The Spirit Chapel Podcast

Chase The Lion – Week 4 – The Fleece

Gideon has started strong but gets nervous. He ends up asking God for yet another miracle to prove that He is really going to do what he told Gideon he would do. Is that OK? Are we allowed to test God by asking for Miracles? What happens if we do what Gideon did?

Chase The Lion – Week 3 – Scaredy Cat

The problem with trying to get answers from “David’s Mighty Men” is that their deeds read like the back of a bust in the Canton Pro Football Hall of Fame — it’s all about the stats, and not so much on the “how did they do that?” So, today, we leave the Mighty Men for a bit, and look at a Lion Chaser who comes along later in the Bible. This guy’s life is described in vivid detail, and when we first see him, he looks demoralized and a little bit scared. Join us as we discover how Gideon went from Scaredy Cat to Sacred Lion…BIBLE REFERENCES: Judges 6:1-10; Matthew 10:28; Deuteronomy 10:12-13; Judges 6:11-16; 2 Chronicles 16:9; judges 6:17-27; Matthew 21:28-29; Judges 6:28-32.

Chase The Lion – Week 2 – Where Dreams Die

Benaiah entered a pit to face a lion. But what about when we enter a pit and find nothing but darkness and silence? Today we’ll look at 4 different kinds of pits mentioned in the Bible. We’ll see famous dreamers who entered them, and made it back out with their dream alive and their hope intact. And we’ll learn how we can do it too…BIBLE REFERENCES: Genesis 37:2-10, 17-20; Matthew 16:13=23; Matthew 17:1-6; Matthew 26:69-75; Matthew 10:32-33; Psalm 30:2-12; Psalm 105:19; John 21:15-17.

Chase The Lion – Week 1 – Impossible Dreams

The Bible says that “God will pour out His Spirit and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.”
What does it mean? That God will give us our dreams, and help us achieve our visions? Or is there more to all of this visions and dreaming than most TV preachers are telling us? We start a new series: Chase the Lion — which is all about how we find and pursue God’s dreams for our lives. BIBLE REFERENCES: Psalm 37:4-6; Proverbs 29:18; Acts 2:17; Ephesians 3:20; 2 Samuel 23:20; Luke 9:62; Luke 16:10; Job 13:15-16; 2 Samuel 23:20-23; 1 Kings 2:35.

Battle Ready Week 5 - Deceiver

Have you noticed that some people are very good at pretending they are something that they aren’t? That talent doesn’t come from God, it comes from the enemy. Jesus called him a “Thief who comes to steal, kill, and destroy.” But how can we know the enemy is attacking us, when he is so good at disguising himself? The Bible teaches us a very important pattern that we need to learn to recognize to see the attacks from the enemy coming…BIBLE REFERENCES: Revelation 12:9; John 8:42-45; Genesis 3:1-6; Matthew 3:13-17; Matthew 4:1-10; Psalm 105:16-19.

Battle Ready - Week 4 - Know Your Enemy

Are we in a battle? Is there a Spiritual War raging around us? Paul certainly thinks so, in his famous passage found Ephesians 6. But how can there be a war if we have no enemy? Who exactly are we fighting? When over two thirds of Christians think there is no real enemy, it makes you wonder who we're fighting? In today's message, we put the enemy into the cross-hairs of scripture and take a good look...

Battle Ready – Week Three – Missing

Ever feel like something’s missing from your Christian Life? Like others must have something you don’t because — if you were honest — you don’t feel quite as connected to the Christian Experience as you say you are. Today we look at a guy who came to Jesus with the same nagging feeling. What Jesus said to him blew everyone away… Including His disciples…BIBLE REFERENCES: Mark 10:17-27; Exodus 20:2-3; Genesis 3:13-19; Psalm 1:1-3; 1 Timothy 6:17-21; Luke 14:16-24; Matthew 13:3-9; Isaiah 64:6; John 10:10; Galatians 6:7-8.

Battle Ready – Week Two – The Control Button

Jesus said that we can know whom people serve by their fruit. So what does that say about us? Do our lives show God’s fruit? If not, what can we do to change that? How can we gain control of our lives so we stop looking like the world, and instead look like Jesus? The answer is surprising. It turns out, we all have a control button for our lives…

Battle Ready - Week 1 - It's Not About the Giant

Feel like you are in a battle that never ends and you are just worn out? We are starting our new series: Battle Worn to Battle Ready. And we start by looking at the most famous battle in history: David against Goliath. Everyone knows the story, of course. But what can we learn from what David did to face his giant that will help us face ours? This is a deep dive into one of the most inspiring passages of the Bible.

 

In God We Trust – Week 4 – Biblical Fasting

Finishing our In God We Trust series, we end up our look at “Fasting and Praying” as well, with a lesson on how to — and more importantly, how not to – Fast. Not to criticize any other church, but we will focus on what the bible tells us about fasting — and not what hundreds of years of church teaching tells us. The difference may surprise you.