ALC Daily Podcast
By Abundant Life Church
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ALC Daily Podcast Feb 05, 2021
Does God make all decisions in advance? (Part II)
"For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers."
- Romans 8:29 ESV
Does God make all decisions in advance? (Part I)
ALC Recommends: Set back for our "Missions in May" offering
"And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose."
- Romans 8:28 ESV
[Practical Proverbs You Need to Know]: Making Plans
”The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.“
- Proverbs 16:9 ESV
Within your heart you can make plans for your future, but the Lord chooses the steps you take to get there."
- Proverbs 16:9 TPT
"A man's mind plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps and makes them sure. [Ps. 37:23; Prov. 20:24; Jer. 10:23.]"
- Proverbs 16:9 AMPC
{Cuba Missionary Interview} - Bill Carlisle
Everything that we do in missions is because of the Surge Project! If this interview inspired you, and you would like to give to them, then please visit: abundant.us/give and select "The SURGE Project" from the drop-down menu!
How to live to the full potential of your identity in Christ (Part III)
"The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him."
- Romans 8:16-17 ESV
How to live to the full potential of your identity in Christ (Part II)
"We can all draw close to him with the veil removed from our faces. And with no veil we all become like mirrors who brightly reflect the glory of the Lord Jesus. We are being transfigured into his very image as we move from one brighter level of glory to another. And this glorious transfiguration comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit."
- 2 Corinthians 3:18 TPT
How to live to the full potential of your identity in Christ (Part I)
ALC Recommends: “The Bondage Breaker” by Neil T. Anderson
”For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
- Romans 8:15 ESV
[Practical Proverbs You Need to Know]: Fat Vats
"Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the best part of everything you produce. Then he will fill your barns with grain, and your vats will overflow with good wine."
- Proverbs 3:9-10 NLT
{Cuba Missionary Interview} - Desarae Fanatia
Everything that we do in missions is because of the Surge Project! If this interview inspired you, and you would like to give to them, then please visit: abundant.us/give and select "The SURGE Project" from the drop-down menu!
How to wage war for the benefit of your spirit (Part III)
"For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds."
- 2 Corinthians 10:3-4 ESV
How to wage war for the benefit of your spirit (Part II)
"For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds."
- 2 Corinthians 10:3-4 ESV
How to wage war for the benefit of your spirit (Part I)
ALC Recommends: “Guided Prayer” - Available on the YouVersion Bible App
"For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. "
- 2 Corinthians 10:3-4 ESV
Practical Proverbs you need to know: God’s protection
"He (the Lord) stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity ."
- Proverbs 2:7 ESV
{Cuba Missionary Interview} - Leonard Caswell
Everything that we do in missions is because of the Surge Project! If this interview inspired you, and you would like to give to them, then please visit: abundant.us/give and select "The SURGE Project" from the drop-down menu!
3 Practical ways Jesus helps his family overcome fear: Co-Heirs
”For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.“
Romans 8:14-17 ESV
3 Practical ways Jesus helps his family overcome fear: Witness
”For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.“
Romans 8:14-17 ESV
3 Practical ways Jesus helps his family overcome fear: Adoption
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”For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.“
Romans 8:14-17 ESV
[Practical Proverbs You Need to Know]: Anxiety is a Liar
”Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.“
- Proverbs 12:25 ESV
{GSSM Interviews} - Aaron Ometz
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Practical ways heavenly hope helps the sick and tired (Part III)
"While we live in these earthly bodies, we groan and sigh, but it’s not that we want to die and get rid of these bodies that clothe us. Rather, we want to put on our new bodies so that these dying bodies will be swallowed up by life. God himself has prepared us for this, and as a guarantee he has given us his Holy Spirit."
- 2 Corinthians 5:4-5 NLT
Practical ways heavenly hope helps the sick and tired (Part II)
"We grow weary in our present bodies, and we long to put on our heavenly bodies like new clothing. For we will put on heavenly bodies; we will not be spirits without bodies."
- 2 Corinthians 5:2-3 NLT
Practical ways heavenly hope helps the sick and tired (Part I)
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[Practical Proverbs You Need to Know]: Safety & Security
"For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacency of fools destroys them; but whoever listens to me will dwell secure and will be at ease, without dread of disaster.”
- Proverbs 1:32-33 ESV
"Like an idiot you’ve turned away from me and chosen destruction instead. Your self-satisfied smugness will kill you. But the one who always listens to me will live undisturbed in a heavenly peace. Free from fear, confident and courageous, that one will rest unafraid and sheltered from the storms of life."
- Proverbs 1:32-33 TPT
{GSSM Interviews} - Caleb James
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Powerful truths you need to know about heaven (Part III)
”But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.”
- Hebrews 12:22-24 ESV
Powerful truths you need to know about heaven (Part II)
”Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.“
- Matthew 6:9-10 ESV
Powerful truths you need to know about heaven (Part I)
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"Thus says the Lord: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest? All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word."
- Isaiah 66:1-2 ESV
[Practical Proverbs You Need to Know]: Merciless Wisdom
"If you turn at my reproof, behold, I will pour out my spirit to you; I will make my words known to you.
because you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof, I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you..."
- Proverbs 1:23, 25-26 ESV
{GSSM Interviews} - Laura Marker
”Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment.“
- Proverbs 18:1 ESV
How Does Marketplace Ministry Help Fulfill the Great Commission (Part III)
”Let everyone be devoted to fulfill the work God has given them to do with excellence, and their joy will be in doing what’s right and being themselves, and not in being affirmed by others.“
- Galatians 6:4 TPT
How Does Marketplace Ministry Help Fulfill the Great Commission (Part II)
”Do you see a man who excels in his work? He will stand before kings; He will not stand before unknown men.“
- Proverbs 22:29 NKJV
”Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”“
- Genesis 1:28 NKJV
”And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.“
- Ephesians 4:11, 16 NKJV
How Does Marketplace Ministry Help Fulfill the Great Commission (Part I)
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”For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win the more; and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might win those who are under the law; to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law; to the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. Now this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I may be partaker of it with you.“
- I Corinthians 9:19-23 NKJV
[Practical Proverbs you need to know]: Bear Righteous Fruit
”The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, And he who wins souls is wise.“
- Proverbs 11:30 NKJV
{GSSM Interviews} - Mathew Finley
"Healing is the dinner bell for salvation."
-Kenneth Hagin
How to be healed of pain from life gone wrong (Part III)
”Then the frightened woman, trembling at the realization of what had happened to her, came and fell to her knees in front of him and told him what she had done. And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. Your suffering is over.”
- Mark 5:33-34 NLT
How to be healed of pain from life gone wrong (Part II)
"And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my garments?”
- Mark 5:30 ESV
How to be healed of pain from life gone wrong (Part I)
ALC Recommends: “Everyday Supernatural” by Joanne Moody
”Now, in the crowd that day was a woman who had suffered horribly from continual bleeding for twelve years. She had endured a great deal under the care of various doctors, yet in spite of spending all she had on their treatments, she was getting worse instead of better. When she heard about Jesus’ healing power, she pushed through the crowd and came up from behind him and touched his prayer shawl. For she kept saying to herself, “If I could touch even his clothes, I know I will be healed.” As soon as her hand touched him, her bleeding immediately stopped! She knew it, for she could feel her body instantly being healed of her disease! Jesus knew at once that someone had touched him, for he felt the power that always surged around him had passed through him for someone to be healed. He turned and spoke to the crowd, saying, “Who touched my clothes?” His disciples answered, “What do you mean, who touched you? Look at this huge crowd—they’re all pressing up against you.” But Jesus’ eyes swept across the crowd, looking for the one who had touched him for healing. When the woman who experienced this miracle realized what had happened to her, she came before him, trembling with fear, and threw herself down at his feet, saying, “I was the one who touched you.” And she told him her story of what had just happened. Then Jesus said to her, “Daughter, because you dared to believe, your faith has healed you. Go with peace in your heart, and be free from your suffering!”
- Mark 5:25-34 TPT
[Practical Proverbs You Need to Know]: Knowledge begins with fear
”The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.“
- Proverbs 1:7 ESV
{Women's Takeover}: How To Be A Mom and Still Nurture Yourself
"Let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water."
- Hebrews 10:22
"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
- Matthew 6:34
Interesting stories of good friends in the Bible: Joshua & Caleb
”And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes and said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land. If the Lord delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey. Only do not rebel against the Lord. And do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their protection is removed from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear them.” Then all the congregation said to stone them with stones. But the glory of the Lord appeared at the tent of meeting to all the people of Israel."
- Numbers 14:6-10 ESV
Interesting stories of good friends in the Bible: Peter & John
”Peter turned around and saw behind them the disciple Jesus loved—the one who had leaned over to Jesus during supper and asked, “Lord, who will betray you?” Peter asked Jesus, “What about him, Lord?”
- John 21:20-21 NLT
Interesting stories of good friends in the Bible: David & Jonathan
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”As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. And Saul took him that day and would not let him return to his father’s house. Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul. And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, and his armor, and even his sword and his bow and his belt. And David went out and was successful wherever Saul sent him…”
- 1 Samuel 18:1-5a ESV
[Money Monday]: How to make friends with more money
”And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal dwellings.“
Luke 16:9 ESV
”Here’s the lesson: Use your worldly resources to benefit others and make friends. Then, when your possessions are gone, they will welcome you to an eternal home.“
Luke 16:9 NLT
”Use the wealth of this world to demonstrate your friendship with God by winning friends and blessing others. Then, when it runs out, your generosity will provide you with an eternal reward.“ Luke 16:9 TPT
{Women's Takeover}: How To Be A Mom and Raise Your Children Well
“Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.”
- Deuteronomy 6:5-8
Proverbs that make you a successful parent: Guiding Light
”Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor.“
- Proverbs 21:21 ESV
Proverbs that make you a successful parent: Impart Wisdom
”My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.“
- Proverbs 3:1-4 ESV
Proverbs that make you a successful parent: Cultivating Hope
ALC Recommends: “Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles Than Can Radically Change Your Family” by Paul David Tripp
”Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.“
- Proverbs 19:18 ESV
[Money Monday]: I want my inheritance now!
”If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness. An inheritance gained hastily in the beginning will not be blessed in the end.“
- Proverbs 20:20-21 ESV
“Honour the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine”
- Proverbs 3:9–10 ESV
{Women's Takeover}: How To Be A Mom And Still Nurture Your Husband
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Heart pain wives and moms can overcome through love (Part III)
"To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you. "
- Genesis 3:16 ESV