We Believe // Week 3

We Believe // Week 3

GOD’S WILL AND PROVISION

We believe that it is the Father’s will for believers to be or become whole and healthy in all areas of life. Because of the fall, many may not receive the full benefits of God’s will while on Earth. That fact, though, should never prevent any believer from seeking the full benefits of God’s provision in order to better serve others.

Spiritual Health

JOHN 3:3-6 NIV

3 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.” 4 “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!” 5 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.

II CORINTHIANS 5:17-18; 21 NIV

17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Financial Health

STEWARDSHIP & TITHE

We believe that God has called us to properly steward every resource He has loaned to us as outlined in Scripture. We believe that this includes the practice and obedience of tithing. We believe that the tithe is the first ten percent of our income, that it belongs to the Lord and is to be used for building His Kingdom. We also believe in giving offerings to help the poor. We believe generosity is the will of God for every believer and always to be associated with God’s purpose.

DEUTERONOMY 8:10-18 NIV

10 When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. 11 Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day. 12 Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, 13 and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied,14 then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 15 He led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock. 16 He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known, to humble and test you so that in the end it might go well with you. 17 You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.” 18 But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.

2 CORINTHIANS 9:6-13 NIV

MALACHI 3:6-12 NIV

6 “I the Lord do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed. 7 Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord Almighty. “But you ask, ‘How are we to return?’ 8 “Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’ “In tithes and offerings. 9 You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me. 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it. 11 I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe,” says the Lord Almighty. 12 “Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land,” says the Lord Almighty.

JOSHUA 1:6-8

LUKE 6:38

DEUTERONOMY 28:1-14

PHILIPPIANS 4:19

19 And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.