Author: Freedom Fellowship

Bible Study for Adults, Students, and Children ages 5 to 12. 

Deck the Halls is Freedom Fellowship coming together to decorate our church building for the Christmas season. Decorators are encouraged to bring a lunch from home or pick something up after the service and eat lunch together at the church.  Decorating will start around 12:45pm. 

Freedom Fellowship will be going to the DFW Operation Christmas Child Processing Center at 4265 Trade Center Drive in Grapevine to prepare already packed shoe boxes for overseas shipping.  Meet at the church at 5:00 pm if you want to ride with us.  We will be working at the warehouse from 6:00 – 10:00 pm.

The Key of the Greater Work

By Oswald Chambers

…I say to you, he who believes in Me,…greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. —John 14:12

Prayer does not equip us for greater works— prayer is the greater work. Yet we think of prayer as some commonsense exercise of our higher powers that simply prepares us for God’s work. In the teachings of Jesus Christ, prayer is the working of the miracle of redemption in me, which produces the miracle of redemption in others, through the power of God. The way fruit remains firm is through prayer, but remember that it is prayer based on the agony of Christ in redemption, not on my own agony. We must go to God as His child, because only a child gets his prayers answered; a “wise” man does not (see Matthew 11:25).

Prayer is the battle, and it makes no difference where you are. However God may engineer your circumstances, your duty is to pray. Never allow yourself this thought, “I am of no use where I am,” because you certainly cannot be used where you have not yet been placed. Wherever God has placed you and whatever your circumstances, you should pray, continually offering up prayers to Him. And He promises, “Whatever you ask in My name, that I will do…” (John 14:13). Yet we refuse to pray unless it thrills or excites us, which is the most intense form of spiritual selfishness. We must learn to work according to God’s direction, and He says to pray. “Pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest” (Matthew 9:38).

There is nothing thrilling about a laboring person’s work, but it is the laboring person who makes the ideas of the genius possible. And it is the laboring saint who makes the ideas of his Master possible. When you labor at prayer, from God’s perspective there are always results. What an astonishment it will be to see, once the veil is finally lifted, all the souls that have been reaped by you, simply because you have been in the habit of taking your orders from Jesus Christ.

 

The Nature of Regeneration

By Oswald Chambers

When it pleased God…to reveal His Son in me… —Galatians 1:15-16

If Jesus Christ is going to regenerate me, what is the problem He faces? It is simply this— I have a heredity in which I had no say or decision; I am not holy, nor am I likely to be; and if all Jesus Christ can do is tell me that I must be holy, His teaching only causes me to despair. But if Jesus Christ is truly a regenerator, someone who can put His own heredity of holiness into me, then I can begin to see what He means when He says that I have to be holy. Redemption means that Jesus Christ can put into anyone the hereditary nature that was in Himself, and all the standards He gives us are based on that nature— His teaching is meant to be applied to the life which He puts within us. The proper action on my part is simply to agree with God’s verdict on sin as judged on the Cross of Christ.

The New Testament teaching about regeneration is that when a person is hit by his own sense of need, God will put the Holy Spirit into his spirit, and his personal spirit will be energized by the Spirit of the Son of God— “…until Christ is formed in you” (Galatians 4:19). The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life. When I finally reach the edge of my need and know my own limitations, then Jesus says, “Blessed are you…” (Matthew 5:11). But I must get to that point. God cannot put into me, the responsible moral person that I am, the nature that was in Jesus Christ unless I am aware of my need for it.

Just as the nature of sin entered into the human race through one man, the Holy Spirit entered into the human race through another Man (see Romans 5:12-19). And redemption means that I can be delivered from the heredity of sin, and that through Jesus Christ I can receive a pure and spotless heredity, namely, the Holy Spirit.

From Oswald Chambers Utmost.org  
https://utmost.org/the-nature-of-regeneration/

 

Revive Tx: A Personal Evangelism Equipping and Going Day     

Freedom Fellowship will be hosting a Revive Tx Outreach Day on Dec 16. A Revive Tx Outreach Day is a monthly gathering where people are equipped for personal evangelism, and then go out in teams of 3 to 4 people to share the gospel. The day starts at 8:00 am with praise and worship and prayer.  Equipping is at 9:00 am.  Teams are formed and go out and share from :9:45 am to 12 noon.  The day ends with testimonies from 12 noon to 12:30 pm.   

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