LIVING IN THE POWER TO OVERCOME
--He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:
“The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor"
Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”
Luke 4:16-21 (NIV)
--But the Son of God came to destroy the works of the devil.
1 John 3:8 (NLT)
OUR VISION
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
John 8:36 (NIV)
We are committed to teaching the reality of the Hope and Freedom in Christ to overcome the struggles and issues of our daily lives. We are set free by the power of His blood through His death and resurrection. Christ has given us His righteousness in exchange for our sin and brokenness to be transformed by the Holy Spirit into newness of life. We are spiritually restored and made whole through Him to experience and live in the promises of God.
"For I know the plans I have for you declares the LORD. “Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future. “
Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)
OUR HOPE IS REAL
In John chapter 1, the term "Word" is used to describe Christ because it emphasizes His divine nature and His role in creation. Just as words express thoughts and ideas, Jesus is the expression of God's thoughts and the embodiment of His message to humanity. Through Him, God's plan of salvation and redemption is revealed. Jesus is the Word made flesh, who came to dwell among us and bring light and life to all who believe in Him:
--In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made. In Him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
There was a man sent from God whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.
The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive Him. Yet to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
(John testified concerning him. He cried out, saying, “This is the one I spoke about when I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’”) Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through JESUS CHRIST. No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made Him known.
John 1:1-18 (NIV)
--Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us
Hebrews 12:1 (NIV)
