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Announcements

• Fill A Pew – Sunday, Dec 8 2013

• Indy Tech Gospel Choir – our special guest – Dec 8, 2013

• WatchNight – Dec 31, 2013 – 10pm

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Transformational Purpose Statement:

• We purpose to love all we encounter We purpose to love all we encounter into the Kingdom, into the Kingdom,

• Maintain and empower them for Maintain and empower them for Kingdom work,Kingdom work,

• Release them to Kingdom Building.Release them to Kingdom Building.

Obedience & Blessings

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The Blessings

• Fruitfulness

• Daily Activities

• Victory Over All Enemies

• Labor, Work, Employment

• Spiritual Growth

• Prosperity (an excess of all good things)

• Exaltation

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Fruitfulness Text

• Deuteronomy 28:4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

• 5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.

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Practical Application Of This Blessing

• The blessing of fruitfulness, of plenty, is ours.• But there is a condition: obedience. • If we obey God, truly keep His commandments

and follow Him, then God promises always to provide the necessities of life for us.

• We will always have the blessing of plenty.

December 4, 2013 10Supporting Scriptures• Philippians 4:19 But my God shall supply all

your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

• Leviticus 26:3 (TLB) "If you obey all of my commandments,

• 4 I will give you regular rains, and the land will yield bumper crops, and the trees will be loaded with fruit long after the normal time!

• 5 And grapes will still be ripening when sowing time comes again. You shall eat your fill, and live safely in the land,

• Matt 6:33

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Daily Activities Text

• Deuteronomy 28:6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

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Practical Application Of This Blessing

• If we walk day after day, obeying God wholeheartedly, then God will bless us richly in Himself.

• He will bless all our daily activities. He promises to grant us His presence and guidance as we walk throughout the day.

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Supporting Scriptures• Isa 43:2 When thou passest through the waters, I will

be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee

• Isa 30:21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left

• Isa 58:11 [NET] 11 The Lord will continually lead you; he will feed you even in parched regions. He will give you renewed strength, and you will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring that continually produces water.

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Victory Over Enemies Text

• Deuteronomy 28:7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.

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Practical Application Of This Blessing• Protection or security is a most wonderful

promise given by God to the believer.• Note exactly what is said about this wonderful

promise: if an enemy rises up against you, that enemy will be defeated before your very presence.

• No matter who the enemy is nor how strong and numerous, the enemy will be defeated.

• Note the graphic description: the enemy will come at you from one direction, but he will flee from you in seven directions, flee as a defeated, scattered foe.

December 4, 2013 16Supporting Scriptures• Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the

love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

• Romans 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

• 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

• 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• Psa 91:1-8