The Sovereignty of God...Continued on Sunday!

I absolutely LOVE Sunday's! They are the best!!! This morning message was so great! I would like to encourage you to listen to it online. It's not on the website yet, but here's the LINK. Look for it. The title is, "The First Story: The Beginning". Mark stared a series in Genesis. 

During the message, I was just struck by the Sovereignty of God yet again. It was so kind of the Lord to let me see his sovereignty in Isaiah last night while I was reading, but then again on Sunday morning. I must need to be reminded of this lately...I'll wait to see what he teaches me this week concerning his Sovereignty. The verses that I put in my last blog was such a compliment to the message this morning. 

Mark went over Genesis 1:1-2:3 and the points he gave were: The Knowledge of God as He is fundamentally our Creator, He is self-existing, He is omnipotent, and Sovereign. Within these points, many things of the knowledge of God were talked about. In the point about him being fundamentally our Creator, Mark mentioned that the very word, "Created", suggests that he has made us for a purpose--or for someone. (sovereignty)

God is self-existing. Psalm 90 was talked about with how God was there before the foundations of the world. Mark said that God created us not out of his need, but out of his fullness. Also, that God made us to be aware of our insufficiency--our dependence. I was reminded of the verses in Isaiah that says, "who is like me? There is no other God besides me." Which are the verses I gave yesterday. (Sovereignty)

God is omnipotent. Mark reminded us of how powerful God is even in his created works. One thing that stuck out to me in this point was the question concerning our prayer life. "Realizing how big our God is, do we pray big enough?" I had to think back to Saturday morning as I was walking back from Eastern Market and I passed clearly a male, homosexual couple. I prayed for them as I passed, but also realized my own heart didn't believe that God was big enough to bring the Gospel to them and convict them to sin to turn to Christ. I confessed this to the Lord. I'm thankful for this point. It's a good reminder that God IS big enough to answer our specific prayers, even prayers that we didn't think would or could happen. (sovereignty)

His Sovereignty. Mark talked briefly about how God is the Judge. He gave the question, "will he rule over you as your friend or your Judge?"

There are more points, but I don't feel good right now. 

I would just like to encourage you to listen to it yourself. 

But let me leave you this a verse from a song we sang tonight called, "King of Love". 

Perverse and foolish, oft I strayed,

But yet in love He sought me. And on His shoulder

Gently laid, And home, rejoicing brought me.

♥