Santa Maria Foursquare Church

Building My Destiny Pt 7 - Prophetic Assignment

For us to live out wildly fruitful destinies in Jesus, we not only need to live faithfully, but we need to understand our prophetic assignments — our specific, God-inspired calls to mission. To help discern our prophetic assignments, consider these three questions: 

1. What are my Gifts?
2. Where are my Opportunities?
3. What is God Prompting?

Building My Destiny Pt 6 - Purity

To live a faithful and fruitful life in Jesus, we're called to live in purity. That's a huge challenge because of our own sinful nature and the complexities of living in a broken world. It can feel like we're marinating in sin. But Jesus had made a way for us to break free from the gravitational pull of sin and live in freedom and without shame.

Building My Destiny Pt 5 - Faith

To discover what our faith has to do with our fruitfulness, we look back at the Israelites who were stuck in unbelief and weren't able to enter their destiny. Even when those around us are operating without faith, we need to heed Paul's words to Timothy: "But you must remain faithful to the things you have been taught" (2 Tim. 3:14). 

Building My Destiny Pt 4 - Love

To build a rock-solid life of faithfulness, love must be at the center! Pastor Sergio continues our series and discusses this important topic with a fresh reading of 1 Corinthians 13. 

Building My Destiny Pt 3 - Life

We're continuing in our series on Destiny — examining how God calls us to build rock-solid faithfulness into our lives that will support the fruit He longs to bring. In first Timothy 3, Paul provides important instructions about the kinds of faithfulness we're to see in people's lives who are ready to live out their prophetic assignment. 

Building My Destiny Pt 2 — Speech

In a letter the Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy, Paul gave him five things to work on to build a fruitful destiny. These five things — speech, life, love, faith and purity— are primary building materials we also need when constructing a rock-solid faithfulness on the foundation of Jesus. Today we examine our speech. 

Building My Destiny Pt 1

God has an amazing destiny for each of us — a unique design to maximize our fruitfulness. But God's design for our lives won't build itself. We're called to build it! And the construction has to start from the ground up. 

The Ways of Jesus Pt 23 - John 21

In this concluding message from the Gospel of John, we see how Jesus worked to restore Peter — not just to renewed relationship, but with a renewed destiny as well. No matter what you've been through — your failures or brokenness — this is God's heart for you as well! Just as Peter was able to hit RESET on his life and ministry, so can you! 

Easter 2019 — RISE!

The very same power that allowed Jesus to RISE from the dead is available to us today. It empowers us to RISE: out of defeat, into new life, and to a new destiny! Join us as we look at how Peter, one of Jesus' closest followers, came to see this at work in his own life. 

The Ways of Jesus Pt 22 - John 19

Leading up to Jesus' crucifixion, he has an encounter with the Roman governor, Pilate. What is at the heart of their conversation is the lordship of Jesus — could He really be THE King? While his heart was answering YES, his actions communicated something very different. Pilate wrestled with the same thing we do today: is Jesus truly our Lord?

The Ways of Jesus Pt 21 - John 18

In John Chapter 18 Jesus is struck — once physically by an official, but several other times in ways that were much more painful and personal by those who were rejecting His ways. In this pre-Easter season, we reflect on where we have also rejected Jesus and His ways. In the words of the theologian, John Stott, "Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us."

Contending Pt 8 - Praying in the Spirit

Praying in the Spirit is to pray in agreement with God’s word and will. And while praying in the Spirit includes the use of a spiritual language — the gift of tongues — there's much more to learn about this powerful way we can contend in prayer!

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Contending Pt 7 - Activating a Life of Prayer

Every time we pray, we're declaring that Jesus is here, He is good, and He is Lord. In this message, we discover that out of those biblical realities flow many different kinds of prayer. It's likely there's a certain kind of prayer that fits with your unique personality  — so run with that. But we can also become prayer-adventurers, who bravely explore new ways to pray!

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Contending Pt 6 - Overcoming Obstacles

If contending in prayer was easy, we'd all be doing it! But let's face it — there are obstacles to developing a life of prayer. Three of the biggest obstacles are our brains, brokenness, and busyness! Learn how we can move past these barriers on our way to becoming prayer revolutionaries. 

Contending Pt 5 - How Can I Pray Continually?

Jesus did it and taught us to do it as well: always be praying. One of the keys to contending in revolutionary prayer is to learn to pray continually, inviting God into every life circumstance in real time. In this message, we explore not only why this is important, but how it's possible. 

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Contending Pt 4 - Do I Have Enough Faith?

What happens when my prayers aren't answered? Is it because I don't have enough faith? Enter the story of Acts 12 — one filled with persecution, death, prayer, miraculous breakthrough, and even disbelief. It's the story of people like us who are learning that prayer is where faith and real-life collide. 

Contending Pt 3 - The Language of Prayer

For followers of Jesus, prayer isn't just something we do occasionally when we're especially thankful or desperate. Prayer is the primary language of our faith and our love. Do you want to grow in your faith and intimacy with Jesus? Grow in your life of prayer!

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Contending Pt 2 - Shaping the Future

Why pray? If God is sovereign and above all things, what difference could my prayers make? Over and over again, Scripture tells us that our prayers literally shape the future. That's why Jesus taught us to contend in prayer for God's will to be enacted here on earth, just as it is in heaven. But His will isn't only for our circumstances to be changed through prayer — He wants us changed us as well!

Contending Pt 1

Prayer is never meant to just be "nice," or the repetition of religious words. Prayer is always meant to be revolutionary: a spiritual activity that causes radical change. As we contend in prayer, we are giving voice to our audacious hope: Jesus is Lord — He is above all things and greater than any issue we're facing. That reality changes everything!

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All In - Empowered

When Jesus gave His greatest command — to go ALL IN with our love for God and others — he knew we wouldn't be able to do this in our own strength. All humanity has experienced pain and sin that's left us broken. So, "He washed away our sins, giving us a new birth and new life through the Holy Spirit" (Titus 3:3-6). The Holy Spirit provides the empowerment we need to go ALL IN, as people who are moving from brokenness to wholeness in Jesus!