as missionaries
the problem was they overstayed their
visit they ran out of money
so the local believers they stepped in
to make this extend
their extended stay possible by
financing it
and they did that so that the gospel
could go out to the various parts of the
roman empire
from which these pilgrims came they
sponsored their extended stays to
support
their missionary endeavors this radical
generosity was spontaneous it was
temporary it was completely
voluntary but regardless
of the immediate situation here in acts
chapter 2 here's what we need to
remember
when the spiritual soil of our lives is
healthy radical generosity will quickly
spring up
and grow is another thing that came from
that rich soil
public favor acts chapter 2 verse 47
says they enjoyed the favor of all the
people
and the general view of the church even
from outsiders was
pretty favorable christians had a good
reputation
you know uh if you ask around in elk
grove
muy police department or city hall and
whatnot
uh creekside christian church has a good
reputation here in elk grove
and this general public favor that the
church experienced it's going to be
challenged very quickly because there's
going to be official religious
persecution
that's going to break out in acts
chapter 3.
but we do get a cool glimpse into the
attitudes of people around these new
believers
who had not yet come to faith in christ
and that attitude was
it was pretty positive and lastly we see
springing from this rich soil rapid
growth
acts chapter 2 verse 47.
the lord added to their number daily
those who are being saved if i ever told
you about my acts 247 vision for
creekside
you know the day that our church sees
365
plus people coming to faith in jesus
christ every year
is the day we become an acts 247 church
you know what isn't said here what isn't
said here is that those early believers
had to share their faith with people
so that people could come to faith in
jesus christ they were witnesses
in romans chapter 10 verse 17 it says
faith comes from hearing the message
the early believers were explaining the
message to people outside the family of
god
how cool in acts chapter 2
god actually moved his spirit out of the
temple building
like we've physically moved out of the
church buildings right god moved his
spirit out of the temple buildings and
instead
he deposited his spirit inside human
temples like you and me
these temples now have hearts to love
mouths to speak and hands to serve
and legs to move and get the good news
out
that's why i wore this t-shirt today the
church has left
the building so
in conclusion if you want to thrive
spiritually
and it's something we all need we need
the necessary habits that we read in
acts chapter 2 deeply entrenched in our
lives
that lead to spiritual thriving
we have to redevote ourselves to
biblical teaching
to fellowship to regularly breaking
bread
and prayer
father we thank you for the early
example that we read
of these vibrant believers these
greenhouse
growing believers and god i would pray
that we'd come back to the recipe of
what it means to have a vital thriving
growing relationship with you
that results in all these amazing things
we read about this morning but lord i
just want to pray
that each of us would one-up redevote
ourselves
to the teaching of scripture to the
power
life-giving experience of fellowship
to regularly being a part of your church
so that we can partake of the lord's
supper that we can break bread together
and that we would be people of
individual and collective prayer
god we love you this morning and we ask
that you ignite a fire and i
and us just like the church was ignited
in acts 2
would you ignite our creekside family
here in elk grove
this day this year now we pray in jesus
name
amen
the weapon may be formed but it won't
prosper
when the darkness falls it won't breathe
in because the god i
serve knows only how to triumph
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my god will never fail
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oh my god we'll never fail
i'm gonna see a victory
i'm gonna see a victory for the battle
belongs to
you lord i'm gonna see your victory
i'm gonna see a victory
for the battle belongs
[Music]
there's power in the mighty name of
jesus
every war he wages he will
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cause i know how this story is
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is
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victory
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i'm gonna see your victory
[Music]
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you take what the enemy meant for evil
and you turn it for good
yes you turn it for good
you take what the enemy meant for evil
[Music]
you take what the enemy meant for evil
and you turn it for good
you turn it for good
you take
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belongs to you
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i'm gonna
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victory
i'm gonna see your victory
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again we are so glad that you have
joined us here creekside online
i want to give you a blessing on the
count of three we're gonna put our hands
together
ready one two three
god moved his spirit out of the temple
and he has moved his spirit into human
temples like you
and me let's be his hands and feet to
show our community his love for he loves
us so much
that he filled our lives with his spirit
so pack that up put it in your hearts
god bless and have a great day
