Filling The Void Brendan Stapleton

Today we go through the plant of Hope turning into the Tree of Life and how it gives us God's whole armour. We use this to defend against evil and give shelter to the poor and the needy.
1. Scripture Corner - Genesis 3:4, Isaiah 37:16, Proverbs 11:30, Revelations 22:1-2,14.
2. The River - Genesis 2:10, 2 Kings 5:14
3. Mercy seat - Matthew 5:6-8, Leviticus 16, Revelations 5:10, 1:6, Matthew 5:5
4. The Flaming Sword - Ephesians 6:17, Matthew 3:11, Luke 24:32,
5. God's presence - Exodus 33:9-11, Isaiah 6:1,4,8
6. The Tree of Life - John 17:3, Matthew 7:21-23
7. Disciple of Christ - Ephesians 6:14-17, Matthew 6:21-22.
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Many people are broken but few are being filled. When we come to Christ we expect to be filled. What fills our void, our fear, our hurt and our wounds is the seed of Faith in Christ.
Scriptures
1. 4 Courners - Matthew 17:20, Matthew 14:31, 2 Corintians 5:7, Daniel 3:17-18.
2. What is Fairh- Hebrews 11:1.
3. Parable of the sower - Matthew 13:4-8, Isaiah 48:10.
4. Our broken heart - Psalms 147:3, Psalms 46:2-4.
5. Growing a seed - John 6:55-56, John 15:26, John 3:5.

What is the first step in putting God first and give all that we have. Sometimes we need to hit rock bottom.
Psalms 51:17, Psalms 34:14, Isaiah 57:17 & Isaiah 66:2 are our 4 scripture squares. We discuss sackcloth and ashes and what scarface God requires today. We put the things we learn into our to gospel pictures, the Disiple of Christ and the Gospel World. We touch on Josiah again, Samuel & Eli's sons among others.
Other scriptures Matthew 5:3-6, 1 Samuel 3:16, 2 Kings 22:11 and others
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We start build our gospel journey a spiritual man at the most important place which is putting God first. In this episode we build a square on the greatest commandment and link the verses, stories and message together and put them into our visual images.
The ccriptures used are from the KJV and are listed below for reference
Deut 6:4-5
Matt 22:35
Mark 12:29-30
Luke 10:26-28
2 Kings 22-23 focus on 23:35
Matt 6:24 & 21
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In this introduction to the new season we look at how people understand the gospel. Do we look at the scripture one verse at a time in isolation or do we see connections with others verses and stories. There are two ways to link scriptures and that is through the journey back to God or being the disciple of Christ. Do you know why the Jews accepted Jesus answer on the greatest commandment?

Today is Purpose. God has a purpose for you that you can accept or reject. If you choose to accept it He will make you into someone special. Subscribe, like, follow and tell your friends. E-mail fillingthevoidwithhope@gmail.com for comments and suggestions for word of the day.