Believers Church of Statesboro

Join us for One Hour on Wednesday at 7 PM this week for our verse by verse Bible Study! This week we continue in 1st Timothy. Believing Kids and Youth will meet at the same time.

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Fight For Family Build and Defend Believers Statesboro 05-19-13

Nehemiah 4:14 After I looked things over, I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome,

and fight for your brothers, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes.” (NIV)

Some People Will Be Angry About You Building A Godly Family

Nehemiah 4:1-9

Fight For Family

What did Nehemiah and the Jews do when they experienced opposition? Nehemiah 4:13-16

Defend Your Family Against:

o Satan John 10:10

o Ungodly Media Influences Philippians 4:8

o Local and National Government that Opposes Godly Values

o Misdirected Marketplace Values

o Education Contrary to God’s Truth

o Busyness

o Extra Curricula Activities (ECA’s)

o Tiredness and Fatigue Nehemiah 4:6; Nehemiah 4:10-12

o A Lack of Family Communication Family Talk May 26th

o Conflict Within the Family Itself Let’s Get Ready to Rumble June 2nd

NEXT STEP: Identify any exposed places in my family that need defending. (Neh. 4:13)

Nehemiah 4:13 Therefore I stationed some of the people behind the lowest points of the wall at the exposed places, posting them by families, with their swords, spears and bows. (NIV)

Building Godly Families

Build Your Family With Prayer

Nehemiah 4:4;9 Families that pray together, stay together.

Hold Your Sword in One Hand and Your Tools in the Other

Neh 4:17-18 / Your sword is the Word of God! Eph 6:17; Heb 4:12; Ps 149:6 (NIV)

Your tools are resources that God has graciously made available to us as families. Training Camp June 16th

Find Support In Other Godly Families

Neh 4:19-20; Psalm 122:1 Tag Team June 9th

Never Stop Fighting For Your Family

Neh 4:6; Neh 4:21-23 Fight For Your Family 24/7!

NEXT STEP: Determine that I will build a Godly family and never stop fighting for my famiiy!

Joshua 24:15 “…choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve…But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.”

Community Group or Family Devotional Questions

1. Identify some of the attacks that you see on your family. What do you do to defend against them?

2. Do you ever experience any opposition or anger from others as you attempt to build a Godly family? Explain.

3. How have you built prayer into the fabric of your family and what does praying with your family do for you?

4. How do you use the Sword of the Spirit, the Word of God in your family? What other tools have you found to be helpful?

5. In what ways do you find support in other Godly families? In what ways do you give support to other families?

Nehemiah 4:14 After I looked things over, I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes.” (NIV)

Just like Nehemiah built the wall around Jerusalem, we are in the process of building our families. There has been, there is now, and will continue to be opposition to building a Godly family. When I read Nehemiah 4:14 I feel like the Lord is saying, “Fight For Your Family”.

This series is not about how to have a perfect family. This series is about how to fight for your family, by applying the principles in God’s Word. Truths that will help you have a Godly family, a family that forgives and grows more Christ like together, a family that strives to bring Christ Jesus Glory! Join us Sunday at 9 or 11 AM as we begin this five week series to encourage us to love and support one another in the building of our families and to “Fight For Family”!

Believing Kids and Promiseland honored their mom’s this past Sunday with this sweet card!

Come to Believers Church for One Hour on Wednesday as we continue our 1st Timothy study! Bring your whole family, Believing Kids will still be in “Sprint Training” as they celebrate “Pizza & Pennants”. They will eat Pizza and can come dressed in their PJ’s! Bring your Youth to the Garage for worship and study!

See you all on Wednesday!

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The Good Life

Psalm 127 & Psalm 128

BLESSING & CURSE

Genesis 1:28; Genesis 3:16

The result of the curse for women is…

1. Desire to rule over husbands

2. Increased pain in child bearing (includes raising children as well)

HOW TO PREPARE TO BE A MOTHER

• Fear the Lord (Proverbs 9:10)

• Marry a righteous man

• Be homeward in your perspective

OBJECTIVES OF MOTHERHOOD

• Christ centered parenting (1 Corinthians 10:31)

• Guard and direct the child’s heart (Proverbs 22:15; Proverbs 4:23Psalm 51:6)

• Start children off on the right path (Proverbs 22:6; Proverbs 20:11)

DUTIES OF A MOM

• Provide unspoken instruction (Proverbs 31:16; Proverbs 31:21)

• Train children through their words (Proverbs 19:13)

• Provides good spoken instruction (Proverbs 31:26, Proverbs 1:8; Proverbs 6:20)

• Correct folly (Proverbs 22:6)

RESULT OF A MOTHER DOING NOTHING

Proverbs 11:29; 10:1; 17:25; 20:20 30:11; 19:26; 29:15; 30:17

Troubled kids, brings grief to mother, bitterness to mother, children who curse their parents, children who do not bless their mother, shame and disgrace upon the family name, child becomes a total disgrace.

NEXT STEP: Seek out the advice and council of some good mothers.

ENCOURAGEMENT FOR GOOD MOMS

Proverbs 31:28; 17:6; 23:22

Children bless their mother, mothers enjoy blissful relationship with their grandchildren, are cared for by the ones they love in their old age.

NEXT STEP: Take my mom out to eat this week if I can and tell her how thankful I am for her.

COMMUNITY GROUP QUESTIONS

1. Share one of our favorite memories that you have with your mom. What makes this memory so special for you?

2. Share one thing about how your mother raised you that you are thankful for. What is it about this one thing that causes you to be thankful?

3. When you look at the objectives to motherhood, what it the one thing that you feel you (moms) need to work on the most? Dads, when you look at the objectives, what is the one thing that you see your wife doing the best?

4. Is there any additional advise for those who are ready to be mothers that you and your group would like to share with those who are patiently waiting?

5. Close out the group time this week by praying for all the mom that are present.

Join us at Believers Church this Sunday as we celebrate what it means to be an “Authentic Mother.” See you at 9 or 11 AM!

Have you sat back and looked across the church to see who all is attending? There are so many different age groups and demographics represented on a week to week basis at our gathered worship services. There are singles,couples, grandmas and college biker dudes. This is for us a great picture of the unified and diversified body and bride of Christ. This is our family. In first Timothy 5:1-16 Paul gives us some more instructions on how this family is to interact with each other as brothers and sisters, mothers and daughters,and fathers and sons. Join us for One Hour on Wednesday this week beginning at 7 PM at Believers Church!

Our Believing Kids are continuing with their Spring Training! YOUTH will meet in the GARAGE at the same time! See you and your family tomorrow night!

12 Year Anniversary Celebration “I Love My Church” Believers Statesboro 05-05-13

Happy Anniversary Believers Church! Today we are celebrating 12 Years together as a church!

I love my church! I love you and I love what God is doing and will continue to do in Believers Church of Statesboro.

Our Mission Statement

To teach, encourage, and inspire Authentic Christianity

to the people of Statesboro, Bulloch County, and Surrounding Areas

One of our Goals had also become somewhat of a motto: Love, Acceptance, and Forgiveness.

Our Theme at Believers Church for 2013 is NEXT STEPS

Gal 5:25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. (NIV)

Never Passed This Way Before

Joshua 3:1-7

The Key: When the presence of the Lord moves, you move with Him. He moves, we follow!

Vs 4 Then you will know which way to go, since you have never been this way before. But keep a distance of about a thousand yards between you and the ark; do not go near it."

Faith Steps

Joshua 3:8-17 Vs. 13 …And as soon as the priests who carry the ark of the LORD– the Lord of all the earth– set foot in the Jordan, its waters flowing downstream will be cut off and stand up in a heap."

The waters of the Jordan would part when the priests’ feet got wet! They had to step into the river in

faith! The NEXT STEPS would be steps of faith!

Faith Steps, Led By The Spirit

Ps 37:23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD, And He delights in his way.(NKJ)

I love my church because we allow the Holy Spirit to order our steps! God is delighted with us as

we do!

How do we move into year 13 together? The same way we moved through years 1-12… One faith step at a time, led by the Spirit!

Gal 5:25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. (NIV)

NEXT STEP: Answer the following questions:

Relationally – What is your next step?

Career wise – What is your next step?

Business wise – What is your next step?

Spiritually – What is your next step?

Believers Church – What is your next step?

Community Group or Family Devotional Questions

1) How would you feel if God told you to boldly step into the river like He told the priests to do? Would you do it?

2) What do you think gave Joshua the courage to obey in this way? (Also see Joshua 1:3, 7-9)

3) On a scale of one to ten with ten being great faith, rate yourself when it comes to stepping out in faith?

Are you good at it? Is it a challenge?

4) Share an experience where you had to step out in faith, but you know the Spirit of God was with you and leading you.

5) Are you ready to go to places in God that you have never been to before? If so, what Next Step do you feel like God is asking you to take today?