Believe GodBringing your Life Together

Class IISynchronizing Our Reality And DoctrineWhat is Our Reality

What we experience from day to day.What is Our Doctrine

What proclaim about ourselves that define our relationship with God.

For most Christians, Our reality and doctrine does not agree.

Does Prayer Work?What are the criteria by which to determine if

it works?a predictable explainable outcome.a systematic way of applying it to similar

situations over and over again and receiving the expected result.

Does Your Prayer Work?If you look back over 2010, do you have more

answered prayers than un answered prayers?If you had to choose between relying on your

prayers for healing from headache or taking a pain killer what would you do?

Temporal Blessing, Is it God’s plan?Paradise is where God designed for us to liveEden was made for Adam and EveCanaan (land of milk and honey) was set

apart for the child of IsraelParadise continues to be God’s choice for us

while on earthJohn 10:10, Deut. 28:1-14God is concerned about how we live on earth

He makes provision for us to have a victorious, peaceful life on earth.

The earthly paradise?A place of blessing

A land of milk and honeyWe still have work to do but everything we do is productive

A place we can liveIt is not something we experience periodically but something

we experience consistentlyAdam and Eve lived in Eden, Children of Israel lived in Canaan

A place of great harvestA place of increase in possession and productivity

A place of abiding victory over our enemyStruggles and battles may still exist. Victory is guaranteed. Psalm 91.

What hinders our Paradise?Why are we living in the wilderness instead

of going into the promise landLack of knowledge and/or understandingLiving in denialNo expectation for better.

What hinders our Paradise?Lack of knowledge and/or understanding

We have no knowledge of a promise land here on earth.

We believe God is only interested in our eternal issues.

What hinders our Paradise?Living in denial

We refuse to acknowledge how bad things are We justify why things are the way they areA fear of confronting God or putting Him on

the spot

What hinders our Paradise?No expectation for better

We know things could be better but we are so used to it being bad that we no longer expect good.

Even thou we know that things ought to be better we are so used to the state we are afraid to try something new

How to enter ParadiseFaith in God

Know that God has constraints on himselfUnderstand that there are times God has no

choiceWorking within the constraints God has placed

on himselfPutting God on the spotI am unable to change God

– Believe God– Believe His Word.